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The 88 outspoken pro-lifers peacefully walked onto Notre Dame’s campus in May to be the voice of the unborn – when pro-abortion president Obama was honored there – and were arrested for trespassing.  Among those arrested were Fr. Norman Weslin, several Catholic nuns, Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, and Ambassador Alan Keyes. Sign the “Drop the Charges” petition

Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst last week is drawing new recriminations from his colleagues, with a member of the Congressional Black Caucus suggesting that a failure to rebuke the South Carolina Republican is tantamount to supporting the most blatant form of organized racism in American history. In an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that people will be putting on "white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside" if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked. He said Wilson must be disciplined as an...

The fourth installment of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's undercover report on ACORN is supposed to drop within the hour at BigGovernment.com and will be aired on Glenn Beck at 5:00 p.m. This time the duo took their sting operation to California, where an employee named Theresa confesses that she killed her allegedly abusive husband, and laid some "groundwork" beforehand. Beck aired portions of the video on his radio show today, and Leslie Sherman of The D.C. Writeup wrote it up: 10:54am: As the audio continues, James divulges his aspirations to run for an elected office someday. In enthusiastic response,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, disclosing an overall number long shrouded in secrecy. Dennis Blair, the U.S. director of national intelligence, cited the figure as part of a four-year strategic blueprint for the sprawling, 200,000-person intelligence community. In an unclassified version of the blueprint released by Blair's office, intelligence agencies singled out as threats Iran's nuclear program, North Korea's "erratic behavior," and insurgencies fueled by militant groups, though Blair cited gains against al Qaeda. Blair also cited challenges...

Rogue droid 'was attempting to cross border' An American "Reaper" flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human controllers above Afghanistan on Sunday, and a manned US fighter jet was forced to shoot the rogue machine down before it unilaterally invaded a neighbouring country. The Reaper, aka MQ-9 or Predator-B, is a large five-ton turboprop powered machine able to carry up to 14 Hellfire missiles - each capable of destroying a tank or flattening a building. It is used by the US and British forces above Afghanistan as a "persistent hunter-killer against emerging targets". According to USAFCENT Public Affairs: The...

WICHITA, Kan. – Operation Rescue has told its supporters that it is very close to shutting down unless emergency help arrives soon. A desperate plea e-mailed Monday night to donors said the anti-abortion group is facing a major financial crisis.

The Science Behind the ACORN Stingby Hannah Giles After going undercover on the east coast, James and I headed to the west coast. We knew it was a risky endeavor but the results on the east coast were too good to ignore. We had to test our scenario in an opposite region. It is like a science experiment:1) Ask A Question: What if a “prostitute” and her alleged law school boyfriend walk into ACORN seeking housing for an underage brothel to fund his future congressional campaign?2) Do Background Research: Learn as much about ACORN housing procedures and protocol as...

US Foreign Policy: 'No We Can't'? By Paul Reynolds BBC News, World Affairs correspondent President Obama has been seeking out new ways of engaging other countries Stand by for some new buzz phrases to describe what is going on in international relations as the first year of the Obama administration unfolds. "Bundles of co-operation", "coalitions of the relevant" and "minilateralism" are some key ones. "Engagement" is another. This new jargon is used as a kind of shorthand to portray the reinvigorated form of diplomacy that the United States is now pursuing, as it moves from being the only superpower to...

It's considered to be one of the more recent innovations to help the hapless traveller. But the satnav system may not be as modern as we think. According to a new theory, prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a similar system based on stone circles and other markers. The complex network of stones, hill forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with 'pinpoint accuracy' more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England and Wales and included landmarks such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks,...

Don't miss this important, one-time-only U.S. screening of the global warming docudrama, The Age of Stupid. September 21, 2009 7:30 p.m. Livonia 20 19500 Haggerty Rd Livonia, MI, 48152 Click Here to Purchase Tickets Immediately following the film will be a special event simulcast from New York, featuring a performance by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and comments from Kofi Annan, James Hansen, Moby, as well as leading climate experts and activists. Dear MoveOn member, On Monday, September 21, MoveOn members in the Livonia area have a special opportunity to watch the one-night-only premiere of an important new film called The Age...

Editor's Note: Audio for the video at right is available here. We have written often about Mark Lloyd, who has since his July 29 appointment been reveling in the position created just for him, "Chief Diversity Officer" at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As we have repeatedly stated, Chief Diversity Officer Lloyd is virulently anti-capitalist, almost myopically racially fixated and exuberantly pro-regulation. (It will come as no surprise to those who follow the work of the Media Research Center to learn that Lloyd was also at one time, prior to attending law school, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer for...

Police investigating the death of Christopher Kelly, a former top fundraiser for ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich, interviewed Kelly's girlfriend Monday as more details emerged about their relationship and Kelly's final hours. Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans met with Clarissa Flores-Buhelos at her attorney's Chicago office and afterward would only say Flores-Buhelos was "cooperating, but the investigation continues." Kelly, 51, who was facing heavy pressure by Blagojevich prosecutors to cooperate in the corruption case against his former close friend, died Saturday morning just hours after authorities say Flores-Buhelos brought him to a suburban hospital with signs of a drug...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A southern conservative lawmaker breaks decorum and hollers "You Lie," at the president in Congress. Protesters display guns at venues where the president is speaking. And a movement arises alleging that the president's birth certificate is forged. To some, it is clear that the burgeoning opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in racism, driven by whites' discomfort with the fact that the United States is now led by an African-American president. A series of Democratic lawmakers and political columnists have pointed to the trends -- the heckling, the gun-toting, the preachers leading congregations in prayers that...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the largest U.S. banks will remain caught in the government's financial bailout program for months, as officials do not expect to grant the next wave of exit approvals until near the end of the year, according to a source familiar with the matter. Banks such as Citigroup (NYSE:C - News) and Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC - News) have been chafing under the government's reins and want to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which delivered capital infusions to banks along with limits on pay, share repurchases and dividends. *** "It is very...

Likewise, it has been held that a member could not: • call the President a “liar.” • call the President a “hypocrite.” • describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.” • charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.” • refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” • refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”

I recently stumbled across the fact that the latitude of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem passes through Palestine, Texas. This little town is famous as the location of the Columbia Disaster that killed seven astronauts, including the first Israeli astronaut. The connection of the Israeli and the name of "Palestine" was considered remarkable at the time. The Temple Mount latitude makes it something more. This lured me into a search that uncovered a network of connections between the United States, Palestine, the Temple Mount, and disaster. Are these just a freakish set of random coincidences? Or could they mean something?...

Multiply this stack by 7 and that is what NObama is thowing away! http://www.ptm.org/uni/resources/ptmupdate/032309/conclusion.html

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a far-reaching and long-term cloud computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of government computing systems. Speaking at NASA's Ames Research Center here, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to leverage existing infrastructure and in the process, slash federal spending on information technology, especially expensive data centers.

* Back in July, when the G-8 announced that the opening of the UN General Assembly "would be an occasion for taking stock of the situation in Iran," most international observers understood that there was a hard September deadline that Iran had to meet to begin serious nuclear negotiations. Unfortunately, at this stage, there is little evidence that the Obama administration is about to adopt effective action in a timely manner in light of Iran's policy of rejectionism, setting aside diplomatic engagement and moving to a policy of severe sanctions. * Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic...