"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
"The Catholic Church is fighting mad with the Obama Administration, and nearly every Catholic sitting in a pew this weekend heard the reasons why.
The Health and Human Services Department recently announced it will require all employers (with few exceptions) to provide health insurance to their employees which includes subsidized contraception, sterilization and coverage for abortion-inducing drugs. This meant that religious institutions, like Catholic colleges and hospitals, or other Christian institutions would be compelled to violate their conscience by cooperating with that which they believe to be wrong. Currently many of these institutions purchase health-insurance plans which do not provide free coverage of these services. "
Over the weekend, many Catholics in the US learned of this policy from a letter that the bishops wrote to Pres BO.
The letter was simple: Catholics are pro-life. We don't accept the kind of "word games" that our culture plays with issues of life.
The Catholic church, and most of our friends in the Judeo-Christan world, believe that abortion is the taking of a human life.
This is the letter from The North Texas Catholic Bishops. Read it here!
The NY Times is 100% behind Pres BO on this. They call it "reproductive rights", another of those word games that demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of the left. Do the little girls aborted get to have reproductive rights?
Over the next few months, Pres BO will engage in full "coqueteo mode" with Hispanics and promise this and promise that.
We hope that Hispanics, and specially the Spanish speaking media, will ask him about abortion or using BO-Care to push abortion related services.
We also hope that the Spanish speaking media will bring out this topic. I think that Hispanics, most of them pretty religious and Catholic, should know that Pres BO has done more to promote abortion than any politician in US history.
"El aborto" should be one of the topics that Hispanics consider when Pres BO promises this and that during the election. They should remember that the Republican nominee will be pro-life.
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It is truly depressing to look south of the border and watch what is going in Mexico. It is even worse to watch Chihuahua, one of the states that Texas shares a border with.
"In the nine-month period under review here, January through September of 2011, Chihuahua state had 2,276 deaths related to organized crime reported. As a point of comparison, in Afghanistan, from January through October 2011, there were 2,177 civilians killed. That means, per capita, that a resident of Mexico's Chihuahua state is nine times more likely to be killed in drug cartel related violence than a resident of Afghanistan by anti-government forces. (The rates are 67 per 100,000 in Chihuahua versus 7 per 100,000 inhabitants in Afghanistan.) Of the Chihuahua total, 402 of these killings took place in Chihuahua City, the state capital. But Ciudad Juarez, at 1,206 killings, accounted for about 53 percent. So things did not look good in 2011. The violence continues as the drug gangs continue to battle each other and the government security forces. Furthermore, it's been estimated that, since Felipe Calderon took office in December of 2006, over 50,000 have been slain in the cartel-related violence."
We do not have figures for every state but Chihuahua's murder rate is as bad as it gets.
We are watching a perfect storm.
First, we consume billions of dollars. Yes, we consume and that's why the cartels are on our border. Like any other business, they want to be near their customer and the customer is us.
We can not continue to overlook this reality. We are consuming the drugs. Every dollar that we consume supports the cartel and the killing.
Second, our unwillingness to secure the border has made it easy for criminal elements to bring drugs into the country. As we've posted before, it's time to put "boots on the ground" and stop these people from coming.
Third, it did not help when a misguided policy put 2,000 guns in the hands of the cartels.
We are not talking about Mexico in this campaign. The Obama administration is avoiding Mexico and border security because they are in full "coqueteo" mode to energize "Mexicanos" to vote.
I hope that Gov Romney will call for strict border security, the expansion of The Merida Plan, and full prosecution of the "genius" in the Obama administration that put those guns in the hands of the cartels.
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