Republicans hope to spark political revival among evangelicals for 2012 race
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 3rd, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Republicans hope to spark political revival among evangelicals for 2012 race
Is it possible to revive the evangelical political movement into the potent voting bloc it once was?
The answer to that question may help determine who wins the GOP presidential nomination next year, as well as whether it will be possible to defeat Barack Obama come November 2012.
The proposition will get one of its first tests this weekend. Nearly every one of the declared and all-but-declared Republican candidates will take the stage at a “conference and strategy session” in Washington for a new group that bills itself as a 21st-century version of the Christian Coalition.
At USDA, a plate usurps the food pyramid
After devoting decades to designing a food pyramid, then refining that design with colored stripes and steps, the nation’s nutrition experts have finally settled on what they believe is the perfect geometry to represent what we should eat: a plate.
Circular, with four colorful divisions to represent the four main food groups, the new plate looks just like a pie chart — a description experts shun because, well, pie isn’t good for you.
Indeed, arriving in the midst of an obesity epidemic, this new at-a-glance guide to healthful eating is meant to remind consumers to limit heavy foods like pie and beef up instead on the greens.
Sarah Palin dismisses Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s warnings about debt ceiling
SEABROOK, N.H. — Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) teed off on Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Thursday night, saying she does not believe his “false statements” that a “catastrophe would befall” the country if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by August.
On her first day in New Hampshire, Palin held an impromptu news conference as she was leaving a clambake here. She encouraged congressional Republicans to hold firm in the debt-ceiling negotiations, and she said the cost of the war in Afghanistan and the posture of the Afghan government should prompt consideration of a quicker drawdown of U.S. forces there.
