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Writing in the March 1 issue of the Pasadena Star News, Tim Kelly, a psychologist and Director of the DePree Public Policy Center at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, calls for President Obama to govern from the political center and avoid the alleged divisive extreme right wing politics of his predecessor, George W. Bush ("Obama must govern from the center to be successful" - see link: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11813772). But Kelly's call for President Obama to embrace a policy of "principled centrism" not only is historically and politically ignorant, it is dishonest and childish as Jewish thinker Dennis Prager has recently reminded us....

THURSDAY in Iowa, former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said he wants to strip government officials convicted for corruption of their pensions. He noted his disappointment with ethically lapsed Republicans in particular: "I expect more of people in my own party. We speak about high ethical standards and we should be an example of those high ethical standards." It turns out, Romney was the rare Massachusetts pol to act correctly in one of the state's worst political scandals. ...snip... As Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr wrote in his book, "The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted...

http://conservativepresident2008.blogspot.com/2006/12/constitution-party-to-select-candidate.html The Constitution Party, a conservative third party founded in 1992 to serve as a possible ticket for Pat Buchanan to run on, plans to have nominated its candidate for President by July 2007, World Net Daily reports. The party held a national committee meeting last weekend where Howard Phillips, who is the party's founder and three time Presidential candidate (1992, 1996 and 2000), told World Net Daily "The time has never been better for a third party dark horse candidate to grab the White House." Phillips said that the party will nominate candidate next year and among the possibilities...

US President George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna is working as an intern at the Unicef regional headquarters in Panama, located on a former US military base, a local newspaper has reported. The front-page, photo-illustrated story in La Prensa said that Jenna, 24, entered the Unicef building in Clayton, 15 kilometres southwest of the capital near the Pacific opening of the Panama Canal, with her passport. She is temporarily residing in a home in Clayton, the newspaper said on Friday. The Panamanian front-page report echoed US media frenzy over the infrequent sightings of "The First Twins", as Jenna and her fraternal...

(St. Paul) – The Pawlenty for Governor campaign announced today that it would foregotaxpayer funding for the campaign. “One individual from Manhattan with essentially unlimited funds has already contributedmore than $600,000 to defeat Governor Pawlenty and promote a very liberal, pro-taxagenda,” said campaign manager Michael Krueger. He also indicated individuals andgroups with ties to Mike Hatch have given large sums to another such group, ‘Minnesotansfor Change.’ “We have no choice but to forego public financing to fight for our agenda ofholding government accountable,” Krueger said. Krueger was referencing $625,000 incontributions from Alida Messinger of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York...

**Media Advisory** Date: May 16, 2003 Contact: Daniel Borchers Founder and President Citizens for Principled Conservatism (240) 476-9690 PrincipledConservative@yahoo.com www.PrincipledConservative.org Jason Blair & Ann Coulter: Switched at Birth? Ann Coulter’s latest (weekly) screed against the New York Times reaches two conclusions about the Jayson Blair debacle. The first is that Blair was hired and promoted – despite his profound professional faults – simply because he is black. Coulter’s second conclusion is that the New York Times was "cruel" for enabling his dysfunctional behavior. If so, then we can also conclude that Human Events hired and promoted Ann Coulter – despite...

Taking an unusual stand, BB&T Corp. said Wednesday that it will not lend money for commercial projects on land seized by the government through eminent domain. The company, based in Winston-Salem, said it wanted to publicize its opposition to a June Supreme Court ruling that such seizures are legal. Traditionally, eminent domain seizures had been restricted to land needed for public purposes. "The idea that a citizen's property can be taken by the government solely for private use is extremely misguided, in fact it's just plain wrong," Chief Executive John Allison said in a statement. BB&T, the nation's ninth-largest bank,...

By the time you read this, chances are that Terri Schiavo will be dead. In a land of plenty, where her parents are more than willing to feed her, where millions of thoughtful and concerned citizens have campaigned for her continued provision of sustenance, she is nonetheless condemned to wither away, literally, by a method that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment when applied to the worst of serial rapist-murderers: starvation. Private money and time has been volunteered to support her; Bob and Mary Schindler, Ms. Schiavo’s parents, have, in a blatant display of statist intrusion, been denied the...

WASHINGTON -- For a low-key guy, Scott Garrett has made a lot of noise during his first year in Congress. Usually, freshmen House members lack the clout or the chutzpah to stand their ground against party elders. But from his vote in January not to extend unemployment benefits to his vote last month against a Medicare prescription-drug plan, the Sussex County Republican has quietly but firmly held to his conservative ideals. Unlike some members, Garrett said he's not in Washington to snare as much federal aid as he can for his northern New Jersey district, which includes all of Warren...

Principled Conservatives, Not Clever Strategery by Rush Limbaugh One of the conspiracy theories evolving out there has George W. Bush and Tom DeLay working together, while appearing to be at odds, to kill certain legislation conservatives don't like. The prescription drug bill would be a prime example. Bush gets the opportunity to say publicly that he's for it, and gets the credit from Democrats for trying, but ultimately it doesn't happen. The close vote in the House of Representatives on their version of the prescription drug bill had no wiggle room in there, but there's all kinds of wiggle room...