Last week, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council responsed to President Bush’s State of the Union. Message: He wasn’t happy. He was surprised that there wasn’t any mention of the “faith, family, and freedom” issues – stem cells, abortions, values, abstinence, and marriage – that Christian political leaders like him care about so…

…when was the last time you made a paper airplane? For me it had been years. Then, today, a thought – my littlest daughter, who is currently airplane obsessed, might like one. We live fairly near an airport and whenever she is outside and hears the fading or growing roar of a plane she looks…

Kuo: Do you think that conservatives have reached the point where we’ve forgotten that there are limits to government; where they believe that government and politics can offer salvation, when of course they can’t? D’Souza: I do think there may be some people in the government, and specifically in the Bush administration, who have forgotten…

How bad has it gotten? Pat Robertson’s news site – cbn.com – has discussion boards up for people to talk about various topics. I looked at it suspecting to find one group who supported the war and the president in aboslute terms. Quite the opposite. One the discussion boards asking whether the “troop surge” should…

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