News You Need to Know 27Oct09

  • Semantic Confusion: “The Religious Right” Allies or Antagonists?
    “What You Said Ain’t What They Heard”
    I have noticed lately a serious impediment to any real communication across political lines.  It is something that can affect anyone writing or speaking about politics in America today.  The problem lies in the term “Religious Right”.
    On the one hand Conservative Christians do not seem to understand that non-Christians, [...]
  • AmeriCorps
    For the entire AmeriCorps profile, click here.

    Selected highlights from the AmeriCorps profile:
    AmeriCorps is a government-funded public-service network that was formally launched when President Bill Clinton signed the 1993 National and Community Service Trust Act … “to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.” …
    AmeriCorps members are paid workers, not volunteers….
    Financed by the federal [...]

  • Joe Klein Accuses Fox News of Sedition
    Sometimes I wake up in the morning ashamed that I share the same name with the ultra liberal Time Magazine commentator Joe Klein.  This is one of those mornings.  As reported last night during The O’Reilly Factor, my namesake stupidly accused Fox News of “sedition”, “hateful crap” and lies – and that was just in [...]
  • Peaceful Iranian ship laden with peaceful weapon seized off Yemen
    Weapons for the Shi’ites who are rebelling against the Yemeni government. “Iranian ship laden with weapons seized off Yemen,” by Nasser Arrabyee for Gulf News, October 27 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Sanaa: An Iranian ship laden with various weapons believed to be for Al Houthi rebels was seized Monday off…
  • Progressive Myths About the Founding Fathers, and Hating Whitey
    As a reflection of his rebranding as a “progressive,” Ed Schultz accused Glenn Beck of “Psycho Talk” for thinking well of the Founding Fathers. After Beck mentioned his appreciation of Samuel Adams, Ed lectured Beck that the Founders deserved no honor, because they were evil white men.
    [M]ost of these Founding Fathers that you think so [...]
  • UN report demands repeal of counterterror laws to promote “gender equality”
    This is not a joke. Well, it is, but it is true. “U.N. Report Demands Repeal of Counterterrorism Laws to Promote ‘Gender Equality,’” by Joseph Abrams for FoxNews, October 21 (thanks to Jed Babbin): In case you weren’t sure, human gender is “changeable over time and contexts,” sex slaves must…
  • 350: the Most Important Number on the Planet?
    Saturday, October 24, 2009 was a day the world’s attention was focused on the number 350. According to a Democracy Now! report by Sharif Abdel Kouddous–filling in for his comrade Amy Goodman–activists from across the globe held rallies to “call on world leaders to take strong measures at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.”
    What does [...]
  • From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 27, 2009
    But Bill Clinton is not like those who worship him, corrupting himself and others for a higher cause. Unlike them, he betrays principles because he has none. He will even betray his country, but without the slightest need to betray it for something else – for an idea, a party, a cause. He is a [...]
  • Klavan On The Culture » Do Something!
    October 26th, 2009 2:20 pm
    Do Something!
    I was embedded with our troops in Afghanistan only briefly in 2008 and went out on only a single three-day mission with them in order to write this article for City Journal. I in no way felt I became an expert on the country or the war. But I did, [...]
  • O’Reilly Goes After Time Mag Writer Who Says Fox News Lies – VIDEO
    Bill O’Reilly uses his “talking points memo” to attack Time magazine columnist Joe Klein for writing that “Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap,” which is mostly “untrue.”O’Reilly chall…

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