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CNN story. Apparently Obama sent a letter to his pastor but that has yet to be released.

Before Michael Buday married his fiancée, Diana Bijon, he decided to honor her family by bucking tradition and taking her last name. But, it wasn't so easy. Under California state law, he needed to pay more than $300, go to court, file a petition, and publicly advertise his name change for four weeks in a local newspaper. If he had simply gone along with tradition, it would have cost only $50 to $80. So Buday, 29, went to court, along with the ACLU, to change the law. They recently announced their plans to sue the California Department of Health Services,...

this weeks "navy times" came out. it had the usual articles in it. one very touching one about the last carrier operations of the f-14s. then.....

The United States has an obligation to help work toward stemming the flow of illegal guns into this country, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday. Speaking with reporters in Ottawa, Mr. Martin said the gun issue will be among those on the agenda — alongside softwood lumber and passport requirements — when he meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Rice is in Ottawa on Monday and Tuesday for meetings with Canadian officials. It is her first official visit to this country. A visit in April was cancelled, reportedly because of Canada's decision not to participate in the...

TORONTO — Canada’s justice minister says the country’s gun laws are among the toughest on the books, and he dismissed calls for new minimum sentences as ‘‘a quick-fix solution’’ to a spate of gunplay in Toronto. Irwin Cotler made the remarks Wednesday before hosting a one-day forum on urban violence at the University of Toronto, to which 120 city and government leaders were invited. The meeting was called to address Toronto’s escalating gun violence, which has claimed 41 lives this year. ‘‘We have a very tough regime already in place. That’s why we have to look to other initiatives that...

NEW YORK - An Army Captain sued the government Friday to block his pending deployment to Iraq, saying he resigned in June after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve. Jay J. Ferriola, 31, said in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld unlawfully continues to exercise control over him even though he properly resigned and was asked to turn in his equipment. The New York resident has never received a written, official response to his resignation request, said the lawsuit, which asks a judge to process and approve...

Can someone at FR please explain to me why bloggers info must be posted to some obscure side street called the Bloggers Forum? They broke the memo story, and just today are debunking (Wizbang) a Boston Globe story asserting that the memos are still real. Let's jump into the 21st century and understand that these folks are valuable resources in our fight to save our country. Several weeks ago we could post away when the memo story was breaking, but now we must go back to the ridiculous Bloggers Forum. STUPID, GOOFY, DUMP, SHOOTING ONE'S SELF IN THE FOOT. You...

What has happened to our image as a beacon of freedom, opportunity and the right way to live? Much of the world fears or hates us. We have a proclaimed policy of attacking any country whose policies or regimes don't follow our dictates. Why have we become the biggest bully in the world?