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Let Them Eat Cake Don’t bother petitioning Barack Obama for a redress of grievances. Barack Obama, the imperious yet bowing vassal to the Saudi Arabian king, can’t be bothered to take notice of Americans with grievances. The maligned Marie Antoinette is falsely supposed to have replied to the hungry cries of French peasants for “bread!” with the uninformed and callous riposte “Let them eat cake.” Marie, was also blamed for the penurious French treasury and tarred with the epithet Madame Déficit. Barack Obama is our own real life Madame Déficit and yesterday he regaled Hollywood’s high and mighty powers...

As President Obama defends his national security strategy, he faces a daunting challenge. He must convince the country that it is in safe hands despite warnings to the contrary from the right, and at the same time persuade the skeptical left that it is enough to amend his predecessor’s approach rather than abandon it.Arguably on the defensive over policy for the first time since taking office, Mr. Obama is gambling that his oratorical powers can reassure the public that bringing terrorism suspects to prisons on American soil will not put the public in danger. At the same time, he must...

Fending off criticism from human-rights and civil-rights groups at a private White House meeting Wednesday, a frustrated President Obama complained about the "mess" he'd been left by his predecessor. The exchange came during an hour-and-15-minute "off the record" session in the White House cabinet room that highlighted growing tensions between the president and his liberal base. While the White House session was billed as an effort by the president to listen to his critics on the left, some of them left disappointed. According to three sources who attended the meeting, Obama reiterated his intention to retain a version of the...

Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing...

Obama the Sophist This is from the President's remarks at the National Academy of Science:At such a difficult moment, there are those who say we cannot afford to invest in science. That support for research is somehow a luxury at a moment defined by necessities. I fundamentally disagree. Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment, and our quality of life than it has ever been. Who the hell is saying we cannot afford to invest in science? Isn't the real argument about whether we can spend so much more (fully 3% of GDP)...

Georgia Bill to Limit IVF Passes First Hurdle - In a Different FormAdd Your Voice NOW to Stop This Bill!  Please click here to send a personalized letter to all Georgia State Senators, to Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, and to Governor Sonny Perdue NOW!     Georgia lawmakers are pressing forward this week with their efforts to pass a law that will harm the resurgence of eugenics in Georgia.  On Monday, March 9, a revised Senate Bill 169 was passed hastily by the Senate Committee.  It is expected to go to the Rules Committee and then the Senate this week perhaps...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush reflected on his own struggle with alcohol in a White House meeting Thursday that touted gains in the war on drug abuse. President Bush speaks about his administration's efforts in fighting drug abuse at the White House on Thursday. CNN was the only media outlet invited to attend the entire meeting, which other reporters joined in the final minutes for remarks from the president.Several in the room, including Don Coyhis of Colorado Springs, Colorado, who runs a program targeting Native Americans battling substance abuse, were recovered addicts or alcoholics.Bush, who quit drinking at the...

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Fr. Newman Responds to Diocesan Concerns about Pro-Abortion Voting Letter Commentary by Sharon Howey, parishioner at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, S.C.GREENVILLE, S.C., November 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “I don’t know about you guys, but I had an interesting week,” began Fr. Jay Scott Newman’s Saturday night homily, after a week of national and international attention gained from last Sunday’s ‘Letter from the Pastor,’ printed in the parish bulletin. In that letter Fr. Newman had said that persons who voted for a pro-abortion politician should not receive Holy Communion until they are reconciled to God, lest they eat and...

November 10, 2008 marks the 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. To celebrate this occasion Go Daddy is proud once again to release a special birthday tribute to the Corps. For those of you who served or are serving in other branches of our military, please accept this salute to the Marines also as a salute to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. The reason I prepared this salute to the Marine Corps was simply because I served in the Corps and it was in the Corps that I grew up and became a man. Please...

When Barack Obama announced that he was running for president he was very clear that, if elected, he planned "not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation". Twenty months after that statement in Springfield Illinois, we now have a much clearer view of what he means by "Change We Can Believe In". In a campaign of soaring generalizations on mostly centrist themes, Barack Obama has described the details of the transformation he would bring with almost surgical precision. What he offers may be, in substance and in spirit, a radical departure from the...

Senior Vatican officials have decided to put aside their differences with Tony Blair over the war in Iraq, calling for multinational troop reinforcements to secure the country's fledgling democracy. In February last year, both Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, offered some of the fiercest denunciations of Mr Blair and President George W Bush for their strike on Saddam Hussein. Their private criticism of Mr Blair was made embarrassingly public by Vatican officials, who revealed at a press conference that the Pope had urged him to "make use of all the resources offered...

According to Rev. Manning, an Obama Presidency will unleash 400 years of pent-up black anger against America  (1:45) .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZ9ZFtcaJc  

Of all the points raised by different analysts about the economy last week, surely the best was Representative Barney Frank’s reminder on “Charlie Rose” that Ronald Reagan’s favorite laugh line was telling audiences that: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ ” Hah, hah, hah. Are you still laughing? If it weren’t for the government bailing out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and A.I.G., and rescuing people from Hurricane Ike and pumping tons of liquidity into the banking system, our economy would be a shambles. How would you...

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (To the Greater Glory of God) For: Monday, September 22, 2008 25th Week in Ordinary Time From: Luke 8:16-18 Parable of the Sower.  The Meaning of the Parables (Continuation)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(Jesus told the crowd,) [16] "No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel,or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, that those who enter may see thelight.  [17] For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secretthat shall not be known and come to light. [18] Take heed then how you hear; forto him who has will...

There is an email about Gov. Palin flying across America.   Most disconcerting is the portrait they have painted of our VP candidate:   > To date, she is> against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform,> environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of> speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the> librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of> church and state, and polar bears.   (Note: compare this to Palin's actual record and platform http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm)   Please make sure co-authors Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston hear from you soon ;-) womensaynopalin@gmail.com   See bottom of blogspot...

  Catholic Answers LIVE Date September 15 2008 Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Title Does Oprah Have the Last Word? Guest Sharon Lee Giganti Description BIOGRAPHY: Former New Thought "insider", Sharon Lee Giganti is committed to exposing the hidden dangers of the New Thought Movement and its’ widely spreading philosophies.After suspecting that her New Age influence and teaching might have unwittingly played a part in such horrific tragedies as murder and suicide, Sharon finally realized how life threatening their occult methods could be, and returned to the Catholic Church. Now a certified Catholic Catechist and postulant of The Holy Family Institute,...

Many of our sisters on the left "get it".  These comments are great and thought I'd pass them along.  They begin around 11am on Friday, after the Barackopolis speech and before the Dayton rally.  References to MO are for Michelle Obama.  Comments about Michelle are interspersed with those about Sarah.  August 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am I’m not crying anymore. ... Sorry to be catty, but did anyone else think that MO’s dress was inappropriate for last night’s event? ****   It’s Sarah!   **** I am both thrilled for women in general and laughing my ass off at the STUPID...

Olympic Persecution: Pastor Re-arrested Sunday, Escapes Pastor Hua Huiqi, who was evicted from his rental apartment in Beijing on July 2, and subsequently forced to leave China’s capital, was arrested Sunday while trying to attend a service at a state-approved church. The service at the Three Self-Patriotic Movement’s Kuanjie Church was attended by U.S. President George W. Bush. According to China Aid Association, Pastor Hua was walking to the state-approved church early Sunday morning when he was detained by the Chinese police. After about six hours, Pastor Hua took an opportunity and fled. He is now at large. Pastor...