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Steven Waldman

“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,…

On The View, when asked whether he would overturn Roe v. Wade, he first talked about having strict constructionalist judges. Then he said he would not impose a litmus test on the judicial appointments — i.e. not a pro-choice litmus test or a pro-life one. Eventually he said he thought Roe v. Wade was a…

I must disagree with my friends Andrew Sullivan and David Kuo, who criticized Palin’s answer to Charles Gibson’s question about “God’s plan” for the Iraq war. The Republicans are guilty of one case after another of egregiously ripping Obama words out of context. This time it’s Palin’s words that have been taken out of context.…

“Through [service] I could become a hero, not just a hoodlum.” –Antonia Ramirez, a member of Youthbuild AmeriCorps in Rockford, Illinois. After seeing his best friend murdered, he joined the service program. He’s using his AmeriCorp education award to graduate from community college, where he’s the commencement speaker. Service works..

One of the lowest moments during this campaign was when Barack Obama saluted John McCain’s military service and then the McCain campaign insulted Obama’s community service. Not only did Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin mock Obama’s work as a community organizer, but the conservative blogosphere is now going after Public Allies, an excellent civilian service…

I’m at the ServiceNation summit this morning. Just heard a kid who had been shot in both legs in a street fight in Philadelphia describe how he decided to then join City Year so he would “not let these bullet wounds define me.” He then tutored a 9th grader who would defiantly sleep in class,…

Grrrr. In his quesitons about God and war, ABC News’s Charles Gibson took Sarah Palin’s quote out of context and then claimed it was an exact quote.Here’s how he phrased it: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we…

Wow. Sarah Palin didn’t know what the Bush doctrine was. It’s the policy that America should be able to attack countries pre-emptively to protect ourselves. The ABCNews.com website, inexplicably, didn’t lead with that point, which struck me as the obvious headline from the first interview. Most of her other answers were passable but that’s a…
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