Pro-life college student quits job with Girl Scouts over ‘end abortion’ t-shirt

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TUCSON, Arizona, January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Arizona college student who stopped in at her workplace wearing a pro-life t-shirt quit her job rather than obey a supervisor who ordered her to turn the “Pray to End Abortion” shirt inside out.

Renise Rodriguez, a 21-year-old religious studies major at the University of Arizona, worked as a Girl Experience Associate for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona in Tucson. When she went to her office on Jan. 3 during her off-duty hours to prepare materials for a meeting, she was told twice by a supervisor that if she planned to stay in the office, or attend a troop meeting, she would have to turn her shirt inside out.

“I started to get emotional because of the way I was treated so I left without preparing for the meeting and told my co-worker that she would have to get the stuff together,” Miss Rodriguez said. “As I was driving out, I called a friend crying and told her the story. I was so shocked at the way I was treated. After contemplating it for the rest of that day, I decided to write my letter of resignation.”

Her letter did not specify her reason for resigning, but she plans to discuss it with another supervisor when she does her formal exit interview.

“It is the courage and conviction of young people like Renise that gives us hope that we are closer than ever to winning this battle and bringing an end to child killing in America,” said Bryan Kemper, Director of Youth Outreach for Priests for Life. “Young heroes like Renise prove this generation is a pro-life generation.”

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Media mob chases Ron Paul from campaign stop in New Hampshire

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A campaign stop at a New Hampshire eatery mutated into a circus on Monday when the media scrum chasing Ron Paul apparently became too much for the 76-year-old Texas congressman to handle.

Paul had been planning to make the rounds through Moe Joe’s restaurant before settling down to eat breakfast with his wife, Carol — who said he enjoys apple pancakes — at a table in the corner.

But the plans quickly changed. Barely able to move through the restaurant as hundreds of journalists and videographers surrounded him on all sides, Paul ignored the questions being lobbed at him and slowly inched through the restaurant, offering a few autographs to supporters along the way.

“Guys, you’ve got to take it easy,” shouted one Paul staffer, imploring the media to give the congressman some space.

No such luck.

Read More at The Hill By Josh Lederman, The Hill

Perry: “I would send troops back into Iraq”

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Rick Perry said he would send U.S. troops back to Iraq at a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire on Saturday.

“The idea that we allow the Iranians to come back into Iraq and take over that country, with all of the treasures, both in blood and money, that we have spent in Iraq- because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base, and move out those men and women. He could have renegotiated that time frame. I think it is a huge error for us,” Perry said at the debate, sponsored by ABC News/Yahoo!/WMUR-TV.

This is the not the first time that the Texas governor has been critical of President Obama’s foreign policy in Iraq, but it is the first that he has suggested sending troops back after their withdrawal last month.

At a campaign stop in Iowa in December, Perry said on Iraq, “Giving your enemy is a timeline of which you’re going to withdraw is really bad tactics.”

Perry was bolder at the ABC News/Yahoo GOP presidential debate Saturday, citing Iran as a potential problem in Iraq.

Read More at CBS News By Christine Delargy, CBS News

Paul Slams Santorum In New Ad

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Ron Paul’s Army Won’t Be Easily Broken

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When Sarah Palin, during the post Iowa media spin feast, warned GOP leaders to not “marginalize” the Ron Paul supporters, she was looking ahead to the greatest challenge faced by whoever captures the nomination.

The Republican leaders in DC loathe Ron Paul, and they loathe the thousands of mostly young activists he is bringing into the GOP. Like similar waves of activists in the past the insiders’ goal is to see their tide of enthusiasm break and dissipate like foam on a beach.

The insiders that actually run the GOP look nothing like the membership of the GOP. Walk the halls of the Republican National Committee in DC and you will find preppy ladder climbers that shift political philosophy to accommodate whichever boss will bid to pay the most.

These are the shock troops of the K Street lobby crowd more interested in Thursday night’s cocktail circuit than a jobless Iowa worker or a small businessman struggling in Nashua, New Hampshire. And the thought of Washington’s budget being cut by one trillion dollars as Ron Paul has envisioned chills them to the core.

If government contractors aren’t scoring fat contracts, then who will they lobby for, they fret. And if whole agencies are shuttered, how will they get a posting as a schedule C government employee with those awesome health, vacation and pension benefits.

Read More at Western Journalism By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Western Journalism

Statistics show conservatives have always been right: more guns in honest hands equals less crime

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Headlines announcing record purchases of guns during the Christmas gift giving season must have infuriated a lot of liberals. It’s a sign that another one of their tired old arguments is not resonating and they are losing on this crucial issue.

The very anti Second Amendment Barack Obama and his Party have some impressive and unambiguous numbers to argue against in their attempts to portray private ownership of guns as too dangerous to even consider.

In spite of what the media and their Democrat masters say, a twenty seven year study of accidental deaths conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) places handguns toward the bottom of their list. An accompanying chart shows that with the exception of four years and not since 1993 it has been more dangerous to ride in a car than to be around a privately owned handgun.

Measured against all types of accidental deaths those caused by mishandled guns were substantially below deaths from vehicular accidents, fires falls poisoning and miscellaneous fatal occurrences. Just half of one percent of accidental deaths in the last 27 years can be traced to mishandled guns.

Americans are apparently not only safe around guns, but their guns seem to be making it dangerous for criminals to operate in our midst.

 Read More at Coach Is Right By Kevin “Coach” Collins, Coach Is Right

U.S. Cities Strangled by Cost of Ballooning Pensions

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When Beverly Hills residents found out that many of their city’s 950 municipal and public safety employees were earning stunning salaries, 13 weeks of paid vacation, unlimited overtime and other tax-free retirement benefits, taxpayers were outraged and city officials rushed into closed-door sessions to figure out what to do.

These revelations, exposed through the efforts of the city’s hometown newspaper, The Beverly Hills Courier, unmasked an even deeper problem: many California cities, and likely other municipalities across the U.S., are being strangled by the cost of ballooning pension benefits they can no longer afford.

All this has taken place in the throes of a global recession that is clobbering federal, state and local tax revenues used to pay for public services and pensions, and against the backdrop of the nation’s private-sector workers, who are feeling the pain of reductions, or total losses of their pension funds. And, in many cases, their jobs.

“What we have now is a grab bag of incredible benefits for public employees that are totally detached from what’s been happening in the private sector, and it’s neither fair nor sustainable,” said John Mirisch, a first-term Beverly Hills council member elected in 2009. “When the city was rolling in dough, officials may have thought the salary and pension structure was sustainable, but certainly, it was not fair.”

A former statistician for the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s pension fund, warned that by 2014, local governments could be paying 50 percent of a police officer’s salary, 40 percent of a firefighter’s salary and 25 percent of an employee’s salary for their pensions, according to a recent report by the California League of Cities, a statewide advocacy group.

 Read More at Fox News By Leah Krakinowski, Fox News

Will Republicans Finally Impeach Over “Uncertain” Recess Appointment?

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President Obama may have gone too far even for the tastes of the Beltway one-party system, when he made a “recess” appointment while there was no Congressional recess. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the appointment of Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and three pro-union members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lands Obama in “uncertain legal territory.” Speaker of the House John Boehner called it “illegitimate.” But will they do anything about it?

“This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer,” McConnell said. “Breaking from this precedent lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress’s role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.”

Speaker Boehner agreed, “I expect the courts will find the appointment to be illegitimate.”

Not everyone is offended. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is “glad that the president took the lead, went out there. It was bold.”

Bold? Indeed it was, in the same sense as robbing a liquor store in broad daylight.

Read More at Floyd Reports By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

Issa vs. Holder on Fast and Furious, Round Three

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) gave Attorney General Eric Holder a choice during the House Judiciary hearing on Fast and Furious on December 8: go before Issa’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voluntarily or expect a subpoena within a month. The AG apparently opted for the less splashy option.

“Hostile witness” Holder will face Issa’s House Oversight Committee on February 2. This time around Issa will be in charge of the proceedings. And he won’t be limited to a few measly minutes of questioning while fending off rude interruptions by Holder-protectoress Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX).

Darrell Issa today announced that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been scheduled to testify on February 2 about the Department of Justice’s knowledge of, and response to, gunwalking that occurred in Operation Fast and Furious.

The Attorney General will be asked to address management deficiencies within the Department that occurred both during and after the conclusion of Operation Fast and Furious. This will include the Department’s steadfast refusal to disclose information following the February 4, 2011 letter to Senator Grassley, which the Department has withdrawn because it contained false information denying allegations made by whistleblowers about Operation Fast and Furious.

“The Department of Justice’s conduct in the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious has been nothing short of shameful,” said Chairman Issa. “From its initial denials that nothing improper occurred, to efforts to silence whistleblowers who wanted to tell Congress what really happened, to its continuing refusal to discuss or share documents related to this cover-up, the Justice Department has fought tooth and nail to hide the full truth about what occurred and what senior officials knew.

Read More at American Thinker By M. Catharine Evans, American Thinker

Obama’s Resolution: Ignore Congress Again in 2012

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The mainstream media have finally caught on to the president’s agenda, more than a year after this author exposed it in these pages. On New Year’s Day, the Los Angeles Times carried a story detailing Barack Obama’s strategy for 2012: bypass Congress and rule by executive order. The Times quoted Obama adviser Josh Earnest’s curt euphemism that, “In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012…the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.” The newspaper then outlined the president’s agenda:

As the year unfolds, Obama will use executive authority to roll out more initiatives designed to boost the economy and assist struggling families, the White House aide said. Obama has already unveiled 20 such measures under the White House’s new slogan, “We can’t wait.”

Earnest said that the White House’s goal was to contrast the image of a “gridlocked, dysfunctional Congress” with “a president who’s leaving no stone unturned to try to find solutions to the difficult financial challenges and economic challenges facing this country.”

Earnest — who must have been chosen for his surname — concluded working with Congress is “no longer a requirement.”

Well, Los Angeles Times, it’s about time. This author exposed that strategy in fall 2010, before the election. We have commented on it numerous times since. Yet more than 15 months later, the prestige media treat Earnest’s earnestness as a revelation.

 Read More at Western Journalism By Ben Johnson, Western Journalism