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Supporters of Harvey Milk want the Governor to sign legislation soon declaring a Harvey Milk Day here in California. Opponents say that move would "send the wrong message to children by endorsing homosexuality and lionizing a man with a controversial personal history." Randy Thomasson with SaveCalifornia.com was even more plain in his opposition:. "Harvey Milk was a terrible...

The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president. The highly anticipated hearing tomorrow morning before Judge David Carter features attorney Orly Taitz and numerous plaintiffs, as well as a document that one person has sworn is the original birth certificate of Obama from Kenya – not Hawaii, where the administration maintains Obama was born. In a motion filed Friday in Santa Ana, Calif., attorneys for the government did not directly address the merits of Taitz's claims, but instead focused their...

The extent of the sea-ice is now half a million square kilometres more than it was this time last year, says Christopher Booker. BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, "100 billion tons" of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be "ice-free". This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice...

VENICE (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy who once called George W. Bush "the devil," said on Monday he hoped to be able to work more closely with President Barack Obama. The leftist 55-year-old leader added in an interview in Italy that despite the global economic crisis and signs of a slowdown in growth in Venezuela, he did not expect his country to fall into recession. Chavez was in Venice for the world premiere of "South of the Border," director Oliver Stone's sympathetic portrait of a leader he says has championed the poor...

As Obama Speech Nears, Details on a Compromise By JACKIE CALMES and ROBERT PEAR September 7, 2009 WASHINGTON — As President Obama and top advisers drafted his eagerly awaited health care speech to Congress, new details emerged Monday about fees and coverage limits under a proposal being floated by the chairman of a crucial Senate committee. The proposal from the lawmaker, Senator Max Baucus, who heads the Finance Committee, would impose new fees on some sectors of the health care industry, but none on individuals, to help offset initial costs estimated at $880 billion over 10 years, according to officials...

Charles Krauthammer at his best in identifying how a Van Jones can happen in Obama's world: It's a reflection of the boss. The boss also had a history before he became a candidate of being around and friends with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. The liberals scolded us last year on how irrelevant all that is and how it's a smear campaign against Obama. But, if you live in that environment and you find nothing inherently wrong with that kind of radicalism. Then a Van Jones will show up. You'll watch him years and years and you'll...

The health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats contains many controversial items that divide the general public. However, one area of consensus among the public is the desire to restrict government health care benefits to U.S. citizens only. Eighty-three percent (83%) of voters nationwide say that people should be required to prove they are a citizen of the United States before receiving government health care subsidies. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 12% disagree and five percent (5%) are not sure. The desire to limit the benefits to U.S. citizens is found across...

Are we Venezuela Yet? Video and store at the link. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/marxist-venezuelan-leader-hugo-chavez.html Hugo Chavez "With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can't deny that Obama is different (from Bush). He's intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him."

American military planes will soon be seen above Russia after a new transit agreement with the U.S. came into force. It allows America to airlift military equipment to Afghanistan via Russian airspace.

September 8, 2009                                     Feast of the Nativity of the                                     Blessed Virgin Mary Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30 The LORD says:You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,too small to be among the clans of Judah,From you shall come forth for meone who is to be ruler in Israel;Whose origin is from of old,from ancient times.(Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the timewhen she who is to give birth has borne,And the rest of his brethren shall returnto the children of Israel.)He shall...

China denies incursions by its troops into Indian territory across the Line of Actual Control. But NDTV has exclusive information that China is actively training and arming insurgent groups in Manipur and Nagaland.

Here is a fascinating video report from tonight's Lou Dobbs Show, where Bill Tucker examined the "Montana Firearms Freedom Act," which will take effect in October. The state law says any firearm made in Montana and owned in Montana, and made by a non-Federally-licensed gunmaker, is not subject to Federal regulation. The ATF is already saying they will not recognize the law, and a court challenge is inevitable. A writer of the law said the ATF reaction was anticipated, and he freely admits the law is intended as a "finger in the eye of the Federal Government." . . ....

China's young and mysterious special forces are likely to grab plenty of attention on Oct 1 when they march in a military parade for the first time. The elite troops, drawn for the assignment from the ranks of the Beijing Military Command Area, are currently completing intensive training at a parade village in Shahe, in northern Beijing, ahead of their first appearance - at the National Day parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China.

ASHINGTON: The Obama Administration has declined to set a deadline for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, arguing that the situation there is different from that of Iraq and 9/11 plotters are still holed up in the Af-Pak region and planning attack against the US. "We have a different situation in Afghanistan. It is actually the place that - Afghanistan and Pakistan - where the folks who attacked us on 9/11 are holed up and plotting against us still," David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the US President, told the NBC news channel in an interview.

Drawing upon Catholic teaching on subsidiarity, an increasing number of US bishops are criticizing the concept of government-run health care. Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo has criticized the view that “the national government is the sole instrument of the common good.” Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford adds: As Catholic people, however, we are not allowed to wash our hands of it and to let things shake out as the federal government would have it. Our more than bicentennial experience with our federal government leads many to the conclusion that our government really does only one thing well: waging war. In...

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 Christian Girls, Interrupted How much say should parents have over their children's faith? By WILLIAM MCGURN Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it. One of these courts is in New Hampshire, where a judge recently ordered that home-schooled Amanda Kurowski be sent to public school. The order signed by Family Court Justice Lucinda V. Sandler says the 10-year-old's Christian faith could use some shaking up—and that the local public school is just the place to do it. So while the child's lawyers at the Alliance Defense...

Alright, heres the deal...The examiner is supposed to be an opinion driven, but fact based new media organization. There examiners go through a screening process and have the opportunity to select specific topics to write on. I know, because I am one. Help me get rid of a nutroots who has infiltrated the examiner. Tonights article called tea party protesters a bunch white racists in an article that was more fitting of the the daily kos. There is a report button on the article, do me a favor and submit it to help prevent the Examiner from becoming one more...

From the very beginning of the Age of Obama, we have been told by our Leftist betters that we must not DARE call him a socialist/communist, and we have dutifully obeyed. It seems that the only reason we are not allowed to call him that is because it would be detrimental to his political ambitions, not because it's not true. And of course the "McCarthyism" smears, but McCarthy has been proven right. So I have a question? Do we have the courage to call a Communist a Communist? Do we have the courage to always precede his name with the...

With each passing day, it becomes clear the liberal media are imploding along with the man they corruptly put in the White House. Today's example: according to Arianna Huffington, Glenn Beck has done Van Jones a big favor by putting so much pressure on Barack Obama's "green jobs czar" that he was forced to resign in disgrace. Honestly, only a liberal media member could spin someone's resignation in such a distorted fashion.

Arianna Huffington, a long-time friend and one-time employer of Van Jones, thanked Fox's Glenn Beck on Monday evening for leading the charge that resulted in the environmental adviser's resignation. Confused? Well, Huffington does describe Beck's calling attention to Van Jones' past radical statements -- on televion and radio -- as a "vile and vicious smear campaign." But in the end, she claims that Jones will be more effective working outside of government. I remember going to the White House this spring for a briefing of journalists by David Axelrod. Before the meeting, Van and I met for a quick coffee...