Daily Archives: November 22, 2008

My Church, My Government

Abortion Foes Take New Tack

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clipped from www.faithinpubliclife.org
Realism seems to have struck some ardent foes of abortion. After 35 years of trying to outlaw the procedure nationally while chipping away at abortion rights state by state, they have decided to add a new and sensible initiative. They’ll work with the other side to reduce the number of abortions.
Even before Election Day, a loose coalition of conservative academics, prominent anti-abortion pastors, lay Catholics and other activists began working with old enemies in the pro-abortion rights camp to push a new agenda passage of measures to provide low-income, pregnant women with the kind of services and education that could discourage them from seeking abortions. They are on the right track.
in 2000, the abortion rate among poor women was still four times higher than for women making $30,000 a year
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Message to Obama: ‘Time to Close SOA is Now!’

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Human rights activists, religious leaders, and military veterans will descend on Fort Benning, Ga. this weekend to demand the closing of a notorious military training facility that has tutored some of Latin America’s most brutal soldiers and dictators.
The U.S. Army School of the Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, has a long and shameful history of teaching torture, extortion and execution to infamous graduates like Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama. Nearly 60,000 alumni have returned to Bolivia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to suppress human rights leaders, political dissidents and innocent civilians swept up in the region’s often violent struggles for social justice.
Interrogation manuals used by the facility and declassified by the National Security Archive shed light on a grim litany of “coercive techniques” similar to those used by U.S. military officers to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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Judge Declares Five Detainees Held Illegally

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SEVEN YEARS
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By William Glaberson – New York Times
Friday, November 21, 2008
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A federal judge issued the Bush administration a sharp setback on Thursday, ruling that five Algerian men have been held unlawfully at the Guant
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I Agree with Phil Donahue on This

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When people go on O’Reilly they ought to resort to simply INTERVIEWING HIM. Bring his beliefs out into the open. Then, when people listen to him and go out into the real world they can see how HILARIOUS his views are. Besides, he keeps interrupting you if you stand up for the truth and relies on the shouting match to promote himself. Got to diffuse that.

“When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest. ” Prov 29:9

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Obama a Natural Born Citizen? New Developments (11-19-08)

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Posted by Rick Williams on Wed, 11/19/2008 – 13:22
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Donofrio argues that the “birth certificate” and “Indonesia” issues are irrelevant to Obama’s eligibility to serve as President.
The framers recognized that EVEN THEY were not “natural born citizens.” That’s why they included a grandfather clause to allow any of them to become President.
Donofrio argues that the word “born” constitutes proof positive that the framers intended that status as a “citizen” must be present at birth, since if this was not the intent there would have been no need for the grandfather clause. Dual citizenship at time of birth (British/US) was allowed for the framers themselves under the grandfather clause, but for no one else.
Hence, argues Donofrio, Obama is not a natural born citizen, and even if he produces an original birth certificate proving he was born in Hawaii it will not change the fact that he was a British citizen at birth.
These are matters of core Constitutional eligibility,
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Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government

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Some self-evident truth that carries with it the force to change our way of thinking and in turn change the way we govern ourselves.
clipped from etext.virginia.edu
2. Securing Rights

The purpose of government is to maintain a society which secures to every member the inherent and inalienable rights of man, and promotes the safety and happiness of its people. Protecting these rights from violation, therefore, is its primary obligation.
“The principles of government… [are] founded in the rights of man.”
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
“The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural right.”
“[These are] the rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all.”
“[Montesquieu wrote in Spirit of the Laws, VIII,c.3:] ‘In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal; but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.'”
“[It is the obligation] of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience.”
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