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This is Part II of a three part series. (you can find part one HERE) In 1992 Americans were told, “It’s the economy, stupid.” In recent years Americans have slowly begun to wake up and realize that no matter what the issue; economy, free speech, taxes, energy, private property, etc, that it all boils down to the Constitution. It is the US Constitution that is the key to all these issues, and protecting the rights of American citizens. Last week we talked about what made us, mainstream. For me, it boiled down to faith, family, and the founding of our...

I believe we are in a war to save our country. I also believe that in order to win it, we need to do 3 things. This is the first in a 3 part series of those 3 things. The first step is to answer these questions for ourselves.... I wake up each morning and prioritize. In May of 2001 I became a single mother of 3 children. My youngest were 2 girls; one less than a year old, a 2yr old, and an 11 yr old son. I have never received a dime of support from my ex-husband. I...

a man who is an habitual drunk is not going to contribue much to society. nonetheless our "mainstream media" is fawning over the loss of "the greatest ever senator" this reflects rather badly on the "mainstream media". not that any of us here would be at all surprised at that but worth a comment anyway

Time's up. We need a news wire service that is going to at least *strive* for objectivity. Today, with Obama in the White House, ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, and Reuters, there is NO objective reporting. I figure initially we're going to need volunteers, a LOT of them, since the only way to verify stories is going to be through unrelated volunteer journalists providing the same set of facts for the same story. I can't guess that we're going to have money to pay volunteers for the first year or so. I wouldn't go anywhere else than here to look for...

News Black-Out ByPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org What’s taking place in Iran?For an answer, don’t turn to CNN or Fox News and don’t listen to White House officials.Millions have taken to the streets to protest the June 12 rigged election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The University of Tehran has been ransacked.Several protestors have been killed and thousands have been injured.It is the greatest popular uprising that the 21st Century has witnessed. And yet, to find fair and balanced coverage of the momentous event, one had to turn to foreign news outlets.

Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations. The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany. The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power, much as the executive order...

Before Newsweek created a controversy with its laughably absurd cover story that the Bible supports homosexual marriage, lame duck President George W. Bush declared in an interview with Cynthia McFadden of ABC News that he doesn’t believe the Bible to be the literal word of God. So Adam and Eve could just as easily be Adam and Steve? We needed a follow-up from McFadden. Bush spoke with conviction during the interview about how Jesus Christ has changed his life while McFadden played “gotcha” journalism on the subject of evolution, which has nothing to do with his record as president. What...

The Associated Press article on Sarah Palin’s comments about William Ayers is a Category 7 jaw-dropper. Apparently, now even criticizing Obama’s associations with white violent radicals is racist: Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge. This really is the election in which the mainstream media have thrown all their claims to impartiality right into the sewer. It’s sickening to see.

February 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - There was a time, not so long ago, when pro-lifers, in an effort to galvanize the apathetic, would recount to them the disturbing opinions of a certain Princeton professor, Peter Singer, who, amongst other things, has long held that it is ethical to kill disabled newborn children. For instance, in a 2006 interview Singer was asked point-blank: “Would you kill a disabled baby?� His response? “Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole.� “Many people find this shocking,� he continued, “yet they support a woman's...

The FASCISM in Mainstream Islam The FASCISM in Mainstream Islam Even in Western UKUNDERCOVER MOSQUE-A MUST SEE (UK) A look into a "moderate" Mainstream Mosque, what "normal Muslim clerics" preach... http://www.dafka.org/NewsGen.asp?S=4&PageID=1489 Islamic Hatred in Mainstream Aussie Mosqueshttp://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=16355&only=yes Islamic Jew hatred contained ... disseminated by the most respected, mainstream Islamic institutions. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23399 Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-West extremismSecret survey exposes widespread radicalismPosted: February 23, 2008An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism, WND...

People that watch HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" are infinitely aware that the host is not only an atheist, but is also an antitheist, meaning that he hates religion. No finer example of Maher's disdain for theism and Judeo-Christian principles occurred on Friday's installment of "Real Time" when he actually declared, "At least half of the [Ten] Commandments are stupid!" This came moments after Maher proudly stated, "If I had a child, the last book I would ever give to teach morality would be the Bible, especially the Old Testament." This led one of his guests to say that...

What if the evening news sold us dunuts the way they sell us the current crop of Presidential candidates?

NOTE: as I have traditionally done, Christmas songs telling the news of the day will only be the secular songs. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2007 DFU CHRISTMAS PARODIES: OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODSIT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMASPARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERSI SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER CHIPMUNK CHRISTMAS SONG MIDI - LET IT SNOW Oh, Erin Burnett is frightful...and her jokes hardly delightful Let's tell CNBC so...she must, she must go, she must go Just what was that woman thinking...perhaps it was heavy drinking Let's tell...

Really? No kidding?I've always said that if people really knew what was going on in the Middle East then Bush would have an approval rating in the upper 80s while Democrats couldn't be elected as dogcatchers. From AP: [Associated Press CEO Tom] Curley said in a speech that news organizations should quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online and customizing the ways they see and read it."Editors need to stop pining for the old world and intensify the leading to the new one," Curley told a...

It is not unreasonable to see the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination eventually boiling down to the two men currently atop the GOP polls, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. But if this happens, it will be a race between something more than just the men. It will be a battle between two distinctly different political philosophies. In Sunday's New York Daily News, the paper's Senior Correspondent David Saltonstall has authored a very revealing piece, Neocon hawks go all-out for Giuliani: They are officially known as Rudy Giuliani's senior foreign policy advisory board, but they also could be dubbed...

I was wondering when the New Republic Magazine began to delve into comedy? I guess it's all the rage with the comedic stylings of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and John Kerry, but I had always thought the New Republic fashioned itself a magazine of "serious" political commentary. After reading a fawning, nay slobberingly sycophantic, assessment of the career of David Gregory, NBC News' White House correspondent, I have my doubts about NR’s claims to serious analysis. The title even seems a stab at humor as they absurdly seem to think that Gregory "Saved the Press Corps". (Registration required for the...

There's another accusation of rape floating around Durham this week. The accuser was allegedly attacked at a house party this Saturday. The accuser is white. The suspect is black. Heard anything about that? Yeah, I didn't think so. The mainstream media has bent over backward to keep race out of this. Even those who first gave a description of the alleged rapist as a “black man” later redacted that from their reports. The News & Observer never printed it at all. And none has pointed out, as the Duke Chronicle has done, that the alleged victim was white, making this...

The FASCISM in Mainstream Islam, even in Western UK http://www.dafka.org/NewsGen.asp?S=4&PageID=1489 UNDERCOVER MOSQUE-A MUST SEE A look into a "moderate" Mainstream Mosque, what "normal Muslim clerics" preach... :::::::::::::::::::::::: I am tired of the MSM's PC preaching to us about "most of Muslims are moderate". 1) Why do normal clerics preach fascism? 2) Why do "normal Muslims" elect and choose fascist leadership? (Bin Laden's popularityy even in those "friendly" Arab nations, "Palestinian" Arabs voting for Hamas, Hezbollah, choosing/backing those clerics). 3) Have we seen any outrage by Muslims over Islamists' crimes in the name of Islam? (Briggite of AmericanCongressForTruth tells of a...

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Mayor: 'Either the Judeo-Christian philosophy will survive or the Islamic philosophy will survive'SACRAMENTO, CA -- (OfficialWire) -- 09/11/06 -- The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) today called on Californians to repudiate remarks insulting to Muslims made by a mayor in the northern part of that state. CAIR-SV said that Redding, Calif., Mayor Ken Murray claimed Shia Muslims "believe it's acceptable to lie, cheat, steal and kill as long as it ultimately glorifies Allah." "Folks, they're not like us," said Murray. When asked about his offensive remarks, Murray drew a distinction between "mainstream" and Shia Muslims,...

Lib/Dem/Soc/Commies -- You've Forgotten The Lessons Of 9/11 Written by Doc Farmer Monday, September 11, 2006 Author's Note: This is a request to most of my conservative, patriotic readers. Please don't read it with yourself in mind. Instead, send it along to every lib/dem/soc/commie discussion board, mailing list or group you can find. Send it to every lib/dem/soc/commie media outlet. Call every lib/dem/soc/commie talk show with it. This message is for them, and it's high time they heard it. Five years. It's not that long a time, when you consider the history of our nation. It's a mere blink of...

Unions are increasingly courting immigrant day laborers in hopes of reversing a longtime decline in membership and clout. But labor experts say organizing a work force that is mobile and largely undocumented presents enormous logistical challenges and risks of alienating rank-and-file members. "Everyday there are day laborers who walk in and say, 'I want a union,'" said Janice Fine, a labor professor at Rutgers University. "But the road to getting one is almost an impossible journey." The Laborers' International Union announced Thursday that early next year it will begin recruiting day laborers in the construction industry to become full-fledged union...

The problem with their mainstream - Lebanon, a typical Islamo Arab nation (over 60% Muslim), failed the test to reject Islamo Fascism You never see Christians and Jews becoming pro terror to hit intentionally at innocent civilians, once they suffer loss of lives and pain. Look at Lebanon, supposedly a "moderate" Arab Muslim nation, failed -- so miserably - the test, not only in not realizing who is at fault of dead Lebanese but going as far as to "forgiving" -- all of a sudden-- for Islamic terrorists hijacking their country, destroying it and Huzbollah's use of civilian Lebanese to...

Media Matters Thanks, Uncle Walter By Jeffrey Lord Published 7/28/2006 12:07:29 AM Walter Cronkite created Fox News. This aspect of Mr. Cronkite's long and distinguished career as a journalist was not mentioned in this week's showing of the PBS series American Masters that saluted the veteran CBS newsman. The show, which is designed to examine "the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists," dug deep into Mr. Cronkite's life and career. He was praised (one might even say worshiped!) for his coverage of the Kennedy assassination, political conventions, Vietnam and Watergate. He was cited as a...

Jury convicts ex-Bush official in Abramoff probe By PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON — A jury found former Bush administration official David Safavian guilty today of covering up his dealings with Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff.

The media is overflowing with stories about the incident in Haditha on November 19, 2005. There are so many stories and so many interviews but there is a problem. Many of the stories and recountings of events are inconsistent and seem ever changing. Take the conflicting stories from Thaer al-Hadithi - the "young Iraqi journalist" and AP's "Iraqi human rights investigator". Al-Hadithi claimed that his "own house was barely 100 yards from the IED explosion." He recounted that the blast shattered his windows. Al-Hadithi claimed he "ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their...

Although hardly new, by far the most effective name calling tactic currently being employed is to accuse anyone with a value system of being outside of the mainstream. Personally, I consider this not an assault on my character, but an affirmation of it. Many great people have been 'outside the mainstream'. A couple of millennium ago, a man named Christ walked this earth. He was outside of the mainstream, too. In fact, he was so outside of it that he was considered a dire threat to those who were in the mainstream. That fact eventually cost him his life, but...

This past Monday, CBS, otherwise known as See? BS!, Al-Jazeera West, and the Corrupt Broadcasting System, proved once again that it is nothing but a shameless propaganda tool of the Democrat party, by releasing the results of a poll it rigged... uh... conducted recently showing that President Bush's popularity rating has plummeted to an all-time low of 34 percent. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/27/opinion/polls/main1350874.shtml

Critiquing the Press (But You Know The New York Slimes) Howard Kurtz has been The Washington Post's media reporter since 1990. He is also the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and the author of "Media Circus," "Hot Air," "Spin Cycle" and "The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation." Kurtz talks about the press and the stories of the day in "Media Backtalk."

ESCONDIDO, CA – Standing with her fellow junior ROTC cadets, Lilia Tellefson, 15, tried not to smile as a seemingly irate Marine Corps drill instructor shouted orders in her face. For the most part, the Sweetwater High School student maintained her composure as the drill instructor inspected her uniform and removed her cap, known as a “cover” in military lingo. But she made a mistake when she put it back on. “Tell me that I have cataracts!” the drill instructor screamed at the girl, the brim of his “smokey bear” hat nearly brushing her forehead. Lilia looked bewildered. “TELL ME...

Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, (Lieberman), Murtha, Murtha, Murtha. That's about how news coverage has gone the past several weeks concerning Rep. John Murtha's call to withdraw from Iraq versus Sen. Joe Lieberman's call to stand fast.

Alarm in US as 'gangsta bible' goes mainstream By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles (Filed: 31/10/2005) An American magazine about gangster life that was originally aimed at prisoners is selling so well that it is to go on sale in major stores. To the alarm of those working in crime prevention, Don Diva, which calls itself "the original street bible", has become required reading in many inner cities. Don Diva's controversial 'children and firearms' issue It features interviews with convicts, and includes tips on where to hide drugs and buy the best diamond-studded gold teeth and money-counting machines. Critics say...

Aug  26, 2005Rotting Awayby Chris ShugartThe ongoing Cindy Sheehan media marathon is but the latest chapter in the continuing tragic-comedy known to some as “The Decline and Fall of the Mainstream Media.” So obsessed have they become in discrediting the Bush administration that they don’t even try to disguise their bias any more. Media rhetoric seems to have entered a new dimension of shameless propaganda that has completely abandoned all pretense of “news reporting.” And they carry on as if no one is noticing.For three weeks (and still counting), the press has been singing in unison with the anti-war left...

RUSH: This guy from Livermore really had a good point, and I had to go through this pretty quickly, because we're running out of time in the previous hour. His point was this -- and this is all about the arrogance and the superiorist attitude of the people on the left, including many people in the media. His point was: "You know, 90% of the Washington press corps admits to being liberal but they then say that has no effect on how they do their jobs. 'Why, we are objective journalists. It has no impact on the way we do...

WASHINGTON - As the battle for Iraq's future plays out half a world away, the American news media are caught in the crossfire at home. War supporters accuse journalists of undercutting the troops by highlighting problems and ignoring progress in Iraq. War opponents also are unhappy. They say the media failed to question the need for war and sanitize the conflict by refusing to show gruesome scenes of carnage. Opinions about media coverage split along party lines. A nationwide poll by the Pew Research Center in October 2003 found that a solid majority of Republicans - 55 percent - felt...

Back in 2003, netwmd.com spearheaded an effort to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) "conference" at Ohio State University (OSU). Despite the fact that the PSM is basically a group of pro-Palestinian terrorist supporters and enablers, Ohio’s “mainstream” Jewish community, including the Ohio State Hillel, did nothing to oppose the 2003 hate fest at OSU – this is even after repeated requests on my part for their assistance. [1] Yesterday, I received a form letter from Hillel decrying the PSM, and asking for money to “help Jewish students respond to the one-sided, anti-Israeli propaganda of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement on...

Prediction: George W. Bush's nominee, John G. Roberts, will be confirmed by the Senate. Second prediction: Justice Roberts will do much to redefine what is the mainstream in American constitutional law. As to the first prediction, of course the left-wing groups—People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America—are busy trying to gin up opposition to Roberts. They want to see his nomination filibustered and killed. But they aren't likely to get the votes to do that. Even Democrats inclined to oppose Roberts have had to admit that he has superb qualifications. Sen. Charles Schumer, busy raising...

The old media, with their documented and demonstrable liberal bias, have lost much of their clout. But through the networks, the major papers, and the White House press corps, they continue to set the national agenda. And that means there are some things you just don't write about if you want to remain "in" with the liberal media. Newsweek senior writer Charles Gasparino, appearing on Tina Brown's now-defunct CNBC show, made the following admission. "We sow the seeds of our own demise. Journalists have been advocates of the liberal attitude for way too long, and now we're paying the price....

Congress is once again debating the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which partially funds the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). Public broadcasting doesn’t require fine-tuning. Like most other remnants of the Great Society, it needs to be killed. Much of the discussion centers on the question of public broadcasting’s bias. That question was settled long ago. PBS’ and NPR’s programming has had an obvious leftist tilt since their inception. In 1969, PBS carried a documentary on the ongoing struggle in Vietnam. The program was produced in - surprise, surprise - Communist North Vietnam. A...

Toronto-- Tomorrow is D-Day for the Republic of China gaining a toehold in the American business world. Thursday is the day when the battle between Chevron corp. and CNOOC over Unocal Corp. is set to come to a head with the U.S. company’s board due to decide whether to back the Chinese group’s US$18.5-billion bid and withdraw support for Chevron’s US$16.6-billion cash-and-share offer, says the Financial Times. "The Unocal board’s decision is crucial to the outcome of CNOOC’s attempt to challenge Chevron–a move that has sparked a barrage of opposition from U.S. politicians." CNOOC’s offer will be the subject of...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com 'Mainstream' judgesBy Thomas SowellPublished June 30, 2005 Recent shocking Supreme Court decisions may at least wake up those people who have been saying glibly the Senate has spent too much time fighting over judicial nominees, instead of getting back to the "real" issues.     What is more real than the Supreme Court decision throwing homeowners on the mercy of local politicians, who may want to confiscate their homes and turn over the property to some hotel or shopping mall that will pay more taxes?     However outrageous it may be to make constitutional protections for property rights vanish...

Not surprisingly Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit gave a videoblogging demo, showing just how easy it is to add video reports to online content. In an interesting development, Glaser also reported that Cox announced he is working with the Poynter Institute to offer up online classes for journalists and bloggers explaining blogging basics. The classes will be part of Poynter's NewsU and may include information to help bloggers understand liability issues. On my own blog several months ago I pointed out the great potential for such synergy. Meanwhile newspapers continue to jump on the blogging bandwagon. Brian Gottstein, a former online...

Recent shocking Supreme Court decisions may at least wake up those people who have been saying glibly that the Senate has been spending too much time fighting over judicial nominees, instead of getting back to the "real" issues. What is more real than the Supreme Court's decision throwing homeowners on the mercy of local politicians, who may want to confiscate their homes and turn the property over to some hotel or shopping mall that will pay more taxes? However outrageous it may be to make Constitutional protections for property rights vanish by verbal sleight-of-hand, that is unfortunately very much in...

Over half of voters think Congress (search) is out of touch with the country, and fewer than one-in-five believe Congress has passed legislation this year that would improve the quality of life for Americans. Clear majorities think the Patriot Act (search) is good for the country and support extending the legislation, which is set to expire at the end of the year. In addition, more than twice as many voters oppose closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay as support closure. These are just some of the findings from the latest FOX News nationwide poll of voters. The poll shows...

Howard Dean is doing such a bang-up job as Chairman of the Democratic Party that many are convinced he is an operative of Karl Rove. Not since the days of the Carter Administration has any single Democrat made Republicans look so impressive. But when he isn’t claiming that George W. Bush had beforehand knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, or attacking members of the military as brutal thugs, or stating that some 61 million moronic Bush voters “haven’t worked an honest day in their life,” Dean is trying to convince America that he and his liberal elitist friends represent Mainstream America....

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Arguably Iraq's most popular Shiite group, followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have packed away their guns and now speak of "political resistance" rather than martyrdom in battle. Once dismissed as an upstart, the portly al-Sadr has been transformed into a respectable political figure, commanding the loyalty of key lawmakers and several Cabinet ministers. "We are growing stronger and our appeal is becoming wider," Ibrahim al-Jaberi, a senior official at al-Sadr's office in Sadr City, said Saturday. Sadr City is a sprawling Baghdad neighborhood that is home to some 2.5 million Shiites and the largest bastion of...

Did I say niche? Sorry, I meant ditch. On almost any issue, on almost any measure, study after study shows major differences in political and social leanings between mainstream journalists and the public. Similarly, repeated surveys demonstrate a far higher skepticism among the public of journalistic product than journalists have of themselves. Readership of newspapers and viewership of the three formerly leading networks continues to drop by major percentages, up to half or more from the 1960s. The most common response from leading news media figures is that the public is ignorant or misguided, and just doesn't understand the reality...

In the fight over filibustering judicial nominees, the Senate gave us something new: defining extremism leftward. Judges whose views Democrats have regarded as merely conservative are now seen as right-wing extremists — or, to use the phrase that keeps coming up in the current Senate debate, "out of the mainstream." But what does the phrase mean? From Democrats' public statements, it seems to mean the following: Judges who would uphold a state's ban on gay marriage are out of the mainstream; judges who would rule that parents should be notified before their underage daughter has an abortion are out of...

In the just-ended fight over filibustering judicial nominees, the Senate gave us something new: defining extremism leftward. Judges whose views Democrats would once have regarded as merely conservative are now seen as right-wing extremists — or, to use the phrase that keeps coming up in the current Senate debate, "out of the mainstream." But what does the phrase mean? From Democrats' recent public statements, it seems to mean the following: Judges who would uphold a state's ban on gay marriage are out of the mainstream; judges who would rule that parents should be notified before their underage daughter has an...