President Barack Obama has faced an early challenge in his administration, and he handled it faster than George W. Bush and better than Bill Clinton. All three men came into office committed to doing something big. Clinton was going to “fix” healthcare. He put Hillary in charge and it didn’t work out. Bush wanted to […]
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So just a short time ago, President #44 Barack Obama wanted nothing to do with embattled Governor Rod Blagojevich’s choice to take Obama’s Senate seat. Obama and the Democrat-controlled Senate want Blagojevich out, and so they certainly don’t want him to continue exercising his powers (especially since that is what has gotten him in such
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I read an interesting article online in the Washington Post. The writer was mad that President-elect Obama had invited his friend, megachurch pastor Rick Warren, to offer the invocation at the inauguration. The problem? Warren, a pastor who has mixed cutting edge church growth techniques with traditional Christian theology, is opposed to gay marriage. Interestingly,
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What with the death of Mark “Deep Throat” Felt, the “Frost/Nixon” movie, and the tribulations of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Richard Nixon is once again part of the national conversation. I won’t lie, this makes me happy because I wrote Nixon and His Men: The Road through Watergate, and my publisher and I like it
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George W. Bush was interviewed recently and said some things about his faith that have generated a bit of a buzz. Some of the fuss, I’ll be honest with you, I just don’t understand. For example, he said he believed that God created the universe but he also believed in evolution. Generally speaking, you have
