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HUMOR

Brian Regan on Flying – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9em-ZCddWk

Brian Regan on going to the emergency room – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9m2FLHlEwA

LIFE ISSUES

Another Mexican state approves reform blocking abortion
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15523

Forced Speech: Pushing Against Conscientious Objection by Medical Practioners to Abortion in California
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/forced-speech-pushing-against.html

National Mass for Terri’s Day at Ave Maria
https://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/mar/29/ave-maria-host-national-mass-recognition-terri-sch/

The push for euthanasia could be the death of us all
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/push+euthanasia+could+death/1443039/story.html

Secretary of State Clinton expresses admiration for Margaret Sanger, confusion about Our Lady of Guadalupe
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=52e59ab3-761b-4913-a9ea-64c040c89ee7

CBS: Embryonic Stem Cells Could Provide ‘An Unlimited Supply of Blood’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/03/30/cbs-embryonic-stem-cells-could-provide-unlimited-supply-blood

Fetal Farming is Not a Pipedream: History of Living Fetal Experiments
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/fetal-farming-is-not-pipedream-history.html


OBAMA

Dawn of the Left – Obama’s pick to head the Office of Legal Counsel reveals the president’s radicalism.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmY5M2FjMjM4MGY2MGQyYjMxYjA1N2I3N2FjYzNkY2Y=

Obama’s False Choice – it’s about government annexation of the economy, and thus of life: government supervision, government regulation, government control.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBlNjQyNzYzNzk2YjBhNjg4NDM2Y2I5MjJkMDYzNjQ=

Barack Obama is conducting his own affirmative action program to get more Muslims in the White House.
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251

Obama’s budget makes a bad situation worse.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/328rrhmf.asp

Will U.S. financial woes lead to new world order?
https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074110.html

Stimulus comes with dangerous precedents – The last time we tried to ‘fix’ economy with cash infusion, we got soaring inflation, shrinking GDP
https://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1437494

POPE AND CONDOMS COMMENT

The Lancet Politicizes Science
In so doing, the journal was guilty of precisely what it accused the Pope of doing — politicizing science by misrepresenting as fact something that contradicts the known empirical evidence.
https://www.ncregister.com/daily/the_lancet_politicizes_science/

Pope Was Right to Challenge the Cult of the Condom By Colleen Carroll Campbell
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3769/pub_detail.asp

African Catholics March in Support of Vatican AIDS Policy
https://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-29-voa18.cfm

South African bishops: We don’t discourage condoms
https://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-27-catholics-condoms-and-confusion

RELIGION

Bishop of Queretaro inaugurates first Shrine for Life in Mexico
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15508

The Political Obligations of Catholics: A Conversation With the Most Rev. Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver
https://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=213#1

Chaput on Communion, and nasty e-mail
https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2009/03/catholics_commu.html

Holy Communion and Non-Catholics
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/03/holy-communion-and-noncatholics.html

Religion in the News: 2008
https://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=406

Married clergy supported by head of Austrian Conference of Religious Communities
https://cathcon.blogspot.com/2009/03/married-clergy-supported-by-head-of.html

Abusive priest warnings from early 1950s: New US evidence
https://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12702

Notre Dame’s Egregious Error By George Weigel
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3768/pub_detail.asp

Chicago Sun-Times’s Marin Knocks ‘Righteous Right’ on Notre Dame-Obama Controversy
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2009/03/29/chgo-sun-timess-marin-knocks-righteous-right-notre-dame-obama-contr

Most Mainline Protestants Say Society Should Accept Homosexuality
https://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=245

Muslim women told: For family’s sake, commit suicide – Honor killers avoid prison by forcing victims to take own lives
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93252

Islamic Law’s Influence in America a Growing Concern – As America’s Muslim population grows, so too does the influence of Islamic law, or Shariah, in daily life in the U.S.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511361,00.html

HOMOSEXUALITY

Promoting Perversion Pays — Professional Homosexual Activists Draw Massive Salaries
https://americansfortruth.com/news/promoting-perversion-pays-professional-homosexuals-draw-massive-salaries.html

Hawaii ‘civil unions’ bill was bad attempt to undermine marriage – died in state senate committee Thursday
https://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/27/adf-hawaii-%e2%80%98civil-unions%e2%80%99-bill-was-bad-attempt-to-undermine-marriage/

“Man” to Have Twins
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/blog-post_29.html

Massachusetts RMV head defends new policy of ‘transgender’ drivers licenses on Boston talk radio show – Claims it’s “concurrent with current medical practices.”
Legislators asking for explanation.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/rmv_trans/defends_policy.html

Pennsylvania man with ‘transgender’ drivers license demands to use women’s changing room in Kmart. Enforced by police over store manager’s objection!
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/rmv_trans/Kmart_tranny.html

LA Times male sports reporter “becomes” a woman. Year and a half later changes mind, “becomes” a man again! Luckily, he didn’t have sex-change surgery!
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/rmv_trans/LA_times_reporter.html

San Diego council votes to appeal sexual harassment verdict in favor of firefighters who were forced to participate in ‘gay pride’ parade
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=3491b10d-fdec-4374-9fe9-e027eb8a95ab

CLIMATE CHANGE

U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html

AP: Boos for Bush Change to ‘Sustained Applause’ for Obama on Global Warming
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/30/ap-boos-bush-change-sustained-applause-obama-global-warming

MISCELLANEOUS

Antonin Scalia: The U.S. Constitution is Dead
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1154&Itemid=10

Do We Really Need Gardasil To Protect Teen Girls? The vaccine is unnecessary, it’s dangerous, and it’s disabling and killing young women by Mary Beth Bonacci
https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2009/mbbonacci_gardasil_mar09.asp

What’s the Difference between Liberals and Conservatives?
New study shows conservatives are much more likely to have a strong faith and believe the Bible.
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000009691.cfm

The silence of the Canadian lambs – Maybe we have trouble telling our own stories because so many we try to tell are false – Mark Steyn
https://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/26/the-silence-of-the-canadian-lambs/

Conservative and Liberal MPs likely won’t face any nomination challenges – ‘This is essentially protection, barring some hideous revelation,’ says one top Hill insider.
https://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/march/30/nomination_challenges/&c=2

Glenn Beck – Suddenly one of the most powerful media voices for the nation’s conservative
is channeling the feelings of an alienated class of Americans.
https://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705293990,00.html

Do condoms really work? Popular protection may be riskier than you think – Ottawa Sun
https://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/03/29/8922931-sun.html