Isn’t it fun to find out all the things about the Palins that a vetting committee should have, but to do it at the same time as the McCain campaign? On the same day we find out that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, we get the news that her husband, […]

Bristol with her parents and youngest sister, Piper, in 2007
The 17-year-old daughter of vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin is pregnant. The big question is, is this her first or second child?
I’m sure you’ve seen the doubts raised that the elder Palins’ now 4-month-old fifth child is actually theirs. I’ll let you do your own […]

Among the choices on the the American Family Association’s online poll, “Who should McCain select as his running mate,” is Sen. Lindsey Graham, the mild-mannered militarist from South Carolina. Never married and 53, Graham is a member of John McCain’s posse.
Graham became nationally known during the Clinton impeachment when he served on the House […]

Jon noted that John McCain’s new “life begins at conception” stance is a move all the way to the extreme right of his previously maverick-esque position. This puts McCain squarely among the wingnuts who declare contraception to be abortion, because many types of birth control keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall. […]

glumbert - Gay scientists isolate Christian gene
H/t: Thanks to Buck for forwarding this before he headed out to his hurricane bunker

MCCAIN: Could I — are we going to get back to the importance of Supreme Court Justices or should I mention –
WARREN: We will get to that.
MCCAIN: OK. All right. OK.
WARREN: You’re jumping ahead…
The McCain campaign is fighting hard against charges that McCain cheated on the rules of debate at a rightwing evangelical forum in […]

Did John McCain cheat by cribbing questions in advance at the rightwing megachurch forum Saturday night?
UPDATE

McCain apparently knew question about Supreme Court in advance

McCain operative Nicole Wallace vehemently denied claims that McCain heard Barack Obama being questioned, even though McCain was not sequestered in a “cone of silence,” as Rick Warren, the multimillionaire evangelist […]

Beta Upsilon Chi reject?
The University of Florida is having a hard time keeping out a Christian-only fraternity. The school, recently (and proudly) named America’s top party college by Princeton Review, refused to give Beta Upsilon Chi, also known as Brothers Under Christ or BUCs, status as an official student organization because it requires members to […]

Is this bad or good? James Dobson, the maniacal fundamentalist (notice how that word has “mental” in it?) preacher beat out Howard Stern for inclusion in the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program is the first religious program to receive the honor, started in 1992 by the Chicago-based Museum of […]