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The way I see it, Rupert Murdoch is, all by himself, one of the most interesting puzzles in all of journalism.I realize that many non-Libertarian news consumers simply punch the “Murdoch is the Antichrist” button and then move on. Trust me, there are times when I am tempted to do that, but I think that’s too simplistic an answer. Maybe Murdoch simply grasped the fact that, in the Internet age, there is a growing market for European-style, advocacy journalism long before other people caught that sad vision. Thus, he beat MSNBC to the punch by several years.But answer me...

It didn't take long for Catholic Bishops to slap down Nancy Pelosi's ignorant comments regarding abortion and the Catholic Church. I guess Madam Speaker has been too busy scheming against the president to read her catechism. What really caught my eye though was this provocative statement in the WashingtonTimes article: "The push for the Democratic Party is to have a new position on abortion," said Steve Waldman, editor of the religious Web site beliefnet.com. "When you look at Catholics and Evangelicals, you see that they agree with 80 percent of what [Mr. Obama] says, but there's this stumbling block...

WASHINGTON - Liberal evangelicals, weary of a Republican-centric image, launched a campaign Monday to promote Christian values beyond the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage. Red Letter Christians, a project of Sojurners/Call to Renewal, announced plans to establish a grass-roots network of 7,000 moderate and progressive clergy members. "A debate on moral issues should be central to American politics, but how should we define religious values?" said Jim Wallis, an activist and executive director of the Christian ministry, which also publishes the liberal Sojourners Magazine. The project's name comes from the color of some Bible's type, with words directly attributed...

Even if you don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought consider practicing.

News broke last week that Beliefnet.com, an internet site that promoted every "religion" from Wicca to Islam to Christianity, went belly up in the stormy sea of nihilistic relativism. In words describing why the site dipped into bankruptcy, an autobiographical epitaph if you will, Belief com stated that they were the darling of the secular news media, who quoted them frequently in a world of user-friendly news. I can hardly imagine that beliefnet.com will be missed by anybody other that those adhering to the most marginal of, excuse me, beliefs. As of this morning their death experience was complete, the...