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by LifeSiteNews staff WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Today, the Thomas More Society offered over 150 pages of analysis and evidence to the House Ways and Means Committee about repeated IRS harassment of pro-life organizations. At the request of Congressman Aaron Schock, R-IL, Thomas More Society President…
Today, the Thomas More Society offered over 150 pages of analysis and evidence to the House Ways and Means Committee about repeated IRS harassment of pro-life organizations. At the request of Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), Thomas More Society President Thomas Brejcha, Executive Director Peter Breen, and Special Counsel Sally Wagenmaker, prepared the legal memorandum with [...]
Kermit Gosnell may be behind bars, but his deadly legacy lives on. Just when the abortion lobby thought it could turn the page on the PR disaster of the Women’s Medical Society, a new “house of horrors” is making headlines–this time in Texas. There, the eye-witness accounts rival those of even Gosnell’s clinic, as three [...]
Google CEO Larry Page revealed yesterday a radical vision for a semi-lawless utopia where technologists could experiment with society. Page was speaking at I/O, Google's big conference for developers. He took questions from the audience after Google execs delivered a three hour presentation on new products. Show More Summary
That there is new music from Lauryn Hiill, which she wasn’t exactly stoked about releasing. It’s as manic as its subject matter requires, and lovely. But no singing this time out. As she wrote on the song’s YouTube page: Here is a link to a piece that I was 'required’ to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline. Show More Summary
Title page of Henry V
from the first quarto (1600)
What better way to celebrate St. George's Day (23 April), than in the company of Shakespeare and William Walton in the historic Temple Church. Temple Music Society put on a performance...Show More Summary
The guy on the cover of the 1992 Sega Genesis game Shining Force is hardly a prototypical rough-and-ready adventurer. He looks like he might have been pilfered straight from the pages of a drugstore romance novel—Tamed By The Barbarian, say. Show More Summary
The firing of an opinion writer who was part of the University of Pittsburgh student newspaper staff has made recent headlines. Assistant opinion page editor Nick Stamatakis wasn’t dismissed because of poor writing skills or missing deadlines, but it was because he was a member of a politically connected secret society on campus. Show More Summary
EA is shuttering three of its Facebook games on June 14: Sim City Social, The Sims Social and Pet Society.
Those games' players are being notified by the Playfish forums and the Facebook fan pages. Players are encouraged to spend all...Show More Summary
April 4, 2013 Posted by Jay Livingston Doug Hartman at The Society Pages is upset about Justice Scalia’s casual and inaccurate summary of social science data. During the oral arguments on DOMA, Scalia said There’s considerable disagreement...Show More Summary
Click photo to enlarge… From Parent Society, March 22: A Greek doctor posted this incredible picture on his Facebook page of a baby he delivered. And as you can see… it was no ordinary delivery. The baby was delivered via c-section, but was still inside the amniotic sac after being removed from the mother’s body. [...]
by Jill Stanek From Parent Society, March 22: A Greek doctor posted this incredible picture on his Facebook page of a baby he delivered. And as you can see… it was no ordinary delivery. The baby was delivered via c-section, but was still inside the amniotic sac after being removed…
Following the lead of several of his Democratic colleagues, Sen. Tom Carper (DE) has endorsed marriage equality “after a great deal of soul searching,” according to a post on his Facebook page: As our society has changed and evolved, so too has the public’s opinion on gay marriage — and so has mine. I pray [...]
"You may have to crouch down. It's a little tight in there." :P Say hi to Buckeye, an adoptable with the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society in Santa Fe, NM. See more about him on his Petfinder page....
This advert just popped up whilst I was reading something on the Guardian science pages. I clicked on it and it took me to the UK’s Department of Education who, in conjunction with the Royal Society of [...]
American Society of Journalists and Authors announces award winners. (asja.org) The Hollywood Reporter says Keith Olbermann has settled his dispute with Current TV. (hollywoodreporter.com) “Our two Siobhans today on @wsj’s Page One.” (@lisafleisher) Anna Wintour adds artistic director to her Conde Nast duties. Show More Summary
The XVIIth Congress of the Inter-American Society of Philosophy will be held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from 7th to 11th October 2013. Informations regarding the submission of papers are to be found in the conference's web page: www.sif2013.org Abstract Submission...
Sometimes controversial and always innovative Cerebus creator Dave Sim has made 10 pages of his classic High Society graphic novel available from Heritage Auctions. The selection of pages were made by HA Consignment Director Lon Allen from Sim's... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
The Web can seem unfathomably vast, but according to a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, it’s more tightly bound than you might think. Most Web pages can be connected in 19 clicks or less, thanks to search engines, large aggregators and social networking sites, according to a paper on network... Read More