The Housing and Financial Markets: Congressional Action Could Disrupt Market Correction
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Many American homeowners are facing financial hardships resulting from onerous mortgages and falling home values. Many investors are facing financial losses as the risky instruments they bought in happier times decline in value. These processes must work through to conclusion for the economy to regain a sound footing, and the private sector is working effectively toward this end. Congressional action cannot change this reality, except by prolonging and exacerbating the situation. Congress should focus its energies on policies to strengthen the economy coming out of the current slowdown.

Planned Parenthood 2006 - 289,650 Abortions, $112 Million Profit, $336 Million in Public Funds
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The newly released Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) 2006-2007 annual report shows that the abortion behemoth has increased the number of abortions it committed from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006. Total revenue amounted to over one billion dollars, with the organization's profit margin - "excess of revenue over expenses" - soaring from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006. Taxpayer dollars played a major role in that profit with the report acknowledging the organization received over $336 million in government grants and contracts.

Briton - Marriage Hits Lowest Rate
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The number of Britons tying the knot has collapsed to a record low. The proportion of men and women getting married is below any level found since figures were first kept nearly 150 years ago. And the number of weddings held in 2006 was the smallest since 1895, when the population was little more than half its present level. The evidence that marriage is withering away at an increasing pace was met with a furious response from critics of the liberal, Labour Party’s, benefits system, which disregards the status of husbands and wives and pays parents extra to stay single.

Homosexual group mocks Christianity
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a San Francisco-based homosexual organization that has run "Revival Bingo" and whose members have taken communion in a Catholic church in full costume regalia chose Resurrection Sunday to stage its 2008 "hunky Jesus" competition.

McGay
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McDonald's restaurant's, famed for the Golden Arches, Ronald McDonald and kids meals, has signed onto a nationwide effort to promote "gay" and "lesbian" business ventures.

67 years in Japan and Counting
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Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted — “Make it a hundred” — then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: “We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so.” Lest anyone think he was talking about prolonged war-fighting rather than maintaining a presence in postwar Iraq, he explained: “That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.”

McCain says US should live up to duties of a world leader
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain called Wednesday for the United States to work more closely with democratic countries and live up to its duties as a world leader.

McCain and Romney, that’s the ticket!
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In a show of Republican unity, one-time bitter foes John McCain and Mitt Romney raised money and campaigned together Thursday for a single goal - getting McCain elected president.

Obama’s Stances on the Issues
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During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion — positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he has projected during his presidential campaign. Read the truth about Obama’s principles here!

Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine
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Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

Accused Saddam Agent Says He Met With Hillary at White House
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Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was "very receptive" to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time. He said Mrs. Clinton "passed a message to the State Department" about the need to implement the oil-for-food deal, which was intended to allow Saddam to sell billions of dollars' worth of oil to pay for food for Iraqi citizens.

Spitzer Linked To 2nd Prostitution Ring
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Disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, according to the New York Post. Spitzer regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in investigation, law-enforcement sources told the paper.

Treachery: Saddam Paid for Liberal Lawmakers' Iraq Trip
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Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said. An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses a member of a Islamic Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary. The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California.

Former CAIR Head Indicted over Congressional trip by liberals
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The former head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan branch was indicted yesterday for allegedly arranging a visit to Baghdad by three U.S. congressmen financed by Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency in the run-up to the war, according to federal prosecutors.

Black Liberation Theology
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Acton Research Fellow Anthony Bradley joins host Glenn Beck on Headline News to discuss Black Liberation Theology. Bradley makes three main points, which he will elaborate on in a series of essays included in Glenn Beck's weekly newsletter.

Businessman, heal thyself!
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Clearly it’s not enough for business to be “pro-business.” Business leaders need to be pro-free enterprise, pro-free competition, and pro-free trade. Otherwise they risk simply becoming lobbyists, helping to create a world in which political influence counts for more than entrepreneurial ability, consumers pay more for lower-quality/higher-cost goods, and the poor in developing nations are locked out of the global markets that give them more hope of a better life than any amount of foreign aid. To paraphrase St. Luke’s Gospel: “Businessman, heal thyself!”

Nebraska Bans Public Funding for Destructive Embryo Research
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48 of the 49 Nebraskan senators voted Tuesday to pass Legislative Bill 606 banning some human cloning. The measure was quickly signed by Governor Dave Heineman. The measure allows research grants to be given to institutions doing stem cell research without using embryos. The new law also prohibits public funding of research that creates or destroys embryos for stem cell research.

Radical Islam's stunning wife-and-child abuse
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"This is full-fledged, criminally pathological madness," says WND and Whistleblower Managing Editor David Kupelian. "It's rooted in a lethal combination of hatred and insane philosophy, both so deeply implanted and so massively reinforced that there is barely a person reading these words that can even begin to comprehend such extreme child abuse."

Mexico drug war opens bloody new front on U.S. border
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Brazen Mexican drug gangs are escalating their war with the army and each other, murdering a record 720 people this year and opening up a gruesome new battle front on the U.S. border near Texas. As the army struggles to contain bloodshed in hotspots from the border area to the Caribbean coast, murders in rundown Ciudad Juarez, over the border from the Texan city of El Paso, have flared to unprecedented levels.

Hillary and Elton accused of breaking US Elections Laws
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elton John have been accused of breaking U.S. laws by allowing the British pop singer, a foreign national, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign by performing a concert on her behalf. The goal of the 1966 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was to "minimize foreign intervention" in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals.

Obama Superdelegate Indicted
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Liberal Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila (D), who is a superdelegate supporting Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president, was indicted on 19 counts Thursday stemming from financial dealings in three political campaigns.

Strip Club allowed 12-year-old to dance nude and it’s not against the law
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The mere fact that a 12-year-old girl danced nude at a northwest Dallas strip club isn't enough to close its doors. That's because the city ordinance that regulates sexually oriented businesses does not allow authorities to revoke the license of such a business for employing someone under the age of 18. The sixth-grader danced at Diamonds Cabaret over a two-week period late last year, authorities say. They also say they found a 17-year-old girl working in the club in January.

Spy drones in demand by U.S. police
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The Miami police could soon use cutting-edge flying drones to help fight crime. A small pilotless vehicle manufactured by Honeywell International, capable of hovering and "staring" using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to be introduced soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades. If use of the drone wins U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval after tests, the Miami-Dade Police Department will start flying the 14 pound, or 6.35 kilogram, drone over urban areas with an eye toward full-fledged employment in crime fighting.

Newspaper Industry revenue worst in 50 years
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The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 -- the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950.

2008 Federal Revenue and Spending Book of Charts
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Chances are that if you are reading this you have paid taxes to the United States government. Ever wonder how your money is being spent or how much of it the federal government has already planned on spending even before you've earned it? Through a series of 41 revised and updated charts, The Heritage Foundation's 2008 Federal Revenue and Spending Book of Charts will depict the answers to these and other vital questions.

Traitor: American Anchor Quits Al Jazeera
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Dave Marash, the most prominent American anchor on Al Jazeera English, has quit the 24-hour news channel, citing an increased amount of editorial control exercised by the channel’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Undercover in North Korea: Episode One
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A fascinating look into the real North Korea by an American Journalist. Episode One is visiting the DMZ.

Costly Carbon Caps Avoided … For Now
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The Heritage Foundation applauds the announcement by EPA administrator Stephen Johnson that the agency will respond to the Supreme Court’s Massachusetts v. EPA decision by issuing an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the question of regulating carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. It is critical not to impose unnecessary regulatory costs on the economy, as would surely be the case if the agency took irreversible steps to regulate at this time, in uncertain economic times this is all the more true.

Diocese begins stem-cell-education program
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As New York state prepares to allocate $600 million in funding for stem-cell research, the Diocese of Rochester is rolling out a program to educate Catholics about the differences between adult and embryonic stem cells.

Author – “Affirmative Action Hurts Kids”
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Using words and pictures that kids can easily understand, "Joey Gonzalez" shows how government programs designed to "help" children are often the ones that do the most harm.

Abortion is killing Christianity
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Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Formenti said that while the number of Catholic’s as a proportion of the world's population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates. Muslims make up 19% now and Catholics make up 17%.

Presidential Primary Results
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Republicans – Delegates – 1,191 Delegates Needed
McCain is the Republican nominee.
Democrats – Delegates – 2,025 Delegates Needed
Obama - 1632 Clinton – 1499