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November 6, 2008
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November 6, 2008
WORLDNETDAILY — Radio host Rush Limbaugh, the loudest conservative voice in American politics, on Wednesday blasted John McCain's presidential campaign as weak and said Barack Obama's election as president is an opportunity to purge the Republican Party of candidates who abandon conservative principles... (more)


November 6, 2008
ROBERT D. NOVAK — The national election Tuesday was not only historic for the election of the first African-American president in the nation's history but also for how little the avalanche of Democratic votes changed the political alignment in Congress... (more)


November 6, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has returned to her home state of Alaska, where she was greeted by dozens of supporters encouraging her to run for president in four years... (more)


November 5, 2008
WORLDNETDAILY — State police chaplains in Virginia who have been banned from praying "in Jesus' name" have gained the support of more than 1,000 people who gathered for a rally outside the mansion of Gov. Timothy Kaine, who has declared he can pray without mentioning Jesus... (more)


November 5, 2008
IN THE NEWS — Unites States president-elect Barack Obama has made the first appointment of his fledgling administration, selecting Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. Emanuel is a member of the House of Representatives for Illinois - Obama's home state - and has been a close friend of the Democratic candidate for several years... (more)


November 5, 2008
STAR TRIBUNE — Sen. Norm Coleman is leading Democratic challenger Al Franken in one of the most bitter U.S. Senate races in Minnesota history. With 100 percent of the 4,130 precincts reporting, Coleman had an unofficial margin of several hundred votes out of nearly 2.9 million cast... (more)


November 5, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — Phyllis Schlafly was around for the beginning of the modern conservative movement. Now, in the aftermath of yesterday's sea change election, the president of Eagle Forum and veteran conservative activist says the movement needs to start over again -- from the beginning... (more)


November 5, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — Voters on Tuesday did not reject conservatism, a longtime conservative activist said. "They rejected Big Government Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress"... (more)


November 5, 2008
RONALD REAGAN — (Editor's note: This essay originally ran in the spring of 1983 in the quarterly journal Human Life Review.) The 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good time for us to pause and reflect... (more)


November 5, 2008
ANDREW B. WILSON — The current financial crisis has revived powerful misconceptions about the Great Depression. Those who misinterpret the past are all too likely to repeat the exact same mistakes that made the Great Depression so deep and devastating... (more)


November 5, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — According to the California Secretary of State, Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California, has passed by a margin of 51-48 percent... (more)


November 5, 2008
NEWSMAX — Barack Obama was elected the nation's first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states -- Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa... (more)


November 5, 2008


November 5, 2008
WORLDNETDAILY — Voters in Washington are endorsing by a 56 percent to 44 percent margin a plan that makes the state the second in the union that allows residents to choose to die... (more)


November 4, 2008
CNN — Alaska's Personnel Board concluded Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin did not violate ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, contradicting an earlier investigation's findings... (more)


November 3, 2008
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Does Barack Obama believe in the universal moral law? Hard to tell. Obama insists he is a Christian and admits that evil exists, but answers questions about morality and evil in an equivocal way... (more)


November 3, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Two columns ago (see "Fixing the Economy," 10/27/08), we outlined policies intended to curb or stop the thirties Great Depression which instead actually prolonged it... (more)

 
 
 
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