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Christian Conservatives Look to Re-energize Base
Openly anxious about grass-roots disaffection from the Republican Party, conservative Christian organizers are reaching for ways to turn out voters this November, including arguing that recognizing same-sex marriage could also limit religious freedom.
Sep 25, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National
Abortion foes’ new rallying point - Contraception
By Judith Graham
Chicago Tribune staff reporter
Published September 24, 2006
Emboldened by the anti-abortion movement’s success in restricting access to abortion, an increasingly vocal group of Christian conservatives is arguing that it’s time to mount a concerted attack on contraception.
Sep 24, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Parenting, Sexual Purity, Abstinence, Life, Citizenship, National
Senate panel delays action on most judicial nominees
The effort to confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees made little progress Sept. 21. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out only one of six federal appeals court selections and four of 10 district court choices on the agenda.
Sep 22, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
G.O.P. in Senate Narrows Immigration Focus to 700-Mile Fence
Senate Republicans formally put aside a broad immigration overhaul sought by President Bush on Wednesday and decided instead to press ahead with narrower bills to require building 700 miles of fence on the southwestern border.
Sep 21, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National
Republicans’ Fertile Future
Republicans’ fertile future
Through the past three decades, conservatives have been procreating more than liberals
San Fransisco Chronicle
Vicki Haddock, Insight Staff Writer
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, National, Social Issues
When a Dog Says ‘Moo’
Cruella De Vil, the villain in Disney’s 101 Dalmations, would be proud: A Colorado group has taken a cute and cuddly puppy and turned him into something else—this time, however, not a fur coat. The puppy, Norman, has been made the spokesdog for a statewide campaign promoting gay rights. On billboards, TV ads, and a website, Norman belts out his trademark “moo,” proving that he was “born different.”
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, National
Cross-border drug tunnel found
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in San Diego yesterday announced the discovery of a cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel beneath a private residence in Calexico, Calif., that extended nearly 400 feet to a house in Mexicali, Mexico.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National
Gore Calls for Immediate Freeze on Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
Former Vice President Al Gore called yesterday for a popular movement in the United States to seek an “immediate freeze” in heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases linked by most scientists to global warming.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment
Freedom’s New Weapon
At a moment when things are not going particularly well in the War for the Free World — the global conflict with Islamofascism and its aiders and abettors in which, like it or not, we are currently embroiled — there is a bit of very welcome good news…
Sep 18, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, War
Anti-Abortion Group Loses Tax Exemption
The Internal Revenue Service this week revoked the tax exemption of an anti-abortion group, Operation Rescue West, after receiving a complaint that it had violated prohibitions on electioneering by nonprofits in 2004.
Sep 15, 2006
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Church and State, National