Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg1- GREAT! Running America the Chicago Way, Mafia & Baseball Bats
Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg2- Media Must Walk In ‘Goose’ Step With Obama Administration
Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg3- NBC and GE Have Fallen In ‘GOOSE’ Step with Every Obama Policy
Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg4- Reason For Hope! Some Media Outlets Stood Up For Fox News
Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg5- England Has Been Living Under Obama Prototype For 12 Years
Glenn Beck Clips 10-23-09 Seg6- Is The Climate Change Treaty The Start of World Government?
VIDEO: Univ. of Victoria Abortion Debate a Powerful Example of Pro-Life Apologetics and Open Academic Debate
LifeSiteNews.com:
The video of Wednesday’s debate on abortion at the University of Victoria (UVic) is now available on Youtube, showcasing a brilliant example of pro-life apologetics and civil, academic debate.
The debate, hosted by UVic’s pro-life club, Youth Protecting Youth, featured Stephanie Gray of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform and Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge, UVic philosophy professor and bioethicist.
Miss Gray’s argument cut through the various issues that are often raised to confuse the abortion issue, boiling it down to the two simple questions: Are the unborn human? Does abortion kill them?
If the unborn are human, and abortion kills them, then abortion must be wrong, she maintains. Using potent examples, she explains how criteria such as disability and the lack of experiencing pain are not satisfactory justifications for killing any human if we recognize that they are human, unborn or not.
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‘Muslim Mafia’ unveiled in CAIR documents
OneNewsNow:
Islam Jihad dominateA terrorism expert and author says the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a number of other alleged “moderate” Islamic groups are part of what he calls “The Muslim Mafia,” which he believes is far more dangerous to America than the Sicilian-based crime organization.
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Israel rebuffs Obama demand to surrender before negotiations
Israel Today:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a demand by US President Barack Obama that he commit to a major expulsion of Jews from their homes in Judea and Samaria prior to a renewal of peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
According to Israeli media reports on Wednesday, Obama wanted to organize a major peace summit one month from now based on such an Israeli commitment. Even before the sides had a chance to sit down at the negotiating table, Israel was to surrender to all Arab demands to allow the creation of a Palestinian Arab state on every inch of land they claim.
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Regional Cancer Center Expert Is Either Lying or Uninformed About Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Says Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Risk
Christian Newswire:
An expert from the Regional Cancer Center (Erie, Pennsylvania), Dr. Carmen Ligia-Pisc, is either lying or uninformed about 53 years of research supporting an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link, says the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. The group challenged her to a debate.
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“Why has the ABC link been suppressed for 53 years? That’s easy. Five women have successfully sued abortionists who failed to warn them about the ABC link and the risk of emotional harm,” observed Malec. [7]
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Obama’s attempted freeze-out
By Armstrong Williams, The Hill:
The administration’s tack is both obvious and appalling. With the president’s healthcare proposal floundering, the administration is clearly trying to distract the public by shifting the focus to Fox News. This is the oldest play in the book: Unable or unwilling to defend criticism of its policies, the administration has taken to attacking its critics.
Yet the breadth of those attacks is truly alarming. This country has a rich First Amendment tradition that is animated by the idea that a free press is the surest safeguard against government tyranny. Our First Amendment safeguards are predicated on the idea that through the friction of diverse perspectives the truth always rises up. This rich tradition trusts the voting populace to cut through the cacophony of opinion and to make self-interested decisions. By attempting to censure an entire news network, the administration is not only trampling on the First Amendment, it is displaying an appalling lack of faith in the American populace. This kind of arrogance is near-tyrannical.
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Not socialism; Gangsterism
Rick Moran, AT:
Arguments go back and forth about whether or not the Obama administration is really “socialist” in the sense that they wish to control the means of production, takeover all businesses, and put the “people” (unions) in charge.
Wherever you come down on this issue, there is no denying the straight line from Obama’s Chicago roots and ways of getting things done to the White House. I wrote about it a while back when Chrysler dealers were being closed down, in a post I called “Not Socialism: Gangsterism:”
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The Hexagon Of Progress: Barack Obama – Working Families Party – Democratic Socialists Of America – New Party – ACORN – SEIU
by Andrew Marcus, Big Government:
When a candidate of the Democratic or Republican parties is successfully elected President of the United States, it is widely accepted that by virtue of being the highest elected office holder in the party, they are the “leader” of their respective party.
Why would it be any different when it comes to President Obama’s leadership role in his other political party, the Working Families Party?
If the President and his other party are to be held to the same standard as the Republicans, Greens, and Democrats, etc.. then by all rights he should be considered the leading force or figure within the Working Families Party.
In reality, no matter how one chooses to define the President’s relationship to his other party, the relationship itself demands a close examination of its platform, background, and history, all of which the President would appear to have endorsed by accepting their nomination.
As to their platform, that topic will be covered in greater detail in future posts. This entry is going to focus on the historical roots and background of the Working Families Party.
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AP: On further review, ObamaCare could cover abortions
by Ed Morrissey, HOT AIR:
It only took the Associated Press six weeks after Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!”, but they finally have reported that Barack Obama told a whopper in his joint speech to Congress — and that Democrats have lied all along about abortion and ObamaCare. Even at that, they bury the lead on the story several paragraphs into an analysis of the debate among Democrats on abortion funding, although not far enough for Life News to miss it:[...]
Experimental Data Force Researchers to Admit There’s “No Such Thing As Junk RNA”
ENV:
Originally, proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution lauded “junk” DNA as functionless genetic garbage that showed life is the result of blind and random mutational events. Then “junk” DNA was disproved by the discovery that the vast majority of DNA is being transcribed into RNA. Did the failure of this Darwinian assumption cause evolutionists to terminate their love affair with biological “junk”? Of course not. They just shifted their argument back, claiming that the cell is full of “junk RNA”—DNA that is being transcribed into RNA but still does nothing in the cell. Earlier this year we reported on a Nature paper suggesting function for “junk” RNA. Now a Science Daily NewsArticle is confirming that finding. Aptly titled “No Such Thing As ‘Junk RNA,’ Say Researchers,” the article reports that very small strands of RNA termed “usRNAs” (unusually small RNAs) perform important functions related to gene regulation.
Once again, the Darwinian “junk” mindset seems to have held back such discoveries …
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Waging diplomatic war
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST:
If, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, diplomacy is war by other means, then just as armies are called upon to concentrate their efforts and resources where they can do the most good for their cause, so governments must utilize their diplomatic resources – whether plentiful or scarce – to advance their most important national interests.
The Palestinians and the Iranians have formidable diplomatic resources at their disposal. Both the Palestinians and Iran can expect to receive the support of automatic majorities at the UN for everything they do. And today most international diplomacy is conducted under the aegis of the UN or its affiliated bodies. Understanding their strength, the Palestinians and the Iranians use the UN and its affiliated organs to advance their most important goals. In the Palestinians’ case, UN-based diplomacy is used to delegitimize Israel. In the Iranian case, UN-based diplomacy is used to facilitate the mullocracy’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Over the past week, both the Palestinians and the Iranians enjoyed strategic victories in their diplomatic campaigns.
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America’s Obama Obsession
By Victor Davis Hanson:
For 30 months the nation has been in the grip of a certain Obama obsession, immune to countervailing facts, unwilling to face reality, and loath to break the spell. But like all trances, the fit is passing, and we the patient are beginning to appreciate how the stupor came upon us, why it lifted, and what its consequences have been.
Barack Obama was elected rather easily because, in perfect-storm fashion, five separate trends coalesced last autumn.1) Obama was eloquent, young, charismatic — and African-American. He thus offered voters a sense of personal and collective redemption, as well as appealing to the longing for another JFK New Frontier figure. An image, not necessarily reality, trumped all.
2) After the normal weariness with eight years of an incumbent party and the particular unhappiness with Bush, the public was amenable to an antithesis. Bush was to be scapegoat, and Obama the beginning of the catharsis.
3) Obama ran as both a Clintonite centrist and a no-red-state/no-blue-state healer who had transcended bitter partisanship. That assurance allowed voters to believe that his occasional talk of big change was more cosmetic than radical.
4) John McCain ran a weak campaign that neither energized his base nor appealed to crossover independents. McCain turned off conservatives; many failed to give money, and some even stayed home on election day. Meanwhile, the media and centrists who used to idolize McCain’s non-conservative, maverick status found Obama the more endearing non-conservative maverick.
5) The September 2008 financial panic turned voters off Wall Street and the wealthy, and allowed them to connect unemployment and their depleted home equity and 401(k) retirement plans with incumbent Republicans. In contrast, they assumed that Obama, as the anti-Bush, would not do more bailouts, more stimuli, and more big borrowing.
Take away any one of those factors, and Obama might well have lost.
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UN: International Law has “Absolute Authority”
Joseph Klein, FrontPage:
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, told reporters at UN headquarters during his October 20th press briefing that criminal detainees are “vulnerable” people who need to be protected by a new UN treaty devoted just to the rights of detainees. He said that detainees deserved as much protection by the international community as children and the disabled do — which those groups already receive under the separate UN Conventions devoted just to them.
Presumably, terrorist suspect detainees would also be covered under this new treaty that Nowak is proposing. In fact, he reiterated his opinion – based, he said, on his experience as an international jurist – that the “victims” of rendition and detention are entitled to “adequate reparations”.
But that is not all. In response to my question whether the United Nations’ view of international law would trump a contrary decision by the highest court of a functioning democracy with an independent judiciary such as the United States, Nowak said that international law has “absolute priority.” His rationale was that a UN member state that voluntarily decides to sign and ratify a treaty is bound by the obligations of that treaty.
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This recession just became a depression [UK]
Edmund Conway, Telegraph [UK]:
It is difficult to know what to be most shocked by in the gross domestic product figures published by the Office for National Statistics this morning: the fact that we are in the longest-lasting deepest continuous recession in recorded history or that no-one in the City foresaw it*.
Leaving aside the City’s failings, with which we are intimately familiar, the scale of the economic collapse is disturbing. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research has been calling this a “depression” rather than a recession for some time – these figures surely now underline such a description.
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Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
By ALLAN H. MELTZER, WSJ:
The United States is headed toward a new financial crisis. History gives many examples of countries with high actual and expected money growth, unsustainable budget deficits, and a currency expected to depreciate. Unless these countries made massive policy changes, they ended in crisis. We will escape only if we act forcefully and soon.
As long ago as the 1960s, then French President Charles de Gaulle complained that the U.S. had the “exorbitant privilege” of financing its budget deficit by issuing more dollars. Massive purchases of dollar debt by foreigners can of course delay the crisis, but today most countries have their own deficits to finance. It is unwise to expect them, mainly China, to continue financing up to half of ours for the next 10 or more years. Our current and projected deficits are too large relative to current and prospective world saving to rely on that outcome.
Worse, banks’ idle reserves that are available for lending reached $1 trillion last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said repeatedly in the past that excess reserves would run down when banks and other financial companies repaid their heavy short-term borrowing to the Fed. The borrowing has been repaid but idle reserves have increased. Once banks begin to expand loans or finance even more of the massive deficits, money growth will rise rapidly and the dollar will sink to new lows. Do we have to wait for a crisis before we replace promises with effective restraint?
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White House Tactics Go Too Far
By Charles Krauthammer:
Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’ bed.
Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.
The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a news station.” And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to “be led (by) and following Fox.”
Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration — from exposing White House czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 “truther” to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health care legislation — the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry — finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.
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How to catch a thief in Toronto
Lorne Gunter:
There are so many things wrong in the case of David Chen, it’s hard to know where to begin. Mr. Chen is the Toronto grocer who back in May performed a citizen’s arrest on a serial thief, but now faces charges of assault, kidnapping and forcible confinement for his actions. Let’s start, though, with the aspect of this case that grinds my nerves the most: Crown prosecutors made a plea bargain with Anthony Bennett, the thief, in return for his testimony against Mr. Chen.
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J Street’s Ben-Ami On Zionism and Military Aid to Israel
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal lobbying group J Street is the man of the moment: The group’s upcoming conference in Washington has become a source of great controversy for many reasons. I interviewed Ben-Ami yesterday by telephone, and here is an edited transcript of our conversation. In our talk, he showed that he learned a bit about triangulation during his years in the Clinton White House. He declared himself a Zionist; condemned the book “The Israel Lobby”; called America’s military aid package to Israel untouchable; and told me he hopes his group angers the non-Zionist left by staking out mainstream Jewish positions on Israel and the peace process — “I hope that we have a very strong left flank that attacks us.”
Jeffrey Goldberg: Let’s just go right to the Stephen Walt question. Why do you think Walt (the co-author of the book “The Israel Lobby”) likes J Street?
Jeremy Ben-Ami: I don’t know and I don’t care. One of the reasons why I won’t answer your call to quote-unquote renounce him is that it really smacks of witch-hunts and thought-police. It’s not my business to “renounce.”
JG: Witch-hunt? How is it a witch-hunt to argue that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer blame the organized American Jewish community for starting the Iraq War and even helping cause 9/11? It’s a statement of fact, it’s in their book. I would think that when you have an organization, like you do, one of the ways you define yourself is by saying what you do and don’t stand for–
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WH to Congress: Czars won’t meet with Congress because Fox wants it
by Ed Morrissey, HOT AIR:
Barack Obama campaigned on changing the culture of Washington to bring more openness, transparency, and accountability to the Beltway. Yesterday, Congress discovered that change actually meant going in the other direction. The White House informed Congress that it would not make its policy czars available for testimony before Congress, setting up a potential showdown between the two branches of government:
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When tyranny calls
By Joseph Ashby, AT:
In explanation for her “yes” vote on the Max Baucus created health care bill, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe said:
“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls.”
Senator Snowe is probably right. History is calling. What she has wrong is history’s message. History is calling with the warning that tyranny is at our doorstep.
The tyranny that threatens us is not the same brand as the violent police states of the 20th century. Tyranny in America will look more like the misguided utopianism that has taken England from being the greatest, freest nation on earth to the frail remains of a world power it is today.
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The End Game of the Left
By Andrew Thomas, AT:
Tax the rich,
Feed the poor,
‘Til there are no
Rich no more.
- “I’d Love to Change the World”
Ten Years After (1971)Over the Columbus Day weekend, my wife and I traveled to Brooklyn, N.Y. to visit our daughter and her boyfriend. I was strictly admonished by my wife not to talk politics during the visit, since my daughter’s boyfriend is a radical leftist. He, being a well-educated social science buff, and I, being who I am (a well-educated “right-wing nut job”), we had created many spectacular fireworks during past political debate sessions.
Things went well up until Sunday afternoon, when we were both seated on the couch benignly watching a football game on his 60″ television screen. During a commercial break, there was a news announcement concerning another New York City tax increase. Before I could catch myself, I blurted out the Ten Years After lyric at the top of this article.
It was as though I had hit his “ON” button. He immediately jumped off the couch and started screaming, “That’s RIGHT! That’s EXACTLY RIGHT!”
I replied, “But shouldn’t the lyric be “Til there are no poor no more’? Isn’t that true social justice?”
He stated with utmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world’s misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible.
“Then you want everyone to live in poverty?” I queried.
“Absolutely,” he replied.
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Glenn Beck Clips 10-22-09 Seg1- Poll: 1st Time More People Disagree with Obama Than Agree
Glenn Beck Clips 10-22-09 Seg2- Glenn Gets Phone Call From WH Insider Revealing Information!
Glenn Beck Clips 10-22-09 Seg3- We Need a Hundred ‘Mr Smith Goes To Washington’ People
Glenn Beck Clips 10-22-09 Seg4- Government Run Programs Are Almost ALWAYS Budget Overruns
Glenn Beck Clips 10-22-09 Seg5- LA FBI Tells Limbaugh Caller To Watch Glenn Beck Show
Persecution and Prayer Alert
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No matter where The Voice of the Martyrs ministers, the first request of persecuted Christians is almost always the same: “Pray for us.” Answer that request by joining The Voice of the Martyrs in praying for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. Sign up today to receive specific, up-to-date prayer requests by email every Wednesday through the Persecution and Prayer Alert. To subscribe, click here. Eritrean church leader’s home raided, ten arrested
According to Open Doors Switzerland, ten more Christians were arrested last week after Eritrean security forces raided the home of Pastor Tewelde Hailom, the founding elder of the Full Gospel Church in Asmara. According to the report, three people were arrested on October 14. Seven others were taken into custody two days later. Pastor Hailom, who is suffering from an ulcer, was taken to prison, but remains under house arrest. It is unknown at this time where the ten believers, including two women, are being detained. Please pray for their release. Pray that they will have courage in the face of the hardship that they will be facing. Pray for their families during this time of uncertainty over the fate of their loved ones. For more information on the severe persecution facing Christians in Eritrea, go to the Eritrea Country Report. Church bombed in Ukraine
In the early morning of October 14, a crude homemade bomb was thrown into the Calvary Chapel church building in Kaharlyk, Ukraine. The building is also the residence of Pastor Wayne Zschech and his family. At approximately 7:00 a.m., Pastor Zschech’s wife awoke to the smell of smoke. Fire officials were called to the scene where they put out the blaze, which caused minor damage to the building. The six people asleep in the church at the time of the attack escaped without injury. The assailants spray painted “Out with Sects” and “OYH,” an abbreviated name for a Ukrainian Nationalist movement, on the church wall. Pastor Zschech later stated, “We pray that the Lord would call people to salvation and that He would build up His body. We rejoice in being chosen worthy to suffer for the sake of our Lord and His Gospel. We do also pray for safety but hold this prayer out with open hands.” For more details on this story, visit Pastor Zschech’s blog. Thank God that no one was hurt in this attack. Pray that the perpetrators of this attack will be brought to justice and come to faith in Christ. You can show your support for members of this church by posting a prayer on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall. Update: Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy appears in court
To find out how you can stand in solidarity with this family, click here. Update: Ten more Christians from China’s Fushan Church arrested
Church members of the Fushan Church in Linfen City, China continue to face detention and intimidation from Public Security Bureau officials, according to an October 18 report from ChinaAid. On October 10, officials offered to release ten church leaders who were arrested in late September following an attack on their church site (click here for more information), on the condition that one of the female leaders be held until further notice. The leaders refused to leave behind Pastor Yang Rongli, stating, “We are one team in the one body of Christ! We won’t leave her behind alone. We will not leave prison without her.” The officials then arrested Pastor Yang’s youngest sister, Yang Linli, and ransacked another pastor’s home. On October 11, ten more church members were arrested. Officials blamed Pastor Yang for the raids and arrests, and threatened the leaders with further violence if they did not comply with their orders. Yang Linli was finally released on October 16 and ordered to not petition on behalf of her sister or the other detained Christians and cease further “illegal activities.” Pastor Yang and another church leader, Hua Mei, were then formally accused of “illegal building and disturbing the social order by organizing masses.” The next day, five other church leaders were sentenced to criminal detention. Three have since been released on parole. At last report, nine Christians remain in detention and the whereabouts of the ten Christians detained on October 11 remain unknown. Update: Chinese pastor released
Pastor Hua Huiqi, who was arrested by officials on September 17 (read the story), was released on October 10, according to an October 12 report from ChinaAid. He was not physically mistreated during his detention in a secret location. Upon his release, however, officials reportedly threatened to harm his 13-year-old daughter if he “caused any trouble.” Pastor Hua, who is recovering at home, has urged the international community to continue praying for his ailing Christian mother, Shuang Shuying, who has also faced imprisonment. He has also requested prayer for his dying brother, Hua Huilin. Pray for the Persecuted Church this November!
To find out more and to download special IDOP 2009 resources such as prayer points, Bible references and children’s materials, go to www.idop.ca. Or if you live outside Canada, go to www.idop.org. In this week’s VOMC weblog (www.persecution.net/weblog.htm)Join the growing number of Christians who follow VOMC’s Persecuted Church Weblog regularly. Here are a few of the recent posts by our staff: a) Be inspired and challenged by the faith of persecuted Christians in the past in our regular weekly post, “This week in persecuted church history (October 11-17).” (Posted October 18)
c) Glenn Penner asks “Why can’t we just pray on a ‘Day of Prayer?’” in regards to the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. (Posted October 16) d) Read from the inspirational writings of Richard Wurmbrand and Wong Ming-Dao in our new blog series, “From the pen of the persecuted.” (Posted October 15 & 19) e) Glenn takes us through a study of Philippians 2 in “Rights: Real but not grasped.” (Posted October 20) Throughout the week, we also post updates on incidents of persecution and suggestions/invitations on how you can respond and show your solidarity with your suffering brothers and sisters. Be sure to check out www.persecutedchurchblog.com daily! |
Asia Bibi (37), a woman arrested for blasphemy in Pakistan’s Punjab province on June 19 after she and several Muslim women had a heated discussion about Islam (
On November 8, Christians around the world will join together for the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) to uphold those suffering for their Christian faith. Can you devote some special time in prayer for the persecuted this year? Whether you take part as a church, a group or simply spend time in personal prayer, your prayers will be a powerful way to remember those suffering for their Christian witness.
b) You are encouraged to remember to “Continue to pray for Christians kidnapped in Yemen in July.” (Posted October 18)Obama Hits Opponents With Chicago Brass Knuckles
Michael Barone, Townhall:
“His father was a great friend of my father.” The reference to William Ayers’ father was how Mayor Richard M. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for his association with the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist. Daley’s father, of course, was Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death in 1976. Ayers’ father was head of Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago-based utility, from 1964 to 1980.
You bet they were great friends. That’s governance, Chicago style. The head of government is friends with the heads of every big business, lobby and union, and together they make decisions on how everyone else will live. Those on the inside get what they want. Those on the outside — well, they get what the big guys want them to have. That’s life in the big city.
It’s not the worst way to run a city. I know — I’m from Detroit, which might be better off if it had mayors named Daley for 41 of the last 54 years. But it’s not the optimal way to run a national administration, at least if you’ve promised to bring in a new era of bipartisanship and mutual respect. Even so, it appears to be the way that Barack Obama, who once aspired to be mayor of Chicago, has decided to run his administration.
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All the President’s Mao
By Mac Fuller, AT:
President Obama and “the other side of Barack’s brain,” Valerie Jarrett — whose stepfather coincidentally maintained close ties with the President’s adolescent mentor and Communist, Frank Marshall Davis — handpicked the following bureaucrats and placed them in positions of great authority, power, and visibility:
Van Jones, “Green Jobs Czar,” self-defined Communist.
Ron Bloom, “Manufacturing Czar” cites Chairman Mao as a political guide.
Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, who stated in an address to high school students this past June that Chairman Mao Tse-tung was one of the two “philosophers” she most often turns to.
President Obama handpicked and placed the Socialists and socialist sympathizers in positions of great authority and visibility:
Carol Browner, Director, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, an ardent Socialist activist and one of 14 leaders of Socialist International’s, “Commission for a Sustainable World Society,” which calls for “global governance.”
Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Administration and Regulatory Affairs , “who openly argues for bringing socialism to the United States, and even lends support for communism….”
How many others, handpicked by Mr. Obama and Ms. Jarrett, are there?
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Obama Effect already working to embargo Fox News story
Ray Robison, AT:
Yesterday, Fox News reported the hearings held by Senator Joe Lieberman with cabinet officials concerning a shortage of flu vaccine. I’m sitting in Afghanistan not getting much broadcast TV news. I wanted to find out more, so I searched Google News for related articles. It turns out that as of this writing, the rest of the media is not reporting this event, at least in print.
Try this. Go to the Google search page, click on the “News” tab. Now enter “Joe Lieberman”.
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This is clear evidence that the White House is targeting Fox News for reporting straight stories that could damage the administration and in doing so it has scared the rest of the national media off of the story. And it is working all too well.
Welcome to the World of Newspeak
By Janet Levy, AT:
In George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” Newspeak refers to language designed by a totalitarian regime to control thought and make subversive speech impossible. It destroyed words with prohibited meanings so that heretical thoughts couldn’t be expressed. A form of censorship, Newspeak employed euphemisms and words deliberately opposite the reality they described. For example, “joycamp” was the term assigned to forced-labor camps. The “Ministry of Truth” was in actuality an organ of disinformation.
Newspeak was created to institute thought control and thereby exert political control through restrictive changes to the language. The term is now commonly used to refer to attempts to obscure the truth, especially in political rhetoric which abounds with instances of it. For example, President Obama’s administration has officially replaced “terrorism” with the phrase “man-caused disasters.” Terrorist activity, such as suicide bombings perpetuated by Al Qaeda and other Islamic groups, is now benignly called “anti-Islamic acts.” In abortion debates, the taking of a human life is reframed as a “woman’s right to choose.”
Newspeak usage also crops up in legislation with titles that are the exact opposite of a bill’s intent.
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We’re All Balloon Boys Now
Jay Nordlinger, NRO:
Barack Obama is pretty interesting when he gets in front of his money-givers — his biggest fans, I guess. In New York, he said, “Democrats are an opinionated bunch. You know, the other side, they just kinda sometimes do what they’re told. Democrats, y’all thinkin’ for yourselves.” Last year, in San Francisco, he said of Middle Americans, “It’s not surprising . . . they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them . . .”
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I remember the kids when I was in college: They would just nod at everything their professors and teaching assistants said — and all those professors and TAs, of course, were on the left. The kids might have had a “Question Authority” bumper sticker somewhere. But they never did. They were awfully unquestioning. By their disposition, if it was in the New York Times, it was true. If it was in National Review, it was not true — plus, dangerous, crazy, racist, etc.Most of the kids who really thought for themselves were right-leaning — and it cost them something to express their views. Cost them something in social acceptance, grades, and so on. I admired these guys, even before I joined their ranks.
By the way, which side imposed speech codes on campus? Liberals or conservatives? Not conservatives, that’s for sure. If liberals are such a noisy, rowdy, opinionated, pluralistic, uncontainable bunch — how come they’re for speech codes, for shutting down the other side?
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Terror Arrests and the “Misunderstood” Religion
by Nonie Darwish, FrontPage:
Today we have yet another terror-related arrest of a Muslim, Tarek Mehanna, who was plotting jihad terror attacks against U.S. shopping malls. But Americans are told to never link that to Islamic teachings.
Committed Muslims insist that Islam is misunderstood by the West. Sensitivity training to Islam is forced upon U.S. government employees and teachers. They are told that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, implying that if they believe their eyes, ears and common sense, then they must be Islamophobes.
Muslim propaganda is cleverly wrapped in illogical strategies to get the Westerners confused about their own perceptions of Islam. For centuries Muslims lived with unchallenged, warped logic regarding their religion. Instead of examining non-Muslim fear of Muslim violence and oppression encouraged by Muslim scriptures, Muslims are trained to regard such complaints as an attack Islam itself.
I have no doubt in my mind that when Dalia Mogahed, White House advisor on Islamic issues, really means it when says that Sharia is misunderstood. Like her, early in my life as a Muslim, I believed the same. That is how we were trained to accept our destiny under Sharia which turned us into robots ruled by fear, intimidation and warped logic.
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Controversial New Collection Highlights Berlinski’s Dismantling of the Facade of Scientific Overconfidence
Evolution News and Views:
What do Discover magazine, The London Gazette, The Wichita Eagle, Commentary, Forbes, The Weekly Standard and UC Berkeley’s student paper, The Daily Californian, all have in common? They are just some of the publications that have published an essay or opinion piece by David Berlinski in the past 15 years. And those pieces are among 32 of Berlinski’s finest finally collected together in one volume: The Deniable Darwin.
Berlinski, there is little argument, is a skeptic’s skeptic — the last of a dying breed. Lately it seems that everywhere one looks there is someone with the answer to everything. There are precious few true skeptics left, and Berlinski is certainly in the top rank in regards to the sciences.
When it comes to some of life’s most profound questions — the origins of life, of matter, of the universe itself — does modern science already have everything all figured out? Many scientists would like us to think they are mere steps away from solving all the deep enigmas of physical existence.
Consummate skeptic David Berlinski shows without that all such confidence is at best a bluff.
In essays about evolution using humor and wit, Berlinski shows how lost today’s scientists really are.His new book, The Deniable Darwin, frees us from the superstition of preening scientism and illuminates the path to a renewal of real science.
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Who Else Has Obama Endorsed?
To whom can America turn in these troubled times, as Hope and Change appear to be foundering? We can turn to Obama for answers!
Having explained to us that Fox News cannot be trusted, Obama has taken the additional and important step of endorsing certain pundits, opinion leaders, and “journalists” as President Approved. Who is on the honor roll:
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