News Updates, 7/27

Pope Benedict defrocks Medjugorje priest leader
After investigation into concerns over alleged visions

Vatican official: No Communion for pro-aborts
Reminded US bishops of responsibilities to politicians

Nursing college drops opposition to assisted suicide
Recent poll: 74% of British want docs to help kill ill

Pope hails grandparents' role in education
Says parents too often can't spend enough time with kids

Dead Sea sinkholes swallowing up unwary
Where God rained fire and brimstone on Sodom, Gomorrah

New York Catholic kid became jihad terrorist
'He started radicalizing himself' at Long Island mosque

Vatican spokesman: Pope's wrist healing well
Doctors carried out radiological exams on the pontiff

Italy to UN: End practice of forced abortion
Move has surprised pro-life observers at United Nations

Activists claim Christian executed in N Korea
For allegedly distributing the Bible -- a banned book

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Verizon to cut 8000 jobs
Cost-cutting at Verizon Communications Inc.'s wireline business failed to keep pace with falling revenues as the largest U.S. wireless carrier reported a 21 percent drop in second-quarter profit and announced further job cuts.

US Vice President Biden hits nerve in Russia
An interview U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gave to an American newspaper was front-page news Monday in Moscow, where his characterization of Russia as a weakened nation hit a raw nerve...

Showdown Today On Dem's House Censorship
The battle against censorship by the House Democrat majority continues today as Republicans plan to speak out on the issue during their hour-long leadership Special Orders speeches tonight from the House floor. Highly-placed Republican staffers tell HUMAN EVENTS that all Republican members were invited to defend their First Amendment right to free speech tonight during one-hour Special Orders speeches, giving examples of censorship of their franking privileges by Democrats on the Franking Commission. Members were asked to bring and read aloud franking disapprovals they have received that may have violated their free speech rights...

Obama's OMB Hits at CBO over Health Care 'Reform' [Rationing]
In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no person walking around with at least half a brain, Barack Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, Peter Orszag, lashed out at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and its director, Doug Elmendorf, the other day...

Pelosi vows to rein in Democrats on healthcare [Rationed Health Care]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) vowed Sunday to overcome lingering obstacles and pass healthcare reform in the House, restoring momentum to President Obama's top domestic priority and order to her own unruly Democratic caucus...

Conyers Sees No Point in Members Reading 1,000-Page Health Care Bill
--Unless They Have 2 Lawyers to Interpret It for Them
[Congressional Morons have no problem on voting for bills they don't read or understand - they need to be OUSTED and thrown in jail - it is malfeasance and a breach of fiduciary duty to not read the bill. And let's not forget that Conyers is a CRIMINAL]

911 Tape Reveals Caller Did Not Bring Up Race Of Gates
Cambridge's police commissioner says the 911 caller who reported a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. did not mention race during the call. The caller said they were calling on behalf of a concerned neighbor...

Nebraska Legislators seek to assert state sovereignty

The End Of The End Of The Recession
It is our hope that this piece will provide some badly-needed perspective on "the recession is over" debate, a topic that has become as one-sided as it is wrong-headed. Our purposes is to promote rational, informed discourse on the subject...

CBO deals new blow to government health/death care plan

'Impeach Obama' bumper stickers spark shopping mall protest

Is Obama hiding his birth certificate?
As President Barack Obama attempts to cool a heated racial row in the US linked to the arrest of a black Harvard professor, a growing conspiracy claims that he is hiding a Kenyan birth certificate, making him ineligible to serve as president...

Did you know? Obama’s half sister, born in Indonesia, has a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth
Besides being the First Sister, Maya has a Hawaii Certification of Live Birth despite be born in Jakarta Indonesia.

Palin Formally Steps Down
Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid.

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Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
-Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775