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A series of events this week provided interesting insight into how climate and energy issues might play out in the general election next fall when Republican nominee John McCain will face either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. McCain spent six months before the New Hampshire primary highlighting his environmental credentials in comparison to the weaker records of his Republican competition. For first time in the campaign, McCain is now directly challenging the Democratic candidates on their climate commitments and highlighting his record in the Senate. At a town hall in California yesterday, The Washington Post blog The Trail reported that...

Directive Targets Falun Gong, Dalai Lama, Counter-Revolutionaries, and the Handicapped NEW YORK, NY - In what may be its most audacious Olympic act yet, China's Ministry of Public Security has issued an incredible directive that lists 43 categories of unwanteds who are to be investigated and barred from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Falun Dafa Information Center has learned. Pariah groups include eerily vague "key individuals in ideological fields," "overseas hostile forces," "counter-revolutionary" figures, the Dalai Lama and all affiliates, members of "religious entities not sanctioned by the state" (e.g. Roman Catholics), "individuals who instigate discontentment toward the Chinese Communist...

Last Thursday, MSNBC aired the first Republican presidential debate of the season, hosted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The 90-minute program--held under the glare of President Reagan's Air Force One jetliner--gave voters their first real look at the ten presidential hopefuls. Or so the media would have us believe. Anointed the winner by virtual media consensus was former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Among media pundits' reasons for choosing Romney: he came off as "presidential," "intelligent," and "articulate"--with "George Hamilton cool." Said a writer at National Review Online: "Romney appeared to be the smartest kid in...

Right now, the American people are understandably caught up in the emotional reaction to the horrifying events at Virginia Tech University. Leftist pols and media manipulators around the country and the world fanatically clamor that we should round up the usual "suspects" — that is, the guns responsible for all this violence. They want to distract us from the issues of human responsibility that are at its core. The responsibility of the killer. The responsibility of the police and university officials. The responsibility of gun-ban advocates whose success at Virginia Tech made certain that no one in Norris Hall was...

Romney Violated Massachusetts Constitution by Ordering ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ 44 U.S. pro-family leaders signed letter asking him to recant illegal orders By Meg Jalsevac HARRISBURG, PA, January 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter addressed to Massachusetts’ ex-governor Mitt Romney has just been made public in which 44 conservative, pro-family leaders from across the nation requested that before stepping down from office, Romney would adhere to the Massachusetts Constitution and repeal his order directing public officials to perform ‘same-sex marriages’. The letter was hand delivered to members of Romney’s staff on December 20th, 2006 at his office. Romney took no action to...

Comments Governor Mitt Romney made during his 1994 Senate bid, in which he said the gay and lesbian community "needs more support from the Republican Party," resurfaced yesterday, posing a potential hurdle as he appeals to conservatives for a probable presidential campaign. Bay Windows, the Boston-based gay and lesbian newspaper, republished excerpts from an August 1994 interview the paper did with Romney during his campaign against Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In the interview, Romney said it should be up to states to decide whether to allow same-sex marriage and he criticized Republican "extremists" who imposed their positions on the party....

A time for war Posted: August 2, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Alan Keyes The battle against Hezbollah threatens to expose the hollow reality of the Bush administration's conduct of the war against terrorism. In the wake of 9-11, Bush boldly and properly identified the enemy as terrorism itself. He boldly and properly challenged the nations of the world to understand the deadly threat it represents to any semblance of international order and community. He boldly and properly excluded the possibility of neutrality, making it clear that every nation would have to choose which side it was on: for or...

Justice Antonin Scalia has weighed in once again to express his opposition to the use of foreign law as a basis for Supreme Court decisions about the U.S. Constitution. At the same time, however, he takes it upon himself to warn Congress against any legislation intended to forbid this practice. His rationale: Congress shouldn't tell the Court how to conduct its affairs, just as the Court shouldn't meddle in the affairs of the legislature. Scalia's recent remarks to a forum on Capitol Hill suggest that thoughtful conservatives must temper their gratitude for his right opinion, with their dismay at his...

Alan Keyes on Jerry Johnson Live (KCBI) Washington, D.C. ~~~ March 16, 2006 DR. JERRY JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF CRISWELL COLLEGE, HOST: Ambassador Alan Keyes was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as a U.N. ambassador, and Dr. Keyes has a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He served eleven years in the State Department. He served as Assistant Secretary of State. And he's a two-time presidential candidate and a former Senate candidate. Welcome to the program, Dr. Keyes. ALAN KEYES: Glad to be with you. Thank you. [...snip...] JOHSON: I'm talking to Dr. Alan Keyes. He served as an ambassador to the...

Ohio justices rule parents can sue for fetal test error COLUMBUS, Ohio – Parents can sue a doctor if a genetic screening misses a severe or fatal condition that would have caused them to seek an abortion, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The 4-3 decision limited such lawsuits to costs associated with a pregnancy and birth, saying such parents could not sue for pain-and-suffering damages or repayment of the costs of raising a disabled child. The decision was a partial victory for a Kentucky couple who sued a Cincinnati obstetrics practice and hospital that provided genetic counseling and...

This is a SPECIAL MESSAGE from Alan Keyes' "Keyes Media Central" The mainstream media and the political "experts" said it couldn't be done... But Alan Keyes is actually CLOSING IN on Barack Obama, and the Illinois media is in an uproar! YOU can help "Close The Gap" today: https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/keyes/donation.php?afid=kmc As the press is reporting, in less than two months, the Keyes campaign raised over 1.3 MILLION dollars... and the Obama campaign "burned through" over 8 MILLION, with very little to show for it. That leaves the two campaigns NEARLY EVEN in cash-on-hand for this "final stretch" to election day! The...

Cash Dash in Senate Race Surprisingly Close Friday, October 15, 2004 By The Leader-Chicago Bureau CHICAGO - In an election cycle rife with surprise, the third quarter Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports have provided yet another. Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes raised more than $1.3 million dollars in the third quarter and left himself with more than $1.1 million cash on hand going into the campaign’s final stretch, accorrding to the FEC report they filed today. His opponent and the overwhelming favorite in the race, Democrat State Senator Barack Obama raised nearly four times the amount of money...

Ruling is unclear about whether Terri Schiavo's husband can act now or wait for further legal procedings. From Associated Press. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court today struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes. .

Here's a chance to hear Alan Keyes unfiltered by the media. When: 3 - 5 p.m. Central Time. Where: WYLL.

Obama's Windy City Times ad Thursday, September 16, 2004 CHICAGO -- Right before the 2004 primary, Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama took out an ad in the Windy City Times, Chicago's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender weekly publication. Peter Labarbara of Illinois Family Institute acquired the ad, which is available in clear pdf format to download and distribute at: WCT Obama ad. The ad indicated Obama's positions on important social issues, as quoted: Opposes Constiutional [sic] amendment to ban gay marriage Supports repeal of Defense of Marriage Ad Chief co-sponsor of Human Rights Bill in Springfield 100% Pro-Choice voting record...

What Alan Keyes actually said Posted: September 3, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A lot of weak-kneed Republicans are running away from Alan Keyes because of his remarks about homosexuality. Weak-minded "conservative" pundits are making themselves look more "mainstream" by denouncing Keyes. Homosexual activists and their friends in the press have conducted a high-tech lynching of the U.S. candidate from Illinois. It all started earlier this week when Keyes gave a radio interview in which he expressed support for a proposed amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man...

STANEK: Barack Obama, someone is watching you Wednesday, September 01, 2004 By Jill Stanek OPINION -- For three years in a row I submitted the same testimony to Illinois Senate committees that were deciding whether to let the full Senate vote on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It was during those committee hearings that I first came face-to-face with state Senator Barack Obama, who functioned as either a member or the chairman, depending on the year and the committee. Each time I testified, I described to Obama and other members the death of a particular little girl who was...

Obama's book: What's real, what's not When Barack Obama was only 33, he wrote a memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. I remember Obama telling me about his book when he visited my office in Washington back in 1999, when the Democrat was making what turned out to be a failed run for the House of Representatives. Dan Shomon, Obama's aide, sent me a copy of the book. I tucked Shomon's letter, dated Aug. 13, 1999, inside the cover and stuck the book on a shelf. There it sat until last June. I dug it...

Downstate Republicans get first look at Keyes at fair's GOP day August 20, 2004 — Downstate republicans at the state fair in Springfield are getting their first taste of Alan Keyes, and it is quite a mouthful filled with fiery rhetoric, provocative proposals, nonstop interviews and handshaking. The crowd is relatively small compared to the democrats Wednesday, and at least half of the state's top republicans aren't there. But the candidate from Maryland is campaigning like he's been there forever.  ABC 7 Clip Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes visited the state fair in Springfield for the first time with two...

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