WASHINGTON, DC — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association's public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation. Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from "no" to "yes." "I think over the past twenty four hours we have seen strong indications from those in the Catholic Church that support our belief that the legislation is about health...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association's public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation. Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from "no" to "yes." "I think over the past twenty four hours we have seen strong indications from those in the Catholic Church that support our belief that the...
Terrorism: The connections between Islamofascist Iran and al-Qaida have been clear for many years. Maybe now that the architect of the Iraq surge is warning about it, the alarming truth will be accepted. Gen. David Petraeus, the counter-insurgency expert now heading the U.S. Central Command after successfully turning around the war in Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday of Tehran and Osama bin Laden's terrorist group working together. Al-Qaida "continues to use Iran as a key facilitation hub, where facilitators connect al-Qaida's senior leadership to regional affiliates," Petraeus said. "And although Iranian authorities do periodically disrupt this...
Resetting Our Reset Foreign PolicyObama’s old foreign policy wasn’t working; thank goodness he’s hitting the reset button. Almost every element of Barack Obama’s once-heralded new “reset” foreign policy of a year ago either has been reset or likely soon will be. Consider Obama’s approach to the eight-year-old War on Terror. Plans made more than a year ago to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010 have stalled. Despite loud proclamations about trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11, in a civilian court in New York, such an absurd pledge will probably never be kept. Talk...
Almost every element of Barack Obama's once-heralded new "reset" foreign policy of a year ago has either been reset or likely soon will be. Consider Obama's approach to the 8-year-old war on terror. Plans made more than a year ago to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010 have stalled. Despite loud proclamations about trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of 9/11, in a civilian court in New York, such an absurd pledge will probably never be kept. Talk of trying our own former CIA interrogators for being too tough on terrorist suspects has also come...
A 34-year-old American has broken his own world record by building the largest free-standing house of playing cards ever recorded. Bryan Berg set the new Guinness World Record Wednesday by building a giant replica of the Venetian Macau hotel and casino inside the resort in China's gambling hub. The structure used a total of 218,792 playing cards and took 44 days to complete. Completed, it is 35 feet long, 10 feet tall, and weighs 600 pounds. "I can't help it, I was trained as an architect and I have taken just enough structural engineering to be dangerous," said Berg, who...
Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday outlined his plan to help President Obama close Guantánamo if the administration agrees to abandon a civilian New York terror trial for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in favor of a military tribunal. BY MARK SAPPENFIELD On Sunday, two moderate senators defended President Obama’s apparent willingness to reconsider his administration’s decision to use a civilian New York terror trial for the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The first, Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina, is seen as the architect behind the Obama administration’s potential change in plans. He has promised...
Many in the building industry see the housing market's troubles as a disaster. Russell Versaci sees them as an opportunity. Versaci, an architect from Middleburg, Va., thinks the economy is finally forcing a halt to the spread of bloated McMansions. He's leading a movement toward smaller, well-built homes that honor our country's architectural roots -- houses that are not only sensible and affordable, he said, but "that have a sense of belonging." He calls his proposal "The Pennywise House." It's part consciousness-raising effort and part marketing campaign for his house plans and an upcoming line of modular homes that will...
Amid much wrangling over the economy, a bipartisan debt panel, and President Obama’s health-care summit, Congress has chosen this moment to tackle . . . Native Hawaiian sovereignty? Sometime soon, perhaps as early as today, the House of Representatives will vote on the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act (NHGRA), which is a modified version of legislation that has been kicking around since 2000 and failed to win a cloture vote in 2006. Popularly known as the Akaka Bill for its original Senate architect, 85-year-old Hawaii Democrat Daniel Akaka, the NHGRA would effectively designate Native Hawaiians as a sovereign nation comparable...
Americans have been so bombarded with the word “crisis,” it appears to have lost all meaning. But distinguished scholar the Cato Institute, there is a real, serious crisis pending in America’s addiction to entitlement programs, government-dependence, and imaginary “rights” to live off future generations. “You will have to look into the future, do the responsible thing, and begin moving toward a system of personal accounts. That is the only long-term solution,” said Jose Pinera of America’s social security and pension system. Pinera knows what he’s talking about – he’s the architect of social security reform in Chile. Introducing a recent...
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