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OBAMA
You couldn't have made Obama's first 80 days up
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/dave/weinbaum.php3?printer_friendly
Obama: America Not Christian - But Islam Shaped It For The Better by Don Feder
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200904144385/culture-wars/obama-america-not-christian-but-islam-shaped-it-for-the-better.html
Obama's Opiate
Let's cut through all of Barack Obama's baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a callow leader with grandiose pretensions bordering on megalomania.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/16/obamas-opiate
Political grandstanding
Obama's announcement was all about politics. It was theatre, a photo op dressed up as a sound bite intended to play to the confusion of the masses on the issue of ESCR.
http://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/2846/40/
Obama, Venezuela's Chavez shake hands at summit
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1736198420090417
USAID asks Obama for huge spike in contraceptives funding
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/04/17/usaid-asks-obama-for-huge-spike-in-contraceptives-funding.html
Too Good To Be True? Obama Iraq Troop Greeting Allegedly Staged
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/04/14/too-good-be-true-obama-troop-greeting-allegedly-staged
Gates hints at changes to ban on gays in military
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gates17-2009apr17,0,3824214.story
Pro-Lifers On the Post Office Wall
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Pro-Lifers-On-the-Post-Office-Wall.html&Itemid=102
Law Center challenges basis of DHS report on right-wing extremist threat
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15687
Thoughtcrime Redux - If you're reading this, chances are you're a terrorist.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/15/thoughtcrime-redux
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)may be even more damaging than even its opponents think.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/15/a-good-time-to-start-liquidati\
Bipartisan team stunned by 'extremism' allegations - 'Veterans, families should not be viewed as a threat'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95317
US to put conditions on Tarp repayment - Strong banks will be allowed to repay bail-out funds they received from the US government but only if such a move passes a test to determine whether it is in the national economic interest, a senior administration official has told the Financial Times.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3bc75b2-2d1a-11de-8710-00144feabdc0.html
OBAMA/NOTRE DAME
Notre Dame Expects Obama to Wear Prayer to Virgin Mary on Chest When He Accepts Honorary Degre
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46844
Obama's 'Notre Shame' PR disaster could cost him millions of Catholic votes
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/04/15/obamas_notre_shame_pr_disaster_could_cost_him_millions_of_catholic_votes
A Blessing for Catholics - Notre Dame and Barack Obama have combined to supply the Church with an opportunity to exercise one of its fundamental missions; to provide the faithful with a true teaching moment.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/15/a-blessing-for-catholics
ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM
The Environmental Protection Agency concluded Friday that greenhouse gases linked to climate change "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KBAC00&show_article=1
Energy Secretary Offers Dire Global Warming Prediction
Speaking at the Summit of the Americas in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Steven Chu says some islands could disappear if water levels rise as a result of greenhouse-gas induced climate change.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/19/energy-secretary-offers-dire-global-warming-prediction/
EPA declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases sent off by cars and many industrial plants "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090417.wclimate0417/BNStory/International/home
Study: many pastors say global warming not man-made
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30279
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25349683-601,00.html
Wish you weren't here
Some top environmentalists say the way to a greener planet is to have fewer people. Is an environmentalism without humanity the answer?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/wish_you_werent_here1/
LIFE ISSUES
Professionals or automatons? Should pharmacists have the right to act according to their consciences, or are they prescription-filling robots?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/professionals_or_automatons/
Conscience Clause Court Victory in Illinois
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/04/conscience-clause-court-victory-in.html
Another Study Showing Adult Stem Cells Get Newly Diagnosed Diabetics Off of Insulin
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/04/another-study-showing-adult-stem-cells.html
Terminal Nonjudgmentalism is Epidemic: Time fetes the Death on Demand Fanatic Philip Nitschke
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/04/terminal-nonjudgmentalism-is-epidemic.html
Between life and death - A Montreal couple is suing a hospital for not allowing their brain-damaged newborn to die. The outcome will deliver important messages about attitudes towards the disabled.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/between_life_and_death/
Brave New World Overlooks Children's Rights
The strange new scenarios made possible by today's reproductive technologies have created an entirely new class of offspring: children intentionally conceived from the gametes of men or women they will never meet and often born into intentionally fatherless or motherless families.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3790/pub_detail.asp
RELIGION
Former doctrinal aids shaping Pope Benedict's papacy
http://ncronline.org/news/former-doctrinal-aids-shaping-pope-benedicts-papacy
Vatican officials reacting carefully to Obama?
So far, the Vatican has kept its distance from the most strident anti-Obama sectors of American Catholic opinion. Many Vatican officials (except, perhaps, the Americans) are favorably inclined toward much of what Obama represents – his multilateralism in foreign policy, his positions on immigration and poverty relief, and his opposition to the Iraq war.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2607
Reacting sharply to a Belgian government statement condemning Pope Benedict's remarks on condoms and AIDS, the Vatican Secretariat of State has issued a public rebuke.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2665
Vatican probes doctrine of leadership of US nuns
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9xb1peMiSzwlCecp0FOWC2tl4KQD97J3GLO0
Cardinal William Levada has ordered a doctrinal review of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The review is separate from the previously announced Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Women Religious
http://catholickey.blogspot.com/2009/04/levada-orders-separate-review-of-lcwr.html
Vatican plans to investigate US Catholic nuns to ensure they are promoting Church teachings on homosexuality and the all-male priesthood.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91583§ionid=3510212
Shakedown: How Catholics Are Getting Ripped Off in the Name of Justice
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1492&Itemid=48
Deus Ex Machina: How to Think About Technology by Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5813&Itemid=121&ed=1
Paraguayan president fathered child while bishop
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2596
James Dobson: We Have Not Raised the White Flag
The media had only reported half of his statement and intentionally left out the rest. What the evangelical leader said that day to his staff was: "Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost all those battles, but God is in control and we are not going to give up now, right?" Dobson explained that the statement to his staff was in reference to the election.
http://christianpost.com/Ministries/Figures/2009/04/james-dobson-we-have-not-raised-the-white-flag-15/index.html
British intellectual A. N. Wilson, who became an atheist two decades ago, has announced his return to the practice of the Christian faith
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2654
Texas Christian U. Cancels Plan for Gay Student Housing
http://christianpost.com/Education/Higher_edu/2009/04/texas-christian-u-cancels-plan-for-gay-student-housing-15/index.html
Banished priest now full-time 'gay rights activist'
Fr. Geoffrey Farrow invited to speak at Dignity USA convention in San Francisco, along with other well-known dissenters from Church teachings
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6e4000c7-94ee-44d6-b175-0dcae86e8418
Harvard Muslim chaplain sees "wisdom" of Islamic death penalty for apostasy
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025694.php
Hindu extremists target Christians, jeopardize India's secularism. Violence of late 2008 not as an isolated series of events, but as part of a long-term drive by Hindu extremists for political domination.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60310
Occult hit: Witches bucking religion trend
WICCA: Leader teaching classes here tries to dispel myth that 'we're satanists and that we belong to the devil'
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/1501781,CST-NWS-witch30.article
BIASED MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Anderson Cooper's gutter mind, mouth
Cooper, a cover boy on the homosexual magazine "The Advocate" and listed as among the most powerful "gays" in the country by OUT magazine,
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95290
MSNBC Again Touts Right-Wing Threat of Violence; Features GOP Logo
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/04/15/msnbc-again-touts-right-wing-threat-violence-features-gop-logo
CNN Smears 'Right Wing' As Nazis
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2009/04/15/cnn-smears-right-wing-nazis
Just When You Think the Big 3 Evening Newscasts Can't Sink Any Lower, They Do
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/04/14/just-when-you-think-big-3-evening-newscasts-cant-sink-any-lower-they-do
MISCELLANEOUS
McCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming 'Religious Party'
Urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/17/mccain-strategist-warns-gop-risks-religious-party/
Parental Rights Amendment Reintroduced in Congress
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/16844/CWA/family/index.htm
Quebec City Summit of the Americas
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/quebecreports.cfm#Police
Home schooler's feature film opens in theaters
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/
Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost - means that women could soon overtake men as the majority of the US labour force.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d28c79d6-2d11-11de-8710-00144feabdc0.html
HOMOSEXUALITY
Let's be candid. Gay marriage is on its way, one way or another, to becoming the law of the land. New Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman says party will no longer oppose same-sex "marriage", abortion, other "social issues"
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/nassour/index.html
Oprah Redefines Normal Once Again
She shamelessly promoted gay adoption, featuring a touching story about a famous author and his "unconventional family."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-brown/2009/04/14/oprah-redefines-normal-once-again
Death threats target opponents of 'gay' promotion - 'Actions of Day of Silence supporters are speaking louder than the silence'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95289
Student resolution objects to 'gay' promotion - 'Day of Silence' described as 'propaganda and intimidation tactic'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95291
Act Quickly To Protect Connecticut from Extreme Pro-"Gay" Bill
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/16851/FIELD/family/index.htm
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