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Culture Wars

YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, iPods, Enough!

Judy Muller | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Ipod, John McCain, Culture Wars, Twitter, Economy, Media, Facebook, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Sarah Palin, Financial Crisis, Youtube, News Cycle, Election 2008, Home News
Judy Muller

Ah, for the good old days, before we were immersed in the free-floating anxiety of the nanosecond news cycle that follow us everywhere, telling us that the sky is falling.

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Why Clay Aiken's Coming Out Matters

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Melissa Etheridge, Religion, Lance Bass, Gay, George Michael, John McCain, David Crosby, Culture, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen Degeneres, Politics, Clay Aiken, Sarah Palin, Culture Wars, Christian Right, American Idol, Entertainment News
Andrew Belonsky

Aiken's outing is different in two notable, intrinsically entwined ways.

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Abstinence-Only Multimillionaire Funds 527 Attack on Abortion Issue

Scott Swenson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Raymond Ruddy, Culture Wars, John McCain, Abstinence Only, Sarah Palin, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Contraception, Born Alive, Barack Obama, Abstinence Education, Politics News
Scott Swenson

Social conservatives -- emboldened by the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket -- are promoting Culture War issues to shift the focus away from the economy, housing, energy, the environment and national security.

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How to Win a Culture War

Susan Neiman | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Shameless Moral Values, Religion, Culture Wars, Cynicism, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Barack Obama, Religious Values, Sarah Palin, Moral Clarity, Moral Values Democrats, John McCain, Religion in the Election, Politics News
Susan Neiman

The culture wars are not distractions from real political business: John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin may be cynical, but conservative enthusiasm for her is not.

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McCain/Palin Flash Rove's Racial Gang Signs

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Karl Rove, John McCain, Culture Wars, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

McCain is painting a vulgarized vision of the Reagan's America -- an iconographic vision of a long-dead past packaged as change for tomorrow. And he's hoping that working-class whites will fall for it.

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God and Taxes: Culture Wars as Class Conflict

Joan Williams | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Republican Convention, John McCain, Culture Wars, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Working Class, Middle Class, Politics News
Joan Williams

Once you understand that class is cultural, you can see why the culture wars are a perfect medium for class conflict in a society where open acknowledgment of class is taboo.

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Sarah Palin: It's The Abortion Debate Stupid

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Culture Wars, Obama, Roe v Wade, Dr. Dobson, Sarah Palin, Democrartic Party, Sarah Palin Speech, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin Convention Speech, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Do Democrats really perpetually want to lose elections to keep a small minority of Americans--the pro-choice fundamentalists--happy by keeping abortion legal up to the moment of birth?

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The Culture War Option For The Palin Convention

Jay Rosen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Blogosphere, Liberal Media, John McCain, Culture Wars, Press, Daily Kos, Sarah Palin, Home News
Jay Rosen

McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists and bloggers and on confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party.

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Bring the Corpses Down from our Lamp Posts!

Richard Arthur | Posted 09.13.2008 | Style

Read More: Decency, Culture Wars, Ric Arthur, Gunther Von Hagens' Body Worlds, Advertising, Corpse, Cult, Richard Arthur, Modern Culture, Los Angeles, Death, Style News
Richard Arthur

Today, if you drive down any random street in L.A., you are treated to gory photos of corpses ten feet tall hanging from every street lamp.

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Obama On Pop Culture: I Don't Want Filth On The Air

CBN | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama on Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Don Imus, Barack Obama 2008, Barack Obama, Culture Wars, Lyrics, Sexism, Violence on Tv, Sex on Tv, Politics News

David Brody recently sat down with Sen. Barack Obama in a one-on-one interview. Brody asked Obama what should be done about the negative tone in today...

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