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LIFE ISSUES

Los Angeles Hospital Gets Reputation for 'Raising Dead,' Including Woman 'Dead' for 2 Hours
A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours. Tested on a few dozen cardiac arrest patients, 80 percent survived. Usually, more than 80 percent perish.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529823,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.189582:b26185266:z0

‘Absolutely vile’ advice column tells men how to pressure pregnant women to abort
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16492

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8130900.stm

How Henry Kissinger ruined my Wimbledon final by John Smeaton
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-henry-kissinger-ruined-my-wimbledon.html

Korea’s population crisis
Korea is suffering from a national crisis of super-low fertility. The head of the Korean affiliate of Planned Parenthood explains why.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/koreas_population_crisis/

Pro-lifers get National Education Association vote out in the open
Conservative members of the National Education Association demanded a vote asking the NEA to take a neutral instead of a pro-abortion stance. The pro-abortion forces, supported by NEA leadership, were proposing amendments to the motion for neutrality, to prevent a clear up-or-down vote on the proposal.
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=dc494fa9-de77-4a21-bf8f-8049af7594aa

Media Utter Inability to Report Assisted Suicide Stories Accurately - Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/07/08/media-utter-inability-to-report-assisted-suicide-stories-accurately/

British Medical Association Votes Against Legalizing Suicide Tourism - Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/07/06/british-medical-association-votes-against-legalizing-suicide-tourism/

Cardinal Pell offers major grant for adult stem cell research
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Cardinal-Pell-offers-major-grant-for-adult-stem-cell-research.html&Itemid=127

Public ignored; full steam ahead for embryonic sacrifice
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=594934

The Problem With Toning Down the Rhetoric – And Why We Probably Won’t Do It
They want us to tone down our "harsh rhetoric" on issues such as abortion, President Obama and other Catholics who support him.

No matter how earnestly these Catholic friends of mine insist that they oppose abortion, when I think about what they want us not to do, I am forced to conclude that they just don’t see the symmetry between the abortion issue and other moral tragedies in recent history, such as the Holocaust and racial segregation.

Have you noticed that there’s something about opposition to abortion that gives the creeps to “progressive” Catholics? 

For liberals, pro-lifers are “single-issue Catholics” or “single-issue voters”, a label intended to accuse us of ignoring all the other life issues in the “seamless garment” that makes up their precious “consistent life ethic.”

When was the last time you saw a “consistent life ethics” Catholic instead of simply assuring you that, yes, they too oppose abortion, actually speak out loudly against abortion? Do you know any “consistent life ethic” Catholics who seriously weigh a candidate’s position on abortion when deciding how to vote in an election?

For progressive Catholics it’s okay, even respectable, not to get upset about abortion to the point of voting against legislators who support it. Abortion is the issue that gets left off of “peace and justice” agendas. Progressivist Catholics associate abortion with sexual ethics, not with human life ethics.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/07/the-problem-with-toning-down-the-rhetoric-%E2%80%93-and-why-we-probably-won%E2%80%99t-do-it/

Delaware Notches Pair of Pro-Family Wins
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000010395.cfm

MICHAEL JACKSON

Jackson 'Memorial like a macabre circus'
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2523526/Michael-Jackson-memorial-was-like-a-macabre-circus.html

Pedophilia Doesn't Matter When You Are a Rock Star by Deal W. Hudson
The coverage of Michael Jackson was over-the-top, certainly, but even more to the point was its breathtaking hypocrisy.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Pedophilia-Doesn-t-Matter-When-You-Are-a-Rock-Star.html&Itemid=127

SARAH PALIN

Camille Paglia Explains Palin Derangement Syndrome - Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/07/08/camille-paglia-explains-palin-derangement-syndrome

Sarah Palin -- All In - American Thinker
She will take positions in speaking and writing about her core beliefs.  That is a problem for the radical left of their own creation. Palin enters the arena where the fight is not between liberal and conservative; nor is it between Republican and Democrat.  The fight is between elite and the common person who works every day and continually asks how Washington D.C., under both parties, is so out of control.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/sarah_palin_all_in.html

TIME's Interview with Sarah Palin
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908983,00.html

Do Not Underestimate Her
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/07/do-not-underestimate-her

Palin and the Politics of Familial Destruction
The references to her family, plus the ceaseless legal harassment imposing six-figure financial cost and consuming time needed for governance, suggests a chilling reality: A sustained, vituperative smear campaign directed against a candidate and family can succeed.

Like all people, Sarah Palin has flaws. Hers are fair game for opponents and for media. But teen children are never fair game. Attacking them forces candidates to weigh their professional goals against personal imperatives to protect their family from abuse. Their children are, in effect, being held hostage. Has there ever been a campaign against children filled with such vitriol?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/07/palin-and-the-politics-of-fami

Sarah Palin: Why She Resigned
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8016906&page=1

RELIGION

British doctors warned against religious conversations with patients
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3423

Church of England school bans girl from wearing crucifix - but allows Sikh pupils to wear bangles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196794/CoE-school-pupil-banned-wearing-crucifix-Sikh-pupils-allowed-wear-bangles.html

President Reagan and Pope John Paul II By George Weigel
Husband-and-wife team Martin and Annelise Anderson shed new light on the Reagan-John Paul II relationship by using previously classified U.S. government files.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3865/pub_detail.asp

Christian Asceticism: Breaking Consumerism's Destructive Hold
http://www.cjd.org/paper/consum.html

EU commissioner warns roots of West cannot be invented
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16469

RADICAL ISLAM

English Muslim dentist 'tried to force patients to wear traditional Islamic dress'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5718982/Muslim-NHS-dentist-tried-to-force-patients-to-wear-traditional-Islamic-dress.html

Taliban buying children for suicide bombers
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/taliban-buying-children-to-serve-as-suicide-bomber/

America soon to crumble to 'The Third Jihad'? 'We all know about terrorism. This is the war you don't know about'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102824

Muslim mob surrounds and attacks Christians -- in Michigan
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2009/07/026856print.html

GLOBAL WARMING

Another Ice Age?
A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection. The atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914-1,00.html

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06427635.htm

Huge CO2 Emissions Disagreement Between EPA and Energy Dept. Ignored by MSM
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/07/08/huge-co2-emissions-disagreement-between-epa-energy-dept-ignored-msm

Al Gore: If you question global warming cult, you’re a Nazi By Michelle Malkin 
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/07/al-gore-if-you-question-global-warming-cult-youre-a-nazi/

The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124657655235589119.html

FAMILY

California slashes tax deduction for dependent children, but won’t touch Planned Parenthood funding
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=dc494fa9-de77-4a21-bf8f-8049af7594aa

Are Pharmaceutical Companies Marketing Birth Control to Teenage Girls?
http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/18624/

MassResistance gives hardcore testimony at State House public hearing on bill to remove exemption of schools from pornography laws.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/hearing_0630/hearing.html

HOMOSEXUALITY

N.H. Governor's Popularity Tanks after Gay Marriage Legalized
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000010434.cfm

Socialist party hiding homosexual agenda of Education for the Citizenry
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16473

UK Law to ban promotion of homosexuality in schools was wrong, says Tory leader
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196924/Cameron-apologises-gays-Section-28-Maggies-law-ban-promotion-homosexuality-schools-wrong-says-Tory-leader.html

Orlando Sentinel Movie Reviewer Excited Harry Potter Fans Promoting Gay Marriage
The group is all about "global transformation" and spreading global warming fears, gay marriage and the Employee Free Choice Act.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/07/06/orlando-sentinel-movie-reviewer-excited-harry-potter-fans-promot

The "Fistgate" incident: What homosexual activists in schools do with children
Students as young as 12 given graphic instruction in bizarre homosexual sex acts by state employees
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html

Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the 'Gay' Agenda
Powerful new on-line book by Dr. Scott Lively on defeating the "gay" agenda
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/Redeeming_rainbow/index.html

MISCELLANEOUS

Is NFP Misogynous? An IC Point/Counterpoint
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6364&Itemid=48

By mixing women and men on board, isn’t the navy asking for trouble?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/gender_equity_at_close_quarters/

Washington's public school math curricula no longer contains math.
Importance of solving for a concrete answer has been replaced by the "necessity" of discovering the "meaning" behind a number. After three years of lobbying, legislators eventually agreed with Hanek that Washington needed statewide education reform, beginning with a study on the quality of math curriculum.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17287/FIELD/education/index.htm

U.S. mortgage fraud 'rampant' and growing-FBI
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0751853920090707

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