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Voice Against Abortion Funding Grows Louder

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Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow, 2/2/2010
The push to shove abortion coverage out of healthcare reform continues.
Former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado) is touring the country for the Susan B. Anthony List, challenging Blue Dog Democrats who are pro-life to remain steady and vote against any healthcare reform bill that includes tax dollars for abortion.  Musgrave remembers the 1990s when she ran [...]

AGAIN?

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Backdoor Taxes to Hit Middle Class

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By Terri Cullen, Reuters, Feb 1, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters.com) – The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White [...]

3.8 Trillion for What?

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Obama’s unprecedented spending will have ramifications for future generations of Americans.
 

 
By Donald Lambro, Human Events, 02/02/2010

Despite President Obama’s feigned concern about sky high federal spending, escalating budget deficits and mounting government debt, all three are expected to grow much worse under his new budget proposals.
Overall spending will be approaching a record $4 trillion in fiscal 2011, [...]

HUMOR! Outtakes From the E-Trade Babies: Some of the Stuff That Won’t Be Making ‘The Big Game’ This Year

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

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When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.
— G.K. Chesterton
 http://catholicexchange.com/2010/02/02/126694/

Speaker Pelosi Spends Your Hard-Earned Tax Dollars on Expensive Booze

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SOURCE:  AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
These receipts represent a small portion of the more than $101,000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi-approved spending on booze (lots and lots and lots of alcohol) and snacks during her jet-setting military aircraft trips.  You can see the entire bill footed by THE PEOPLE here.  Note: The listing of receipts provided by Judicial Watch is 1,949 pages long, broken [...]

Joe ‘The Plumber’ Has Some Advice for the Washington Elites

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….Here’s my suggestion Mr. Biden . . Stop talking long enough to listen . . . (and) all you folks from Washington, D.C….stop pontificating long enough to actually hear what we are saying…..
 
 “You Don’t Need a Washington Task Force to Understand the Middle Class” -  By Joe ‘The Plumber’ Wurzelbacher

It was kind of hard to stop laughing [...]

LifeNews.com Headlines: February 2, 2010

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POTENTIAL 2012 GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES RAISE BIG MONEY, BACK PRO-LIFERS
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates all raised significant amounts of money for their political action committees last year. Each of the potential challengers to pro-abortion President Barack Obama not only received hefty donations but also doled out money to pro-life candidates.

NFL [...]

Groundhog Edition: Do You Think Punxsutawney Phil Reads IPCC Global Warming Reports?

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 By Publius,  Big Government 

So, do you think Punxsutawney Phil reads IPCC Global Warming reports? Actually, Phil is probably verifiably more reliable.

http://biggovernment.com/2010/02/02/tuesday-open-thread-groundhog-edition/

Where’s Justice? O’Keefe Sits in Jail 28 Hours Without Access to Attorney!

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“U.S. Attorney Steps Down From O’Keefe Case”
….The panty bomber on Christmas was given — you know, this guy’s from Al Qaeda, and he’s not even an American citizen, and he’s given access to an attorney right away…..

 By Publius, Big Government, From FoxNews
 

The same day the man who first published James O’Keefe’s explosive videos exposing wrongdoing [...]

The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

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Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas day, since the blessing and procession of candles is included in today’s liturgy.
 
 
Collect: All-powerful Father, Christ your Son became man for us and was presented in the temple. [...]

Are You Beginning To Smell a Rat? More Disturbing News About the CCHD

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Deal Hudson, Inside Catholic, Feb. 2, 2010
 

More startling evidence has been unearthed about the Catholic Campaign for Human development that shows a disturbing pattern of cooperation between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and groups that advocate abortion and same-sex marriage.
Two reports, released yesterday by the American Life League (ALL) and Bellarmine Veritas Ministry [...]

New Study: Abstinence-Only Works!

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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Feb. 1, 2010
Several governors decided to turn down federal abstinence funding just as new research is demonstrating how effective the message is. Today, Dr. Geoffrey Fong from the University of Waterloo and Drs. John and Loretta Jemmott from the University of Pennsylvania released a groundbreaking study on the impact of [...]

Today’s Health Care Takeover Brought to You by…HCAN

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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Feb. 1, 2010
The President has indicated he doesn’t want to debate health care now, the Democrats lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts over it, and a solid majority of Americans oppose the plan. So why is the liberal leadership plowing ahead on this kamikaze path? For that, we need only [...]

It’s All Political Theatre! Obama’s HOPE Is That He Gets All of Your CHANGE

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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Feb. 1, 2010

The President’s new 2011 budget may have slashed money for NASA, but this administration is still on the verge of a new frontier in federal debt. His $3,800,000,000,000.00 proposal is the largest in U.S. history and–without significant changes–would add $8.5 trillion in American I.O.U.s by 2020. Of that, [...]

Nancy (Forget The People) Pelosi . . .”We Must Pass Health Care Reform”: Discusses Gates, Fences and Parachutes!

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This morning, Speaker Pelosi held her weekly press conference at the Capitol and answered a question on moving forward with health care reform:
We must pass health care reform. The problem is still there. The financial aspects of it, the cost to individuals, to their families, to small businesses, to big businesses, to all businesses, to [...]

Canadian Group Airing Pro-Life Ad on Local TV Station

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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski, February 1, 2010, LifeSiteNews.com
KELOWNA, B.C. – Kelowna Right to Life is running a pro-life video ad entitled “Everyone Against Abortion, Please Raise Your Hand” on the local TV station, CHBC, starting today.
The ad features what the local media is calling a “graphic anti-abortion image” of adult fingers holding the outstretched hand [...]

ROVE: “It is Beneath the Office That He Now Holds”

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Rove: Only Carter Has Approached Obama’s ‘Weak and Whining’ Attitude

February 1, 2010 at 10:42 pm – The Scott Hennen Show
Dateline: Washington DC
“It is beneath the office that he now holds. I mean, think back – we don’t like weak, whiny people in that job because we know – every American instinctively knows, regardless of party [...]

Fiscal Insanity vs. Lies About Fiscal Insanity

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Senator Gregg: ‘This Is Fiscal Insanity’
February 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm – Fox News
Dateline: Washington DC
“We’ve got some pretty big problems here. We need some pretty big solutions. This is fiscal insanity — to continue to grow the government the way we’re growing it, to continue to spend the way we’re spending. … We’re going [...]

Founder’s Quote Daily

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“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”

–Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
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TODAY’S GOSPEL

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2010
Liturgical Year C
Gospel – Lk 2:22-40
22. And after the days of her purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem, in order to present him to the Lord,
23. just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “For every male opening the womb shall [...]

PRESENTATION OF THE LORD

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Catholic News Agency, FEBRUARY 02, 2010

 
At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her journal, discovered in 1887, gives an unprecedented glimpse of liturgical life there. Among the celebrations she describes is the Epiphany (January 6), the observance of Christ’s birth, and the gala procession in honor [...]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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