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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A further examination of the new annual report Planned Parenthood recently released finds the abortion business is still the largest in the United States. As in previous years, the number of abortions it does has gone up and roughly 25 percent of all abortions in the United States are done at Planned Parenthood centers. The report shows that Planned Parenthood did 289,750 abortions, an increase over the 264,943 abortions it did during the 2005-2006 fiscal year. That's a whopping nine percent increase even though the number of abortions nationally are on the decline. "It claims to...

Feelings about Nancy Grace aside, this story of how an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl slipped into a diabetic coma and died because her parents sat around praying rather than seeking medical attention for her--as relatives had been begging them to do for weeks--is horrifying. Though the parents insist they don't regard themselves as religious, they also note that laying on of hands is their preferred method of healing in general. With apologies to similar believers everywhere, my first reaction to this is, Wow, these people are some kind of crazy. My second reaction: time to consider a little court-negotiated sterilization. Seriously....

LATHRUP VILLAGE, MI, March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Citizens for a Pro-Life Society claim to have found medical records and the remains of at least 18 aborted fetuses in the dumpsters behind the Lathrup Village Woman Care clinic operated by Alberto Hodari. Both the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Lathrup Village Police Department are investigating Hodari's Southfield Road clinic. Dr. Monica Miller, director of the CPLS, organized the dumpster investigations from February 8-March 2. Describing the fetuses found, Miller stated, "Each one was wrapped in a bloody gauze, tied at the end. Once you turned these inside...

Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri is calling on Muslims to strike Israeli and American interests to avenge Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to a new audiotape. In the 4-minute tape, posted on a Web site Monday, al-Zawahri accuses Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of helping Israel in its offensive by sealing off the border between Egypt and Gaza. He calls on Muslims to "strike the interests of the Jews, the Americans, and all of those who participated in the attack on the Muslims," and says attacks should not be limited to areas in Israel or the Palestinian territories....

Report: Planned Parenthood Apologizes for Encouraging Donation Aimed at Aborting Black Babies Monday , March 17, 2008 Planned Parenthood of Idaho has apologized after an employee encouraged a telephone donation aimed at aborting black babies. Officials for the group said last month that the employee made a "serious mistake" encouraging the donation, the Idaho Statesman reports. But Planned Parenthood criticized the publication that made the call — The Advocate, a student anti-abortion magazine at the University of California-Los Angeles — for trying to discredit the organization by having an actor pose as a donor, the Idaho Statesman reports. "A fundraising...

'100 Dead' In Anti-China Protests In Tibet By Sky News SkyNews - 9 minutes agoChina has locked down the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and set a deadline for rioters to surrender following the worst violence in 20 years. Beijing said that 10 people had been burnt to death during a day of unrest, while Tibet's government-in-exile in India warned that the number could be much higher. In a statement from its northern India base, it said: "We have unconfirmed reports about 100 people had been killed and martial law imposed in Lhasa." The government said it was "deeply concerned" by...

Today, the NY Times has the first part of a special series - War Torn:Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles. It appears that the troops are coming home and becoming murderers. Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories. Lakewood, Wash.: "Family Blames Iraq After Son Kills Wife." Pierre, S.D.: "Soldier Charged With Murder Testifies About Postwar Stress." Colorado Springs: "Iraq War Vets Suspected in Two Slayings, Crime Ring." Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the...

Death Penalty: The Supreme Court this week heard arguments that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Euthanasia advocates consider it a blessing for the deathly ill. Yet it's cruel for the just plain deadly.<.font> The Supreme Court heard arguments last Monday not on the constitutionality of the death penalty itself but on whether the possibility that a murderer might experience pain if the three-chemical cocktail administered to death row inmates takes too long to do its job. In their brief to the court, lawyers for convicted murderers Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling say the three-part death cocktail and the...

Less than a week before the neck-and-neck race to finish first in the Iowa caucuses, Planned Parenthood has launched a line of “multiple choice Mitt” clothing including bibs, baby onesies and T-shirts that blast GOP candidate Mitt Romney’s “flip-flop” on abortion rights.

Michael Cooks was a seasoned gang banger and drug dealer when he gunned down two men in Englewood. He was also 14 years old. Cooks is now 32, and after serving more than half of his life in prison, he says he has grown into a different person than the boy who pulled the trigger. "I've calmed things down, learned to actually think before I react in certain situations," he said in an interview at Menard Correctional Center, about 85 miles south of St. Louis. "I've learned to walk away, which is why I don't be getting in fights or...

Billy Ray Hamilton, who killed three people with a sawed-off shotgun inside Fran's Market in Fresno more than a quarter-century ago, has died in prison. We have to ask the same question asked by the parents of one of his victims: Why did Hamilton spend 27 years on death row? His prison stay lasted more than one and a half times as long as his youngest victim's entire life. His victims were Douglas White, 18, Josephine Rocha, 17, and Bryon Schletewitz, 27. We support the death penalty. At the same time, we believe those sentenced to death must have every...

AL-Qaeda called on Islamists to sow terror in the West to create a climate of fear, in a third video marking the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, which was posted on the internet today. Called "reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington," the video features a montage of images of the burning World Trade Centre towers and scenes from Islamist training camps. "We must take Islamist terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life like natural disasters," a voiceover says. "In that way, we will have acts of mass...

Peruvian Cardinal to Health Minister: "Abortion is Murder" Adds "We cannot remain in silence to avoid problems, and those children have every right to live" By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LIMA, September 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru, gave a stinging sermon Sunday stating that abortion "is murder and those who commit it are murderers", as Peru's health minister Carlos Vallejos sat in the pews. Although Vallejos claims to be pro-life, he supports the abortifacient morning after pill and has cooperated with efforts to normalize "therapeutic abortions" in Peru. "It is cowardice on the part of contemporary...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 31, 2007New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The International Planned Parenthood Federation, one of the largest abortion businesses in the world, has released its annul report about abortions in the Western Hemisphere. The report claims that millions of illegal abortions are done annually in these Latin American and Caribbean nations that prohibit abortion.The report begins with a very telling revealing of the strategy IPPF seeks to employ in the region in over to overturn the pro-life cultural values reflected in the abortion laws there."Since political conditions will not change dramatically in the region in the short-term, we...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 31, 2007McMinnville, OR (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood has caused a national stir with a new abortion center in Aurora, Illinois that it built under the table without the public knowing until the last minute. The abortion business is preparing a new center in Oregon that is already drawing significant opposition because it will target college students.Planned Parenthood has already upset pro-life advocates and African Americans in Portland by choosing to build an abortion center in a predominantly black community.Now the abortion business is headed for McMinnville, a city southwest of Portland that is the home to...

A WITNESS overnight accused "Chemical Ali", Saddam Hussein's most notorious hatchet man, of killing her sons by throwing them out of a helicopter during the crushing of an Iraqi Shiite rebellion. Laila Kathum, testifying in the trial of 15 Saddam aides accused of crimes against humanity over the repression of the 1991 rebellion in southern Iraq, vented her fury against Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as "Chemical Ali". Speaking from behind a curtain, Ms Kathum accused Saddam's army of arresting her relatives and said Majid himself had killed her two sons. "The army detained my two sons, my brother and...

NEW YORK A Hartford man who suffered an apparent heart attack after shooting someone originally identified as an intruder by police, now faces murder charges. J. Gregory Robertson, 64, was actually arguing with a third man Thursday, when Ralph Colon, 56, stepped between them, police said. [Robertson used the byline J. Greg Robertson for more than 20 years for The Hartford Courant until the early 1980s.] Police said that Robertson was inside his apartment, and that the other two men were standing outside on a porch when Robertson and the other man argued through the open door. Robertson pulled a...

AURORA -- A lack of women's health services in the region, particularly abortion providers, prompted a full-service Planned Parenthood medical office on Aurora's far northeast side. Scheduled to open the middle of September, the medical complex will offer reproductive and women's health-care services, with an estimated 10 percent of that coming from abortions. If women need abortion services now, many have to travel to Chicago's North Side, where Planned Parenthood operates a clinic, said Steve Trombley, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area. "Because of the limited number of providers unfortunately women have to travel long distances," he said. An...

Three sisters were found stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising suspicion they were killed by relatives because of suspected immoral behavior, a human rights organization said. The three sisters, 16-year-old Nahed Hija and her sisters, 19-year-old Suha and 22-year-old Lina, were found dead from multiple stab wounds, buried in a shallow grave in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, said Hamdi Shakkour of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Shakkour said they suspected the women were victims of "honor crimes," in which women are murdered by male relatives because of suspected intimate relations - not...

My fellow Americans, we have a problem. We spend billions of dollars on homeland security, but our government can't even track and deport convicted criminal aliens. These are not the well-meaning "newcomers" who just want to "pursue economic opportunities" by "doing the jobs no one else will do." These are foreign-born thugs, sex offenders, murderers and repeat drunk drivers who are destroying the American Dream. If our immigration and entrance system cannot effectively monitor, detain and kick out convicted criminal aliens — including illegal border-crossers, illegal visa overstayers, fugitive deportees, and green card holders who have committed serious crimes and...

"U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stands on stage with New Yorker Laura Rios of Harlem, during an event sponsored by planned parenthood in Washington""Planned Parenthood teen peer advocates Sade' Barber, 14, of Washington, left, and Jasmine Barber-DeCosta, 14, of Groton, Conn., listen as Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., partially visible right, delivers remarks at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund annual public affairs conference in Washington."

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state's first execution in 60 years Elijah Page gave up his appeals and asked to die for the 2000 murder of Chester Allan Poage, 19, who was also stabbed, kicked and bashed with large rocks in a torture session that lasted two to three hours. Page, of Athens, Texas, died at 10:11 p.m. from a lethal injection administered at the South...

The title refers to an old French movie but the post has to do with the current propaganda trend in central New Jersey, which implies that the viewer should take it all in, in an attitude of child-like innocence.   First we had the Princeton "Human Rights" Film Festival, now there's the Che show at the Mason Gross Galleries in New Brunswick (emphasis on gross), gloriously promoted in the local paper as,       The continued power of Che Guevara as a symbol of hope and opposition across cultures is examined at Mason Gross Galleries.   I'll give you...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Christians in a Pakistani town beset by pro-Taliban militants sought government protection Wednesday, the eve of a deadline for them to convert to Islam or face violence. About 500 Pakistani Christians in Charsadda, a town in the North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, received letters earlier this month telling them to close their churches and convert by Thursday or be the target of "bomb explosions." Several Christians, a tiny minority in the predominantly Muslim country, have fled town and others are living in fear, community leaders said.

<p>ATLANTA - A vegan couple were sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.</p> <p>Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the mandatory sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004.</p>

Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) -- The state parole board has agreed to release two women from prison two years after the governor commuted their life sentences for killing abusive husbands. The action was long overdue, a lawyer for one of the women said Tuesday. Shirley Lute, 76, has been imprisoned since 1981, when she was convicted of aiding her son in killing her husband, Melvin, whom she claims physically tortured and mentally tormented her. Lynda Branch, 54, was convicted of shooting her husband, Raymond, in 1986; she contends she got control of the gun only after her husband threatened to...

<p>The summer I turned 6 years old, some of the neighborhood boys started bullying me. Back then, I owned a pair of cabbage patch kid roller-skates and my favorite activity was skating around the block singing nursery rhymes at the top of my lungs. One day, a few boys in the 8-10 range thought it would be pretty humorous to push me around and watch me flail. I tried to run from them, but I couldn’t skate faster than they could run. They taunted me for a while and then knocked me down. Angry, humiliated, and with two freshly skinned knees, I did what any 6 year old girl would do in my position.</p>

A rabid dog murdered five Americans in a Utah mall. He was an Islamist who was obviously following the Verses of the Sword. Understand these Verses and you recognized this immediately. A search can give you the truth in two minutes. Our old media is failing us by never mentioning these Koran verses in reports on Islamist murderers in our midst. Islamists hate Americans because we refuse to bow to them and become Muslims under threat of death or enslavement. Consider these examples of old media lies by omission about what this rabid mongrel named Suliman Tolovic did. ABC NEWS:...

Boys of the Taliban By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2006 Just recently, the Taliban issued a new set of 30 rules to its fighters. Many of the instructions were to be expected: rule No. 25 commands the murder of teachers if a warning and a beating does not dissuade them from teaching. No. 26 outlines the exquisite delicacy of burning schools and destroying anything that aid organizations might undertake -- such as the building of a new road, school or clinic. The essence of the other rules are easily left to the imagination, basically involving what militant Islam...

Fighting For Justice For Slain Officer Faulkner (CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Twenty five years ago Saturday, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered on a Center City street. On Friday, his widow and 500 supporters are vowing to keep his convicted killer behind bars. At the same time, those who support Mumia Abu-Jamal say he was unjustly convicted. 25 years after Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered, friends hugged and comforted his widow, much the way they did that freezing December morning in 1981 when he was gunned down near 13th and Locust streets. For Maureen Faulkner, so much, yet so little...

TERRORIST group al-Qaeda is at risk of splintering into separate, even more extremist organisations, an academic said today. Stuart Koschade, from the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Social Change, said an inconsistency in values held by top al-Qaeda members risked even more violent groups emerging, as had happened in Iraq. Speaking at a conference in Brisbane on social change, where more than 50 academics presented their research, Mr Koschade said inconsistencies had developed in the movement's message since its three main goals were set in 2001 by leader Osama bin Laden. They were to organise ideological clarity, resist secular...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- At least 12 people were killed in violence around Iraq on Saturday, while authorities found the decapitated corpses of seven people dumped north of Baghdad in what appeared to be a sectarian revenge killing. The bodies were found in an orchard in the city of Duluiyah late Friday. Three had been among a group of 17 construction workers kidnapped Thursday while traveling home to the predominantly Shiite town of Balad, police said. The corpses of the other 14 were found earlier Friday, also beheaded. The kidnapping was apparently retaliation for the abduction Wednesday of three Sunni...

FAMILIES of Australians and others killed in the first Bali bombing four years ago have held an emotional service on the Indonesian resort island. About 150 families, friends and victims of the October 2002 blast gathered to mourn at Garuda Wisnu Kencana on the hills overlooking Kuta. The October 12, 2002, bombings on two bars killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and were blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network. Australia's Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, today extended Australia's sympathies to victims and families of the blast. He pledged that Australia would remain determined to fight terrorism. "We...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2006 – An Iraqi police chief survived an insurgent ambush Oct. 3, urging his troops to continue the mission, and Iraqi and U.S. soldiers captured three high-value terrorists and 25 others in Baghdad Oct. 3, military officials in Iraq reported today. The Iraqi police chief was wounded when his patrol was ambushed while in pursuit of suspected insurgents in the city of Baghdadi, Iraq. Col. Shaban al Obeidi was evacuated to a nearby U.S. military medical facility by helicopter for treatment and was reported in good condition. One policeman was killed in the attack. When asked if...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2006 – Terrorists are destined to lose if the U.S. keeps its nerve and refuses to abandon its overseas commitments, Vice President Richard B. Cheney said today at Fort Hood, Texas. “The world can have confidence in the resolve of the United States,” he said. “We will stand by our friends; we will help Iraqis build a nation that is free, secure and able to defend itself. We will confront our enemies on this and every other front in the war on terror. With good allies at our side, we will prevail.” Cheney said the terrorists were...

At a pivotal time in the abortion debate, Ms. magazine is releasing its fall issue next week with a cover story titled "We Had Abortions," accompanied by the names of thousands of women nationwide who signed a petition making that declaration. The publication coincides with what the abortion-rights movement considers a watershed moment for its cause. Abortion access in many states is being curtailed, activists are uncertain about the stance of the U.S. Supreme Court, and South Dakotans vote Nov. 7 on a measure that would ban virtually all abortions in their state, even in cases of rape and incest....

THE three Bali bombers on death row have requested that they are beheaded rather than shot, one of their lawyers has said. Amrozi, Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and Imam Samudra narrowly avoided execution last month when their lawyers announced they would file an appeal over their death sentences, meted out for the 2002 attacks which left 202 people dead. Lawyer Mahendradatta said the appeal, known formally as a demand for a case review, would be submitted to authorities within the next two weeks. But he told reporters that another demand would be filed to the constitutional court, asking that they...

Some Australian Muslim groups have reacted angrily to comments made by Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell. The Archbishop of Sydney has backed the Pope's speech made in Germany last week, linking Islam's history with violence. The Pontiff has since apologised, saying he is deeply sorry about angering so many Muslims, and that the 14th Century passages that he referred to in no way reflect his views. Cardinal Pell says the pontiff did nothing wrong in making the speech, and says he does not rule out a link between Islam and violence. "I'm not sure, I would welcome...

SYDNEY'S Catholic Archbishop has hit out at Muslims protesting over comments by the Pope, saying their reaction shows the link in Islam between religion and violence. Cardinal George Pell has also labelled the response of some Australian Muslim leaders to the issue as "unhelpful". A wave of protest has erupted among Muslims across the globe after comments by Pope Benedict XVI, in which he quoted an obscure medieval text that criticised some teachings of the Prophet Mohammed as "evil and inhuman". The Pope has since said he is "deeply sorry" for the outrage sparked by his remarks and stressed they...

A spokesman for the Australian Muslim community says Pope Benedict XVI should give a full explanation for his comments about Islam. The pontiff has sparked widespread outrage after last week quoting a 14th century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman". He has since apologised. The head of the Federal Government's Islamic advisory committee, Dr Ameer Ali, says there is disappointment that Pope Benedict has linked Islam to violence. "We expect the Pope to follow the footsteps of his predecessor, who had been a great builder among communities for so many years, and...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2006 – Iraqi police detained three suspected insurgents and discovered a makeshift bomb near a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 11, U.S. military officials said. The insurgents fired on coalition forces near a cemetery in western Mosul, then fled into a mosque and continued to attack from inside after coalition forces pursued them. Coalition forces cordoned off the area and notified Iraqi police of the situation. The Iraqi police searched the mosque and surrounding area, leading to the capture of the three insurgents and the discovery of a prepared makeshift bomb. Iraqi explosive ordnance disposal personnel destroyed...

I didn't know if there was a west coast version of this thread. It didn't make sense to post on thread for the show that was almost over on the East Coast.

Israel should immediately lay down its arms and march back to the border. It need not even wait for the United Nations to pass a resolution. The result will be the same, only faster, if Israel's forces withdraw unilaterally, in one night, as we did in May 2000. Why wait an extra day, to be sitting ducks in enemy territory, to lose soldiers, for nothing? As they did then, Hezbollah may shoot at us as we run away, or claim the vehicles, weapons, equipment, and tefilin bags our soldiers leave behind in their haste to flee back behind the border....

Top Hizbullah official: Group didn't expect Israel to react so strongly A senior Hizbullah official has said the group did not expect Israel to react so strongly to the capture of two Israeli soldiers. (AP)

The national Democratic Party, which author Ramesh Ponnuru calls the Party of Death, has set its sights on African-Americans during this critical election year. Well-known black leaders such as the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are encouraging blacks to turn their focus away from social issues--such as abortion--and concentrate on other issues as they head to the polls in November. Senator Barack Obama has joined the fray with an editorial in the nation’s most colorful newspaper, USA Today. Obama, who is seen as a future presidential candidate, writes: “My faith shapes my values, but applying those values to policymaking...

I was just watching an episode of the television show “First 48 Hours” on the A&E network that was detailing the investigation into a string of murders in Kansas City, MO. The detectives are getting leads to find the bodies of murdered prostitutes from the suspected killer; in the episode they had found five. They make the decision to hold a press conference with the media and during the press conference it is disclosed that the killer had been calling from a cell phone. This information was not to be used in the media report, as requested by the police...

Israel has warned the supreme leader of Hamas he will be targeted for assassination if a kidnapped Israeli soldier is harmed. International mediators are trying to win the release of the soldier, who was abducted during a weekend attack on an Israeli military post. It is believed that Corporal Gilad Shalit is being held by Palestinian militants from Hamas somewhere in southern Gaza. Egyptian and French mediators are talking to the militant groups in an effort to win the soldier's freedom. But it is understood that the exiled supreme leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, is refusing to authorise the Israeli's...

Our Condolences 12/06/2006 Tariq Alhomayed Clearly, many in the Arab world were shocked by the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the "Boss of all evils" in Baghdad. The murderer of women, children, young and old, Sunnis and Shiites, Sayyids and Sheikhs, Arabs as well as foreigners.The masterminded responsible, for last year's bombings in Amman that killed sixty innocent people in three weddings., the man who couldn't tell the difference between bird hunting and cold blooded murder. His role as a corruptor was well documented, bearing in mind that his last message to the world encouraged civil war in Iraq. Yet...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the hero of the global jihadists in general and the Iraqi jihadists in particular, has been killed. Osama Bin Laden had labeled Zarqawi “the head of al Qaeda in the land of the two rivers " in 2004, a designation that made him a world terrorist equal in stature to Bin Laden himself, a point that the United States government recognized when it put a $25 million price on his head. When the news was announced, the cheering could be heard in the Iraqi security ministry and police stations and in the CENTCOM corridors. U.S. Ambassador to...