Rick Santorum suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Tuesday, but if he’s gone from the podium, he’s at least shown how his conservative message resonates with a religious base in the Republican party, writes Sarah Posner at Religion Dispatches. Posner writes of Santorum’s mid-afternoon speech announcing his campaign’s suspension:
I guess that you can. Last night’s U.S. Senate debate on NBC included one of the candidates calling another candidate a “whore” for his stance on Israel.
Lee Whitnum, a Democratic candidate for one of Connecticut’s U.S. Senate seats, called U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy a “whore,” and candidate [...]
Fears of Pres. Obama’s reelection has created a surge in gun buying, says Robert Cyran, at Reuters. He writes:
Candidate Obama’s victory nearly four years ago set off the first “run for guns.” Anxiety about economic Armageddon also added to demand for the ultimate counter-cyclical asset. Federal firearm and ammunition excise tax [...]
(And in the interest of full disclosure, Pres. Obama is my match, though I agreed with former candidate Jon Huntsman on one topic — though when I went back to look, I couldn’t figure out what that was.)
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate (and frontrunner) Mitt Romney declined to answer a pointed question about his Mormon faith. From the Associated Press account:
A Ron Paul supporter, 28-year-old Bret Hatch, asked Romney whether he agreed with a passage from the Book of Mormon that describes a cursing of people with [...]
A new Public Policy Polling release says that erstwhile Alaska Gov./vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is more popular than any of the Republican candidates for president — and that might mean something come the Republican National Convention in August.
The choice between the biblical values of “good news for the poor” as announced by Jesus, and the “good news for the rich” of GOP fiscal proposals should be an [...]
