Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else
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The House of Representatives passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (GIVE), creating a mandate for community service among high school and college students. The bill spends $6 billion on beefing up government-paid and sponsored national service programs, and paves the way for future mandatory service by establishing a commission to explore the opportunity. [...]
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Connecticut State Senators Andrew McDonald and Michael Lawlor (Democrats) have proposed legislation that would strip Catholic clergy of control over their budgets and place it in the hands of the laity. The Church has denounced the move and the Catholic League has called for the two libs to be expelled from the Senate. People routinely [...]
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A football coach from East Brunswick High School in New Jersey, Marcus Borden, was reprimanded for being involved in a student-led prayer a few years ago. The incident took place during a team dinner before a game in 2005. A cheerleader present at this dinner didn’t like how the coach was nodding his head during the student-led prayer. She [...]
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Despite what’s been flying out of Eric Holder’s mouth, the United States is not a nation of cowards. If you want to see a nation of cowards, look no further than Sweden. Last week, the Scandinavian Socialist Paradise decreed that their country’s upcoming Davis Cup match with Israel will have to be played in an [...]
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Here’s one from the Funny Because It’s So Politically Incorrect And So True Department. The following, the Qur’an Challenge, is the first Steven Crowder video I saw tonight. Undiplomatic does not even begin to describe the clip, but it is hilarious and there is a lot of truth in there.
His other videos are just as [...]
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Caroline Petrie, a nurse in the UK, was recently suspended from her position because she offered to pray for one of her patients. Apparently, a fellow nurse who was not there was offended, even though the patient was not, and decided to take the matter to the nurse’s superiors. Now a nice woman is being [...]
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Here’s the ad in question. I personally think it’s pretty awesome:
NBC stated that it does not intend to air political advocacy ads during the Super Bowl. That’s their prerogative. Yet, they told PETA that they might get their ad on if they edited it to coincide with NBC’s ethical standards a little bit more, but on the [...]
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According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Contraception funding is an economic stimuls, apparently because less babies will save the states money. In an exchange George Stephanopoulos on This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are [...]
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With anti-semitism on the rise in recent years, especially in Europe, disturbing scenes like these have become increasingly common. What’s even more troubling is that anti-semitism is socially acceptable enough in certain areas for people to shamelessly display their hatred out in the open. Not that all anti-semites are content to confine their filth to [...]
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In 1983, the US Congress and President Reagan made the observed birthday of Martin Luther King Jr a federal holiday. Twenty-six years later, and forty-one years after Dr. King’s assassination, we stand poised to inaugurate America’s first biracial President.
Contemplating that, I ran into this CNN article which shows that nearly 2/3 of America’s black population believe [...]
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Well-known atheist activist Michael Newdow is suing Chief Justice John Roberts over the phrase “so help me God”, to be used at Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration. The Chief Justice was served with the suit at his primary residence, and reacted gracefully. One has to wonder about the legal implications of suing a sitting justice of [...]
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Israel has moved the tanks and troops into the Gaza Strip in the latest phase of “Operation Cast Lead;” Israel’s attempt to get Hamas to embrace a lasting ceasefire. Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has called Israel’s incursion “brutal aggression,” and the UN is hyperventilating over Israel’s actions of late, citing the laughable phrases “disproportionate” and [...]
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From all of us here at AOR, I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas full of family, friends, egg nog (hiccup), and gifts! Have a great day!
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A “nurse” at Planned Parenthood in Indiana was caught on secret camera covering up child abuse in the form of statutory rape. A 20-year-old college student posing as a pregnant 13-year-old went to a Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Indiana, looking for an abortion. Granted, she was there to look for potential abuses (as she was not pregnant) [...]
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By now you’ve heard Harry Reid’s unnecessarily bourgeois remark about the obnoxiously over-priced Capitol Visitor’s Center which will graciously prevent “smell[y] tourists” during the summer from disturbing his very important office work. I’m starting to understand why the Bastille drew such a crowd back in the day.
On the other hand, another Senator, Republican Jim DeMint [...]
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The Bishops of England and Wales are now catering to Muslim demands. According to a report in the UK Daily Mail, the Bishops of England and Wales are requiring Catholic Schools to install Muslim prayer rooms and to ensure that toilet facilities cater to Muslim cleaning rituals.
Say what? Although 30% of students at UK Catholic [...]
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In 2007, Barack Obama said that one of his first acts as President would be to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act. This radical, pro-abortion law, would end any regulation whatsoever on abortion in the 50 states. Currently, many states have sensible, popular regulations on abortion, such as parental notifications for minors, requiring [...]
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The Mormons are being unfairly targeted by the hate-filled left for their advocacy of California Proposition-8, which had the effect of reversing a CA activist-court ruling banning gay marriage. The protesters are targeting Mormons, sending white powder to a Mormon church, protesting Mormon businesses, and focusing on them at their rallies:
Now, even the New York [...]
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There are 9 days until Election Day and John McCain has to make his final pitch to the people, unload all his cash, unleash the 527s, and unfortunately hope for something unexpected to help. Dick Morris wrote an oped which lays out how three times since World War II, the underdog made up the difference in [...]
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Earlier today, Pope Benedict XVI expressed support for the beatification of Pope Pius XII. This is raising eyebrows in some media circles. After all, Pope Pius XII has been the frequent target of Church opponents, like John Cornwell, who claim that he did not do enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust. [...]
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I got an email this morning highlighting the Book of Revelation’s take on the 2008 Election, and Sarah Palin in particular. Here’s a quote from Revelation 14: 9-11.
“(9) And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his [...]
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Yesterday was “Pulpit Freedom Sunday:” a time when 32 pastors across 22 states decided to test the separation between church and state against the IRS and judicial interpretation that certain speech is political, and thereby if spoken forom the pulpit would risk the tax-exempt status of the church in question. The Alliance Defense Fund want to get the [...]
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Gordon Brown has drawn up an interesting proposal that would allow Catholics to sit on the English throne for the first time in over 300 years. Presumably, people from other currently excluded faiths would also be eligible to wear the crown as well. Given the decline of Anglican Church attendance, the increase in Catholic Church [...]
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Despite the so-called “Wall of Separation” between Church and State, religion always plays a part in our nation’s politics, as many issues stem from people’s view of the world, which is often formed in large part by faith. Religions faith touches the core of a human being; it is a way of looking at the world, and [...]
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Just when they’ve been a little bit quiet lately, one of the old world-jihad ilk has come up with this: ”Satan’s soldier” himself, Mickey Mouse must be killed “in all cases” under shariah law according to Sheikh Muhammad Munajid, a former Saudi diplomat in Washington DC.
Why, you ask?
Because mice are impure creatures and should be killed, even the cartoon [...]
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Over the past year, many sharia court decisions in the UK have been backed by the force of law. The legal justification is an Act of Parliament which permits courts to enforce arbitration decisions. On the surface, this justification is nothing extraordinary. Many legal systems, including our own, look favorably upon and [...]
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