CPAC Alienates Social Conservatives to Welcome Gay Agenda!

Ann Coulter isn't the only conservative jumping on the gay bandwagon. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has welcomed GoProud into the fold and, in the process, are driving out a large number of pro-life, pro-family groups. The annual CPAC conference in February will take place without The American Family Association (AFA), the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Center for Military Readiness, the American Principles Project, the Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage. The lineup of speakers at the annual event includes Newt Gingrich and Mitch Romney and other Republican insiders not known for their vigorous defense of the social issues. In fact, the chatter is that the social issues have to take a back door to the economy. The powers that be don't recognize that many of the tea party supporters are pro-life and pro-family. It isn't just about money. In fact, for many of us, it's not the main issue.

The Republican Party has always sent pro-lifers to the back of the bus. Happy to have us walking the precincts and manning the telephones and polling places, party hacks offer us nothing but empty promises when it comes to defending the rights of the unborn and the traditional family. The arrogance of the big-spending, earmarking establishment helped fuel the taxpayer revolution and it's one of the reasons the tea party doesn't trust the Republican Party.

CPAC's welcome of Go Proud is one more example of the willingness of establishment Republicans to ignore as irrelevant the country's moral disintegration and the millions of social conservatives whose first priority is the family starting with its tiniest members. If Republicans follow that same tired path, I suspect they will return the gavel to liberal democrats by the next election.

Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, says this about the social and fiscal issues:

When social conservatives and fiscal conservatives work together, we win. End of discussion. When fiscal and social conservatives united, Reagan won in 1980. When fiscal and social conservatives united in 1994, conservatives carried the day. When fiscal and social conservatives united in 2000, George Bush won, though both sides were very disappointed in his administration.

History cannot be denied. When fiscal and social conservatives unite, we win. Any group that seeks to divide the two needs to be viewed with suspicion because when the two are separated, we end up with bad, losing candidates. 

Phillips says at least 50% of tea party supporters are social issue conservatives. (Go here.) Will the Republican elite repeat the mistakes of the past by dissing pro-life, pro-family supporters...again? Will they gut the tea party movement? Time will tell. We have the momentum for now, but the capacity for the stupid party to get it wrong seems unlimited.

This Photo Made My Day! Bye, Madame Speaker.

Nah, nah, na, na...Nah, nah, Nancy,...Hey, hey, hey...good-bye!

Neo-Con Warmongers Threaten the Death of Our Republic

I'm listening to a book by Pat Buchanan (2004) called Where the Right Went Wrong. Buchanan is a real conservative who describes how the neo-conservatives hijacked the Republican party and embarked on an imperialistic agenda to impose democracy on the world by fiat, especially in the middle east which has never practiced it.

Buchanan exposes the elite cabal of neo-con hawks including Richard Perle, Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Bennet, etc. who began planning the war on Iraq a decade before 9/11. It was their web of lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that convinced George Bush to invade a country that did not threaten us and was not involved in Al Quaeda's attack. To hear the quotes from these elitists about overthrowing a host of governments who do not threaten us and their goal to impose their utopian image is chilling. That it requires a state of constant war is obvious. They want a new world order with themselves as the architects.

Buchanan gives a compelling historical overview of the reality that imperialism and constant warfare have been the death of every republic in history. Will the United States follow in their steps? We already have and it is contributing to our own economic collapse.

As I'm listening to Buchanan's warning, I can't help thinking of the number of Catholics and pro-lifers who defended the invasion of Iraq and were just as hawkish as the neo-cons. Every time I expressed reservations, my patriotism was questioned. So I feel a kinship with Pat Buchanan. If you're a true conservative you can bet you'll be condemned by both sides of the aisle.

I hope you'll read Buchanan's book. I think I'll read it twice.

Thought for the Day: Keep Your Kids Close

Keep your kids close -- home school!

Home school isn't about withdrawing your children from the world. It's about preparing your children in a safe environment to take on the world. You don't put a tender plant in the garden in February, you start it in a cold frame and let it get strong enough to withstand the weather. That's what home schooling is all about.

So keep 'em close in the early years and teach them to be critical thinkers and to flee from evil. Help them grow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. And when they're ready, send out little soldiers in the Church Militant to lead a fallen world back to Christ.

Home Schooling Dad Jailed in Sweden for Home Schooling

Psych studies ordered for jailed homeschooling dad
Just wanted to spend time with state-napped son

Watch the video below that mentions this dad and others around the world persecuted for nothing more than exercising their right to be the primary educators of their children. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child is being used by governments to kidnap their children and place them in state custody. When you fight for the rights of home schoolers you fight for your own right to exercise authority in your family. Pray for home schoolers everywhere.

Baltimore sends out the food police; they're citing restaurants for trans fats!

The scenario:  Agents invade the kitchen at the local diner and start checking out the ingredients in the food on the stove. Then they cite the owners and threaten to close down the restaurant. Sounds like a spoof, eh?, only it's not. My friend Janet blogged about it so I won't repeat the details. But it got me thinking.

The sad fact is that Baltimore has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. My brother used to be a cop for Baltimore County and he often said he was glad he didn't work in the city. You could get shot buying your doughnut and coffee at the 7-Eleven. If you look at the statistics comparing Baltimore to all of Maryland, you'll understand why John didn't want that hostile work environment.

Baltimore has a safety index of 5 out of 100 meaning that 95% of U.S. cities are safer than Baltimore. You have a 1 in 55 chance of being the victim of a violent crime if you live in the city including rape and murder and 1 in 18 chance of being the victim of a property crime. There are 531 crimes per square mile. If you control for size and population, Baltimore is in the middle of other comparable places, which is a good reason to follow the biblical precept to "flee the cities."

At any rate, isn't it wonderful that the city fathers of Baltimore are so unconcerned about violent crimes and larceny that they devote scarce resources to raiding diners and restaurants to check out their trans fats. How long before they raid the homes of families with kids "for the sake of the children?" Can't you hear social services now with police backup. "Drop that peanut butter jar, Ma'am, and put your hands up. Come on, Junior, we're taking you to foster care for a celery and carrot veggie loaf. Stop crying, kid, it's for your own good!" Then to the cop, "Take Mom in and book her" for clogging her child's arteries.

Think this is just one rogue city? Go here to see legislation passed and proposed all over the country to keep you safe from the trans fat blob! At least in Virginia the bill regulating trans fats in school lunches didn't pass. Hopefully, legislators decided to let the parents deal with it!

In the meantime, if you live in Baltimore better hide the peanut butter! Arugula anyone?

Solemnity of Mary, "Fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array."

My husband and I began this first day of the new year at Mass celebrating the Solemnity of Mary, her divine Motherhood. I thought I'd end the day thanking her and asking for her intercession to end the blasphemies and sacrileges against all things holy in our darkening culture.

Larry and I are Legion of Mary auxiliaries. Every day we pray the rosary together and the pamphlet of prayers. One of my favorites is about Mary:

"Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array."

Mary is no weakling to be described by that innocuous adjective "nice." She is the Queen of Heaven and our twelve star general as Fr. Norman Weslin always says. If we pray, ponder things in our hearts, and follow her into the daily battle of the Church Militant, we can claim the victory in her name no matter what happens.

O Mary, Mother of the Savior, pray for us.

Mother Mary, warrior Queen, with our patron, St. Jeanne d'Arc

Gotta Keep Those Death Panels Hush-Hush

Democrat Who Started Latest Death Panels Row Regrets Email

Wonk Believes Constitution is Confusing. Has He Read the Health Care Bill?

The video below is making the rounds among conservatives who are getting a good laugh from it. The discussion is about the intent by the upcoming new Congress to read the Constitution on the floor of the House when they convene this week. The silly commentator from the Washington Post (surprise!) just made me laugh. The Constitution is confusing? It is clear as glass compared to legislation that came out of the 111th Congress especially the 2000 pages of the Health Care Monstrosity. The Constitution, in comparison, is about a dozen pages. Now here's Article 1, section 1 (in toto) of this "confusing" document. "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives." Are you confused yet?

Now let's take a look at the health care bill. I took a random paragraph from page 909.

IN GENERAL.—Effective on January 1, 2011, subject to paragraph (2), the provisions of this section shall preempt any law or regulation of a State or of a political subdivision of a State that requires an applicable manufacturer and applicable distributor (as such terms are defined in subsection (f)) to disclose or report, in any format, the type of information (described in subsection (a)) regarding a payment or other transfer of value provided by the manufacturer to a covered recipient (as so defined).

Uh...that's clear, right? As mud? But read the two documents for yourself. I'd start with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights myself. It may take you a few hours if you ponder over the "confusing" passages. Then you can spend the rest of 2011 reading the health care bill and scratching your head. If you're interested in reading the part about taxing those who don't get health insurance (which is the item being fought as unconstitutional by a number of states including Virginia) go to page 296.

What's Your New Year's Resolution?

Happy New Year!

Today is the day to think of what my focus will be for the new year. I don't like to make grandiose and general resolutions because I know I will keep them for about fifteen minutes...or maybe ten. So I want to do something specific and small because I'm most likely to be faithful. And, after all, the Lord said if we are faithful in small things we'll be faithful in greater. So, if I make a small resolution and keep it every day of the year, perhaps the Lord will trust me with something greater.

What's your new year's resolution