AP – President Barack Obama’s Midwestern tour is offering a mix of offense and defense that signals both his governing approach for the remainder of his term and the evolution of a campaign message for his re-election bid.
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Obama fences, parries at start of Midwestern tour
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Should doctors be penalized for sharing their faith with patients? This is the question that many are pondering following a doctor’s reprimand by the General Medical Council (the governing body that regulates medical professionals practicing in the United Kingdom). Dr. Richard Scott, a family physician with an impeccable record, was chastised for speaking to a patient about God. Now, he fears losing his job as a result of the incident. The Telegraph has more : The committed Christian, was accused of “harassment” and told by the medical regulator that he risked bringing the profession into disrepute by discussing his religious beliefs. The Cambridge-educated doctor has refused to accept a formal warning on his record, and is instead taking legal action to fight the censure. His case follows a series of high-profile disputes between Christians and their employers over their freedom to express their beliefs, including an electrician who displayed a cross in his van and a nurse who prayed for a patient. Scott claims that he was within his bounds when speaking with the patient and that the conversation was, “…a consensual discussion between two adults.” By his own account, he asked permission before speaking to the patient and stopped discussing his faith when he was asked to. Scott is determined to clear his name. Below, watch him discuss the matter in detail. What do you think? Should he be held accountable for sharing his faith?
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UK Doctor Fears Losing His Job After Sharing His Faith With a Patient
Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, and little
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Sunday Funnies: NY Times Editorial Board Tells GOP To Try Governing
The scandal in Bell isn’t a scandal at all for the Democrats. Au contraire! This is the governing strategy of the Democratic Party.
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Let’s Play ‘Spot the Democrat’!
Two possible ethics trials of senior Democratic members of Congress are compounding the governing party’s political woes and raising GOP hopes of large gains in November elections.
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Ethical Woes Fog Democrat Hopes
From Chapter 4 in Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power: What have the issues of anthropogenic global warming, the war in Iraq, Israel and scientism got in common? Not a lot, you might think. But in fact a number of threads link them all. Most fundamentally, they involve the promotion of beliefs that purport to be unchallengeable truths but are in fact ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted and distorted to support or “prove” their governing idea. All are therefore based on false or unsupported beliefs that are presented as axiomatically true. Moreover, because each assumes itself to be proclaiming the sole and exclusive truth, it cannot permit any challenge to itself. It has to maintain at all costs the integrity of the falsehood. So all challenges have to be resisted through coercive means. Knowledge is thus forced to give way to power. Reason is replaced by bullying, intimidation and the suppression of debate. This makes them all deeply regressive movements of thought, which corrode the most fundamental concept of the Western world. The principle characteristic of Western modernity is freedom of thought and expression and the ability to express dissent. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment ushered in the modern age by breaking the power of the church to control the terms of debate and punish heresy. Church and state were separated, and a space was created for individual freedom and the toleration of differences — the essence of liberal society.
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The Secular Inquisition
