At a National Press event, groups like “Catholics for Choice” and the “Reproductive Justice League” gathered to make statements about the HHS ongoing conundrum over Women’s Birth Control and Abortion Services’. Health & Human Services under Obamacare ordered Catholic Institutions to provide Birth Control and Abortions, something that goes against the very teachings of the Church. As the blowback by people of Faith leveled the Administration, Obama changed his mind and has said the Insurances will provide it, “maybe”. Upset over the flip-flop, Catholics for Choice, an unrecognized group at Catholic University came out full force to share their stories.
First up at the Press conference was Callie Otto, Catholic University Student and President of the group “Catholics for Choice”. Callie states she is not a practicing Catholic. She relates in a emphatic tone that her “Religious liberty to practice individual freedoms are being “trampled” and this is not acceptable”. HUH? Her Religious liberty…to practice individual freedoms…are being trampled…I don’t even know what that means–what does that mean Callie?? Callie states she pays 50,000 dollars a year tuition (I guess she didn’t get the free student loans from Obama?) and cries “for that kind of money shouldn’t I be able to get free birth control too?”
How can we still be so racist, sexist, misogynist? Callie can’t seem to get over “the discrimination”. Catholic University is “imposing their Religious beliefs on the Students by not providing Abortions and Birth Control on Campus”. Right, how can Catholic University not provide those things….what a bunch of haters!
Other speakers like Erik Orantes, who proudly stated he interned for Pelosi, was extremely upset. Mr. Orantes is also a student at that terrible Catholic University. Erik tells of students having to “hide” and be “shunned” who are looking for birth control, and of students “having to travel great distances to search and obtain birth control. (Erik & Gang- google- Clinics for Birth Control Washington DC area-wow 5 clinics- isn’t that just a big fat surprise? huh. Maybe the crazy kids google is “broken” too) Erik was also “appalled”, and called on “men of virtue to stand up” at all the “trampling of rights going on with the birth control issue in America!” And it goes on like that for about 20 minutes, with students from Georgetown and Fordham relating the same type shock and total utter hardship searching the Country for Birth Control.
The whole problem it seems, is that since they attend Catholic Universities which do not provide birth control, where are they to go? They can’t seem to find anywhere to get birth control, and they are extremely upset at those mean US Bishops who are to blame for their rights being trampled and their “lives at risk” over this situation. They state the Bishops blowback at Obama have caused the HHS to recant the order to the Catholic Church to pay for their employees and students Birth Control, Abortions, Abortifacients, which they call “Women’s Reproductive Rights”. One Student who stated her name was Sondra became teary eyed at the thought of her friend who has ovarian cysts, and no way to get birth control pills, and the pain, the pain she is experiencing hourly. Sondra yelled “And you, you US Bishops don’t suffer, you have no idea what suffering is”.
I called three Free Clinics and all three said with an ovarian cyst condition “if birth control pills were prescribed, they would be eligible for obtaining them for free”–if they made under 22,000 a year (one person). If they made over that amount the price would be at the most 50.00 a month. I was suffering just listening to the absurd thought of Law School Students being stumped on where to get Birth Control….but I guess its an epidemic.
One Keeley Monroe, added that as a freshman at Fordham she felt the need to almost put out a “cheesy want ad”. Keeley put the frustrations of the group like this “a cheesy want ad saying female looks for affordable contraception who is perfectly able of making that decision”. Cheesy as well of course, is this ad “capable female can’t find affordable contraception anywhere in America?”.
And, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was also a speaker. She is well known to in the Catholic world as a dissenter and an illogical one at that. In the Atlantic (Dec 9th 2011), she talked about the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which she made emphasis that it is “the Feast of the Conception of Mary—not Jesus”. She said that since “St. Anne and St. Joachim (naturally conceived Mary), then shouldn’t the Catholic Bishops realize woman have consciences and know when to conceive.” Now what does that mean…. Kathleen…. what does it meeaaan? I also had 12 years Catholic School, but I must have missed this class on all things relevant to rational thought on all things. The Kennedy clan, really need to think about calling themselves Catholic, they seem to think the Catholic Church’s doctrines and dogmas are up for a popular vote. The whole idea is laughable. What comes to mind are the dogs of Proverbs, and Peter 2:2 see link: wXWboJ
How about the freedom to chose to leave the Catholic Church? Or not go to a Catholic University? And do I have to say, I know it may be a stretch, but this isn’t about access of birth control, my God, 12 year olds can get ABORTIONS in California WITHOUT their parents even being notified. This of course, is about making individuals who are in charge of Religious Institutions, pay for what the Church has steadfastly deemed against it’s teachings. Moreover, this isn’t about Catholics, or ignorant illogical youths, its about undercutting Liberty. And they will keep coming. We must send the message that their irrational doublespeak, won’t be allowed to pass this time. We Americans won’t back down…we never do when it comes to Freedom.
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A little rag tag group of not more than nineteen airplane hijackers, directed by one evil mastermind from a remote cave in north eastern Afghanistan, terrorized America on September 11, 2001 and literally sent shock waves through the world community that reverberated all the way from New York to Bombay and back! These shock waves set off a scare that hijacked the whole world, and has held us all hostage ever since! 9-11 was more than ten years ago, and even though all of the hijackers are surely dead, and Osama bin Laden is supposedly dead too, nevertheless we are all acting like we are living in fear, and we are allowing our government to keep us in this continuous state of fear, so much so that the Patriot Act is still thought by many to be necessary today, – 
The only time in our nation’s history that American citizens were subjected to this kind of preemptory action by our own government was during the Civil War, and very briefly during World War II. All of this is being done today in the name of fighting terror. I’m starting to become more terrorized by my own Federal government than I am of any foreign threat! What about you? All this is being done under the pretense of fighting a “Global War on Terror” for which no actual Declaration of War has ever been issued! This is what Ron Paul is trying to warn us about! And he is not the only one who is sounding the alarm, – more than ten years after the original attacks on New York! Are we ever going to be able to go back to a normal pre 9-11 existence, and a normal attitude with respect to individual liberty and the Bill of Rights? If we don’t reverse this slippery slide into despotism right now, then I don’t think that there will be many of us left who can remember what “normal” was really like in America! There are just too many young men and women alive today, who were born after 1990, who have grown up under the Patriot Act, who actually don’t know anything different. They think that strip searches at airports, pat downs, and a myriad of other more than just mere inconveniences are all perfectly normal! That’s the real danger in all of this. That soon, another generation of Americans will have grown up, who will never know what it was really like to be free! 
The biggest threat to America is not coming from Afghanistan! It never was. I’m not saying that Afghanistan was never a threat. I said it was never the 
It’s been over ten years since 9-11, and two foreign wars later, and there hasn’t been another major terrorist attack in America! It’s time to repeal 
The last serious attack on our country was over ten years ago! Right now we allow ourselves to be seriously interrogated at airports, scanned like a box of fruit loops at a checkout stand, only with radar detecting devices instead of light emitting diodes, and we are patted down before we are allowed to board a plane, or a train. While that may still be necessary in order to keep the skies and the rails safe, there are city engineers who are installing cameras in most major cities of the world, just in order to monitor what goes on in the streets! And they are creating new laws like 
The Devil comes as an angel of light, and he sounds so much like a messenger from God that if it were possible, he would deceive even the very elect.
Today, some so-called conservative pundits, and radio and TV talk show hosts, sound very much like real conservatives. But they are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing! They are trying to derail the TEA Party train! They are trying to suck the wind from the TEA Party’s sails! They use the same jargon that real conservatives use, and if it is possible, and you can count on the fact that it is possible, they will deceive the very conservative voters that they are trying to influence.
MonCrief attended the University of Alabama where she majored in political science and history. She has worked with the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative; (ABA CEELI), the International Crisis Group, the Grameen Foundation and American Rights at Work. She also partnered with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on their mission to Macedonia as an election observer.
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When Did Honesty Become Optional?
Throughout time politicians and their handlers have been prone to omitting unpleasant facts or manipulating them so as to mold issues to their advantage. This is the concept behind “spin”; a form of propagandizing that crafts an “alternative” interpretation of an issue, organization, person, event or campaign in order to sway the public’s opinion “for” or “against” said issue, organization, person, event or campaign. In fact, the “art of spin” has created an entirely separate category of political animal; the “spin doctor,” many of whom are regularly featured on the many mainstream media news outlets disguised as “political strategists.” But somewhere along the line, the art of employing wit, reason, personality and persuasive rhetoric in order to achieve a political ends gave way to the blatant lie, and never before has it been as evident as it is today.
This political malady is not exclusive to one side of the aisle or the other. Neither is it exclusive to the elected class. In fact, some of the most egregious abusers of truth and honesty come in the form of agendized media operatives. It is an across-the-board problem that comes with the intellectual infections that are the “inside-the-beltway mentality” and the special interest mentality, both of which are shared by the elected class, the media who cover them and the special interest groups who try to sway them both.
In the Republican Primary Elections we have seen a good example of spin, and viciously so. In one of the most negative political cycles in recent times, we have witnessed each of the nominees unleash barrage after barrage of negative attacks ads against whomever they deem the threat of the day. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, although not as blatant about their approval of such tactics, are just as guilty of partaking in the art of spin; in stretching the truth to achieve an ideological goal, as Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney. It can be argued that Mr. Romney is the biggest abuser, but I am sure that Romney supporters will spin that to their advantage.
But the Republican field’s negative campaigning and spinning of fellow candidates’ stances and records pales in comparison to the outright dishonesty that is coming from the Progressive Left, the media who supports them and the Obama Administration. Ironically, an unspoken penchant for decorum and civility kept the word “liar” – and the accusation of lying – from being employed just one short decade ago. Chronicling the genesis of this sad and reprehensible turn of events, one can point to the Progressive Left’s disingenuous assault of President George W. Bush with, “Bush Lied, Soldiers Died” as the moment it became acceptable to level the charge of “liar” against an elected official, never mind a sitting President. Although many may have thought it – and perhaps even known it – we, as a people, refrained from actually saying it.
Today, it doesn’t even garner an eyebrow-raise when the likes of US Rep. Maxine Waters (P-CA) calls Speaker of the House John Boehner or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor “liars.” Recently, the radically Progressive lawmaker went so far as to call the whole of the House Republican contingent “demons.” So much for the civility speech that President Obama gave after the shooting of US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
Three recent events serve as perfect examples – three articles of evidence, if you will – of how the Progressive Left has “fundamentally transformed” the art of spin to a campaign of dishonesty, and, again, simply for the retention of political power.
The first item comes in the form of a declaration by the Obama White House that Catholic Charities USA stood with Mr. Obama and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in support of their plan to mandate that the insurance companies of religious institutions provide free “contraception coverage” for all employees.
According to FOX News, the organization that Media Matters and the Progressive Left love to hate:
It is interesting to note how the Obama White House cherry-picked and abbreviated a quote by Catholic Charities USA to fit their narrative. Catholic Charities USA had issued a statement saying it welcomed, “the administration’s attempt to meet the concerns of the religious community” and that they were “hopeful that this is a step in the right direction.” That’s a far cry from an endorsement or even convoluted support.
Out of this same subject came another assault against honesty, this time at the hand of habitual spinner and a Progressive operative herculean in her ability to weave fiction out of any given issue, Rachel Maddow.
On her MSNBC program, speaking on the Obamacare contraception mandate issue, Maddow said:
There is so much wrong with this statement one can hardly find a place to begin. So, we are thankful that the Media Research Center captured one of Ms. Maddow’s own MSNBC colleagues, Lawrence O’Donnell, debunking the blatant lie foisted on the American public by Ms. Maddow and her production team:
Refreshing to have an MSNBCer calling one of their own out on the carpet.
But perhaps the quintessential example of governmental and political dishonesty came in the form of a statement Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew made during a taping of CNN’s State of the Union, defending the blatant and grotesquely partisan obstructionism of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid where passing a budget is concerned:
Of course, there is one major thing wrong with that statement: it doesn’t take 60 votes to pass a budget in the US Senate.
As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler points out in The Fact Checker:
It needs to be noted here – for those who don’t know his prior positions in federal government – that Mr. Lew was not only the most recent budget director for President Obama; he was also the budget director for former President Bill Clinton. That said, it is impossible for him not to have known that it does not take sixty votes to pass a budget resolution in the US Senate.
In fact, Mr. Lew made the statement repeatedly that day, pointing to a concerted effort to move that political talking point into the mainstream so as to manipulate the truth and, thereby, manipulating the public’s perception of the issue. The bottom line here is that the President of the United States’ Chief of Staff went on several national media outlets professing an out-and-out lie in order to confuse and manipulate the American people; solely for political gain.
Joseph de Maistre, a key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment and defender of hierarchical societies and monarchical States, in opining against a democratic form of government, whether a Direct Democracy of a Constitutional Republic, such is the United States, is quoted as saying: “Every country has the government it deserves.” Given the pathetic performance of the American Electorate in not only turning out the vote but in abdicating our constitutional obligation of governmental oversight, I’d say Monsieur de Maistre was spot on.
We talk a lot today about how we must act to save our country. To be sure, this action is incredibly necessary. We the People have allowed government to fall into the hands of nefarious men and women; partisans and opportunists; men and women more loyal to their political parties than to their constituents. We have an opportunity to right this wrong by enlightening ourselves to the many truths of the matters, by educating ourselves on the philosophies of the Charters of Freedom and then engaging in the process of electoral decision making and properly discharging our constitutional duties to governmental oversight.
We can also go a long way to “getting back to good” by making honesty and truthfulness election year issues. If we accept dishonesty from our elected officials and do nothing to right that wrong, then Monsieur de Maistre was right, we have the government we deserve.