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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Joshua Mercer October 26, 2004 734-323-9312 South Dakota Pro-Life, Pro-Family Leaders Demand Daschle Release Complete Videotape of Pro-Abortion Speech SIOUX FALLS – It has been one week since The Ave Maria List, along with South Dakota citizens, released three video clips of Tom Daschle addressing an EMILY’s List fundraiser. Yet, despite the call from South Dakota citizens, Daschle’s campaign refuses to release the full videotape and transcript of the speech he gave to an organization that the Boston Globe calls the “abortion-rights mega-PAC.” The Ave Maria List, along with South Dakota Pro-Life and Pro-Family leaders across the...

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Joshua Mercer October 19, 2004 734-323-9312 Video Tape, Donation Records Reveal More Daschle Ties to Pro-Abortion Groups SIOUX FALLS – The Ave Maria List, along with South Dakotans from across the state, have called on Tom Daschle to formally end his financial relationship with EMILY’s List, and release the remainder of the video tape of Daschle addressing an EMILY’s List fundraiser. According to FEC records, Tom Daschle’s PAC has sent five checks totaling $10,000 to EMILY’s List, which the Boston Globe called the “abortion rights mega-PAC.” Additionally, EMILY’s List donated $5,000 to Tom Daschle’s PAC and Ellen...

For Immediate Release September 22, 2004 Contact: Joseph Cella 734-930-7510 Ave Maria List Ad Goes Up Against Daschle Radio spot highlights dramatic change ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The Ave Maria List, the nation's first and only Catholic-based political action committee, launched a statewide radio ad in South Dakota that criticizes Senator Tom Daschle’s abandonment of South Dakota values. ”When South Dakota voters elected Tom Daschle to Congress in 1979, they believed him to be for life, for the traditional family, for the Balanced Budget Amendment, and for the Second Amendment. But his votes and leadership show a dramatic change on...

THE INAUGURAL NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRAYER BREAKFAST Keynote Speaker His Eminence Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Date Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Time 7:00 am Rosary 7:30 am Holy Sacrifice of the Mass 8:45 am Breakfast Location The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington D.C. R.s.v.p. www.catholicprayerbreakfast.com (877) 241-1473 tel (212) 588-8924 fax Per Person $50 Table of 10 $500 Supporter $1,000 Sponsor $5,000 Patron $10,000 Mission of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast In response to the call of Pope John Paul II for a “New Evangelization, new in ardor, methods and expression,” we have established the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast...

Catholic Pro-Life PAC Raises Crucial Funds for Pro-Life Candidates by Paul Nowak LifeNews.com Staff Writer January 8, 2004 Ann Arbor, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Many in the pro-life community are familiar with the pro-abortion EMILY’s List PAC, but an up and coming supporter of pro-life candidates is the Ave Maria List PAC, a lay-Catholic political action committee led by former Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan. The pro-life political group has raised over $325,000 for pro-life candidates since its formation in May 2002. "Catholics represent the largest Christian denomination in the country and the fastest growing Christian denomination in the country,” Joe...

NEWS FROM . . . Thomas More Law Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Richard Thompson 734-827-2001 Free Legal Assistance Offered To Those Ordered To Remove American Flags or “God Bless America” Slogans ANN ARBOR, MI, THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 2001 — Despite a national tidal wave of patriotism and religious expression during the terrorist crises, numerous incidents across the country are being reported of school children and others being ordered to remove their American flags or patriotic slogans such as “God Bless America.” In response, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan ...

Could anybody please give me some quick information on where Norm Coleman stands on homosexual rights? Thank you.

Friday, August 17, 2001 City backs off, allows photos of abortions By KATIE N. JOHANNES Tribune Staff Writer The Great Falls City Commission on Thursday canceled a special meeting scheduled for today after city staff re-thought an assistant city attorney's ban on graphic pictures of mutilated fetuses used by anti-abortion protesters. The move came just in time to avert legal action from a nonprofit Michigan law firm representing protester Jonathan Martin and other demonstrators. Protesters can continue to picket using the graphic pictures. Police will patrol the area near the picket and direct traffic to alleviate the safety concerns that ...

Fellow Freepers, For those of you in possession of famous photos of Senator Kennedy....could you please post them? I would especially like to see those two shots of him rigging his sail boat. Thanks. Jomers

Bush to Parents: Love Your Kids by NANCY BENAC Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- George W. Bush is adding a new duty to his job description: president-as-family-counselor. No matter what the setting, Bush winds up most of his speeches these days by telling people that one of his most important jobs is to remind them to love their kids. ''My job,'' Bush told a crowd in North Dakota last week, ''is to say to the moms and dads of America, 'Your most important job is to love your children with all your heart and all your soul.'' In variations ...

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John Podesta is on Meet the Press Right now with Tim Russert and sounds SO shrill and desperate to plug the holes in an effort to give Clinton some sort of legacy. Must see if you're not in Eastern Standard Time.

Report: Jackson Protests Aid Friends CHICAGO (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson's efforts to lobby major corporations to steer business toward minority entrepreneurs have at times aided his close friends and family members, a newspaper reported. Those corporations also have contributed heavily to Jackson-led not-for-profit groups that foster contact between Fortune 500 companies and minority-owned businesses, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday. Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund has received more than $3.5 million in pledges from SBC-Ameritech, AT&T, Viacom, GTE and Bell Atlantic, the Sun-Times reported. Jackson opposed the 1999 merger of Ameritech and SBC Communications until Ameritech agreed to sell part ...

Clinton Offers to Help India Quake Survivors NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former President Clinton (news - web sites)offered Friday to play a role in helping survivors of a brutal earthquake that struck the western Indian state of Gujarat, the Indian prime minister said. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (news - web sites) told a book launch in New Delhi that Clinton had telephoned to say he was meeting a group of U.S.-based Indians and asked advice on what he could tell them. ''I told him one way to help could be that if the Indians living in the U.S., who ...

Pro-Life Activists Ask Catholics to Say Rosary In Thanks for Resolution of Election Crisis ANN ARBOR, MI, THURS., 12/21/00 - A group of Catholic pro-life leaders has issued an appeal to Catholics across the country to join in a special day of giving thanks that the recent election crisis was resolved in a way that offers hope to the pro-life cause. The group, which was brought together by Tom Monaghan, Chairman of the new Ave Maria University and Ave Maria School of Law, has called for Catholics to pause at noon (EST) on January 1, to say the Rosary (the ...

Pro-Life Activists Ask Catholics to Say Rosary In Thanks for Resolution of Election Crisis ANN ARBOR, MI, THURS., 12/21/00 - A group of Catholic pro-life leaders has issued an appeal to Catholics across the country to join in a special day of giving thanks that the recent election crisis was resolved in a way that offers hope to the pro-life cause. The group, which was brought together by Tom Monaghan, Chairman of the new Ave Maria University and Ave Maria School of Law, has called for Catholics to pause at noon (EST) on January 1, to say the Rosary (the ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe Today the Church celebrates the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The story surrounding this holy image of our Blessed Mother is repeated below, having been reported here on December 9, the feast day of Blessed Juan Diego. On December 9, 1531, Juan Diego, a 57 year-old Aztec Indian was taking his daily route to Mass. Walking by Tepeyac Hill, he heard beautiful music, like choirs of angels singing. He stopped to listen. The music stopped but he then heard the sweetest voice he’d ever heard beckoning him, “Juan, Juan Diego, Juanito!” There before him ...

Vice President Gore, speaking to reporters Tuesday afternoon outside the White House, said he's still confident. "I don't feel anything other than optimistic," Gore said when asked if he felt the odds are against him. "The effort I have under way is simply to make sure that all the votes are counted," he said. Asked about allegations that black voters were denied the right to vote in the presidential election, Gore said, "I am very troubled by a lot of the stories that have been reported."

A MESSAGE TO LOTT Senate Republicans held their leadership elections Tuesday. Larry Craig of Idaho narrowly retained the chairmanship of the Policy Committee, winning 26 votes while Pete Domenici of New Mexico won 24. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania had a more comfortable 30-20 victory over Missourian Kit Bond in the race for conference chairman, the number three position in the leadership. John Warner of Virginia made the point of Domenici's candidacy clear in his nominating speech. Warner said that it was important that there be changes in the leadership, especially in the aftermath of defeats in the general election. Everyone ...