The Truth Will Out

Yesterday, on the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, around 300,000* people marched to protest. Usually, the media ignores the march or they seriously downplay the number attending. Reuters wrote that tens of thousands attended this year, giving the impression that the actual number was far smaller than it actually was. And so many, if not most, Americans remain uninformed about the growing discontent with this Supreme Court ruling.

To honor the occasion NPR produced a show commemorating abortion "rights" for its fairly liberal audience. However, when the call-in portion began, most of the calls were from men and women who expressed deep grief and regret about abortions twenty and twenty-five years earlier. The normally cool professionals could hardly contain their surprise at the pain callers expressed about actions they took so many years ago.

The reality is that no matter what you call it or how you excuse it, you can not break the laws of God without suffering for it. The Ten Commandments tell us who we are and how to best take advantage of our lives. They are the Manufacturer's Handbook, not arbitrary rules from a vengeful God.

*The first march started with 20,000 protesters, but the numbers have grown through the years. Because it is possible to get accurate counts from the different organizations coming from all around the country, the March for Life organization numbers are far more reliable than media or, even, police estimates.

Pro-Lifers Are Winning!

"Because there's a Democratic majority in Congress and the president is pro-choice, it sometimes gets lost how truly numerically challenged we are."...Nancy Keenan, the current director of NARAL. See New York Magazine for the whole article, written by a Pro Abortion advocate worrying about the fate for their movement.

Abortion and Breast Cancer

This one minutes video illustrates a basic truth from the book, Breast Cancer: Its Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill, namely that "induced abortion and oral contraceptive use, especially at a young age, markedly increase a woman's risk for developing breast cancer" (p. 257). Chris Kahlenbornm, MD meticulously researched and wrote the book in 2000. It's still available for sale, but both the book and its politically incorrect conclusions have been studiously ignored by the media and the medical establishment.

Great Insight

Please go to the A True Story of Passion, Profit, and Contribution today to read about people with special needs. For too long Americans have averted their eyes, crossed the street, or otherwise avoided less than perfect looking people. Or, if they did meet someone in a wheel chair, for instance, they talked loudly, as if the person were deaf, or talked only with the person's companion, as if the person were imbecilic. Each one of us is invaluable with contributions to make to society, if society will just allow us to share our gifts.

Nepotism Alert: The article was written by my beloved eldest child.

Speaking of Holocaust Deniers. . .

Are we Americans just as guilty as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Can we kill around 1,370,000 innocent babies per year and not realize that our holocaust is far worse than the six million Jews annihilated by the Nazis?

Last January on the thirty-sixth anniversary of Roe v Wade, it was estimated that 50,000,000 abortions had been performed in the US. That means that we have decided to deny the right to life to the equivalent of the populations of:
* Kentucky
* Oregon
* Oklahoma
* Connecticut
* Iowa
* Mississippi
* Arkansas
* Kansas
* Utah
* Nevada
* New Mexico
* West Virginia
* Nebraska
* Idaho
* Maine
* New Hampshire
* Hawaii
* Rhode Island
* Montana
* Delaware
* South Dakota
* Alaska
* North Dakota
* Vermont
* Wyoming
And our lives and our country are poorer because of it.

If My People, III

To you all flesh will come with its burden of sin. Too heavy for us, our offenses, but you wipe them away. Psalm 65:2,3

Sin disfigures and cripples us, both individually and as a group. Admitting our mistakes and asking for forgiveness gives us a chance to "be all that we can be." Pray for yourself and for your country today. Your happiness depends on it.

40 Days for Life

This video, Signs of Evil, illustrates the attitude of some abortion providers. Today begins a period of 40 days of prayer and fasting to end the killing of innocent babies in the womb. Please join other Christians in the US to pray for a return to Christian values.

Listen to The Silence

The silence of the mass media about the murder of a prolife activist in Michigan is a dramatic contrast to the keening over the murder of Dr. Tiller, an abortionist. As of today there have been 19 stories about James Pouillion who was shot as he stood in front of a high school holding a pro life sign, while there were at least 643 different stories about Tiller in the mass media.

When Tiller was killed, every Pro Life organization leader in the United States, Catholic Bishops, and Protestant pastors immediately condemned the murder and offered prayers for Tiller and his family. So far, I have heard of no one who has condemned Pouillion's killer.

Neither have there been blanket accusations about all abortion supporters being budding terrorists. However all prolife supporters are still on the Homeland Security Watch list for terrorism. And no one has called for a ban on private ownership of guns because Pouillion was murdered with a gun.

No wonder most mass media outlets are going broke. They have become public relations offices, not news organizations.

Socialized Medicine by Any Other Name Is Still Socialized Medicine

The Democrats keeping renaming their plans for total control of the health care industry in the United States with such appealing words as “reform” and “insurance.” But, as my grandmother used to say, ‘anyone with one eye and half sense’ can easily figure out that it’s still socialized medicine. Despite their protestations of deep concern and sympathy for people like me who were once caught with a catastrophic illness but without insurance, it’s still a grand scheme to increase bureaucratic control of our lives.

There are a few things to always keep in mind when discussing this issue:
1. No one, citizen or illegal alien, is ever denied necessary health care in the United States. Our current system of Byzantine insurance rules and federal regulations needs to be corrected, not transformed.
2. Our most egregious problems with delivery and cost of health care directly result from stupid laws passed by stupid Congressional Clowns in the past. We should work to eliminate their interference with physicians, patients, and hospitals, not increase it.
3. Socialized medicine has not worked well in any country where it’s been enacted; there is no reason to destroy our superior system and follow the same path to destruction.
4. Socialized medicine inevitably results in health care rationing and inferior treatment.
5. Federal bureaucrats will use cost cutting as an excuse to interfere with personal freedom for all citizens. Any activity they decide is counter productive will become illegal. *
6. Adding the U.S. government to the list of 1300 insurance providers we already have will eliminate private insurance, not increase competition. Do not be fooled by pious claims made to make a bill sound better to the general public.
7. Costs ALWAYS greatly exceed the original estimates and so far even the estimates of any Democratic plans are high enough to engender a round of heart attacks across the land.
8. Increased federal control will eliminate conscience clauses for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and hospitals. Both abortion and euthanasia will increase.

Many of the changes Obama’s administration has effected are deleterious, but they can be changed by future administrations. However, entitlement programs never go away or diminish. This must be stopped! Sign the petition at this website because one petition with many names has more effect that several petitions with fewer names. Then call your Congressional Clowns and email them. Or, best of all, confront them face to face and explain your extreme opposition to any plan proposed thus far. Then recruit your friends and family to take up the cause. Their lives may depend on it.

We need to remember the closing lines of our Declaration of Independence because our country will always need patriots to defend its principles: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

To read all posts on health care, go here.

* Remember the egg. In the fifties, it was considered the perfect food. Then with the fat phobia of the seventies, it almost became contraband. There was no memory of the lecithin in the yolk or its benefits for health. Instead, families were daily encouraged to avoid eggs for their health. Recently, some semblance of sanity has returned to the breakfast wars. But just imagine bureaucrats let loose with the ability to put the latest food fad into law.

More on Long-Tiller Murders

Two days after the fact, Obama finally issued a statement about Pvt. Long's death at the hands of a Muslim extremist. The contrast in timing and tone is dramatic.

For Pvt. Long:
“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”

For Dr. Tiller:
"I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."

He was shocked and outraged just hours after Dr. Tiller's death, but it took him two days to admit he was deeply saddened by Pvt. Long's. One act of violence was heinous while the other merely senseless.

The silence of the cartoonists, editorial writers, and journalists about the religious persuasion and motives of Mr. Muhammed continues unabated. Also unabated is the implication of Mr. Roeder's pro-life activities, although his major association appears to be with a militia group. Pundits have placed blame on Bill O'Reilly and outspoken Pro-life leaders for Tiller's death, but blame for Long's death does NOT extend to militant Muslims, Muslim terrorists, or any outspoken opponents of the military.

Michelle Malkin has posted an article thoroughly fisking the difference in the media treatment of the two murders, just one day apart. Read it to find more details about the disproportionate responses.

Some Crimes Are More Equal Than Others

If you read blogs or listen to talk radio, you’re probably quite aware of the growing outrage over the treatment of Tiller’s murder on Sunday and Pvt. Long’s murder on Monday. Or, if you depend on the main stream media, you may not even be aware of Pvt. Long’s death or who pulled the trigger.

The president and "his" media went into over drive condemning the killing of an abortion doctor, tying the perpetrator (before anyone knew who it was) to the entire pro-life movement. Little attention was paid to the pro-life leaders who also condemned the murder.

The very next day, a Muslim extremist fired shots near an Army Recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas killing Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18. When taken into custody, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, admitted shooting the two men "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past" although he later pleaded “not guilty” to capital murder. He is a young black, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, who converted to Islam while in prison. After his release, he traveled to Yemen to study jihad. An anonymous source revealed that information on his computer raised the possibility that he did not act alone, but the incident could possibly be part of a larger operation.

The mainstream media has almost buried the story. Only Fox News has given all of the details. President Obama left the country without issuing any statement about it or supporting the work of recruiting personnel despite the fact he is their Commander-in-Chief.

The government offered the use of Federal agents to protect abortion providers after the Sunday incident, but I’ve heard nothing about Federal agents protecting recruiting offices or even allowing the people inside to protect themselves with side arms.

Obama's Favorite Terrorists

The Dawn Patrol has an interesting article about President Obama's reaction to the Tiller murder. First, she takes the president to task for admonishing pro-lifers to refrain from violence when they disagree with pro-abortionists, as if they engaged in violence every other day. (The accused man is not part of the pro-life movement; he is connected to the Montana Freemen, a militia group.) Then she brings up Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who not only protested the war, they bombed numerous places and has not yet even apologized for their actions. Yet Obama remains friends with them, while labeling pro-lifers as terrorists.

Obama's statement appears to be hypocritical at best.

To Be Pro Life (Updated)

To be pro-life is to be pro-life and against murder whatever the age of the victim. To be pro-life is to deeply regret and to sorrow for the murder of Dr. Tiller. Many pro-life people spontaneously began praying for Tiller and for his family the moment they heard the news. Within hours every major pro-life organization spoke out vehemently against the murder, no matter who did it or why the man was murdered.

Even as they crafted their messages of concern and outrage at the crime, the media began assuming that it was done by a right wing pro-life terrorist. Comments on Internet sites immediately began appearing about the hypocrisy of people in the pro-life movement and the timeliness of the recent DHS report. This despite the fact that he is more an anti-government than anti-abortion extremist.

To be pro-life is to believe in prayer. This is the time for all Christians to earnestly pray and fast for our country. Pray for Truth to be revealed to the public about the murder, about abortion, and about the real pro-life message: "The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly." John 10:10

Voter Intimidation Will Continue (Updated)

Included in yesterday's Friday document drop was the Department of Justice order dismissing all charges against the men caught on tape intimidating voters in Philadelphia last November despite their billy club and combative attitude. A prosecution affidavit from Robert Kennedy's former campaign manager had said it was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen. One of the Black Panthers told an approaching poll watcher who was white that "you are about to be ruled by the black man, Cracker." Here's the video from election day, in case you've forgotten.


I just realized that it was a default judgment against the New Black Panthers that was dismissed. They had never responded to the suit, so they would have lost by default, except that the Obama administration dropped the suit instead. Holder chose not to prosecute a case he had already won. Hmmmmmm.

In contrast, when five of us women were quietly praying the rosary in front of an abortion clinic, we were forced to stay across the four-lane street from the building. We could not be on the same side of the street even if we were not near the main entrance. I suppose prayer must be more frightening to this administration than billy club wielding men. (Hint: They may be right.) Otherwise, why are pro-lifers still included in the possible terrorist threat group?

The Governator Does Something Right

After Tuesday's defeat at the polls, Governor Schwarzenegger has included defunding Planned Parenthood to the tune of $73,000 in his proposed budget cuts. Why any government entity funds the group is beyond logical reasoning, yet they enjoy tax payer support in almost every state. While legally a non-profit organization, the major abortion provider in the US netted around $1,000,000,000 in profit from sales (abortions) last year. Their pro abortion supporters are at this very moment sending out frantic emails begging Californians to oppose the small budget cut proposal.

Two Questions for Obama

1. If you really believe that abortion is a great good for society that you and the government must protect and even fund for other nations, then why insist that it should be safe, legal, and rare? Should abortion be available to all mothers in all situations as you have promoted by vetoing the Partial Birth Abortion Act and the Infants Born Alive Act, by rescinding the Mexico City policy, and by your promises regarding the Freedom of Choice Act to Planned Parenthood? Or should it be rare, as you mentioned in your speech at Notre Dame? If, as you mentioned, it’s “a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions,” why do you promote it with such fervor and reject all moral and spiritual arguments against it?
2. At Notre Dame you said regarding abortion, “. . . the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.” Yet your own Department of Homeland Security has labeled pro life proponents as possible domestic terrorists. That not only caricatures Pro Life people, it demonizes them. How can demonized people freely engage in dialogue with those who demonize them? Are you ready to repudiate Napolitano’s DHS Report?

If The News Media Did Not Report It, Did It Really Happen, Part 2

The main stream media continues to ignore the fiery Archbishop Burke’s speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, as I wrote earlier. Their motto seems to be, “If you can’t beat them, ignore them.”

Time magazine is the third major news outlet since May 8 to pretend that the Vatican is either pleased or unwilling to say anything negative about Obama, his administrative decisions, or his honor from Notre Dame. In fact, Amy Sullivan, author of the most recent article ends by suggesting that those who oppose Obama on abortion are trying to be more Catholic than the Pope.

Perhaps, she should research the full text of the speech that Archbishop Burke, an extremely highly placed Vatican official, gave on May 8, 2009, just ten days ago. He was interrupted with standing ovations several times, like when he said,
"Catholic institutions cannot offer any platform to, let alone honor, those who teach and act publicly against the moral law. . . If we as individuals are not willing to accept the burdens and the suffering of the Catholic witness to the right to life, we are not worthy of the name Catholic.”

The reason that Catholics get so upset by life issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research, is that it is always and everywhere wrong to kill innocent human beings. Other issues such as war and the death penalty are open to reason and debate, since they can be justified and virtuously employed in the correct circumstances. Knowingly killing innocents, as Americans are doing at the rate of about 4,000 per day, however, can never be honorable.

Those pro abortion politicians, like Nancy Pelosi, who are so upset about water boarding grown men who are actively trying to kill Americans as a way to frighten them into giving information should consider the agonizing "waterboarding" a frail little baby goes through when salt water is pumped into its sanctuary, the womb, as a way to kill it. Or when an inserted vacuum tube tears its arms and legs off without benefit of anesthesia. Then there’s the partial birth abortion where scissors are stuck in the back of the baby’s neck and its skull crushed just as it is about to take it’s first breath. And Obama has four times voted AGAINST giving any medical attention to a baby born alive in spite of an attempted abortion. That’s called infanticide. People who honor those promoting these practices are not worthy of the name Catholic.

If The News Media Did Not Report It, Did It Really Happen?

Last Friday morning Archbishop Burke flew in from Rome to speak at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. He was interrupted with standing ovations several times during the address, including the time he quite forcefully addressed the “greatest scandal” of Notre Dame conferring an honor on President Obama. On Saturday, a Washington Post headline proclaimed that the Vatican continues to remain silent about the Notre Dame commencement controversy. Sunday morning, the Associated Press sent out a similar story to all of their subscribers. Both reports gave the impression that Prolifers were making a mountain out of a molehill by condemning Notre Dame’s actions.

Both media outlets conveniently ignored the fact that Burke, former Archbishop of St. Louis, has been elevated to one of the highest offices in the Vatican (He was recently appointed to head the Catholic Church's highest court, the Apostolic Signatura) and that his public pronouncements reflect the “Vatican” position.*

When I was a kid, my mother punished me for lies of omission as well as spoken lies. Too bad no one calls out the media for ignoring that which they do not wish to acknowledge. Since they have the responsibility of watchdogs for our entire nation, their culpability is too great to even consider.

*Please note that the press frequently and willingly quotes "anonymous" sources in the Vatican which could be anyone from the janitor to a disgruntled prelate.

Wear Black on May 17

Whether or not you plan to attend the commencement at Notre Dame, whether or not you ever went to Notre Dame, or whether or not you are a Catholic, Meeting Christ in the Liturgy asks you to wear black on May 17. It is a dignified way to show your solidarity with all preborn babies and to perform an act reparation for all the crimes against human life. Such an action shows respect for the office of President of the US and for the man who inhabits that office, while also respecting Jesus Christ who in dying for our sins, enables us to live lives of love, for above and beyond mere self interest.

God Bless (And Protect) Archbishop Burke!

Archbishop Burke needs prayer support from all believers, both Catholic and Protestant. He spoke at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast yesterday about the Notre Dama affair and about being a Christian witness in a secular environment. The medis is currently ignoring his bold message, but a whirlwind of reaction will surely hit soon from the pro abortion establishment.

Father Zuhlsdorf has the transcript on his Blog, complete with explanations and comments. You will be inspired and encouraged if you read it.