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Here’s a quiz to determine if you are aware of America’s most immoral and dangerous enemies. Many are not aware of our enemies and, in fact, many Americans and other people around the world are not only unaware of the true nature of these enemies, but also lend their financial support to them. Question one: What do these four organizations have in common: The ACLU, Hamas, Amnesty International and al-Qaida? Question two: Of those four organizations named above, which two are the most immoral, depraved, and despicable? Answer to question one: All four work on behalf of terrorists and terrorism...

A lot of priests know their way around a kitchen, but the Washington Post this week profiled one who is turning it into his own little apostolate. Take a look: Mass had been over only a few minutes and the Rev. Leo Patalinghug had already traded his green and gold robe for an apron, his priest's collar poking out over the top. He was chopping onions with the speed and flair of a celebrity chef --which he is. Sort of. The unusual cooking demonstration occurred on a recent afternoon at a Catholic bookstore in downtown Washington. About two dozen people...

According to the Politico Democratic strategists, months ago, planned to paint Rush Limbaugh as a bad guy to hurt the GOP and on Wednesday, the "Today" show followed that blueprint as Matt Lauer pilloried RNC Chairman Michael Steele over his flap with the talk show host: Doesn't Rush Limbaugh put people like you in a very tough position? If you agree with him publicly it sounds like you're rooting against the economic recovery and yet if you disagree with him and call him an "entertainer" and say he's provocative and sometimes what he says is "ugly," you're put in...

Top Asian oil and gas producer PetroChina has cut its domestic production targets for 2009 by 10 to 20 percent at many oil fields because of falling demand, a company executive said on Wednesday. The cuts, versus original production targets set at the beginning of the year, would apply to fields except its top two producers Daqing and Changqing, said Zong Yiping, head of PetroChina's Qinghai Oilfield. "It's because you cannot sell. The market restrains it," Zong told reporters. Daqing, China's largest crude field, will maintain its output at about 40 million tonnes (800,000 barrels per day) for another decade,...

She's 50 years old and still causing controversy. No, not Madonna. We're talking about Barbie. West Virginia state lawmaker Jeff Eldridge proposed a bill Tuesday that would ban sales of the busty Mattel doll, and others like her, in the state, just days before the doll officially logs a half century on March 9.

I was struck that Sarah Palin did so poorly in the straw poll of conservatives (13%, tied with Ron Paul) at the big conservative confab this weekend. It may be that participants were just annoyed that she didn't show up but I also wonder whether we have another Dan Quayle scenario. Conservatives rallied around Quayle because he was mocked by liberal elites. But when he actually went out on his own and presented himself as a leader of the Republican Party in 2000, he fizzled (came in 8th in the Ames Iowa straw poll). It turns out that conservatives loved...

In a press conference in Juneau on March 3, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin revealed a plan to encourage the construction of a $4 billion in-state natural gas pipeline. "We've got to do this project," Palin said. "We've got to see it come to fruition, or our state will be a state that imports natural gas despite the fact that Alaska is sitting on some of the world's richest reserves of gas." On Feb. 27, 2009, the Alaskan governor submitted two pieces of legislation to the House and Senate rules committees concerning the in-state gas pipeline. The March 3 press conference...

ROME, March 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two prominent Catholic cardinals have struck out at the secularist trend of excluding all religious belief from public life. The patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola, and Cardinal Camillo Ruini, a former president of the Italian Bishops Conference and the vicar for the diocese of Rome from 1991 to 2007, have warned Christians not to withdraw from active involvement in public life. Writing in an editorial published February 20, in Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Scola wrote, "It seems to me that we often lose sight of the heart of...

The pressure continues to build on the White House to pull the appointment of Chas Freeman Jr. in the key intelligence position of Chairmen of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R., Mich.) the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee has called on the President to withdraw the appointment. At issue is Freeman's role as a Saudi mouth piece. The Ambassador presided over a "think-tank" and publication featuring hostility to western positions that is beyond the broadest mainstream of U.S. thinking on the region. In addition, his slavish following of the Saudi "party line" has involved Mr....

As if the current economic turmoil were not enough to keep Obama and his lack luster staff of sycophants and moochers busy these days, running from press briefing to press briefing in what would appear to be an organized effort to drive the economy into an even deeper hole than its already in, reports are now circulating that senior White House aids are intimately involved in the effort to destroy the de facto spokesperson for today’s conservative movement, Rush Limbaugh. The mere fact that White House officials are involved in any attempt to destroy the career or reputation of a...

In an effort to signal real change and the flexibility to adapt to new circumstances, the Obama administration is rushing with proposals to one and all even when such proposals would require throwing a few allies under the bus. Those unrealistic Realpolitik practitioners over at Foggy Bottom, now under the nominal direction of Hillary Clinton, are rushing us headlong into a disaster of epic proportions. Only an unequivocal rebuff by Russia may change our direction and return some sanity. As of now, there is no question that the EU has some urgent, anxious, questions for Hillary as she’s been meeting...

(Video on Site) http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/video-nuke-bomb-tests-argus-wigwam.html Wigwam: Operation Wigwam involved a single test of the Mark 90 Betty nuclear bomb. It was conducted between Operation Teapot and Operation Redwing on May 14, 1955, about 500 miles southwest of San Diego, California. 6,800 personnel aboard 30 ships were involved in Wigwam. The purpose of Wigwam was to determine the vulnerability of submarines to deeply-detonated nuclear weapons, and to evaluate More..the feasibility of using such weapons in a combat situation. The task force commander, Admiral Sylvester, was embarked on the task force flagship USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7)Template:WP Ships USS instances. The test device was...

There's been a shift in the top 10 companies that submitted applications last year as companies scramble to fill the U.S. government's 85,000 randomly selected petitions. On April 1, employers will once again race to file H-1B visa petitions, hoping that their applications will be among the 85,000 randomly selected by the U.S. government, allowing the companies to hire foreign workers for fiscal 2010, beginning Oct. 1. Last year, as was the case in other recent years, Indian outsourcing firms topped the list of employers who received approval to hire H-1B visa workers for temporary jobs in the United States....

For social liberals, what is it about abortion that makes some of them consider it a sacrificial rite through which only the killing of an unborn child can truly liberate a woman from the clutches of paternalism? A rule approved in the waning days of the Bush administration established broad protections for health-care workers whose religious faith, conscience or moral misgivings forbid them from participating in an abortion. Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services, which is still without a confirmed secretary, announced its intention to rescind the regulation. There will be a 30-day period of public comment...

Last night I was watching television with my five year old. She likes watching a children's cartoon channel called Noggin. Now here's the part that will really make you want to throw up: They have on this channel a poem dedidated to our "Dear Leader"--BHO. The poem tells BHO likes to read to his daughters, cook, etc. It is quite disgusting. I never saw such a thing during any previous administration, Democrat or Republican. I think the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels would blush with envy if he saw the way the media shamelessly promotes BHO. You can check out...

It occurred to me the White House might be forced to nominate radically pro-abort Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Department of Health and Human Services secretary after news leaked last week it was pausing due to her loathsome reputation among pro-lifers. Fear of pro-abortion recrimination, pride, whatever. But it never occurred to me a pro-lifer legislator would applaud the pick, never mind two. But that's what happened when Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts issued a glowing joint statement congratulating their home girl: It's an honor for the State of Kansas to have an elected official appointed to the...

Looks like Rick Santelli got under Pres. Obama’s skin even more than we realized. More than a week after the CNBC correspondent criticized the mortgage bailout plan, there was the president’s press secretary today, still taking snide shots at him. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs’ contemptuous comment came in response to a question from Chip Reid of CBS suggesting that the administration had retooled the plan in light of the “backlash that a lot of people had, not just on cable, but a lot of people had, fearing that people who behaved badly will be rewarded.” Before Reid could finish his...

Say what you want about former senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens, but The Hulk did plenty for rural Alaska over his 40 years in the Senate, including establishing a complex system to subsidize air travel in the state's remote communities. Called bypass mail, the Postal Service in effect helps keep costs down for small airlines and their passengers to the villages as it regularly delivers mail to communities. But now there are concerns that rate increases, set to take effect May 11, could impact the bypass mail system. In a letter Tuesday, Gov. Sarah Palin urged Postmaster General John...

The national outbreak of salmonella in products with peanuts has been particularly unsettling for shoppers []who think organic food is safer. The plants in Texas and Georgia that were sending out contaminated peanut butter and ground peanut products had something else besides rodent infestation, mold and bird droppings. They also had federal organic certification. “Why is organic peanut butter better than Jif?” said Ms. Devlin-Sample, a nurse practitioner from Pelham, N.Y. “I have no idea. If we’re getting salmonella from peanut butter, all bets are off.” Although the rules governing organic food require health inspections and pest-management plans, organic certification...

A state official charged with helping develop a small diameter natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Cook Inlet said Tuesday the so-called bullet line could cost about $4 billion and bring gas to Alaska homes and businesses as early as 2015. Harry Noah, recently appointed project manager of an in-state gas line by Gov. Sarah Palin, outlined the schedule with Palin at a news conference. "This schedule is very ambitious. A lot of things can affect it but when you are trying to develop a project, it's always easy to go slower, but if you stretch it out,...