Month: December 2007

Mitt Romney tried to explain his Mormon faith today but he didn’t get into any theological detail. That’s okay by me. I don’t expect Jews, Catholics, Muslims, or Buddhists to explain their theological beliefs...

Hearing that the CIA has erased tapes of their interviews with Abu Zubaydah jostled a few dormant brain cells. I remembered a Gerald Posner article about Zubaydah’s interview, and I remembered thinking it stunk worse than...

According to a Pew Hispanic Center poll, the Republicans have lost all the support among Hispanics that they gained early in Bush’s first term. Hispanics are returning to the Democratic Party after several years of...

It seems that a lot of people are misunderstanding a specific moment in Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech today.  In a speech nearly devoid of intellectual content, he did say one substantive thing;...

With the insurgent campaign of Mike Huckabee and lingering anti-Mormon bias from fellow Christians, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney had to reassert his God cred. That led to today’s religion speech. Originally,...