http://thebulletin.us/ The latest news from the thebulletin.us website! Newsys Template Engine Top Stories http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 newsys-516337606 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b66473361e12485745065.txt If Islamist Iran becomes a nuclear-armed nation in 2010, the first “casualty,” according to some Washington insiders, is likely to be America's Secretary of State. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:57 -0500 newsys-519256608 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b6654236d7ba971324119.txt PHILADELPHIA — Republican Pia Varma has officially announced her candidacy for Congress in the 1st District of Pennsylvania. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:10:18 -0500 newsys-516337612 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b66477d655f1491531009.txt Just over a year in office and change has arrived inside the Beltway, but it is a different kind of change Democrats had anticipated. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:57 -0500 newsys-516337617 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b6647a3dcd8b542690145.txt Some controversy has arisen from the use of R-rated content in public classrooms within Council Rock High Schools North and South. Diana Nolan, mother of a sophomore at Council Rock, has asked the school district to remove the adult content from classrooms, but has not gained much support among the students or the Board of Education. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:57 -0500 newsys-519256340 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b6647c4c4ad8433844515.txt Pope Benedict XVI is making use of new technologies in the communications field to spread the Gospel message. In his discourse for World Communications Day, the Pope made clear that the digital use of modern technologies are an essential part of priests’ resources in spreading the message of the Catholic Church. This is not the Catholic Church’s first attempt at using technology as a method for evangelization. Most of the inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries that enabled mass communications were adopted by the Catholic Church in its educational and evangelical activities from their inception. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:57 -0500 newsys-516337608 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b66488ff0b85824463294.txt “This wide representation here in the National Shrine represents the growing tide of public understanding of that unchanging truth that the right to life is sacred and inviolable from the first moment of conception to the moment of natural death.”   Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:57 -0500 newsys-504345387 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b607d7e15d1a367065305.txt While their partners were in D.C. some 80 local pro-lifers rallied at City Hall at noon on Friday, January 22nd, marking the 37th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  The rally focused on adoption.  Prudence Humber, director of Alpha Pregnancy Services emceed the event and Rev. Brent Miller, Pastor of Phoenixville Baptist Church led the invocation.  Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:56:08 -0500 newsys-504345386 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b607c9f9a4ef898501189.txt Mike Fitzpatrick, saying that he "cannot sit back any longer and watch what’s happening to our country,"  officially announced his candidacy for the 8th Congressional District in US Congress at a rally on Saturday, January 23, 2010, at Neshaminy Middle School‎ in Langhorne.  Surrounded by his wife, Kathy, his children and parents, state senators, commissioners, supervisors, board members, and committee members, and hundreds of supporters and well-wishers chanting,  “Run, Mike, Run!!,” Fitzpatrick said the words the cheering crowd was waiting to hear: “I am ready to step back into the arena and run for congress!” Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:56:08 -0500 newsys-504345388 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/01/31/top_stories/doc4b607d0e1517c963241891.txt In 1943, brooding on the causes of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, the British writer W. Somerset Maugham penned a little piece for Redbook called “Virtue.” Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:56:08 -0500