Religious Fundamentalists

I remember being in graduate school and hearing a professor say that there really wasn’t much difference between fundamentalist Christians in America and fundamentalist Muslims in the Middle East.  He made his remarks a few years before 9-11, though, so I wonder if he still feels the same today. On one side of the equation,

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Obama vs. Nixon

In a speech on foreign policy recently, specifically the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said that, really, our priority needs to be the American economy.  I was struck with how much the President’s priorities were just the opposite of Richard Nixon’s, which certainly doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but let me

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Four Presidents

I find it interesting how hard it is to please the critics of Presidents. Let me give you some examples. Democrats mocked George Bush for being a flip-flopper after he famously said, “Read my lips: No new taxes” then he agreed (with the Democrat-controlled Congress) to the biggest tax increase in American history.  Later, Democrats

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Obama’s Religion

Stories are being written these days about the new poll which indicates that 20% of Americans think President Barack Obama is a Muslim.  Two things interest me about this issue. One, people are making a big deal about the increasing number of people who believe this, but if memory serves me, 18% of the public

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