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Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundation

Posted on September 29, 2009
Washington Times: "Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times...

British Jewish Schools Implement New Admissions Criteria Ordered By Court

Posted on September 29, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "Today's London Guardian reports on changes in admission policy made by Britain's publicly-funded Jewish schools after a Court of Appeal decision in June held that using the traditional Orthodox Jewish definition of who is Jewish amounts to impermissible racial discrimination instead of a permissible religious criterion...

Free Web Access to Judicial Records Gladdens Public but Worries Some Courts

Posted on September 29, 2009
Law.com (New Jersey L.J.): "Spell PACER backwards and you get RECAP, a no-cost alternative to the federal courts' electronic documents database. Its creator says the new service is 'turning PACER around' with the goal of 'build[ing] the nation's most comprehensive public archive of freely-available federal judicial records...

Court Rejects Interlocutory Appeal In Minnesota Charter School Case

Posted on September 29, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "In ACLU of Minnesota v. Tarek Ibn Ziyad Acadamy, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88425 (D MN. Sept. 24, 2009) . . . the court held that the ACLU had taxpayer standing to bring an Establishment Clause challenge to funding of the school by the state and that plaintiff had sufficiently pleaded the elements of a "state action" by the sponsor, Islamic Relief...

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Appeals court upholds dismissal of vaccine suit

Posted on September 29, 2009
AP: "A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the military can be required to be vaccinated against anthrax." Rempfer v. Sharpstein, No. 08-5117 (D.C. Cir. Sept. 29, 2009)

Nero?s dining room unveiled in Rome

Posted on September 29, 2009
AP: "Archaeologists say they have unveiled what they believe to be remains of the 'dining room' of the Roman emperor Nero, part of his palatial residence built in the first century."

New York State should remove restrictions on charter schools? growth

Posted on September 29, 2009
City Journal: "Each year, thousands of New York City parents pray that their children get offered a seat in a charter school, and a new study confirms that they have good reason to do so?the children will do much, much better. New York State should make this life-changing alternative available to any family who wants it...

Pastors defy IRS ban on partisan sermons

Posted on September 29, 2009
Associated Press: "The Alliance Defense Fund's Erik Stanley says most of the sermons were preached this past Sunday, with a few scheduled this coming Sunday."

MIM Report Shows How the Explosion of Hardcore Adult Pornography on the Internet and Elsewhere is Contributing to the Sexual Exploitation of Children

Posted on September 25, 2009
Christian Newswire: "The 40-page report entitled, 'How Adult Pornography Contributes to Sexual Exploitation of Children,' is supplemented by 175 pages of appendices. The report with appendices is posted at Morality in Media's www.obscenitycrimes.org website ('Porn Problem & Solutions' 'Help for Porn Victims & Addicts' and 'Help for Parents' pages)...

Las Vegas: Party?s over for out-of-control nightclubs, regulator says

Posted on September 25, 2009
Las Vegas Sun: "There were documented cases of underage drinking, drug use and people having sex in public. Although some view the misbehavior as an average night of fun and the personification of 'what happens here, stays here,' gaming regulators didn?t see things that way ...

Kosovo has no plans to make ?gay rights? an issue

Posted on September 25, 2009
Balkan Insight: "With the Albanian government?s latest proposal for legalising same-sex marriages, and gay pride cancelled in Belgrade this weekend, gay rights have become a hot topic across the Balkans. But the debate has been strangely muted in Kosovo...

Alberta HRC now protects sexual orientation

Posted on September 25, 2009
Canadian Employment Law Today: "The human rights regime in Alberta is looking significantly different after the provincial government passed new legislation containing some much-debated and sometimes controversial changes . . . One particular change that may be of interest employers is the addition of sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination...

AZ: Federal judge denies pro-lifers? request to intervene in Abortion Consent Act suit

Posted on September 25, 2009
Verde Independent: "A federal judge has refused to let anti-abortion groups participate in next week's hearing over the legality of a new state law requiring a waiting period before women can terminate a pregnancy."

Virtue and Courage ? What America Could Use Now

Posted on September 25, 2009
?I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.?

Court denies Massachusetts GOP effort to halt Kirk?s Senate appointment

Posted on September 25, 2009
The Hill: "Massachusetts court has rejected a request from the state Republican Party to put a temporary hold on Sen.-designate Paul Kirk?s (D-Mass.) swearing-in Friday, clearing the way for Democrats to have a 60th seat in the Senate."

Gary Bauer: Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Needs ACORN Treatment, DeFund It

Posted on September 25, 2009
Bary Bauer writes at LifeNews: "ACORN is losing some of its federal funding in part because of O?Keefe?s video. But the Planned Parenthood story, in which O'Keefe and a friend posing as his pregnant minor girlfriend expose the abortion giant?s willingness to cover up alleged statutory rape, is just as incriminating...

Senate to Vote Next Week on Pro-Life Health Care Fixes on Abortion, Rationing

Posted on September 25, 2009
LifeNews: "The panel, dominated by abortion advocates, will reconvene on Tuesday morning -- which gives pro-life advocates more time to support the amendments."

9th Circuit Reconsiders Controversial Gun Rights Case

Posted on September 25, 2009
Law.com (The Recorder): "En banc arguments in a controversial gun rights case were animated Thursday, but don't be surprised if the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sits on this one for awhile."

Kelo eminent domain ruling: Conn. land vacant 4 years after court OK?d seizure

Posted on September 25, 2009
AP: "Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious eminent domain project . . . 'They are getting what they deserve. They are going to get nothing,' said Susette Kelo, the lead plaintiff in the landmark property rights case...

Home schooled girl is ordered to attend public school

Posted on September 25, 2009
Persecution Blog: "The Alliance Defense Fund is reporting today on a story concerning a child named Amanda who has been ordered by a New Hampshire judge to go to public school because her divorced parents could not agree on where to send her."

Philosophy and the Embryo

Posted on September 25, 2009
Christopher O. Tollefsen writes at Public Discourse: "Some thinkers, however, such as Ronald Green and Jane Maienschein, have suggested that theoretical questions about embryos require choices, and choices must be guided by practical values and desired states of affairs...

UN official oversteps mandate to back ?gay pride? event in Serbia

Posted on September 25, 2009
C-FAM: "The head of the United Nations (UN) mission in Serbia recently promoted a highly controversial homosexual rights demonstration in Belgrade against public opposition and beyond his mandate to work 'closely with national governments' to 'advocate the interests and mandates of the UN...

ACLU seeks to silence federally funded Christian groups

Posted on September 25, 2009
OneNewsNow: "The ACLU and numerous other organizations are asking the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder to withdraw a ruling allowing faith-based organizations that receive federal funds to hire people only from their own faith group...

Death panels by proxy in Baucus bill

Posted on September 25, 2009
Washington Times: "The offending provision is on Pages 80-81 of the unamended Baucus bill, hidden amid a lot of similar legislative mumbo-jumbo about Medicare payments to doctors. The key sentence: 'Beginning in 2015, payment would be reduced by five percent if an aggregation of the physician's resource use is at or above the 90th percentile of national utilization...

Pro-life pastors to participate in second Pulpit Freedom Sunday to challenge IRS

Posted on September 25, 2009
LifeNews: "The second Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 27 is meant to challenge what are considering onerous IRS restrictions on what pastors and priests can say . . . 'Pastors have a right to speak about biblical truths from the pulpit without fear of punishment...

?Kirk Cameron bashed for Darwin campaign?

Posted on September 25, 2009
WorldNetDaily: "A campaign by Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron to give away 100,000 copies of a special edition of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species' on 100 university campuses in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the seminal book's publication in November already is drawing a caustic reaction from media ...

Harvard Law Record: 222 years later, constitution scholars find little to celebrate in founding document

Posted on September 25, 2009
"Constitution Day panel bemoans document's 'ossified', 'anachronistic', 'anti-democratic' principles"

Pastor loses free speech rights

Posted on September 25, 2009
OneNewsNow: "According to an Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) press release, in 2002, Professor Darren Lund of the University of Calgary reported Pastor Stephen Boissoin to the Alberta Human Rights Commission for letters to the editor he wrote concerning his views on homosexual behavior and were published in the Red Deer Advocate...

Lawsuits swirl as Arizona pro-life law set to take effect

Posted on September 25, 2009
CitizenLink: "Two Arizona legislators, doctors and numerous organizations filed motions Tuesday to intervene in state and federal lawsuits aimed at tearing down new protections for women considering an abortion. The Alliance Defense Fund is representing the group ...

Court Dismisses Prof?s Dismissal Complaint Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine

Posted on September 25, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "Earlier this week, an Ohio trial court held that under the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine it could not decide a breach of contract claim (full text of complaint) brought by David Hoffeditz, a Professor of Bible and Greek, against Cedarville University, a Baptist college ...

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