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Secular Second Thoughts on Sexual the Revolution
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Secular Second Thoughts on Sexual the Revolution

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, Reproductive Technology, The Social Order
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The disruptive results for individuals and society spawned by the revolution in attitudes and behavior regarding sex, marriage, family, and childbearing that erupted a half-century ago have become too obvious to ignore. These things were predictable–in fact, some people actually predicted them from the start–but by now their impact has grown so painfully apparent that […]

Hunting and Pecking is a poor way to type.
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No-Look Typing: Put All Your Brain Power on the Subject

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Business & Work, Featured, Tips, Tools, Tech
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I write copy for commercial clients to help them make more sales from key web pages. My process always includes writing a detailed creative brief with my clients before starting a project. I debrief both owners and sales staffers. But no matter how deep my brief goes, I still need to ask my clients questions […]

New Title X Amendment Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
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New Title X Amendment Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the U.S., performing a third of a million abortions each year. It treats babies like toxic waste. It should be defunded, once and for all. According to their annual report abortions took up the vast majority of their pregnancy services and for every adoption referral, they performed 145 abortions. […]

Five Steps to Take This Year to Become a Better Parent
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Five Steps to Take This Year to Become a Better Parent

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting
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This year, rather than making resolutions to lose weight, read more books and floss for more than just the few weeks after a dental cleaning, America’s mothers and fathers should resolve to do better to raise our next generation of citizens. The result? A resurgence of skilled and solid parenting could be the key to […]

Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
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Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing that dramatic improvements in maternal health worldwide have been achieved without the liberalization of laws restricting abortion.  In the November issue of the UK-based journal Reproductive Health Matters, two reports […]

Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right
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Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, History
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Imagine you are the pope. The previous half-century has seen the rise of many radical political movements and systems of thought hostile to the Church. Major societal upheaval is well underway, disrupting the basic order of civilization that had persisted for centuries. The territory that had for a millennium been politically controlled by your predecessors has […]

Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortion Numbers, Profit
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Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortion Numbers, Profit

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Planned Parenthood achieved record numbers of abortions and posted record profit levels in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, according to a report from the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International (LDI). “For decades now, Planned Parenthood has operated the most proficient killing machine in the United States,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of LDI, […]

Reflections for Sunday, January 13, 2013
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Reflections for Sunday, January 13, 2013

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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The Baptism of the Lord Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Isaiah 42:1-4,6-7; Psalm 29:1-4, 9-10; Acts 10:34-38; Luke 3:15-16,21-22) Knowing and Experiencing God the Father’s Love for You You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased. (Luke 3:22) Last year, before the London summer Olympics, the 1981 film Chariots […]

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Tabb’s Poetry II

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Featured, Poetry
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Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Men Without Chests, or, What C. S. Lewis Made Me Think About
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Men Without Chests, or, What C. S. Lewis Made Me Think About

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ, Parenting
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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” ~ C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man Sometimes you do your best and things don’t go right. That’s parenthood in a nutshell, I suppose, even when it’s done properly. […]

<em>Les Mis</em>: Movie Review
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Les Mis: Movie Review

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by on Jan 08, 2013 in Featured, On TV and Movies
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The musical Les Miserables begins and ends with the sung words “Look down!” That is, look down at the suffering, the poor, those who are told to look down, those who don’t dare lift their eyes to dream. There is a feeling of the socially-conscious Dickens’ work to Les Mis. The nemeses are introduced early: […]

Human Rights or Human Wrongs?
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Human Rights or Human Wrongs?

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by on Jan 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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This past year has witnessed an escalation in the redefining of human rights. For example, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stated in its Annual Report that contraception access is a “universal human right.” Implying that the use of contraception improves the overall health and financial status of women, the UN report fails to point out the deleterious effects that […]

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Al Gore Profits from the Stealth Jihad

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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Let’s call it Al Goreera.  That seems a fitting title for the new network that former Vice President Al Gore is launching with the jihadists’ favorite television outlet: Al Jazeera.  The effect will be to create vast new opportunities for our enemies to propagandize the American people, a key ingredient of their “civilization jihad” against […]

Federal Stem Cell Research Funding: Why You Need to Know About the Dickey Amendment
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Federal Stem Cell Research Funding: Why You Need to Know About the Dickey Amendment

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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In an attempt to stop the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, two researchers sued the Obama Administration saying that the administration’s funding of research that requires the destruction of a human embryo violates the Dickey Amendment. Unfortunately, while a lower court agreed that using tax-payer money to fund embryonic stem cell research is […]

Why Gun Control is Not the Answer
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Why Gun Control is Not the Answer

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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In 2012 America saw some of the worst mass shootings in the history of the country — the massacre at Oikos University in Oakland, California, the tragic shooting in an Aurora, Colorado theatre, the more recent heartbreaking incident in Newtown, Connecticut, and subsequent string of shootings which have erupted since. Understandably, people are asking questions […]

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
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The Hopes and Fears of All the Years

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Parenting, The Social Order
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At some point, sooner or later, all new parents experience that moment when they realize that this new little life is their unique responsibility. It can be a bit surreal. Holding your little one, it strikes you that a tremendous gift has been given to you, a gift that brings with it significant and life-altering […]

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Slipping Away

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ, Women
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I was warned.   My mom used to complain how “time flies” the older she got.  In my youthful mind, with three little ones under my feet, I scoffed.  Silly me.  Today, January 4, 2013, would have been her 82nd birthday.  I guess that has gotten me to thinking of all she wisely told me. […]

Bobby Schindler Tries to Save Brain-Injured Man Under 'Do Not Resuscitate' Order
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Bobby Schindler Tries to Save Brain-Injured Man Under ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Order

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, is seeking permission to act as a guardian of a New York State man who is in a persistent vegetative state. Schindler is petitioning New York State’s Supreme County to serve as guardian for Gary Harvey, a Chemung County resident who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling […]

Adventures with Twitter
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Adventures with Twitter

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Parenting, Tips, Tools, Tech
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One day, my 17 year-old strolled into the kitchen after a long day at school, leaned against the kitchen counter and, between mouthfuls of food to appease his growling stomach, said, “Hey mom, did you know that the Pope has Twitter?” “So, I hear,” I replied absentmindedly while chopping vegetables for dinner. “Do you have […]

Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement
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Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement

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by on Jan 05, 2013 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, The Economy
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Great change for the good often comes slowly. It creeps up through the cracks in a broken system, and begins to take the place of its previous forms. Slowly, public opinion, public actions, and individual sentiments begin to be formed in a new way. This is exactly what is happening in America today. The Local […]

Where Love Shines: An Epiphany
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Where Love Shines: An Epiphany

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by on Jan 05, 2013 in Featured, Marriage
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Love can take many forms. A gentle hand on a feverish brow. A knowing smile across a crowded room. A deep breath that swallows a word best left unsaid. And once, in all of human history, love took the form of a star. And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded […]

Are Abortion Rights Activists Losing the Battle?
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Are Abortion Rights Activists Losing the Battle?

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by on Jan 05, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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How’s this for a lead to “Has The Fight For Abortion Rights Been Lost?” by Kate Pickert?  She writes: “In January 1973, the Supreme Court made access to abortion a federally protected right. As I write in this week’s TIME cover story, that seemingly decisive victory 40 years ago kicked off a war that the […]

Helping Young Families: The Church’s Job?
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Helping Young Families: The Church’s Job?

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by on Jan 04, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ, Parenting
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This past month I’ve been thinking about the difficulties of raising young families. Conversations with friends and family and my own lived experiences have left me wondering how we are supposed to do all that is asked of us in raising a young family. No sleep, diapers, laundry, meals….it’s just crazy hard sometimes! After reading […]

Hope for 2013: Embracing Human Nature
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Hope for 2013: Embracing Human Nature

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by on Jan 04, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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Peering into the abyss of biotechnology, I have often mused that the problem with much of what goes on in fertility clinics and laboratories of the world is a denial of human nature. The denial that living human organisms, regardless of how they are created, are indeed human beings. They are small and immature, but […]