Pat Robertson

Wedding chapel and amenities for sale in Elkton

2011-12-28 15:28:10

The 19th-century stone mansion for sale on Elkton's Main Street offers an impressive list of features: numerous bedrooms and baths, as well as six fireplaces. But there's much more: a fully appointed wedding chapel filled with decades of memories —...

Risking the Almighty's wrath?

2011-09-05 08:00:00

Thanks for Steven Grossman's wise commentary on how Michelle Bachmann, Pat Robertson, John Hagee and Rush Limbaugh have all attributed the natural disasters we've recently experienced to an unhappy God bent on punishing us for even thinking about...

The absurdity, and scariness, of the Irene blame game

2011-09-06 09:45:00

I enjoyed reading Steven Grossman's recent op-ed in which he cleverly pointed out the absurdity of anti-science, creationist-thinking public figures who have a propensity for blaming natural disasters on political enemies ("Hurricane Irene: an almighty...

Hurricane Irene: an almighty wind?

2011-08-31 12:56:53

Michele Bachmann says that the earthquake and hurricane that have recently hit the East Coast of the United States were sent as some sort of divine warning message to politicians in Washington to curb government spending. I must respectfully disagree. I...

Preakness and the rapture: a bettor's guide to the end of the world

2011-05-20 15:23:00

Handicapping a horse race like Saturday's Preakness is an iffy proposition for amateurs like me. Over the years, horse players of my acquaintance have picked favorites based on the names of the colts; any horse with a name resembling that of a relative...

Death penalty debate focuses on redemption

2005-12-13 00:00:00

His case had become a cause celebre. To his supporters, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the gang founder who spent his years on death row warning people away from the violent culture he helped to create, was living proof that a condemned killer could be...

Terrorist attacks bring out the good, the bad and the ugly in all of us

2001-09-23 00:00:00

"IT WAS THE best of times, it was the worst of times." Thus begins Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities. He could have been describing America since the horrible day of Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers and...

Md. battens down for Isabel

2003-09-17 00:00:00

Beneath deceptively clear, blue skies, Marylanders pushed their preparations for Hurricane Isabel yesterday, securing homes, businesses and boats, and rushing their harvests to beat the heavy rains and gales expected tomorrow. Isabel, which had packed...

Americans grapple with problem of evil

2001-09-16 00:00:00

As the Rev. Brian Jordan walked back to his friary after comforting the wounded and blessing the dead at the World Trade Center disaster site Tuesday, he was confronted on Sixth Avenue by a frantic man. "Why did God permit this catastrophe to happen?"...

Beware a gay rights backlash

2012-05-15 00:00:00

President Obama did the right thing last week by (finally) coming out in favor of marriage equality for all people. Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, and the president's explicit support should further that goal. But...

Mitt Romney makes his case to evangelicals

2012-05-12 20:23:00

LYNCHBURG, Va. — When it came to evangelicals in this year's primaries, Mitt Romney was most often the rejected suitor — struggling to overcome suspicions about his authenticity as a conservative and his Mormon faith. On Saturday at the...

Oh, brother! Romney misses another ‘Sister’ moment

2012-05-03 21:32:18

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2012-05-02 12:19:00

Pat Robertson, in a 2005 file photo.

2011-09-19 16:26:18

Everyone has rallied to offer money, time, moral support and kind words to the devastated Haitians ... all except Pat Robertson who called the earthquake a "blessing in disguise." It just gets worse from there. Someone needs a reality check, a lobotomy or just a plain old ass-kicking.

2010-01-27 00:28:10