The Doctrine of the Catholic Church is not specific in regards to demanding open borders. In fact, it allows for a nation's sovereignty to be defended. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

Like obeying the very laws of Immigration. But the Church has thrown in with the Democrats in demanding the United States open it's borders to all. Why? Well, as Tom Tancredo has pointed out, the Church needs the hispanic influx in America to save it's very existence. Another reason there becomes a more distinct American Catholic Church, separate from Rome. Allahpunidt notes:

While nearly one-in-three Americans (31%) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four (24%) describe themselves as Catholic.

These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration. The Landscape Survey finds that among the foreign-born adult population, Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin (46% Catholic vs. 24% Protestant); among native-born Americans, on the other hand, Protestants outnumber Catholics by an even larger margin (55% Protestant vs. 21% Catholic)…

Latinos, who already account for roughly one-in-three adult Catholics overall, may account for an even larger share of U.S. Catholics in the future. For while Latinos represent roughly one-in-eight U.S. Catholics age 70 and older (12%), they account for nearly half of all Catholics ages 18-29 (45%).

So the Church is in favor of open borders for all, right? Wrong. When it comes to Italy:

“The criteria for admitting immigrants can never be just economic. It is necessary to concern oneself seriously with saving the identity of the nation.” Italy was not an “uninhabited region” lacking in history and traditions, which was fit to be “indiscriminately populated.” While it could admit anyone it wanted, no one had a “right of invasion.” He (Cardinal Giacomo Biffi )  urged politicians to heed his words, since “not all of the cultures of those newly arrived are in favor of living together.” …

Not all are in agreement with this Pope. Seems when Muslims want to immigrate to Rome, to "take over the Crusader capital", the Church feels a little different. Difficult times for the faithful, at best.

George Stephanopolous appeared on several media shows before the recent Democratic debate, and was prompted to ask serious questions of the candidates. Appropriate questions. Questions with more gravity than anything Keith Olberman or Chris Matthews asked the Republicans on MSNBC. What happened? All heck broke loose. You could hear the Democrats and their media shills howling all the way to Antarctica. It appears the Left does NOT want Obama to reveal his character to the American public, and clearly, he's not comfortable answering. Stumbling, fumbling and whining the whole time over the unfairness of being questioned about his associations and judgement, we've got the classic, I mean classic scenario of Ultra Liberal Socialist Obama squirming under the very questioning Democrats find fair for the GOP.

"They like stirring up controversy and they like playing gotcha games, getting us to attack each other." Obama said.

By asking questions worthy of a candidate for President of the United States? Give me a freaking break. The nutroots don't agree.

By midafternoon Thursday, more than 15,600 comments were posted on ABC News' Web site, the tone overwhelmingly negative. A prominent TV critic, Tom Shales of The Washington Post, said Gibson and Stephanopoulos "turned in shoddy, despicable performances."

Will Bunch, a Philadelphia Daily News writer, posted an open letter to Gibson and Stephanopoulos on his blog. He wrote that he was so angry that "it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking."

Over at Daily Kos, the following statements are made:

does anyone know the name of his (Stephanopolous) boss?  we need to have his a$$ fired by Sunday

I shall not rest until right wing conservatives are 4th party gadflies limited to offering minor corrections on legislation once or twice a year.

That our main targets should be CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS.  All four are right wing networks

They want radical and militant.  Lets give it to them. SHUT THE NETWORK DOWN!!!!

Message sent: Back off, keep the questioning softballs, and set up Obama to carry on with the Hope and Change mantra, unquestioned about his elitism, faith, patriotism, associations with terrrorists,  and cynicism. ABC better get back in line, or else!

Just like Bill Clinton bringing up the Bosnian escapades of Hillary, the Rev. Wright just can't let well enough alone. And Obama has got to be cringing.

Escalating into full-preaching mode, Wright thundered, “Fox News can’t understand that. [Bill] O’Reilly will never get that. Sean Hannity’s stupid fantasy will keep him forever stuck on stupid when it comes to comprehending how you can love a brother who does not believe what you believe. [Pincham’s] faith was a faith in a God who loved the whole world not just one country or one creed.”

At that point, congregants nearly drowned Wright out with a booming standing ovation.

Wright also referred to Fox News as “Fix News."

As Hot Air noted, ABC broke the story, not Fox. But there is no defense whatsoever of Wright's original statements, no spin can undo his monologue of hate. Time to put up the hurricane shutters, between this and the "bittergate" problem, there's going to be so much spin this week, we'll have gale force winds.

This is the guy everybody thinks is the savior? Obama said the following in San Francisco about Pennsylvania, and the Leftist bloggers are all wagging their tongues saying, "well, he's right, he just should have called them rednecks". The Liberal comments on this Politico thread are very educational.  Reported in the Politico, Obama said:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack and Michelle hate America and what it's built on. The Black Liberation Theology simmering under their skins cannot stay quelled for long. Look for more of these America Hating eruptions in the future.

We can only hope this is the beginning of the end for the United Nations, but I won't hold my breath. The over the top America Haters Club has a Human Rights Commission Leftist calling for an investigation. About what? The NY Sun reports:

A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Who is this guy? Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University. This leaves me breathless_ gasping for reason and facts in an atmosphere choked with Socialistic Propaganda spawning from of all places, American Academia.  That's right, one of the last bastions of Communism in our nation, harboring the refugees from the 60's .

On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."

Of all people, Bill Clinton put it best when confronted by 9/11 truthers at one of his speeches. "How dare you!"

A common sense axiom of our society says, money can't buy you love. Popular culture begs to differ. All around us, everyday, are people carrying the burden of anger, grievance, frustration, loneliness, depression and a general feeling of alienation. So is this something new? Something unique to our generation in this place and time? The most obvious question to me is, wouldn't all the advances mankind has made over the last 50 years lead to a much happier life than previous generations had, after all, isn't that the point of modern convenience, security and safety? Isn't that what all the have-not masses are clamoring to be given a share of by the Socialist Demagogue Populist Politicians? The Wall Street Journal reports:

Despite the sharp rise in our standard of living in recent decades, Americans today are little or no happier than earlier generations. Why not?
...five professors surveyed some 4,000 Americans, asking what they did the previous day and then quizzing them in detail about three randomly selected events from the day. Those surveyed were asked to rate the three episodes based on feelings such as pain, happiness, stress and sadness. All this was used to calculate what percentage of time people spent in an unpleasant state.
The standout (result) cluster was what the authors label "engaging leisure and spiritual activities," things like visiting friends, exercising, attending church, listening to music, fishing, reading a book, sitting in a cafe or going to a party. When we spend time on our favorite of these activities, we're typically happy, engrossed and not especially stressed.

What's key, is that over the last 40 or 50 years, it's reported that men and women have substantially more leisure time to pursue happiness. What gives?

Instead, there's been a significant increase in the hours devoted to what the authors call "neutral downtime," which is mostly watching television. Women now spend 15% of their waking hours staring at the tube, while men devote 17%.

Watching TV may be low-stress and moderately enjoyable. But people aren't mentally engaged the way they are when they're, say, exercising or socializing.

The TV has robbed us of a quality of life we worked hard for the opportunity to enjoy. Many don't watch it as much as others, but the point made is, as a society, our consciousness is being babysat by a cathode ray tube dulling our senses and alienating us from each other, physically and spiritually.

Are Americans starting to get a clue about what the representative of Hope and Change really stands for? Barack, quoted in the Hill said:

“if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

This is not out of context. It's a clear statement of belief about the held values of the speaker about Life itself. And there are millions of Americans who share this idea. And they are part of the problem with America today, plain and simple. Of course, the O man's team is spinning wildly to rationalize, justify and sanitize his remarks. But they are there, just like the Reverend Wright's. No doubt, for all to read. This election won't be a referendum on politics, it'll be a yardstick measurement of  the quality of the character of the American people here in the new Millennium. James Lewis at the American Thinker, says this about Obama:

Obama's expatriate mother, who raised him until age ten, was apparently a zealous anti-American. His father was absent, an African Prince out of a boyhood fantasy. All his life Obama moved from one little subculture to the next, all the way to Columbia, Harvard Law and Trinity UCC. Everywhere he went  he encounted zealous anti-Americans, beginning with his mother.  Just think about that.

I do think about it. And what all the Liberal Progressive Americans say about our country, and God, and Life. I wish the great dumbed down moderate middle would come up for air, and smell the coffee.

Oh man, this blog has asserted that Hillary is unqualified to manage even a lemonade stand. Well, today her campaign is having to deal with this:

The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated - that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day.

Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.

And I've characterized the GOP candidates as the gang who couldn't shoot straight! But it goes on, with this in the Politico about Obama:

During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he’s projected during his presidential campaign.

Hello? Moderates, are you out there? Anybody awake?

Obama's got the Rev. by the back of the pants, and he's hurtling him between the two huge sets of black tires. BEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! CNN reports:

Sen. Barack Obama says in an interview scheduled to air on TV Friday that he would have left his church if his pastor had not retired and had not acknowledged making comments that "deeply offended people."

But take heart Rev., the big O is making it clear he's only doing this because of the evil racist dividers of this nation.

"I think he's saddened by what's happened, and I told him I feel badly that he has been characterized just in this one way and people haven't seen the broader aspect of him," Obama said.

But hang in there, I've got a feeling we will be seeing the broader aspect of the Rev. Wright as the campaigns continue. Barack is saving his black reputation. Had Wright not retired, I'd bet the Obama's would continue to show up every Sunday with their kids. But not with Grandma.

His lofty and empty rhetoric is lulling the swooning kool-aid drinkers into a euphoric trance. What does he really stand for? His policy, explained by Dean Barnett contains stuff:

jammed with high-minded goals but an aversion to taking on the intellectual or physical challenges necessary to achieve them.
Given the stark disparity between their expressed goals and the Doctrinaires' reluctance to act, the Obama Doctrine is predictably overflowing with internal contradictions and sweeping flowery assertions that ignore uncomfortable facts on the ground.

Obama's doctrine developer, Spencer Ackerman of the American Prospect asks America:

"Why not pursue the enlightened global leadership promised by liberal internationalism?" Ackerman asks. "Why not abandon fear? What is it we have to fear, exactly?"

Why not? What? Well... as Dean so eloquently puts it:

To answer the question of what we have to fear today, perhaps Team Obama could talk to Theo van Gogh. Oh never mind--he's dead. Maybe they could ask Hirsan Ali, who has millions of people who would like to make her dead, too. If they're of a mind to, they could begin a dialogue with the gay community in the Netherlands or the rocket-dodging population in Israel. They would likely find that people are fearful for a reason.

Honestly grappling with the very real perils of our era would mean putting the airy idealism and hollow rhetoric on hold. The Obama Doctrine shows that Barack Obama and his Doctrinaires have no intention of doing any such thing.

And the Liberal Progressive sheep keep munching the grass, while the wolves gather just out of sight in the woods.

We may see Democrats and Liberals fainting all over this nation soon. Alert FEMA and the Red Cross. What is it you ask? This. Victory over Al Queda in Iraq is within sight. From Micheal Yon we hear:

There are no guarantees, but this could be the endgame for major combat operations in Iraq. Combat is likely to heat up in Mosul and western Nineveh by about May. There likely will be some reports of increased US and Iraqi casualties up here, but this does not mean that we are losing ground or that al Qaeda is resurging – though clearly they are trying. If there is an increase in casualties here as we go into the summer of 2008, it is because our people and the Iraqi forces are closing in. We have seen just how deadly al Qaeda can be. This enemy is desperate. They know they are losing. They are not likely to go out easy. The enemy is smart, agile and adaptive. Likely they will land some devastating blows on us, but at this rate, our people and Iraqi forces appear to be driving stakes through al Qaeda hearts faster than al Qaeda is regenerating.

What will our Progressives do? Where did they go wrong? Wasn't defeat in the bag?

Will we EVER hear Barack Obama renounce the views and his association with the Pastor of his church of twenty years. In a word, never. Why not, it would seem politically expedient, after all. Well, Thomas Sowell has put it the best:

it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were -- and, like many converts, he went overboard.

Clear thinking individuals who use facts and reason to analyze the candidates this election season, are awaiting Obama to answer questions like these from Charles Krauthammer:

If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?

So how deeply will the Moderate Middle think about this. Will they see a shameless opportunist who's willing to throw his own grandmother under the  bus for who he really is? After all, we've got a new season of Dancing With the Stars....

I'll venture a scenario: The Koolaid drinkers will accept it as brilliant and an affirmation of his greatness, the Right will nod in the agreement that he's a slick snake oil salesman still hiding his real agenda, and the middle of America will..... well, I think the American Middle will let this percolate. For a couple weeks they will mull this over, and talk about it among their friends and co-workers. Then gradually, the flock with decide in a majority, that Obama is full of it. Not all of them, but enough to make the difference. Even whisking the Reverend Wright off to Africa will not have saved Obama. He has shot himself in the foot, and his refusal to condemn the virulent anti-Americanism present in his church, and (as he points out) in many Black American churches is not fooling everybody. Not by a long shot. Bang, bang, his campaign is taking on water. But we'll have to wait and see. While everybody thinks about this.

Americans are fiddling while Rome starts to smoke. I've said this recently, and I'll say it again. We must change the way we think about things. Our energy resources are being taken for granted by the unconscious masses, and the Liberal Democratic Socialist forces are denying us the opportunity to help ourselves and invest in our future survivial. In Human Events, Michael Economides writes:

It is certain that the United States is in for an energy price and supply shock the likes of which we have never experienced or imagined. While high prices, to a reasonable extent can be tolerated, hell will break loose if massive supply disruptions emerge. We are much closer to them than people think.

We're going to see gas prices this summer, that have never been seen before in this country. Next winter's heating bills are going to skyrocket. And the local newscasts are featuring "man on the street" segments asking people what their "breaking point" on gas prices are. What? So you're just not going to buy gas? Right. We'll buy it no matter what the cost, because our society is built around the automobile. The two and three car family. And we can't drill offshore, or in the Rockies, or build refineries, or nuclear power plants. And the biofuel thing is a failure, as some predicted. And Washington does NOTHING.

Oil supply and demand is a margin business where 0.5% of over or under supply can generate havoc on the market. There is ample historical evidence that such small discrepancy has caused huge fluctuations in the oil price, perhaps 30% or more. Imagine if ANWAR were already on line, producing as much as 10% of US oil imports. It would have a huge impact on the price of oil, regulating and dampening foreign influences and, in my reckoning, causing at least a $25 reduction in the current oil price.

The next administration will  be handed the job and the opportunity of solving this. It no longer will be, down the road. It's here, now. So, how would the Obama administration react to this Energy Thing? Has anybody gotten a clear definitive answer?

But then THIS, from Rick Callahan:

The Army is preparing to deploy to Iraq two 4-ton biomass refineries designed to turn piles of trash into electricity. Each can run for 20 hours on a ton of trash, producing enough power to light a small village.

Hmmmmmmmm.

A Liberal Progressive Nation. Because they're willing to throw the baby out with the bath water. Because they only care about the War On Terrror. Because they want to feel good about people. Because as we speak, the Democrats and the Establishment are lining up generations of Democratic voters let into our country ahead of the millions of people who want to be Americans and who would bring their special skills and talents to help our Republic. Michelle Malkin reports:

last month, instead of putting more manpower and resources into the problem and making secure adjudication a priority, DHS simply dropped criminal background checks in order to clear massive green card application backlogs.

Now, Latinos are clamoring to get their naturalization applications approved in time to vote for the November elections. They’ve taken the Bush administration to court.

What’s that sound I hear? Yes, the sound of more background checks being tossed over the bridge:

If by some unbelievable occurrence, John McCain wins the presidency on the backs of Independents and Moderates, we'll see only a four year delay in the march towards a Socialist Progressive Nation. McCain has no interest whatsoever in protecting the integrity of our electorate. Conservatives are the only ones who are willing to recognize the long range implications of a massive influx of illegal aliens to our social structure. Conservatives in the House of Representatives are the only true defenders of our Sovereignty we have left.

The GOP continues it's slide towards Liberalization. Thanks to the Independent Moderates.