Word: palin
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...chapters. Goldberg's objections to "mainstream media" coverage of Barack Obama are fairly well worn. Among the many complaints, he notes that Obama's associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers didn't get enough press scrutiny during last year's election campaign, while Sarah Palin's clothing and Joe the Plumber's personal life got too much. Because of their fawning over Obama, the "mainstream media"--if the author removed that modifier, this book would be a pamphlet--have left their credibility "in tatters," Goldberg writes. Of course, just saying something doesn't make...
...Everyone should be abstinent," Bristol Palin said during a Feb. 16 Fox News interview, just two months after the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska's Republican governor gave birth to a 7-lb. 7-oz. baby boy. But abstinence is "not realistic at all," she added. Evidently...
...Palin's anecdotal evidence aside, federal studies have shown that abstinence-only education has done little to curb teen-pregnancy rates, despite the nearly $1 billion in federal funding that such programs have received since 2000. More than a third of all births in the U.S. are to single women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That an unwed teenage mother, the eldest daughter of a prominent politician, no less, can chat about the birds and the bees on national TV speaks volumes about changing attitudes--even if the young lady's message contradicts itself...
...original version of this story wrongly stated that Bristol Palin is Sarah Palin?s eldest child. She is, in fact, the eldest daughter of the Alaska Governor, whose oldest child is her son, Track...
...Palin, Sarah • closing of clinic for special needs children in home town of • 45th birthday is celebrated...