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I’ve just been on Amtrak’s website to see how much it would cost for a single day, round trip adult ticket from Metro Park, NJ (MET) to Union Station (WAS) on September 12, 2009. When I do this, the total cost is $224.00. Note that this is for the 121 Train departing at 6:20 AM and the 182 Train leaving DC at 7:20 PM. When I enter the same itinerary for one week later, September 19, 2009 and select the same trains the total round trip cost is $98.00. The dramatic price difference confuses me and I can’t explain why...

Alinsky would be proud.

According to sources, Rep. Frank Wolf R.Va. and Rep. Lamar Smith R-Tx received a letter today from the Dept. of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (DOJ) about the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense ( NBP), which was mysteriously dismissed by the DOJ after President Obama took office. Questions about this unusual dismissal have been asked by Messrs. Wolf ...

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is an opinion columnist for LifeNews.com. She is the Public Relations Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio. I recently learned of a pro-life group which was forced to shelve its life-like fetal models at a county fair because the images had been deemed "disgusting." Keep in mind that these models had not been manipulated in any way—they had not been dismembered, or covered with fake blood. They were simply representations of the human body...

Just click HERE, then bookmark page. Use anytime the teleprompter comes on. Note: Also comes in handy for more somber occasions such as Ted Kennedy and Michael Jackson tributes. Invaluable tool for watching the MSM news or taking a break from the New York Times.

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new analysis from the London School of Economics is targeting people who have children as being responsible for destroying the environment. With a population control agenda in mind, its analysis draws the conclusion that fewer children and more abortions means a better environment.Although the report, entitled Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, focuses on "family planning" and contraception, the idea is that fewer children born means the environment will be better off.Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust at the LSE, is one of the school officials behind the report.His research indicates contraception...

WHIP COUNT: DEMS LACK THE VOTES Wed Sep 09 2009 17:03:37 ET At least 44 more moderate Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record in opposition to the current health care bill in the House, a Hill source claims. Likewise, at least 57 liberal Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record saying they will vote against a health care bill without a strong public option. Unless multiple Democrats flip on their stated position on health care, Speaker Pelosi lacks the votes to pass a bill through the House on the strength of Democrat votes...

Glenn Beck "But remember, everybody: Glenn Beck is the crazy one ..." So wrote one of my sarcastic pals on Twitter yesterday, after hearing that White House "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones believes the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were an inside job. For those who've lost their scorecards, that makes Jones a self-described communist, a jailbird – and now, a conspiracy nut. Glenn Beck has taken plenty of grief for exposing Jones' radical beliefs over the past few months. No wonder Jones' old organization, Color of Change, tried to organize a boycott of Beck's Fox News show. I say "tried"...

WANWICK, UK, Sept. 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "The death-toll of World War II was a tragic prelude to the far greater slaughter by abortion and euthanasia that has happened since," John Smeaton, Britain's leading pro-life advocate, told a national pro-life conference last weekend. "Deaths of unborn children worldwide through abortion vastly outnumber the total of military and civilian war deaths," he added. In his address "The Pro-Life Battle Ahead," Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told his audience, "We're not fighting Nazi tyranny but the tyranny of politicians who promote legislation worldwide that destroys...

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's presidential elections. The inquiry was disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the case's dismissal and asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to make available the head of the department's Voting Section for a closed-door briefing about the decision. In the letter, Mary Patrice...

How effective are terrorist rehabilitation programs? Recent attacks in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have left some wondering whether attempts to turn militants away from terrorism have failed. By David Montero from the September 7, 2009 edition Police in Indonesia were once lauded for their track record of rehabilitating hardened terrorists, turning them into informants and aides. But then a graduate of one of those programs turned back to terrorism and died in a spectacular shoot-out with police in August. Saudi Arabia was also considered a good model of rehabilitating terrorists. But two weeks ago a graduate of a rehabilitation program...

This is all BS these Dems will claim that President changed some essential terms and now they will accept HCR in the name of their constituency. The mainstream is setting up for elation after tonight's speech while he will be saying the same things differently and continuing to attack the majority of Americans who dont want this loss of freedom. He will essentially be criticizing hard working people for the very tactics he uses against the citizens of this great nation on a daily basis. Out goes a representative government ; America welcome to Marxism.

We like to think Islamism represents only a fringe of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims. But that’s because we confound Islamists and terrorists. The terrorists — those who commit and materially support violent attacks — are a fringe (bigger than we’d like to think, but still a tiny minority). By contrast, Islamists may be a majority, and, if they’re not, they constitute a very substantial minority. Islamism is not terrorism. To be sure, Islamism includes terrorism in its arsenal. Still, there is major disagreement among Islamists about when violence should be used and how effective it is. In any event,...

This week on "Take AIM," Accuracy in Media's Thursday morning show on BlogTalkRadio, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) discusses health care reform. Commander Kirk Lippold, senior military fellow with Military Families United, discusses the Obama administration's release of Guantanamo Bay detainees, as well as his experiences as commanding officer of the USS Cole when it was attacked. AIM chairman Don Irvine and media analyst Roger Aronoff host. Listen live on Thursday, September 10, at 11:00 am Eastern here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Accuracy-In-Media/2009/09/10/Take-AIM For more information about our guests, see www.mikerogers.house.gov and www.militaryfamiliesunited.org. Take AIM airs every Thursday at 11:00 am Eastern on BlogTalkRadio. Can't...

Here is video of Glenn Beck today saying "the tides are about to turn." Beck said tomorrow he will have an "exclusive" that will "change everything." He said everyone now thinks they will be talking about Health Care tomorrow - "I don't think so. He makes the cryptic statements at the 5:50 remaining mark of the video. . . . (VIDEO)

A group of boys videotaped themselves pummeling a 17-year-old Cleveland youth outside the St. Rocco's Festival this weekend, witnesses told the youth's family. The unprovoked attack on Justin Winemiller may have been deadly, if it weren't for an off-duty Cleveland police officer who stopped the beating Saturday night by squirting pepper spray at the group and threatening to use his Taser. It is unclear what prompted the beating. But one of the attackers yelled an expletive at the victims and told them they shouldn't be there, according to the report.

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Bradley E. Schmeling has been receiving letters and stories of Lutherans returning to church after many years away, given actions taken at the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in August. "Even my own partner's sister's family intends to return to an ELCA congregation after many years of worship in other denominations," Schmeling said. "People write to me about their experiences with church issues. (They) know my name because of the trial a couple of years ago." In 2007 Schmeling was removed from the ELCA clergy roster for being in...

Father Leo prepares to Flay an Iron Chef. (Grace Before Meals) Would you like to see a Catholic priest challenge chef Bobby Flay to a fajita cook-off? Tune into Food Network’s “Throwdown! With Bobby Flay” tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern to see Father Leo Patalinghug take on the Iron Chef. Father Patalinghug, who serves as director of pastoral field education for the seminary at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., has a ministry called Grace Before Meals, which is dedicated to fostering stronger communities through stronger families, one meal at a time. “With God as my witness, I’m not...

President Barack Obama Wednesday demanded Congress act now on health reform, warning more Americans would die if Washington again does nothing to expand care and cut the costs of insurance

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's presidential elections. The inquiry was disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the case's dismissal and asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to make available the head of the department's Voting Section for a closed-door briefing about the decision. In the letter, Mary Patrice...