spiritual warfare

The latest bloggingheads.

How cross-pollination helped build the religious right.

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.

More religious right leaders sign up.

Nothing new, only a little bit different.

Support for his prayer rally? Check. For a presidential bid? We’ll see.

What the Texas governor’s “The Response” is all about.

But Republican Senate Whip doesn’t condemn the violent rhetoric in his own party.

The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.

It long predates Beck.