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Just another instance of tolerance leading to coercion: > A new law will soon require all New Jersey doctors to complete a course on "cultural competency" to help them understand patients whose lives may be very different from their own. Link [http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?

> A study funded by the radically pro-abortion organizations, the John Merck foundation and Catholics for a Free Choice, surveyed staff at all 597 Catholic hospitals in the United States and found that only 55% of them refused to dispense the abortifacient morning after pill. Link [http://www.lifesite.net/

Link [http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15965] . Excerpt: > Of the twenty top-grossing films of all time, not a single one is rated R. Of the top fifty films, only five are rated R. Clearly, Americans want family fare

The current issue of The New Pantagruel is up. Link [http://www.newpantagruel.com/issues/2.2/]. It promises to be a good one. How could it not be? It features a piece by the modest Eric Scheske.

The Spectator has a pithy "mommentary" piece about an awkward fact: adults usually want to have boys, rather than girls. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator2/spec597.html]. Excerpt: > The revelation, and others like it, came after the birth of my son. Walking around with a little

> A new rule is in the works that would bar gay men from serving serving as anonymous sperm donors. > It would apply to any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years Link [http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3306123]. Previous five

Desperate times call for desperate measures: The Volstead Act didn't prohibit alcohol for medicinal purposes. Since beer had a history of being so used, the debate about its health value roared during the Roaring Twenties. Link [http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/apr05/presence.html]. Excerpt: >

> For those of you who don't keep up with the important news stories, the first Friday of May will be International No Pants Day. Why No Pants Day? Quite simply put . . . "when large groups of people parade aroundin public without their pants, amazing things are bound

We're against broken families, but . . . > A woman who helped her husband dig up a corpse and use it to fake his death in a fiery staged car accident was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. > Officials said the body of an 81-year-old person was used

It's not 666. It's 616. Link [http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=702d14ee-4847-4c3d-90ce-46e933232df0] . Excerpt: > A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.