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LIFE ISSUES
Democrats Eye Overturning Bush Medical Rule
https://washingtonindependent.com/23480/congress-plans-overturning-bush-medical-rule
Mother has healthy baby boy despite abortion warning by doctor
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4045097/Mother-has-healthy-baby-boy-despite-abortion-warning-by-doctor.html
Fiction writer Elizabeth McCracken – when her first child died in utero just days before he was due to be born, realized that she needed to write about it
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98610156
Victoria Lambert: ‘I aborted my baby because he was disabled but it still feels like murder and haunts me every day’ – faced the difficult decision of aborting her baby at 12 weeks after discovering it had either trisomy 13 or Edwards’ syndrome
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1104467/Victoria-Lambert-I-aborted-baby-disabled-feels-like-murder-haunts-day.html
The majority of Nebraska lawmakers who responded to an Associated Press pre-session survey say they would support a measure to ban abortion in the state.
https://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=9595867&nav=menu605_2
The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s by Richard John Neuhaus
https://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6453
Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of First Things, is currently undergoing treatment for cancer
https://www.ncregister.com/daily/father_neuhaus_hospitalized1/
Fear Mongering For Assisted Suicide in Scotland
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/01/fear-mongering-for-assisted-suicide-in.html
How Down Syndrome lifted me up
https://www.renewamerica.us/news/090102kondrich.htm
Reasonable-minded citizens should be genuinely frightened of Mary
Warnock – John Smeaton
https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/01/reasonable-minded-citizens-should-be.html
RELIGION
More Religious Teens Embrace Abstinence
https://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41356
Gays Unable to Accept Pope’s Defense of Environment and Nature’s ‘Law,’ Says Top Theologian
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41274
Is There More to Rumour of Abbot Hugh Gilbert’s Refusal to Accept Rome Invitation to Become Leading English Bishop?
https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/01/has_abbot_hugh_gilbert_turned_down_westminster
Tony Blair’s Catholic aide… and their new Yale HQ near her father’s office. She is a committed socialist.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1104750/Blair-sexy-Catholic-aide—new-Yale-HQ-near-Opus-Dei-fathers-office.html
The Vatican will no longer automatically adopt new Italian laws as its own, a top Vatican official said, citing the vast number of laws Italy churns out, many of which are in odds with Catholic doctrine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BU3BD20081231
To reach young, church must explain core beliefs, Vatican official says
https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0806408.htm
A San Antonio teacher plans to sue her former employer, a Catholic high school, saying she was fired for marrying a man who had been divorced
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474464,00.html
Investment News’s Coverage of NYT Blog Post Criticizing Ave Maria Funds: Fair Balanced, Delicious
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/12/31/strikeback-investment-newss-covearge-nyt-blog-post-criticizing-ave-maria
“[In Africa alone] In every hour, 667 Muslims Convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 MILLION Muslims Convert to Christianity.” – Shiekh Ahmad Al Katani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVnILalpeo&feature=related
Muslim Clerics leave Islam and embrace Christ!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FU7Yyx4D4&feature=related
The ongoing exploits of Fr. Zakaria Botros: “God does not pray!” – Just one more reason to make Muslims try to eliminate Botros
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024234.php
King of Bahrain donates plot of land to build a Catholic church
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14136
Why Hindu extremists target Christians; A militant school of Hindu thought which despises Islam and Christianity as alien creeds is growing in strength in India.
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84066
How liberals have distorted Christian charity
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/12/26/newsweek-uses-year-end-edition-take-potshots-palin
GLOBAL WARMING
UK Environment minister Sammy Wilson: I still think man-made climate change is a con
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/environment-minister-sammy-wilson-i-still-think-manmade-climate-change-is-a-con-14123972.html
Global warming: The new eugenics
https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84597
From June: ‘No ice at the North Pole,’ to January: ‘Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/01/01/globaloney-update-tale-two-realities
Huffington Post: Gore Should Apologize for Spreading Climate Hysteria
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/03/huffpo-gore-should-apologize-spreading-climate-hysteria
EPA ‘Cow Tax’ Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
https://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081230165231.aspx
NYT’s Galbraith Admits Winter Weather Stifles Alternative Energy Sources, Will Nets Follow?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/12/28/another-journalist-proclaims-masses-are-stupid-internet-pernicio
While some believe even higher gasoline tax hikes are necessary to help wean America off hydrocarbons
https://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/152559/Falling-Energy-Prices-Could-Lead-to-Higher-Gas-Taxes?tickers=^dji,^gspc,DXO,USO,XLE,F,GM
HOMOSEXUALITY
Conservatives Expect U.N. Battle Over Homosexuality as a ‘Human Right’ to Begin in ‘09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZgXg_7kVI8&NR=1
People will be shocked by sex abuse report, says Irish archbishop
https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0105/1230936655691.html
A Connecticut woman has filed a racketeering lawsuit accusing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich of conspiring to cover up sexual abuse of children by priests.
https://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct—churchabuse1231dec31,0,515227.story
Licensing proposal could require lawyers to endorse homosexuality
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84984
Massachusetts Legislature continues unconstitutional actions – illegally passing laws with no quorum!
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/g_news/08c/em08_1228.html#legislature
Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health funding homosexual / transgender movement in schools
https://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/27/tale-of-two-presidential-workout-fanatics/
MISCELLANEOUS
Number of home-schooled kids in the U.S. hit 1.5 million in 2007, up 74 percent from when the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics started keeping track in 1999.
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008988.cfm
The Complementarity of Man and Woman By Michael Novak
https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1246
CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008’s Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Corrupt
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/01/04/cnn-places-sarah-palin-2008s-criminals-sex-addicts-corrupt
Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/12/27/sarah-palin-2009-calendar-amazon-best-seller
Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar Amazon Best Seller
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2008/12/27/nyts-galbraith-admits-winter-weather-stifles-alternative-energy-source
Another Journalist Proclaims The Masses Are Stupid, Internet is Pernicious
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41274
Do Bailouts Prove Reagan’s Point Re: Government’s Economic View?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/01/do-bailouts-prove-reagans-point-re-governments-economic-view
WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah says, “Bush is, without a doubt, one of the worst presidents of my lifetime” – “it’s still curious. Why did Bush throw the election?”
https://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85277
Could Canwest go bankrupt? The stock has fallen by more than 90 per cent and major investors are bailing out, as fear mounts over a debt crunch
https://blog.macleans.ca/2008/12/22/could-canwest-go-bankrupt/
Private firm may track all email and calls
https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/31/privacy-civil-liberties