Jerry Falwell

Who's better on gay rights, Mitt Romney or Barry Goldwater?

2012-05-08 09:00:00

Richard Grenell had the right resume to be Mitt Romney's spokesman on foreign policy -- a stint as communications director for four of the Bush administration's U.N. ambassadors; a degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; his own...

Maryland threatens the sanctity of divorce

2012-04-09 09:03:00

American family values are under siege again, this time in Maryland. Two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience are at the mercy of the state's Court of Appeals. The decision of the seven-judge panel may corrupt one of...

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...

Rehnquist dies at age 80

2005-09-04 00:00:00

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who joined the bench a generation ago as its often lone voice of conservative dissent and then steadily steered its turn to the right, died yesterday evening at his home in suburban Virginia. He was 80 and had been...

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...

Cal Thomas: Romney speech at Liberty U passes test

2012-05-17 00:00:00

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- It wasn't exactly the belly of the beast Republican presidential candidateMitt Romney visited recently on a picture-perfect commencement day at "the world's largest Christian University," but his appearance was a test as to whether the...

Obama walks fine line in bashing Romney, courting Wall Street

2012-05-15 18:59:02

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama's re-election team, it's sort of like threading a needle. While trying to define Republican Mitt Romney as an insensitive job-killer during his time as a private equity executive, the Obama campaign...

Romney's stellar performance

2012-05-15 21:55:08

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- It wasn't exactly the belly of the beast Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited recently on a picture-perfect commencement day at "the world's largest Christian University," but his appearance was a test as to whether...

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...

UPDATE 1-Obama camp targets Romney firm as job-killing "vampire"

2012-05-14 15:08:02

* Seeks to undermine Republican's economic credentials * Focus on layoffs at Kansas City steel mill * Romney camp fires back, alleges stimulus waste (Updates throughout) By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - President...

Liberty University chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. speaks during the school's commencement ceremony on Saturday.

2012-05-12 08:35:00

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, next to Liberty University chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. on Saturday during the commencement ceremony in Williams Stadium in Lynchburg.

2012-05-12 08:35:00

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (left) prays alongside Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. during commencement ceremonies on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg , Virginia. Liberty University is one of the country's largest Christian colleges.

2012-05-12 00:00:00