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Even George H.W. Bush--the patriarch of the namesakes--is getting into the swing of things. Sources tell TIME that the former President, who once famously referred to his Mexican-American grandchildren, including George P., as "the little brown ones," recently urged his son's campaign to hold a national...
Are the Southern Baptists, one of America's largest Christian denominations, trying to scare away their moderate members? Nobody knows for sure. But watching the proceedings at the national convention in Orlando this week, it's hard to ignore an overarching - and exclusionary - conservative theme. Just in case anyone had...
The Southern Baptist leadership has struck an unapologetic stance on its policies. "Somebody said the other day that we were trying to set things back 200 years, and we felt like that was a big mistake," convention president Paige Patterson told reporters this week. "We're trying to set them...
The air around George W. Bush these days is thick with ghosts. At the family getaway in Kennebunkport to attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time...
I think of him as I read that both Democrats and Republicans look forward to the coming presidential campaign with what seems a high-minded determination to avoid their own dark side. The Bush campaign has ordained, for example, that the GOP convention starting in Philadelphia at the end of...