It’s open season on the LDS church, says the headline in this WAPO article.
The piece foreshadows, I fear, of what is to come — effort to portray Mormons as weirdly out of step and unmodern, and by implication, Romney as being unfit for the presidency…
But if you read the article, […]

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Annette Lantos, the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, has joined efforts to oppose the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposals to cut Voice of America (VOA) services, the independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting reported today on its website www.cusib.org.
Mrs. Lantos’s April 4, 2012 letter to the BBG begins:
“I write in support […]

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So there I was, trying to figure out why all these bigshots are telling me not to test my patients, and wondering why (and remembering I was once sued for not ordering a test that was still experimental at the time, and only available 800 miles away at a University that was doing a study […]

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Most Americans know about the “Asian Tiger” economies (and if PNoy keeps hitting at corruption, the Filipinos may join that group). But did you know that other areas of the world are similarly expanding their economies?
A day or two ago, I ran into an article that those “undocumented” immigrants in the US are now returning […]

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I once lived under a dictatorship, so we rarely believed what the government run media told us. Because of the censorship of the media, rumors tended to spread wildly and so to find out what was going on, we relied on word of mouth from other missionaries,  and every night we listened to the BBC’s […]

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Today is the end of a financial year for Indian Banks. It is time for them to draw their annual reports and submit it to both RBI and its shareholders. One essential information missing from Bank reports it the extent of loss in E Banking frauds.
RSA recently stated that the losses suffered by Indian […]

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School choice and a government mandate regarding contraceptives may seem like an odd couple. However, several writers have recently paired the controversial Health and Human Services insurance mandates with past decisions about school choice or voucher programs, including David Brooks of the New York Times and Libby Sternberg at Hot Air.  Religious institutions have gotten the short end of […]

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Autism campaigners around the world will be using the power of twitter in support of the 5th annual United Nations World Autism Awareness Day on Monday 2nd April this year. World Autism Awareness Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly - the event was tabled by the State of Qatar in 2008.
A World […]

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There are several stories on the web today about a tragic shooting in Florida.
The bad news is that the beloved US president has sent in his attack dogs to manipulate the story for political gain.
There is some physical evidence to suggest that the Hispanic man shot in self defense, so jumping to the conclusion that […]

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After the tragic shooting this week in Florida, of an unarmed youth, debate is focusing on Florida Law. Critics point out that no one has been charged in the case, and it has been blamed on a poorly written Florida self-defense law. Further adding to the controversy are statements attritbuted to the […]

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The calamity of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to put corporate reputation as a subject very much in the spotlight and, hardly surprisingly, many commentators contrast BP’s past attempts to claim the moral highground on environmental matters with the stark reality of what happened in the Gulf of Mexico. The idea that corporations should be […]

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The Kony campaign is a day late and a dollar short, as the saying goes…and a lot of folks in Africa are annoyed that these do-gooders just noticed the fight, which has been going on for quite awhile.
Some Africans think they are cashing in on it (while libeling the good things going on in Uganda). […]

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I see the anti Asian mafia have a new scalp on their belts, with the conviction of an Indian born student for a “hate crime” and invasion of privacy.
But lost in the homophobia meme of the politically correct is a question: Do students have the right to privacy in one dorm’s room? Because in this […]

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Anti Catholicism has a long history in the US, an inheritance from England, where the religious wars for and against the regency of Queen Elizabeth led to Catholics being demonized as evil. ( Elizabeth was inconveniently conceived before her mother married, and many folks said her mother never married the king at all, so this […]

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A recently launched Save Voice of America Tibetan Radio website (www.savevoatibetanradio.com) and a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/savevoatibetan) urge supporters to contact their congressmen with a message to oppose elimination of Voice of America Tibetan radio by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a U.S. federal government agency which oversees VOA broadcasts and wants to silence VOA […]

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I had to laugh. Jane Fonda is among the fainting feminists who want Rush Limbaugh removed from the airways for insulting a woman.
Well, she has a point. Technically, the word to describe those of either or both sexes who have sexual relations outside of marriage is “fornicator”, and this is not illegal in the US […]

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I have been in a Civil Partnership for 42 years. It started on 30th September 1969 when Ann and I went to Acton Registry Office in West London and, in front of close friends and family, we made vows to commit ourselves to one another. God was not invited (although I agree than some may […]

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Yesterday, I published an essay about the Facebook fad “The Invisible Children”, a video about Joseph Kony and his murderous terrorist group, that has gone viral in the blogosphere.
I ended the essay with the note that there is a time for war and a time of peace, and that the war to find and punish […]

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An article in yesterday’s National Journal - (http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/panetta-u-s-has-potential-military-plans-for-iran-20120308) by Yochi Dreazen, details comments made by Defense Secretary Panetta this week regarding both Syria, and the Iranian Nuclear issue. This article mentions The fact that the United States is weighing options and contingencies for conflict with Iran, and obviously this is no surprise. […]

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I noticed two of my grandchildren and a niece had shared the “Invisible children” film on my facebook site.
This was a bit surprising, because one is a church going, volunteering teenager, the second is a sophisticated student in the UK, and the third one is a heavy metal music loving Goth.
But all are united in […]

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Yes, we all remember back in 2008 when the coming of Barack Obama was hailed by some as the coming of the Messiah (I am not making a joke: see this Washington Post article), while a much better qualified Hillary Clinton was either ignored or put down as a loser by the pundits in the […]

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Check this out: Natural Gas,via TPMBarnett’s webpage:
natural gas deals are proceeding internationally: the flow out of North America alters things, regionalizing flows more as Japan and Germany move off nukes and seek to ramp up their use of gas to generate electricity, and as emerging markets in general ramp up their […]

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I rarely come on all Catholic. I don’t feel entitled. My Catholicism was acquired via conversion; defending the faith seems best left to those who’ve held it in their heart all along and whose knowledge is more profound. Plus, I’m not a good Catholic in practice. Raised an atheist, I never set foot in a […]

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There is a very curious debate going on in Britain at the moment in (mainly) Tory circles about whether Income or Wealth taxes are preferable. For example see this article from Tory polemicist Tim Montgomerie and the graphic reproduced here that argue that Wealth taxes are (comparatively) good whilst Income Taxes are bad.   Now I […]

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[P.S: This article is in continuation of my previous series of articles starting with the article titled Indian Media is Insensitive..here followed by the article Blood of Bank Fraud Victims are on the hands of these.. where I had pointed out how increasingly E banking frauds are affecting the health of banking victims and why […]

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Concerns about an Israeli Preemptive strike against Iranian Nuclear production facilities have gained attention recently and have been the topic of numerous speculative reports in both the foreign and U.S. Press.
The Wisdom and effectiveness of such an attack has been debated, and both U.S. and Israeli Government officials have weighed in on the topic. […]

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There have to be clowns. Without them, we might cry a river during election years. Pinching your nose while voting brings tears to the eyes of many. So send in the clowns. Or at least– a really sharp comedy.
Some clarification as to what counts as comic. The Mitt/Newt/Rick Show and MSM’s Fist Pump 4 Obama […]

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[P.S: This article is in continuation of my previous article titled: Indian Media is Insensitive..here where I had pointed out how increasingly E banking frauds are affecting the health of banking victims and why certain persons should be considered responsible for the bloodbath ].
When an E banking fraud consumes a bank victim, the first person who is responsible is […]

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Normally Indian Media and TV media in particular is very sensitive to issues of Crimes. There are several programs dedicated to sensationalizing the crimes. In certain cases the media intervention has ensured that Courts have taken note of incidents which would have otherwise been buried under by influential persons. Many of the recent scams in […]

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Most folks don’t like going to the doctor’s office, and nearly everyone hates “needles”, whether they be fingersticks, blood tests, or getting your flu shot.
But if you would ask people what is the worst test they ever had, they would say either a Barium Enema or a Colonoscopy.
Yet cancer of the large bowel is a […]

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