tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118048782009-03-29T07:18:07.475-07:00<strong>"Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions."</strong><br>-- Title: Section IV of "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine --Tomnoreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1128714118021212312005-10-07T12:32:00.000-07:002005-10-07T18:23:07.563-07:00

In a direct slap in the face of an overwhelming majority of voters, Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett has found Proposition "A", the save the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross measure, unconstitutional. Prop "A" was the initiative on San Diego's July 2005 special election to save the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross by transferring it to the U.S. Interior Department as a national veterans

Tomnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1128707302328590432005-10-07T10:42:00.000-07:002005-10-07T12:55:49.033-07:00

In a victory for free speech, a Federal Judge threw out an ACLU/NARAL lawsuit seeking to ban Ohio license plates with the "Choose Life" phrase. As usual the "pro-choice" hypocrites sought to stifle real choice and impose their own twisted views on the rest of usLifeNews.com carried an article:Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by abortion advocates seeking to

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Philip Paulson, the man who has been fighting to remove the war memorial cross from San Diego's Mt. Soledad, and his lawyer James McElroy haven't exactly been keeping their hatred for Christianity a secret.From the Thomas More Law Center:RANCHO SANTA FE, CA -- For sixteen years atheist Philip Paulson claiming he wants to maintain neutrality between government and religion, has been waging an

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1128023238501041842005-09-29T12:43:00.000-07:002005-09-29T13:06:43.463-07:00

Paul M. Weyrich has written an excellent piece defending abstinence education and debunking the silly and misleading arguments against it by organizations such as the ACLU.Accuracy in Media carries Weyrich's column:Abstinence education has a good friend in the Bush Administration. After all, abstinence is the only proven and effective safeguard against unplanned pregnancies and sexually

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1128016839261099762005-09-29T10:58:00.000-07:002005-09-29T11:00:39.270-07:00

The fur is already flying in the fight over the various initiatives on California's November ballot. An important initiative is Proposition 73, the "WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR'S PREGNANCY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT."PROPOSITION 73WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR'S PREGNANCY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL

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Cross posted from Stop the ACLU: One of the most common comments and hate mails I get besides the "you are a nazi that hates freedom" ones, is the infamous "You just inspired me to give $100 to the ACLU", or the "I just re-upped my ACLU membership" ones. This post was inspired by you people. Dear Mr. or Ms.ACLU member, please work with the ACLU to reform some of their policies. Please get them

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1124391738809979152005-08-18T11:43:00.000-07:002005-08-18T12:55:57.490-07:00

Lets play a little game. I'll post some recent statements about Sharon's shameful withdrawal from Gaza and you try to guess what person or group said it.A. Sharon was "very courageous" to carry out the withdrawal.B. "We agree that the disengagement will make Israel stronger. ... this will bring our two countries closer together."C. Israel must take further steps, including loosening travel

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1124336119551298882005-08-18T00:07:00.000-07:002005-08-17T21:07:21.506-07:00

The more the ACLU opens its mouth the clearer it becomes just how out of the mainstream they really are. The latest anti-faith screed comes from Joe Cook, the director of a Louisiana ACLU chapter. Speaking on camera on WAFB-TV, Baton Rouge, about the New Orleans Tangipahoa Parish school district's 30 year tradition of opening school board meetings with a prayer, "Cookie" as we like to call him,

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Paul M. Weyrich has written a piece for Accuracy in Media entitled: "The Danger of the Ideological State." If there is one clear lesson from the 20th century, it is that all ideologies are dangerous. As Russell Kirk wrote, conservatism is not an ideology, it is the negation of ideology. Conservatism values what has grown up over time, over many generations, in the form of traditions, customs and

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From The Register:An Austrian village called F**king will not change its name despite sniggering Brits making off with its roadsigns.Mayor Siegfried Hauppl has asked visitors to lay off the signs which began to attract outside attention after British and US soldiers passing through in 1945 illuminated the locals as to the English meaning of F**king, Ananova reports.[...]Read the whole thing, the

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Solomon wrote:"I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove."Solomon spoke:"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he

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August 14th of this year is the Jewish Tisha' be'Av (the 9th day of the month of Av). Tisha' be'Av is a day set aside to commemorate woes that have afflicted Israel throughout history. Yoram Ettinger at Israpundit has posted a list of the remarkable calamities which are attributed to this day:1. The Ninth Day of the Jewish month of Av (August 14, 2005) commemorates a series of major Jewish

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1123805987008124202005-08-11T16:45:00.000-07:002005-08-11T17:19:47.016-07:00

California Senator Barbara Boxer loves to speak at pro-abortion rallies. The only concept that can make it through the head of the country's dumbest senator is "Abortion:Good, Pro-Life:Bad." Her latest departure from reality manifested itself at a pro-abortion rally at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.An article on LifeNews.com states:Pro-abrotion Sen. Barbara Boxer of California says she

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1123796920422392882005-08-11T14:44:00.000-07:002005-08-11T14:48:40.430-07:00

In response to the overwhelming response to the outrageous Planned Parenthood Golden Gate's "A Superhero for Choice" cartoon, Dawn Eden at The Dawn Patrol has created an action plan to expose the actions of Planned Parenthood and its despicable video to a broad audience. Dawn is calling for good people to contact their local newspapers, radio and TV stations and tell them of the video and how

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The ever anti-religion-in-the-public-square stance of the ACLU is exposed for the deceptive sham that it is. On Tuesday, August 9th, ACLU lawyers filed an appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn a US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision which denied a Wiccan priestess' suit to offer prayers before a Chesterfield, Virginia Board of Supervisors meetings.From The Washington Times:... In their

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In a rare exercise of restraint, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to overturn a portion of Arizona's proposition 200. The proposition, passed in November 2004, bars illegal immigrants from receiving certain public benefits, makes it a crime for public employees to fail to report undocumented immigrants who seek the benefits outlined in the legislation and requires people

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Jeremy Robb at ChronWatch has written a scenario which takes the recent NCAA ban on post-season use of Indian mascot names to its logical conclusion.NEW YORK, New York --- Ireland became furious over a recent announcement by the NCAA to ban Native American mascots in tournaments due to their abusive and hostile nature...[...]Meanwhile, other groups also felt slighted by the ban. Greeks began

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"Planned Parenthood animated short glorifies violence against Christians" is the title of an August 8, 2005 press release by American Life League. Discussed is an animated film which appeared on the Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (San Francisco) web site. "With its latest marketing gimmick, an animated feature called 'Superhero for Choice,' Planned Parenthood is glamorizing violence against

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1123174786290667592005-08-04T09:41:00.000-07:002005-08-04T10:01:34.103-07:00

The New York Civil Liberties Union will file a lawsuit against New York City to keep police from searching bag of people entering the subway system. The suit claims that the two-week old policy violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and prohibitions against unlawful searches and seizures. Apparently, in the opinion of the ACLU, equal protection means that no one should be

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1123096404010225572005-08-03T12:03:00.000-07:002005-08-03T12:42:04.596-07:00

What a man! North Korea's Fearless Leader Kim Jong-il never forgets a phone number, a cadre's career or a line of computer code. He even shot 11 holes-in-one in the very first round of golf he ever played! Shown here with his rarely seen wife, the stately Natasha Fatale, Kim may be short of stature but he is tall of tales!

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1123044735751173022005-08-03T00:37:00.000-07:002005-08-03T12:33:21.890-07:00

Drudge had it. The headline: "Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs." I thought to myself: "No, it can't be." It is! Another weepy, whiney American-soldiers-are-just-like-NAZI's-only-worse torture news piece.Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1122998469550898502005-08-02T08:42:00.000-07:002005-08-02T13:36:42.926-07:00

Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest has issued a request for bloggers to put the word out about Michael Yon, an independent American combat reporter working in Iraq. Van der Leun has called him "Iraq's Ernie Pyle."Battle of Mosul: Part I"Michael Yon is an independent, informed observer chronicling the monumentally important events in the efforts to stabilize Iraq. His dispatches have the

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A lesson in reading body language: note the downcast eyes, the back bent from utter discouragement and the upturned palms of the hands pleading for mercy which will not come.From Hyscience:First of all, a visual reminder of the Islamic agenda - courtesy of the AP and CBS (blogstorm needed), although their intention was to promote the Islamization of America, not to make us Islamo-aware (info and

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1122580923660779852005-07-28T13:00:00.000-07:002005-07-28T19:48:09.313-07:00

From the April, 2005 issue of PLoS Medicine - a peer reviewed, open access medical journal from the Public Library of Science.Is American Bioethics Lost in the Woods?Michael CookThe debate between a libertarian bioethicist and a communitarian bioethicist [1] illustrates why American bioethics is becoming increasingly marginalised and irrelevant to the democratic society that it intends to

Tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804878.post-1122507053133193332005-07-28T00:15:00.000-07:002005-07-27T22:23:16.530-07:00

On July 26th the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina to try to have the Koran used for the swearing in of witnesses in state courts. The irony of this is self evident. NewsMax has the story:"We hope that the court will issue a ruling that the phrase 'holy scripture' includes the Quran, Old Testament and Bhagavad-Gita in addition to the Christian Bible," said Jennifer Rudinger

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