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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Forty years of legalized abortion have profoundly demoralized American society, not only weakening respect for human life but undermining marriage, parenthood and individuals' sense of duty to others, said U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford. The cardinal, a former archbishop of Denver and former head of two Vatican offices, said that the legalization of abortion was itself a result of flawed ideas about freedom deeply rooted in American history. Cardinal Stafford, 80, spoke with Catholic News Service shortly before the Jan. 25 March for Life marking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme...

Seen those posters on the tube for 'Movie 43', seen its all-star cast? Wondered why aside from those posters that proclaim it hilarious and show us the incredible cast, you haven't heard hide nor hair of it? Well wonder no more, because the film has been released, and immediately nearly everyone who's seen it is kicking up a stink. The film consists of various short movies, acted out by its A-List stars, with a tendency towards gross-out humour as is to be expected with Peter Farrelly involved in direction. The amazing cast includes Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Richard Gere, Jason...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Thursday (Jan. 24) defended the pope’s choice to open a Twitter account even if it exposes him to insults and online abuse. “Twitter is a secular reality ... but we prefer to be present rather than stay away from something just to avoid a risk,” said Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of the Vatican’s department for social communications, during the launch of the annual papal message for World Communications Day. Pope Benedict XVI opened his Twitter handle @Pontifex on Dec. 3. It has since gathered more than 2.5 million followers in nine languages, including...

Today is the 40th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., a day that is likely to pass with limited, if any, notice from a national news media which is hostile to the pro-life cause. While the abortion issue has divided Americans for the past four decades, journalists have consistently come down on the pro-abortion side of this debate. It’s a bias some reporters freely admit. “I think that when abortion opponents complain about a bias in newsrooms against their cause, they’re absolutely right,” Boston Globe legal reporter Ethan Bronner told the Los Angeles Times back in 1990. “Opposing abortion,...

Our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms is under attack on many fronts. Governor Deval Patrick, Representative David Linsky (D) Natick, and many others are in the process of, or already have filed new legislation which will severely restrict our second amendment rights while doing NOTHING to solve any real issues. Once again our state legislators are committing "Blame and Punishment" of Massachusetts gun owners. Among the many things our legislators are proposing: 10 round magazines loaded with more than 7 rounds, punishable by more than two years in jail. Magazines containing more than 10 rounds, punishable by...

I should have known better. I should have just kept my yap shut.(snip) If I misled you into believing that my little “When MOTUS Met Hillary” tale would be more entertaining than it turns out to be, I accept full responsibility; butt I blame you for having such unreasonably high expectations in the first place based on the low amount of information I presented.  I stand firmly with Lonestar Stacy and declare: “I take responsibility, but it's not my fault because I was not doing my job." Let’s get right to it shall we? Once upon a time, in a...

Tankies - Tank Heroes of World War II

Houston responds to 93 year old Marine's home being vandalized. "Oh HELL no!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MBk64qzZh7M

Jonathan Cahn, author of ‘The Harbinger’ and pastor/rabbi of Beth Israel Messianic Congregation of Wayne, NJ, gives the key note address at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. 01/21/13

<p>Argentina’s defense chief expressed shame Wednesday after a Navy destroyer sank at its moorings, putting on display the declining fortunes of a once-proud fleet.</p> <p>The ARA Trinidad led Argentina’s 1982 sea war against Britain, but has long been mothballed and used for spare parts to sustain what’s left of Argentina’s Navy.</p>

It's not often a state workers' union representative complains about the state adding government jobs. But that's what happened when the Detroit Free Press published an article with the headline: "Michigan right-to-work law creates at least two jobs; taxpayers to foot bill." The article said there will be one new specialist position and one or two clerical positions in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs in response to the enactment of the state's new right-to-work law. It quoted one union official critical of the hiring. "It's ridiculous," Ray Holman, legislative liaison for UAW Local 6000, the largest state employee...

Many galaxies appear to have stronger gravity - and thus more mass - than can be explained by their visible matter alone. Overly massive galaxies are most often attributed to dark matter, an invisible substance that interacts with matter through gravity. To date, though, no one has directly detected dark matter particles. But a well-established notion in physics could hold another explanation for their size. This says that empty space is really a frothy, turbulent sea full of virtual particles - matter and antimatter that spring in and out of existence so fast that we can't see them. Though they...

Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate the opportunity to hear from you. In spite of the high volume of mail I receive daily, I look forward to reviewing your correspondence and providing a personal response as soon as possible. As we continue our work in the 113th Congress, I look forward to supporting our troops in the War on Terror, repairing our economy and creating jobs, strengthening Social Security, lowering the tax burden on American families, and making the federal government more accountable and efficient. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I may...

The last hundred years are strewn with the detritus of failed liberal policies. Communism. Public Education. Keynesian economics. Just for starters. However, most liberals see those failures as their ideas not having been given a proper chance, or given enough time or funding to work. So Paul Krugman attributes the failure of Obama's stimulus to not being big enough, public school advocates continually clamor for more resources despite continual failure, and to this day apologists abound for the failure of communism in the Soviet Union as being from other factors, such as it not being 'pure' communism or being despotic...

Newt Gingrich on Thursday night interrogated the gun-grabbing Piers Morgan, pushing the CNN host as to what his real motives are. An aggressive Gingrich insisted, "So, why don't you share your real view?...Isn't your real view that you would ban pistols if you could?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The Republican also told the British anchor why the Founding Fathers were able to defeat "your army." Morgan swore that his concern was "the high-powered guns of any variety which can fire 30 or 40 or more rounds in less than a minute." He added, "...That would be my primary...

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has been overwhelmingly re-elected to his post by committee members.

COSTA MESA (CBSLA.com) — A popular Orange County gun show may shatter attendance records this weekend. KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports The Crossroads of the West gun show is expected to draw massive crowds as lawmakers in Washington consider a proposed federal ban on assault weapons. The event drew an estimated 18,000 attendees during its stop in Ontario earlier this month, marking the first local event since a shooting rampage that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut. But organizers are expecting attendance at the two-day event at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa...

George P. See. I don't even have to use the last name and many of you know who this is, though his tio, W, has him beat on name abbreviation. Many calculate that P is a future governor, attorney general, land commissioner or, apparently, holder of whatever statewide office presents itself first in Texas. And someday? You didn't hear it here first — President P. But, of course, were it not for the surname-that-need-not-be-mentioned, he'd have to work much harder to be mentioned. No, that's not quite right. Mexican roots also burnish his star stature. He represents the perfect mixture...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Privacy advocates are questioning the legality of the use of a controversial cellphone tracking technology by the Los Angeles Police Department. KNX 1070′s Claudia Peschiutta reports while police have lauded the effectiveness of the portable StingRay device in tracking down a suspect, critics are worried that other citizens’ data could be compromised in the process Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, said his organization obtained documents that show the LAPD used the portable StingRay device 21 times out of of a total of 155 cell phone searches over a four-month period in 2012....

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he's more concerned about limiting the number of rounds in a gun magazine than about banning assault weapons that account for a small percentage of gun deaths. Biden argued that the shooter at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., could have been slowed down if he had fewer rounds in each magazine and had to change clips more often. "Maybe if it took longer, maybe one more kid would be alive," Biden said during an online video chat on Google Plus. -snip- Biden says he wants a ban on...