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Socialized Medicine

My Encounter with [Insert Scary Music] … Socialized Medicine! My foot had been sore for a couple of weeks and it wasn’t getting better. I usually would ignore that, but we were about to leave on a two-week vacation with my wife Joy’s parents to celebrate both of our big anniversaries (their 50th and our […]

Sword Swallowing to Oblivion

http://www.newenglishreview.org:80/custpage.cfm/frm/9963/sec_id/9963 by Andrew G. Bostom (Aug. 2007) A review of Robert Spencer’s Religion of Peace?—Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t , Regnery, 2007, 246 pp. This past December, 2006, a British radiologist, and the executive director of the Sword Swallowers Association International published a fascinating survey which evaluated, “Information on the practices and associated ill-effects […]

Global Jihad

13th September 2007 “Global Jihad” – new title by Patrick Sookhdeo Dr Sookhdeo’s latest work analyses the rise of Islamic violence worldwide in the modern world. Quoting from an extensive range of Muslim and other sources, he examines the present situation in the context of Islamic teaching on violence and war, past and present, and […]

The Global Church and America’s War

QUOTE OF THE WEEK We want to emphasize that the hanging of a noose from a tree is not a prank, it is a hate crime. – Rev. Ernest Johnson, president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, commenting on the town of Jena where six black youth have been indicted […]

LaRouche: System is ready to blow now

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Media Release 13th of September 2007 Website: http://www.cecaust.com.au ————————————————————————— The global financial and economic system is ready to blow now, statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche emphasised on September 12th, contrary to those who argue that the crisis is under control. There are two big bombs ready to explode, LaRouche […]

Yoga

Speaking Ethically No. 4 By Rod Benson June 2006 Yoga is an important part of the weekly regimen for many Christians. Yoga reduces stress, increases fitness, and strengthens body-mind unity. But yoga’s roots lie in ancient Indian philosophy and religion, and some practitioners seek to empty the mind and achieve union with the ‘transcendent.’ Some […]

The 10 Worst Polluted Places on the Planet

http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php

Universities and Secularism

Barriers to inclusion: Muslim students at Australian Universities One of Australia’s leading sociologists, Professor Gary Bouma, called on Australian Universities to abandon their long held commitment to secularism. He spoke at a Sydney conference entitled ‘Access, Inclusion and Success’, and said secularism was no longer appropriate because religion plays an important role in public life. […]

Korean Hostages: ‘We Lived Like Slaves’

(In an email accompanying this, an expert on Islam notes that in Islamic law jihad captives are indeed slaves). **** Ex-South Korean hostages talk about their six-week ordeal in Afghanistan By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press Writer ANYANG, South Korea (AP) — The 21 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan said Wednesday that […]

Intelligent Design

From Dr. Ken Smith, one of the best-informed Christian adacemics in Australia in this field: If anyone wants to follow the ID story further, the NCSE web site (feed NCSE into your favourite search engine) has transcripts of the evidence presented at the ID case mounted against the Dover High School Board at the end […]