I think that everyone, at some point in their lives, must answer two fundamental questions. The first must always be “Do you believe in God and salvation?”
There is no right or wrong answer to this particular question, though there will be enough people who will tell you that your answer is right or wrong. Of […]
I first posted this on my old blog site some two years ago (February 11, 2006). When I wrote it, there were many, many candidates; the front-runners back then are not the front-runners now. And, of course, not one of the candidates responded to my poll. Not that I expected anyone of them to read […]
John Edwards website has a blog.
His blogmaster has a blog.
What is it about the Left and their love affair with vulgarity? And, how did such an apparently unhinged lefty get the position as blogmaster for Edwards?
See Malkin and HotAir.
Update: A lot more is being said - see ProteinWisdom, K-Lo, Creative Destruction, Patterico, Riehl […]
In the campaign running up to the November elections, Democrats promised that if they were given power, bi-partisanship would be their mode of operation and they would not shut out the Republican party in the way they had been shut out when the Republicans were in the majority. Soon-to-be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi also echoed the […]
This past Sunday was Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, which will begin anew this coming Sunday with the season of Advent. When the New Testament proclaims that Jesus is Lord, it is not simply an affirmation that Jesus reigns in our individual hearts and lives; it is a […]
Interesting article in World mag about the relative calm following last week’s elections, as compared to the complaints and litigation of 2000, 2002 and 2004.
We discussed this phenomenon on RedBlueChristian last week, when Rick Moore posted: “A Healthier Aftermath to This Election.” Moore attributed the absence of post-election fussing to his belief that Republicans are just better people […]
The worst deceptions from the House and Senate campaigns.
The Whoppers of 2006
Cross-posted at Allan R. Bevere.
The Washington Post has the story:
…the national exit polls told a dramatic story of changing views in the pews: Democrats recaptured the Catholic vote they had lost two years ago. They sliced the GOP’s advantage among weekly churchgoers to 12 percentage points, down from 18 points in 2004 congressional races and 22 points in the […]
This is fascinating and scary. The rise of Jon Stewart has been remarkable, a comedian in charge of faux news. He is also very influential among young people, many who only get their news from his show. Kingmaker? Hard to tell, influential? Definitely.
Jon Stewart is an unlikely player in national politics. He’s not a […]
It looks like the person who wins even though he lost is Michael Steele. His stature is definitely on the rise. We’ll be seeing more of Steele.
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, whose party just lost both chambers of Congress, will leave his position in January, and the post as party chief has […]
• With Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi will become Speaker of the House, and third in line to the Presidency. The California Democrat will be the first female House Speaker in history.
• Control of the Senate is up in the air and may not be known for days. […]
Hugh Hewitt asserts that the main loser from yesterday’s GOP debacle was John McCain. That’s putting the spin cycle into overdrive. It wasn’t John McCain’s brand of conservative Republicanism that was repudiated yesterday. It was President Bush’s policies that were rejected, a fact that must be acknowledged whether you like the President and his policies […]
Ohioans were interestingly targeted and nuanced in their voting yesterday. They appear to have known exactly what they wanted to say with their voting.
Their wrath against Republicans was mostly directed at those running for statewide office. Until last night, Ohio had no statewide Republican officeholders except for a majority of those sitting on the State […]
BlueChristians, Barack and Ford, go to black churches and declare “God is on our side.” Is there a double standard here? I thought this religious pride was only a characteristic of RedChristians.
Jim Wallis of Sojourners and author of the God’s Politics blog provides a “voter’s guide” of biblical issues Christians should consider in evaluating candidates on Tuesday’s ballots. Here is a link to the full text of Wallis’ “Voting God’s Politics.” The following is my own abridgement of Wallis’ issues list:
• Compassion and Economic Justice: Does the […]
Systematic Theologian Wayne Grudem at Phoenix Seminary writes on prayer and the November 7th election.
If you don’t read the political satire blog, Jon Swift, you’re missing out. ”Swift” offers another delicious serving of satire in: “John Kerry Goes Nucular.” Playing on Kerry’s claim that his recent gaffe was actually a “botched” Bush joke, Swift asks: “Can you imagine having a President who mangles the English language the way Kerry does?” Now that’s […]
Cross-posted from Good Will Hinton
It is generally said that there is wisdom is crowds. And this is often the case. However in election season those crowds turn into mobs and the wisdom disappears.
This latest Kerry flap is just the latest example of this. The majority of the conservative blogosphere is roiling with righteous indignation about […]
My wife, son, and I cast our votes for the November 7 elections today.
This year, we voters in Ohio are able to vote early. In the past, only absentee voters who could vouch for their inability to make it to the polls on election day were able to do this. But now, registered voters have […]
Poll after poll shows that voters are dissatisfied with the GOP. For months conservative pundits have been listing the reasons why the Republicans deserve to lose. Then the Foley scandal broke, revealing that the House leadership is either more corrupt or incompetent than we had imagined. Congressional Republicans appear to be headed for a fall […]
Five weeks left in this year’s midterm election campaigning and I can’t wait for it to be over. I’m beyond disgusted, I’m bored with it all!
The two major parties have perfected their pitches to an ever-dwindling cadre of partisans with little thought to expanding their bases, appealing to independents, or trying to win over people […]
That’s the title of a post by blogger Tim Merrill refuting preachers who do politics from the pulpit. Merrill is the editor of homileticsonline.com. I think he’s right in saying that preachers, as spokespersons for God, the Gospel, and the Church, should shut up when they’re in the mood to politically editorialize. That isn’t our […]
You’re the governor of the nation’s most populous state, candidate for re-election after winning the post in a special recall vote three years earlier. Less than two months before this election day, a former live-in lover publishes a lenghty memoir recounting your drug use and enjoyment of pornography, which she observed, and infidelities, which she […]
Many Republicans today are lamenting the support Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee received for his primary win over Mayor Stephen Laffey of Cranston yesterday. Chafee will be the GOP nominee for the Senate in spite of a voting record that’s fairly liberal.
Although Laffey insisted throughout the primary campaign that he was no conservative and trumpeted […]
John McCain is publicly endorsing Christian conservative Len Munsil for Arizona governor. When Len decided to run for governor, I pushed him toward blogging. Well, he has been blogging daily with good results.
Florida Baptist State Convention Rejects Democratic Values - Street Prophets
U.S. Rep. Kathleen Harris, leading Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate race in Florida raised a stink this week with her responses to Florida Baptist Witness, a Florida Southern Baptist state paper. According to Street Prophets, a member of the Daily Kos family of blogs […]
The latest poll has Lieberman way out front against Lamont.
In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis shares thoughts that those who consider their political beliefs ordained by Christ might ponder:
I do not mean for a moment that we ought not to think, and think hard, about improvements in our social and economic system. What I do mean is that all that thinking will be mere moonshine […]
My mother bought it and it lives in my memory like an evil dream. It was lemon yellow and made of polyester that would not die. It was a leisure suit for boys and it could not be destroyed.
At last I outgrew it, but it could have lasted forever looking just as lemony with orange […]
This is turning into a very interesting election year — and the campaign season is still just warming up. Joe Lieberman’s failure to win his own party’s nomination for a fourth Senate term is this week’s national buzz. It is certainly ironic that the man Democrats nominated to be vice president of the […]
It would seem that the last nail in the coffin of the Democrat Party (DP) was pounded in last night in the great state of Ct. The loss of Senator Joe Liberman to some relative unknown (well financed by the left), foisted upon the voters of Ct. by the far left wing of the DP […]
As I watch the events of this week with the defeat of Joe Lieberman by Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary in Connecticut, I am reminded why I can never vote for a Democrat. Even though I have become thoroughly disgusted with the Republican party, their misguided policies, and their “using” of Conservative Christians for […]
Mel Gibson is evidently a fool with hateful views. Nothing justifies them and the fact that he has some power in my movement worries me. It also makes me sad that the good things he has done will have to be considered again in the light of his bad ideas.
However, today Israel is fighting for […]
Lieberman vs. Lamont is the most high profile contest of the 2006 election season. Daily Kos and the NY Times are supporting Lieberman’s challenger because of Lieberman’s support for the war.
Today is the primary that decides who will get the Democratic nod. Here’s what you see if you go to www.joe2006.com right now:
The site has […]
Jury Remains Out on America’s Brand of Western Democracy
The United States is not making the case for freedom, democracy and Western law to the rest of the world, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Saturday. [not a direct quote of Kennedy]
Kennedy seemed to imply our biggest failure is in the area of “the rule of […]
Is there a connection between this story from a couple weeks ago:
The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll of a thousand adults finds that by an almost three-to-one margin, Americans hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard…The poll, however, suggests President Bush’s freefall may have stopped. His approval rating of 36 percent is basically unchanged from last […]
I think so. Do you agree?
