Tag: Republican

Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich each claim that American morality is declining.  But what do the numbers say?

Oklahoma faces new proposed legislation that seeks to add creationism to the public school curriculum and to define when life “begins” within the womb. The new bills proposed by Republican legislators also seek to allow public funding for churches and to make stem cell research in the state illegal.

On September 7, three British men — Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain — were convicted of conspiring in 2006 to bomb seven transatlantic passenger flights, using liquid explosives hidden in drinks bottles. Five others were tried with them. One, Umar Islam, was convicted of conspiracy to murder, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on three others. The fifth, Donald Stewart-Whyte, was cleared altogether.Yet only a day later, attention was diverted by events closer to home. Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group. In January another bomb was found near an army base in County Down; in March two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked a base; and in May bomb components were discovered in County Fermanagh. Also on September 8th Neil Lewington, a white supremacist, was jailed in England for planning a terrorism campaign against the “non-British”.

Why the GOP is falling out of love with gun-toting, churchgoing, working-class whites. The intellectual elite of conservative America is looking for a return to a more logical and intelligent basis on which to appeal to voters and set a future political agenda—a return to reason and a sustainable philosophy

A congressional resolution to declare 2010 “the Year of the Bible” is drawing widespread criticism.

This wasn’t really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country—from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.