Here's An Everyday Hero For You
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, Chairman of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; author...and much more.
As the public schools veer further away from any recognition (let alone respect) of America's Christian heritage, they move steadily towards a friendly relationship with other religions. Buddhism gets applause as does Hinduism and the pantheistic renderings of pre-Christian native religions.
I went to Kroger this weekend and as I was checking out through the self-checkout lane, I noticed a sticker on the register that read, “Susan G. Komen for the Cure”. I called the attendant over and asked her what the sticker was for. She very proudly said, “We’re collecting money for them to find a cure for breast cancer.”
As the Christmas shopping season approaches, please keep in mind this heartless action of Mattel Toy Company. In their greedy paranoia, they sued Super Duper Publications, a provider of educational materials for children with autism and other communication disorders, for infringement of copyright. Why?
The New York City Council is the latest government body going bonkers in its abortion advocacy as they propose legislation against pro-life pregnancy centers. The City Council thus serves (quite openly, even proudly) as the handmaiden to NARAL and the abortion profiteers in the city.
Normally, Claire and I do our "When Swing Was King" presentations on weekdays. That's when there's more of a need in nursing homes, assisted living apartments and retirement centers for entertainment, projects and outside visitation.
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(Thanks to Jonathan & Alicia Kayser for alerting me to this provocative film trailer. The full film is due out November 1. You can find out more at this Facebook page.)
I've written three or four posts in the past few months dealing with my hopes that Nebraska's Attorney General Jon Bruning would answer a few of the questions directed at him from pro-life advocates and that he would take a more aggressive, more public leadership role to ensure that every possible action is being taken in Nebraska to defend and promote the sanctity of life, to protect women's health and safety, to require abortionists like Leroy Carhart and Planned Parenthood to fully adhere to current law, to keep such atrocious schemes as Planned Parenthood's "telemed" abortion procedures out of Nebraska, and to investigate new areas in which pro-life legislation can chip away at Roe v Wade.
The wacky season is at its worst as the Democrats duck and dodge, pontificate and prevaricate, and engage in some of their most outrageous character assassinations ever.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and there's no doubt all Americans should be concerned about this devastating disease. We should, for instance, be bold enough to tell our fellow citizens some of the critical facts being left out of the discussion -- issues surrounding the connections of surgical (and chemical) abortion to greater risks of breast cancer and the demonstrable decrease in contracting the disease among women who have had children in their twenties and women who have breast-fed their children.
While efficiency experts across the country are giggling at the ironic fumbling of the the American Postal Workers Union -- they have had to extend their union election because thousands of ballots were claimed to have been lost in the mail -- those same efficiency experts are gasping at the federal government paying out $18 million of the President's stimulus to 72,000 dead people.
Yes, I know that you're used to hearing about the ACLU stepping in to stop the exercise of religious expression in the public square. They don't like prayers at football games. They're horrified by plaques with the Ten Commandments. They are aghast at lighted crosses (even in people's yards), at teachers who have Bibles on their desk or speakers who dare to mention religious faith in a school assembly.
We had already contacted the office of our new Omaha City Council member to voice disagreements with votes he had made but after yesterday's post ("Citizens Paying A Criminal's Bills, Drunks at the Movies -- Omaha's City Council At Work"), Claire made another attempt to talk to him personally.
As pro-life advocates have repeatedly warned, the grand scheme behind embryonic stem cell "research" does not involve finding medical cures and treatments for disease and disability. Rather, the drive is to further de-value human life AND to make a lot of money in the process.
Facebook friends Michelle and Roy alerted me to this laughable example of government incompetence. Well, if anything that wastes $1 billion can be laughable.
Critics of government globalism have always been denounced by academia and the mainstream press as nativist cranks or religious crackpots, even as the reasons for fearing a "new world order" became clearer, more compelling and more abundant -- the ascension of leftist, Nanny State politics in the West; the subjugation of sovereignty by the European Union; the extended reach of the United Nations; the surrender of national governments to "world" treaties and international courts; etc.
On Monday night a few of us got together to discuss our reading of F.A. Hayek's provocative analysis of socialism, The Road to Serfdom. We all agreed it was no easy read, but very well worthwhile. Indeed, after two hours of discussion, we felt we were just hitting our stride. But then, as Christian activists, our discussion also included exploring the best responses we could employ to the book's lessons.
...According to LPS Applied Analytics, 2 million households are in foreclosure, with another 2.37 million badly delinquent and awaiting foreclosure.
A White House cover-up, one exposed by a commission the President himself appointed?
Rusty Wright has some helpful advice for those who desire to share their Christian faith with unbelievers, especially with skeptics or adherents of other religions. He calls it Advocacy Apologetics and while it forcefully rejects cowardice or compromise, it does emphasize an initial "seeking of common ground" in order to most winsomely and effectively get a hearing.
In the Western and Asian press, as well as in statements by various governments, a distinct effort has been made to reduce the crimes of Duch and of Khieu Samphan to matters of local circumstance. It is as if an unfortunate catastrophe had fallen on Cambodia in 1975 called the “Khmer Rouge,” killing 1.5 million Khmers...
Was it the Omaha City Council's inordinate fear of lawsuits or the typical generosity politicians feel when they're handing out someone else's money?
Sidewalk Counseling: Can It Get More Intense?
Yesterday's sidewalk counseling experience at the abortion clinic was just about as dramatic and emotional as you can get. For it combined the usual sadness of seeing abortion clients disregard our offers of alternatives with two exceptional situations:
Michael Zak takes a novel approach to the culture wars by boldly boasting the historical record of the Republican Party. Rather then sheepishly bow to the Democrat's ongoing myths (and frequently, outright lies) about the G.O.P., Zak brings the history and heroes of the Republican Party into the fray.
Bryan, a three-time Democrat presidential nominee, also backed the Klan's favorite for the nomination, William McAdoo, son-in-law of former Democrat President Woodrow Wilson (photo at left). It was President Wilson who in 1915 helped revive the Ku Klux Klan by premiering in the White House Birth of a Nation. This pro-KKK movie was based on The Clansman, a racist novel written by one of Wilson's college pals, who had been a Democrat state legislator.
Americans reeled this weekend with the revelations that the United States during the Truman administration had funded scientists who intentionally infected people from Guatemala with sexually transmitted disease so they could study the disease and its potential treatments.
The Energy Department of the Obama administration is guilty of making vastly exaggerated claims for their new "efficiency standard" laws. Some of those claims are backed by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (a government-funded group with a powerful financially-driven bias) and some seem to be invented out of whole cloth.
Last week I posted an Action Alert item about the proposed change in the City of Omaha's policies, "Will Omaha Protect 'Sexual Orientation' and 'Gender Expression' as Civil Rights?"
If you're looking for an enlightening primer on just what's happening in the convoluted, corrupt and counter-productive world of "green politics," you'll likely find no better than last week's series of articles in the Washington Examiner.
Earlier in the morning, I posted Vital Signs Ministries' debut YouTube presentation. I hope you'll find it of value and help us spread the word.
If one dares to look beyond the slogans, the grandiose hype and the arrogant (but ultimately bogus) boasts of pro-choice advocates, it's rather plain to see that it is the abortion proponents that are acting arbitrarily and against science...not the pro-lifers.
How about that? Congress can occasionally do something right.
