Wednesday, September 3, 2008

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for September 3, 2008


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SARAH PALIN NEWS

McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time - By Patrick J. Buchanan
http://townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/09/02/j...

What the Obama campaign should be concerned about now is not whether Hillary supporters will flock to Palin, but that the foot soldiers of the Republican Party are back on the field  - by Deal W. Hudson   
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_conten...

Palin awakens GOP ground troops - Party leaders see her pick, abortion platform signaling 'conservative' path - WorldNetDaily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&page...

Biden Pales Beside Palin
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28304

Bristol Palin is not Juno, but Bella
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog...

Did the McCain campaign vet Sarah Palin?
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog...

Palin: 'I Do Not Support the Voucher System'
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34...

Campaign pulls Palin from pro-life event - Move baffles Phyllis Schlafly: 'I don't think it was very smart'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&page...


HATING SARAH PALIN - Attacks have quickly become vicious

Hating Sarah by Rich Lowry
http://townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/02/hating_s...

Olbermann, Matthews Don't Disclose Tabloid That Trashes Palin Owned by Obama-Donor Wenner
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/09/02/olb...

P.D.S. alert: Us magazine's partisan hit job - By Michelle Malkin; The Tabloidization of Palin: The strategy is to deny her any credibility or gravitas by turning her into a tabloid soap-opera star.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/02/pds-alert-us-magazines-...

CBS Evening News Most Aggressive in Besmirching Palin
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/09/02/cbs-even...

Bozell Column: Savaging Sarah Palin
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2008/09/02/bozell-...

Palin's 'Militantly Anti-Choice,' Slammed as Women's 'Colonel Sanders' by the Left
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/09/02/palins-mi...

McCain VP choice "reckless", "impulsive, transparent and cynical. Insulting to women and the men who voted for Hillary" by rabidly pro-abortion, anti-Christian, de-population advocate, Financial Post columnist Diane Francis  
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=760797

Washington Post journalist - another pro-abort woman - "My first reaction was shock. Then anger. John McCain chose a running mate simply because she is a woman and one who appealed to the Republican's conservative evangelical base""
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sally_quinn/2008/...

Baltimore Sun pro-abort woman columnist - "His selection of Sarah Palin is insulting on so many levels that I am starting to feel like the Geico caveman."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-te.reimer01sep01,0,...

MORE ON US POLITICS

Billionaire Tim Gill tells DNC delegates his strategy to advance the homosexual cause Gill: "The only way bigots are going to learn is if we take their power away from them"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13631

FRC Action's Values Voter Summit to Rally Activists Ahead of '08 Election
http://www.frcaction.org/index.cfm?i=PR08H02&f=PR08H02

Nothing from Niederauer - Prelates around the country react to Pelosi's abortion comments - but San Francisco archbishop remains conspicuously silent
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=21485fb2...

FRC Action's Values Voter Summit to Rally Activists Ahead of '08 Election
http://www.frcaction.org/index.cfm?i=PR08H02&f=PR08H02

US Bishops Ask Catholics To Pray Election Novena
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-117.shtml


LIFE ISSUES

$37 billion a year at stake - Planned Parenthood, Jerry Brown against federal 'conscience regulation'
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=389a22fe...

YouTube Censors Investigative Videos Critical of Planned Parenthood
http://www.earnedmedia.org/liva0902.htm

Pro-lifers continue saving babies from certain death in San Diego
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=b775ae8e...

5,000 aborted babies memorialized in front of Kelowna abortuary
http://www.prolifekelowna.com/Update.html

On C-484 - "It is obvious to anyone with a minimal grasp of English that this bill is not about abortion" - Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/story.html?id...

Surrey mother pleads guilty to infanticide
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/08/21/b...

Head of welfare portfolio at Israel's Bat Yam Municipality leads association convincing women at brink of abortion to maintain pregnancies.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3586234,00.html

Abortion, Human Trafficking, and the Left's Double Standard
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_conten...

Indian woman killed for refusing sex-selection abortion
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnu...

Canadian pro-life doctors wary of policy to override conscience - "It will be a totalitarian system and that's really concerning said Dr. Rene Leiva
http://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/2133/849/

Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080822090616.cje0koj...

Stem cells 'created from teeth'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7576131.stm

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/briefly.jsp?did=0708-briefly

How Toronto newborn disabled's short life inspired her mother's mission - Among other things, the family questions what drugs were used and how a "Do not resuscitate" order was issued without their informed consent. The family's appeals for a coroner's inquest have been denied.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/485980


RELIGION

Indonesia's tradition of religious tolerance is under threat from Islamic hard-liners.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,408644,00.html

Preachers of separatism at work inside Britain's mosques - What should be done to a Muslim who converts to another faith? "We kill him," she says, "kill him, kill, kill…You have to kill him, you understand?"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2653266/Preachers-of-...

Cardinal hits out at EU over attitude to Christianity
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/cardinal.hits.out.at.e...

Petraeus Endorsement of Faith-Based Military Book Draws Fire
http://christianpost.com/article/20080822/petraeus-endorseme...

'Basic Instinct' author writes book about faith
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/N...

Poll: Is the European Union Anti Religion?
http://www.rte.ie/news/index.html

Going to Mass - dressing according to Theology of the Bawdy
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1107-gerbrach...


INDIA - HINDU FANATICS WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANS

Orissa Burning - The sinister Anti-Christian pogrom in Orissa. What the mainstream media isn't telling you about ongoing torture and killing of Christians there.
http://orissaburning.blogspot.com/

Church shocked as Christians forced to become Hindus
http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=11227

Hindu extremists burn one nun alive, rape another
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13056&size...

Some 25,000 Catholic schools shut down in India to protest against Orissa massacres
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13089&size...

Indian priest describes mob ordeal 'like being tortured for Christ'
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804430.htm

Thousands seek refuge from India religious attacks
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSDEL1829920080829

In India, the Christians' Offense Is Fighting Against Slavery - Movements like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are the expression of a Nazi-like culture, which preaches through violence the false idea that being Indian means being Hindu by Sandro Magister 
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/206389?eng=y

Orissa: Hindus torch Christian homes and churches, three die asphyxiated By Nirmala Carvalho
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13060&size...


GLOBAL WARMING

Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Mo...

This year so far coolest for at least 5 years: World Meteorological Organisation
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080820/twl-environment-clima...

New Report Calls into Question 'Man-Made' Climate Change
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34...


HOMOSEXUALITY

UK police fly homosexual flag at festival
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7573076.stm

PG&E Large natural gas and electric utility donates quarter-million to defeat California's real marriage amendment
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008010.cfm

Gay men have a lot of catching up to do. Hooked on drugs and sex and looks, we call it gay culture. The figures are staggering: 20% of gay men in London use the incredibly damaging crystal meth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/apr/21/gayright...

Ottawa Police Host Gay Festival Fundraiser
http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/serving_ottawa/media_room/news...

Credit Suisse Implements Gay-Specific Banking
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/...

Veterans' parade cancelled due to 'lack of facilities' weeks after gay pride march is held
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047596/Veterans-par...

Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church book By Leon J. Podles. 675-page exploration of pure evil includes nearly 90 pages of notes. Podles uncovers networks of child-abusers in the priesthood, recounts hundreds of cases of abusing priests being aided and abetted by their congregations.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=0708-bower


MISCELLANEOUS

Knights of Columbus donates $1.25 million to California pro-marriage initiative
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/08/prop-8-post.ht...

Prostitution Laws in San Francisco and Sweden: Who Is Right?
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15670/BLI/pornography/index.htm

Homeschooling: a learning experience for the whole family
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/homeschooling_a_learning...

HPV Vaccine Associated with Serious Adverse Effects
http://www.pharmawatchdog.com/2008/08/30/hpv-vaccine-associa...