Daniel Allott
The most recent edition of Georgetown Magazine, Georgetown University’s alumni magazine, reports that former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and his wife, Chandler, have made a $5 million donation to the $1.5 billion For Generations to Come campaign. One million dollars…
Those looking for hints about what role faith might play in the presidential election campaign would do well to recall Ted Kennedy’s bitter and bruising 1994 Massachusetts Senate campaign against Mitt Romney. Facing the prospect of losing his well-worn seat…
President Obama and his lieutenants aren’t the only ones whose views on same-sex marriage are “evolving.” Republicans — including prominent conservative office-holders, pundits and activists — are increasingly endorsing key parts of the gay-rights agenda. What do former Vice President…
Underscoring just how out of touch with ordinary Americans the president has become, the Washington Examiner‘s Paul Bedard reports that blue collar Democrats in swing states are none too pleased with the 17 lavish vacations that the Obamas have taken….
It’s no secret that the Obama campaign and its surrogates will continue to portray Mitt Romney at too detached from the lives of ordinary Americans to be elected president. “Governor Romney’s a little out of touch,” Vice President Joe Biden…
Perhaps the Obama re-election campaign sees some potential for Republican outreach in its preoccupation with Mitt Romney’s alleged mistreatment of Seamus the dog. A 2006 Gallup poll estimated that 43% of Americans own a dog, and that 70% describe themselves as…
The AP reports that the Rev. Robert Jeffress has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Jeffress, you may remember, caused a commotion last October when he called Mormonism “a cult” and declared that Romney is not a Christian. Jeffress theological views…
It’s often taken for granted that Christian conservatives’ uneasiness with Mormonism best explains why Mitt Romney has struggled to win-over those voters. In Inside the Circus, a new e-book about the 2012 campaign by Politico’s Mike Allen and Evan Thomas,…
Have you ever used a racial slur? You may have two answers to that question. There’s your initial, visceral, response: No! Of course not! Never! But then there’s the response you’d give if you were being a little more honest:…
When Pope Benedict XVI arrives today at Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago de Cuba on Cuba’s eastern edge, he will find a nation much in need of the “new evangelization” that is at the heart of his pontificate. The Vatican…
