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  • The University vs. Christian Belief

    September 28th, 200911:22 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    My daughter, Alyson, took a semester away from her nominally Christian university to study abroad. Emails describing the first few days of classes had a common theme.  "I'm the only conservative and they hate Christians."  One professor says 'Jihad is tame compared to 13th century Christians.' There's the obligatory Sarah Palin bashi...

  • Revising Social Studies

    September 21st, 200910:44 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    The state of Texas is in the midst of a mandatory, every-ten-year review of its social studies curriculum for public schools.  This is important to the whole country because textbook publishers develop material based on their largest market, Texas. The biggest news from this process is that the sixth grade curriculum-writing team removed Chri...

  • 48 Hours

    September 17th, 200911:00 AM ET
    By Bradley Mattes
    Sarah Capewell's son is dead because of Britain's nationalized health care system. Little Jayden was born premature at 21 weeks and 5 days after conception. If Jayden had been born just two days later, doctors would have worked to save his life. But the cutoff age for a premature baby under Britain's National Health Service rationing guideline is 2...

  • Life Issues Institute Condemns Murder of Pro-Life Activist

    September 11th, 200901:09 PM ET
    By Bradley Mattes
    Life Issues Institute was shocked and saddened to hear that a long-time, pro-life activist, Jim Pouillon, was brutally gunned down in a cold act of murder this morning. He was reportedly killed by a 33-year-old man who is now in police custody. Mr. Pouillon was killed outside Owosso High School in Michigan where he was holding a sign and protestin...

  • FEMINISTS' STIMULUS SELFISHNESS

    September 11th, 200911:38 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    The Stimulus Package was sold with promises of millions of "shovel ready" jobs.  Americans envisioned men who had lost jobs in the construction industry getting work repairing roads, bridges, and the electrical grid. Even the skeptical were glad, at least, that long-needed highways and schools would be built.  But not the feminist groups....
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