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LIFE ISSUES
Abortion has become 'plague' in Mexico City, acknowledges government
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/abortion_has_become_plague_in_mexico_city_acknowledges_government/
N.Y. Times Skipped March for Life, Highlights Leftist Critics of National Prayer Breakfast
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/02/05/n-y-times-skipped-march-life-highlights-leftist-critics-national-prayer-
CNN: Tebow Ad is the Result of Pro-Lifers Becoming More 'Feminist'?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/02/05/cnn-tebow-ad-result-pro-lifers-becoming-more-feminist
Monaco to Mongolia: Population Density and Prosperity
The next big population bogeyman could well be 'overcrowding'. Should we worry?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/monaco_to_mongolia_population_density_and_prosperity/
Guttmacher’s spin on ‘teen pregnancy’
If you count adolescents old enough to vote and enlist, sure the pregnancy rate went up. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation provides a succinct debunking of the study the study found that the pregnancy rates for girls 14 and under actually dropped. As Rector notes, this same group was most directly impacted by abstinence education during the time period covered by the study.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/guttmachers_spin_on_teen_pregnancy/
Patient dies in hospital after 'do not resuscitate' form is mistakenly put in his files
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249114/Patient-dies-hospital-resuscitate-form-mistakenly-files.html
Mugged by Ultrasound
Why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mugged-ultrasound
Safe pregnancies for moms, babies By David Warren
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Safe+pregnancies+moms+babies/2533205/story.html
Planned Parenthood Pushes Intensive Sex Education for Kids as Young as 10
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,585108,00.html
'Choose Life' license plate trend gaining
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/choose-life-battle-goes-bumper-to-bumper/print/
Planned Propaganda - National Post lead editorial
Mr. Ignatieff has misjudged Canadians if he mistakes Ottawa's inability to formulate a national abortion policy as proof the question is settled, or that Canadian views would reside easily in the more extreme reaches of the pro-choice camp.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2519582
Old theory (Brian Death) put on life support
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=2529727
IPSCs Less Efficient Than ESCs in Side-by-Side Comparisons - Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/02/13/ipscs-less-efficient-than-escs-in-side-by-side-comparisons/
Notable Stem Cell Scientists Call for Improvement to Peer Review Process - Wesley J. Smith
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/02/13/notable-stem-cell-scientists-call-for-improvement-to-peer-review-process/
Mom-attorney-activist (politely) confronts pro-aborts, gay activists
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100215
Euthanasia is already a reality in Quebec hospitals, the president of the federation of Quebec medical specialists, told a National Assembly committee yesterday.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Doctors+back+right/2568891/story.html
DANGERS TO INTERNET FREEDOM
Will the Government Take Over the Internet? by Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7689&Itemid=48
Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers' anonymity – be very afraid - The Telegraph
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100025849/control-freaks-want-web-licences-to-end-bloggers-anonymity-be-very-afraid/
The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails.
http://www.thelocal.se/24784/20100204
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
"The critical question is: At what level will the American public be comfortable with Google sharing information with NSA?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057_pf.html
MISCELLANEOUS
Super Bowl Beefs
...deafening rock-and-roll halftime show and the bizarre and vulgar commercials
And so we were treated to commercials that featured; old people brutalized, smarmy sexual comments placed on the lips of babies, screaming chickens, endless promos for movies featuring things demonic, countless folks being punched and slapped around and even an ad where a child cracks one of his mother's boyfriends across the face…what fun!
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/10/super-bowl-beefs
Jack Cafferty: 'Abstinence-Only Sex Education Might Just Work'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/02/02/jack-cafferty-abstinence-only-sex-education-might-just-work
Carnival: Brazil Handing Out 55 Million Condoms
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/06/carnival-brazil-handing-o_n_452219.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RealClearReligion+%28Real+Clear+Religion%29
Dr. Jeffrey Long’s Near-Death Experience Research a “Game Changer” for Science
The most comprehensive research into near-death experience deals a kill shot to skeptics and aims to change how science views the afterlife.
http://www.bignews.biz/?id=839347&keys=nde-skeptiko-obe-Tsakiris
Avatar Blues
The film depresses by placing hope in a blind life force, not in human agency.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/avatar_blues/
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248878/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-The-men-killing-swine-flue-wasted-1bn-exposed-harmful-drugs.html
Wind Farms Can’t Cope With Big Freeze
Wind farms almost ground to a standstill during the Big Freeze just as demand for electricity was soaring. Government officials have been forced to admit onshore turbines were working at as little as 5 per cent capacity during the height of the cold weather. Energy experts said the revelation raised doubts about the wisdom of policies to expand wind farms.
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/12/wind-farms-cant-cope-with-big-freeze/
Amazing Video: Glass harp-Toccata and fugue in D minor-Bach-BWV 565
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRj-T4l-e8
Video: Whistled Bugler's Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqh35cKNRwg&feature=player_embedded