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Washington, D.C.—With the stupidity coming out of Congress, the frustration mounting across the fruited planes, and the censuring of Joe Wilson, Mark Levin and Joe Wilson, R-SC, are offering a new bill for Americans: ‘Cash For Congressional Clunkers.’ The bill is offering a tax rebate for any Congressional Clunkers that are turned in for new ones in 2010. According to Mark Levin, teaming up with Joe Wilson only seemed the appropriate thing to do, considering “the levels of insanity that are running rampant throughout Congress today.” “This bill will give Americans an opportunity to take their country back from the...

A student on a Belleville West High School bus was beaten for his choice of seat, not because he was white, according to a witness and police. "The incident appears now to be more about a couple of bullies on a bus dictating where people sit," said Belleville Police Capt. Don Sax, who originally said Monday's attack may have been racially motivated. D'Vante Lott, 16, said he was on the bus and witnessed the attack by the two black students. The victim walked onto the bus, looking for an open seat, but students kept turning him down, as D'Vante said...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia THE United States and other Western powers have for some time been pushing Saudi Arabia to make more gestures toward Israel. More recently, the crown prince of Bahrain urged greater communication with Israel and joint steps from Arab states to revive the peace process. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, the custodian of its two holy mosques, the world’s energy superpower and the de facto leader of the Arab and Muslim worlds — that is why our recognition is greatly prized by Israel. However, for all those same reasons, the kingdom holds itself to higher standards...

NFL probing Mangini's actions Associated Press CLEVELAND -- Browns coach Eric Mangini can't seem to escape from New York. The NFL is investigating Mangini's role in the Jets' failure to list quarterback Brett Favre's arm problem on injury reports last season. Mangini coached the Jets during Favre's one season in New York before he was fired after the team collapsed down the stretch. Last week, Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum admitted the club should have listed Favre, who had a torn biceps tendon, as "probable" on the injury report for the last four or five games. Favre said the Jets...

If your answer is no, have we handed the MSM and Obama's supporters a political weapon by allowing them to refer to him as "black"?.

Featured Term (selected at random):INTERNAL GRACE The supernatural life, infused virtues and divine inspirations that directly affect the human soul and elevate its being and activities to a share in the life of God. It is called internal to be distinguished from external grace that is not inherently supernatural. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

In the fourth such video to appear this week, an ACORN employee in San Bernadino County, advised a pimp and prostitute on how to defraud the US Government. But if we were getting used to the idea of ACORN being comfortable with importing 12-15 year old girls from Central America for the purposes of sexual slavery, we have to wonder if the Left is comfortable with the idea of murder. Because that is exactly what went down on Glenn Beck’s show tonight; an ACORN employee confessed to killing her pimp 10 years before while acknowledging the dangers the imported girls...

Bellevue, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Another former employee of late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart has come forward saying he engaged in illegal activities at his Nebraska-based abortion business. She joins five other former workers at Carhart's abortion center who says illegal and unethical practices occurred there.The unnamed woman has contacted the pro-life group Operation Rescue and submitted an affidavit testifying to the illegal acts she witnessed.She also testifies that Carhart and his staff told her to commit illegal acts during her employment at his Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska.OR president Troy Newman tells LifeNews.com today that she is the fourth...

Here he is with some voters from Lake and Geauga Counties at 7 A.M. as they got off their bus. Steve thanked them for coming and took time to answer a few questions.

September 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to a new report, more than a quarter of U.K. families are not told when their loved ones are taken off of life support, reports the Daily Mail.  Researchers from the Royal College of Physicians and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool conducted an audit of 4,000 patients put on the Liverpool Care Pathway, the end-of-life care plan that has brought 'slow' euthanasia into Britain through the back door.The Pathway, approved by the National Health Service (NHS), allows doctors to deny "treatment," including food and water, to patients they deem incurable and...

CHICAGO, Illinois, September 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A publisher associated with the Archdiocese of Chicago has revoked and apologized for a prayer they distributed that praised the late pro-abortion senator Edward Kennedy as one who promoted "values of peace, justice, equality, and liberty." The prayer has been replaced with another one, urging prayer for the soul of Kennedy, but excising the words of praise. Liturgy Training Publications issued the original prayer as a suggested Prayer for the Faithful for use at Sunday Masses after the prominent Catholic senator's death on August 25. The text of the prayer, available in the...

Joe Grondin has been a barber for more than 30 years. But there are some questions that, until very recently, he had never really pondered. For example: "At what point on a man's sideburn does hair end and the beard begin?" Or: "When does a trim become a shave?" "It's crazy to be thinking about this," he admitted. It might even be splitting hairs. But to Texas' 13,000 or so barbers, matters of shaving are worth fighting over. While state law permits both cosmetologists and barbers to groom hair, state regulators have consistently ruled that only barbers may scrape a...

Barack Obama's Web site: Hitler was right about Jews, U.S. may have destroyed Twin Towers on 9/11 We previously described how Barack Obama appointed Van Jones, the equivalent of a Holocaust denier, to the position of "Green Jobs Czar." Holocaust denial and its equivalent, 9/11 denial, are in fact characteristic of Mr. Obama's political allies. Classical Holocaust denial, of course, consists of denying that Hitler murdered Jews (and others) because of their religion or ethnicity. Holocaust deniers say that there were no gas chambers, and that the "Holohoax" is a means for Jews to extort money from Germany and the...

[Page: H9471] GPO's PDF ---    The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 6, 2009, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.    Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, as some people might know and some of my colleagues know, I have been appearing before this House for the leadership hour now for approximately 12 weeks, and I have been talking about this House of hypocrisy that we seem to be thriving in here as we have all of these issues that involve multiple people concerning ethical issues, and...

ORANGE — The Orange police officer who was arrested last month for allegedly pretending to be his twin brother to dupe a woman into sex has resigned from the department, police said in a statement Tuesday. Probationary Officer Jared Rohrig, 25, of 7 Flax Mill Lane, Milford, who is charged with first-degree sexual assault and criminal impersonation, has been on paid administrative leave from the Orange Police Department since July. Rohrig submitted his resignation and it was accepted by the Board of Police Commissioners on Monday, police said. “Jared Rohrig’s decision to resign from his position as probationary officer was...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold in declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghanistan. While almost 100 members of the House (including many conservative Republicans) have signed on to Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern's call for the development of an Afghanistan exit strategy, Feingold has been a relatively lonely Senate advocate for a rethink of the eight-year occupation. At the annual Fighting Bob Fest gathering in Baraboo, however, Sanders drew cheers from the crowd of 8,000 when he said, "We need to take a very, very hard...

On Sunday, CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer praised President Obama’s recent media blitz for health care reform: "There’s no question he is the best salesman on the staff," but wondered: "Does he run the risk of overexposing himself?" Politco.com’s Roger Simon dispelled that fear: "It is a risk, but he keeps topping himself." Simon elaborated on Obama’s oratory skill: "Every time you think this guy can’t give another speech that’s better than the last one, he gives another speech that’s better than the last one. And he’s achieving his purpose." He added that the President’s address to Congress...

The two enterprising reporters, James O'Keefe and Hannah Gilles, have moved their sting to the West Coast. Well, of course, they're done with the sting. They've simply decided to now release some tapes they made on the West Coast.

September 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to a new report, more than a quarter of U.K. families are not told when their loved ones are taken off of life support, reports the Daily Mail.  Researchers from the Royal College of Physicians and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool conducted an audit of 4,000 patients put on the Liverpool Care Pathway, the end-of-life care plan that has brought 'slow' euthanasia into Britain through the back door.The Pathway, approved by the National Health Service (NHS), allows doctors to deny "treatment," including food and water, to patients they deem incurable...

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Israel's government and its supporters are promoting a one-sentence strategy to counter a 574-page U.N. report on last winter's Israel-Hamas war in Gaza: Consider the source. "The same U.N. that allows the president of a country to announce on a podium its aspiration to destroy the State of Israel has no right to teach us about morality," Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said, referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "This is a report born of bias," Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in describing the report released Tuesday by the U.N. Human Rights Council....