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As you know, pro-life activists who have peacefully picketed or prayed at abortion clinics have been prosecuted or hit with civil lawsuits and ordered to pay huge fines. Some have been forced to use bankruptcy protection to save their property and protect their family.Now Sen. Charles Schumer of New York has introduced an amendment to the bankruptcy reform bill that specifically prevents pro-life activists from using bankruptcy protection. His amendment only applies to pro-life protesters. Other protesters will still be able to use bankruptcy laws.Is this fair in America - are we second-class Americans?The bankruptcy bill will be voted on...

Here’s the unmitigated gall: From the country that published a "how to" manual so Mexican illegals could sneak safely into America, Mexican Foreign Minister Senor Derbez' intention is torestrict movements of US citizens within America so as to allow the unrestricted illegal movements of non-US citizens within America.And if he’s going through California, that’s the notorious 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. You know, the one that forbade the use of the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Senor Derbez threatened to take the US to the International Criminal Court when Proposition 200 was first passed - I guess...

Raven, a 12-yr-old whose uncle is fighting in Iraq made a necklace from red, white and blue beads from a jewelry kit she received for Christmas. She wore it to school as a token of support for her uncle andSchenectady school officials immediately banned her from displaying her unique neckwear in a belief such "gang-related" jewelry violates policy, court papers alleged. Raven was threatened with suspension if she continued to wear the beads.

His case had been reviewed, the letter said. ``In addition, we have reviewed your personal Web site.'' The American Society of Transplant Surgeons and LifeLink are ``strongly opposed to the solicitation of organs or organ donors by recipients or their agents through Web sites,'' the letter continued. ``After careful deliberation, we will not consider any living donor for you.'' Crionas was stunned by the decision. ``I was dumbfounded ... I'm, like, are you serious?'' The LifeLink letter said he could be put back on the national list to wait for a ``deceased'' kidney of someone who had made provisions to...

By Claudia Pinto / Charlottesville Daily Progress February 11, 2005 ----------------------- Two pizza delivery chains refused to send drivers to a public housing community Thursday afternoon, shocking and angering members of the AIDS/HIV Services Group and the president of the local NAACP. Kathy Baker, ASG’s executive director, said that when Domino’s and Papa John’s were called to deliver to an HIV testing event at Westhaven public housing community, the businesses responded that they don’t deliver to Hardy Drive. Managers from Domino’s and Papa John’s said they don’t deliver to certain areas of the city out of concern for their drivers’...

From jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/FROM THE POST TITLED:Schlussel: Jihad on “24”: FOX, Kiefer Sutherland Repent to Radical Islam "Take Suhail Khan, who was the Bush White House’s director of Muslim Outreach. His father, Mahboob Khan, brought Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri into the United States and into his mosque, twice in the mid-to-late ‘90s, to raise money for Al-Qaeda. Suhail Khan invited anti-American terrorists, like indicted Islamic Jihad chief Sami Al-Arian, into the White House to meet with the President. (Incredibly, Khan remains in the Bush Administration as General Counsel to the Federal Highway Administration, where he’s informed of all transports of military and...

PRAGUE - The North Korean embassy in Prague is calling for a ban on Team America: World Police in the Czech Republic. ...."Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture," the North Korean diplomat added. "Therefore, we want the film to be banned." However, the Czech Foreign Ministry said people would continue to be allowed to see the film, which had its Czech premiere on Feb. 3. "We told them it's an unrealistic wish," ministry spokesman Vit Kolar said. "Obviously, it's absurd to demand that in a democratic country."

The Mark Levin Fan blog captures a call from a woman protesting the deficit/govt. spending.

"We really have a headache, not just from the United States but from advertisers and from other countries as well." Asked whether the sale might dilute Al Jazeera's content, the official said, "I hope not." Estimates of Al Jazeera's audience range from 30 million to 50 million, putting it well ahead of its competitors. But that success does not translate into profitability, and the station relies on a big subsidy from the Qatari government, which in the past has explored ways to sell it. The official said Qatar hoped to find a buyer within a year. Its coverage has disturbed...

People who feel the need to talk to their near and dear even after they have passed away can now do so quite literally, thanks to a special mobile phone invented by a German who wanted to keep in touch with his late mother. The system, patented by Juergen Broether and on sale since last December, consists of a one-way phone and loudspeaker device that can be buried close to the person's coffin, and will transmit a voice message into the tomb for a period of up to one year. Broether's said that his "telephonic angel" as he has dubbed...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A ragged fence and a canyon called Smugglers Gulch mark the westernmost stretch of the California-Mexico border, a favorite crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug runners. ...Now supporters may be getting closer to victory. A provision in an immigration bill expected to pass the House next week would give the homeland security secretary authority to move forward with the project regardless of any laws that stand in the way, and would bar courts from hearing lawsuits against it. "We need to get this thing done, and we need to do it for security reasons, and at...

LAW OF THE SEA TREATY UPDATE: We may be very close to victory on The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Our sources on the Hill tell us that Majority Leader Bill Frist is inclined to let LOST die an unceremonious death; saying, "the (conservative) 'base' does not want LOST." Thank you to all of you who have participated in this Blast Fax campaign... you are most definitely having an effect. For those of you who are still considering participating... NOW is a good time. We do not want to declare victory prematurely, but one final push may be all...

The Ward Churchill/Hamilton College debacle is, of course, only the tip of the socialist anti-American debacle that has been reported to exist in America's colleges and universities. Churchill was the Chair of the Ethics Department.The following butter-brain is a journalism professor. How many more exactly like him are out there? And we wonder why journalism is in its current state?From the Federalist Patriot newsletter…"[Americans must pursue] the most courageous act of citizenship in the United States today: pledging to dismantle the American empire. The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing." --Robert Jensen, Journalism...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An appeals court Tuesday revived part of a class-action lawsuit blaming McDonald's for making people fat, reinstating claims pertaining to deceptive advertising. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge erred when he dismissed parts of the lawsuit brought on behalf of two New York children. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet dismissed the lawsuit in 2003 because he said it failed to link the children's alleged health problems directly to McDonald's products. But the appeals judges said New York's general business law requires a plaintiff to show only...

An appeals court has overturned part of the decision dismissing a case against McDonalds that charged the fast-food giant was responsible for the obesity and related health problems of two of its loyal (and I do mean really loyal) customers. Now the plaintiffs have refiled their suit, using the advice the judge gave them when he first dismissed the case. But Sweet left open the door for plaintiffs -- including a 400-pound teenager who said he eats at McDonald's every day -- to refile the case, with guidance on how the suit might be strengthened. "For instance, Chicken McNuggets, rather...

Remember when parents trying to videotape the school events of "Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day" were thrown off school property?That very same Mass. school district is once again in the news for negative reasons.School Superintendent J. Young presides over the failing math program of an elementary school in his district - a school now subject to the NCLB program.Could the school's failure to teach the children be due to the Mr. Young's new math curriculum otherwise known asanti-racist multicultural math?Big elections like state and national aren't the only ones conservatives ought to mobilize for. Conservatism starts right in...

About ‘discrimination’. I’m really sick of that word’s noble meaning being perverted by Liberals to willy-nilly provide cover for virtually any and all anti-social and/or dangerous activity or trend. Unwarranted discrimination is certainly an injustice. But what about discrimination that IS warranted? Does nothing in this world warrant rejection as unwholesome or dangerous? The reason conservatives usually snicker or roll their eyes when Liberals or Leftists claim to have ‘moral values’ is because that statement indicates NOTHING against the traditional meaning of the phrase. The word ‘value’ is itself one used to express a definite or to describe the end...

Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi has complained that the US and the rest of the international community have failed to "reward" him appropriately for giving up his weapons of mass destruction programs, and says that this failure is deterring countries like Iran and North Korea from following his example. The colonel argues that his decision to "withdraw" from WMD programs was a critical factor in US President George W. Bush's reelection. "We know that with this withdrawal we contributed by 50 percent to his electoral campaign – a winning hand," the colonel says.

Ms Anderson, who hails from Hobart, Indiana, said the unexpected attention generated by her whimsical eBay sale had "left her a nervous wreck" and that she had cancelled some of the more "outrageous bids". She reiterated that the purpose of the exercise was simply to reassure her five year-old-son who was uneasy about living in a house that he felt was haunted by his "mean" grandfather.

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