Kristen Fyfe joined the staff of the Culture and Media Institute on November 20, 2006. Fyfe will serve as a Senior Writer for CMI. Fyfe was recently employed by the Alexandria, VA office of the Parents Television Council as a Senior Writer and Editor. In the spring of 2006 she authored a study documenting the violent content of children’s television. That study received unparalleled press coverage for the organization.

Fyfe is also an Emmy-nominated producer and writer having worked most recently for South Carolina Educational Television. There she hosted and produced two weekly public affairs programs and specials that aired on the statewide network. She graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University.

The Culture and Media Institute is an American non-profit organization focusing on promoting what it believes to be traditional values in American culture and beliefs and fair treatment of conservatives in the news media. It was founded in October 2006 as a division of the Media Research Center, a group that monitors perceived liberal news media bias.

CMI promotes its mission through editorials and research reports. "Eye on Culture" is a regular feature in which CMI writers express their opinions on the state of American popular culture. Among its viewpoints include opposition to the Fairness Doctrine and opposition to same-sex marriage. In March 2007, the CMI published a "National Cultural Values Survey" and concluded from its results that most Americans perceived a decline in moral values. One study released by the organization in July 2007 claimed that television viewing time correlated directly with one's liberal attitude, even possibly degrading to moral attitudes.

The CBS crime drama Cold Case has been twice criticized by the CMI for alleged anti-Christian prejudice in two episodes.  In May 2008, CMI released another report, one that claimed a moral decline in "Dear Abby" columns.

Clintons4mccain was started as a grass roots effort by Cristi Adkins, Anne Franklin, Peter Boykin and a team of Clinton Supporters who are adamantly opposed to the DNC, the media and Hollywood selecting their presidential nominee. “We’re mad as hell and not going to simply fall in line like Stepford Wives.” The Clintons4mccain group plans to join other organizations across the country for a large army of dedicated soldiers devoted to ONE unified mission…

For Information on Operation NOBAMA, go to www.Justsaynodeal.com

To Join the group, you can go to www.clintons4mccain.com as well as the myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/clintons4mccain and get the latest updates on the www.youtube.com/clintons4mccain channel.

With the pressure building on Senator Obama and masses exodus, it’s only a matter of time before the DNC realizes it’s biggest failure in ‘Votergate 08’ was the smoke and mirrors game they played on the entire 2008 Primary ‘Selectoral’ process.

Co-founder Anne Franklin is a retired executive with a background in sales, marketing, strategy, operations and human resources. Like Hillary, Anne graduated from an all-female college. The nun (now Saint) who founded the college said, "If you educate a man you educate a person, if you educate a woman you educate a family." That phrase stuck with Anne and according to Anne, has proven to be true from what she has seen in life. "Hillary has a similar philosophy of taking care of the educational and healthcare needs of women/mothers to enable them to raise children who are less likely to drop out, abuse drugs and alcohol, commit violent crimes and end up on welfare, which is one of the things about her that appeals to me."

Anne is an Independent and believes that Independent voters are the most well-informed since, "we don't let Party leaders or others decide for us for whom we will vote. We have to do our own research on all of the candidates from both parties. This year, Hillary was my first choice, followed by a Republican, followed by McCain, followed by another Democrat. I am a moderate (as I believe are most Americans). Hillary and McCain are both moderates. They belong to different Parties, but I am not aligned with a Party. So, I research all candidates' policies, their character and what each done in the past (which is the best predictor of future behavior). I don’t agree with any of the candiates 100% on their policies. So, I look at the ones that are most important to me, where they stand and whether or not they are likely to get things done."

Also, make sure to listen our lively segment with Paul F. Villarreal and his brother John.  You may check out their work at www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal and www.villarrealsports.com

Fraser P. Seitel is a veteran of more than three decades in the practice of public relations. In 2000, PR Week magazine named Mr. Seitel one of the "100 Most Distinguished Public Relations Professionals of the 20th Century."

In 1992, after serving for a decade as senior vice president and director of public affairs for Chase Manhattan Bank, Mr. Seitel formed Emerald Partners, a management and communications consultancy, and also became senior counselor at the world's largest public affairs firm, Burson-Marsteller.

Mr. Seitel is a frequent contributor to cable television. Among other programs, he has appeared on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, Rivera Live, Fox Weekend, and On the Record with Greta Van Susteren; MSNBC's The News with Brian Williams and Nachman; CNBC's Wall Street Journal Report; and CNN's Connie Chung Tonight, Inside Politics, and Larry King Live.

Mr. Seitel has counseled hundreds of corporations, nonprofits, associations, and individuals in the area for which he had responsibility at Chase–media relations, speech writing, consumer relations, employee communications, financial communications, philanthropic activities, and strategic management consulting.

Mr. Seitel is an Internet columnist at odwyerpr.com and a frequent lecturer and seminar leader on communications topics. Over the course of his career, Mr. Seitel has taught thousands of public relations professionals and students.

After studying and examining many texts in public relations, he concluded that none of them "was exactly right:" Therefore, in 1980, he wrote the first edition of The Practice of Public Relations "to give students a feel for how exciting this field really is:" In more than two decades of use at hundreds of colleges and universities, Mr. Seitel's book has introduced generations of students to the excitement, challenge, and uniqueness of the practice of public relations.

Will Bower was bred, raised, and educated in the epicenter of the Electoral Universe: Ohio. He began his political life in 1987 (at the age of 14) as a Youth Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The following year, he became a Youth Campaigner for Michael Dukakis. He went on to be chosen as a member of Boys' State Ohio (1989) and ended up winning the prestigious Delaware County Democratic Scholarship in 1990 -- which he applied to his studies as a playwright at Kenyon College, Class of '94. Will spent most of the late 1990s traveling the world, living mostly in Paris, Sydney, and Los Angeles. However, the events of 2000 and 2001 inspired him to move to Washington DC, where he intended to work for the DNC. After a series of stellar interviews there, he realized to his disillusionment that the parties are mostly about fund-raising, for which he had little interest. However, he has remained in Washington DC, where he has been learning the politico-way from such Huffingtonian friends as Steve Clemons and Scott Shrake. He is currently a chief contributor for The Huffington Post and for Florida-Delegates.com and is a researcher for Thomson CompuMark.

Bill Bishop lives in Austin, Texas. He wrote The Big Sort with retired University of Texas sociologist Robert G. Cushing. Bishop has worked as a reporter at The Mountain Eagle, in Whitesburg (Ky.); a columnist at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and on the special projects staff of the Austin (Tx.) American-Statesman. Bishop and his wife, Julie Ardery, owned and operated The Bastrop County Times, a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas. They now co-edit The Daily Yonder, a web-based publication (dailyyonder.com) covering rural America.

Pulitzer Prize–finalist Bishop offers a one-idea grab bag with a thesis more provocative than its elaboration. Bishop contends that as Americans have moved over the past three decades, they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs, and in the end, politics. There are endless variations of this clustering—what Bishop dubs the Big Sort—as like-minded Americans self-segregate in states, cities—even neighborhoods. Consequences of the Big Sort are dire: balkanized communities whose inhabitants find other Americans to be culturally incomprehensible; a growing intolerance for political differences that has made national consensus impossible; and politics so polarized that Congress is stymied and elections are no longer just contests over policies, but bitter choices between ways of life. Bishop's argument is meticulously researched—surveys and polls proliferate—and his reach is broad. He splices statistics with snippets of sociological theory and case studies of specific towns to illustrate that while the Big Sort enervates government, it has been a boon to advertisers and churches, to anyone catering to and targeting taste. Bishop's portrait of our post materialistic society will probably generate chatter; the idea is catchy, but demonstrating that like does attract like becomes an exercise in redundancy.

Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna has written about music for such music magazines as Billboard, Spin, RollingStone.com and Alternative Press. She has covered the celebrity world, most recently for People, where she served as a staff correspondent before resigning to work on her next book, as well as Us Weekly and Teen People. The writer also penned the sex and relationship advice column “Dr. Love” for Gene Simmons defunct Gene Simmons Tongue magazine and the “Miss Truth” gossip column for the also-defunct award-winning allstarnews.com. She has appeared as a music and/or relationship expert on MTV, VH1, Fuse, E!, CNN, and MSNBC among others.

Borzillo-Vrenna’s first book, Eyewitness Nirvana: The Day by Day Chronicle, was released in 2000 and the expanded Nirvana: The Day to Day Illustrated Journals was released in 2003, both via Carlton Books.

The Wallingford, Connecticut native’s new book, “Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend, and to Living Life Like a Rock Star” is due on Aug. 5, 2008 via Simon & Schuster’s Simon Spotlight Entertainment. The non-fiction book is an A-to-Z reference for everything an edgy girl needs to know, including the obvious (style, beauty, dating, and sex tips) and the not-so-obvious (how to prepare Absinthe, how to hit on a celebrity, how to sneak backstage at a concert). It’s a girl’s guide with a difference; one that shows readers how to identify, go after, and get whatever they want in life, be it a hot guy, a great job, multiple orgasms, or a sexy new look—all while marching to her own (rock) beat.

She lives in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles with her Grammy® Award-winning husband Chris Vrenna, who plays keyboards with Marilyn Manson.

Lee Marks grew up outside Boston, MA and has always been a natural born comedian. Ever since he was young, he realized the best way to make friends is to make people laugh. When the reality television craze began several years ago, friends encouraged Lee to follow his dream and take his comedic act to a worldwide audience. All it took was one tryout for one show before Lee got his big break and was cast on the 2007 VH1 hit show "I Love New York." The trashy nature of the show appealed to Lee, because it allowed him to be himself and express his sometimes raunchy yet hillarious style of humor without holding back. Now, millions of fans and hundreds of lays later, Mr. Boston is still on the top of his game, getting recognized virtually everywhere he goes. He has done numerous club appearances in Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, Charlotte, Buffalo, Minneapolis, and many other cities, all of which bring in a packed audience. Being asked by the producers to make an appearance on the second season of "I Love New York," Mr. Boston is clearly one of the breakout stars of the show, and it remains a distinct possibility that he could eventually get his own show. With this rising star, sky is the limit!

Some loyal Mr. Boston fans have decided to start a petition for him to get his own show.  Check it out at www.petitionspot.com/petitions/mrboston

Note from Mr. Boston:

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Dr. Kathleen M. Puckett spent 23 years as an FBI Special Agent, where she was primarily involved in the investigation and analysis of cases involving foreign counterintelligence and domestic and international terrorism.

In the mid 1970s, Kathleen was an officer in the Office of Special Investigations in the U.S. Air Force, where she acquired an early knack for investigations of Soviet and East Bloc espionage. When she left the Air Force, she was heavily recruited by both the FBI and the CIA.

By the mid 1980s she had learned Russian and was working against Soviet Intelligence in the San Francisco Division of the FBI.

Between 1988 and 1994 she was a principal in “Project Slammer,” an interagency espionage study that involved extensive interviews of individuals convicted of espionage.

In 1993 she became a founding member of the FBI National Security Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program (BAP), and was an operational and behavioral consultant to numerous high profile counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations throughout the United States.

Between 1994 and 1998 she was the primary behavioral expert during the UNABOM investigation. She also assisted FBI Inspector Terry Turchie in the investigation of Eric Rudolph in North Carolina in 1998, and received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service the same year.

In 2000 she completed a research internship that led to the production of a dissertation concerning the prediction of violence and the conferring of a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

In 2001 Dr. Puckett conducted a multi-jurisdictional risk assessment study concerning lone domestic terrorists including Theodore Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph for the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI.

Dr. Puckett provides behavioral threat assessment consultation to international corporations and governmental security agencies, and is a law enforcement consultant to the Program of Psychiatry and the Law at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a frequent presenter at law enforcement and mental health community forums on both the UNABOM case and the psychology of terrorism.

Terry Turchie and Dr. Kathleen Puckett give the reader a first-hand look inside the workings of the FBI, its workings with other agencies, and how the political forces around them have compromised the integrity of the agencies, particularly that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Citing instances of political interference for the sake of political advantage at the expense of national security, one is able to understand how such examples of ineptitiude attributed to the FBI could happen. Turchie, after an outstanding career with the FBI, is now retired from the Agency and is affiliated with the University of California at Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Puckett, after 23 years with the FBI, is now retired as well. She is also affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco. Homeland Insecurity will be in bookstores in September, 2008.

On September 12, 2001, the day after the fall of the Twin Towers, WABC-AM in New York City recruited John Batchelor to go on the air until Osama bin Laden was either killed or captured. On March 12, 2003, one week before the attack on Iraq, ABC Radio Networks invited John to bring his experiences to syndication as America committed itself to what is known as the Long War.

The John Batchelor Show celebrates the pell-mell pace and you-can't make-this-up quality of the 21st Century. John explores the global contest not only in search of national security in the Middle East and here in the homeland, but also in the struggle for energy security and food security across borders. Along the way, John celebrates the classic set pieces of American politics such as grotesquely lavish national campaigns, stock market roller-coaster events like the credit crisis of ‘07-‘08, the cleverness of the Congress to take care of itself first, and also the true joy of planetary exploration.

The John Batchelor Show has broadcast from many corners of this good, modest planet, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Boston, Des Moines, Manchester, Orlando, Jerusalem, Amman, Gaza, Kazakhstan and Taipei.

John is a veteran novelist, author of seven political romances as well as a short history of the Republican Party. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1948, John attended Lower Merion High School, Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

The John Batchelor show can be heard in New York on Sunday nights on WABC-AM 770 from 7-10PM Eastern Time, in Washington D.C. on WMAL-AM from 7-9PM Eastern Time, in San Francisco on KSFO-AM from 7-10PM Pacific Time, and in Los Angeles on KFI-AM 640 from 7-10PM Pacific Time.

William "B.J." Lawson is the Republican Party nominee for United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 4th congressional district (seat currently held by David Price). He defeated Augustus Cho in the primary election on May 6, 2008, 70.5% to 29.4%.

Lawson attended Lakeland Senior High School in Lakeland, Florida, where he was president of the student council.[2] He moved to North Carolina in 1992,[2] where he graduated from Duke University with a degree in biomedical and electrical engineering and from Duke Medical School as a neurosurgeon.

A year into his medical residency at Duke in neurosurgery, Lawson left to start a software company, MercuryMD, which focused on providing easier ways for physicians to access patient records through PDAs. Lawson served as the chief software architect for MercuryMD, which grew to serve 200 hospitals and have 70 employees. He later sold the company.

During the campaign for the GOP 4th District nomination, Lawson has spoken about the higher cost of food and the overspending of the federal government. However, Price has stated that it is "premature" to render final judgment on the suitability of the Butner site before the environmental impacts are assessed, and he inserted a provision in the Department of Homeland Security's Fiscal Year 2009 budget requiring a risk analysis of studying foot and mouth disease on the U.S. mainland before work can be done on design or construction of the disease research lab.

On April 28th, Ron Paul sent a letter to his mailing list endorsing Lawson in the 4th's Republican primary.  Check out his campaign at www.lawsonforcongress.com

KT has appeared as a commentator on The O’Reilly Factor. Hannity & Colmes, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox News, ABC, CBS, MSBNC, CNN, and NY1, as well as the major talk radio programs. Her op/ed pieces and commentaries have appeared in numerous print and online publications.

She is a contributing editor and writes a weekly column for Family Security Matters. She writes a monthly op/ed for The NY Capitol, and has a regular Thursday radio editorial on WLIU, the Long Island  Public Radio station.

After a meteoric early career in government, KT left Washington to marry and become a stay-at-home mother.  After witnessing the September 11 attacks first hand, KT was determined to reenter public life.  She became active in New York Republican politics and ran for the US Senate from New York, hoping to challenge Hillary Clinton in the 2006 election.  Although KT lost the Republican primary, she received 40% of the statewide vote.  She is a fiscal conservative, social moderate, a defense hawk, and strong proponent of developing alternative energy.

During the Reagan Administration KT was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1982-85)  As Speechwriter to  Secretary of Defense ‘Cap’ Weinberger, KT wrote his landmark Principles of War Speech, and led the Defense Department’s strategic communications and public diplomacy programs. She was also one of the first women to serve on the Armed Senate Services Committee Staff.(1981-82)

KT travelled throughout the US and abroad as the Reagan Administration’s Pentagon spokesman, and was one of the highest ranking women in the Pentagon.  She was awarded the Defense Department’s highest civilian honor, The Distinguished Service Award.

Stephen Mansfield is the New York Times bestselling author of The Faith of George W. Bush, The Faith of the American Soldier, Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington, and Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill, among other works of history and biography. Founder of both The Mansfield Group, a research and communications firm, and Chartwell Literary Group, which creates and manages literary projects, Stephen is also in wide demand as a lecturer and inspirational speaker. 

In THE FAITH OF BARACK OBAMA (Thomas Nelson, August 5, 2008), Stephen Mansfield provides us with the most thoroughgoing examination of the role of religion in the Democratic presidential candidate's life to date. Mansfield, a recognized voice on the political Christian right, presents a balanced and objective analysis of Obama that is sure to surprise people across the political divide—and provoke widespread discussion about an issue that continues to be front-and center in this year"s election.

While the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy and its electoral fallout has often dominated the headlines, THE FAITH OF BARACK OBAMA shows us how the most under-reported story in the 2008 campaign could be Obama’s ability to reclaim the religious voice of the American political left after years of Democratic Party indifference.

Refuting claims that Obama’s faith is "political garb that focus group told him he ought to try.” Mansfield shows how Obama’s religion is transforming, lifelong and real. He observes: “Obama is the product of a new, post-modern generation that picks and chooses its own truth from traditional faith, much as a man customizes his meal at a buffet”-- putting him in sync with a growing number of Americans who were cited in a recent Pew Research study about religious attitudes in the U.S (June 2008).

THE FAITH OF BARACK OBAMA is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the Illinois senator’s spectacular leap into the national spotlight—and the role that will religion will pay in this year’s election and will continue to play in future politics and culture. As Mansfield writes “In short, he (Obama) is going to be a political and religious force to be reckoned with in American society, and both his supporters and his detractors are well served by understanding why.” 

For more visit www.mansfieldgroup.com