THE PRESIDENT AND LATIN AMERICA - President George W. Bush has discovered that our alliances closest to home are crumbling from lack of attention. The President began a tour of Latin American this week and is currently in Brazil. While the Administration has been distracted by a war not going well in Iraq, the governments of two South American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia, have moved to ally themselves with terrorist governments such as Iran. China has successfully moved into Latin America and the Caribbean, threatening to divert our main source of oil. China gives more aid to Caribbean Islands such as Dominica than does the United States. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is personally leading demonstrations against Bush during his visit.

US FUNDS TERROR SCHOOL - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds schools in the Palestinian Territories which are controlled by the terror group HAMAS. Meanwhile Christian Schools in the "West Bank," including Bethlehem are impoverished and don't receive a dime from the United States. Last year $2.3 million went to Al-Quds University which last week celebrated the invention of the suicide bomb belt. Meanwhile the Religious Freedom Coalition assists Hope School in the town of Beit Jala just outside Bethlehem. Like the other Christian Schools in the Palestinian Territories it receives no aid at all from the USA. Click here for complete story on aid funds to terror. Click here for information on Hope School.

TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS - Every year the same battle is fought in Congress over the budget, as liberal Democrats seek to force American taxpayers to fund overseas abortions and conservative Republicans defend against this since it is a violation of conscience for taxpayers who are pro life. In this Congress, the newly empowered Democrats lost no time introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act, H. R. 619, as it easily sailed out of Committee. This legislation, which already has 50 sponsors in the House, would remove the current prohibitions on abortions at clinics receiving American foreign aid. Predictably, Democrats and their Planned Parenthood supporters have some twisted talking points ready for the media. They label the current policy the "global gag rule," because any time liberals have trouble forcing other Americans to pay for killing babies or producing pornographic art, they somehow portray this as "censorship."