Anti-war Activists Planning to ‘Take Over’ White House

A leading anti-Iraq war group is advertising a plan to storm the White House next month and "take it over" until the Bush administration vacates the premises.

--WorldNetDaily.com--

The Secret Service would be doing its job if it simply mowed down the mob. I hope it does its job. - BK

Report: Dick Cheney to Quit After Elections

Vice President Dick Cheney might retire within a year, shortly after the mid-term elections, according to senior Republican sources who spoke to Insight magazine.

--WorldNetDaily.com--

Pataki Remains Hospitalized

ALBANY, N.Y. - Still in the hospital nearly two weeks after undergoing an emergency appendectomy, Gov. George Pataki says he is feeling frustrated with the extended bed rest.

--Las Vegas Sun (AP)--

Strange! Just a day or two ago, I heard a “news” story saying that all 50 governors were in Washington complaining to Pres. Bush about his proposed budget cuts. How could Pataki have been in Washington if he was in a Manhattan hospital? He's still our governor, isn't he? - BK

Study: New York Tops In Taxes

Thanks to its sky-high personal income, sales and business taxes New York state has the least business-friendly climate in the nation.

--NewsMax.com--

High taxes aren't the problem, high spending is. - BK

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Tuesday February 28, 2006 14:25

That's why we're known as The People's Republic of New York State.

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Tuesday February 28, 2006 14:22

IMHO, I'm starting to think our junior senator is going mad.

Opposition to Port Deal Said Driven by Bias, Not Security

Religious and racial bias, not a legitimate concern for security, are behind the opposition to Dubai Ports World managing six U.S. ports, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Friday.

--CNSNews.com--

They've learned to play the “victim card” very well.

I don't profess to know what's best in this case, but I do believe that to insist that “profiling” at airports, etc., based on ethnicity, is intolerable, and then to turn around and reject a company's services on the same basis is the height of hypocrisy. - BK

Specter: Court Should Monitor Spy Program

The attorney general would have to get approval from a secretive intelligence court every 45 days to preserve the Bush administration's controversial surveillance program, according to a draft bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.

--NewsMax.com--

I'd like Specter to show me where in the Constitution it gives the judiciary any authority whatsoever over the president's Commander-in-Chief powers and responsibilities. - BK

Germany Admits it Gave Iraq Intelligence to Washington

BERLIN - German intelligence officials provided the United States with information about developments in Iraq during the US-led invasion to which the Berlin government was officially opposed, according to a government dossier.

--Expatica--

Church Politicking ‘Disturbing’ to IRS

The Internal Revenue Service said yesterday it found a “disturbing” amount of illegal politicking in churches and charities after investigating complaints coming out of the 2004 election.

--Washington Times--

What is “disturbing” to me is how the tax code is being used to silence legitimate political speech. Our Constitution does not give the government any power to exclude political speech from churches, and if such speech conflicts with the tax laws, it's the law that needs changing. - BK

Hillary Clinton: Republicans Sick of Bush

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told supporters at an Orlando, Florida fundraiser Friday night that Republicans have “had enough” of President Bush, adding that GOP ethics scandals and troop casualties in Iraq have helped Democrats.

--NewsMax.com--

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Monday February 27, 2006 21:34

Linda Cebrian: Americans sick of Hillary.

Hillary Clinton Confronted on ‘Aiding Enemy’ Charge

It looks like Hillary Clinton's GOP Senate challenger John Spencer struck a nerve the other day when he said that her constant criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the war on terror is “aiding and abetting the enemy.”

--NewsMax.com--

Judging from the letters I'm reading in the Poughkeepsie Journal, I'd say that “aiding and abetting” makes her more attractive to a significant number of voters. - BK

Cheney Says He Can Declassify Secrets

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify government secrets, raising the possibility that he authorized his former chief of staff to pass along sensitive prewar data on Iraq to reporters.

--USA Today (AP)--

Weldon Invokes Watergate in ‘Able Danger’ Hearing

In the first open hearing about the existence of an intelligence cell that may have identified the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attacks a year before they happened, lawmakers sat back and let Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) run the show.

--The Hill--

Paul Hackett Airs Wild Charges

Up and coming Democratic Party star Paul Hackett withdrew from the Ohio Senate race last week, saying “my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.”

--NewsMax.com--

CIA Yawns at Unexamined Saddam Tapes

The Central Intelligence Agency said Wednesday that 12-hours of audio recordings obtained by ABC News showing Saddam Hussein discussing weapons of mass destruction with his Revolutionary Command Council are of little interest to their investigators.

--NewsMax.com--

Iranian Bakeries Rename Danish Pastries

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

--Fox News (AP)--

Test Helps You Predict ‘Chances of Dying’

It sounds like a perfect parlor game for baby boomers suddenly confronting their own mortality: What are your chances of dying within four years? Researchers have come up with 12 risk factors to try to answer that for people who are 50 and older.

--Breitbart.com (AP)--

You really don't need a test. Your chances of dying are 100%. - BK

NSA Terrorist Surveillance Probe in Doubt

An all-out White House lobbying campaign has slowed Congressional efforts to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program – and may even succeed in killing it.

--NewsMax.com--

In Ohio, Bush Touts Health Savings Plan

DUBLIN, Ohio - President Bush met Wednesday with employees of a fast-food chain here to promote a centerpiece of the company's and the administration's new health care plans: tax-free health savings accounts, or HSAs, for workers.

--Washington Post--

The left hates HSPs because it puts people in charge of their own health care rather than having them rely on government. - BK

Man Who Laughed at Cheney Gets Shot Hours Later

A Colorado man who laughed Monday when he first read Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a hunting companion was himself injured just hours later when he was accidentally blasted by his girlfriend in his own hunting mishap.

--WorldNetDaily.com--

Ballot Botch: Coulter Votes in Wrong Precinct

She may be smart enough to earn millions from her acidic political barbs, but when it comes to something as simple as voting in her tiny hometown, hard-core conservative pundit Ann Coulter is a tad confused.

--Palm Beach Post--

‘Able Danger’ Identified 9/11 Hijacker 13 times

WASHINGTON - The top-secret, military intelligence unit known as “Able Danger” identified Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, 13 times before the 2001 attacks, according to new information released Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees.

--CNSNews.com--

Intelligence Summit to Air ‘Saddam's WMD Tapes’

Reportedly armed with 12 hours of Saddam Hussein's audio recordings, the organizers of an upcoming “Intelligence Summit” are describing the tapes as the “smoking gun evidence” that the Iraqi dictator possessed weapons of mass destruction in the period leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

--CNSNews.com--

Hillary Clinton Blasts Shotgun-gate Stonewalling

An angry-sounding New York Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted he White House yesterday for failing to disclose details about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident over the weekend, complaining that Bush administration officials were stonewalling on “legitimate requests for information.”

--NewsMax.com--

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:43

To me, this is an example of why Hillary should be disqualified as a serious presidential candidate.

The US is fighting WWIII. Has this woman no sense of priorities?

Does she not have anything better to do with her time?

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:46

I agree with Patricia.

Hillary's opponent should be pro-life so we New Yorkers have a REAL choice (no pun intended.)

Enough already with these liberal RINOs.

Author: Name: Patricia

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006 11:06

I have writtten Mr. Limbacher that perhaps what he says is true, but suggested they should get a woman that can fight Hillery like Rudy G. would but that is very, very, very Pro-Life. Told them I could suggest someone.

How about our Helen. Though I did not include her name in my note to Mr. Limbacher.

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 8:42

Leo,

Have you ever heard Ms. Rice express her views on "choice"? I know a lot of people who claim to be "pro-choice", but when you ask them more specific questions, you often find them closer to our side.

In my opinion, a president's personal views on abortion are not nearly as important as his/her views on the Constitution and how it should be respected by his/her judicial nominees. Remember, we can't make much legal headway until the Roe Vs. Wade abomination becomes history.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 7:58

Condi Rice is Pro-choice. She won't even get the support of the Republican National Coalition for Life. Another RINO. Many Republicans are for Choice like Ruddy and Pataki, etc.

Author: Patricia

Date: Monday February 13, 2006 13:00

I want to know much much more than I do about Senator Allen's stance on LIFE, Marriage, and Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and any of the Social issues.

Am more interested in Secretary Rice coming around to our way of thinking. She would be good against Hillery, as would Rudy G. but can no way support him and unless she changes her mind I do not know about Secty. Rice. Most certainly some one that is all that I have mentioned and yet would wipe the floor with Hillery. Most men would be too gentlemanly to win over her.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Author: Name: Patricia

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006 11:13

Justice Scallia is so right!

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006 18:48

Uh-oh. Mr. Casey of PA better watch his back. ;-)

Weasel Endorses Hillary for '08

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a fierce critic of the Bush administration, said Saturday that he's pulling for U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to win the White House.

--1010WINS.com (AP)--

Spencer: Hillary Puts Politics Before GIs

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely Republican Senate race challenger charged Monday that the New York Democrat's criticism of the Bush administration “aids and abets our enemies” in the battle against terrorism.

--NewsMax.com--

Schumer, Reid Dump Iraq War Veteran Candidate for Senate

Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran hailed as a rising Democratic star by party leaders last summer, has dropped out of the race for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat, and he's not happy about it.

--CNSNews.com--

Al Gore Anti-American Tirade Funded by Bin Laden's Family

The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore over the weekend in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden's family.

--NewsMax.com--

Cheney Cleared in Hunting Accident

WASHINGTON - A Texas sheriff's office cleared Vice President Cheney of any wrongdoing in a shooting accident at a ranch Saturday, but the jokes already have begun

--USA Today--

How could it ever be a crime to shoot a lawyer? - BK

Activists Protest Union ‘Fossils,’ Launch Fact Site

A handful of union critics on Monday picketed outside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the AFL-CIO with a 15-foot dinosaur balloon to protest what they described as the “criminal practices of the labor movement.”

--CNSNews.com--

Army Silences Chaplain after Prayer Criticism

An evangelical chaplain serving in Iraq has been forbidden to preach at chapel services after his comments about military intolerance toward certain Christian expressions got him into hot water with the Army.

--Washington Times--

Troops: 'Don't Bring Us Home until We Secure Iraq'

PENSACOLA - Just back from Iraq, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris brought her Senate campaign to an area of the state that's dominated by the military and told small groups that the United States is succeeding in the war and troops don't want to be brought home yet.

--Bradenton Herald (AP)--

US Planning ‘Last Resort’ Bombing on Iran's Nukes, Report Says

A report over the weekend saying that the Pentagon is planning for potential military strikes against Iran brought the customary response from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She said the United States wants a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dispute but no options are off the table.

--CNSNews.com--

Gore to Saudis: U.S. Discrimination After Sept. 11 ‘Wrong’

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

--Fox News (AP)--

Can you think of any instance where a Republican former president, vice-president or failed presidential candidate has engaged in this kind of anti-American rhetoric? Or any kind of criticism of a sitting Democrat administration? It just goes to show that Democrats do not nominate statesmen to the nation's highest offices. - BK

Carter Allowed Surveillance in 1977

Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.

--Washington Times--

Spying Necessary, Democrats Say

Two key Democrats yesterday called the NSA domestic surveillance program necessary for fighting terrorism but questioned whether President Bush had the legal authority to order it done without getting congressional approval.

--Washington Post--

“Busom Buddies” Suspects in Ala. Church Fires

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Investigators believe a pair of men in their 20s or 30s, likely “bosom buddies,” are responsible for a string of church fires in rural Alabama, as authorities confirmed the latest blaze at a Baptist church was the 10th case of arson.

--Las Vegas Sun (AP)--

If I were investigating the crimes, I'd stake out all the theaters showing “Brokeback Mountain.” - BK

Conservative Straw Poll: Allen Vs. Clinton in 2008

The 2008 presidential election will pit Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia against Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, according to a straw poll conducted among conservatives over the weekend.

--CNSNews.com--

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 9:50

Leo,

My wife says she's "prochoice" but when I ask her if a woman should be able to have an abortion for any reason, she disagrees. I'd like to hear Ms. Rice be a bit more specific before I make a judgement about her.

You have to admit, she'd give 'liberals' fits as a candidate.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 9:06

Yes, Rice is Pro-choice. I've heard her say that! you may also check the Republican National Coalition for life!

http://www.rnclife.org/faxnotes/2005/feb05/05-02-23.html

Of course the President should follow the Constitution. How about supporting the Right to Life ACT and get Roe. V Wade overturned.

http://www.righttolifeact.org/html/home.html#

Thanks,

Leo

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 8:42

Leo,

Have you ever heard Ms. Rice express her views on "choice"? I know a lot of people who claim to be "pro-choice", but when you ask them more specific questions, you often find them closer to our side.

In my opinion, a president's personal views on abortion are not nearly as important as his/her views on the Constitution and how it should be respected by his/her judicial nominees. Remember, we can't make much legal headway until the Roe Vs. Wade abomination becomes history.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 7:58

Condi Rice is Pro-choice. She won't even get the support of the Republican National Coalition for Life. Another RINO. Many Republicans are for Choice like Ruddy and Pataki, etc.

Author: Patricia

Date: Monday February 13, 2006 13:00

I want to know much much more than I do about Senator Allen's stance on LIFE, Marriage, and Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and any of the Social issues.

Am more interested in Secretary Rice coming around to our way of thinking. She would be good against Hillery, as would Rudy G. but can no way support him and unless she changes her mind I do not know about Secty. Rice. Most certainly some one that is all that I have mentioned and yet would wipe the floor with Hillery. Most men would be too gentlemanly to win over her.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Author: Patricia

Date: Monday February 13, 2006 13:02

Ritalin has been used in this country for years.

I thank God I had a Dr. for my kids that was smarter than the so called "Experts", and also a friend that was a reading specialist that only worked with so called hyperactive kids.

Both professionals nixed it. The reading teacher stated "He is a normal little boy. If the grown ups can't handle it let them take the tranquilizers".

I again thank God because there are heart problems on both sides of the family. God blessed me twice but took one back I am glad I did not put my sole surviving in harms way.

A Mother

Cheney: US Protected by ‘More Than Just Luck’

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on Thursday evening, telling a group of conservatives that the country has been protected from additional terror attacks by “more than just luck.”

--CNSNews.com--

Abramoff Team and Reid's Office Had Frequent Contact, Records Show

Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and Reid's staff had frequent contact with the disgraced lobbyist's team about legislation.

--Washington Post--

Someone ought to tell Doug Smith of LaGrangeville who wrote in yesterday's Poughkeepsie Journal, “There is this old-fashioned notion about ”fit to print.“ A cartoon that communicates Abramoff supported and funded Democrats with huge dollars is not fit to print ...” If the Journal started requiring factual accuracy from leftists as it does from conservatives, Smith's letter should have found its way into the Journal's wastebasket. - BK

Justice Breyer Admits to Legislating from the Bench

CHICAGO - Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says he frequently makes decisions about a law's constitutionality by considering its purposes and consequences, which puts him at odds with fellow justices who try to adhere strictly to the language of the Constitution.

--Lexington Herald-Leader (AP)--

Considering the purposes and consequences of legislation is the province of legislatures. - BK

GOP Congressman and Former POW Rips John Murtha

WASHINGTON - Amid cheers, whistles and two standing ovations, U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) took fellow Congressman John Murtha (D-Pa.) and the U.S. media behind the proverbial woodshed for a verbal walloping.

--CNSNews.com--

NSA Spying Program Debated by Conservatives

Demanding that “the leaders of this country abide by the laws of this country,” former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr lashed out Thursday at the Bush administration over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. Barr debated the legality of the surveillance with former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, who served in the administration of President George H. W. Bush.

--CNSNews.com--

Constitutionally, Bush's critics don't have a leg to stand on, in my opinion. First of all, the Fourth Amendment only protects people “in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”. That does not include telephone communications. Now it's good that courts have an expanded interpretation including telephone conversations, but it's only appropriate where courts have jurisdiction, i.e., in criminal trials. In the Constitution, the judicial branch is given no role - congress can declare war, and the president, as Commander in Chief, conducts war. By attempting to force the Commander in Chief to get permission from any court for war-related activities, congress is overstepping its constitutional authority. It can't usurp the president's war-making power, and it can't insert the judicial branch in the war-making process. - BK

UK Muslims Call for Changes in Law and Media Guidelines

A Christian leader in Britain has voiced alarm over calls by Muslims to change the law and media industry guidelines to prevent the future publication of images of the Muslim prophet, Mohammed.

--CNSNews.com--

Dems to Unleash Contract On America

Democratic leaders say they'll soon release a pithy agenda akin to the “Contract with America” that helped Republicans take over Congress in 1994. But the past two weeks underscore the difficulties of setting clear priorities and speaking with one voice.

--USA Today--

White House Agrees to Brief Congress on NSA Surveillance

Responding to congressional pressure from both parties, the White House agreed yesterday to give lawmakers more information about its domestic surveillance program, although the briefings remain highly classified and limited in scope.

--Washington Post--

One of the most galling ironies of this controversy is hearing congressmen denouncing the president for skirting the law, while a prime reason the president feels he has to skirt the law is that some in congress believe they are above the law that protects our nation's secrets. Divulging a secret to Sen. “Leaky” Leahy isn't much different from giving it directly to Osama bin Laden. - BK

Muslim Leader Calls Jailed Terror Cleric an ‘Embarrassment’

LONDON - A prominent British Muslim says the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, jailed this week for seven years for terror-related offenses, is “an embarrassment to the Muslim community.”

--CNSNews.com--

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 9, 2006 13:50

Yeah, and it's amazing how all the IEDs keep blowing up in Iraq, considering they didn't exist (since we didn't find them).

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Thursday February 9, 2006 12:57

Impossible! Rev. Lowery said there were none!

Author: Patricia

Date: Thursday February 9, 2006 9:31

Jimmy Carter was not the worst President. Bill Clinton was. Jimmy Carter was one of the two most incompetent That was two in a row.

Some at the time opined that he is a good man. I no longer believe that. Not after his behavior at a funeral.

Even during President Reagan's administration when the President ordered a bombing, I believe on the "leader" responsible for the bombing of the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland. The claim was made that the leader's baby was present at the time of the attack. Jimmy Crater came out screaming he knew how he would feel if it were Amy. Turns out the whole thing was a lie. No one connected to the family was at the place when the attack took place.

Out of office shut your mouth. You might mess something up that you are no longer privy to.

This behavior at a funeral showed no respect for the dead. Even if Mrs. King agreed with the sentiments she would have too much dignity to express it on such an occasion or even publicly humiliate a sitting president after allowing him to come.

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:08

Leo,

Regarding the point I was trying to make, it is almost irrelevant whether or not the RCC teaches that the death penalty is wrong. I say "almost" because if the left believes it's true, they are hypocrites for not not condemning an anti-death penalty ruling the way they'd condemn an anti-abortion ruling. People are hypocrites when their actions conflict with their stated beliefs, whether or not those beliefs are true.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:38

However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty merits careful weighing in examination of conscience for those in public office.

Fr. Michael Orsi

"Different Levels of Catholic Teaching"

Homiletic and Pastoral Review

December, 2003

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Dems May Have Hit New Low at Coretta King Funeral

Today's memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King - billed as a "celebration" of her life - turned suddenly political as one former president took a swipe at the current president, who was also lashed by an outspoken black pastor!

--Drudge Report--

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 9, 2006 7:41

James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com (Link #1), had a different take on the funeral. Here's what he wrote after watching a TV clip of Rev. Lowry's poem:

"[Rev. Lowry is] a lousy poet and a worse foreign-policy analyst. Hey, nobody's perfect. But when we watched a TV clip of part of his poem, we just could not be offended. This is one of those cases in which tone is more important than substance, and the tone of this funeral, from what we've seen, was largely a high-spirited and celebratory one ..."

He goes on, however, to say, "The one moment of true malice came when Jimmy Carter got up to speak."

Link #1

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 8, 2006 11:48

Those tirades were so unseemly. A funeral is not the venue for such acting out. I was so embarrassed for Bush 41/43.

As a pastor, Lowery should have known better than to lash out the way he did.

Carter, IMHO, is a traitor. At the very least he violates the American protocol that former presidents refrain from criticizing their successors.

Author: Patricia

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:14

Don't scare me like that. There can be and are honest differences regarding the death penalty. After all this is going to an appeals court. WHo knows what he will do if it comes up to the Supreme Court.

Now when the Partial Birth Abortion ban comes up and others like it we shall see if we got our hard prayers' and work's worth.

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:08

Leo,

Regarding the point I was trying to make, it is almost irrelevant whether or not the RCC teaches that the death penalty is wrong. I say "almost" because if the left believes it's true, they are hypocrites for not not condemning an anti-death penalty ruling the way they'd condemn an anti-abortion ruling. People are hypocrites when their actions conflict with their stated beliefs, whether or not those beliefs are true.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:38

However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty merits careful weighing in examination of conscience for those in public office.

Fr. Michael Orsi

"Different Levels of Catholic Teaching"

Homiletic and Pastoral Review

December, 2003

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 8, 2006 12:01

"President Bush was where he should have been," said Bruce S. Gordon, the new president of the NAACP... "I thought it was appropriate for the president to be there..."

This guy is a wimp. If he feels this way he should call for Carter and Lowery to apologize for their insolence toward the Pres.

Or are his comments perhaps a veiled way of "thanking" Pres Bush for showing up in order to be ambushed?

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 11:19

At least Specter and Santorum don't vote against "originalist" judges.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 16, 2006 10:13

Casey is for exceptions just like Santorum. Santorum stabbed the Pro-lifers in the back in Pa. . He's 13 points behind Casey as of today. Do we really know what we get with Santorum? Toomey who ran against Specter was more Pro-life than Specter but Santorum didn't support him. If Toomey would have won the GOP would not have lost anything in the Senate. NOT ONE SEAT. Santorum can't even support the Right to life ACT. We have watered down the meaning of Pro-life so bad we don't even know what Pro-life is anymore. I guess it depends what is, is.

God Bless,

Leo

Author: Patricia

Date: Wednesday February 8, 2006 13:29

I would really like to get the truth about Bob Casey Jr. His Father was staunchly Pr-Life.

I had an on line discussion with the head of a Pr-Life organization defending Rick Santorum's support of pro-death arlen Specter. The man stated that it was better to have Sen. S. remain in his committee then to take the chance of even just remaining quiet. I told him that was not satisfactory to me and that to teach him a lesson the people of Pa. should support Pro-Life Bob Casey this time around. THe Pr_ life leader told me that Bob Casey Jr. is no Bob Casey Sr. on the Life Issue. a former Pennsylvanian who still has family and close ties there agrees.

So which is it is he with us or against us?

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:08

Leo,

Regarding the point I was trying to make, it is almost irrelevant whether or not the RCC teaches that the death penalty is wrong. I say "almost" because if the left believes it's true, they are hypocrites for not not condemning an anti-death penalty ruling the way they'd condemn an anti-abortion ruling. People are hypocrites when their actions conflict with their stated beliefs, whether or not those beliefs are true.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:38

However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty merits careful weighing in examination of conscience for those in public office.

Fr. Michael Orsi

"Different Levels of Catholic Teaching"

Homiletic and Pastoral Review

December, 2003

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Wednesday February 8, 2006 12:28

Don't expect this to be on the front page of any liberal media outlet.

‘Enemy is Listening,’ Gonzales Warns

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales warned the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday about the sensitive nature of President Bush's warrantless surveillance program aimed at capturing communications between terrorist plotters.

--Washington Times--

Lebanese Leader: Syria Behind Torching of Danish Buildings

The burning this past weekend of Danish government offices in Damascus and Beirut in protest of newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were directed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in part using undercover soldiers acting as rioters, Lebanese leader Walid Jumblatt charged today during an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview.

--WorldNetDaily.com--

Study: Angry People are a Danger to Themselves

A new study suggests that there's truth in the saying, “anger is one letter short of danger,” especially for men.

--Yahoo! News (USA Today)--

Are you paying attention, Hillary? - BK

Arlen Specter: FISA Law May be Unconstitutional

Sen. Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Sunday that while President Bush's terrorist surveillance program is a “flat out violation” of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it may be entirely legal because of powers granted the president by the Constitution.

--NewsMax.com--

More Politics Than Religion in Cartoon Controversy, Observers Say

PARIS, France - The controversy over the publication of newspaper cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed raged through the weekend, as some observers here said the issue had become a political one.

--CNSNews.com--

NAACP Chief Denies Equating GOP, Nazis

Stung by national criticism of a speech in which he reportedly equated the Republican Party and Nazis, Julian Bond, the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, denies the comments attributed to him by members of the audience and has lashed out at WND as a “right-wing blog.”

--WorldNetDaily.com--

RNC Chief: Hillary Clinton Has ‘Anger’ Problem

When Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman told ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has an anger management problem, there's a reason Stephanopoulos didn't look surprised.

--NewsMax.com--

Author: Linda Cebrian

Date: Monday February 6, 2006 14:28

This is news?

Of course she's not stable!

It's the logical outcome of all those years choosing to stay married to a womanizer.

And she expects the rest of us to elect her President when she's not even in control of her own life.

NY, Nation Show Little Fondness for Hillary Clinton Prez Bid

New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton has more than a 40 to one campaign cash advantage over the most significant challenger to her Senate seat. For that reason and several others, Clinton is expected to win re-election this year in landslide fashion. However, more New Yorkers still want her to remain where she is, rather than run for president in 2008.

--CNSNews.com--

In Outreach, Kerry Posts to Liberal Political ‘Blog’

WASHINGTON - In an effort to reach grass-roots liberal activists, Senator John F. Kerry has begun posting entries to a blog that his presidential campaign disavowed in 2004.

--Washington Post--

Boehner Sees ‘Turning Point’; Dems See ‘More of the Same’

Liberal Democrats on Thursday complained that Rep. John Boehner, the new House majority leader, either bought his new leadership position; or he swept into the job on the coattails of the “corrupt” Tom DeLay.

--CNSNews.com--

Let's hope the Dems are right - “more of the same” being them remaining the minority. - BK

Florida Congressman's Wife Ejected Along With Sheehan

CAPITOL HILL -- It turns out Cindy Sheehan wasn't the only person ejected from the House gallery last night for wearing a T-shirt with a war-related slogan.

--TampaBays10.com (AP)--

Police Apologize to Cindy Sheehan

Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Wednesday and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman's wife from President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.

--NewsMax.com--

The police have nothing to apologize for. The harpy Sheehan was not there just to display her anti-war tee-shirt. - BK

Lib Blogger Jokes That Dem Rebuttal Prompted Wrist Slashing

Once the wife of a Republican congressman, but now the editor of a liberal blog, Arianna Huffington is joking that the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address made her want to slit her wrists.

--CNSNews.com--

What's this with the Democrats giving a “rebuttal” to the State of the Union? - BK

Poll: Conservatives Angry with GOP Leadership

A new online poll of 1,028 conservative activists and donors shows that 77 percent are either seriously disappointed with Republican congressional leaders or want them replaced.

--NewsMax.com--

Alito Splits With Conservatives in First Supreme Court Vote

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to clear the way for Missouri to execute an inmate contesting the constitutionality of lethal injection.

--USA Today--

If this was an abortion case, and Alito voted on the pro-life side, the media would make a big deal of the fact that Alito is a Catholic, and the Catholic Church opposes abortion. Will the media make as big a deal (or any deal at all) over the fact that Alito's church opposes the death penalty, and by voting against the death penalty, he is following the teachings of his church? Don't count on it - in fact, count on the opposite. - BK

Author: BK

Date: Friday February 3, 2006 7:59

Leo,

Thanks for your comments.

I'm not aware that PP and Co. have been creating "spin" that the RCC opposes the death penalty. In fact, the "spin" from that direction seems to me to be the opposite - that people who oppose abortion are hypocrites because so many of them also support the death penalty.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 19:00

BK,

Lets not help the left by saying the Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty is wrong.That's a spin that planned parenthood and other wants us to believe. It's not true. Big difference in killing the guilty and murdering the innocent. Amen!

Author: Patricia

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:14

Don't scare me like that. There can be and are honest differences regarding the death penalty. After all this is going to an appeals court. WHo knows what he will do if it comes up to the Supreme Court.

Now when the Partial Birth Abortion ban comes up and others like it we shall see if we got our hard prayers' and work's worth.

Author: BK

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 13:08

Leo,

Regarding the point I was trying to make, it is almost irrelevant whether or not the RCC teaches that the death penalty is wrong. I say "almost" because if the left believes it's true, they are hypocrites for not not condemning an anti-death penalty ruling the way they'd condemn an anti-abortion ruling. People are hypocrites when their actions conflict with their stated beliefs, whether or not those beliefs are true.

Author: Leo

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:38

However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty merits careful weighing in examination of conscience for those in public office.

Fr. Michael Orsi

"Different Levels of Catholic Teaching"

Homiletic and Pastoral Review

December, 2003

Author: Anonymous

Date: Thursday February 2, 2006 10:33

BK,

Catholic church teaching does not say the Death Penalty is wrong. That a spin put out by the liberal establishment. Here the facts.A pastoral voice — non-binding

Regarding capital punishment: While the pope demands that "capital punishment be applied in a very limited way, or even that it be abolished completely" (Evangelium Vitae, Section 56), he does not use the language of tradition or the language of prohibition. On this matter he is using his pastoral voice and making a prudential judgment. Since the Church has always recognized the right of the state to protect itself from criminals through the use of capital punishment, it is not inconsistent for a Catholic politician to uphold its efficacy for retributive justice and the good order of society. Therefore, there can be no equivalence between a pro-choice and a pro-death penalty politician. One is strictly illicit, while the other one is licit within the tradition. However, the pope's teaching on the death penalty

Author: Anonymous

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 13:30

What I meant was if there were no life threatening defects. I should have worded that differently. As long as that child will be able to have a quality of life, let it live.

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:09

AMEN! Helen

Author: Patricia(Real Name.)

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2006 0:07

I take it you are not the same annymous as the one with the fowl language and opinions.

Author: Helen Westover

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 23:24

If there's "nothing wrong with it"?

I worked for 6 years for an adoption agency in Queens; we had waiting lists for Down, spina bifida, and many other "wrong" babies. The demand for Down babies was one we couldn't fill; most of their kind are killed before birth.

I personally supervised 4 Down babies; one case was of a black woman who adopted 2; both died of heart failure in their first years. She also had a healthy Down boy who was doing very well, thank you, in grammar school.

We have to be very careful not to project our distain for the "less than perfect" onto others, who value them, and who value kids of all kinds.

Author: Anonymous

Date: Tuesday September 12, 2006 22:27

I know there are couples out there every day wishing they could have a baby. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that baby, why not adopt it out? I could not live with myself to think that I had murdered another human life. It's not my place to decide who should live or die. That is up to the man upstairs.

Author: Helen W.

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 21:18

Dear Anonymous:

Let's meet! I will give you $500 if you can best me in a debate over abortion.

I'll give you 5 bucks to just peer around the bush you're hiding behind, and tell us your name.

After all, you must be so PROUD of your opinions, not to mention your grammar and spelling!

Helen Westover

Author: Big Daddy

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 8:23

Dear Anonymous,

You want everyone's real name and soc. sec. number so you can dig up dirt on them, but you hide behind "Anonymous" yourself. You judge people who disagree with you, but deny THEIR right to judge YOU! You are the hypocrite!

Author: Anonymous

Date: Friday October 14, 2005 0:21

you are out of your f/n minds 1300 people viewed this ridiculous site im pro choice........ get a life or take all the future aborted babies and shut the **** up...........im ashamed that you self centered ..hypocrytocites are out there in the general public , and not having the time of day for children and still ****ing around on your wives and preaching to everyone else..........everyone in this organization give me your real name address and social no. and then i will do a background check on all of you.... a real good one ..and then i will get back to you and tell you if you are worthy or full of **** in your so called beliefs...my money is on me take the challenge and i will put it all on tv because i have met nobody that has the right to judge ....including me....bring it on i mean it............i am sick of you heart thumpers................

Snowball Thrower, Age 7, Charged

NEWBURGH - He might not be a hardened criminal, but he allegedly caused a school bus crash, and for that, a 7-year-old boy must face The Man.

--Times Herald-Record--

Way back when I was that age, if something like this happened, the police would have taken the kid to his parents and that would have been the end of it (except, of course, the parents would have been responsible for the damages). People today are wondering why the police are making such a big deal of this. I suspect that it's because the police now have no reason to believe that if they took the kid to his parents, the parents would punish him. More likely, they'd respond with a lawsuit against the police. - BK

Hillary Clinton Trashes Bush Address

Sen. Hillary Clinton wasted no time blasting President Bush's State of the Union message Tuesday night, saying his speech made it clear that “he still wants to take us in the wrong direction.”

--NewsMax.com--

Did you notice Hillary and the rest of the Democrats applauding wildly when Pres. Bush said that congress had done nothing to address the coming Social Security crisis. All they have to applaud is their own obstructionism. - BK

Sheehan Removed from Speech

WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the antiwar movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery last night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

--Washington Post--

NYC Shares Lab Results Without Consent

A mandatory program adopted by the New York City Board of Health last month to monitor blood sugar records in the name of diabetes prevention is being carried out without patients' knowledge and informed consent, according to city officials.

--WorldNetDaily.com--

When you compare this program with what the federal government wanted to do regarding data collection from internet search engines, you should find that they are strikingly similar. The leftmedia lent a lot of support to Google for rebuffing the government's attempt to collect the data. Now let's see if their outrage is selective as I believe it is. - BK

Giving to Churches by Seniors Threatened

Churches and other recipients of charitable giving that rely on senior citizens could face severe hardship if a Medicaid rule-change tucked into a 750-page budget bill passes the House this week, advocacy groups warn.

--WorldNetDaily.com--