What group do you suppose knows the most about the tenets of various religions? Evangelical Protestants? Um, no. Catholics? They didn’t even get half the questions right. Shall I tell you? It was the atheists and agnostics, that’s who. The results of this poll won’t surprise you at all, sadly. Most religious people don’t really know religion. That much is clear from the way they act, it didn’t really require a poll.

Nothing like a good, solid debate about issues and the future of our country. And this is nothing like it. Here are a few of the tough “questions” Bush faced in his invitation-only “Ask President  [more...]

I don’t often shoot out so many political posts all in one sitting, but the state of things in my country this morning are frustrating and disgusting. This is an editorial in today’s Washington Post, which I  [more...]

With the first anniversary of the start of the Iraq war this week, the White House is all set to make a spectacle of it, much the same way they made political hay with the September 11 anniversary: The White House will  [more...]