"Religious Faith Is Still Good News for America"

For almost four hundred years, the King James Bible provided for England and America what Ryken, quoting a sociologist, calls “the mythology of a culture”: “the framework of beliefs, values, expressive symbols, and artistic motifs in terms of which individuals define their world, express their feelings, and make their judgments.”

That framework is no longer pervasive in America, much less England. Instead, recent decades have been marked by challenges to religious liberty in both nations, efforts that misconstrue the role of religion in the public square, and an increasing pluralism that makes it harder to achieve moral consensus on public policy.
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/22/morning-bell-religious-faith-is-still-good-news-for-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell 

Religious Liberty Issues: "From Culture Wars to Conscience Wars: Emerging Threats to Conscience"

Abstract: Today, religious liberty issues are more complicated than simply freedom from government interference in religious worship or teaching. Threats to religious liberty and respect for conscience are emerging in the health care field, in the area of institutional religious freedom, and in the context of issues involving same-sex marriage and nondiscrimination policies. Religious liberty and respect for conscience should be encouraged and protected, both in civil society and in law and policy, as an effective and principled way to promote social peace and civic fraternity in an increasingly pluralistic society.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/04/From-Culture-Wars-to-Conscience-Wars-Emerging-Threats-to-Conscience?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell 

Unions: "Forget about the Law"

‘Forget About the Law’: Union Bosses & White House Advisors Bob Park & Rich Trumka Admit They Are Overriding US Law & Sovereignty With the International Labor Movement

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forget-about-the-law-union-bosses-white-house-advisors-bob-park-rich-trumka-admitting-they-are-overriding-us-law-sovereignty-with-the-international-labor-movement/ 

Unions: "White House & the bullying of Boeing"

"I thought I've seen all, but now this administration is acting like a bunch of thugs. I mean they really are trying to bully and intimidate, not just Boeing, they are attacking every right to work state," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) about White House union ties possibly blocking a move of Boeing to South Carolina."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/21/sen_demint_administration_acting_like_bunch_of_thugs.html 

Campaign 2012: "President Obama heckled in San Francisco by Democratic activists wanting change"

WASHINGTON - An irked President Obama got punked in San Francisco by his own side on Thursday at what was supposed to be just another fund-raising lovefest on the Left Coast.
Democratic activists apparently unhappy with Obama's tilt to the middle - and even unhappier with the treatment of the soldier accused of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks - interrupted the President's buckraking pitch at a St. Regis Hotel breakfast.
A woman later identified as Naomi Pitcairn of Oakland stood up and announced: "Mr. President, we wrote a song - can we sing it for you?"

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/04/21/2011-04-21_president_obama_heckled_in_san_francisco_by_democratic_activists_wanting_change.html#ixzz1KGH5FOab

Campaign 2012: "Trump: Obama A "Total And Complete Disaster For This Country"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/21/trump_obama_a_total_and_complete_disaster_for_this_country.html

One World Economy: "NYSE board rejects sweetened Nasdaq, ICE bid"

(Reuters) - NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) directors rejected as too risky and lacking value a sweetened takeover offer from Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ.O) and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE.N), the second time in 11 days the board backed a lower bid from Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1Gn.DE).

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/21/uk-nyseeuronext-idUKTRE73K4PO20110421?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&ca=moto&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FUKBusinessNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Business+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader 

Healthcare: "As controversial Dr Death heads to the UK... Why is he allowed to promote euthanasia in our schools?"

Dr Philip Nitschke, 63, is known as Dr Death for his outspoken advocacy of and self-proclaimed participation in assisted suicide

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379384/Why-Philip-Nitschke-allowed-promote-euthanasia-schools.html#ixzz1KG9y0lO7

Healthcare: "Fearful elderly people carry 'anti-euthanasia cards"

Elderly people in the Netherlands are so fearful of being killed by doctors that they carry cards saying they do not want euthanasia, according to a campaigner who says allowing assistant suicide in Britain would put the vulnerable at risk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8466996/Fearful-elderly-people-carry-anti-euthanasia-cards.html

Pope: Technology can't replace powers of God

In Vatican pre-Easter sermon, Pontiff says if man wanted relationship with God he must first "abandon pride of wanting to become God."

Talkbacks (7)   VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict led Roman Catholics into Holy Week celebrations, telling a Palm Sunday crowd that man will pay the price for his pride if he believes technology can give him the powers of God.

Under a splendid Roman sun, the German pope presided at a colorful celebration where tens of thousands of people waved palm and olive branches to commemorate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem the week before he was crucified.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=216972&R=R1

Gandhi Reconsidered: When Paganism Met Progressivism

When an Indian-born man I knew a couple of decades ago expressed an intense dislike for Mohandas Gandhi, I found it a bit surprising. Wasn’t the “Great Soul,” that quintessential 20th-century icon, India’s George Washington?


That certainly is the narrative created by historians — who, history has taught us, can tell a lie — and works such as Richard Attenborough’s award-winning 1982 film Gandhi. But there is a reason why Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie responded to that movie by lamenting, “Deification is an Indian disease. Why should Attenborough do it?” And with Gandhi back in the news owing to a newly published biography about him, it’s fitting to examine what that reason might be.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/selwyn-duke/7144-gandhi-reconsidered-when-paganism-met-progressivism