It started when U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said on a cable news program  “This is Christmas time. We talk about good Samaritans, the poor, the little baby Jesus in the cradle and all this stuff. And then we say to the unemployed we won’t give you a check to feed your family. That’s simply…

Some media items of note. Sailing along. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walden Media’s third release based on C.S. Lewis‘ Christian-themed fantasy saga The Chronicles of Narnia, fell to third place in the domestic box office results this weekend, after opening in the top spot last week. The film brought in $12,400,000 bringing its…

The Parents Television Council is out with a report detailing what it says is a pattern of prime-time network TV shows fairly routinely airing content that sexualizes young girls, specifically between the ages of 12 and 17. According to PTC President Tim Winter, the report, entitled Tinseltown’s New Target: A Study of Teen Female Sexualization…

I’m not exactly losing sleep over this stuff but here are a few news items currently residing in my “Annoying” file. Kathy Griffin returns to co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live.  Annoying because the woman often seems to go out of her way to gratuitously offend Christians. I doubt she’d be back if she engaged…

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