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Go Get ‘em Helen
CNSNEWS.COM — Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press… (more)
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A Garden of Piggish Delights
Waxman-Markey is part power-grab, part enviro-fantasy. Here are 50 reasons to stop it.
SPECIAL-INTEREST SOPS
1. Free money for well-connected business interests.
2. A little something for Goldman Sachs. Again.
3. Alcoa and Dupont get their share. The utilities, too.
4. A tree grows in Botswana.
5. Selling indulgences.
6. Protecting refineries.
7. All carrot, no stick for [...]
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The Roman Catholic Church is one body.
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By Stephen Pohl, Catholic Exchange, July 2nd, 2009
No not pro-life, for life; like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Comrade Bob Mugabe, and that Honduran wannabe, Manuel Zelaya.
I am not a proponent of CIA sponsored right wing coups, or dictatorships of any stripe. On the other hand, all branches of the legitimate Honduran government, including his [...]
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Patriot Post, Wednesday Chronicle – Vol. 09 No. 26
“The House just passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade carbon emissions control act. If it passes the Senate, expect the president — the bill’s pusher-in-chief — to sign it at first opportunity. I have not read the bill, so I should not comment on it at length. But then, [...]
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Patriot Post, Wednesday Chronicle – Vol. 09 No. 26
The Waxman-Malarkey cap and tax bill is bad news
Biggest Big Lie of the Year: “Just last Friday, the House of Representatives came together to pass an extraordinary piece of legislation that will finally open the door to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, preventing the worst consequences [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, July 1, 2009
D.C. liberals may have squeaked same-sex “marriage” through the District’s Superior Court yesterday, but fortunately Bishop Harry Jackson doesn’t know the meaning of the word “quit.” “We have a plan,” he told reporters, “and we’re not going away.”
In his suit, which was filed by the Alliance Defense Fund [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, July 1, 2009
With the help of Saturday Night Live’s finest–new Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.)–liberals are accelerating their push to pass federal “hate crimes” legislation. In a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) made no bones about his plan to fast-track the bill after the [...]
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Vatican Information Service, 1 JULY 2009
VATICAN CITY, (VIS) – In the Holy See Press Office at 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday 7 July a press conference will be held to present Benedict XVI’s new Encyclical “Caritas in veritate”.
Participating in the conference will be: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino and Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, respectively president and secretary of [...]
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By John Boehner
TownHall.com
July 02, 2009
Our country has lost nearly three million jobs this year and today the Labor Department will release its monthly jobs report for June where analysts expect unemployment to increase once again. Families and small businesses are hurting, but all we’ve seen from Washington is reckless spending, taxing, and borrowing that [...]
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….Yet “the two essential elements of priestly ministry” always remain “announcement and power”, said the Holy Father recalling how Christ sent His disciples out to announce the Gospel giving them the power to drive out demons. “Announcement and power”, in other words “Word and Sacrament, are the pillars of priestly service, over and above the [...]
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General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase Out Lab Rats
By Alex Bush, July 1, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
BOSTON, Mass – General Electric has announced that it will use embryonic stem cells provided by Geron Corporation for the purpose of testing toxic effects of drug treatments.
GE issued a statement, attempting to preempt criticism over the [...]
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WASHINGTON, July 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chair of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote to members of the House Appropriations Committee yesterday urging them not to fund abortions in the District of Columbia. Last week the House subcommittee that is considering the Financial [...]
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Suspended priest, Geoffrey Farrow
Fresno, Calif., Jul 2, 2009 / 06:43 am (CNA).- Citing the organization’s support for traditional marriage, a suspended Catholic priest who has turned to homosexual activism has called for Catholic pastors to block Knights of Columbus groups from their parishes and to borrow against the order’s insurance policies to fund homosexual groups.
He [...]
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Catholic News Agency, July 1, 2009
Bishop Ricardo Blázquez, Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzatti, Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop Ricardo Watti (top to bottom, left to right)
Rome, Italy – After the announcement on March 31 that Pope Benedict XVI had ordered an Apostolic Visitation of the Legionaries of Christ, many wondered when it would begin. Vatican watcher Sandro [...]
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“The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.”
–Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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Father Jeffery Bowker, LC
Matthew 9:1-8
After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” At that, some of the scribes said to [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JULY 02, 2009
Born 1060 in Swabia; died June 30, 1139; was Bishop of Bamberg, an indefatigable evengelizer and the apostle of the Pomeranians.
He was born of noble rank and ordained a priest sometime before the age of 30. He joined the service of Emperor Henry IV in 1090 and became his chancellor [...]
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