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RenewAmerica staff, March 10, 2010
When the president’s socialized health care plan was first introduced in Congress in July 2009, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) of the House Subcommittee on Health delivered a scathing — but common-sense — appraisal of “Obamacare,” labeling it a “travesty.”
The congressman’s remarks, made July 16, 2009, [...]
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BY EDWARD PENTIN, National Catholic Register, 3/9/10
The Vatican has issued a directive to a Polish diocese that emphasizes the freedom of priests to celebrate Mass in the extraordinary form whenever they choose.
The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei made the clarification in January in [...]
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RASSMUSEN, March 09, 2010
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 (see trends).
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….The Senate can only pass one reconciliation bill per year, which is why the Democrats — who seem to intuit that they won’t be so numerous next year — are laying the groundwork for a health-plus-education 51-vote omnibus reconciliation package. But in a way, the combination [...]
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….there is a thin line between leadership and dictatorship . . . Obama — if he signs this reform into law — will be consciously thwarting the clearly expressed desires of a large majority of the American people . . . In the most recent Rasmussen poll, 76% [...]
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‘END’ OF THE ‘END GAME’ OR ‘THE END’?
TODAY: Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)
Last year:
July 28: Healthcare endgame on Capitol Hill (Reuters)
August 21: Analysis: Health care endgame near but uncertain (AP)
October 14: Senate, administration begin healthcare endgame as Dem leaders express unity (Hill)
October 25: Senators say health care [...]
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The Haircut
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, “I cannot accept money from you; I’m doing community service this week.” The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next [...]
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Brief, Patriot Post, March 8, 2010
The Foundation
“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.”
–Alexander Hamilton
Liberty
“While American politicians and intellectuals have not reached the depths of tyrants such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler, they share a common vision. Tyrants [...]
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Blessed are those who for love of the Lord plunge headlong into trials and troubles without anger or sadness; when they escape, they soon reach safety in the harbor of the divinity, and through their good works come to God’s home and have rest from their troubles, rejoicing in their [...]
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….But we have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy…..
Pelosi Remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties
Nancy’s website: http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=1576
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….women are increasingly coming forward everywhere, just like the original “Jane Roe,” Norma McCorvey, publicly admitting the horror of their actions, genuinely penitent — and genuinely forgiven. But their stories aren’t deemed “newsworthy.”….
By L. Brent Bozell, Patriot Post, March 10, 2010
If anyone was looking for a [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, March 9, 2010
How does President Obama celebrate “International Women’s Day?” By leading the effort to pass the most pro-abortion health care plan in U.S. history. With billions set aside for groups like Planned Parenthood, the President’s latest bill would trick Americans into funding a procedure [...]
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STUPAK SAYS NO ABORTION FUNDING DEAL IN PLACE, WON’T BACK DOWN ON HEALTH CARE
Washington, [...]
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“….But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it….”
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“ One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.”
–James Madison, Federalist No. 48
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Supreme Court Chief Justice: Scene at State of Union Was ‘Very Troubling’
“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is [...]
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Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life, March 9, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com)
I know you’re familiar with the old saying, “God works in mysterious ways.” Please sit down and read this whole story. Our God of mystery has outdone Himself this time!
A young woman in Indianapolis, Indiana [...]
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Wednesday, 3rd Week of Lent
Father Daniel Polzer, LC
Matthew 5:17-19
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MARCH 10, 2010
St. John Ogilvie was born of a noble Scottish family in 1579 and was raised a Calvinist. The wealth of his family allowed him to be educated on the continent, and there he became exposed to the religious conflict of the Reformation and Counter Reformation. [...]
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….A bishop does not belong in politics, even when he thinks being political serves the cause of Christ. And if the USCCB is going to use the money that it collects from Catholic lay people to support the agenda of a political party…well, what’s [...]
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Bishop Sheen was never so eloquent as when he was speaking about Jesus Christ. For Sheen a sense of humor was not just the sense of the comic, but the ability to see through to the essence of things. Bishop Sheen was gifted with a fine sense of humor.
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Isaiah
Chapter 5: 20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!
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SOURCE: THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC
There will come a day in this country when future generations will look back on legal abortion with the same shame and abhorrence that we now look upon slavery. In that future those who stood up for the unborn will be regarded as heroines and heroes. On [...]
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NEWSMAX, Monday, March 8, 2010
Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.
Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with [...]
