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...town fathers were unlikely to be thinking about diversity but a small minority was upset by what seems like a civic religious gesture. Then the cases were picked up by ideologues on both sides - The ACLU or the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is affiliated with Pat Robertson - to further their own agendas. And the people on both sides often just got swept along...
...dried tomatoes and a roasted red pepper sauce and baked in filo pastry. In the same Beyoglu area is Cezayir, www.cezayir-istanbul.com, a restaurant-bar converted from an Italian primary school and a favorite with hipsters. Here, tandoori chicken is served with the unlikely accompaniment of pistachio rice, and liver paté is accented with Aegean herbs...
...three pairs of also-rans. Tommy Thompson and Jim Gilmore were fine Governors, but they have nothing to add here. Both of the right-wing populists, Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter, seem obscure and insubstantial, a classic problem for House members running for President; neither is as compelling as Pat Buchanan, who has played this role in the past. I've been surprised by how ineffective Tancredo has been in making his anti-immigrant pitch, which should have some resonance in the Republican Party. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee seems to be winning the battle of the religious conservatives against...
...some." The movement Falwell had helped create grew so large it spilled out in directions no one could foresee or control, encompassing work on global warming and the crisis in Darfur. Young Evangelicals still have their heroes and their causes, but those were less likely to be Falwell and Pat Robertson fighting abortion and gay marriage than Bono and Rick Warren addressing poverty and AIDS in Africa. When Falwell talked of AIDS, it was about God's punishment of homosexuals. When Warren, who also views homosexuality as a sin, talks about AIDS, it's about how to stop its spread...
...first week after Clinton's inauguration in 1993 that he had a sex tape of the new President, but was too appalled by it to share it in public. Falwell came out early for Bush in 2000. Not long after, John McCain called Falwell, along with Rev. Pat Robertson, an "agent of intolerance." McCain more recently traveled to Lynchburg to mend fences...