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Notre DameÂ’s Kabuki Dance with Obama and the Culture of Death: The Keynesian Kenyan from Kansas Meets the Kantians Notre DameÂ’s Kabuki dance with Obama and the culture of death moves into full swing this weekend. Everyone should watch the steps of this tango very carefully as the Keynesian Kenyan from Kansas boogies down with the Kantians for some Transcendental Twister on the South Bend campus. Although some students and professors will boycott the commencement lovefest and attend a prayer vigil at the Lourdes Grotto on campus instead, the damage to Notre Dame will still be done and observers of...

Obamapalooza: LIVE THREAD (Greek Temple Coronation, Fireworks, and 80,000 Fans) Survey Poll: Which feature of tonight's Greek Temple coronation will really jump the shark and send the Obama cult over the top in silliness and grandiosity? The hydraulic elevation of the candidate to the podium , the fireworks and flashpots, the 80,000 hypnotized, screaming fans, or the rock concert soundtrack? About the only things missing will be Hannah Montana, Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones strutting down the runway with "the One" as the crowd boogies to the groove of Obamamania. When it's over, will the 80,000 faithful pull...

BOSS BLOWS UP AFTER 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS BY GEORGE KING April 18, 2005 -- BALTIMORE - One dozen games into the season George Steinbrenner has had it with his high-priced and underachieving Yankees. Shortly after yesterday's 8-4 loss to the Orioles in front of a sun-splashed Camden Yards crowd of 47,883 that stretched the Yankees' losing streak to four, The Boss cried uncle. "Enough is enough," Steinbrenner said in a statement. "I am bitterly disappointed, as I am sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team. http://www.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml

Some clowns in ABC NEWS apparently thought it would be a funny idea to have the arch-liberal "Father" Richard McBrien do commentary on the pope's funeral. What a sick joke! (on ABC television now)

1981 attack on Pope planned by Soviets: Report Agence France-Presse Rome, March 30, 2005|18:42 IST New documents found in the files of the former East German intelligence services confirm the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II was ordered by the Soviet KGB and assigned to Bulgarian agents, an Italian daily said on Wednesday. The Corriere della Sera said that the documents found by the German government indicated that the KGB ordered Bulgarian colleagues to carry out the killing, leaving the East German service known as the Stasi to coordinate the operation and cover up the traces afterwards. Bulgaria...

Freerepublic and "MD4BUSH" mentioned on WBAL now! The radio program will replay conversation on the scandal with a Freeper shortly.

Weird Bizarre Anti-Christian Liberals Go Bananas: Post-Election Psychosis Ever since the media picked up "moral values" as the defining issue in the defeat of John Kerry, weird bizarre liberals have been going bananas all over the place and showing signs of post-election psychosis. Babs Streisand was last seen babbling nonsense about the "reign of witches" (whatever that may mean). http://barbrastreisand.com/commercemodule/bjscommercemodule.html. Perhaps Professor Streisand will elaborate on this at her next lecture at Harvard's prestigious Kennedy School of Government. Meanwhile, the sophomorically flippant and cynical ex-Jesuit/ex-conservative Yale classicist Garry Wills has engaged in anti-Christian slurs about the "virgin birth." Robert Redford...

The Fall of a Leading Catholic Operative by Jeremy Lott October 2004 Crisis magazine's Deal Hudson was both powerful and reviled. Sad was Hudson's response to recent revelations that he sexually assualted an 18-year old student while a professor at Fordham University. He could have answered like a human being and penitent sinner. He might even have managed to hold onto his job. But instead he tried to spin the story his way. And he's still spinning. When news was about to break last week that Deal Hudson is being forced to step down as publisher of Crisis magazine, a...

Dan Rather, "Queen of the Space Unicorns" "You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead-- your next stop . . . The Twilight Zone!" Dan Rather's nosedive into liberal silliness took a new turn into the Twilight Zone. The joke status of Rather was highlighted on Scarborough Country when Bob Kohn cited Rather's new internet status as "Queen of Space Unicorns."

Drudge has posted a link to a USA Today article claiming it was after an appearance on Hardball that Burkett was contacted by a mystery woman, Lucy Ramirez, whom he claims was the source of the fake documents passed to CBS.

Freerepublic was just called "radical" by a guest on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Buckhead was mentioned again. They are also discussing conspiracy theories, blogs, and the usual chatter on Dan Rather's nosedive into silliness.

The Gipper: He's Brought America Back...Again Ronald Reagan has returned. The Gipper has brought America back again. Among other gifts to the nation, Reagan will take the country to church on Friday. A country currently divided by ideology and politics will be brought together in prayer. A fitting triumph for our greatest president. http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/25121.htm 'THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC' by Ronald Reagan'THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC' June 6, 2004 -- Excerpts from President Reagan's remarks to veterans assembled at the U.S. Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc, France, on D-Day's 40th anniversary. WE stand on a lonely, windswept...

Does Atheism Require More Faith? David Limbaugh Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2004 I want to tell you about an important new book I hope will be widely disseminated. Though its subject is the truth of Christianity, it needs to be read by far more than just "the choir." I didn't come to faith in Christ effortlessly. I began my adult spiritual journey as a skeptic seeking answers for life's ultimate questions. In the process I did a great deal of reading on Christian theology and apologetics (defense of the faith). I discovered, to my initial surprise, that there is an extensive...

A Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United StatesThe National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People http://www.catholicreviewboard.com/nrb/nrbstudy/nrbreport.pdf What is the nature of the current crisis? Narrowly defined, the nature of the crisis is twofold: It consists both of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy and the failure of many Church leaders to respond appropriately to that abuse. But the crisis also has a spiritual dimension, for, as is the case with all sinful conduct, it represents a failure to comport with divine law and the teachings of the Church. Unless all...

The Truth About Massachusetts washingtonpost.com By E. J. Dionne Jr. Tuesday, February 3, 2004; Page A19 "Padodying Massachsuetts is a way to keep old resentments alive without getting intio any of the incovenient details..." Full text of article & liberal rant: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7220-2004Feb2.html

LifeSite Daily News Friday January 30, 2004 Catholic University Continuing to Use Cell Lines from Aborted Babies - Cardinal Approves WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When LifeSiteNews.com first broke the story "Washington Cardinal Ends Catholic University's Use of Aborted Fetal Cell Lines" last month (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jan/040 10601.html ), it was based on factual evidence. Children of God for Life, a pro-life group specializing in fighting the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccines, contacted the Cardinal McCarrick about Georgetown University - a Catholic University - using aborted fetal cell lines in research. The Cardinal responded with a letter...

Call-In Russell Kirk Writings C-SPAN, American Writers Mecosta, Michigan (United States) ID: 170896 - 2 - 06/30/2002 - 2:02 In an excerpt from the American Writers program, "Writings of Kirk and Buckley," the guests at the Russell Kirk Center talked about the history of modern conservative political movement in the U.S. through the life and writings of Kirk. http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dschedule (midnight tonight)

Scandal Time (Cont.) (excerpt): A Counterintuitive Claim It is true, as some readers have noted, that we have in these pages tried to maintain a certain distance from the question of homosexuality in the priesthood. Publications such as the National Catholic Reporter, on the left, and Catholic World Report and the Wanderer, on the right, have over the years given the question more attention. We countered Father Donald Cozzens' The Changing Face of the Priesthood, which offered an alarming (alarmist?) picture of the homosexualization of the priesthood, with Msgr. Earl Boyea's "Another Face of the Priesthood" (FT, February 2001), which...

<p>The spokesman for U.S. bishops hashing out a sex-abuse policy for the church protected homosexual priests who joined a pornographic Internet chat room, where participants railed against Pope John Paul II's policies against homosexual clergy and one eagerly anticipated his death.</p>

<p>SAN DIEGO, June 4 (UPI) -- The Vatican will be asked to defrock any American priest who has sexually abused a minor, according to a draft document released Tuesday in Washington by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.</p> <p>The UCCB members will vote on this Draft Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People at their extraordinary meeting in Dallas June 13-15. The proposal drawn up by the Conference's Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse amounts to "zero tolerance" in all future cases.</p>