Barack Obama and National Right to Life went head-to-head over Obama’s abortion record, and Obama blinked. The Democratic presidential candidate now has backed off his claims that pro-life advocates were “lying” over his vote to kill a bill that would have prevented infanticide in Illinois. Obama’s campaign now acknowledges he “misrepresented” his position.Obama’s decision to […]

Pro-Abortion leader Francis Kissling has published an article acknowledging that the new Democratic Party platform favors the cause of abortion and sex education, even more so than in previous years.Kissling notes that the new platform “derives its moral authority from ‘a woman’s right to choose safe and legal abortion’”, unlike older ones that spoke merely […]

Over 120 blogs have been credentialed as members of the media for the Democratic National Convention; those who have received credentials are allowed to cover the Convention at the Pepsi Center. While most of them offer legitimate commentary, some do not.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue is protesting two of the blogs:
“The list of credentialed blogs include […]

When the Democratic National Convention (DNC) gets underway in Denver, the party will vote on plans to adjust its platform to make its position on abortion look friendlier to Catholic and Evangelical voters without angering radical feminists.Delegates at the DNC, which starts August 25, will vote on language that calls for reducing “the need for abortions” while […]

Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. will speak at the Democratic National Convention on August 26. His father, Bob Casey, was barred from speaking at the 1992 Democratic National Convention because he was pro-life.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“If a Democrat voted with the National Rifle Association two out of every three times, no […]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on the role that atheists are seeking at the Democratic National Convention:
“The Democrats are in a jam. Long the party of choice for atheists, they have profoundly alienated people of faith from joining their ranks, so much so that they have lost the last two elections because of […]

You know there are some in the liberal media who have simply lost touch with reality when the headline reads “John Edwards Cheats on Wife With Cancer” and they ask with great detachment whether he’ll be able to run for office again soon. These people’s morality is so bizarre that they showed more outrage at […]

California public schools soon will be planning “gay day” celebrations every May 22 unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the legislation.Thursday the California Assembly approved AB 2567, which designates May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day.” The 43 to 26 vote occurred on party lines with Democrats for, Republicans against. Earlier this week, AB 2567 passed the […]

The government funded program, PromArt, which granted millions in taxpayers’ dollars to Canadian artists to promote Canadian culture abroad, was cancelled Friday by the federal Conservative government because it was sponsoring “left-wing” and radical ideals .According to the Toronto Star, Anne Howland, a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson, addressed the canned program.
“Certainly we […]

Ignoring enormous community opposition, the Gainesville, Florida City Council earlier this year enacted an ordinance that granted special privileges to men who perceive themselves as women to use women’s bathrooms in any school, business or public facility.As a result, a coalition of citizens and businesses, in Gainesville, formed “Citizens for Good Public Policy,” for the […]

The world justly celebrates the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great man whose work and witness seems most aptly summed up in a single word: prophetic. But, as prophets are in a habit of doing, he made some people feel the needle who were sure they didn’t deserve it. This was especially so for Western […]

Newsweek’s love for Barack Obama knows no bounds. After Obama’s speech in Berlin, Newsweek published a headline that suggests an editor who’s spent six days drunk on a merry-go-round: “Obama’s Reagan Moment.” That deserves the Lloyd Bentsen retort: “I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan.”
The […]

Fearing tax-subsidized chemical abortions are threatened, Sen. Hillary Clinton has joined the anti-life campaign dedicated to fighting the Bush administration’s new plan to protect pro-life medical workers who refuse to fill prescriptions for medications causing  chemical abortions - including the birth control pill.
The proposed regulation has a myriad of ramifications for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s […]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded today to a story last [week] by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on attempts by some Catholics to get the McCain campaign to oust Catholic author and activist Deal Hudson from the Catholics for McCain National Steering Committee:
“Anderson Cooper said last [week] that those opposed to Hudson were citing two reasons […]

The press has been endlessly dazzled with the prowess and the promise of the Barack Obama campaign. Observers of these quivering scribes have to wonder if they don’t collapse from exhaustion at the end of the day from all the involuntary spine tingling and shortness of breath over Obama’s inspirational aura.
One obvious sign the media […]

When he was a state senator in Illinois in June 2002, Barack Obama was explicitly asked by Chicago media personality Jeff Berkowitz whether he supports school vouchers. “I would support anything that is going to be better for the children of Illinois,” he said. He emphatically added that “I am not closed minded on the […]

Frank Donatelli, deputy chair of the Republican National Committee, spoke with Catholic journalists of the orthodox stripe today about McCain and the Catholic vote.  The conference call was graciously hosted by Deal Hudson, publisher of Crisis Magazine.”Senator McCain is very much in sympathy and compatible with Catholic voters,” began Donatelli. “He’s a cultural conservative, he […]

During [the July 3rd] National Right to Life Conference, President George Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave video addresses to the audience, in which they expressed their support for the unborn’s inherent right to life and their unity with the country’s pro-life movement.LifeNews.com reports that after thanking the audience for their “commitment to protecting the unborn,” […]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue urged Catholics to reject Sen. Barack Obama’s faith-based initiative:
“If a customer walked into a New York deli and said, ‘Let me have a hot dog on a roll-hold the frankfurter’-he’d likely be thrown out. That’s what the public should do to Obama’s faith-based initiative: since he wants to gut the […]

In the thick of the fight over the wrong Reverend Wright, Barack Obama put on his annoyed face and said the whole issue of his preacher’s hate speech was a distraction from the real issues, like health care and education and war. So many in the media were quick to agree. But now that the […]

In the course of human events it is necessary, now and again, to dissolve our political bands with the ninnies who keep abandoning our founding principles.
It used to be self-evident that our government’s role was primarily to protect certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It used to be that our […]

Two evangelical leaders, Rev. Jim Wallis and Rev. Tony Campolo, have pledged to reach out to Catholics and evangelicals by pushing the Democratic Party to change its Party Platform on abortion. Wallis told ABC News that “Abortion reduction should be a central Democratic Party plank in this election.” But he also stressed that no legal […]

Why do many doctors’ offices have answering machines with this initial response? Price controls. Why does it take so long to get an appointment, if one is even available? Price controls. What will happen if our next president, in the name of universal health care, increases third-party responsibility for medical care? More price controls.
United States […]

A landmark education program that provides opportunity to hundreds of families in the nation’s capital to attend private schools is being opposed by Democrats in Congress.
 
Barack Obama told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in February that he was open to voucher programs, but just last week announced his intentions to squash the DC pilot program.
 
“Barack Obama prefers private education […]

The general election season is under way, and the leftists are already displaying their hypocrisy. They’ve launched pre-emptive warnings against a Republican “swiftboating” of Barack Obama at the same time they’re making up wild allegations about the villainous ultraconservative plots against goodness planned by John McCain. The supposed civility police in the media are emphasizing […]

 For over two years, the federal government, the Far Left  media and anti-war politicians have smeared the names of loyal Marines, spent millions of dollars to uncover the “Haditha massacre” that never occurred, and employed an army of Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents in what it described as the largest investigation in that agency’s […]

Church teaching on the impossibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Communion is a matter intrinsic to the nature of the Eucharist, not of the “external disposition” of individuals, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference said this week. Hence, the attempt by politicians and media to redraft in political terms the issue of reception […]

With the recent addition of Bolivia, seven counties have now ratified a treaty called the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth (ICRY), a document that worries Latin American social conservatives for its not-so-veiled promotion of radical social policies. The document includes references to “sexual and reproductive health” as well as “sexual orientation.”
            
Representatives from 14 […]

Most Americans have little faith in the federal government to represent their interests. Who can blame them, when their fears are constantly affirmed by Washington’s shenanigans? According to polls, presidential and congressional approval ratings are hovering around an all time low. Just 17 percent of American voters believe the federal government represents the will of […]

The media reported widely this weekend that European Union leadership is already planning ways to ignore the referendum vote in Ireland that rejected the re-worked European Constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty.
 
Despite the fact that under the EU’s own rules the Lisbon Treaty must be ratified unanimously or die, one EU official said plans were […]

Gas prices this summer are expected to top $5.00 a gallon, meaning that it will take more than $80.00 to fill an average midsize car’s tank.  And if a family has more than three children, and therefore needs a vehicle that seats more than 5 people, that single fill-up cost can run to nearly $100.00.
In […]

The United Nations (UN) High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS took place at UN headquarters in New York this week to review progress made in fighting the global AIDS pandemic. The two-day meeting, which brought together members of government and civil society, was punctuated throughout by calls to end stigmatization and discrimination against people living with […]

Sen. John McCain reached out to Catholic voters yesterday in Philadelphia at a gathering of Catholic lay leaders and clergy. The meeting, held at the venerable Union League on South Broad St., is one in an ongoing series being held nationwide by McCain and his Catholic surrogates - Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Frank Keating, and […]

In a major survey released this week by the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College, it was reported that 57 percent of Americans believe that religious leaders should not support political candidates during worship services.
Commenting on this today is Catholic League president Bill Donohue:
“The findings of this […]

Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president.In light of Obama’s recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the […]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on Sen. Barack Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council:
“On May 2, I issued a news release calling on Sen. Obama to dissolve his Catholic National Advisory Council. My principal reason for doing so was his selection of dissident Catholics to advise him: for example, most of the public officials […]

Outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour delivered her last speech to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva this week and not only praised recent changes that have enabled United Nations (UN) human rights monitors to more closely scrutinize sovereign states, but also called for new mechanisms further strengthening a system often used […]

The Democrat party is in the midst of a great battle and while the pundits recognize that something is going on, none of them seem willing or able to explain the nature of the conflict. At root, the battle is a battle between Liberals and Radicals.Take the issue of rights. Conservatives believe that everyone has equal rights, […]

Wednesday night, a jury panel of seven officers acquitted Marine 1st Lieutenant Andrew Grayson of all charges involving accusations that he covered-up the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha on November 19, 2005.  The verdict caused spectators in courtroom on the vast Camp Pendleton Marine facility to erupt in cheers.After his acquittal, Lt Grayson made comments […]

For conservatives who would like to think the whole government should be handed over to the liberals for a few years until the Reagan wing of the Republican Party can get its act together, a quick look at a monstrosity under consideration by Congress is in order. Liberal Democrats and “green” Republicans are proposing a […]

Last week the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted its annual population award ceremony at the United Nations (UN) to honor an individual and an organization for “outstanding” work in the population field, including family planning. This year’s honorees were abortion advocates Dame Billie Miller in the individual category and New York-based Family Care International (FCI) […]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Rev. Michael Pfleger’s remarks at Sen. Barack Obama’s church that led the Catholic priest to apologize and the Democratic hopeful to renounce them:
“Most commentators are already focusing on the inappropriateness of the race-baiting comments by Father Pfleger. More serious is the venue in which he delivered his diatribe […]

Imagine that John McCain named a young running mate to campaign with him, and this national rookie suggested America had 58 states, repeatedly used the wrong names for the cities he was visiting, and honored a Memorial Day crowd by acknowledging the “fallen heroes” who were present, somehow alive and standing in the audience. How […]

The crucifix above the Speaker’s chair in the Quebec National Assembly will stay, says Premier Jean Charest. Responding to a report by a pair of academics on the problems of integrating immigrants into Quebec society, Charest said, “We won’t rewrite history. The church has played a major role in who we are today as a […]

At the dawn of the Democratic primary race between Barack and Hillary, news anchors like ABC’s Diane Sawyer were caught up in the question: Is America more poisoned by racism or sexism? If like ABC, you think the country is still dragging its knuckles in the primordial slime, then the expected primary victory of Obama […]

In an important blow to the eugenics movement, President George Bush yesterday signed into law a bill preventing health insurance companies and employers from discriminating against born or unborn individuals on the basis of genetic information.”It protects our citizens from having genetic information misused, and this bill does so without undermining the basic premise of […]

Pro-life congressmen, lead by Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), rescued a congressional resolution supporting reduction of women’s mortality at home and abroad from surreptitiously advancing the pro-abortion agenda advanced at the United Nations. House Resolution 1022, as now drafted, promotes both “maternal health and child survival” without a stealth promotion of abortion.The language […]

The Catholic Archbishop of Denver is warning a group called “Roman Catholics for Obama” that if they’re serious about being faithful Catholics then they’ll do more than simply take his words out of context to justify electing the virulently pro-abortion Democratic senator to the presidency.
Archbishop Charles Chaput dedicated his Monday column in the Denver Catholic […]

Every few months, I have lunch with a friend of mine who is a Presbyterian pastor .  He’s a very bright man, who seems, however, to have some gaps in his knowledge of Scripture, and certainly has a blind spot to the connection between the voting booth and killing babies.  He supports Barack Obama because he is against the […]

Thursday’s California Supreme Court ruling, imposing same-sex “marriage” on the state, has been criticized for its disregard for the will of the people, and for further deteriorating the already shaky foundations upon which the sacred institution of marriage stands.White House Press Secretary, Dana Perino, expressed President George Bush’s opposition to the judicial activism of yesterday’s […]