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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009
Here’s a full-length article from LifeSiteNews.com: Could the Global Influenza Pandemic of 2009 be a false alarm? Increasingly, the evidence suggests that the answer is “yes.” Underneath the hysterical headlines implying a growing threat from the so-called “swine flu,” the data emerging from Mexico City and international sources is indicating that, in fact, the entire [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009
From The Boston Globe: The New Hampshire Senate voted [April 29] to allow same-sex couples to marry, setting the state in motion to become the fifth in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire’s House of Representatives has already approved the bill, but the Senate amended the language slightly before passing it on a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009
Dutch medical biologist Dr. Guido Krenning, of the University of Groningen, may be on to something here. According to Science Daily, Improving the affected organ tissue can be realised not only by improving the blood supply from the major blood vessels. A diseased organ can repair itself by making new capillaries. By injecting stem cells [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2009
With 247 Ayes, 175 Nays, and 10 abstaining, H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2009, passed the US House yesterday afternoon. You can see pie charts of the vote breakdown at Open Congress. Additionally, here is some jaw-dropping commentary from Catholic blogger, Les Femmes: I got word a few minutes ago [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2009
A new video by the Family Research Council.
Posted in Abortion on Apr 29th, 2009
From Catholic News Service: ‘I think on the life issue [President Obama is] on the wrong side of history,’ the cardinal said. ‘I think he has his political debts to pay, and so he’s paying them.’ ‘It’s hard to disagree with [President Obama] because he’ll always tell you he agrees with you,’ [Cardinal George] said. [...]
Posted in Global Health on Apr 29th, 2009
From today’s Wall Street Journal: U.S. health officials say swine flu has killed a 23-month-old child in Texas, the first U.S. death in the current outbreak and the first reported outside Mexico. The flu death was confirmed Wednesday by Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in an interview [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2009
From Dr. Robert Gagnon: Dear friends who live in the United States, (Please feel free to circulate this correspondence widely and rapidly) This is a matter of great urgency. Please take a moment to contact your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives and express your opposition to the homosexual “hate crimes” bill (H.R. 1913) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2009
According to the Web version of Congressional Quarterly, Two House members who were the chief backers of legislation to expand embryonic stem cell research are working on a new bill that would codify President Obama’s recent executive order allowing greater federal funding for the research. Their legislation will also contain language allowing the National Institutes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2009
And this seven and one-half years after 9/11. According to the Gallup Poll released April 27, One of the key findings of this Gallup Poll is that a majority of Americans (55%) in retrospect believe the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the Bush administration was justified. I wonder what the results would have been [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.