Politics

Fourth of July — A New Declaration of Independence

by Tom Purcell July 4, 2008

In the course of human events it is necessary, now and again, to dissolve our political bands with the ninnies who keep abandoning our founding principles.
It used to be self-evident that our government’s role was primarily to protect certain…

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Democrats Reach Out to Catholics

by Catholic League June 30, 2008

Two evangelical leaders, Rev. Jim Wallis and Rev. Tony Campolo, have pledged to reach out to Catholics and evangelicals by pushing the Democratic Party to change its Party Platform on abortion. Wallis told ABC News that “Abortion reduction should be…

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“If You Are Really Sick, Call 911″

by Dr. Donald P. Condit June 27, 2008

Why do many doctors’ offices have answering machines with this initial response? Price controls. Why does it take so long to get an appointment, if one is even available? Price controls. What will happen if our next president, in the…

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Obama Flip-Flops on D.C. School Voucher Program – Now Intends to Squash it

by LifeSite News June 27, 2008

A landmark education program that provides opportunity to hundreds of families in the nation’s capital to attend private schools is being opposed by Democrats in Congress.
 
Barack Obama told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in February that he was open to voucher…

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Liberal Smears Unchallenged

by L. Brent Bozell June 27, 2008

The general election season is under way, and the leftists are already displaying their hypocrisy. They’ve launched pre-emptive warnings against a Republican “swiftboating” of Barack Obama at the same time they’re making up wild allegations about the villainous ultraconservative plots…

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Thomas More Law Center to Government — Time to End Haditha ‘Fiasco’

by Thomas More Law Center June 27, 2008

For over two years, the federal government, the Far Left  media and anti-war politicians have smeared the names of loyal Marines, spent millions of dollars to uncover the “Haditha massacre” that never occurred, and employed an army of Naval Criminal…

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Catholic Communion Rules Not About Politics but “Unity Between the Love of Christ and Humanity”: Italian Cardinal

by Hilary White June 25, 2008

Church teaching on the impossibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Communion is a matter intrinsic to the nature of the Eucharist, not of the “external disposition” of individuals, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference said this week. Hence,…

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New Youth Convention Threatens to Promote Homosexuality, Abortion

by Piero Tozzi, J.D. June 24, 2008

With the recent addition of Bolivia, seven counties have now ratified a treaty called the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth (ICRY), a document that worries Latin American social conservatives for its not-so-veiled promotion of radical social policies. The…

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Washington’s Unpopular War on Energy

by Ray Nothstine June 21, 2008

Most Americans have little faith in the federal government to represent their interests. Who can blame them, when their fears are constantly affirmed by Washington’s shenanigans? According to polls, presidential and congressional approval ratings are hovering around an all time…

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Eurocrats Refuse to Take “No” for an Answer on Lisbon Treaty

by Hilary White June 19, 2008

The media reported widely this weekend that European Union leadership is already planning ways to ignore the referendum vote in Ireland that rejected the re-worked European Constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty.
 
Despite the fact that under the EU’s own…

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