... makes one heck of a first impression. He isn't the red-meat throwing, 11-fingered, evangelical Christian conservative politician that more secular-minded journalists might expect him to be, especially after hearing that he doesn't buy ...

... John McCain as an opponent but rather as a colleague in service to America." North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, conservative politician Gary Bauer and James Warner, who also was a Vietnam prisoner of war, were also speakers at the delegation ...

... marriage. In Florida, however, gay marriage wasn't enough to tilt the pivotal battleground state to McCain. "Conservative politicians lost. Traditional values succeeded," said Tom Minnery, a vice president of Dobson's Focus on the Family ...

... wrote a guest column for the Times praising Bush's disingenuous plan for improving teacher education. Unlike conservative politicians, such as Bush and Brogan, who tell rich retirees and other right-wingers what they want to hear, administrators ...

... e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y -- for he is tiptoeing through political briars in an economic thicket. Conservative politicians now reluctantly are echoing Democratic calls for price controls -- but conservative think tankers still insist ...

... creek and can prove profitable for landowners. It also can impair the natural habitat for smallmouth bass. Conservative politicians denounce the idea of limiting a landowner's sanctity. A man's creek is his castle, don't you know ...

... issued its decision -- she was fired. Rosario's story ignited the fax lines in Washington, D.C., where conservative politicians smelled an outrage. A teacher who prays with her students gets fired, they fumed, while a member of the North ...

... right: Contemporary conservative talk radio and TV has retired the cup for indoor shrillness. (Then again, conservative politicians chafed for decades about the fact that the reporters who cover them are more liberal than they are.) But vehement ...

Arkansas has another born-again (in a political, not a religious sense) conservative politician. As she prepares to publicly announce her re-election, Sen. Blanche Lincoln has decided against a slight sidestep to the right ...

... red America has a blue streak, which the networks will always try to satisfy. Second, one of these days, conservative politicians and regulators are going to try to wrap red tape around the blue sector. And that will be the beginning of ...