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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony, the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee, is seeking freedom from her home confinement restraints so she can have the ability to travel and search for her daughter, according to newly released court documents. A judge on Friday will consider the motion, along with several others at a court hearing. It is not known where Anthony, 22, wants to travel in the search for Caylee, who was last seen in mid-June but wasn't reported missing until mid-July. Anthony's family recently said that a baby sitter may have taken Caylee to Puerto Rico. Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez,...

The outlook was simply brilliant for the DNC-ville team that year; The score stood two to one, with but one more curve to fear, And then when Nancy died at first, and Clinton did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the DNC patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair, but the MSM's best; Sang songs of "hope that springs eternal" within the human breast; They thought, if only Obama could get but a whack at that - They'd put up even money, now, with Obama at the bat.But Ried preceded Obama, as...

WSJ Book Review - "The War Within," by Bob Woodward -- During a videoconference with Baghdad, the president said, "George, we're not playing for a tie. I want to make sure we all understand this." Gen. Casey, Mr. Woodward writes, took this as "an affront to his dignity that he would long remember." ... Gen. Casey, after all, was the commander who all along maintained that the solution in Iraq was for America to draw down its forces -- even after the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. He was the commander who later that year was given his...

Journalist Bob Woodward discusses "secret operational capabilities" against militia and insurgent leaders in Iraq, and spying on Iraq's prime minister.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Preliminary evidence shows traces of chloroform have been found in Casey Anthony's car, a source confirmed to Local 6 News. Detectives are pursuing the chloroform lead in a car belonging Casey Anthony and information found on the woman's computer, Local 6 reported. Local 6 confirmed that detectives confiscated Casey Anthony's computer during the investigation and found that someone was on the computer looking up information about chloroform. Sheriff: No Apology For Cindy Meanwhile, the Orange County sheriff and the founder of a group scouring Central Florida for missing Caylee Anthony sent harsh messages to the child's grandmother...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Preliminary evidence in the case of missing Caylee Anthony indicates that there was a dead body in the back of her mother's car and it was Caylee's body, Local 6 reported Sunday. "We have scientific evidence back from the lab -- the FBI lab -- and we have evidence that we have not yet made public that leads our investigators to believe that Caylee is deceased," Orange County sheriff's Cmdr. Matt Irwin said. Not only did a car belonging to Casey Anthony smell like death but scientists were able to confirm the presence of gases produced by...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Today Sgt. John Allen with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department confirmed what Channel 9 has been reporting since Wednesday. There was a dead body in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car, and that body was Caylee.Four Orange County Sheriff’s Detectives joined Texas EquuSearch and about two-hundred volunteers Sunday morning in the search for Caylee Anthony.Orange County Sheriffs and EquuSearch are asking that individuals interested in assisting in the search go to the staging area. That is located at the Holiday Inn Select at 5750 TG Lee Blvd in Orlando.Casey Anthony awoke in the Orange County jail,...

Updated: 11:59 a.m (eastern) Breaking News: The Orange County Sheriff's Office is searching for Caylee Marie Anthony near Orlando International Airport this morning. Sheriff's officers have joined with Equusearch in the hunt for the missing 3-year-old, and have sent their helicopter up in the air to help with mapping the search area. The search area is located near the airport, north of the Beach Line, south of Lee Vista Boulevard and east of State Road 436. Individuals that are interested in assisting they should respond to theHoliday Inn Select, 5750 TG Lee Blvd. in Orlando.Casey Anthony,(center) in handcuffs walks out...

A fleet of Orange County sheriff's vehicles drove to the home of George and Cindy Anthony on Hope Spring Drive Friday night and arrested Casey Anthony. Local 6 showed video of the 22-year-old being removed from the house in handcuffs.Anthony was arrested on theft charges that had nothing to do with the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, Local 6 reported.Caylee, 3, has been missing since mid-June.A crowd that gathered in front of the Anthony home Friday night screamed insults at Casey Anthony and cheered as she was led away by officers.The crowd was described as "chaotic" and "angry.""I've been praying...

Don't mean to jump the ping list for Caylee but I'm watching Nancy Grace on CNN and Casey Anthony has been led out of her parents home in handcuffs by police investigators.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Sen. Bob Casey, Jr.’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention:“It was billed as the breakthrough moment: the Democratic National Convention, which prohibited Gov. Bob Casey, Sr. from making a pro-life speech at the 1992 Convention, allowed his son to speak last night on the subject. But what happened? Casey blew it: The best he could do was to offer the standard cliché about promoting the ‘common good’ by seeking ‘common ground.’ “Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. never settled for a ‘common ground’ approach to fight racism—he sought to win. Similarly, Gov....

It is well known that MoveOn.org published an anti-Catholic hate cartoon that showed Pope Benedict with a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn). William McGurn’s “Democrats Made No Room on Abortion” (Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2008 page A19) reports, however, that the 1992 Democratic National Convention featured “buttons featuring the governor [Pennsylvania's Robert Casey Sr.] as pope.” A Google search found the button in question at “Why Democrats Are Blue,” (http://whydemocratsblue.com/excerpt/) and it clearly uses the Pope in a “This is the Enemy” context. How can the Democratic Party be anti-Catholic when prominent Democrats have names...

Gill: “The only way bigots are going to learn is if we take their power away from them" Tim Gill Denver, Aug 25, 2008 / 11:51 pm (CNA).- Tim Gill, a billionaire from Colorado who has funded homosexual activism throughout the United States, spoke at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Delegates Caucus at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, outlining how he has worked to advance homosexual causes in U.S. politics. Gill endorsed undermining rising politicians critical of homosexual advocacy by targeting donations to benefit their opponents on the state level.Gill, who was introduced at the caucus...

...Speaking of abortion, Bob Casey once wrote: “It’s hard to think of anything more foreign to the principles of the Democratic Party or the whole American experience. Far from being “inclusive”, it excludes an entire class of fellow human beings from our care and protection. It’s the only “constitutional right” we’re ashamed of, avoiding the word abortion with contorted euphemisms like “reproductive rights” and “termination” and “evacuation”. "Far from liberating women, abortion has become a lucrative industry, exploiting young women beyond anything ever imagined. When pregnancy comes at a difficult time, which is the worthier response of society: To surround...

Cadaver Dogs Records Requested By Attorney ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cell phone calls made in a span of several hours by the mother of a missing Orlando girl could help detectives determine where the woman was in the days after her daughter was last seen. Casey Anthony's cell phone records from June 16 -- the day investigators believe something may have happened to her daughter Caylee -- show she made nearly a dozen calls in less than five hours, records obtained by Fox News Channel showed. Anthony called her mother seven times, her dad once, her boyfriend and two other friends,...

t has been one month since Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orange County. Investigators held a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to shed new light on recent theories from the little girl's grandparents about what happened to her. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said it's not trying to build a case against Caylee Anthony's mother Casey, it's trying to get truthful information from her about where her daughter was before she disappeared. "Before you even get started, jump day, you had a month expire. It makes it awful tough to re-track information," said Chief Mark Strobridge of the Orange...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A team of psychic detectives is assisting Orlando police in their search for missing three-year-old Florida girl Caylee Marie Anthony, according to local news reports. The group, known as "Body Hunters" and lead by psychic detective Gale St. John, is "blind driving" around Central Florida in search for the toddler who was last seen June 16, Local6.com reported. "We will not even look at street names," psychic detective Gale St. John told the TV station and its Web site on Monday. "We drive and go completely on feeling instinct, chasing down what we call a person signature."...

The imprisoned mother of a missing Florida toddler refused a jail visit with her brother Friday, as diving teams planned a training exercise searching a lake near the home of the little girl's grandparents. Casey Marie Anthony, 22, wouldn't see her brother Lee Anthony Friday morning when he came for a scheduled 9 a.m. visit, MyFOXOrlando.com reported. (It's been rescheduled for 9 am Tuesday morning, August 12.) ... And, according to the warrant, Casey led police to three different locations she said the baby sitter who has Caylee could be. Anthony told detectives that a woman named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez...

... Diving crews from the department planned to launch a search Friday of one of lakes near the Anthony residence, according to MyFOXOrlando.com. Police said the searches are routine training exercises and happen monthly. ... Detectives left the Anthony residence with a new bag of evidence that may help with the search for the missing toddler. ... They took away at least four bags of evidence. MyFOXOrlando.com reported that the latest, four-hour search yielded at least eight bags. Thursday's visit is at least the fifth time they have been at the home. The Orange County Sheriff's Office called Wednesday's visit...

A CSI team showed up unexpectedly again Wednesday at the Orlando home of a missing Florida toddler's grandparents, FOX News has learned. Few other details were immediately available as to why crime scene investigators descended upon the house of Cindy and George Anthony, whose nearly 3-year-old granddaughter Caylee has been missing since mid-June. It's the fourth time they have been at the home where Caylee Marie Anthony lived with her mom and grandparents. The Orange County Sheriff's Office called Wednesday's visit "routine" and said the girl has not been found. Detectives didn't talk about the latest search, during which investigators...

The Florida State's Attorney office filed formal criminal charges Tuesday against the mother of missing Orlando toddler Caylee Anthony, FOX News has learned. Casey Marie Anthony, 22, was charged with one felony and one misdemeanor offense, in addition to the child neglect charge she already faced. She will be arraigned on the criminal charges. Also Tuesday, test results from DNA samples taken from a car driven by Anthony came in and were turned over to investigators, FOX News has learned. The evidence was gathered from the trunk of a vehicle that Anthony was using when her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie...

The jailed mother of a missing Orlando toddler reportedly told her father during a jailhouse visit that the girl will be home by her third birthday next week. "Dad, she's close," Casey Anthony, 22, told her father, George Anthony, during a jailhouse visit on Sunday, according to MyFOXOrlando.com. "Dad, she's close." Anthony said he's convinced Caylee Marie Anthony is still alive and indicated that his daughter sobbing during their visit, saying that she wants to be there for the girl's birthday on Aug. 9, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Two bags of evidence likely containing clothes and personal items of the mother of a missing Orlando girl were taken Friday morning by crime-scene investigators from the home of the child's grandparents, sources told Local 6 News. Investigators were inside the home, located on Hopespring Drive in Orange County, between five and 10 minutes before driving off in an Orange County Sheriff's Office van. George and Cindy Anthony own the home and are the grandparents of Caylee Anthony, who has been missing for about six weeks. Casey Anthony, Caylee's mother, was arrested on child neglect charges in...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The mother of a missing Orlando girl said her gut feeling is that her daughter is OK and still close to home, she said during a newly released jailhouse call. The weekend call between Casey Anthony, 22, and her brother Lee Anthony was released Monday night. The conversation begins with Lee Anthony warning his sister, the mother of missing Caylee Anthony, that everything she says is being recorded and will be released to the media. He then tells her she can reach out to local detectives and she doesn't have to go through her attorney before asking...

This is from Bob Casey Jr. (Senate, D-PA) letter to the head of the FTC, as posted on his own website (http://casey.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=03D35646-FA50-4BE0-B8D7-D1B377D5F2AF)..."For example, the section of the FTC report on gas prices post-Hurricane Katrina found that, even with local and regional market differences taken into account, eight of the 30 oil refiners audited increased their prices at least five cents more than the national average. These same firms also reported increased profits, which logically means that the increased prices were not necessary to cover bottom line costs. " That's right, he is worrying about five cents per gallon in 2006...

RAMADI, IRAQ (May 17, 2008) - Two years ago, Ramadi's police force was essentially wiped out by a strong insurgency that devastated almost every police station, leaving only a small number of officers on the job and a city considered by officials to be uncontrollable and nicknamed the “wild west.” According to an NBC News article from September 2006, a secret report concluding that the United States military could not defeat the insurgents in al-Anbar Province and al-Qaeda was rapidly filling the political vacuity.

RAMADI, IRAQ (May 17, 2008) – Step after step, combat boots hit the pavement. It’s been a few hours for the Marine squad walking the Ramadi streets. Fatigued yet steady, the young men push forward on their routine foot patrol despite the mid-day desert heat; each squad member maintaining a constant alertness with eyes scanning the environment in every direction. The squad leader passes by a familiar face; a local vender who he sees almost every day. Instantly, the look of exhaustion washes away, and a smile is brought to his face. Lifting his hand, he warmly greets the vender...

At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic governor of the state of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, was prohibited from speaking. The Clintons and their associates had blacklisted Casey because he wanted to speak against legalized abortion — as a pro-lifer, Casey was an increasing oddity in the modern Democratic party. The governor, engaged in a simultaneous fight to preserve his own life from a rare and fatal disease, never stopped lamenting how his party, which claimed to champion the little guy, utterly refused to defend the most innocent and defenseless. After the incident, Governor Casey sensed things would only get...

Rendell-Casey, Round 2 By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, April 6, 2008 To win Pennsylvania, Barack Obama must pull off a "Missouri" -- that is, do what he did in the Show Me State: win a handful of heavily populated, liberal-centric counties and call it a day. Ironically, that is what Ed Rendell (a Hillary Clinton supporter) did to Bob Casey (an Obama supporter) in Pennsylvania's 2002 Democrat gubernatorial primary.

One of the most famous familiar quotations regarding revenge goes as follows. ”…revenge is a dish best served cold.” - Khan In the frenetic days before the Pennsylvania Democratic Party holds their Presidential Primary, we see the motivation of revenge driving Junior Senator Robert P. Casey to play a major role in the unfolding campaign. While the senator reminds me far more of a meek and subservient Fredo Corleone than of the antagonist from Star Trek II, few things can bring forth manly virtue like the opportunity to settle an old score between ambitious and powerful families. Thus, Robert Casey...

The Casey Endorsement By Katharine Q. Seelye In a surprise move, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has endorsed Senator Barack Obama in advance of the April 22 Democratic primary. Mr. Casey had said he would remain neutral in the race in part because he wanted to help broker a reconciliation between Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton afterward. “I believe in my heart that there is one person who’s uniquely qualified to lead us in that new direction and that is Barack Obama.” Mr. Casey said during a rally in Pittsburgh Friday. Mr. Casey is going against the grain...

Sen. Bob Casey announced his surprise endorsement of his colleague Sen. Barack Obama today as the Democratic presidential contender embarked on a bus tour of Pennsylvania with a rally at Soldiers & Sailors Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh. Mr. Casey introduced Mr. Obama at the rally, calling him "uniquely qualified" to lead the country. The decision by Mr. Casey, the top vote-getter in Pennsylvania history, was unexpected. He had said repeatedly that he planned to remain neutral in the presidential contest at least until after the end of the state's April 22 primary. Mr. Casey had said it was...

Reagan's War, Not Charlie Wilson's Media Bias: Hollywood would have us believe that Democrats defeated the evil empire in Afghanistan, and that President Reagan played only a minor role and even helped pave the way to 9/11. If you think Hollywood's idea of a Christmas movie being one about the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan is strange, even stranger is the plot line. "Charlie Wilson's War," which opened Friday, manages to reduce the president who won the Cold War to a background footnote. Charlie Wilson was a pro-abortion, Equal Rights Amendment-supporting congressman widely known as "the liberal from Lufkin." To his...

The Army's top general Tuesday acknowledged that his soldiers and their families are "stretched" and "stressed" by six years of war and will need a steady commitment of increased funding to keep the Army from sliding into the "hollow" force of the 1970s. Gen. George Casey said the fight between Congress and the White House over the supplemental funding for Iraq and Afghanistan makes his job more difficult and sends "a terrible signal" to the troops fighting the war. In a presentation to the Brookings Institution, the Army chief of staff appeared to try to strike a balance by giving...

  Home | Previous Page | Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07092403.html LifeSiteNews.com Monday September 24, 2007 Priest Blasts 'Usual Suspects' For Votes Against Pro-Life Policy FRONT ROYAL, VA, September 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International, (HLI) today blasted a gang of 16 Catholic senators for their votes on an amendment to HR 2764 to overturn the Mexico City Policy instituted by President Reagan to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding overseas abortions. "For the most part it's the usual suspects who claim to be Catholic while their consistent pro-abortion votes amount to...

"Pro-Life" Casey Votes Twice to Enable US Funding for Abortion Overseas By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (Democrat-Pennsylvania) actively contradicted his largely pro-life campaign promises by voting to approve a funding appropriations bill that would provide US funding to foreign organizations that promote and provide abortions.       The funding bill (HR 2764) would effectively overturn the Mexico City Policy, a foreign aid policy which expressly prohibits the funding of overseas agencies involved in abortion.  The policy was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan and continued in the presidency of Bush, Sr. ...

Do you agree with Cindy Sheehan that her son, who was killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad, died "for nothing"? Yes No

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2007 – The U.S. military is involved in a “persistent conflict,” and the Army must be prepared to handle the commitment, the Army chief of staff said today. Gen. George W. Casey Jr. spoke to reporters in the Pentagon today in his first interview since he took the position a month ago, after commanding coalition forces in Iraq for almost three years. “The enemy that has attacked us and we are fighting in places around the world isn’t going to fold up and go home,” he said. “They are going to continue to press us.” Casey...

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February 21, 2007, 9:17 a.m. Promoting FailureThe Army gets the lead out. By Mackubin Thomas Owens Earlier this month, the Senate voted 83–14 to confirm Gen. George Casey as Army chief of staff. Ten of those “no� votes came from Republicans, four of whom — John McCain, John Ensign, Saxby Chambliss and Lindsey Graham — serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC). The four grilled General Casey during his confirmation hearing, forcefully taking him to task for lack of progress in Iraq during his tenure as the commander of US ground troops there. Democratic senator Carl Levin, chairman...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The U.S. Senate has confirmed Gen. George W. Casey Jr. as the next Army Chief of Staff. In an 83-14 vote, Casey will replace Army Gen. Peter Schoomaker, who will retire for the second time, after being asked by the President to come out of retirement to assume the post in 2003. General Casey distinguished himself as the leader of the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF) when he was appointed in 2004. As a result of his over 30 months commanding directly from Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Casey "was the first choice." Secretary Gates...

Senate grills US Iraq commander General Casey faced a hostile committee hearing President Bush's choice for the new army chief of staff has denied that current US policy on Iraq has failed.General George Casey, the top US commander in Iraq for the last two years, faced tough questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing. But he disputed Republican Senator John McCain's suggestion he had painted an overly "rosy" picture of events. "I do not agree that we have a failed policy," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. President Bush plans to send 21,500 more US soldiers to Iraq to...

WASHINGTON -- John McCain, the leading Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today took to task Gen. George Casey, the top American commander in Iraq, accusing him of being the architect of a failed strategy and failing to take the correct steps to improve the security situation. Casey, nominated to become the next Army chief of staff, faced a series of tough questions from McCain and other senators. The general found himself trying to navigate through a committee of senators with wildly different opinions about the troop increase in Iraq. It was McCain, the leading advocate in the Senate...

WASHINGTON - The Army general who led the Iraq war for 2½ years came under fire Thursday from a leading supporter of President Bush’s new strategy in Iraq as two other influential senators sought to gain GOP support for a compromise resolution against Bush’s troop buildup. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., criticized Gen. George Casey for what he called misjudgments about the prospects for progress toward stabilizing Iraq during his tenure in Baghdad. McCain said he has “strong reservations” about Bush's nomination of Casey to become the next Army chief of staff. “While I don’t in any way question your honor,...

President Bush is shaking up the team responsible for carrying out his military and diplomatic strategies in Iraq as he prepares to outline a new direction for the war that has raged for nearly four years. Bush will replace Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and Gen. George Casey, the chief general in Iraq, in the coming weeks, according to media reports Thursday. A revamping of the administration's national security team was already under way. Bush wants to replace Abizaid with Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific, and Casey's replacement...

YESTERDAY, the man directly responsible for conducting the war in Iraq received semi-official notice that he'll soon be relieved of his post. It's ironic that the semi-official notice came in a front-page New York Times story, considering how hostile the paper has been to the war effort and the Bush administration generally - and how profoundly angry senior Bush officials are at the Times. ...[SNIP]... The message: The president has lost confidence in the strategy and tactics designed and implemented by the generals running the war. They have, as the Times put it, "become more fixated on withdrawal than victory."

President Bush held a news conference this morning in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Click HERE for a complete transcript. Later, the president signed The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, “a bill that will extend tax relief to millions of American families and small businesses and add momentum to a growing economy”. Click HERE for a complete transcript of the president’s remarks. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Andrew Natsios, U.S. special envoy to Sudan and Darfur, at the State Department. And Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, along...

Cleveland - Veteran local sportscaster Casey Coleman, who battled pancreatic cancer for more than a year, has died. Coleman, 55, who died early Monday morning, will be difficult to replace, said WTAM AM/1100 radio host Bill Wills. "He was an integral part of our broadcast," said Wills, co-host of "Wills and Coleman in the Morning." "He was a pros pro and a very good friend. Players and coaches trusted him. He gave our broadcast credibility." Doctors gave Coleman six months to live in June. He returned briefly to WTAM at the start of Cleveland Browns training camp but took a...

Like their fellow servicemen back home, U.S. troops in Iraq enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, and in most cases the meal was served by officers and senior non-commissioned officers. At Al Asad (the largest American base in the volatile Al Anbar Province), for instance, and at Husaybah on the Syrian border; Marines, sailors, and soldiers with Regimental Combat Team 7 feasted on turkey, ham, crab legs, prime rib, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, a variety of casseroles, pies, cakes, and any other treats the cooks and bakers could come up with.

Seems like just yesterday Republicans were warning Democrats not to count their hicks before they were catched. Democrats said they had a plan to get the guys with the Confederate flags, but Republicans said you can’t con those folks into loving federal overreach. Democrats said they could draw pro-life votes, but Republicans scoffed: “We’re the pros. Get a life!” Democrats said they could attract budget-balancers and Republicans countered: “That is our constituency and you can’t budge it.” Well, bite your tongues, all you RNC guys and gals with the starched collars. Them there rubes done drug you out the door....