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The Bishops Ackermann and Genn have unveiled a memorial plaque for two Martyr Priest of the Nazi times -- they refused to give Hermann Goering the Hitler salute. Nickenich/Wassenach (kath.net/Diocese of Trier) For two priests, who were brought to the concentration camp Dachau -- Johannes Schulz and Joseph Zilliken -- the Trier Bishop Stephan Ackerman and the Bishop of Muenster, Felix Genn, unveiled the commemorative plaque on Saturday. The Nickenicher Priest Schulz and his colleague who was active in Wassenach had refused to give Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering the Hitler salute. They were imprisoned for this reason. Both died in 1942...

Patriots, "Telephone Tea Party #2" starts NOW!!! Storm congress by phone by calling your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and telling them to "Kill the Pelosi/Reid/Obamacare Bill." Let's bury congress with calls and protest the bill. CALL NOW, CALL EARLY, CALL OFTEN. LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD. Rise up, call NOW!

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras' Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot legally return to office, dimming the possibility of his reinstatement after a June coup, court sources said. The Court did not release the full text of its non-binding ruling, but a court source and a lawyer close to the proceedings said it closely follows earlier decisions upholding Zelaya's ouster after he moved to change the constitution.

Hoffman's supporters stage big rallyDouglas L. Hoffman's first congressional campaign stop in Watertown had more campaign staff — three — than attendees. Three months later, the Conservative Party candidate in the 23rd Congressional District race was a bigger draw here than the vice president of the United States. Mr. Hoffman's raucous rally Monday at the Jefferson County Agricultural Society Exhibition Hall drew more than 300 and featured speeches by former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson and a soundtrack by country music star John Rich. Mr. Thompson, revered in conservative circles, wasted no time reminding the crowd of what was at stake...

Students from Lawrence High in Lawrence, Kansas, created a Facebook page entitled “Save Mr.Latham, Lawrence High History Teacher” after their history teacher, Mr. Latham, was allegedly “non-renewed” for being a political conservative. The result:The Facebook page now has 1,857 fans from all over the world and Fox News covered the story of alleged political discrimination on its morning show, Fox & Friends. Local television and radio stations have also picked up on the student’s online effort to expose what they believe is an injustice and the kind of political discrimination they don’t want their school administration to engage in. We...

Interestingly enough an important amendment brought to the floor today was not in the H.R. 1388 when it passed the Senate today. The first presented by Sen Vitter (LA) wanted to insure that no money be made available to ACORN and its affiliates, on the grounds that it is a organization with possibly suspect behaviour and that including it in the bill would not be able to politicize charitable giving and activities. Saying that the bill doesn’t allow politicized does not necessarily protect the country from ACORN’s “so-called” charitable activities. ACORN has already received considerable funding from the government, for...

How dazzling is President Obama? So dazzling that he didn’t merely give a dazzling inaugural speech. Any old timeserving hack could do that. Instead, he had the sheer genius to give a flat dull speech full of the usual shopworn boilerplate. Brilliant! At a stroke, he not only gently lowered the expectations of those millions of Americans and billions around the world for whom his triumphant ascendancy is the only thing that gives their drab little lives any meaning, but also emphasized continuity by placing his unprecedented incandescent megastar cool squarely within the tradition of squaresville yawneroo white middle-aged plonking...

If you’d asked me if I considered myself a conservative when I started college, I would have said yes. If you asked me if I was a staunch conservative or a radical conservative, I would have said no. But then something happened. As the days and weeks passed and I heard the leaders and heroes I had long looked up to bashed, trashed, and disrespected, and as I heard my faith mocked and ridiculed, I realized something. It wasn’t enough to hold my own, or play defense in this environment. To survive here, I’d have to play offense. I couldn’t...

Are there any people out there who think we need to counter the Obama revolution? A counter revolutionist is one who stands against a revolution. In our case, a counter revolutionist will bring back Capitalism, restore our military, and dismantle a stagnant socialized health care systems. It is going to be our job to fix what the commies break. I have been sending out battles cries on FR, so some may have seen these battle cries already. But I think the counter revolutionist should become more Patriotic. The left says that dissent is Patriotic. So, please allow me: IT IS...

Just a note on Election Eve to anyone who would threaten the Constitution......

A CCP High-Ranking Official Renounces CCP By Jiang Bo Special to The Epoch Times May 04, 2007 I am a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official. Being immersed in the official circles of the CCP for so many years, I have long recognized its dirty true colors. Living among these official circles, nobody can stay pure. Everyone becomes corrupt in this environment as they fish for personal gains. If you wish to remain uncontaminated, you will immediately be regarded as different and cast aside. So in order to survive and secure a seat for yourself, you must voluntarily dye yourself the...

With all the talk about Bill Clinton looking at the post of Secretary General of the U.N., the Oil-For-Food scandal, et.al. The international and liberal pandering to the U.N., and the general dislike for the organization in America; Why can't we extract ourselves from, kick the group of communists out of America, or by withdrawing our one-sided support of the U.N. render them powerless?Looking at today's poll on WorldNetDaily, it's all too easy to see how the U.N. is viewed by average Americans, yet the U.N. flag flies at our National Parks. The U.N. is largely governed by third world...

Concerning contemporary times, I think that few would disagree that the enemies of the Catholic Church, to include Liberalism, Protestantism, Communism, etc., have wrought their heretical philosophy and imposed it on the people mostly through the use of the weapon called media. On the social and political fronts, the revolution propagated by these enemies has meticulously arranged an atmosphere that harbors the useful idiot mentality among the masses, making them ripe for media influence. This dumbed-down population responds very little to reason, Truth, and logic, but exceedingly well to drama and theater. Some of the most obvious examples of this...

"For God and the King!": the Vendée, March 1793