Olbermann at his worst
MSNBC and Olbermann attacked Miss California

Gates: 100 at Gitmo could wind up in U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Thursday that as many as 100 detainees would be held without trial on U.S. soil if the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were closed, a situation that he acknowledged would create widespread, if not unanimous, opposition in Congress. The estimate was the most specific yet from the Obama administration about how many of the 241 detainees at Guantanamo could not be safely released sent to other countries or appropriately tried in U.S. courts. In January, President Barack Obama ordered the prison closed by the end of the year, but his administration is still trying to decide what to do with the detainees. Gates said discussions had started this week with the Justice Department about determining how many of the Guantanamo detainees could not be sent to other countries or tried in courts. "What do we do with the 50 to 100 — probably in that ballpark — who we cannot release and cannot try?" Gates said in a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Dennis Miller on Obama and Tea Parties
Dennis Miller works himself into a fine lather over Barack Obama’s dismissive attitude towards Tea Party protests on last night’s O’Reilly Factor. In a 2-minute rant, Miller notes that Obama seems more concerned with the feelings of pigs than with some American voters.

Montana gun law aimed at asserting sovereignty
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a bill that aims to exempt Montana-made guns from federal regulation, adding firepower to a battery of legislative efforts to assert states’ rights across the nation. “It’s a gun bill, but its another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana,” Democrat Schweitzer said. But supporters of the new law hope it triggers a court case testing the legal basis for federal rules governing gun sales. “What we need here is for Montana to be able to handle Montana’s business and affairs,” bill sponsor Rep. Joel Boniek, a Republican and wilderness guide from Livingston, told fellow lawmakers during the bill’s House debate. The measure is one of many introduced by state lawmakers across the nation seeking to confront what some see as a federal overreach into state matters that will be extended with the national stimulus plan.

Obama Likely Supreme Court Nominee Says Courts Shape Policy
Every time they “interpret” a constitutional clause or statute, they add interpretive rules to guide lower courts; because of stare decisis, every court opinion is in essence a new bit of binding policy gloss on the statute in question. We are in big trouble folks!

Reporters Stand For Obama, But Not For Bush?
Consider these two different reactions from the White House press corps during presidential drop-ins at the White House's James S. Brady Briefing Room.

Jon Stewart: Hey, sorry for calling Harry Truman a war criminal
A follow-up to Wednesday night’s Kinsleyan gaffe: He’s sorry; he’s just not sure why he’s sorry. The closest we get to an explanation is that the decision to drop the bomb was “complicated,” but of course that’s why Cliff May brought it up — to draw a parallel with the decision to waterboard terrorists. The moral calculus about how far to go in roughing up jihadis to save how many lives is difficult, as was the calculus about how many lives would be saved in the long run by incinerating Japanese kids in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war. The fact that Stewart is a hard no on the former yet considers the latter iffy suggests a mentality I simply can’t fathom. Is it just a matter of Truman having been a Democrat, whose motives were therefore pure, as opposed to Bush supposedly getting his Republican rocks off by torturing terrorists? Or is it that Truman’s already been vindicated by history and isn’t safe to criticize the way Bush still is?

Former Texas Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Helping Mexican Drug Ring
A former south Texas sheriff has pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for sharing law enforcement information with a Mexican drug ring. Former Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra entered his plea Friday. Federal prosecutors said Guerra helped the Mexican Gulf Cartel to operate in his county and endangered fellow law enforcement agents by sharing names of confidential informants.

Catholic Bishop To So-Called Pro-Life Democrat Bob Casey: Reconsider Communion
Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, Pennsylvania is once again taking on Sen. Bob Casey, who claims to be one of two pro-life Democrats in the Senate. However, Casey, who has cast votes for funding pro-abortion groups overseas, drew negative attention again for another recent vote. Casey supported pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in her nomination for Health Secretary. Sebelius came under strong opposition from pro-life groups for her lengthy pro-abortion record vetoing numbers pro-life bills and her close relationship with late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.

NY governor offends religious leaders with gay ‘marriage’ explanation
This week New York Governor David Paterson attended a gay pride rally and lashed out at religious leaders for opposing gay "marriage" saying they were "motivated by a five letter word: guilt." Catholic supporters of traditional marriage responded by calling the governor’s remarks "confusing, offensive, and just plain mistaken."

First Lady Helps Homeless in $540 Tennis Shoes!
Michelle Obama has taken casual to an haute new level. While volunteering Wednesday at a D.C. food bank, the First Lady sported her usual J.Crew cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a sneaky splurge: trainers that go for $540.

Notre Dame, My Mother
Notre Dame is a special place, but it is not immune to the realities of modern life. There are students who face unplanned pregnancies, and—most tragically—women who think their only option is abortion. Statistics show that one out of every five women who have an abortion is a college student; many of these women cite the fear that they will not be able to complete their education as a primary reason. On campuses all across this country, abortion is the status quo. We need to change that with an unambiguous stand for life, and Notre Dame needs to be in the lead. There have been many things written about the honors to be extended to President Obama. I’d like to ask this of Fr. John Jenkins, the Notre Dame president: Who draws support from your decision to honor President Obama—the young, pregnant Notre Dame woman sitting in that graduating class who wants desperately to keep her baby, or the Notre Dame man who believes that the Catholic teaching on the intrinsic evil of abortion is just dining-room talk?

Brent Bozell: ‘Angels and Demons’ just another Catholic Bashing Movie
So who is doing the lying, Opie? Movie watchers are going to think large chunks of this story are actual human history, and the trailer has no disclaimer about how this scientist-murdering-church narrative is pure fantasy. The real Illuminati originated in Bavaria in 1776 (long after Galileo died) and fizzled out a decade later. The Catholic Church never murdered a single member of the Illuminati. A Catholic blogger ably underlined how audacious and ridiculous Howard sounds. He satirically proclaimed his own film project: “I am producing a movie on Ron Howard’s family. In the movie based on my research I say his father was a drug pusher, and his mother is a prostitute, and that Ron Howard engages in S&M. I will present the Howard family as something totally based on lies, and question whether his parents really were his parents in the first place.” And “of course this is just a movie, so people should not be upset about my portrayal of the Howard family at all.” He then predicted the Howard family would enjoy it as an exciting mystery. Ron Howard should read this and understand exactly what his cinematic versions of Dan Brown hate-speeches feel like to Catholics

Congressman Pence: Presidential Appointee should step down over Anti-Catholic Remarks
The White House told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that it will not comment on whether President Obama agrees with an appointee to the White House Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships who told a San Francisco-based newspaper catering to the "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community" that Pope Benedict XVI is a "discredited leader." Obama named Harry Knox to the position on the faith-based advisory council last week. Knox is director of the faith and religion program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual rights group. In light of his attack on the pope, Knox's appointment drew criticism from House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who called on Obama to withdraw Knox's appointment. It also drew fire from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the Family Research Council, the Rev. Gino Jennings and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Obama Appoints Knox Despite Anti-Catholic beliefs
President Barack Obama has named to the federal government’s faith-based initiative a gay-rights activist who, last month, described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as “discredited leaders” because of their opposition to same-sex marriage. Harry Knox, who is a newly appointed member of Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is the director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual activist group. In addition to his remarks about the Pope, Knox also criticized the Knights of Columbus as being “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” because of the Knights’ support the Catholic Church and its discredited doctrines.

A Papal Reminder: The Three Non-Negotiables for Practicing Catholics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles, which are not negotiable. He identified three particular "not negotiable" principles: - protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death, this includes cloning, euthanasia, embryonic stem cells; - recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family - as a union between a man and a woman based on marriage - and its defense from attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different forms of union which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilization, obscuring its particular character and its irreplaceable social role; - the protection of the right of parents to educate their children. These principles are not truths of faith, even though they receive further light and confirmation from faith; they are inscribed in human nature itself and therefore they are common to all humanity. The Church’s action in promoting them is therefore not confessional in character, but is addressed to all people, prescinding from any religious affiliation they may have. On the contrary, such action is all the more necessary the more these principles are denied or misunderstood, because this constitutes an offence against the truth of the human person, a grave wound inflicted onto justice itself.

Congresswomen Lynn Jenkins Blasts Obama Stimulus Plan
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) delivers the Weekly Republican Address on spending, taxes, President Obama's first 100 days, and Republican solutions to curb spending, create jobs, and control the debt.

Rally seeks coal bill veto override
Sen. Sam Brownback, Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Rep. Lynn Jenkins spoke at a rally Friday to energize support to override former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ veto of a bill that would clear the way to build a coal-fired power plant at Holcomb. More than 150 people attended the early-afternoon event put on by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce near the south steps of the Statehouse.

Eight shot in KC gun melees
Two separate shooting melees about 3 a.m. Sunday left eight persons with gunshot wounds but none were life threatening, according to Kansas City police. Police said four persons were shot in Westport in the vicinity of Westport Road and Mill Street. Three arrests were made, but it was not immediately clear whether they were related to the shootings. About the same time, four persons were wounded in a disturbance in the 200 block of Admiral Boulevard.

Man found shot to death in KC parking lot
Kansas City police are investigating the shooting death of a man about 10 a.m. today in a parking lot near Sixth Street and Grand Boulevard. Sanders said the shooting did not appear to be related to a shooting incident that happened about 3 a.m. today around the corner near 220 Admiral Blvd.

San Francisco of the Midwest wants Homeless Campground!
Lawrence City Commissioners will hear a proposal Tuesday night to establish a campground for up to 50 homeless people in a park or wooded area along the Kansas River. Do you support the idea? You can vote if you hit the link.

“Courts are where policy is made.”
- Judge Sandra Sotomayor, Possible Obama Supreme Court Nominee

From Proverbs 16:8
In his mind a man plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

Gospel - John 10:11-18

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.
12 But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep.
13 And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me.
15 As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
18 No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself, and I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Isn’t Aggravated Indecent Liberties Still a Crime in Kansas?

Planned Parenthood facilities in several states have been exposed engaging in covering up potential cases of sexual abuse of minors. Now, a Planned Parenthood center in Overland Park is the latest to have been shown attempting to cover up statutory rape so a young girl can get contraception or birth control. So where is the Overland Park Police, the Johnson County Sheriff, or the Kansas Bureau of Investigation?

At least two Kansas state legislators, Senator Tim Huelskamp and Representative Lance Kinzer, are stepping to the plate to do something about the violations of Kansas Law. But there is evidence exposing an institutional pattern of cover-up of sexual abuse at the Overland Park Planned Parenthood Facility and it worthy of an in-depth investigation.

In a recorded telephone conversation between a girl posing as a 14-year-old and a Planned Parenthood employee at its Overland Park facility, the employee is informed that the young girl believes she may be pregnant by her 23-year-old boyfriend. Planned Parenthood invites the young girl to the clinic for a pregnancy test and informs the potential statutory rape victim that her sexual abuser can come to the clinic to pick up the contraceptives. And I better not hear any of my law enforcement colleagues call this entrapment either. Entrapment cannot occur by a private citizen only the government!

Kinzer and Huelskamp have indicated that at no point during the recorded conversation, does the employee raise any concerns about sexual abuse, despite the fact that the situation described constitutes Aggravated Indecent Liberties under Kansas’s law. “This shocking conversation is consistent with a nationwide Planned Parenthood pattern of covering up sexual abuse of young girls,” said Huelskamp, who is also a candidate for Congress.

“And as a father of two young girls ages 13 and 12, I am appalled that Planned Parenthood shows absolute contempt for our laws protecting children from sexual abuse. I don't think it is too much to ask for any entity that receives taxpayer funding to follow our laws, especially those protecting young girls from sexual abusers," he said. Kinzer said that the recording could have an effect on the debate in the Kansas legislature about sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood in the form of family planning grants.

“In the last two fiscal years alone, Kansans have paid out more than $550,000 to this organization,” he said. “There is simply no reason in the world why taxpayer dollars should be given to underwrite entities who flaunt laws." Now, Kinzer and Huelskamp promised to seek budget language prohibiting taxpayer funding of entities that violate state sexual abuse reporting laws.

The Overland Park facility exposed in this recording, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, is already under serious investigation. Former District Attorney Phill Kline has filed 107 Misdemeanor and felony counts against this clinic, including performing illegal late terms abortion and falsifying medical reports. And yet no update from the District Attorney’s Office. Each month this case drags on other crimes are occurring and that’s the reality behind the situation.

It’s time for law enforcement to step up to the plate. Investigations are conducted by law enforcement agencies and the evidence supports that an investigation is warranted.

To hear the recording click on this link.