Heroine for Life (link fixed)
By Mark Earley, BreakPoint:
Feeling more discouraged than ever about the state of abortion in this country? You think there’s no hope? Well, think again. Find out more.
If you’re at all active in pro-life circles, there’s a very good chance that you’re familiar with the name “Lila Rose.” In recent years, that name has popped up again and again, attached to some absolutely amazing stories.
Lila Rose exposed racism in Planned Parenthood clinics by getting clinic staffers to accept money earmarked for killing “a black baby.” Rose got several Planned Parenthood employees fired for being willing to cover up statutory rape. She also got Tennessee lawmakers to pull government funding for Planned Parenthood—all $1.1 million of it.
The most amazing part of it all is that Lila Rose is only 20.
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Do Americans Care about British Soldiers? (YES)
by Michael Yon:
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
A gunshot ripped through the darkness and a young British soldier fell dying on FOB Jackson. I was just nearby talking on the satellite phone and saw the commotion. The soldier was taken to the medical tent and a helicopter lifted him to the excellent trauma center at Camp Bastion. That he made it to Camp Bastion alive dramatically improved his chances. But his life teetered and was in danger of slipping away. Making matters worse, the British medical system back in the United Kingdom did not possess the specialized gear needed to save his life. Americans had the right gear in Germany, and so the British soldier was put into the American system.
British officers in his unit, 2 Rifles, wanted to track their man every step of the way, and to ensure that his family was informed and supported in this time of high stress. Yet having their soldier suddenly in the American system caused a temporary glitch in communications with folks in Germany. The British leadership in Sangin could have worked through the glitch within some hours, but that would have been hours wasted, and they wanted to know the status of their soldier now. So a British officer in Sangin – thinking creatively –asked if I knew any shortcuts to open communications. The right people were only an email away: Soldiers Angels. And so within about two minutes, these fingers typed an email with this subject heading: CALLING ALL ANGELS.
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h/t: HOT AIR
The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown
by Victor Davis Hanson:
Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care).
First, here are some of the problems the President faces:
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Imagine You Are a Doctor
by Hunter Baker, Acton Institute:
As the debate over healthcare reform has developed, opposition has coalesced against the idea of a “public option” — the creation of a new government insurance program. The most common objection is that the existence of such a program would lead many companies to abandon their employee insurance plans in favor of a cheaper government alternative as a way of cutting costs. Thus, despite the president’s many assurances, individuals with insurance plans they like would probably lose their current coverage and end up moving to something like Medicare. The specter of losing a good private plan and ending up in a less satisfactory public program is a solid reason for opposing the measure, but there is a better reason for opposition. It has to do with human rights.
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h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
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FBI Agents Visit the Home and Question Nationally Known Christian Activist and Outspoken Critic of President Obama’s Human Rights and Social Justice Record
Christian Newswire:
Agents came to the home of the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition to question him and “gather intelligence” about his laying roses at the Chinese Embassy on June 4th.
On June 4th, Rev. Mahoney and his daughter Kaitlin held a prayer vigil and peacefully laid roses in front of the Chinese Embassy on the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The purpose of the vigil was to honor and remember the heroic students who were brutalized in Tiananmen Square and to pray that the Chinese government would protect and honor human rights and religious liberty.
The Christian Defense Coalition is troubled that an American citizen would be visited and questioned at his home by federal agents for simply praying in the public square and peacefully exercising his First Amendment rights.
What makes the situation even more disturbing is the fact that Rev. Mahoney has led over 40 peaceful demonstrations outside of the Chinese Embassy for the past 20 years and has never been questioned by any federal or local law enforcement officials.
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Obamachill. It’s the Demonazification of Amerika.
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Swedish government funds anti-Semitic NGOs
Gerald Steinberg , THE JERUSALEM POST:
The article in Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet accusing Israeli soldiers of stealing and selling the organs of Palestinians is not a surprise or isolated aberration, but rather the result of a long campaign of anti-Israeli demonization, based on manufactured “evidence” repeated by Palestinian “eyewitnesses”.
Applying the strategy adopted at the NGO forum of the 2001 UN Durban conference, the well-financed network of radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) plays a major role in this demonization, and the Swedish government is a major source of funding. Expressions of modern anti-Semitism and blood libels are the logical results of this activity.
An NGO Monitor research report on Swedish government funding, published on June 29 2009, documented this pattern in detail, and warned of the incitement and anti-Semitic language being used routinely by these organizations. This systematic study examined over 20 major NGOs funded through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Diakonia, the multi-national NGO Development Center (NDC), and the Swedish Mission Council (SMR).
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Honor Killings Come to America
By: Ryan Mauro, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Muslim women overseas have long had to deal with the threat of honor killings, but several incidents in recent years show that the threat has come to American soil.
A 17-year old girl named Fathima Rifqa Bary is currently engaged in a custody battle after fleeing her father in Ohio, who she claimed threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. She is currently living with Pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church in Orlando, who she became friends with through Facebook.
Bary says she took an approximately 30-hour bus ride from Ohio to Orlando in September to save her life. A video of her testimony has been posted on YouTube, where she cries as she explains that her family is required by Islam to execute her and that she’d die within a week of going back to Ohio.
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I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administration
By Nat Hentoff:
I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration. President Obama’s desired health care reform intends that a federal board (similar to the British model) – as in the Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation in a current Democratic bill – decides whether your quality of life, regardless of your political party, merits government-controlled funds to keep you alive. Watch for that life-decider in the final bill. It’s already in the stimulus bill signed into law.
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SICK FANATICS CHEER BODY BAGS
By Padraic Flanagan and John Ingham, Daily Express [UK]:
BRITISH Muslim fanatics sparked fresh fury last night by praising Taliban “heroes” for sending our troops back from Afghanistan in body bags.
Dozens of homegrown “jihadis” have posted website messages cheering last weekend’s carnage in Helmand province that saw Britain’s death toll rise to 204 soldiers.
Last night there were calls by senior politicians for the Home Office to crack down on the hate-filled rants that will distress even further the relatives of troops who gave their lives fighting the Taliban.
The shameful website involved stoked up hatred as it emerged that one of two soldiers killed trying to save their mortally wounded commander had recently got married before deploying to Afghanistan.
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H/T: American Thinker
Islam’s European Conquest: Is America Next?
By John Griffing, AT:
“Islamic lands that were occupied by the enemies will once again become Islamic…We proclaim that we will conquer Rome, like Constantinople was conquered once, and as it will be conquered again.” – Ali Al-Faqir, the Jordanian Minister for Religious EndowmentBritain, birthplace of parliamentary democracy, has fallen to Islam. Oxford, once home to the likes of C.S. Lewis, now houses a giant Eastern Islamic Studies Center. If this were the only Islamic addition to Oxford, the mood would be less somber, but when Oxford citizens are forced to awake every morning to the Muslim call to prayer with the full consent of the Church of England, nothing short of conquest has taken place.
Britain’s Muslim demographic is now so dominant that the British government recently began to allow Islamic civil and religious law, known as Sharia, to be enforced along side British law.
But if religious tolerance is good, why is this a problem? Simple-this is not an issue of religious liberty. Islam is not designed to co-exist with western civilization. It is designed to conquer it.
Most would agree that Judeo-Christian values are consistent with Anglo-American tradition. Can the same be said of Islam? Even Muslims don’t think so. The chief Justice of London’s Sharia Court made this chilling statement:
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Motto for today
David Warren:
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I thus admire the motto of old Queen Bess for the medieval notion it contains: the notion of “semper,” or always; of constancy, faith. “Semper fidelis,” in the old Catholic motto that survives today even as the watchword of the United States Marine Corps. “Always faithful” — to God, to our country, to our countrymen; to our family and friends; and especially to our fellow warriors in the trenches; faithful to the true, the beautiful, the good; faithful “unto this last.”
Faithful, incidentally, to the very things that such unspeakably vile organizations as the ACLU in the U.S., and the “human rights” commissions up here, are dedicated to exterminating.
“Semper fidelis” is an affirmation, a very personal commitment, and a constant reminder — that we must never stoop to moral relativism, that we will never surrender that which makes us human in the highest sense, to that which would reduce us to the condition of grovelling animals.
But, “semper eadem” belongs more suitably on the crest of a state, for in the world of government and law the aspiration should be to avoid any kind of surprise, fear or favour. As the guardian of our freedom, the state must remain “always the same;” and likewise, as the dispenser of public justice, it must strive to provide, quite blindly, “the same for everybody.”
The state must therefore be minimal, too: its functionaries stripped whenever possible of their audacious hopes, and ability to change things. For the state should be the means of last resort and not, as it has become, a voracious beast, with an ever-increasing appetite to control the souls of men, by appropriating their possessions.
Vast oceans lay beneath surface of the Earth
Telegraph [UK]:
Scientists believe areas of enhanced electrical conductivity in the mantle – the thick region between the Earth’s crust and its core – betray the presence of water.
Water divining researchers produced a global three-dimensional map of the mantle showing the areas through which electricity flowed most freely.
Conductivity hot spots were found to coincide with subduction zones, sites where the tectonic plates that divide up the Earth’s surface are being forced downwards.
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Colleague Professor Gary Egbert, also at Oregon State, added: ”In fact, we don’t really know how much water there is on Earth. There is some evidence that there is many times more water below the ocean floor than there is in all the oceans of the world combined. Our results may shed some light on this question.”Other possible reasons for enhanced conductivity in the mantle include raised levels of iron or carbon, said the researchers.
The presence of water could also be explained in different ways.
”If it isn’t being subducted down with the plates, how did it get there?” said Prof Schultz. ”Is it primordial, down there for four billion years? Or did it indeed come down as the plates slowly subduct, suggesting that the planet may have been much wetter a long time ago? These are fascinating questions, for which we do not yet have answers.”
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“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Gen 7:11-12 KJV)
Rise up against these monsters
By MONTE SOLBERG, Ottawa Sun:
I was born with the terrible handicap of not being able to wake up in the morning and leap from my bed without feeling the urgent call to run to the aid of my country.
I hope you will not think worse of me to discover that it is my heavy and strangely happy burden to strap on my sword everyday so that I might furiously sunder giants and slay dragons in the service of saving small children, rescuing maidens and protecting the lives and treasure of this tiny village called Canada.
All I ask is that you not think of me as the hero in all of this, though it would be understandable and pleasant if you did. In fact I acknowledge that many people feel that I play a different and less esteemed role in the village.
Be that as it may one of the forms that my selfless duty to our wonderful country takes is as the guardian who lies in wait, ready to ambush the giant myths and tackle the staggering illogicalities that dominate many people’s thinking.
‘Thinking’
I hasten to mention, however, that to call that particular mental process “thinking” is to bestow a stature upon it that really cannot be supported by the evidence.
The list of these bellowing monstrosities includes official multiculturalism that encourages intolerance, human rights commissions that undermine human rights, employment insurance that creates unemployment, democratic institutions that steamroll democracy, unjust justice systems and even environmental policies that harm the environment.
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Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate
By Robert S. Boyd, McClatchy Newspapers:
Has Earth’s fever broken?
Official government measurements show that the world’s temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.
That’s given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions are ill-founded and unnecessary.
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