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McCain assailed for opposing adoptions by gays. NEW YORK - Advocates for gay and lesbian parents are denouncing Sen. John McCain, an adoptive father himself, for opposing adoptions by gays, which prompted his presidential campaign to clarify Tuesday that he does not seek a federal ban on the practice. Only one state, Florida, outlaws adoptions by gays, which have become commonplace in much of the nation. The Republican nominee-in-waiting was asked for his views on the subject in an interview published Sunday in The New York Times. "I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don't believe in gay adoption," McCain replied. "Sen. McCain's expressed his personal preference for children to be raised by a mother and a father wherever possible," the statement added. ... Read More: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Headlines/Default.aspx?id=179722

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Father's Day Banned in Scottish Schools. Following the recent law in Britain prohibiting the use of the words mom ('mum') and dad in public schools, the politically-correct forces in Europe once again succeeded -- this time having fathers removed from their children's classrooms. According to reports coming out of Edinburgh, Scotland, children in public schools are prohibited from making Father's Day cards and related gifts as was customary in the past. The rationale given by school administrators for their action is their wish to avoid embarrassing school children who live with single mothers or lesbian partners. "All the proponents of the politically-correct orthodoxy need is to find a few activist judges and they can change the rules at will. Look at California: Teachers and administrators can no longer use the words "mom," "dad," "mother," or "father." Read term "Moms" and "Dads" now banned in California public schools. ... Read More: http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news53.htm [Link provided by Hugo Schmidt]

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The Penalty for Getting Behind in Child Support. In 2006, the Tennessee legislature passed reforms to allow convicted felons to regain voting rights after serving their time. Amendments were attached specifying that voting rights could not be regained unless all criminal restitution payments and child support were current. Approximately 48% of Tennessee male prisoners are African American, and the vast majority of those of all races who are behind on child support are indigent. So the bottom line is, Tennessee has come up with yet another way to keep large numbers of African Americans and poor people from voting. The American Civil Liberties Union - initially a supporter of the reform effort  sued Tennessee state and county officials in February to eliminate the provisions about child support and restitution. It represents three men who have served their time but cannot regain the right to vote because of the amendments. ... Read More: http://www.glennsacks.com/blog/index.php?tag=enewsletter070108

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A Father's Tough Love. During my 1960s boyhood, Father's Day was an awkward occasion. It required my brothers and me to express love to a man who considered such talk girlish, and who knew we feared more than liked him. Only for the sake of Mom did Dad and his five boys put on a Father's Day act. But after the death of my father last month, I understand that those fake-feeling gestures back then had conveyed a lot of truth, and that the expression of love between a father and his boys can be -- maybe should be -- at times difficult. As a parent raising his family in Kansas City, Kan., Gerald Robert Helliker wasn't perfect. But unlike many of today's fathers -- including me -- he never sacrificed his principles in a bid for our approval, never tried to be cool around us. A tough guy, he expected the same from his boys, and last month he offered a final challenge: Could we -- will we -- die as bravely as he did? ... Read More: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB121340145879173815-lMyQjAxMDI4MTEzODQxMDgxWj.html  [Link provided by Hugo Schmidt]

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California gays launch effort to stop marriage referendum. SAN FRANCISCO - Gay activists asked California's highest court Friday to keep off the November ballot a citizens' initiative that would again ban gay marriage. Lawyers for Equality California filed a petition arguing that the proposed amendment to the California Constitution should be invalidated because its impact was not made clear to the millions of voters who signed petitions to qualify the measure before the state Supreme Court legalized same-sex unions. "This court has recognized that gay and lesbian couples have a fundamental right to marry and, as of June 16, such couples have been getting married across the state," the petition states. The petition also claims the so-called California Marriage Protection Act should be disqualified because it would revise, rather than amend, the state Constitution by altering its fundamental guarantee of equality for all - in essence writing a law the state high court has already found unconstitutional into the constitution. ... Read More: http://yflung.blogspot.com/2008/06/california-gays-launch-effort-to-stop.html

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Young Disney star vows abstinence till marriage. HOLLYWOOD - Selena Gomez, the 15-year-old up-and-coming Hollywood star who is being hailed as "the next Miley Cyrus" - the wildly popular star of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana - has made public her intention to remain chaste until marriage. Gomez started in the entertainment industry at the young age of 10, landing the part of Gianna on Barney & Friends. Amongst numerous other achievements, Gomez recently provided the voice-overs for the character of the mayor's daughter in the blockbuster animated film, Horton Hears a Who, starring Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. Gomez also recently debuted her own feature Disney Channel show, The Wizards of Waverley Place, in which she plays the lead role. ... Read more: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=144974

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Several CA counties quit performing civil marriages. SAN DIEGO - Officials in Kern, Calaveras, and Butte counties in California have said they plan on closing their doors to performing all civil wedding ceremonies rather than be forced to "wed" same-sex couples under the state's Supreme Court ruling permitting same-sex "marriage." The counties have cited staff and budget restrictions as their main reasons for closing their doors, saying they are not equipped to handle any influx of same-sex couples looking for "weddings." Kern County Clerk Ann Barnett made the announcement after the county's legal counsel and attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund informed her office that she could not choose to marry some couples and not others without incurring a lawsuit. ... Read more: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=140832

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Calif. court refuses to stay homosexual marriage ruling. California's highest court Wednesday refused to stay its decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, clearing the final hurdle for homosexual couples to start tying the knot this month. Conservative religious and legal groups had asked the California Supreme Court to stop its May 15 order requiring state and local officials to sanction same-sex unions from becoming effective until voters have the chance to consider the issue in November. The justices' decisions typically become final after 30 days. An initiative to ban homosexual marriage has qualified for the Nov. 4 ballot. Its passage would overrule the court's decision by amending the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman. ... Read more: http://www.onenewsnow.com/AP/Search/US/Default.aspx?id=130776

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Same Sex Marriage Threatens Religious Liberty. In theory, allowing homosexual couples to marry should not threaten anyone's religious freedom. Although the social and moral implications of gay marriage are apparent to many, few realize the significant danger posed to religious freedom by the California Supreme Court ruling in May giving gays a constitutional right to marry. The Court's decision now elevates homosexuality to the same legal status as race, a protected class. Christian schools will lose the right to discipline students for sexual misconduct with others of the same sex. The absurdity of the "equality" argument comes into sharp focus in this scenario. Consider that a Christian school could expel two heterosexual students for sexual misconduct without exposing itself to legal liability, but could not expel homosexual students for the same offense. This is what it means for gays to become a protected class. Instead of achieving equality, they achieve a superior status in society. A religious school would be able to fire a teacher for garden variety adultery, but it would be illegal to fire a gay teacher for the same offense. ... Read more: http://www.religiousliberty.info/blog/?p=75

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Supreme Court approves law curbing child pornography. WASHINGTON (BP)--The United States Supreme Court handed Congress a victory May 19 in its effort to combat child pornography after a previous effort fell short in the justices' eyes.The high court voted 7-2 to reverse a lower court and uphold a 2003 law that bars the promotion or solicitation of actual or ostensible child pornography through such means as mail or the Internet. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia rejected the unanimous decision of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the law was overly broad and vague. "There is no doubt that this prohibition falls well within constitutional bounds," Scalia wrote. ... Read more: http://www.baptistpress.com/BPnews.asp?ID=28082

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Back When Divorcing Was Hard, Some States Found a Way to Profit. Before Nevada, there was Indiana -- and South Dakota, Oklahoma and Florida. All of these states figured out how to make money on other states' divorce laws. Until well into the 20th century, some states made it almost impossible for couples to divorce. In South Carolina, divorce for any reason was prohibited from 1878 to 1949. In New York, the divorce law sponsored by Alexander Hamilton in 1787 that recognized adultery as the only ground for divorce remained in force until 1967. Most states required divorcing couples to be residents for at least a year; Connecticut demanded three years. At the other end of the spectrum were states like Indiana, which, complained an editorial writer in the mid-19th century, "would untie the knot for the slightest possible reason." ... Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118635505489588702-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA2NTMwNTU1Wj.html

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California's top court legalizes gay marriage. SAN FRANCISCO�California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry -- a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. Same-sex couples could tie the knot in as little as a month. But the window could close soon after -- religious and social conservatives are pressing to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that would undo the Supreme Court ruling and ban gay marriage. A crowd of people raised their fists in triumph inside City Hall, and people wrapped themselves in the rainbow-colored gay-pride flag outside the courthouse. ... Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/05/15/californias_top_court_to_rule_on_gay_marriage/

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Family breakdown costs $112 billion. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--High rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers at least $112 billion each year, making marriage enrichment a legitimate policy concern, a first-of-its-kind study sponsored by four public policy and research groups said. "These costs are due to increased taxpayer expenditures for anti-poverty, criminal justice and education programs, and through lower levels of taxes paid by individuals whose adult productivity has been negatively affected by increased childhood poverty caused by family fragmentation," Ben Scafidi, the lead researcher and an economics professor at Georgia College & State University, said. ... Read more: http://baptistpress.com/BPnews.asp?ID=27992

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Scarlet is Our Color. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.  God's blessings were withdrawn from this nation years ago, if that were not the case why is it that our vaunted power came to naught in wars with such small peanuts on the international scene as North Korea and North Viet Nam, two tiny two bit nations with little in the way of sophisticated weaponry at the time of their conflict with the United States. It used to be that natural calamities were relatively rare occurrences, we now see deadly and super destructive natural phenomena strike almost daily somewhere in the United States and the areas of destruction are more widely spread. Devastating widespread flooding, thousands of violent tornadoes, hurricanes of magnum strength and completely unseasonable weather patterns are rapidly becoming the norm rather than the exception. The 10 most deadly natural disasters ever in the United States have all happened within the past 10 years. ... Read more:  http://www.newswithviews.com/Schwiesow/jim39.htm [Link provided by Hugo Schmidt]

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American Media's Discrimination. Remember Roseanne Barr, the foul-mouthed, shock comic of the 80s? Well, she’s found work on liberal talk radio network Air America, and suggested that leftists should ignite riots at the Democratic convention in Denver to "resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained." Following her April 28 rant, only Fox News Channel and the local Denver media thought it newsworthy. None of the other major outlets gave it a glance... Until Rush Limbaugh humorously suggested that riots in Denver would wake up America. Suddenly, it's news, to the point that Senator Ken Salazar sent an angry letter to Clear Channel radio asking Rush to be "reprimanded" for talking up violence. ... Read more: http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=6880&RID=16276264

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Girls aged 12 have abortions. Girls aged as young as 12 are having abortions, figures released for the first time by the Department of Health reveal. The figures, obtained by The Sunday Times using freedom of information legislation, show that each year 10 to 15 girls aged 12 have abortions. The government initially refused to disclose the figures by claiming patient confidentiality. The Sunday Times successfully appealed against the refusal and the information commissioner, a government authority which promotes access to public information, ordered the statistics to be disclosed. ... Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3822518.ece

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Abstinence programs reaffirmed through research. New research has surfaced reaffirming that programs that promote sexual abstinence during the teenage years are beneficial to young people. Proponents of comprehensive sex education on Capitol Hill are seeking to eliminate the funding for both the Community Based Abstinence Program and the Title V abstinence state grant program. But researchers Christine Kim and Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation have unveiled a comprehensive review of 21 prior studies of the effectiveness of abstinence and virginity pledge programs. They found that 16 of the 21 studies reported positive findings. According to Kim, at stake is a message that many parents would agree with -- and that is the important message that abstinence is clearly a healthy and responsible lifestyle for teens. ... Read more: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=77298

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Stop Human Trafficking Now! For example, consider these words: "According to the U.S. intelligence community, of the estimated 800,000 people trafficked across international borders annually, 80 percent of victims are female, and up to 50 percent are minors. Hundreds of thousands of these women and children are used in prostitution each year. U.S. policy draws a direct connection between prostitution and human trafficking." The math cited above suggests that 640,000 women and young girls are trapped in this horror each year, more than 1,700 every single day. Perhaps half of that number is composed of children and teenagers who are robbed of their freedom, dignity, and most precious, the most intimate of human rights. ... Read more: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=1788

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Is Jeremiah Wright Right? "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." -Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 2003. Jeremiah Wright is right. I do not mean I agree with every fact asserted by Mr. Wright, though most of his assertions are incontrovertible historical facts. I don't even mean that I agree with every moral valuation assigned by Mr. Wright. But Wright is right when he weighs our country, the United States of America, on the scales of justice and finds us wanting. Wright is right to employ the most forceful moral language available to describe our culpability. He is right to speak dramatically in his appeal for divine action in response to America's history of slavery, Jim Crow legislation, deeply embedded social evil and ignoble military actions. ... Read more: http://www.atoday.com/content/jeremiah-wright-right [In the event the above Internet link fails, then click on the following: Read more? ==>

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It's a Bad World. In Israel, Haaretz reported that an Arab woman has been shot in an attempted honor killing. She was to be the ninth female member of her family to be killed. "Eight women from this family were murdered in the past six years, all in connection with 'family honor.'" Male relatives had murdered them all because they brought shame on their Muslim family by not marrying the men picked for them or otherwise disobeying family religious dictates. ... I am convinced that human evil is so great that most people choose either to ignore it or to focus their concerns elsewhere -- like those who believe that human-created carbon dioxide emission, not human evil, poses the greatest threat to mankind. No one will ever get killed for fighting global warming. ... Read more: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/04/08/its_a_bad_world&comments=true?page=2 [Link submitted by Hugo Schmidt]

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Permission to see my own kids? About 10 years ago, I drove for two hours to pay my daughters a surprise visit at their summer camp. Almost nothing was better than seeing their smiling faces every time we �visited� each other (moms don�t visit their children). When I arrived, I went immediately to see the camp director. I told him that, as a divorced father, I missed my girls very much and wanted to have a quick visit with them, even take them out to lunch. He told me he would have to get �permission� from their mother. Permission to see my own kids? He placed a call to my ex but couldn�t locate her. I felt lower than dirt but refused to leave the premises without seeing my girls. ... Read more: http://www.newswithviews.com/Rudov/marc.htm [Link sent by Hugo Schmidt]

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The Victims of Feminist Horror Speak. Your articles are so well-written and insightful. The recent "Playboy and Women" hits it on the head. I remember thinking how crazy it was to see my sister, who is a doc, have to work so hard and also try to take care of the kids, and cook, clean, etc. We are supposed to be superwomen and figure out a way to do it all and keep our sanity! And more men expect it these days as well -- because of women's lib -- they want us to work and come home and work more. And then not regret later the time we missed with our kids. Of course, maybe some people don't regret because they never knew what they were missing.  ... Read more:  http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan40.htm

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Supporting the Troops With Empty Words. I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million. If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable. ... Read more? Click here==>

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Pro-Sodomy Bill Sparks California Public School Exodus. Last year, California Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation mandating that public school children as young as 5 years old be indoctrinated to accept the abnormal homosexual lifestyle and other forms of sexual deviancy.  Christians are saying enough is enough. A broad coalition of Christian grassroots organizations have joined forces to call for California families and churches to rescue their children from California's public schools. 600,000 students may leave the California schools this year alone through their efforts.  The growing coalition includes Eagle Forum, the Campaign for Children and Families, Exodus Mandate, and ten more sponsors, five of which are based in California.  ... Read more: http://www.newswithviews.com/Jackson/nicholas18.htm  [Link sent by Wyjoz]

Women and Children First. The natural instinct of civilized human beings is to protect those who are more vulnerable in the face of danger. Civilized cultures have placed women on a pedestal not because they are less capable but because we honor them and hold them in a special place in our society. Not so with radical Islamists. They treat women as chattel and they abuse children. Just as it is becoming increasingly incumbent upon the Iraqi people to take responsibility for their government and their future, it is increasingly imperative that responsible Muslims take a stand for human decency. ... Read more: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2008/02/08/women_and_children_first&comments=true#4efd9e05-3053-4e12-b2b8-1368275134bb [Link submitted by Hugo Schmidt]

Ron Paul's Israel Problem. "Somewhere along the way, evangelicals have forgotten the historic Christian understanding of "just war," not to mention our Savior's promise of divine blessing upon peacemakers. They have allowed President George W. Bush and his fellow warmongers to hijack the legitimate use of defensive war and turn it into a commitment to aggressive and preemptive war. If the United States continues on its current path of aggressive, preemptive war, incessant nation-building, empire-building, and globalism, our country will collapse. If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that no super-power can long survive global warfare. The economic, moral, and spiritual strain on the nation would be more than it could long endure. In other words, Bush's war doctrine has put America on a crash course with disaster, and evangelicals are downright foolish to go along with it." ... Read more: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080115.html [Link sent by Hugo Schmidt]

How Sodomy Was Sold to America, Last year I submitted a resolution to the State Convention of Ohio Baptists urging Christian parents to pull their children out of public school and either home school or provide Christian private education. It was a wakeup call to pastors and parents in our state newspaper due to the advancing homosexual agenda and Darwinian dogma in public schools. Within the next few weeks homosexual activists wrote in and repeated the tired old saw calling me a bigot, or exclaiming that I was spreading hate. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Jackson/nicholas17.htm

Priest sued over seminar 'curing' homosexuality. A Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he is holding seminars which aim to "rehabilitate homosexuals". Protestant minister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres for troubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports surfaced of a recent seminar he led entitled "How to Raise Heterosexual Children". According to a journalist who attended the seminar, Zapata likened homosexuality to alcoholism and called it an illness, but said healing was possible through family therapy. Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,2232741,00.html

'Gay' plans to target 2-year-olds. Children as young as two years of age are in the bull's-eye of coming changes in California's school curriculum, which "gay rights" advocates now admit will alter the very foundation of information presented to public school classrooms. A list of school resources, sponsored by a homosexual-advocacy group called Safe Schools Coalition, suggests that for those who are only two years old, there's "Felicia's Favorite Story," which tells how she was "adopted by her two mothers." ... Full story: http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59259 [Link submittd by Wyjoz]

Murderous Video Game Sparks Outrage. The Manhunt 2 video game has ignited a firestorm among violence experts who say the video-game industry has gone too far and needs to be reined in. Manhunt 2 chronicles the murderous rampage of a sociopath who escapes from a mental hospital. Players, who assume the role of the escapee, proceed through the game by hunting and killing innocent victims who are trying to flee. “This game teaches children how to kill,” Lt. Col. Ted Grossman, an expert of video-game violence, tells Newsmax. ... Full story: http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/manhunt_video_game/2007/12/17/57740.html

Reaping the Whirlwind. For forty years there has been unfettered immigration (legal and illegal) into the United States. The social costs and detriment to U.S. culture has been enormous. Today there is great media play on the illegal “immigrants” who have come to America and opened businesses, became “successful” and raised children. There has been no mention of the vast majority who have bankrupted hospitals, knocked-up underage girls, joined gangs, killed others while driving drunk, formed drug cartels, smuggled other aliens and drugs across the border, and generally wrecked havoc in American society. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Stoddard/david14.htm

Boyscouts Moral Dilemma. Homosexual activists have branded the Boy Scouts as "homophobic" and intolerant. As such, the Scouts supposedly must embrace the doctrine of political correctness and change their beliefs -- or else. Activists even have gone to court to force the Boy Scouts to change its ways. Yet that effort was dealt a significant blow when, in 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that as a private organization, the Scouts has a right to determine who can be a member. In other words, the Scouts can choose its leadership and membership based on its principles and beliefs. Incensed by this decision, homosexual activists changed their strategy. They started to try to persuade local governments, corporations and charitable organizations to shun the Scouts. And, sadly, the activists have been successful in swaying some minds. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/news/religion/2007/12/14/philly_evicts_the_scouts?page=1

Law Enforcement Hampered by Sanctuary City Advocates. However, as SAIC Dalessandro noted, it was probation officers, and not police officers, who notified ICE about the child predator. Members of the New York City Police Department are prohibited from informing federal agencies about illegal aliens who are arrested for felony or misdemeanor crimes. ... "The illegal immigration problem is allowing hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens to invade our nation and kill, maim, rob and abuse our citizens, " one Border Patrol agent told Newswithviews.com. Research revealed that in one 9-month period the federal government arrested over 100,000 criminal aliens. These arrests do not include arrests made by state and local law enforcement. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news20.htm

Maybe a good idea to hold off bombing them. How many more nations will America bomb into oblivion, killing thousands of innocents in its quest to overthrow their governments and install puppet regimes under the control of the White House? What right do we have to take these actions? What right do we have to bully any country into accepting the evil of democracy? ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd326.htm

Oil for Food Convictions. The United Nations Oil for Food prosecutions are starting to yield convictions -- in the U.S., that is. Would that other countries, far more deeply enmeshed in the world's largest-ever public fraud, followed America's lead. On Tuesday, Texas oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $11 million for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime. Last week Swiss oil company Vitol pleaded guilty to the same, and agreed to pay restitution to the tune of $17.4 million. Earlier this month, Chevron paid a settlement of $30 million for buying oil from companies that its executives knew were funneling kickbacks to Saddam. ... Full story: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119637236006908436-lMyQjAxMDE3OTM2MDMzNzAyWj.html [Link submitted by Hugo Schmidt]

Vindicated by DNA, but a Lost Man on the Outside. At least 205 men and one woman nationwide have been exonerated through DNA evidence since 1989, including 53 who, like Mr. Deskovic, were convicted of murder. In gathering information on 137 of them over the past four months — one of the most extensive such efforts to date — The New York Times found that many faced the same challenges Mr. Deskovic has confronted, like making a living, reconnecting with relatives and seeking financial recompense for his lost years. ... Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/us/25jeffrey.html?th&emc=th

'No-Fault' = No Kids. As a general rule, plaintiffs who file for "no-fault" divorce should be found unfit to gain custody of their children. This should be done for the protection of the children involved. But most importantly it should be done to restrain the growth rate of the scourge known as "no-fault" divorce. ... Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2005. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007/11/25/no-fault_=_no_kids

Be Careful Who You Marry.  Simply by filing for divorce, your spouse can take everything you have, also without giving any reasons. First, she will almost certainly get automatic and sole custody of your children and exclude you from them, without having to show that you have done anything wrong. Then any unauthorized contact with your children is a crime. Yes, for seeing your own children you will be subject to arrest.  ... You could easily be left with monthly income of a few hundreds dollars and be forced to move in with relatives or sleep in your car. Once you have sold everything you own, borrowed from relatives, and maximized your credit cards, they then call you a “deadbeat dad” and take you away in handcuffs. You are told you have “abandoned” your children and incarcerated without trial. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Baskerville/stephen9.htm

The Great Mysteries of Life. Still and all, there are a number of mysteries even I can’t figure out. For example, why doesn’t everyone love dogs? I’m not saying I hold dogs dearer than my wife and friends, but, on average, I like strange dogs better than I like strange people. For one thing, they’re friendlier. For another, none of them will be voting for Hillary Clinton. I realize that there are people who have had traumatic experiences with a canine sometime in their childhood and never managed to get over it. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2007/11/12/the_great_mysteries_of_life

The Last Cab Ride.  Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living .  One night I took a fare at 2:30 am, when I arrived to collect, the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.   Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, and then drive away.  But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation.   Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door.  This passenger might be someone who needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself.  So I walked to the door and knocked.   "Just a minute", answered a frail, elderly voice.   I could hear something being dragged across the floor.  Read more: ==>

The Latest Grounds for Abandoning Government Schools. There remains, however, a way out, and Christians in particular need to pay attention to it before it is too late. The way out is to abandon government schools. Under present circumstances, thinking Christians are more justified than ever in the belief that government schools have become repositories of indoctrination into evil. They need to remove their children from these schools pronto, and either homeschool them or send them to private Christian schools. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven31.htm

Why the Berlin Wall Fell. In October 1987 Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and said, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization…tear down this wall.” Two years later, in what may be the most spectacular political event of our lifetimes, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, the Soviet empire collapsed, and the world entered a new period of relative peace and prosperity. ... Margaret Thatcher composed Reagan’s epitaph when she said that “he won the cold war without firing a shot.” That’s how history will remember him. On the anniversary’s of the Berlin Wall’s collapse, we should ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2007/11/09/why_the_berlin_wall_fell

'Mom, I'm Addicted to Pornography'. After researching this problem and seeing Brandon's struggle, we have discovered that sexual addiction is a more powerful force than the strongest known drug, releasing endorphins many times stronger than morphine. Unlike drug or alcohol addicts, who ingest something from outside the body, pornography addicts have their addictive substance available to be called up at will, or many times against their will. When people watch pornography, we found, the images become burned into their minds, just as you would burn pictures onto a CD. The younger they are when they see pornography and the longer they are exposed to it, the more imbedded it becomes. Eventually, even when an addict is not looking at pornography, the images continue replaying in his or her mind. ... Full story: http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2005/005/13.30.html

The Drug-Court Judge's Wife. “I cannot live with a man who sentences people to twenty years in prison for smoking a marijuana cigarette, people who might need that cigarette to treat their nausea from cancer chemotherapy. There are thousands of cancer patients in excruciating pain because chemotherapy makes them violently nauseous, and marijuana is the only thing that can stop the nausea. Yet the law stops them from using marijuana. I cannot live with a man who’s decisions condemn cancer victims to excruciating pain, or to die drowning from their own vomit. I cannot live with a man who destroys families by sending mothers and fathers to prison for twenty years for smoking a lousy joint of marijuana. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel50.htm [This is probably the best defense of the move to legaliza marijuana. What is missing is all the harm the use of this potent drug has done to millions.]

The Bush Administration's Position on Waterboarding is All Wet. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who turned against Mukasey's confirmation over this issue, put it, "No American should need a classified briefing to determine whether waterboarding is torture." Federal law defines torture as an act "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." It defines "severe mental pain or suffering" as "the prolonged mental harm" caused by, among other things, "the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering" or "the threat of imminent death." ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JacobSullum/2007/11/07/drown_by_law_the_bush_administrations_position_on_waterboarding_is_all_wet[To read a different opinion click on: http://www.opinionjournal.com/jer/responses.html?article_id=110010824]

Education Is Not the Answer to Every Problem. There are, of course, links between education and professional success, between education and the ability to read and write. And obviously we need well-educated people in order to be able to compete with other countries. But for at least the few generations in the Western world there has been no link between higher education and human decency. Period. This is one of the many myths believed by the educated in Western society (people are born good is another). But there is not a shred of evidence to support it. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2007/11/06/dear_senator_dodd_education_is_not_the_answer_to_every_problem

After teen suicides, an Argentine tribe outlaws 'white' vices. The village is in the midst of a quarantine called for by the cacique, or traditional leader, after two teens shocked the community by committing suicide in September. All members now must be home by 7 p.m., alcohol is strictly forbidden, and all youths must attend traditional dance classes and consultations with elders. The cacique, Silvino Moreira, says that the white culture that surrounds the village on all sides has encroached on their Guarani culture and that they must protect themselves from all its many "vices," including alcohol, drugs, and even the radio. It's an issue indigenous groups worldwide have faced for centuries, but the unusually drastic measures Mr. Moreira has enacted are key to preserving their culture in today's world, say community members here. ... Full story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1102/p01s04-woam.html?page=1 [Link submitted by Hugo Schmidt]

A Convict Freed By DNA Evidence Tries to Find a Life. Mr. Williams is one of a growing number of convicts -- more than 200 so far -- who have been freed from prison after DNA testing proved them innocent. After years of fighting to clear their names, they're emerging into a changed world, with not much help to find their way. A 2003 study of 60 exonerees imprisoned an average of 12 years by Lola Vollen, founder of the Life After Exoneration Program in Berkeley, Calif., found that nearly half suffer from depression, anxiety disorder or some form of post-traumatic stress disorder. ... Full story: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119370490025875727-lMyQjAxMDE3OTAzMjcwMDI0Wj.html [Link submitted by Hugo Schmidt]

Law Enforcement Corrupting Influence of Drug Prohibition. In 2006, a case in Atlanta demonstrated the most pervasive form of corruption; lying under oath and falsifying a police report. Three narcs swore to a judge they had positive information about a dope house and obtained a ‘no knock’ warrant. As they pounded on the door, the 92 year old grandmother fired a shot in the air to warn the intruders she was armed. Upon entry, they shot her full of holes. Realizing their mistake, they planted marijuana in the house. Their house of cards came apart. Two have already pled guilty to murder and home invasion. They lied on the search warrant and then used their police report to justify the completely bogus operation. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty307.htm

The Victims of Porn. A teenage girl was recalling what her childhood had been like—a childhood marred by porn. “When I was eight years old,” she wrote, “my father made me look at [pornographic] pictures” involving sex acts he wanted her to perform. “I went along with him, not knowing any better,” she said. For years this girl’s father raped her while using these pictures—and at age 16, she had a sexually transmitted disease. “I may die of this disease,” she wrote sadly. “Pornography has ruined my life.” So much for the claim—often made by porn advocates—that pornography is a victimless crime. Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2007/10/29/the_victims_of_porn

Vast Differences Between Males & Females. Recently, I wrote that the worst disaster we have suffered in this country – worse than Nine Eleven, worse than the invasion of our country from Mexico, worse even than el presidente Jorge W. Boosh – is the horror of feminism. The other things we can recover from, however serious they are, but feminism strikes at the heart of what we are. ... Remember that we are talking about the version of feminism that erupted in the last half of the Twentieth Century, at about the same time as the latest extrusion of organized sodomy. ... The basic principle of “modern” feminism appears to be that men and women are the same, that any observable differences are superficial and unimportant – ...  Some experts have even proposed “unisex” bathrooms. Der Arnold, the Governator, has signed legislation to that effect in Kahleeforneeya, where girls and boys will soon shower together. Such fun! ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan11.htm

Today’s Hidden Slave Trade. In prior eras, the slave trade was conducted openly, with ads prominently posted and the slaves paraded and inspected like animals, often at public auctions. Today’s sex traffickers, the heirs to that tradition, try to keep their activities hidden, although the rest of the sex trade, the sale of the women’s services, is advertised on a scale that can only be characterized as colossal. As a society, we’re repelled by the slavery of old. But the wholesale transport of women and girls across international borders and around the U.S. — to serve as prostitutes under conditions that in most cases are coercive at best — stirs very little outrage. Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

A Dangerous Precedent Abuilding in California. There is terrible news from California. On October 12, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law three bills which, the opposition argues, introduce the radical homosexual agenda into educational institutions. Unquestionably the traditional purpose of public education is to teach reading, writing, mathematics and other fundamentals necessary for well-rounded intellectual development. Instead, these institutions apparently will become miniature laboratories for redefining nature, implementing “gender theory” and experimenting with the effects of sexual lifestyles. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2007/10/25/a_dangerous_precedent_abuilding_in_california

California Fires: The Righteous Judgment of God? 1 Million refugees, over $1 Billion in damage, well over 1,000 homes burned, in the wicked Abortion & Sodomy state of California. Governor Schwarzenegger just signed a bill on October 13 foisting promotion of the sodomite lifestyle on children as young as 5 or 6 years old, through the government ("public") schools. California wildfires broke out one week later, on October 20. This is not the first time that massive wildfires have devastated the leading abortion state in America. In 2003, over 3,600 homes were destroyed by firesin California. It is estimated that almost one-quarter million children are butchered in California's child-slaughter centers each year ... Full story: http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/california-fires-righteous-judgment-of.html

Homosexual Indoctrination in Public Schools.  But I thought “homosexuals” were just like everyone else and that all they wanted was to be free to “live their lives” in peace. If that is the case, why won’t they stop identifying themselves by what they do in the privacy of their bedroom? Why are they so intent on making me accept their deviancy? Why are they trying to indoctrinate 6-year-olds into their perversion? Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave89.htm

Mom Awarded $85,000 for Daughters’ Exposure to Motel Porn. A Nashville mother was awarded $85,000 by a jury Friday after she sued a California motel for exposing her two young daughters to hard-core pornography. In August 2006, Edwina McCombs stayed at the Artesia, Calif., Value Lodge with her 8- and 9-year-old daughters. Her lawsuit claims that while she was in the bathroom, her daughters turned on the television to watch a children's show and instead viewed hard-core pornography. ... Full story: http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000005700.cfm

Dads Help Daughters Pledge Purity. When they were 10 years old, twins Jessica and Jennifer Worcester received a gift from their dad - silver rings that they slipped on their fingers with a promise: They would remain sexually pure until marriage. The Worcester twins, now 13, have made their abstinence vows an annual celebration. Along with their dad and other fathers and daughters, they made plans to attend the annual Tucson Purity Ball. Proponents view purity balls as fostering healthy bonding between fathers and daughters and teaching girls and young women that they are valuable and worth waiting for. ... Full Story: http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=618881

Republican Governator Hands Cal. Kids to Homosexuals. But California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law (SB777) that allows boys and girls in California government schools to use each others’ rest rooms and locker rooms. When I went to school, before the revolution – just after they installed indoor plumbing – any boy caught in the girls’ room in school would have been dragged into the street and beaten into a bloody mess. If he survived, his embarrassed father would have finished him off. But, again, that was before the revolution. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan9.htm

The Church Joins the Fight Against Modern Slavery. According to the Los Angeles Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution Report, revised in August 2005, every 10 minutes, a woman, child or man, is recruited, smuggled or brought into the United States to work as forced laborers on farms, as prostitutes, in sweatshops, or in domestic settings. They are treated harshly and often tortured. Many times, their (often false) passports or identification are taken away and they are told that they will never be able to leave until they have paid off exorbitant fees demanded by the traffickers. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been a staunch opponent of slavery throughout its history. Before the Civil War, many Americans considered slavery a political or economic matter, not a moral issue. ... Full Story: http://www.pacificunionrecorder.com/107/10/33029.html

The U.S., Tobacco, & Abortion. "However, right Mr. Sullum might be, how can a nation like this, which claims to be under God, be all over the world with its evermore inhumane and horrendous war machinery to hunt down those who wish to kill Americans, when this homegrown industry murders around 400,000 Americans yearly plus leaving thousands of homes completely destroyed? It seems like, America hates foreign terrorism but enjoys home grown terrorism and to add insult to injury, America's Tobacco Companies make more money all over the world, than in the US! Yes, in essence murdering millions upon millions of mostly ignorant men, women and children! Boy, this speaks well of and for America! Do you have an answer for me Mr. Sullum? While Belmont sounds ridiculous to you, should it not sound much more ridiculous to you, what America does all over the world? Yes, also this for your consumption: This, our great loving USA is actually the mass grave of 40 - 50 millions of unborn babies, with the butcher shops open for business as usual, while America's guns at the same time roar far and near! I can only but wonder, how this God of America might just feel about America?" Hugo Schmidt. Source: http://www.townhall.com/content/b91c20fa-35b0-4e58-8b8d-18de9b9c5978

Abuse in the Adventist Church? GOT PREGNANT SHORTLY AFTER WE married,” the woman explained. “My husband became very, very upset that I was pregnant. Things started going downhill quickly after that. I was trying to do everything to please him and to keep the marriage going, but nothing worked. I blamed myself, and it finally came down to a choice. I wanted to have the baby, but my husband told me, ‘If you really want this marriage, you’ll have to get rid of it.’ I believed that when the Bible said ‘submit’ to your husband, you should do as he wishes. So, I had to abort my first pregnancy.” These are the words of Shelly Smith,¹ describing an early experience in her abusive marriage of more than 20 years. ... Full story: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=1401

The Anti-Cancer Drug that Causes Cancer. Western medicine’s approach to cancer treatment is based on profit, not safety and effectiveness. This became abundantly clear to me while designing tamoxifen derivatives for the drug industry. Tamoxifen, like estrogen, binds to the estrogen receptor. In its early days, it was thought that this would prevent excess estrogen binding and therefore halt cancer. It was unleashed to the public as an anti-cancer drug. ... The American Academy of Family Physicians attempted to warn physicians by announcing, “Incidence of endometrial cancer (cancer of the womb lining) almost doubled for those taking the drug [Tamoxifen] for one to two years. Taking it over a five year period: Cases quadrupled.” ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane30.htm

Public Schools - Pagan Religion Indoctrination Centers. Many public schools have become pagan religion indoctrination centers. These schools now teach children anti-Judeo-Christian beliefs and pagan religions, and try to mold children's minds through the latest techniques in behavioral psychology. ... 9. “Human sacrifice: Students are given lessons on death education with assignments like the “Fallout Shelter.” Other lessons advocate the cultural endorsement of abortion and euthanasia as a way to prepare the new generation to accept many new forms of human sacrifice, such as the notion of sacrificing oneself for the “common good.” 10. “Sacred sex: Students get lessons about pagan societies’ appreciation for the “unifying power of promiscuity.” By studying these pagan notions on sexuality, children get the idea that promiscuity is normal and acceptable.” ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel49.htm

Out of Prison and Deep in Debt. With the nation’s incarcerated population at 2.1 million and growing — and corrections costs topping $60 billion a year — states are rightly looking for ways to keep people from coming back to prison once they get out. Programs that help ex-offenders find jobs, housing, mental health care and drug treatment are part of the solution. States must also end the Dickensian practice of saddling ex-offenders with crushing debt that they can never hope to pay off and that drives many of them right back to prison. Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06sat1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

The 5 Things I Saw that Make Me Support the War. You never know how precious freedom of speech is until you meet somehow who has had it taken from them—literally taken from them. During a patrol we came upon two hungry Iraqi men scavenging for food. When our translator began speaking with the men I noticed that one of them had a stub for a tongue. Through the translator we learned that the tongue-less man had spoken against the regime and that Saddam’s henchmen had severed his tongue. Saddam had quite literally removed the man’s freedom of speech. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarcoMartinez/2007/10/01/marine_hero_the_5_things_i_saw_that_make_me_support_the_war

Court won't declare chimp a person. He's now got a human name - Matthew Hiasl Pan - but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal. A provincial judge in the city of Wiener Neustadt dismissed the case earlier this week, ruling that the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories had no legal standing to argue on the chimp's behalf. ... Full story: http://www.modbee.com/2040/story/78314.html Question: Would these animal rights activists request the same right to the unborn human babies?

Married Today, Gone Tomorrow. If you married before 1950, the chances are your marriage lasted at least 15 years, probably 25 and likely even longer. If you married after 1980, however, your prospects are not as rosy. In fact, you are less likely than at any time since World War II to celebrate a Silver wedding anniversary — 25 years of marriage. In other words, Americans are not taking the marriage vow of lifelong fidelity to heart these days. Thus, while the divorce rate remains fairly constant at about one in five, those married since 1980 are more likely to divorce. ... Full story: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2007/09/27/married_today,_gone_tomorrow

How Female Illegals Abuse the System.  So here’s how the scam works: A woman makes an accusation of abuse. The laws define domestic violence so loosely that she doesn’t need to provide a scrap of evidence -- she only needs to scream “abuse!” So the judge issues a let’s-play-it-safe order. That restraining order becomes the gold-plated meal ticket that entitles her to preferential treatment by immigration authorities, free legal services, and a generous helping of welfare services. And anyone who questions the swindle is accused of being “soft on domestic violence.” ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Roberts/carey191.htm

Change For Homosexuals is Possible. In what some are calling groundbreaking research, a new four-year study concludes it is possible for homosexuals to change their physical attractions and become heterosexual through the help of Christian ministries. The data was released September 13 at a news conference in Nashville, Tenn., and is published in the new book, Ex-Gays? (InterVarsity Press) by psychologists Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse. Thirty-eight percent of the subjects followed in the study said they had successfully left homosexuality, while an additional 29 percent said they had had only modest successes but were committed to keep trying. ... Full story: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=1394#2

Choosing Foster Parents Over Fathers.  Rather than allowing Smith to raise his own daughter, the system shuttled Melinda through seven different foster care placements. An understandably angry child, her outbursts led authorities to house her in a residential treatment center alongside older children convicted of criminal activity—when she was only seven years old. Melinda says that during this period she was told that her father was a “deadbeat dad” who had abandoned her. When Melinda was 16, she told an investigating social worker that the “most important thing” for her was to find her dad. Moved by her story, the social worker began searching for Melinda’s father--and found him in one day. In 2005, Thomas and Melinda were finally reunited. ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Sacks/glenn71.htm

Peter Singer: Infanticide, Yes; Kangaroo Cull, No. Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer is famous for two primary reasons: First, he jump started the animal rights/liberation movement with his 1975 book Animal Liberation. Second, he is the world's foremost proponent of the legitimacy of infanticide. Thus, writing on page 186 in Practical Ethics, he supported the right of parents to kill a newborn with hemophilia in order to make life easier for a hypothetical, yet-to-be-born sibling: ... Full story: http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/blogger.html

Current Medical Euthanasia and Eugenic Abortion Practices Echo Nazi Past. BERLIN, October 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recent research into the Nazi euthanasia programme has shown that as many as 200,000 institutionalized patients were killed beginning in 1939 before the instigation of the Jewish Holocaust. Germany's Federal Archive released a report Tuesday revealing new evidence that doctors and other hospital staff used gas, drugs or starvation to kill the disabled patients as part of Hitler's programme of racial purification. ... Similarly eugenic abortions are spoken of as "curing diseases" and at times 'merciful' procedures. The link between the Nazi eugenics movement and the abortion movement is more than ideological. Planned Parenthood foundress Margaret Sanger shared her eugenic ideals with the Nazi's in the early 1930s. ... Full story: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03100208.html

Those Who Heal You Will Kill You. The recent terror attacks on the U.K. presented the world with a cruel irony. Amongst those suspected of masterminding the series of attacks, that, had they been successful, could have killed hundreds of civilians and injured hundreds more, were up to seven respected members of the medical community--physicians, or physicians in training, including a specialist in neurology. The irony of the situation was brought home most chillingly in a cryptic threat received some months ago by an Anglican cleric who was doing ministry in Iraq: "The people who cure you will kill you." Full story: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07071010.html

Incestuous Pedophilia Promoted by German Government. In a shocking example of state-sponsored incest, booklets from a branch of the German government's Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. The booklet complains that fathers do not devote enough attention to their daughters private parts and that "this is the only way the girls can develop a sense of pride in their sex." ... Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news4.htm

Organ donation: The inconvenient truth. ... Finally, it is now widely known that a patient whose heart has stopped beating for 15 minutes after a heart attack can recover if he is treated by cooling the body to 33C, cardio-pulmonary bypass, cardioplegia (stopping the heart beat chemically) and a slow increase in oxygenation for 24 hours. Up to 80 per cent of these patients can be discharged from hospital, 55 per cent having a good neurological outcome. Clearly, the assumption made by physicians that a patient is dead five minutes after the heart has stopped beating is incorrect. Full story: http://catholicinsight.com/online/bioethics/article_747.shtml.

San Diego Diocese Settles Abuse Cases for $198 Million. The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has agreed to pay $198 million to 144 alleged victims of sexual abuse by clergy or other church employees, the second-largest such settlement since the abuse crisis exploded five years ago. The settlement follows four years of negotiations and a threat from a U.S. bankruptcy judge to dismiss the diocese's Chapter 11 claim if a settlement was not reached by September 11. In announcing the settlement Friday, San Diego Bishop Robert Brom said the diocese would now ask to be released from bankruptcy court. ... Full story: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=1380#2

The Foolish Farmer. If a farmer were to spread the seeds, and then proceeded to pull out the growing wheat, arguing at the same time that he actually enjoyed spreading the seeds but was not interested in the harvest, we would agree that said individual has lost his mind. If said farmer would at harvest time turn around and buy wheat from his neighbor to feed his family, we would have no doubt that the man needed some psychological treatment in order to bring the individual back to sanity. ... Read more ==> 

Trouble at 3ABN. For those interested in learning the truth about what has been taking place at the 3ABN network, there is a source of a large number of documents dealing with all the allegations and counter allegations connected with the “growing number of moral, ethical, and financial” dealings by the leading individuals in charge of the Three Angels' Broadcasting Network which threatens to damage or destroy the efectiveness of this independent ... Read more ==> 

The Puzzling SDA Apathy Towards The Plight of the Unborn. Never in the history of humankind the lives of the unborn have been at risk on such a mass scale. There is no question but that the womb, the sacred chamber God provided for the protection of the unborn, is today the most dangerous place on earth (1). According to statistics provided by the Alan Guttmacher Institute [Planned Parenthood], the number of abortions performed per year in the U.S. since 1973 averages 1,560,198 (2). ... Read more ==>

How Can the 'Remnant' Church be Pro-choice? My question is: Is it right for Seventh-day Adventists to generously label ourselves as the "Remnant Church" that keeps God's Commandments, one of which forbids murder, and proclaiming the "last message of mercy to a perishing world," while at the same time oficially justifying the practice of abortion? We are concerned as a church about the deaths of innocent human beings in Iraq and ... Read more ==> 

Pitcairn Island Facing an Uncertain Future! The tiny Pacific Island of Pitcairn has a population of 47, and six Islanders have been convicted of rape. If these men are jailed, the rest of the islanders might face a bleak future, since they are needed for the manning of the longboat that goes out to passing ships, and life on the island might be placed in jeopardy. ... Read more ==>

Golden Rules for the Birds. Here are some golden rules for the birds. Now, if your body is not covered with feathers, and if you can't fly, then stop. Do not read any further, because this if for the birds. 

 Rule Number One: If you don't have a nest, by all means build one! ... Read more =>

Former Religious Liberty Leader Still Defends Abortion. On August 20, 1990, The Pacific Union Recorder published an article written by John V. Stevens Sr., the Pacific Union Conference Public Affairs/Religious Liberty Director, titled Abortion Answers and Attitudes, in which he adamantly defended the women's right to abortion. His arguments were mainly based on human freedom. I will insert here a few quotes to illustrate his position: ... Read more =>

If You Choose That Profession I Will Cry! It was Crisly PenaFlora first year assignment as a junior high school teacher, and her students were behaving like any typical students of that age group. One morning she was helping her Canadian students navigate their career choice assignment, and she enumerated to them the many professions and occupations open to them, when one of the students expressed his dream of one day becoming a pimp. ... Read more => 

A Corporate Apology by the SDA Church. Noting the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Seventh-day Adventist church leaders in Germany and Austria have released a declaration saying they "deeply regret" any participation in or support of Nazi activities during the war. The church bodies "honestly confess" a failure "in following our Lord" by not protecting Jews, and others, from that era's genocide, widely known as the Holocaust. ... Read more =>

The Origin of the Preemptive Strike Doctrine. The origin of the idea of a preemptive strike against Iraq was rooted in the reaction of George Bush against the unexpected terrorist attack against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago, which engulfed in a ball of fire and smoke the Twin Towers that had graced the New York skyline for many decades; leveled the proud symbol of western civilization and the free world to the ground; cut short the lives of three thousand innocent civilians, policemen and firemen;  ... Read more =>