Sunday, February 17, 2013

Crosstalk: News Round-Up



“Not Only Do You Have A Right To Die...
You Have A Duty To Die”
Texas bill (SB-303) would allow doctors to impose “do not resuscitate” orders on patients
even if doing so would violate the patient’s express wishes.

Host: Jim Schneider
Air Date - February 15, 2013


Show Description:
Jim Schneider hosted this Crosstalk that featured news items that spanned the globe. Some of the stories included:

Arlington National Cemetery is being told to recognize gay partners as being married.

Representative Tom Harkins says we don’t have a spending problem. He claims we have a misallocation of wealth/capital problem.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Hillary Clinton inspired his decision to
allow women in combat.

Rahm Emanuel is said to be considering a run for president if Hillary Clinton decides not to run in 2016.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg says the Texas law that’s at the heart of the Roe v. Wade decision was the most extreme law in the nation.

The F.B.I.’s former top expert on Islam announced that President Obama’s pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency converted to Islam years ago in Saudi Arabia.

Harry Reid calls for expedited vote regarding Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.

A.C.L.J. reports that Hagel is anti-Israel.

North Korea conducts its third nuclear missile test.

Iceland considering introducing Internet filters to prevent citizens from downloading pornography.

No exams on Wiccan and other pagan holidays at the University of Missouri.

On Valentine’s Day the Illinois Senate approved legislation that if passed by the House would create same-sex marriage in the state.

Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next 4-5 years for law enforcement in training and on duty.

France’s lower House of Parliament approves a bill to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

U.K. police officers to attend course teaching them to ask transgenders whether they want to be known as a man or a woman.

Hundreds or possibly thousands of patients said to have died from lack of care in British hospitals.

New Japan finance minister causes controversy with death comment regarding the elderly.

Texas bill (SB-303) would allow doctors to impose “do not resuscitate” orders on patients even if doing so would violate the patient’s express wishes.

White House not saying where President Obama was, what he did or who he spoke to between 5:30pm and 11:26pm on September 11th, 2012, while the Benghazi attacks were taking place

New Secretary of State John Kerry took a larger detail of security agents on a trip to Arlington, Virginia, last week than the State Department employed to its compound in Benghazi, Libya, in the days leading up to last September’s terrorist attack.

Judicial Watch released U.S.D.A. videos of compulsory cultural sensitivity training requiring employees to chant in unison, “The Pilgrims were illegal aliens.”

Since taking office in 2009, food stamp roles under President Obama swell to over 47 million people which exceeds the population of the nation of Spain.

New York hospital changes procedures so that pro-life medical personnel no longer have to violate their beliefs when it comes to abortion.

Pro-abortion Senator Frank Lautenberg from New Jersey will not be seeking reelection in 2014.

Parents of a Texas teenager are being sued by their 16 year old daughter who wants to keep her baby.

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