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Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, made a shocking confession today in an interview with The Atlantic ’s Marc Ambinger : Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman . . . . Continue Reading »

When it comes to ecology, I’m a firm believer in applying biblical principles of stewardship to the environment. Although it is not always obvious what principles should apply, I believe one of the first is to develop a realistic and accurate assessment of man’s effects on our . . . . Continue Reading »

The Pew Research Center has released  a new national survey showing that while favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember back in 1996 when everyone was making fun of the Oakland, California school board for declaring “Ebonics” (aka African American Vernacular English ) a language of its own and not a dialect of English? Turns out they may have been on to something . Wanted by the Drug Enforcement . . . . Continue Reading »

In a post last week on the appointment of Dinesh D’Souza as president of King’s College, Rusty Reno wrote : Surely we’re at an interesting juncture in American religious history when a prominent Catholic is tapped to head up an Evangelical College. A very interesting . . . . Continue Reading »

If a classic, as Mark Twain claimed, is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read, then William F. Buckley, Jr.’s God and Man at Yale is the epitome of a conservative classic. Few who have read it (and they are indeed few) would dispute its importance to the founding of modern conservatism… . Continue Reading »

TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults . . . . Continue Reading »

At Slate, Steven I. Weiss examines the motivations for Christian zionism : All of which begs the question: If they’re not doing it for a right-wing agenda, a missionary agenda, or an apocalyptic agenda, just why are Christians uniting for Israel? It’s because they love Jews. When I went . . . . Continue Reading »

The issue of research involving stem cells derived from human embryos is back in the news after a federal judge clarified that the government cannot use federal funds for such immoral research. Although the debate has been ongoing for almost ten years, the complexity of the issue and the peculiar . . . . Continue Reading »

Finally, some common sense from the federal judiciary : A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked government rules on embryonic stem cell (ESC) research funding, a blow to the Obama administration which by executive order had lifted Bush-era restrictions and a victory for pro-lifers fighting to . . . . Continue Reading »