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The U.S. Senate has approved the nomination of David Ogden as the number-two man at the U.S. Justice Department. Many pro-family groups voiced loud objections to Ogden, who has a history of supporting homosexuality, pornography, and abortion in court. Pat Trueman is a former Justice Department official and pornography prosecutor. "[Ogden] was picked for a reason, and that's because of his radical agenda," Trueman asserts. "I don't think President Obama picked him because he's going to help pornographers. I think he picked him because he's a radical attorney who's going to radicalize the Justice Department." According to the former DOJ...

A California couple pleaded guilty today to violating federal obscenity laws for making and distributing sexually explicit films that depicted rape and murder, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. Robert Zicari, Janet Romano and their company, Extreme Associates, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene materials.

Lately the phrase "unlimited texting" is taking on a whole new meaning: "In Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah (at last count) minors have been arrested for 'sexting,' or sending or posting soft-core photo or video self-portraits," The American Prospect reported. Among the recent cases: Six high school students from Greensburg, Pa., were charged with possessing, manufacturing and distributing child pornography this month after nude pictures of several underage girls were confiscated from one of the boys' phones. The three 14- and 15-year-old girls who sent the self-made child porn and the three...

Tuesday March 3, 2009 Family Advocates: Ask the Senate to Stop the Child Porn Lawyer from Becoming Dep. Attorney General By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., March 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, David Ogden, despite a deluge of protest from Christian and pro-family advocates who object to Ogden's extensive history defending child pornography and hardcore pornography giants.Sen. Arlen Specter, the committee's top Republican, reportedly said on National Public Radio that he had never seen so much opposition from voters against a nominee. According to Specter 11,000 phone calls, letters and...

A federal judge has ordered a former Pfizer executive to pay $200,000 to a teen girl whose image he had downloaded from a child porn site on the Internet. Alan Hesketh was fired from his position as vice president and global patent director at Pfizer after he was arrested on pornography charges in 2008. Hesketh claimed he should not be held liable for damages to the victim because he only downloaded the images from another site.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to send David W. Ogden’s name to the full Senate for a confirmation vote for the position of Deputy Attorney General. A Senate vote on the nomination has not yet been scheduled, but it could come within days. As a private attorney, Ogden has represented numerous clients in the adult entertainment industry such as Playboy and Penthouse. More importantly, he has opposed protecting children from pornography via his opposition to the Children’s Internet Protection Act, and Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act. What an abomination! What happened to this country’s morality? Is this kind...

Thursday February 26, 2009 The Pornification of a Culture -- What's Going on in the Office Next Door? Commentary by Dr. Albert MohlerFebruary 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The scourge of pornography is now so pervasive that it begins to define the culture at large.  America is fast transforming itself from a society that allows and markets pornography into a culture that is pornographic.  Boundary after boundary is being transgressed.Adding insult to injury, courts have ruled that public libraries have no right to use filters that prevent viewing of pornography on public computers.  Now, the marketers of pornography are looking...

SNIPPET: "Critics of Ogden had cited his history of representing the pornography industry in private practice. But one of Republicans who voted for Ogden -- Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter -- explained that despite thousands of voter contacts opposing the nominee, he was swayed by an opinion piece explaining the principle that a client's view cannot be attributed to a lawyer." SNIPPET: "Pat Trueman, a former Justice Department child exploitation prosecutor, reacts to the committee vote. "It's clear that the Senate Democrats want these radical nominees [to be approved], because it's not just David Ogden -- there's a couple of others that...

Most people probably don't picture kids when they think about who's viewing pornography. But according to statistics cited by the non-profit advocacy organization Enough Is Enough, the largest group of viewers of Internet pornography is children between the ages of 12 and 17. And there's more. The average age of first exposure to Internet pornography is 11.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit made the right call Friday in upholding a law that requires pornographers to keep records documenting the names and ages of people who appear in photos of sexual activity, according to Alan Sears, the law’s author. Sears is now president, CEO, and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund. “Children should not be fodder for the profits and perverse desires of pornographers,” said Sears. “Today’s ruling once again affirms that no conflict exists between the protections of the First Amendment and this law, which simply exists to protect...

The Politics of Porn by Robert R. Reilly    2/18/09     In many major American cities, the tawdry sections of town that once housed pornographic cinemas, bookstores, and strip joints have given way to shiny new office buildings and Starbucks coffee houses. Does this sign of urban renewal also signify moral renewal? Has America finally grown bored with a surfeit of pornography? Unfortunately not. Pornography has simply relocated from inner city slums to a far worse location -- the home, which it now infiltrates via the latest technology.   U.S. News and World Report (Feb. 10, 1997) revealed...

published by:Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Goodhttp://www.thepublicdiscourse.com view article in original form David Ogden and the New Pornographers: Why the Senate Should Reject His Nominationby Matthew Schmitz February 12, 2009 David Ogden has impressive legal credentials, but his long career as a pornography-industry attorney casts doubt on his ability to enforce laws meant to protect children. David Ogden graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and worked in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton. He brings to his Senate confirmation hearings a long résumé that shows him to be an effective and...

The Senate Judiciary committee has prolonged the decision-making process in regard to ratifying David W. Ogden as Obama's pick for deputy attorney general. The Senate was expected to have voted on Ogden after a committee hearing last week, but the vote has been delayed until after the Senate's recess next week. Ogden is considered a controversial pick for the office, due to the fact that he represented several media groups to challenge provisions of the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 and the Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990. He has argued that requiring the...

Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Massive online retailer Amazon.com has dropped its listing for a controversial Japanese video game called Rapelay that involves raping women and forcing them to have abortions. The so-called "rape simulator" game was sold on the web site and included a graphic description of the gameplay. Although a listing for the product is available through online searches, the link to it on Amazon's web page no longer functions. Gaming web sites that have reviewed the simulation describe the "tears glistening in the young girl's eyes" as the player attacks her in graphic detail.

Friday February 6, 2009 Child Porn Pandemic as Police Estimate 600,000 Americans, 65,000 Canadians Trading Child Porn Online By Kathleen GilbertTORONTO, Ontario, February 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario police yesterday celebrated the results of a province-wide child pornography bust, the largest in Ontario's history - yet officers acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of the massive underworld of child sexual abuse in North America.  Police officers said at a press conference Thursday that the sweep led to the arrest of 31 child sex offenders between the age of 14 and 60, as well as the rescue of two...

Washington DC, Feb 5, 2009 / 06:49 am (CNA).- President Barack Obama’s selection of David Ogden to become Deputy Attorney General is being criticized because of Ogden’s links to the pornography industry.A brief from the Chicago-based pro-family group Fidelis reports that Ogden has represented pornography businesses such as Playboy Enterprises and Penthouse Magazine. He opposed the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 as counsel of record for an amicus brief supporting the American Library Association in a case that challenged mandatory anti-obscenity internet filters in public libraries.In the 1986 case American Council for the Blind v. Boorstin, he successfully...

President Obama has expressed his belief the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted through the lens of current events and now he's apparently preparing to install as a senior official at the U.S. Justice Department a lawyer who goes one step further, advocating for constitutional protections for abortionists, pornographers and protesters. The evaluation of Justice Department nominee David Ogden, who would be deputy to Attorney General Eric Holder, comes from Fidelis, a consortium of organizations working to promote religious freedom, values of human life and the institutions of marriage and the family. "Ogden is an abortion-on-demand absolutist. He opposes common sense...

CHICAGO – President Obama has made a major mistake and put America’s families at risk by selecting David Ogden to become Deputy Attorney General, says Fidelis, a pro-family organization. “David Ogden is a hired gun from Playboy and ACLU. He can’t run from his long record of opposing common sense laws protecting families, women, and children. The United States Senate has a responsibility to the American people to insure that Mr. Ogden’s full record is fully reviewed before any vote on his nomination” said Brian Burch, President of Fidelis. “Ogden’s record is nothing short of obscene. He has represented Playboy...

Playboy has apparently dropped plans to carry out its Saturday Super Bowl bash in Tampa due to "lack of sponsorship." The famous lad magazine was said to be closing its office in New York and further fusing Chicago operations, reports the New York Post. However, the magazine was reportedly "hawking tickets to game-day bash at the Playboy Mansion in LA." The general admission would allegedly cost enthusiasts 1,500 dollars, while those with tables and cabanas were priced at 10,000 and 25,000 dollars respectively. Meanwhile, the annual pay-per-view Lingerie Bowl has also been scrapped following disputes whether members of the Florida...

New laws designed to tackle extreme and child pornography could make owning mainstream comics like Batman or Judge Dredd illegal, campaigners claim. They are protesting against two pieces of legislation. The first, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, comes into force later this month. It will make possessing "extreme pornography" - defined as any "extreme image" produced "solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal" - illegal. The Government defines an "extreme image" as any "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise ... obscene" moving or still depiction of someone any "reasonable person" would think real being sexually injured or engaging...

Chuck Grassley knows it when he sees it. The “it,” of course, is pornography. And Grassley has seen it deep in a demurely titled section of a report from the National Science Foundation — a report that says NSF employees have been spending significant amounts of company time on smut sites and in other explicit pursuits. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, on Tuesday fired off a letter to the NSF’s inspector general requesting all documents related to the “numerous reports” and seven investigations into “Abuse of NSF IT Resources” cited in the foundation’s 68-page semiannual report....

The good folks at NBC, clearly wanting to avoid a "Nipplegate" replay, will not air animal rights group PETA's hyper-sexual television ad during Sunday's Super Bowl. When you see it, you'll know why. For those that have forgotten, on February 1, 2004, during the halftime festivities of Super Bowl XXXVIII, singer Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" revealing her naked breast to a startled nation. Five years later, according to PETA, NBC found its commercial, "which features a comely crop of models demonstrating their fondness for fresh produce," a tad too provocative (sexually explicit language warning):

COLORADO SPRINGS, January 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the 20th anniversary of his execution, the final interview with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, in which he warned of the deadly effects of pornography addiction, the primary factor that he says led to his notorious killing spree in the 1970s, was re-aired by Focus on the Family. Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, also appeared on Fox News' “Glenn Beck” last Friday to discuss his historic final interview with Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.  Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary...

The issue of the damage pornography does to society is being revived on the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ted Bundy, who died in Florida's electric chair after confessing to the sex-inspired murders of dozens of girls and women. Focus on the Family chief James Dobson recalled to the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck today his interview with Bundy on the eve of the Jan. 24, 1989, execution. "Ted Bundy confessed to killing 28 women and girls. He probably killed more than 100 over a period of time," Dobson said. The interview 20 years ago came about at Bundy's...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider attempts to revive a 1998 law intended to protect children from Internet pornography, ending a legal conflict dating to the administration of President Bill Clinton. Without comment, the court handed down an order declining to take the case of Mukasey v. A.C.L.U., No. 08-565. The administration of former President George W. Bush, through Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had asked the justices to review the law. The American Civil Liberties Union has been a leading foe of the statute. The Child Online Protection Act has been the subject of court battles...

http://www.zenit.org/article-24829?l=english ZE09011805 - 2009-01-18Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-24829?l=englishCleaning Up The Internet Concern Over Harmful Effects of Pornography By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, JAN. 18, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Governments in a number of countries are raising concerns over the way in which the Internet is allowing unlimited access to all sorts of pornography. China recently warned a number of online portals and search engines that are making it easy for Internet users to come into contact with porn, CNN reported Jan. 6. CNN revealed that the move comes as several Chinese government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, launched a month-long campaign to...

... Four decades ago, Australia enacted wide-ranging reforms to uplift its long-oppressed Aboriginal citizens. The laws mandated equal wages with whites, access to the country's generous welfare system and the eventual transfer of vast chunks of land to near-total Aboriginal control. Since then, Aboriginal society has experienced a dramatic decline -- partly a result of these very reforms. Australia's government has proclaimed the upsurge of violence, child abuse and alcoholism among Aborigines a national emergency. It is responding with controversial new policies that critics decried as racist, such as restricting welfare payments to Aborigines but not to whites or other...

‘Sexting’ surprise: Teens face child porn charges 6 Pa. high school students busted after sharing nude photos via cell phones In an unusual legal case arising from the increasingly popular practice known as “sexting,” six Pennsylvania high school students are facing child pornography charges after three teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and shared them with male classmates via their cell phones. The female students at Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, Pa., all 14- or 15-years-old, face charges of manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child pornography while the boys, who are 16 and 17, face charges...

"GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a Greensburg Salem High School who received them, are charged with child pornography."

Debt is servitude and bondage. It always has been; it always will be. Yet, like everything else in our lives that is manipulated by those who make a living out sex, lies and banking, debt has has been adorned with huge assets, suggestive clothes and a lot of effluvial sweet talk.

"WASHINGTON (CNN) — Another major American industry is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry. “The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most...

Lets face it YOU JUST KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. Once you give money to one industry everyone wants their cut. The latest industry asking for a bailout is the pornography industry. NO, I am not talking about the Mainstream media I am talking about the "naked people having sex" kind of pornography. Larry Flynt of Hustler fame and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis have asked congress for a $5 Billion Dollar Bailout saying that they are an essential American Business. First the big three, now the smutty two. Read the full story below:

Hugh Hefner has a new Playmate – and this one’s a "good girl." Crystal Harris describes herself on her MySpace page "a good girl, for the most part.” And the busty blonde revealed on E! Online’s message board that she has moved into the Playboy mansion, along with 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.

So I took the kids out to the mall to shop for Mom two days before Christmas. I want them to know that Christmas is not just about receiving but giving as well. Now let me ask a weird hypothetical. If I showed up at the Mall wearing only briefs and say my wife showed up in a minuscule bra and panties we'd likely be dragged from the premises and arrested. And rightly so, especially if you've seen me in briefs. But no matter what, it's bad, right? So why is it OK for some of these stores to have...

Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the "band of brothers"--Swift Boat veterans who supported John Kerry's presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Sanders was one of Kerry's nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a "trapped animal." In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John O'Neill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as "chicken hawks," an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a...

I will be called names for writing this column. It always happens. Raise the issue of the pornification of the culture and its fanatical devotees will come gunning for you. If they hope to be intimidating, they've forgotten what delete keys are for. It's Christmastime and the Fox News Channel, the most conservative of the major media outlets, is running an ad for PajamaGrams, "the only gift guaranteed to get your wife or girlfriend to take her clothes off." The ads feature soft porn images of women disrobing and tossing slips and bras to the floor. The ads run at...

Judgment: Barack Obama has also chosen a poet who will read at his oath of office. Let's just say it won't be Robert Frost musing that "the land was ours." And you may not want your children near the TV.Do the following lines represent the best that modern American literature offers? "Her genitalia will float inside a labeled pickling jar . . . ""Monsieur Cuvier investigates between my legs, poking, prodding . . . ""Since my own genitals are public I have made other parts private."They come from "The Venus Hottentot," the most celebrated poem of Elizabeth Alexander, chosen by...

Internet Criminals Attack MOVIEGUIDE® and Ted Baehr; Bogus Email Sends People to Porn Site Dec 17th, 2008 Date: December 16, 2008 A bogus email in the name of MOVIEGUIDE® and its Christian founder, Ted Baehr, is sending people to a homosexual porn site, Dr. Baehr said today. “This is a criminal attack on our ministry,” Dr. Baehr noted. He advised supporters and friends to report any similar attacks to MOVIEGUIDE® at info@movieguide.org. “We are looking at legal and criminal action,” Dr. Baehr said. “But, in the meantime, we urgently ask all of our partners and supporters to please pray that...

Some of you by now may have heard about the cover of Mexico's Playboy magazine. To wit: A nude model resembling the Virgin Mary on the cover of the Mexican edition of Playboy magazine, published only days before a major Mexican festival dedicated to the mother of Jesus, prompted the company's U.S. headquarters on Friday to apologize. The magazine, which hit newsstands on Dec. 1 as ceremonies began leading to Friday's pilgrimage to the Mexico City shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, showed a model wearing nothing but a white cloth over her head and breasts. She is standing...

WASHINGTON: A United Nations official of Filipino origin has been suspended for showing pornographic movies and materials in his office at the world body’s headquarters. The suspension comes without pay, pending a full-scale inquiry, UN Spokesman Farhan Haq stated on Friday. Haq said the UN would wait for the completion of the investigation before taking any further action. Unidentified sources said the pornographic shows had for long been hosted by Mario Antonio of the Philippines. On Nov 13, an internal UN report said the official involved should face punishment for the discovery of pornographic video clips and photographs on his...

Playboy has got into the Christmas spirit — by putting the Virgin Mary nude on its Mexican cover.

Bettie Page, the 1950s pinup credited with helping to spark the next decade's sexual revolution, died in Los Angeles yesterday from pneumonia. She was 85.

If there is one thing that is consistant about the loony left in this country it is their tolerance, as long as you agree with every nutty, doctrinaire liberal idea that they come up with. But if you don't, then you might as well draw a bullseye on your back because you will be a target. There is no better example than Sarah Palin. I won't re-hash all of the slurs, shrill insults or outright slander and concocted lies that she and her family had to endure. Suffice it to say that she is worthy of the best political assasins...

A senior aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was fired from his post last week after he was charged with distributing and receiving child pornography. Jeffrey P. Rosato, an aide to Boxer and a senior policy adviser on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was arrested last Friday, the same day he was fired from Boxer's office, and charged with one count each of receipt and distribution of child pornography.

A Florida-based pornography director says he might be prepared to increase the offer he made to Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin to appear in one of his films. Bill Fisher, better known as Cezar Capone, announced Thursday he was increasing his initial offer of $2 million to Sarah Palin plus $100,000 and a free snowmobile for her husband Todd, to $3 million and a lifetime supply of Alaskan king crab.

It looks like the type of column that only appears in one of those sleezy freebie sex rags that can be found primarily in beatup newspaper racks. However, this column by Violet Blue (photo right) was published in a major newspaper, the San Franciso Chronicle. Come to think of it, being that the city is San Francisco, this almost makes sense. Ms. Blue has sort of a kinky sex advice column featured regularly in that periodical called, "Open Source Sex." And now Violet Blue is deeply concerned about repression. Not repression by the EVIL Republicans who are on their way...

Saturday night I took my wife of 34 years to MovieLand to screen a comedy romance entitled “Zach and Miri Make a Porno,” a film whose Internet “Tomatometer” consensus proclaimed it “fresh,” “charming” and “an old fashioned romantic comedy.” The Washington Post’s Neely Tucker observed, “Everyone on screen seems to be having so much fun,” and The New York Times’ A. O. Scott bubbled, “a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.” Since the wife and I are suckers for old-fashioned romantic comedies, I ponied up $30 for tickets and a bucket of...

In a morning interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, New York Senator and Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Comittee, Chuck Schumer discussed the need for government censorship over America’s radio airwaves. Comparing political speech, the Nation’s most protected form of First Amendment speech to pornography, Schumer argued that it was unfair for advocates of free political expression on the radio to oppose government regulation, while supporting decency standards, calling it “not consistent.” Schumer predicted that high Democratic turnout would give he and his colleagues close to 60 seats in the U.S. Senate - margins that would allow for the...

Just saw Schumer defend the Democrats goal of implementing the fairness doctrine on Fox News. He said that the government controls the showing of pornography so they should have the right to control talk radio! WOW!