What a wacky campaign season it's been. We have a self-described pit bull with lipstick, a change candidate with no experience with change, the religious right defending teenage pregnancy, the mainstream media questioning a woman's ability to mother and

It used to be any time religious discrimination made news, it focused on Christmas trees and menorahs sparing over space in office lobbies during the holidays.

TOPEKA -- Chain e-mail messages that repeat false claims about Barack Obama's religion, patriotism or life story pop up in Glenn Staab's inbox almost daily.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's birth place of kung fu, the Shaolin Temple, has taken over the management of four Buddhist temples in southwest China in a move criticised by some Internet users for mixing capitalism with religion.

August/September preview>> With their obsessive single-topic focus, are the three 24-hour cable news channels setting the agenda for the rest of the media when it comes to the presidential campaign—even though most of the material they endlessly flog or