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LIFE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood, Tiller Criminal Cases Collide; Court records show the two abortionists are working together to conceal their crimes
https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/806168977.html
Oakland, California D.A. Conspires with City, Abortionists to Silence Pro-Lifer
https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/486148964.html
Ten thousand Polish women had abortions in Britain last year, it has been reported
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3773733/10000-Polish-women-get-abortions-in-Britain.html
Police in Moscow are investigating the gruesome discovery of five dead babies in a rubbish bin
https://www.russiatoday.com/features/news/34752
Run, Peter Singer, Run by Dinesh D’Souza
https://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/12/15/run,_peter_singer,_run
Doctors Take Pledge against Assisted Suicide
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008883.cfm
Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
https://apnews.myway.com/article/20081211/D950BQQG0.html
US POLITICS
Obama ‘proud’ to have homosexual band march in inaugural parade
https://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14579
Newsweek Profiles Jindal
https://www.ncregister.com/daily/newsweek_profiles_jindal/
As usual after a GOP presidential defeat, pro-abortion Republicans blamed pro-lifers.
https://www.ncregister.com/daily/pro_life_strategy/
Obama’s New School Chief Supported Creating Gay High School in Chicago
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/12/16/obamas-new-school-chief-supported-creating-gay-high-school-chica
The leak campaign to destroy Sarah Palin has a worthy predecessor: Ronald Reagan
https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=2116880B-D7B4-484A-9D41-CA800A2F3AF8
CANADA
Senate appointments ‘the only option,’ says PM
https://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/16/7763521-sun.html
A total of 759 British Columbia public servants make more than $200,000 a year
https://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/public-sector-salary-database/index.html
PM Harper’s ‘bruised’ but he’s still in control, say Conservatives
https://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/december/15/harper_still_in_control/&c=2
Canadians don’t understand political system: survey
https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081214/survey_canada_081214/20081214?hub=Politics
Quebec’s birth rate continues to climb
https://www.montrealgazette.com/Quebec+birth+rate+continues+climb/1082325/story.html
CHRISTMAS
A Santa Who Brings Out the True Meaning of Christmas
https://www.catholicherald.com/local_news/detail.html?sub_id=8702
Billboards Spread ‘Christmas’ Cheer
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008881.cfm
Costco says ‘No’ to Christmas…literally
https://catholiccitizens.org/news/contentview.asp?c=48886
Ohio Billboards Urge ‘Merry Christmas’ Over ‘Happy Holidays’
https://christianpost.com/article/20081215/ohio-billboards-urge-merry-christmas-over-happy-holidays.htm
Fight for ‘Merry Christmas’ continues
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=354274
Atheists’ National Holiday?
https://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2008/12/16/atheists_national_holiday
RELIGION
Catholic bishops of Greece blame riots on ‘moral void’
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14587
The Church is not a corporation but a body, Pope Benedict teaches
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60255
Pope Benedict XVI under-fire for ‘negative’ statements
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5343333.ece
Bishop Thomas Olmsted excommunicates 2 priests engaged in public ministry deemed out of accord with the Roman Catholic Church.
https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/132532
Priest Faces Excommunication – Father Roy Bourgeois Won’t Change His Stance on Women’s Ordination
https://www.ncregister.com/site/article/16752
HOMOSEXUALITY
A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8; “I’ve almost had a nervous breakdown. It’s been the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,”
https://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-lopez14-2008dec14,0,2260169.column
Repression against 08 Charter signatories grows
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14014&size=A
Proposition 8 activists lost. What’s more, they’re still losing—giving up round after round in the crucial post-election bout for public sympathy.
https://townhall.com/columnists/AustinNimocks/2008/12/16/the_long_count
Homosexual group defends ousted evangelical lobbyist
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=354450
New Jersey commission criticized as ‘advocacy group’ for same-sex marriage
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14584
Organization launches campaign to fight homosexual unions in Chile
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14626
Colin Powell To CNN: We Should Review Military’s Homosexual ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2008/12/15/colin-powell-cnn-we-should-review-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy
Consulting and Financial Firm Recruiters Target LGBT Community
https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525985
Theology Professor Responds to Controversial Newsweek Story
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008884.cfm
GLOBAL WARMING
The cost of global warming to the taxpayer
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=354244
Monday Funnies: Al Gore’s ‘12 Days of Global Warming’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/12/15/monday-funnies-al-gores-12-days-global-warming
Scientists Denounce AP For Hysterical Global Warming Article
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/12/15/scientists-denounce-ap-hysterical-global-warming-article
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Uncle Sam Will Pay $450 Billion This Year Just to Cover Interest on National Debt
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40861
Why are wealthy bankers being handed golden government parachutes while our neighbors who are being foreclosed are kicked to the curb?
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=1208-notes-enemy
American people say NOOOO! to bailout; George Bush can’t hear
https://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/16/american-people-say-noooo-to-bailout-george-bush-cant-hear/
The Impending Collapse of Our Enemies Because of Collapse of Oil Prices
https://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2008/12/15/the_impending_collapse_of_our_enemies
MISCELLANEOUS
Who cares about third world mothers? The hidden scandal of unsafe childbirth and the hope that a new professional initiative is bringing to mothers.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/who_cares_about_third_world_mothers/
From 1999 to 2003, the number of U.S. home schooled children increased from around 850,000 to roughly 1.1 million; today, around 2.5 million children are currently home schooled
https://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=17365
Teacher’s Union Chief Pushes Preschool for Three-Year-Olds
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40860
Mysterious rise of Autism; Genetic mutations may be at the base of an increase in autism cases, says a report.
https://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=17198&t=Mysterious+rise+of+Autism
170 arrested in global child porn investigation
https://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/12/porn.arrests/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
The long-term consequences of the hook-up culture
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3644/pub_detail.asp
Courtship is extinct, dating is dead, and…
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/12/courtship-is-extinct-dating-is-dead-and.html
Internet Attacks Are a Real and Growing Problem; A new report says cyberwar isn’t science fiction.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930102219005425.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Microsoft wants to get under your skin; HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/ms_verimed/