News Updates, 5/1

Pro-lifers Put up Billboards on Indiana Toll Road Decrying Obama's Notre Dame Appearance
In response to the University of Notre Dame's invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17, the Pro-Life Action League has erected two large billboards located near the South Bend, Ind., campus...

Zerobama Likely to Pick Pro-Abortion Supreme Court Justice After Souter
Now that pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice David Souter has announced his future retirement in June, speculation turns to Pres__ent B Hussein Obama. During the presidential campaign, he made it clear he would only appoint a pro-abortion activist to the high court if given a chance to nominate a new judge....

John Paul II's attacker says he's now Catholic
Mehmet Ali Agca claims to have renounced Islam

Cardinal Rigali speaks out Against Notre Dame
Says 'unfortunate' Obama decision causes confusion

Argentina priests threatened by drug dealers
Some 353 clergymen sign document in protest

Bishop threatens to deny Communion to senator
Scranton's Martino tells Casey to 'think twice'

Priest forgives suspect in confessional stabbing
Police say attacker called him the Antichrist

Swine means no wine at Mass for some Catholics
Communion under both species not encouraged

Americans want end to military 'openly gay' ban?
Majority want U.S. to drop 'don't ask, don't tell'

Notre Dame won't award Laetare medal this year
Former recipient Judge Noonan will speak instead

Texas bill would decriminalize infanticide
Is it OK for post-partum depression mothers to kill?

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FCC Announces May 7 'Diversity Committee' Meeting - Behold a New 'Fairness' Doctrine
Behold one of the new "Fairness" Doctrines - "media diversity" - coming soon to a radio station near you...This May 7 gathering is made up of a laundry list of left-wing grievance groups, with a smattering of radio and television companies included to break up the monotony...Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission - more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a "diversity" panel, is it not?

National Guard put on standby for Mexican flu
PARIS, Ill. (WTHI) - Members of the 1544th transportation company of the Army National Guard based in Paris, Ill. have been put on standby to help organize and distribute flu supplies that the state received from the federal Strategic National Stockpile...

U.S. Feds Plan Mexican Flu Vaccines for everyone - by Fall
U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine Mexican] flu vaccine for everyone but the shots won't begin until fall at the earliest...
[Wanting to repeat a "Gerald Ford" Fiasco, eh?]

AP: Mexico's epidemiology boss faults WHO on Swine Flu
Mexico alerted WHO on 4/16. WHO did not respond until 4/24!

White House Overrides FBI and DHS on Gitmo Release
Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have -- for the second time -- overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security.
[They'll be getting stimulus jobs as "community organizers" - Traitors, every last one of them!]

Specter's Defection Could Help Republicans Block a Nominee to Replace Souter
At first glance, with Democrats a hair away from a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, one would expect [Fraudster] Obama to have no trouble hand-picking a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. But in an ironic twist, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party this week could give Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee the upper hand in rejecting a nominee they find unacceptable....

Cap-and-Trade 'Declaration of War,' to Cost US Families $3,100/Year
The congressional Democrats’ cap-and-trade plan to tax carbon emissions could cost every American family as much as $3,100 a year and is equivalent to a “declaration of war on the Midwest,” Republican lawmakers told CNSNews.com this week...
[The time for states to divorce from the sick and dying Fed draws nigh.]