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ENCORE: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

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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, [...]

THE SUNDAY HOMILY: Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone

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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 [...]

Charles Krauthammer: The Obamaist Manifesto

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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 [...]

How Should Healthcare be Reformed?

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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 [...]

Another Day, Another Trillion; $3.6 Trillion of Them

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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 [...]

‘Define Conservatism’: 13-Year-Old Author Jonathan Krohn Gets Standing Ovation at CPAC

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DEFINE CONSERVATIVISM:
“It is an ideology of protecting the people and the people’s rights.”

TODAY’S SAINT: Blessed Daniel Brottier (1876-1936)

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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 [...]

GOSPEL & MEDITATION: Forgiveness: The First Step to Love

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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 [...]

Bishop Martino Writes Sen. Casey Over Vote Against Mexico City Policy

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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 [...]

FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 2009

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Official: Obama to Reverse Bush Abortion Regulation

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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 [...]

REALLY?

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Gov. Jinal: There is “…an Honest and Fundamental Disagreement….

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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 [...]

ObamaNation — The USSA: “The Era of Profound Irresponsibility…”

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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. [...]

April 10, 2008: Obama the Magician; Master of Misdirection.

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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 [...]

Hide the Amendments

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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 [...]

INSPIRING! The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

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Christ, Be Our Light

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Obama’s Economic Vision Reminiscent of Karl Marx’s

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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 [...]

Valuing the Individual Over Government

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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 [...]

MALKIN: ACORN’s Foreclosure ‘Victims’

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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 [...]

Obama Paving Way for Health Care Rationing, Say Budget Committee Republicans

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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 [...]

Pontiff Highlights St. Paul’s Lenten Example

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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. [...]

It’s Obama Spreading Panic: Having Inherited a Recession, His Words Are Creating a Depression!

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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 [...]

Ex-KKK Member, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) Cagey on White House Czars

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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 [...]