Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms
Last night’s results show that pollster Robert Jones was far, far too optimistic about the…
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Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments
“No compromise” gun group takes credit.
Read MoreDADT Repeal and DREAM Defeat: A Failure of Evangelical Influence?
Some evangelicals supported DREAM and opposed DADT repeal.
Read MoreJim DeMint says Lame-Duck Session Before Christmas is “Sacrilegious”
Wait, what?
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Candidate Sharron Angle Accuses Opponent of Idolatry
Nevada Senate candidate says in a radio interview that government social programs violate the Ten Commandments.
Read MoreSenate Obstructionist Endangering Africans
Oklahoma senator is blocking a bill that would disarm brutal “Lord’s Resistance Army” in Africa.
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Coakley v. Brown: Democrats Search (For) Their Souls
On the eve of the vote for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, we contemplate the gulf between the incoherent story offered by the president’s party, and the compelling narrative—about systems of oppression, and the perils of a deeply entrenched status quo—of prophetic religion.
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Fear of Empathy: Senate Republicans Attack Sotomayor
In their campaign to malign Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Republican senators have confused empathy for sympathy, blatantly distorting the meaning of a word for political purposes.
Read MoreSenator Brownback Says Other Senators Aren’t “Real” Catholics
How did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?
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