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“Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha! Ha! Ha!” Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.” Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
“Ask not what your country can do for you –
ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
2009 – (06-30-09) – Iraqi Forces Take Over Cities as U.S. Steps Back -PBS – “Six years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraq declared a public holiday Tuesday to mark the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from cities and towns, staging a military parade aimed at illustrating its security progress.”
2009 - (06-28-09) – What Role Does Love Play in Scandal? – Jocelyn Noveck – AP - “If you’re a governor who’s in the doghouse for marital infidelity, is it better to have loved and lost or never to have loved at all? Granted, South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford may be too busy to wonder, given that he’s trying to simultaneously save his job, his political future and, apparently, his marriage.”
2009 – (06-25-09) – Michael Jackson: A Life In The Spotlight – CBS/AP – “King of Pop” Was Entertainment World’s Most Influential Performer – And Tabloid World’s Most Disturbing Celebrity”
2009 – (06-25-09) – Farrah Fawcett Dies at 62 - CBSNews.com – “Charlie’s Angel Loses 2-Year Battle With Cancer” … “She had been diagnosed with cancer in 2006. As she underwent treatment, she enlisted the help of O’Neal, who was the father of her now 24-year-old son, Redmond. This month, O’Neal said he asked Fawcett to marry him and she agreed. They would wed as soon as she can say yes, he said.”
2009 – (06-24-09) – Ed McMahon, proud alum of Catholic U. ’Tonight Show’ Alumnus dies at 86 - By Michelle Bollman and Robyn-Denise Yourse, The Washington Times – “Born Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. on March 6, 1923, the Detroit native entered CU in 1946 following his service as a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps during World War II. He graduated in 1949, obtaining a bachelor of arts degree in speech and drama. Almost 40 years later, the university awarded him an honorary doctor of communication arts degree.”
2009 (06-17-09) – President Obama Violates the Letter If Not the Spirit of DOMA – FRC President Tony Perkins - ”President Obama’s expected Executive Order extending benefits to homosexual partners appears to be a violation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and clearly violates the spirit of the federal law which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. In 1996, DOMA passed overwhelmingly in both the House and Senate and was then signed by President Clinton.”
2009 – (06-16-09) – Nevada’s conservative GOP Sen. John Ensign admits having affair with staffer – by Kathleen Hennessey – Associated Press – “Our families were close, a weary-looking Ensign said. That closeness put me into situations which led to my inappropriate behavior. We caused deep pain to both families and for that I am sorry.” … “Since we found out last year we have worked through the situation and we have come to a reconciliation. This has been difficult on both families. With the help of our family and close friends our marriage has become stronger, Mrs. Ensign said … The Ensigns have three children.”
2009 – (06-09-09) – Report: ‘Pregnant Man’ Gives Birth Again – Mike Fleeman, People – “It’s a boy for Thomas Beatie, better known as the Pregnant Man.”
2009 - (06-09-09) - Joyce Appleby: Should Catholic justices recuse selves on certain cases? – Joyce Appleby - MCT Forum - ”If Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, joins the court, she will turn its five Catholic members into a two-thirds’ majority. She will in fact be replacing one of the two Protestants who remained on the court.”
2009 - (06-09-09) - APA Monitor on Psychology - A. Novotney – On Your Behalf What APA is Doing for You – “Psychology plays key role in same-sex marriage gains.”
2009 – (06-08-09) - The Gospel According to Barack - David Gibson – Politics Daily - ”Saint Paul famously said he would be “all things to all men” (and women, when he was in equal rights mode) for the sake of his beliefs. That was no mean feat given that the missionary apostle was a strictly observant Jew who came to believe in Jesus as the Messiah and spent the rest of his days preaching to the pagans of the Roman Empire, which recognized him as a citizen. These days it seems that Barack Obama is channeling Paul.”
2009 – (06-03-09) - 2009 Forbes’ Celebrity 100 – Forbes – Special Report on The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities – What’s the connection between Ms. Jolie, Ms. Oprah and President Obama? Ideologies and fruits of their fame: popularity, clout & money.
While it’s very easy to confirm the talent and hard work of most luminaries, validating their success as good or bad is much more difficult. Majority of liberals will confirm such success as good while conservatives will deny it. Disagreements about values are nothing new. However, the decreasing gap between values is new. After countless years of liberal cultural conditioning, majority of traditional Americans NOW tolerate or enjoy modern lifestyles be they cohabitation or teen sex, bisexuality, homosexuality, serial adultery, divorce or remarriage often relying on contraception, abortion and other dangers. Consequently, predictability of Forbes’ Celebrity 100 is similar to 2008 elections. With power players, society and laws socially engineered into modern ideologies, our political system is as corrupt as its self-appointed guardian—public media!
Just like the swine flu, corruption starts in our hearts, minds and homes and infects the entire society—then, creation of corrupt laws on demand becomes a natural part of the process while natural laws of life become unnatural. Will Father Time help Mother Nature to reclaim her rightful glory & honor? Will there ever come a day when traditional American values will be here to stay? When will genuine conservatives enjoy popularity, prosperity and clout? When pigs fly or when bald-faced lies are replaced by rule of law & truth. Although efforts to restore truth & justice are endless, all are guaranteed to fail because of No-fault divorce laws. Ever since 1970, No-fault divorce laws have been making ethical empowerment almost illegal. To date, as Family Courts violate ethical parenting in the private sector, corrupt media violates ethical empowerment in the public sector. Only laws are powerful enough to end decades of injustice. As such, without changes in No-fault Divorce, Abortion & Gay Marriages, individual & social stability will remain unattainable. Instead of justice, truth and liberty, our nation will be ruled by feminists, homosexuals and adulterous men or women along with new and improved modern upgrades in obscenity & insanity!
2009 – (06-03-09) – New Hampshire Passes Gay Marriage; 6 States High and Risin’ – Tommy Christopher, Politics Daily – “Marriage equality in the United States is gaining momentum, despite the recent California Supreme Court ruling on the state’s Proposition 8, which upheld the constitutionality of a 2008 ballot referendum in which voters banned gay marriage. Six states allow same-sex marriages, and two others are considering laws to legalize the practice. What’s exciting is that four of the six states to legalize gay marriage have done so in the past two months.”
2009 – (06-02-09) - Leader of the ‘Pride’ - Tony Perkins – Washington Update – “Considering the moves by this administration, every month feels like gay pride month. But in keeping with the liberal tradition, President Obama did single out the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement for special recognition yesterday, signing a White House proclamation that officially designates June as LGBT Pride Month.”
2009 – (06-02-09) - Catholic bishops condemn Tiller slaying – CNA - “Several Catholic bishops have denounced the shooting of the abortion doctor George Tiller, offering their prayers for Tiller and his family while reiterating that the pro-life position can never serve as a justification for crimes.”
2009 – (06-02-09) – Scrambled Ethics – Embryonic-stem-cell research exploits egg donors, too - Father Thomas Berg, NRO - ”As if paying women indirectly for their eggs were not shocking enough, New York is anxious to take this issue farther by using state monies to ‘reimburse’ women directly for their egg donations. Several thousand taxpayer dollars would be handed over to any woman who undergoes the dangerous process of egg donation.”
2009 – (06-02-09) - Steele, Cheney differ on same-sex marriage – Martina Stewart - CNN – “A day after former Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his support for the idea of same-sex marriage, Republican party chairman Michael Steele re-stated his opposition to the idea.”
2009 – (05-29-09) - ‘Father Oprah’ breaks with Church, becomes Episcopalian; war of words between archbishop, Episcopal leader - Catholic Culture - “This truly is a serious setback for ecumenical relations and cooperation between us, said Miami Archbishop John Favalora said following Cutié’s reception into the Episcopal Church by the local Episcopal Bishop Leo Frade, who had publicly invited Cutié to join his ecclesial community. Father Cutié is removing himself from full communion with the Catholic Church and thereby forfeiting his rights as a cleric, the archbishop said, adding that Cutié is still bound by his promise to live a celibate life, which he freely embraced at ordination. Only the Holy Father can release him from that obligation.”
2009 – (05-27-09) - Gay Groups Say Federal Marriage Lawsuit Is Premature - Fox News - ”Gore presidential election challenge, announced they had filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of two gay men and two gay women … Their case argues that California’s voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and due process … Olson said he hopes the suit, which seeks a preliminary injunction against the California measure until the case is resolved, will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court … A favorable ruling there would allow gays and lesbians to get married in every state, just as the court’s 1967 ruling in a Virginia case outlawed prohibitions on interracial marriage.”
2009 – (05-27-09) - Contraception: the ‘common ground’ that devastates family life - Phil Lawler, Teacher, Advocate, Author - ”In his commencement address at Notre Dame, President Obama suggested that advocates and opponents of abortion should find common ground in a campaign to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Although he did not flesh out that suggestion, he clearly intended to suggest more aggressive promotion of contraceptives. That option should be recognized as unacceptable– not just by Catholics, but by anyone attuned to the prescripts of natural law and indeed the realities of modern life.”
2009 – (05-20-09) – Is Hollywood Finally Promoting Traditional Values? - Ben Shapiro, CNSNews – “Last week, I took my wife to see the Zac Efron flick 17 Again. … I certainly wasn’t expecting any morality tales about the virtues of abstinence until marriage. But that’s what 17 Again was—a tribute to the value of chastity before wedlock. … And the left hates this movie. … When did it become sexist to suggest that men stop acting like pigs, and women start treating themselves and their bodies with respect? When did it become feminist to suggest that female liberation lies in promiscuity? When did films pushing abstinence until marriage become worthy of a special warning for girls, while PG-13 movies that glorify mindless teen copulation get the critical seal of approval?”
2009 - (05-20-09) – An Eyewitness Account from Notre Dame Protest - Rick Copenhaver, Catholic Online - ”I’ll be absolutely frank, it was clear this was a satanic war.”
2009 - (05-18-09) – Carla Bruni criticises Pope Benedict XVI - Henry Samuel, Paris - “Carla Bruni has issued a scathing attack on Pope Benedict XVI saying that she has allowed her Catholic faith to lapse because of his approach to contraception in Africa.”
2009 – (05-14-09) – Craigslist’s erotic ad concession ‘half-baked’ – Jason Szep – Reuters - “‘Erotic services’ section will end soon, replaced by ‘adult services’ section.”
2009 - (05-14-09) – A technological lynching - Phil Elmore, Author - “The story and controversy surrounding Prejean is an increasingly common example of political correctness run amok.” … ” If we continue letting a hostile, intolerant minority dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable thought to a majority of Americans, we will have accepted technological dictatorship by default.”
2009 – (05-12-09) – Gay Marriage and Religious Liberty: Why They Can’t Coexist – Chuck Colson – BreakPoint – “Clearly, homosexual marriage and religious liberty cannot co-exist—because gay activists will not allow them to. As marriage expert Maggie Gallagher puts it, same-sex marriage advocates claim that religious faith itself is a form of bigotry. … “Tune in tomorrow, for I want you to learn how you can help protect both our religious rights and marriage itself. I know this may sound alarmist, but it’s true. If we don’t work to stop this juggernaut, we may soon find ourselves hunted down at work, at school, and even at church—as others have been—by those determined to force us to accept as a moral good what God calls evil.”
2009 – (05-11-09) - Top Vatican Official: Notre Dame’s Honoring ‘Anti-Life and Anti-Family’ Obama ‘Is a Source of the Gravest Scandal’ - Fred Lucas, CNSNews - “In a culture marked by widespread and grave confusion and error about the most fundamental teachings of the moral law, our Catholic schools and universities must be beacons of truth and right conduct, said Burke … The Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, is a graduate of Notre Dame … I’m ticked, Euteneuer told CNSNews.com. This is the most recent in a long line of egregious violations of the spirit and teachings of the church. They have a gay and lesbian coalition on campus that is allowed almost full expression, their openly dissenting faculty members and now Obama. It’s more than Obama though. It’s a flagrant rejection of the bishops’ authority and directives.”
2009 – (05-11-09) - 100 Most Beautiful People - Barack’s Beauties – People - ”The President’s Inner Circle Is Working to Change Minds—but at the Same Time, They’re Also Turning Heads. the Halls of Power Never Looked So Good!”
2009 – (05-07-09) – Carrie Prejean: Junior Miss Bryant - Danielle Truszkovsky – South Florida Blade – “Beauty queen revives memories of Florida’s past with orange juice boycott.”
2009 – (04-30-09) – ‘Top Gun’ Star Kelly McGillis Confirms Lesbian Rumors - Fox News – “Definitely a woman, she said when asked if she’s looking for a man or a woman. I’m done with the man thing. You need to move on in life.’”
2009 – (4-21-09) - Divorce papers ‘not Pope’s gift’ to Charles - Richard Owen – The Times – “The Vatican distanced the Pope from plans to give the Prince of Wales a copy of an historic document relating to the divorce of Henry VIII when the pair meet on Monday.”
2009 - (04-27-09) – Blessings but no annulment for Gibson - CathNews - ”Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker says that Gibson had put out feelers to the Vatican despite the fact that the actor regards himself as a ‘traditional’ Catholic with his own Malibu church … Zwecker also says Gibson’s seven children have been left incensed by his split from their mother Robyn Moore Gibson and have cut all ties with him.” … June 1, 2009 - Hypocrisy, thy name is Mel Gibson - The former religious zealot failed to practice what he preached – Tony Sclafani, msnbc.com contributor - ”Mel Gibson yukking it up with Jay Leno and calling himself “Octo-Mel” since his pregnant girlfriend is carrying his eighth child.” —-
2009 – (04-27-09) - The World’s Most Influential Person Is… – Time - ”In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it’s worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.”
2009 – (04-27-09) - Supermodel Kathy Ireland Lashes Out Against Pro Choice – Holly McKay, Fox News - ”Supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author Kathy Ireland has gone against the grain of the glitterati and spoken out against abortion”… “I didn’t want to be pro-life, but this is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue … The committed Christian and devoted mother even dedicated the chapter Faith & Your Family in her new book [Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity] to her foundations in Christianity and believes that this is what’s missing from so many American families today.”
2009 – (04-17-09) - Former SBC president ‘concerned’ about Rick Warren’s comments on gay marriage - Bob Allen, Word & Way - ”A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said he is ‘deeply concerned’ about comments by Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warrant that a recent court decision allowing gay marriage is not part of his agenda.”
2009 – (04-15-09) – Vatican denies rejecting Caroline Kennedy as envoy - AFP - ”The Vatican reportedly rejected the nominees due to their and the Obama administration’s support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research. Italy’s La Stampa newspaper ran a front-page story on the affair Wednesday with the headline: ‘Too Liberal’ Vatican Blocks JFK’s Daughter. The US ambassador post in the Vatican has been vacant since the January departure of Mary Ann Glendon, who was named in November 2007 by then president George W. Bush, a staunch opponent of abortion.”
2009 – (04-15-09) – A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started – Michelle Malkin – “For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to get you up to speed.”
2009 – (04-04-09) - Comedy writer puts Mike Huckabee in the hot seat about gay rights - Fox News – Governor Huckabee & Carol Leifer: gay marriage and adoption - video and transcript published 4-6-09 - Governor Huckabee - No-Fault Divorce: ”The idea of No-fault divorce has been the biggest disaster that has ever happened because it has created a sense in which people now can get out of a marriage (this is true in most states, it was in my own)—you can get out of a marriage more easily than you can get out of a contract to buy a used car and that’s troubling because marriage ought to be the relationship in which we learn how to love.”
2009 – (03-30-09) - Evangelicals: The Time is Now! - Harry R. Jackson, Jr. - Senior Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, MD - “This year as President Obama’s administration has shifted the nation’s stance on embryonic stem cell research and abortion, many in the faith community have justifiably become concerned. Further, RNC Chairman Steele’s decision to lower his personal and his party’s vocalization of socially conservative issues, such as protecting the life of the unborn and preservation of tradition marriage, has left many evangelicals feeling abandoned by both parties.”
2009 – (03-18-09) – Dilemmas: I left my cheating wife but missing my kids is killing me - Virginia Ironside, Herald.ie - “When my wife fell for another man, life became so intolerable I had to move out. But although I see my children, aged five and six, for one day at the weekends, the separation from them is unbearable. I cry every day and miss them so much.”
2009 – (02-04-09) - Secondhand Children - Ann Coulter – Author, Social and Political Commentator - ”As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless — even brave.”
2009 – (01-20-09) – President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Macon Phillips - White House – “My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you’ve bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. … I thank President Bush for his service to our nation — (applause) — as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. … Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.”
2009 – (01-06-09) – Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America - Exclusive: Ann Coulter’s First Look at Controversial New Book - Hannity & Colmes – Fox News Network - “Coulter: Seventy percent of the inmates in prisons right now come from single-parent families. Seventy percent of teenage runaways. Seventy percent of teenage delinquents, 70 percent of drug abuse. All of this is a problem, not just of illegitimacy, of single motherhood.” … “We have 30 years of analysis on what — on what single motherhood produces … single mothers are elevated as if they are, you know, the personification of selfless virtue … That was the Supreme Court overturning a thousand years of law, which said if a man said wants rights to his child, he’d best be married to the mother before he — the child is birthed … And if a woman wants money from the man, she’d better be married to him. Now we have laws to try to make up for one simple law: marriage.”
No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Mt 6:24
“Common Sense lived a long life but died in the United States from heart failure on the brink of the new millennium … Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by two stepbrothers and a stepsister: My Rights, Only Me and Ima Whiner.” … The Death of Common Sense by Lori Borgman
