Producer's Desk — politics
What is “The Producer’s Desk”?
As you know, Richard Land LIVE! is a once-a-week broadcast. This is fine and good, but some of us are—let’s be honest—borderline ‘addicts’ when it comes to reading the news and blogs. Fear not! This is where the Producer’s Desk fills that Sunday-through-Friday void when RLL is not broadcasting.
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-The Producers
(This is a separate subscription from the RLL Podcast found in the right-hand column of this page.)If you come across something in your online reading you think is worthy of posting here, send us the link and your comments through the Contact form in the right column of this page!
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Stay Faithful to Core Values
posted by Richard Land on 11.11.2008
Topics: politics, republicans
My column for the Wall Street Journal:
“To regain a majority, Republicans must embrace core values with such conviction that Americans will welcome where Republicans will lead them in the future.”
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WSJ: Loyal to the End: Evangelicals Stay the Course
posted by Matt Hawkins on 11.07.2008
Topics: evangelicals, politics, election, religion
” The new evangelicals, just in case anyone missed the storyline, were not so backward as to vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage. They were enlightened about the environment and favored government aid to the poor.
Well, whoever these new evangelicals were, they didn’t show up at the polls on Tuesday.” - Naomi Schaefer Riley
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Dear President-elect Obama,
posted by Richard Land on 11.05.2008
Topics: human rights, politics, election
First, congratulations on your successful campaign to become the 44th President of our beloved United States of America. This was a historic election in terms of the massive increase in voter participation as a percentage of the electorate.
I hope you know that there are tens of millions of Americans who did not vote for you who are still very, very pleased that an African-American has been elected President of the United States.”
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Andrew Greeley’s Reprehensible Name-Calling
posted by Richard Land on 10.18.2008
Topics: mainstream media, politics, election, racial reconcilation
My latest post at Casting Stones:
In his column Oct. 15, Rev. Greeley calls Gov. Sarah Palin a “racist.” On what grounds does he employ that corrosive and vicious label on Gov. Palin? He does so based on unsubstantiated reports that someone at a Palin event in Scranton, Pa., shouted “Kill him,” at the mention of Obama’s name. People who attended these rallies dispute that such an event ever occurred. Shouldn’t Rev. Greeley have checked for himself before attacking Gov. Palin?
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Sen. Obama, FOX News, and the media
posted by Richard Land on 10.16.2008
Topics: mainstream media, politics, election
My latest post at Casting Stones:
In an article that will appear in the Oct. 19, 2008 edition of the New York Times magazine, reporter Matt Bai quotes Barack Obama making a startling assertion: “I am convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be two or three points higher in the poll.” … I do think Sen. Obama is right that he would be doing better in the polls if FOX News didn’t exist. However, I disagree with his explanation as to why that is so…
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Party comparison guides now available
posted by Matt Hawkins on 10.08.2008
Topics: politics, democrats, election, republicans
It’s free.
It’s 100% non-partisan.
It’s 501c3-friendly and now available at iVoteValues.com!
(4.3 MB PDF)
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Last Night’s Debate
posted by Richard Land on 10.08.2008
Topics: history, politics, election
My latest post at Casting Stones:
“I had the honor and privilege of attending last night’s second presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Some commentators and reporters have described the debate as subdued and uneventful. I can assure you, as someone who was actually in the audience, it was anything but…”
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The Palin-Biden Debate: Missions Accomplished
posted by Richard Land on 10.03.2008
Topics: politics, democrats, election, republicans
From my blog at Casting Stones
“The Palin-Biden face-off also scored an incredible 60 percent higher rating for viewers than the 2004 debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. The general idea here is that the tens of millions of Americans watched the debate. What did they see?”
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Religion and Public Policy: An interesting presidential perspective
posted by Richard Land on 09.19.2008
Topics: politics, religion, religious freedom
My post at Casting Stones:
“In preparation for a speech on religion and public policy, I was recently reviewing sections of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s The Mighty and the Almighty (2006).
Secretary Albright makes some truly important points in her volume. The whole effort is tremendously enhanced, however, by her startling transparency in acknowledging that she and most of the people in the diplomatic classes had completely underestimated the importance of religion as a potent force in societies around the world.”
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Baptists, the Bible and Women
posted by Richard Land on 09.17.2008
Topics: baptists, evangelicals, politics, election, sexism
My latest post at Casting Stones:
As Sally Quinn reasoned in the Washington Post, if Southern Baptists are opposed to a woman being the pastor of a local church, why would they support a woman as vice president? Aren’t they being inconsistent, if not hypocritical?
Now we have David Gushee (a self-identified “moderate evangelical”) discussing the “Palin Predicament,” which he described as “how can the theological vision that women are subservient to men jibe with a Palin vice presidency?”
As a Southern Baptist, a conservative Evangelical, and a member of both the committee that formulated the Southern Baptists’ confessional statement on “The Family” in 1998 and the committee that revised the denomination’s confession of faith in 2000, I feel compelled to respond…
