Because the ruling needed Obama to sign off on it before it could be implemented, the President has just gone on record that he has flip-flopped on his earlier promise that he would not violate the “conscious clause” that allows the Catholic Church and it’s affiliates to follow Church teaching on the sanctity of human life.

Mz. Noonan believes that a significant percentage of this nation’s 35 million Catholic voters are outraged by this intrusion by a ham-fisted government into their private lives and into the practice of their faith.

For my own part, I could see this coming from the outset of the legislative circus that surrounded the passage of this un-Constitutional bill. Whatever his promises were at the time, I felt certain that as soon as he thought that the bill was out of the limelight for a sufficient period of time for the American people to forget about some of it’s especially toxic provisions, that Obama would allow this long anticipated assault on Catholics to be launched with a vengeance.

As to why he would do this nine months before a Presidential election…only Obama can answer that question.

Having said that, I am very grateful for the timing of this ruling and the President signing off on it when he did. It gives the Republican Presidential candidates plenty of time to incorporate this issue into upcoming debates and to make sure the voters know full well that, whatever their religious denomination, they will not be allowed to follow their consciences in this mater of the rights of the pre-born, if this law is not repealed.

So now its up to Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul to use this issue as one more in a long list of reasons why Barack Obama needs to be ushered out of the Oval Office in January 2013.

~~John Cronin~~

His decision on Catholic charities makes Romney’s big gaffe look trivial

BY PEGGY NOONAN

What a faux pas, how inept, how removed from the essential realities of America. Yes, I’m referring to President Obama. But let’s do Mitt Romney first.

He’s taken heavy fire for his interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, in which he said, “I’m not concerned about the very poor.”
Every criticism has been true. It was politically inept, playing into stereotypes about Republicans and about his own candidacy. It was Martian-like in its seeming remove from the concerns of everyday citizens. We’re in a recession here! It was at odds both with longtime American tradition and with rising conservative concern over …

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By KRISTINA PETERSON And DAMIAN PALETTA

WASHINGTON—The federal budget deficit likely will top $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year in fiscal 2012 as the economy continues to grow at a sluggish pace, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted Tuesday.

Congress’s official budget scorekeeper projected a sober outlook in its semi-annual report Tuesday, forecasting that the unemployment rate will remain above 8% both this year and next year and above 7% until 2015. The economy will see a “continued slow recovery” as real gross domestic product grows 2% this year, measured from the fourth quarter of the previous calendar year, and by 1.1% next year.

The federal budget deficit is expected to decrease modestly, but the CBO said its outlook hinged on policy and budget choices lawmakers face this year.

For example, the deficit will grow by $3.1 trillion over 10 years if spending cuts and tax increases are allowed to go into effect at the end of this year. If they are halted, the deficit would grow by roughly $11 trillion over the next 10 years.

The federal budget shortfall likely will clock in at $1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2012, down slightly from the $1.3 trillion deficit in the previous fiscal year, the CBO projected. Over the next few years, the expected deficits drop significantly, averaging 1.5% of GDP between 2013 and 2022, compared with the fiscal-year 2012 deficit, which is expected to be 7% of GDP.

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While I understand that the "Occuppiers" have 1st Amendment rights to free speech, there is of course no Constitutionally protected right to defecate on police cars or to urinate on a cross or any other religious symbol.

Time to clear the streets, mayors of America, and to protect your law abiding citizens from these lefty thugs.]

~~John Cronin~~

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement urinated on a cross, desecrated a church and threw Bibles at police officers in separate incidents over the weekend.

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Protesters in San Francisco occupied an abandoned hotel and began attacking police – hurling bricks and Bibles at officers.

“Once they gained access [to the hotel], some of them made it to the top of the roof and they began to throw Bibles down at the officers,” San Francisco Police Dept. spokesman Carlos Manfredi told ABC News.

Several officers were injured in the attack.

In New York City, Occupy protesters allegedly urinated on a cross inside a Brooklyn church.

“An occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross,” wrote Rabbi Chaim Gruber in a note to the New York Post.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has a history of participants urinating and defecating in public.

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Tough stuff. The right stuff.
By Larry Kudlow

Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing more than vulture capitalism, looting companies, and destroying jobs. Keeping class envy alive.

I’m not going to name names, because everybody knows who these Republicans are. Instead, I want to go positive, and commend Mitt Romney himself. Romney did his best in the second South Carolina debate to fight for free-market capitalism and Adam Smith, and against the spread of Obama-style crony capitalism and class envy.

During the Thursday night debate, Romney launched this:
“You’ve got to stop the spread of crony capitalism. [Obama] gives General Motors to the UAW. He takes $500 million and sticks it into Solyndra. He stacks the labor stooges on the NLRB so they can say no to Boeing and take care of their friends in the labor movement. . . . He has to bow to the most extreme members of the environmental movement. He turns down the Keystone pipeline, which would bring energy and jobs to America.

“My view is capitalism works. Free enterprise works. . . . There’s nothing wrong with profit, by the way. That profit went to pension funds, to charities. It went to a wide array of institutions. . . . And by the way, as enterprises become more profitable, they can hire more people. I’m someone who believes in free enterprise. I think Adam Smith was right. And I’m gonna stand and defend capitalism across this country, throughout this campaign. I know we’re going to get hit hard from President Obama, but we’re gonna stuff it down his throat and point out that it is capitalism and freedom that makes America strong.”

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– Larry Kudlow, NRO’s economics editor, is host of CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and author of the daily web log, Kudlow’s Money Politic$.

By ROGER SIMON

ORANGEBURG, S.C. – - Newt Gingrich trundles into the meeting hall – - a former X-rated movie theater – - to rapturous applause.

He is not the best-looking guy in Republican race or the best-funded or the most ideologically pure. But he has found his shtick, and he is shticking to it.

Newt Gingrich is the angriest man in America.

Mitt Romney will tell you that Barack Obama is a “nice guy” but that he is “in over his head.”

Newt Gingrich will tell you Barack Obama is “the most radical and most incompetent president in our lifetime!”

Obama is more than incompetent, in fact. To Newt, he is a moron. “It’s one thing to say the White House can’t play chess, it’s another to say it can’t play checkers,” Newt says and pauses like the professional he is for the laugh to build. “But tic-tac-toe?”

But Obama is more than stupid. He is dangerous. This is important to keep in mind.

The Gingrich campaign is based on the notion of perpetual struggle against perpetual peril.

“How many of you believe the left will fight us every step of the way even after we win?” Gingrich asks the crowd.

The next day, Gingrich will win the South Carolina primary. But he already knows that will happen. That is a given. Just like his nomination and election. But even that will not be enough to silence the “secular socialists” who oppose him from the left.

The “left” is a broad category to Gingrich. It includes liberals, socialists, anti-religious bigots, i.e. Democrats, most of the media, some misguided Republicans, and, well, anybody who opposes Newt Gingrich.

“We knew there’d be attacks, and the closer we were to winning the more ferocious the attacks would be,” Gingrich says.

John King of CNN, who asked Gingrich in a debate Thursday night whether he had ever asked his second wife for an “open” marriage, is part of the ferocious attack machine that seeks to thwart Gingrich.

Gingrich has called this “despicable” and now he calls it “grotesque.”

“Is the American news media just totally out of touch with reality?” he asks reporters after the rally. “You want to say: Get a life! There is a consistent pattern year after year that the American people are sick of the behavior of the news media. Sick!”

Anger, umbrage and bitterness are so much a part of Gingrich’s public persona that he likes to attack the very concept of happiness.

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