May 2012
5 posts
US: Students will be tracked via chips in IDs →
Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students.
‘Barcode everyone at birth’ →
This week science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that everyone should be given a barcode at birth.
CANADA: 'Jesus' T-shirt banned from school →
US: Christian students verbally attacked at... →
It’s amazing that we go to an anti-bullying speech and one group of students is picked on in particular, with harsh, profane language.
Virtual currency gaining acceptance →
April 2012
2 posts
US: Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept.... →
What would be more of a blow is not teaching our kids the values of working on a farm.
March 2012
10 posts
US: State confiscates newborn over vaccinations →
It is not a crime to ask questions about the well-being of your child. It is not a crime to ask for testing to ensure that a procedure is needed before it is done.
Nation doubles down on homeschooling →
Instead of acknowledging this right, the new education act in Alberta [Canada] assumes that the government should dictate what each and every child should learn – including formative issues such as religion, human sexuality and sexual orientation.
Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave... →
How do we create new institutions with enforcement powers way beyond the current mandate of the U.N.?
US: Middle School Bans Hugging →
Last week, excessive hugging and physical contact by sixth and eighth graders prompted the principal to come on the loud speaker and declare a ban on hugging
UK: Schools ban children making best friends →
They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend.
UK: Don't use the words husband and wife!... →
Reforms to allow same-sex marriage will see the words husband and wife removed from official forms, it was revealed last night.
Sweden goes cashless →
Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it’s come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them.
UK: Group proposes genetic modification of humans... →
From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change.
BBC says it's OK to mock Christians →
Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences... →
There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts
February 2012
14 posts
US: Jesus Valentines banned at school →
A student does not shed his constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.
US: Gov't confiscates kid's lunch -- swaps with... →
It’s another way that the government says it knows best, another way to waste taxpayer dollars, quite frankly, and to really irritate parents.
US: High school student refuses to sing Islamic... →
The song contains the phrase “There is no other truth but Allah.”
US: Judge says Christians' civil rights claims... →
Free speech must be protected, even if it is not appreciated by others.
Hubble Telescope Confirms Dead Sea Scrolls →
It makes you wonder; has man’s insatiable quest to the stars been of his own doing, or have we been drawn into this quest by some invisible force, in response to the invitation Isaiah recorded in those old scrolls?
Churches encouraged to celebrate Evolution Sunday →
Its organizers explain religion and science simply “look at the natural world from quite different perspectives and ask, and answer, different questions.”
UK: Councils are banned from saying prayers before... →
Christians and politicians reacted with dismay after a judge overturned centuries of custom by outlawing a town hall in Devon from putting prayers on the formal agenda.
EU: Euthanasia teams offering home delivery →
Once you say it’s okay, the question is only who can we do this to, under what circumstances, and in what way.
US: Army tells chaplains not to read Archbishop's... →
The Army’s Office of the Chief of Chaplains told the service’s senior chaplains that Catholic priests serving as Army chaplains should be told not to read the archbishop’s letter from the pulpit.
UK Bishop: Church failing 'gay' Christian couples →
The Church of England is failing gay Christian couples and must rethink the traditional, biblical portrayal of homosexuality as “idolatrous, promiscuous and exploitative”, according to one bishop.
US: Unscripted prayer costs priest his job →
We thank you, God, for giving us Jesus who helped us to be healed in mind and heart and proclaim his love to others.
US: Catholic hospitals subject to gov't oversight →
Catholics have just learned a hard lesson: The end does not justify the means.
US: Superintendent publicly chastised 15-year-old... →
An attorney agrees with the American College of Pediatricians for sending a letter of caution to a Wisconsin superintendent who publicly chastised a 15-year-old student for his Christian views.
The Hybrid Age →
The expenditure of financial and human capital to pursue the needs of reengineering humanity by the U.S. government will be second in equivalent value only to the moon landing program.
January 2012
10 posts
Canada: Our home and UN land →
I think most Canadians would find it ridiculous that the UN, the body that told its peacekeepers to stand by and let the Rwandan genocide happen, would intervene to protect a man accused of instigating the mass slaughter.
US: Public School Officials Require Prior Approval... →
The fact that a school district in California still thinks it can approve whether or not a family homeschools is very disturbing.
Kuwaiti prince converts to Christianity →
According to reports, a Kuwaiti royal prince has become a follower of Jesus Christ.
Politician: Take homeschool kids from parents →
This is the most direct and serious threat to date for homeschooling families
Christian Prayers And Protests Will Get You... →
Police Thursday arrested 43 New York City pastors and lay people who were protesting the city’s ban on church use of public schools for worship services.
Judge: White House persecuting pro-lifer →
A federal judge says he doesn’t have enough evidence to sanction Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, but its prosecution of a Florida pro-lifer is suspiciously like persecution.
US: Court says church must allow ceremony →
UK: Door opened to force this on churches →
It is almost certain that homosexual campaigners will commence litigation against churches that refuse.
US: Men arrested for reading Bible →
A California apologist notes that officials of one city had no grounds for arresting three Christians for reading out loud from the Bible.
CANADA: Ban on religious instruction extended to... →