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Dear Mr. President: The media tells us that you have received the largest number of popular votes of any president in America's history. Congratulations! In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn't deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. You have been given a mandate. We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet. Because you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly. Don't equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals...

Democrats' new steppingstoneSouth Carolina becomes key for party's hopefuls, who debated there Saturday. COLUMBIA, S.C. – To a Democrat running for president, South Carolina is a daunting place. After all, no Democrat has carried the state in a presidential election since Jimmy Carter. The state party is in questionable shape, after last year's elections gave Republicans control of the legislature, 5 of 8 congressional seats, and the governorship. And South Carolina is still mired in controversy over the confederate flag: The NAACP is calling for an economic boycott while the flag keeps waving at the State House. So it may...

If it weren't for the landslide, there would have been a mud fight. That was the conclusion of Republican attorneys who flew into California from all over the country on Election Day, ready to defend against a flood of long-anticipated Democratic lawsuits. Armed with briefs and cell phones, the volunteer legal army camped out near courthouses and government offices across the state. In America's most liberal judicial circuit, they figured, it couldn't be too hard to find a judge willing to overrule the voters' verdict. In the end, the numbers were simply too overwhelming. Gray Davis lost the recall question...

Presidential campaigns conflicting with day jobs WASHINGTON - Two congressional Democrats running for president have missed nearly every House and Senate vote in the past two weeks, choosing the campaign trail over their day job. U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) have only cast one vote each since Congress returned from its spring recess April 28. Gephardt skipped 36 of 37 roll calls in the House. Lieberman missed 11 of 12 Senate votes. At the same time, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry skipped half the Senate votes. And Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) skipped three-quarters of the...

COLUMBIA - During last weekend's visit to South Carolina, a woman asked U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he would be willing to speak at Bob Jones University, and Kerry said he'd love to do it. It was "clearly a spontaneous but a serious answer," Kerry's spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "Is he crazy?" school spokesman Jonathan Pait asked Friday. Any politician, Republican or Democrat, "would be inviting media scrutiny" similar to what happened to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential race, Pait said. Bush spoke at the private Christian fundamentalist university in February 2000 while the school still banned interracial...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has said he would speak at Bob Jones University and would "challenge the university on some of its views," according to his campaign. A school spokesman made it clear Friday that an invitation would not be forthcoming. "Is he crazy?" Jonathan Pait asked. Any politician, Republican or Democrat, "would be inviting media scrutiny" similar to what happened to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential race, the spokesman said. Last weekend, as the Democrats gathered in South Carolina for the first debate, Kerry was asked if he would be willing to speak...

In 2000, while stumping for Al Gore, John Kerry quipped, "The definition of compassionate conservative is Bob Jones III forgiving John Rocker." At that point in the campaign, of course, Bush was struggling to overcome a media firestorm that had erupted after he spoke at Bob Jones University, a virulently anti-Catholic and anti-gay school that then had a ban on interracial dating. Bush, who declined to challenge any of the college's policies during his appearance, made his pilgrimage to the university en route to winning the crucial South Carolina primary. To Democrats, BJU has been a symbol for Republican intolerance...

The Muslim public-relations group CAIR—Council on American Islamic Relations—has a tough sell in post-9/11 America. But if its goal is simply to promote Islam as a "religion of peace" and to distance American Muslims from terrorism, why can't CAIR begin with a simple acknowledgment that the terrorist threat to America is real? Instead, CAIR's modus operandi has been to attack Christianity with the same, simplistic broad brush it claims is tarring Islam. After 20 years of teaching a World Religions course at Conservative Theological Seminary in Jacksonville, Fla., Rev. Gene Youngblood thought it was time to take his lessons to...

<p>Many of Trent Lott's defenders have been saying he's not a racist.</p> <p>Of course he's a racist -- if by "racist" you mean someone who believes the government should act differently toward each individual citizen based on that citizen's skin color.</p>

The CNN anchor this morning was "interviewing" Bill Schneider about the Trent Lott statements. The anchor stated this calls the Republican effort to reach out to minorities into question AND went on to state that Bush "badly handled" both the Bob Jones University and South Carolina confederate flag issues during the 2000 election. The anchor then said we can only wonder how the 2002 election results would have been different if Lott's remarks had come BEFORE November 5th! Bill Schneider readily agreed.So it is established fact on CNN that Bush handled those two issues "badly" in 2000? And apparently the...

Language constantly changes. For instance, if you have ever seen a copy of the 1611 King James translation, you know that the English of that translation is completely incomprehensible to today's English reader. We preach and teach from the King James translation here at Bob Jones University, but it is the translation of 1769. Between 1611 and 1769, English changed drastically. It continues to change. Words take on new meanings and associations. Until the late 1940s, the strongest Bible believing Christians distinguished themselves from religious liberals by the term "Evangelicals." When the strongest Evangelical group of the day, the National...