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For a candidate with little money, who has been getting his butt kicked all over the place by the media, this was a brilliant move. Huck is likable. He tells a great story. He plays a mean bass guitar. He is not scary. And with the campaign going national after Iowa, he showed himself to…

The headline on Drudge is a quote from Ed Rollins, “I want to knock out Romney’s teeth.” So? Here’s the article and the full quote: Rollins says, he told Huckabee, ” ‘Governor, this is what it means to be president. The president gets lots of advice and makes a lot of tough decisions . .…

Barack Obama’s campaign is sending around a last-minute fundraising pitch. It centers around a video – a very impressive video – they have compiled showing how excited people are about his campaign. I couldn’t figure out how to embed it here so you’ll have to click here to watch. Here the VERY weird thing. Virtually…

Take a peek at a girl named Lily:Lily has a brain tumor. Here is her story. Amidst blaring headlines about things we will not long remember, there are things happening far from headlines that – if we pay attention – we will never forget.Lily is someone we will never forget. She is doing well. She…

At the end of this year there are things I know more assuredly than I did at the year’s beginning, there are things I doubt more than ever, and things I am grateful for (too many to list actually). Things I know – I am more confident than I have ever been about the central…

Evangelicals are being seduced back into the GOP not by a politician, but by a pastor. Spiritually speaking, they should resist. At the moment President Bush ascended to reelection in 2004, Christian conservatives had attained political power almost unequaled in modern American history – perhaps only the post-WW2 labor movement was its equal. From 1980…

What are the best political songs?My wife’s favorite is Famine by Sinead O’Connor.U2’s Bad is another strong entry. Then there is this:What think you?

See The Great Debaters. While acknowledging I have very simple tastes in film and am easily amused, I also submit that it is a beautiful and moving film. I recall hearing a critic once say that the most popular flims – or the greatest films – all address issues of racial reconciliation. Everything from Star…

I’ve been enjoying some time away from computers and email. Sometimes it is good just to shut the stuff down. But with 2007 closing and 2008 dawning, I’m excited to be back.

In the early summer of 1989, on a humid night, as China erupted on the other side of the world, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, I sat with several hundred other people, eating peppermint stick ice cream, listening to a woman from Pakistan talk about democracy as a moral force. She was 35.…
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