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Steven Waldman

The new Pew poll, which shows a massive 52%-36% advantage for Obama, reveals something very interesting in the patterns for white evangelicals: Obama has made few if any gains at all — but McCain has dropped. On October 12, 74% supported him. Now, 65% do. In other words, as election day approaches, the number of…

Daniel Cowart, one of the neo-Nazis who was planning to murder 88 blacks (decapitating 14) and then assassinate Barack Obama, lists his favorite books on his MySpace page: “The God Delusion” along with “Swastika” and “Hitman.” No, I’m not suggesting that atheists are more likely to murder because Cowart liked The God Delusion. But it…

Judging from the finger-pointing going on within the McCain campaign (the latest being the top advisor who called Palin a “whack job”) it sounds like both sides think Obama is going to win. Excuse me: but today’s Gallup poll now has McCain within the margin of error (49%-47%) when using the traditional turnout estimates. There…

Two skinheads were planning to murder 88 blacks, possibly at a high school, and decapitate 14, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced. The significance of 88 and 14? According to the Southern Poverty Law Center: 14/88: Common white supremacist code. 14 stands for the “14 words” slogan coined by David Lane,…

I’ll add my thoughts later on Focus on the Family’s extraordinary Letter from a Christian 2012. In the meantime, here’s the letter itself and Mara Vanderslice’s prediction, over at Progressive Revival, that it will cause a backlash against Focus on the Family.

Ok, I think she does actually know that but what could have been going through her mind when she told the Israeli ambassador, “We look forward to … working with your Jewish agency.”

Grotesque.

As we get close to the election, I’ve met two types of Obama advocates: 1) Those who insist Obama is going to lose, on the theory that saying he’ll win will jinx the outcome 2) Those who insist Obama is going to win because by embracing that happy thought they can, through the power of…

To me, the most neck-snapping Republican endorsement of Obama comes from Charles Fried, the solicitor general under Ronald Reagan. To say Fried is an important legal figure in the pro-life world is an understatement. As Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, Fried was the one who argued that the court should overturn Roe v. Wade in…

Matthew25, the progressive religious group, is now running this unusual (for a Democrat) ad on Christian music stations in Michigan, Colorado, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina:Can you imagine if Sarah Palin ran an ad describing how, “Kneeling beneath that cross, I felt that I heard God’s spirit beckoning me”? On the other hand,…
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