The Unimportance of Evolution

By G. K. Chesterton

“The Modern Mind is so called to distinguish it from the Mind. This marked distinction and emphasis is really unnecessary. There is little or nothing about what is commonly called Modernism to cause the most careless student to confuse it for the moment with mental activity, or the general use of the reason; it is a curious, moody thing and perhaps its only redeeming element is that, being founded on moods and emotions, it is full of surprises.”

Administration Targets Major Drug Maker

By William D. Zeranski

“Obama’s Justice Department just joined a lawsuit against a major drug manufacture, Wyeth, stating that Wyeth ‘cheated’ Medicaid.   The drug maker defends its ‘pricing plan,’ but, drug makers, in general, have been demonized for so long, Weyth’s fight will be up hill no matter what.”

Obama Administration Says Drugmaker Wyeth Cheated Medicaid
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press

“Washington (AP) - The Justice Department on Monday accused Wyeth, one of the nation's biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for a stomach acid drug.”

Obama's Faith-Based Adviser Urges Challenge to ‘Heteronormative' Fatherhood
Monday, May 18, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

“A controversial member of President Barack Obama’s faith-based council said that part of the administration’s role in promoting responsible fatherhood should include moving beyond America’s “heteronormative view of fatherhood.””

You'll never guess which states have most jobless
Labor could loom large in mid-term elections
Posted: May 18, 2009
By Jerome R. Corsi

“Unemployment in March was 20 percent higher in so-called "blue states" won by Democratic candidate Barack Obama in last fall's presidential election than in "red states" won by Republican candidate John McCain, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

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May 11, 2009

Orson Bean writes . . .

“Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin’s Communism, with the addition of “the Fatherland”. The crazies behind this film say they are non-partisan. They are: they’re equal-opportunity haters. They’ll never be satisfied until they are standing in the smoldering ruins of society… any society. They only feel comfortable in chaos. They whip up people’s fears and then give those fears something to latch onto.”

I grew up watching Mr. Bean, the original one and not character created by Rowan Atkinson, on TV and games shows and movies.  He’s what is now call, and well, then, an ‘ol’ time actor’

I like ol’ time actors.’  I liked the TV shows they were in and the moves too.  Everybody kept their clothes on.  I was a kid and wasn’t interested in the clothes be on, but it was good for my imagination . . .   But, when less skin was showing more story was told.  I like stories.  I like characters talking to each other.  I like action, adventure, mystery and romance, even as a kid, I liked the guy getting the girl.  That was the formula, guy gets girl, guy losses girl and then he does something to get the girl back.  In the movie musical, he danced ala Gene Kelly.  In Westerns, he shot the bad guys.  We have Gary Cooper.  In Mysteries, well, the mystery is solved like in North by Northwest with Cary Grant. 

Did I just like formulas that worked?  Or maybe, as a kid, I just knew that the good guy should win.  There are some things like ‘the good guying winning’ that should just happened because it’s right.

Mr. Orson Bean finished his column with:

“I’m not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don’t understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren’t we?”

I’ll finish here.

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Protecting the unborn is always difficult in a 1^st world nation, which is technologically advance and as well as enlightened society, isn’t it?

The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius

Catholic leaders' threats to deny Communion to the Health and Human Services nominee have serious ramifications.

By Tim Rutten
April 25, 2009

“When Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius this week vetoed another in the seemingly unending series of restrictive abortion bills her state's Legislature churns out, it guaranteed that her confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services would become a battleground in the increasingly nasty campaign being waged against officeholders who are both Catholic and Democratic.”

As far as I can figure it, this kind of action by the Catholic Church is overdue, and not new.  What is happening is another step to rein in those who call themselves Catholic only as part of their political rhetoric. 

The Church’s actions are a re-action to the kind of behavior, which began prior to the 2008 election with Nancy Pelosi:

(August 27, 2008)

Pelosi on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" was asked when human life begins. She said:

I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition … St. Augustine said at three months. We don't know. The point is, is that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose.

Her response, however, mangled Catholic doctrine, charges a new letter from 19 Catholic members of Congress.

"We are compelled to refute your error," the letter said.

And then VP candidate Joe Biden:

Senator Biden did not claim that Catholic teaching allows or has ever allowed abortion.  He said rightly that human life begins “at the moment of conception,” and that Catholics and others who recognize this should not be required by others to pay for abortions with their taxes. 

However, the Senator’s claim that the beginning of human life is a “personal and private” matter of religious faith, one which cannot be “imposed” on others, does not reflect the truth of the matter.  The Church recognizes that the obligation to protect unborn human life rests on the answer to two questions, neither of which is private or specifically religious.

In short all this was started by those not faithful to their Faith. 

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Arlen Specter is leaving.  Actually, this is old news,   Partly, because he was never in the Republican Party.  And the higher-ups just didn’t get it.  Specter didn’t want to compromise.  Why is the Republican Party is surprised?  They shouldn’t be. 

Specter leaving the Party to keep his seat? (symposium)

symposium

April 28, 2009

Joeseph Ashby writes:
“Human Events is reporting that Arlen Specter will announce today he's switching to the Democrat Party.”

Outbreak: the search for answers

Statement by Douglas J. Hagmann, Director

“27 April 2009: The Northeast Intelligence Network has been carefully monitoring the threat posed to the U.S. by the recent flu outbreak and are sorting through the many layers of confusion associated with this evolving health crisis. Investigators and researchers are attempting to isolate fact from fiction and provide our readers with the most accurate and honest information possible. As noted in an article written by contributing analyst Randy Taylor yesterday, the U.S. declared a “public health emergency,” but at the same time took no action to contain its spread within the U.S. from Mexico.

The federal declaration of a public health emergency does, however, serve a legitimate purpose: it provides state authorities the ability to expedite the increased distribution of antiviral medications and related medical equipment from regional locations to specific health centers to accommodate the anticipated increase in the number of patients. At the same time, however, there appears to be a number of oddities associated with this “potential pandemic” that cannot be overlooked.”

Straight time: Abortion: A pro-life Oakland pastor chooses jail over a plea bargain—and leads prisoners to Christ

By Lynn Vincent

“In the next moment, the inmate was striding up and down the length of the cell, announcing, "Hey, he don't have to be here! He turned down probation! He doing straight time for what he believed in!"”

Post-Christian? Not even close.

By Stephen Prothero

“A high-profile ‘religious landscape’ survey is said to show that America is rapidly losing its faith in Christianity. One problem: It’s not so.”

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