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Bill Donohue comments on today’s front-page story in the Daily News:

The New York Daily News was bought by Mortimer Zuckerman in 1993 for $36 million; last year he weighed a bid by Cablevision to buy it for $1.00. Yes, one dollar. In January, it lowered its newsstand price to $1.00. To prove how little influence it has these days, the newspaper vendor on the northwest corner of 34th and 7th—across the street from the Long Island Rail Road and Madison Square Garden—has stopped carrying it. If there are no buyers there, it’s time to close shop.

None of this is an excuse for its deceitful attack on Catholics. On the front page of today’s paper is a picture of Cardinal Timothy Dolan and State Sen. John Flanagan; both oppose bills that would lift the statute of limitations on crimes involving the sexual abuse of minors. With good reason: The bills have one target—the Catholic Church.

As it turns out, there is no news story on this issue. Instead, there is a column by the disgraced former prosecutor for the Manhattan DA’s office. In 1990, she successfully prosecuted five teenagers in the “Central Park Joggers” case; it was overturned in 2002. In 1993, an appellate court judge said she “deliberately engineered the 15-year-old’s confession [Yousef Salaam]…Fairstein wanted to make a name. She didn’t care. She wasn’t a human.”

Fairstein says today that when she joined the Manhattan DA’s office in 1972, the laws on sexual assault in New York were “archaic.” They still are—thanks to her. We still don’t have mandatory reporting laws for unlicensed counselors, and that is because Planned Parenthood opposes them (their counselors learn of statutory rape cases daily and they don’t want to rat on male abusers). Also, she has done nothing to see to it that bills that would lift the statute of limitations on the sexual abuse of minors cover the public schools. And today she cites private schools for moving molesting teachers to another school! This practice is so rampant in the public schools that they coined the term, “passing the trash.”

Contact Jim Rich, editor-in-chief: jrich@nydailynews.com

Bill Donohue comments on a rally that will be held by organized atheists:

They stand for nothing, believe in nothing, and many are good for nothing. Organized atheists are set to invade D.C. this weekend, holding a “Reason Rally.” The reason they are rallying is their professed belief in nothingness.

The event is sponsored by American Atheists and their ilk. The president of the event, Kelly Damerow, says the participants have “the power to move mountains,” thus conjuring up memories of what Barack Obama said in his nomination victory speech in 2008: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Look for her to have as much success as he did.

Most of the speakers are nobodies, an exception being Penn Jillette: He is known for his obscene rants against Mother Teresa. Besides bashing Christians, the speakers will discuss “climate change, LGBT rights, sex education, and social justice issues.” Exactly what the atheist perspective is on these issues is a mystery (if I may use that word). What is really striking, however, is that the rally is showcasing how important the atheist vote is, thus suggesting that their group-think community is anything but a home for “freethinkers.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is cashing in on the event by spending hundreds of thousands on newspaper ads telling readers how unfair it is that their leader, Dan Barker, was denied a request to deliver an atheist address to Congress. He was denied because the invocation is reserved to those who are ministers of the gospel, not atheist activists.

David Silverman of American Atheists boasts that there are 40-50 million atheists in the U.S. He makes this figure up. In fact, as the Pew Forum has shown, atheists comprise 2.4 percent of the population, which means there are roughly 7.8 million atheists. Not exactly close. But to those who deny that truth exists, this doesn’t matter. Those of us who actually employ the faculty of reason know that they are wrong, once again.