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The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

Institute on Religion and Democracy leads serious breach of ecumenical good will "There is a kind of Henry V quality about all this. 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.' I mean, that really is true. [We are] people who have been together in a great moral cause..."-- George Weigel, describing Neoconservatives When President George W. Bush met with religious journalists in May of 2004, the religious authority he cited most often was not a fellow United Methodist or even another Protestant. It was a man the president affectionately calls "Father Richard." He is Catholic priest Richard John...

As with many of you, who have entered this thread due to that provocative title, I was similarly motivated to construct this response after reading those words included in a message from an associate. The content of that message has not been included in its entirety, out of respect to this person. Enough material has been referenced in the body of my response, however, for you to understand the context of the discussion. It is essentially, the lastest contribution to an ongoing debate over ideology, politics and culture - one of those email chains where the two Conservatives get assaulted...