Former Alaska governor says Obama should boycott Copenhagen summit

A conservative media watchdog says the mainstream media has given 15 times more coverage to the Tiger Woods scandal than that of the "ClimateGate" ordeal.

On Tuesday, Gatorade announced it would discontinue its Tiger Woods sports drink in the wake of ongoing revelations about his numerous extramarital affairs as the media coverage has been incessant in its coverage of the Woods scandal.
 
On the other hand, despite the Copenhagen climate conference, the major networks have virtually ignored the ClimateGate scandal involving high-profile scientists, potentially "manipulated" data, and the censorship of global-warming skeptics among the scientific community.  
 
"The Tiger Woods stuff has gotten way more coverage. We're talking 15 times as much than the ClimateGate stuff," says Jeff Poor, a staff writer at the Business and Media Institute of the Media Research Center. "Part of that is because of the celebrity aspect, but the other big part of it, I think, is there is a real reluctance to talk about [ClimateGate] because it goes against the politically correct idea that man is contributing to this global-warming phenomenon."
 
The journalist suggests keeping an eye on how the media covers the Copenhagen conference, especially once President Obama arrives there. 
 
"I think you'll see a real push by the media to really get everybody back on board," he predicts. "They'll trot out the polar bears and the penguins and all that, and I think they'll try to tug on the heart strings. That's just my guess."
 
The conference is scheduled conclude December 18.

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The storyline is hauntingly familiar: terrorist detainees were moved to a major city to await trial.  While there, fellow Islamic terrorists decided to make a daring and dastardly attempt to gain their release, not by attacking the well-protected courtroom or the heavily guarded detention facility (they are bloodthirsty but they are not stupid), but by going for a more tantalizing target.

Thirty-five bomb-laden Muslim terrorists stormed a crowded middle school full of parents, teachers, and children.  By doing so, they immediately gained what they desired most: the eyes of a watching world paralyzed with fear at what they might do.  And the world had reason to fear.  Over the course of this three-day massacre, the terrorists barricaded doors and tied up authorities in "negotiations" that were used only to buy them the time they needed to coldly execute the stronger men hostages, rape young girls in front of their watching mothers, and rig explosives throughout the complex to ensure that when the authorities stormed the building there would be massive casualties.

 This horrific drama played out in the quiet Russian town of Beslan just five short years ago.  In the end, 394 lay dead (over half of them children) with another 704 injured. 
 
And stunningly, Barack Obama has just invited the same carnage to our shores.
 
When the President's Attorney General Eric Holder announced the administration's breathtakingly ignorant decision to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and five compatriots to New York City to stand trial in civilian court for their act of war, there was undoubtedly a collective gasp in the small towns outside New York.  The citizens there surely must recognize that the high-profile status of KSM alone is enough to tempt every terror cell this side of Basra to consider making their rural middle schools the stage for Beslan: Act Two.
 
Why any president sworn to protect the lives of his fellow citizens would take such an outrageously absurd and completely unnecessary risk is unfathomable.  And make no mistake...it is unnecessary.  KSM and his fellow terrorists were already being tried by military commissions far away from American children and out of the international spotlight that they so desperately crave.  Many, including KSM, had already pled guilty and requested execution. 
 
But Barack Obama halted these commissions when he came into office, apparently more concerned with bolstering his image as a "citizen of the world" than protecting his own people.  He then passed the buck to Eric Holder who announced that the terrorists would be brought to one of America's largest cities for the trial of the century. 
 
The negative consequences of this decision are plentiful.  From endangering innocent Americans to gift-wrapping a perfect propaganda opportunity for the terrorist world, this decision is inexcusable.  And considering that the choice to try these monsters in civilian courts was to supposedly ensure that justice would be done, this decision becomes incomprehensible.  (How, for instance, will these show trials result in any better or more just outcome than a guilty plea and execution sentence – something that the military commission had all but secured?)
 
In short, this is about to be a circus. [Editor's Note: Results from a related OneNewsNow poll question appear at the end of this column.]
 
Obama and Holder have now given constitutional "rights of the accused" to these terrorists (something that has never been done throughout all of American history). And if you don't think that their lawyers are going to bring up the manner of their detainment, the circumstances surrounding their capture, any perceived threats or mistreatment, any notion of coerced confessions, their lack of immediate access to attorneys, demand for relocation, complaints about a biased jury, calls for mistrials, and the need for an extensive appeals process, you aren't thinking...sort of like the Obama administration.
 
With a decision this bad – one that is receiving scorn across the country from angry Americans of all political backgrounds – one might hope that Team Obama would come to its senses and reverse course.  Not likely.
 
When announcing this preposterous decision Holder stated, "To the extent that there are political consequences, I'll just have to take my lumps." 
 
Frankly, sir, the grisly images of Beslan are a little too fresh in our minds to be overly concerned with your personal political consequences.  We're a bit more concerned about the potentially deadly consequences this ragingly incompetent administration may have just brought on innocent American citizens.
 
Vice President Joe Biden once criticized Barack Obama's lack of preparedness for the serious responsibilities associated with the job of president by saying that the presidency was "not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."  God forbid that we're about to see just how right he was. 

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The vice chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) is promoting a proposed resolution that would warn 2010 GOP candidates that if they do not respect the party's "conservative values," they will not receive the financial backing or endorsement of the RNC. 

The "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" was drafted by Jim Bopp, vice chairman of the RNC.  It requires that GOP candidates prove not only with their campaign speeches, but also with their voting record that they embrace at least eight of ten conservative principles (listed below).

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Bopp tells OneNewsNow he has yet to get RNC chairman Michael Steele's opinion on his proposal because the resolution was leaked prematurely by "people who are trying to undermine the effort." He says the resolution is designed to ensure the party puts its money where its mouth is.
 
"The Republican Party needs to reclaim its conservative bona fides," argues Bopp. "The problem is that we lost our way on fiscal conservative policies at the end of the Bush administration with expanding government and increasing debt, and then support of bailouts.  So we need to show that we are serious about governing as conservatives."
 
Bopp says the Republican Party's message is compromised when the party supports liberal Republican candidates like DeDe Scozzafava in the 23rd Congressional District of New York.

The ten conservative principles, as distributed by the RNC, are as follows:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill.

(2) We support market-based healthcare reform and oppose Obama-style government-run healthcare.

(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap-and-trade legislation.

(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check.

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants.

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges.

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat.

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act.

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing healthcare rationing and denial of healthcare and government funding of abortion.

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.

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A new study provides fresh information on potential harm of the abortion drug, RU-486.

The study comes from Finland and was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Dr. Randall O'Bannon of National Right to Life tells OneNewsNow that what the public typically sees from the abortion industry is a claim that RU-486, also known as Mifeprex, is a safe and simple process for abortions.
 
"But this latest study from Finland shows that at least 20 percent of the women that use RU-486, the abortion pill, they suffer from at least one significant complication, and in many cases, from two complications," O'Bannon reports.
 
The three most significant problems are hemorrhaging, infection and incomplete abortions, which are the same troubles patients face in surgical abortions. Resulting from the chemical method, 15.6 percent of those undergoing this form of abortion hemorrhaged while 1.7 percent encountered infection and 6.7 percent experienced incomplete abortions.
 
O'Bannon feels that one of the reasons America does not report the figures is because, "we have people that control the data. The abortion industry keeps all of this very close to the vest, and so the only time you can get data is if they are willing to share it," he says. "They report some of these things to the FDA, but whether they report all of them, we don't know."
 
The lesson from the new study is that people need to make themselves aware of the hype about RU-486's safety and the pitch that it is somehow more safe or simple than other abortion methods. The public needs to consider the possibility that RU-486 is not being honest about its issues.

Traditional marriage advocates in Washington, DC are telling city officials "We'll see you in court." 

 The DC Board of Elections and Ethics ruled yesterday that a measure to let voters decide whether to ban same-sex marriages in DC cannot go on the ballot. According to the board, such a measure would violate the city's human rights law.
 
The DC City Council is expected to approve same-sex marriage next month, but proponents of traditional marriage are planning to hold a rally in Washington on December 8th to lobby members of Congress to override the council's wishes.
 
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., who heads the group Stand for Marriage DC, says an important civil right of same-sex marriage opponents is being violated in the District.
 
"The Home Rule Charter tells us that we should have the same rights as the DC Board of Elections and as the DC City Council," Jackson contends.  "In other words, if they can vote on something, we can vote on something.  If they can initiate a law, we should be able to initiate a law, as what is done in Maine and California."
 
Jackson says Stand for Marriage DC intends to appeal the decision by the Election Board to the DC Superior Court.

Plans are underway for a 600-bed Christian prison to be built in Wakita, Oklahoma, a town of 380 residents near the Kansas border.

The unique facility is the brainchild of Bill Robinson of Corrections Concepts Inc. in Dallas, Texas, a nonprofit prison ministry. Robinson himself is an ex-con and prison minister. He hopes to open the facility in about 16 months. 

Private prisons are not a new concept, and numerous prisons have Christian or faith-based units, but Robinson says he does not know of any with an all-Christian staff. He envisions a staff that will see their work as ministry.
 
“All of the employees will be Christians,” Robinson says. “We have an opinion letter from the [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] that says we can do that.”
 
The facility would house only prisoners who want to transfer there. They will not be required to go to church or Bible study, but will be required to sign an agreement to participate in some prison programs. Inmates will be offered classes in literacy, GED requirements and life skills.
 
“It’s a faith-based, work ethic, corrections initiative where we take men in their last 12 to 24 to 30 months before their earliest release, and they have to volunteer to come, which makes us constitutional,” Robinson says.
 
He says no public funds will be used in the $42 million project. A bond backer who underwrites and does revenue bonds for Christian-related ventures has agreed to finance it.
 
Robinson believes there is great support for the facility which will work to change the hearts of inmates and help them stay out of trouble upon their release.

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In the wake of last week's Fort Hood massacre, a terrorism expert is suggesting that Muslim recruits must be completely and thoroughly screened before allowing them to join the U.S. military.

 Major Nidal Malik Hasan stands accused of killing 13 adults and an unborn child as well as wounding more than two dozen others during the November 5 shooting rampage at the Texas Army outpost. As previously reported, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of the Army psychiatrist.  At that time, the agency decided that Hasan did not pose a threat.
 
Brigitte Gabriel, founder and president of ACT! for America and author of the New York Times bestseller They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, says the military must do a better job of screening Muslims who want to join the armed forces.
 
"At a time of war, we need to be very wise and very careful as to who is serving in our military. Have we been infiltrated? Who is radicalizing our soldiers? Why would Muslims want to serve in our military if they consider us infidels?" she asks.
 
Gabriel feels the military should not be concerned about complaints of profiling from Muslims.
 
"When we have this ideology infiltrating of our military, we'd better scrutinize every single Muslim serving in our military branches right now just to be safe," the terrorism expert urges. "If they have nothing to hide, then we have nothing to lose. If anybody would have scrutinized this guy, we would not have over 13 people dead and over 30 wounded right now."                               
 
Gabriel supports Senator Joe Lieberman's (I-Connecticut) investigation into the Fort Hood massacre.

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National Right to Life is warning that pro-abortion Democrats will fight tooth and nail to get a prohibition on federal funding of abortion ultimately removed from their healthcare bill.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), the Democrats' chief deputy whip in the House, said yesterday that she and other pro-abortion lawmakers would work to strip the Stupak amendment included in the House health bill that bars federal funding of abortions under the public health insurance option. (See earlier article)
 
Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC, "I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that the language won't be there."

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Douglas Johnson, legislative director for National Right to Life, says the fate of the abortion funding ban depends on what U.S. senators hear from their constituents.
 
"They're going to be under enormous pressures from these well-funded, pro-abortion advocacy groups -- and President Obama will certainly be trying to get abortion back in the bill," Johnson warns.
 
"Remember, all along these people have been trying to pretend that abortion wasn't in the bill -- and now this is fleshed out into the open and there's going to be a terrific battle about this," he says. "And in the end, the outcome is going to depend upon what input senators are getting from their constituents."
 
Over the weekend, Planned Parenthood sent out an alert asking people to contact the president to ask him to live up to his promise to have abortion in the new government healthcare plan. Although the American people heard President Obama tell a joint session of Congress in September that he did not want federal funding of abortion, he promised Planned Parenthood in 2007 that abortion funding would be in his healthcare plan.

Monstrous and a defiance of the will of the American people - that's how one pro-family group is describing the health bill that House Democrats pushed through Saturday night by a vote of 220 to 215.

The President of Concerned Women for America, Wendy Wright, says the bill will ration care and punish citizens who don't have government-mandated insurance.

Wright declares "this montrous bill" will erode the best health care system in the world.

According to Wright, "In exchange for insurance, we'll lose access to proper health care. We'll lose health care providers who will leave the profession."

She says the bill would "create multiple bureaucracies that will control Americans' health care, penalize Americans for not buying a product, fine Americans if a government agent decides their health care plan is not 'government approved' and may force Americans to buy government mandated insurance that funds objectionable procedures."

Wright notes that although an amendment passed to bar federal funding of abortion, Democrat leaders refused to guarantee that it will be in the final bill.  According to Wright, "the vote on the amendment may have been a ruse to gain pro-life Democrats vote on the bill."

Meanwhile, House Republican leader, John Boehner, also issued a statement condemning the bill.

He said "Americans want a common-sense approach to health care reform, not Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 2,032-page government takeover that increases costs, adds to our skyrocketing debt, destroys jobs with tax hikes and new mandates, and cuts seniors' Medicare benefits."

Boehner noted that Republicans have offered an alternative health care reform package which offers lower costs and expands access to quality care-without adding to the "crushing debt Washington has placed on our children and grandchildren."

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An employee at a Brookstone store in Boston Logan Airport is without a job because of his Christian beliefs.

The situation involves a manager from another shop telling Peter Vadala of her impending wedding to another woman. Vedala did not immediately react, nor did he provoke his superior to discuss the issue further. However, after being approached multiple times, he did later express the view of his faith toward homosexual conduct. A short time later, he heard from the chain's human resources department.
 
"I was fired from my job," Vadala reports. "The reason wasn't that I didn't do my job correctly. It was because I expressed my belief that homosexuality is wrong. That's the reason that I was fired."
 
In Massachusetts, the state anti-discrimination law provides special protection for homosexuals, and that results in silencing any opposition.
 
"Basically, if you work for any company in Massachusetts, if you work for any business, they can fire you for expressing your beliefs as a Christian." The former Brookstone employee iterates that this can happen "even if other people are expressing beliefs to the contrary, which [the manager] did by bringing up her so-called female fiancé."
 
In the termination letter Vadala received, his actions were reported as "harassment," and his comments were deemed "inappropriate and unprofessional." 
 
"I'm a little upset that I got fired because I expressed my belief after being countered with this superior's belief multiple times."
 
Vadala contends that if homosexual marriage becomes legal in other states, people will risk their jobs if they express their sincere, Christian belief that homosexuality is wrong.

Next week a Christian activist will lead a rally before the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.  to stand for free speech.

Next Monday's rally was formed after the U.S. Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. (See previous article)
 
Dr. Gary Cass, president of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, is organizing the rally.
 
"We're going to exercise our First Amendment rights to preach [the entire] Bible, including those parts that deal with homosexuality and the truth of the sin of homosexuality," explains Dr. Cass. He further says this is being done as a way to clarify "....that this does not constitute a hate crime."
 
The organization president's purpose in organizing this effort is to stop the implementation of the legislation. 

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