Beginning on Monday, the Obama administration will argue for the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court.  If the Obama administration is completely convinced of the constitutionality of both the mandate and the fine that will be assessed on individuals choosing to defy the law and not purchase coverage, then why not […]

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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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Finally, capitalism has its own hip movement!  After languishing in the shadow of “flash mobs” and Occupy Wall Street, we read this in USA Today in an article entitled “‘Cash mobs’ descend on small businesses, snap up merchandise”:
It’s a mob scene at some mom-and-pop retailers across the country.
Organized groups of do-gooders — “cash mobs,” modeled after public-spectacle […]

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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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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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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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Albuquerque, New Mexico police arrested a man after they received a 911 call. When they arrived, the mother of the child in the 3200 block on Anderson Avenue, she told them that her 2 year old daughter was beaten and bitten by her boyfriend, Diego Gonzales.
When the police looked at the baby she had bruises […]

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An Amber Alert was issued by the Carlsbad Police Department for a 4 year old boy that they fear has been abducted by a non-family member and the police say the child’s life may be in danger.
Authorities say little Samuel Jones was last seen around 6:30 p.m. Saturday near the 100 block of Taylor Circle […]

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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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Being the parent of a teenager is not easy to do. When we have our kids, they do not come with instructions on how to raise them. We unfortunately have to just raise them the best we can and pray that God will give us the strength to do it the right way.
I write about […]

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The Delray Beach Police Department is reporting the disappearance of a 17 year old girl, Jade Beneby this morning who was apparently abducted from a bus stop.
The girl reportedly left her home this morning around 6:30 a.m. and headed to the bus stop as she was heading for school. She is a student at Atlantic […]

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Women posing with guns are not something new. There are plenty of sites on the Internet that depict this as well as several TV shows that specialize on this topic. But usually it is a case of women wearing bikinis or less, firing automatic weapons at some target, while literally everything moves in slow motion. […]

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Police seem to believe that a mother, Bertha Guerrero-Castro, in Caldwell Idaho may have picked up her three children for visitation but she never returned them by the 3 p.m. deadline on February 18, 2012. They say that the three children, Ubaldo, Mirella and Esmerelda Guerrero-Lopez were last seen at 4601 Autumn Lane yesterday. An […]

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When I retired, our government clinic was just starting to become completely “paper free”.
If I was leery about the idea, it was because we worked in central Oklahoma where power surges would periodically blow my computer, and to make things worse, the entire area’s computer system, along with our computerized patient information summary of medical […]

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Now that the 11 year old kidnapped victim from Fort Worth Texas is back at home living with her grandparents, more details in the case are coming out. The police had listed, the girl, Jessica Smith as being in danger when her mother, Kimberly Smith took her and left and no one knew where they […]

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According to Deputy Chief Pat Gannon, two children, both females ages 1 and 5 were found by relatives unconscious and not breathing at a residence in the 900 block of West 5th Street in South Los Angeles. They were found in the bathroom of a small garage that had been converted into a residence.
The girls […]

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This case is yet another case that proves you should never give up hope until your child is found if they disappear with no trace. When times feel like you are at your wits end, remember there is always that small chance that your child too, could be found one day and when they are […]

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It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the Journal of Medical ethics (which can be read at the British Medical Journal website)  proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ […]

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Three years ago today 5 year old HaLeigh Cummings from Putnam County, Florida disappeared. It was as though she just disappeared into thin air. No one has seen or heard of her since.
The last person known to have seen her was her Dad’s then girlfriend, Misty Croslin. Misty had a lot of holes in her […]

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A 9 month old baby is in the hospital in critical condition after Camden County, Missouri authorities found the baby girl covered in blood with a deep wound to her neck. When they first spotted the child they thought she was dead but she lifted her head so they knew she was still hanging on. […]

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You would think it would be a good thing to walk your children to school to keep them safe, but you never expect something to happen to you on the way back home. Yesterday morning, Loisisnett Garcia-Rengel left her home to walk her children to the Lake Nona Middle School but she never returned home […]

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An Amber Alert in Fort Worth Texas has been issued for 11 year old Jessica Smith who police believe was taken by her mother, Kimberly Smith. Although they decline to say why, the police are reporting the girl could be in danger.
According to Jessica’s older sister, 16 year old Caitlin Fields, there has been some […]

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It’s hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away (I live in the rural Philippines, and we get the news a day late), but as a Democrat, I was bemused to read in today’s papers that Rick Santorum just won in the Republican primaries of Minnesota and Missouri.
Santorum? I wasn’t aware he […]

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A 2 year old little girl lost her life as she slept through a burning home, that her older brother set on fire. Shea Shea Yates was found by firefighters dead in her bedroom early Monday morning. The home was a trailer in Petersburg, Virginia, and the girl’s father, Cecil Yates said that the fire […]

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A Pierce County Medical Examiner said that the two children of the missing Utah Woman, Susan Powell, that died in a house explosion along with their father, Josh Powell both were severely injured by “chops to the neck” but they died from carbon monoxide poisoning preceding an explosion. They are also listing the cause of […]

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According to the parents of Susan Powell, the Utah woman that disappeared in December 2009, the children started talking about what happened to their mother on the night she disappeared.
The Huffington Post is reporting that the oldest son, Charles told his grandparents that his mother was in the trunk of the car that night that […]

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Marc Bookal disappeared while in the care of his mother’s boyfriend, Corey Byrd, on December 14, 2009 in his mother’s home in Newburgh, N.Y. Byrd claimed that while he was getting dressed to go to a relatives house that the boy must have went out the front door which was left open and he was […]

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