Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney and the Politics of Virtue

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma October 3, 2012

When Mitt Romney blurted out his now notorious 47-percent lament, liberal gaffe-o-meters went ballistic, acting as though he were an American Ebenezer Scrooge who had just shoved Tiny Tim Cratchit into a ditch and then burned down a crutch factory.…

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Winter is Coming

by Robert Hutchinson October 2, 2012

Fans of Game of Thrones, the blockbuster fantasy novels and now an HBO-TV series, will recognize “Winter is Coming” as the motto of the House of Stark, the noble family who rules over the cold northern regions of the seven…

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Obama v. Romney: God’s Hands or Our Hands?

by Dr. Paul Kengor September 25, 2012

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“Well, it’s in God’s hands.”
I’ve heard that expression a lot lately. I’m hearing it from Christians extremely worried about this presidential election. They pepper me with questions on polls, voter turnout, media bias, independents and moderates, evangelical…

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Democrats For Life vs. Mitt Romney: Who’s More Pro-Life?

by Michael Fragoso September 20, 2012

The Democrats for Life are still active, though this may surprise anyone who followed the passage of Obamacare. As Jonathan Last reported at the Weekly Standard, they even held a small conference at the recent Democratic convention. Professor Stephen Schneck…

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Religion and the Election of 2012

by Gary S. Smith September 13, 2012

Religious issues have played a significant role in numerous presidential elections, as they are in 2012. In 1800, his opponents accused Thomas Jefferson of atheism and trying to undermine the republic’s Christian foundation. In 1928 and 1960, many Americans were…

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Pounding the Table About Abortion

by Ken Connor September 6, 2012

In the three days of “speechifying” that constituted the 2012 Republican National Convention, precious little time or rhetoric was devoted to the topic of abortion.  While Messrs Romney and Ryan (along with notable speakers including Condoleezza Rice and Marco Rubio)…

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Media “Fact-Checkers” and Why We Should Be Skeptical

by Robert Hutchinson September 5, 2012

When I worked in the US Attorney’s Office during college, as a flunkie law librarian, I used to spend tax-payers’ money sitting at a big wooden table and reading a law encyclopedia called Proof of Facts. (Like most federal government…

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Why Aren’t We Talking About Stem Cells Anymore?

by Michael Cook August 28, 2012

Stem cell research has hardly been mentioned in 2012, unlike the last two US election campaigns. Salon’s political reporter, Alex Seitz-Wald, points out that strongly-worded opposition is still part of the Republican platform: “We oppose the killing of embryos for…

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Mitt’s “Damn-the-Torpedoes!” Decision

by Pat Buchanan August 15, 2012

Mitt Romney’s decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know than Adm. David Farragut in Mobile Bay:…

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Obama’s Popularity With Young Voters

by Mark W. Hendrickson August 13, 2012

According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, Americans under the age of 30 favor President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by almost a two-to-one margin. This is a startling statistic. What explains the lopsided support for President Obama among younger…

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