Author: Wintery Knight

UK doctors filmed agreeing to perform illegal sex-selection abortions

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Consider this article from the: UK Telegraph. Excerpt: Doctors at British clinics have been secretly filmed agreeing to terminate foetuses purely because they are either male or female. Clinicians admitted they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the abortions even though it is illegal to conduct such “sex-selection” procedures. […]The disclosures will add to growing […]

 

Iran condemns former Muslim pastor to death

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Here’s an article from: Fox News: about Iran’s prosecution of a former Muslim. Excerpt: Germany’s top human rights official is urging: Iran: to release a pastor sentenced to death for converting to: Christianity. Markus Loening said Wednesday the German government is extremely concerned about Yusuf Naderkhani’s fate amid reports of his imminent execution. Loening urged Tehran to “release Naderkhani, lift […]

 

Does improved access to contraception reduce the number of abortions?

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This article from the liberal: New York Times: answers that question. Excerpt: (links removed) To begin with, a lack of contraceptive access simply doesn’t seem to be a significant factor in unplanned pregnancy in the United States. When the Alan Guttmacher Institute surveyed: more than 10,000 women who had procured abortions: in 2000 and 2001, it found that only […]

 

New paper on income inequality: Does taxing the rich hurt the middle class?

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Here’s: an article: by Indian economist: Aparna Mathur. She writes (in part): In a recent: paper: that I co-authored with Kevin Hassett, we explored the effect of high corporate taxes on worker wages. The motivation for the paper came from the international tax literature (summarized by Roger Gordon and Jim Hines in a 2002 paper1) that suggested that mobile capital […]

 

School official prevents four-year old from eating “unhealthy” lunch

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From: Fox North Carolina. Excerpt: A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a: report by the Carolina Journal. The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a state employee who was […]

 

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?

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From the LA Examiner. Excerpt: U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. : With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs. As part of the Obama green energy program, the […]

 

Risk factors for breast cancer: alcohol consumption, induced abortion, and contraception

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Here’s: the latest study: from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),: showing that excessive consumption of alcohol is a rish factor for breast cancer. Excerpt: Consumption of 3 to 6 alcoholic drinks per week is associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer, and consumption in both earlier and later adult life is […]

 

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Proposition 8

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Here’s: the news: from Big Government. Excerpt: Today, the 9th Circuit upheld the absurd ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that would uphold traditional marriage in the state. The ruling itself was highly political and in no way legally […]

 

Car company that got $500 million green energy loan announces layoffs

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From: Politico. Excerpt: In another setback for President Obama’s clean energy loan programs, the recipient of more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans is laying off workers at their Delaware and California operations. Delaware’s News Journal: reports that Fisker Automotive, a California-based electric car start-up company, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff to try […]

 

Former DEA chief warns of cooperation between Hezbollah and drug cartels

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From: CNS News. Excerpt: The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday. Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships […]

 

How faith, virtues and marriage are declining among blue collar Americans

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Brad Wilcox writes about a new book entitled “Coming Apart” in the: Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: So much for the idea that the white working class remains the guardian of core American values like religious faith, hard work and marriage. Today the denizens of upscale communities like McLean, Va., New Canaan, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif., […]

 

Muslim honor killers convicted of first degree murder in Canada

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From the: National Post. (H/T: Blazing Cat Fur) Excerpt: After Canada’s first mass-honour-killings trial, three members of a Montreal family have all been found guilty of first-degree murder in the drowning deaths of four other family members – including three teenage sisters. A jury on Sunday handed down its guilty verdicts for Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad […]

 

New York teacher worth $10 million is paid $100,000 a year to do nothing

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The New York Post reports on: the horror of teacher unions. Excerpt: In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education – and taxpayers – disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher with a $10 million real estate portfolio hasn’t been allowed in a classroom for more […]

 

Democrat hypocrisy: 36 Obama aides owe $833,970 in back taxes to the IRS

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From: Investors Business Daily. Excerpt: How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich,: should pay their “fair share” of taxes. Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet’s secretary […]

 

How Barack Obama used taxpayer dollars to outsource green energy jobs

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This is from Hans Bader at: GlobalWarming.org. He links to this: ABC News: story. Excerpt: Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. Nearly […]

 

Convicted Haitian who was not deported kills three people in Florida

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Here’s the story from the: Miami Herald. Excerpt: When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. That never happened. Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration […]

 

Does Mitt Romney’s Romneycare health care plan fund abortion with taxpayer dollars?

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Fred Thompson made the point about Romneycare and abortion during the 2008 campaign, and Politifact: agreed with Fred’s charge against Romney. Excerpt: Fred Thompson’s campaign is trying to take the much-touted health insurance program that Mitt Romney helped create as governor of Massachusetts and turn it into a liability with conservative Republican voters who dominate the […]

 

In Canada, a revolt against global warming socialism creates an economic boom

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Before we look at Canada, let’s first look at how Barack Obama has decided to appease his green socialism supporters by: rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. Excerpt: The Obama administration rejected the long-delayed: TransCanada: oil sands crude project, a decision welcomed by environmental groups but: blasted: by the domestic energy industry. After delaying the project past the November 2012 election, […]

 

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal unveils education reform plan

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Here are the details on: Bobby Jindal’s new education plan, from New Orleans Online Access. Excerpt: : Gov. Bobby Jindal: on Tuesday outlined a far-reaching set of proposals aimed at improving education in Louisiana, including a state-wide voucher program for low-income students, an expansion of autonomous charter schools and steps to link a teachers’ classroom performance to their […]

 

Republicans pushing to rescind Democrats’ $100 billion EU bailout fund

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Here’s: a shocking story: from Matthew Boyle of the Daily Caller. Excerpt: When California Democratic Rep.: Nancy Pelosi: was the: Speaker of the House in 2009,: President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats authorized $100 billion in spending as a line of credit for the International Monetary Fund to be used in times of emergency – funds that could now be used […]

 

Republican candidates should push incremental pro-life measures

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If Republicans want to stand out from Democrats on social issues, then we have to find ways to make our pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-child positions resonate with the public at large. For example, on the pro-life issue, we should not be focused on outright bans on abortion, but instead on incremental measures to restrict abortion accessibility. […]