The enemies of free speech are on the march (Part 11)

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - June 30, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - It is now a matter of record. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America is against your right to free speech as guaranteed in the First Amendment to the Constitution of that same United States of America. She wants to shut you up in the public square if you disagree with her. That's how she interprets her privilege in attaining high office...

 


Cost of fighting for Ten Commandments: $10,000

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 29, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A little more than four years ago, Brandi Swindell, Bryan Fischer and a group called Generation Life hoped to stop the city council of Boise, Idaho, from removing a Ten Commandments monument that had stood in a city park since 1965. The city council accepted no public input into its decision, so Generation Life was compelled to file a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order on the city's action...

 


Fine for preaching in public challenged

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 29, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A man arrested for preaching on a public sidewalk too close to the one of the nation's premiere representations of freedom, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, is appealing his conviction and $400 fine. On Oct. 7, Michael A. Marcavage, director of the evangelistic organization Repent America, was arrested while preaching on the sidewalk outside the Liberty Bell Center and urging Americans to halt abortion...

 


The republic of Kennedy

Posted by Mona Charen - June 28, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Mona Charen) - In the United States today we no longer enjoy the rule of law but instead the rule of lawyers -- robed lawyers with the exalted title "justice" -- but still unelected lawyers enacting their own policy preferences. Before their commonsense decision in the Second Amendment case, a different complement of justices (Justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the liberals) demonstrated what a flimsy hold the words of the Constitution have on our jurisprudence...

 


Governor signs law allowing intelligent design in Louisiana schools

Posted by LifeSiteNews.com - June 28, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeSiteNews.com) - Louisiana public school teachers can now educate their students about the theory of intelligent design and scientific criticisms of Darwinian evolutionary theory thanks to a new law signed this week by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The Louisiana Science Education Act now allows teachers to supplement the state's curricula with additional scientific materials, but groups opposed to any debate over the "origin of the species" have warned that the new law will become the origin of the lawsuits if they believe it facilitates religion...

 


Judge bans Bible from school, appeal filed

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 28, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A brief has been filed in a federal appeals court asking the justices to overturn a judge who ordered a school district specifically to ban the Bible in its policy regarding the distribution of literature to students. WorldNetDaily reported just a week ago when a federal judge declared unconstitutional a Florida law that was used to prevent Gideons from handing out Bibles to students on public property near schools...

 


Truckers to Washington: Drill for oil!

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 28, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Truckers are telling Washington to do something about the high prices of fuel and quit blaming the oil companies and OPEC. "The temporary solutions aren't any good," David Kilcoin, a truck owner-operator from Phoenix, Ariz., told WorldNetDaily at the Great West Truck Show going on now at the Las Vegas Convention Center...

 


Supreme Court rules individuals have right to bear arms

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 27, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - In its first conclusive interpretation of the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban, affirming an individual right to own firearms and not merely a right for states to form armed militias. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home"...

 


A dark past

Posted by Jonah Goldberg - June 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Jonah Goldberg) - Margaret Sanger, whose American Birth Control League became Planned Parenthood, was the founding mother of the birth-control movement. She is today considered a liberal saint, a founder of modern feminism, and one of the leading lights of the Progressive pantheon. Gloria Feldt of Planned Parenthood proclaims, "I stand by Margaret Sanger's side," leading "the organization that carries on Sanger's legacy." Planned Parenthood's first black president, Faye Wattleton -- Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1989 -- said that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger...

 


Battle over ‘Fairness Doctrine’ heats up

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - The president isn't going to blame the Democrats -- yet -- for not fully supporting a plan that would assure broadcasters in the United States their freedom from government-imposed censorship on their views and comments. The issue concerns the ongoing battle over the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" by which the federal government used to require radio broadcasters to "balance" their comments between conservative and liberal viewpoints...

 


Supreme Court rejects ‘green’ challenge to border fence

Posted by CNSNews.com - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (CNSNews.com) - An appeal by environmental groups to stop the federal government from waiving regulations during construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border was turned down by the Supreme Court on Monday. In its decision, the high court rejected a plea from Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club to challenge a provision of a 2005 law that gives the U.S. Department of Homeland Security the authority to bypass environmental and other laws obstructing completion of the border fence...

 


Go ahead: Arrest me

Posted by Janet Folger - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Janet Folger) - Censorship. Book burning. The Criminalization of Christianity. It's here and it's now the law in the state of Colorado. The Ku Klux Klan can march. The Nazis can hand out brochures. Skinheads can do whatever it is that Skinheads do. But in the state of Colorado, the only group who is NOT allowed to be heard is ... the Christians...

 


Tancredo takes McCain to task on immigration

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado drew attention early in the Republican primaries as a champion of securing the nation's borders against illegal crossing and fighting against amnesty for illegal immigrants. Now, in an open letter to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, Tancredo is questioning McCain's private meeting with Hispanic leaders in Chicago last week and challenging the candidate to stand firm on border security, regardless of the audience he's addressing...

 


Teacher fired for refusing to remove Bible from desk, allegedly teaching religion in class

Posted by LifeSiteNews.com - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeSiteNews.com) - Yesterday, the Mount Vernon Board of Education voted unanimously to terminate the contract of a Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher. John Freshwater has been a teacher at the school for 21 years. Among several questionable allegations, including that of "burning" a cross on a student's arm, the only significant allegation Freshwater admits to, is failing to remove his personal Bible from his classroom desk. According to Mount Vernon News, the Mount Vernon School Board relied on the report of an independent investigator, H.R. On Call Inc., to pass their resolution to consider the termination of Freshwater's contract...

 


Former abortion clinic worker testifies that live-born baby was stabbed to death

Posted by LifeSiteNews.com - June 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeSiteNews.com) - A murder investigation has been opened involving Shelley Sella, a California abortionist employed by George Tiller, who according to a former employee is reported to have intentionally stabbed to death an infant born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. On the advice of an attorney, Operation Rescue reported the incident to the Wichita Police Department after a former Tiller employee, Tina Davis, told Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of the stabbing in April...

 


A world without children

Posted by Jeff Jacoby - June 24, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Jeff Jacoby) - In 1965, the population of Italy was 52 million, of which 4.6 million, or just under 9 percent, were children younger than 5. A decade later, that age group had shrunk to 4.3 million -- about 7.8 percent of Italians. By 1985, it was down to 3 million and 5.3 percent. Today, the figures are 2.5 million and 4.2 percent. Young children are disappearing from Italian society, and the end isn't in sight. According to one estimate by the UN's Population Division, their numbers will drop to fewer than 1.6 million in 2020, and to 1.3 million by 2050...

 


Once an embryo…

Posted by Fr. Frank Pavone - June 24, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Fr. Frank Pavone) - The US bishops have issued a very clear statement on embryonic stem cell research. It does not dwell upon the scientific nuances of the issue, but rather assists the reader to focus on the moral issues involved. The statement is not marked by condemnation, but rather by explanation. It is not a rejection of research or of those who stand to benefit from research, but rather a call to pursue the well being of those very individuals by preserving the moral standards that protect their dignity and that of the rest of us...

 


Obama: America is ‘no longer Christian’

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 24, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Some have been taking issue with largely unnoticed comments made last year by Sen. Barack Obama declaring the U.S. is "no longer a Christian nation" but is also a nation of others, including Muslims and nonbelievers. The comments have been recently recirculating on Internet blogs...

 


Tim Russert: a cut above

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - June 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - The media have been criticized for their wall-to-wall coverage of the death of NBC's Tim Russert. But in truth, the Meet the Press anchorman genuinely was one of a kind. Deep down, they know he had connectivity to the public that most others can only envy. And they respected him for that. That, I believe, is the reason for their intense coverage of his totally unexpected death at the peak of his career. The son of a garbage man in Buffalo, N.Y., his whole approach reeked of a hometown boy's love of country, his Catholic faith, his spirit of good will that coexisted well with the necessary toughness for his job, and his humble roots, never forgetting his beloved Buffalo Bills...

 


California gays launch effort to stop marriage referendum

Posted by Associated Press - June 22, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Associated Press) - Gay activists asked California's highest court Friday to keep off the November ballot a citizens' initiative that would again ban gay marriage. Lawyers for Equality California filed a petition arguing that the proposed amendment to the California Constitution should be invalidated because its impact was not made clear to the millions of voters who signed petitions to qualify the measure before the state Supreme Court legalized same-sex unions...

 


Planned Parenthood funding stripped from war supplemental bill

Posted by LifeSiteNews.com - June 21, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life groups across the U.S. are celebrating a victory with the removal of an amendment to the 2008 War Supplemental Bill (H.R. 2642) that would have given Planned Parenthood facilities discounted drugs at taxpayer expense. The amendment, tacked on to a bill meant to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, would have allowed for certain Planned Parenthood clinics and university healthcare centers to get drugs at further reduced prices, allowing for easier and cheaper distribution of controversial drugs such as birth control pills and the "morning after pill" or Plan B...

 


Oil crisis is solvable

Posted by Linda Chavez - June 21, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Linda Chavez) - There is only one way to drive down the rising cost of gasoline for the long term: significantly increase the domestic supply of oil. We are the only nation in the world with access to known oil deposits on our own land or off our shores that essentially refuses to tap those resources. The main stumbling block is a lack of political consensus, which is in especially short supply in an election year. Instead of coming up with real solutions to our growing energy crisis, the Democrats in Congress would rather rail against the oil companies...

 


Global-warming bubble

Posted by Rich Lowry - June 21, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Rich Lowry) - Rarely has so much hectoring produced so little. After all the magazine covers, celebrity sermonizing and U.N.-certified-expert hand-wringing, the fight against global warming got a real-world test in the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago in the debate over a proposal to limit carbon emissions through a cap-and-trade system. After a small dose of the argument, supporters of the proposal couldn't wait to drop it. It was leading opponent Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader, who declared he'd be happy to talk about cap-and-trade for a month...

 


Justice Kennedy: American idle

Posted by Ann Coulter - June 20, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Ann Coulter) - After reading Justice Anthony Kennedy's recent majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, I feel like I need to install a "1984"-style Big Brother camera in my home so Justice Kennedy can keep an eye on everything I do. Until last week, the law had been that there were some places in the world where American courts had no jurisdiction. For example, U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over non-citizens who have never set foot in the United States...

 


Mexico asks World Court to halt U.S. executions

Posted by Reuters - June 20, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Reuters) - Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular assistance. One of the five, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas, which is poised to set execution dates for the others...

 


Scientist: ‘Global warming’ scheme to push global tax

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 20, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A scientist whose reservations about "global warming" have been officially endorsed by tens of thousands of other scientists is accusing the U.N. of using "mob rule" to generate fear-mongering climate change reports intended to scare national leaders into submitting to its worldwide taxation schemes. "Science has always progressed on the basis of observations, experiments, and thoughts published by individual scientists and sometimes pairs or small groups of scientific coworkers," Art Robinson, a research professor of chemistry and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, said in a recent column in Human Events...

 


Gay couples in California begin ‘marrying’

Posted by Baptist Press - June 18, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Baptist Press) - With "party A" and "party B" replacing the traditional "bride" and "groom" on the licenses, California June 16 officially became the second state in the nation to allow homosexual couples to "marry." The California Supreme Court's controversial 4-3 ruling took effect at 5 p.m. local time, and some county clerk offices, including those in Sonoma County and San Francisco, stayed open late to allow same-sex couples to get "married" without waiting until the next day...

 


Gay activists reveal plan

Posted by Baptist Press - June 18, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Baptist Press) - If the major homosexual activist groups have their way, there won't be an outbreak of "gay marriage" lawsuits nationwide now that California has legalized such unions -- at least not yet. Nine of the nation's largest homosexual activist organizations have issued a joint six-page statement urging couples not to sue in their home states or in federal court. The reason? Losses in such lawsuits could set the "gay marriage" movement back for years...

 


Judicial supremacy strikes in Oklahoma

Posted by Phyllis Schlafly - June 17, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Phyllis Schlafly) - The elected representatives in Oklahoma passed a law to stem the tide of illegal immigrants and, faster than you can say "judicial supremacy," a federal judge blocked its enforcement. The court suspended key sections of the law even before it was due to take effect on July 1. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act was designed to prevent illegal immigrants from taking jobs from Americans and from evading taxes by working in the underground economy...

 


Bobby Schindler decries current plague of hospitals denying life sustaining treatment

Posted by Bobby Schindler - June 17, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Bobby Schindler) - Recently, yet another situation similar to that of my sister Terri Schiavo has made headlines. In West Palm Beach, Florida, Raymond Weber is asking the court to dehydrate his disabled wife, Karen, to death. If you have read any of the reports in mainstream media, it's just another case of a husband looking out for the "best interest" of his spouse. And just as in Terri's case, Raymond Weber is asking the government to deliberately kill his wife who is not dying and is guilty of nothing more than having difficulty swallowing and therefore needing help, in the form of a feeding tube, to eat...

 


Return of the censors

Posted by Pat Buchanan - June 17, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Pat Buchanan) - Freedom of the press is on trial in Canada. The trial is before a court with the Orwellian title of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The accused are Maclean's magazine and author Mark Steyn. The crime: In mocking and biting tones, they wrote that Islam threatens Western values. Had Steyn written that, given the Crusades, colonial atrocities in Africa and the slave trade, Christianity had been on balance a curse, he would not be in the dock...

 


Einstein’s Potemkin villages

Posted by Fred Hutchison, RenewAmerica analyst - June 16, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Fred Hutchison, RenewAmerica analyst) - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a philosophical pantheist, and his theory of general relativity is based upon pantheistic assumptions that rule out a transcendent creator God. Einstein's cosmology has a baleful influence on Western moral culture because it conveys the idea that everything is relative and nothing is absolute. Some Christians of liberal theology have become pantheists and moral relativists as a result of Einstein's influence. Progressive president Woodrow Wilson pointed out that the Constitution was written in the mechanistic age of Newton, and that we are now living in Einstein's relativistic world...

 


The Marxist roots of the global warming scare

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - June 16, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values." Natalie Grant Wraga (who died in 2002 at age 101) was an internationally-recognized expert on the art of disinformation...

 


Planned Parenthood to benefit from new war funding bill

Posted by Christian Post - June 15, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Post) - Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading provider of surgical abortions, could save millions of dollars on abortion related drugs if a new war funding bill passes through the House this year, according to pro-life groups. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said she was disappointed with the Senate Appropriations Committee's recent decision to add an amendment to the 2008 War Supplemental Bill (H.R. 2642) that would give Planned Parenthood facilities discounted drugs...

 


Evangelical fined for witnessing on public property

Posted by Associated Press - June 15, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Associated Press) - The leader of a Christian evangelical group who expressed his religious views to tourists near the Liberty Bell was placed on one year's probation for refusing to move from a sidewalk where demonstrations are banned. Repent America director Michael A. Marcavage, 28, of Lansdowne, Pa., was sentenced Friday after a two-day bench trial. He was fined $420 and ordered to notify the National Park Service and get a permit if he planned to return to the site...

 


California county halts weddings ahead of gay ‘marriage’ rush

Posted by Christian Post - June 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Post) - An official in a conservative California county announced that her office will halt all civil wedding ceremonies as the state approaches the legalization of gay "marriage." Kern County Clerk Ann Barnett said her staff will continue to issue marriage licenses but will no longer officiate at civil ceremonies. June 13 is the last day county officials will perform civil weddings, as reported by The Associated Press...

 


Biblical message now criminalized

Posted by WorldNetDaily - June 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries. The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity "perception" to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws. Some opponents are calling it a "bona fide censorship law," and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the "mischief" they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter...

 


Media ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ about key ruling

Posted by Robert H. Knight - June 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Robert H. Knight) - When it comes to reporting on court rulings about the military's ban on homosexuality, the media seem to have their own "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. A case in point was Monday's ruling by the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cook vs. Gates upholding the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, established by Congress and President Clinton in 1993, which enables the military to remove open homosexuals from service...

 


National Guard will be withdrawn from unsecured border

Posted by CNSNews.com - June 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (CNSNews.com) - Members of Congress are split on whether the National Guard should end its deployment along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, as planned. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff predicted the border would not be secured until 2011...

 


Obama: Unrestricted abortion over wishes of individual states a priority for presidency

Posted by LifeSiteNews.com - June 12, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeSiteNews.com) - Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president. In light of Obama's recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family's CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made his vows to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that abortion would be the first priority of his administration...

 


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