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In asking “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Politico notes he’s reading a book by a Southern Baptist minister.

What is the media getting, and not getting, in its coverage of the religious right in politics?

Last week, Lisa Miller, religion writer and editor ( Newsweek and the Washington Post) filed an op-ed in which she fulminated against “the left” and journalists who have raised concerns about the influence of dominionist thinkers on Republican presidential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.

Has been linked to arms dealing in Uganda.

The Response vs. Bachmann’s worldview.

The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars.

Host of Perry prayer rally under the microscope.

Religious right sweetheart has to backpedal on gay marriage gaffe.

The latest bloggingheads.

Texas Governor Rick Perry says of his August 6 “call to prayer for a nation in crisis” that we need to call on Jesus because “some problems are beyond our power to solve.” Here, John Adams is resurrected to provide guidance.