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Hello Friends,

Too often, our young people are not taught well — or taught virtually at all — the story of our amazing country. Instead of learning about the founding principles that animated the American Revolution or about how we became the world’s leader in freedom, they are taught a negative or even hostile version of America’s history.

Former Congressman George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) is out to change that with his new book, In Tune with America: Our History in Song, a wonderful guide to American history. As he writes, “In Tune with America melds music and words to tell a story of hope — from all four verses of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ to the lyrics of ‘Tin Pan Alley.’” Very creatively, Congressman Nethercutt has produced a playlist of these great American melodies through iTunes.

Through a special arrangement, we are offering the book at a discounted price of $25 (including shipping and handling). It would make a great Christmas gift, and $10 of every purchase goes to FRC. To place your order, click here.

Thank you for your continued commitment to advancing faith, family, and freedom, and for your readership of The Social Conservative Review.

Sincerely,

Rob Schwarzwalder

Family Research Council

Educational Freedom and Reform

Homeschooling

• “The Same Thing Over and Over,” Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
• “Reclaiming Choice, Federalism, and Results in Education,” Jennifer Marshall, The Heritage Foundation
• “Boehner: A Leader on School Choice,” Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation
• “Milton Friedman and 20 years of school-choice innovation,” Matthew Ladner, The Goldwater Institute

Private and Religious Education

• “NCATE’s “Transformative” Vision … Not So Much,” Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
• “Self-Esteem and Character,” Dennis Prager, National Review

Legislation and Policy Proposals

• “Turning teacher education upside down,” Lee Wishing, WORLD Magazine
• “Arne Duncan Talks Tough,” Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
• “Solve School Problems, but Do Not Oversell,” Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute
• “The Lone Star State’s Good Reasons for Going It Alone on Education Standards,” Inez Feltscher, The Heritage Foundation
• “What Transparency by the Department of Education?,” Lanny Davis, The Huffington Post
• “Why American High School Teachers Don’t Assign Research Papers,” Peter Wood, National Association of Scholars
• “Florida’s Education Reforms: The Rest of the Story,” Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation

Health Care

Abstinence

• “Planned Parenthood Says Sex Guide For Youth is a Best Seller,” Seana Cranston, J.D., C-FAM Friday Fax

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

• “Striking down individual mandate would mean ending Obamacare,” Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski, The Washington Examiner
• “Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace,” James Capretta, The Public Discourse
• “The Three-Front Political War on ObamaCare,” Peter Wehner, Commentary Magazine
• “Of Severability and Sins of Omission,” David Catron, The American Spectator
• “Side Effects: What Doctors Have to Say About Obamacare,” Kathryn Nix, The Heritage Foundation
• “Postponing ObamaCare,” Editorial, The Wall Street Journal
• “A Resolute GOP Can Chop…,” Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute
• “Should Congressman Turn Down Health Insurance?,” Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute

Homosexuality

• “9th Circuit judges explore narrow routes to reinstate gay marriage,” Maura Dolan and Jessica Garrison, The Los Angeles Times
• “Obama IRS’s $250,000 Giveaway to GLAD,” Ed Whelan, National Review Online

Homosexuals in the Military

• “FRC Criticizes Pentagon’s CRWG Report on Open Homosexuality in the Military; Urges Extensive Hearings on Flawed Report,” Press Release, Family Research Council
• “New Survey Shows 63 Percent of Military Families Favor Keeping ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy,” Press Release, Family Research Council
• “Pentagon report on homosexual policy buries the lead-“the majority of views expressed were against repeal.”,” Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
• “It’s More Than a Feeling,” Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council
• “Is the Obama Administration willing to sacrifice our military and possible freedoms to push a liberal agenda?,” Tom McClusky, The Cloakroom
• “Gays in the Military Update: Remember When Reporters Reported?,” Tom McClusky, The Cloakroom
• “UW prof compares military recruiters with child sex predators,” Linda Thomas, KIRO
• “Personal ‘morality’,” Cal Thomas, WORLD Magazine
• “Most Continue to Favor Gays Serving Openly in Military,” The Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life
• “Protection Breakdown,” Jed Babbin, The American Spectator

Sexually-transmitted disease

• “New numbers on STDs reported,” Associated Press
• “Street smarts and training aid in battle against sexually transmitted diseases,” Robert Joiner, St. Louis Beacon
• “Generation feels immune to teen pregnancy,” Caitlin Heaney, The Scranton Times-Tribune

Human Life and Bioethics

Abortion

• “FRC Speaks Out Against Opening of LeRoy Carhart’s Maryland Late-Term Abortion Facility,” Press Release, Family Research Council
• “Partial-Birth Abortion on Trial,” Cathy Ruse, Human Life Review
• “Polling on your child’s life?,” David Christensen, Family Research Council
• “Why pay for more population control?,” Ken Blackwell, WORLD Magazine
• “Washington Insider,” William Saunders, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
• “A Deafening Silence on Black Abortions,” Vicki Thorn, Headline Bistro
• “Year Of The Pro-Life Woman,” John Hayward, Human Events
• “Thirty Studies in Five Years Show Abortion Hurts Women’s Mental Health,” Priscilla Coleman, LifeNews.com
• “The Shock of Recognition,” R.J. Snell, The Public Discourse
• “Abortion Provider Offers “Unique” Gift Idea,” Dave Bohon, The New American
• “WHO Study Finds 30% Drop in Deaths From Unsafe Abortions,” Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com

Bioethics and Biotechnology

• ““Ashley’s Treatment:”Bioethicists Decide “Ethically Permissible” to Stunt Growth of Disabled Children,” Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
• “Judging my 2010 Prognostications,” Wesley J. Smith, Center for Bioethics and Culture Network
• “Cutting Human Lives,” Sally Satel, American Enterprise Institute
• “Attorney: Feds funding ‘illegal, unethical’ research,” Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow

Euthanasia and End-of-Life Issues

• “The Montana Supreme Court Legalizes Assisted Suicide,” William L. Saunders, The Federalist Society
• “Belgium: Court Approves “Wrongful Life” Rule that Disabled Child Should Never Have Been Born,” Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
• “Swiss Court Effectively Legalizes Active Euthanasia,” Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke

Stem Cell Research

• “Approval for Risky Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial,” Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
• “Ethical Stem Cell Research Succeeds,” David Prentice, Ethics & Medics
• “California’s ‘Embryonic Boom’ Goes Bust,” Press Release, Family Research Council
• “State’s stem cell agency seeks more time, money,” Jack Dolan, The Los Angeles Times
• “Beyond stem cells: Scientists transform skin cells directly to nerve, heart, blood cells,” Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press
• “Stem Cell Funding Has Day in Court,” Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider
• “Key oral arguments made in stem cell case,” Meredith Wadman, Nature
• “The Moral Frontiers of Stem Cell Research,” Matthew Hoberg, The Public Discourse
• “Stem-Cell Fraud,” Editorial, Investors Business Daily
• “Appeals Court Tackles Stem-Cell Dispute,” Danny Yadron, Wall Street Journal

Women’s Health

• “Watson Pharmaceuticals Ignores Facts on Ella,” Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council
• “Giving a pass to the pill,” Jenn Giroux, The Washington Times

Marriage and Family

Adoption

• “FRC’s New Report on Adoption Highlights Benefits for Children and Families,” Press Release, Family Research Council
• “Adoption Works Well: a Synthesis of the Literature,” Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., Family Research Council
• “Adoption: Good, bad news,” Mike McManus, The Daily Reporter
• “Parents in open adoption are grateful,” Andrew Nelson, Catholic News Agency

Family Economics

• “The Treatment of Married Women By the Social Security Retirement Program,” Andrew G. Biggs, American Enterprise Institute
• “The Billionaire Syndrome,” George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing
• “Economies rise and fall with the family,” Dainius Kreivys, MercatorNet
• “The New Morality of Government Benefits,” Justin Paulette, The Ashbrook Center
• “Americans Don’t Hate the Rich,” William Voegeli, Commentary Magazine
• “The Tax Deal: Politics and Principles,” Rick Richman, Commentary Magazine
• “Humility in Economics,” Kevin E. Schmiesing, The Acton Institute
• “The Estate Tax Lives? Dies?,” Karlyn Bowman, The American

Family Structure

• “Marriage: Broken, In Need of Restoration,” Mark Regnerus, Qideas
• “A troubling marriage trend,” Editorial, Deseret News
• “Children of Divorce Face Twice the Lifetime Risk of Stroke: Study,” Alan Mozes, Business Week
• “Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class,” Jennifer Ludden, NPR
• “The State of Our Unions,” W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, The National Marriage Project
• “Polygamy debate evokes familiar ‘rights’ argument,” Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
• “Five-Time Father Ted Turner Calls for One-Child Policy,” Kenneth P. Green, The American
• “Pastor: Role of marriage virtually ignored,” Becky Yeh, OneNewsNow

Parental Rights

• “New Documentary Exposes the Threats to American Parental Rights,” PRNewswire
• “Court decision erodes rights of divorced parents,” Stephen Wyse, The Missourian

Media

Pornography

• “FBI Investigates Pedophilia Barbie,” Caitlin Dickson, The Atlantic
• “Study: Making Pornography More Accessible May Curb Child Abuse,” Alice Park, Time

Broadcast and Cable Decency

• “Media Misses the Story on Pentagon Survey-Negative Responses Outnumber Positive on Virtually Every Question,” Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council
• “Obama Administration Works at the Behest of Hollywood,” Chris Gacek, Family Research Council
• “PRESS MAN: They’ll Always Have NPR,” Andrew Ferguson, Commentary Magazine

Internet

• “Upsetting the Apple Cart,” Jared Bridges, Family Research Council
• “The Moral Dimension of Technology,” Kevin Kelly, Qideas
• “Apple pulls anti-gay app from App Store,” Suzanne Choney, MSNBC

Religion and Public Policy

Religious Liberty

• “Benedict XVI: Christian Radical,” Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute
• “Europe, Immigration, and Merkel’s Christian Values,” Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute
• “Culture of Evil,” James V. Schall, S. J., The Catholic Thing
• “International Religious Freedom,” Justin Paulette, The Ashbrook Center
• “Religious Liberty Lost Worldwide,” Doug Bandow, The American Spectator

Religion in American Public Life

• “On Not Growing Weary in Doing (Public) Good,” Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council
• “‘God is in control’,” Mark Bergin, WORLD Magazine
• “Sharing the Faith, Splitting the Rent,” Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times
• “The Dead Are Not Raised by Politics,” Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Secularism

• “No Praying In The End Zone. Your Thoughts?,” Darren Dedo, Q13 Fox News

The Courts

Constitutional Issues

• “Reclaiming the right to oversight,” Darrell Issa and Fred Upton, The Washington Times
• “Defending Con Law,” Justin Paulette, The Ashbrook Center
• “Caplan’s Constitution,” W. James Antle, III, The American Spectator
• “Interpretations of the Constitution,” Bruce Frohnen, First Principles

Judicial Activism

• “Congress Has Strayed from the Constitution,” Michael Schwarz, The Ashbrook Center
• “The Younger, Wiser Ted Olson vs. the New Version,” Ed Whelan, National Review Online
• “This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-December 5,” Ed Whelan, National Review Online

Other News of Note

• “December 7, 1941: A date which will live in infamy.,” Robert Morrison, Family Research Council
• “Winston Churchill: November 30, 1874,” Robert Morrison, Family Research Council
• “Harry Reid, Your Number Is Up!,” Ken Blackwell, The American Spectator
• “How Liberalism Self-Destructed,” Joel Kotkin, Politico
• “Blue Collars, Red Voters,” Henry Olsen, National Review
• “Caught Between Oxford and Mars,” Joi Weaver, The Evangelical Outpost
• “Long hours and little thanks,” Mindy Belz, WORLD Magazine
• “Progressive Means Different Things to Different People,” John Moser, The Ashbrook Center
• “The Destiny of Cities,” Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal
• “Santa vs. God,” Jenell Paris, Patheos

Book reviews

• “Book Review: All That Jesus Asks,” Justin Kinney, Family Research Council
• “The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles,” Hadley Arkes, The Public Discourse
• “The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes,” Matthew O’Brien, The Public Discourse
• “Stagflation’s Veep,” Jeremy Lott, The American Spectator
• “Paved-Over Grace: The Road to Perdition,” Joseph Susanka, Patheos
• “Undermining the Free Society,” Gerald J. Russello, City Journal
• “Black Like Me,” Chris Caldwell, Claremont Review of Books