The new round of White House pardons are Bush's first since March and come less than two months before he will end his presidency. The crimes committed by those on the list also include offenses involving hazardous waste, food stamps, and the theft of government property. (Bush pardons 14 and commutes 2 prison sentences.)     

( I hae not heard any news that the President is going to pardon those border agents  Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. They were charged with shooting a drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila. It was their words against Davila words. I have yet to understand how those in our government who brought the charges will take the words of  a drug smuggler over two of our agents. See more on this caseConvicted Ex-Border Agents Hope for Pardons From Bush. )

(President Bush should do the right thing and give these two men a pardon. If he can pardon  those who have committed drug  crimes why can't he do the same for these two men.)

 I would be all for this if they had invited  people of the Islam faith as  individuals  not as a group. The truth is the Islam faith is against what our nation  stands for and they are against the Jewish faith and the Christian faith. Their Bible tells them not to have friends who are Jews and Christians. I believe those of us who are followers of Christ should reach out and try our best to be friends with followers of Islam but we shouldn't act like they believe the same as us because they don't. 

I  also like what Dr. Laura says when she hears the words Interfaith,  she thinks faithless.

(The above is part of a movie review from my local paper. I have yet to attend this movie but I am hoping to do that this week. If you would like to read more of the above review click here     
or  listen to   an Audio Review by  Michael Medved.)

When the undefeated Cowboys walk into Memorial Stadium on this Saturday morning, they won't simply be playing for a Class C-1 state championship. They'll be representing thousands of wayward boys and girls who have found direction at Boys Town - and hundreds of folks who have helped them become better people.

What happens Saturday against Pierce High School is about more than pigskins and three-point stances. It's about the abandoned finding a family, the transient settling into a home, the lost finding a path.

"These kids aren't alone," Kush said. "What they do on the football field and what they do in life, people here care about them the whole way."

Kristi Stowe is a Boys Town lifer. She has been the facility manager for the campus conference center for 31 years. She has about as little in common with Boys Town residents as possible, coming from a stable, loving, two-parent family.

But Saturday, she'll be nestled in the stands screaming for the Cowboys. When she isn't crying.

Stowe's husband, Bud, loved the Boys Town football team. The campus carpenter - responsible mainly for repairing broken glass - for years volunteered to man the chain gang at home football games. He braved frigid weather, holding first-down markers. Bud often sneaked away from his carpenter shop in the afternoon to watch the team practice.

Cancer claimed Bud's life in January. The team made him an honorary member this season.

Kristi Stowe went to hardly any games while Bud was a volunteer, because she didn't like sitting alone. But she'll be there Saturday to celebrate the team and honor Bud's memory.

"Everyone on campus gets excited about these kids' success and heartbroken over their failures," she said. "To see them out there on Saturday, it's huge."

(It is nice  to see kids who for whatever reason have had things go the wrong way, have something they can be proud of. Read the whole story about these kids and how  their school has changed lots of boys, Boys Town recaptures its gridiron glory days.  )

(Even though Boy's Town came up short that doesn't change the great things their school has done on and off of the field.Class C-1 State Football Championship: Pierce 20, Boys Town 10.)

New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks -- heroically breaking down inhumane barriers to Internet matchmaking by forcing a law-abiding private company to provide services it was never created to provide. "Men seeking men" has now been enshrined with "I have a dream" as a civil rights rallying cry of the 21st century. Bully for you, Mr. McKinley. You bully.

(The above is part of a column written by Michelle Malkin.   Read more of the column below.)

Neil Warren, eHarmony's founder, is a gentle, grandfatherly businessman who launched his popular dating site to support heterosexual marriage. A "Focus on the Family" author with a divinity degree, Warren encourages healthy, lasting unions between men and women of all faiths, mixed faiths or no faith at all.

Don't like what eHarmony sells? Go somewhere else. There are thousands upon thousands of dating sites on the Internet that cater to gays, lesbians, Jews, Muslims, Trekkies, runners, you name it.

To be clear: eHarmony never, ever refused to do business with anyone. The company broke no laws. Their great "sin" was not providing a politically correct service that a publicity-seeking gay plaintiff demanded they provide. For three years, the company battled McKinley's legal shakedown artists -- and staved off other opportunists as well.

This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a rib-eye, or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. But rather than defend the persecuted business, the New Jersey attorney general intervened on behalf of the gay plaintiff and wrangled an agreement out of eHarmony to change its entire business model.

The company agreed not only to offer same-sex dating services on a new site, but also to offer six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users, pay McKinley $5,000 and fork over $50,000 to New Jersey's Civil Rights division "to cover investigation-related administrative costs." Oh, and that's not all. Yield, yield to the grievance-mongers:

Perhaps heterosexual men and women should start filing lawsuits against gay dating websites and undermine their businesses. Coerced tolerance and diversity-by-fiat cut both ways.

(Amen Michelle. I  first posted last week on this issue (see E-Harmony Reversing Its Stance On Same-Sex Matches) I won't tell eHarmony what they should have done. However I would have liked to had seen this case go farer in the courts and if I had been eHarmony I might have thought about shutting down before I would encourage same sex dating on my site. What do you think? Read the whole column by Michelle  here.) 

(Read more about how this  MAD hospital (MAD= Make A. Difference)  is helping ill children along with  teens, Teens get a place to chill.)

Westboro protesters had demonstrated at two other locations in Omaha earlier in the day before heading to Central High.

They were standing outside the school, , when school was dismissed at 2:50 p.m. and students began leaving.

Witnesses said the protesters held up signs that criticized homosexuality and characterized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as the antichrist.

Ari Brodkey, 16, held a sign reading, "This Jew is not afraid of you." He described the demonstrators from Phelps’ church as "disgusting."

(This born again Christian amens that Jewish kid. This group doesn't show the love of Jesus. They need to start reading the Bible they say they believe in. I am just sorry it took this kind of attack  to stop them. Read more on this story  here.)

The girls are children of Cuban medical professionals living in Miami who deserted their posts in various nations where the Cuban government sent them to help spread ideology and earn income for their cash-starved homeland.

But the price for desertion was higher than the families believed possible: The Cuban government is denying the little ones permission to leave, even though they have U.S. visas that would allow them to come here.

''Marta isn't to blame for what her parents did, and yet they punish her,'' said her mother, Melvis Mesa, 42. ``She's just a child, and children have a right to be with their parents. What the Cuban government is doing is a terrible abuse.''

(The truth is Cuba has an evil government. Please pray for these children and a change of  heart in the leaders or change of leadership takes place in Cuba soon. Read more on this issue right here)

Obama's pick to direct the Justice Department. Holder served as the deputy A.G. under Clinton and, in that role, was the key fellow in winning the extremely controversial pardon of billionaire fugitive financier Marc Rich.
And from Humberto Fontova, writing for American Thinker, there's this:

Among the throng of Clinton regime retreads recruited for the Obama administration we find Gregory Craig. Craig served as Obama's advisor on Latin American during the campaign, and was appointed last week as chief White House Counsel. The MSM has mentioned Craig's role as Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer, but mostly has omitted mention of Craig's role as chief facilitator for Fidel Castro's shanghaiing of Elian Gonzalez.

Officially Craig served as attorney for Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. This humble man worked as a hotel doorman in a nation where the average monthly salary is $16. The high-rolling Gregory Craig worked for Washington D.C.'s elite firm, Williams & Connolly, one of America's highest-priced law firms.

Upon accepting the case, Gregory Craig had flown to Cuba for a meeting with Fidel Castro. Craig's remuneration, we learned shortly after his return, came from a "voluntary fund" set up by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society and "administered" by the National Council of Churches. The same reporters and pundits, who routinely erupt with snide snorts midway through any statement by a Republican press secretary, reported this item with a straight face.

(Do we want a man who helped  the evil government of Cuba and doesn't care about the rule of law in America running the nation's law office.)