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….What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust, anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and injustice . . . despite all the evidence against it, the modern liberal mind believes his agenda is good social science. It is, in fact, [...]
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Fr. James Farfaglia, February 27, 2009
Satan’s greatest triumph is that he has caused many people to no longer believe that he really exists. Jesus tells us who he is when he said: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10: 18). My dear friends, Satan is real and his actions in the [...]
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….These revolutions in health care, education and energy are not just abstract hopes. They have already taken life in Obama’s massive $787 billion stimulus package, a huge expansion of social spending constituting a down payment on Obama’s plan for remaking the American social contract…..
By Charles Krauthammer
Townhall.com
February 27, 2009
WASHINGTON – Not a great speech, but extremely [...]
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Health Care Reform Video
Posted by Tom McFeely, National Catholic Register, Feb. 27, 2009
I wrote a couple of articles last fall for the Register’s ongoing series on health care reform.
The series was suspended shortly before the election for two reasons: One, it seemed best to hold off more articles until after we knew [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, February 27, 2009
In bold white script, the words “A New Era of Responsibility” are splashed across the cover of the President’s new budget proposal. Unfortunately, the responsibilities outlined throughout its 142 pages
are ours–all $3.6 trillion of them.
In five weeks on the job, President Obama is on his way to racking [...]
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DEFINE CONSERVATIVISM:
“It is an ideology of protecting the people and the people’s rights.”
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American Catholic, February 28, 2009
Daniel spent most of his life in the trenches—one way or another.
Born in France in 1876, Daniel was ordained in 1899 and began a teaching career. That didn’t satisfy him long. He wanted to use his zeal for the gospel far beyond the classroom. He joined [...]
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2009
Father Paul Hubert, LC
Luke 5:27-32
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, Feb 28, 2009
Bishop Martino Writes Another Letter to Senator Casey
Washington D.C. (CNA) – Bishop of Scranton Joseph Martino has again written Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey concerning his vote against the Mexico City Policy, saying he has “deep concern” that the senator’s staff is misrepresenting the vote as pro-life. Bishop Martino [...]
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The Bush administration instituted a rule in its last days that strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse for moral reasons to perform abortions.
FOXNEWS, FEB. 27, 2009
President Obama wants to rescind a Bush administration rule that strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who [...]
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Quote of the week
Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 08
“Democratic leaders in Washington, they place their hope in the federal government. We place our hope in you, the American people. In the end, it comes down to an honest and fundamental disagreement about the proper role of government. We [...]
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….in Obama’s words, “the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.” . . . Obama is accomplishing this socialist transformation at lightning pace under cover of “responding to the economic crisis” in order to “save or create 3.5 million jobs.” ….
By Mark Alexander, Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. [...]
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By Bud White, No Quarter, April 10, 2008
One of the things most disconcerting about Obama is that he is the Master of Misdirection. Like a magician who distracts you in order to pull off a trick, Obama is the opposite of who he claims to be.
Here are some examples:
After the Wright story [...]
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By W. James Antle, III, The American Spectator
…Will restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion disappear during the congressional appropriations process?…
So far, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have preferred to avoid high-profile fights on contentious social issues. After being dusted off for the campaign trail, the Freedom of [...]
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….”But if you acted responsibly, if you saved your money and you kept paying your mortgage like 93 percent of the rest of Americans do, you’re out of luck”….
Jim Brown – OneNewsNow – 2/26/2009
WASHINGTON, DC – A young rising star in the Republican Party has laid out a new conservative vision for the country.
Congressman [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC – The new chairman of the Republican Party says the conservative movement is alive and well, but that it must become a revolution.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is calling for a revolution of new ideas and opportunities that value the rights of the individual over [...]
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….Who are the real suckers? Who are the true victims? If only the reporters swallowing their stories were half as diligent about background checks of ACORN thugs as they were with Joe the Plumber….
Michelle Malkin, Syndicated Columnist, OneNewsNow, 2/26/2009
It shouldn’t be long before ACORN recruits “Octomom” Nadya Suleman to serve as the radical left-wing [...]
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By Matt Cover, CNSNews.com, February 27, 2009
Rep, Pail Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) at a Capitol Hill news conference. (AP photo)
The ranking Republicans on the House and Senate budget committees see President [...]
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ZENIT, FEB. 26, 2009
ROME (Zenit.org) – Benedict XVI is encouraging Catholics to live this Lent practicing prayer, almsgiving and fasting following the example of St. Paul.
The Pope affirmed this today in Mass before receiving and distributing ashes at the Basilica of St. Sabina. He began the Ash Wednesday events by presiding over a prayer assembly. [...]
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….Every time (Obama) speaks, he sends the markets down and stocks crashing. He doesn’t seem to realize that the rest of the world takes its cue from him. He forgets that he stands at the epicenter of power, not on the fringes campaigning for office. This ain’t Iowa…..
By Dick Morris, The [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Feb. 26, 2009
Not everyone in Obama’s party is going merrily along with the new President’s power surge. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, is openly criticizing Obama’s growing circle of policy “czars.”
Yesterday, he took his leader to task for trying to bypass the system and [...]
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