http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ en Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:41:03 -0600 Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decades.Graham had never met Palin, who is scheduled to stop at Fort Bragg in eastern North Carolina on Monday to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life." The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/palin_dines__prays_with_rev__billy_graham_in_nc.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/palin_dines__prays_with_rev__billy_graham_in_nc.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:40:53 -0600 A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.The video, taken Saturday evening and posted on YouTube, shows the Bay Area Rapid Transit officer pushing the passenger toward a glass wall along the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/sf_area_officer__passenger_injured_during_arrest.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/sf_area_officer__passenger_injured_during_arrest.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:41:01 -0600 A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, died of gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities, medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. Police fired a total of 14 times, chief NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/me__teen_killed_by_nyc_police_was_shot_11_times.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/me__teen_killed_by_nyc_police_was_shot_11_times.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:40:58 -0600 Authorities say a San Francisco area transit police officer who removed an unruly passenger from a train suffered cuts and a concussion when heavy-duty glass fell as the officer attempted to place the man under arrest.Bay Area Rapid Transit police Cmdr. Daniel Hartwig says the officer responded Saturday evening to a report of a disturbance and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/authorities__sf_area_officer_injured_during_arrest.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/authorities__sf_area_officer_injured_during_arrest.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:55 -0600 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant.Specialist John White has told ABC News that there is no indication that radiation at the plant exceeded or even approached regulatory limits.The commission sent investigators to the central http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/nrc__three_mile_island_radiation_not_significant.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/nrc__three_mile_island_radiation_not_significant.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:40:52 -0600 The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:District 1:William J. Oppenheim III, New Canaan, Conn., Bowdoin CollegeZohar Atkins, Montclair, N.J., Brown UniversityDistrict 2:Russell A. Perkins, Evanston, Ill., Wesleyan UniversityMatthew L. Baum, Watertown, Mass., Yale UniversityDistrict 3:Mark Dlugash, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/rhodes_scholars_named_for_2010.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/rhodes_scholars_named_for_2010.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:12:14 -0600 When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winner as well.The couple, both seniors at the University of North Carolina, had done their final scholarship interviews apart — he in Philadelphia, she in Houston. Spelman heard http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/swimmers__poets_among_2010_rhodes_scholars_from_us.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/swimmers__poets_among_2010_rhodes_scholars_from_us.html Stephanie Reitz The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:40:55 -0600 Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.Now those who want the coveted permits either show up in person or try their luck with mail or fax machines on the day the permits become http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/grand_canyon_to_change__unfair__permit_system.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/grand_canyon_to_change__unfair__permit_system.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:12:03 -0600 Sarah Palin was having dinner Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham a day before a planned book tour stop in eastern North Carolina.The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee flew into Asheville and then went to Billy Graham's mountaintop home in nearby Montreat for dinner, said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for Graham's son, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/sarah_palin_dines_with_rev__billy_graham_in_nc.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/sarah_palin_dines_with_rev__billy_graham_in_nc.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:10:55 -0600 Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political viewsNEW YORK (AP) — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ap_news_in_brief.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ap_news_in_brief.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:40:56 -0600 Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.Campus spokesman Jim Burns says the nearly 70 or so protesters who had occupied the university's Kerr Hall since Thursday in a demonstration over fee hikes walked out of the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/demonstration_at_uc_santa_cruz_ends_peacefully.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/demonstration_at_uc_santa_cruz_ends_peacefully.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:41:00 -0600 A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.Authorities say some 30 passengers watched as Gerardo Sanchez of the Bronx stabbed Johnson at around 2 a.m. Saturday in an argument over a seat.Police say the passengers were trapped with the knife-wielding attacker http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/victim_id_d_in_fatal_nyc_subway_seat_stabbing.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/victim_id_d_in_fatal_nyc_subway_seat_stabbing.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:56 -0600 A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.Authorities say some 30 passengers watched as Gerardo Sanchez of the Bronx stabbed Johnson at around 2 a.m. Saturday in an argument over a seat.Police say the passengers were trapped with the knife-wielding attacker http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/victim_in_fatal_nyc_subway_stabbing_identified.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/victim_in_fatal_nyc_subway_stabbing_identified.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:11:06 -0600 The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity.The pair of apparently gold-mounted black onyx pendant earrings were purchased by the Historical Society in 2008 for more than $19,000 through Heritage Auction Galleries http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/some_doubts_about_earrings_tied_to_mrs__lincoln.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/some_doubts_about_earrings_tied_to_mrs__lincoln.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:11:03 -0600 A lawyer for Michael Jackson's former personal physician says the doctor is returning to work at his Houston clinic.Attorney Edward Chernoff told The Associated Press on Sunday that Dr. Conrad Murray will be at work Monday at his Armstrong Medical Clinic.The 56-year-old Murray was at Jackson's bedside when the pop singer died June 25.Since then, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/attorney__jackson_s_doctor_returning_to_work.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/attorney__jackson_s_doctor_returning_to_work.html Ken Ritter The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:10:59 -0600 Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads.Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Richard Erickson says the boy, who is redheaded, was kicked and hit in two incidents Friday at A.E. Wright Middle School in http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/beating_of_socal_student_may_be_tied_to_facebook.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/beating_of_socal_student_may_be_tied_to_facebook.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:10:56 -0600 The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.Dr. Jay Chapman, who developed the lethal three-drug cocktail in the 1970s when he was the Oklahoma state medical examiner, said http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/lethal_injection_creator_fine_with_1_drug_in_ohio.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/lethal_injection_creator_fine_with_1_drug_in_ohio.html Andrew Welsh-huggins The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:42:07 -0600 The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/thousands_of_strange_creatures_found_deep_in_ocean.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/thousands_of_strange_creatures_found_deep_in_ocean.html Cain Burdeau The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:11:00 -0600 While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.Here's why: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.These looser standards are especially helpful to a http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/newspaper_circulation_may_be_worse_than_it_looks.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/newspaper_circulation_may_be_worse_than_it_looks.html Michael Liedtke The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:10:53 -0600 Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression.All the while, the Republican governor has criticized President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_slow_to_spend_millions_in_stimulus_funding.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_slow_to_spend_millions_in_stimulus_funding.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:40:52 -0600 Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive.Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey says a sport utility vehicle carrying two adults and three children rear-ended a big rig early Sunday on the 210 Freeway in Sunland, about http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/couple__14_year_old_boy_killed_in_fiery_crash.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/couple__14_year_old_boy_killed_in_fiery_crash.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:11:05 -0600 In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.He visited the local newspaper several times to say that he'd uncovered something big enough to get him killed. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/arrest_in_1981_tribal_murders_revives_old_mystery.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/arrest_in_1981_tribal_murders_revives_old_mystery.html Amy Taxin And Gillian Flaccus The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:11:02 -0600 The administration of Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (kuh-CHEHR'-ee) has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression.The Republican governor denounces President Barack Obama's $787 billion http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_slow_to_spend__20_million_in_stimulus_funding.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_slow_to_spend__20_million_in_stimulus_funding.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:10:58 -0600 Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.Abigail Mae Bresnik was born as her father circled Earth on his first space shuttle mission, just hours after his first spacewalk.It was only the second time in history that a NASA astronaut was in orbit instead of the delivery http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_s_baby_daughter_born_as_he_circles_earth.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_s_baby_daughter_born_as_he_circles_earth.html Marcia Dunn The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:10:57 -0600 Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City.Despite some recent improvements, the Big Apple's three major airports continue to be the country's worst air travel bottleneck.Through http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/holidays_will_again_test_nyc_air_travel_bottleneck.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/holidays_will_again_test_nyc_air_travel_bottleneck.html David B. Caruso The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:40:55 -0600 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.About 150 employees were sent home Saturday afternoon after the radiation was detected at the central Pennsylvania plant.Officials say there is no public health risk.Exelon Nuclear http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/nrc_investigating_radiation_at_three_mile_island.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/nrc_investigating_radiation_at_three_mile_island.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:40:56 -0600 Investigators say a fire that destroyed businesses on the famous Atlantic City boardwalk apparently started in a pizza shop.No serious injuries were reported after the blaze broke out on the Central Pier shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday. It took nearly four hours to bring under control.Investigators say the flames quickly spread from the pizza shop http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/officials__atlantic_city_fire_began_in_pizza_shop.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/officials__atlantic_city_fire_began_in_pizza_shop.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:12:07 -0600 A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.The U.S. Geological Survey says the first quake struck at 7:55 a.m. Sunday, about seven miles north of Big Bear City.The same area was rocked by a 2.4 magnitude aftershock two-and-a-half minutes later.A San Bernardino County Sheriff's http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/3_7_magnitude_quake_hits_big_bear_lake_in_calif_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/3_7_magnitude_quake_hits_big_bear_lake_in_calif_.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:12:00 -0600 The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.It wasn't that Alsaqa disliked Worcester, Mass. But he never thought twice about staying. Even though the U.S. government tried to keep him away from the Detroit area and its soaring unemployment, that was the only place http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/iraqi_refugees_move_to_mich__despite_poor_economy.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/iraqi_refugees_move_to_mich__despite_poor_economy.html Jeff Karoub The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:40:54 -0600 Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday.Oil and methane also are an energy source for the bottom-dwellers, the report says.The findings on the deep sea were the latest special http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/study__scavengers_big_and_small_dwell_in_deep_sea.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/study__scavengers_big_and_small_dwell_in_deep_sea.html Cain Burdeau The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:11:52 -0600 The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/lawyer__9_11_defendants_want_platform_for_views.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/lawyer__9_11_defendants_want_platform_for_views.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:40:56 -0600 A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.The bishop's attempt to publicly shame Kennedy comes just a few months after the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_bishop_asked_kennedy_in_2007_to_avoid_communion.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ri_bishop_asked_kennedy_in_2007_to_avoid_communion.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:10:53 -0600 Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll.The federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has an ongoing investigation of a sex discrimination complaint at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/va__military_institute_faces_sexism_accusations.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/va__military_institute_faces_sexism_accusations.html Sue Lindsey The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:10:56 -0600 A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. Officials say there is no public health risk.About 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon.Exelon Nuclear spokeswoman Beth Archer says investigators are searching for the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/radiation_detected_at_three_mile_island__public_ok.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/radiation_detected_at_three_mile_island__public_ok.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:41:51 -0600 Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/kennedy_says_ri_bishop_banned_him_from_communion.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/kennedy_says_ri_bishop_banned_him_from_communion.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:10:51 -0600 Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.He announced the birth of his daughter, Abigail, on Sunday morning on NASA's airwaves.His wife, Rebecca, gave birth to their second child back home in Houston on Saturday at 11:04 p.m. CST. They have a 3-year-old son, adopted http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_s_wait_over_as_daughter_born_back_home.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_s_wait_over_as_daughter_born_back_home.html Marcia Dunn The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:51 -0600 An astronaut in space is finally a new dad.Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik announced the birth of his daughter Abigail on Sunday morning, after being notified privately of the good news.His wife, Rebecca, gave birth to their second child back home in Houston late Saturday, Central Time. They have a 3-year-old son, adopted from Ukraine.Bresnik http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_finally_new_dad__daughter_born_back_home.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/astronaut_finally_new_dad__daughter_born_back_home.html Marcia Dunn The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:10:50 -0600 (Stations: Please substitute the following for V3958, slugged RI Bishop-Kennedy, which moved at 5:05 a.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS Kennedy not disclosing how bishop told him of ban sted in discussions.)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rep. Patrick Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/corrects_ri_bishop_kennedy.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/corrects_ri_bishop_kennedy.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:10:53 -0600 Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/report__kennedy_barred_from_communion_by_bishop.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/report__kennedy_barred_from_communion_by_bishop.html Ray Henry The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:40:50 -0600 Report: Rep Kennedy says RI bishop has told him not to take communion over pro-choice stance. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ap_newsalert.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/us_news/2009/Nov/22/ap_newsalert.html The Associated Press Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:10:49 -0600