Romney felt politically forced to give the speech specifically because evangelical Christians seem to know a little too much about the faith of his fathers. Many evangelicals believe and have said publicly that Mormonism — contrary to Romney’s assertions — is not a Christian religion but an abomination of Christianity. Here’s a sampling of why: Mormons believe that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri; that Jews were the first people in America; that Indians descended from Jews and are a lost tribe of Israel; that Jesus came to America; that after the next coming of Christ (which will be […]
MEDIA: Heckuva Job, Brownie
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Kevin J. Martin endured three hours of aggressive questioning from the Senate Commerce Committee, with lawmakers accusing him of rushing to help big media companies at the expense of the public. By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer December 14, 2007 WASHINGTON — Facing growing criticism of his agenda and tactics, a defiant Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, refused senators’ requests Thursday to delay a vote next week on his plan to loosen restrictions on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city. Martin endured three hours […]
WHY JOHNNY CAN’T READ: Amount Of Money The Philadelphia Parking Authority Has Generated For City Schools Since 2004…
Parents United, along with other parent groups, has been leading a call for the Parking Authority to keep its 2004 promise to turn over $20 million to the public schools. Since a first check for $4 million was handed over in 2004, the Parking Authority hasn’t sent a dollar to the public schools. MORE
MEDIA: Pimping The News Is Not A Victimless Crime
NY POST: CNN isn’t very enthusiastic about one of the six “heroes” honored last week on its show, “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.” Pablo Fajardo of Ecuador was saluted in the “Fighting for Justice” category for his lifelong effort “to force one of the world’s largest oil corporations to pay more than $6 billion to clean up toxic waste in the Amazon rain forest.” CNN never named Chevron, a big advertiser on CNN, as the oil company. While the CNN Web site has “How to Help” links for all the other “heroes,” the link to chevrontoxico.com, the Web site of […]
POT CALLS KETTLE: Pope Disses Gore For ‘Dogma’
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology. The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering. The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement. His remarks will be made […]
THE HUCKABOOM: The Devil and Mitt Romney
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” The article, to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn’t know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. MORE RELATED: Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before […]
THE FIRST MAN FROM HOPE: Take My Wife, Please
BUBBALICIOUS: Bill Clinton, Electric Factory, earlier tonight. [CLICK TO ENLARGE] RELATED: With Bill Clinton at his side, Philadelphia Mayor-elect Michael Nutter last night endorsed the presidential candidacy of the former president’s wife, saying that she understood the challenges facing urban America. [via INQUIRER] PHOTOS BY VIC SUEDE
Earthlink A No-Show At Council Wi-Fi Hearing
Will Wireless Philadelphia fulfill Mayor Street’s soaring vision of a city where all residents enjoy affordable Internet access or will it end up like man’s early attempts to fly by strapping on homemade wings and jumping off a cliff? The grimmer view dominated yesterday’s City Council technology committee hearings into Wireless Philadelphia’s progress. Councilmen Frank Rizzo Jr. and Brian O’Neill were appalled that Atlanta-based Earthlink, Inc. — the Wireless Philadelphia provider that recently announced it was getting out of the wireless-city business — did not show up to testify. O’Neill said he had received a statement “allegedly from EarthLink” on […]
MIKE GRAVEL: Give Peace A Chance
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THE TAO OF MITT: Suffer The Children
ASSOCIATED PRESS: His shot at the Republican presidential nomination in jeopardy, Mitt Romney will begin running a TV ad against Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee on illegal immigration starting Tuesday while weighing how much negative campaigning he can add to the methodical plan he’s followed all year. The ad says the former governors have a lot in common — but not on illegal immigration, an important issue in Iowa, which will lead off nomination voting with its caucuses on Jan. 3.“Mitt Romney stood up, and vetoed in-state tuition for illegal aliens, opposed driver’s licenses for illegals,” the ad says. “Mike Huckabee? […]
KBR/HALLIBURTON: Gang Rape Inc.?
ABC NEWS: In the lawsuit, Jamie Leigh Jones also says, after the gang rape, she was held in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door. It was only after, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone that she could reach her father, who then called his congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, to help get his daughter out of Baghdad to safety. RELATED: