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Gates orders overhaul of Pentagon mentor program – USA Today

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 06:49 PM PDT


Anti-Government Group’s Threats to Remove Governors Grab Federal Attention – Fox

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:47 PM PDT


Exploiting the Crisis – April 2

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:12 PM PDT

There is an element of irony in the current crisis of relations between the Obama administration and Israel. On the one hand, although US President Barack Obama and his advisors deny there is anything wrong with US-Israel relations today, it is easy to understand why no one believes them. View Full [...]


Obama: Evidence shows Iran is developing nukes

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:55 PM PDT

Evidence shows Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama told CBS on Friday, adding that he felt his administration should continue the pressure on Tehran to cooperate with the international community over its contentious nuclear [...]


Despite Obama’s sanctions, Ahmadinejad can keep smiling

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:48 PM PDT

Disquiet in Merdel’s Party Over Guantanamo Prisoner Plans – Der Spiegel

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:11 PM PDT


Vatican preacher compares attacks on pope to anti-Semitism

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Attacks on Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church over a sexual abuse scandal are comparable to the most shameful anti-Semitism, the pontiff's [...]


Independent voters turn from hopeful to angry – Washington Times

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 02:38 PM PDT


Obama Administration Scolds Karzai After Anti-Western Speech – Fox

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:58 PM PDT


Despite Obama’s sanctions, Ahmadinejad can keep smiling

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Despite Obama’s sanctions, Ahmadinejad can keep smiling

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Talk is cheap, Obama must act to stop a nuclear Iran

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:54 PM PDT

Former Defense Minister: Israel Will Attack Iran by November – April 2

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:43 PM PDT

By: Ken Timmerman Israel will be compelled to attack Iran's nuclear weapons facilities by this November unless the U.S. and its allies enact "crippling sanctions that will undermine the regime in Tehran," former deputy defense minister Brig. Gen. Ephraim Sneh said on Wednesday in Tel Aviv. The sanctions currently being discussed with Russia, China, and other major [...]


David Kupelian on ‘Aaron Klein Investigative Radio’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:24 PM PDT

Explaining how Obama using crises to push extremist [...]


Transgender Inmates Have Constitutional Right To Hormones

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:02 PM PDT

 

 

A Wisconsin law that bans using taxpayer money for transgender prisoners' costly hormone treatments violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, according to a federal court ruling that kills a state measure passed with ardent bipartisan support.

Denying convicted male felons hormones that help them look like women violates both the Eighth Amendment's right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's right to equal protection, according to U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert who ruled on the matter this week.

In a three-page order, the Clinton-appointed judge asserts that "there is no rational basis" for the Wisconsin law which "results in the denial of hormone therapy without regard for the individual medical needs of inmates and the medical judgment of their health-care providers."

With the help of a famously leftwing civil rights organization, a group of male inmates who identify as female challenged the law by claiming that they need the hormones to treat their gender identity disorder and not having them would lead to severe health problems.

The measure, which also prohibits the Department of Corrections from using tax dollars to pay for inmates' sex-reassignment surgery, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2007. Wisconsin's liberal Democrat governor, Jim Doyle, quickly signed it into law after a prisoner who had received hormone therapy sued to force the state to pay for his sex change.

Nationwide states annually dish out thousands of dollars to provide transgender prison inmates with hormone treatments, laser hair removal and even makeup. A few years ago a convicted murderer sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to pay for an expensive sex-change surgery, claiming that he's a woman trapped in a man's body.

The surgery is estimated to cost between $10,000 and $20,000 and the inmate, convicted in 1993 of murdering his wife, claims that his gender-identity disorder is a serious illness that can lead to severe anxiety, depression, suicide attempts and self-castration. Denying this treatment for a "medical necessity" would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, according to his lawsuit.

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162,000 jobs added in March, most in 3 years – MSNBC

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:40 AM PDT


Congressman: ‘I don’t worry about the Constitution’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:36 AM PDT

'I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of [...]


Congressman: ‘I don’t worry about the Constitution’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:36 AM PDT

'I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of [...]


Fast-Moving Storms Wreak Mid-Morning Havoc – CNN

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT


Top Vatican Official Refutes New York Times’ Charges of Pope’s Negligence in Abuse Cases as ‘Deficient,’ ‘Anachronistic Conflation’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:27 AM PDT

Cardinal William Levada, the head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, strongly refuted charges first reported in the New York Times that then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict XVI – declined to punish a priest accused of abusing as many as 200 deaf boys from the 1950's to [...]


AG Helps Illegal Alien Gangbangers Charged With Murder

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:58 AM PDT

 

Three illegal immigrant gang members who faced the death penalty for murdering a Maryland man last summer have been spared by the nation's chief law enforcement officer who has ordered prosecutors not to seek the maximum punishment.

Attorney General Eric Holder intervened on behalf of the El Salvadoran gangbangers by directing federal prosecutors handling their conspiracy and murder case to rule out the death penalty, according to a Virginia-based news web site that broke the story this week. The three illegal immigrants are members of a notoriously violent street gang called Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that has spread throughout the country like the plague.

Last summer they robbed and murdered a man in Virginia as part of a conspiracy to extort money from his prostitution business. A few months later the illegal alien gang members were indicted with federal racketeering and murder. Federal prosecutors indicated that they would seek the death penalty and a court-appointed attorney for one of the defendants was dismissed because he lacked the proper certification for trying a death penalty case.

Just a few weeks ago, defense attorneys prepared jury questionnaires that alluded to the death penalty and eliminated jurors who might discriminate against Latinos. But as the May trial approaches, Holder stepped in and ruled out the death penalty. He refuses to explain the last-minute order claiming that that the attorney general's decision-making process and final decision involving the death penalty is confidential.

Court documents cited in the news report say that Holder "authorized and directed" the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Neal McBride, "not to seek the death penalty" against the illegal immigrants. McBride subsequently filed a corresponding court document (Government's Notice of Intent Not to Seek the Death Penalty) making it official.

This is hardly the first controversy involving President Obama's attorney general. Holder ignited public outrage when he granted civilian criminal trials to several 9/11 terrorists—including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—in New York City and he actually filed a motion to reverse the jury convictions of a bribed U.S. Senator (Ted Stevens) who was found guilty of seven felonies.

Holder has also refused to investigate a fraud-infested community group (ACORN) that's been criminally charged in various states and he dropped charges against the militant Black Panthers for intimidating voters during the 2008 presidential election. The attorney general also refused to criminally charge an Obama cabinet nominee, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who withdrew amid a pay to play corruption scandal.

Holder's storied career at the Justice Department actually dates back to his days as Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, best known as the guy who orchestrated the last-minute pardons of two jailed domestic terrorists and a fugitive financier. Holder also coordinated the violent Miami raid on the house of a Cuban boy's (Elian Gonzalez) family. Along with his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno, Holder ordered heavily armed federal agents to illegally break into the home of Elian's relatives to take the boy on Good Friday in 2000. [...]


China to Buy S-300 Missiles From Russian Plant – Moscow Times

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:52 AM PDT


FEMA Leader Missing in Action as White House Seeks To Show Concern for Flood-Stricken Rhode Island Residents

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:36 AM PDT

Press secretaries for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would not disclose the whereabouts of FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate as of Friday [...]


Zondervan to Publish More Than 1,000 Christian Titles for iPad Launch

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Contact: Brian Burch, 616-233-0500 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- To accompany the long-awaited iPad launch, Zondervan is one of the first publishers to release titles in Apple's iBookstore beginning Saturday, April 3, 2010. More than 1,000 titles will be available for download from all product groups. Zondervan plans to release all its future ebooks in an iPad version and is working to release more than 150 additional books in the next three months. Users will be Source: Lambert, Edwards & [...]


Zondervan to Publish More Than 1,000 Christian Titles for iPad Launch

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Contact: Brian Burch, 616-233-0500 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- To accompany the long-awaited iPad launch, Zondervan is one of the first publishers to release titles in Apple's iBookstore beginning Saturday, April 3, 2010. More than 1,000 titles will be available for download from all product groups. Zondervan plans to release all its future ebooks in an iPad version and is working to release more than 150 additional books in the next three months. Users will be Source: Lambert, Edwards & [...]


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Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:42 AM PDT

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Obama: Evidence shows Iran is developing nukes

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT

Evidence shows Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama told CBS on Friday, adding that he felt his administration should continue the pressure on Tehran to cooperate with the international community over its contentious nuclear [...]


Obama: Evidence shows Iran is developing nukes

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT

Evidence shows Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama told CBS on Friday, adding that he felt his administration should continue the pressure on Tehran to cooperate with the international community over its contentious nuclear [...]


IT Problems Will Put Census at Risk ‘Up to the Last Minute,’ Commerce Official Confirms

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:14 AM PDT

Information Technology (IT) problems will put the 2010 Census operations at risk "up to the last minute," a Commerce Department official told [...]


A Voice from the Past

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Contact: Abigail Davidson, Publicist, WinePress Group, 360-802-9758, abigail@winepressgroup.com ENUMCLAW, Wash., April 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- "If you could talk to anyone, alive or dead who would you choose?" Answers to this question, range from dead grandparents to Abraham Lincoln to James Dean. Jesus, and spiritual giants like Peter, Mary, and C.S. Lewis often top lists as well. Most of us have at least one person that we would like to gain wisdom and insight from or simply ask "Why? Source: WinePress Publishing [...]


A Voice from the Past

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Contact: Abigail Davidson, Publicist, WinePress Group, 360-802-9758, abigail@winepressgroup.com ENUMCLAW, Wash., April 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- "If you could talk to anyone, alive or dead who would you choose?" Answers to this question, range from dead grandparents to Abraham Lincoln to James Dean. Jesus, and spiritual giants like Peter, Mary, and C.S. Lewis often top lists as well. Most of us have at least one person that we would like to gain wisdom and insight from or simply ask "Why? Source: WinePress Publishing [...]


Putin to meet Chavez for military, energy talks – Novosti

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 06:54 AM PDT


Exclusive: DEA Director Visits Afghanistan – Fox

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT


Army Secretary: Soldiers Can Still Be Discharged for Admitting They Are Gay – Fox

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:33 AM PDT


Iran: China agrees new nuclear sanctions ‘not effective’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:05 AM PDT

Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions are "not effective", Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Friday after meeting China's foreign minister and other officials in [...]


Iran: China agrees new nuclear sanctions ‘not effective’

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:05 AM PDT

Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions are "not effective", Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Friday after meeting China's foreign minister and other officials in [...]


Israel and U.S. push to get China on board for Iran sanctions

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:53 AM PDT

The United States and Israel have both been making efforts to engage China in pursuing harsh international sanctions against Iran over the latter's contentious nuclear [...]


Obama’s Two-State Delusion – April 2

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:52 AM PDT

Let there be no mistake: President Obama's attack on Israel's right to govern in eastern Jerusalem has nothing to do with American national interests, and nothing to do with a "peace process." Other American leaders may have disagreed with Israeli policy, but none of them made it a casus belli. No other prominent politician sought to [...]


Palestinian PM to Haaretz: We will have a state next year

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:44 AM PDT

RAMALLAH - Next year, "the birth of a Palestinian state will be celebrated as a day of joy by the entire community of nations," says Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in an exclusive interview to Haaretz. [...]


Palestinian PM to Haaretz: We will have a state next year

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 04:44 AM PDT

RAMALLAH - Next year, "the birth of a Palestinian state will be celebrated as a day of joy by the entire community of nations," says Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in an exclusive interview to Haaretz. [...]


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