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February 14, 2009 Judith Reisman: beware of David Ogden By Matt C. Abbott RenewAmerica Long-time pornography foe Dr. Judith A. Reisman sounds the alarm regarding David W. Ogden, President Obama's nominee for Deputy Attorney General, in the following commentary. Government Child Protectors, Attorneys, and Crime Prevention Agents Endorse Big Pornography Advocate for United States Deputy Attorney General by Judith Reisman 'On November 6, 2008, President-elect Obama tapped Big Pornography attorney David Ogden to establish his new U.S. Justice Department team with nary a word of warning from the conservative legal watch. 'On January 5, 2009, President Obama nominated Ogden for U.S. Justice Department Deputy Attorney General. His nomination hearing was scheduled for February 5. 'On January 21, the Senate Judiciary Committee began receiving formal 'Letters Received in Connection with the Nomination' (some naming multiple persons and organizations). All 51 endorsed Og...

Toward a Personhood Amendment February 2009 By Judie Brown Judie Brown is president and cofounder of American Life League, the nation's largest grassroots prolife educational organization, and is currently serving her third five-year term as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome. She is the author of seven books, most recently Saving Those Damned Catholics: A Defense of Catholic Teaching, and writes a syndicated daily commentary, "Straight Talk on Life," posted on the ALL website (www.all.org). She has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Mother Angelica Live, The O'Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, Today, Oprah, and Larry King Live. She is married to Paul A. Brown, with whom she has three children and ten grandchildren. For many years, American Life League has led the call for personhood as the single most important goal for those who truly want to abolish the tragic act of abortion in America. That goal, which is best achieved by amending the U.S. Constit...

http://www.profam.org/docs/acc/thc.acc.yale.081108.htm “Learning From Conservative History: Main Trails…and Less-Travelled Paths” by Allan Carlson, Ph.D. Sunday, Feb 8, 2009 FOR THE ISI REGIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE “THE NEXT AMERICAN CONSERVATISM?” HELD AT YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT NOVEMBER 8, 2008 By training, I am an historian. I love the discipline and believe that historical mindedness – the ability to see and understand the grounding of current institutions, issues, and events in the complex matrix of the past – this is the superior way to make sense of reality. All the same, I have been troubled for over a decade by the growing interest of American conservatives in the history of their cause. This is not to criticize fine books such as George Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. Nor is it to imply that ignorance is the better strategy for guiding a cultural, political, and intellectual campaign. Nor is it to deny that any m...

Obama's Stimulus Can Be Defeated. You Need to Act Now to Make It Happen. American Democracy Depends on It. Urgent Message from Dick Morris Dear Friends: President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are close to suffering their first defeat in Congress. With your help, Obama's massive pork-barrel, socialist, wealth-distribution program billed as a "stimulus" plan can be stopped. Obama promised to be nonpartisan. But he's been anything but. We now know the stimulus program includes billions for bureaucrats' new cars, Hollywood movie makers, arts programs, anti-smoking campaigns, efforts to reduce sexually transmitted diseases, and a litany of programs totally unrelated to the economy. Obama promised massive infrastructure programs to create new jobs. But get this: Less than 5% of the $800 billion plus program goes for such programs. What a joke. Thankfully, the American people are not stupid. Groups like The National Republic...

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:2RpcYhcxLOkJ:www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/2005/06/+dale+ahlquist+same+sex+gay+homosexual&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us At noon each day, a cannon shot resounds in the Eternal City. It is a reminder to Romans and all Italians of their victory over the papacy and the birth of the Italian Republic more than 150 years ago. Prego. Closer to our own times, another secular victory approaches in a country no less Catholic than Spain. In late April the lower house of the Spanish parliament gave its preliminary approval -- 183 to 136, with six abstentions -- to a bill that would make Spain the third country in Europe to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children. Bravo. The proposed language of the new civil law would include the phrase: “Matrimony shall have the same requisites and effects regardless of whether the persons involved are of the same or different genders.” A reformulation of marriage doesn’t come much s...

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200902053574/culture-wars/obama-big-spending-bill-stimulates-anti-christian-bigotry.html Obama Big Spending Bill Stimulates Anti-Christian Bigotry February 5, 2009 Washington, DC - President Obama's stimulus plan is being used to restrict the free exercise of religion in public facilities where federal funding is involved Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty charged Tuesday, February 3: Among the prohibited uses of "greening" funds is the "modernization, renovation or repair" of higher learning facilities where sectarian religious activities or services may be conducted. "The economic crisis is being used as a pretext to curb religious liberty at institutions of higher learning. Religious activity is already scarce at most of our colleges, the Obama people want to make sure it is extinct. The ultimate impact will be to drive religious activities out of public education altogether. If higher...

February 06, 2009 Ashley Judd: Clown in Wolf Guardian's Clothing by Michelle Malkin February 06, 2009 Actress Ashley Judd has finally earned her Hollywood stripes and provided award-winning comic relief. With Washington poised to shove a trillion-dollar "stimulus" pork pie down our throats, we need all the distractions we can get. I give Judd's unintentionally entertaining performance in a new Sarah Palin-bashing animal rights ad two diversionary thumbs up. The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund sponsored the YouTube video starring Judd. They've dubbed their campaign, launched this week, "Eye on Palin." With all the serious, socially responsible celebrity earnestness she could muster, Judd decried the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska, the GOP governor's state. "It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery," Judd intoned. Casting herself as an environmental expert, Judd attacked Palin for "casting aside science and ...

MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 February 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker 540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org OBAMA ON ABORTION: 37 PERCENT APPROVE, 58 PERCENT OPPOSE Washington, DC (3 February 2009) – The following is a statement from Shaun Kenney, executive director of American Life League in reaction to the news that President Barack Obama's early emphasis on abortion is marginalizing him with the majority of Americans. A Gallup poll released Feb. 2 shows a mere 37 percent of Americans approve of Obama's funding for abortions overseas. Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of the funding - made possible through Obama's repeal of the Mexico City Policy. The president repealed the policy the day after the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. "Obama's promise of 'hope' and 'change' doesn't square with sending millions of hard earned tax-dollars overseas to kill preborn children. Americans are sending a message ...

Vatican Official: Bishops Have no Choice But to Refuse Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians By Hilary White ROME, January 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond Burke, in an exclusive interview last week, told LifeSiteNews.com that the issue of pro-abortion politicians continuing to receive Holy Communion is still one of major concern and that it is the duty of bishops to ensure that they are refused. He told LifeSiteNews.com, "I don't understand the continual debate that goes on about it. There's not a question that a Catholic who publicly, and after admonition, supports pro-abortion legislation is not to receive Holy Communion and is not to be given Holy Communion." "The Church's law is very clear," said Archbishop Burke, who was appointed last year by Pope Benedict XVI as the head of the Church's highest court, the Apostolic Signatura. "The person who persists publicly in grave sin is to be denied Holy Communion, and it [Canon Law] do...

Actor Who Paid for Three Abortions Now Condemns Woman's "Right to Choose...to Kill Her Baby" by Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Actor Gary Graham knew that by writing about his personal experience and rejection of abortion, he would be incurring the ire of not a few among the Hollywood elite. Yet a blog column posted last Tuesday by the seasoned actor, known most recently for his roles as Ambassador Soval in the TV series "Star Trek: Enterprise" and Capt. Ingles on "J.A.G.", took an unflinching look at truths almost entirely ignored by those in the Hollywood establishment. "I'm going to say what millions know in the front of their brains, and many, many more millions know in the depths of their hearts … but won't allow themselves to think it, much less feel it," wrote Graham. "And believe me, I know I'll be hated for saying it, I'll be hated by people who don't know me, have never ...

MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 February 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker 540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org VATICAN: BISHOPS MUST REFUSE COMMUNION TO PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS Washington, DC (4 February 2009) – Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued a statement today in response to an interview in which Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's highest court, stated, There's not a question that a Catholic who publicly, and after admonition, supports pro-abortion legislation is not to receive Holy Communion and is not to be given Holy Communion … This is a law of the universal Church and it should be applied. About the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Burke commented, I think this argument [that this matter should be decided by the USCCB] too is being used by people who don't want to confront the issue, this whole "wait 'til the Conference decides"...well the Conference has been discussing t...

I found an insightful article on the dangers of the occult called Therapeutic Religion by Carrie Tomko. (Carrie’s article is posted below.) She showed, using an article that I wrote on how secular psychology lead to the sex abuse scandal, that the real battle of our epoch and every epoch is spiritual. Tomko explains: “Since Eden nothing has changed. The serpent still whispers; and like Eve, sometimes we listen. The conscience can be silenced so that the only voice we hear is the voice of our own sinfulness. This voice of sinfulness was let loose without brakes when psychology invaded religion.” Secular psychology which is the new religion of America promotes a mindset that denies our need for a relationship with God. Sometimes Oprah or Dr. Phil gives a nod to God, but the message is always the same: “ What is needed are not God and His Forgiveness, but for a self to reach the fullness of its self.” Oprah and Dr. Phil have many good things to say, but if those things put God in second p...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/read.php?sid=95 It’s Pork -- Not Stimulus This is pork, not stimulus. A look at where much of this money is going for makes me wonder how this can possibly stimulate the economy or create permanent jobs, It looks like a piggy bank for special interests. Louis P Sheldon Get This Story Banner Code Here - Link To It! The House of Representatives voted 244-188 to pass President Obama’s massive spending program. Not one Republican voted for this irresponsible bill and were joined by 11 Democrats. House Republican leader John Boehner described the vote as a bipartisan rejection of a partisan bill Obama’s $825 billion wild spending spree to “stimulate” the economy, is just old-style pork barrel spending. The bill will use borrowed funds and will increase the federal deficit to $2 trillion dollars this year. In fact, the $825 billion is actually $1.1 trillion with inte...

http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/read.php?sid=94 Economic Meltdown Fueled By Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd As our nation faces a serious economic crisis in 2009, Americans need to understand the origins of this crisis. Andrea Lafferty Get This Story Banner Code Here - Link To It! The subprime mortgage crisis fueled instability in other sectors of the economy and has led a crisis in the banking industry, housing industry, auto industry – and is resulting in the layoffs of millions of Americans. A subprime mortgage is one granted to individuals with a bad credit history or no credit history. They were given no-money-down, low interest, or interest-only loans. Democrats effectively blamed President Bush for the economic crisis and this propelled Obama into office as President of the United States for the next four years. Is President Bush to blame? No. It was Democrat leadership going back to the Carter Administration that created this economic disaster. The fact is that the roots of ...