By Ralph Reed
In recent days, the lamestream media has been in high dudgeon about evangelical leaders appearing at Glenn Beck’s Washington, DC Restore Honor rally. Isn’t it hypocritical, they ask, for mainline evangelicals to share the stage with a professed Mormon? As usual, the media misses the point.

Ralph Reed

The evangelicals participating in the Restore [...]

By Gregg Keller
I hope you’re as excited about our Faith & Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing as we are. The Conference will be held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC September 9-11. While most conferences are social and networking opportunities only, the primary focus of our Conference and Strategy Briefing is giving you the [...]

By Ken Blackwell
Same-sex marriage is back as a front-burner issue in American politics.
On August 4, a federal judge in San Francisco held that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, striking down part of the California Constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth [...]

By: Gregg Keller
As the summer comes to an end, Faith & Freedom Coalition is holding Citizen Action Seminars in 25 target states. Our Citizen Action Seminars give conservatives the training, knowledge and tools they need to identify, educate, and turn out the conservative vote for the November 2 elections. Want to know how to use [...]

Yesterday Democrats in the Senate failed in their effort to invoke cloture (that is, end debate) on the DISCLOSE Act, perhaps the most Orwellian-named piece of legislation in recent memory.
The bill would have subjected donors of grassroots organizations to public scrutiny and regulatory harassment whether their contribution was used for [...]

By Gregg Keller
Today, by only a one vote margin, the liberals in the U.S. Senate failed to invoke cloture and end debate on the so-called “DISCLOSE” Act. If passed, the cynical DISCLOSE Act championed by liberals Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer would have suppressed the First Amendment free speech rights of conservative organizations while creating [...]

Frank Rich of the New York Times column has written another installment in a seemingly endless series of obituaries of religious conservatism, the latest tied to Mel Gibson’s travails. In Rich’s formulation, Gibson is a “powerful and canonized figure in the political and cultural pantheon of American conservatism,” so his recent personal challenges and [...]

By Gregg Keller

Elena Kagan

The National Rifle Association entered the fray against liberal Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court today with an ad saying she can’t be trusted to safeguard our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Kagan is Barack Obama’s liberal extremist nominee for the Supreme Court who famously banned military recruiters from [...]

By Gregg Keller
(Henderson, Nevada) – Faith & Freedom Coalition Founder and Chairman Ralph Reed was invited by the Nevada Republican Party to headline Saturday’s lunch at the Party’s 2010 Convention. Ralph also met with U.S. Senate candidate and political phenomena Sharron Angle, who has the honor of taking on Harry Reid in November. Joining Ralph [...]

By Gregg Keller
We’re very pleased here at the Faith & Freedom Coalition to announce that Monterey Brookman has been named the Chairman of the Nevada Faith & Freedom Coalition.

Monterey Brookman

Nevada hosts some of the country’s most pivotal races this year, including Harry Reid’s reelection campaign to continue to be Barack Obama’s liberal enabler in [...]

By Gregg Keller
We’re thrilled to announce that Sen. Gilbert Baker will lead Arkansas Faith & Freedom Coalition. Sen. Baker will assemble our Arkansas team and ensure that we identify, educate and turn out a record-smashing number of conservative voters in Arkansas in 2010.

Gilbert Baker

Sen. Baker represents Arkansas’ 30th senatorial district; he is third in [...]

By Ralph Reed
Elena Kagan’s testimony is now over and we know not much more about her than we did before her appearance. This, of course, is deliberate. Kagan took obfuscation and dissembling to a new low. She declined to answer many questions and said little or nothing when she did. This [...]

The Elena Kagan nomination is not turning out the way the Obama administration hoped.  Instead of showcasing an eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee who would be the third woman on the Court (which is the White House’s line), this confirmation is highlighting Kagan’s extremist views and her utter lack of [...]

FFC on the move in CA
By Gregg Keller
Our tireless Chairman and Founder Ralph Reed has been absolutely tearing up the road of late, traveling the country tirelessly. Ralph and our staff will not stop till we have the activists and infrastructure in place to ensure record-breaking conservative turnout in the 2010 elections. Anything less than [...]

By Gregg Keller

All this summer, Faith & Freedom state affiliates from every region of the country will be training grassroots activists to become Faith & Freedom leaders as part of our Local Chair Drive. We’re bringing together Tea Partiers, home schoolers and other conservatives to give them the tools they need to identify, educate and [...]

By Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to follow President Obama’s lead in claiming that God directs her lawmaking, invoking the Bible as her legislative roadmap. If a conservative Republican did this, it would be the top of the news.

Ken Blackwell

Last week, Pelosi made a rambling, redundant, somewhat incoherent monologue in [...]

Another day, another conservative victory
By Gregg Keller
Yesterday we informed you of Faith & Freedom Coalition’s efforts to identify, educate and turn out conservative voters in New Jersey’s 6th congressional district Republican primary. That primary ended in a close, David-versus-Goliath win for social conservative candidate Anna Little. Today we have more good news for you regarding [...]

By Ralph Reed
If one wants to know what is going to happen in November, the surest sign of which way the winds are blowing is primaries in the spring and summer. Obama’s startling defeat of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary in 2008, overcoming her money and endorsements and seeming inevitability, presaged the [...]

By Ken Blackwell, Chairman of the Ohio Faith & Freedom Coalition

Ken Blackwell

World famous tenor Plácido Domingo has undergone surgery for the removal of a cancerous polyp. The surgery took place at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital’s spokeswoman announced that the cancerous growth was small and the opera star is expected to make a [...]

Barack Obama’s poll numbers have plummeted further and faster than any incumbent president in modern times. Then came passage of Obamacare. With it a new conventional wisdom took hold: Obama is Superman! The diffident and detached intellectual had entered the final legislative battle over Obamacare as Jimmy Carter and emerged as Franklin Roosevelt. Amidst huzzahs [...]

I have watched some of the grandiosely titled “Health Care Summit” at Blair House this morning, and I have to say that while there is plenty more time to go, my initial concerns about Republican participation have largely been allayed. Obama treats the presidency as performance art. I was worried that the Republicans [...]

Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh’s announcement yesterday that he will not seek re-election to the Indiana Senate seat he has held for two terms sent another wave of panic through Democratic ranks. Even the MSM now has to admit the obvious: control of the U.S. Senate is legitimately in play in 2010. Democrats face uphill [...]

sarahpalin
Sarah Palin dominated the news this weekend with a flurry of appearances, from her keynote speech to the Tea Party national convention in Nashville, campaigning for Governor Rick Perry in Texas, and an appearance on Fox News Sunday, her first Sunday morning interview. With Obama’s job approval in the mid-to-upper 40s and Democrats nervous [...]

Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago today to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes.
Massachusetts—in a huge turnout of over [...]

In 2008, after splitting the Super Tuesday primaries with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton revived her flagging presidential campaign with a hard-hitting television ad in which she questioned whether Barack Obama was ready to be president. The ad’s dramatic hook was a hypothetical 3 a.m. phone call to the White House during a national security [...]

Joe Lieberman
Democrats’ attempt to pass health care reform in the U.S. Senate prior to Christmas took a major blow over the weekend when Senator Joe Lieberman announced in an interview and in a private meeting with Senate Majority Harry Reid that he would not support the Reid-Obama bill in its current form. That leaves Reid [...]

sarahpalin

With the release of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin has officially become the Rorschach test of American politics. Like a political inkblot, impressions about her reveal far more about the individual than they do about her. Grassroots conservatives love her; the far-left and liberal media abhor her. Since they can’t control [...]

Tuesday’s election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic Party. Not only did the Obama coalition of young voters and minorities not return to the polls (African-American turnout fell from 20 to 16 percent of the electorate in Virginia, for example, while the youth vote fell by 50% from 2008), [...]

We’ve always been told that the right was dominated by “angry white men.” That now appears to be a misnomer.
On the eve of the 2009 elections, two angry white men have worked themselves into a froth. Both are liberals. Frank Rich, former New York Times theater critic and “butcher of Broadway” now [...]

Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress this week came as his health care plan was dying a slow death on Capitol Hill, the victim of a newly emboldened Republican opposition that has suddenly found its backbone and red-state and Blue Dog Democrats who went wobbly after a hot August of town hall [...]

In an op ed in USA Today, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer call the protests at health care town hall meetings “un-American.” This was after Pelosi suggested that the opponents of Obamacare might have Nazi tendencies. These are remarkable attacks on fellow Americans, especially given then-candidate, now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s earlier protestation that debate and protest against “any administration” should never be labeled un-patriotic.

I knew when the “Today” show led one day this week with the story of the custody dispute involving Michael Jackson’s surviving children that the NBC/WSJ poll must portend very bad news for the mainstream media. Sure enough, when “Today” finally got to the story—-18 minutes later, after the weather, news updates, and a story about a murder preceded by a warning to shoo children away from the television—-no amount of spin could change the cold fact: Obama’s numbers were dropping precipitously and health care was the reason why.

The Obama health care plan appears to be suffering a slow bleed. It is still early, and presidents who have control of both houses of Congress by the large margins that Obama has are still capable of exerting enormous pressure and twisting arms to secure unlikely legislative victories.