on being a Christian
theamericanscene.com 11/18/2008 — Is Barack Obama a Christian? Rod has all the links to the various participants in the controversy. My view is this: the President-elect claims to be a Christian, and I take him — I think I have to take him — at his word. Could he be lying? Could he ...

Obama's Final Four picks revealed
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 3/18/2009 — (CNN) — President Obama's NCAA Men's basketball Final Four picks, unveiled Wednesday, reveals the nation's first hoops fan picked Big East powerhouses Louisville and Pittsburgh, along with Memphis and the University of North Carolina. In all, ...

America Is Becoming Less Christian, Less Religious
abcnews.go.com 3/10/2009 — America is still a predominantly Christian nation, but it's becoming both less Christian and less religious, according to the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey . According to the poll, which came out today, the percentage ...

Justice Kennedy rejects 2 more challenges to Obama (AP)
news.yahoo.com 12/17/2008 — AP - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has rejected two more efforts to get the court to consider whether President-elect Barack Obama is eligible to take office.

Clinton Is Among Obama's Top Picks to Lead State Department
washingtonpost.com 11/15/2008 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

It's not 'anti-Christian'
washingtonmonthly.com 2/5/2009 — IT'S NOT 'ANTI-CHRISTIAN'.... As if it weren't enough to endure painfully inane stimulus arguments from the far-right, over the last couple of days, however, we've had to deal with fabricated culture-war nonsense, too. Indeed, this story offers a ...

Justice is served
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 2/6/2009 — This should be standard practice: The client class members were to receive only gift cards, not cash, in the settlement with Windsor Fashions, a clothing retailer, so Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett Klein thought it only fair to provide that ...

Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
news.cnet.com 1/7/2009 — As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from legal adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the "free culture" movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, as did Google CEO Eric Schmidt ...

The End of Christian America
newsweek.com 4/5/2009 — It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ...

Obama Picks Critic of Warrantless Wiretapping for Slot at Justice Dept.
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 1/23/2009 — The president also submitted his choices to head several other divisions of the agency.

Panetta faces questioning by senators — msnbc.com: Politics 2/5/2009
The Senate Intelligence Committee is taking up the last of President Barack Obama's nominee for a high-profile national security post, the surprising pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA.

Castro attacks Obama's economic plans — msnbc.com: Politics 2/5/2009
President Barack Obama intends to print "enormous sums of money" to keep American society from grinding to a halt, Fidel Castro said a critical essay of the U.S. leader, released Wednesday.

Obama says faith shouldn't be used to divide (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 2/5/2009
AP - President Barack Obama is telling the National Prayer Breakfast that even though faith too often has been used "as a tool to divide us from one another," there is no religion in the world that is based on hatred.

Obama overhauls faith-based agency — CNN Political Ticker 2/5/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will make changes Thursday to President Bush's controversial Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, partly to ensure religious groups that receive government money do not discriminate in hiring, ...

First 100 days: Obama vs. Wall Street — First Read 2/5/2009
The Wall Street Journal : “President Barack Obama laid out strict new regulations on executive compensation Wednesday, strafing Wall Street with tough talk as Washington asserts increasing control over a financial sector seeking more government ...