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GOVERNMENT POLICY
Big Government and Religion
An 'Inverse' Relationship
Source: www.breakpoint.org, Chuck Colson, 6/3/2009
Could the rise in government spending—from economic stimulus to health care reform to education spending—endanger the vitality of religion in America? That’s a question University of Virginia Professor W. Bradford Wilcox discussed recently in the Wall Street Journal.
Obama's court pick boosts gun stocks
Source: www.kcstar.com, from Louis Navellier (MSN Money), 5/29/09
President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter heralds yet another victory for gun-makers. Yes, you read that right. Let me explain.
Some Guantánamo detainees to get laptops
To better prepare them for life in asylum, the U.S. military is setting up a virtual computer lab for some Guantánamo captives now cleared for release.
Source: www.MiamiHerald.com, CAROL ROSENBERG, 6/01/09
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now some 17 Uighur Muslims, awaiting a nation to grant them asylum, are about to go high-tech, with laptops and web training.
Full On Obama Superciliousness (Video Link)
Source: www.politico.com, 5/28/09
Giving CPS a Blank Check
Source: www.rightintexas.com, Tim Lambert, Wednesday, June 3, 2009
SB 1064 by Senator Kirk Watson was filed early in the session, and it sought to allow CPS, in the course of an investigation of abuse or neglect, to get the medical or mental health records of children who are the focus of an investigation. In order for CPS to accomplish this, the person refusing to give the records and parents must be given notice and a court hearing and CPS must show "good cause" for the action before the court would order the release of said records to CPS.
EDUCATION POLICY
Conservatives call for Veto of Texas HB-4294 (Electronic Text Book Bill)
Profound shift in kind of families who are home schooling their children
Source: www.usatoday.com, Greg Toppo, 5/28/09
Parents who home-school children increasingly are white, wealthy and well-educated — and their numbers have nearly doubled in a decade, a new federal government report says. What else has nearly doubled? The percentage of girls who are home-schooled.
Link to U.S. Dept. of Education Report (223KB PDF file)>>
ECONOMIC POLICY
Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment
Source: www.Bloomberg.com, Timothy R. Homan, May 30
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned policy makers that fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy” and rising joblessness threatens to set off political unrest across the globe. “While the stimulus has given an impulse, it’s like a sugar high unless you eventually get the credit system working,” …
Reps. Henry Waxman and Edward Markey CAGW’s May Porkers of the Month
Source: www.cagw.org, 5/31/09
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and House Energy and the Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) its May Porkers of the Month. They are the ringleaders behind H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA), the Waxman-Markey bill.
Romney balks at government ownership of GM
Source: www.detnews.com, Gordon Trowbridge, Sunday, May 31, 2009
Washington -- The Obama administration and the United Auto Workers should immediately distribute their stock in a restructured GM to American taxpayers, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Sunday. "We don't want a president and the head of the UAW running General Motors," Romney, a Michigan native and son of former Gov. George Romney, said in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."
Funds slated for EWCHEC
Source: www.taloyrdailypress.net, Mike Eddleman, 6/01/09
Pending a signature from the governor, the East Williamson County Higher Education Center (EWCHEC) will receive $805,000 through the state budget bill. The funds were written into Senate Bill 1 - the budget appropriations bill - which was sent to the governor’s office Friday.
RELIGION
County won't force permit on Bible study leaders
Code officer formally warned couple over meetings at home
Source: www.signonsandiego.com, Helen Gao & Janine Zúñiga, Union-Tribune, May 30, 2009
Sweeping issues of religious freedom and governmental regulation are swirling around Pastor David Jones' house in rural Bonita, attracting attention from as far away as China and New Zealand. He says it all started with $220 in car damage. In a statement yesterday from Walt Ekard, chief administrative officer for San Diego County: “Let me be clear: religious intolerance in any form is not, and never will be, allowed under any circumstance in San Diego County government. I deeply regret that a routine code enforcement issue has transformed into a debate over religious freedom in San Diego County.”
Pro-Lifers Say Abortionist’s Murder Undermines the Right-to-Life Movement
Source: www.CNSNews.com, Susan Jones, Monday, June 01, 2009
Pro-life groups say murder is incompatible with their beliefs, and they are condemning the shooting death of Kansas abortionist George Tiller. Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions, was killed Sunday at the Wichita church where he was serving as an usher.
Judge Bans Bible from Pennsylvania Kindergarten Show and Tell
Source: www.myfoxphilly.com, June 1, 2009
A U.S. court says a kindergartner's mother cannot read Scripture during show and tell, even if the Bible is the boy's favorite book. Monday's ruling is a victory for the Marple Newtown School District in suburban Philadelphia.
SOCIAL POLICY
Our Families, Our Wealth
If demography is destiny, we're on the wrong road to economic recovery.
Source: www.nationalreview.com, Robert W. Patterson, June 3, 2009
They make up the largest and most loyal constituency within the Republican party, but social conservatives get little respect from party leaders, nominees, or elected officials. Not only have Republican elites rarely engaged the moral, cultural, and family issues dear to their base, but the popularity of Barack Obama and the gravity of the economic crisis have spooked them further. From ex-governors Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney to congressional leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, most national GOP leaders seem more convinced than ever that social issues should remain on the back burner as the party seeks to rebuild for the future.
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