David Hockney may disagree, given the place’s importance as a pioneering New World tobacco trade port, but the quiet and pleasing north Devon town of Bideford seems to have played only a modest role thus far in the long march of English freedom. Yet following high court judgment in the dispute between Clive Bone, a [...]
Well, as a political activist I’m acquainted with both justice and injustice: I’ve seen justice done, and I’ve also seen the innocent wrongfully convicted and the guilty getting away with it. Thankfully this blogpost is an occasion to celebrate justice being done! I congratulate Michael Overd on his acquittal on both charges brought against him [...]
You must log in to view and comment on this article… OTTAWA, Ontario, February 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life organizations across Canada are urging support for a historic motion tabled in Parliament Monday seeking to launch an inquiry into the humanity of the unborn. The motion, by Tory MP Stephen Woodworth (Kitchener Centre), seeks to [...]
Click here to advertise in this spot on CatholicCulture.org. Obama ‘compromise’ angers pro-life activists; USCCB response muted February 10, 2012 From Our Store: Witness of Suffering (eBook) Seeking to defuse a political uproar over mandatory coverage of contraception and sterilization in health-care insurance programs, the White House has announced an amended policy, portraying it as [...]
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Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned veteran (I won’t say “old-timer”), taking a learning styles quiz will help you understand and build a curriculum around your children’s learning styles. As we all know, homeschooling is not just a method of education, it’s a lifestyle. We [...]
(AP) OLYMPIA, Wash. Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, saying it was a violation of the [...]
How to locate a Loved ones Law Attorney http://familylawyerlondon.co.uk/images/parents_rights_Children.jpg Speaking with children legislation lawyer is often a difficult selection to generate. But even harder is knowing whom to employ when legal counsel is needed. A lot of people feel eager and employ the very first loved ones regulation attorney they be in the device Guide. [...]
RollingStone.com (blog)Religion and Politics Clash Over Birth Control MandateKPTM-TVThe mandate touched a political firestorm. Catholics say the mandate is an affront to their religious values. Women’s health advocates say it’s about fairness. “The core of this debate is about religious liberty. It’s about the First Amendment and the …Political Wisdom: Obama’s Political Storm Over Birth [...]
The Source of the Problem in the Mid East — Part II Why Judeo-Christians Support War by C. E. Carlson The French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote Democracy in America when he traveled here in the first third of the 19th Century. In ringing tones he sang the praises of America’s invulnerable strength and spirit. [...]
Deadline looms for dozens of New York city churches. Dozens of New York City churches will find themselves locked out of church this Sunday as Mayor Bloomberg makes good on his promise to evict religious institutions. The city of New York is prepared to make good on its threat to forbid approximately 60 churches and [...]
Public school teaching about Christianity and Bible is appropriate When it comes to religion in public education, Americans struggle between aspects of the First Amendment forbidding establishment of religion (government sanctioning religion) and prohibiting government from hindering the free exercise of religion (government rules of worship or non-worship). What is important in education is making [...]
KAGIN’S COLUMN Edwin F. Kagin is a lawyer‑poet. He believes that, through grace and faith, this will be a regular column and, if events are predestined, that whatever he believes makes no difference whatsoever. He can be reached in care of this publication, or through e‑mail at: edwin@edwinkagin.com Permission for non-profit reproduction is [...]
A Nigerian newspaper on Tuesday published a warning from Boko Haram, the Islamist movement styled on the Taliban, that Christians “had three days to get out of northern Nigeria”. Since the expiry of that ultimatum, attacks in towns in four states in northeastern Nigeria have left at least 44 people dead and hundreds of Christians [...]
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami is absolutely spot-on in his commentary on today’s much-ballyhooed ”compromise” on the HHS contraception mandate: “I think [Obama's] punting, just kicking the can down the road. . . . He’s hasn’t really addressed our concerns. I think the only thing to do is . . . to take back the whole [...]
ICC Note: “Coptic Christians in Rhode Island told their Christian neighbors about the suffering their friends and relatives have endured in Egypt in the aftermath of the Jan. 25, 2011 uprising that resulted in the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak,” The Algemeiner reports. 1/30/2012 Egypt (The Algemeiner) – Coptic Christians in Rhode Island told [...]
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All of this political mumbo jumbo and getting excited by who is more conservative, or who is pro-life, or who is the better candidate to defend the Constitution means NOTHING if when Tribulation, Persecution or sudden death comes, you and I have NO OIL or no Seal of Approval from God, that you and I [...]
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Friday, stressed the need for an effective state and church collaboration, to address issues of national interest for the ultimate benefit of the nation. He expressed appreciation to the clergy and the Christian community for their participation in this year’s national week of prayer and thanksgiving, as well as [...]
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Michael Hagerty has been named news director for KUNR 88.7 FM – Reno Public Radio. He comes to KUNR from his position as senior producer and news director for KNPB-TV Public Television in Reno, bringing to the job more than a decade of public radio and public television experience. He holds a [...]
As the horrific “kill-the-gays” bill resurfaces in Uganda, Republican politicians deny connections, but their rhetoric is frighteningly similar. Posted by N4CM Features 11 Feb 2012 By Kristin Rawls | 7 February 2012CNBC.com Uganda’s notorious “kill-the-gays” bill, supported by some far-right Christian advocates in United States, was placed back on the Ugandan Parliament’s schedule for a [...]
THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPASSION IN EXERCISING OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOM SCRIPTURE READINGS: Lev 13:1-2.44-46; 1 Cor 10:31 – 11:1; Mk 1:40-45 The theme of today’s liturgy is on the question of how we should exercise our Christian freedom. If we were to appreciate the message of the second reading of St Paul’s letter to the [...]
The News media exploded in anger recently when it learned that pro-abortion Planned Parenthood would lose funding from a large contributor. Recently the “Susan G Komen for the Cure” group pulled grant funding from Planned Parenthood. The evil Planned Parenthood is under investigation to find out if grant funds have been used to fund abortions. [...]
WASHINGTON – What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal. But that didn’t keep the Obama administration from landing in a political mess over a side issue to a new policy that will soon make contraceptives available free of charge as [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is pressuring Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the rest of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working people. Lawmakers agreed in December, after much bickering, on a two-month extension, but that runs out at the [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s opposition is now the divided one. For three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast the president’s new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees as an attack on individual liberty. The contentious issue united recently fractured Republicans, Catholic bishops and religious [...]
WASHINGTON – Staggered by Rick Santorum’s surge, Mitt Romney is trying to reset his presidential campaign by defining himself as a strict conservative. The former Massachusetts governor had focused on his business credentials and played down his ideology, four years after he failed in his attempt to win the GOP nomination by running as a [...]
Ron Paul speaks from the balcony of Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen Topside Tavern during a stop in Freeport, Maine. … Rick Santorum’s three-state sweep in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday did more than put a jolt into the 2012 Republican race: It inspired Mitt Romney to visit Maine. Ahead of the announcement on Saturday of [...]
SANFORD, Maine – Mitt Romney hoped to avoid a fourth straight election setback Saturday in the GOP presidential nomination race, but feisty Ron Paul could extend that losing streak with a victory in Maine’s caucuses. Romney, the one-time front-runner, stepped up efforts to court Republicans in recent days, reflecting growing concern about the outcome of [...]
SAN DIEGO – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicts that five large states will put Democrats in striking distance of gaining control of the House after the November elections. Pelosi said Friday in San Diego that she expects gains in California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas will leave Democrats only about a half-dozen seats [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican senators who back the Keystone XL pipeline plan to file an amendment that would attach the project to highway funding legislation on Monday, another step in their quest to overturn President Barack Obama’s decision to put the project on hold. The latest congressional push to advance TransCanada’s $7 billion project comes [...]
WASHINGTON – Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. Obama’s compromise [...]
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Written By : William Teach Come on, when this whole contraception fiasco with the Catholic Church (fiasco for Obama) started, you knew in your heart of hearts that some Lefty would tie it in to globull warming, right? Just like most holidays (I blew off any mention of “green” initiatives for the Super Bowl), it [...]
Written By : William Teach While Obama’s budget, which he plans to announce on Monday during what will be a campaign rally, significantly ramps up tax rates for small business owners, he’s looking to pander to corporations (Reuters) President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax rate as early as [...]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress want “to use the excuse of religious freedom” to take an action that will harm women’s health–in rolling back the regulation that will compel all health-care plans to cover sterilizations [...]
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on job creation to employees of Thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in Hamilton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told a conservative gathering in Washington on Thursday that conservative reform is achieved by persistent, methodical steps. In explaining what the [...]
Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah) (CNSNews.com) – Government spending made up 39 percent of the U.S. economy last year, compared to just five percent 100 years ago, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Thursday. For perspective, he cited Norway, where government spending makes up 40 percent of the economy, bankrupt Greece, where government spending is [...]
Medical insurance premiums in the United States are on the rise, the chief architect of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has told The Daily Caller. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber, who also devised former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s statewide health care reforms, is backtracking on an analysis he provided the White House in support [...]
Remember when George Bush caused that hurricane and sent it to destroy New Orleans? And remember how American hero and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin managed to thwart that evil villain? Well, this is the thanks Ray gets: (Reuters) – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colorful and controversial spokesman for the city after [...]
On Friday’s “NewsHour” on PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks had some suggestions for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, particularly after his three-state loss last week in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. “[M]itt Romney is not so great,” Brooks said. “And it’s his weakness, I think, as [...]
Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Fri, February 10th, 2012 6:30 pm Analysis Three years and three months have now passed since California voters amended their state constitution with Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage throughout the state. The first legal challenge began the next day, and others followed — first in state court, then in federal court. [...]
Del. Mike McDermott, an Eastern Shore Republican, suggested introducing the measure as a constitutional amendment, which would be decided directly by the voters. O’Malley urged lawmakers to pass the bill. “People have sent you here to make decisions for them,” he said. “It is best to step up and make the decision.” Opponents opened with [...]
Congressman Chuck Fleischmann commented on President Obama’s decision to “compromise” on his assault against religious freedom. “It is sad that this President, and his Administration, thought it was a good idea to infringe upon the religious rights of so many Americans in the first place. The First Amendment, and the freedom for one to openly [...]
No one, it seems, is lukewarm about Michelle Rhee; she’s a pass-fail figure, inspiring or polarizing. In the name of reforming public schools, the onetime Teach for America teacher, depending on your viewpoint, either trailblazed or bulldozed her way through Washington, D.C.’s school system as its chancellor, closing schools, firing people and raising student scores [...]
Market dynamics work well in so many facets of American life, fostering competition which in turn spurs innovation, adaptation and often, excellence. But public education is not an area where market forces — which by definition create winners and losers — should reign. Maine’s Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen last month unveiled a plan to reconceive [...]
(AFP) – 7 hours ago TEHRAN — Hamas “will never recognise Israel,” Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniya, said Saturday in a speech in Iran that is likely to complicate Palestinian efforts to form a unity government in the teeth of opposition from the Jewish state. “They want us to recognise the Israeli occupation and cease [...]
Adnan’s health has deteriorated since December 30, which prompted Israeli prison officials to move him to a hospital facility. Although he has refused treatment from Israeli doctors, he has been allowed to meet with representatives of the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights, which in a statement expressed “grave concern” about his medical condition, [...]
The saber rattling and war mongering over Iran’s quest for nuclear arms is reaching a fever pitch. Israeli officials like Defense Minister Ehud Barak talk of the necessity of striking Iran before it reaches a “zone of immunity” by further dispersing and burying more of its nuclear facilities under impregnable carapaces of concrete. The strikes [...]