http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/medved/ en-us Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:56:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458158/posts Leftwing activists love to make the case for gay rights by associating the struggles of today’s homosexuals with the long, heroic battle for racial justice in the Civil Rights movement. Most of these same politically correct advocates also look with favor on demands for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, so their insistence on the black-gay comparison raises an uncomfortable question: why don’t they push for similar reparations for homosexuals? An answer to that riddle not only exposes the ridiculous nature of equating African Americans with homosexuals as similarly suffering victim groups, but also reveals the dubious nature of any... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458158/posts#comment Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443327/posts Why do huge Wall Street bonuses provoke so much more public indignation than similarly gigantic lottery jackpots? At least financial tycoons can try to argue that their payoffs stem from their own wise decisions or productive hard work. But Powerball winners get rewarded for patently stupid behavior: wasting a few dollars (usually on a regular basis) on addictive games of chance with only the remotest possibility of success. Moreover, when some lucky bozo collects on a swollen jackpot that’s accumulated in a state-sponsored lottery, it means that this particular treasure won’t be available to anyone else; when somebody wins, the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443327/posts#comment Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:45:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430350/posts Medved's Top 10 movies of 2009 1. The Last Station 2- (500) Days of Summer 3- Up in the Air 4- The Hurt Locker 5- Up 6- The Blind Side 7- Julie & Julia 8- An Education 9- The Stoning of Soraya M. 10- Bright Star Medved Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430350/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414606/posts During the festive holiday season, it’s become common to criticize the commercialization of Christmas. Cynics suggest that there’s something unseemly and shallow about so many Americans running around frantically and spending huge sums to purchase gifts that the recipients may not even welcome. From a deeper perspective, however, the surge of commercial activity in the Christmas season strengthens the connections of inter-dependence and mutual reward that make community possible. The seasonal spending not only connects those who give and receive gifts to one another, but ties together buyers and sellers in webs of service, prosperity and gain. If retailers enjoy... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414606/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:08:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts The current treatment of young-age creationists in the scientific community and society at large is unfair and unwise. Scientists and philosophers of science, including old-age creationists and naturalists, should respect youngage creationists as legitimate contributors to science. Young-age creationists offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses and general epistemic improvement... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394215/posts As American families sit down to their traditional Thanksgiving feasts they will naturally recall the familiar story of the Pilgrims taught to every school kid and, in the process, distort the true character of the nation’s religious heritage. Most children learn that the Mayflower settlers came to the New World to escape persecution and to establish religious freedom. But the early colonists actually pursued purity, not tolerance and sought to build fervent, faith-based utopias, not secular regimes that consigned religion to a secondary role. The distinctive circumstances that allowed these fiery believers of varied denominations to cooperate in the founding... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394215/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:39:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387478/posts Following the Evidence vs. Framing Science: Stephen Meyer and Chris Mooney, Monday on Medved Monday, Nov. 16th, Stephen Meyer and Chris Mooney will be on The Michael Medved Show (second hour, 1pm PT/4pm ET). Mooney is a diehard Darwin defender that various Fellows here at the CSC have debated in the past, and he's someone we've reported about over the years. His view of science is elitist and arrogant, and he has recommended such things as suppressing dissenting views from the media, to spinning science in such a way as to manipulate public opinion. He considers anyone who disagrees with... Evolution News & Views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387478/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383722/posts Mistakes, distortions and outright lies appeared so frequently in media coverage of the elections of 2009 that they made accurate analysis all but impossible. The most serious of these errors built upon gross misrepresentations of the presidential election of 2008 falsehoods repeated endlessly and shamelessly enough to become enshrined in the conventional wisdom. Before this years whoppers achieve similar acceptance, its worth re-examining some of the most familiar confusions regarding the last two election cycles. LIE NUMBER ONE: By winning New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Democrats captured a seat Republicans had held without interruption since the 1850s. Nancy Pelosi herself... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383722/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:49:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362079/posts New polling brings good news and bad news for beleaguered Republicans yearning for a comeback in the Age of Obama. The encouraging message suggests that Americans strongly prefer conservative policies and values to the liberal approaches preached by the president. On the other hand, the same polls indicate that the two revival strategies most commonly discussed by the GOP will both lead to political dead ends. Neither a shift to more moderate positions nor an emphasis on rousing, uncompromising, us-vs.-them right wing rhetoric will bring Republicans back to power in Washington D.C. The only workable strategy for long-term GOP gains... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362079/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:20:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356565/posts For those Americans who want to fight back against the menacing expansion of government and the insanely irresponsible spending of the Obama administration, there is only one way to succeed: electing more Republicans to high office. If the public fails to elect GOP candidates for the Senate, the House, governorships, state legislatures and, ultimately, the presidency there is simply no way to derail the leftist agenda that menaces liberty and prosperity. Many sincere patriots will object to this formulation, insisting that we must elect more conservatives, not just more Republicans. The question then becomes, if the needed conservative candidates arent... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356565/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:57:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330173/posts My wife Diane seldom gets upset about politics. But President Barack Obama’s recent demonstration of megalomania in insisting on beginning the school year by simultaneously addressing all public school kids in the United States elicited a concise response: “it’s sick.” In addition to her Ph.D. in psychology, Diane holds an M.A. in Education, and both primary and secondary teaching credentials in California. She has raised and educated our three kids, each of whom received some combination of home schooling, parochial education, and public schools. What bothers her (and many courageous teachers across the country) is the crude attempt by the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330173/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319391/posts “MOST VALUABLE BOSSES” At a time of economic pain and insecurity, populist outrage inevitably focuses on corporate leaders who pocket huge paychecks despite the wretched performance of their companies. For instance, since Kenneth D. Lewis took over as top executive of Bank of America in April, 2001, the firm’s annual return of -8% (as reported by Forbes Magazine) significantly trailed the record of the S & P 500, but Mr. Lewis has received compensation that averages more than $30 million annually. Fortunately, many other bosses offer a wholesome contrast to the well-publicized instances of lavish pay for poor performance. Since... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319391/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:14:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301384/posts The other day I was listening to Michael Medved going on one of his rants against the "birthers", those individuals who question Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president of the United States because of the lack of evidence that he is a natural born American citizen. Medved referred to them as 'pathetic losers', lumping them in with conspiracy theorists who believe 911 was an inside job. He also took a swipe at Joseph Farah and his outstanding news website World Net Daily, for devoting a lot of coverage to the story. What Medved fails to realize is that to... America Talks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301384/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:04:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298551/posts Listen at link. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298551/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:13:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280582/posts Oscar Levant, a famous pianist and media star of the 1930s and ’40s, battled for decades against mental illness, surviving several painful hospitalizations. He once declared: “There is a fine line between insanity and genius. I have erased that line.” The late Michael Jackson erased the same line—and blurred many other distinctions in the course of his extraordinary career. In an unprecedented way, he obliterated the dividing line between black and white in terms of personal identity and mass appeal. He developed a vast crossover audience of white fans (and international fans in every continent), at the same time that... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280582/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:28:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278158/posts DISMISSING AND DISTRUSTING THE PROFIT MOTIVE In most quarters of our society there’s no shame in possessing money (or the flashy signifiers of wealth and comfort) but there is an odd unease over admitting the means by which those resources were acquired. We all benefit from the unparalleled and prodigious productivity of the capitalist system but feel uncomfortable in embracing the pursuit of profit at its very core. Recent surveys, for instance, display startling levels of contempt for leaders of business, reflecting the assumption that entrepreneurs and executives count as sleazy, greedy, selfish and unreliable. In February, 2009, a Harris... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278158/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:25:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263579/posts Judges should never show special "empathy" for the downtrodden and unfortunate. To do so not only undermines the integrity of the legal system, but goes against Biblical morality. How do we know? Because the Hebrew Scriptures are explicit and unequivocal on this issue, as I explained in a column a month ago. The controversy over the Sotomayor nomination gives that column fresh (and, if I do say so, prophetic) relevance. In fact, I suspect that in her confirmation hearings Judge Sotomayor will display the good sense to back away from some of the most controversial recent statements that she has... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263579/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263582/posts Judges should never show special "empathy" for the downtrodden and unfortunate. To do so not only undermines the integrity of the legal system, but goes against Biblical morality. How do we know? Because the Hebrew Scriptures are explicit and unequivocal on this issue, as I explained in a column a month ago. The controversy over the Sotomayor nomination gives that column fresh (and, if I do say so, prophetic) relevance. In fact, I suspect that in her confirmation hearings Judge Sotomayor will display the good sense to back away from some of the most controversial recent statements that she has... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263582/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:21:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257505/posts Widow of Douglas Zembiec 3 years ago, I made a Veterans Day post transcribing a letter Michael Medved read on his radio program, The Three Big Lies About Vietnam. Here is that segment of the show; it requires 3-and-a-half minutes of your time, and I'll be very much surprised if they are 3 minutes you'll want back, after listening. (Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257505/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 23:12:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235677/posts My Fellow Texans, I will be moderating a very special event, Monday, April 27th, as Dallas/Ft. Worth based News Talk 660 KSKY Radio welcomes nationally syndicated talk hosts Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt for their kickoff of the "Obama First 100 Days" National Tour at the Special Events Center in Garland, Texas. America has seen significant change since January 20th and Texans, like you and I, have a lot to say about the direction we’re currently headed. I am honored to have been invited to moderate this significant event, one that gives everyone an opportunity to voice their... Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235677/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:53:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219698/posts The ferocious fight over the Obama budget exposes some of the deepest differences between liberals and conservatives, contrasting not only their goals for the country but their desires for themselves. All human beings feel a drive for power, but leftists and right-wingers express that urge with opposing (and often irreconcilable) strategies. They employ very different means in pursuit of power in part because they seek distinctive ends: at the most basic level, liberals want enhanced control through political authority while conservatives crave greater sway through accumulation of personal wealth. Understanding the true nature of this distinction clarifies the most polarizing... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219698/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:24:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2205353/posts As many listeners know by now, Michael Medved's dad, David Medved, passed away last night after a battle with Lymphoma. Luckily, Michael and his brothers were able to be with him in the hospital last week and share some very good time together as a family. While they knew their dad was dying, his passing did happen sooner than expected. I spoke with Michael about his dad on Michael's show today (I filled in). Michael had a stop-over in New York on his way to attend the funeral, and wanted to use the time to express his love for his... mynorthwest.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2205353/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198828/posts Conventional wisdom suggests that public opinion has moved decisively- perhaps irrevocably - to the left, but recent polls actually express confusion and contradictions in the national mood. Far from the “sea change,” “tectonic shift” and “political revolution” that heavy-breathing pundits impute to the glorious dawn of the Age of Obama, major surveys show a glaring contrast between personal admiration for the President and widespread skepticism about the effectiveness of his policies. For instance, a CNN/Opinion Research survey showed that a huge majority of Americans (67%) don’t expect the increased spending in the stimulus package and the budget to improve their... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198828/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:54:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178215/posts If you’ve got only eight minutes to confront a world leader whose impact and outlook you’ve despised and denounced for decades, then what’s the best way to take advantage of the interchange? That was the dilemma facing me last Friday when former President Jimmy Carter agreed to a brief interview on my nationally syndicated radio program. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178215/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175339/posts It’s happened again. My most quoted article, “What’s Up With White Women?” has been cited in another new book: Michael Medved’s The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Crown, 2008). I was tipped off by a friend who was reading the book. Here is what Medved wrote: An American Indian academic and musician named David A. Yeagley (an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation) tells a sobering story about one of his students at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. A “tall and pretty” girl with amber hair and brown eyes, she spoke out in a class... badeagle.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175339/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:04:16 GMT