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Perry’s Israel support plays well with Jewish, evangelical voters for very different reasons

By | 09.20.11 | 4:19 pm

Just days before a United Nations vote to determine the Palestinian right to statehood, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted the Obama administration’s Middle East policy toward Israel, calling it “naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous,” during a rally in New York City Tuesday morning.

Religious Leaders Press for Torture Commission

By | 10.16.09 | 3:10 pm

Political candidates often invoke God and spirituality on the campaign trail, but Rev. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign against Torture, would like more pols to live up to those professed beliefs once they’re in office. President Obama, for example, has spoken eloquently More…