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Nov 20,2009, 3:03PM

Code Red--Vote Tomorrow

Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, released his 2,074-page version of the Senate health care reform bill-at an estimated price of $890 billion. The price tag is obscene, partly because it includes funding of abortion-on-demand. Beginning on page 118 (under "Voluntary Choice of Coverage of Abortion Services"), it gives Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, the authority to de...

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Nov 20,2009, 9:33AM

A Good Night's Sleep

By Penna Dexter

In a nationwide survey of 1005 adults, Barna Research found that seven of ten adults, 71 percent, placed a good night's sleep at the top of a list of things they look forward to. Born again Christians were even more interested than non-believers in getting a good night of rest. We're tired and the study's director, George Barna, says it's our own fault. We're filling our schedules and failing to institute proper boundaries in our lives. We're busy because, "we have not learned to say 'no' to appealing opportunities."

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Nov 17,2009, 9:24AM

World Day of Prayer for Uganda

By Warren Throckmorton

When: NOW Where: Where you are What: The Facebook Group which is standing in opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda is encouraging the over 4700 members to pray for the removal of the bill. See this page for the information. Thanks to Andrew Marin for organizing this. If you are on Twitter, tweet something like this: #PrayForUganda - World Day of Prayer for Uganda -http...

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Nov 16,2009, 8:56AM

Will disapproval of homosexuality lead to jail today in Washington, DC?

By Warren Throckmorton

Ho hum. Some religious leaders and preachers are going to be in Washington DC today to "engage in civil disobedience to protest inclusion of 'sexual orientation' in hate crimes law."

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Nov 13,2009, 12:32PM

The Battle is Shifting

By Bradley Mattes

The battle over health care reform has moved from the House of Representatives to the Senate. Pro-life Democrats flexed their political muscle in the House and forced a vote on funding of abortion in the health care bill-and prevailed.

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Nov 13,2009, 9:11AM

Toward European Health Care

By Penna Dexter

Right in the thick of the debate about establishing a federally controlled health care system in this country, my daughter, studying in Rome, ran smack into European health care. It started out not to be an emergency, but after a couple of days and several contacts with the system, it became one. Once they took the problem seriously and hospitalized her, she got wonderful care.

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Nov 06,2009, 3:34PM

Act now. Lives hang in the balance.

By Bradley Mattes

We're really getting down to crunch-time with the health care reform bill. The House is expected to take a vote on it as early as tomorrow. Nancy Pelosi has decided to keep members of the House there until a vote is reached, and abortion is the hurdle preventing this. Pro-abortion leaders, along with the abortion industry, are fighting hard to keep abortion-on-demand in the health care bill. It's Planned Parenthood's number one priority. This means you and I will be paying for a skyrocketing number of abortions if this passes.

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Nov 05,2009, 11:17AM

Health Care Overhaul vs. Seniors

By Penna Dexter

One of the realities permeating the health care debate is that the bulk of medical spending occurs in the last few years...sometimes the last few months....of people's lives. That's why the idea of government-run health care raises not-unreasonable fears of rationing, the dreaded death panels. We are on the threshold of a tidal wave of baby boomers entering their peak healthcare-consuming years. Medicare is already facing its own financial crisis. Proposed healthcare legislation funds itself, in part, by cutting Medicare further just as the boomers turn 65 and increase enrollment in the program by thirty percent.

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Nov 02,2009, 3:14PM

Put Down the Stones: Was Jesus Wrong?

By Warren Throckmorton

This appeared in the Independent, a newspaper in Uganda. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 would impose the death penalty on certain homosexual behaviors and require citizens to report suspected homosexuals to the authorities. Put down the stones

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