OneNewsNow – April 14, 2010
Commencements tilting decidedly left
By Bill Bumpas and Jody Brown
As colleges and universities across the country get ready for spring graduation ceremonies, one conservative organization is releasing data it says shows a “clear liberal bias” in schools’ selection of commencement speakers.
The first sign that Australia’s The Medical News (click here to read the article or see below) might be grossly misnamed – and a propaganda rag rather than a reliable news source – is that “Gay” was the only word starting with a capital letter in the title of the article in question. It was downhill from there with the propagandist piece on homosexuals and blood donations by a Dr. Ananya Mandal. Mr. Mandal gives the impression that his credentials came out of a cereal box.
CollegePlus!™ – March 2010
Health Care Bill May Spike College Costs
CollegePlus! staff have been sifting through the details of the student loan program that was stuffed into the health care bill, and we’ve made some alarming discoveries which could lead to costly consequences for college students. Democrats in the House attached a student loan program to the health care reform bill which will vastly expand the amount of money taken from taxpayers to subsidize government-run student lending programs, thus creating a bureaucratic government lending network, squeezing out more efficient private-sector programs for college students.
CollegePlus! – The Best Way For Many Homeschoolers To Earn Their Undergrad
(This was first published in the Learning at Home (March 2010), the monthly newsletter for the Rideau Valley Home Educators’ Assocation.)
Home schoolers are already bold and innovative thinkers. They are walking against the crowd and have stepped outside their own comfort zone. And your decision has probably proven successful – meeting your goals for superior or preferable education and socialization for your children.
I can’t make head or tail of the following article. The categories, distinctions and paradigms don’t seem to be coherent. When ecumenism goes too far, it is invariably based on incoherent notions. I can’t find a single philosophical strand that ties all the disparate thoughts in this article together. We shouldn’t be instinctively hostile to the idea of working together with others and building coalitions to achieve shared goals, but if one has to throw reason out the door in order to participate in a particular coalition, then the parties should re-think the merits of that approach.
I started to read through Exodus again last week. Part of the account of God’s deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptian Pharaoh is very instructive in light of the reports from the U.S. and from various Canadian provinces about rising taxes.
The article below demonstrates the serious implications of allowing Pantheism to dictate agriculture and environmental policy instead of Christianity. “The dose is the poison,” is a scientifically sound principle. It is also a principle rooted in Biblical truth – that we live in a world created by a sovereign God of order; a world in which all component parts were designed to work together in perfect equilibrium. The reality of sin and corruption in today’s world does not negate this foundational nature of the created order.
False religions always require blind faith from their adherents. Blind faith is incompatible with Christianity. Environmentalism requires a rejection of many elementary scientific facts that people learn in elementary school. The fact that so many people throw the science they’ve learned out the window in order to embrace Environmentalism is indicative of the power of Gaia worship. An excellent, though hugely embarrassing, example of this comes from a politician, a Democrat Congressman from Georgia. He also proves that anyone can get into political office. Testimony that you can read and see for yourself below shows him expressing concern that overpopulation may cause the island of Guam to “tip over or capsize.” Blind faith never does anything for the credibility or integrity of an adult. Environmentalism has seen better days. Let’s move on …
Three or four interesting news stories have appeared in the past couple of weeks on face coverings; most – but not all – have to do with Islam. Receiving the most coverage in Canada have been a couple of controversies in Quebec. One of the cases in Quebec was where “[a] human rights commission actually made a good decision. Quebec’s human rights commission ruled that niqab-and burka-wearing women must uncover their faces to apply for a medicare card and cannot insist on being served by a woman,” to quote Calgary Herald columnist Licia Corbella.
Has anyone noticed the bizarre antics of Canada’s left in recent weeks?
For months Canada’s left – the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois – has been bleating a frenzy over the possibility that Canada was complicit in the torture of prisoners of war. They were screaming about this before prorogation, and they’re still demanding access to information they believe will confirm their allegations.