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Today on Outnumbered Fox News, Kirsten Powers talked about how terrible it is that terrorists in Gitmo would be held there indefinitely and are entitled to Due Process and a fair trial. To that I say this: These are not criminals. These are not US citizens. They are prisoners in their own declared War Against the Infidel. Put them on trial? The Geneva Conventions have strict restrictions regarding taking POWs to Court -- which are generally conducted by an international body, do not occur until the war is ended and are for War Crimes or criminal acts while in captivity....

On October 3, on the Fox News program Outnumbered, Kirsten Powers said she was very surprised that the vomitus and feces of Liberian national Thomas Duncan were not immediately cleaned up, but remained in an apartment complex in the Dallas area for about 10 days. She said, in effect, surely there are people standing ready in the United States to clean up immigrants’ lethal bodily fluids. Thomas Duncan is not to blame for the crisis of viruses popping up across the United States – the politics of Kirsten Powers are to blame. In her widely read articles and statements, Ms....

HUGH HEWITT, HOST: Kirsten, as a Democrat and as a veteran of the Clinton administration, would you rank for me from most competent to least competent the three Democrats: Obama, Clinton and Carter. Who was the worst of those three on competence issues? KIRSTEN POWERS: Clinton was the most competent, obviously. And then, I don't -- you know, Carter, I was a child, so I didn't live through that. So I don't know if I have as much as a sense of that and I also have a little affection for him because of his human rights work... It is...

Kirsten Powers, a Democrat who served in Bill Clinton's administration, said the mainstream media want to portray the Tea Party as bigots and racists and are not capable of understanding what the movement is about. She also said that the Republican establishment plays into these biases and deliberately pushes unfavorable memes about the Tea Party to gullible -- and biased -- reporters. While discussing Dave Brat's shocking upset over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Fox News' Media Buzz this weekend with host Howard Kurtz, Powers said the elites in the media and the permanent political class "who can't...

It is wonderful to read the account of Kirsten Powers' conversion from atheism to Christianity. But that doesn't make her into a Bible scholar or theologian, and Powers has made some grave errors in her recent article on Christianity's new look on gays.She begins by asking the question, "Could there be a future where most American Christians support same-sex relationships?"The obvious answer is, "Only if these Christians renounce the Word of God and the God of the Word."But that is not how she answers her question. Instead, she writes, "If so, it will be due to the emergence of conservative...

Democratic columnist and analyst Kirsten Powers admitted tonight on The O’Reilly Factor that she did not vote for Obama twice. Powers also said Obamacare was the president’s ‘Hurricane Katrina’ and he’ll never recover from it. Bill O’Reilly: This VA thing. I don’t think he recovers from this. I don’t think Barack Obama recovers from this. Because it’s just enough. Critical mass was reached for whatever reason you accurately put it. Powers nailed it. He’s disengaged. He’s not engaged. He’s not explaining. He’s not problem solving. And the folks know it. Kirsten Powers: Yeah, I agree with that. To me, Obamacare...

The obvious question, then, is … why continue? Both Kirsten Powers and Ron Fournier have spent the last day offering cris des coeurs over the incompetence of the White House, as the National Journal columnist did yesterday and Powers did last night on Fox News Special Report (via RCP and Truth Revolt): KIRSTEN POWERS: Well, I think his explanation is probably the true explanation, that they need to do this, but at the same time, it’s now gotten to the point where it seems like there’s an exemption made for pretty much everybody except for individuals. A lot of people...

KIRSTEN POWERS: Well, I think his explanation is probably the true explanation, that they need to do this, but at the same time, it's now gotten to the point where it seems like there's an exemption made for pretty much everybody except for individuals. A lot of people who have really been screwed over by the law, you know, who are left without insurance or with extremely expensive insurance. So, I think that Ron Fournier of The National Journal wrote something that ran today about -- .... CONTINUE READING...

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Kirsten Powers on her religious awakening.

Kirsten Powers hit back hard against those who are trying to make this Benghazi story about it being politicized by Republicans, saying that if nobody can cover it because it’s being politicized, then nothing in Washington can ever be covered.

She's studying at a college in Florida, and like any typical American teenager she loves shopping and hanging out with her friends. But at weekends she is one of the deadliest shots in the brush. Regis Giles, 19, is one of America's hottest hunters - and she's taking the big game world by storm. She's killed buffalo, wild boar, deer and a bear in her hunting career, which began when she was aged just nine. And she's already drawing parallels to Sarah Palin, America's most famous gun-toting wilderness-loving woman. Miss Giles is a lifetime member of the NRA. She was...

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, 93, speaks drolly to the camera, her words slurred from several strokes. "Dear Abby has had her day, it's my turn now. Any problems … contact me … please call, don't write." "Oh my goodness," chimes in Harry, her squeaky-voiced husband of 72 years. "She'll either send them to the poor house or up to the White House!"

Miami -- A Miami priest who left the Catholic Church after photos surfaced of him kissing his girlfriend on the beach has been ordained as an Episcopal priest. Alberto Cutie, known as "Father Oprah," has since married Ruhama Canellis and the two are expecting a baby.

MIAMI — An illegal immigrant from Indonesia is suing a former Catholic priest and TV star, claiming the priest sought to have him deported to protect his wife from scandal.Maxi Paulus Ratunuman (RAH'-too-noo-mahn) claims he was arrested June 6 on false trespassing charges by an off-duty police officer who provided security for the Rev. Alberto Cutie (KOO'-tee-ay). Ratunuman, who overstayed a tourist visa, was in a Miami jail Thursday.Ratunuman says he is the ex of Cutie's wife Ruhama Bune Canales.He says the three conspired to get him out of the picture because he was asking for money Canales owned him.

MIAMI – Ex-Catholic priest Alberto Cutie will wed in two weeks, after sparking a scandal when he was photographed nuzzling his girlfriend on a Miami beach, The Miami Herald newspaper said. The wedding will be held in an Episcopal church here at a private ceremony for which several ex-police have been hired to ensure security, according to sources close to the religious. Cutie, born in Puerto Rico of Cuban descent, left the Catholic Church after the photos were published and weeks later announced that he was joining the Episcopal Church, for which he has already given his first sermon. The...

It was the made-for-TV ending to a weeks-long saga of fame and faith: Alberto Cutié, the telegenic priest embroiled in a magazine-photo scandal, would leave the Roman Catholic church to become an Episcopalian -- and would marry his girlfriend of two years.But when Cutié's new bishop, the Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, stood inside Miami's Trinity Cathedral to announce the news to dozens of international reporters, he created his own waves.The ''Inquisition is over,'' Frade said in widely broadcast remarks after Catholic Archbishop John C. Favalora admonished him for a disrespectful ``public display.''The style is typical of Frade's nine-year tenure,...

Lima, Peru, Jun 3, 2009 / 06:28 pm (CNA).- The Anglican Bishop of Peru has said the “very lamentable” manner of Fr. Alberto Cutié’s entry of the Episcopal Church following a sex scandal will cause “deep problems” between the two communions. He remarked it was “too early” to have the former Catholic priest and media personality preach at Episcopal Sunday services like he did on Sunday. The Anglican website VirtueOnline.org reports that Anglican Bishop of Peru Bill Godfrey spoke about Fr. Cutié in an interview with Peru’s RPP-TV. The issue of Cutié's conversion affects Bishop Godfrey since the Episcopal Church...

The scandal surrounding the Rev. Alberto Cutie has raised questions in the minds of many concerning the Catholic Church's discipline of priestly celibacy. Why does the church continue to defend a practice that seems so unnatural and so unnecessary? There is a very bad argument for celibacy, which has appeared throughout the tradition and which is, even today, defended by some. It goes something like this: Married life is spiritually suspect; priests, as religious leaders, should be spiritual athletes above reproach; therefore, priests shouldn't be married This approach to the question is, in my judgment, not just stupid but dangerous,...

MIAMI - A popular Miami priest nicknamed "Father Oprah" said yesterday that "church is about forgiveness" during his first sermon since leaving the Roman Catholic Church after photographs surfaced of him kissing his girlfriend on the beach. The Rev. Alberto Cutie received a standing ovation after his sermon at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Episcopal priests can marry, unlike their Catholic counterparts. It will take Cutie at least a year to be certified as an Episcopal priest. Cutie has said his decision to switch was made over time, not since the photos in a magazine rocked South Florida's Spanish-speaking...