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Bryan Ballas
Bryan Ballas
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Born and raised in Jacksonville FL, Bryan Ballas graduated from Bob Jones University with a BA in political science in 2011 and got his MA in Government at Regent University in 2014, maintaining a 4.0 average throughout his stay at the latter institution. His academic accomplishments have earned him membership in the Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.

Bryan deepened his learning by interning for a variety of academic and governmental offices to include the Dean of Regent University’s School of Government, FL Governor Rick Scott’s Office of Appointments, the Office of FL Congressman Mike Weinstein, and Upper Hand Solutions, a political group that specializes in social media.

An accomplished writer, Bryan won first place in the nationwide Reagan Symposium Essay Contest at the Masters and Doctrinal level in 2013 and won third place in 2014. In June 2014 Bryan put his research skills to the test, working the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, before accepting an internship offer with the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division in February 2015.

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Rolling Stone Promotes Chicago Abortionist and Her Courageous 'Conscience'
December 12, 2015, 3:03 PM EST

In reaction to the Planned Parenthood fetal tissue harvesting videos, Rolling Stone decided to seek out an expert opinion. In their words, they sought to interview Dr. Cheryl Chastine, “an actual abortion provider, not a pundit or a politician — about all this.” As if abortion doctors weren't political activists?

The author is Andrea Grimes, last mocked for penning this notion in Rolling Stone: “the myth that Planned Parenthood is a baby-killing behemoth persists, despite all evidence to the contrary.”

Gullible Media Spread Texas Tall Tale of 'Self-Induced Abortions'
November 26, 2015, 11:51 PM EST

On November 13th, the Supreme Court announced that it would weigh the constitutionality of Texas’ HB2 law, which mandates increased safety regulations for abortion clinics, and, according to its challengers, places an “undue burden” on women’s reproductive health. A mere five days later, several media publications including Yahoo.com, Slate, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Reuters covered the results of a recently released study that claimed that anywhere between 100,000 and 240,000 women in Texas attempted self-induced abortions since the passage of the HB 2 law.

Even Salon Says 'the Left Has an Islam Problem'
November 20, 2015, 9:46 PM EST

The unthinkable has happened: Salon has called out the Left, saying "The Left has an Islam problem." Sean Illing actually took leftists to task for refusing to discuss Islam in a more critical light. “For liberals in particular, it’s a kind of heresy to suggest that Islam, at this particular moment in history, has a problem. This is unfortunate, and it has to end.”   

Salon: 'Wingnuts' Went 'Insane' at Katie Couric's Guided Tour of Planned Parenthood
November 16, 2015, 7:39 AM EST

Gary Legum of Salon.com wrote the “antiabortionists” are upset with “perky newswoman” Katie Couric at Yahoo! because “she has dared to take her cameras inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, which looks like a fairly normal medical center and not the blood-soaked abattoir of dismembered baby limbs that conservatives just know it to be in their tiny blackened hearts.”

Salon Complains: TV Must Show Abortions 'Aren't Evil or Demonic'
November 13, 2015, 7:07 AM EST

Upon its debut in 2014 Jane the Virgin, a TV show on the CW network about a woman who accidentally gets artificially inseminated, received applause from pro-abortion leftists for its “normalization” of the abortion conversation. However, Nico Lang of Salon.com was unsatisfied. While applauding the show’s “non-judgemental view of motherhood,” she lamented that it “is unable to show the empathy for all the choices women have to make about their bodies.” The headline lamented "birth is the one choice that matters."

Feminist: 'Science' Says There Are Zero Links Between Abortion and Mental Health
October 31, 2015, 8:42 AM EDT

Like the Wizard of Oz who told people to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, abortion advocates are desperate to draw the public's attention away from the health problems abortion can bring to women. To that end, Amanda Marcotte has penned an article for The Guardian entitled "Why anti-choice campaigners won't let science get in their way."

According to Marcotte, the "anti-choicers" persistently invoke the argument that "abortion causes mental health problems for women." This, says Marcotte, is not only a "whiff of bullying" but is unsupported by evidence.

New York Magazine Glamorizes the 'First Abortion Providers'
October 27, 2015, 2:07 PM EDT

No matter the occasion, the media always finds ways to either defend or throw a bone to the abortion industry. Case in point is Alex Ronan of New York magazine who interviewed "the first legal abortion providers" who “risked their livelihoods” to “break the law by providing terminations.”

Last year, Ronan proudly noted in the same outlet that “I’ve considered myself pro-choice since sixth grade when I learned the word, and I had manned the phones at the NARAL office in downtown New York when I was in high school.” So it was obvious she would elect to glamorize these early abortionists and their successors.

Huffington Post: Blame 'Hegemonic Masculinity' for Mass Shootings
October 10, 2015, 3:46 PM EDT

In the aftermath of the murderous rampages like the recent one in Oregon, some weep for the dead and pray for the wounded. Others, such as the Huffington Post feminist Soraya Chemaly, exploit such barbaric acts of violence to push their own political narratives. As stated in Chemaly’s headline, the real culprit behind mass shootings like the one in Oregon is “Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity.”

Salon Finds Weather Channel Editor to Denounce PP Videos as 'Abortion Porn'
October 2, 2015, 10:45 PM EDT

Liberals have lined up to attack Carly Fiorina for her comments regarding the details of videos displaying Planned Parenthood’s murder and harvesting organs of unborn children. Not one to be outdone, Salon’s Valerie Tarico quickly found a veteran video editor from the Weather Channel who was willing to challenge the authenticity of all the Planned Parenthood videos in the most over the top manner possible. “They created abortion porn....The editor’s goal is for people to say, ‘Isn’t that terrible, let’s watch it again.’”

'Me So Horny' Rapper-Turned-Reporter Claims Huckabee 'Wants to Bring Back Slavery'
September 20, 2015, 7:39 AM EDT

As presidential debates approach, tempers begin to flair and hyperbole tends to creep into coverage. However, with a headline like “Mike Huckabee Wants to Bring Back Slavery,” Luther Campbell of the Miami New Times crossed the line. Luther Campbell, the rapper who caused a social-conservative backlash back in 1989 with the song Me So Horny? Same guy.

HuffPo Editor: Ky. Court Clerk Kim Davis Isn't Rosa Parks, She's the Bus Driver
September 14, 2015, 3:09 PM EDT

Kim Davis’s willingness to be jailed for acting on her convictions has now provoked Gabriel Arana, the senior media editor of the Huffington Post to anger. The headline of his piece left nothing to the imagination: “Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks. She's The Bus Driver.”

Washington Post Compares County Clerk Kim Davis to George Wallace
September 4, 2015, 3:16 PM EDT

Before Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for sticking to her religious beliefs, Janell Ross of the Washington Post was quick to take sides against her. On September 2 the Post headlined the story as follows: “We Have Reached the George Wallace Stage of the Same-Sex Marriage Fight.”

Ross begins this accusation with the same amount of objectivity as her headline.

How the Washington Post Flirts with Birtherism...Against Ted Cruz
September 2, 2015, 8:52 PM EDT

With the battle over the Iran deal heating up, Hillary Clinton’s e-mail troubles growing more severe, and more footage of Planned Parenthood’s callous harvesting of the organs of dead children coming to light, you would think the liberal print media would have their hands full. Rather than dwell on these stories, however, James Hohmann of the Washington Post decided that a much more important question demands our attention: is Ted Cruz eligible to run president?

Orwellian Reporter: 'Planned Parenthood Means Fewer Abortions'
August 24, 2015, 7:16 AM EDT

With Planned Parenthood’s back against the wall following the advent of more videos exposing the selling of baby parts, their apologists are growing desperate in their attempts to prevent its defunding. Case in point is Michael Specter, a staff writer at The New Yorker and former New York Times and Washington Post reporter, who spreads the usual counterintuitive spin that defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase abortions.

A few years ago, Specter wrote a book called Denialism about the dangers of science denial. But he’s in a case of Planned Parenthood denial.

HuffPost: Planned Parenthood Videos Turn Abortion Debate Into a 'Ghoulish Spectacle'
August 18, 2015, 9:51 PM EDT

Meg Mott of the Huffington Post decided to lament the fact that these videos have transformed the discourse of abortion from a debate about women’s rights into a “ghoulish spectacle.” Then she bizarrely blames capitalist "neoliberalism" for abortions.

"What's striking about the most recent video is that the 'sting' involves making Planned Parenthood fit the bill of a ghoulish profit-driven corporation, as if no other U.S. corporation trades in human misery."

Rolling Stone: Trump 'Isn't Even the Worst Misogynist' in GOP Field
August 17, 2015, 10:27 PM EDT

Donald Trump’s comments to women in general and Megyn Kelly in particular have provoked the ire of both liberals and conservative alike. However, Daily Beast, USA Today, and Rolling Stone contributor Amanda Marcotte was quick to remind everyone that despite his unprecedented comments, Trump is, in terms of policy, actually among the least “anti-woman” Republican candidates. After all, he has the most liberal position on abortion.

The headline was “Donald Trump Isn't Even the Worst Misogynist in the 2016 Race: The bar is unbelievably low.” This is not to say that Marcotte is ignorant of Trump’s stated abortion positions:

Salon Assesses 'What Karl Marx Got Right' About the 'Illusion' of U.S. Democracy
July 15, 2015, 6:42 AM EDT

The left seems to be on the rise. The nation has its first openly socialist presidential candidate in years, the Supreme Court overthrew traditional marriage, and President Obama is in some kind of vaunted and  untouchable lame duck stage. Naturally, the leftists at Salon respond by invoking Karl Marx to say these gains are not good enough.

Salon's Conor Lynch asks just how much has changed since Karl Marx pegged democracy as a system in which the “oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” It’s suggested there’s very little difference between Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. It’s an “illusion of choice.”

Detroit News Blogger at Huffington Post: 'Fox News Doesn't Understand Religious Freedom'
July 11, 2015, 5:32 PM EDT

Dale Hansen, the Detroit News political blogger who claimed that Christians brought the “War on Christianity” on themselves, is back with more vitriol at “Christian pervasion” in American society.

His new article for the Huffington Post is titled "Fox News Doesn't Understand Religious Freedom." Hansen railed against Fox News and charged the “conservative fear machine has been cranked up to DEFCON 5,” following the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision.

Salon: Evangelical Promotion of Virginity Has 'Nothing to Do With Sex,' Just Political Power
July 11, 2015, 6:31 AM EDT

Salon.com enlightens America that when evangelicals scare teenagers into keeping their virginity, it has nothing to do with sex. It's about allowing the Christian right to maintain their grip on political power. They have a knack of tying every conservative or Christian movement back to white men and anti-communism -- even though sexual purity of the young is a cause that transcends racial and political lines.

WashPost: Southern Whites are ‘Monsters’ and ‘We Are All Dylann Roof’
June 23, 2015, 9:36 PM EDT

Following tragedies such as this mass murder in South Carolina, most people resort to prayer for the families of the victims. At The Washington Post, Baltimore City Paper writer Baynard Woods was preoccupied with transforming the murderous rampage of a single person into a discourse on the collective guilt of white racism in the most over-the-top manner as possible.    

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