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...dire as it’s made out to be. Belief hasn’t gone entirely to the dogs. One might even say, with only a little exaggeration, that the primary thing that characterizes our age is its necessity for faith—not in any Christian deity or even the almighty Mammon, but in the boundlessly optimistic idea that everything will make sense in the end. There’s enough gritty frontier fiber left in the national spirit for us to remain positive that everything will ultimately be okay. Recent events have done much to shake...
...extreme acts inspire extreme reactions. Bloggers on the left have deplored "Christian fundamentalist terrorism" and accused "those wastes of humanity in the media like Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly" for helping to "create and stoke a climate of hate and intolerance toward those who believe in a woman's right to choose." Malkin, for her part, warned readers to "prepare for collective demonization of pro-lifers and Christians - and more gratuitous attempts to tar talk radio, Fox News and the Tea Party movement as responsible for the heinous crime." (Read "Vatican Newspaper: 'Obama...
...blogger Mayhill Fowler. Her scoop blindsided professional reporters and roiled the primary race--one of many instances in which Internet muckrakers made a difference in the campaign, argues Eric Boehlert. The former Salon and Rolling Stone writer calls this liberal "netroots" movement the strongest political force since the Christian right--one that, oddly, draws scant attention from the mainstream press. Boehlert finds engaging stories among his eccentric band of activists, including the paralegal who scored a personal call from Obama for running the candidate's largest MySpace fan page. But those profiles get bogged down in grinding detail and tiresome...
...Please, don't use this tragic situation to broad-brush the pro-life community as extremists," the Rev. Pat Mahoney of the antiabortion Christian Defense Coalition told TIME Sunday. Condemning the murder, Mahoney worried that, "politically, this could not have happened at a worse time." A Gallup poll in May found for the first time more Americans considering themselves pro-life than pro-choice. Mahoney had hoped this would inspire Republicans to take a hard line on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and her views, largely unknown, of Roe v. Wade. "This might take some of the wind...
...tarnished fiscal state of the Golden State, Arnold Schwarzenegger may wish he were a movie star again. Indeed, he's spoken of getting back into films after his term is up. Big question for Californians: Would you want Arnold back as the Terminator if you had to take Christian Bale as governor...