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November 3, 2008
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Troubling questions
Jonathan Flora

November 3, 2008
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Does Barack Obama believe in the universal moral law? Hard to tell. Obama insists he is a Christian and admits that evil exists, but answers questions about morality and evil in an equivocal way... (more)


November 3, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Two columns ago (see "Fixing the Economy," 10/27/08), we outlined policies intended to curb or stop the thirties Great Depression which instead actually prolonged it... (more)


November 2, 2008
Updated with new information
RENEWAMERICA — The following is a year-by-year chronology that tracks the relationship between Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.; his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.; his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham; his mother's parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham; his mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro; family friend Frank Marshall Davis -- a known communist... (more)


November 2, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A state-by-state review of the race for the White House as well as key congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. The state's number of electoral votes is in parentheses... (more)


November 2, 2008
MICHELLE MALKIN — If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil-liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees... (more)


November 2, 2008
POLITICO.COM — Barack Obama has courted white weekly churchgoers as avidly as any Republican-leaning bloc of voters, though it now appears his efforts may fall flat on Election Day. The Gallup Poll now shows Obama backed by 28 percent of white voters who attend church at least once a week... (more)


November 1, 2008
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY (AUG. 18) — Barack Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as "investments"... (more)


November 1, 2008
Media bias and the 2008 election
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — There have always been media biases and prejudices. Everyone knew that Walter Cronkite, from his gilded throne at CBS news, helped to alter the course of the Vietnam War, when, in the post-Tet depression, he prematurely declared the war unwinnible... (more)


November 1, 2008
FOX NEWS — A California school system refuses to say what action, if any, it will take after it received complaints about a kindergarten teacher who encouraged her students to sign "pledge cards" in support of gays... (more)


November 1, 2008
LIFENEWS.COM — The latest 40 Days for Life campaign to draw attention to the destruction of human life at local abortion businesses is nearing the end, but the director of the campaign tells LifeNews.com he is hearing from dozens of pro-life groups in local communities that want to continue... (more)


November 1, 2008
REUTERS — U.S. border police arrested seven Mexican soldiers after they accidentally strayed over the international boundary into Arizona, authorities said... (more)


November 1, 2008
JERUSALEM POST — Only a few days ahead of the American presidential election, Iranian parliamentary speaker 'Ali Larijani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamanai have launched harsh verbal attacks against the United States... (more)


October 30, 2008
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Is Barack Obama a socialist? Well, yes and no. If you mean by that what Americans used to call "creeping socialism" and the Brits called Fabian socialism, yes, Obama is definitely that. Creeping socialism and Fabian socialism is a movement towards socialism by gradual democratic means... (more)


October 30, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Horrors! The Barack Obama campaign has encountered a reporter who does not treat its candidate as royalty? What's the matter with this woman? Can't she "go with the flow" and join her colleagues in turning a blind eye to all issues that do not reflect on Obama as the messiah?... (more)


October 30, 2008
JONATHAN FLORA — I find that since the last presidential debate, I am plagued by so many troubling questions. In that debate, Senator Barack Obama claimed that abortion is "always a tragic situation," and added that we should "try to prevent unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth, communicating that sexuality is sacred..." Sexuality is sacred?... (more)


October 30, 2008
JOSEPH PECAR — The Introduction to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's (USCCB's) Faithful Citizenship document says that it "Highlights the role of the Church in the formation of conscience" and "With this foundation, Catholics are better able to evaluate policy positions, party platforms, and candidates' promises and actions in light of the Gospel and the moral and social teaching of the Church in order to help build a better world"... (more)


October 30, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Some notable measures on state ballots in the Nov. 4 election -- ARIZONA: (1) Ban same-sex marriage; (2) Require that any initiative involving spending or tax hikes be approved by majority of all registered voters, not just those casting ballots... (more)

 
 
 
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