Pope Benedict XVI Ready to Meet America
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Next up for Pope Benedict XVI, a welcoming nation that wants to get to know him. Benedict's first trip to the United States as pope begins Tuesday - a five-day visit to Washington and New York, including a speech at the United Nations. Anyone expecting strident speeches from the man once called "God's rottweiler" for his role defending Roman Catholic doctrine will be disappointed. Benedict will deliver an unwavering message that society needs religious values. He will use the occasion to condemn abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage, praising "the efforts of so many of your fellow citizens and government leaders to ensure legal protection for God's gift of life from conception to natural death."

The Tax Me More Act
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California Republican John Campbell introduced in the House his "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act," which would amend the tax code to allow individuals to make voluntary donations to the federal government above their normal tax liability. The bill would place a new line on IRS tax forms to make this easy. Mr. Campbell says he has heard the "cries" of those wealthy Americans – Mrs. Clinton, Warren Buffett, Barbra Streisand – who reject the lower tax rates passed in 2001 and 2003 and complain that they and their fellow rich don't pay enough. "It's a great injustice that citizens wishing to fulfill their dream of paying more taxes cannot simply check a box on their 1040 form to make a donation," he says. His bill would give liberals a chance to salve their consciences without having to raise taxes on millions of Americans who already feel overtaxed as it is.

North Dakota and Montana sitting on Huge Untapped Oil Reserve
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North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation. A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

Ann Coulter reviews the funniest media moments in 2007
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Ann Coulter presents funny videos from 2007 at the 2008 MRC DisHonors Awards, including Brian Williams' overblown report on "paper or plastic."

Obama statements about small towns raise eyebrows
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While campaigning in San Francisco, Barack Hussein Obama said the following, “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Obama Youtube Video: Compare and Contrast
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Obama video shows his reverse racism.

Obama, Carter and Soros
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Townhall's Mary Katharine Ham on the April 11 "Fox & Friends. Topics: how Jimmy Carter could hurt Barack Obama with the Jewish vote; and George Soros' planned $40 million media blitz against John McCain.

Stix Nix Obama’s Trix
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Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of Deliverance. Unfortunately for The Chosen One’s adoring fans, he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans.

1999 Flashback: Hillary Lobbied for tough gun control measures
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Stepping up the Clinton Administration's campaign against gun violence, Hillary Rodham Clinton used an emotional White House ceremony today to call on Americans to press Congress to ''buck the gun lobby'' and pass several gun control measures.

State high court shoots down S.F. handgun ban
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The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco's voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms.

Bill linked to China
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A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions. Apparently, these two need to talk.

Liberals want higher state tax on beer
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Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way. The San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 per six-pack, or 30 cents per can or bottle. The current tax is 2 cents per can. That's an increase of about 1,500 percent. Beall said the tax would generate $2 billion a year to fund health care services, crime prevention and programs to prevent underage drinking and addiction.

Pro-Life Senator: FDA Shouldn't Allow Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trials
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Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), a leading pro-life advocate, is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to reject bids from two human cloning companies to start trials on humans with embryonic stem cells. Brownback says there are moral issues involved and medical risks for patients.

Pope Benedict XVI: Nazi Genocide Shaped His Pro-Life Views
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A new biography on Pope Benedict XVI says genocide during the Nazi regime in World War II played a key role in shaping the pro-life views of the Catholic leader. "This was Joseph Ratzinger's first experience of a murderous philosophy that asserts that some people are disposable," Pursell explains. Because of the terrible incident, Pope Benedicts presents a consistently pro-life worldview that opposes abortion as well as euthanasia and assisted suicide. "Many people are expecting Pope Benedict XVI to speak out in defense of human life and against abortion during his visit to the United States next week," Pursell said in a statement LifeNews.com received. "What few people realize, however, is that the pope knows firsthand what happens when a society refuses to defend the most defenseless of its citizens," he added.

Pregnant girl’s drink spiked with abortion pill
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State police are helping Williamsburg, Blair County, authorities find whomever spiked a pregnant teenage girl’s drink with a drug used to abort pregnancies in cows, a drug they think was stolen from a Williamsburg farm, according to a release. The pregnant girl’s beverage was tainted with Prostamate at Williamsburg High School, police said. Troopers are considering the act an aggravated assault upon the girl and her unborn baby, police said.

Casey’s killer Obama embrace
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In 2006, another Bob Casey rose to national prominence: the late governor’s son, Robert P. Casey Jr., also pro-life, had his eyes on a U.S. Senate seat, and challenged and defeated Senator Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) — ousting the Senate’s best defender of unborn human life. This thrilled abortion-rights supporters, but Casey himself was pro-life. The anti-abortion movement hoped Casey Jr. might pick up the torch from Santorum, and might even shake up his own party on the issue. Thus far Casey has been a disappointment. And now, alas, Senator Casey has stepped up to endorse the most radical supporter of abortion to ever come close to a major-party presidential nomination: Barack Obama.

Top hurricane scientist cools to global warming
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One of the most vocal scientists in the field of hurricane prediction has backed away from his earlier certainty of a link between global warming and stronger hurricanes after developing a new forecasting technique that suggests a moderate increase – or even decline – in storm activity over the next 200 years.

Phoenix mayor asks FBI to investigate sheriff
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The mayor wants the FBI to investigate whether the local county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws with his recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants. The "saturation patrols" have drawn protests from civil rights and immigrant-rights advocates, but they have drawn support from backers of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and from people who believe the government hasn't done enough against illegal immigration.

Conservative to Win Italy’s Presidential Vote
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Exit polls put Italy’s Conservative candidate Silvio Berlusconi ahead on Monday in Italy's parliamentary election. Berlusconi has vowed to cut Italy's public debt, trim taxes and de-regulate government services.

Liberal Lunacy: Smoking Gone, Bottled Water Next
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Smoking is disappearing from bars and restaurants, not just in Kansas City but across the country. Will bottled water be next? Some restaurants in St. Louis and Minneapolis pledged last week to reduce or eliminate the sale of bottled water, following the lead of eateries in several other cities. A lot of fuel is used to make and ship the water containers, and most end up in landfills, say supporters of bottled-water boycotts.

Rule of the Law
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The American justice system suffers from a prevailing judicial philosophy that treats judging as politics by another name; a dangerous trend to “over-criminalize”—that is, to criminalize conduct that is socially and economically beneficial or is better regulated by the civil justice system or administrative means; and a civil litigation system run amok by frivolous lawsuits and outrageous damage rewards. We must restore the courts to their constitutional role, which is to protect individual liberty, property rights, and free enterprise, and to enforce the constitutional limits on government. We also seek to reverse the dangerous trend to criminalize almost everything. To do this, we must remind legislators of the proper lines between federal and state control, and we must restore the traditional protections afforded the accused by the criminal justice system.

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 - 1642 Clinton – 1506