By David Sanders “I think Obamanomics — no one is actually sure yet,” Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor of The Economist magazine, explained as she struggled to define President Obama’s economic policies in a recent speech to the World…
On House health-care bill, one Democrat speaks freely
By David Sanders Before the raging debate on health-care reform began, most folks outside Arkansas would have been hard pressed to identify Rep. Mike Ross. But over the past few months this Democrat, who represents a congressional district that stretches…
A lesson about race and the church
By David Sanders My father, the Rev. Ronald F. Sanders, began pastoring Southern Baptist churches well before I was born. Like many who proclaim the gospel Sunday after Sunday, he was called to ministry at an early age. He graduated…
On becoming a father. Again.
By David Sanders The birth of child is always a perspective-shaping event. For me, who just became the father of five, the weight of the world is a load I’ve grown accustomed to carrying — but now, it feels like…
Could Sotomayor be the Left’s Souter?
By David Sanders When the Supreme Court begins its new term Oct. 5, much of the attention will be on its newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. But, for most conservatives, little in either Sotomayor’s record as a federal judge or…
On race, thoughtful analysis over hyperbole
By David Sanders This week, former President Jimmy Carter accused a wide swath of President Barack Obama’s critics of being driven by racism. His unfortunate criticism underscored that simplistic views on race are easily hurled into the public domain as…
Informed choices and the health-care debate
By David Sanders With Congress due back in Washington soon and President Obama ready to hit the “reset” button in hopes of re-launching his health-care initiative, it’s clearly time to start over. Members of Congress — mainly moderate Democrats —…
Robert Novak’s inspiring life
By David Sanders My childhood pals dreamed of growing up to be professional athletes complete with their own shoe contract or sports trading card. And, while I tried as a junior high and high school linebacker to rush opposing quarterbacks…
Democrats wooing of evangelicals
By David Sanders For years, Democrats and secular leftists accused the religious right and their friends in the Republican Party of blurring the lines between church and state and using God to achieve a political advantage. But more recently, Democrats…
A Christian and a conservative
By David Sanders By the 1970s, many Christian conservatives had rightly decided that the counterculture revolutions of the previous decade had taken a moral toll on the country. Something, they reasoned, had to be done about it. What started as…