An Unconstitutional Solution?

The word "deem" just rubs me the wrong way as an American. And it turns out that "deeming" healthcare passed might be unconstitutional too. Check out Powerline:

Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford and a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, argues that the "Slaughter solution" for enacting Obamacare is unconstitutional. The argument, which appears in the Wall Street Journal, is straightforward:

The Slaughter solution cannot be squared with Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution.

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WaPo's On Faith: Beck Just Like Hitler

Anthony Stevens Arroyo embarrasses himself with each column he writes. This one is no exception. Normally, Patrick and I usually have a good guffaw over the phone as we read Arroyo's columns and then one of us takes a turn ripping his work up so I'm thankful to Newsbusters for doing it this time so Pat and I can just laugh and do none of the lifting:

Apparently, March 15 was “get Beck” day at the Washington Post. Columnist Howard Kurtz criticized Fox News’ Glenn Beck for “dividing” Fox. He pointed out that companies have boycotted the show, and noted all the controversial things that Beck has said. Yes, Beck is wildly successful, “But that growth has come at a price, at least for those at Fox who believe that Beck is beginning to define their brand.”

That same day, Post religion writer and leftist hack Anthony Stevens-Arroyo attacked Glenn Beck on March 15 in a “Catholic in America” entry to the Post’s On Faith blog.

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They're Going to "Deem" It Passed

This is sickening:

Leftist House Speaker and tyrant Nancy Pelosi said she likes the Slaughter Rule because “people don’t have to vote on it.”

This way democrats can take over chunks of the US economy at a time and won’t even have to vote on it.

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AP Conflates Catholic Group with Church

The media has been doing cartwheels about the Catholic Health Association's endorsement of Obamacare and underreporting the bishop's opposition. Anything for dear Leader:

Here is one of the sneaky tricks that the Old Media plays in order to support a cause. In this case it's the Associated Press coming to the aid of Obamacare with "news" that a "Catholic" hospital group is coming out in support of Obamacare. Of course, the AP does not inform the reader that this purported Catholic group is not associated with the Church and is not authorized to speak for Catholics but it conflates this "Catholic" group with Catholics as if they do anyway.

With a headline that screams, "Catholic Hospitals Support Health Care Bill," the AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports that the Catholic Health Association has come out in support of Obamacare despite the federal funding of abortion.

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Rep. Jim Jordan on Obamacare

Never heard of the guy but pretty impressive. Check out the vid at The Other McCain:

The House Budget Committee has voted down a Republican motion in support of the abortion language favored by Rep. Bart Stupak on a 19 to 17 vote, with three Democrats voting in favor of it. . . .
Rep. Jim Jordan offered the motion for Republicans . . .

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Baseball Manager vs. Sean Penn

Check out Moonbattery for what White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen had to say about Sean Penn's Chavez defense:

Being a useful idiot may earn scorn from all decent Americans, but it's not a totally thankless role. By endlessly praising socialist tyrant Hugo Chavez, going so far as to demand that his critics be imprisoned even outside Venezuela, Sean Penn has earned himself a doggie biscuit and pat on the head:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is grateful that actor Sean Penn has defended him against his critics within the U.S. media. In an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" last week, Penn slammed Chavez critics who refer to the socialist leader as a dictator.

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Obamacare: Weekend at Bernie's Edition

John Hawkins does a bang up job detailing the status of Obamacare. All I can say is I hope he's right. And instead of going with the overused zombie meme, Hawkins deserved mad props for switching it up and dropping an Andrew MccCarthy movie reference on us. What's next? A "Pretty in Pink" metaphor?:

All week-end long, we've been treated to House leadership and the White House confidently asserting that health care is going to pass. "We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," said Robert Gibbs. Yahoo's headlining an article "Pelosi confident House will pass health care bill.". David Axelrod says Democrats "will have the votes to pass this."

So, things are looking good for the Democrats? No, to the contrary, the news has been Hindenburg-crashing-into-the-Titanic bad for the Democrats.

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New and Improved Stations of the Cross?

Catholic Caveman asks if this is Trashing the Passion?

It's all I can take to make it through just the minimum of this blasphemy from the allegedly-Catholic University of St. Louis. Jesuit-run. Why am I not surprised?

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Holy Sand?

This is just weird. So, of course, there are priests out there doing it. Father Z, as you can imagine, has a strong opinion about it.

To all the priests out there still… unbelievably still putting sand in holy water fonts during Lent…

KNOCK IT OFF!

And if you go into a church where you see this sort of idiocy… for the love of God, DON’T bless yourself with SAND.

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Bait & Switch & Switch & Then Switch

Melissa Clouthier is calling everyone who cares about stopping this healthcare bill to fight. NOW!!!

Public option: In

School loans: In

And yet, it's called a "shell" bill that will be stripped. Philip Klein explains it all. Here's a bit:

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No Greater Love

Chelsea Zimmerman does what many considered impossible. She mentioned Christopher Hitchens and St. Gianna in the same piece...and NOTHING EXPLODED!!! It's a really fine piece concerning Peter Hitchen's conversion. Check it out:

This article by Peter Hitchens, on his conversion to Christianity and relationship with his brother, atheist author Christopher Hitchens, is a must read! A good bit:

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Abp. Chaput and the Pro-Life Movement

Hugh Hewitt introduces Archbishop Chaput and then reprints the Archbishop's great remarks. Definitely worth a read:

It was my honor on Tuesday night to introduce the Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Archdiocese to the Cleveland Right To Life dinner. In my introduction and in remarks earlier in the day, I pointed to the long-standing tradition of Christian intellectuals in church leadership engaging the broader culture with arguments and noted that this tradition had fallen on hard times in recent decades, especially among Roman Catholic leadership who chose in the past few decades to speak almost exclusively through the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, which especially in the Reagan years, led to staff-driven, left-of-center exercises that often allowed the Church's central teaching on the dignity and value of the not-yet-born to be eclipsed.

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United Breaks Guitars

This is why YouTube was invented. Revenge. Jimmy Akin has the great and amusing story:

Basically, here's what happened: United Airlines baggage handlers recklessly damaged his $3,500 Taylor guitar and then the company refused to pay for repairs. After exhausting his options with United, he told them he would write three songs and put them on YouTube. Reportedly, he was told, "Good luck with that one, pal."

The first has eight million views, one million of which happened in the first week of release. He was quickly contacted by United with an offer of compensation in hopes of his pulling the video. Reportedly, he replied, "Good luck with that one, pal."

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Catholic Fury over Coverage of Pope

At some point, the London Times thought it was OK to lie about the Pope. Damian Thompson has the story:

There is international outrage in Catholic circles over a headline in The Times this morning that many people regard as utterly misleading and part of the newspaper’s reliably biased coverage (reinforced by vicious cartoons) of anything to do with Pope Benedict XVI.

The headline, over a story by Richard Owen, reads: “Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry.” A universally admired Catholic journalist contacted me this morning and accused The Times of (and I am toning this down for legal reasons) an extremely serious error of judgment.

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Bishops: Just Say No To Obamacare

Good news. Might be too late though.

Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the USCCB is sounding the alarm to vote against the health care bill.

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Stupak Mocks House Leadership

Stupak says he doesn't see how healthcare will pass. Check out the vid at Gateway Pundit:

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) met with Greta Van Susteren last night and mocked the House leadership on their attempts to ram through Obamacare.

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Harry Reid's Wife and Child Injured

Say a prayer or two. Adrienne has the story:

Harry Reid's Wife and Daughter Injured in Car Crash

This is really quite serious. Altough the injuries are not "life-threatening" it is reported that Mrs. Reid has a broken nose, back, and neck. She is 69 years old. Those are very serious injuries for a person of that age.

Please pray for both Mrs. Reid and her daughter Lana.

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There's a Socialist in the White House

Kinda' funny at Troglopundit:

Victoria Jackson, former Saturday Night Live star, rabid conservative. I didn’t know that about her.

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Another School Sings Praise to Obama

Wow. This ode to O has an orchestra and everything. Check out the vid at Right Wing News:

It's a veritable cornucopia of Obamagandistic musical agitprop. You'll recall the militaristic, fascist-styled Obama youth corps from 2008 where a line of inner city youth stamped out their obeisance militia-like to The One like good little automatons? Perhaps the slickly produced exploitation of sweet faced children from Hollywood that same year will ring a bell? Or maybe your favorite is this misuse of class time in Georgia? Or per chance you'll recall "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm"? These are excellent examples of the Obama version of Leni Riefenstahl's art.

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Georgetown Funds "Sex Positive Week"

I would say you're not going to believe this but, of course you will. It's Georgetown. American Papist has the story:

I’ve been blogging long enough and have witnessed enough scandals that it’s pretty hard to take my breath away anymore.

Well, “Sex Positive Week” at (Jesuit-founded, Catholic) Georgetown University did.

Folks, looking at what activities this week included, it’s pretty clear we’re not even on planet earth anymore. I can’t write about what they talked about, because I don’t want Google to blacklist my blog as pornographic.

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