Red Mass Group News and Commentary about Massachusetts and beyond

From  a presidential candidate’s issues page on poverty, s/he mentioned the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act that was introduced in 2006 s/he co-sponsored, but nothing ever happen to it. Here are just a few of the findings by Congress.
(1) The most important factor in a child’s upbringing is whether the child is brought up in a loving,…

Reading this from Richard Howe’s blog, a Lowell democrat, as a Catholic revert this is what upsets me with Catholics and the Democratic Party, and I have to say something. I know as a Catholic the Democratic Party is suppose to be my home, but the Democrat platform has made a mockery of our values and undermined our faith. The…

Read a quick review by Thomas Sowell, someone I admire and the book has been checked out at all the local libraries in the area I live in. Is it a serious read or just a feel good book?  …

That’s the title of the story here, locally in the Lowell Sun on the recent baby boomlet. While the rest of America is opening itself to having more children, here in Massachusetts we’re facing the problems of what is seen in Europe today. I can’t copy and paste, but there us a good Q&A from the documentary “Demographic Winter” on…

Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

“HELSINKI (Reuters) – Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen. Researchers said on Friday the breakthrough opened up new ways to treat severe tissue damage and made…

Minimum wage = minimum work Been through the drive-thru one too many times, a bad habit I have being pregnant. Don’t worry most of the time it’s a salad. It has been twice this month that the order was missing something. I know it isn’t the end of the world and mistakes happen, but on the other hand these workers…

News story here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200… Let’s say you don’t have a problem with this, while I do believe people are a bit creeped out creating a twin on one’s self even though the embryo would not be implanted in a womb and proceed with human development. What about the other issue here, the need for young fresh eggs from women. The…