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Campaigns are ugly. Watching the way politicians act makes you long for the respect and self-control of the Sopranos. Throughout, there are legitimate attacks and outright lies. Every once in a while, I get a call on my radio show from someone telling me that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, who admitted it in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, and has a fake birth certificate. No, no, and no. As I tell them, there are legitimate reasons not to vote for Barack Obama, no need to make them up. But the newest target is Sarah Palin. Let's take a quick look at just a fraction of what she has faced in her first few days as John McCain's choice for vice president. iReport.com: Do you think Palin is being treated unfairly? "Sarah Palin believes God told her to go to war with Iraq!" There has been some hard-core journalistic malpractice on this one. The Associated Press ran this headline about a speech she gave at her church: "Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'" In the story, they omit the first part of the sentence they're quoting along with the entire previous sentence for good measure. . Read On |
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'Every citizen should care about this issue because it will bring Las Vegas into every home in America.
Two years ago, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The law gives financial institutions a government go-ahead to block payments to off-shore Internet gambling interests. And for two years, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has fought to undo the regulations — which took family groups nearly a decade to put in place.
In April, Frank's first attempt failed. Now, he's at it again.
H.R. 6870 — the so-called Payments System Protection Act of 2008 — purports to clarify UIGEA, but actually would undermine the current regulations. The House Financial Services Committee, which is led by Frank, is scheduled to vote on the bill Tuesday."Every citizen should care about this issue because it will bring Las Vegas into every home in America, 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Les Bernal, executive director of Stop Predatory Gambling, told CitizenLink. "Its target audience is teenagers." Read On |
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'Stop Bullying Sarah!' Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is appalled at the distortions about women and Christianity embodied in the personal attacks against a political candidate who is unapologetically also a woman, wife, mother and evangelical believer.
"In its continuing game of 'gotcha' journalism and the 'politics of personal destruction,' the ainstream media (MSM) and celebrity reporters are piling on Sarah Palin," said, Dr. Janice Shaw rouse, political commentator for CWALAC. "The personal attacks have reached unprecedented ettiness and hypocrisy. Even former journalistic giants (like the Washington Post and New York Times) are engaging in tabloid-like sensationalism and printing vicious distortions about her life, faith, experience and family. Even feminists -- who supposedly promote women's equality and the so-called 'women's rights' agenda -- are questioning a female candidate's ability to get the  job done. It's past time for the bullying to stop!"
Crouse continued, "As an outsider who came to Washington without political connections and became a presidential speechwriter and denizen of the West Wing halls of power, I'd like to offer the governor a bit of advice: Don't be intimidated by the ubiquitous 'data robots' who are like children's wind-up toys spewing out facts and information. They sound impressive, but I've found that they often lack wisdom, insight and vision; many of them haven't the foggiest idea what those facts mean, sometimes lack common sense and too often are unable to shape ideas into reality. Don't be impressed by 'inside-the-Beltway' lingo; far too often the short-hand language that the inside crowd uses to talk to each other obscures the fact that they know very little about the real world inhabited by mainstream Americans." Dr. Crouse can be reached on her cell phone directly at 202-497-9556.
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