Andrew Sullivan is offering a detailed account of how similar the McCain story is to that offered by Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsen and then later popularized by Christian leaders Chuck Colson and Billy Graham. Sullivan also points out other suspicious changes: The story changed from the guard using a sandal to the guard using a…

As I wrote yesterday right after the Saddleback forum, McCain was spectacular. He only really has one riff on his personal faith (the cross in the sand), but it’s a damn good one and we have to remember that most people haven’t heard the story yet. (He needs to be careful on one point: he…

The media and the Obama campaign have been focusing on the hundreds of charges against Obama in Obama Nation. But in terms of evangelicals one vote is doing Obama the most harm: his position on the “born alive” legislation protecting babies accidentally born during an abortion. I ‘ve gotten a no comment from the Obama…

John McCain said yesterday that Ronald Reagan had won the cold war “without firing a shot.” Whatever happened to: The Korean War The Vietnam War The Contras & Nicaragua The Mayaguez The Pueblo (Did I forget any?) I was under the impression that presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford thought that the military…

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