Greg Pierce

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"Passionate debates over doctrine, identity and the boundaries of 'communion' have been a staple of the American religious landscape for centuries: Trinitarians vs. Unitarians in 19th-century New England; Modernists vs. Fundamentalists in early-20th-century Presbyterianism; Missouri Synod Lutherans vs. Wisconsin Synod Lutherans vs. Other Sorts of Lutherans down to today," writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).

May 19, 2009

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Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley A. Strassel remarks on how President Obama's promise to close the detention center for terrorism suspects at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is causing heartburn in his own party.

May 18, 2009

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Andrew C. McCarthy, writing at www.nationalreview.com, asks: Why is President Obama continuing to pretend that the release of supposed prisoner-abuse photos is a judicial call, concerning which he is just a bystander?

May 15, 2009

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"The barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early and sustained recovery," Martin Feldstein writes in the Wall Street Journal.

May 14, 2009

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"American soldiers, American civilians and other innocent people are going to die because President Barack Obama wants to release photographs of prisoner abuse," Andrew C.McCarthy writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).

May 13, 2009

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"There is a brooding sense within top social conservative circles that they have become the revolving scapegoat of the Republican Party," David Paul Kuhn writes at www.realclearpolitics.com.

May 12, 2009

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"WatchingPresident Obama and Hillary Clinton conduct their mini-summit with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, I flashed back to their bitter campaign last year," New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

May 11, 2009

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Republican-turned-Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter "is now a man without a country," David Paul Kuhn writes at www.realclearpolitics.com.

May 8, 2009

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"I keep hearing the White House staff describe the president as a pragmatist,"Robert B. Reich writes at www.salon.com.

May 7, 2009

Napolitano says pigs unjustly vilified, so eats them

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is doing her part to give a much needed boost to the pork industry, which has been wrongly blamed for the spread of swine flu.

May 6, 2009

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Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that he will run for his state's open U.S. Senate seat in 2010, setting up a possible Republican primary battle with popular Gov. Charlie Crist.

May 6, 2009

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Liberal bloggers are already starting to complain about Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who last week left the Republican Party to join the Democrats.

May 5, 2009

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"The argument over the Republican Party now always devolves into the question -- Should it be less conservative?" Peggy Noonan writes at www.opinionjournal.com.

May 4, 2009

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"The instant reaction to Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties was that it is a sign of GOP weakness. My take is that it is just as much a sign of Arlen Specter's weakness," Jay Cost writes at www.realclearpolitics.com.

May 1, 2009

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"Now that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has all but handed Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in the United States Senate, we can finally put aside those increasingly annoying stories speculating about who is 'leading' the Republican Party and what 'state' the GOP finds itself in," Vaughn Ververs writes at www.realclearpolitics.com.

April 30, 2009

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Sen. Arlen Specter's move to the Democratic Party was not greeted with unanimous joy by liberals.

April 29, 2009

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Despite President Obama's ban on using harsh interrogation techniques on terrorists, a growing majority of Americans now say they think such practices are justified.

April 28, 2009

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April 27, 2009

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"Members of Congress calling for an investigation of the enhanced interrogation program should remember that such an investigation can't be a selective review of information, or solely focus on the lawyers who wrote the memos, or the low-level employees who carried out this program," Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

April 24, 2009

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"After having served most of my adult life in the CIA's Clandestine Service and having led many important counterterrorism missions, I can say that the rank and file is truly horrified byPresident Obama's naive decision making," Gary Berntsenwrites at www.realclearpolitics.com.

April 23, 2009