A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."

"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."

This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.

It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.

The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.

Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."

To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.

The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.

The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.

The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.

Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.

Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.

Pro-family groups are calling on a powerful liberal senator to remove himself from deliberations on the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor's eventual replacement on the Supreme Court.

Internet media maven Matt Drudge reported Wednesday 5th that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a powerful member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was overheard promising that Democrats would "go to war" over President Bush's nominee — regardless of the candidate the president nominates.

Pro-family activists were appalled. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was blunt in his comments.

"I would not hesitate to suggest that Senator Schumer should recuse himself from the confirmation process," Perkins said, "since he has obviously already made up his mind."

Tom Minnery, vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family Action, agreed.

"It is impossible, in light of these comments, for any candidate likely to be advanced by the president to get a fair hearing from Sen. Schumer," he said. "Senators are constitutionally obligated to offer their advice and consent on court nominees. All Sen. Schumer is prepared to offer is his disgust and contempt."

Gonzales: 'Constitution Is What The Supreme Court Says' (Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com)

Comments made by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in his former capacity as White House counsel, have some conservatives warning that he would be the wrong choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

"The Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is," Gonzales responded in the summer of 2003 when asked by Dr. John Willke, president of the Life Issues Institute, to comment on whether the document that created the U.S. government addressed the issue of abortion.
Gonzales, a long-time legal adviser to George W. Bush, both when Bush was governor of Texas and since he's been president, continues to be one of the top names mentioned for the Supreme Court position that O'Connor announced she was vacating.

Many instinctively know that lots of sex in the media is bad for kids, but a lack of scientific evidence has prevented change. Now, a study from the Medical Institute for Sexual Health may prompt needed reform.

The study, conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, systematically reviewed all biomedical and social science research conducted from 1983 to 2004 that explored effects of mass media on youth. Of the 2,522 research-related documents examined, less than 1 percent addressed the impact of mass media on adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviors.

A political odd couple, backed by an unusual coalition of advocacy groups and news organizations, is looking to crack down on government officials who ignore public requests for information.

Sens. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Tex.) are pushing a package of legislative proposals that would create, for the first time, penalties for agencies that ignore Freedom of Information Act requests.

"A number of the reforms included in these bills are pretty basic in a lot of places, including my home state of Texas," said Cornyn, a former state attorney general. "In Washington, there's no real presumption of openness in the culture. If you're persistent enough and you're willing to wait long enough, you might actually get what you're entitled to. But there seems to be very few incentives . . . to encourage timely compliance with FOIA requests."

The push -- the first in years -- comes as the act, signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson on July 4, 1966, marks its 39th year. The law replaced sections of the Administrative Procedures Act that required those wanting information to explain why they needed it. FOIA shifted the burden to the government, requiring it to explain why a request should not be granted

World Will Be Watching The Palestinians, Diplomats Say
(Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief July, 2005)

How the Palestinian Authority handles the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip will be a key test of its ability to govern itself. But two U.S. diplomats said the P.A. will be hard pressed to prevent event looting and squatting in vacated Jewish settlement areas.
Such a scenario would undermine the Palestinians' goal of establishing an independent state, the diplomats said.
Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Dennis Ross, who formerly served as a special Middle East coordinator, spoke to reporters in Jerusalem about possible scenarios after Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
Israel is scheduled to dismantle 21 Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip and four in the northern West Bank as part of its disengagement plan. The entire Gaza Strip would then be left in the hands of the Palestinian Authority.
The disengagement plan was devised as a unilateral move on Israel's part prior to the death of P.A. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Israel planned to pack up and pull out without reaching any peace agreement with the Palestinians. Since Arafat's death, however, Israel has agreed to coordinate its withdrawal with the P.A.

"I don't see that the Palestinian Authority has the capability or the intention to take control of the areas where the settlers will be evacuated," Indyk told journalists in Jerusalem on Monday.
"I think it's going [to] look more like the situation after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in Baghdad -- widespread looting, squatters moving in to claim the territory," he said.

"[The Palestinians understand] this is an opportunity for them but it's also a problem. When Israel's out of Gaza, Palestinians have a chance to demonstrate to the world that they are capable of governing themselves, that they are capable of having a state," Ross said.

The United States gives more aid to developing countries than any other nation, Scotsman.com reported.

In a recent study by the Hudson Institute, the U.S. gave15 times more than its European neighbors. In advance of the G8 summit and campaigns by Make Poverty History and Live 8, the study shows Americans are more generous than many claim.

Church collections, philanthropists and company giving amounted to $22 billion. That is compared to a European Union average of $1.6 billion in private-sector giving. The numbers get more impressive in light of the fact that 12 percent of the immigrant population sends more than $40 billion in aid to their home countries.

President Bush has pledged to take African aid from $1.2 billion to $8.7 billion by 2010.

Some time ago I reported to you about a scheme devised by Arlen Specter to grow government, raise taxes, and line the pockets of trial lawyers. Specter’s plan, a $140 billion "Asbestos Trust Fund," would force unsuspecting small and medium sized businesses into bankruptcy with taxpayers left holding the bag.

Because the trust fund approach doesn’t adequately shield taxpayers once the fund runs out of money, it leaves the door open for government to go after your had-earned dollars with no end in sight. Worse, the real victims of asbestos suffer as the trust fund does not require strict medical criteria and those with unrelated and false claims can aggressively compete for a piece of the action.

Unfortunately, Specter is working hard to make his trust fund scheme a reality and FreedomWorks has caught wind of a new strategy he has hatched to get The Asbestos Trust Fund to the Senate floor in the next few weeks, before Congress’ August Recess. We have to do everything we can to stop Specter now as he is actively lobbying other Senators on the trust fund.

After the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision which gave local governments the right to seize and demolish people's private property for economic development, Rep. Frank Corte (R-San Antonio) authored a constitutional amendment, HJR 19, to protect Texas property owners. Last Friday, Governor Perry expanded the special session to include the amendment in order to safeguard against potential abuse of the Supreme Court ruling. The Texas House passed HJR 19 Tuesday in a 132-0 vote. The amendment will now go to the Texas Senate, where it is expected to pass quickly. If approved, Texans will have the opportunity to vote on the amendment in the November Constitutional Amendments Election.

U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning banned the Pentagon from funding Boy Scouts of America's National Scout Jamboree, their annual summer camp designed to train scouts on physical fitness, environmental conservation and national heritage. Judge Manning ruled in the case, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois v. U.S. Department of Defense, that funding should not be allowed because the Boy Scouts require belief in God for membership.

On Friday, Judge Kermit Bye of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8^th Circuit affirmed a lower court's ruling, which stated that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban was unconstitutional because it did not include a health exemption. The health exemption was intentionally excluded by the U.S. Congress when drafting the bill for fear that it would weaken and basically destroy the ban by allowing doctors to make false claims of health risks for women seeking abortions. They did, however, include a life exception if the woman was at risk of dying from pregnancy complications. The ban was passed by Congress in 2003 after the original Partial Birth Abortion Ban was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor making the deciding vote to declare it unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2000 effectively struck down partial birth abortion bans in 30 states. The constitutionality of the ban will now most likely rest in the hands of the Supreme Court once again, where the newly appointed justice will provide the swing vote on whether or not to allow partial birth abortions

Gay Couples Seeking Surrogates (Kim Trobee, Citizen Link)
Analysts say it's part of an effort to legitimize the homosexual lifestyle.

A growing number of surrogate moms are having babies for homosexual couples, with close to half of the surrogate agencies in the country working with homosexual partners or seeking to.

What's behind the increase?

"There's legislative pressure against gay and lesbian adoption, and so they're looking to parent through other means," explained Doug Donnelly, who works with adoptions in California.

Homosexual parents, he explained, lend credibility to the gay and lesbian agenda.

"They want to go on 'Oprah' as proud parents and show off their children," he said. "It certainly casts them in a very favorable light."

But Robert Walmsley, a surrogacy lawyer, said he wonders if that strategy works.

"I don't think the vast majority of society is prepared to accept two people of the same gender having a child and raising a child," he said.

San Diego's Gay Pride Festival is being supported by two convicted pedophiles -- and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is endorsing it, according to WorldNetDaily.com.

Warren Patrick Derichsweiler and Daniel Reiger, both on California's Megan's Law list of sex offenders, are listed in the event's program as a supervisor and coordinator, respectively.

Freelance reporter Allyson Smith told WND she spoke with Schwarzenegger's office and quoted a staffer saying that the governor "supports gay and lesbian rights and that he does not have time to check out the backgrounds of every single person involved with every pride event in the state of California."

Smith replied: "It is reprehensible that Schwarzenegger, a professed Catholic and so-called Republican, would put the special rights of perverts above the protection of innocent children."

Scientists may be on the verge of creating super monkeys. The Australian News.com Web site reported that monkeys are being injected with human brain cells.

Researchers want to see if primates like these start to develop "self-awareness," or display emotional or behavioral changes.

The results of the experiments are unpredictable. Some warn that it could result in monkeys with "super-animal" intelligence.

And others warn about the bio-ethical questions that could arise. The results of this study will later be published in the journal "Science."

Gay advocacy has returned to Capitol Hill this summer in the form of a bill that would add sexual orientation to federal law.

Eleven pro-homosexual congressmen, including openly gay Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., are sponsoring H.R. 3128, the Clarification of Federal Employment Protection Act.

Bob Knight, the director of the Culture and Family Institute in Washington, D.C., said the bill would add sexual orientation to federal workplace law, and would elevate homosexuality to "protected" status – alongside race, creed, ethnicity and sex.

"It would open the door for homosexual activists to claim that the federal government now approves of homosexuality," Knight said, "and views it as a 'class,' like race, and that therefore, the entire civil rights agenda should move right in behind."

Knight said the proposed bill would simply codify something that was done by executive order in the Clinton administration.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida judge has ruled in favor of a Christian theme park seeking an exemption from property taxes. The Holy Land Experience in Orlando is operated by a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian ministry called Zion's Hope, which is devoted to converting Jews to Christianity. It had been granted only limited exemptions for administrative and education facilities.

The Orange County Property Appraiser's office had denied the group's broader request in 2001, arguing the park was a tourist attraction rather than a church.

But Judge Cynthia MacKinnon says all of the park is tax-exempt. In her ruling, the judge says Zion's Hope is using The Holy Land Experience "to spread what it considers to be God's word."

The park features scenes from ancient Jerusalem and biblical settings complete with costumed characters.

The House Tuesday passed a resolution to focus attention on the people of the Darfur region in Sudan. The genocide that continues there has killed a half million people and displaced more than 2.5 million.

The National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection is slated for Friday through Sunday.

Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Jon Corzine, D-N.J., sponsored Senate legislation that passed July 1. Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., sponsored the House bill.

Along with Congress, the Save Darfur Coalition is asking that people pray for the region and write letters urging government officials to do all they can to end the suffering.

Darfur, wedged between the countries of Chad and Libya, is about 25 percent larger than California and has the infrastructure of a pre-1900s Wild West.

The Arab-Muslim Sudanese government has essentially sponsored the mass destruction of the region due to the population's ethnicity -- black-African Muslims. Along with terrorists named the Janjaweed, the government has enacted a scorched-earth policy.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick says Catholics don't have to believe in Creationism – the Bible's account of God creating Adam and Eve and the universe in six days.

McCarrick told reporters at the National Press Club that instead of what he called "the beautiful story of Genesis," Catholics can believe in evolution – as long as it's understood to have been guided by God rather than chance.

The archbishop of Washington said that was the view of the late Pope John Paul, which was echoed last week by a leading European cardinal.

Cardinal McCarrick said the church cannot accept the belief that "this is all an accident." But he added that "as long as in every understanding of evolution, the hand of God is recognized as being present, we can accept that.

Pro-life groups object to RU-486 being categorized as "medicine."

The World Health Organization (WHO) has added RU-486, also known as the abortion pill, to its "essential medicines list," because it said the drug "satisfies the priority health care needs of the population."

The listing includes the warning that the drugs "require close medical supervision." Pia de Solenni, director of life and women's issues at the Family Research Council, called that an understatement.

"This is another way to make another abortion element part of the standard routine," she said. "That's what they've done by getting it put on this essential drug list. Then we start calling it a medical treatment or medicine as something that suggests it provides health or that it promotes health when the contrary is true."

The Oregon Senate has approved a bill that would legalize civil unions and force businesses to hire homosexuals.

In November 2004, 57 percent of Oregon voters decided that traditional marriage was important enough to protect it in their constitution. Now some state lawmakers want to undermine the will of the people and force same-sex marriage onto Oregonians.

SB 1000 has already passed in the Senate, and if it is approved by the House, it would give homosexual couples the same legal status and benefits of married couples.

But that's not all this bill would do. It also adds sexual orientation to the state's discrimination laws, placing sexual orientation alongside race and religion.

In closed meetings, the Senate Rules Committee, along with other legislators and the ACLU, drafted SB 1000 to assert that churches, religious organizations and religious institutions cannot discriminate against homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender persons and cross-dressers when hiring to positions which the state will determine are not "closely connected with or related to the primary purposes of the church."

According to Stronger Families of Oregon, "In the final review, religious institutions and their representatives were excluded from participating in the work session process considering these amendments."

Despite consistent vitriolic rhetoric from the ACLU towards keeping church and state separate, this bill gives the state the authority to decide which positions in your church are essential and therefore exempt from hiring homosexuals, bisexuals and cross-dressers.

A hidden economic impact for all businesses is that they would have to bestow the same benefits given to married couples to same sex couples as well. This bill effectively creates new "classes" of specially-protected people solely based on behavioral choices, and as has been seen in other states, the economic costs to the state in discrimination lawsuits is huge.

This attempt by the Oregon Legislature to legalize civil unions is a slap in the face to Oregon citizens who voted in November to protect traditional marriage.

ST. PAUL, July 14, 2005- A government health department report has just been released showing the effectiveness of laws put in place in Minnesota requiring a wait period before aborting and information on the nature of abortion and fetal development.

The Center for Health Statistics for the Department of Health issued the study of the abortion statistics for the period January to December 2004 showing more than 2,000 women changed their minds after receiving the information. Abortion in Minnesota is at its lowest rate since 1975.

The law, called Women's Right to Know, was vigorously opposed by the abortion lobby who, apparently rightly, guessed that full information as to the grisly nature of abortion would cut into their profits.

"This clearly shows that Women's Right to Know is working," said Scott Fischbach, executive director of Minnesota Citizen Concerned for Life, a key backer of the bill.

The trend against abortion seems to be growing. This most recent drop comes after three successive drops in annual abortion numbers for the state.

Revived Calif. 'Gay Marriage' Bill Passes Senate Committee (Baptist Press)
Giving new life to an issue that was considered dead just one month earlier, a California Senate committee July 12 passed a bill that would legalize "gay marriage" in the state.

A similar "gay marriage" bill failed to pass the state Assembly in early June, but Democratic assembly sponsor Mark Leno refused to give up, opting instead to try and pass his bill in the Senate. Leno is an open homosexual.

The bill passed the California Senate's judiciary committee on a party-line vote, with all five Democrats voting for it and the two Republicans voting against it.

The bill, known as AB 849, is expected to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, the San Jose Mercury News reported. If that happens, it would be the first time a "gay marriage" bill has ever passed a legislative body in the U.S. The bill must pass another Senate committee before it goes to the floor.

"Californians are quickly learning that the Democratic Party has become the party of homosexual marriage," Randy Thomasson, president of the California-based Campaign for Children and Families, said in a statement. "This anti-marriage, anti-voter bill gives average Californians another good reason to leave the Democratic Party altogether."

Illinois Governor's $10 Million Cloning Fraud (LifeSiteNews.com)
He is manipulating the terms 'reproductive cloning' and 'research cloning' to alleviate public fears, while he promises to solve the world's medical problems.

By an executive order, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich forestalled public debate on the moral admissibility of human embryonic research and awarded $10 million for research that would include the creation of clones, with the caveat ‘such embryonic children’ can only be created as long as they will not be allowed to live.

Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels (Religion Journal)
As the new book is released, the Pope's serious reservations about the novels are being revealed.

On Tuesday, four days after the bombings on the London transit system refocused Congress and the American public on the threat of global terrorism, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that "No border security is possible without Mexican cooperation" and that "there can be no cooperation [from the Mexican government] without some sort of immigration reform package."

Castaneda, now a professor at New York University, went on to describe immigration reform as amnesty for all Mexicans living illegally in the U.S., the admission of some 5 million additional Mexican citizens to the U.S. over the next ten years, and massive increases in U.S. aid to that country.

In exchange for the admission and legalization of millions of Mexicans, and billions of dollars in U.S. assistance, Castaneda said that Mexico would offer "tough" but "non-coercive" assistance in the effort to prevent terrorists from entering the U.S. via Mexico.

Castaneda conceded that Mexico has lost control of its own southern border, and cannot verify the true identities of people to whom it has issued ID documents.

"Jorge Castaneda is not some obscure voice from Mexico's distant political past," observed Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "He served as foreign minister in the current Mexican administration.

It is imperative that the Fox government issue a formal repudiation of Castaneda's remarks and assure the American public that their cooperation in the war against terrorism will not come at the price of extortion."

As disturbing as Castaneda's remarks were, the reaction of the senators to the extortion demands of a former top Mexican government official was even more disconcerting. Leading members of the Senate, including John McCain and Richard Lugar, seemingly accepted Castenada's demands for open borders as a legitimate price for even tepid Mexican cooperation in dealing with the terrorist threat.

FAIR is calling upon the Bush Administration and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice to formally protest Castaneda's demands with the Mexican government. "If Colin Powell were to make similarly outrageous demands in a foreign capital, we would expect a reply and repudiation from the American government. We should expect no less from the current government of Mexico," Stein said.

OTTAWA, July 13, 2005– Former television host of 100 Huntley Street and leader of a pro-marriage group, David Mainse, is appealing to Queen Elizabeth to order Canada’s Governor General not to sign bill C-38 into law if it is passed by the Senate as expected.

"Our beloved Queen Elizabeth II, I know that the refusal of the Governor General to give royal consent would precipitate a crisis," Mainse wrote in a letter sent last week. "Millions have nowhere else to turn but you. Please help humanity everywhere to begin a reversal of this morally and socially destructive trend."

Mainse quit as host of 100 Huntley Street in 2003 to begin a crusade against the Liberal government’s same-sex "marriage" bill. His campaign to defend the traditional definition of marriage can be seen on line at http://www.marriageCanada.ca The marriage Canada site provides an e-mail link to Buckingham Palace

PJI Pledges To Defend Cross In Los Angeles County Seal (Pacific Justice Institute)

Los Angeles, CA 07.13.2005– The Pacific Justice Institute participated in a press conference Monday in Los Angeles to announce its commitment to defend the Los Angeles County Seal against attacks by radical advocates of church-state separation.

The Los Angeles County Seal, adopted nearly a half-century ago, contained a tiny cross in the background of one of its four quadrants to reflect the city’s religious heritage. Recently, under pressure from the ACLU, the Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to remove the cross from the seal. Outraged citizens are now actively circulating a petition to restore the cross. PJI’s support ensures that any new attempts to excise religion from the public seal will be vigorously contested.

"We pledge to defend the citizens of Los Angeles County against attacks by individuals or organizations who would try to compel local governments to be hostile to our religious heritage," stated Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute. "Future generations deserve nothing but the truth about California’s heritage, including our religious heritage and corresponding landmarks."

In a similar case, Pacific Justice Institute has already been chosen by the city of Redlands, California, to defend its city seal if it is challenged in court.