DUTCH TREAT- Cal Fox's Blog

"What's so special about religion, that it should be granted such deferential attention? Many people deem religion's "special privileges" needless, embarrassing, or downright illegitimate. Can we offer them any arguments they'll find compelling, or at least persuade them to see things in a different light?  To the skeptics, let me offer five such arguments in what follows."

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/november/honoring-faith-in-public-square.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=11430839&utm_content=144154715&utm_campaign=2012

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7146

This article is a long Essay about the future of Humanity and the reasons for its probable demise from factors you probably would not guess.  I didn't.  It is fascinating and worth the time to read it.  It is also a marvelous testimony to the amazing achievements of Humanity and to what could be considered the work of God in Humanity's History.  God is not mentioned, but I can see His Hand in the History.  It offers reasons for hope for what could be. 

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2012/11/cdc-abortion-rate-ratio-lowest-since-2000.html?

This analysis (and its lessons) applies to America and Christian Denominations, too

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/gaza-catalonia-and-romantic-nationalism

After public criticism of proposal that lets government agencies warrantlessly access Americans' e-mail, Sen. Patrick Leahy says he will "not support" such an idea at next week's vote.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/

"Every move we make online leaves a trace. This is a lesson former CIA director David Petraeus and his lover, Paula Broadwell, learned in dramatic fashion a few weeks ago after an FBI investigation – begun in response to an unrelated complaint – found email records of their illicit affair.

"Such troubles may seem far from the day-to-day concerns of the average internet user. But federal government searches of user data have been growing rapidly. Last week, Google released its biannual transparency report, which shows that the US government made nearly 8,000 requests for data on its users' accounts over the past six months – one third more than the previous reporting period. Of those requests, 90 per cent were fully or partially complied with."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22511-how-metadata-brought-down-cia-boss-david-petraeus.html