by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 12, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Six months after advisers turned in 164 pages of recommendations to the White House’s faith-based office, thorny church-state questions remain unanswered and some critics say the office has been used to push the president’s health care reform. Much of...
by Robert Parham | Dec 15, 2009 | Opinion
If true, the report about the Obamas wanting a “non-religious Christmas” is troubling. Desiree Rogers, the White House’s social secretary, disclosed the Obamas’ desire, according to a New York Times story. A White House official also said...
by Bob Allen | Jun 26, 2006 | News
“Rolling Stone” magazine has published a 5,000-word investigative story accusing the Bush administration of carrying out a “secret campaign” to deny global warming aimed at misleading the public and to forestall any mandatory limits on...
by Bob Allen | Mar 6, 2006 | News
President Bush’s faith-based initiative, launched as a centerpiece of his administration’s domestic agenda, recently passed its five-year anniversary without notice. A few weeks after he took office in January 2001, the president established the White...
by Bob Allen | Nov 10, 2004 | News
A White House spokesman on Monday refused to say whether President Bush’s premature comment last week about Yasser Arafat’s death implied the president believes the Palestinian leader is going to heaven. Erroneously informed at his first post-election...