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Liberals are "pro" and bestow rights on people. Conservatives are "anti" and negative. That's the impressions that viewers would get from watching ABC. On Tuesday, Good Morning America's Bianna Golodryga mentioned the possible presidential candidacy of George Pataki, noting the former New York governor is "pro-choice, pro-union and pro-gay rights." Yet, on June 30, 2011, World News reporter Sharyn Afonsi highlighted Michele Bachmann's "anti-abortion view." On June 07, 2011, GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos suggested to Ann Coulter, "You seem to express some kind of understanding for anti-abortion protesters who use violence.” Using slightly different wording, reporter Aaron Katersky provided a...

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Pro-Israel students at Carleton University say they were harassed and intimidated by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) members after the group’s anti-Israel motion was shelved at a student council meeting last month. Emile Scheffel “People were banging on the doors, screaming, calling us names… We had to wait until campus [security] sent more officers to make sure students could get safely from the council room out to the elevators,” said Emile Scheffel, 21, a fourth-year political science student who isn’t Jewish but is involved in the Israel Awareness Committee (IAC) at Carleton. Scheffel said the incident began when the IAC...

My son is graduating from The Citadel this coming May. I was thinking about giving him a Mossberg 500 as a graduation present. Thoughts ? Other recommendations ? Comments ? Thank you.

The NFC and AFC Pro Bowl rosters were announced on Tuesday and the Minnesota Vikings topped all teams with eight selections. The Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys clocked in with six picks apiece.

Scott Rasmussen periodically polls Americans on whether their country is "generally fair and decent," as opposed to "basically unfair and discriminatory." The former view, of course, tends to predominant, but the latest results are rather sad: Just 60% of U.S. voters now say that American society is generally fair and decent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Barack Obama returns to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to speak with House Democrats, and Republicans will try to spoil the party by linking the Democrats’ presidential nominee to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and their reluctance to allow votes on offshore oil drilling. Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) will greet Obama’s arrival with a news conference in which they’ll assert that Reid (D-Nev.) and Pelosi (D-Calif.) are holding up votes on offshore drilling in order to protect Obama. They’ll also begin to use “Pelosi-Reid-Obama” in the all-in-the-same-breath way that Democrats now use...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2008 – Deployed troops have no doubt been in fights they’d rather have avoided, but thanks to a new program, they can now pick their battles, and have some fun doing it. “Pros vs. GI Joes” is a California-based troop-support group that’s offering servicemembers deployed throughout the Middle East the chance to challenge professional athletes on their favorite Electronic Arts game via Xbox Live. “(It’s) not your typical ‘support the troops’ nonprofit organization that packages up all the good stuff that our troops miss when they’re deployed,” said Greg Zinone, founder of Pros vs. GI Joes....

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While in North America or Europe Catholic nuns and priests may not be censured for nuanced abortion support, the same is not true in Africa.  In 2003 a prominent nun and professor of religion at Kenyatta University in Nairobi Kenya was sanctioned by her bishop for touting pro-abortion sentiments in an interview with the BBC.  The censure has produced positive results.  Sister Anne Nasimiyu-Wasike, PhD. has now formally and publicly repented of her erroneous stand.  Given her celebrated feminist past, that renouncement must have been all the more difficult.  In addition to her...

An attendee of the “Stop the Terror Rally” sponsored by the Council for America-Islamic Relations – Ohio held at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Friday July 28 says she was twice assaulted by CAIR’s National Vice-Chairman, Dr. Ahmad Al-Akhras, when she asked too many questions about the organization’s apparent support for Hezbollah terrorists. Fortunately, she caught it all on tape and has put the video online so the public can see the reaction of one of CAIR’s top officials. The alleged assault victim, who chooses to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, but who posts under her...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - No one in the bleachers at the Sioux Falls Canaries game was quite sure what was going on down on the field. They were all quiet, wondering and transfixed on the little old man digging into the batters' box. The infielders moved up on the grass, giggling, and pitcher looked as uncomfortable as anyone else would have felt. But to 83-year-old Jim Eriotes, it was serious business. Eriotes led off Tuesday's game for the Canaries against the St. Joe (Mo.) Blacksnakes and took four big swings _ even fouling a pitch off _ before striking out....

(WCCO) Minneapolis On March 30, Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash. The WCCO-TV I-TEAM obtained copies of 911 calls and store surveillance video of the incident, along with an accident report the police submitted to the state. Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A professional wrestler claimed Friday that the state is intruding on her privacy by requiring her to provide proof from her doctor that she is not pregnant within a week of every match. Julie Utley also said pregnancy testing is too expensive for many women to continue participating in the sport. She estimated it would cost her at least $60 a month for tests. The rule took effect in November and is part of state requirements for licensing contact sports such as professional boxing, wrestling and martial arts. Utley, 19, said she has not wrestled since...

U.S. Army Capt. Mark Flitton Former Pro Golfer Fulfills Life Dream, Becomes Soldier By Spc. Michael Pfaff 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment TIKRIT, Iraq, April 18, 2006 — When his sixth-grade teacher asked the class to think about what they wanted to do when they grew up, Capt. Mark Flitton took this question very seriously. There are three things he wanted to do in life: join the military, fly planes, and play golf. “I took it to heart and really studied what I wanted to do,” Flitton, the headquarters and headquarters company commander for the 445th Civil Affairs Battalion...

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2006 – Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England praised the Washington Capitals ice hockey team for its support of U.S. servicemembers during team and management members' Pentagon visit today. Washington Capitals' goaltender Olaf Kolzig shakes hands with Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England as Capitals team captain Jeff Halpern (center) looks on April 6. England presented the hockey team, which was touring the Pentagon, with a commemorative plaque for its help with the "America Supports You" program. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. England greeted the National Hockey League icemen in his office...

Star search: Why so few Cowboys in Hall? By Brad Townsend Many Cowboys fans are among the suspicious. They believe that only bias and conspiracy can explain the relatively paltry number of Cowboys in the Hall of Fame. No franchise has won more playoff games (32) or played in more Super Bowls (eight), and only one other team has won as many championships (five). But only five Cowboys players are in the Hall. No Cowboy has been elected since Mel Renfro in 1996, but that could change Saturday. Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Rayfield Wright are among the 15 finalists....

Sometimes you get to wondering about emails you receive -- especially in the political blogsphere. One email which ended up in my inbox has got me to thinking: Is this a legitimate email, a plea for help from genuine Iranian dissidents, some crazy rant/fatwa by Islamists, or yet another in a string of Internet scams? I've been receiving emails over the last month from "goftare nik" (moslem11@gmail.com) which is addressed to hamahd19@yahoo.com, a mailing list which must somehow contain my own email address. The subject line of the email is "(( raahbare mellate iran agha pro.ebrahim mirzaie))," which obviously pertains...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (Nov. 18, 2005) -- Every Marine who has ever served has made some type of sacrifice in order to wear the “Eagle, Globe and Anchor,” but these sacrifices aren’t always paid in the form of sweat from countless humps and physical training sessions, neither are they from the shedding of blood on the battlefield, nor from the feelings of loneliness during long separations from family and friends while deployed. Sometimes the sacrifices made are simply the other opportunities that were passed up in order to join the Corps. Still, it can be argued...

TAMPA -- A professional wrestler who died this weekend in Minneapolis used to live in the Tampa Bay area. World Wrestling Entertainment star Eduardo Gory Guerrero, 38, and his family recently moved to Arizona, according to WWE. The family moved to Arizona from New Tampa; before that, they lived in Land O' Lakes. "He was always outside with his children -- he was a nice family man," said former neighbor Donna Hoffman of New Tampa. "My sons were friends with his daughters." Guerrero was found dead in his Minneapolis hotel room just hours before a WWE show, authorities told The...

It is currently around half time for the first round of games. Seattle (3) @ Washington (7) Indianapolis (17) @ Tennessee (3) Detroit (10) @ Tampa Bay (17) St. Louis (17) @ New York Giants (27) Buffalo (7) @ New Orleans (13) San Diego (17) @ New England (17) Denver (14) @ Jacksonville Houston (3) @ Cincinnati (10) Later today... New York Jets @ Baltimore Dallas @ Oakland Minnesota @ Atlanta Philadelphia @ Kansas City Tonight... San Francisco @ Arizona (In Mexico.) Tomorrow... Green Bay @ Carolina Open Date: Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, Pittsburgh