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With all the high-flown speechifying coming out of Congress last week, you would have thought the July 4th re-enactments had started early. "We struck a blow for freedom today," said G.O.P. Congressman Lindsey Graham. On the Senate floor, John McCain gave a similar fife-and-drum salute: "It is indeed a great day for democracy." The defeated foe: a proliferating breed of shadowy tax-exempt special-interest groups that must now disclose their political spending and donors. The patriot among patriots? McCain, who led the charge for the first successful effort to change campaign-finance laws in more...
White's is a transformation that begs for comparison with Saul's on the road to Damascus. Grandson of a tent revivalist, White was ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching...
...down, 16 or so to go. Gary Graham is dead, but not so the issue of the death penalty for Texas governor George W. Bush, whose state is scheduled to execute an average of one death row inmate each week until the November elections...
...credit, Bush managed to pick his way through the Graham minefield with surprising grace, metamorphosing in a few short weeks from casual executioner into the sorrowful presence so evident on Thursday night's execution coverage. That composed exterior may become quite familiar as the campaign wears on, says Professor Cal Jillson, chair of the Political Science Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "The Bush staff is starting to get a handle on how to deal with these executions," he says. "On Thursday, everything about Bush was studied: His voice, his expression, his body language. He wants to communicate that...
That modicum of solemnity could very well be enough to carry Bush through to November with a minimum of angst over this issue. Although at least one scheduled lethal injection - involving one suspect's deathbed insistence that his alleged accomplice is innocent - has the potential to incite Gary Graham-level protest, and the sheer frequency of executions could be exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support...