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US POLITICS

  Bobby Jindal The Anti-Obama
  https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13668

  Rebel With a Cause: Bobby Jindal’s Spiritual Journe
  https://online.wsj.com/article/SB121694025422282727.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  Obama’s Views Not Consistent With Christianity, Conservative Says
  https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33721

  Pelosi Backs Obama on Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act
  https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33425

  Catholics Fear Obama Considering Pro-Abortion Catholic Veep
  https://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/catholics-fear-obama-considering-pro-abortion/story.aspx?guid={64B99B6E-1228-4104-98CD-14F6501965EC}&dist=hppr

  Democrats mum on convention plans that may include anti-abortion senator Casey
  https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26066727/

  A response from Bishop John M. Smith to misleading newspaper article which suggested Catholics may vote for pro-abortion candidates
  https://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/diocese/pressreleases_detail.asp?prid=1876

  Evangelicals warn against McCain-Romney ticket
  https://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/29/evangelicals-warn-against-mccain-romney-ticket/

  McCain Web Ad Is Accused Of Linking Obama to Antichrist
  https://online.wsj.com/article/SB121816422728523227.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  A Possible Judicial Solution to Re-imposition of the So-called “Fairness Doctrine” By Paul M. Weyrich
  With the exception of Fox News Channel the television media is all in the hands of the left. The left also controls nearly all of the print media.
  https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080730.pdf

  Most Congressmen Oppose Fairness Doctrine, Republican Leader Says
  https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33447

  2-party system: No choice but evil. We live in revolutionary times. The premises of aristocratic despotism are replacing those of democratic liberty By Alan Keyes
  https://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71830

 
LIFE ISSUES

  In most of the United States, 24 abortions are carried out for every 100 live births. In New York, 72 abortions occur for every 100 live births.
  https://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080810/FREE/240836415/1008

  Millions Who Had Abortions Don’t Know It
  https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=ay4v99EFUA2U

  Abortion Debate Rages in India After Court Decision
  https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33833

  Cardinal calls on Peruvian government to resist pressure to approve abortion
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13388

  Pregnant women deserve protection for their fetuses – Bill C-484’s supporters have no agenda to recriminalize abortion
  https://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=67660d77-3770-4b64-ae67-ffae02a406ee&p=2

  Birth control: The new pollutant by Kathryn Jean Lopez
  https://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynJeanLopez/2008/08/01/birth_control_the_new_pollutant

  Girl who defied myths on anencephaly dies in Brazil
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13442

  Even “vegetables” are human – When artificial feeding and hydration are “ordinary,”“proportionate,” and “morally obligatory”
  https://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=a788323d-e15e-4b12-8064-816c644af7f9

RELIGION

  Bush visits Beijing church, urges freedom
  https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13668

  New TV: Lesbian, atheist, Muslim attempt Christian life Reality program follows people for 3 weeks of holy reformation
  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72017

  Court date set for Wis. suit over nativity scene
  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-citynativity,0,4696947.story

  Priest shortage to affect hospital services
  https://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1072094.html

  The prefect for the Congregation for Bishops marked the 30th anniversary of the passing of Pope Paul VI. Cardinal Re said the document that showed his greatness the most, was Humanae and that the Pope’s decision to issue the encyclical was “difficult and painful.  “He knew it would be opposed, but he did not run from his responsibilities.” 
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13462

  Boston Cardinal O’Malley reflects, after 5 tumultuous years
  https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/03/omalley_reflects_after_5_tumultuous_years/?page=4

  Churches in Spain experiment with staying open 24/7 – Interestingly Finds Less Crime When Open All Night
  https://www.baltcatholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=4221

  Stifling free speech — globally – A coalition of Islamic states is using the United Nations to enact international ‘anti-defamation’ rules
  https://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080723_27859_27859

HOMOSEXUALITY

  Massachusetts Governor does fundraiser for radical homosexual, anti-Catholic state rep Carl Sciortino
  https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08c/sciortino_fundraiser_0722/index.html

  AIDS is not a romantic disease – Barbara Kay, National Post 
  https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=700444

  Archbishop of Canterbury’s Correspondence on Homosexuality Reveals Deep Conflict
  https://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8820

  How the San Diego mayor’s flip flop on same-sex marriage breathed new life into the initiative process to protect traditional marriage
  https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=1d6f2722-9370-45eb-93dd-f16089944562

  Thomas More Law Center has joined the fight to overturn a Hamtramck, Mich., ordinance that gives “special rights” to homosexuals and transgender individuals and makes it legal for men who identify as women to use women’s bathrooms in any school, business or public facility.
  https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33452

CHINA, POPULATION

  Beijing is riding the wave of the future, argues internationalist Maurice Strong
  https://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080806_32272_32272&page=1

  Open Letter to Maurice Strong By D.J. McGuire, China e-Lobby
  https://china-e-lobby.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-letter-to-maurice-strong.html

  Authorities admit that Brazilian population is getting older at accelerated rate
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13385

  Interview with Steven Mosher on The Underpopulation Problem
  https://www.ignatius.com/Magazines/CWR/miller_aug-sept08.htm

MISCELLANEOUS

  Germany Declares War on Homeschoolers
  https://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/425122.aspx

  The National Education Association Spells Out Its Policies by Phyllis Schlafly
  https://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/07/28/the_nea_spells_out_its_policies

  Growing numbers of people are concerned about the impact of working mothers on family life, a survey by Cambridge University suggests
  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7543576.stm

  Launched in the weekend papers, full colour ads by “Britain’s brightest energy company,” npower, urges vacationing school children to sign up as “climate cops”. Urges its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a “climate crime case file”
  https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4207

  The solution is abstinence – By giving drug addicts a sterile syringe and a warm place to shoot up, are we saving lives or condoning substance abuse? Barbara Kay, Special to the National Post 
  https://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=684232

  Is Georgia in 2008 like Hungary in 1956?
  https://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/11/is-georgia-in-2008-like-hungary-in-1956/

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