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Benedict XVI and Freedom  - Cardinal Ratzinger focused on teaching the importance of convictions, rather than force. .. he explained that a free society can only subsist where people share basic moral convictions and high moral standards. He further argued that these convictions need not be “imposed or even arbitrarily defined by external coercion.”  …We can be sure that the newest pope will continue the legacy of John Paul II, placing freedom and dignity at the core of his teachings. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=262

Totalization with Mexico could total Social Security http://thegunnerscorner.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/4/18/593027.html

Mitch writes to Harry and asks him not to shut down senate http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/april/0419_reid_senate.shtml

America’s Most Livable Cities:  Louisville KY http://www.mostlivable.org/cities/louisville/home.html

Schwarzenegger talks tough on illegal immigration http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-20-schwarzenegger-immigration_x.htm

In "Utah, there is more recoverable oil than in the Middle East" -- Sen. Hatch http://www.heraldextra.com/springville/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid

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Separate water fountains and Social Security Under the current Social Security structure, deceased black men essentially fund a large percentage of the retirement income of elderly white women, since they live the longest to nearly 80 years on average. … Democrats do not want all Americans to drink from the same retirement fountains. They insinuate that we are not smart enough to ride in the front of the retirement bus with them. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HermanCain/hc20050420.shtml

Pope Benedict XVI – A True Liberal http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=263

The Pope and Socialism – Star Parker http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43751

The New Pope Rails Against Relativism His family was very much like mine. His father was a low-ranking village cop who moved to avoid being promoted and thereby corrupted by the Nazi regime. Before my 10th birthday I was notified to report to the Hitler Youth Party. There was no escaping unless you took enormous chances. He had the audacity to excuse himself from the Youth Party. He deserted from the army. He experienced national socialism as evil. And he has watched the decline of Christianity as a result of the relativism that followed. http://www.worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=10572

Re-inventing the filibuster – Robert Novak Liberal Democrats, who now extol the filibuster to protect minorities, were in the forefront advocating strict majority rule through most of my nearly 48 years as a reporter covering Congress. As recently as 2000, architects of the filibuster strategy to block President Bush's judicial nominees -- with Democrat Bill Clinton still in the White House -- were demanding straight up-or-down votes on judges. … For more than a century, the Senate frequently resorted to parliamentary tactics to impose majority rule -- most recently by Bob Byrd. … Gold and Gupta cited four instances where Byrd had amended Senate rules with majority votes. … During Clinton's presidency, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy repeatedly demanded up-or-down majority votes on judicial nominations. Once Bush was elected, they crafted a filibuster strategy to block judicial nominees. … Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy on June 18, 1998: "I have stated over and over again on this floor that I would . . . object and fight against any filibuster on a judge." Liberals now praise the filibuster by name. Leahy, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, on April 6 declared: "Eliminating the filibuster by the nuclear option would violate and destroy the Constitution's design of the Senate as an effective check on the executive." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050421.shtml

More on Ann Coulter pie attack and reporters http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20050421.shtml

The Law or Good Ideas? – Walter Williams  Suppose biking advocates saw no hope in getting Congress to enact legislation mandating regular biking and saw the U.S. Supreme Court as a means to accomplish their ends. …Justice Kennedy might say, "We acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion that regular biking is a good idea." … A federal court appointee who'd say his decisions are guided by the letter and spirit of our Constitution would be tagged by Democrat senators and a few Republican senators, such as Arlen Specter, as an extremist. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050330.shtml

Stupid airport security – Walter Williams Screening the blind and disabled, mothers and children, and senior citizens is not going to have much of a payoff unless the goal is not to have tweezers or a G.I. Joe doll holding a rifle on the plane.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050406.shtml Let's apply a bit of economic analysis to the TSA. There's little cost borne by the TSA for harassing passengers. Screeners have an eight-hour-a-day job. So if you have to wait in long lines, be harassed and miss your plane, what's it to them, considering the docile passenger response? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050413.shtml  It is indeed possible for an 88-year-old man crippled with debilitating arthritis to be a terrorist. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050420.shtml

Easy Money in California – Thomas Sowell What has happened essentially is that those already inside the castle have pulled up the drawbridge, so that outsiders can't get in. Politically, this selfishness poses as idealism. … As T.S. Eliot said, more than fifty years ago: "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050419.shtml

Soldiers fighting for right to smoke?  John Stossel http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Stossel20050420.shtml

Victims of the blackboard jungle – Michelle Malkin http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20050420.shtml

Father/Daughter Talk http://www.reasontofreedom.com/Father_Daughter_Talk.html

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