I'll admit it -- I'd never been to a baby shower before a couple of months ago, when the faculty threw one for one of my closest friends at school. It was sort of an interesting experience for me.

If you are looking for Baby Shower Decorations, might I suggest that PartyPail.com is a good place to start looking? Now I'll tell you, I'm amazed at the range of Baby Shower Party Supplies that are out there. They offer the Radio Flyer Red Wagon Baby Shower package, which seems rather amusing to me.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Bookworm Room, and COIN: The Gravity Well by Blackfive.  Here is a link to the full results of the vote.

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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Let me take a minute of your time and talk to you about DebtHelp.com, one of the most authoritative sites on the internet about borrowing money and how to get out of debt. And like it or not, there are all too many folks who need the help of the services they offer.

DebtHelp.com is a comprehensive website for dealing with debt. If you drop by DebtHelp.com and take the time to look around, you will find that it offers debt solutions for every type of debt you are likely to have. If you are looking for Debt Consolidation Loans, Settlement, and Credit Counseling, there is a solution guide that will help you connect with the sort of solution you need to get out of dept quickly. Similarly, there is a section about mortgages, a mortgage refinance and the various sorts of loans available to you when buying a home or seeking to use your equity to get yourself out of debt. The section on student loan debt and consolidation is remarkably comprehensive. There is even a section for those dealing with tax debt, a situation that is a very serious one for those facing it.

But the greatest thing about DebtHelp.com? It is all confidential, and can be accessed from the privacy of your own home.

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That is about where my temperature is today.

That's why I'm not blogging.

Think positive thoughts my way, in the hope the fever will break and I can come back.

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What can I say about the folks at PayPerPost? Here they are, trying to create a whole new paradigm for advertising in the blogosphere, but they still have time to poke a little fun at themselves and the enterprise they are trying to launch. That speaks of a confidence that you have to respect -- and a humility that one has to love. That project is lovingly named RockStartup, and is the company's venture into internet a reality tv.

What do i like about RockStartup? Well, to be honest, I like the opportunity to see some of the folks I am working with. You know, Ted may be a bit of a geek, but he is a geek with a sense of humor and a drive to make his company work against the odds. And the willingness to give us all a bit of a glimpse inside the serious (yet sometimes zany) world of PPP is really sort of a blessing for me.

Oh, and about episode 21 (which you can see up above) , let me warn you -- it is the outtake/blooper reel for the show through the first 20 episodes. I guess I knew that this collection of errors, muffs, and screw-ups had to exist, but I hadn't given it much thought. On a personal level, to see the pratfalls of familiar episodes was sort of neat.

By the way, folks, you can now receive RockStartup in HD if you sign up for video iTunes.

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That's odd -- Democrats have been telling us such things don't exist, so there is no need to improve ballot security. How can this be happening?

A plot to steal dozens of votes with a non-existent address has been uncovered, officials told KPRC Local 2 Wednesday.

Harris County Tax Assessor Paul Bettencourt said it was obvious to him that several voter registration applications were fraudulent.

"We know because all the handwriting is the same," Bettencourt said.

The applications all had the last names Williams or Johnson. They also had the address of 2519 Dashwood Drive, which does not exist.

Bettencourt said the applications were mailed from El Paso.

The tax assessor's office has received 51 applications so far and more keep coming in.

"Now we have to go through and find out who was trying to do this," Bettencourt said. "And we have to go back to El Paso."

Bettencourt said these types of cases are tough to catch on Election Day because they rely on the honor system, not photo identification. He said he would like to change that to protect voters.

bravo, Paul -- now it is up to the Texas Legislature to close the loopholes that make such fraud possible.

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Hmmmmm! Alan Dershowitz has been tracking down precisely how anti-Semitic terrorism supporter Norman Finkelstein got hired at DePaul. Anybody recognize the name of the sponsor?

One detail of Dershowitz’s account of Finkelstein’s career stands out: After being “fired by ‘every school in New York,’” according to Finkelstein's own account, “radical Islamist Aminah McCloud – a follower of Louis Farrakhan – helped him land a job at DePaul.”

We know well that extremist academics have been systematically at work for decades hiring clones of themselves and replicating their ranks. But there has been little public naming and scrutiny of the backgrounds of exactly who has served on the committees responsible for the one-sided cloning and replication.

Learning more about the scholarship and activism of McCloud, for example, strikes me as a worthy enterprise. And, how about similarly checking into who exactly committed the dastardly deed of hiring the disgraced Ward Churchill?

I don’t know about you, but I sure do – she has been in the news quite recently, a key figure in stopping the presentation of a documentary on PBS.

• WETA appointed an advisory board that includes Aminah Beverly McCloud, director of World Islamic Studies at DePaul University. In an "unparalleled breach of ethics," Burke says, McCloud took rough-cut segments of the film and showed them to Nation of Islam officials, who are a subject of the documentary. They threatened to sue.

"This utterly undermines any journalistic independence," Burke wrote in an e-mail to WETA officials.

In an interview, McCloud said she showed a single video frame to a Muslim journalist who was not a Nation of Islam representative.

However, in a January e-mail, McCloud told Crossroads producers that she had spoken with Nation of Islam representatives and "invited them over to view this section." She also wrote that they were outraged "and will promptly pursue litigation."

Stewart, the WETA executive, said McCloud was admonished for "inappropriate" conduct.

So, not only is McCloud an advocate for pro-terrorist anti-Semites like Finkelstein, she was a leading figure in the censorship of a documentary critical of Islamist elements infiltrating American mosques. What is she doing teaching at an allegedly Catholic institution like DePaul?

Here is more information about the documentary and the campaign to get it shown.

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Pennsylvania law does not permit municipalities to enact their own gun control laws. So, showing typical liberal disdain for the law, the Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a gun control law yesterday.

City Council unanimously passed eight long-delayed gun control bills yesterday, deliberately picking a fight with lawmakers in Harrisburg who have consistently refused to give Philadelphia the right to enact its own gun laws.

In addition, Council will soon file a lawsuit in Common Pleas Court against the General Assembly to win the city the authority it needs to legally pass its own firearms legislation, said Councilman Darrell Clarke, who cosponsored the bills with Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller.

"It's utterly ridiculous where we are right now. It's an aberration when somebody doesn't get killed," Clarke said. "We can't wait any longer."

Excuse me – they are going to the courts for authority specifically denied them by the legislature? Don’t these folks know about separation of powers? Or is it that they simply don’t believe that the elected representatives of the people (other than themselves) have the right to enact laws consistent with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

And the contempt for the law that these folks are showing is monumental.

Just what happens next - with this legally questionable legislation - isn't clear. Before the Council meeting, Councilman James F. Kenney asked: "What would they do, arrest us?"

Well, I think that might not be a bad idea. Conspiracy to violate the civil rights of every citizen of Philly – that would be about 1,517,550 each. Personally, I’d settle for a million counts each, which would eliminate those Philly residents who are for some reason legally barred from gun ownership. Indeed, I think they could be charged under the relevant Civil Rights statutes, such as Title 18, U.S.C., Sections 241 & 242, and should be individually and collectively sued under Chapter 42 U.S.C.,Section 1983, which was originally part of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (AKA the Ku Klux Klan Act).

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Those peaceful left-wingers – don’t you just love how they resort to threats and violence if they don’t get their way?

France risks violence and brutality if right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy wins Sunday's presidential election, Socialist opponent Segolene Royal said on Friday.

On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed Sarkozy enjoyed a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France.

"Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio.
"It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won)," she said.

Pressed on whether there would be actual violence, Royal said: "I think so, I think so," referring specifically to France's volatile suburbs hit by widespread rioting in 2005.

Maybe the time has come for the people of France to turn recognize that socialism is a psychopathology that needs to be cured – and the violence that it inspires is crime that needs to be suppressed.

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Not only that, this cop union gangster is clearly planning to use information improperly obtained from state police files in order to threaten the safety of those who dared to expose the conspiracy to abuse the citizens of New Jersey for daring to speak out against about corruption of the state police.

Two talk-radio hosts in New Jersey say they are worried about their own safety and that of their families after the head of the New Jersey State Police union threatened to make their home addresses and license tags public.

During a profanity-laced tirade on Thursday, State Police Union leader David Jones blasted Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, the hosts of WKXW-FM's "Jersey Guys" program, for discussing an alleged State Police "ticket-writing blitz" on the air.

Information about the stepped-up ticket-writing campaign came from anonymous postings on a police union website.

State troopers, upset about criticism directed at them following Gov. Jon Corzine's car crash (a state trooper was driving the speeding car and Corzine was not ordered to buckle his seatbelt), called for a ticket-writing blitz in retaliation for the public criticism.

When Carton and Rossi brought the anonymous postings to the public's attention, the head of the troopers' union erupted.

Jones said there was no "ticket-blitz," as the police message board stated, and he threatened to "crush" the state troopers who leaked the information.

"If guys, be they troopers or not troopers, choose to vent on a blog board, that's their right,"Jones said at a press conference. "A couple of cowards obviously compromised it, and when I find out who those Girl Scouts are, I'm going to crush 'em like bugs -- rest assured!''

Got that – there is no plan for a ticket blitz, and he is going to use his power as a cop and a union thug to destroy those who exposed the plans for one. And to further make the point that those used their First Amendment rights to expose and criticize public corruption will be punished face the wrath of law enforcement, union thug David Jones waved around a piece of paper with Carton’s personal information including his home address and license plate numbers, and threatened to release similar information on Rossi and other employees at WKXW-FM.

What is most outrageous is that David Jones is clearly a fascist. He believes that citizens commenting on the corruption of the New Jersey State Police and his union is somehow a danger to public safety and a threat to law and order. What this thug does not realize is that the real threat is individuals like him and his members, who would undermine the Constitution of the United States in the name in order to silence American citizens speaking out about government employees and their abuse of power. Maybe it is appropriate that David Jones is assigned to the state police organized crime unit, as he and the union he heads have clearly become an entity involved in organized crime, namely the oppression and violation of the civil rights of every citizen of New Jersey. I wonder if Trooper Jones and his fellow members of the Keystone Kop Klan are familiar with the Ku Klux Klan Act -- which he has clearly violated in the name of the union.

It is clear to me that the State Troopers Fraternal Association is currently being operated in such a manner as to endanger the rights of the people of New Jersey, and should be immediately derecognized as the bargaining unit for state police officers in the state. Furthermore, the cowardly David Jones needs to be subjected to a full rectal examination investigation by a special prosecutor, as do the rest of the officers of this corrupt union and any officer who posted on the site regarding plans to engage in the ticket blitz.

Feel free to contact the union thugs as well.

And while you are at it, please offer your support to Craig Carton and Ray Rossi.

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Well, last night's GOP debate was intriguing -- an not surprisingly, most of the candidates indicated their continued support for the continuation of the mission in Iraq. And, as expected, Giuliani flailed around on abortion, Ron Paul engaged in monologues on federalism and the founders, and one candidate (Tommy Thompson) ended up looking like a deer in the headlights when confronted with an unexpected question.

I agree with Captain' Ed's assessment -- Romney won.

* Who won? -- Mitt Romney won this debate. He looked relaxed, answered clearly, showed real warmth and a sense of humor, and actually answered the questions asked of him -- even the stupid ones, to which I'll return shortly. After Romney, one has to think that Jim Gilmore and Mike Huckabee may have made some strides in breaking out of the third tier. They also showed that they could connect emotionally to the audience and give clear, thoughtful answers.

Roger Simon agrees.

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I'm not sure which is more troubling to me -- that Chris Matthews would ask this question, or that he would direct it to Mitt Romney. Romney handled it perfectly, though.

MR. MATTHEWS: Governor Romney, what do you say to Roman Catholic bishops who would deny communion to elected officials who support abortion rights?

MR. ROMNEY: I donÂ’t say anything to Roman Catholic bishops. They can do whatever the heck they want. (Laughter.) Roman Catholic bishops are in a private institution, a religion, and they can do whatever they want in a religion. America --

MR. MATTHEWS: Do you see that as interference in public life?

MR. ROMNEY: Well, I canÂ’t imagine a government telling a church who can have communion in their church. I canÂ’t -- we have a separation of church and state; itÂ’s served us well in this country.

MR. MATTHEWS: Okay.

MR. ROMNEY: This is a nation, after all, that wants a leader thatÂ’s a person of faith, but we donÂ’t choose our leader based on which church they go to. This is a nation which also comes together. We unite over faith and over the right of people to worship as they choose. The people weÂ’re fighting, theyÂ’re the ones who divide over faith and decide matters of this nature in the public forum. This is a place where we celebrate different religions and different faiths.

MR. MATTHEWS: Thank you, Governor.

I'm curious -- why ask a question about the right of a religious group to give or withhold its sacraments based upon its own religious teachings? Does Matthews really believe that it is the place of government to regulate such decisions, or of politicians to dictate to churches who receives such sacred rites? And why did this question go to the most conspicuously non-Catholic candidate in the group?

But Romney sounded precisely the right note -- one that any American political leader who believes in the First Amendment should have given. Who may or may not receive communion -- or other issues of church doctrine or discipline -- are not matters for government regulation or intervention. They shouldn't be fodder for political debate, either.

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Well, maybe.

the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse.

Many of these districts had sought to prepare their students for a technology-driven world and close the so-called digital divide between students who had computers at home and those who did not.

“After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.”

I'm curious -- is it really that "the box gets in the way"? Or is the problem (as at one school included in the article) an unwillingness or inability of teachers from to work with the technology? We had one teacher nursed along by the rest of us because he couldn't figure out how to use the online gradebook -- or his email. I can't imagine how Bob would have survived in a world where the text and assignments were electronic rather than paper. Could it be that we need to wait another 10-15 years before teachers are ready for the technology their students take as second nature?

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Shutting out families of legal immigrants (as opposed to guest workers) is not an acceptable option.

America needs immigrants. Last yearÂ’s bipartisan Senate bill recognized this, and raised quotas for both family and employment-based immigration. Congress should do so again. Closing the door to families would be unjust and unworkable, and a mockery of the values that conservatives profess. It would only encourage illegality by forcing people to choose between their loved ones and the law.

Compromise is necessary with any bill, particularly on an issue as complex as immigration. But if a deal hews so closely to the new harsh line of the White House and G.O.P that it fundamentally distorts AmericaÂ’s pro-immigrant tradition, it would be better to ditch the whole thing and start over.

That said, any bill guest worker program needs to make it clear that families are not eligible for immigration and that guest workers are not eligible for citizenship. And any program that includes amnesty for illegals -- no matter how it is cast or named -- is unacceptable.

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But if the Democrat leadership doesn't want to listen to the commander of US forces in Iraq or the American president, why would they stop to listen to the Iraqi foreign minister -- even if he is in the Washington Post?

Iraqis, for all our determination and courage, cannot succeed alone. We need a healthy and supportive regional environment. We will not allow our country to be a battleground for settling scores in regional and international conflicts that adversely affect stability inside our borders. Only with continued international commitment and deeper engagement from our neighbors can we establish a stable democratic, federal and united Iraq. The world should not abandon us.

No, it shouldn't -- but the Democrats learned the lessons of Vietnam well, and so are less interested in doing what's right than in doing what is politically expedient. Even if it means selling out an ally.

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I've stated in the past that I do not believe in hate crimes laws -- period. No, I'm not arguing that assaults and other crimes against individuals based upon membership in different classes are acceptable -- quite the contrary, I believe that the notion of distinguishing between citizens based upon those classes sets a bad precedent and constitutes an unequal protection of the law. I'm therefore supportive of President Bush's announced decision to veto the hate crimes law passed by Congress.

Andrew Sullivan, though, does offer an interesting critique of reasons why people support and oppose such laws -- and the inconsistencies among them.

There are, I think, two coherent positions on hate crime laws. The first is opposition to the entire concept, its chilling effect on free speech, its undermining of the notion of equality under the law, and so on. That's my position. I oppose all hate crimes laws, regardless of the categories of individuals they purport to protect. The other coherent position is the view that hate crimes somehow impact the community more than just regular crimes and that the victims of such crimes therefore deserve some sort of extra protection under the law. The criteria for inclusion in such laws is any common prejudice against a recognizable and despised minority. The minority need not be defined by an involuntary characteristic - religious minorities are so protected - and they choose their faith. Nor need the minority be accurately identified. If a gentile is bashed because the attacker thinks he's Jewish, the hate crime logic still applies. I disagree with this, but I can accept its coherence.

Sullivan then goes on to argue that if one accepts the notion of hate crimes laws for anyone, then one must accept inclusion of homosexuals unless one is a queer-bashing bigot who wants to relegate homosexuals to inferiority and give aid and comfort to those who commit crimes of violence against them. Such a notion is, of course, utter nonsense, but we've long come to expect precisely that sort of nonsense out of Andrew Sullivan when it comes to discussions of homosexuality. That one could oppose the granting of special protection to practitioners of behavior that one considers morally suspect is not the same thing as supporting violence against practitioners of such behavior.

I'm curious -- when Congress declined to include special protection for the elderly in the current bill, does Sullivan take that mean that they were implicitly approving crimes against senior citizens? Would he accept the notion that the House and Senate were giving a stamp of approval to senior abuse? Of course not -- but then again, Sullivan is consistently inconsistent on such things, and operating on the basis of muddled thinking or strawman logic.

And I'd argue, contrary to Sullivan, that there is something logical and consistent about supporting the limitation of such laws to race/ethnicity and religion. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments clearly gives a role to Congress in ensuring an end to racial discrimination. The First Amendment gives a special place to religious freedom in our society, and acting to ensure that citizens are not intimidated out of the free exercise of religion is equally legitimate. Under this analysis, one could argue that inclusion of any categories other than these two is not acceptable and be still logically consistent.

Of course, Sullivan's argument isn't at all one about consistency -- it is really an excuse for him to bash anyone who dares to disagree with him about the morality of homosexual conduct. You get to the heart of the matter late in the post.

Perhaps making these logical arguments is futile. The reason for this veto is quite simple. Christianists simply regard homosexuality as an evil and a sickness. Any law that implies that being gay is an identity and deserves equal respect and protection as other identities is anathema to them. Implicit in their worldview - and absolutely implicit in the position of the president - is that it's okay to attack gays in a way that it's not okay to attack, say, Jews or blacks. This is the core position of the Christianists - which is why I refuse to call them Christians. Bush, we now know, is a captive of this bigotry and an enabler of it. Whatever your general views of hate crime laws, this argument holds. And this president should be ashamed.

That's right -- anyone who views homosexuality as morally suspect (as 2000 years of Christian teaching on matter holds) is a bigot. Those who concede legitimacy to such moral views are enablers of bigotry. Holding such views is the equivalent of supporting acts of physical violence against homosexuals. The argument is so illogical that it needs no extensive refutation -- it refutes itself. And Sullivan again trots out his neat little catch phrase -- Christianist -- for anyone who dares to accept the moral teachings of the Bible on homosexuality, trying to equate those who hold to traditional Christianity with those Muslim extremists who wage murderous jihad against the infidels. As I've pointed out in the past, Sullivan's hateful rhetoric and extemism on such matters can legitimately lead one to label him as a Homosexualist.

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A presidential candidate needs to answer for the misdeeds of religious leaders decades dead? What is Robert Novak's problem?

Today's Mormons, including Romney, cannot be blamed for those events. Nevertheless, the candidate has followed the church's example and ignored the movie. Romney will not comment on "September Dawn" and indeed will not watch it. That follows his decision not to defend his faith or actively fight religious bias that has impeded his candidacy.

Why should Romney have to answer for the sins (if there are any) of Brigham Young? Why should he watch a film that he (and his church) view as an attack on his faith and historically inaccurate to boot? Aren’t we past that sort of garbage yet?

Captain Ed Morrisey makes a similar observation.

Novak's entire column wants to place historical blame for all ills of the Mormon church squarely on the shoulders of Mitt Romney. Novak, at the end of his piece, notes that Romney wouldn't discuss the movie with Novak, and apparently that annoyed the columnist to no end. I don't blame Mitt one bit. The movie has nothing to do with Mitt and nothing to do with the campaign -- and that's even if one could rely on Hollywood to handle history with any accuracy at all.

This is nothing more than an attempt to use a fear of Mormons to smear Mitt Romney, with all the subtlety of a brick blackjack. It's the worst kind of religious bigotry wrapped up in Novak's dire language that it relates to the current war against Islamofascist terrorism, a charge that Novak never even bothers to support in his column. It's designed to force Romney to start conducting Mormon apologetics on the campaign trail instead of talking about public policy and national security.

Indeed, Romney doesn’t need to be dealing with LDS history or theology on the campaign trail, given that his religion should not be an issue as he runs for the job of President. As none other than prominent Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has pointed out, Romney is not seeking to become Theologian-in-Chief.

Not only that, but Novak also makes at least one false statement, pointed out by radio host and author Hugh Hewitt.

[W]hen Novak writes that Romney has "never seized this issue" of religious bias against him, the reporter also reveals he hasn't done much reporting as Romney has done so again and again --at length in my book, but also in profile after profile.

If Novak cannot even get something that simple correct, how can we take him seriously when he comments on the Romney candidacy – or any other presidential candidacy.

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A presidential candidate needs to answer for the misdeeds of religious leaders decades dead? What is Robert Novak's problem?

Today's Mormons, including Romney, cannot be blamed for those events. Nevertheless, the candidate has followed the church's example and ignored the movie. Romney will not comment on "September Dawn" and indeed will not watch it. That follows his decision not to defend his faith or actively fight religious bias that has impeded his candidacy.

Why should Romney have to answer for the sins (if there are any) of Brigham Young? Why should he watch a film that he (and his church) view as an attack on his faith and historically inaccurate to boot? ArenÂ’t we past that sort of garbage yet?

Captain Ed Morrisey makes a similar observation.

Novak's entire column wants to place historical blame for all ills of the Mormon church squarely on the shoulders of Mitt Romney. Novak, at the end of his piece, notes that Romney wouldn't discuss the movie with Novak, and apparently that annoyed the columnist to no end. I don't blame Mitt one bit. The movie has nothing to do with Mitt and nothing to do with the campaign -- and that's even if one could rely on Hollywood to handle history with any accuracy at all.

This is nothing more than an attempt to use a fear of Mormons to smear Mitt Romney, with all the subtlety of a brick blackjack. It's the worst kind of religious bigotry wrapped up in Novak's dire language that it relates to the current war against Islamofascist terrorism, a charge that Novak never even bothers to support in his column. It's designed to force Romney to start conducting Mormon apologetics on the campaign trail instead of talking about public policy and national security.

Indeed, Romney doesnÂ’t need to be dealing with LDS history or theology on the campaign trail, given that his religion should not be an issue as he runs for the job of President. As none other than prominent Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has pointed out, Romney is not seeking to become Theologian-in-Chief.

Not only that, but Novak also makes at least one false statement, pointed out by radio host and author Hugh Hewitt.

[W]hen Novak writes that Romney has "never seized this issue" of religious bias against him, the reporter also reveals he hasn't done much reporting as Romney has done so again and again --at length in my book, but also in profile after profile.

If Novak cannot even get something that simple correct, how can we take him seriously when he comments on the Romney candidacy – or any other presidential candidacy.

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This early polling data is certainly counter-intuitive.

Good news for Republicans: Their top presidential contenders beat the top Democrats in a 2008 White House matchup, according to a new nationwide Quinnipiac poll released this morning.

The survey comes at a crucial time, just before GOP rivals square off tonight in their first nationally televised debate. And it was taken April 25 to May 1, at and after the time Democrats held their first debate April 26.

IÂ’m betting we pick up House and Senate seats, too.

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Not only is he corrupt and willing to give in to the Islamofascist terrorists, but he isnÂ’t above defaming the commander of US forces in Iraq.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) this week criticized Gen. David Petraeus for not meeting with members of Congress during a recent visit to Washington, D.C., to report on the status of operations in Iraq, but not only did the commander of Multinational Force - Iraq meet with hundreds of lawmakers, he personally briefed Murtha himself.

Murtha told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday, "They bring Petraeus back - purely political move. Petraeus comes back here. He doesn't talk to any of us. He only talks to the news media and so forth trying to sell this program."

But a senior Defense Department official told Cybercast News Service that Petraeus personally briefed Murtha and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an April 24 phone conference that lasted 20-30 minutes.

The following day, Petraeus conducted two 90-minute, top-secret level operations intelligence briefings for representatives and senators.

The first, to which all members of the House of Representatives had been invited, was attended by 250 congressmen, and the second was attended by 86 senators. After brief opening statements at the two briefings, Petraeus spent the remaining time answering questions from the congressmen in attendance.

"These were two of the most widely attended operations intelligence briefings in recent memory," the Pentagon official said.

So, will Jack Shit Murtha apologize? Will the mainstream press report about this lie? Probably not – because after all it would help to destroy the neo-Copperhead narrative in favor of a cut-&-run-&-surrender strategy.

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And certainly those who refuse to work or support their kids deserve it more than you do.

Republicans howled Wednesday when the LegislatureÂ’s Joint Finance Committee voted to stop denying food stamps to deadbeat parents and to the unemployed who refuse to get job training.

Gov. Jim Doyle proposed both measures in his new state budget and the finance panel refused to drop them on 8-8 party-line votes.

Don’t get a job. Don’t pay child support. Don’t worry – the taxpayer will take care of you.

Any wonder that we need to keep the Democrats from taking control nationally? Welfare reform will be DOA if they win the presidency next year.

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I just love good news.

The U.S. military said on Thursday it had killed a top al Qaeda operative in Iraq whom it accused of involvement in the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll, peace activist Tom Fox and other foreigners.

U.S. military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri was the "senior minister of information" for al Qaeda in Iraq.

And there may be a “two-fer”.

But the military said it had no information to support claims by Iraq's Interior Ministry that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, another senior al Qaeda figure in Iraq, had been killed.

We can hope.

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I’ve got no problem with Condi’s visit to Syria. That’s what diplomats are supposed to do – conduct diplomacy, even with folks we dislike. Michelle Malkin seems to have forgotten that.

Fer cryin' out loud. Will she pull a Pelosi and put on a hijab, too?

Just a reminder of what Vice President Cheney said a few weeks ago about Pelosi's meeting with Syrian president Assad:

This is an evil man. He's a prime state sponsor of terror...So for the speaker to go to Damascus and meet with this guy and treat him with the respect and dignity ordinarily accorded the head of a foreign state -- we think it is just directly contrary to our national interest."

Talk about sending "mixed messages." Cripes.

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Background: State Dept reports on patterns of global terrorism

Oh, and about that scarf Pelosi wore in the infamous picture from Syria – please remember that she was visiting a mosque at the time, and showing proper deference to the religious protocol in doing so. It is no different than me wearing a yarmulke when visiting a synagogue – it is called good manners.

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Maybe its just that they are in a state with more sheep than people, but I still donÂ’t see why this even merits a story.

Three people gathered at the Laramie Train Depot yesterday evening to protest President BushÂ’s veto of spending legislation that set a timeline for troop withdrawls from Iraq. His veto was Tuesday night, and the political Web site MoveOn.org urged like-minded citizens to stage emergency rallies across the country in protest of the veto.

According to the Web site, there were 357 such rallies yesterday around the coutry, including in Loveland, Colo., Denver, Colorado Springs, Colo., Salt Lake City and Missoula, Mont.

A hastily organized Laramie chapter that consisted of Lesley Wischmann, Ann Jacobs and Nancy Sindelar gathered at the depot and pulled out a few posterboard protest signs, clutching them against the gusting wind.

We have more folks sitting at the table in the faculty room during lunch every day – do you think they can send a reporter down to cover our witty political discussions? After all, one of my colleagues is from Wyoming.

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Maybe now they will stop playing politics with military funding.

President Bush and congressional leaders began negotiating a second war funding bill yesterday, with Democrats offering the first major concession: an agreement to drop their demand for a timeline to bring troops home from Iraq.

Democrats backed off after the House failed, on a vote of 222 to 203, to override the president's veto of a $124 billion measure that would have required U.S. forces to begin withdrawing as early as July. But party leaders made it clear that the next bill will have to include language that influences war policy. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) outlined a second measure that would step up Iraqi accountability, "transition" the U.S. military role and show "a reasonable way to end this war."

"We made our position clear. He made his position clear. Now it is time for us to try to work together," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said after a White House meeting. "But make no mistake: Democrats are committed to ending this war."

Now what someone needs to tell these two idiots is that the issue is not "ending the war" -- because there are lots of terrible ways to do that. No, the only acceptable way to end the war is to do so with VICTORY. As such, artificial calendars for withdrawal are counterproductive. There might be a place for some sort of benchmarks, but not if they provide the enemy with a roadmap for US defeat.

And it is time for all of us to send the Dems that message, loud and clear.

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This seems mighty outrageous and presumptuous. Someone sets up a site, and then a presidential candidate comes in and steals it away with the assistance of the site host.

Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone else? At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on the popular social networking site.

For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content and even had the password to make changes themselves.

But as the site exploded in popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Obama's name and told Anthony they wanted him to turn it over.

In this new frontier of online campaigning, it's hard to determine the value of 160,000 MySpace friends—about four times what any other official campaign MySpace page has amassed. But the Obama campaign decided they wouldn't pay $39,000, which is what Anthony said he proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus some additional fees up to $10,000.

MySpace reluctantly stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that Obama should have the rights to control http://www.myspace.com/barackobama as of Monday night, while Anthony had the right to take the contact information for all the friends who signed up while he was in control. That includes the right to tell them exactly how he feels about the Obama campaign.

Anthony referred The Associated Press to his MySpace blog, where he has written that he is heartbroken that the Obama campaign was "bullying" him out of the page he built. He said the candidate has lost his vote.

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying to rebuild his friends network from scratch and was up to more than 17,000 by midday Wednesday. "We support the MySpace community, and look forward to building our relationship," said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

So be careful, folks -- your website may be next if the rich, powerful, and arrogant among the Democrat presidential candidates (and that means all of them) think there is some advantage to stealing it from you.

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Latest Media Coverage of Obama MySpace Story

Excerpts and links from the New York Times, TechPresident, Washington Post and Huffington Post
http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/obama-myspace-joe-anthony-day-2-latest.html

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Posted by: Alex Hammer at Thu May 3 01:41:40 2007 (KuTmg)

2 Let's see...how hard would it have been to ask him to add a little disclaimer that said it was an unofficial site and opinions expressed were his own?

And I think 39,000 is a reasonable amount for the amount of support the guy raised...why not hire him to do what he is already doing?

Or just take it over...more in spirit with being a Democrat, anyway.

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3 NEW:
Exclusive: TechPresident Traffic Rockets with Obama MySpace Story
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Anthony Speaks On Obama MySpace Takeover: 'They Took This Profile Without My Consent'
http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/anthony-speaks-on-obama-myspace.html
How Joe Anthony Schooled the Barack Obama Campaign, and What We Still Don't Know
http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-joe-anthony-schooled-barack-obama.html
How did Obama get protection? - Chicago Sun-Times
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Al-Qaeda or ELF, I don't care -- a terrorist is a terrorist.

Rod Coronado is a celebrity ex-convict in the underground world of environmental and animal rights radicals who advocate burning construction sites and research labs. In 2003, just after giving a speech in San Diego in which he called fire a “cleansing force” and defended its use in strategic property destruction, a woman asked him a question.

Federal prosecutors say Mr. Coronado’s answer — a detailed description of a crude incendiary — should land him in federal prison for 20 years for violating a rarely invoked antiterrorism statute.

My only objection to the prosecution? That the statute is rarely invoked.

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Maybe, maybe not. And maybe we have some sort of reasonable position being taken by Baltimore's mayor.

With violent crime rising sharply here, Mayor Sheila Dixon announced plans Wednesday to form a task force on illegal guns and install a system to track where and when guns had been used in crimes.

“Attacking gun crime,” Ms. Dixon said, “means cracking down on gun sales and arresting, prosecuting and putting in prison criminals who carry and use guns.”

Now presuming that Mayor Dixon means cracking down on ILLEGAL gun sales, I'm with her completely. To the degree she wishes to prevent or discourage the sale, purchase, or possession of legal weapons, as is the right of Americans under the Second Amendment, I've got a problem. But it at least sounds like she has her head in the right place on this one. Go after the criminals, not the weapons.

After all, cars are used in many crimes in this country -- far more than guns, as a matter of fact. We don't seek to crack down on car purchases or ban automobiles -- we go after the criminals for their criminal activity.. When politicians and law enforcement recognize the parallel, we start getting reasonable, constitutional public policy.

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This will cut out communication home and some of the best information about how well the war is going in Iraq. Instead, Americans will have to rely on the neo-Copperheads in the MSM for information.

The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument, and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated. Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.

The new rules (.pdf) obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.

"This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," said retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology. "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has -- it's most honest voice out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."

Army Regulation 530--1: Operations Security (OPSEC) (.pdf) restricts more than just blogs, however. Previous editions of the rules asked Army personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires "an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything -- from "web log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from resumes to letters home.

Failure to do so, the document adds, could result in a court-martial, or "administrative, disciplinary, contractual, or criminal action."

This regulation needs to be withdrawn immediately – and by the Commander-in-Chief personally. After all, the "new media" of blogging is really the only way that the truth about Iraq has been disseminated to the American public, since the "news" media has taken an ideological slant against good news -- just like in Vietnam.

UPDATE: Great WaPo article about milblogs and milbloggers today.

Today, many of the stories coming from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being written by those fighting them, in the form of thousands of soldiers' military blogs, or "milblogs." Their tales are unfolding as they occur, with limited censorship from the military, and they are attracting a growing readership from inside and outside the military.

Ward Carroll, the editor of military.com, an online military and veteran membership organization, said some of the best milbloggers have the ability to shape opinions on the war.

"If you are going to be informed, especially with something so controversial and polarizing as the Iraq war, you need to read one of these blogs along with The Washington Post and the New York Times," Carroll said.

Gee, where did I hear that point before?

Hugh Hewitt also has a great column on the subject.

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This will cut out communication home and some of the best information about how well the war is going in Iraq. Instead, Americans will have to rely on the neo-Copperheads in the MSM for information.

The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument, and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated. Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.

The new rules (.pdf) obtained by Wired News require a commander be consulted before every blog update.

"This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," said retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology. "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has -- it's most honest voice out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."

Army Regulation 530--1: Operations Security (OPSEC) (.pdf) restricts more than just blogs, however. Previous editions of the rules asked Army personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires "an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything -- from "web log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from resumes to letters home.

Failure to do so, the document adds, could result in a court-martial, or "administrative, disciplinary, contractual, or criminal action."

This regulation needs to be withdrawn immediately – and by the Commander-in-Chief personally. After all, the "new media" of blogging is really the only way that the truth about Iraq has been disseminated to the American public, since the "news" media has taken an ideological slant against good news -- just like in Vietnam.

UPDATE: Great WaPo article about milblogs and milbloggers today.

Today, many of the stories coming from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being written by those fighting them, in the form of thousands of soldiers' military blogs, or "milblogs." Their tales are unfolding as they occur, with limited censorship from the military, and they are attracting a growing readership from inside and outside the military.

Ward Carroll, the editor of military.com, an online military and veteran membership organization, said some of the best milbloggers have the ability to shape opinions on the war.

"If you are going to be informed, especially with something so controversial and polarizing as the Iraq war, you need to read one of these blogs along with The Washington Post and the New York Times," Carroll said.

Gee, where did I hear that point before?

Hugh Hewitt also has a great column on the subject.

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I work with teenagers every day. It isn't easy -- and i can only imagine how hard it is to actually parent one. Where do you turn for help when you don't know what to do for your teen?

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I hope you never need such services -- but if you do, TeenLifelines.com is a potential life saver.

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I'm sure they will just love this guy in prison.

A man who was convicted last year of bringing two teenage runaways to Houston to work as prostitutes was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 22 years in federal prison.

Beaumont native George ``Unique'' Anderson III, 29, received a punishment more severe than the 15-year sentence prescribed under federal guidelines. U.S. District Judge David Hittner added seven years, bringing the sentence to 262 months.

Hittner considered that Anderson's recruitment of the girls exposed them to sexually transmitted diseases and that he was not prosecuted on allegations that he involved three other minors. After his release, he faces a lifetime of supervision and registration as a sex offender.

Anderson spent six years in federal prison for armed robbery before turning to the sex business.

He was accused of selling the sexual favors of a Florida girl and a Beaumont girl, ages 14 and 15, respectively. The girls were arrested on prostitution charges in 2005.

In the first federal conviction for child prostitution in the Southern District of Texas, a jury in September 2006 found Anderson guilty of two counts of sex trafficking of children.

The case was investigated by Project Innocence Lost, a special FBI unit in Houston that aims to rescue children working in the sex industry.

Those who victimize children sexually are scum -- and my great regret is that we have to pay for the care and feeding of this mutt for the next 22 years. A single shot to the back of the head on the courthouse steps immediately following conviction would have been a more appropriate punishment for this guy.

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Want to be a television weatherman for a day? Well, you can be with the accuweather video challenge . With this contest from the fine folks at AccuWeather.com, you can record an actual video forecast for that site and win $5000.

Now here's what you do -- you report weather conditions in your own backyard! Get out your video camera and tell the world about your very local weather. Or borrow some of the materials that AccuWeather.com has made available for you to do a weather report. Or maybe mix them up and do a little of both. Regardless, give us your most wonderful weather report and forecast, then upload it to the AccuWeather.com site. Once uploaded, viewers can rate your clip.

So take a chance -- you could be the next big thing in weather!

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How would Fred Thompson impact the current crop of presidential candidates on the GOP side.

So if Thompson does enter the race, whom would it hurt? Two recent polls -- one by Peter Hart and Neil Newhouse for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal and the other by RT Strategies for the Cook Political Report -- indicate that Thompson's candidacy would draw most from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, perhaps about 4 points to 6 points. He would draw minimally, if at all, from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Thompson would start out behind Giuliani and McCain and about even with Romney.

To be sure, Thompson is hardly a household name. In the NBC/WSJ poll, only 26 percent of Americans knew enough about him to venture an opinion. Of those who knew enough to judge, 22 percent had a favorable opinion and 4 percent had a unfavorable one. Another 19 percent had neutral feelings, which probably means they know little or nothing about him, while 55 percent confessed to not knowing who he was.

The NBC/WSJ poll of 1,004 adults was taken April 20 through April 23. The Cook survey of 1,000 adults was taken between April 27 and April 29.

The NBC/WSJ poll showed Giuliani leading the pack at 32 percent without Thompson and with 28 percent when Thompson was added to the mix. The Cook poll had Giuliani on top at 39 percent without Thompson, and at 33 percent with a Thompson entry.

The impact on McCain, Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was less noticeable. McCain had 22 percent in the NBC/WSJ poll without Thompson and 21 percent with him as a candidate. In Cook, McCain was at 24 percent without Thompson and 22 percent with him. Romney stayed at 12 percent in both versions of the Cook poll question; in the NBC/WSJ poll, he had 12 percent without Thompson and 11 percent with Thompson.

In other words, Thompson draws from across the full spectrum of top-tier GOP candidates -- but impacts Giuliani more than others. Still, this impact is pretty consistent, in terms of proportions, to their place in the current standings -- which indicates to me that tehre is a great yearning for someone else among my fellow Republicans.

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If you had told me 20 years ago that Starbucks would become the international mega-trend that it has, I never would have believed you. People paying so much for coffee? Never happen. But it did. I wish I had been in a position to get in on the ground floor of that one.

Well, coffee remains a hot consumer product, both bought in coffee boutiques and made at home. But is there really a difference in what you are brewing? I've always wondered? And, of course, I've always wondered about the health issues.

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Well, here's your chance to check out 1st Healthy Coffee for yourself. Visit their site to turn more, and there is even an opportunity to try some free. Then, if you are interested, you can become a customer and/or participate in their referral program.

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Thanks to Patrick Ruffini (whose Presidential Wire is a must for political junkies)for this petition from We Win, They Lose.

When it came to defeating the Soviets, Ronald Reagan made it simple: "We win, they lose." Now more than ever, the defeatists in Congress must hear that same message. America will never surrender.

And if you would like, you can certainly list www.rhymeswithright.mu.nu as your blogging home.

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Let's not forget the true face of the Democratic Party throughout its existence -- as demonstrated by this upstanding state and national leader of the Democratic Party.

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.

At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission.

I wonder -- did Robert Byrd wear his dress sheets to the Senate today to celebrate the heritage of his party?

Thanks to Michael Zak for highlighting this important day in American history, and giving Democratic Party barbarism the attention it deserves.

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The scary part is that she probably said this with a straight face.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is confronting Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola head-on with a new demand that he not install Truro Church rector Martyn Minns as head of a parallel denomination this coming weekend.

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"Such action would violate the ancient customs of the church" in terms of the sacrosanct boundaries of individual bishops, the presiding bishop wrote in a letter released yesterday.

Excuse me, but the Episcopal Church has been jettisoning the ancient customs and teachings of the church and of Scripture for decades, and has only accelerated the process in recent years. As such, I can’t decide whether “laughable” or “hypocritical” is the best adjective to describe her demand.

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Am I the only one who finds this proposal a bit disturbing?

Three members of the D.C. City Council are considering placing tollbooths at the city's entrances.

Marion Barry introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a commission to study the measure. He said commuters and visitors to the District have been getting a free ride on D.C. roads and tolls would help cover the costs of upkeep and repairs.

Barry's proposal doesn't set a rate for entering the city. He said the commission could make a recommendation after they study the issue.

The former mayor and Ward Eight councilman said tolls are collected from motorists entering New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

According to statistics, about 400,000 people drive into the nation's capital each day from suburban jurisdictions. Critics have already labeled Barry's idea a commuter tax.

Councilmen Kwame Brown and Harry Thomas are co-sponsors of the proposal. If approved by the D.C. City Council, the legislation would still face congressional review.

Let me spell out the problem with this – one that goes to the heart of the special nature of Washington as our nation’s capital city. What this tax (and have no illusions about it, that is what the toll clearly is) does is set a fee for being able to access your government in person.

Want to peaceably assemble at the Capitol in order to seek a redress of grievances? Ante up first, or you cannot do it.

Need to make personal contact with senior government officials? Can’t happen unless you pay the tax.

Desire to access records at the National Archives, make use of the Library of Congress, view exhibits at the Smithsonian or visit our nation’s signature memorials and monuments? You would be unable to do so without being subject to a city fee – effectively holding our national treasures hostage.

Once again, we see why the Founders wisely chose to establish a federal district that was subject to Congress, not as an independent entity with the right to make policy for itself. Rather than unconstitutionally giving Washington a voting representative in the House, Congress needs to reassert its full and constitutionally mandated sovereignty over the District wherein the seat of government has been located. After all, this is the sort of situation that the authors of the Constitution feared when they wrote Article I, Section8, Clause 17.

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Am I the only one who finds this proposal a bit disturbing?

Three members of the D.C. City Council are considering placing tollbooths at the city's entrances.

Marion Barry introduced legislation Tuesday proposing a commission to study the measure. He said commuters and visitors to the District have been getting a free ride on D.C. roads and tolls would help cover the costs of upkeep and repairs.

Barry's proposal doesn't set a rate for entering the city. He said the commission could make a recommendation after they study the issue.

The former mayor and Ward Eight councilman said tolls are collected from motorists entering New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

According to statistics, about 400,000 people drive into the nation's capital each day from suburban jurisdictions. Critics have already labeled Barry's idea a commuter tax.

Councilmen Kwame Brown and Harry Thomas are co-sponsors of the proposal. If approved by the D.C. City Council, the legislation would still face congressional review.

Let me spell out the problem with this – one that goes to the heart of the special nature of Washington as our nation’s capital city. What this tax (and have no illusions about it, that is what the toll clearly is) does is set a fee for being able to access your government in person.

Want to peaceably assemble at the Capitol in order to seek a redress of grievances? Ante up first, or you cannot do it.

Need to make personal contact with senior government officials? CanÂ’t happen unless you pay the tax.

Desire to access records at the National Archives, make use of the Library of Congress, view exhibits at the Smithsonian or visit our nation’s signature memorials and monuments? You would be unable to do so without being subject to a city fee – effectively holding our national treasures hostage.

Once again, we see why the Founders wisely chose to establish a federal district that was subject to Congress, not as an independent entity with the right to make policy for itself. Rather than unconstitutionally giving Washington a voting representative in the House, Congress needs to reassert its full and constitutionally mandated sovereignty over the District wherein the seat of government has been located. After all, this is the sort of situation that the authors of the Constitution feared when they wrote Article I, Section8, Clause 17.

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