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How Ben Carson appropriated the Asbury Revival at CPAC

John Fea   |  March 7, 2023

Check out our full coverage of the Asbury Revival. The former HUD director and presidential candidate’s speech this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference praised the founding fathers, repeated the myth that Ben Franklin led the Constitutional Conventional in...

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Ivy leaguers who are trying to destroy American democracy

John Fea   |  January 12, 2022

What do Josh Hawley, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, and Kayleigh McEnany have in common? They all have degrees from Ivy League institutions and they are all, in one...

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Jeremiah Wright Jr. on Ben Carson, circa 1990s

John Fea   |  April 24, 2021

How things change. Today I was reading some of Jeremiah Wright‘s sermons and came across this line in a sermon titled “Good News for Good Parents”: When all the boys want to wear their pants halfway down their hips with...

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“Election Integrity” conference at Regent University

John Fea   |  March 12, 2021

MAGA Republican and former congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is now the dean of the Robertson School of Government at Pat Robertson’s Regent University. On March 23, 2021, the Robertson School is hosting a virtual conference on election integrity. Here is the...

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Trump will speak at CPAC on February 28

John Fea   |  February 20, 2021

Donald Trump will speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 28 in Orlando. This year’s CPAC theme is “AMERICA UNCANCELED.” It looks like Trump is getting the old band back together. Speakers include Kristi Noem, Mike...

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Marco Rubio prepares for 2024

John Fea   |  November 25, 2020

Today Joe Biden introduced his national security team, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Florida senator Marco Rubio is not happy with Biden’s picks: Interesting. I’ll take “strong resumes” and “polite & orderly caretakers” any day of the week. Rubio’s...

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Monday night court evangelical roundup

John Fea   |  June 29, 2020

What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Mike Pence’s nephew hosted a court evangelical conversation with Paula White, Johnnie Moore and Samuel Rodriguez. This is an event sponsored by the Trump campaign. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrLg80dxjQ&w=560&h=315] At the 5:30...

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Monday Night Court Evangelical Roundup

John Fea   |  June 8, 2020

As the anti-racism protests continue, let’s see what Trump’s favorite evangelicals–the court evangelicals–are saying: Eric Metaxas is still going strong. Today he and his producer lamented how this weekend too many evangelical churches in America were “dancing” with and “caving-in”...

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Court Evangelical Tony Perkins’s Call With Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Ben Carson

John Fea   |  March 25, 2020

I published a post on this earlier today.  Here is the source.  Trump speaks very early in the phone call so you don’t have to listen to the whole thing....

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I’ve Seen this Before

John Fea   |  February 25, 2020

Washington Post headline, November 13, 2015: “Time for GOP Panic? Establishment Worried Carson or Trump Might Win.”  (Also The Hill). Politico headline, February 23, 2020: “Sanders Sends Democratic Establishment into Panic Mode.”...

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Commencement at Liberty University

John Fea   |  May 13, 2019

In case you missed it, Vice President Mike Pence delivered the commencement address on Saturday at Liberty University, a school that claims to be the largest Christian university in the world. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYi8JnDT5Fs&w=560&h=315] Court evangelical and Liberty president Jerry Falwell...

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Trump Led Among GOP Evangelicals From the Moment He Came Down the Escalator

John Fea   |  October 20, 2017

According to CNN polling and this excellent chart in Philip Bump’s recent piece at The Washington Post, white evangelicals flocked to Trump from the moment he entered the race in June 2015.  With the exception of two months during Fall 2015, he...

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Ben Carson: Keep Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill

John Fea   |  April 20, 2016

Ben Carson went on Fox News today and said that Andrew Jackson should stay on the front of the $20 bill.  He called Jackson a “tremendous president.” Here is a taste of a CNN article on Carson’s interview: Former presidential...

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Carson and Jesus and Trump

John Fea   |  March 11, 2016

Perhaps some of you have seen this picture.  It is apparently hanging in former presidential candidate Ben Carson’s house: Apparently a new picture has surfaced in the last twenty-four hours:...

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How Evangelicals Voted in South Carolina

John Fea   |  February 22, 2016

Over at Religion News Service, Tobin Grant has a nice post about the way South Carolina evangelicals voted in Saturday night’s primary. It is worth noting that Cruz did not win a single county.  The Texas Senator lost to Trump...

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Ben Carson, Bear Killings, Welfare, and Faith

John Fea   |  February 18, 2016

I got in late last night and missed Dr. Ben Carson’s appearance on the CNN GOP Town Hall. Earlier today I finally got a chance to see Carson’s answer to a question about faith and the welfare state. It has...

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Thomas Jefferson: Secret Muslim?

John Fea   |  September 22, 2015

Barack Obama is not the first United States President to be accused of being a “Muslim.”  As Stephen Prothero points out at USA Today, many of Thomas Jefferson’s opponents also thought he was a Muslim.  Here is a taste of...

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Op Ed: Why Do People Still Think Obama is a Muslim?

John Fea   |  September 22, 2015

Faithful readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home read a version of this last week.  I cleaned it up a bit and published it at Al Jazeera-America.  Here is a taste: Last Thursday night, during a question and answer...

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An Attempt to Understand Ben Carson’s Comments About Islam

John Fea   |  September 20, 2015

I am sure some of you have seen this from Sunday’s morning’s edition of Meet the Press:http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=a_mtp_carsonfaith_150920To summarize: Carson says that faith does matter in presidential politics, as long as the faith of the candidate is “consistent with the Constitution.”...

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