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*Obama the Unready - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 20, 2009, 4:01 pm
President Obama is said to be taking his time, carefully weighing all alternatives, 'calibrating” our response to the situation in Afghanistan with precision and judgment. The point of all these statements is to reinforce the Obama administration's theme that George W. Bush rushed off pell-mell and did not assess the situation properly before committing U.S. troops.
Not since the famed King Ethelred the Unready have we seen such a long, drawn-out, and public process of decision-making. Despite
*Stupak-Pitts Amendment Speaks Truth to Power - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 20, 2009, 4:18 pm
There is much gnashing of teeth by abortion supporters over the inclusion of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment in the Speaker Nancy Pelosi health care bill ' H.R. 3962. Bart Stupak, Michigan Democrat, and Joe Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican, succeeded in amending H.R. 3962 so that no government funds can be used to pay for abortion. Claims that Stupak-Pitts is out of line with current law or that it is unconstitutional are simply false.
The Stupak-Pitts amendment ('Stupak-Pitts”) combines two prin
*Seven Score and Six Years Ago - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 19, 2009, 2:24 pm
Today is the 146th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I was reminded of this date yesterday when I took some visitors from Australia and New Zealand to visit the Lincoln Cottage in Northwest Washington. President Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his four-year term at this rural getaway. He and his family spent summers and early fall days there in 1862, 1863, and 1864. It was at this refuge—a retirement home for old and disabled soldiers–that he drafted the Emancipation Proclam
*Trial by Terror - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 19, 2009, 4:33 pm
In a heated exchange with the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder stood by his decision to jeopardize–not only New York City, but 200 years of American tradition—by launching the trial of the century against 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other terrorists in the Big Apple. Holder insists that New York is the best 'venue to obtain justice,” but as Senators on both sides of the aisle argued, prosecuting terrorists minutes from the g
*Obama's Abasement - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 19, 2009, 11:48 am
Once again, the Internet is alive with pictures of the President of the United States bowing low before some foreign monarch. Barack Obama first showed the world his behind as he bowed before the odious King of Saudi Arabia at a London summit last winter. That was bad. The king of Saudi Arabia rules a desert fiefdom where those who convert to Christianity are beheaded while the regime looks the other way. Bibles are banned. Jews are not allowed even to enter the country.
That bow was atrocious.
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 18, 2009, 9:01 am
Here’s some articles of interest for this afternoon.
“Most Americans Against Abortion Coverage in Health Care Bill,” Nathan Black, The Christian Post
“Church, state and gay marriage,” Editorial, The Los Angeles Times
“Iowa conservatives still focused on gay marriage,” Mike Glover, Associated Press
“NJ teen barred from abortion protest sues school,” Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
“Sex ed. vs. abstinence,” Charlie Butts, OneNews
*Perkins on Point: John Berry - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 18, 2009, 11:09 am
anyone doubted the Obama Administration was pushing the homosexual agenda – they shouldn't any longer. Don't take it from me. Take it from the highest ranking open homosexual serving in the Administration, John Berry, who is the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, he said this at a gay pride event here in Washington DC.
Their plan is clear and logical. Play the victim and pass hate crimes giving sanctioned and special protected status to those who engage in homosexual behav
*Incubators for Terrorists? - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 18, 2009, 8:59 am
I took a friend with me to visit a prisoner in a federal 'correctional institute” last week. My friend is a former Ohio State prof, a published author, and a member of my Men's Bible Study. We've been praying for several years for 'P,” who is serving eight years for attempted murder.
The three-hour drive was a pleasant one, despite the lousy weather. The prof and I got to swap stories, talk about our families, how we met our wives, all kinds of interesting—at least to us—stuff.
When we
*God + Marriage = Pride in One's Work - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 17, 2009, 3:29 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults in always-intact marriages who also worship at least weekly are more likely than all other adults to be proud of the type of work they do.
*Mister, can you spare a copy of the Constitution? - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 17, 2009, 3:39 pm
If so, please send it to Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.). She is the latest example of a Member of Congress who should not be there. I am sure the Founders never envisioned elected Representatives who would not have a grasp of the most basic concepts of the Constitution. It may be time for an amendment requiring members of Congress to take a basic proficiency test on at least the Bill of Rights.
Still lamenting the overwhelming defeat that she and her pro-abortion cohorts suffered in the House w
*Change Watch: Keeping track of the Obama administration - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 17, 2009, 9:57 am
What’s in store for the Obama administration? FRC has been keeping track of the President’s nominees with detailed backgrounders. Here’s the list to date:
President Barack Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Melody Barnes, Director, Domestic Policy Council
Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States
Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy & Climate Change
Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
Dr. Francis Collins, Director,
*Change Watch: Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 17, 2009, 2:02 pm
Nominee for Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
NOMINEE: Chai Feldblum
BIRTH DATE: c. 1959
EDUCATION: B.A. in Ancient Studies and Religion, Barnard College, 1979. J.D. from Harvard Law School, 1985.
FAMILY: Lives with a same-sex 'domestic partner,” Georgetown Law Professor Nan Hunter. Previously lived in a 'nonsexual domestic partnership” with three other women who pledged to care for each other.
RIENCE: Professor of Law, Georgeto
*They Just Can't Help It - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 16, 2009, 4:55 pm
“This shouldn’t be a debate about abortion,”‘ says the President’s Senior Advisor David Axelrod. The President himself argues that he and his allies in Congress are not “in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but on the other hand that we’re not restricting women’s insurance choices.”
This is sort of like saying that when eating a four-scoop sundae, the dessert really isn’t about ice cream. Abortion is essential to the Democra
*Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life Education & Awareness Campaign Launched - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 15, 2009, 10:53 pm
On Saturday, November 14 in Kansas City, there was a celebration of hope for patients with disabling diseases and injuries, with the launch of the Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life Education & Awareness Campaign. For 3 hours, patients shared their stories of how adult stem cells had saved their lives, improved their health, saved their families, and given them hope. The campaign is committed to raising awareness that adult stem cell treatments are available for patients, promoting access to thera
*How to Create Jobs - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 13, 2009, 12:20 pm
According to ABC News, President Obama is now “calling for a summit meeting of experts to find ways to jump-start job creation. And a jump-start is needed.”
This comes on the heels of a new report that the federal deficit “hit a record for October as the new budget year began where the old one ended: with the government awash in red ink,” as the Department of the Treasury warned that “the deficit for October totaled $176.4 billion, even higher than the $150 billion
*The Fumes of NARAL and Planned Parenthood - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 13, 2009, 10:41 am
Wednesday's headline in The Hill led with the caption 'Abortion-rights groups threaten not to fund Rodriquez and Teague.” Apparently NARAL and Planned Parenthood are ticked because Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) and Congressman Harry Teague (D-N.M.) voted in support of the Stupak Amendment which removed abortion funding from the health care bill (1).
Very few news organizations are reporting on the divide that is developing within the Democratic Party. Many Congressional Democrats,
*More on Health Care & the Constitution - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 13, 2009, 11:04 am
This week, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) was asked by a reporter 'where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance?”
Reed responded, 'I would have to check the specific sections, so I'll have to get back to you on the specific section. But it is not unusual that the Congress has required individuals to do things, like sign up for the draft and do many other things too, which I don't think are explicitly contained (in the Constitution).”
*It Keeps Getting Worse - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 12, 2009, 11:41 am
So the emails the terrorist Hasan sent to a jihadist imam in Yemen were not deemed threatening? What if they were in code? American cryptographers succeeded in breaking the Japanese naval codes before Pearl Harbor. But they got messages like: 'Climb Mount Iitaka.” How were U.S. intelligence officers supposed to know that that was the code name for the attack on the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii?
Shouldn't it be our policy that any contact between anyone in the U.S. and any jihadist abroad would be
*Explaining the 'Inexplicable” - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 11, 2009, 4:07 pm
President Obama spoke to an interviewer about the Ft. Hood shootings. He had just come from the Memorial Service for the fourteen people whose lives were taken by the terrorist, Nidal Hasan:
OBAMA: In a country of 300 million people, there are going to be acts of violence that are inexplicable, even within the extraordinary military that we have. I think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform are under the most severe stress. There are going to instances, i
*MSNBC Mid-Morning Host Calls Us 'Liars,” 'Crazy,” and to 'Go Away” - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 10, 2009, 5:02 pm
This morning MSNBC Host Dylan Ratigan attacked my colleague Cathy Ruse after she pointed out how the health care bill (before the adoption of the Stupak amendment) forces Americans to pay for elective abortions Mr. Ratigan called her a “liar” and even said she should just “go away.” Mr. Ratigan should certainly work to improve his on-air manners, but he should also do a better job of getting his facts straight. Both NPR and Politifact agree on what the Stupak amendment
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 10, 2009, 3:02 pm
Here’s some articles of interest.
“N.Y. Senate Delays Gay Marriage Vote,” Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times
“AMA votes to seek repeal of ‘don’t ask,don’t-tell’,” Associated Press
“The Politics of Loosening Healthcare’s Abortion Restrictions,” Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News and World Report
“House Health-Care Bill Does Not Prohibit Paying Federal Funds to Health Providers Who Withhold Food and Water From Patients,” Ka
*Married Adults Take Pride in Their Work - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 10, 2009, 3:05 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that married adults are more likely to be proud of the type of work they do, compared to single adults, whether divorced, separated, or never married.
*Health Care and the Constitution - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 10, 2009, 11:16 am
Family Research Council has several critical concerns with the Democratic health care legislation under consideration on Capitol Hill. The sanctity of human life, although safeguarded in the House version of the measure passed on Saturday, remains a live issue as the bill goes to the Senate. Rationing, costs, patient control of medical decisions, an increase in the size and scope of Washington's power: These and other matters animated FRC's active opposition to the Democratic approach to rev
*Scenes from the Health Care Rally - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 9, 2009, 4:23 pm
On November 5, 2009, two days before the House vote on health care,
thousands gathered on Capitol Hill to be heard.
*No Obama in Berlin - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 9, 2009, 4:49 pm
President Obama is not in Berlin today. Very proper, I think. He's not there to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. He's not going to say anything about how freedom triumphed over totalitarianism in 1989 and how 'we” won a great victory.
President Obama is showing a decent respect for the opinion of mankind. Or, at least, he's not showing the kind of shamelessness that Bill Clinton regularly shows. George Stephanopoulos often said that Bill Clinton has no sense
*'Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall!” - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 9, 2009, 11:16 am
Ronald Reagan brought two things to Washington that were very much out of fashion, I enjoy telling student interns at Family Research Council: brown suits and freedom for a hundred million people in Eastern Europe. When Reagan swept into office in a landslide in 1980, the reigning view of Washington's foreign policy elites toward Eastern Europe was that expressed in the Sonnenfeldt Doctrine. State Department Counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt in the 1970s was a disciple of Henry Kissinger. TIME Maga
*The New Spin on Abortion Funding - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 7, 2009, 11:06 pm
Democrats are going out of their way to argue that the Stupak-Pitts amendment prohibiting federal funding of abortion is an effort to enact new restrictions on abortion itself. Julie Rovner of NPR, a journalist no less, argued today that the pro-life Members of Congress seeking to prevent Uncle Sam from paying for abortions are trying to impose new limits on access to abortion. Ms. Rovner seems to be taking a line from Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky, who in today’s NY Times is quoted a
*Family Research Council Praises Passage of Pro-life Amendment to Health Care Bill - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 7, 2009, 11:14 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 7, 2009
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Maria Donovan, (866) FRC-NEWS
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed the Stupak, Pitts, Kaptur, Dahlkemper, Smith, Ellsworth and Lipinski amendment to the “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (H.R. 3962) The amendment maintains the current policy of preventing federal funding for abortion and for benefits packages that include abortion. It clarifies that individuals, both those who receive
*How the Health Bill Funds Abortion - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 6, 2009, 4:46 pm
The Health Care bill will fund abortion because of the Capps amendment. The supposed “Ellsworth” compromise would not prevent the public option from funding abortion, but would have the exact same effect of government funding of abortion. Because of confusing accounting gimmicks, this flow-chart may help you understand how the public option would fund elective abortion:
[Click here for a full-size PDF version of the graphic]
*Perkins on Point: November 6, 2009 - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 6, 2009, 3:02 pm
*Inheritance of Debt - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 4, 2009, 8:54 am
FRC’s new ad, “Inheritance of Debt”:
Transcript:
ATTORNEY: My sincere condolences upon the passing of your loved one. Upon review of the will, your grandfather has bequeathed to you, this stack of bills!
NARRATOR: Our government’s irresponsible programs will leave our country buried under 9 trilliion dollars in new spending with no plans for payment, shackling our children with an inheritance of debt.
Family Research Council is responsible for the content of this adverti
Frequent Church Attendance = Pride in Work - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 3, 2009, 4:31 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults who attend religious services at least monthly are the most likely to be proud of the type of work they do.
*Live Webcast Tonight ' Government Takeover of Healthcare: Counting the Cost - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 3, 2009, 8:07 am
Be sure to tune in tonight at 8:30 p.m. EST for the live video webcast of 'Government Takeover of Health Care: Counting the Cost.” We've invited Members of Congress, financial analysts, and FRC policy experts to join us live at our Washington, D.C. headquarters to help us assess this bill as Congress prepares to vote this week.
Participants include:
Host: Tony Perkins, President, FRC Action
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
Congressman Charles Boustany, M.D. (R-La.)
Congressman Mike
*California Dreamin' Reality on Stem Cells - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 1, 2009, 9:25 am
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the quango spending $3 billion of California taxpayers’ money (and paying back $6 billion with the interest) on stem cell research, seems to have realized the distinct advantages of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells, especially when it comes actually to treating patients. The CIRM has awarded over $230 million in “disease team” grants to 14 different projects; the 4-year grants are “explicitly expected t
Picnic Table for Scientists - FRC.org - Web Log Nov 1, 2009, 6:04 am
A periodic table, of course.
*'Next Year” for Embryonic Stem Cells? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 31, 2009, 8:22 am
Geron now says that it hopes its embryonic stem cell experiment on spinal cord injury patients might begin in the 3rd quarter of 2010. The original FDA approval to test the cells in patients was given in January 2009 and Geron claimed it would begin in the summer of 2009, but before a single desperate patient had been injected with the potentially-dangerous cells, the FDA placed a hold on the Geron experiment due to safety concerns.
Meanwhile, the obsession with embryonic stem cells has obscur
*Adult Stem Cells for the Arts - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 31, 2009, 6:55 am
Tony Iommi, the guitarist for Black Sabbath, is getting adult stem cell treatment for cartilage damage. More than 40 years of guitar riffs have taken their toll.
“I’ve had this problem with my hand and I’ve had this stem-cell treatment on it. The cartilage (was worn out between) the joints, and the joints (were) rubbing on the joints. It was bone to bone and it was getting a bit painful.”
Professor Peter Buckle of the Robens Centre for Health Ergonomics at the Universit
Maybe There Is Hope: Most Americans Still Think Viewing Porn is Immoral - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 30, 2009, 3:59 pm
A recent survey of 1,000 adults by Harris Interactive found that 76% of Americans disagree with the proposition that 'viewing hardcore adult pornography on the Internet is morally acceptable” and 74% disagree that it is 'harmless entertainment.” The survey was commissioned by Morality in Media in connection with the White Ribbon Against Pornography week this week.
'There is a perception held by many that hardcore adult pornography has become acceptable in American society. But the percep
*Suffering Suffrage - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 30, 2009, 2:15 pm
Last year, I voted. I joined the 125,225,900 other Americans (at least, I hope they were all Americans) who voted for President. It was the 40th anniversary of my first vote in a Presidential election. My vote is worth, correspondingly, less now than it was worth then. In 1968, I was one of only 72,054,692 citizens who exercised the suffrage–that old-fashioned word for the right to vote.
Now, I take my vote very seriously. I have never missed once voting in an election in which I was eligi
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 28, 2009, 4:23 pm
Here’s some articles that might be of interest.
“Code words,” Emily Belz, WORLD Magazine
“Bloomfield man fights cancer with his own stem cells,” Patti Singer, Democrat and Chronicle
“Attacking the Defense of Marriage Act,” The Washington Times
“Michigan panel to discuss stem cell research bills,” Associated Press
“Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging stem cell rule,” Associated Press
“MSU profs offer same-sex marriage soluti
*But It Was Just a Fetus - Wasn't It? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 28, 2009, 5:05 pm
Today in Utah, a 21 year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison for, according to the Associated Press, “beating a pregnant (17 year-old) girl to try to cause a miscarriage” after she paid him $150 to do so.
The girl was seven months pregnant. Aaron Harrison, the criminal convicted of assaulting her, beat her stomach and, bizarrely, even bit her on the neck to induce a miscarriage. And although Harrison had pled guilty to “second-degree felony attempted murder, which i
*White Ribbon Against Pornography Week - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 28, 2009, 10:39 am
According to Bob Peters of Morality in Media, our nation is facing a moral crisis, including, among other things, teen promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases (including AIDS), abortion, illegitimacy, divorce, sexual abuse of children, rape, trafficking in women and children, on-the-job sexual harassment and lost worker productivity. And what is fueling this crisis is the spread of hardcore pornography, on the Internet and elsewhere.
That's why one week every October we observe White Ribbon
*God + Intact Marriage = Less Adultery - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 27, 2009, 3:32 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults in always-intact marriages who worship at least weekly are the least likely of all to have had adulterous sexual relations.
*Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 25, 2009, 10:00 pm
Jeffrey Kuhner is one of the best conservative writers going these days. His column appears on Sunday's in the Washington Times. He has a way of getting to the heart of a topic, and two Sundays ago he addressed President Obama's jihad against Fox News Channel (see 'Who's Partisan Now,” 10/18/09, p. B1):
For decades, the Washington press corps has presented itself as the guardian of political order and institutional stability. They are the real 'news experts” whose experience and rational
*NARAL Petition Supports Biblical Account Abraham and Sarah - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 23, 2009, 3:37 pm
The radical National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) began circulating a petition this week attacking the Family Research Council for its opposition to the government takeover of healthcare. That of course is nothing new; they've been attacking us for months. But what is new, is that the petition suggests NARAL may actually support the biblical account of Sarah giving birth to Isaac when she was over 90 years old:
Anti-choice extremists at the Family Research Council are launching an out
During 'Safe Schools Week” Kevin Jennings ACTS UP - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 23, 2009, 3:50 pm
For more information on Kevin Jennings’ radical past, and how you can take action, visit: stopjennings.org
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 22, 2009, 11:52 am
News fans unite. I am back with another segment of In the Know…. Here’s today’s articles of the day.
“Regents to hear stem cell comment,” Omaha World-Herald
“Obama’s ’safe schools czar’ acts up,” Editorial, The Washington Times
“Infusing stem cells to heal heart,” Maureen McFadden, WNDU
“US marshal pick was already gay rights pioneer,” Patrick Condon, Associated Press
“Gay Marriage Battle Focuses on Sch
*Get to Work ' FRC's new ad on Health Care costs - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 22, 2009, 12:07 pm
FRC’s new ad on Health Care:
*Lack of Truth in Advertising at IVF Clinics - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 21, 2009, 1:54 pm
A paper published in the journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers at Columbia University finds that most IVF clinics fail to mention negatives associated with genetic testing of embryos.
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is used to test for various genetic disorders, as well as to choose the sex of an infant. However the eugenic procedure, which involves removing one or two cells from an early embryo for the genetic testing, is not completely reliable and can harm or destroy the
*Fetal Cell Experiments on Patients: Not Learning Their Lessons - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 20, 2009, 5:08 pm
The journal Science reports that scientists in Europe, in collaboration with American researchers, are planning new trials using aborted fetal tissue in an attempt to treat Parkinson’s disease, despite what is termed a “growing scepticism” among the scientific community about the wisdom of such fetal cell trials.
Scepticism indeed. Perhaps they need to be reminded of the last few times when fetal cells were used in attempts to treat patients for neurological conditions, especi
*Divorced or Separated Adults More Likely to Have Committed Adultery than Married Adults - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 20, 2009, 3:19 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults who are currently married are less likely to have committed adultery than adults who are divorced or separated.
Dissecting Distractions - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 20, 2009, 7:05 am
Want to make those dissections and anatomy lessons more interesting? Try the “Anatomy Hello Kitty“. How could anatomy get any cuter? Even the internal organs have bows.
If you’re more into spinning a yarn about anatomy, you can get kits to knit a dissected rat and frog.
*It Has Been Worse - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 19, 2009, 8:33 am
I’ve been on travel the past week, visiting with college administrators, staff, and students. I’m often asked by concerned young people: “Has it ever been this bad before?”
Oh, my yes. When I was your age, I tell them, 300 American cities went up in flames after Dr. King was assassinated, riots in the streets turned huge areas of America’s cities into no-go zones. Bob Kennedy was assassinated en route to a likely presidential nomination. Three hundred young American
*Adult Stem Cells Help Patients With Spinal Cord Injury - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 18, 2009, 9:24 pm
A new report by researchers in Portugal and at Wayne State University shows adult stem cells increased mobility and quality of life for spinal cord injury patients. Dr. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson collaborated with Dr. Carlos Lima and colleagues for the study, published in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
The study follows 20 patients with severe chronic spinal cord injuries. All of the patients had total paralysis below the level of their spinal cord injury before the treatment, wit
*Plan B: A Failure to Meet Falsely Inflated Predictions - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 16, 2009, 4:15 pm
A recent article published in the journal Contraception, discusses the failed “effectiveness” of the drug Plan B (a form of emergency contraception or “EC”) on a population level. The author of the articles concedes:
Our expectations for EC’s effectiveness were biased upwards by an early estimate that expanding access to emergency contraception could dramatically reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and subsequent abortion. This estimate made a compelling st
*Obama Adviser, Dalia Mogahed, Hearts Sharia - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 16, 2009, 2:31 pm
Well, President Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em. His latest appointee miscue ' if you exclude recent news of White House communications director, Anita Dunn, explaining why she admires Chairman Mao ' came from his adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed.
As reported in an article by Andrew Gilligan and Alex Spillius of the Daily Telegraph (U.K.), Mogahed appeared on a British TV program 'hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.” For more details, go to the articl
*Bill Gates Takes on Radical Environmentalism - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 15, 2009, 4:12 pm
In a speech today at the World Food Prize forum, Microsoft founder Bill Gates took the extreme environmental movement to task for putting rigid ideology ahead of basic human need.
Here’s an excerpt of his comments: “Some people insist on an ideal vision of the environment. They have tried to restrict the spread of biotechnology into sub-Saharan Africa without regard to how much hunger and poverty might be reduced by it, or what the farmers themselves might want.”
Gates noted t
*Embryo Fate on the Docket - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 15, 2009, 1:00 pm
It was barely reported in the media, but a lawsuit was filed in federal court (Sherley et al. v. Sebelius et al.) on August 19 to reverse the guidelines put out by NIH that open federal funding to more human embryo destruction.
In further developments, a hearing was held Wednesday, October 14 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on a preliminary injunction to block implementation and federal funding under the NIH guidelines. Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth listened to oral arguments, and wi
*D.C. Woman Leaves Baby to Die in Plastic Bag, Gets 13 years - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 15, 2009, 10:49 am
How can anyone ignore the irony in this awful story reported in the Washington Post yesterday?
A young woman walks out into a field with a pink towel, scissors, and a plastic bag, gives birth to a daughter, cuts the umbilical cord and leaves the baby to die.
Of course she could have had an abortionist legally kill the child.
The Supreme Court case of Doe v. Bolton mandates that an abortion be legal even after viability if an abortion doctor cites emotional or 'familial” reasons for the abortio
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 14, 2009, 12:15 pm
Here’s some interesting articles for your reading enjoyment this morning.
“Duke Studies New Approach in Fetal Transplants for Metabolic Disorders,” PhysOrg.org
“Catholic bishops bemoan condoms, gays as threats to marriage,” Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
“Maine gay marriage campaigns report donations,” Glenn Adams, Associated Press
“UMD Debates New Anti-Pornography Policy,” News Channel 8
“Study: Abortions decline, but unsafe pro
*Fighting for 'Equality”—Or Obsessed with Sex? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 14, 2009, 10:40 am
It seems that homosexual activist groups can't even raise money without using sexual innuendo.
I happen to be on the email list for 'Equality Maryland,” the state homosexual activist organization (it's always good to know what the opposition is doing). They are planning to raise money with a 'Jazz Brunch and Silent Auction” on Sunday, October 18 in Baltimore.
But I was startled by the poor taste (and the poor proofreading) of the subject line for an email invitation to this event that I rece
*Religious Attendance = Fidelity in Marriage - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 13, 2009, 3:34 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that of adults currently or previously married, those who attend religious services once a week or more are the least likely to have committed adultery.
*Change Watch: Keeping track of the Obama administration - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 13, 2009, 9:57 am
What’s in store for the Obama administration? FRC has been keeping track of the President’s nominees with detailed backgrounders. Here’s the list to date:
President Barack Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Melody Barnes, Director, Domestic Policy Council
Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States
Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy & Climate Change
Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
Dr. Francis Collins, Director,
*Merrill Peterson: Forging the Links in Liberty's Legacy - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 13, 2009, 8:52 am
I had the great privilege of studying under Merrill Peterson at the University of Virginia in the 1960s. He was even then regarded as a great national scholar. His first book on Thomas Jefferson—The Jefferson Image in the American Mind– won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 1960. It was especially important to have a professor of Mr. Peterson's stature to speak up for civil rights during that turbulent era. He challenged Mr. Jefferson's University to live out the full meaning of Jefferso
*Eleven Days that Shook the World - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 12, 2009, 2:02 pm
President Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for 2009. His nomination had to have been entered by February 1st of this year. At that point, as many incredulous pundits have noted, he had been President for just eleven days. Fast work.
Many commentators have ridiculed the choice. 'Gobsmacked,” wrote the Washington Post's serious liberal foreign policy columnist, Jim Hoagland. He employed a British slang term for 'slack-jawed in utter amazement.” Liberal writer Ruth Marcus likened the
*President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize for - funding abortions overseas? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 9, 2009, 9:31 am
It was announced this morning that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Reuters reports that The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for 'his
extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation
between peoples.”
But this prize was apparently awarded *prospectively*, since the nomination
deadline for the prize came less than two weeks after Obama took office.
So what actions did Obama as President take before the February 1st deadline
that gave the committe
*Living Will Suicide Was Lawful, Says UK Coroner Inquest - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 10:29 am
Last week I mentioned the tragic death of a depressed young woman who drank antifreeze and presented a Living Will forbidding treatment to save here. According to a Coroner's Inquest this week, the doctors who let poor Keri Wooltorton, 26, die acted lawfully:
Doctors who allowed a young British woman to die in hospital after she swallowed poison and declared her intention to commit suicide acted lawfully, according to the findings of an inquest this week. Under the provisions of the Mental Cap
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 10:57 am
Here’s some articles of interest for today.
“High Court Takes Up Case of Cross on Public Land,” Associated Press
“Texas Battle on Gay Marriage Looms,” James C. McKinley, Jr., The New York Times
“Gays and lesbians set to march on D.C. after months of Obama disappointment,” Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press
“Md. university system devising policy on student displays of porn films,” Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun
“Pro-lifers want C
2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 10:00 am
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath, for their work on the structure and function of the ribosome. The DNA code in the nucleus of our cells has to be translated into proteins for a cell to survive and grow. The DNA code is copied into short segments (messenger RNA) and ribosomes serve as translation factories to read the code and manufacture the appropriate protein that a cell needs. Each ribosome is a huge molecular complex of doz
Fun With Lasers - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 10:04 am
A recent test of the Advanced Tactical Laser provides some interesting video footage. Boeing is working on developing an airborne version. Currently it’s a bit too bulky, so you’ll have to wait for the hand phaser, but still fascinating.
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*For a Peace Prize: George H.W. Bush - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 10:10 am
We are approaching the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. That year, 1989, deserves to go down in history with 1648, the end of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, 1815, the fall of Napoleon, 1914, the outbreak of the Cataclysm we know as World War I, and with 1945, the end of World War II that led to the tragic division of Europe. The Heritage Foundation this week presented an important conference on the Fall of the Wall and its meaning today.
I want to focus on just one portio
*How Long Has Marriage Been the Union of a Man and a Woman? Scientists Say—4.4 Million Years - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 7, 2009, 6:34 am
Some people believe that religious dogma is the only reason why anyone opposes same-sex marriage. Those who believe the human race began with Adam and Eve, and that their relationship was God's model for marriage, believe marriage should be between a man and a woman. But those who don't believe in the Bible, who think Adam and Eve are a myth, and who don't accept a Christian view of the human person, have no reason to believe marriage is an opposite-sex union. Right?
Wrong. They should take a lo
*Interview with Leslie Carbone - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 6, 2009, 4:21 pm
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Americans for Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit. While at this event, I had the opportunity to meet with Leslie Carbone, who used to serve as the Director of Tax Policy at FRC. Leslie just published a book, Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case For Tax Reform, and it is a great examination of tax policy from a moral perspective. Below is the interview:
KW: Could you tell me why you decided to write Slaying Leviathan?
LC:
I
Unemployment, Part III - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 6, 2009, 4:32 pm
Today, the Washington Times published a very good editorial on Friday's unemployment data.
God + Two Parents = Frequent Adult Religious Attendance - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 6, 2009, 3:58 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults who attended religious services at least monthly as adolescents and grew up in an intact family are significantly more likely to attend religious services monthly or more frequently as adults than are those who attended less frequently and whose family of origin was non-intact.
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 6, 2009, 10:48 am
Here’s some articles of interest for your morning.
“Child-porn arrests: `Shooting fish in a barrel’,” Mitch Stacy, Associated Press
” Texas Gay Couple’s Divorce Lawsuit Draws National Spotlight,” Nathan Black, The Christian Post
“D.C. gay marriage bill could find tough going late,” Michael Neibauer, The Washington Examiner
“Americans Don’t Want Government-Funded Abortions In Health Reform,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, Fox News
2009 Nobel Prize for Physics - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 6, 2009, 6:44 am
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith. Kao calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers, leading to today’s fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone of most data networks. Boyle and Smith invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). The CCD converts light into electronic data, e.g., as the electronic eye of the digital camera, enabling
*Living Will as Suicide Note - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 5, 2009, 4:27 pm
Read this story of a poor young woman, just 26 years old, who was depressed about not being able to have a child. She's now dead, thanks to her Living Will which forbade emergency medical treatment to save her life after she swallowed antifreeze.
Whether the doctors were actually forbidden from saving her life or not, I don't know ' mightn't her depression have impacted her competency to refuse live-saving treatment? — but they believed they were and the result is now irrevocable.
The st
More on the Economy - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 5, 2009, 5:15 pm
On Friday I wrote about the bleak unemployment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the weekend, I heard some talking heads presenting a more optimistic economic picture (e.g., Juan Williams on 'Fox News Sunday”). The preponderance of true expert opinion I heard over the weekend ' via internet streaming ' was much more gloomy than I bargained for. Because you probably won't have an opportunity to hear a detailed analysis of the numbers, I decided to provide links to audi
*2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 5, 2009, 6:09 am
Awarded today to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for their discovery of telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Human chromosomes are long linear strands of DNA, which present problems regarding degradation from the ends. Telomeres are special sequences of DNA at the ends of the strands which protect the DNA from degradation and aging of the cell. The enzyme telomerase rebuilds these sequences at the ends of the chromosomes, thereby maintaining a cell’s viability. Cel
*NIH Director Ignorant On Stem Cells? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 5:26 pm
Does the Director of the National Institutes of Health not know the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells? Or is he just biased?
In an interview with the New England Journal of Medicine, Francis Collins talks about the number of “stem cell” clinical trials:
Steinbrook: What will the results of stem-cell research mean for human health?
Collins: My crystal ball is just as cloudy as everyone else's. However, the developments in understanding stem cells and how they could po
*FDA Hold on Embryonic Stem Cell Experiments - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 4:59 pm
Speaking of clinical trials, in case you missed it the FDA has put another hold on Geron’s proposed experiments to put embryonic stem cells into human spinal cord injury patients. Geron’s human experiment was approved back in January 2009, and they were supposed to start experiments with patients in July.
As an aside, one excuse offered by Geron as to why the trial had not yet started was car airbags… apparently the airbags in accidents are keeping patients from getting seve
*A Passion to Serve, A Vision for Life: Pregnancy Resource Center Service Report 2009 - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 3:32 pm
Wednesday, September 30th, FRC was very pleased to announce the release of a groundbreaking report, 'A Passion to Serve, A Vision for Life: Pregnancy Resource Center Service Report 2009” which coincides with the 40-year anniversary of the pregnancy resource center movement ('PRC”) in the United States. A collaborative project with the three major pregnancy resource center networks Care Net, Heartbeat International, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, and LIFE Internation
Economy: Not So Good - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 2:02 pm
Today's economic news was not good. This from Reuters via Yahoo! Finance:
U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 263,000 jobs in September, lifting the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent, according to a government report on Friday that fueled fears the weak labor market could undermine economic recovery.
The consensus was for a loss of 180,000 jobs. Furthermore, highly respected banking analyst, Meredith Whitney, wrote in yesterday's Wall Street Journal that credit available for small busine
*The Shame of the City - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 12:50 pm
Wednesday night, the Empire State Building in Manhattan shone red and yellow as a tribute to the sixtieth anniversary of the Communist takeover of China.
When lit, the Empire State is a lovely sight. Yet last night's display cast a rather ugly glow. Why? Because given the nation it is honoring, we must ask the sponsors of this celebration which highlights of China's history during those sixty years they especially want to honor.
Might it be the murder of Christian missionaries in the lat
Praise for Tufts University's New Policy on Dorm Room Sex - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 2, 2009, 1:07 pm
The state of morality on the American college campus seems to be in perpetual decline, and I have shuddered to think about what it will be like in a dozen years when my own daughters will be getting ready for college. But from a liberal college in a liberal state comes a small ray of hope. Tufts University has revised its 'guest policy” for dorm visitors for the new school year to include the following new rule: 'You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the
*What Would LUTHER Do? - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 1, 2009, 2:28 pm
Still stinging from a strong debate among ELCA pastors this summer, The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Dunkin pushes to move his synod beyond the controversial topic and offer some reasons of support for the work of the ELCA. He begins:
The major news coming from the 2009 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's biennial Churchwide Assembly has been the change in policy related to persons in gay and lesbian relationships. The policy change allows congregations to determine for themselves if they wish to of
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Oct 1, 2009, 10:24 am
Here’s some articles of interest this morning.
“Catania to introduce same-sex marriage bill,” Melissa Castro, Washington Business Journal
“To heaven from Times Square,” Julia Duin, The Washington Times
“Abortion and Health Care Reform,” Editorial, New York Times
“Chicago City Council panel backs plan to limit anti-abortion activists,” Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune
“Senate committee restores $50 million in abstinence ed funding,̶
*Adult Stem Cells for ALS - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 30, 2009, 5:32 pm
In the news recently was the FDA approval of a clinical trial for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Lou Gehrig’s disease) by the company NeuralStem. Actually, the recent news was release of the FDA hold on the trial; the FDA hold was placed on the trial back on 20 Feb 2009. NeuralStem uses immature, fetal neural stem cells. The hold was placed soon after news broke about an Israeli boy who developed tumors, four years after receiving fetal stem cells. Fetal stem cell “overgrowt
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 30, 2009, 11:25 am
Here’s some articles of interest.
“Judge blocks key parts of new Arizona abortion law,” Paul Davenport, Associated Press
“Pentagon airs criticism of ‘don’t ask’,” Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
“Should Government Have E-Record of Every Woman Who's Had an Abortion?,” Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com
“Parents’ Rights Amendment Reaches 120 Co-Sponsors,” Christian Newswire
“Panel votes to restore abstinence educati
*Adult Stem Cells Get Hip - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 29, 2009, 5:44 pm
Doctors in Southampton, England have successfully used adult stem cells to repair hip bones, allowing patients to avoid hip replacement surgery. After removing dead tissue in the hip, the cavity is filled with bits of ground up bone and the patient’s own adult stem cells. So far six patients have had the treatment with only one failure, doctors said.
Carl Millard, who had the adult stem cell procedure, said he could walk normally and without any pain. Millard’s surgeon said his bo
*In The Stem Cell Vein and Other Stories - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 29, 2009, 4:56 pm
Catching up with a few brief stories.
In The Stem Cell Vein
Adult stem cells from bone marrow have been used to reverse a rare genetic disease. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute used a mouse model of cystinosis, a genetic disease that can afflict children as young as six months old, causes deteriorating kidney function and inevitable kidney failure. Stephanie Cherqui, the scientist who developed the mouse model, said that adult bone marrow stem cell therapy is particularly well suit
Two Parents in Adolescence = Frequent Adult Religious Attendance - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 29, 2009, 3:52 pm
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Surveys show that adults who grew up in an intact family during adolescence are more likely to attend religious services at least monthly than are those who did not.
*In the Know - - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 28, 2009, 12:42 pm
Here are some articles of interest.
“Same-sex marriage activists seek repeal of California's Prop. 8,” Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor
“Boston College Professor’s Appearance in Pro-Gay Marriage Ad Sparks Outrage,” Ana Lopez, Fox News
“A new push to define ‘person,’ and to outlaw abortion in the process,” Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
“Spain unveils abortion law change,” Steve Kingstone, BBC News
“In revolt aga
*President Washington and the 'Gender Gap” - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 26, 2009, 9:00 am
I've just received news that the most respected editor of the Papers of George Washington–a collection to goes to fifty volumes–has died. My alma mater, University of Virginia, announced the passing of William Wright Abbott III. He was 87.
Mr. Abbott (all the profesors at U.Va. were called 'mister,” in deference to Mr. Jefferson's republican manners) was revered around the Grounds. The official announcement said:
Abbot was hired as the James Madison Professor of History at U.Va.
*'Abortion is about life” - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 25, 2009, 4:30 pm
The Charleston Gazette this morning reports of Dr. Susan Wicklund's visit to Charleston yesterday for a book signing and speaking engagement with the Woman's Club of Charleston. Wickland, a long-time abortionist from Montana, offers praise for her profession. The Gazette article, unsurprisingly, is glowing in its coverage. But it is the actual words of Dr. Wicklund that left me stammering for words.
Consider, for instance, her description about what abortion is:
'Abortion is about life: qu
*An Historic Day at the UN - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 25, 2009, 2:38 pm
We have been told endlessly that we have witnessed an 'historic” day at the UN this week. Indeed, we did. It was a day that many of us could be proud of. A nation's leader stood at the podium before the General Assembly and addressed representatives of 192 nations who are member-states of the United Nations. Here is part of what that leader said:
The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of s
*Kentucky's 'Dark and Bloody Ground” Now Bloodier - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 25, 2009, 10:21 am
News reports are informing us of the probable homicide of a federal Census worker in Kentucky.
And early reports are mentioning in conjunction with this likely murder the word 'feds” hanging from a placard around the victim's neck. AP coverage includes other anti-government violence–including the worst case of domestic terrorism prior to 9/11–the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. That bombing, for which Tim McVeigh was tried, convicte
*Will Obama Bail Out Gray Ladies of the Press? - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 24, 2009, 3:21 pm
I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.
Those were President Obama's words in an interview with editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade. The President was explaining his openness to a federal bailout of struggling big-city daily newspape
*I'll Stand with Israel, Mr. President - FRC.org - Web Log Sep 24, 2009, 2:58 pm
Yesterday, President Barack Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and called for the creation of a 'viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967.” There is so much wrong with this statement and so much danger encapsulated in it. Aaron Klein (WorldNetDaily) provides key analysis of the speech in this piece.
Particularly alarming is this paragraph from Klein's article:
Obama’s reference yesterday to 'oc
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On Thursday, I testified at a legislative forum on behalf of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA). Also testifying were Professor Teresa Collett, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and local pro-life activist Missy Smith. Five Members of Congress were at the hearing and about 20 members of the media and congressional staff were present.
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