On Religion & Politics in America
By Philip Mella06/25/2008
Few issues in America are as contentious and divisive as religion, and the recently released study by the Pew Foundation on religion and public life is sure to reanimate the nation's differences. Some of the findings merely confirm what most people intuitively know, for example, that overwhelming majorities have a belief in God, or, to characterize it in the parlance of our cultural cognoscenti, a supernatural being.
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Who Will Be the Next Moderator of "Meet the Press"?
By Terry Mitchell06/20/2008
The unfortunate and untimely death of Tim Russert means that NBC will soon have to pick someone to succeed him at its long-running Sunday morning interview program, Meet the Press. While the general consensus seems to be that retired NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw will take the job on an interim basis (probably until after the presidential election in November), it is anyone's guess who the new permanent moderator might be.
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Could Obama get more votes but lose?
By Kenneth E. Feltman06/17/2008
Now that Senator Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination, the pundits and political professionals are looking backward, explaining the inexplicable as best they can. We need to look back at what happened but then we should consider one aspect of the November voting that has the Obama team concerned but preparing.
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Eleven Days That Doomed Clinton’s Campaign
By Terry Mitchell06/04/2008
Now that Barack Obama has become the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, let's take a look back at how Hillary Clinton lost. Last year at this time, it seemed inevitable that she was going to win the nomination. What went wrong?
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Republican dog food
By Kenneth E. Feltman06/01/2008
"The Republican brand is in the trash can. I've often observed that if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf." So said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)
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