Catholic Fire

By Jill Stanek It occurred to me the White House might be forced to nominate radically pro-abort Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Department of Health and Human Services secretary after news leaked last week it was pausing due to her loathsome reputation among pro-lifers. Fear of pro-abortion recrimination, pride, whatever. But it never occurred to me a pro-lifer legislator would applaud the pick, never mind two. But that's what happened when Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts issued a glowing joint statement congratulating their home girl: It's an honor for the State of Kansas to have an elected official appointed to the president's cabinet. We are hopeful Governor Sebelius will be a voice for Kansas and rural America. ... We look forward to working with her on issues important to the state. ... Obviously we will have different viewpoints than the Administration on many issues. ... And they proceeded not to name abortion as one. The list of Sebelius' crimes against p...

OLATHE, Kan. -- Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline is headed to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where he will be a visiting law professor, The Kansas City Star reported. Kline is an anti-abortion Republican who served as attorney general in 2003-07 and launched an investigation of Dr. George Tiller's abortion clinic months after taking office. After failing to win re-election in 2006, Kline became Johnson County district attorney to replace Paul Morrison, a former Republican who switched parties and beat Kline in the attorney general's race. Click Here For The Full Story...... Congratulations, Phill! Best wishes. Thank you for a job well done, good and faithful servant!

Operation Rescue reports on the anticpated drama as Tiller hearings resume on Tuesday, January 6, after a six week hiatus. Tiller faces 19 counts of having committed illegal late-term abortions, including one on a 10-year old girl. Scheduled to provide the anticipated courtroom drama are two fierce political rivals, Phill Kline and Paul Morrison. Morrison defeated Kline as Attorney General but was forced to resign in disgrace after news broke of his adulterous affair with a former employee. That woman, Linda Carter, said in a sworn statement that Morrison pressured her to help him impede on-going abortion investigations by Kline, who took Morrison’s place as Johnson County District Attorney. “Never before have two former attorneys general, and their subordinates – not to mention an illicit lover –been forced to testify by a defendant in a pre-trial motion of a misdemeanor criminal case to give an account for their decisions to prosecute. The proceedings, and the drama they promise to ...