Abortion Center Director Falsely Reporting Bomb Threat Gets 5 Years

The coming war on women
© Unknown A war is coming. Congressional Republicans have already made clear that their top priority, once they take control of Congress in the next session, is to make sure President Obama is a one-term president. But there is a second priority that many Republicans in Congress, and in State Legislatures around the country, have promised to pursue: the further restriction of women's Reproductive Rights. As Mother Jones reported in December: If you thought the Abortion battle during t...

NY Teen Gets 6 Years In Beating Of Immigrant
NEW YORK (AP) - A teenager has been sentenced to six years in Prison in connection with the vicious beating of a Mexican immigrant on Staten Island last year. The April 5 assault on Rodolfo Olmedo was the first of a series of suspected anti-Hispanic bias attacks in the borough’s Port Richmond section. But a Grand Jury declined to indict Rolston Hopson and three other defendants on hate crime charges. Hopson was sentenced Wednesday. According to court documents, he beat Olmedo with a ...

Clergy Slam NYC's 40% Abortion Rate
Archbishop Timothy Dolan at a Chiaroscuro Foundation Press Conference Yesterday, a group of clergy members gathered to denounce the 40% Abortion rate in New York City. The Health Department had previously revealed that of 87,273 pregnancies were "induced terminations," compared to nearly 127,000 live births (there were also over 11,000 miscarriages), which means NYC's Abortion rate is about double the national rate. Archbishop Timothy Dolan said, "I’m frankly embarrassed to be a member ...

Not yet released, Abby Johnsons book is shooting up the charts!
I received an advanced copy yesterday and have had a hard time putting it down. It’s excellent - compelling, intriguing, full of insight, and giving me a lot to think about. Here’s a description: Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, not long after assisting in an actual Abortion procedure for the first time, cross the line to join the Coalition for Life . Wh...

Mike Pence Introduces Bill to Stop Tax Dollars from Going to Nation's Top Abortion Provider--Planned Parenthood
Thank you Mike Pence.. cnsnews Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would prohibit Abortion providers from receiving federal funds through Title X of the Public Health Service Act, including Planned Parenthood, which received more than $360 million in government Grants and contracts in Fiscal Year 2008-2009 . “The largest Abortion provider in America should not also be the largest recipient of Federal Funding under Title X,” Pence sai...

Pence introduces Planned Parenthood defunding bill
I wrote yesterday that in the coming days and weeks, House pro-lifers would be introducing 4 important bills. The 1st, a bill to Repeal ObamaCare , is already in motion, starting yesterday. And today, Congressman Mike Pence introduced our 2nd bill, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act , which would cut off Title X funding to organizations that commit abortion. The most obvious target is Planned Parenthood , which Congressman Pence spotlighted in his statement: It is morally wrong to end...

Mike Pence Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood (Video)
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced Legislation yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood. Today, Congressman Mike Pence introduced our 2nd bill, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act , which would cut off Title X funding to organizations that commit abortion. It is morally wrong to end an unborn human life by abortion.  It is also morally wrong to take the Taxpayer Dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to promote abortion at home or abroad. Last year, Planned Parenthoo...

Barry Bonds' prosecutors seek athletes' testimony
Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' Perjury case asked a Federal Judge Friday to allow Testimony by ex-ballplayers, including Jason Giambi and Benito Santiago, that they obtained Steroids from Bonds' trainer, who has refused to testify against the former Giants star. Bonds is charged with lying to a federal Grand Jury in 2003 by denying he ever knowingly took steroids. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has barred evidence that Bonds tested positive for the drugs in 2000 and 2001, saying prosecutors ca...

Barry Bonds' prosecutors seek athletes' testimony
Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' Perjury case asked a Federal Judge Friday to allow Testimony by ex-ballplayers, including Jason Giambi and Benito Santiago, that they obtained Steroids from Bonds' trainer, who has refused to testify against the former Giants star. Bonds is charged with lying to a federal Grand Jury in 2003 by denying he ever knowingly took steroids. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has barred evidence that Bonds tested positive for the drugs in 2000 and 2001, saying prosecutors ca...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot
A terrible thing that never should have happened.  A lone shooter shoots Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona, with a shot to her head at point-blank range.   According to reports as many as 11 others were shot and injured and 3 or 4 others fatally shot.  Already the wackjobs from the Left are out, as this comment received here shows: Another Right Wing gun and god , anti Abortion wackjob kills congresswomen because she supports the use of cells (not babies) f...

US Justice Dept Subpoenas Twitter for Info on Wikileaks Volunteer
Today the US Justice Department subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an Icelandic politician who worked as a volunteer with Wikileaks and Julian Assange. “I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” wrote Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland’s parliament, in an e-mail. “Looking for legal ways to do it. Will be talking to lawyers from EFF tonight.” EFF refers to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-prof...

$1.4-million sewer dispute to stick customers with higher rates
Hamtramck is refusing to pay about $1.4 million it owes for treating the sewage it flushes to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, claiming Detroit owes it more than $3 million in taxes collected on the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly Plant. Detroit is booking Hamtramck's response as a bad Debt -- a cost that will be added to new sewer rates to be proposed this month for both the city and the suburbs. "Any unresolved Debt will affect wholesale custome...

Dear House Republicans: This Will Be Unacceptable
I am receiving extremely credible information that Friday morning House Republicans may put Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Let me be clear here: this would be an affront to Conservatives of all stripes. It is bad enough the House GOP chose to ignore Conservatives when it came time to choose chairmen of the Energy & Commerce Committee and of the Appropriations Committee. It is a slap in the face to add Leonard Lance to the Energy & Commerce Commit...

From Falls Creek Camp To Congress
Earlier this year, when I reported on the race to succeed Republican Rep. (now Gov.-elect) Mary Falin as congressman from Oklahoma ’s 4th District, I mentioned just about every Republican in the seven-candidate GOP primary except one: James Lankford, who wound up winning the all-important nomination and is now congressman-elect. “So you were just like the rest of the political reporters and overlooked me? the 42-year-old Lankford said with a big smile when he dropped by HUMAN EVENT...

Grassroots? National Organization for Marriage funding comes from few sources
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report on Friday, and it shows that the Unemployment Rate declined from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — a decrease that is less remarkable upon further examination. The Economy added 103,000 jobs in the last month — with the Private Sector adding 113,000 jobs and the Public Sector shrinking by 10,000. When State Legislators checked their office mailboxes Wednesday, they found an invitation to attend a Minnesota Family and Marriage...

The Shooter
The Shooter by digby So, this gunman has been identified and from his YouTube page it appears he a schizophrenic young man who's been under the influence of Extremist Right Wing Rhetoric. Political assassins are often mentally ill --- history's full of them. So let's not kid ourselves -- it's not a coincidence that he shot a congresswoman. His videos are full of Right Wing political gibberish and from what he said in his bizarre videos, it's clear that all the looney tunes anti-government tal...

Ex-Madoff aide makes bail, under house arrest
By Grant McCool NEW YORK | Fri Jan 7, 2011 1:02pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Annette Bongiorno, one of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff's longest serving employees charged in the massive Fraud, made bail on Friday and was ordered into House Arrest. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered Bongiorno, 62, confined to her multimillion-dollar house in Manhasset on New York's Long Island as the case proceeds to trial. The judge accepted that Bongiorno could meet the requirements of bail reduc...

The Giffords shooting: Taking account
In all the discussion of the horrific and tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona today, let's not forget the other Victims, particularly Federal Judge John Roll, who, as Dave Weigel notes was also the victim of numerous death threats for his role in a ruling involving ranchers and immigrants: Hundreds of threats cascaded into the chambers of John M. Roll, the chief U.S. District Judge in Arizona, in February after he allowed a Lawsuit filed by Illegal Immigrants against a rancher ...

Oklahoma executes convicted killer
MCALESTER, Okla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Oklahoma Thursday executed Billy Don Alverson of Tulsa, one of four men convicted of killing convenience store clerk Richard Yost in 1995. Alverson, 39, was administered a Lethal Injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. CST, the Tulsa World reported. Alverson was convicted in 1997 of killing Yost during a Robbery in which Yost was beaten to death with a Baseball Bat. "First, to the Yost family, I would like to say I'm sor...

Pelicans make rare visit to Tulsa, Okla.
TULSA, Okla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Flocks of American white pelicans are making a rare visit to sandbars on the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Okla., wildlife officials said. Pelicans are a familiar sight in Oklahoma in the fall months as they migrate south and some flocks do stay in northeastern Oklahoma during the winter, but usually around lakes, said , John Kennington, president of the Tulsa Audubon Society. "It's a little unusual. We do get some in the winter, but we usually see them at Keystone (Lake...

McCreadie likely to race in prestigious Chili Bowl
Tulsa, Okla. — Watertown native Tim McCreadie is expected to compete in next week's Chili Bowl at the Tulsa Expo Raceway. McCreadie, who resides in Avon, won the prestigious indoor midget car race in 2006. In 2009, McCreadie broke his back during qualifying for the indoor race. The five-day racing program begins Tuesday with qualifying and the Race of Champions. The Lucas Oil Championship feature events will be held Jan. 15. Last year's Chili Bowl winner was Kevin Swindell. McCre...

Culpepper helps UTEP beat Tulsa 69-59
Randy Culpepper scored 29 points Wednesday night to lead UTEP past Tulsa 69-59 in the Conference USA opener for both teams. Culpepper was 12 for 12 from the free-throw line and kept the Miners (13-3) close in the first half with 15 points. Tulsa raced to an 8-0 lead and led 19-9 midway through the half before UTEP cut the Deficit to 30-29 at the break. The Miners only shot 29 percent in the first half, but improved to 46 percent in the second half and finished at 38 percent. They also committed ...

The Rape Victim as Criminal
This news story from The Saudi Gazette (hat tip: Vlad Tepes) is so fundamentally disturbing that I’ve put the entire text of the article below the jump. If you are sensitive to issues related to Rape and sexual violence, you may want to skip it: JEDDAH - A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year Prison term and 100 lashes for committing Adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed t...

Will The People of Texas Fold or Fight For Conservatives?
People of Texas, I put this post as the first post of the day at RedState and at the top of my Morning Briefing because I cannot emphasize just how important it is. The long term future of Conservatism and federalism is in your hands today. You will either hurt us as a nation or help us as a nation. Yes, there is a monumental issue before your State House of Representatives and you must get on the phones today to help us all. On Monday, House Republicans in Texas will decide between Joe Straus...

Lawmaker files bill to exclude abortion coverage
A Florida lawmaker has filed a bill to exclude Abortion coverage from policies obtained through Health Insurance exchanges. States are required to set up the exchanges to provide coverage under the federal health care overhaul beginning in 2014. Last year, the Republican-dominated Legislature passed a similar ban on Abortion coverage as part of a bill requiring women to have ultrasounds before getting abortions. Then-Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed it. Health News Florida reports that led Rep. Matt Ga...