Religion Dispatches
…a lot of competition: over the weekend tea partiers will be converging on Washington for the Unite In Action March on DC and FreedomWorks is organizing the 9/12 March. And the following week is the Values Voters Summit, where religious right powerhouses will be holding a presidential straw poll, a preview of which possible 2012 GOP candidates capture their imaginations. Reed promises that his event will “chart our road to victory as we enter the…
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…storically lofty tone” that “highlighted the president’s effort to restore Washington’s institutions to their traditional pre-Trump form.” One can presume that “traditional pre-Trump form,” represents a discrete reference to white-gloved backdoor diplomacy practiced by The Family that promotes their fundamentalist mixture of capitalism and Christianity. Organizers and speakers at this year’s NPB remained mum regarding the role The Family played be…
Read More…erica, which Rep. Ron Paul has called “the only no compromise gun lobby in Washington,” is thrilled with Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware Senate primary on Tuesday. On its website, the group enthused: The O’Donnell win adds to a string of victories for GOA-backed candidates this year in Senate primaries in Nevada, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado, as well as the non-primary in Florida (where Marco Rubio chased Gov. Charlie Crist out of the pr…
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…his supporters on December 19, thousands of whom showed up in Washington, DC, several weeks later at their leader’s urging. They climbed walls, waved Trump flags, and literally broke into the chambers of Congress. Trump’s army had orchestrated the breach that the Confederate Army had hoped for during the Civil War. The response, or lack thereof from law enforcement officials as this act of terrorism unfolded, reveals the true meaning of “law and…
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…nservative evangelical voters in critical districts,” Nelson writes at the Washington Spectator. “Polls also indicated that a crucial bloc of swing voters, college-educated white suburban women, were increasingly disaffected with Trump and were often unmoved by the anti-abortion message. But polling also showed that as the Covid-19 epidemic wore on, these voters were increasingly anxious about their children, their public schools, and conflicting…
Read More…s carries a picture of Mary Help of Christians in his wallet. Elsewhere in Washington, the National Cathedral is getting a new cathedral cat. Catherine of Tarragon will spend her retirement in North Carolina and Carmina will take up residence at the church. Christian Surfers, USA unites Christianity with the waves. The small town of Sidney, NY wants a Sufi graveyard gone. The city claims the bodies were buried illegally and wants them removed. In…
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…as well in the Senate as they were expected to, the conventional wisdom in Washington is now that the Democrats lost despite winning. If that weren’t maddening enough, then came Barack Obama. The former president has written a book that’s naturally getting a lot of attention. Understandably, given that the conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Democrats lost despite winning, interviewers want to know what he thinks. Here’s his advice to ac…
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…ul phrase on live TV. The Times’ Alex Burns used it on the paper’s daily podcast. “Shitshow” seemed to capture two things valuable to members of the press corps: a measure of fairness to the candidates, and the disapproval demanded by news consumers who are putting more and more pressure on elite reporters to speak truth to power. Reporters are trapped in an abusive relationship proportional to their unwillingness to confront their abuser. It was…
Read More…the lecture by discussing a national day of thanksgiving that Gen. George Washington called for after the defeat of the British at Saratoga in 1777—showing, in her reckoning, a religious base in the thinking of the country’s founders. In developing a line of legal reasoning that the future lawyers in her class might use, she wove her way to two Supreme Court cases in the 1960s, in both of which the court ruled that prayer in public schools was un…
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…mility that would choke a horse, that the honor was really for the city of Washington DC, the nation’s capital, and not so much for him personally. Since the rest of us in DC won’t actually have any cause to run out and pick up a new red hat, I would have preferred that he answer the question honestly. The honest answer, to all appearances, is that to become a cardinal you have to do in at least one fellow Catholic. I realize that sounds more like…
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