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It Would Be Great If Politics Were Fact-based, But It Is Not, And It Is Surely Not Nuance-based. What Works In A Classroom Or A Think Tank Does Not Work On Capitol Hill Or In The White House. Obama Sometimes Seems To Be Running The Brookings Institution, Not The Country.

It Is True That Traditional Christianity Is Losing Some Of Its Appeal Among Americans, But That Is A Religious, Not Political, Matter. It Is Worth Remembering That The Jeffersonian 'wall Of Separation' Between Church And State Has Always Been Intended To Protect The Church From The State As Much As The State From The Church.

Justified Or Not, The Supreme Court Has A Kind Of Sacred Status In American Life. For Whatever Reason, Presidents Can Safely Run Against Congress, And Vice Versa, But I Think There Is An Inherent Popular Aversion To Assaults On The Court Itself. Perhaps It Has To Do With An Instinctive Belief That Life Needs Umpires.

The More We Can Do To Support And Promulgate The Intellectual Traditions Of The Abrahamic Faiths - Of Judaism, Christianity, And Islam - The Better Armed We Will Be To Fight Fundamentalism.

One Of The Central Memories Of My Childhood Is Of Hunting - Not Well; I Am A Terrible Shot - Quail And Dove And Grouse On A Farm On The Tennessee River.