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"As a cheerleader at St. Alphonsus High School, before each game, we gathered in a circle and prayed a 'Memorare.' We prayed to win. Back then, most Catholics sent their children to Catholic schools, so there were enough schools in suburban Detroit to have Class A, B, C and D divisions. That meant that before every sporting event, dueling Catholic prayers went up for the win. Did the victors just pray better?"

The president, vice president and a former State Department official with the Obama administration took advantage of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit this week in Washington, D.C., as an opportunity to advance the homosexual rights agenda. “Despite the focus and emphasis on these issues, the United States has remained committed to its principles of strengthening and promoting democratic institutions, encouraging good governance and accountability and also promoting good human rights, including respect for the LBG [lesbian, bisexual, gay] communities across Africa,” Johnnie Carson, former assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under Hillary Clinton and senior adviser at the U.S. Institute...

WASHINGTON – Declaring "I don't quit,'" an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority for the year and urged a divided Congress to come together around new stimulus spending and short-term economic relief. He said he would still pursue ambitious longer-term changes to health care, energy, education and beyond. "Change has not come fast enough," Obama said before a politician-packed House chamber and a TV audience of millions. "I do not accept second-place for the United States of America. As hard as it may be,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Monday his top priority was to tackle high U.S. unemployment, and stressed that although the economy was growing again, many Americans were still suffering. "Our economy is growing again for the first time in more than a year," Obama told reporters after a meeting with his cabinet. "We cannot be sit back and be satisfied given the extraordinarily high unemployment levels that we have seen." U.S. unemployment is at a 26-year high of 10.2 percent and may get worse before it improves, despite the economy's swing into positive growth in the third...

PHOENIX The leader of a volunteer effort to put civilians on the Mexican border to report illegal crossers says he is endorsing Arizona gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater. Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corporation, says Goldwater will make illegal immigration a top priority if he unseats Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano next year. Goldwater, a Republican activist and former state employee, has pledged to lower taxes and get tough on illegal immigration. Goldwater has criticized blamed Napolitano for not fully enacting Proposition 200, the voter-approved measure denies some welfare benefits to illegal immigrants Napolitano spokeswoman Jeanine L'Ecuyer called the...

Wednesday May 4, 9:28 AM Cheney sees U.S. putting top priority on E. Asia: Aso (Kyodo) _ U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney told a visiting group of Japanese ruling coalition lawmakers Tuesday that the United States will shift its top priority to East Asia, especially over nuclear issues, delegation leader Taro Aso said. Speaking to reporters after the group's meeting with Cheney, Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Aso said the vice president flatly denied as "no" when being told that the U.S. administration is focusing on Iraqi, Palestinian and other Middle East matters as well as Afghanistan. Cheney stressed that...

Isn’t it amazing how many wonderful things former President William Jefferson Clinton would have done for this world if it wasn’t for the uncalled-for meddling of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr? The most recent such revelation suggests that Mr. Clinton would have reformed Social Security in his second term if he had not been distracted by those dastardly and unnecessary impeachment proceedings. Such are the proclamations in a San Francisco Chronicle front-page story entitled "Social Security rehab died first under Clinton.”http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/11/MNGKIC697J1.DTL To begin with, the Chronicle’s Carolyn Lochhead states that saving Social Security from imminent insolvency was a key initiative of...

BOSTON - It's the economy, John Kerry (news - web sites). That's what delegates to the Democratic National Convention say their presumed presidential nominee or — they shudder to think — President Bush (news - web sites) should concentrate on first in 2005, an Associated Press survey of Democratic delegates found. Health care was the No. 2 issue, followed by the war in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the survey of some three-quarters of the 4,300-plus delegates. The delegates' to-do list aligns closely with the message that Kerry and vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites)...

WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton said Thursday that neither the Iraq situation nor the war on terrorism should interfere with efforts to strengthen the economy and fix a health care system that leaves 41 million people uninsured. "No one really thinks these terrorists are going to win a military victory over us, even if God forbid we see another terrible incident or two in our country," Clinton said. "The only way that we can be vanquished is if we respond to this in a way that compromises the future of our children and the character of our nation." Speaking to...