The President's acceptance speech tonight can be summed up very simply: "I have faith in America; if Americans put their faith in me, things will get better. Cross my heart."Left unexplained is why, if Barack Obama is re-elected, the next four years should be any different from the past four ... Continue reading
Street dreams
November 1, 2008 By
My boyhood, and the Arab political culture I have been chronicling for well over three decades, are anchored in the Arab world. And the tragedy of Arab political culture has been the unending expectation of the crowd — the street, we call it — in the redeemer who will put an end to the decline, who ... Continue reading
Mark Daniels on character and hope-shifting
February 2, 2008 By
I always look to Pastor Mark Daniels at Better Living for good thinking on a variety of subjects. Here are some things Mark blogged about this week.In "It's Character, Stupid", Mark offers an historian's perspective on what to look for in a presidential candidate: "I claim not to have ... Continue reading
Send a message to Congress day
November 7, 2006 By
Today is "Send a Message to Congress Day." The masses will go to the polls — or perhaps stay home in disgust — and will either throw the bums out or give the bums another chance.The message won't be easy to decode. Scrambled together, it'll sound like "stay the course get out of Iraq now Bush is ... Continue reading
Getting faith out of politics
November 2, 2004 By
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. —The first amendment to the ... Continue reading
