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  • Old Time, Religion - Why are only GOPers asked about religion?

    11/21/2012 2:23:52 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 15 replies
    National Review Online ^ | November 21, 2012 | Daniel Foster
    ...... (Rep. Tulsi) Gabbard’s (D.Hawaii) espoused Hinduism, like Obama’s espoused Christianity or Ellison’s espoused Islam or Harry Reid’s espoused Mormonism, entails a range of commitments to claims that are, prima facie, at odds with the empirical record. But there isn’t a cottage industry in interrogating Democrats on their faith the way there is with religious conservatives. One reason for this is that elected religious conservatives tend to be white, male Christians, and owing to those groups’ cultural and political position of power, we as a society are freer in challenging the pieties (in both the positive and negative senses of...
  • A Few Questions

    07/27/2006 2:40:34 PM PDT · by beckett · 259 replies · 3,191+ views
    Opinion Journal WSJ.com ^ | July 27, 2006 | Peggy Noonan
    Why does the president call the secretary of state "Condi"? And what exactly is his philosophy? Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT Why does President Bush refer in public to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "Condi"? Did Dwight Eisenhower call his Secretary of State "Johnny"? Did Jimmy Carter call his "Eddie," or Bill Clinton call his "Maddy," or Richard Nixon call his "Willie" or "Hank"? What are the implications of such informality? I know it is small, but in a way such things are never small. To me it seems a part of the rhetorical childishness of the...