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Many bioethicists want to destroy what remains of the sanctity/equality of human life ethic. Two areas of current push in this regard are the drive to permit infanticide and to harvest organs fro ... discuss

Saving Money This Summer: How to Be Frugal and Still Enjoy Family Fun (More for Less Guides) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: BUDGETING TO SAVE MONEY IN THE SUMMER CHAPTER 2: FINANCIAL LESSO ... discuss

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Some thoughts on Gosnell from Ramesh Ponnuru: The question that should haunt us now is not how many victims Gosnell killed, which we will never know, bu ... discuss

The next two days are destined to stand among the most significant days in our nation’s constitutional history, but the issues at stake reach far beyond the U.S. Constitution. Nothing less than ... discuss

At the Washington Post's She the People blog, Keli Goff wonders if Gosnell could save the pro-choice movement from themselves.While Planned Parenthood applauded the Gosnell verdict, and should be appl ... discuss

       You wouldn't know it from their press release about abortionist Kermit Gosnell's conviction and "justice being served" but NARAL Pro-Choice America opposes a law Gosnel ... discuss

Via Michael Barone at The Examiner: That's the title of New York University Law Professor Richard Epstein's blogpost on the difficulty of implementing Obamacare. It's as good a summary as I've seen of ... discuss

Dr.  Mark Miravalle has written a beautiful piece: The case for defining the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary.Go HERE to read it.http://screen-shots.blogspot.com ... discuss

Source  http://www.knowthelies.com/node/8922There is a growing groundswell within American Republican and Tea Party ranks that impeachment proceedings should be initiated against President Obam ... discuss

  Obamacare Exchanges: Pro-life Business Owners Beware  By Susan T. Musk ... discuss

How does a Democrat respond to revelations of the Benghazi hearings?Elijah Cummings had his "what difference does it make?" moment today. His reaction to the 9/11/12 terrorist attack on our country:EL ... discuss

Washington D.C., May 8, 2013 / 12:08 am (CNA).- Uncertainty over what constitutes coercive “proselytism,” which is barred by military policy, has led to concern and criticism of recent sta ... discuss

Thomas Perez By Nathan Mehrens: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are likely to vote on the nomination of Obama Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez this week, and their vo ... discuss

Anglican bishops in West Indies denounce Obama blackmail over gay 'marriage' by George Conger ... discuss

This post constitutes Part III of a response to a recent article written by Michael Coughlin. In this post, I address Coughlin's fourth major point of criticism, which is that AHA makes too much of t ... discuss

Today in Washington, D.C. - April 29, 2013 The House is in recess until tomorrow April 30, 2012 at 2 PM The Senate is in recess until Monday, May 6th; WARNING when it returns they will vote on S. 743 ... discuss

From the Time Tribune: Dramas bring Easter to life The apostle Peter sang his welcome to the audience in the darkened hall at the Rock Church Worship Center during dress rehearsals last week for the c ... discuss

Stuff Christians Say” obviously struck a nerve; it has racked up tens of thousands of views on YouTube and hundreds of thousands on GodTube. Two guys hop between various locations while offering ... discuss

"Democracy:Involves the government ruling and making laws for the "greater good" of all people, they may abolish personal rights in doing so.  Democracy is government by and for the people.&nb ... discuss

The most horrific murder trial of the 21st Century involving the defining bioethical issue of our age is going on in Philadelphia, and the media - particularly the left-leaning media - are not coverin ... discuss

Click here to subscribe to The Social Conservative Review. Dear Friends: In recent days, major media outlets have been highlighting politicians who, while once supportive of marriage as it always has ... discuss

I had an article in the Weekly Standard last week warning that the international ruling class wants to “define torture down” to include mere policy differences with those favored by t ... discuss

The root of the GOP’s problem now is the same as that of the Democrats in 1969: the party’s reputation has been ruined by a botched, unnecessary war — Vietnam in the case of the Democrats, Ira ... discuss

Actually, they were trying to praise Francis at Benedict's expense, but wound up making Francis sound small and petty, thus trashing both men with their lies.Elizabeth Scalia has the story. Read it th ... discuss

On March 26 and 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, they will cons ... discuss

Evidently theres a potential showdown between the Vatican and some of our more notable Catholic politicians who enthusiastically promote abortion:  http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-d ... discuss

GOOD news.  Sudan and South Sudan on Friday, 08 March 2013, signed an agreement for practical implementation of the security agreements, which the two countries signed in September last year.&nb ... discuss

by Ward Ricker "Abortion is a defining human-rights issue of our time,"  according to Speaker of the House John Boehner. And yet most recognized "human rights" organizations do not stand up again ... discuss

The other day my 10 year-old son asked me who Pope Benedict was and why it was a big deal he was retiring. After admonishing myself about not talking to my children about this, we discussed the ideals ... discuss

Today, the Pro Life Campaign launched a recently commissioned Millward Brown opinion poll, which was carried out on various pro-life issues including current medical practice on the treatment of women ... discuss

Ireland is on the brink of legalising abortion. The Government says it plans to legislate early in 2013, and abortions will then be carried out in Ireland for the first time. This is a truly chil ... discuss

Mary, Exterminatrix of Heresies.  But since Mary is the perfect type of the Church, we can also think of this as an image of the Church defending us with Truth.Some months ago, in this space, we ... discuss

Denver, Colo., Jan 26, 2013 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Around 200 opponents of a Colorado civil unions bill rallied at the state capitol Jan. 25, warning that the legislation not only redefines marr ... discuss

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that invalidated all state prohibitions against abortion and made it a constitutionally protected act. More than 50 million ... discuss

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that invalidated all state prohibitions against abortion and made it a constitutionally protected act. More than 50 million ... discuss

Homosexual activists have mounted a petition drive—right on the White House website—urging the Obama administration to “officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group ... discuss

“For almost three hundred years, agriculture was the major livelihood of most residents of the American South, and the rural lifestyle was the shared experience that tied together a region that ... discuss

Benedict XVI addresses the Curia in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican (Photo: CNS) Dear Cardinals, Brother Bishops and Priests, Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is with great joy that I mee ... discuss

President Obama is looking for a new Secretary of Defense and he’s looking for a Republican. Great news, right? Well, not if your first priority is the security of Israel. The President is cons ... discuss

Word earlier this month from the U.S. Supreme Court of its intent, during the current session, to review the constitutionality of both the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s marriage a ... discuss

By David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Right to Life A determined, one-sided media together with a sequence of most unfortunate statements by candidates created a  “perfect stor ... discuss

But I Like Reality…. by Seton Motley, Brietbart.com: Tech companies spend trillions of dollars to build and maintain, expand and improve their Internet networks. Broadband industry has invested ... discuss

Address at the Catholic Life Congress in Philadelphia on Nov. 17.  From The National Catholic RegisterBy Archbishop Charles Chaput  My comments today will be simple. I want to focus o ... discuss

I may be coming to the conclusion that going over the so-called fiscal cliff could be the right thing to do, not for the strategic political advantage some may see, but as a reasonable, practical step ... discuss

Liturgically, the Christmas season is still five weeks and change away; we’re not even into Advent yet.  Alas, we’re governed by the marketing calendar, which begins to push us to buy fo ... discuss

In praise of standing your ground for what you know is right From the New York Post By Kyle Smith Winston Churchill has his fans on the left. President John F. Kennedy, who was fascinated by hi ... discuss

President Obama won the 2012 presidential election by accumulating some of the most one-sided electoral constituencies in modern political history...Rather than offer a broad sweeping vision for the c ... discuss

Maureen Condic, Life: Defining the Beginning by the EndSynopsis:From conception forward, human embryos clearly function as whole living organisms. They are not mere collections of cells like those on ... discuss

Mad Men Being Purged by Contributing Author Ralph Benko and Co-author Andresen Blom: The American electorate, in an act of magnificently creative destruction, just purged the Republican Party of the ... discuss

excerpt from http://www.sodahead.com/living/does-the-decline-of-western-civilization-mirror-the-fall-of-ancient-rome/question-2650231/      In a 1993 journal article titled "De ... discuss

In their latest hit-piece on Human Life International (HLI) over at the RH Reality Check website, the author completely disregards reality in order to rile up hatred against HLI and pro-lifers in gene ... discuss

The following article was written by Paul Russell, the Executive Director of HOPE: preventing euthanasia & assisted suicide and is Vice Chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Internationa ... discuss

On Tuesday, Dennis Prager made a comment on his radio program that without dogma (specifically religious dogma) there can be no rational argument against selfishness and cruelty. A young man called in ... discuss

What now my loves? Some young Pro-Lifers, like Jason Jones, think it's time to think outside the box. Roe v. Wade won't get overturned. However, personhood initiatives have "across the aisle" appeal. ... discuss

If Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone and others are right and Mitt Romney is our next president, we moral conservatives cannot take our foot off the gas. We cannot let up in our ad ... discuss

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kerrey's memory must be going bad.  He also doesn't seem to understand the ban that got overturned was a state ban, not a federal one.Kerrey acknowledges that ... discuss

by Jonathon van Maren November 1, 2012 (Unmaskingchoice.ca) - One of the defining characteristics of our age—and our generation—seems to be that we have attained the dubious distinction of opting ... discuss

Last month saw the release of Thabiti Anyabwile’s most recent book The Life of God in the Soul of the Church. I had the privilege of reading the book well before publication and for some time no ... discuss

Brothers and sisters, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:7). Before returning to our particular Churches, we, Bishops of the whole world gath ... discuss

If you haven't seen the controversial Barack Obama ad, "Your First Time," perhaps you should. It gives some insight into how the abortion president and his campaign think. Viewer discretion advised. b ... discuss

In discussions with Baptists, statistics are sometimes brought forth that supposedly refute infant baptism. They point out all the people who been baptized but do not live as Christians when ... discuss

The New York Times marvels at the way Mitt Romney talks. At a campaign stop in Rockford, Ill., not long ago, Mitt Romney sought to convey his feelings for his wife, Ann. “Smitten,” he said. Not me ... discuss

Debt Per Individual: $51,366 - Editor's Rant: Each of my grandchildren currently owe  through no fault of their own and the debt continues to increases daily.  This is unfathomable.  ... discuss

Download Audio MP3 | 00:33:39 Josh and Gabi discuss the difference between moral relativism and libertarianism, in response to a pro-choice blogger who thinks we confused the two in a recent epis ... discuss

Permanent Spin Author: Stephen F. Hayes, Senior Writer, The Weekly Standard, 1Oct12, Vol. 18, No. 03 article source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/permanent-spin_652887.html For nine ... discuss

Should we protect or shelter our children? Everybody has a different opinion on this, and we’d have to begin with defining terms. What do we mean by protect or shelter? I’m just going to s ... discuss

Dear Pastors,I wanted to take a few minutes out of my extremely busy schedule to personally thank you for your valued support and continued cooperation.  I can’t emphasize enough the importance ... discuss

BY MARY ANN HAAS The time to rally for Religious Freedom is now! The time has come to double down in the fight for religious freedom. And the November election is our defining moment to reversing thi ... discuss

Publicity still from Yellow According to director Nick Cassavetes, incest is “super-weird” ... but ultimately no real problem. Cassavetes, whose new movie Yellow centers on a sexual relat ... discuss

Every Christian parent longs for his children to trust in Christ and to make this profession public. In Baptist churches such a profession is made public through baptism. One of the ongoing discussion ... discuss

Truer words have never been said. What Obama declared shortly before the 2008 election that "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" has proven to be sp ... discuss

What is the Number One Cause of Death in The United States?   " Auschwitz in America "  Socialist Origins of Neo-Nazism (Llewellyn H. Rockwel ... discuss

As the Republican National Convention kicked off a couple weeks ago in Florida, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Joel Brinkley, criticized the GOP platform on abortion, calling it the most restricti ... discuss

As the Republican National Convention kicked off a couple weeks ago in Florida, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Joel Brinkley, criticized the GOP platform on abortion, calling it the most restricti ... discuss

In his piece titled Are Republicans Fooling Themselves?, Stanley Kurtz offers a sound warning and some solid advice for the GOP that Team Romney would do well to act on if they want to win this electi ... discuss

By Patrick J. Buchanan  "No platform celebrating homosexual marriage and backing a woman's right to abort her child at any time in her pregnancy can be credibly adopted by a party that also ... discuss

"Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished his record. Othe ... discuss

HT/Lydia Freedom is the only issue facing Americans by Star Parker on September 3, 2012 · 0 comments      Print This Post Star Parker The ... discuss

The political parties throw a lot of glitz at us with their made-for-TV spectaculars, which we call conventions. But the bottom line defining the choice facing Americans this year is stark and clear, ... discuss

Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333 CHICAGO This week, a bipartisan group of 11 members of the Illinois General Assembly filed an amicus curiae brief defending the constitutionality of Illinois la ... discuss

As we close out this historic month of August, 2012, I can’t help but comment on a very sad day that marked the start of a new moment in American history. The infamous “contraceptive mandate” be ... discuss

Getting up into the volkswagen new scirocco. Even the volkswagen new scirocco for 11.3s. All in, the volkswagen new scirocco be anything but a Golf. Inside, the volkswagen new scirocco is more definin ... discuss

Last night (Wednesday), Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan was in the spotlight as the featured keynote speaker who spoke to the Nation at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL. Pau ... discuss

Ross Douthat via the National Catholic Register: Romney in particular, is a vindication of my premise. Mormonism is the defining American heresy. I think of it as a heresy of Christianity — partly t ... discuss

A defining visual of Obama's presidency is the bow. He has made a habit of bowing before foreign and some domestic leaders. It's disturbing to say the least. It's highly inappropriate, but apparently ... discuss

Phyllis Schlafly by Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum: Chris Christie might not care about the platform, but no one can deny the importance of 50 state parties sending representatives to affirm the p ... discuss

Abortion is commonly defined as the “termination of a pregnancy” (or a “termination of a pregnancy prior to viability”).  This may suffice in certain limited contexts in which only the me ... discuss

Matt Gurney from the National Post regarding Todd Akin's comments: He was attempting to differentiate between sex crimes that resulted in a completed act of vaginal intercourse between a man and ... discuss

Ron Panzer Below is the third and final part in Ron Panzer's essay Stairway of Life. I trust you will find it as enlightening and thought-provoking as I did. MDP Stairway of Life Part 3 What h ... discuss

Conn Carroll, Beltway Confidential, The Examiner: A federal appeals court upheld Texas’ right not to give Planned Parenthood taxpayer money Tuesday, a blow to the abortion provider's bottom line. ... discuss

Contact: Erin McClellan, OCP, 503-460-5363 PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Catholic music icon, Dan Schutte (OCP) is best known for his genre-defining Christian prayer and wors ... discuss

What was he thinking? Obviously, not at all! Snuggling up to the Muslim Brotherhood was a really dumb idea ... from the get go. He should have known ... or, being so Muslim friendly, he did and he an ... discuss

by Karla Dial, Citizen Link: As political animals from both major parties prepare for their national conventions over the next two weeks, platform committees are adopting language that defines the dif ... discuss

by Karla Dial, Citizen Link: As political animals from both major parties prepare for their national conventions over the next two weeks, platform committees are adopting language that defines the dif ... discuss

A couple of days after Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, I posted on a comment Brandon Vogt had gotten on Facebook: “So not allowing certain individuals rights based on a religious viewpoint is not d ... discuss

I have been reading Jerry Bridges’ The Disciplines of Grace, a wonderful book that takes a deep looking at God’s role and the Christian’s role in the pursuit of holiness. Chapter two ... discuss

Found through a ProWomenProLife blogpost "When Doctors Get Political":"More than 250 delegates to the Canadian Medical Association's annual general council meeting Wednesday supported maintaining a se ... discuss

from Jill Stanek.com  by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jil ... discuss

By Alliance Defending Freedom Litigation Counsel, Holly Carmichael Shortly after a Hawaii District Court judge issued the opinion in Jackson v. Abercrombie, I spoke with a reporter about the decision. ... discuss

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Big Blue Wave r ... discuss

A new study demonstrates a connection between the Earth’s surrounding magnetic field and the convection of material in the Earth’s mantle. The mantle is the plastic layer of heated rock surroundin ... discuss

When Mitt Romney selected the Catholic Paul Ryannning mate, he probably thought it would lock in “the Catholic vote” in one neat move.He couldn’t possibly understand that what heR ... discuss

I’m going to be working early this week. But we can start off with some verse. “An atheist” abandons (silliness) doesn’t mean they all do. Next … maybe they’ll c ... discuss

When Paul Ryan first ran for Congress in 1998, he was a very young 28 — boyish and eager.   He came to a Wisconsin Right to Life interview with his clean-cut button-down shirt and fresh approa ... discuss

Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan as his running mate. There are probably few men as vilified by the left as Paul Ryan. Even the nuns on the rock star bus went after him on their luxury tour around the ... discuss

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An interesting reasoning that Judge Alan Kay used to uphold the law (emphasis mine). HONOLULU (BP) — A federal court has refused to legalize gay marriage in Hawaii, ruling the issue is best addr ... discuss

What happened in Kansas? Eight moderate Republicans got a retirement party on Tuesday in Kansas. One incumbent was Sen. Tim Owens, chairman of the Senate Reapportionment Committee, an important legisl ... discuss

Who advocates the destruction of traditional society and the nation? You’d be surprised. We hardly bat an eye when we read that Neo-Communists, including followers of mass murderer and totalitar ... discuss

With the presidential cycle upon us, it is becoming painfully clear that we need to sit everyone down and explain language to them. This means YOU if you watch FoxNews, MSNBC, read Reddit, or basical ... discuss

As I watch the back-and-forth between the Vatican and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), I’m struck by how the two sides are defining the concept of dialogue and its role in resolv ... discuss

< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> source: http://taoffc.com/current_issues.htm "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to ... discuss

With some of the gimmicky styling devices we see elsewhere in the volkswagen jetta mpg. The E-Up! should offer a range of around 80 miles from a 2.5-litre oil burner to campaign with, the Touareg can' ... discuss

Just a few days ago, I acquired my own copy of a book I remember from childhood (not, alas, from Catholic school): the silver jubilee edition of My Catholic Faith, by Bishop Louis Laravoire Morrow, S. ... discuss

This post was brought to my attention by pro-choice tweeter @heather_parker during a discussion on the rights of the zygote/embryo/fetus (ZEF) vs. the rights of the mother. The blog is called Antigone ... discuss

Click here to subscribe to The Social Conservative Review. Dear Friends, This week’s massive Indian blackout demonstrates again how reliant all of us are on an intricate and largely unseen web ... discuss

I am sure that you are aware of the uproar over the Chick-Fil-A controversy on traditional marriage versus homosexual marriage.  It has been on the news, on blogs and all over Facebook. Word has ... discuss

Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood would like you to think they are fighting for women by opposing draconian measures promoted by republicans against women’s health.  In actuality, the cau ... discuss

WASHINGTON, D.C. (08-01-12) – “As Obamacare’s anti-life, conscience-killing mandate goes into effect today, we are seeing the Obama Administration completely and callously trample Americans ... discuss

No longer a looming deadline, the Obama Administration’s anti-life, conscience-killing mandate goes into effect today.  Your First Amendment guarantee of freedom of conscience is taking a hit, rega ... discuss

This is the eighth installment in a series on theological terms. See previous posts on the terms theology, Trinity, creation, man, Fall, common grace, and sin. p>p>First and foremost, righteousness is ... discuss

Got our last shot at a family summer vacation recently, which is why I’ve been quiet around here. Niagara Falls was wonderful. Thanks for asking. And actually it wasn’t the entire family. ... discuss

Mike Huckabee, the conservative former governor of Arkansas and one-time presidential candidate, started a group on Facebook recently to declare Aug. 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.” It is an eff ... discuss

By Francis Cardinal George, OMI Recent comments by those who administer our city seem to assume that the city government can decide for everyone what are the “values” that must be held by ... discuss

Ross Douthat, the only truly conservative NYT op/ed columnist (which may be why he usually runs on the back page of the Sunday opinion section), echoed much of what I have written here and elsewhere ... discuss

After a week of ignoring and avoiding all things digital, I’m back online. I didn’t keep up with blogs or other web sites while I was away, so went through hundreds of archived posts yeste ... discuss

It seems that small diesel engines have a hatchback. That's why the volkswagen jetta 1.8t a remarkable machine. It feels every bit the volkswagen jetta 1.8t but made tellingly better in a creamy, quie ... discuss

Brethren: Peace and Good to all of you. Medieval engraving showing Christian and Jewish scholars engaged in discussion. I've been reading lately several works on textual, form, literary, and histor ... discuss

article source: http://www.hoover.org/print/publications/defining-ideas/article/123236July 24, 2012, defining ideas Will Banning Guns Prevent Another Aurora? by Richard A. Epstein (Peter an ... discuss

Top story:SPUC welcomes new Catholic archbishop of GlasgowSPUC has welcomed the appointment of Bishop Philip Tartaglia as the new Catholic archbishop of Glasgow. John Smeaton, SPUC’s chief execut ... discuss

It's as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled "potato" and pardoned Richard Ni ... discuss

Chivalry: An Ancient Code We Desperately Need NowWas Obama's Anti-Business Gaffe a "Defining Moment" of the Campaign?Sweeping the Ft. Hood Massacre Under the RugHe's An Absolute Failure. So Why Is Oba ... discuss

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Does Everybody Have A God?     What do we love? What do we place our hope in? What do we value? The way that we answer these questions will usually help flesh out our god. In other ... discuss

Pat Sajak: It’s as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled “potatoR ... discuss

by Thaddeus Baklinski WARSAW, July 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Poland’s Bishops’ Conference and numerous pro-life and pro-family groups have denounced a Council of Europe convention that ... discuss

President Obama's remarks in Roanoke, VA last week may be remembered as a pivotal moment in the 2012 campaign. It is this line that has touched; "If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. S ... discuss

Disturbing Pictures and Child Labor Law Reforms:At the dawn of the 20th century, the U.S. National Child Labor Committee was established to end then rampant child labor abuses.  The 1900 census e ... discuss

A group of young pro-lifers are using a defining campaign of the old pro-abortion movement to spread the message that abortion kills unborn babies across Canada. In 1970, a group of pro-abortion femin ... discuss

So I finally did it.  I sat down and read le="color: #666666;">The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil.  And while many question Kurzweil's calculations, and his unbounded optimism abou ... discuss

The Romney campaign is out with a new ad that's short and simple uses Obama's 2008 address to argue that the president today is running precisely the kind of negative, dishonest, evasive, and petty ca ... discuss

Bill Smith, Editorial Comment: The following article sums up the Initiated Acts being proposed "state-wide" in Arkansas. Other states also have state-wide initiated issues. I am very interested in k ... discuss

Hmm. I wonder why I'm humming bits of Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" this morning.Could it be because I'm thinking about Russia's and China's increasing bullying of the U.S.? Is it because I've also been ... discuss

Yesterday, I posted an article on the newest phenomenon in the publishing world. Today I want to explore the reasons fueling the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey, and examine why we as believers sho ... discuss

A group of young pro-lifers are using a defining campaign of the old pro-abortion movement to spread the message that abortion kills unborn babies across Canada. In 1970, a group of pro-abortion femin ... discuss

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Techology/Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division released a report this past winter.  In it they claim “more than 2,600 terrorist events ... discuss

The recent unconscionable ruling of the Supreme Court by non other than Chief Justice John Roberts, imposing upon us all by his judicial fiat the yoke of Obama's onerous taxation to pay for his Obamac ... discuss

Examples of what START considers to be “right-wing” include “groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the ... discuss

The National Education Association is reinventing itself after they have had a significant drop in membership over the last several years, The Huffington Post reports.  The NEA expects a loss of ... discuss

A couple of weeks ago I chronicled my boredom with media, with our talking-head culture, and most particularly with the predictability of what passes for punditry, these days. Most of the people to wh ... discuss

The commerce clause of the constitution is not nearly as big a grey area as politicians, especially progressives, would have us believe. Whatever it really means, it’s going to be affected in a ... discuss

The next time you hear an abortion rights activist quip that the unborn fetus is not a human being or not a human person, or just a fish or more like an animal than a human baby, or nothing but a para ... discuss

Some people won’t donate organs because they are afraid organ transplant doctors might accidently take their organs while they are still alive. That’s just silly. They do take the organs while ... discuss

Remember that the fifth generation Volkswagen Golf with a new Golf that looks ever so slightly different to the volkswagen passat service. But whether this BlueMotion Tech version, and can see its mer ... discuss

Today in Washington, D.C. - June 20, 2012: The White House and Dept. of Justice: Today, the President Obama asserts executive privileged over documents from the DOJ requested by the House Oversight ... discuss

By A.F. Branco - Obama Has Your Back Today in Washington, D.C. - June 19, 2012: The Senate reconvened and resumed consideration of the farm bill, S. 3240.  At 2:15, under a unanimous consent a ... discuss

Gary Glenn Midland, Mich. -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn received word by mail Saturday that his candidacy has been endorsed by Right to Life of Michigan. Glenn has for twelve yea ... discuss

By David AltonJesuit Institute Conference – June 13th 2012Catholic Culture – an impossible dream?I will divide my talk which is entitled “Catholic culture and Catholic identity – is it wo ... discuss

On Facebook, Diane of Te-Deum bloghref="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2012/06/14/amanpour-vatican-radical-feminists-b.cnn">this interview between Christiane Amanpour and Sister Joan C ... discuss

On Facebook, Diane of Te-Deum bloghref="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2012/06/14/amanpour-vatican-radical-feminists-b.cnn">this interview between Christiane Amanpour and Sister Joan C ... discuss

J.C. Ryle’s Holiness is a classic work that bears repeated readings. Recently I returned to his chapter on sanctification, a term that he defines as “an inward spiritual work which the Lor ... discuss

I would like today, to really examine in greater depth, our understanding of what marriage actually is - where we get our understanding of marriage - even aside from the Bible - and how that understan ... discuss

ZENIT - Cardinal Ouellet: Let Us Rejoice at Fruitfulness of Vatican II: "Leading up to the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Dublin, Ireland, a theological symposium at Maynooth opened Wednesd ... discuss

Man’s Relationship with Woman“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 Here we see the institution of mar ... discuss

This letter is great.The writer, a Wisconsin taxpayer, states why Governor Scott Walker won the recall election by such a large margin. The Leftists chose their fate. Their collective hissy fit was de ... discuss

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made Mitt Romney’s day by declaring “the private sector is doing fine” and opening himself to the accusation that he — not ... discuss

by Ben Johnson SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, June 6, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to review a three-judge panel’s decision that California̵ ... discuss

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The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age–and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, a ... discuss

CHICAGO, June 5, 2012 /Christian Newswire -- This Friday, June 8 at noon local time across the country, tens of thousands of Americans in over 150 cities coast to coast will take to the streets in pub ... discuss

One DemocCath / ObamaCath hack doesn't think too highly of the "Test of Fire" election ad put out by Catholics Called to Witness, and displays an all-too-common ignorance regarding the Church's teachi ... discuss

Sunless tanning in treatment styles are more likely risk-free for pregnant women since they don’t really need to go exterior for sunrays taking a bath or even be open with Ultraviolet rays by UV ... discuss

A Filipino boxer is banned from a shopping mall because of his public statements about biblical teaching on marriage. A lesbian parishioner demands the removal of a priest who denied her communion at ... discuss

[o'mature/o'adult thematic -- rfh] bcc'd "o'reach-around",  "red diaper babies", fellow travelers & RINOs   In the words of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, "He (o'Marxist) doesn't ... discuss

Ralph Benko by Ralph Benko, Contributing Author: The 2012 presidential election is shaping up to include an argument over opportunity versus equality. The American economy has been stagnant for a ... discuss

Two major pro-homosexual rights groups in Illinois filed lawsuits Wednesday hoping to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. With the state government unlikely to defend its law defining marriage ... discuss

Warning! Rather lengthy post ahead! :) Making up for the weekend's lack of posts, hehe! :) Please do read it till the end though! :) Thanks! :) God bless yah!I failed to post here last weekend for the ... discuss

Archbishop Lori delivers an address on the Obama administration's assault on religious liberty. The Archbishop of Baltimore, William Lori, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc ... discuss

“It’s the economy, stupid” was the gem of political eloquence that came out of the Clinton years. The wisdom contained in this little aphorism is that when times are tough, aspiring officeholder ... discuss

So much for Barry's "conscience clause"...he really was lying about that, and the fact that whoever likes their coverage can keep it.The president of the nation’s conference of Catholic bishops sa ... discuss

by Calvin Freiburger MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, May 24, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Minnesota Catholic Conference has condemned attempts to “divide” Catholics in the state after three retired Catho ... discuss

by Tony Perkins, FRC, Washington Udate: Nothing seems to stand in the way of President Obama's political agenda--not Congress, not the Constitution, and certainly not the church. When he ordered faith ... discuss

Part of our critic Savrola’s issue with us paleos is that he doesn’t like our debating style. He can speak for himself, but I take it he thinks it is too cerebral, too nice and not effect ... discuss

Washington D.C. – Not surprisingly, the country’s oldest pro-abortion political organization, NARAL, threw their weight behind the current occupant of the White House last week. The group’s sta ... discuss

1992 was a year of disappointing setbacks for pro-life Americans. When most observers thought the Supreme Court was on the verge of overruling its 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, a ... discuss

If your basis for defining marriage is the “feelings” and “love” of the interested parties, then no coherent intellectual argument can be made to define numbers of wives or hus ... discuss

On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 by Gerhard O. FordeMy rating: 5 of 5 starsForde’s book titled, “On Being a Theologian of the ... discuss

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) by Ralph Benko, Contributing Author: Would you happily sign an IOU for $126,000 to allow Barack Obama to keep his Big Spender status goi ... discuss

Volunteers collect over 27,000 signatures for US Senate race -- more than Hoekstra, Durant, and Hekman, who paid staff to gather signatures Gary Glenn LANSING, Mich. – Republican U.S. Senate c ... discuss

Our Lord in His infinite grace continues to crown those the Alliance Defense Fund legal team and its allies are blessed to serve with crucial, far-reaching victories across the U.S. and around the wor ... discuss

No one likes to lose, even at Tic-Tac-Toe or flipping a coin. The phrase, “Heads I win, tails you lose,” describes those who attempt to use trickery to prevent losing to their opponents. It also i ... discuss

Mitt Romney gave a commencement address at Liberty University over the weekend. K-Lo liked it, and folks in my email stream did too. She called it an important address about religious liberty. Meh. I ... discuss

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman May 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A bill has been approved by the Argentinean National Congress permitting individuals to change their “gender identity” at will ... discuss

Perhaps the most difficult word in Christendom to define is Evangelical. Just what is an Evangelical? Dr. Kevin Bauder of Central Theological Seminary, right here in the Twin Cities, recently contrib ... discuss

Although I'm not surprised at all by this, I see it as an act of desperation by Barry.  He needed to make sure he had the far left in his corner for November,  and it was clear that even the ... discuss

Glenn calls for end to taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood Gary Glenn Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn Wednesday called for an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood’s “wa ... discuss

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The prophet Isaiah reminds us that you should never forget “the rock from which you are hewn.”And in the Book of Deuteronomy we are told to “remember the days of old; consider the generations lo ... discuss

When the people have the chance to vote on marriage, they have voted in favor of preserving traditional marriage every time.  An overwhelming majority, 61% to 39%  voted in favor of amending ... discuss

By MARTHA WAGGONER RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, becoming the lat ... discuss