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Would this not send a strong message to support Christianity? Would it not also be a counter to the homosexual “Day of Silence?” Any comments?

Powerline Post by John Hinderaker (excerpts) "A couple of years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Rudy Giuliani would be a formidable Presidential candidate, but could never get the Republican nomination because of his liberal views on some social issues. I believe that we were among the first to question this assumption...At the Candidates' Forum, the Giuliani campaign has started a thread titled Social Conservatives Back Giuliani, which cites some of the recent poll data...UPDATE: Interesting--so far, the commenters on Giuliani's Forum site are pretty much unanimously OK with his position as laid out above. That could change as more...

THE CIVILITY SQUAD SKIRTS THE RAP RATS DOWNWARD SPIRAL Michelle Malkin April 11, 2007 -- THE culture of "bitches, ho's and niggas." Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed ho's." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus' misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus'...

A Brazilian website reported yesterday that Tom Brady's girlfriend Gisele Bundchen may be pregnant and, if so, the Pats QB is the father. According to the popular celebrity website Glamurama.com.br , Bundchen would be no more than two months pregnant, but may already have told select friends and family. The brief item was written by Joyce Pascowitch , who's the Brazilian equivalent of the New York Post's Richard Johnson

BAGHDAD - Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him. Ali wanted someone to take care of her. Rubae wanted a companion. They met one afternoon in May at the house he shares with his wife, in the room where he accepts visitors seeking his religious counsel. He had a proposal. Would Ali be his temporary wife? He would pay her 5,000 Iraqi dinars upfront — about $4 — in addition to her monthly...

It must be an election year. The reason I know this is because the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, is trying to curry favor with traditional marriage defenders by launching a crusade against polygamy. The reason Reid feels safe doing this is clear: There is little electoral support, even among Democrats, to legalize polygamy. It isn't based on principle. It's based on polls. Reid last week called for a federal task force to investigate polygamist communities in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Mormon senator from Nevada urged the Justice Department to look...

...Slowing the spread of one of the nation's most prevalent STDs among college students — the human papilloma virus, or HPV — requires knowing how the virus is prevented. That has been somewhat of a mystery — until now. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that consistent condom use can prevent the spread of HPV in up to 70 percent of cases, giving Innis and other health educators better proof that condoms can prevent HPV, helping to dispel any myths that they are not effective....

Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection in California's San Quentin prison next Tuesday. His death will occur nearly 27 years after he brutally murdered Albert Owens, a 7-Eleven clerk in Whittier, Calif., and three members of the Yang family -- Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang, and their daughter, Yee-Chen Lin -- at the Brookhaven Motel in Los Angeles. Unlike the peaceful, painless demise awaiting Williams, the deaths of his victims were horrific: He shot each of them at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun, shattering their bodies so that they died in agony. Their suffering amused him....

People will either be self-disciplined or need the whip of tyranny, to paraphrase the famous 19th century sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville. He noted that the United States was self-disciplined because it was a deeply religious and Christian people. For 50 years, however, the media, in cahoots with the self-appointed nomenklatura of the educational establishment, have ripped religious values out of the public square and out of the educational system serving our children. What were those values that so upset them that they dedicated themselves to erasing them from the public square and people's consciousness? Well, they were such principles as...

Russian health officials debunk “safe-sex” myth and promote abstinence in Moscow Rome, Jun. 09, 2005 (CNA) - In an about-face, health officials in Moscow have acknowledged that “safe-sex does not exist” and are opting for abstinence-based education for young people. “One should propagandize total abstinence before marriage,” Ludmila Stebenkova of Moscow's parliamentary committee for health care told the Pravda news service. Stebenkova, who is in charge of health care for the 12 million inhabitants of Moscow, believes that “the safe sex propaganda in the USA, for example, has resulted in the dissolution of morals. Sexually transmitted diseases started progressing there....

"The leadership class of the Republican Party," actor Alec Baldwin charged on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, "is a conservative Christian loony bin." That claim earned Baldwin loud applause from the Los Angeles audience. Baldwin then acceded as to how "most Republicans who are registered Republicans are decent, honest good people who you have a difference of opinion with," but, he alleged, "the leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right." Baldwin's comments came in the midst of a discussion with fellow...

A courtship worth watching Conservatives come calling, and blacks may be listening this time By Dan Gilgoff What has new Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman learned so far in his fledgling campaign to woo African-American voters? "Folks who don't necessarily agree with you appreciate that you're out there making the case," he tells U.S. News . In the past month, Mehlman has hosted town hall meetings with black audiences in Maryland and New Jersey, sat for a PBS television interview with African-American talk-show host Tavis Smiley, and traveled to Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Center. "It's about building relationships," says...

There was a time when Democrats and Republicans sounded very similar. There was once a time when we were united in the cause of spreading freedom and liberty to the oppressed. That day, it now seems, is no longer here. When Kennedy spoke of the American duty to defend and spread freedom around the world in his 1961 inaugural address, he spoke those words to both friend and foe. He presented the American vision of a world free from tyranny with strong determination and with unwaivering conviction. Today, as we listen to the cries of some to submit our intentions...

Objective political analysts have stated that moral values in general and opposition to same-sex “marriage” in particular were the great catalysts in the November 2004 elections. If family and moral values were so decisive, then why would same-sex “marriage” be an unresolved issue for conservatives? * * * At 4:50 today, Patrick Guerriero, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, is scheduled to present his views on the Federal Marriage Amendment in one of five discussions titled “Conservative Principle and Unresolved Issues: Differences Within the Family.” It is possible that Mr. Guerriero will limit himself to arguing that the issue of...

February 11, 2005CONGRESSIONAL MEMODemocrats Getting Lessons in Speaking Their ValuesBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - Ever since the November election, Democrats have known that the hottest V-word is not "veto" or "Viagra," it is "values." Now, as hundreds of the party's elite descend here to select a new chairman and chart a course for the future, Democrats are enlisting a bevy of consultants - church leaders, a marketing guru from Silicon Valley and even a linguist - to redefine themselves and discover a message that will sell at the polls.To George Lakoff, a professor at the University of...

Hanover, Penn., – Moral values are being undermined at 30 Catholic colleges during the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s day. In fact, many students are afflicted by a play called “The V***** Monologues,” which is scheduled to be held on Catholic campuses throughout the country. (Asterisks added for the sake of modesty). TFP Student Action – a conservative organization of Catholic inspiration – is opposing the play, urging its members on 375 campuses to protest. According to the group’s web site: “In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring it...

Anti-Bush Bracelets Say, 'Count Me Blue' NEW YORK - After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush (news - web sites)'s policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show the world she didn't vote for him. "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American," said Rothchild, who lives in New York City and voted for John Kerry (news - web sites). Her mother had a suggestion: bracelets, inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation's popular "LIVESTRONG" bands, that would signal...

NEW YORK - After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush's policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show the world she didn't vote for him. "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American," said Rothchild, who lives in New York City and voted for John Kerry. Her mother had a suggestion: bracelets, inspired by the Lance Armstrong Foundation's popular "LIVESTRONG" bands, that would signal opposition to Bush. Thousands of miles away, two women in Idaho had the same...

Prior to September 11, 2001, Afghanistan’s repressive Taliban regime was known to most of the world only on account of a single controversy involving its decision to destroy two ancient Buddhist statues. Of course reaction to this incident was one of universal outrage, loudly condemned across the political spectrum as an abominable example of religious tyranny. Yet this desire by the Taliban to obliterate all religious symbolism with which it took umbrage has an ominous parallel within the borders of America in the systematic efforts by the ACLU and its ideological supporters to expunge every Christian expression from the public...

In 1984, as all devoted readers of Conversations with Trentino know, John Kenneth Galbraith visited the Soviet Union and praised it for the prosperity he saw in its "exfoliating apartment houses" well stocked stores, and traffic-filled streets. Professor Galbraith took particular note of labor efficiency: he observed that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics used its manpower efficiently, unlike the US. Galbraith was then the grand panjandrum of economics, a professor of that dark science at Harvard, erstwhile president of the American Economic Association, a founding member of the ADA, and formerly US Ambassador to India. A card-carrying liberal in...

Put this one in your back pocket for the next Christmas party. A gift from us to you. After a few cocktails, when the office bore turns the conversation to Moral Values and Religious Freaks who elected that Liar In The White House and this country’s Backward Obsession with Guns and Wal-Marts…. Yeah, when that guy goes into blowhard mode, quote him a little P. J. O’Rourke. Specifically, pull out this O’Rourkian rejoinder and perfect-for-any-political-occasion comeback: This country was founded by religious nuts with guns. It always seems to come as a surprise to some folks that this country is...

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Democrats and other liberal backers of John Kerry's presidential campaign are at it again in Ohio, demanding a recount. That these people would again seek to "interpret the will" of the voter in hopes of changing the legal outcome of an election is not shocking, but the hypocrisy is and it continues to harm the Democratic Party. While many like to talk about the election being won by religious voters motivated by the loosely defined "moral values," it is much simpler than that. Kerry lost the election because he and his party don't really seem to stand for anything...

You remember the 1990s? Those wonderful Clinton years, when liberal Democrats, led by the great moralist James Carville, incessantly told us, "Character doesn't matter." Well, it's time to slap another egg on Carville's head because he and his party have been proven dead wrong again. During the Clinton impeachment proceedings, Republicans were forbidden from merely questioning the President's unethical behavior. Just in case you have forgotten, Clinton used his presidential stature to seduce a young, female intern in the Oval Office. To make matters even worse, he perjured himself in a court of law and coerced others to do the...

I have been in touch with Democratic friends in Washington over the past few days to see what stage of mourning they have entered. We are told there are, what, four, five stages of mourning? Well, whatever the number, my friends are in the stage where the victim is really, really ticked off. (There is another word that is far more appropriate than "ticked" but the Justice Department probably reads these blogs, so the homogenized version will have to do). For those mentally healthy Democrats who are ready to put conspiracy theories behind them and start preparing for the next...

Abortion didn't get much airtime in the 2004 presidential campaign, but after the votes were counted it didn't take long for the issue to bubble to the surface. The day after the election, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) called down the wrath of the freshly emboldened right wing of his party, and endangered his ascension to the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, by letting slip that he thought it "unlikely" that nominees to the federal judiciary "who would change the right of a woman to choose" would be approved by the Senate. Meanwhile, over in the executive branch, President Bush nominated...

FAREWELL to Swift boats and "Shove it!," to Osama's tape and Saddam's missing weapons, to "security moms" and outsourced dads. They've all been sent to history's dustbin faster than Ralph Nader memorabilia was dumped on eBay. In their stead stands a single ambiguous phrase coined by an anonymous exit pollster: "Moral values." By near universal agreement the morning after, these two words tell the entire story of the election: it's the culture, stupid. "It really is Michael Moore versus Mel Gibson," said Newt Gingrich. To Jon Stewart, Nov. 2 was the red states' revenge on "Will & Grace." William Safire,...

Like all good citizens, Mother Angelica, foundress of the global traditional-values-oriented Catholic TV network, EWTN, voted in the recent election. The popular nun is an outspoken advocate for the unborn, the infirm, and the elderly - and critic of the policies of radical pro-abort, pro-"gay" Democrat party. Mother has not appeared on her popular call-in TV program since a debilitating stroke several years ago.

Whose Moral Values?  Deeper Issues Just days after the presidential election, the press reported a change the Texas Board of Education made in a high school text.  When speaking of marriage, the textbook would now speak of marriage not as a union of partners but as a union of man and woman.  Not a startling definition in light of the common tradition of humanity stretching far back beyond the pages of Genesis.  Yet what is disconcerting is the remark reported of a board member who refused to endorse the change.  She labeled the change "political agenda."  She argued that the...

In 1994, when the Gingrich revolution swept Republicans into power, ending 40 years of Democratic hegemony in the House, the mainstream press needed to account for this inversion of the Perfect Order of Things. A myth was born. Explained the USA Today headline: "ANGRY WHITE MEN: Their votes turn the tide for GOP." Overnight, the revolution of the Angry White Male became conventional wisdom. In the 10 years before the 1994 election there were 56 mentions of angry white men in the media, according to LexisNexis. In the next seven months there were more than 1,400. .... Ten years and...

<p>Last week, the powers-that-be installed a new stoplight in Highlands, NC. It’s on Carolina Way at the intersection with US 64, just east of Main Street. That makes four stoplights we have now. And it raises the question of why the 99.44% of my readers who live in a town larger than 1,000 people should care in the least bit about this major civic improvement.</p>

I hope this is the correct place to post this, but after tossing ideas around in my hed, I finally decided to start seriously posting to my blog (which I created 2 years ago and never posted to). I am looking for feedback, not only on my postings, but also on blogging in general. My blog is at: http://thekathouse.blogspot.com/

IN 2000, the polls had Bush winning the popular vote. He went on to lose it by more than 3.5 million votes. In 2004, pollsters on election eve said the race was "too close to call." The next day, exit polls predicted a comfortable Kerry victory. Then on election night, the Bush-Kerry national popular vote split turned out to be no squeaker, but 51 percent to 48 percent. So are the pollsters all wet?No, just damp. Both in 2000 and in 2004, most polls, including exit polls, were correct within their margins of error. But let's all finally understand just...

NEW YORK - Family values, traditional values and now, "moral values." Most American adults would say they have them, and yet that two-word phrase is the focus of an ideological tug-of-war heightened by President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election, with conservatives declaring principal ownership and liberals scrambling to challenge them. "We need to work really hard at reclaiming some language," said the Rev. Robert Edgar, general secretary of the liberal-leaning National Council of Churches. "The religious right has successfully gotten out there shaping personal piety issues — civil unions, abortion — as almost the total content of 'moral values,'"...

Yipes! Looks like this whole America-healing thing has been a bit slower than earlier anticipated. We here at Iowahawk are all about keeping hope alive, so here's fresh batch of positives to keep our progressive friends warm during the upcoming Rovian ice age: On an up note, Democratic efforts to increase voter turnout was a major success story in 2004. Progressives have shown that they know how to get first-timers and young people to the polling booth. Next time, you can work on the problem of making them vote for you. Kerry's lack of success in the South was largely...

Election 2004: The Role of "Moral Values" Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq. This election was supposed to be about terrorism, the economy, and Iraq. But there was a more pressing issue that motivated people to vote this year, and that was the issue of moral values. According to exit polls from the National Election Pool, the official election source for broadcast and cable television stations, "moral values" was cited as the most important issue this election by more people than any other concern. The economy and jobs was next, followed by terrorism, then the war in Iraq. Among those who cited...

ELECTION 2004: God's country Christians' support for Bush illustrates moral counterattack Gayle White - Staff Sunday, November 7, 2004 A maroon Ford Explorer making its way down I-85 Wednesday morning provided a rolling summary of the previous day's presidential election: A Christian fish symbol on the bumper, an American flag on the fender and, in the back window, an oval W '04 sticker. God, country and George W. Bush. Wednesday-morning quarterbacks poring over exit polls seemed surprised to find that "moral values" drove many people to vote for Bush, even if they were concerned about the economy and worried about...

Just days after George Bush won what can only be described as a resounding victory in the US elections, the reaction in much of Britain and Europe remains one of astonishment. How, they demand, could America have re-elected the war-mongering, half-witted toxic Texan? Is the country as dumb as its leader? Has America finally been taken over by God-fearing hillbillies bent on meeting jihad with crusade? Or perhaps Americans, many of whom believe they have been abducted by aliens, really are from another planet. The truth, of course, is that the bien pensants have spectacularly missed the point. Mr Bush...

Alan Keyes continues to be a man of principle. He's done something very few Republicans have had the courage to do. Here's his first interview.

The exit polling data has created a distinct misimpression in the media. Only dumb rednecks who hate gays voted for Bush. However a close examination of the data shows otherwise. Look at the results via educational background. 49% of the people who didn't graduate high school voted for Bush versus 44% of the people with a post graduate degree. In other words, there are more morons who have earned graduate degrees than have dropped out of high school. It should be noted, Bush did consistently well with people who are h.s. grads, have some college and are college graduates (around...

Moral Values carries the day

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Remaining "outmoded" State laws invalidating deviant sexual behavior and premarital sex continue to be overturned by state and federal courts. Just recently a Southern State Supreme Court overturned a law prohibiting premarital sex, and a Texas law barring deviant sex will come before the US Supreme Court. Modern society assumes that the elmination of these laws is the path to a free and fair society, but is it? With the new morals has come a wealth of terminated pregnancies, children confused into believing they were born into the wrong sex body, an epidemic of deadly sexually transmitted diseases, rampant pornography,...

Editor's note: Descriptions of sexuality classes, books and techniques in this story may be offensive to some readers. By Art Moore © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The U.S. Catholic bishops' latest proposal to create "safe environments" for children through an "Office of Child and Youth Protection" offers little comfort to some members who closely monitor the Church's gatekeepers. For lay activists who have documented corruption in the church hierarchy over the past several decades, it comes as no surprise that the radical, anything-goes philosophy of famed "sexologist" Alfred Kinsey, a reputed pedophile, has triumphed over traditional teaching in Catholic institutions across the U.S., creating...