Over 200 tweets per minute flew out today around the subject “no god.” During the conversation peak, I encountered at least 50 tweets per second.

I discovered this trending topic as I returned from The Heritage Foundation’s blogger’s briefing around 2pm. The subject interests me so I spent time reading the tweets.

I was encouraged to find that not all tweets were in favor of “no god.” It was about 60/40 in favor of the non-believers.

However, the battle was vicious. Self-proclaimed atheists were expressing excitement over “no god’s” popularity, while people of faith were trying their best to defend the existence of a higher power.

In all honesty, and not due to my particular position, most of the hostile tweets were on the side of “no god.” The atheists expressed they thought anyone ignorant who believed.

Others had come to the point of seeing no purpose or design in the universe, and thus concluded “no god.”

As a conservative blogger, I am fully aware that just because one is conservative doesn’t necessarily mean you are a person of faith, and vice versa. So my point here is not to be convincing.

My purpose is to postulate that our modern view of science contributes heavily to the conversation I experienced today.

I listened to David Berlinski, Ph.D. and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, speak today at The Heritage Foundation’s blogger’s briefing. (What a coincidence given the #1 trending topic).

Berlinski proposed that the scientific community’s desire to explain our world naturally to the exclusion and intolerance of the divine is the reason for the divorce of faith and reason in our culture.

Based on today’s observation, I’m taking it a step further. I suggest the separation of faith and reason permeates our culture so vastly, that one is looked at as a fool if they dare have faith. How often do we hear the term “blind faith” to suggest that any and all faith is somehow unintelligent?

While maybe not traditionally religious, didn’t Isaac Newton, Copernicus and Galileo all believe in the existence of a supreame being?

Whatever the case, it’s been an interesting day for the subject, over 5,000 tweets per half hour is worth mentioning.

I'd love feedback on this post! Does this subject interest you?

Tuesday was the grand opening of the Capitol Visitors Center (CVC). This means we should have a grand ole ribbon cutting ceremony, right? Not quite.

The discussion at The Heritage Foundation’s Conservative Bloggers Briefing held yesterday was focused on the new CVC. Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation spoke to the bloggers about the outrage he felt during his sneak peek of the visitor’s center courtesy of Senator Jim DeMint.

For starters, the project was five years behind. Not to mention it ended up being nine times over budget with a final price tag of $621 million, but that wasn’t what Spalding was so upset about.

It’s no surprise a government project was prolonged and over budget, but the biggest concern here is the message of the CVC. DeMint was the first member of the Senate to bring attention to the distorted message the CVC presents to visitors and its inaccurate interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the main problems with the CVC Spalding highlights is the “Wall of Aspirations”. The aspirations include unity, freedom, knowledge, exploration, general welfare, and common defense, all of which are distorted messages from the Constitution. These words are just a cut and paste from the Constitution, and then tailored to fit a message.

What struck me as the most convincing piece of Spalding’s argument was when he mentioned there is no list of academics that worked on this project. This leaves anyone to wonder.  I’m wondering who is the person or people who have taken the liberty to put the constitution in their own words?

On June 15, I told you that I was going to work my tail off to help organize a training workshop to help train the Right kind of political operatives. Staying true to my word to always be a doer in this Revolution -- and not simply a talker -- I've done just that thanks to a little help from my friends.

On August 29, from 9:30 AM - 4 PM (with a post-training workshop reception from 4:30-6:30 PM), we will hold the inaugural Conservative Modern Media Strategies Workshop at the Heritage Foundation. The event is open to conservatives, but closed to press.

And don't worry, along with a great workshop schedule, we'll have WiFi flowing so you won't miss a beat if you bring your laptop.

The event is co-hosted by both the Heritage Foundation and Google, Inc. It was organized by many people, but a crew of individuals who deserve particular attention include Robert Bluey, Patrick Ruffini, Soren Dayton and Matt Lewis. Ginny Hunt and Michelle Rosen with Google, and Steve Grove with YouTube have been extremely helpful (and patient) throughout this process also.

If you want to find out all the details, download this invite and make sure you RSVP soon as seats will fill up quickly.

Some of the questions we'll seek to answer during the workshop:

Why do blogs matter? What's the buzz about social networking? How do you track what's being said in the blogosphere about your boss? How can you most effectively engage your community? Is online advertising worth the investment? Should you be on YouTube?

For me, this will be the third training workshop I've helped organize for conservatives. The first staff workshop was way back when I was still referring to "modern media" as "new media" on March 5, 2006. The second staff-training workshop was on June 23, 2006. Both were organized thanks to the vision and direction of my boss at the time, U.S. Representative Jack Kingston.

The point of all of these workshops? If we're going to win this fight, we're going to need a well-trained army. And it is our hope that this event helps serve as the beginning of an ongoing discussion to do just that.

I hope you'll join us.

Revolution.

Here are a few notes from today's Conservative Bloggers Briefing host by Robert Bluey at Heritage.

Congressman McCotter
Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) fielded a slew of questions on Iraq, the war on terror, government spending, and fashioning a winning vision for the GOP. McCotter is the Chairman of the House Policy Committee. Since the committee describes it's purpose as, "the principal forum for the consideration of forward-looking legislative initiatives," it shouldn't be surprising that McCotter is focused on "putting forward a positive agenda" for the GOP as opposed to simply opposing everything that the Democrats do.

He said that Republicans have a choice between being,

a transactional minority, or a transformational movement

Another interesting insight from McCotter was on President Bush's legacy.

President Bush will be the Republican harry Truman. He’ll be remembered better in 40 years, then in four years.

$1 Trillion
Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute came by to talk about his recent report explaining why federal regulations cost consumers over $1 trillion last year.

CPAC
Lisa De Pasquale, CPAC's director solicited advice for next year's conference, which they're already hard at work on. Lisa was inspired by yesterday's YouTube/CNN debate and is looking for ways to include user-generated content (i.e. questions on video) into next years conference. If you have any ideas, send them an email.

Personally, I'd like to see a question from the guys at RedState Update...

A few notes from today's conservative bloggers briefing hosted by Robert Bluey @ the Heritage Foundation

The Price Is Right

Congressman Tom Price of Georgia kicked off the meeting by noting that the approval for Democrats, thankfully, continues to plummet, citing several independent and media polls over the past few months to prove as much. He pointed out that Democrats are having a hard time living up to their promises.

He discussed spending, taxes, the Iraq war, the state of our nation’s health care delivery system, and the Fairness Doctrine. As the NRSC's John Randall, pointed out in a question to Mr. Price, the problem with this issue is largely misinformation and crafty language. "After all, how can you be against something that’s fair?" (Read more about the unfair Fairness Doctrine here.)

Knowing that Congressman Price is a faithful floor debate fighter, I asked him what strengths he has as a communicator now that he's in the minority.

His answer and more after the jump...

Bay Buchanan, a well-known conservative political pundit who is seen almost daily on CNN, stopped by the conservative bloggers briefing hosted by Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation to discuss her new book, The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton.

Buchanan had some fun things to say about Hillary Clinton, notably that Hillary is a very "insecure person" who can't stand to make mistakes, and that we should be pounding on her now -- before the General Election -- so that we're helping define her.

That's a good point. I hope the RNC Research dept. steps it up asap. Otherwise, we're relying solely on StopHerNow.com to get the job done (they're doing a decent job, but they could be making much more of an impact in the modern world).

Jared Bridges of the Family Research Council announced that he and FRC colleague Joe Carter had just launched BlogsForFred.com. The site will work to aggregate the grassroots support in the 'sphere for their guy, Fred Thompson.

Baker Spring, one of the smart defense analysts at Heritage, gave conservative bloggers an update about missile defense legislation being worked through the US Senate. I don't know about you guys, but I'm "Too close for missiles, I'm switching to guns."

In teaser news, I previewed a prototype of a Republican ActBlue counter-part that I've been working on with Sendhil Panchadsaram. Look for an announcement for the beta version soon. (I promise you'll be pleased.)