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In retrospect, we may discover that 1883 was a most significant year. We're familiar with 1848 giving us The Communist Manifesto and 1859 giving us The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, but 1883 gave us three portentous happenings. These seemingly unrelated happenings turned history toward socialism. 1. Karl Marx died on March 14, 1883, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in London, England. The assumption that Communism died with him was logical since only six people attended his funeral. But the truth is that it had...

VACAVILLE -- The faint flickering seen in the middle of the screen was a strong heartbeat, a sign that the baby inside the womb is healthy and that the pregnancy is viable. It was the first time for Llanira Andrade to see the baby growing inside her, which is nine weeks now and will be born sometime in August. "It's amazing," she said. "It's such a tiny little thing that grows so rapidly." Andrade is one of many young women seeking assistance at Alpha Pregnancy Resource Center. The 26-year-old and her husband were "a little shocked and excited," Andrade said...

Amid so much talk of federal bailouts for the banking and auto industries, what would a national bailout plan for journalism look like? If you were given $700 billion to save journalism, how would you use it? How would you fix the system? The End of Commercial Media Several months ago I watched Roger Alton, the new editor of the Britain daily, The Independent, get absolutely skewered by Stephen Sackur on the BBC evening talk show, Hard Talk. Their 30 minute discussion boiled down to 15 minutes of Sackur asking how The Independent planned to stop losing money and 15...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pregnancy centers across the country that provide women with abortion alternatives could be shut down or face severe regulations if Barack Obama wins next month. That's because a bill targeting pregnancy centers could easily be approved in a pro-abortion Congress and land on Obama's desk.Obama has already promised pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL that he will be their lap dog in the White House and these are the groups leading the effort to pass the bill.Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey reintroduced the bill in April in the Senate and issued a statement alleging...

In Tucson this Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (10/05/2008 to 10/07/2008) various events are scheduled to support the Crisis Pregnancy Center in the "2008 Share in a Life Fundraising Event." Sunday night was a great lunch at the Doubletree Inn. Scheduled to speak on both Sunday and Monday was Hugh Hewitt, the famous radio personality, lawyer and author. Michael Medved is the featured speaker for Tuesday, October 7th. Even though Hugh Hewitt's flight was down between Phoenix and Tucson, Hewitt rushed to a ground vehicle and zoomed to Tucson where he was only a little late. Hewitt's speech was great in...

As his mother talks, the little boy chews on her speech and wows the crowd with his bright eyes. He is 8 months old now. “This is a baby who would not be here if not for the Pregnancy Center,” says Chris Ward, a counselor. Indeed, his mother tells the audience of 300 at a banquet to celebrate the Parkland Pregnancy Resource Center that she had scheduled an abortion for the very day she went to the Farmington facility. “I was an alcoholic and taking drugs and I did not believe in abortion, but I did not know I had...

Pro-life crisis pregnancy centers would get state funds if program gets go-ahead in Md. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (The Catholic Review) - The Maryland Catholic Conference is asking state lawmakers and Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to support the Pregnant Women Support Act, legislation that would partner the State of Maryland with non-profit organizations to help women in crisis pregnancies. Based on a much-touted Pennsylvania program administered by Real Alternatives, Inc., the proposed Maryland program would help women who want to keep their babies rather than abort them. Money for the program would be earmarked for the Maryland Department of Human Resources, which...

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A New York chain of crisis pregnancy centers continues to provide positive alternatives to women considering abortions in the Big Apple. The center has employed a unique idea by using a converted motorhome with a portable ultrasound unit to assist women with unplanned pregnancies.LifeNews.com reported in February about Expectant Mother Care's mobile unit and its plans to park the motorhome at major abortion facilities six days a week to give women other options apart from abortion.EMC founder and president Chris Slattery told LifeNews.com at the time that the idea marked "a dramatic new chapter...

Chinese Communist elite foresee challenges ahead www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-19 20:11:24 Print Special Report: 17th CPC National Congress By Xinhua writer Cheng Yunjie BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- China has ushered in its best period of time over the past century marked by robust economic growth and expanding global clout, but on everyone's lips at the ongoing national congress of the governing Communist Party of China (CPC) is "vigilance in peaceful time". Delegate Wei Jiafu, president of the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company talks to a Reuters reporter in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2007. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>> The sentiment of preparing...

-SNIP- The increasing use of ultrasound exams at crisis pregnancy centers brings criticism from clinics that provide abortion. They see its use as manipulating pregnant women. Eve Espey, obstetrician/gynecologist at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, said CPCs are looking at legislation to force women to view an ultrasound before having an abortion. "I think it's very much a coercive measure," said Espey, "because I think it gets back to your basic right to have the information you want to have."

The dark secret is that seventeen states have, or are considering, ultrasound legislation. The darkest part is that this ultrasound allows women to physically view their babies prior to a possible abortion. Hideously, South Carolina could be the first state to make the viewing mandatory, making women view another life in their bodies before they kill it. Who could possibly require such a thing? But this information is not surprising. We learn that more and more Crisis Pregnancy Centers now have ultrasound equipment that allows women intending to abort, to see exactly what is to be aborted. Some ultrasounds actually...

Anti-abortion activists are reaching aggressively to draw more blacks into their movement, targeting urban communities they long have considered hostile turf. They are opening crisis pregnancy centers in minority neighborhoods, establishing partnerships with black pastors and distributing leaflets that raise suspicion about Planned Parenthood, a longtime provider of reproductive health care and abortions . Framing their cause as the new frontier in civil rights - an effort to stop "black genocide" - these activists have turned to revered names in black history. A niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s is touring the nation, speaking out against "the war...

Is this the real Stephen Harper? After watching Stephen Harper in office -- sticking to some positions, flipping on others -- pundits and politicians are divided over whether he would rule differently with a majority. Andrew Mayeda mines the prime minister's past for clues to his future Andrew Mayeda, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, April 22, 2007 In the summer of 2001, a bookish, somewhat temperamental economist rose before an audience of plumbing-equipment manufacturers at a P.E.I. hotel and talked about how Canada had lost its way. The Liberal government, he argued, was soft, bloated and hopelessly ill-equipped to...

Janeen Daniels was on her way into a Chicago clinic for an abortion when a couple approached and suggested she had other options. She accompanied them to a "crisis pregnancy center," where she was given a referral for an ultrasound exam of her uterus and the promise of help if she decided to carry her pregnancy to term. "Once I saw the ultrasound pictures -- he was 10 weeks old, moving already -- I decided to keep him," said Daniels, 29. The child, Steven, is now 3, and Daniels can't imagine life without him. To her the pregnancy center was...

Why are newspapers all over the country suddenly publishing articles about how Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are supposedly using "false" information to try to change the minds of pregnant women about abortion? Mere coincidence? Not likely. The Abortion Establishment's campaign against CPCs (also known as "pregnancy care centers") is an old one. But as the number of CPCs has grown, as some centers have begun to receive modest federal funding, and as the Movement has grown far more effective in getting the truth about abortion's risks and realities into the hands of pregnant women, the attack has intensified. In the...

Angus Reid Political Tracker: Conservatives hold 17-point lead Liberals plummet to 22% nationally, and 11% in Quebec; Greens reach double digits, overtake Bloc angusreidstrategies.com 03.30.07 Friday [VANCOUVER – Mar. 29, 2007] – The Conservative Party has extended its advantage in Canada’s federal political scene, as the Liberal Party continues to lose support, an Angus Reid Strategies poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, 39% of decided voters will cast a ballot for the governing Conservatives in the next federal election. The Liberals stand at 22%, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 17%,...

In Fonda’s Footsteps: Murtha, Kucinich, and the Antiwar Movement’s Economic WarBy Fedora There is only one way to end this war. Cut off the funds. --Dennis Kucinich, November 15, 2006 When John Murtha recently announced legislative plans to cut off funding for US troop deployment in Iraq, he was following the same game plan Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden had used three decades earlier in Vietnam. The descent of this antiwar strategy can be traced from Fonda and Hayden to Murtha through an antiwar lobby that dates from the Vietnam War and has been spearheaded through the current war by...

Woolsey Takes up President’s Challenge on Iraq-Introduces comprehensive alternative to escalation:plan would bring all US troops home within 6-months- January 17, 2007   Washington, DC - Joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Maxine Waters (D-CA), Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today introduced the Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act of 2007, sweeping legislation, which would establish a 6-month timeframe for withdrawal for all US military forces from Iraq, provide a framework for bringing stability back to Iraq, and fully fund the VA health care system.  The proposal is a direct response to President Bush’s challenge over...

Three times (so far), a promo has run during the Rush Limbaugh Show on the local affiliate in the Washington, DC area, WMAL (which is owned by ABC). The promo advertises a special "undercover" news report by the local ABC TV affiliate, ABC 7. The promo starts by telling of a woman who sought an abortion, and in the process of seeking one, was "duped" into not having one. The rest of the promo features clips of two women who say that a "new tactic" of "anti-abortion" activists are "misleading" "vulnerable" pregnant women, and that these activities should be "against...

George McGovern, the former senator and Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that he will meet with more than 60 members of Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June. If Democrats don't take steps to end the war in Iraq soon, they won't be in power very long, McGovern told reporters before a speech at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "I think the Democratic leadership is wise enough to know that if they're going to follow the message that election sent, they're going to have to take steps to bring the war to a...