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Miscellany on this warm autumn Tuesday in Des Moines. Sunny fall days are awesome! Al Mohler: The Idolatrous Religion of Conscience – A Lutheran Lesson for Us All Sarah Palin: East Coast Races Impact All Americans WSJ: Is ObamaCare Pro-Life? by James Freeman Annuit Coeptis: Sarah Palin’s Call to Arms (HT: Josh Painter ) Tim Challies: Sex Detox - Pornifying the Marriage Bed and Breaking Free George Will: The Bachmann burr (HT: Wintery Knight )

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NBC’s venerable crime procedural, “Law & Order,” has endured a fair amount of deserved criticism around here lately. Big Hollywood’s thoughtful critiques of the show’s leftward slide and irksome predictability are, sadly, valid. Like many L&O fans, I’ve been forced to admit that recent seasons have been quite disappointing. The word “cancellation” has cropped up in my mind more than once. That being said, this season has been refreshingly solid. Aside from the atrocious “Let’s

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One of the great betrayals of the pro-life cause happened last summer when Scott Roeder killed abortionist George Tiller. Every right-thinking pro-lifer denounced that action, recognizing it to be fundamentally at odds with the nature of the cause we believe…

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By Peter J. Smith LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Both the family and the Church stand in the way of socialism’s triumph, former US Senator Rick Santorum told Christians gathered for the 17th International Week of Prayer and Fasting last week. The pro-life champion warned attendees, however, that both …

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George George Will has a crush : The state senator from her district in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul had been in office for 17 years, had stopped being pro-life and started supporting tax increases, so that morning Michele Bachmann had skipped washing her hair, put on jeans and a tattered sweatshirt and went to the local Republican nominating caucus to ask the incumbent a few pointed questions. There, on the spur of the moment, some similarly disgruntled conservatives suggested that she un

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`LifeSiteNews’ Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 23, 2009 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A final attempt to block a vast federal policy shift in favor of abortion will not be granted a vote as the U.S. House of Representatives considers President Obama’s health care bill, because Democrat leaders fear the attempt would likely succeed, reports the Associated Press today. As the health care bill prepares for a final battle on the House floor, Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak of Michig

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Friday night, NBC’s Law & Order , which follows the headlines, will dramatize this one: A 3rd trimester abortionist is shot in church. The episode will air at 8p ET/7p CT. Preshow reviews… From Entertainment Weekly : The episode called “Dignity” begins with the murder of a doctor who performs abortions - he’s shot while praying in church. The killer is represented in court by an anti-abortion league lawyer played by Richard Thomas with perfectly calibra

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Here’s one of my favourites – “Pro-Choice” = Euthanasia and / or Abortion (and of course anything opposed to this begins with the negative sounding word – “anti”)By Janet Levy – American ThinkerIn George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” Newspeak refers to language designed by a totalitarian regime to control thought and make subversive speech impossible. It destroyed words with prohibited meanings so that heretical thoughts couldn’t be expressed. A form of censorship, Newspeak employed euphemisms and wor

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By Peter J. SmithWASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both the family and the Church stand in the way of socialism’s triumph, former US Senator Rick Santorum told Christians gathered for the 17th International Week of Prayer and Fasting last week. The pro-life champion warned attendees, however, that both institutions are under heavy attack from Obama-administration policies.“We are under a great assault with this President and this Congress on the issue of life. We are under

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Another assault, more silence. A pro-life person who participated in the 40 Days for Life event in Fresno, California was assaulted on Thursday afternoon by an abortion advocate. Victor Fierro, director of the Hispanic pro-life group Latinos4Life, was the victim…

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