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ESPECIALLY NOTABLE ARTICLES
We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest – By Richard John Neuhaus
https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1117
China’s coercive one-child policy has resulted in sex-selection abortions of some 40 million baby girls and leads to about 70,000 children being sold every year
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69207
Abortionist: I cancel human souls before they become babies – Former Clinton OB-GYN makes admission in e-mail
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69054
Paul Weyrich – There is no significant man-made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future.”
https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080709.aspx
US POLITICS
Obama walks the abortion minefield
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11654.html
Conservatives for Obama?
https://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/07/08/conservatives_for_obama
Politico Notes Consternation Among Pro-choicers On Obama
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/07/10/politico-notes-consternation-among-pro-choicers-obama
Backlash: 2 million angry Democrats reject Obama?
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69294
Political lethargy in the church—will American Christians awake before November 2008
https://www.renewamerica.us/columns/bresciani/080709
The 2008 presidential election is “foremost about the United States Supreme Court,” the president of the National Right to Life Committee said
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=7913
Religious Intensity Predicts Support for McCain – Hispanic Catholics and black Protestants provide notable exceptions
https://www.gallup.com/poll/108688/Religious-Intensity-Predicts-Support-McCain.aspx
Would Pro-Life Republicans Revolt Over Ridge?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/09/would-conservatives-reject-ridge-even-if-hes-price-victory
What You Don’t Know About Cindy McCain Will Surprise You
https://www.townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2008/07/10/what_you_dont_know_about_cindy_mccain_will_surprise_you
A Tribute to Jesse Helms By Paul M. Weyrich
https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080707A.aspx
ABORTION
YouTube re-posts CNA videos removed after pressure from abortion supporters
https://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13151
Charity Commission In Britain would like to penalize Catholic and other groups that help parents who want to protect their children from being given contraceptive drugs and devices or abortions without parental knowledge or consent.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4038&Itemid=48
Margaret Sanger’s Dirty Little Secret – Planned Parenthood = the American Eugenics Society
https://www.thestrategy.org.au/?module=displaystory&story_id=701&format=html
Planned Parenthood clinic builders meet protesters
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=170322
Black Churches Gather to Promote ‘Reproductive Choice’
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32158
What I Learned From Henry Morgentaler | Carl E. Olson
https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/colson_morgentaler_july08.asp
The Legacy of Jerome Lejeune and the Resurgence of Down Syndrome Research
https://ncregister.com/site/article/15354/
CHINA
Russia and China veto draft UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe’s leaders
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7503135.stm
World leaders at the Olympic-market
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12734&size=A
Chinese Catholics are beaten, threatened for demanding the return of Church property
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12741&size=A
One month before the Olympics, the sentiment of the Chinese is changing (or has it always been like this?), and many are describing the Olympics in Beijing as a “tragedy”, as a “misfortune” that has caused serious problems for China.
https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12704&size=A
ISLAM
U.N. scheme to make Christians criminals – Sharia-following Islamic nations demanding anti-‘defamation’ law
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69163
Iranians consider mandatory execution for apostasy
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69158
Lunacy in Britain: Making Light of Jihad
https://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/lunacy_in_britain_making_light.html
Women ‘vow to raise kids for holy war’
https://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23994931-1702,00.html?from=public_rss
Former Islamic Extremist: Radical Islam Similar to Marxism, Soviet Union
https://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPurple/2008/07/10/former_islamic_extremist_radical_islam_similar_to_marxism,_soviet_union
Pro-Islam principal moves to larger school
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=173348
RELIGION
Interview with an Exorcist
https://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=17559ca1-b65d-4744-9ddd-a660b75715bf
Time Mag Latches Onto ‘Controversial Relic’ to Question Christian Orthodoxy
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/07/07/time-mag-latches-controversial-relic-question-christian-orthodoxy
Spanish bishop reacts to law granting rights to chimps and apes
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13153
Pope Benedict XVI has a mysterious but very genuine appeal for Gen Y. A woman who is one of Australia’s leading theologians explains why.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/unlikely_centre_of_attraction/
“It’s time for Christians to `just say no’ to the big `O’” – “Oprah’s Strange New Gospel.’”
https://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/oprahs_unorthodox_gospel_comes_under_scrutiny1/
From Baby Killers to Barnyard Mayhem: My Turn to Atheism, Part One By Mary Eberstadt
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc3MTU3YTRkMjlmN2ZkNDVlOGZlM2I5YjkxMGExNWM=
ACLU thwarted in Alaska case – Religious schools in Alaska will continue to receive a property tax exemption for housing they provide to their teachers.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=170272
Real Social Justice
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4052&Itemid=48
GLOBAL WARMING, ETC.
Headline: ‘Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/09/headline-global-warming-causing-california-glacier-grow
32,000 deniers: That’s the number of scientists who are outraged by the Kyoto Protocol’s corruption of science
https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/17/32-000-deniers.aspx
Is Wikipedia Promoting Global Warming Hysteria?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/09/wikipedia-promoting-global-warming-hysteria
In a remarkably short time, the public has changed from supporters of environmentalism to advocates of drilling for oil and natural gas in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and/or in the ocean
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32131
The Environmentalists and Greens want control not a healthier planet!
https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3900
HOMOSEXUALTIY
At least two counties in California have begun reviewing a plan to uphold the state’s laws regarding marriage as being between one man and one woman and disregard a state Supreme Court opinion that has yet to be implemented by the Legislature.
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69044
Massachusetts Governor degrades self and insults state, marching in depraved homosexual parade.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08b/pride_parade/part1/index.html
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Gay ‘Divorce’ Case
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000007788.cfm
An adult adoption involving lesbian partners and a claim to a share of one of America’s premier business fortunes has been annulled
https://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/07/07/apnewsbreak_lesbian_adoption_annulled_in_maine/
Family ‘diversity’ unpacked – To pretend that all families are equal denies the truth of the child’s experience
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/family_diversity_unpacked/
MISCELLANEOUS
Britain okays human-pig embryo
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=170410
Legalised prostitution: a failed experiment
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/legalised_prostitution_a_failed_experiment/
The New Civil Rights Movement – the abstinence education movement the new civil rights movement
https://ncregister.com/site/article/15393/
“CBS Evening News” – Uniquely Reports Serious Concerns about Gardasil
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kristen-fyfe/2008/07/09/evening-news-uniquely-reports-serious-concerns-about-gardasil
Women are giving birth on a virtual conveyor belt in the UK because maternity wards are so overcrowded and understaffed, a damning report has revealed.
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/07/nhs-meltdown-converyor-belt-childbirths.html
Women in UK having more children than at any point since 1970s
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2281883/Women-having-more-children-than-at-any-point-since-1970s.html?DCMP=EMC-new_11072008
Changes in Canadian Prime Minister’s staff, future strategy captivate politicos
https://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/7/hillclimbers/&c=2
The Giving Society; In Europe, many leave philanthropy to the state. For Americans, the personal element—in giving, volunteering, and philanthropy—form an indispensable principle of democracy – By Michael Novak
https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1114
Vista Compatibility Center up and running
https://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9988980-56.html?hhTest=1&tag=nefd.top