March 9, 2012

 

The Party of the Rich, Hypocrisy (48), Obama’s “Transparency” (10), Abortion (40), Government Schools (62), Obamacare (46), American Energy (15), “Green” Economies (45), Scientific Fraud (2), Global Warming (67), Electric Cars (25), Obamanomics (41), Entitlements (15), Federal Debt (42), Republicans? (37), Regulation (9), Calamity to Come (13), Obama’s “Truth” (31), Labor Unions (5), Crime and Punishment (6), Tolerance (23), Poverty (25), Syrian Civil War (29), Obama & Islam (23), Islam vs. The Jews (28), Israel & Iran (46), Obama & Islam vs. Iran (46), Christian Persecution (29), The U.N. (30), Illegal Immigration (33), Homosexual Marriage (30), Atheism (28), Evangelicalism (30), Roman Catholicism (29)

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A 30-story hotel in Changsha went up in two weeks.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-instant-building-20120308,0,5608518.story

[I think I'll wait a few weeks before I check it out live, though.]

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Check out this garment label on a pair of men’s pants.

https://twitter.com/#!/Emmabarnett/status/176699769605980160

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How much you want for them Updates?

This week’s new Update category…

The Party of the Rich:

“Obama set fundraising records as a candidate four years ago, raising $745 million.“

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-03-07/obama-campaign-fundraising/53402226/1

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Obama $68M fourth quarter haul dwarfs Republicans

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/12/obama-68m-fourth-quarter-haul-dwarfs-republicans/

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Obama ‘small donor’ fundraising is lagging

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/obama_small_donor_fundraising_is_lagging.html

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Small donors come up big for GOP candidates

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052701008_pf.html

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Obama’s 2nd quarter fundraising: 40% from his rich cronies

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/obamas_2nd_quarter_fundraising_40_from_his_rich_cronies.html

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Campaign touts its ‘grass roots’

$35M of Obama’s $86M traced to bundlers

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/17/half-obamas-contributions-traceable-bundlers/

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Why Dems are winning money war

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66627.html

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Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

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Here are names of deep pockets funding Obama’s scheme

Wealthy far-left activists put cash, savvy into goal of transforming U.S.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=209645

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Gallup: Obama’s Approval Hits All-Time Low Among Poor, Is Highest Among Rich

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-obama-hits-all-time-low-among-poo

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The Rich Are Not Conservative

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/the_rich_are_not_conservative.html

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“This is not the first time Buffett has profited from Obama administration policies.“

http://freebeacon.com/warren-buffetts-net-worth-jumps-154m-thanks-to-mortgage-settlement/

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Liberal Billionaires Good, Conservative Billionaires Evil

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/liberal_billionaires_good_cons.html

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Dems bash, bank secret cash

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72104.html

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Democrats Benefited from 2008 Trades, Too

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/14/democrats_benefited_from_2008_trades_too.html

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Report: 237 millionaires in Congress

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29235.html

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Indicted Goldman exec was major Dem donor

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1011/Indicted_Goldman_exec_was_major_Dem_donor.html

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Where, Oh Where Are Those Rich Democrat Patriots?

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-oh-where-are-those-rich-democrat-patriots/?print=1

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Obama enriches hedge funds

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/obama_enriches_hedge_funds.html

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Wealthy lawmakers increased their riches as economy sputtered in ’09

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/116489-wealthy-lawmakers-increased-their-riches-as-economy-sputtered-in-2009-

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The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/05/the-net-worth-of-the-us-presidents-washington-to-obama/57020/

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Banks to benefit most from White House program to help fight foreclosures

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/114349-banks-to-benefit-most-from-white-house-program-to-stave-off-foreclosures?tmpl=component&print=1&page=

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America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/

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The Pathology of the Rich Socialist

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_pathology_of_the_rich_soci.html

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Robert Rubin: The Nexus Of Big Government and Wall Street

http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/11/robert-rubin-the-nexus-of-big-government-and-wall-street/

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The Straw Men of the Left

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-straw-men-of-the-left/?print=1

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[Wow, that new Update was a mouthful.  Once again, though, in the immortalized  words of the world-famous philosopher Shrek, "That explains  a lot .]

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Hypocrisy Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Politics / Hypocrisy menu tree.]

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Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while planning to go on Maher “…who recently donated $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC, has a history of his misogynistic slurs. Last year, he was rebuked by the National Organization for Women for calling Sarah Palin a ‘dumb tw*t.’“

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/07/030712-news-web-limbaugh-fluke/

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“Obama campaigned on what he called “the most sweeping ethics reform in history” and has frequently criticized the role of money in politics.  That hasn’t stopped him from offering government jobs to some of his biggest bundlers, volunteer fundraisers who gather political contributions from other rich donors.“

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-obama-gives-administration-jobs-to-some-big-fundraisers/2012/03/06/gIQA9y3txR_story.html?hpid=z2

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Senator to Holder: Was Reid Wrong to Use Pro-Forma Three-Day Sessions to Thwart Bush’s Planned Recess Appointments?

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/senator-holder-was-reid-wrong-use-pro-forma-three-day-sessions-thwart-bush-s-planned

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Obama’s “Transparency” Update:

Obama’s Mentor: We Hid this Video Throughout the 2008 Campaign

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/07/obamas-mentor-we-hid-this-video-throughout-the-2008-campaign/?print=1

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Abortion Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Culture / Abortion menu tree.]

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“American taxpayers are funding the enaction of a sophisticated business plan [at Planned Parenthood].  This plan efficiently fosters demand for abortion through the ever deeper sexualisation of increasingly youthful Americans.“

http://www.faith.org.uk/Publications/Magazines/Mar12/Mar12PlannedParenthoodAndTheDemandForAbortion.html

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“The baby’s doctor told the Oggs his movements were reflexive and not a sign of life.“

http://moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/08/10562260-pronounced-dead-revived-by-moms-hug-miracle-baby-turning-2

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Polish woman saves babies with 75 days in labor

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-poland-birth-labour-idUSBRE8271AW20120308

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Government Schools Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Education / Government Schools menu tree.]

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“What we do know, with considerable certainty, is that while the percentage of students in the voucher schools with disabilities is substantially lower than the disability rate in the public schools, it is at least four times higher than public officials have claimed.“

http://educationnext.org/special-choices/

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“A Virginia high school is threatening to remove a student from the National Honor Society because she completed her community service work at a local church.”

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-threatens-to-remove-student-from-honors-society-over-church-work.html

[She got off easy.  She should have been expelled.]

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Obamacare Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Barack Obama / Obamacare menu tree.]

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The 10 Terrible Provisions of Obamacare You May Not Have Heard Of

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/07/the-10-terrible-provisions-of-obamacare-you-may-not-have-heard-of/print/

[Way to end a sentence with a preposition, Heritage.]

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American Energy Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Politics / American Energy menu tree.]

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Senate rejects GOP measure to build oil pipeline

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/politics/senate-keystone-vote/index.html

[Let's see, which party, again, controls the U.S. Senate?]

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“Green” Economies Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Economics / “Green” Economies menu tree.]

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“The explosion of ["green"] energy subsidies seemed to coincide rather neatly with Democrats taking over both the House and Senate in 2007, and then the presidency in 2009.“

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/big_oil_and_tax_breaks.html

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Scientific Fraud Update:

“[NASA's James] Hansen has been deleting cooling trends all over the planet.”

http://www.real-science.com/hansen-tampering-data-planet

[For those unfamiliar with James Hansen, ASND offers  these   records  for readers to review.]

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Global Warming Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Science / Global Warming menu tree.]

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“The NAS has issued a report that confirms the obvious climate science disaster: billions wasted on climate models – they still can’t predict squat.”

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/03/billions-wasted-on-climate-models.html

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Electric Cars Update:

“… the efficiency of conventional [internal cumbustion gasoline} engines has improved so much that the mpg gap is closing, making it harder to justify paying more for gas-electric hybrids."

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-23/hybrids-unlikely-rival-plain-old-cars

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Obamanomics Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Obamanomics menu tree.]

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After Volt Debacle; Obama Calls for More Spending on Car Batteries

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/after-volt-debacle-obama-calls-more-spending-car-batteries-0

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Entitlements Update:

“Some of the record total of 46.3 million recipients of food stamps — a federal welfare program — have traded their benefits at a discount with corrupt retailers to get cash to buy drugs and weapons…“

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ig-welfare-recipients-traded-food-stamps-cash-buy-drugs-and-guns

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Federal Debt Update:

Federal Debt Has Already Grown $700B in FY12; $40 Per Day Per Full-Time Worker

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/federal-debt-has-already-grown-700b-fy12-40-day-full-time-worker

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Republicans? Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Politics / Republicans? menu tree.]

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“Romney’s people on global warming are as bad as Obama’s people.“

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/07/romneys-pending-sell-out-on-gl/print

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Immigration group blasts Boehner for failing to crack down on illegal workers

Says speaker has stalled House vote

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/7/e-verify-group-to-pressure-boehner-with-ads/

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Regulation Update:

“There is a crisis in biopharmaceutical R&D in all segments of the industry – large,        mid-market, and new ventures.  Much of the responsibility for this can be laid at the door of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is slow to approve new drugs.“

http://pacificresearch.org/docLib/20120302_HPP2.2012_F.pdf

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Calamity to Come Update:

“If Obama is re-elected, there will be more to come.  As the president has told his supporters again and again, there is ‘a lot more work’ to do.“

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/economic_outlook_worse_after_the_election.html

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Obama’s “Truth” Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Barack Obama / Obama's “Truth” menu tree.]

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“To hear the president and Democrats talk, you’d think that Big Oil was sucking the Treasury dry with huge subsidies.“

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/big_oil_and_tax_breaks.html

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White House approved of Shirley Sherrod firing

Despite public denials, emails show Obama officials supported forced resignation

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/white-house-approved-of-shirley-sherrod-firing/print/

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Labor Unions Update:

“Why is this happening?…  [Because non-unionized] Southern workers have not picked up the bad habits and work rules common among their unionized Midwestern brethren.“

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002709-foreign-industrial-investment-is-reshaping-america

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Crime and Punishment Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Culture / Crime & Punishment menu tree.]

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Gang Activity is Increasing ‘Potential for Terrorism-Related Events’ But [Obama's] FBI Plans to Shut Down Gang Intelligence Center

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gang-activity-increasing-potential-terrorism-related-events-fbi-plans-shut-down-gang

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“After looking at the data, [it became obvious] that crime is caused by the lack of moral training in the morally formative years.  Now, that may seem obvious to you, but back in the 1980s, no social scientist was saying that.  The common refrain was that crime was caused by poverty, racism, and social and environmental factors.“

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“… [liberals] did not pay much attention to character.  The Marxists looked at material forces.  Darwinians at the time treated people as isolated products of competition. Policy makers… thought about how to rearrange economic incentives.  ’It is as if it were a mark of sophistication for us to shun the language of morality in discussing the problems of mankind,’ [Wilson] once recalled.“

http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/18929

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/opinion/brooks-the-rediscovery-of-character.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Typical slack-jawed conservative gobbledegook.  Data are useless unless they confirm prejudice.  The only thing that ever matters are feelings!]

[ Conservatives   are   morons .]

[Oh, David Brooks is a liberal?]

[Sorry. My bad.]

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Tolerance Update:

“When asked if she agreed that any organization or company has the right to support causes they agree with, she said ‘definitely, I’m totally in support of any organization doing whatever they want with their money.’“

http://www.christianpost.com/news/student-bias-against-chick-fil-a-focuses-on-equality-agenda-71088/print.html

[Which is why she's working so hard to discriminate against them.]

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Liberal Radio Host’s Wild Rant: ‘Repossess’ Conservative Women’s Ovaries, ‘Cut ’Em Off’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/liberal-radio-hosts-wild-rant-repossess-conservative-womens-ovaries-cut-em-off/

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Poverty Update:

“... the notion that unemployment causes crime runs into some obvious difficulties.  For one thing, the 1960s, a period of rising crime, had essentially the same unemployment rate as the late 1990s and early 2000s, a period when crime fell.  Further, during the Great Depression, when unemployment hit 25 percent, the crime rate in many cities went down… [and] when the recent recession struck… [a]s the national unemployment rate doubled from around 5 percent to nearly 10 percent, the property-crime rate, far from spiking, fell significantly.“

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_crime-decline.html

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Syrian Civil War Update:

Al-Qaeda in Rebel Syria

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/292904

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Senior Syrian official defects to protest Assad’s crackdown

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-08/syria-official-defects/53409600/1

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Top Pentagon Officials Stress Risks in Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/world/middleeast/un-official-scheduled-to-arrive-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

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Activists: Syrian hospitals are torture chamber

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57392885/activists-syrian-hospitals-are-torture-chamber/?tag=nl.e875

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Syrian Christians Rise, Unite to Oust Assad

http://pjmedia.com/blog/syrian-christians-rise-unite-to-oust-assad/?print=1

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Obama & Islam Update:

U.S. State Department Actively Promoting Islam in Europe

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2916/state-department-promoting-islam-europe

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Islam vs. The Jews Update:

“If the Arabs were to lay down their weapons, there would be no more violence.  But if Israel laid down her weapons, there would be no more Israel.“

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/08/an-anti-israel-activists-epiphany/print/

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Israel & Iran Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Religion / Islam / Israel & Iran menu tree.]

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Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-iran-nuclear-israel-usa-idUSBRE82717220120308

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Obama & Islam vs. Israel Update:

“President Obama is obviously aware of these facts.  Yet he appears to ignore them.“

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/08/obamas-secret-weapon-for-iran-a-charm-offensive/print/

[Appears?]

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Christian Persecution Update:

Muslims announce plans to ‘eradicate’ Christianity

Terror campaign targeting believers in violent attacks

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/muslims-announce-plans-to-eradicate-christianity/print/

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U.N. Update:

US Votes in Favor of Watered-Down Measure; Syria Retains Seat on U.N. Human Rights Panel

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-votes-favor-watered-down-measure-syria-retains-seat-un-human-rights-panel

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Media Bias Update:

[Several subtopics are available for further study on the

Update Topics / Politics / Media Bias menu tree.]

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““Such a bombshell should have led the national news coverage throughout the country. Instead, it was completely ignored…’”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/did-threats-silence-media-on-obama-probe/print/

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Illegal Immigration Update:

Illegal Immigrant Allowed To Collect Winning $750,000 Lottery Ticket

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/03/08/illegal-immigrant-allowed-to-collect-winning-750000-lottery-ticket/

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Homosexual Marriage Update:

Democrats Call for Support of Gay Marriage in Party Platform; Obama Silent

http://www.christianpost.com/news/democrats-call-for-support-of-gay-marriage-in-party-platform-obama-silent-71071/print.html

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Atheism Update:

“Consciousness is among the most mystifying features of the cosmos.  [Evolutionist] Geoffrey Madell opines that ‘the emergence of consciousness, then is a mystery, and one to which materialism signally fails to provide an answer.’  [Evolutionist] Colin McGinn claims that its arrival borders on sheer magic because there seems to be no naturalistic explanation for it: ‘How can mere matter originate consciousness?  How did evolution convert the water of biological tissue into the wine of consciousness?  Consciousness seems like a radical novelty in the universe, not prefigured by the after-effects of the Big Bang; so how did it contrive to spring into being from what preceded it?’  Finally, naturalist William Lyons argues that [physicalism] seem[s] to be in tune with the scientific materialism of the twentieth century because it [is] a harmonic of the general theme that all there is in the universe is matter and energy and motion and that humans are a product of the evolution of species just as much as buffaloes and beavers are.  Evolution is a seamless garment with no holes wherein souls might be inserted from above.’“

http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2008/04/28/the-argument-from-consciousness/

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Evangelicalism Update:

Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAT_ROBERTSON_MARIJUANA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-03-08-13-11-19

[Finally, something from Pat Robertson that  makes sense .]

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Newspaper catches Rick Warren fibbing?

Says Saddleback confirmed its report on ‘Chrislam’ accurate

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/newspaper-catches-rick-warren-fibbing/print/

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Roman Catholicism Update:

U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering ‘concern’ list

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-vatican-laundering-idUSBRE82710J20120308

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A Catholic Writer’s Propaganda For Iran

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/08/a-catholic-writers-propaganda-for-iran/print/

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