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A community college in northwestern New Jersey is investigating a part-time instructor who vowed to intimidate students who host conservative speakers at the school. The teacher also called for U.S. soldiers in Iraq to kill their superiors. At issue is a personal e-mail written by John Daly, adjunct instructor in writing and developmental English at Warren County Community College in Washington, N.J. He sent it to a student after she asked him and other faculty members to announce that a veteran of the war in Iraq would appear at the school.

NEW YORK, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The militantly pro-abortion Center For Reproductive Rights (CFRR) is touting a ruling yesterday by the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) as “a landmark decision establishing women’s right to access to legal abortion.” The case was initiated by the Center for Reproductive Rights together with the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) and the Counseling Center for the Defense of Women’s Rights (DEMUS) on behalf of Karen Llontoy, a young Peruvian woman who was not permitted to kill by abortion her anencephalic unborn child. Through this case the...

In the last year alone 6,685 people were killed and 12,139 were injured due to muslim terrorism. So you think the Ku Klux Klan and the Spanish Inquisition are bad? So do we... but...Put the Numbers into Perspective. More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. (source) More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source) Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years....

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide    A JOINT STATEMENT BY DOCTORS AND LAWYERS1. Introduction Euthanasia is the deliberate act of putting an end to a patient’s life for the purpose of ending the patient’s suffering. Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) is the death of a patient as a direct consequence of ‘help’ by a doctor. (For a definition of terms used, please see the end of this document.) Whatever the intentions claimed for euthanasia or PAS, this is nothing less than killing a patient. The ethical question remains — can it ever be right to kill, even with the intention to relieve...

Linyi, China (LifeNews.com) -- Since he placed a spotlight on a brutal campaign by population control officials in one region of China, blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been under house arrest and twice assaulted for trying to leave. Now, some of the details of the thousands of forced abortions and sterilizations he helped expose are coming to light. In a comprehensive report by the San Francisco Chronicle, women who were subjected to violence, harassment and forced abortions tell their story. Zhu Hongying, 40, and her husband, Xia Jiandong, 40 were farmers in a local village outside the huge city of...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Michael Schiavo, who was at the center of a passionate national end-of-life debate when his brain-damaged wife, Terri, died in March, endorsed Democrat Tim Kaine for governor Wednesday. "I have seen firsthand what can happen when a governor disagrees with a single citizen. In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush abused the power of his office in an attempt to replace my personal family decisions with his own opinions and political grandstanding," Schiavo wrote a six-paragraph statement distributed by a Democratic political consulting firm in Miami. Conservatives vilified Schiavo for ordering the removal of the feeding tube that...

Horrifying revelations of forced abortions and compulsory sterilisation in China embarrassed the Beijing government last week just as President Hu Jintao took the international stage. The exposure of practices that break China’s own laws governing birth control was the work of a blind man who has led a campaign to bring officials to justice for their crimes. However, Chen Guancheng, 34, the campaigner, is under house arrest this weekend in Linyi, a city of 10m people where family planning officials have committed the worst abuses documented in recent years. All involve poor people in and around Linyi, which lies in...

PITTSBURGH – Dozens of aborted fetuses were found in the garage of the former home of a funeral director who had a contract with a hospital to have the remains cremated, a coroner said Saturday. Police were called to the detached garage in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport around 9 p.m. Friday after someone discovered the remains in several boxes, Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht said. The fetuses were the result of miscarriages and abortions performed at Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2002, Wecht said. "There's nothing secretive or furtive about these procedures, which have been going...