Last weekend, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 showed up by the Lincoln Memorial for Glenn Beck’s "Restoring Honor" rally. At The New York Times, Ross Douthat wonders if the media isn’t underestimating Beck’s talents: The Fox News host had promised that the rally, billed as a celebration of American values, would be an explicitly apolitical [...]
Tags: 8/28, faith, Glenn Beck, Politics, rally, religion, Restoring Honor
John Derbyshire takes a highly critical look at “intelligent design” and leads to an interesting theological argument against it: The Myers column points up a thing I’ve said before here, and repeated as politely as I could in panel discussions with creationists: they’re not just wrong, they’re shifty. In my opinion, they wandered off the [...]
I happened to catch most of Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech and was quite impressed by it. Apparently, others have had the same reaction. (NRO’s The Corner has plenty of other reactions.) Romney could have easily hurt himself with this speech, but at the very least he’s no worse off than he was before—and [...]
Jonah Goldberg has a good column on tomorrow’s speech by Mitt Romney on “the Mormon issue.” Romney will speak from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas and the speech is widely viewed as being the same sort of speech that President Kennedy gave during the 1960 campaign to the Greater Houston [...]