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Steven Waldman

The big news at the “Service Nation” joint appearance of John McCain and Barack Obama was not what they disagreed on but what they agreed on: both supported colossal increases in the size of full-time civilian national service opportunities. McCain noted that he’s proposed legislation with Sen. Evan Bayh, a Democrat, to increase AmeriCorps, the…

As times passes, thousands of memories become hundreds which then become just a few. It’s always so hard to predict, in the moment, which will be the memories that survive. I remember less and less about 9/11 but the few flickering images are vivid. I was in Washington and my family was here in NYC…

The other day I wondered allowed if I’d missed some big John McCain national service speech. He’d been a big advocate of civilian service for years but I hadn’t heard anything about it, while Obama has been emphasizing it (more about Obama’s plan here). Paul Glastris, the editor of the Washington Monthly, which published McCain’s…

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent. As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”…

Those of you think Sarah Palin is dangerous because she belongs to that mysterious brand of Christianity known as Pentecostalism (i.e. one of the fastest growing denominations), might want take note of the fact that Leah Daughtry, the CEO of the Democratic National Convention and Joshua Dubois, Obama’s faith outreach director, are both Pentecostals, too.…

UPDATE: My post from yesterday used the original text of a speech by former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs at the Republican. He actually ad libbed and changed the language in a way that hedges slightly as to whether McCain will lead a spiritual revival but add some other, er, theological material a bit surprising…

This strikes me as a very fair-minded response to Biden from the Catholic Bishops: BISHOPS RESPOND TO SENATOR BIDEN’S STATEMENTS REGARDING CHURCH TEACHING ON ABORTION WASHINGTON–Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William E. Lori, chairman, U.S. Bishops Committee on Doctrine, issued the following statement: Recently we…

Another sign that while the Palin nomination is energizing all sorts of voters, it’s backfiring among Jews: Ed Koch, the former Mayor of New York City, who endorsed and campaigned for George W. Bush in 2004, has now endorsed Obama. The reason, he told Politico.com: “The designation of Palin to be vice president. She’s scary.”…

WND.com, the popular conservative website asks, whether Obama’s statement on This Week with George Stephanopolous was a “Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion?”Obama said John McCain had not spread rumors that Obama was Muslim:”You’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not…

Little known fact: most of the impressive gains that George W. Bush made among Hispanics in 2004 were actually among Latino evangelicals. In other words, it was his appeal to evangelicals that did it as much as his appeal to Hispanics. They liked his conservative positions on abortion and gay marriage, and his evangelical faith.…
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