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2010-03-12T05:40:21-05:00

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Gendercide

Last updated on: March 12, 2010 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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Mollie Hemingway writes about media coverage of sex-selective abortion, particularly in China and India where families want sons and so get an abortion if their in utero baby is a girl. This even has acquired a name, something to add to our vocabulary: gendercide. Mollie (I can call her that because I know her) cites a story in The Christian Science Monitor about the consequences of wiping out so many females in the population. It features a farmer in India... Read more

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2010-03-12T05:31:32-05:00

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Banning salt

Last updated on: March 12, 2010 at 5:31 am By Gene Veith

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A New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban restaurants from cooking with salt. Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking. “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared... Read more

2010-03-11T06:00:59-05:00

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Two brothers, one atheist and the other Christian

Last updated on: March 11, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Christopher Hitchens is currently one of the major evangelists (if one can use that word) for atheism. His brother Peter, though, another British journalist, is a Christian. You have got to read Peter’s account of how he changed from atheism to Christianity and how he now gets along with his brother: How I found God and peace with my atheist brother: PETER HITCHENS traces his journey back to Christianity | Mail Online. Read more

2010-03-11T05:46:22-05:00

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Germany is fed-up

Last updated on: March 11, 2010 at 5:46 am By Gene Veith

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Germany has played nice since the end of World War II, trying to expiate its guilt by pushing for the European Union, sacrificing the solid Deutschmark for the ups and downs of the Euro, and using its strong economy to bail out other European countries. But what is happening in Greece is causing Germans to say, “enough.” So reports Anne Applebaum: “Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks — and the Acropolis too!” — headline, Bild newspaper, March 4 Sometimes they... Read more

2010-03-11T04:59:38-05:00

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Baby woolly mammoth

Last updated on: March 11, 2010 at 4:59 am By Gene Veith

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A baby woolly mammoth has been discovered in Russia’s frozen tundra. Not a fossil, not bones, but an intact woolly mammoth! It will be displayed in Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Wooly mammoth carcass from Siberia reveals information about ice-age creatures – washingtonpost.com. Read more

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2010-03-10T06:00:59-05:00

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From jihadist prince to Israeli spy to Christian convert

Last updated on: March 10, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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You have got to read the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, who became an Israeli spy and then a convert to Christianity. How did that latter part happen? It was very simple: During those quiet years he met a British cabbie in Jerusalem who gave him an English-Arabic copy of the New Testament and invited him to attend a bible study session at their hotel. “I found that I... Read more

Muslim to Christian converts

2010-03-10T05:45:36-05:00

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A Spartan budget

Last updated on: March 10, 2010 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is no conservative, but he is worried, very worried about the deficit. He sees what is happening in Greece as our future: Look into the face of George Papandreou, America, and see your future. The Greek prime minister is in town this week as part of a world tour seeking help for his beleaguered homeland. Greece is broke, its government on the verge of default. As Papandreou landed in Washington, there were strikes in the... Read more

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2010-03-10T05:14:45-05:00

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Hollywood goes conservative?

Last updated on: March 10, 2010 at 5:14 am By Gene Veith

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Maybe not exactly, but the Academy Awards give Roger Simon reason to think that the ideological spectrum in Hollywood may be widening: The 2010 Academy Awards may not have marked the end of “liberal Hollywood” as we know it, but they certainly put a solid dent in it. With the pro-military “The Hurt Locker” winning over the enviro-pabulum of “Avatar” and Sandra Bullock garnering the Best Actress Oscar for a Christian movie, the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe... Read more

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2010-03-10T05:00:05-05:00

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Destroying the Senate

Last updated on: March 10, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The “Christian Science Monitor,” not a conservative publication, has a piece by Mark Sappenfield entitled Reconciliation: why healthcare reform ‘nuclear option’ is deadly. It discusses the tactic of evading the filibuster rules so as to pass the Health Care Reform bill with a bare majority, rather than needing 60 votes. The author is referring to a “Face the Nation” appearance by centrist Republican Lindsey Graham and centrist Democrat Evan Bayh: To many senators, including Graham, these procedures are not roadblocks... Read more

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2010-03-09T06:00:57-05:00

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Over 500 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria

Last updated on: March 9, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Muslims in Nigeria have massacred over 500 Christians in a horrific outbreak of violence: UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group. While... Read more

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