Slate’s Bruce Reed is reporting on Mitt Romney’s Brand Mormon strategy, which includes this quote from a Boston Globe story on a 77-slide PowerPoint put together for Romney’s campaign:

“Enmity toward France, where Romney did his Mormon mission during college, is a recurring theme of the document.”

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“Four Mormon missionaries are being held hostage in Nigeria’s southern oil region, an area plagued by recent unrest, a church spokesman said Tuesday.”

See the story here.

The BYU Men’s Basketball team won its 20th game last week and this week finds itself firmly in the top 25 in both the AP (#21) and Coaches (#22) polls. Wow. I thought I was being overly optimistic when I predicted 22 wins in the regular season this year. With four games left that doesn’t seem like a stretch at all anymore. (more…)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has characterized this nation’s excursion into Iraqi nation building as the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. History: (more…)

It’s time for an other episode of our popular series on what’s up withe science and religion in the news. BT has been somewhat inactive of late, but I’ll do my best to keep this little column moderately up to date. So in no particular order…
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