God Bless America
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The opening ceremony of a Sept. 28, 2007, air show in Columbus, Ohio, included a parachutist displaying a gigantic U.S. flag. "It doesn't get any better than what we've just seen." Now, my fellow Countrymen, go forth and fight for her honor!

Dems want 55-cent-a-gallon gas tax
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Two years after Pelosi touted the Democrats' "commonsense plan" to lower gas prices, those prices are higher than ever, the House Republican Conference said on Friday. In fact, Republicans note that gas prices today are about $1.11 higher than they were in 2006, when Pelosi became House Speaker. Democrats may end up making the situation even worse -- if they continue pressing for a 55-cent-a-gallon increase in the federal gas tax.

Gasoline usage heads down
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U.S. drivers are doing something they haven’t done for nearly two decades — consume less gasoline. There are indications that a fundamental shift in consumer driving habits may have started in December, when total miles traveled in the U.S. dropped 3.9 percent compared with the same month a year earlier. Miles traveled in the Midwest were down 5.8 percent.

The Taxpayer Frog In the IRS Pot
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You know the story. Put a frog in hot water and he'll jump out, but put him in cooler water and slowly raise the heat and he'll stay in even as he boils to death. Are we frogs starting to boil in government stew? In the midst of a Presidential campaign where we seem to be deciding who's universal health care is more universal and who's global climate policy is more global, maybe it's time to check the temperature of the pot we're in.

Bad and Good of Bush's Climate Change Speech
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Embracing specific emissions targets was an unnecessary step that shifts the climate change debate in the wrong direction. Nonetheless, the President set out correct principles for addressing the issue, especially with respect to the American economy and the need for global participation. Overall, the speech was more important for what the President said he would not support than for what he said he would support.

Nuclear Power Critical to Meeting President's Greenhouse Gas Objectives
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On April 16, President George W. Bush established a national goal to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. His plan would first slow, then stop and reverse the rate of emissions of CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. The President placed much of the onus of meeting these objectives on the electricity generation industry. While wind, solar, and clean-coal technologies may eventually affordably contribute to the nation's production of emissions-free power, the best way to achieve the President's vision today is through nuclear power.

Winter blast cools global warming event
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So much for global warming. Earth Day festivities went ahead despite the blast of frigid weather yesterday. Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.

Women Tell Of Coerced, Illegal Abortions At Kansas Abortion Clinic
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Women have come forward and shared their stories of coerced, botched, and illegal abortions, which they say took place at the nation's largest late-term abortion mill, operated by George R. Tiller in Wichita, Kansas.

Damon Wayans’ “Abortionman” draws ire from pro-life community
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Actor Damon Wayans posted the YouTube video of himself dressed in a superhero costume and taking the name "Abortion Man." The video depicts Wayans who comes to the “rescue” of a young man who has fathered a child. In the two-minute sketch, the superhero physically assaults the mother until the baby is finally “kicked” out. The jubilant father says: “Thanks, Abortion Man. You saved my life!”

Abortion and Birth Control Killing Japan
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Japan's workforce may shrink by more than one-third by 2050 if the country fails to halt a declining birthrate, the government said Tuesday in a report. The paper warned that the nation's labor force may plunge by as much as 36 percent to 42.28 million in 2050 if Japan failed to stop the current trend of the declining birthrate.

New Show has blatant sex, profanity for girls ages 12-17
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The program, Parents TV said, appeals to the female audience ages 12-17 and "glamorizes casual sex and drug use among teens." Storylines have featured a would-be teen rapist, threesomes among teens and teenage girls having sex with adults. Also included have been multiple scenes of teens drinking, smoking pot and having sex, the group said.

Pennsylvania Court Finds For Firearms Retailers Over Philadelphia
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Following the decision by a Philadelphia judge earlier this morning, prohibiting enforcement of a series of gun-control laws passed in violation of state law by the Philadelphia City Council, Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association of the firearms industry and plaintiff in the suit – issued the following statement: ??“We are pleased with the court’s decision to honor state law and grant our petition to enjoin Philadelphia from enforcing the City Council’s recently passed gun-control laws. These laws would only hurt law-abiding firearms retailers and citizens and do nothing to thwart violent crime.

Sen. Rick Santorum - Why Conservatives should back McCain
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I've disagreed with him on immigration, global warming and federal protection of marriage. I've taken strong exception to his view that the federal government should fund embryonic stem-cell research. But disagreement on such issues is one of the reasons we have presidential primaries - so each party's voters can sort out the issues and personalities and choose the candidate who best reflects their collective view. Republicans have done that. Now the question for conservatives is whether McCain fits the Reagan Axiom that someone you agree with on 80 percent of the issues is your friend, not your enemy. Here's my final argument for John McCain. He's not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Both want to cut and run from Iraq, give the radical jihadists a victory from the jaws of defeat, and leave the Iraqi people vulnerable to chaos. Both would put in place dangerous economic policies that would make Uncle Sam look like an Orwellian Big Brother. Both would nominate liberal activist judges who would pass undemocratic laws from the bench. Both support one-size-fits-all health-care policies that have been a disaster for patients and medical industries in Canada. Good-bye, American capitalism; hello, European-style socialism.

Clinton wins by 10 in Penn – She’s back
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Hillary Clinton declared the “tide is turning” Tuesday after scoring a critical victory in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, pushing the race ever forward to the nine remaining contests. Clinton had 55 percent and Barack Obama had 45 percent. Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” is working! This thing could go to the convention folks.

Uncle Jay explains how hard Congress works for you
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Colorfully explaining the "workload" of our elected officials, Uncle Jay educates us on why Congress needs its recess.

A History Lesson About The Democratic Congress
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What has Democratic control of Congress meant for America? Conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, answers: higher oil prices, lower home values, job woes, more expensive food, declining stock values and worsening inflation.

50 percent of LA workforce illegal
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Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of them unskilled and speaking little English.

Cart below bridge moved illegals
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A 5-by-5-foot trolley resembling those used by mechanics to slide under cars was put to a very different use over the weekend. Border Patrol agents spotted it resting between two support beams in the underbelly of the Bridge of the Americas during a routine check Sunday afternoon. It was being used like a rail cart to carry illegals from the Mexican side of the bridge to the U.S. side, about 30 feet up in the air. Rafael Ernesto Corvalan Herrera, a citizen of Chile, told the agents he had been on top of the beam 18 hours, since the cart's wheels broke, stranding him. Fingerprint checks found he was a sex offender registered in Dade County, Fla., and that he had been deported from the United States. He is in the El Paso County Jail and will be prosecuted, officials said.

Drug ring used buses to smuggle drugs from Mexico to Houston
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What appeared to be charter bus services whisking people between the U.S. and Mexico turned out to be front companies for an elaborate cross-border drug smuggling operation, federal authorities said. The indictment alleges that the owners and managers of Transtar, Neptune Tours, Los Primos, USA-MEX and Ameri-MEX charter services transported drugs in exchange for thousands of dollars in kickbacks from cartels.

A Nation Still at Risk: The Case for Federalism and School Choice
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Twenty-five years after the seminal report A Nation at Risk, American education remains in a state of crisis. Millions of students continue to pass through the public schools without mastering basic skills and knowledge. Policymakers and the public must recog­nize both this persistent failure and the attendant need for systemic reform in American education. At the federal level, Congress should reform federal education policies to protect academic trans­parency, eliminate inefficient bureaucracy, and encourage innovation at the state and local levels. Policymakers should embrace policies that give more families the freedom to choose their children's school; allow school leaders to innovate and develop successful school models and improve teacher quality; and allow parents, lawmakers, and the general public to hold public schools and stu­dents accountable for results.

300 Schools to Close in Ontario because of Birth Rate Crash
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Plummeting birth rates have resulted in the closure of over 300 schools in Ontario and half of the province's school boards have 90,000 fewer students than they did six years ago. 300 schools are slated to be closed in the province simply because there are not enough children to go into them according to a report by People for Education. University of Toronto economics professor David Foot called then-record low birth rate the "revenge of the birth control pill." Foot said the widespread use of artificial contraception was responsible for fewer children being born in the 1960s and 1970s. This left fewer women of child-bearing age for the next generation, today's mothers.

Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence
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Today’s young people face strong peer pressure to engage in risky behavior and must navigate media and popular culture that endorse and even glamorize permissiveness and casual sex. Alarm­ingly, the government implicitly supports these messages by spending over $1 billion each year pro­moting contraception and safe-sex education—12 times what it spends on abstinence education.

The Useful Idiots Segment
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Left-wing protesters gathered in New York City's Washington Square to protest the war in Iraq and show off their knowledge on international affairs and Marxist economics. Warning – Occasional inappropriate language.

Hey Dud, lets light up!
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"It is not Christmas. It is not Thanksgiving. It is April 20th. And to most people, that means nothing. But here at the University of Colorado, it's time to smoke pot!" I guess laws don’t mean anything anymore.

Obama advisor mocks Christ
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Another Obama adviser is under scrutiny for showing disdain for America's mainstream, this time after the unearthing of video footage in which the candidate's key technology guru gleefully introduced a YouTube piece that mocks Jesus Christ. Larry Lessig is shown at a 2006 seminar for Google employees introducing a clip that depicts an effeminate Jesus singing Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." The Jesus figure throws off his robe, revealing a diaper-like covering, and eventually is run over by a bus as he sashays through city streets.

Pirates create havoc off Somali Coast
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Security forces in northern Somalia stormed a hijacked ship carrying food Tuesday, rescuing hostages and arresting seven pirates, officials said. The seizure was the latest in a spate of pirate attacks off the increasingly lawless Somali coast. Piracy is rampant along Somalia's 1,880-mile coast, which is the longest in Africa and near key shipping routes connecting the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean.

ABC Blames Second Amendment on Mexico’s Drug Violence
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ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson" blamed the Second Amendment for Mexico's problem with drug smugglers' illegal firearms.

F-bombs away! TV news babe explodes on police
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The general manager of an aggressive and liberal Boston TV news station has been put on leave for her own obscenity-packed, explosive behavior at Logan International Airport. The police report indicates the executive was overheard saying she had "about three dozen drinks earlier" and was taking the drug Lexapro for depression.

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 - 1721 Clinton – 1590