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Liberal mainstream media attacks on family values built on rather dubious foundations The attacks on “family values” in the liberal mainstream media seem never-ending. And yet, when we look rigorously at the data the anti-family value advocates use to support their claims, we often find the liberal attacks are built on rather dubious foundations. A recent article in the Globe and Mail newspaper proclaims that “‘it turns out ‘family values’ are bad for families.” This shocking conclusion is followed up by the core insight that “‘[t]he way to have more and better families today is to get far away from...

It's apparent that the recent media attacks on Sarah Palin have, for the first time, actually drawn blood. Palin's negatives have shot up substantially, rising 7 points from 49% to 56%. The proximate cause is held to be the fact that she defended herself against the charge of complicity in murder in the Tucson shootings, along with engaging in some unclear variety of anti-Semitism by using the term "blood libel." It's safe to say that no other current politician would ever be held to such standards. This slump is surely temporary -- no more permanent than Obama's miniscule "leap" in...

Sarah Palin not anti-choice enough? A far right group claims the former Alaska governor's rhetoric on abortion sounds too "liberal" and "pro-choice" BY KATE HARDING In Salon today, Max Blumenthal writes of Sarah Palin, "her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders -- and followers -- not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl...

The following is satire in the light of many negative attacks in this current campaign season and imagines Jesus Christ as a candidate for Congress in Ohio in our current environment. All allegations raised in the story are based on events in Christ's life or things that were said about him by his opponent. Nazareth, OH — Many questions are being raised about local carpenter and Congressional Candidate Jesus Christ. The explosive allegations have rocked his campaign. Sei Tan, a local lawyer, has a blog dedicated to raising these questions. "The people of Nazareth need to know about this guy's...

When the liberal media engage in a feeding frenzy against a conservative politician, journalists are always on the lookout for conservative publications that get drawn into the hysteria. Then they can make the claim that they are not engaging in just an ideological jihad against their political enemies. In the case of Rep. Tom Delay, critics have cited the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which weighed in with an editorial criticizing Delay for being a big government conservative. That's quite funny because we have drawn attention to the fact that the Journal editorial page has become an advocate of big...

<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon has begun making an issue of Gov. Gray Davis' fund-raising tactics even as a statewide poll shows voters think the governor would do a better job of maintaining high ethical standards in government.</p> <p>But if Simon's more aggressive line of rhetoric -- that Davis caters to those who give him campaign contributions -- is bringing faint hope to some GOP leaders, they also admit they are suffering from waning optimism that the Republican nominee has a chance to win the governorship.</p>