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2015-01-28T16:34:44-07:00

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Criminal Charges Against Governor Rick Perry Move Forward

Last updated on: January 28, 2015 at 4:34 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Presidential candidate Rick Perry’s motion to dismiss charges against him was tossed out by a Texas judge. The charges stem from Governor Perry’s veto of state financing of a Texas District Attorney’s office. Governor Perry said at the time that he was signing the veto because District Atorney Rosemary Lemberg refused to resign from her office. Lemberg had been arrested on drunk driving charges. Oklahoma recently had a somewhat similar situation when a member of our governor’s cabinet was arrested... Read more

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2015-01-27T10:14:28-07:00

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Will Obama’s Proposed Medicare Changes Lead to Health Care Rationing?

Last updated on: January 27, 2015 at 10:14 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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President Obama has an ambitious new plan to overhaul Medicare. Specifically, he wants to start paying doctors based on the health of their patients, rather than the number of patients they see and the treatments they give. One rather obvious problem with this plan is that it would pay doctors to avoid treating really sick people. Since Medicare provides care for the elderly, this is questionable, at best. Another question that comes to mind is the simple fact that this... Read more

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2015-01-27T09:08:14-07:00

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Bromance Aside, Obama Speaks for Religious Freedom, Women, in India

Last updated on: January 27, 2015 at 9:08 am By Rebecca Hamilton

President Obama made some tough comments in a speech he gave during his visit to India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had previous pulled out all the stops by greeting President Obama with a hug when he first arrived, and then issuing gushy statements about the “chemistry” between himself and our president. President Obama has promised 4 billion in investment and aid to India. But along with that came a speech in which he stated that India needs religious freedom and that... Read more

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2015-02-03T15:45:26-07:00

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Is Your Congressperson Lying to You about the 20 Week Abortion Ban?

Last updated on: February 3, 2015 at 3:45 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Is your Congressperson trying to lie their way out of the decision to pull the vote on the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks? Maybe. Public Catholic readers have contacted the offices of their various Congresspeople, and it sounds like they are getting a pack of lies and obfuscations in reply to their questions. These Congresspeople are relying on the fact that law-making is an arcane art to most people. They know that you don’t know how to wend... Read more

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2015-01-26T09:56:25-07:00

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Why Nothing Gets Done in Washington

Last updated on: January 26, 2015 at 9:56 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Why does nothing get done in Washington? Because they’re all running for the next election. This was a while back. And this was a couple of days ago. Candidates and political parties alike never stop campaigning long enough to govern. Read more

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2015-01-26T12:07:57-07:00

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Bromance Between President Obama and Indian Prime Minister: Why?

Last updated on: January 26, 2015 at 12:07 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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It appears that there’s a budding bromance between India’s Prime Minister and President Barack Obama. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted our president at the airport with a big bear hug and then went on to describe the “chemistry” and “strong friendship” between himself and President Obama. Prime Minister Modi is leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is described as the Hindu nationalist party. His election raised fears that he would undermine religious freedom in India. He was banned from... Read more

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2015-01-26T10:07:38-07:00

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Cowardly Congress Scraps Abortion Bill

Last updated on: January 26, 2015 at 10:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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The United States House of Representatives’ leadership has made the decision to scrap a bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. They went for a bill banning the use of government monies to pay for abortions, instead. The reason? Evidently, a number of GOP congresswomen objected to the bill based on the fact that it did not allow sufficient exception for rape victims. I have a couple of points here. First, why not amend the bill... Read more

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2015-01-24T10:37:24-07:00

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ISIS and the Braggadocio of Serial Killers

Last updated on: January 24, 2015 at 10:37 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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ISIS is organized murder’s answer to every lone serial killer who yearns for recognition. Just like Ted Bundy who famously claimed that when he killed someone he “felt like God,” and John Wayne Gacy who denied wrongdoing by saying “I didn’t kill anybody, I just took out the trash,” ISIS is proud of what they do and will tell anybody that there’s nothing wrong with it. ISIS connects its murderous behavior with Islam and makes the claim that ISIS is... Read more

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2015-01-24T15:05:22-07:00

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Did the Supreme Court K-O the Seal of the Confessional?

Last updated on: January 24, 2015 at 3:05 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Evidently, the Louisiana State Supreme Court woke up one morning and decided to K-O the legal protection for the seal of the confessional. This legal privilege, which has long protected priests from prosecution for not revealing the things said to them in confession, has been under attack from zealous prosecutors. A few years ago, a prosecutor, who evidently never heard of building a case through the vast investigative powers of the government, decided to bug and record a confession between... Read more

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2015-01-23T20:45:31-07:00

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Rebecca Hamilton … A Tale of Two Citizens

Last updated on: January 23, 2015 at 8:45 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Today is the 6th Annual Tulsa March for Life, sponsored by 35 groups including Lutherans for Life, The Uprising, Anglicans for Life, Victory Christian, Tulsa Bible Church, Claremore Nazarene, Holy Apostles Orthodox, Tulsa University Newman Center, Saint Gregory’s University, the Diocese of Tulsa, St Michael Episcopal, Oral Roberts University, Catholic Charities, Go Life Mobile, Mend Pregnancy Center and many others. Be there, or be square. Charles Dickens would have loved Rebecca Hamilton. “A Tale of Two Citizens… “It was the... Read more

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