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Perhaps you’ve seen them already but the new Iowa poll numbers are amazing: Democrats Clinton 25% Edwards 23% Obama 22% Undecided 12% Republicans Romney 27% Huckabee 21% Giuliani 15% Undecided 14% Huckabee’s rise has been extraordinary. Is he finally going to be the Republican candidate that appeals to the hearts of religious conservative voters? Maybe.…

Egads – I’ve been having blog problems that were computer problems or computer problems that were blog problems or some such. Anyway, things are working for the moment (I think). I’ll know more if this post actually goes live. Please bear with me as I try and figure out what is happening.

Well, it continues. Drudge has a hot red link to a YouTube video in which Gov. Huckabee (a more rotund Gov. Huckabee) :Lost, of course, is any sense of context, any sense as to what was going on – paying for schools for instance. But none of that matters. For a certain segment of Republicans…

Sen. Sam Brownback has an oped in the Washington Post today on what Republicans should be focusing on in order to win: I believe the biggest threat to our future as a movement is a negative public face, when we don’t project a welcoming and hopeful message based on an authentic faith. The future of…

I found out Thinker was going to be in Iowa over the weekend and prevailed upon her to give a report on the political happenings. She obliged: 48 hours of Iowa Democrats has made me a believe in one thing. These people are real citizens – pretty darned informed and willing to listen. They talk…

As noted earlier, my guilty Monday morning pleasure is Peter King at CNNSI.com. Today’s is one of the better ones not only because it leads with the Steelers but because it is about their young quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger (and no, I can’t ever spell that by memory). What King writes about is the coming of…

Two things of note. First, John DiIulio is back. In the 1990s, DiIulio emerged as one of the most consequential voices in public policy. Articles like this one and this one and this one and scores of others challenged the status quo and changed social policy. After his time in the Bush White House, however,…

Thinker suggest the study suggesting there are “five kinds of Christians” missed one. Here is a a snippet: Let us include the “anonymous” Christians… …A friend of mine was once a missionary in Guatamala for an evangelical church. There could not have been more passionate Christians than my friend and her husband. It was in…

There is a debate going on inside the Romney camp over whether or not he should give a “religion” speech. The concern is that such a speech would simply draw attention to the “religion issue.” I hope he gives the speech. There are certain things I’d love to hear him say. The latent speechwriter in…

John DiIulio, noted sociologist (and criminologist and political scientist and head of Bush’s Faith-Based office)(and dear friend) has written a piece in First Things about which candidates are the best on poverty issues. His answer? “Honest Mike and Sister Hillary” Clinton conceives government’s role as empowering average citizens to lead productive if not uniformly prosperous…
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