To use liberal logic, the reason abstinence education doesn't work isn't because it's wrong, or the wrong thing to teach, but because we don't fund it fully.

I hereby demand that the state and federal gubments fund abstinence education at a minimum rate of $1000 per student, approximately on par with the funding rate of other mainstays in the school system such as revisionist history, new math, socio-pathic-ology and especially arts and sports.  

Campbell Brown is a real and I mean a real scum sucker.Her show just exploited the hell out of this story for about 45 min. in an hour long show.Just a few months ago she was saying that family matters should not be in politics.I must say this is getting to me more than anything I have ever seen.In a small block in the bottom of the screen reads "No bias,No bull".My head is really about to blow.Im ready for a real big time revolution.Now the Larry King hack is exploiding this.

Did / does anyone seriously believe they would leave the younger Palin out of this, and respect her privacy?

Getting thier agendas pushed forward, by any means, is all they care about, always.

White                  -  does not mean racist

Heterosexual     - does not mean homophobic 

Male                    - does not mean sexist 

I watch KO because its funny. He gets so mad and so serious. He is like a cartoon.  Wolf Blitzer I watch because he gets me mad.  He tries to pretend that he is non partisan. He always gives the conservative a harder time with follow up questions in interviews.  Then he hands it off to Jack "DUI hit and run then flee the scene" Cafferty.  I really like watching Blitzer squirm.

Its nice to see CNN called out for their crap.

scum scum scum -

Did Colmes do any grovelling and backpedaling tonight?

I'm not near a TV.

Rocky & Bullwinkle '08

"The Alliance for Reproductive Justice ... says abstinence doesn't work." -- Kyra Phillips

"Abstinence works every time it is used." -- Rush Limbaugh

As usual, Rush is right.  Bristol Palin is not pregnant because she was taught abstinence; she is pregnant because she didn't use abstinence.  Presumably she was taught contraception in school; she didn't use that either. Of course, if she opted for the one form of "birth control" still available to her - in other words, if she terminated the baby's life - then, despite abortion being one of liberalism's sacrements, they would offer that up to the public as "hypocrisy" on the part of Sarah Palin as well.

So Bristol made a mistake.  She should be commended for not compounding it by making another mistake...

I mean, she had sex with her boyfriend.  It's not like she hung around with known terrorists, falsely accused comrades-in-arms of war crimes, or left someone to die in an overturned Oldsmobile...

(It's also not like she's the one running for elected office, but I digress...)

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Conservation doesn't get us more energy. It's as if we were running out of food and the Democrats were telling us: "Just eat a little less every day!"
--Anne Coulter

I remember Wolf the slug going after Cheney using Cheney's lesbian daughter.

Wolf is a vile disgusting human being. Click on the link to watch it, Cheney's reaction is swift and he was having none of the impartial journalist's garbage.

http://www.youtube.c...

Blitzer really is a filthy slimebag.

way to go, Bill.

Now, the NEXT time you are on CNN and they pull this stuff, remind them of their new tagline....no bias, no bull.  Ask Wolf if he really believes that kind of report is not biased.

Conservatives need to stop being pushed around.  Challenge them on the issues...you will win - fair and square. 

CNN can go to Alaska and do all kinds of research but they have no credibility or honesty on reporting Political information.....you just can't trust them.

They look for their Obama facts..... facts to help Obama, or facts to defend Obama.   It's a one horse show, and Americans know who  owns the Horse in the Race, and who CNN is betting on. 

The Republican Revolution will not be Televised

 LOL!

Anyone see Rove school Colmes earlier on Fox?

He basically stuck his finger in his face and told Alan to stfu "because you say nasty things off the record and please dont' make me embarrass you on the air."

I thought this was a direct reference of Alans sliming of Palin on his blog.

Needless to say Alan totally stfu for the rest of the segment with hardly a peep out of him.

Oh please someone find a video it was delicious.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

I think it may be curtains for AC.  He must have been hitting the sauce on Bourbon St bc he countered the woman in this story (yes, they had her back again) saying something along the lines of:

you know, no one ever asks if Barack Obama is going to be able to raise his kids while in office.  Why do we only ask a woman? 

I couldnt believe my ears. 

AC, with that kind of questioning, dont expect a bonus this year.

Abstinence does work each time it is employed but the idea of safe sex is a misnomer.  I've heard that condoms are only effective 80% of the time but that is misleading since a woman can get pregnant only a few days a month.  That has to drop the rate considerably, resulting in not so safe sex.  But we can't tell people that can we?  There is another lie that has to be pushed on people, regardless of the harm it does emotionally or physically.  I've also heard not all viruses are stopped by condoms, creating even less safety. 

Way to go, Dr. Bennett! Another outrageous attack by the MSM. These attacks must not stand. I vow that every time I hear one of these reprehensible attacks, I will give another dollar to the McCain campaign (and I'm guessing that I will have to soon file for bankruptcy--but that's okay). We must stand up and say, "no more"!

What is so amazing about these left-wing nutbags here...

They comment about Palin getting her own house in order before seeking a VP nomination. I have a few questions for you libs...

How did you respond to the numerous charges of Bill Clinton's sexual harassment that eventually led to his conviction of perjury and ultimately his impeachment? The reason I ask this, is I would be willing to bet that a vast majority of you guys, would not flip that to Hillary Clinton, being required to keep her house in order, or perform her "womanly" duties, to keep Bill under control, and in her bed only.

The bottom line is -- this is Palin's daughter, not Palin herself. Do children make mistakes? Yes. Does the child's mistakes reflect on parenting? In many cases, yes. Ultimately, however, the choices that children make, are made by the children, with no regards to what the parents' say. The same thing holds true here.

Yes, I can say this with great certainty. My wife and I have been married for 9 years, and we have two children. Our daughter was born before my wife and I were married, and she (my wife) got pregnant when she was 17. Simply being 17, and pregnant, does not mean that marrying the father, is forced. My wife was not forced to marry me. We did so because it was the right thing to do, and because we were in love, and felt that we could handle marriage together.

In other words, cut out the BS -- you Libtards out there, are all for privacy of children to get abortions on demand, without the permission of their parents. However, the moment that a Republican vice-presidential candidate has an underage daughter that is pregnant, her privacy goes right out the window. Amazingly, the hypocrisy of the left, holds no bounds...

Privacy in the terms of abortions only... having the baby -- privacy goes away... Amazing.

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If homosexuality is genetic, then it must be a birth defect. If it is a birth defect, then stem cell research might provide a cure.

The MSM must feel very threatened by Sarah Palin to carry out these endless attacks on her.  It hasn't even been one week since her name was announced.  Good for Bill Bennett for calling out Kyra Phillips and CNN.  And shame on Wolf Blitzer for trying to weasel out of it by changing the subject.

Someone in the MSM should explain how Bristol's choice to have sex somehow negates the truth of Sarah Palin's position on abstinence education.  They can't do it, at least not honestly.  But they think if they repeated incessantly at the top of their lungs, that makes it true.

How would this episode have gone down if Barack Obama's daughters were a little older and one of them got pregnant?  Would there have been a similar firestorm?  Of course not.  There'd probably be a huge mob of media leeches waiting outside abortion clinics for ol' Barry to bring his daughter in.  And the left would hail him for doing it.

If McCain/Palin is elected, we can look forward to 8 more years of this lunacy.

Kyra Phillips is famous for having her mic on and being catty while taking a bathroom break.  The bathroom seems like the most appropriate place for her office.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Abstinence doesn't work? Because one kid got pregnant. This, in a culture that wallows in sex every day? I have to say something obvious. I have nothing against sex education in itself, but it's not a magic solution.

• I don't care what anyone says, the kids themselves are the crucial part of the process. It ain't the teaching. Kids have to learn. They have to take responsibility also.
• When kids make this kind of a decision, they should know better, and they should be treated like they should have known better.

If our kids are making sex decisions that no one holds them accountable for, it ain't the kids who need the damned education. Along with knowing how the body works, and the psychology of sex, we need to teach how responsibility works. Quit treating sexually active people as children.

Yeah, I know ... the Vince Lombardi approach. Well let me tell you - Lombardi won games.

Are, for people like me, both 2 sides of the same "public schools as propaganda outlets" coin. Think about it...Both want to use the other side's tax money in an effort to indoctrinate the other side's kids. I know it's an almost irresistable temptation for both sides, but they're both wrong. The morally correct policy remains: NO "PUBLIC" (SOCIALIST) SCHOOLS. Other "solutions" are just tax funded propaganda, no matter which side momentarily "wins." Until we FINALLY let markets decide these issues again instead of politics, our country won't ever return to what impressed Alexis de Tocqueville about her citizens so long ago.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

I love Bill Bennett.  He is a former victim of the left wing media attack machine and knows exactly what is meant when the left pathologizes what it intends to destroy.  So does Clarence Thomas.  I'm afraid Sarah is next, but I think she can stand up to it.  I'm re-posting a comment I made under the Zucker video post by Noel and Matt, because their angle of sex education is relevant to what is discussed in that post:

Always the director.

September 2, 2008 - 02:31 ET by nofate

No more than 3 minutes into the interview, Zucker says "If you move closer to him, then I can look at you and the camera" (paraphrasing from memory).  Free advice from a pro, Noel & Matt :-)  Great interview.

More on a similar subject in an interview that Neil Cavuto did with Jon Voight this afternoon on FNC.  I searched around but couldn't find the video of it.  Cavuto got Voight fired up about describing the process of what is essentially the "long march through the institutions" without actually using that terminology.  He evidently uses that theme fairly frequently, i.e. in this Washington Times op ed, that I found in a blistering attack on Voight's views in Crooks and Liars, while searching for video of the elusive Cavuto/Voight interview.  The "long march" idea, as far as I can tell was first concieved by Antonio Gramsci.  I first ran across it at FrontPageMag in an online book they have up in Adobe Reader format, Radical Road Maps:  Uncovering the Web of Connections Among Far Left Groups in America, by James H. Hansen.  From page 54:

 THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS
This term refers to the long-term plan of Communists, radicals, and their supporters to work their way into vital establishments that shape opinions. Once again we turn to the work of another foreign Communist,
an Italian Marxist named Antonio Gramsci, who was active during the 1930s. He pondered the historic inability of Communist parties to mobilize workers to seize the means of production and overthrow the
capitalist ruling class, which Lenin had envisioned. Gramsci’s new idea was to focus the attention of radicals on the means of intellectual production
as a new lever of social change. He urged radicals to acquire “cultural hegemony,” meaning to capture the institutions that produced society’s governing ideas. This, he believed, would be the key to controlling
and transforming society itself.  In this respect, the radicals have succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest
dreams, for the administrations of American universities have fallen into the hands of individuals who generally profess liberal and radical ideas. Liberals and radicals have captured academia to a far greater extent than any of the other institutions. This control exceeds even that of their influence over the print and broadcast media.
Some former members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO, or Weathermen) now occupy positions of authority on major campuses. Former domestic terrorists such as Bernardine Dohrn (Northwestern University) or Bill Ayers (University of Illinois at Chicago) come to mind. Besides them, there are thousands of other former activists, radicals,
and far leftists who have risen to prominent positions within academia.  The stakes are higher and the atmosphere is more politicized at the most prestigious universities.

 

How prescient, considering that Mr. Hansen's book has a copyright date of 2006.  And now the CAC won't let anyone look?  Hmmm. 

An absolutely chilling, yet enlightening article that explains the process of the long march and more, that has been occuring since the 1930's, can be found at American Thinker:  Cultural Marxism.  (note:  emphases mine)

 By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world's proletariat had not heeded Marx's call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead.  They wondered what had gone wrong.
Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order.  The West would have to be conquered first.
Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class.  The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a "long march through the culture."  Additionally, a new proletariat must be created.  In his "Prison Notebooks," he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.
The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history.  All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.
...Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools.  Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority...
...The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms. It would provide the ideas on which to base a new political theory of revoltuion based on culture, harnessing new oppressed groups for the faithless proletariat. Smashing religion, morals, It would also build a constituency among academics, who could build careers studying and writing about the new oppression.  Toward this end, Marcuse-who favored polymorphous perversion-expanded the ranks of Gramsci's new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals.  Into this was spliced Lukacs radical sex education and cultural terrorism tactics.  Gramsci's ‘long march' was added to the mix, and then all of this was wedded to Freudian psychoanalysis and psychological conditioning techniques. The end product was Cultural Marxism, now known in the West as multiculturalism.
...Additional intellectual firepower was required: a theory to pathologize what was to be destroyed. In 1950, the Frankfurt School augmented Cultural Marxism with Theodor Adorno's idea of the ‘authoritarian personality.'  This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism.  Thus, anyone who upholds America's traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist.  Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists.  By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America's traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.  The pernicious influence of Adorno's ‘authoritarian personality' idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.

"In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study.  It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed.  Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives... suffer from ‘mental rigidity,' dogmatism,' and ‘uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness." http://www.edwatch.org/  ‘Social and Emotional Learning" Jan. 26, 2005)

 

Our tax dollars at work.  Note the prhase used above: ...Additional intellectual firepower was required: a theory to pathologize what was to be destroyed. Also note the timeing: 1950. I.E. conservatives are Nazis, fascists, racists, homophobes, misogynists; literally everything they are not. This "pathologizing the right" is explained well in Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism". The astute reader will also note that the tactics used so emotionally at Crooks and Liars, appear similar to those oulined in the writings of the anointed described in the Cultural Marxism article.  

Also, remember the plan by the APA to help indoctrinate our children into the church of Anthropogenic Global Warming?  It was covered by Noel here:  Advancing Hysteria by Editing Skeptical Views of Global Warming.  Check out the "Social and Emotional Learning" article linked above.  That bit about social conservatives being crazy is only the tip of the iceberg.  "Social and Emotional Learning" appears to be a whole governmental/psycological association program to get hold of young minds early, as in The Barack of Obama's nursery school program needing gazillions of federal dollars.  More excerpts that preceeded the above description of insane social conservatives (note: the National Association of School Psychologists is heavily involved, surprise!):

The commission advocates examining parents and homes for anything that might point to a “physical or mental condition [with] a high probability of resulting in a [child’s] developmental delay” ­ something way beyond the present capabilities of the mental health profession ­ beginning with a mandatory Nurse-Family Partnership component.

Why the extraordinary emphasis on parents? The Commission and, indeed, most of the mental health community believe that mental “disorders” of parents occurring before children reach the age of six “can interfere with critical emotional, cognitive, and physical development, and portend a lifetime of problems in school, at home, and in the community.” Therefore, “treating the parents’ mental health problems also benefits the child.”

“Treating parents” means psychotherapy and drugs, and the initiative calls for a mandate to provide “social and emotional check-ups” in all primary healthcare facilities. This means parents are supposed to be surreptitiously assessed for mental “illness” every time they walk into their physician’s office...

 

They are making McLame look better every day.  At least with Sarah on the ticket, we now have something to vote for.

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

michaelyon-online.com

Alaska Sex education policy:

• -Requires contraceptive education statewide

• -Requires abstinence education statewide

• -Requires contraceptive education in school districts with sex education

• -Requires abstinence education in school districts with sex education

• -Rejects federal abstinence-only education funds

Restrictions on family planning funds:

• -No restrictions

• -Separation of abortion and state-funded family planning services required

• -Parental consent required for state-funded contraceptive services to minors

Can you imagine if they would have or will expend as much energy vetting Obama and his questionable dealings. Yeah fat chance!

Wasn't Obama's mama in her teens when she became pregnant with Lord Obama?  Perhaps she should have terminated that pregnancy....after all to quote Lord Obama, "I don't want them punished with a baby!"  The libs stub their toes again.