Israeli prime minister resigns

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 31, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today announced he will resign from office after his Kadima party holds internal elections in September to choose a new leader. Olmert said he is stepping down due to a criminal investigation described by police officials as "serious" in which he is accused of corruption and financial improprieties...

 


Border agent convictions upheld by court of appeals

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 30, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the major counts against former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, reversing only a minor obstruction of justice count. Ramos and Compean are serving 11- and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, after a jury convicted them of violating federal gun laws and covering up the shooting of a drug smuggler as he fled back to Mexico after driving across the border with 743 pounds of marijuana in February 2005. U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's office gave the smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, immunity to serve as the government's star witness and testify against the border agents...

 


Peter Singer: Animal rights more important than human

Posted by Wesley J. Smith - July 29, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wesley J. Smith) - Peter Singer is the Princeton bioethicist who first broke into the public's consciousness more than thirty years ago with Animal Liberation, a book in which he claimed that granting human beings special privileges based on being human is "speciesist"--discrimination against animals. Instead of society being human centric, he asserted that the lives and well-being of animals deserve "equal consideration" with those of humans...

 


The early culture war (1967 - 1973)

Posted by Fred Hutchison, RenewAmerica analyst - July 28, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Fred Hutchison, RenewAmerica analyst) - In this essay, we shall examine the early days of the culture war, which include a frenetic prelude (1967-68), and the development of a hideous counter-culture running from the Woodstock Music Festival to Roe v. Wade (1969-1973). Was the rebellion of the sixties a reaction to the fifties? Yes and no. It was not a natural reaction to the bad things of the fifties, as is often supposed. It was an evil reaction to the wholesomeness of the fifties...

 


Bush should strip sanctuary cities of federal funds

Posted by Michael Reagan - July 27, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Michael Reagan) - Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco's outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it's time for President Bush to crack down on all the cities in the United States that follow this absurd policy. On June 22, Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew were shot to death by Edwin Ramos, 21, after a brief traffic incident when Anthony Bologna allegedly briefly blocked Ramos' car from making a left turn, according to the San Francisco Chronicle...

 


O’Connor: City properly excluded Christian prayer

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Excluding anyone who prays "in Jesus name" from a rotation of officials who open city business meetings is a fair and reasonable way "not to exclude or disparage a particular faith," according to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion on the dispute. Her reasoning left former U.S. Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was removed from the military over the issue of praying "in Jesus name," wondering how that conclusion had been reached...

 


Pennsylvania high court strikes down homosexual ‘hate crimes’ law

Posted by Christian Post - July 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Post) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out language that expanded the state's hate crime law to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity." The top state court upheld a November 2007 ruling by the Commonwealth Court, which had struck down the 2002 amendment as unconstitutional because it "did not retain its original purpose as it moved through the enactment process"...

 


‘Bible’ lawsuit may be sign of things to come

Posted by OneNewsNow.com - July 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (OneNewsNow.com) - Pro-family advocates say Christians should get used to legal harassment such as the lawsuit a homosexual activist recently filed against two Bible publishers. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Michigan, does not like the fact that the Bibles produced by Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Publishers both accurately convey God's prohibition against homosexual behavior. So he is suing in federal court, seeking $10 million from Thomas Nelson and $60 million from Zondervan...

 


‘Gay’ marriage battle goes to kindergarten

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A pamphlet set to be distributed by the California secretary of state warns voters that if they do not pass Proposition 8 in November to constitutionally define marriage between one man and one woman, thay will face an unexpected consequence: children as young as kindergarten will be subject to mandatory teaching on the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents of Proposition 8 are calling the education argument a smokescreen, a scare tactic and a fabrication...

 


Abortion clinic prayer vigils coming to 100 cities

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 26, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - In two previous campaigns by Christians to disrupt America's abortion industry with continuous prayer, officials with the 40 Days for Life campaign say 35,000 have participated in vigils, 514 babies have been saved and five abortion industry workers have lost their jobs. Now a third campaign is on the calendar, with a signup deadline of July 29 for cities to take part in the outreach. Most locations will have prayer warriors on the sidewalks outside abortion clinics 24 hours a day from Sept. 24 through Nov. 2...

 


Court again blocks internet porn law

Posted by Baptist Press - July 25, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Baptist Press) - The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has again upheld a judge's decision to block enforcement of a congressional effort to protect children from Internet pornography. A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit, based in Philadelphia, affirmed in a July 22 ruling a lower-court opinion permanently preventing enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). It marked the third time the court has endorsed a judge's preliminary or permanent injunction against the federal law...

 


Constitutional confusion

Posted by Ed Feulner - July 24, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Ed Feulner) - Every president, every senator, every member of Congress and every Supreme Court justice takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The way some of them behave, though, you have to wonder if they've ever read it. The Constitution is clear and understandable. It gives Congress, the legislative branch, the responsibility of passing our laws...

 


Turn up heat on Congress to bring gas prices down

Posted by Joseph Farah - July 24, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Joseph Farah) - Despite polls showing overwhelming popular support for lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling, congressional leadership is stonewalling any vote on the issue. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are determined not to hear the clear and resounding voice of the American people who recognize skyrocketing gasoline prices are hurting families and the nation's productivity...

 


Planned Parenthood abortion center closes instead of following new law

Posted by LifeNews.com - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (LifeNews.com) - Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors. The state law, which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last week, required abortion practitioners to inform every woman that she is terminating the life of a human being...

 


Court tosses CBS fine for Janet Jackson indecent exposure

Posted by Christian Post - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Post) - The federal appeals court on Monday dealt a setback in the Federal Communications Commission's effort to regulate nudity and profanity on television as it refused to fine CBS $550,000 for the Janet Jackson indecent exposure incident during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against FCC, saying the agency "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in penalizing the network for a "fleeting image of nudity"...

 


Sanctuary policy made city less safe

Posted by Debra J. Saunders - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Debra J. Saunders) - San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy - as it was implemented until recently - put the welfare of juvenile gang-bangers and drug dealers, who also were illegal immigrants, before the safety of law-abiding residents who are victimized by gangs and thugs. As The Chronicle reported Sunday in a story by reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken, one beneficiary of that policy is Edwin Ramos, 21, who is charged with killing Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 in a spectacularly senseless shooting spree on June 22...

 


California court drops charges against home schoolers

Posted by OneNewsNow.com - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (OneNewsNow.com) - The battle against the legality of home schooling in California may be coming to an end as a family court decides not to pursue charges against a home-schooling family. In late February 2008, the California 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled that parents have no right to home school their children. Since then, pro-family attorneys have been preparing and delivering briefs in defense of a parents' rights to control the education of their children...

 


Our government problem-solvers

Posted by Thomas Sowell - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Thomas Sowell) - We don't look to arsonists to help put out fires but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they played a major role in creating. How did the government help create the current financial mess? Let me count the ways. In addition to federal laws that pressure lenders to lend to people they would not otherwise lend to, and in places where they would otherwise not invest, state and local governments have in various parts of the country so severely restricted building as to lead to skyrocketing housing prices, which in turn have led many people to resort to "creative financing" in order to buy these artificially more expensive homes...

 


‘Truth truck’ prevents abortions in St. Louis

Posted by OneNewsNow.com - July 23, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (OneNewsNow.com) - Operation Rescue's "Truth Truck," which sports large photos of aborted babies on its sides, was trapped in a situation in St. Louis that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Truck driver Mark Gietzen pulled the truck onto the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Operation Rescue's spokesperson Cheryl Sullinger picks up the story...

 


Drill now, ignore Obama/Rockefeller elitism

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - July 21, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - Let's not kid ourselves. We need to drill for more oil. That is the crux of the message in the $4-plus per gallon at the pump. But the six-figure salaried "save the earth now" lobbyists here in Washington don't want us to drill off either the east or west coast, don't want drilling in ANWR in Alaska, don't want any more oil refineries, don't want any nuclear power...

 


DC flouts Supreme Court on guns, as Washington Post advised

Posted by Kristen Fyfe - July 20, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Kristen Fyfe) - The Washington D.C. City Council has created so many hoops for handgun owners to jump through before they can exercise their Second Amendment rights, they may require legal counsel just to identify what the hoops are. This sorry state of affairs is much to the satisfaction of The Washington Post, which called for just such an obstructionist policy in an editorial. At least one of those hoops is illegal, according to the Supreme Court, but a Post news story spun that fact as the opinion of "opponents of the handgun ban"...

 


Court says ‘gay’ rights trump Christian rights

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - A federal appeals court dismissed a civil rights complaint by 11 Philadelphia Christians, ruling their First Amendment rights were trumped by the First Amendment rights of homosexuals at the city's taxpayer-funded "Outfest" celebration in 2004. "The city has an interest in ensuring that a permit-holder can use the permit for the purpose for which it was obtained," this week's opinion from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. "This interest necessarily includes the right of police officers to prevent counter-protestors from disrupting or interfering with the message of the permit-holder"...

 


Congress to fund forced abortions overseas

Posted by Concerned Women for America - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Concerned Women for America) - This week Congress voted to allow funding of organizations that promote and perform abortions in other countries, and organizations involved in forced abortions. A Senate Committee and a House Subcommittee approved a bill that undermines two long-standing amendments that ensure U.S. tax dollars do not subsidize abortions overseas, nor facilitate forced abortions and sterilizations...

 


The gathering threat to freedom

Posted by Ken Blackwell - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Ken Blackwell) - House Speaker Pelosi is hinting at reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, and many of her liberal colleagues in Congress are doing the same in both chambers. Alleging the press isnt balanced, they say government should be making sure all viewpoints meaning the lefts are fairly represented. I agree the press isnt balanced, but Mrs. Pelosi has it backward; liberalism dominates the press, including the three major networks and most major newspapers. Though originally the Fairness Doctrine did not require opposing time be equal, it came to be the standard. The concern at the time was the prevention of a single viewpoint from dominating the news and biasing the people...

 


As California goes…?

Posted by Emily Miller - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Emily Miller) - The same-sex marriage debate proved to be a politically divisive issue in the 2004 election, and once again the subject dominates the national political landscape during an election year. Yet one aspect of the gay marriage debate remains largely ignored: if and how same-sex marriage threatens religious liberties and the free exercise clause of the First amendment. Lawyers convened last week at the Family Research Council to discuss the emerging conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty, and noticed an increase in the number of cases filed against religious institutions charged with violating state anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation...

 


Boycott over McDonald’s ‘gay’ promotions grows

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - Your dollars for Happy Meals and Big Macs could end up paying for sex-change operations of McDonald's employees if the home of the Golden Arches continues its promotion of homosexuality, according to a pro-family group that has joined an expanding boycott of the fast-food restaurants and its Ronald McDonald's mascot. "If McDonald's restaurants and franchises ... follow the small business advice of the company's new homosexual partner -- the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), which received a $20,000 grant from McDonald's -- there would be chaos," said Peter LaBarbera, chief of Americans for Truth...

 


Top physics group shows crack in global warming ‘consensus’

Posted by WorldNetDaily - July 19, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (WorldNetDaily) - In another strike against the conventional assertion of a consensus on global warming, a publication of an organization representing more than 50,000 physicists acknowledges many members of the scientific community don't believe humans are the primary cause of climate change. The editor of Physics & Society, a newsletter of the American Physical Society, says that with his July issue he wants to kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC...

 


America’s Revival, Part 1: Where is the anointing?

Posted by Joshua Herring, RenewAmerica analyst - July 18, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Joshua Herring, RenewAmerica analyst) - "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast commerce and it was not there; in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great"...

 


Deals with devils

Posted by Steven Emerson - July 18, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Steven Emerson) - Israel has undertaken an incredibly wrongheaded prisoner exchange with the terrorist group Hezbollah. It's just the latest move in a troubling trend of unequal deals between the Jewish state and its declared enemies. The swap, approved overwhelmingly by the Israeli cabinet, has the Israelis handing over five Lebanese prisoners, including the notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar, plus the bodies of 199 Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists...

 


Marriage amendment to stay on California ballot

Posted by OneNewsNow.com - July 17, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (OneNewsNow.com) - The California Supreme Court has ruled that the marriage protection amendment will remain on the state's November ballot. Following the California's Supreme Court ruling that legalized homosexual "marriage" in that state, activists sued to keep the marriage protection amendment off the November ballot. However, they failed in their attempt on Wednesday when the court ruled in favor of Proposition 8's inclusion on the ballot...

 


40 Days for Life prepares for largest pro-life mobilization in history

Posted by Christian Newswire - July 17, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Newswire) - "Cities across America are applying to participate in the fall 2008 nationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign -- a focused initiative that promises to be the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history," said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. "Abortion claims more than 1.2 million innocent lives in the United States each year," he added, "and in 2008, the stakes for our nation are higher than ever. People of faith and conscience are approaching this challenge with a heightened sense of urgency"...

 


False equation: opposing same-sex marriage and opposing interracial marriage

Posted by Dennis Prager - July 16, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Dennis Prager) - The most effective of all morality-based arguments for same-sex marriage, the one that persuades more people than any other argument, is the one that equates opposition to same-sex marriage with the old opposition to interracial marriage. The argument, repeated so often that it sounds incontestable, is this: Just as parts of American society once had immoral laws that forbade whites and blacks from marrying, so, today, society continues to have immoral laws forbidding men from marrying men and women from marrying women...

 


‘Gay marriage’ legalization could be costly for religious liberty, legal experts say

Posted by Baptist Press - July 16, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Baptist Press) - Same-sex unions and religious liberty are destined to collide in this country in ways that could prove costly for the free exercise of religion, legal experts said in a Washington panel discussion. The event, convened by the Washington-based Family Research Council, brought together law professors and legal advocates to discuss the impact on religious expression of the California Supreme Court's May decision in support of "gay marriage"...

 


Cut off federal funds to ’sanctuary cities’

Posted by Gregory D. Lee - July 15, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Gregory D. Lee) - Just about the time you thought extreme liberals couldn't get any more screwy or out of touch with reality than they already are, along comes another example that tops the last one you heard. It turns out that up until last month, San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department had been transporting illegal alien juvenile drug dealers to their home countries to avoid their being arrested and deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency...

 


The impending suicide of a once great nation

Posted by Rev. John A. Corapi - July 15, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Rev. John A. Corapi) - A large number of endangered, unwanted, and unborn children held a town hall meeting on the 4th of July - alarmed at the brutal and untimely killing of millions of their brothers and sisters in recent years. That the murderous war waged on them had the full force and respectability of the law made their plight all the more terrifying. Their complaint was humble and it was simple. They were not distressed by rising gas prices, or the deteriorating economy in general...

 


Planned Parenthood targets suburbs, makes millions

Posted by OneNewsNow.com - July 15, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (OneNewsNow.com) - Although it was set up to provide reproductive healthcare to the poor, Planned Parenthood is building large and small facilities in suburban areas where money is more available. Planned Parenthood is funded in part by federal tax dollars for the purpose of providing reproductive health services, including abortion, to those who cannot afford it. Marie Hahnenberg of American Life League (ALL) has observed the agency's trend moving to suburbia where money flows more freely...

 


Congressmen discuss defunding Planned Parenthood

Posted by Christian Post - July 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Christian Post) - Pro-life Congress members gathered on the House floor this past week to take a stand against what they said was a senseless waste of taxpayer's dollars that has been propping up the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions -- Planned Parenthood. "I rise today to highlight the practices of an industry that is characterized by death, deception and depression: the abortion industry," said Rep. Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania in a statement...

 


Tony Snow: we just lost our next Reagan

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - July 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - Though he never ran for public office or expressed interest in doing so, the late Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow had all the qualifications of a successful conservative aspirant to high office. What characteristics would make the ideal candidate for high office? Intellect, personal magnetism, honesty, optimism, firm convictions, an ability to disagree without being disagreeable, a good TV presence, great speaking ability, a good rapport with fellow Americans, a beautiful family -- have I left anything out?...

 


Jesse Helms: champion of liberty (RIP)

Posted by Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst - July 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica analyst) - This week's column started out as an attempt to sum up Jesse Helms' pivotal place in history and all that he has done for America. Soon came the realization of a task so daunting that one hardly knows what to leave in and what to leave out -- assuming the column is not meant to morph into a book. So herewith, some highlights of how he stood up for this nation. We can start with Helms' days in the early fifties as administrative assistant to Democrat Senator Willis Smith -- a highly respected former president of the American Bar Association...

 


California National Guard’s border deployment comes to end

Posted by Press-Enterprise - July 14, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Conservative Views | No Comments (Press-Enterprise) - The observation posts are vacant, the National Guard helicopters that flew along the U.S.-Mexican border silent, the hammers and welders that beefed up the international boundary fence still. After two years of a historic mission to strengthen the country's southern frontier and boost U.S. homeland security, members of the California National Guard are going home...

 


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