Washington Post Lampoons Faith September 17, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: Sarah Palin, Washington Post
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From Sarah Pulliam at Christianity Today:
The Washington Post is taking heat for posting a cartoon caricaturing Sarah Palin speaking in tongues and God telling St. Peter “All I can hear is some dam’ right-wing politician spouting gibberish.”
The Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote on Sunday that 350 readers have complained since the cartoon was posted online September 9, saying the cartoon lampooned their faith.
Cartoonist Pat Oliphant depicts John McCain saying, “She’s a Pentecostal and speaks in tongues, and only God can understand what she’s saying, but it gives my campaign a direct line to the almighty.”
“Readers were right to complain; I will deal with political cartooning in another column,” Howell writes. “Political cartoons and comics aren’t selected at washingtonpost.com the way they are for The Post in print; they are automatically posted.”
Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Pat Oliphant’s cartoons, writes: “No one is safe from the acid brush of Pat Oliphant. Oliphant is acknowledged as the nation’s most influential political cartoonist. A master of what he calls “confrontational art,” Oliphant spares neither the liberal nor conservative, sinner nor saint.”
Senegal Update #1 September 5, 2008
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Greetings from Senegal, West Africa. I’m here with several other Salem radio hosts from around the country observing the ministry of one of our international ministry partners Bible League. Bible League provides Bibles for persecutetd believers, and we have targeted all of Africa for a Bible blitz this fall. I hope you will help us get Bibles into the hands of believers here.
After about 24 hours of travel, leaving Detroit at 7:00 pm ET on Wednesday and arrving at our Hotel in Dakar at 10:30 pm local time (6:30 pm ET) on Thursday, I slept about four hours, rising at 5:30 am for a day long meeting with believers from around Senegal. It was awesome to hear the testimonies of how God has used his word to bring them to himself. We just do not value God’s word in America the way they do here where there really is a famine of the Word of God.
We leave tomorrow morning for a four hour bus ride to St. Louis (San Louie) where will spend two days encouraging believers and sharing God’s word with them.
Please pray for us. And please consider a one time gift of $40.00 to help me place ten Bibles in the hands of African believers. www.bibleleague.org.
More as time and internet access permits. Photos coming soon, too.
Senegal Bound September 2, 2008
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I leave Wednesday for a week in Senegal, West Africa with Salem Communications’ ministry partner Bible League. I will be travelling with several other Salem hosts from around the country. Our purpose is to encourage the believers in this 99% Muslim country. Please pray for us.
It only costs $4.00 to place a copy of the Bible into the hands of a believer who has never owned one. Please consider a one time gift of $40.00 and help me place ten Bibles in Africa. Call 866-825-4636 or online at www.bibleleague.org.
I’ll be blogging from Senegal as Internet access permits.
Obama to Daily Kos: Back off Palin September 1, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: Bristol Palin, Obama, Sarah Palin
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In Monroe, Michigan today at a campaign stop Barack Obama was asked about rumors that Sarah Palin’s daughter was really the mother of four month old Trig, and also what he thought of Sarah Palin revealing that the same daughter really is five months pregnant. Bravo to Obama for his response:
I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits. And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.
HT: Ben Smith
Bummer September 1, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: DNC, Don Fowler, Hurricane Gustav
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The main stream media seems awfully disappointed that Gustav wasn’t worse. I wonder if they will give the Bush Adminstration and Governor Bobby Jindal the credit they deserve for an excellent advance preparation and response? Nah.
We already knew well in advance of Gustav’s landfall what the Democrats were hoping for. What a bunch of hypocrites…see the vid below and imagine the response if a Republican had said the timing of a deadly hurricane “demontrates God’s on our side”:
How low will Liberals go in attacking Palin? September 1, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: Alan Colmes, baby, Daily Kos, John Roberts, Sarah Palin
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Then Alan Colmes - of Hannity and Colmes fame - questioned whether Palin herself contributed to the development of Down’s in her baby in utero, alleging she didn’t get proper pre-natal care.
Now the liberal blog Daily Kos is alleging Trig Palin, the four month old baby of Sarah and Todd Palin, is in fact the baby of Sarah and Todd’s 16 year-old daughter, and that Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy to cover up the illegimate pregnancy of her daughter!
This kind of reporting should make every liberal proud.
McCain makes Michigan his first stop after nomination August 30, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: John McCain, Michigan, Rally, Sarah Palin, Sterling Heights
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In a move that highlights the importance of the State of Michigan to the outcome of this year’s presidential election, Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin will make Metro Detroit one of their first stops after accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president.
McCain and Palin will be at the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre on Friday, September 5 at 5:00 pm. Tickets are free but you need to pick them up in advance at one of these locations:
Kent County Republican Committee/Victory Center
264 Leonard St. NW
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504
Phone: 616-459-0141
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.
Click here to reserve
your ticket at this location
Upton for Congress Campaign
1210 Milham Ave., Suite 100
Portage, MI 49024
Phone: 269-615-3727
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 6 p.m.
Click here to reserve
your ticket at this location
Michigan Republican Party
Secchia-Weiser Michigan
Republican Center
520 Seymour St.
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone: 517-487-5413
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 6 p.m.
Click here to reserve
your ticket at this location
McCain Great Lakes Regional HQ
31440 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 100
Farmington Hills, MI 48344
Phone: 248-579-4578
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Sun: 12 p.m. — 4 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Grand Traverse Victory Center
121 Front St. Suite 100
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: 517-610-9877
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Livingston Victory Center
455 E. Grand River, Suite 101
Brighton, MI 48114
Phone: 517-610-1507
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Livonia Victory Center
34020 W. Seven Mile Rd.
Livonia, MI 48152
Phone: 517-610-1446
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Macomb Victory Center
34620 Utica Rd.
Fraser, MI 48026
Phone: 517-610-9046
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Walberg for Congress Campaign
317 West Washington
Jackson, MI 49201
Phone: 517-962-4913
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 3 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
Beginning September 1st
Genesee Victory Center
12741 S. Saginaw St., Suite D2
Grand Blanc, MI
Phone: 517-610-1507
Mon-Fri, 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location
For more information about the rally and where to obtain tickets for the rally, please visit http://www.johnmccain.com/mi/
‘Hockey Mom” Palin is also ‘Army Mom’ August 30, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: Joe Biden, John McCain, Military, Sarah Palin, Son
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My friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt notes that Sarah Palin is the first mother of an American soldier to be nominated for the second highest office in the land. I would add “soon to be deployed” to the descriptive before “American soldier.”
Do you realize how far this will go to disabuse the country of the made-up liberal lie that Republicans long for war? Do you realize how many mothers with kids in Iraq and Afghanistan will trust McCain-Palin to lead the American military strategically and into war only when necessary, given the high personal stakes BOTH of them have in the outcome? McCain has two sons in the military, one of whom just returned from a tour in Iraq. The other is at the Naval Academy and may be deployed to Iraq by the end of the year.
For the record, Joe Biden’s son will be deployed to Iraq in October. Biden’s reaction? “I don’t want him going.”
