November 5, 2008

We Christian conservatives must pray for the new president, as Scripture commands. What should we pray for?

November 5, 2008

It is indeed significant to have elected our first black president. This will help in exorcising our racial demons. (I read a black journalist who said that if Obama won, which he could scarcely believe would happen, that it would show that everything he believed

November 5, 2008

The people have spoken: Barack Obama has been elected president. And he has won big, with no doubts, controversies, or hanging chads. He has 349 electoral votes to John McCain’s 147.

November 4, 2008

I voted this morning, with no waiting and an efficient operation. In Virginia, at least in our district, we went back from voting machines to old-fashioned, color-in-the-circle paper ballots. As a result, the election officials could set up a bunch of little booths, since all

November 4, 2008

Thanks for yesterday’s closing arguments on the election. Some thoughts: (1) No one making the case for Obama talked about how salutary it would be to elect a black man, how this would help heal our nation’s racial wounds and make the world like us

November 4, 2008

I don’t know if this is happening everywhere, just in the battleground states, just in Virginia, or just in states that require election officers to audibly repeat the name and address of voters as they check in. But this practice disturbs me. From Parties Assign

November 4, 2008

Psychiatrist Phyllis Chesler is worried about Pre-Election Psycho-Somatic Hysteria: There are important reasons to vote for Obama and important reasons to vote for McCain. Neither candidate thrills me, both frighten me but for different reasons. But, what worries me even more than the candidates is

November 4, 2008

Many conservatives are consoling themselves that a time of political exile will do them good, a chance to purify the Republican party for a later comeback. Michael Medved, a political conservative himself, says that just does not happen: History shows conclusively that a bitter defeat

November 4, 2008

This is sad, coming just the day before the election: Obama’s grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s grandmother died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday, a little more than a week after he interrupted the White House

November 4, 2008

In case this was keeping you from voting McCain/Palin, you should know that Report clears Palin in Alaska’s Troopergate probe: This time, Gov. Sarah Palin can claim vindication against allegations that she abused her power in office by firing her public safety commissioner. Palin –


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