War Funding Bill should be Vetoed
Min. Leader: Mr. President, Veto This Bill
Can someone please explain why a quarter-billion dollars for the Milk Income Loss Contract Program belongs in a funding bill for troops under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Hip Hop goes to School
“;School for Scandal: Hip Hop Goes to College”
Why would a hip hop group called “Crime Mob” be invited to the campus of a Historically Black College? And why would the group’s “Rock Yo Hips” music video -- featuring college cheerleaders as strippers -- get so much play on television? Anthony Bradley looks at the effect of misogynistic and violent music on a black culture that desperately needs healthy models of academic achievement and honest economic progress.

Novak - Thompson’s gaining steam
Thompson Is for Real
Thompson’s lifetime Senate voting record as measured by the American Conservative Union was 86 percent. It would have been close to 100 percent except for his repeated votes supporting McCain's campaign finance reform. None of the big-three Republicans has been so consistently conservative as Thompson on tax policy, national security and abortion.

Schools minimizing Islamic Fascism
Whitewashing Jihad in the Schools
How many other jihad-whitewashing mock terrorism drills have been conducted using tax dollars? How long before we mimic the British schools, where the Holocaust is being dropped from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils?

Troop Surge showing signs of Success
Geography of the War (National Review Online)
Supporters of Operation Iraqi Freedom will be buoyed by a new poll of Iraqis showing high levels of support for the Baghdad security plan and the elected government implementing it.

Kerry, Gingrich announce climate showdown
Debate on global warming to be hosted by New York University
Former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) are set to square off on climate change next week, their staffs announced Thursday.

Giuliani: Abortions a Constitutional Right
Affirms 'you have to make sure people are protected'
"Ultimately, it's a constitutional right, and therefore if it's a constitutional right, ultimately, even if you do it on a state by state basis, you have to make sure people are protected," Giuliani said in an interview with CNN.

Financial Aid Officers in Collusion with Student Loan Companies
Student loan firms reportedly gave stock grants to college officials...
Authorities are investigating stock grants from student loan companies to financial aid officers at three major universities as part of a widening investigation into the $85 billion student loan industry.

Obama reports $25 million in campaign income
Challenges fundraising by frontrunning Clinton
Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee

Rapist spared jail because girl, 10, looked older
Judge: 'She was looking for a man and got what she wanted'
Judge Evans viewed photographs of the girl before deciding on a non-custodial sentence, and told the accused:" The prosecution accepts that you believed she was 16 and that that belief was reasonable. She was looking for a man and got what she wanted."

The Continuing UN Saga
Waste, Fraud and UN Headquarters
Tax day is approaching and those of you who still owe Uncle Sam money had better send it in. That’s because the free spending Bush administration has teamed up with the pork dispensers on Capitol Hill to send more of our money to the corrupt regime at the United Nations.

Easter - A Time that changed the Destiny of the Human Race
Celebrating the Lord’s Passover: Suggestions for Personal and Family Prayer
Sundown today, Holy Thursday, marks the beginning of three sacred days (Triduum) that changed the destiny of the human race. Few of us have sufficient time to make use of all the following prayer suggestions during these holy days, but it would be a tragedy to let this season of grace go by without taking some time for extended prayer.