Following up on an amusing story we’ve been following, about a week ago, Stuart Shepard, who makes religious-right videos for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, devoted a segment to asking politically-conservative Christians to pray for rain on Aug. 28, in order to disrupt Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. Shepard called for […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m willing to cut senators, from both parties, quite a bit of slack for missing votes during their presidential campaign. It’s tough to hold down a day job while running for president. But if a sitting senator is going to miss a lot of time while out on the campaign trail, […]
First up from the God machine this week is good news from some popular end-times authors — they don’t like Barack Obama, but they’re pretty sure he’s not literally the antichrist. (via Ron Chusid) John McCain’s campaign ad “The One” has generated a lot of buzz regarding the “Left Behind Series.” Political commentators are comparing […]
Much of the week has been spent responding to Jerome Corsi’s new book, “The Obama Nation,” and its lengthy list of transparent falsehoods. Yesterday, the Associated Press asked John McCain, who was on route to a meeting, what he thought of the right-wing hatchet-job. McCain responded, “Gotta keep your sense of humor.” The Obama campaign […]
Guest Post by Morbo Is there something in the water that makes judges in Alabama go insane? This is the state that brought us Roy Moore, formerly chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who was ejected from that position after he defied a federal court order and would not remove a Ten Commandments monument […]
Guest Post by Morbo Creationists are like the Energizer Bunny: they just keep going and going. You beat them in court, and they come right back with something else. Anyone who cares about good science education in America must face the fact that cranks who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Rice gained Georgian approval for a cease-fire: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded Friday that Russian troops withdraw from Georgian territory ‘immediately’ now that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a cease-fire agreement. After arriving here to discuss the deal with Saakashvili and to show U.S. support for Georgia’s […]
The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, at first blush, would not appear to be the kind of man to publicly bash the hell out of John McCain. He’s the senior pastor at Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston; he’s a close personal friend of the president, and he recently officiated Jenna Bush’s wedding. But after McCain’s […]
John McCain’s pandering on taxes has been one of the more embarrassing aspects of his campaign, as evidenced by his appearance at the Aspen Institute, when he admitted that he’d been pushed into a corner on Social Security and taxes, saying, “I have to be against tax increases, as you know.” But for all the […]
Regular readers may recall that I’ve taken an interest in the “Matthew 25 Network,” a new religious political action committee spearheaded by Mara Vanderslice, who served as director of religious outreach for Kerry-Edwards in 2004, and who has been active in encouraging Democratic candidates to discuss matters of spirituality more openly on the campaign trail. […]