James Kushiner and S. M. Hutchens at Mere Comments lay the smackdown on those Christians who deride single-issue voting and can’t bring themselves to support President Bush. (permanent links don’t seem to be working; the entry titles are “My Big Fat ‘Single-Issue’ Vote” and “The Smart Evangelical”) Unfortunately, neither one seriously addresses the issue of…

Does not exist! Not even close, according to this quiz designed to help you select your presidential candidate. Here are my results: 1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%) 2. Cobb, David – Green Party (59%) 3. Nader, Ralph – Independent (59%) 4. Badnarik, Michael – Libertarian (52%) 5. Brown, Walt – Socialist Party (43%) 6.…

Just for the record, and current polls notwithstanding, I predict that President Bush will be re-elected on Tuesday (or whenever all the recounts and legal wrangling are finished – from which may God save us!). I think the Democrats in general and the far Left in particular have overplayed their hand with respect to the…

Martin Peretz has some questions for John Kerry: How would John Kerry have dealt with Saddam? He has told us Saddam needed to be “confronted.” But the word itself–which implies that the United States could have overthrown Saddam without using military force–tells us what we need to know. Had the United States and our allies…

Deciding not to vote is not the same as not bothering to. It’s a conscious choice, made for a reason. And the reason is this: A vote is an endorsement. When you punch the circle next to a candidate’s name, you’re backing that candidate’s program. It’s like signing a petition, or writing a letter of…

Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. For, suppose that you had a great deal of some commodity, and felt bound…

From Jim Henley.

This is a deeply silly piece of writing. Slate asked its contributors to disclose the candidate for whom they’re voting and offer some reasons. Here’s the response from Steven Landsburg, the economic writer: If George Bush had chosen the racist David Duke as a running mate, I’d have voted against him, almost without regard to…

Eastern Orthodox theologian David B. Hart has a review of The Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classic Christian Traditions East and West by Alexander F. C. Webster and Darrell Cole in the November issue of Touchstone. The book, according to Hart, is an attempt to show two things. First, that the Eastern and Western churches…

Christianity Today asks.