Hunter Baker

Jerry Falwell is dead. Like Dick Nixon, they can’t kick him around anymore. For that matter I can’t kick him around anymore. Neither can the rest of the Christian community. How many of us for the last three decades have…

John, you provide the best defense Mitt could have and demonstrate an admirable open-mindedness in the process. I’m not sure pro-lifers are prepared to be as open and to let their guard down. We’ve been burned before. We want someone…

Does anyone think that Mitt Romney would be pro-life today if he had chosen to run for a second term in Massachusetts rather than for the presidency? If you know the answer to that question, then you know if he’s…

Rudy Giuliani came to Houston and invoked specters of 1960. Seasoned observers, including Houston Baptist University president Robert B. Sloan, noted Giuliani’s visit to HBU and recalled John F. Kennedy’s famed speech before Protestant ministers in Houston in which he…

Philip Klein noticed my short piece at Redstate declaring the end of Rudy’s chances based on the revelation that he gave money to Planned Parenthood. Phil is skeptical of my prognosis. That’s understandable. I, too, once thought Rudy (like the…

As a former intern to a person who had regular access to Chuck Colson, I read Doug Bandow’s piece on Colson and his condemnation of Circuit City’s lay-off of 3,400 persons with interest. For what it’s worth, I tend to…

YouTube just keeps biting Mitt Romney. Check out this compilation where Mitt embraces the pro-choice position (including by throwing out the old “I knew someone who died from an illegal abortion” bit), distances himself from the Reagan economic record (“I…

Hugh Hewitt has worked his larynx and fingertips to the point of tender redness arguing that we should all pay no attention to whatever exactly is the content of Mitt Romney’s LDS beliefs. And that’s fine. I don’t agree that…

David Broder has written that Harry Reid should abdicate the Senate Majority Leader’s position. I think this event deserves a discussion of the media context. Let me start simply this way. David Broder is the “unchallenged dean” of the Washington…

I remember going for an evening walk with my young wife some years ago. As we strolled past a heavily wooded yard with a house barely visible, I suddenly heard the menacing growl of a very obviously big and mean…