When the likes of Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak reports that a conservative summit recently produced a critical mass of anti-Bush rhetoric, it clearly is time for the President to sit up and take notice. See,

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050922.shtml

Few will probably remember. However, when the President's dad was running against Clinton over a decade ago, it was the then Texas Governor George who had to get on a plane during his dad's campaign to bring the message that people were really hurting out there and ...

Clearly, we as a society have now assumed lunacy to be the norm against which the normal are measured and found lacking.

A father expresses concern over the wisdom of hiring a homosexual to teach sex education to 6th graders at the school his son attends, and the principal, finding that "concern" to be politically incorrect, bars his son from re-enrollment. The father ultimately had to incur the expense of taking it to court to have a judge reverse the principal's decision.

Elsewhere, a student-employee received an unsolicited e-mail from a professor at a New Jersey state university that promoted lesbian relationships. The student-employee then replied, asking the professor to not send him any more of such e-mails because, as a practicing Muslim, he believed lesbianism to be a perversion and thus found the e-mails offensive. Subsequently, his response was ...

Mr. Wiesenthal dedicated his life to keeping alive in our collective thoughts not only memories of the horrors of the Holocaust but thereby also the horrors that mankind is capable of today should they fail to remember.

One sadness of his passage is that he is symbolic of the passing into history of the last generation that had first hand knowledge of the atrocities of Nazi Germany. My only hope is that with the departure of both Mr. Wiesenthal and his generation our memory will not fade so as to permit those horrors to be revisited upon us or our children due to our lack of vigilence. May God bless you and your work Mr. Wiesenthal as your life has blessed us all.

Catholic World News has reported that Pope Benedict XVI has approved a policy to ban individuals with gay tendencies from the priesthood. This is apparently in response to the recent molestation scandals hitting the Church. Interesting that this move is almost concurrent with the acceptance of gay marriages in various states throughout the the United States such as California. It also is moving in parallel with moves to remove things of God from the Public Square. Recently a school principal informed an elementary school student to cease bringing his Bible to school and to stop engaging in religious discussions with other students during recess.

NBC is coming out with a new T.V. series starring Amy Grant called "Three Wishes". In its story on the new series, here is what a New York Times reporter wrote:

NBC's promotion of the series is "evocative of a red-state presidential campaign. ... Three Wishes is aimed, in no small part, at a churchgoing rural and suburban audience."

Sounds like they really mean the intellectually backward types who inhabit red states, according to NEWSMAX.com. I would have to agree.

Atheists thanked "Good Morning America" host Bill Weir for apologizing to them for saying on the air: "There are no atheists in foxholes and hurricane zones." For the article see:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46366

Before he apologized shouldn't he have invited the atheists who actually endured Katrina's wrath to be interviewed on his show? Donchatink it would be interesting to get their views to see if the statement has any validity before issuing the apologizing?

What book in history has made its author $36,000,000 in the first 24 hours of its release? 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' sold 250,000 books per HOUR for a record 5,000,000 books sold in the first day. That's amazing, no matter how you look at it. What could it be that would explain this global phenomenon? Or, is it just that good of a story?

While Howard Dean seems bent on inferring that Christians in the aggregate are a group of 'nut bars', the Hillary is being accused by some Democrats of selling out because of her position shift on abortion interpreted by some as necessary to placate, and thus increase her appeal to, those same Christians in anticipation of a run for the Presidency in 2008.

Senator Clinton's statement in question was when she called abortion a "sad, even tragic choice."

In my opinion, rather than being simply a politically motivated shift in her position on the subject, overlooked entirely seems to be proportions of the hypocrisy it manifests that should

In response to the decision in Kelo v. City of New London, Sen. Tom McClintock has proposed legislation that would require a government to either own property it seizes or guarantee the public the legal right to use it should it be conveyed to a private party and to return it to the original owner should the use for which it was condemned cease.