Christian Conservatives

The Bible-New and Improved

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books


Christopher Brauchli

Andrew Schafly has decided to use his skills as engineer and lawyer to fix something that many people did not realize was broken -- the Bible.

Glenn Beck, Cult Leader

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


Matt Osborne

Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with movement conservatives in Georgia and found them happily living in their own special reality. the conservative movement has become a cult.

Is Guilt a Good Thing?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living


Jay Michaelson

If tomorrow, you could completely free yourself from guilt -- if you'd never feel guilty again, no matter what you did -- would you do it? Americans ...

Influence Of Religious Right Fading, Recession Taking Toll

Center For American Progress | Lester Feder | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


The recession is taking its toll on the conservative movement, and religious right leaders' intellectual rigidity is helping to put a nail in the coff...

Barack Obama and the Promise of Progress

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Paul Raushenbush

The progressive movement throughout the last century has enlisted political leaders, economists, educators, and clergy who strive to create a more equitable world, a task we believe is possible.

Why I Believe (Specifically) That Sarah Palin Is A Really, Really Bad Idea

Brad Listi | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home


Brad Listi

Palin gives me the creeps the way Bush and Cheney give me the creeps. Similar ideology. Similar whiffs of God-fueled certainty, incompetence, callous indifference, culture war. But I can do better than that...

Reading The Pictures: The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-09-04-shaw1.jpg As uncomfortable and inappropriate as it feels, the drama surrounding the Palin family -- especially on the visual plane -- has become very much a political issue.

Kowtowing McCain

Carol Hoenig | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics


Carol Hoenig

Phil Burress, head of the Ohio group, Citizens for Community Values, gave an interesting quote in today's New York Time's article, McCain's Effort to ...

GOP Pollster's Focus Group Sees Palin As "A Gimmick"

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics


Another week, another Frank Luntz/AARP focus group of undecided voters--this one in Minneapolis and with some bad news for John McCain: they don't lik...

Young Evangelicals' Embrace Of Huckabee Threatening To Divide Christian Conservatives

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Much of the national leadership of the Christian conservative movement has turned a cold shoulder to the Republican presidential campaign of Mike Huck...

Huckabee Drops Christian Right Buzzwords In NH

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Fresh from his victory in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has to be considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. But th...

Iowa Conservatives Still Undecided About Candidates

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee would seem to be the answer to their prayers, yet for many Christian conservatives in Iowa, he has not closed the d...

Huck = Harriet Miers?

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs. The same forces that joined to forc...

Thomas B. Edsall

Pat Robertson's Giuliani Endorsement - Hold On To Your Wallet

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign has hungered for some form of blessing from the religious right. Today, the former New York City mayor and suppo...

Giuliani Woos Christian Right

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Rudy Giuliani tried to find peace with a restless bloc of the Republican Party Saturday, telling religious conservatives not to fear him for his stand...

Dobson Backs Down From Third-Party Threat

Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"However, Dobson spoke out against the idea of a third party even if "both Democratic and Republican nominees are known to be entirely unsupportive of...