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Well, well well.. There he is. President Obama, Calderon and Harper; The leaders of U.S., Mexico and Canada standing together on the White House lawn talking about health care, "American gun trafficking to Mexico", etc..What really struck me was Obama's comment in response to a question on Obamacare. Obama said, "We're confident this Law will be OVER---, uh, UPHELD". Freudian slip, perhaps or just a MAJOR GAFFE?? Then, Calderon went on to congratulate America for "following Mexico's lead on health care coverage for all", snicker snicker..As usual, much discussion on "American gun trafficking to Mexico" with NO mention of Fast...

...notes from...Utah Valley University’s Mormonism and the Internet conference. ...Joanna Brooks, “The Challenge of Mormon Studies for the Digital Age”...Charge of modern Mormon duplicity: behind...public image of friendly clean-cut family types...are dark secrets and a sinister agenda. Brooks cites Daymon Smith’s ideas on Mormon discursive practices: trustworthy (official LDS) versus untrustworthy (other) sources; insider versus outsider narratives; guarded public speech to avoid open discussion of private LDS knowledge. Do Mormons have a divided sense of self? Do LDS scholars write to different (insider and outsider) audiences? Traditional theocratic control of LDS history and sources contrasted with...open source world of modern...

Anti-Israel activists who have gathered this weekend at Harvard University's "One State Conference" were told yesterday that the Jewish people do not exist. Prof. Susan M. Akram of Boston University's School of Law told the gathering that there is no legal basis for Jewish self-determination--at all: Israel’s claim of a state, on the basis of exclusive and discriminatory rights to Jews [sic], has never been juridically recognized. In other words, the concept of the Jewish people as a national entity with extraterritorial claims has never been recognized under international law. Similar denials of the Jewish people's existence and rights enabled...

“The relentless decline of Capitalism has begun. The time has come to fight against poverty. Time to obliterate the injustices. Time for the correct system.” So declares a video promoting the global “Caliphate Conference 2012” next month in Austria, suggesting the “correct system” is an international Islamic-based one replacing capitalism, which the video blames for catastrophe, civil war, and never-ending poverty. Organized by the fundamentalist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, the conference will take place on March 10th south of Vienna. ... a similar conference scheduled for March 4th in Belgium was cancelled after local opposition. The Blaze reported on the...

The Ariel University Center of Samaria held a special conference on Monday, entitled “Best Plans for a Peaceful Israel/Palestine” conference. The conference, the second of its kind, featured three Israeli and three Arab speakers, each of whom presented his idea for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event was attended by students at the Ariel University Center, some of whom are Orthodox Jews, but also by some Israeli-Arab students and Palestinian Authority Arabs from the PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. This made the conference even more significant, since Ariel is considered by the PA a “settlement” built on...

The UN Climate Change Summit in Durban has outlined the mandate to “respect the rights of Mother Earth” by paying a “climate debt,” a slush fund to bankroll the activities of a one-world government. I bet you did not know that Mother Earth had rights. Lord Christopher Monckton said that the treaty “calls for the west to achieve 50 percent CO2 emissions reduction within the next eight years, a feat that would completely bankrupt the global economy and spark a new great depression, as well as a more than 100 percent reduction by 2050, which presumably could only be accomplished...

Durban - A new deal to "save the planet" will force the world's three biggest emitters the US, China and India to cut carbon emissions for the first time, although scientists fear it will come too late to stop global warming. More than 190 countries managed to finally agree a new climate change deal amid chaotic scenes in the early hours of Sunday morning in Durban, South Africa. (Snip) In the end the wording was decided in an extraordinary 10 minute 'huddle' between the exhausted ministers to decide the fate of future generations.

The Mountain West Conference and Conference USA have agreed to form a merged 22-team football league, hoping the move will help solidify both conferences and improve their chances at obtaining a Bowl Championship Series automatic qualifying bid. The league will have a two-division alignment and will play a championship game, Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said during a conference call announcing the move on Friday. The two leagues would maintain their independent structures in all other sports under the arrangement, which could begin as early as 2012.

Attorney General Eric Holder to hold a press conference at 2pm

Breaking on Fox ...

This has got to be the most blanent use of the White House East room for a campaign speech ever given!

Thanks to Mark Vanderberg and Doc Wesson of the Gun Rights Radio Network you can see the entire two days of the conference here:

I just received a flyer about this in the weekly bulletin at our parish church and thought people on the Catholic ping list might like to know about it. It’s the speakers’ list for the International Week of Prayer and Fasting to be held at the National Shrine in Washington DC. Speakers on October 1 include Kevin Malarkey, the father of the six-year-old-boy who was shown heaven while he was in a two-month coma; Alex Jones, the former evangelical minister, now a Catholic deacon; Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life (wonder if he’s going to be allowed to come,...

Several well-known researchers recently made unexpected arguments on pedophilia at an academic conference in Baltimore. Liberty Counsel Action's Matt Barber attended the conference and says he felt he was on a different planet, as the presenting professionals aimed to remove pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). That would mean that pedophilia would no longer be considered a mental disorder. "The entire focus of the event was on the victimhood of the pedophile," Barber accounts. There was "very little concern for the children who are the victims of these individuals when they...

While President Obama pushes to increase taxes for Americans, his Office of Government Ethics is planning a taxpayer-funded “conference” at a famously luxurious golf and spa resort in Florida. Uncle Sam will fly hundreds of federal employees—charged with fostering high ethical standards in government—from Washington D.C. to the world-renowned Orlando resort, which is famous for its lush, perfectly landscaped grounds, a 7,000-yard championship golf course and a lagoon-like setting with six tropical pools, waterfalls. a water slide and whirlpools. The OGE is encouraging all employees with “ethics-related duties” to attend the September event, which has been crowned “Organizational Integrity: A...

Posted: 11:46 am EDT July 12, 2011 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Investigators who worked on the Casey Anthony case will speak out at a press conference on Tuesday. The detectives from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, who worked many long, hard hours searching for Caylee Anthony for six months after Casey now admits she was dead, are going to share their thoughts and feelings with reporters Monday afternoon at the sheriff's headquarters. Seven investigators who searched for Caylee and processed the evidence against Casey, including the crime scene investigators, cadaver dog handler and the computer crimes expert, will answer WFTV's questions...

RUSH: So Obama delays this sorry excuse for a press conference in order to overlap the start of the big show today as much as possible, just as he always does, but we will not be deterred. This guy is hellbent on raising taxes. You do not want to miss the first hour of this program. Well, you don't want to miss any hour of this program, but you don't want to miss the first hour of this program particularly because I am gonna lay out for you exactly what's going on. Not only are they trying to carry through...

...Obama will hold a news conference on Wednesday morning at 11:30am EDT, giving reporters the chance to ask....

RUSH: I just listened to a little bit of Obama's press conference opening spreading his "calm" on the troubled waters between here and Japan, and he pointed out that we are at one with the Japanese people. The American people, through him, offer our condolences, and we will do anything. He said we're sending an aircraft carrier over there to help them. He didn't identify the aircraft carrier. I happen to know which one it is. It's the USS Ronald Reagan. Obama didn't identify it. I don't know if that was purposeful or a faux pas or he thought it...

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Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King announced an expanded list of speakers for a conservative conference he'll hold next month in Des Moines to underscore the nascent GOP nomination fight that will unfold in his state over the next year. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint will keynote the Conservative Principles Conference on March 26, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is scheduled to participate as well. Now King has added Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Ambassador John Bolton and Herman Cain, all of whom are exploring the 2012 race for the White House. The roster skews heavily to the most conservative...

Governor Walker holds a press conference on the latest developments with the budget repair bill.

National Black Caucus of State Legislators Conference Panel on RedistrictingWatch here at C-SPAN Posted by Rick Hasen at December 30, 2010 09:49 AM Panelists talked about the role of race in the drawing of congressional and state legislative districts after the 2010 Census. Among the topics they addressed were the process of redrawing district lines, potential political fights over the shapes of new districts, possible struggles among differing minority groups, and class differences in districts. Panelists also responded to questions from the audience.

CHICAGO -- Jim Delany has spent more than two decades as commissioner of the Big Ten, overseeing two conference expansions and the formation of the Big Ten Network. None of it prepared him for the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the conference's new division names.Delany said during an interview with WGN AM-720 in Chicago on Thursday that the names Legends and Leaders were picked to highlight the conference's rich history, and that "to a great extent it's fallen on deaf ears." Many fans have instead mocked the names and asked officials to reconsider, which Delany said could happen after the first...

The US government under Obama, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, recently used US taxpayer money to fund a conference that accused the US military of atrocities. Only coming to light in the last several days because of an intrepid professor by the name of Penelope Blake, the anti-American conference was held over the summer in Hawaii and was known by the misleadingly benign title "History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War." Since this story broke, there have been rightful calls to withhold funding to the NEH, and Professor Blake herself appeared on Hannity last night to discuss...

President Obama will hold a press conference Wednesday to offer his response to the mid-term election. The news conference, announced Tuesday morning, shows the White House does not intend for the dust to settle from Tuesday's midterms before trying to define the narrative for the next Congress. Polls show Democrats face an avalanche of losses, with Republicans poised to take back the House and make significant gains in the Senate. Obama will speak to the press early Wednesday afternoon. Before taking questions, Obama is likely to offer an opening statement calling for Republicans

TRENTON — Conservative activist James O'Keefe has released a video — titled "Teachers unions gone wild" — claiming to show undercover footage from a New Jersey Education Association leadership conference at the East Brunswick Hilton hotel. The video shows people identified as teachers playing arcade games on "their dime," chanting about kicking Gov. Chris Christie "in the toolbox," and talking about how hard it is to fire a tenured teacher. NJEA spokesman Steve Baker said O'Keefe is "completely and utterly discredited." "It’s James O’Keefe and that’s all you need to know," Baker said, citing O'Keefe's legal troubles in the past....

The new generation of priests and young Catholics become independent of the decaying Old Liberal ideology. [kreuz.net, Herzogenrath] Beginning this December in the City of Herzogenrath -- by Aachen in west Germany -- a Conference on the Liturgy will take place. This has been organized by the website Liturgische-Tagung.de. They give detailed information about the program and the background of the Conference. The Congress will be carried by several Traditional Societies. Among them are the 'Initiativekreise' of Cologne and Hamburg as well as the Lay Society, 'Una Voce'.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will hold a press conference on Friday, September 10, the White House said on Thursday. It also said in a statement that he would make two trips next week to talk about the economy, visiting Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday and Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday. Obama has been criticized in some quarters for holding relatively few press conferences, and for taking a limited number of questions when he faces the media. His last extensive question-and-answer session with reporters was at the Toronto Group of 20 summit in June. But he has not held a full-blown, prime...

[I'll say up front I'm in disagreement with the "LID" on this one]: "World Net Daily has decided to drop conservative pundit and author, Ann Coulter as the keynote speaker for WND's "Taking America Back National Conference" next month. Because of her plan be the keynote speaker at "HOMOCON," an event put together by GOProud the first genuinely conservative group for gay Republicans." "WND Editor Joseph Farah reports this exchange with Ms Coulter: 'Asked by Farah why she was speaking to GOProud, Coulter said: "They hired me to give a speech, so I'm giving a speech. I do it all...

A university in Marseille cancelled a Mediterranean writers' conference scheduled for next March after some of the participants complained about Israeli writer Esther Orner being invited. Orner told the Associated Press in response on Sunday that she was surprised by the decision and that those who called to boycott her are trying to delegitimize Israel.

On the eve of an international conference in Kabul on the future of Afghanistan, militant leaders have told Sky News "we will not surrender". The conference, expected to be attended by representatives from 60 countries, comes as security is tightened across the capital after a suicide bomber struck. Just before noon on Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a market killing three civilians and wounding dozens. Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police are now being deployed to secure the capital for the one-day meeting. One of the key issues in the conference will be the merits of negotiating with the Taliban...

Welcome to Boston this weekend, Gov. Jan Brewer. Pay no attention to any rabble loitering out in the street, jabbering in some strange foreign tongue. It’s funny how we’re always told how they have to live in the shadows, but they always seem to find the time to emerge long enough to throw beer bottles at the police. But don’t sweat it, Gov. Brewer. The majority - the vast majority - of Americans are on your side We are all Arizonans now. We all live in border states. We are all overwhelmed by this invasion, even in here in Massachusetts,...

The so-called “Great Debate” at the National Space Society’s (NSS) International Space and Development Conference (ISDC) in Chicago on Saturday afternoon featuring Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin and former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart was something of a dud, in part because it wasn’t that much of a debate: after ten-minute opening statements by Zubrin (who opposes the agency’s proposed plans) and Schweickart (who supports them), the floor was turned over to the audience, some of whom asked questions of the two, and others who simply expressed their opinions. Conference organizers explained that the event wasn’t intended to be a debate...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Israel and Iran would be expected to attend talks on making the Middle East free of nuclear weapons, according to a draft final document of a UN non-proliferation conference released Tuesday. A nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East is among the most contentious issues at the conference reviewing the 189-nation Non-Proliferation Treaty, a global mandate for fighting the spread of atomic weapons. The draft calls for an initial conference in 2012 "to be attended by all states of the Middle East, leading to the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and...

Guilty Verdict Press Conference Posted on 20. May, 2010 in ATLAH Now, ATLAH Times, Dr. Manning's Personal Page PEACE, Due to the enormous number of requests for interviews regarding the CIA Columbia Obama Trial, I am scheduling a Press Conference for Friday, 21 May at 4 p.m. at ATLAH World Missionary Church, located at 38 West 123rd Street, New York, New York 10027. I will not be able to do any individual interviews or appearances until the Press Conference has been completed. Thank you for your interest in the future of our nation, and the results of the trial. To...

Blogger Doug Ross and William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection think they’ve spotted a “poser” at the Blumenthal press conference. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, it applies to the thousands of people who claim either Vietnam war status or medals they did not earn. The man in question is standing just behind Bluemnthal to the right (Blumenthal’s left). Ross writes:

VFW’s Response to Blumenthal’s Press Conference KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 18, 2010 - Mr. Blumenthal is not a member of the VFW and VFW National By-Laws do not allow any level of the organization to endorse political candidates. VFW national did not sanction and was not, in fact, aware that the press conference was going to be held at a VFW Post. This decision was made at the Post level and the VFW Department of Connecticut issued the following: The following statement is by Richard DiFederico, Department Commander Connecticut VFW: “Those who served in Vietnam or offshore or in neighboring...

Once again, Connecticut and the nation got some “face time” with the former’s state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s press conference, flanked with members who have served in the Unite States Marines and speaks about a son who is now at present serving in the Marines.

What a terrific lineup… Preserving American Liberty has announced Fred and Jeri Thompson, Liz Cheney and J.C. Watts will join Sarah Palin at the Independence Events Center, Saturday, May 1, 2010 for the Winning Back America Conference. There are still tickets available at a reasonable price. Follow this link to order your tickets. American patriots will kickoff the National Arizona BUYcott at the conference this weekend. Patriots Launch a National Campaign in Solidarity with Arizona Calling for a BUYcott of the Grand Canyon State UPDATE: Buycott organizers will have an update Saturday, at the “Winning America Back” conference in Kansas...

This will be a national webcast originating from northern Virginia, the Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, on April 24, 2010. If you are in the local area you are welcome to attend this free conference. If you would like to attend, please email Catherine Martin at actforamericanova@gmail.com For security reasons,a list of attendees is needed ahead of time and id's will be checked upon signing in. Agenda 10:00 – Introduction to the conference (Guy Rodgers) 10:05 – A Basic History of Islam (Brigitte Gabriel) 11:00 – The Ideology and Strategies of Global Jihad (Walid Phares) 11:55 – Lunch 1:00 – Shariah...

The Big Ten expansion process will accelerate this week in Washington, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Sources tell the Tribune top Big Ten officials will discuss expansion Sunday in Washington, the site of the Association of American Universities meetings.

The opening session of the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference featured Mary Matalin, Newt Gingrich, J.C. Watts and Liz Cheney New Orleans, LA : 2 hr.

SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2010 – In a popular movie, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," a group of teenage girls keep in contact with each other by sharing a pair of jeans. Army Brig. Gen. Mary J. Kight, California adjutant general, greets attendees at the inaugural Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs conference during the semi-formal, "purple carpet" kickoff event. The conference was held in Clovis, Calif., March 12-14, 2010. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David Loeffler  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. That theme provided the inspiration for an idea by two California National Guard daughters, but...

(If you are in the DC area and would like to attend in person, please contact Catherine Martin @ actforamericanova@gmail.com) Mark your calendar for April 24, 2010 “Radical Islam: A Threat America Must Take Seriously” by Brigitte Gabriel Please mark your calendar for our second FREE national webcast conference entitled “Radical Islam: A Threat America Must Take Seriously.” The conference will take place on April 24, 2010, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time. This conference is FREE of charge and open to all local, state and federal elected officials and their staffs as well as all concerned citizens...

  Story and Photo By U.S. Army SFC Matthew Chlosta ISAF PAO KABUL—A workshop and press conference, with more than 50 attendees focused on the progress and future of Afghanistan’s corrections system was held on Mar. 23-24 in the Milano building at the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters. The first of this year’s bi-annual meetings was sponsored in partnership with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the United States, British and Canadian Embassies and the Afghan Ministry of Justice and managed by the ISAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability /Governance Branch. “The purpose of the conference is...

Some leading Republican groups are trying to guide a revival of conservative student activism in the "era of Obama" -- the latest push comes this Thursday at California's Reagan Ranch Center, where dozens of high school students who caught the conservative bug will converge to get inspired, get organized and get active. Republican students may finally be building a clique to be reckoned with, as the Young America's Foundation hosts a national conference this week for conservative youth at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. The group will use the forum to unfurl its latest list of the...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will host a space conference next month in Florida to chart his vision for the future of human spaceflight, the White House said Sunday. The April 15 event comes after Obama last month proposed dropping the massively over-budget Constellation program launched by his predecessor, George W. Bush, to develop a rocket aimed at returning Americans to the moon by 2020. The White House said it wanted to ground Constellation because it was too costly, used outdated technology and would not be ready to ferry humans to the moon before 2028. In its place,...