Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Last week’s announcement that TV star Heidi Montag underwent 10 plastic surgeries in one day has raised serious concerns about the increasing number of American women whose obsession with physical beauty is fueling an addiction to the knife.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Planned Parenthood has launched a program in rural Ecuador that trains teens aged 11-19 to inject other teens of Depo-Provera, a contraceptive that prevents ovulation and is known to cause dangerous and irreversible bone density damage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling yesterday that struck down major portions of campaign finance law and will now allow corporations, who largely favor fiscally conservative candidates, to contribute to election-related activity without having to set up political action committees.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff JournalistParents who want to enjoy Super Bowl 2010 with their children this year need to beware of sexually explicit commercials that will air during the game.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today that unless the Senate version of health care reform can be substantially amended, the bill cannot pass the House, thus eliminating the White House’s last best hope for passing a bill anytime soon.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Catholic missionary from Connecticut says it was a series of miracles that allowed him to survive 10 hours trapped in the rubble after the Haiti earthquake.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has summoned all Irish bishops to Rome next month for a meeting to discuss the clerical abuse scandal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of the fact that Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown is not pro-life on abortion, the nation’s pro-life leaders say his support of numerous limits on abortion and opposition to abortion funding in health care reform makes his election a victory for life.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Within 24 hours of the historic election in Massachusetts that robbed the Senate of its filibuster-proof super-majority, the White House and Congressional leaders are beginning to concede that their plans to “ram through” a health care reform package before the President’s first State of the Union address on Jan. 27 may have to be shelved.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The site of the original tea party was the scene of a stunning victory for conservative Americans whose “tea party” fervor fueled the election of Massachusetts GOP State Senator Scott Brown into the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Brown ran on a fiscally conservative platform and made repeated promises to “kill" the massively unpopular health care reform bill which many believe is now doomed.
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