House Conservatives Stepping Up to the Plate
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Conservative Republicans in the House plan to urge their colleagues to rally behind a new manifesto that mixes anti-spending initiatives and tighter restrictions on government benefits as the party seeks a fresh message after a string of election defeats. Leaders of the Republican Study Committee intend to use a closed-door party meeting on Tuesday to present a seven-point proposal calling for a constitutional limit on federal spending, a new simplified income tax alternative and a proposal to require recipients of food stamps or housing aid to meet work requirements.

Gas Pricing – It’s not the Oil Companies!
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We have a tendency for blaming corporate oil for everything, including high gas prices. But in reality, prices are a function of the open market, the result of futures contracts being traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange, or Nymex, and other exchanges. Buying the current July crude oil futures contract means you are buying oil that will be delivered by the end of July. But most who trade futures have no intention of ever accepting the underlying oil: Like stock investors who frequently buy and sell their holdings, they are simply betting that prices will rise or fall. Of late, on the Nymex, oil futures have been rising. Why? Blame the falling dollar. Oil is priced in U.S. dollars, and the weaker the dollar gets, the more attractive dollar-denominated oil contracts are to foreign investors — or any investor looking for a safe haven in the turbulent stock market. The rush of buyers keeps pushing oil futures to a series of new records, and the rest of the energy complex, including gasoline futures, has followed. That pushes up the price of gas that goes into your tank.

Court reviews Planned Parenthood's cover-up of sexual abuse
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Amid fierce accusations that Planned Parenthood has systematically concealed cases of statutory rape and sexual abuse from authorities, the organization may be required hand over revealing patient records in a precedent-setting case. Ohio clinic staff are said to have deliberately concealed the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl abused by her school's soccer coach. The trainer, age 21, drove the pregnant girl to the Cincinnati abortion clinic after he discovered she was carrying his child.

Governor rejects abortion after Down syndrome diagnosis
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Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska is known for being attractive (a former pageant winner, she was featured in a Vogue photo shoot this year), forceful (her opponents have nicknamed her "Sarah Barracuda") and a possible running mate for John McCain. Challenging circumstances now also have made her a shining example of personal pro-life convictions. After being informed that her baby would have Downs Syndrome and she should consider abortion, the Conservative Governor and her husband stated, "Many people will express sympathy, but you don't want or need that, because Trig will be a joy…Children are the most precious and promising ingredient in this mixed-up world…Trig is no different, except he has one extra chromosome."

First In Nation 'Pollution Fee' Coming To SF
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The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

McCain hammers Obama on national security
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Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for opposing a Latin American trade deal.

Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure
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Barack Hussein Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators.

Clinton Spanks Obama in Kentucky
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With an over 60% win in Kentucky, Clinton has vowed to continue the fight through the last primaries in early June, and her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, insisted Tuesday night that undecided superdelegates — the party insiders who are not tied to primary or caucus results — would begin flocking to Clinton, saying they would conclude that she was the party’s best chance in the general election.

Immigration chief urges businesses to clean up hiring practices
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Based on experiences like that, Myers, who leads U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, thinks that to solve the illegal immigration problem, companies must do more to ensure they are not hiring illegal immigrants. “I’m convinced that drying up the job magnet for illegal aliens would be the single most effective thing we could do to stem the tide of illegal aliens coming into this country,” Myers said during an address Tuesday afternoon to human resources professionals, company lawyers and businesspeople.

Ex-Boyfriend posted explicit shots of ex-girlfriend on MySpace
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The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page.

The Family is a Fiscal Issue
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Some supporters of free markets and limited government are wary of expressing any policy preferences about the family. The idea that marriage should be the appropriate context in which to raise children seems to them an arbitrary imposition of a moral code on others. They applaud the efficiency of the free market, but they are reluctant to "privilege" marriage over other types of households as the expected context for childrearing. Other market supporters situate the market within a wider context of human liberty and dignity. The free economy is one aspect of an overall view of society that emphasizes the priority of culture over governments. These advocates hold that it is a mistaken application of consumer and market ideas to the family to believe that family form is nothing but a personal choice. Our private decisions can have significant costs to the people around us, including taxpayers.

California Court's Judicial Activism Threatens the Institution of Marriage
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The activist California Supreme Court's decision creating a constitutional right to same-sex "marriage" was a bad decision. Though supporters of same-sex "marriage" may like the outcome, by usurping the question from the political branches—which in California had been willing to compromise concerning domestic partnership for same-sex couples—the Court creates an all-or-nothing question that can no longer be answered by ordinary political means. The decision makes it all the more likely that California will ban same-sex "marriage" by means of a state constitutional amendment in November 2008 in order to take the issue back from the judiciary. California already had a law defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman, but the state Supreme Court brushed it aside, claiming that the law violated the state constitution. The California decision shows that a state constitutional amendment is vital to the protection of marriage.

Dem’s Divided on Obama's Call for Repealing DOMA
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A sampling of Senate Democrats expressed sharply divergent views yesterday on whether they would support Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) call to "fully repeal" the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which in the wake of this week's California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage as well as a similar 2003 decision by the high court of Massachusetts, would have the effect of legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Coulter: “If We Could Talk to the Animals”
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You always know you've struck gold when liberals react with hysteria and rage to something you've said. So I knew President Bush's speech at the Knesset last week was a barn-burner before even I read it. Liberals think the way to deal with dangerous tyrants is to send in a sensitive president who will make Ahmadinejad fall in love with him. They imagine Obama becoming Ahmadinejad's psychotherapist, like Barbra Streisand in "The Prince of Tides." President Bush described such people perfectly with his reference to Sen. William Edgar Borah, the one who said World War II could have been avoided if only he could have talked to Hitler.

Michelle Obama Under Fire for 2004 Letter Defending Partial-Birth Abortions
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Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S. Senate seat, opposes the ban on the abortion procedure.

McCain repudiates Hagee endorsement
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Presumptive republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has rejected the months-old endorsement of Texas pastor John Hagee after the publication of a recording showed the televangelist saying God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the Promised Land.

Court: Texas had no right to take polygamist sect kids
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The state of Texas had no right to remove hundreds of children from a polygamist sect because it has not proven they were in imminent danger, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

Dozens sickened in Japan after suicide
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The incident came amid a string of suicides in Japan by people mixing household chemicals to create lethal fumes. Many bystanders in recent months have been sickened by fumes that escaped into adjoining rooms, apartments or homes.

Liberal Congresswoman wants to Nationalize Oil Industry
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In a grilling of oil executives by a House panel yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., threatened to nationalize the industry if it didn't do something about the rising prices at the pump. Two years ago, Venezuelan Dictator, Hugo Chavez did the same thing!

Seven Reasons to Veto the Farm Bill
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Lawmakers should examine whether farm policies that were created in the 1930s to assist poor family farmers during the Great Depression make any sense in the current era of hugely profitable agribusinesses. The first step toward reform is to reject this status quo farm bill and go back to the drawing board. The President should veto this farm bill for its backwards steps on reforms.

U.S. Report Says 128 Americans Murdered in Mexico in 3 Years
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A U.S State Department report on "non-natural deaths" of U.S. citizens abroad says that 128 Americans were victims of homicides or "executions" in Mexico between Jan. 1, 2005 and Dec. 31, 2007, and that a majority of these murders took place in Mexican cities located on the southern border of the United States.

Mexico Town's Police Force Quits in Fear
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A southern Mexican town's 15-member police force has quit for fear of being assassinated in retaliation for a shootout with gunmen, a security official said Thursday. Zirandaro was the second town in less than two weeks to be left without its police force as Mexico's drug cartels wage increasingly bold attacks against security forces. On Monday, the military took over a town near Texas after all 20 of its police officers were either killed, run out of town or quit.

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 - 1969 Clinton – 1780