The polls don’t look that great for Romney at this time. A couple of polls have Obama up five points. I don’t understand how President Obama’s approval rating is around 42 percent and yet 49 percent of voters say they’re going to vote for him again. I suspect that there

The turning point in American politics was the election of Jimmy Carter. He was thought to be a Washington outsider. He wore sweaters, had a minimalist inauguration ceremony, and walked down Pennsylvania Avenue with his wife Rosalynn. The sweater thing was his way of combating the energy crisis. Turn the

If Mitt Romney is elected president, he will be the first Mormon to do so. He will follow in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy who was the first Roman Catholic president to be elected. As with Kennedy, Romney’s religious beliefs are being questioned and scrutinized. Many Evangelical Christians will

Is former President Jimmy Carter — author of a new study Bible and Sunday school teacher — finally getting religion? He has come out publicly against abortion, or at least, most abortions. It’s a step in the right direction. Here’s what he said: “I never have believed that Jesus Christ

Lizz Winstead, is a comedienne and television “personality” I’ve never heard of. She’s been involved in a number of liberal TV and radio productions. In 2003, she co-founded and served as the program director at the defunct Air America Radio network. Since 2005 she has been a contributing blogger at

President Obama is once again blaming everybody else for the sorry state of the economy. High gas prices were the fault of speculators. Now it’s the fault of Iran. The bankruptcy of Solyndra and the loss of the $500 million dollars he loaned the company is the fault of the

For more than 30 years the “Born Again” Jimmy Carter has been an outspoken critic of Christian activism and politics with jabs at the “religious right.” His latest entry into mixing his version of religion, morality, and politics is NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter. It

If you believe what the President Barack Obama is saying, drilling for more oil won’t affect the price of gasoline, and there aren’t enough oil reserves in the United States to satisfy or growing energy needs. I’m not opposed to securing all the foreign oil reserves we can. The sooner

“Blameshift: a process in business and government wherein the blame for something bad is shifted from person to person.” Blameshifting has a long and inglorious history. When Adam fell into sin, he blamed his wife and eventually blamed God: “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave

Politics is all about voter turnout and enthusiasm of the base. Trying to convert the base of one party to turn to another party is a fool’s errand. Motivating “never befores” to vote for the first time is something Obama did in 2008. He got young voters excited about his

“Blameshift: a process in business and government wherein the blame for something bad is shifted from person to person.” Blameshifting has a long and inglorious history. When Adam fell into sin, he blamed his wife and eventually blamed God: “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave