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Yesterday John McCormack posted here the clip of then candidate Obama declaring that George Bush used signing statements to âaccumulate more power in the presidency.â The implication of Obamaâs remarks was that Bush aimed to accumulate more power than ...
Surprisingly, President Obama didnât mention the Second Great Commandment--love thy neighbor as thyself--in his inaugural address. But he did this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast. Obama described it as âone law that binds all great religions ...
Six applicants not offered jobs thought theyâd been discriminated against on the basis of race. Why? Because they are white and all of those who were offered and got jobs are black, and the six whites thought there could be no other explanation but ...
The government almost always defends federal laws challenged in court (and so the Bush administration has defended against Rotheâs lawsuit). The Obama administration most likely will continue to defend the five-percent set-aside. But you have to wonder ...
From whatâs known so far, the Obama campaignâs outreach to white evangelicals appears to have helped. Obama strategists never thought that Obama would win a majority of evangelical voters in any state, and he didnât. But Obama aides had their eyes on ...
Our first web editor, Jonathan V. Last, tells the intriguing tale of how Dean came to our attention here at THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Read the whole thing. Itâs another chapter in the continuing story of how the web has democratized journalism. Dean was ...
Palin is having an impact. I saw it myself at the McCain-Palin rally held earlier today at Van Dyke Park in Fairfax County, Va. My sense is that the crowd was substantially larger than it would have been had McCain showed up there with a running mate ...
In an earlier post I noted that the Obama campaign left something out of its new pro-abortion rights radio ads that started running last week in key states—its ostensible commitment (it’s in the platform) to “reducing abortion.” In his appearance ...
Over at Spiritual Politics, Mark Silk makes the interesting observation that Sarah Palin is “the first movement evangelical ever to occupy a place on a GOP national ticket since the emergence of the religious right.”
Silk doesn’t say what a “movement ...
Tony Campolo is a rare bird indeed--an evangelical Protestant who’s also a Democrat and pro-life. He was on the platform committee and worked on the plank dealing with abortion. At yesterday’s meeting of pro-life Democrats, Campolo was introduced as ...
