Several conservatives have been willing to criticize McCain for his dishonest campaign ads. Rod Dreher said the McCain lipstick ad was “totally unfair, and a distortion.” Senator Orrin Hatch agreed that Obama wasn’t calling Palin a pig: “I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.” Fox News challenged McCain’s tax claims, and Steve Chapman, a…

“Those who follow him [Jesus Christ] live in the Spirit of truth and guard against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy.” –Catechism of the Catholic Church, section on the Commandment against bearing false witness Given the dishonesty pervading the campaign, I thought it might be useful to review why lying was included in the top ten commandments.…

GetReligion.org offered me kind words for pointing out that when Palin’s religion came up in the ABC interview, Charlie Gibson was wrong and Sarah Palin was right.Good press watchdog that he is, Terry Mattingly has challenged ABC and AP to issue a correction. I agree. Terry, the driving force behind GetReligion, also challenged me to…

The NJDC, a Jewish Democrats group has put out a fact sheet for Jews about Sarah Palin. It has several accurate charges, such as her dissembling on the Bridge to Nowhere, but they seem to distort what she’s said about teaching creationism in the schools. “CREATIONISM BEING TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Teach both. You know,…

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