To regain an electoral majority the Republican Party must:
Sentence One: Increase the number of Christian white single voters.
Sentence Two: Increase the number of Christian nonwhite voters to at least 2004 levels.
White voters are in decline. Married voters are in decline. There is a small drop in Christian voters, but Christians remai...
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Mitt Romney reminded me today why I voted for him.
He loves Detroit as only a child of the auto industry can. He loves Detroit enough to know that being allowed to fail is the price of being allowed to succeed. No tax payer money should go directly to the auto industry.
Read the editorial here.
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Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist for the Washington Post, appears to generally be a decent sort. Her columns have a punchy writing style I wish I could master, though they have never been particularly "intellectual." Her only academic appointment appears to be at the Buckley School of Public Speaking
. . . possessor of a web site that ha...
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The Old Testament acknowledges the existence of economic, not racial, slavery in the ancient world and attempts to regulate it. The New Testament undermines the economic viability of slavery by calling for slaves to be treated as "brothers," but does not call for immediate abolition.
Why not?
The Bible attacks slavery and many other social ...
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The existence of beauty suggests that a God exists and that He is good. It is not a sufficient proof for the existence of God by itself, but a confirmation of His existence to those with other reasons and personal experiences that suggest His reality.
From Plato to C.S. Lewis, creation as a whole has been viewed as marvelously elegant.
The h...
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Opposing a call to compassion feels like kicking a puppy with a broken paw, but it isn't. A call to compassion is not actually compassion.
Armstrong, who has never met a religious idea so complex that she could not over simplify it in a best seller, has issued a call for religion to be recaptured from "fundamentalism."
A charitable soul can ...
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Again, I couldn't resist. The monks and nuns of the church are proving to be too newsworthy of late.
The following is taken from CNN though "everyone" is talking about it:
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An unusual sight greeted Jerusalem police as they entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Sunday morning: dozens of monks punching and kicking each o...
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