2010 California Election Forum

Examining the media’s actions reveals clear bias

Sarah Palin has had to endure unbelievable attacks and distortions by the media.

Here are two interesting short videos:

1. Here’s a video of Sarah discussing the bias with documentary filmmaker John Ziegler. Click here to watch. 
2. Click here to see a video of a liberal newscaster attacking Ziegler.

As Christians, helping the poor is a Biblical mandate.

That's why individuals and churches are the largest and most generous people in the world with their time, resources and money.

That's individuals, not government.

Political candidates often talk about helping the poor with government aid, not through the private sector. But their policies have the unintended consequence of hurting the poor.

That's because government can't create wealth. It can only redistribute wealth.

What creates wealth? What raises the standard of living faster for the poor—and everyone else?

Capitalism. Free enterprise. The market economy.

Government taxation and welfare redistribution programs create distortions in the economy. It lowers productivity, creativity and business growth. It's filled with waste, abuse and inefficiency.

Just look at the Department of Motor Vehicles—or any other such bureaucracies.

Fortunately, nations worldwide are slowly moving away from government-run enterprises, regulations and high taxes.

Even France is trying to free itself of socialism. China, too. And many other nations.

Capitalism has dramatically raised the standard of living in the U.S., helping lower the number of impoverished and making our low poverty level the envy of the world.

And the poverty levels in the rest of the world? In communist nations like Cuba and North Korea, severe poverty continues. And in socialist nations such as Africa and South America, poverty continues to grow.

But look what capitalism has helped do, despite government taxes and regulation retarding economic growth:

• In 1981, 40% of the worlds population lived on less than $1 a day. Today, that is only 25% adjusted for inflation. It's estimated it will be cut in half by 2015.

Only government economic interference with taxes, regulation and control can reverse this trend.

Be careful about politicians and their advocacy of government programs to solve poverty.

Only more economic freedom can accelerate economic growth and lift people out of poverty.

Unions have been among the biggest sources of money, telemarketers and volunteers for liberal candidates.

In fact, they are the most powerful special-interest group today.

Now the Los Angeles County Labor Federation, representing 850,000 members, is warning state, county and local politicians to follow their dictations or lose the election.

Maria Durazo, the executive secretary, made the threat in light of the upcoming election.

Something is wrong when a group having so much power if it can elect politicans who will increase taxes for its own self-interest.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing the Salvation Army thrift store because they require their employees to speak English only on the job.

When two employees definitely continued to speak Spanish, they were fired. The EEOC says you can't discriminate.

This is a clear violation of the First Amendment. A Christian organization should set any rules it feels is appropriate. In fact, as a small business owner, I should be able to set my rules without a federal government bureaucrat telling me I can't.

The U.S. Senate did try to stop this crazy action. Unfortunately, liberal Democrat Congressman Joe Baca and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California stopped any congressional action.

Let's pray this travesty is resolved in favor of the Salvation Army.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, has asked why leading Democratic candidates for president haven't mentioned abortion. Here's a quote from her regarding the recent debate on African-American issues:

"John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama talked about the disproportionate number of blacks who die from AIDS, yet no one said a word about another disproportionately high killer of African-Americans, abortion.

"Blacks comprise 12 percent of the population, yet at least one-third of the babies aborted in this country are African-American. Why?

"And more to the point, why are politicians afraid to talk about this? If they're really concerned about racism in America, the abortion industry is an obvious place to start looking."

Here's an eye-opening look at Giuliani and his views on abortion. Click here to see the video.

At a recent presidential debate with a focus on "faith" by Clinton, Obama and Edwards, a group of antiabortion advocates had some interesting things to say.

Click the play button below to see the video.

In case you missed it, TIME magazine issued its 100 most influential people list—leaving out Christians and conservatives...and even President Bush. Who is more influential than President Bush?

Osama bin Laden and Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao, were on the list. And so were entertainers such as Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tina Fey, Sacha Baron Cohen, and yes, Rosie O'Donnell. Give me a break!

FEMA is a typical government bureaucracy: slow, inefficient and wasteful. FEMA's failure in New Orleans is well known.

Now it's come out that they overpaid $485 million of taxpayer money to those impacted by the hurricane. Christian and private charity donations to hurricane victims, on the other hand, was quick, efficient and cost effective.

Plus, it's a one-on-one approach that brought emotional and spiritual healing to the victims.

One of the conflicts liberal Christians have is connecting their values and faith with politics and reality.

Instead of faith shaping their political beliefs and candidate choices, politics shaped their faith and religious choices.

When I was in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, liberal Jim Wallis put together a "faith forum" for Hillary Clinton, Obama and John Edwards (I'll discuss the forum in the next issue).

But Wallis' position is in conflict with a Christian worldview. He blindly supports liberal politicians who support abortion (even horrible partial birth abortion).

Tucker Carlson tried to pin Wallis down on this contradiction. You can view the video by clicking the play button below