In an interview with ABC News Radio’s Marcus Wilson, Gingrich, R-Ga., said Pelosi, D-Calif., “has lied to the House” in claiming that she was never briefed by the CIA about the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding and other harsh tactics.

"I think she has lied to the House, and I think that the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry, and I hope there will be a resolution to investigate her. And I think this is a big deal.  I don't think the Speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters,” Gingrich said.

He continued: "I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I've seen in my lifetime."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/15/protesters-arrested-notre-dame/

Las Vegas may be known as "Sin City," but when it comes to transgressions per capita, parts of the Bible Belt may burn much hotter, suggests a new study by Kansas State University geographers.

The project, conducted by four graduate students in the university's department of geography, maps out "hot spots" for Christianity's seven deadly sins -- lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.

The hot-spot data is based on federal statistics such as sexually transmitted disease rates for lust, theft rates for envy and violent crime rates for wrath.

Researcher Ryan Bergstrom emphasizes the project was intended as a secular mapping exercise, but faith leaders have been gradually discovering it through word of mouth. Many express surprise and disbelief at findings that show America's deep South as suffering from more overall sinfulness than southern Nevada.

The black helicopter crowd's worst fears of a New World Order are coming true.

The military is invading Burton.

But it promises to only stay a week.

Sometime over the next day or two, a military spokesman said residents may see low-flying helicopters buzzing overhead.

People may even catch a glimpse of special operations forces, but the goal is to keep the exercise as low key as possible.

It's been 81 years since legendary coach Knute Rockne urged his players to "win one for the Gipper." But no Notre Dame football team ever faced a tougher challenge than President Obama does.

Since he was invited by university president Father John Jenkins to give this year's commencement address, Obama has faced a growing wave of protest. Judging from the howls of some critics, you'd think the devil himself were presiding over this year's graduation.

Notre Dame is one of our great universities, and America's best Catholic university, but a bunch of small-minded, ignorant and intolerant religious zealots are trying to hijack it. At last count, 74 American bishops have refused to attend the ceremonies – because Obama happens to be pro-choice. For the same reason, over 350,000 people have signed online petitions in opposition. A handful of graduating seniors have vowed to boycott their own party. Alan Keyes, Obama's former Senate opponent in Illinois, and Randall Terry, head of Operation Rescue, have organized campus protests. And a small plane circles over the Notre Dame campus, towing a banner with the picture of an alleged aborted fetus. Happy Graduation!

Speaker Pelosi's press conference yesterday had to rank as one of the most bizarre political implosions since Richard Nixon's infamous "I'm not a crook" press conference in April 1974.

Pelosi called the press conference to offer her fifth separate explanation for why she never knew about the application of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" despite the release of CIA memos and the recollection of other participants who clearly recall her being extensively briefed.

As press conferences go, it was painful to witness. Noted one observer, if Pelosi was not lying, she deserved an Academy Award for appearing as though she were. When questioned by reporters, she actually re-read her prepared statement – several times – stumbling over it as if she were cold-reading the description of an event involving someone else.

The conference was, as noted, bizarre to the point of being surreal. If it weren't the person who stood third in line for the Oval Office speaking, it would have been almost funny.

Indeed, it had all the elements of a "Saturday Night Live" skit, right down to the indescribably awkward moment when a reporter, clearly planted by Pelosi's handlers, tried to change the subject by asking a softball question about health care. (The question was so obviously a plant that the other reporters actually booed him.)

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Amid all the fun and mystery of this year's festival, which includes the rumoured appearance of legendary band Jefferson Starship, the Christian group known as 'Alien Resistance', will outline its Biblical philosophy that all UFOs are in fact the "evil spirits" of the Bible, according to a May 12 statement.

"From a Biblical Christian perspective it becomes clear that 'aliens' are actually the evil spirits of the Bible," contend the group, which will also use the symposium to deliver its message on counter-cult evangelism, creationism, and spiritual warfare.

"This idea is backed up experientially with the evidence of numerous testimonies of 'abductees', which show that 'alien abduction' experiences stop in the name and authority of Jesus Christ," the statement continued.

"Also the sinful behaviors of the 'aliens' behind abductions, the false gospels and new age messages they proclaim, and their supernatural powers so very reminiscent of those described in the Bible as being had by angels, all adds up to make clear that 'aliens' are in fact the evil spirits of the Bible," it said.

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200920/3663/Christian-group-declares-UFOs-evil-spirits-of-the-Bible

Watch your language: The 'retarded homophobe'
attack was published in BAAF's Pink Guide to Adoption
for Lesbians and Gay Men

People who have concerns about the adoption of children by gay couples are 'retarded homophobes', the state-funded national adoption agency said yesterday.

Those who protest over controversial gay adoption laws are merely 'whinging', according to the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

Its insulting description angered senior MPs and former Cabinet Ministers, Roman Catholic and Church of England leaders.

It also offended disability campaigners, who have been trying to discourage the use of the word 'retarded' for years. Whitehall has banned the word for civil servants.

Many of those who are worried about gay adoption say that approving same-sex relationships goes against their Christian faith.

Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute thinktank, said last night: 'Christians are tired of being marginalised.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181380/Slurred-adoption-Nazis-Critics-gay-parenting-branded-retarded-homophobes.html?ITO=1490

The Beatles meteoric rise, unprecedented in popular culture and unrivaled nearly four decades after the band broke up, is at least partly explained, says a new book, by a pact John Lennon made with the Devil.

In "The Lennon Prophecy," author Joseph Niezgoda reveals that Lennon himself, obsessed with the occult, magic, numerology and being bigger than Elvis Presley, confided in his friend Tony Sheridan that he made such a deal. The book also makes the case that the "death clues" long associated with Paul McCartney were actually subliminal messages hinting at Lennon's fate.

Written by a lifelong Beatles fan and musician, the book hypothesizes the pact was made just before the band experienced its first major successes and ended 20 years later with Lennon's assassination in New York by Mark David Chapman, who later claimed to have demons exorcized from him while serving his sentence for murder in Attica State Prison.

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