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• Texas sonogram law goes into effect today
  

  State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, who authored the sonogram bill in three consecutive legislative sessions, estimated the law will save 15,000 lives annually in Texas – if it stops one out in five abortions. “There’s no other piece of legislation anywhere else in the country that has that kind of impact,” he said Monday. “I don’t take credit for it. It’s God’s hands.”

  
  
  
• Last known WWI veteran dies at 110
  

  Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets.

  But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I.

  
  
  
• New canine cancer therapy could be mimicked in humans
  

  Man’s best friend may help out their human cohorts by bringing in the paper or fetching someone’s slippers. But now our canine companions may help us find improved cancer drugs.

  A study involving a new type of immunotherapy on companion dogs diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) may lead the way for a similar cancer treatment in humans.

  
  
  
• John Bolton comes to town
  

  Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton appeared at a special event held by our local Minnesota chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the Parker Rosen law firm in downtown Minneapolis last night. Announced 48 hours in advance of his appearance, the event was the most successful in history of our small chapter. Ambassador Bolton drew a crowd to excess capacity.

  Bolton is a man who commanded the respect and elicited the warmth of this crowd, even those who did not necessarily or entirely agree with him on Romney (one of whom is my friend Barry Kelner). He is by far the most powerful advocate of Romney whom I have heard this campaign season and he is, in any event, a great American to who deserves the attention of his fellow conservatives and fellow Republicans.

  
  
  
• Five Possible Comeback Tacks for Gingrich
  

  So how does Gingrich launch his rebound? Politico lists five paths to redemption.

  
  
  
• Peggy Noonan on Obama vs. the Catholic Church
  

  This is a pretty big deal.

  “The president signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says under ObamaCare Catholic Institutions—including its charities, hospitals and schools—will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures. If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or they can always go out of business.

  In other words, the Catholic Church was told this week that its institutions can’t be Catholic anymore.”

  Noonan notes that Obama may very well have lost the election right there.

  
  
  
• Religious Liberty and Civil Society
  

  Looks like Furkel really “stepped in it” this time….

  
  
  
• Star Parker: Memo to Romney
  

  A safety net is what is provided when a free person, acting on his or her own initiative, falls and we offer assistance to help him or her get back up and start again.

  The welfare state amounts to a wholesale takeover of individual lives. As opposed to government stepping in to soften the blow, the welfare state assumes from the start that individuals won’t make it without government managing their lives.

  Her book: Uncle Sam’s Plantation

  
  
  
• Mock astronauts wanted for mission to Mars ... in Hawaii
  

  Scientists at Cornell University studying how best to feed Mars-bound astronauts during their long space trip to the Red Planet have dreamed up a mock mission to see how appetites and food preferences can change over time. The researchers are looking for six volunteers to live and work like astronauts for four months inside a faux space capsule in Hawaii.

  
  
  
• Russian scientists reach buried Antarctic Lake Vostok
  

  The team from Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) had been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the ice sheet’s surface. The lake hasn’t been exposed to air in more than 20 million years.

  A brief break in communication with colleagues in the unfrozen world had some asking questions about the scientists, as Antarctica’s killing winter draws near. But despite the lack of info and onset of winter, which brings temperatures as low as -80 F or colder, the team was never in danger, Priscu said.

  “They are very capable scientists and drillers and the thought never entered my mind that they are in any kind of danger,” Dr John Priscu told FoxNews.com.