A major Roman Catholic organization on Thursday called for a boycott of Thin Mints, Shortbread, Peanut Butter Sandwich and other Girl Scout cookies, seeking to undercut funding for the pro-abortion agenda of the historic girls' organization.

"The Girl Scouts was once a trusted organization dedicated to character building in young girls and women. Now, GSUSA is abusing that trust," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League, the nation's oldest Catholic pro-life education and advocacy group.

"Most parents and grandparents remain painfully unaware the GSUSA has introduced so-called 'family planning' ideology in its curriculum and promotes groups like Planned Parenthood to our daughters and granddaughters," she said.

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Learn more about the Christian alternative to the Girl Scouts called American Heritage Girls

The film was a box office sensation, bringing in more than $33 million and becoming the fourth highest grossing documentary of all time as President Obama campaigned for re-election in 2012. D'Souza's latest film, "America," is due in theaters July 4.

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Numerous high-profile conservatives say emphatically that D'Souza's criminal indictment is clearly payback for criticizing Obama.

MSNBC's official Twitter account deleted a tweet last night that suggested conservatives wouldn't like a new Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial family set to air during the Super Bowl.

"Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family," read the tweet, which linked to an MSNBC.com story on the new ad.

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"Until you personally and publicly apologize for this behavior, I have banned all RNC staff from appearing on, associating with, or booking any RNC surrogates on MSNBC. I have asked Republican surrogates and officials to follow our lead," Priebus told MSNBC President Phil Griffin in a letter sent today.

Priebus also sent a memo to Republican officials and surrogates urging them not to appear on the network until Griffin apologizes.

MSNBC has fired the employee who sent out a controversial Tweet involving a Cheerios commercial that features a biracial family.

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, MSNBC president Phil Griffin called the Tweet "outrageous and unacceptable."

In its fifth trust poll, 35 percent said they trusted Fox news more than any other outlet, followed by PBS at 14 percent, ABC at 11 percent, CNN at 10 percent, CBS at 9 percent, 6 percent for MSNBC and Comedy Central, and just 3 percent for NBC.

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10:00 a.m.:  GOP Congressional candidate Matt McCall joins me in studio about his race against Congressman Lamar Smith for the March primary.

Here are the reasons why.

and why he believes Congressman Lamar Smith is worthy of defeating.

Liberty is worth dying for, but Lamar Smith can't even vote for it. He voted against basic fourth amendment freedoms and for a police state by refusing to cut NSA spying on innocent citizens.

He sided with the Obama administration, and the Establishment to continue funding the NSA spying on citizens that are not even suspected of violating any law what so ever. We all seem to hate congress, but it is indeed difficult to admit that our guy is the problem.

It was truly a sight to see when Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, led the charge in the House yesterday to reclaim some of our precious liberties.

Amash's amendment would stop NSA "blanket surveillance" of American citizens. The language would place a limit on who the government can snoop on to those under investigation. It also places more judicial oversight over government surveillance, providing a layer of protection for both us, and our Constitution.

 McCall's distaste for Lamar Smith's support of NSA snooping

10:30 a.m.:  Bruce Broughton, the composer of the "Alone Yet Not Alone" Christian movie song which was nominated for an Oscar, joins me to discuss his dismay that the nomination was ultimately pulled.

This year's most-obscure Oscar nominee is no more.

Writer Bruce Broughton, a former member of the board of governors and currently on the music branch's executive committee, violated the Academy's rules against lobbying by personally e-mailing "members of the branch to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting period," according to a statement released by the governors Wednesday.

The nomination of "Alone Yet Not Alone" raised the eyebrows (and hackles) of many veteran Oscar-watchers when the nominations were announced Jan. 16.

Joni Eareckson Tada tells The Hollywood Reporter allegations of backroom dealings by the song's well-connected writers are false and insists no one "pushed their influence."

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As a mini-controversy develops about an Oscar-nominated song from a microbudget Christian film called Alone Yet Not Alone that few people saw, the singer, Joni Eareckson Tada, is confessing that she's as surprised as anyone that the Academy has recognized such an obscure song.

Eareckson Tada is a 64-year-old quadriplegic who runs a charitable organization that distributes wheelchairs to kids in developing nations.

She's a devout Christian who has little to do with the entertainment industry and rarely goes to the movies. She grew up singing hymns but has no professional training. And her lung capacity is just 51 percent of what it ought to be -- so weak, in fact, that her husband needed to push on her diaphragm while she recorded the Oscar-nominated song to give her enough breath to hit the high notes.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that it was disqualifying "Alone Yet Not Alone," a melody from a film of the same name, because the nominated writer, Bruce Broughton, "had emailed members of the branch to make them aware of his submission."

Broughton told the Hollywood Reporter at the time that he was hurt.

"I indulged in the simplest grassroots campaign and it went against me when the song started getting attention," he said.

George Escobar, who served as a producer, co-director and co-writer on the film "Alone Yet Not Alone," said ultimately whether the song is considered for an Oscar won't matter to most of those who will hear it.

TED CRUZ: HOUSE GOP'S AMNESTY PUSH WILL RUIN HOPES OF RETAKING SENATE

Cruz questioned how establishment Republicans unilaterally caving to Democrats on everything from the farm bill to the budget to the debt ceiling and more could think amnesty is a good idea at this time.

"Right now, Republican leadership in both chambers is aggressively urging members to stand down on virtually every front: on the continuing resolution, on the budget, on the farm bill, on the debt ceiling," Cruz said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News on Thursday.

He continued:

They may or may not be right, but their argument is that we should focus exclusively on Obamacare and on jobs. In that context, why on earth would the House dive into immigration right now? It makes no sense, unless you're Harry Reid. Republicans are poised for an historic election this fall--a conservative tidal wave much like 2010. The biggest thing we could do to mess that up would be if the House passed an amnesty bill--or any bill perceived as an amnesty bill--that demoralized voters going into November.

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Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were the main founders of the domestic terror group the Weather Underground, which was assigned responsibility for dozens of bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructure of the U.S.

D'Souza is the maker of the movie "2016: Obama's America," which is the second-highest grossing political documentary of all time.

KRAUTHAMMER: IF A REPUBLICAN HAD DONE WHAT OBAMA HAS, HE'D BE IMPEACHED

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President Barack Obama was barely out of the Capitol after delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday before members of his own party began distancing themselves from the president.

In an interview with CNN after the speech, Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection this year, took aim at Obama's focus on using executive actions to go around Congress. "I'll be anxious to see what these executive orders are," he said. "But if they go too far you'll clearly hear push back from me. There's no question about it."

Speaker John Boehner's leadership team introduced the principles at their annual policy retreat here. Top Republicans circulated a tightly held one-page memo titled "standards for immigration reform" toward the tail-end of a day that include strategy conversations about Obamacare, the economy and the national debt.

Mitt Romney leads the Republican field among New Hampshire primary voters for 2016. Yes, you read that right.

But that didn't stop the Virginia-based bipartisan policy firm Purple Strategies from adding his name to a recent survey for Granite State voters, which shows Romney in the lead with 25 percent support.

Libertarian firebrand Rand Paul (who has strong infrastructure in New Hampshire) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are behind with 18 percent and 17 percent support, respectively.

We might be experiencing Mittmentum 3.0. The Netflix documentary about his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns was recently released to the excitement of political insiders everywhere. GOP insiders want him to come back: "You know what a lot of them say to me?" an anonymous "operative" told BuzzFeed. "I think we need Mitt back." Romney was even on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news.

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BIBLICAL POINTS AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL
by Nelson Minica, San Antonio father of 9 children

1. Nowhere in the Bible is birth control permitted or allowed.

2. Birth control is explicitly condemned in the example of Onan practicing coitus interruptus (Genesis 38:10).

3. Birth control is implicitly condemned in the example of Esau profaning a blessing (Hebrews 12:16).

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4. The Bible declares that children are a blessing (Psalms 127:5 ESV, Genesis 9:1, Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 7:13; 28:4, etc).

5. The Bible ties dominion, control over enemies, and legal success in courts to bountiful offspring (Genesis 1:28, 22:17, 24:60, Psalms 127:4-5 NIRV).

6. The Bible implies birth control is bad because it states the opposite (fruitfulness) is good (Genesis 17:6,16, 28:3, 49:25, Psalms 127:3, 128:3, 1 Timothy 5:14, etc).

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A local news station brings viewers inside one Pennsylvania company as the employees there learn about their new health care plans under Obamacare:

"Look at the numbers," says the reporter of two employees. "Jeff and Dave used to have a $1,250 deductible. Since Obamacare went into effect, it's now jumped 60 percent to $2,000. That's nothing compared to Brian, Kristi, and Judy who have kids. they are going to pay twice that, four grand." The reporter adds that co-pays are being increased, too.

Employees in Pennsylvania Company Learn of Increased Health Costs Due to Obamacare

"I don't know how President Obama thinks he's helping us because we can't afford this, we can't afford to pay these co-pays, to pay these deductibles on what we're making," says one of the workers.

Even one of CNN's most legendary broadcasters isn't denying the network's ratings slump.

"CNN's got problems," Larry King told HuffPost Live on Wednesday. "I don't know what they're going to do."

Larry King: 'CNN's Got Problems'- Should Air SpongeBob 24/7

January has been the network's third-lowest month in ratings history. This month, the news network has fallen far behind Fox News and MSNBC and is even trailing its sister-network HLN.

Former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam explains how snipers work in coordination with SWAT teams to give the fans and players ultimate safety.

"If you have an active shooter or you have anyone who may have a bomb. Snipers have a better angle then anyone who is on the ground to actually hit that target. It's an entire team that communicates. You have individuals who are at high altitudes inside the arena and then you have individuals that are on the ground moving in and around the crowd," he explained.

At least 200,000 people might want Justin Bieber deported from the U.S., but he has at least one defender in Canada: embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

Ford was appearing on a D.C. radio show Thursday and was asked about the controversy surrounding the Canadian pop star.

Barring any last minute changes, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - who is seeking to re-energize the global warming debate and boost the United Nations' role - could make the announcement as early as Friday, the sources said on the condition of anonymity.

Bloomberg, a billionaire philanthropist who left office last month, made combating climate change a key focus during his 12 years leading the United States most populous city. He also advocated for national global warming legislation.

As the deadline for 2014 enrollment nears, Obamacare is increasingly growing unpopular, especially among the uninsured. A new Kaiser Family Foundation survey finds that about twice as many uninsured people have an unfavorable view of the health-care law than have a favorable one.

Among the uninsured, 47 percent view Obamacare in a negative light versus the 24 percent who view it favorably. That's a change from 43 percent who viewed it unfavorably last month, and 36 percent who viewed it favorably. Overall, half of Americans view Obamacare unfavorably, while just over one-third have a positive take on the law.

Well if your physician is in D.C., you will most likely wait about 17 days to schedule an appointment.

A survey of physicians nationwide found the average wait time for a new patient is nearly 19 days.

The longest wait time was in Boston at 72 days and the shortest is in Dallas with 10 days.

The economic picture is looking brighter these days. The federal government announced Thursday that economic growth had picked up to its fastest pace in two years, while employment growth over the past five months has averaged a healthy 185,000 new jobs.

But as evidenced by a report out Thursday from the Corporation for Enterprise Development, nearly half of Americans are living in a state of "persistent economic security," that makes it "difficult to look beyond immediate needs and plan for a more secure future."

In other words, too many of us are living paycheck to paycheck. The CFED calls these folks "liquid asset poor," and its report finds that 44% of Americans are living with less than $5,887 in savings for a family of four. The plight of these folks is compounded by the fact that the recession ravaged many Americans' credit scores to the point that now 56% percent of us have subprime credit. That means that if emergencies arise, many Americans are forced to resort to high-interest debt from credit cards or payday loans.

ZUCKERBERG GAINS $3.2 BILLION AS FACEBOOK SOARS ON MOBILE

Mark Zuckerberg, the company's 29-year-old chief executive officer, gained $3.2 billion, elevating his fortune to $27.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He added $12.4 billion to his net worth in 2013.

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CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE OFFERS COMPELLING AUDIO ON FATHERHOOD, ENGAGING CULTURE



You can either buy individual CD's for $7, an mp3 flash drive of all 46 talks for $65, or the whole CD album for $120.

• The War is Real - Engage in the Battle - Don Hart
• What's the Vision -  Education vs. Discipleship - Kevin Swanson
• The Battle against the Perversion of Marriage - John Latham
• Understanding the Battle - The World, the Flesh, and the Devil - Don Hart
• Abraham - Understanding the Purpose of Your Life - Scott Brown
• The Forgotten War - Abortion and the Orphan in the Womb - Stephen Hopkins
• Asaph - Breaking Free from the Patterns of Your Fathers - Cody Carnett
• Case Study of Headship in the Home - Kevin Swanson
• Engaging the Hearts of our Children - Stephen Hopkins
• Moses - Saturating Your Households With the Word of God - Michael Gobart
• Engaging the Battle Where You Are - John Latham
• Building a Family Economy for Future Generations - Kevin Swanson
• Fathers and Sons Working Together - Scott Brown
• Don't Scare the Children! Homeschooling in the Fear of the Lord - Dennis Gundersen
• The Power of His Might - Armor That Does Not Fail - Don Hart

• Degrees of Faithfulness - Making the Hard Choices About College - Jonathan and David Covey
• The Second Mayflower - A Vision for Freedom - Kevin Swanson
• By Wisdom a House is Built - Bob Welch
• Lessons from the Making of "Indoctrination" - Colin Gunn
• The Battle for the Priority and Permanence of Marriage - John Latham
• The Father Who Would Not Restrain His Sons - Michael Gobart
• What Colleges Don't Tell You - 4 Secrets To Save Time & Money - Justin Horsman
• The Discipleship of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Our Pattern for Fatherhood - Scott Brown
• The Battle Against Feminism - He Created The Male and Female - John Latham
• Job - The Sanctifying Fatherhood of Job - Stephen Hopkins
• Do Boys Ever Grow Up - Jonathan and David Covey
• Strong in the Lord - The Moral of the Army of Our Victorious Savior - Don Hart
• Guerrilla Documentary Filmmaking for the Glory of God - Colin Gunn
• David - A Father Who Taught His Son - John Latham
• Malachi - Fathers' Hearts Turning Towards Home - Kevin Swanson
• Family Worship Without Being a Bible Scholar - Dennis Gundersen
• Why Our Young People Join the Other Side of the Battle - Kevin Swanson
• A Father's Child Raising Handbook - Don Hart
• The Anti-Christian Pioneers of the American Public Schools - Colin Gunn
• Perseverance - Families That Persevere and the Sad Stories of Those That Don't - Stephen Hopkins
• The Rechabites - 300 Years of Honor - Scott Brown

Buy individual $7 CDs.