Today’s ( Friday ) Posts ( until next Week’s blogging )

Abortion Doctor chooses life not death for himself but not the dead babies
Bed rest for pregnancy complications yes, or no ?
Rally to rescue Boy Scouts!
The danger of going ‘digital’
Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?

Abortion Doctor chooses life not death for himself but not the dead babies

Bed rest for pregnancy complications yes, or no ?

WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies — bed rest — doesn’t seem to prevent premature birth, and might even worsen that risk.

Doctors have known for years that there’s no good evidence that bed rest offers any benefit for certain pregnancy complications, and it can cause side effects in the mother, not to mention emotional and financial strain. Yet estimates suggest nearly 1 in 5 moms-to-be is told to cut her activity — ranging from quitting work to actually staying in bed all day — at some point during pregnancy.
( Study questions if bed rest prevents prematurity )

Rally to rescue Boy Scouts!

Rally to rescue Boy Scouts!

The danger of going ‘digital’

A conservative leader and tech policy analyst says the IRS tea party scandal shows why government should be kept away from citizens’ data.
( Read more )

Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?

In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon’s spokesman. Carney only has to use the word “inoperative,” as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved his previous statements untrue.

Following what appears to be a cover-up in the Benghazi attack, the Washington Post has obtained documents from an audit conducted by the IRS’s inspector general that indicate the agency targeted for special scrutiny conservative groups with “tea party” and “patriot” in their names, as well as “nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution.”
IRS official Lois Lerner described the targeting efforts as “absolutely inappropriate,” but said IRS actions were not driven by partisanship. How, then, would she explain why no groups with “progressive” in their titles were similarly targeted? Carney labeled Lerner an “appointee from the previous administration.” In other words: Bush’s mistake, not Obama’s.

The Post’s editorial board writes, “A bedrock principle of U.S. democracy is that the coercive powers of government are never used for partisan purpose.” The board called for a full accounting. I doubt we’ll get it. Take Benghazi.

ABC News first reported that the now famous Benghazi “talking points” used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on five Sunday morning news shows were revised 12 times, deleting references to “the al-Qaida-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia (and) CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.”
( Billy’s thoughts- The above is part of a column Cal Thomas wrote. Read the rest of Cal’s column. )

Today’s ( Thursday ) Posts

Tebow knows ‘who holds my future’
Sit down for this Liberal Radio Host Calls For Holder to Be Fired
Boy Scout Advocate Attacks Ralph Reed for Facilitating Discussion Between Scouts, Evangelicals
Right to stay in America for those who broke our laws but not for a home school family
Restoring hope for homosexuals
And from yesterday’s blog……
Court denies asylum to German home-schoolers

Tebow knows ‘who holds my future’

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (BP) — Less than two weeks after the New York Jets released him, quarterback Tim Tebow told a crowd of about 3,000 at a Michigan college that his main goal is to impact lives, whether on or off the field.
The closest Tebow came to shedding light on his future as a quarterback was when he repeated one of his favorite sayings: “I don’t know what the future holds but at the end of the day I know who holds my future.”
( Read more )

Sit down for this Liberal Radio Host Calls For Holder to Be Fired

Throughout President Obama’s time in the White House, the one person who has been at the center of nearly every controversy and scandal is Attorney General Eric Holder. Obama continues to stand by Holder with full faith and confidence but liberal radio host Bill Press is calling for Holder to be fired.

Press — a former California Democratic Party chairman who headlines a liberal radio show simulcast on Current TV — on Wednesday told his Twitter followers that Holder needs to be removed in the wake of the AP story.

“I have no confidence in Eric Holder anymore, and you shouldn’t either,” Press wrote. “This AP story from the Justice Dept is too far-reaching. Seizing these phone records is a violation of freedom of the press. FIRE Holder.”
( Radio Host Calls For Holder to Be Fired )

Boy Scout Advocate Attacks Ralph Reed for Facilitating Discussion Between Scouts, Evangelicals

Ralph Reed, the founder of Century Strategies and the high-profile Faith and Freedom Coalition, has come under fire for facilitating discussions between the Boy Scouts of America and some evangelical leaders over the organization’s proposal to allow homosexual members.
Despite any criticism directed toward the former Christian Coalition leader, Reed maintains he was only trying to inform Christians and other religious leaders about the group’s policy change and never suggested that Christian and religious leaders accept the Scouts’ proposed change.

“At no time have I acted as an advocate for changing the Scouts’ membership policy,” proclaimed Reed in an email to The Christian Post on Tuesday.

OnMyHonor.Net founder John Stemberger, whose group opposes any change to the current BSA policy, suggested Reed’s perceived role in the controversial issue may have been to give the Boy Scouts an opportunity to change the minds of religious leaders.

“After the introduction is made [by Reed], the BSA officials try to convince these top conservative evangelical leaders to support the resolution by finding friendly media venues to discuss it,” said Stemberger in a World Magazine article that sparked the controversy.

Most interesting is that Stemberger and Reed both reached the pinnacle of success in the century-old group by obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout and both say they are opposed to allowing homosexual members within the BSA.
( Read the rest of this story )