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Sen. John McCain raised eyebrows - and suggestions of opportunism - when he agreed to deliver a commencement address at the university founded by an old nemesis, the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Now emerges an unlikely defender of McCain: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. "I think the idea that he's going down there is constructive and positive," Kennedy, D-Mass., said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." McCain, a likely candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, is scheduled to speak May 13 at Liberty University, a Baptist institution founded in 1971 by Falwell. Kennedy described the appearance as an opportunity...

Washington, DC: President Bush made clear today that he thinks guest workers should be able to become American citizens. He stated, "I believe that we ought to say to somebody doing a job an American won't do, 'here is a tamper-proof identity card that will enable you to be here for a period of time. And if that person wants to become a citizen of the United States, because we're a nation of laws, they get at the end of the line, not the beginning of the line." Senator Kennedy issued the following statement in response: "I commend President Bush...

The nation's two highest military officials rejected comparisons yesterday between Iraq and Vietnam in the aftermath of Saturday's anti-war demonstration on the Mall that rekindled memories of an unpopular war four decades ago. More than 100,000 people protested the Iraq war amid polls that show fewer than 50 percent of Americans support the battle to foster a democracy in Iraq. Demonstrators compared President Bush to President Johnson, who ordered more than 500,000 troops to Vietnam in the 1960s. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican and a Vietnam veteran, also have compared the 2?-year Iraq...

WASHINGTON — The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, said Wednesday that despite his reservations regarding John Roberts' commitment to civil rights and other issues, he would vote for him to be next chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. "Is a 'no' vote the easier and more popular one? Of course, for me it is, especially with my constituency," said Leahy. "But in my judgment, in my experience, but especially in my conscience, I find it is better in this nomination to vote 'yes' than 'no.'" Calling Roberts a "man of integrity" and saying...

Congressional Democrats yesterday called President Bush's recess appointment of John R. Bolton as U.N. ambassador an "abuse of power," but said any ill will would not affect the prospects of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. "Each nomination's unique," said Rebecca Kirszner, a spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. "The willingness of the White House to allow Congress to perform its duty is certainly a factor for all nominations. "The Roberts nomination will be judged on its own merits," she said. Sen. Edward M. (Lard Ass) Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is expected to...

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PRO-ABORTION CATHOLIC POLITICIAN PROJECT The enclosed “generic” letter and observations were designed to serve as models for actual denunciations of pro-abortion Catholic politicians. A denunciation is roughly the equivalent of a criminal complaint in secular law. As private citizens, if we have knowledge of criminal activity we are required to report it to the proper authorities and cooperate with any subsequent investigation. At that point, we have discharged our obligation. We cannot take the law into our own hands and we have no right to demand a specific penalty in the event that the offender...

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It is an axiom of politics that a political gaffe is what happens whenever a politician speaks the truth. In the case of the ongoing flap over some three year-old remarks by Senator Rick Santorum on the clergy abuse crisis, that axiom is being proved more than apt. In 2002, Catholic Online published an essay by Santorum in which he identified the source of the crisis as liberalism in the culture and in the Church, a liberalism which denounces and attempts to abolish the Church's teaching on human sexuality. Santorum's remarks have been re-published...

Stresses Scandal of Receiving Communion while supporting Abortion VATICAN, July 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican held a press conference today to present the "Instrumentum laboris" (working document) for the Eleventh Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled to be held in the Vatican from October 2 to 23, 2005 on the theme: "The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church." The document, drawn up on the basis from Church leaders throughout the world to a draft called the "Lineamenta", lamented "the fact that too many faithful receive communion without having sufficiently reflected...