Monday night, we'll be sending you an urgent message that affects the future of RenewAmerica.  Please keep an eye out for it.  Thanks,

 

 

June 1, 2009

The meltdown of evangelicalism

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — This is part 2 of an essay in which we are considering the "emergent church" -- a postmodern cult disguised as a church -- and the "seeker-sensitive church" that is a real church, but is in bondage to postmodern culture... (more)

June 1, 2009

The J. Robert Oppenheimer, I.F. Stone cases; Harry Hopkins too

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — There was a lot of hair-splitting during last month's two-day conference of the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center in Washington... (more)

May 31, 2009

CBN NEWS — Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was shot and killed as he entered his church Sunday morning in Wichita, Kan. Police spokesman Gordon Bassham said shots were fired just after 10 a.m. as Tiller entered the Reformation Lutheran Church lobby... (more)

May 31, 2009

HENRY LAMB — The media appear to delight in exploiting the plight of the Republican Party, particularly the flap between Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. Cheney's comment that he thought Powell had left the Republican Party because he endorsed Obama provided a perfect opportunity for Powell to take the TV podium to tell Republicans they must become more moderate to reverse the flight from their ranks... (more)

May 30, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — President Obama and his administration told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting last week the U.S. foresees the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, according to a top PA official speaking to WND... (more)

May 30, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Republicans on Saturday attacked the climate change proposal crafted by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Obama as doing little to reduce global warming while saddling Americans with high energy costs... (more)

May 29, 2009

FOX NEWS — As lawmakers toy with the idea of an across-the-board sales tax on just about everything, tax reform advocates are starting to drum up opposition with the same fervor they employed during last month's anti-tax tea parties... (more)

May 29, 2009

DICK MORRIS — ...During the Bush years, while war raged, the Defense Department became more relevant to the conduct of foreign policy. And, under Obama, the financial crisis has propelled the Treasury into the forefront. Even though Obama appointed Hillary, he clearly has not been willing to make her a co-president and confines her to the diminished role of her department... (more)

May 29, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — The Obama administration on Friday continued to defend Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's statement that, "A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," while also firing back at her critics... (more)

May 29, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Left-wing groups in Washington, D.C., are panicked. The New York Times and other Team Obama whitewashers are downplaying the connection between the Obama presidential campaign, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Obama's old employer Project Vote (ACORN's nonprofit canvassing arm)... (more)

May 29, 2009

PAT BUCHANAN — When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court -- in Barack Obama's America. Like Obama, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action, she thinks "Latina women," because of their life experience, make better judicial decisions than white men, that discrimination against white men to advance people of color is what America is all about, that appellate courts are "where policy is made" in the United States... (more)

May 29, 2009

MICHAEL REAGAN — Wednesday's nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was a historic moment that all Americans should appreciate. Her life story represents the great promise of the American dream -- Sotomayor has lived in both a public housing project in the Bronx and in the dorm rooms of Princeton and Yale... (more)

May 29, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea defiantly test-fired another short-range missile Friday and warned it would act in "self-defense" if provoked by the U.N. Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions against the communist regime for conducting a nuclear test... (more)

May 29, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A tea party protester claims he was investigated as a terrorist by the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI after he sent letters to his representatives criticizing the government for spending money he says the U.S. does not have... (more)

May 29, 2009

NEWSMAX — A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 57 percent of Americans oppose legalizing same-sex marriage while 40 percent are in favor. The poll, released Wednesday, comes on the heels of the California Supreme Court's upholding of Proposition 8, a citizen-enacted constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage... (more)

May 29, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A California school district has approved a mandatory homosexual curriculum for children as young as 5 -- and parents will not be allowed to remove their children from the lessons... (more)

May 29, 2009

JONAH GOLDBERG — It's a lovely thing when the conventional wisdom proves to be so spectacularly wrong. The entire Democratic party, not to mention the media establishment, simply took as a given that suave, charming, effulgent, numinous president Barack Obama would mop the floor with grumpy, truculent, sardonic former vice-president Dick Cheney... (more)

May 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a "racist," Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police... (more)

May 28, 2009

NEWSMAX — General Motors Corp. said Thursday a committee of bondholders has agreed to a sweetened deal proposed by the U.S. government to erase the automaker's unsecured debt in exchange for company stock... (more)

May 28, 2009

NEWSMAX — Two lawyers who squared off in the legal battle over the 2000 U.S. presidential election teamed up on Wednesday to challenge California's gay marriage ban in a move that, if successful, would allow same-sex couples to wed anywhere in the United States... (more)

May 28, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — Critics of President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court should be careful how they conduct the debate, warned White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday, as he struggled to explain a 2001 comment by Judge Sonia Sotomayor... (more)

May 28, 2009

CRAIGE MCMILLAN — The new media do themselves and the world's news consumers a great disservice by referring to the old media as "mainstream" media. As anyone who seeks "the rest of the story" knows, they are anything but mainstream in their reporting. Those of us who have used the word "mainstream" in referring to big media have not helped the cause of honest reporting... (more)

May 28, 2009

LARRY ELDER — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA "misled" her about waterboarding. What difference does it make, in the grand scheme of things, whether Pelosi is telling the truth? Maybe the CIA did; maybe the CIA did not. So what? Well, it makes a great deal of difference -- and not only because if true, the CIA didn't just "mislead" Pelosi but also committed a crime... (more)

May 28, 2009

JOSEPH FARAH — Whenever I question the timidity of today's church in America, I receive lectures accusing me of violating a biblical principle that supposedly provides a blanket condemnation of Christian resistance to tyranny. The contention that Christians should simply lay down and comply with even the most hideous requirements of government is an old argument... (more)

May 28, 2009

USA TODAY — Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago -- the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says... (more)

May 28, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Sen. Roland Burris wants to be known for his work on Capitol Hill. But once again he's finding it hard to escape the cloud that followed him to the Senate... (more)

May 28, 2009

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — "He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself; when he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart" (Proverbs 26:24, 25). There is a helpless, sinister sense that seems to be hanging like a heavy weight over the country. One can compare the emotion to that of a death of a loved one -- America... (more)