Fear is what the far right is. Fear is what they do. The same people who bring you fear and misinformation about sexuality education, contraception, family planning and abortion are once again stirring up fear about death.

"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."

There is no better way...

In so many ways, the election of President Obama is viewed through a lens of its healing potential. No, racism did not end with the election of our first President of Color, but many people are looking at themselves and their beliefs about race differently. No, his election did...

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Pastor Rick Warren is right about one thing, gay rights is a humanitarian issue and a human rights issue. The problem is he offered those comments in defense of retaining the privilege of heterosexual marriage, not...

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I pray. Everyday. Sometimes several times. This week begins a twelve day feast of the birth of Christ in my faith tradition, and it happens amidst other celebrations of light in the darkness...

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Americans ultimately vote their values.

In an election that started out as a debate about war, and ended up being about the economy, voters were also treated to a very clear discussion about the social...

Social conservatives cannot complain that their issues have not been heard in the 2008 campaign, in exactly the fashion they wanted.

John McCain selected the far-right's hand-picked candidate as his running mate, Sarah Palin, instead of either of his preferred choices, Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge....

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NBC's Brian Williams asked Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin about their attacks on Sen. Barack Obama and his association with Bill Ayers, and if they would define abortion clinic bombers as domestic terrorists.

Palin said she wouldn't condone such actions...

The Culture War is over.

By every objective, measurable analysis, from CNN's dial tests, to MSNBC's focus group in Kansas City, to the CBS and Fox News flash polls -- to RH Reality Check's own server-crashing high traffic volume following the final presidential debate -- Americans are embracing the pro-education,...

A McCain supporter at a Friday rally said he was "scared of an Obama presidency", linking Obama "hanging around with Ayers" to "who he will choose for the Supreme Court." Two lies, about Ayers and about the Supreme Court, fueled by a Culture of Lies now fomenting rage.

We learned yesterday about a linkage between militant anti-choice terrorist Paul Schenck and Sen. John McCain, and tonight Keith Olberman reported about yet another linkage to some of the most extreme anti-choice activists. It seems obvious that the McCain campaign is comfortable with the extreme tactics of the most...

A second major pro-life scholar is coming out in strong support for Sen. Barack Obama, specifically citing Obama's pro-education and pro-prevention agenda to reduce unintended pregnancies. According to The Boston Globe:

Nicholas P. Cafardi, a law professor and the former dean of the Duquesne...

No one will be able to accuse Sen. Barack Obama of not making his pro-education, pro-prevention, pro-choice values clear in this election.

Unlike ghosts of Democrats past that hemmed and hawed, straddling hot-button issues like abortion by playing defense against the harsh tactics and misinformation spread...

On a day when most Americans are looking at the news from Wall Street, as markets plunge, comes word from far-right social conservatives that one multimillionaire funder will attempt to distract voters with independent television advertising on more Culture War issues.

Last week featured the now resoundingly...

This is significant, and certainly underscores why more Americans are turning toward pro-choice values as they see just how far outside the mainstream social conservatives really are.

Undecided women voters are the key, and pro-choice values are a significant advantage in 2008, according to New York...

Sen. Barack Obama selected Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate today, in part as an effort to shore up Obama's support among Catholic voters who make up 25 percent of the electorate. While the selection is already being assailed by extremist social conservative Catholic organizations, Biden...

The battle to protect Americans' rights to access contraception in good conscience, based on long-standing and widely accepted medical science, got a big boost Wednesday from MoveOn.org. In an email urging action from its more than 3.5 million members, MoveOn.org asks people to write HHS opposing the proposed...

There's no place like home.

Pro-Choice Republican Lynn Jenkins defeated Anti-Choice social conservative former Congressman Jim Ryun in the Second Congressional District in Kansas. Anti-choice national nemesis Phill Kline, who was defeated as Kansas Attorney General two years ago, lost his election to remain Johnson...

The Bush Administration Department of Health and Human Services isn't getting much rest these days, using every moment of their final few months to leave an indelible ideological mark on government.

Last week, the Bush Administration, in the person of Robert W. Patterson of the Children, Family...

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is moving toward a cloture vote in the Senate, a vote that will determine whether the $50 billion reauthorization lives or dies. That same life or death question applies to millions of people in Africa, and comparing actual life or death...

Is this the year of the squirming baby political TV commercial? Following on the heals of the MoveOn.org squirming baby ad, comes the Family Research Council equivalent.

TPM Election Central and the New York Times' Caucus Blog are reporting that the Family Research Council...