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Palin Stepping Down; Speaks From the Heart w/No Teleprompter!

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Palin Stuns With News She’s Stepping Aside as Governor

At an 11:00 a.m. press conference today, Governor Sarah Palin announced that she would not seek a second term as governor. The governor continued, saying that by the end of the month she would resign from the governorship. On a day that most public employees have [...]

A 4th of July Call to Action

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Father James Farfaglia, Pastor, St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 3, 2009 
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (The Declaration of Independence, [...]

The Glorious Fourth

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….When Sam Adams was elected to that First Continental Congress and traveled to the gathering of leaders in Philadelphia, he thought the Continental Congress needed to begin its work on its knees–in prayer . . .”Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me, and fight against them that fight against me.”….
 

Tony Perkins, [...]

Miracles All Around Us

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….This July 4th weekend let us honor our nation’s genuine community organizers.  . . . . With the infidelities of a governor and the racy photos of a beauty pageant winner in mind, Elizabeth Scalia wrote that “we allow breeching and encroaching without understanding that our natural or learned boundaries are not prisons but safety zones, [...]

IS THAT RHETORICAL? Helen Thomas: Who Do They Think We Are, Puppets?

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Bill Tate, American Thinker, July 2, 2009

Helen Thomas to CNSNews on the unprecedented lengths the Obama White House goes to to control the press.

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they think we are, puppets?”.

Thomas made her comments after this week’s carefully-orchestrated “town [...]

Independence Day 2009: We Still Hold These Truths…

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Alexander’s Essay – 2 July 2009 – Patriot Post
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” –Patrick Henry
As we celebrate the [...]

BHO Meets With Some Members of the Catholic Press; Says Expect a ‘Robust Conscience Clause’

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JULY 2, 2009

President Barack Obama at a meeting of the Forum on Health Reform. Official White House photo. Credit: Pete Souza
Washington D.C. – President Obama promised a “robust conscience clause” in a 41-minute meeting with some members of the Catholic press this morning. 
The president met in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with eight members of [...]

Founder’s Quote Daily

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“Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto
all the inhabitants thereof.”
–Leviticus 25:10 Inscription on the Liberty Bell
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GOSPEL & MEDITATION: “My Lord and My God!”

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Father Robert DeCesare, LC
John 20:24-29
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and [...]

SAINT OF THE DAY: ST. THOMAS, APOSTLE

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JULY 03, 2009

What we know of the life of St. Thomas is what is recorded of him in the Gospels -especially the Gospel of John – and what has been handed down by tradition. He is named in the three synoptic Gospels but only in the lists of the Apostles of Christ.

St. [...]

THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2009

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