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Let’s admit the truth here. Miss California is being demonized for two reasons. 1) She is a professing, Bible-believing Christian, even though she is imperfect, as we all are. 2) She had the guts to say what most Americans agree with, and which has been demonstrated every single time it has been put to a vote, that marriage is to be only between a man and a woman. The media and the militant pro-same-sex lobby now will try to destroy her, as they are doing right now. This is how they have always operated, and they will try to do...

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evilThe slobbering White House Press Corps queries President Obama as to what is "most enchanting" about the Presidency, and one female member speaks of her "thrill" of being in the presence of the Prez, while she and her cohorts stand to applaud the Chief Exec's entrance. This adulation is quite different from their biased, hateful coverage of W. Bush. Bush only thought about enhancing the Social Security program, and was vilified. President Obama has been floating the idea of cutting SS benefits as well as curtailing elder care and...

They told us if Barack Obama were elected, the nation would come together. Souls would be fixed. Spirits would be healed. Public discourse would be elevated. Welcome to civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama: -- Celebrity leech/trash blogger Perez Hilton took to the Internet and TV airwaves to humiliate a beauty pageant contestant who gave what he considered an “offensive” answer about gay marriage. Hilton, inexplicably serving as a judge for the Miss USA contest, asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she supported the legalization of gay marriage. Prejean respectfully answered: “I think that I believe that a...

West Hollywood--The U.S. Secret Service says it has visited a West Hollywood home where a controversial Halloween display shows Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose.

White churches are the most frequent targets - and crime is often the motive. ATLANTA - Three torched churches were discovered in Alabama Tuesday - the latest in a string of suspected arsons that damaged five churches in Bibb County. Investigators have not discovered any apparent motives. Four of the five churches in Bibb County - three of which burned to the ground - were white Baptist congregations. The other was black. Nationally, such patterns are not unusual. Most arson targets are white congregations, whereas mosques and synagogues get hit in much smaller numbers. In a country with more than...

Fury at ‘Tory pig’ poster Flying into a storm ... Labour poster showing Howard and Letwin as pigs       By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON A LABOUR poster showing Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin as pigs was condemned as deeply offensive last night. Mr Howard and Mr Letwin are Jewish. Jews do not eat pork, and critics accused Labour of deliberately using their faces on images of pigs to cause offence. Just 24 hours earlier, Mr Blair had led solemn tributes to the memories of Jews murdered by the Nazis. Yesterday, Labour unveiled its new “pig” poster of the Tory leader...

On NPR today during the listeners' response segment, the commentator said they received several pieces of mail from angry listeners who were offended at a program NPR aired earlier this week on First Lady Laura Bush. The program looked at the popularity of Mrs. Bush on the campaign trail and included a biographical profile. One listener said the program amounted to a puff-piece and was insufficiently critical of Mrs. Bush's political views. Another listener, a woman, said she was offended by the tone of the program and felt like she was transported back to the "genteel 1950s". She complained the...

As we write, the great entertainment afforded by Dan Rather, the celebrity news reader, is still unfolding. How solemn Mr. Rather looked a few weeks ago as he unveiled, on 60 Minutes 11, those incriminating memoranda. Mr. Rather has basically two modes when performing: Deeply Sincere—the mode that he adopted, for example, when interviewing Saddam Hussein shortly before the dictator’s mandatory retirement last year—and Righteously Indignant. He adopted the latter as he explained to his television audience that, back in the early 1970s, President Bush got special treatment when he was in the National Guard: See, it says so right...

OMG that FreeRepulic website is the most evil thing I have ever seen. I think this country has a lot more to worry about than terrorists from other countries. Sometimes I long for the innocent days before the internet, ignorance of people like this made me feel much safer.

Penn State College Republicans has formed a committee to fight the negative response members say they have received from many Penn State administrators and students after several members attended a controversial Halloween party. College Republicans chair Brian Battaglia said the organization is carrying a "business as usual" attitude through this semester. Battaglia said the past incidents have taken so much of the College Republicans' time, the group recently formed a standing committee to counter the demands made by Black Caucus and to come up with better ways to deal with the situation. "People don't come to the club to talk...

The fallout from controversial Halloween photos posted on the College Republican chair's personal Web site has led one student to announce her withdrawal from the university. Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Pollock/Nittany Sen. Vicky Cangelosi announced her resignation and intention to withdraw at Tuesday's Senate meeting. She said she no longer feels safe at the university and that she feels Penn State President Graham Spanier put her in danger by including a link to The fallout from controversial Halloween photos posted on the College Republican chair's personal Web site has led one student to announce her withdrawal from the university. Undergraduate...

The controversy surrounding the photographs posted last week on the Web site of the Penn State College Republicans' chair has caused the resignation of at least one member and many statements and apologies from others. Leaders of the group met with university administrators to discuss the gravity of the situation. Brian Battaglia, the group's chairman, said he met with Vice President of Student Affairs Vicky Triponey this weekend to discuss possible resolutions to the situation and group members' safety on campus. "There is definitely a double standard," he said. "Our members and the officers and myself really do feel threatened...

<p>When the San Francisco outpost of an independent media Web site landed on the front pages Tuesday, it was not exactly the kind of publicity that the site's organizers had hoped for.</p> <p>Police were saying a murder suspect had bragged of his violent act on the site.</p>