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Romney urges grads to honor family commitments – WRAL.com


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Romney urges grads to honor family commitments
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By KASIE HUNT, AP; RACHEL ZOLL, Associated Press LYNCHBURG, Va. — Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical university Saturday. And he hardly touched on hot-button social
Romney responds to Obama support of same-sex marriageWGNtv.com
Romney's passive response to Obama's change of tune on gay marriageBoston.com (blog)
Wooing evangelicals, Romney evokes faith and Christian traditionsLos Angeles Times
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Second Afghan peace broker assassinated – Christian Science Monitor


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Second Afghan peace broker assassinated
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Gunmen killed a senior member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council Sunday morning, in yet another signal that some elements within the insurgency are against talks. By Tom A. Peter, Correspondent / May 13, 2012 In yet another blow to the Afghan peace
Afghan Peace Council Member Gunned DownVoice of America
Top member of Afghan peace council gunned downCTV.ca
Senior figure in Afghan government peace council assassinatedLos Angeles Times
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Gay marriage issue: Who does it hurt most, Obama or Romney?
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Gay marriage is not a campaign subject either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney really needed, and it could present difficulties for both candidates as the election nears. By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / May 12, 2012 Amelia Jane Carson, left,
GOP: Gay marriage an issue, but not like economyFox News
How gay-marriage issue could alter the 2016 presidential raceLos Angeles Times
GOP: Economy tops gay marriage as campaign issueSalt Lake Tribune
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Jury: Hudson stardom no factor in murders verdict – San Francisco Chronicle


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Jury: Hudson stardom no factor in murders verdict
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(05-12) 01:33 PDT Chicago (AP) — Jurors shrugged off Jennifer Hudson's star status and insisted it played no role in their decision to convict her former brother-in-law for slaying the Oscar winner's mother, brother and nephew — a verdict that means
Hudson Jury Ignores Star StatusDaily Beast
Jury: Jennifer Hudson stardom no factor in murder verdictKewanee Star Courier
Jennifer Hudson family slayings suspect convicted of murderRapid City Journal
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Romney address at Liberty Univ. sparks controversy – CBS News


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Romney address at Liberty Univ. sparks controversy
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(CBS News) WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is to deliver the commencement address Saturday at Virginia's Liberty University, the largest evangelical college in the country. His visit has stirred debate in the conservative Christian community, because some
Romney to urge grads to honor familyWANE
Mitt Romney's Liberty University Commencement AddressTPM
For Romney, speech at Christian college offers testKY3
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The Real Dan Savage: The Bully Against Bullying

Part I of II

Dan Savage is a bully. How ironic, since he heads the most high-profile anti-bullying campaign the United States. But for Savage, it only gets better if you support a rabidly liberal, “anything goes” lifestyle.

Savage recently garnered media attention for his offensive remarks about Christians, but in reality this is old news. The liberal media and Obama administration love to portray Dan Savage as the anti-bullying savior, but the real Dan Savage has been a repulsive and twisted creature for years. Just read any of his five books.

In his books Savage penned that Christian conservatives “march in lock-step with Osama bin Laden and his Islamo-fascist buddies.” He compared Christians to the 9/11 terrorists and Adolf Hitler, obscenely mocked Catholicism labelling Catholic priests “altar-boy raping celibates,” gleefully took the Lord’s name in vain, wished Christians dead, and said being a Republican is like having terminal cancer.

In his sex -advice column “Savage Love” the anti-bullying crusader referred to heterosexuals as “breeders,” a derogatory gay pejorative for straight people, since they can procreate and gays cannot. “Savage Love” found its author heartily encouraging his readers to engage in child molestation fantasies, bondage, drug use, affairs, three-ways, incestuous relationships and other disgusting sexual acts (which will be revealed part two of this article).

His remaining four books continued Savage’s vulgar war against morality and conservatism. Savage’s views were so evident that the reader wouldn’t make it past page one of his books without something obscene and immoral crawling across the paper.

Bullying Christians and Catholics

Savage’s favorite rhetorical device is disgusting and inaccurate hyperbole. His slimy contempt for Christians and conservatives bled off page 269 of “Skipping Toward Gomorrah” where he compared believing Christians to the 9/11 terrorists.

“After September 11, reasonable Americans could no longer pretend that all men of faith were harmless do-gooders. The 19 hijackers were men of faith – they thought they were doing God’s work. Osama bin Laden is a man of faith.”

So all people of faith are the same. Except that in a Muslim Jihadist society Savage’s gay lifestyle might end with authorities toppling a stone wall on him. In America, Christian minister Tony Perkins publicly asked all Christians to pray for Savage.

Savage’s response to Perkins’s plea? A vicious written assault on the Bible where he called the apostle Paul gay, ending with “Fuck you too, Tony Perkins.”

Savage has a personal vendetta against Catholics. In “Savage Love” he said “Catholics have been working their hocus-pocus under the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for hundreds of years.”

He treated taking the Lord’s name in vain as casually as lefties drop the word “tolerance,” saying “I might have focused [this book] on the 10 Commandments, I suppose, but, Christ who hasn’t taken the Lord’s name in vain? Or dishonored their stupid parents?”

Even more Christian-bashing ensued in “The Kid.” In typical Dan Savage obscenity he fantasized his adopted child’s fundamentalist Christian grandparents would “get so worked up, they both have strokes and die.”

Bullying Conservatives

In “The Kid” Savage devoted an entire paragraph to comparing conservative disagreement with homosexuality to Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitism. “This was an attempt by religious conservatives to introduce a deadly, new kind of hatred into American culture: eliminationist homophobia,” Savage said. “In his book ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners,’ Daniel Goldhagen described pre-war German anti-Semitism as unique and murderous; he called it eliminationist.” Savage concluded.

All Republicans are abominations in Savage’s eyes and to him, “Watching the Republican National Convention is like going to the doctor every four years, and being told your body is riddled with horrible, disfiguring, fast-spreading, terminal cancer.”

“Skipping Toward Gomorrah” is the most militantly anti-conservative and anti-Christian book, focusing on Savage’s “unalienable right” (given to him by the Declaration of Independence) to the pursuit of the seven deadly sins.

In “Skipping Toward Gomorrah” Savage defined moral conservatives as “virtuecrats” who “have banded together to shove their virtues down his throat.” Highly ironic, since it is Savage himself who tours the country spreading his message against conservatives.

Adored by the Left

Savage is beloved by the White House and President Obama, despite his twisted and profane war on morality and conservatism. In fact, President Obama personally endorsed his “It Gets Better” campaign.

In a personal message in Savage’s book “It Gets Better,” President Obama said, “If it means that you’ll be more likely to help fight discrimination, not just against LBGT Americans, but discrimination in all forms. It’s so important that as adults we set an example in our own lives and treat everybody with respect.”

But Obama wrote that long after Savage had crudely slandered presidential candidate Rick Santorum with a vile Google bomb for merely believing in traditional Christian teaching about homosexuality. “I will never take the website down,” Savage said about SpreadingSantorum.com.

There was also no answer from Obama when Savage called hundreds of Christian students “pansy-assed,” after they refused to listen to his bigoted rhetoric at a high school speech.

Savage wrote in “It Gets Better” that we need to “create a world where no child, gay or straight, is bullied for being different.” But he’s clearly unable to practice what he preaches. While Savage calls Christian fundamentalists “hateful, divisive, and mean” the truly hateful and divisive person in the room is Savage himself.

And while Savage advocated the bullying of gay individuals in America cannot be tolerated, even he failed miserably at living up to his own mantra. In “Savage Love,” the anti-bullying bully ruthlessly assaulted and cursed a fellow homosexual who was in the closet.

“You aren’t special, and to be perfectly frank at this point in history you aren’t interesting. If you’re miserable then come the fuck out. I have no sympathy for guys who know they’re gay, and yet choose to remain in the closet out of sheer chickenshittedness. In the meantime, spare us your bullshit whining. Don’t have the balls to come out now or ever? Fine. Don’t. Rot in the closet,” Savage wrote in response to a gay individual.

“It Gets Better” only applies if Savage approves of you. Truly Dan Savage is a hypocrite.

Huffington Post Headline: ‘How Cheating Can Save Your Marriage’

As I noted Wednesday in the aftermath of President Obama's "evolution" concerning same sex marriage, there's a great deal of hypocrisy in the media's response given their own antipathy to the very institution they want available for homosexuals.

The Huffington Post Thursday presented a fine example of this with an article featured on its front page headlined "How Cheating Can Save Your Marriage":

Of the wives with whom I've spoken, close to half believe that the 'other man' can actually help them to stay in an unhappy or suboptimal marriage because they find their happiness with the lover. This group of wives who remain with their husbands feels more in touch with their desires in this extra curricular relationship than in their marriages and they no longer feel that life is passing them by.

There are wives who tell me that the affair is the one part of their lives that they can control and in this way they are empowered. And then there are wives who report that they feel more balanced in their marriage because of the affair. This faction of women, approximately a third of my interviewee pool, describe themselves as a good wife, a good mother, a successful career woman and a good lover. These relationships with the 'other man' satisfy some wives for years and become a way of life.

More than half the wives I've interviewed describe the lover as a vehicle through which to understand what is missing in the marriage — and wives in this situation may give up the affair with a renewed commitment to the marriage. Others use the lover as a bridge to leave the marriage, although not necessarily for this person.


"Others use the lover as a bridge to leave the marriage, although not necessarily for this person."

And that last line belies the headline, for the number one reason for divorce in this country is infidelity.

As such, promoting infidelity as something that can save a marriage is akin to recommending gasoline to put out a fire.

On Thursday, not only did the Huffington Post do this, it did it on the front page.

Yet this same publication advocates same-sex marriage.

Why fight for the LGBT community to have the right to something you clearly don't believe in or respect?

After President Obama publicly supported gay marriage on Wednesday, CNN continued its cheerleading well into Wednesday evening, including a happy interview of openly-gay congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) where he proudly showed the audience his engagement ring.

During CNN's 6-9 p.m. coverage, 9 of the guests voiced their support of President Obama's position on-air, while only two objected. Another guest, Mike Signorile, did not give verbal support but writes for the Huffington Post "Gay Voices" blog and has called for President Obama to "kick down the closet door" and publicly support same-sex marriage. [Video below the break. Audio here.]

In contrast, only two of the guests voiced their disapproval of President Obama's position. And CNN's Piers Morgan had some nasty words for one of them – Bill Donohue of the Catholic League – behind his back.

Guests included Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), openly-gay New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, gay musician Clay Aiken, and members of pro-gay organizations like GOProud, the Log Cabin Republicans, and the Human Rights Campaign.

CNN had some sweet words for Frank, Aiken and Bruni. "Chairman Frank, good to talk to you again, sir. It's been a while and I'm glad it's under circumstances like this," Erin Burnett said to Frank. "I love it," she gushed when he showed her his ring.

Piers Morgan trumpeted the "extraordinary" day. "Yes, I mean, it was, it was a seismic, historic moment. I mean one of the biggest, I would say, in terms of any kind of social, civil issues since the Civil Rights Movement."

"It just exploded all around the world, all corners of the planet," Morgan continued. "And I think that that showed the importance of it, the significance of it."

Meanwhile, Morgan had some harsh words for Bill Donohue, who opposed Obama's position, and for the North Carolinians who had voted for Amendment 1.

"I just find it extraordinary that in North Carolina, your state," he said to Clay Aiken, "that people feel strongly enough when there's economic crisis, there are wars, there's famine, they want to go out and vote for their right to absolutely guarantee two loving gay people can't get married. What is wrong with them? I mean seriously?"

Of all the guests, the following either supported Obama's announcement on-air, or were members of pro-gay organizations: Chris Barron, chairman of GOProud; Alex Castellanos, Republican strategist; Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist; Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans; Evan Wolfson, director of FreedomtoMarry.org; Frank Bruni, op-ed columnist for the New York Times; Chad Griffin, incoming president of the Human Rights Campaign; Clay Aiken, singer; and Mike Signorile, editor at large for the HuffPo's Gay Voices blog.

The two guests that opposed same-sex marriage were Pastor Dwayne Walker of Little Rock AME Zion Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Bill Donohue of the Catholic League.

Coulter Column | Elizabeth Warren’s Indian Name: Dances with Lies

Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, "Lies on Race Box," is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.

Harvard took full advantage of Warren's lie, bragging to The Harvard Crimson about her minority status during one of the near-constant student protests over insufficient "diversity" in the faculty. Warren also listed herself as an Indian in law school faculty directories and, just last month, said, "I am very proud of my Native American heritage."


Except, oops, she has no more evidence that she's an Indian than that buffoon out of Colorado, Ward Churchill.
The Boston Globe immediately leapt to Warren's defense, quoting a genealogist who found a marriage license on which Warren's great-great-uncle scribbled that his mother, Warren's great-great-great grandmother, was a Cherokee. This is not part of the official marriage license. (If I scribble "Kenyan" on Obama's birth certificate, does that make it true?)

But let's say it's true. That would make Warren a dotriacontaroon — 1/32nd Cherokee. That's her claim to affirmative action bonus points? You don't know what it's like to be 1/32nd Cherokee, to never have anyone to talk to, spending so many evenings home alone, wondering if there was some other 1/32nd Cherokee out there, perhaps looking at the same star I was.

Soon, however, the preponderance of the evidence suggested she wasn't even 1/32nd Cherokee. The census records for 1860 list the allegedly Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, as "white." Also, Warren's family isn't listed in the Cherokee registry. (Unlike Democrat voter rolls, to be on the Cherokee list, proof is required.)

On the other hand, we have what her son scribbled on his marriage license — something, by the way, that none of his siblings claimed about their mother.

So now we're down to Warren's reminiscence that her great-aunt used to point to a portrait of her great-great-grandfather and call him an Indian, noting his high cheekbones.

Family lore is not proof. Proof is contemporary documentation, produced under penalty of perjury, such as a census record. My mother told me she found me under a rock, but I don't put that on job applications.

The universities that employed Warren rushed to claim that her fake Indian ancestry had nothing to do with it. They speak with forked tongue, causing heap-um laughter. (Harvard was so desperate for diversity, it made a half-black dilettante president of the Harvard Law Review!)

To grasp what a sin against political correctness this is, consider the Jesuitical debates about blackness regularly engaged in at our universities. About the time Lies on Race Box was getting a job with Harvard as a fake Indian — valued for her fake hunting and tracking skills — a debate broke out at Northwestern University law school about whether a potential faculty hire was black enough.

One professor wrote a heated three-page letter to the hiring committee complaining that the recruit "should not be considered a black candidate," explaining, "(n)ot all with dark skins are black," nor should they be considered "black in the U.S. context." (Flash to: My exact position on Obama.)

Warren has defended herself, claiming she did it only so she would be invited to powwows, or what the great white father calls "meetings," saying she hoped "I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am."

What on earth does "people who are like I am" mean? Let's invite Elizabeth because she's 1/32nd Cherokee. We really need the 1/32nd Cherokee perspective around here. Maybe she has some old recipes that are 1/32nd Cherokee!

Then, the Warren campaign claimed it was sexist to question Warren about her bald-faced lie: "Once again, the qualifications and ability of a woman are being called into question by Scott Brown … It's outrageous."

First, Scott Brown has barely mentioned Warren's stinking lie.

But, second, the only people who consider it a "qualification" to be 1/32nd Cherokee are university hiring committees. Possible Warren campaign speech:

"I am a dotriacontaroon American. I want to be a voice for those who are 1/32nd Cherokee, but also 1/32nd Pequot, 1/32nd Mohawk — basically the senator for all dotriacontaroons. Isn't it time we had a senator who was 1/32nd Cherokee?"

Now it's beginning to look like her ancestors not only did not suffer, but caused the suffering she's getting the benefit of. The great-great-great-grandfather married to the not-Cherokee O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford turns out to have been one of the white enforcers on the brutal Trail of Tears, helping round up Indians from their homes in order to march them to a less desirable part of the country.

What's next?

"Yes, and my other grandfather, Theophilus Connor …"

BULL CONNOR?

"Yes, but I swear, James Earl Ray is not a BLOOD uncle. We're related only by marriage. At least that's what my cousin John Wayne Gacy used to always tell me."

Warren's lie is outrageous enough to someone like me, who isn't a fan of race-based affirmative action programs. Still, she is a liar, and she stole the credit of someone else's suffering.

For liberals, it should be a mortal sin: Elizabeth Warren cheated on affirmative action.

Joining the rest of the media in mourning the primary defeat of Republican Indiana Senator Richard Lugar on Tuesday, on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams praised the "old-school moderate" who "was attacked for working to compromise with the White House" and lamented: "His defeat comes close to ending the era of centrist Republicans in the Senate."

Williams reported on Lugar being "trounced in the Indiana Republican primary last night by Tea Party-backed opponent Richard Murdoch" and touted the 80-year-old Senator's bitter farewell: "[He] unleashed a 1,400-word document examining these hyper-partisan times. He blamed outside groups that spent millions on ads against them saying their, quote, 'prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it.'"

Here is a transcript of Williams' May 9 report:

7:07 p.m.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Richard Lugar, one of the longest serving senators in this country, was trounced in the Indiana Republican primary last night by Tea Party-backed opponent Richard Murdoch. After conceding defeat, the old-school moderate unleashed a 1,400-word document examining these hyper-partisan times. He blamed outside groups that spent millions on ads against them saying their, quote, "prime mission is to cleanse the Republican Party of those who stray from orthodoxy as they see it." Luger is a powerful voice in foreign policy, was attacked for working to compromise with the White House. His defeat comes close to ending the era of centrist Republicans in the Senate.

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