THE LATEST "SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE REVIEW: THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO PRO-FAMILY NEWS, MARCH 17, 2011

These compilations from a variety of sources by the Family Research Council continue to offer interested people a gold mine.  A new edition appears every two weeks.  Readers will find in each a wealth of information not readily found elsewhere. For previous reviews I've posted, click here.   For a complete list of articles from this latest edition,  click "continue reading" below.

 

Educational Freedom and Reform

Homeschooling "State Supreme Court Rules Homeschooled Girl to Stay in Public School," Home School Legal Defense Association "Would lifting charter cap allow homeschools to become charter schools?," Amanda Greene, Star News Online "Mike Donnelly on Homeschooling," Research on Religion Legislation and Policy Proposals "Schools need to teach about orgasms" says NEA to UN," Lauren Funk, C-FAM "Higher Education's Bubble Is about to Burst," Glenn Harlan Reynolds, The Washington Examiner "Now Comes the 'Lower Education Bubble'?," Glenn Harlan Reynolds, The Washington Examiner "An American Education," Daniel Eugene Williams, The New Atlantis Government Reform Regulation "Delay, delay," Edward Lee Pitts, WORLD Magazine "Battle of the bulges," Dan Reed, WORLD Magazine "Lawmakers Clash on Hill Over Government 'Takeover' of Internet," Fox News Waste/Fraud/Abuse "Back to Budget Basics," Jordan Ballor, The Acton Institute "Deficit Denial, American-Style," Samuel Gregg, The Acton Institute "Culture wars hit the budget battle," Jake Sherman and Jonathan Allen, The Politico "CCAGW to House on Earmark Ban: "Hang Tough!"," SunHerald.com Bureaucracy "Conservative Budget Revolt," Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal "Lawmakers OK billions in program cuts in California budget," Shane Goldmacher and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times "To Whom Does the U.S. Government Really Owe Money?," Craig Eyermann, MyGovCost.org Health Care Abstinence "Why Cohabitation Doesn't Work," Rob McNiff, Relevant Magazine "Why Monogamy Matters," Ross Douthat, New York Times "Premarital Sex in America," Matthew Schmitz, The Public Discourse "Coming soon to bedrooms: Safe-sex sponsorships," Associated Press Conscience Protection "Harmful attack on freedom of conscience," Chris Gacek, Family Research Council "The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection," Robert K. Vischer, The Public Discourse "ACLU Presents Upside-Down Understanding of Federal Conscience Law," Matt Bowman, The Washington Examiner Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts "Update On Obamacare and Women's Preventive Services," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council "ObamaCare's March Madness," Grace-Marie Turner, Alex Cortes, and Heather R. Higgins, The Wall Street Journal "Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All," Scott Gottlieb, The Wall Street Journal "Health Insurers Fleeing Markets Across the Country," Grace-Marie Turner, Health Reform Report "Medicaid transforming into single-payer surprise," Grace-Marie Turner, The Washington Times Homosexuality "Ten Maryland Legislators Vote Against Same-sex "Marriage"," Krystle Weeks, The Cloakroom "Is the Defense of Marriage Act Constitutional? Yes," Tony Perkins, Family Research Council "The Future of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)," Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council "Conservatives and Christians Will Not Be Silenced on Homosexuality," Tony Perkins, Family Research Council "Perhaps, a Far Narrower Window for Prop 8 Litigants to Cut/Paste," Chris Gacek, Family Research Council "State of "Gender Identity" and "Sexual Orientation" in the States," Brianna Walden, Family Research Council "Gays unhappy that sex ban remains on books," KSN.com "Pelosi Questions Legal Cost on Marriage Law," Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times "Megachurch wants choir to sign anti-gay covenant," USA Today Human Life and Bioethics Abortion "Is Planned Parenthood costing us more than we realize?," Tony Perkins, Family Research Council ""Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women"," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council "Guttmacher: 54% of Women Who Aborted in 2008 Were Using Contraception," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council "Abortion and Intergenerational Justice," Jordan Ballor, The Acton Institute "Top 10 Reasons I am Optimistically Pro-Life," Trevin Wax, Kingdom People "Teen abortions exceed births," QMI Agency "British Health Official: Leave Babies Born at 23 Weeks to Die," Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com "Abortion and Justice," Christopher Kaczor, The Catholic Thing "Improving Abortion Statistics in Canada, and Elsewhere," Michael New, National Review Online "The Generation that Will End Abortion," Peter Heck, American Thinker Bioethics and Biotechnology "The New Eugenics: Selecting for Intelligence-Or, What's Love Got to do With It, Julian Savulescu?," Wesley J Smith, Secondhand Smoke "The impact of sex selection and abortion in China, India and South Korea," Physorg.com Cloning "State ban on human cloning proposed by lawmakers," MCCL Blog Euthanasia and End of Life Issues "State of Physician Assisted Suicide in the States," Brianna Walden, Family Research Council Stem Cell Research "New Urethras Engineered Using Patients' Own Cells," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council "Treating Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children Using Adult Stem Cells," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council Women's Health "Sex Trafficking in America: from The Boulevard to Planned Parenthood," FRC Press Office "Plan B Linked to Greater Risk for Heart Disease," Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council "Sexual radicals on parade at the UN," Robert Morrison, The Cross Timbers Gazette "United Action on Women's Rights," Elizabeth Samson, The Guardian Marriage and Family Adoption "On Assignment: Justices hear oral arguments over Ark adoption law," Ashley Blackstone, Today's THV Family Economics "What Would Jesus Cut?," Mark Tooley, The American Spectator "Debtors' helper," Timothy Dalrymple, WORLD Magazine "Business vs. the Market," Samuel Gregg, The Public Discourse "On Aristotle's Wide Applicability," Robert T. Miller, The Public Discourse "The Bloomberg Bubble Bursts," Fred Siegel and Sol Stern, Commentary Magazine "The Not So Dismal Science: Humanitarians v. Economists," William McGurn, Imprimis "Financial Terrorism?," CNBC "Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash," Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Family Structure "The Romance of Domesticity," Nathan Schlueter, Touchstone Magazine "The Global War Against Baby Girls," Joe Carter, First Things "Christians question divorce rates of faithful," Adelle M. Banks, USA Today "Family breakdown was elephant in the room at anti-bullying circus," Robert W. Patterson, The Washington Examiner Parental Rights "Opinion: Baptists should rethink stance against children's rights," Laura Rector, Associated Baptist Press Media Pornography "How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain," Donald L. Hilton, Jr., Salvo Magazine "Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration," Kara Spak, Chicago Sun-Times "Sex Trafficking in America," Mike McManus, Virtue Online Internet "TracFone's inside track," Les Sillars, WORLD Magazine "Open Source Software and Market Competition," David Lohmeyer, The Acton Institute "Church life in Facebook land," Terry Mattingly, Religion News Service "Obama administration mum as .xxx nears approval," Michelle Quinn, The Politico "Apple again in the crosshairs of gay activists. Will they fold?," Billy Atwell, The Manhattan Declaration Religion and Public Policy Religious Liberty FRC's friend Matthew Lee Anderson has posted a fascinating interview on religious liberty with Institute on Religion and Democracy president Mark Tooley. Read it here. "State Department Is AWOL on Religious Liberties," Ken Blackwell, Family Research Council "Christianity the reason for West's success, say the Chinese," Tom O'Gorman, The Iona Institute "Faith Leaders Urge Higher Profile for Religious Freedom," Alicia Cohn, Christianity Today "Evangelicals Divided," Gerald McDermott, First Things "Will the Obama Administration Re-Interpret Federal Law Re: Religious Discrimination When Awarding Federal Grants?," Derek L. Gaubatz, The Federalist Society "The Curse of Blasphemy Laws," Editorial, Christianity Today Religion in America FRC's friend John Stonestreet has launched a new radio broadcast, "The Point," through the Colson Center. Hear John's perceptive comments "the intersections of faith and life, of truth and decision, of Christ and culture, of heart and mind." "Will Chaplains Lose Their Religious Liberty?," Alliance Defense Fund "At UC Davis, a Deplorable Action and a Fast Retraction," Alan Sears, Alliance Defense Fund "School Reverses Course and Allows Students to Post Ten Commandments on Lockers," Liberty Counsel "When Are Religious 'Progressives' Going to Get Serious?," Jay Richards, The American Secularism "Social Leveling: Socialism and Secularism," Hunter Baker, The Acton Institute "A "secular myopia" is at work in America, preventing our leaders from seeing the agony of the religiously persecuted around the world," Paul Marshall, Conservative Home International Israel "Are Israeli Settlers Human?," Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal International Economy and Family "Fight or flight," Jamie Dean, WORLD Magazine "With these cuts, they may die," Emily Belz, WORLD Magazine "The Uganda Conspiracy Theory," Timothy Shah, Christianity Today "Democracy, Foreign Policy, and American Values," Carson Holloway, The Public Discourse "The Road to Tahrir Square," Michael Rubin, Commentary Magazine Religious Persecution "World on Fire," Roy-Gene MacIninch, Family Research Council "Pakistan's Christians Mourn, and Fear for Their Future," Omar Waraich, Time "Ready to die for a cause," Mindy Belz, WORLD Magazine Sharia law -- U.S., foreign "A 'global crisis'," Mindy Belz, WORLD Magazine "The Prophet, Represented," Ibn Warraq, City Journal The Courts Constitutional Issues "Supreme Court may be tiring of atheist activist Newdow," Ken Klukowski, Family Research Council "Speaking Thomas," Holly Vradenburgh, WORLD Magazine Judicial Activism "The Legal Errors in A.G. Holder's Refusal to Defend DOMA," Chris Gacek, Family Research Council Judicial Nominations "What's Right About Kansas," Opinion, The Wall Street Journal "Obama's disregard for Constitution unsettling," Thomas Sowell, The Detroit News Other News of Note "Why Would Mitch 'White Flag' Daniels Dis Rush Limbaugh?," Robert Morrison, Family Research Council "President Obama Passes Over Lincoln and Cuccinelli," Robert Morrison, Family Research Council "Coming of age," Megan Basham, WORLD Magazine "The Modesty Manifesto ," David Brooks, The New York Times "Americans Don't Want a 'Truce' on Social Issues," Richard Land, The Wall Street Journal "A European's Warning to America," Daniel Hannan, The Wall Street Journal Book reviews "New book says Western opposition to fidelity message is killing millions of Africans," David Quinn, The Iona Institute "Wilson's Bookmarks," Christianity Today "God and Country," Claremont Review of Books "Front Row of the Second Rate," Selina Hastings, Claremont Review of Books