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Contrary to Popular Belief, Sarah Palin Isn't Mama Grizzly's Best Friend
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 22) -- Dogged Sarah Palin critic Andrew Sullivan recently unpacked the ex-Alaska governor's record on bears and found it doesn't mesh with the warmth she professes for them on her TLC reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." "As she coos over them on TLC and anthropomorphizes them for the Tea Party, she tends not to remind people that as governor, she backed a bill called the 'Active Management -- Airborne Shooting' that allowed for aerial shooting of the bears for the first time in Alaska's history," writes Sullivan on his blog for The Atlantic. The bill, which died in the state Senate, ...
San Francisco Considers Male Circumcision Ban
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Fresh off their city's banning of Happy Meals, some San Francisco residents want to put a stop to another cruelty inflicted upon young children: male circumcision. "A proposed ballot measure for the November 2011 ballot -- when voters will be electing San Francisco's next mayor -- would amend The City's police code 'to make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18,'" The San Francisco Examiner reports. The practice is standard in the United States and has spread far beyond ...
Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Proposals: Initial Reactions
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Finally, someone has touched the third rail of American politics. Grappling with how to significantly reduce the nation's massive budget deficit, an 18-member bipartisan commission set up by President Barack Obama recommended that Social Security and Medicare benefits be cut, that defense and discretionary spending come way down and that taxes be raised. In addition, the commission's initial recommendations (read the full proposal here), which were released early by co-chairs Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, argued that the retirement age should be raised to 69 by ...
Fox's Chris Wallace Tries to Pin Down GOP Candidates on Fiscal Restraint
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- Among the many critiques of President Barack Obama these days is the tried-and-true conservative attack of Democrats' taxing and spending. Republican candidates deride the stimulus and say they're concerned about the deficit. But ask them where exactly they would cut spending, and watch as they talk themselves in circles. It's gotten so bad that even fiscal conservatives such as "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace and The Atlantic's blogmeister Andrew Sullivan are pressing Republicans for specifics on fiscal restraint. On Fox News Sunday, Wallace challenged Carly Fiorina, the ...
US Appeals DADT Ruling, While Obama Says Being Gay Not a Choice
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 14) -- Is it a case of cognitive dissonance? Two developments today have many people wondering where, exactly, the Obama administration really stands on the matter of gay rights. First, the U.S. Department of Justice asked federal Judge Virginia Phillips to let the military ignore her ruling suspending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which prohibits gay and lesbian service members from openly divulging their sexual orientation while serving in the armed forces. Even as DOJ lawyers argued that an immediate end to DADT would "irreparably harm the public interest in a ...
After a Dissent, Mormon Leaders Reaffirm Stance Against Gay Marriage
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Last month, a senior leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for the Mormon church's involvement in California's campaign in favor of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlaws gay marriage. "On the morning of Sunday, September 19, about ninety members of the Oakland, California stake (diocese) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met with Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the Church's historian and a prominent member of the General Authorities, the ranking hierarchy of Mormon leaders," reports Joanna Brooks of Religion Dispatches magazine. ...
JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. In one case, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, now of Wired.com, encouraged his peers to label conservatives racists if they make an issue out of the controversial figure. Ackerman wrote at the time: If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or ...
Pro-Israel Atlantic Writer Explains His Criticism of Palin's Pro-Israel Positions
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 21) -- The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, responding to a critical reader, has an interesting post up about how he squares his pro-Israel views with his opposition to the pro-Israel Sarah Palin. Argues Goldberg, who has written on Israel throughout his long journalism career: "Palin has positioned herself as a territory maximalist, arguing for the righteousness of continued Jewish settlement of the West Bank, including those parts of the West Bank, presumably, beyond the security fence. This line of argument places her well to the right of the position taken, late in his career, of ...
Gov. Jindal's Artificial Oil-Blocking Islands Are Crumbling
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsIf BP has in fact stopped the oil leak, it's a most welcome development. But much damage was done and more will come from the tens of millions of gallons floating around the Gulf of Mexico. One unfortunate new development: The artificial islands that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered built -- against the advice of scientists -- to protect his state's shores are crumbling. "[W]ithin the Jindal administration, coastal policy has been cast as a war between man and the sea," reports Discover Channel News, which posts pictures of the crumbling islands (hat tip Andrew Sullivan). "Plans have been ...
Anti-Gay Marriage, Pro-State Rights: Ruling in Mass. Leaves Both Conservatives and the White House in a Bind
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 9) -- When a Boston federal judge Thursday struck down the 1996 federal law (The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA) that defines marriage as a union exclusively for a man and woman, it left some conservatives with a quandary. "The federal government, by enacting and enforcing DOMA, plainly encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state, and in doing so, offends the Tenth Amendment. For that reason, the statute is invalid," wrote U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro. Andrew Sullivan, gay advocate and Sarah Palin foil, pointed out the dilemma now facing Palin and her ilk. "And ...
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