Tag: social justice
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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December 14, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
A small group of Senators is holding health care reform legislation hostage. Each has a thumb on the scale for some special-interest group or cause. A couple are fighting against abortion, Joe Lieberman . . .
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December 21, 2009 07:01 PM EST --
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For the want of the horse, the rider was lost. For the want of the rider, the battle was lost. For the want . . .
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November 16, 2009 06:57 PM EST --
It seems like churches have been in the news a great deal lately.
Last week newspapers were busily filling the public in on where the Fort Hood shooter went to mosque, and who else might have gone . . .
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April 28, 2007 02:54 AM EDT --
The town I live in has a problem with West Nile Virus. It isn't a big problem, unless you get it, but then, look out. For ordinary people, the best hope is to die, because if somebody takes you to . . .
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November 17, 2008 05:32 PM EST --
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore last week, one of the discussions centered on the fact that in spite of their efforts to defeat him, a clear majority of Americans . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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March 23, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
The world watched Pope Benedict XVI visit Africa this week. The news was predictable if not exciting. He spoke on the human condition, the plight of women and girls, and public health. That's right: . . .
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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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August 17, 2009 06:06 PM EDT --
Some say that religion is the human answer to the cognitive dissonance that arises from realizing that humans die. Because religion lets people believe life goes on after death, it gives life meaning. . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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October 05, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
The perky lady with the video camera made her way around the tables at the high school reunion. She explained that she was making a YouTube video.
“What would you like to say to the kids in . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
There are a lot of people in the United States who want a public option in the health care reform bill. Four senators* are playing hardball with the Senate version of the health care reform bill. Senator . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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May 12, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
On Saturday night, Rick Warren, pastor and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life , sat down with Barak Obama and John McCain at his megachurch in California and asked them some tough questions. . . .
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February 16, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
It wasn't advertised, but congress took the first step toward health care reform on Friday. The economic stimulus package includes $700 million for comparative effectiveness research (CE). This amount . . .
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March 09, 2009 06:24 PM EDT --
Seth Myers made a joke on Saturday Night Live this week about banks spending half of the $700 billion stimulus bill to build the world's biggest toilet, which they would then use to flush . . .
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April 15, 2009 11:04 PM EDT --
I just signed on to Gather and discovered that there are some people who think that they should get to live in this country and not pay taxes. This infuriates me for several reasons.
Paying your taxes . . .
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July 27, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
Twenty-seven hundred people went to the Wise County Fairground in Wise, Virginia this weekend. They did not go to a fair, but rather to seek health care that they otherwise would not have gotten. The . . .
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