CULTURE-WAR

Bush: U.S. Must Get Free of Mideast Oil

A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq.

Culture Kampf & The Kamikaze Congress by Robert R. Owens, PhD
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

There is a culture war raging in America. It has wreaked havoc in our national psyche since the Summer of Love elevated the ersatz individualism and limousine liberalism of the Boomers from childhood fantasy to national fever-dream.

Christian Group Launches New Attack on Christmas Commercialism
Source: Yahoo! News

The idea for their own war on Christmas came to McKinley four years ago, when he was sitting around with some of his pastor friends and they realized they were all dreading Christmas.

Ayn Rand and America's new culture war
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Today is their moment in the sun, and it is the religious right that is being swept to the side by the rush of events.

Seeking a Right to Carol in the Classroom
Source: The New York Times

If Merry Susan Hyatt has her way, every public school pupil in California will have the voter-approved right to sing "Joy to the World" in the classroom.

Framing the issue - How the homosexual movement gets into the public schools.
Source:

The homosexual movement in the public schools has always been based on lies and deception. But until the mid-1990s, they were still having difficulty getting into the schools. Then they found the key to their huge success -- what they call "re-framing the issue".

It's Not a War Against FOX News
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News

Last weekend, the White House fired some of its biggest guns at FOX News.

Ohio Supreme Court: Freshwater Can't Force Board Members to Testify
Source: columbusdispatch.com

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning that members of the Mount Vernon school board don't have to testify in the termination hearing of John Freshwater, the eighth-grade teacher accused of teaching religion in science class and burning students with a laboratory device.

Freshwater Update-- "Symbolism" and Nonsense
Source: pandasthumb.org

Thursday of last week, the 17th, Hamilton and Freshwater were interviewed on a radio program hosted by David Barton, notorious revisionist pseudo-historian who is in the process of polluting social studies standards in Texas.

Something You Don't See Everyday On Fox&Friends; - Another Upset Anti Obama Parent!
Source: News Hounds

Just kidding. Let's see, earlier this week Fox&Friends; interviewed an upset parent about the upcoming Obama school address. Yesterday, another upset parent, Teabagger Katrina Pierson, was also interviewed.

Pastor Defends "Death-Prayer" Aimed at Obama.
Source: myfoxphoenix.com

Anderson is standing by his controversial sermon, entitled "Why I Hate Barack Obama." Video of the sermon has hit YouTube, and he's taped explaining why he hates the President and praying for his death.

Parents Incensed Over 'Evolution' Image -- Dumbass Quote of the Day
Source: sedaliademocrat.com

It's a two-fer: creationists angry at science complain over the school band's t-shirt design, and the school can't tell the difference between science and religion."I made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after several concerned parents brought the shir …

Freshwater Update: One Freshwater Suit Settled
Source: pandasthumb.org

Published reports this morning (see also here and here) says that the federal lawsuit brought by the parents of the boy who was burned with a Tesla coil in an 8th grade science class in the Mt. Vernon City Schools has been settled. According to the report

Immoral Imperative
Source: Nolan Chart

Should the government be legislating morality? You have to ask?

Bill O'Reilly Smears Naked Lady, Gays, And A Transsexual Mayor
Source: News Hounds

Voyeur, Bill O'Reilly does seem to have an obsession with naked ladies be it Bar Rafaelli or the Naked Ladies in the Guitar Hero internet video.

Freshwater Update: A last-minute postponement (Now approaching Year Two)
Source: pandasthumb.org

It's of some interest that Hamilton informed the hearing referee of his intention to delay the hearing on Tuesday of this week, but it was not acted on until this morning after a bunch of attorneys, a prospective witness, and a (very small) gallery of spectators and media had a …

Freshwater Update, July 2009
Source: pandasthumb.org

R. Kelly Hamilton, John Freshwater's attorney, subpoenaed two members of the Mt. Vernon Board of Education, Ian Watson and Jody Goetzman.

Texas governor appoints cultural conservative to lead State Board of Education
Source: star-telegram.com

Lowe, who is also a conservative, thinks she was selected by Perry because she writes headlines instead of making them. Her district includes all or parts of 26 counties in central and north central Texas including Denton, Hood and Wise.

Gay West Point grad testifies before Army
Source: Record Online

The closed hearing, now in its eighth hour, is being held in an armory at Hancock Air Base in Syracuse.

Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell
Source: Reason Magazine

Wars are riddled with all kinds of twisted ironies. During the Civil War, the Union army initially spurned blacks who it was crusading to emancipate—while the Confederate army recruited them in the final desperate hours of its fight to enslave them.

Military policy on gays won't change soon
Source: Record Online

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top military adviser said Sunday the Pentagon has enough challenges — including two wars — without rushing to overturn a decade-old policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military and incites political and social  …

Revolution; During the last 30 years Americans have been so politically divided that some have called this left-right, liberal-conservative split a "culture war" – to be precise, what is happening in the United States today is revolution.
Source: American Thinker

During the last 30 years we Americans have been so politically divided that some of us have called this left-right, liberal-conservative split a "culture war" or even a "second Civil War." These descriptions are no longer accurate.

Pat Robertson: "There is no middle ground between Christians and atheists... atheists work for the Devil."
Source: ScienceBlogs

Here's an amusing video of Pat Robertson answering a question on the 700 Club from a woman who is a Christian and is engaged to an atheist. He says she has to break up with him because he's working for the devil.

White House drug czar calls for end to 'war on drugs'
Source: Raw Story

"The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S.

GOP base rips Cantor's National Council for a New America
Source: Politico

Social conservatives are blasting the National Council for a New America, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) nascent effort to rebrand the Republican Party, as a misguided and weak-kneed initiative that is out of touch with the GOP rank and file.

The left needs to leave Miss California alone

To start off I am pro gay marriage because there is no evidence on how it affects my rights what so ever. It wouldn't very Libertarian of me to believe the Government jack boot should be allowed to enforce private morals.