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Kerry Picket has done a great job of piecing together a story that looks an awful lot like administration officials using taxpayer money to buy support for its agenda. (Full disclosure: Kerry and I both work for the Washington Times .) Check out the timeline : November 10, 2008: Former NEA chief named to Obama transition team. Bill Ivey, NEA head under Bill Clinton, will handle arts and cultural issues in the transition. January 13, 2009: Arts groups lobby Obama transition team for stimul

The Book of Jerry Falwell Fundamentalist Language and Politics National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see their culture as secular, and the United States is viewed around the world as a secular nation. Further, intellectuals and journalists often portray born-again Christians, despite their numbers, as outsiders who endanger public life. But is American culture really so neatly split be

“Things aren’t much different from forty years ago. We have an unpopular war, waged by an increasingly unpopular president. He is also destroying the economy and our civil liberties in his drive to expand the American state. As well we see a huge growth in cultural creativity and greater questioning of authority. As Nietzsche once said ‘Great culture happens when Empires are in decline.’ There are differences, of course. Change comes in huge waves after deep seismic moves way below the surface r