Hal Lindsey – We Aim to Appease!
Hal Lindsey – First Forbids Freedom?
Enough Already – Just Move the UN to Iran
Claudia Rosett, PJMedia:
Last week, when Iran withdrew its candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, I got messages from a number of folks who were almost sorry to see Iran drop out of the race. That’s not because they like Iran’s regime. It’s because seating Iran on the rotten Human Rights Council would have been an act so grotesque that anyone could grasp the problems with the Council – much as Libya chairing the old Human Rights Commission in 2003 served to discredit that rotten body once and for all.
Well, for all those who were disappointed that Iran’s regime will not become the convenient poster-child for the UN’s travesty of a Human Rights Council, there’s a carnival of cold comfort ahead.
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The Truth about the Redgraves and the ’60s Left: Kudos to journalist Nick Cohen
Ron Radosh, PJMedia:
There is no better précis of how the Left thinks about the world, and acts on it, than the British journalist Nick Cohen’s article appearing in the new issue of Standpoint. Cohen writes a candid appraisal of what left-wing politics did to the mind and life of the late actor Corin Redgrave, brother of the more famous Vanessa, who like her brother, is a lifetime member of a small fanatic Trotskyist sect, the Workers Revolutionary Party, led by a man named Gerry Healy. The group was so fanatic that it accused Trotsky’s American followers of having been responsible for his murder in Mexico, ignoring all the evidence that it was an NKVD operation orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
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Republicans, Democrats & Israel
By Caroline Glick:
Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has become a minority position among Democrats.
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Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card
By Alexander Bolton:
A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.
Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.
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So if Arizona asks for proof of legal status from a potential illegal that’s termed ‘nazism’ but Democrats want all legal workers to be forced to carry biometric ID cards!?
Obama’s politically correct ‘leadership’ invites military disasters
By: Jed Babbin, Washington Examiner:
Congressional liberals and their amen media chorus often proclaim President Obama a great leader, but the most important nations — and a principled few among our senior military leaders — have declined to follow.
A leader has to inspire confidence and earn loyalty. His success is defined not by the newspapers who laud him, but by his ability to gain the support of skeptics and concessions from adversaries to achieve his goals.
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“Bigotgate” and the British Election
by Jacob Laksin, FrontPage:
Elitism can be a dangerous thing in politics, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has imperiled both his reelection campaign and the fortunes of his Labor Party after a particularly unflattering demonstration of it.
The British media has dubbed it “Bigotgate.” In one of those unscripted moments that so often spells political suicide, Brown this week suffered a ruinous encounter with a Labor Party voter in the working-class mill town of Rochdale. In the course of meeting “ordinary voters” – part of an electoral strategy designed to make the famously brooding prime minister seem more people-friendly and accessible – Brown paused to talk with one Gillian Duffy. As a 65-year-old widow and lifelong Labor voter, Duffy might have seemed just the kind of constituent Brown needs to burnish his credentials with the average British voter.
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After three millennia in exile, Bnei Menashe lost tribe heads home
Times [UK]:
When Tzvi Khaute landed at Tel Aviv for the first time, he wanted to kiss the earth. Alas, the modern airport was all tarmac and stone, so he kissed the first soil he came across, in a flowerpot. Thousands of diaspora Jews from around the world make aliyah — the migration to Israel — every year, but for Tzvi and his fellow Tibeto-Burmese immigrants from the far northeast of India, the journey was particular freighted with symbolism. They believe they are descendants of one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, sent into exile by the Assyrians almost 800 years before the Romans destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.
About 1,700 members of the Bnei Menashe tribe — the Sons of Manasseh, one of the original 12 biblical tribes of Israel — have migrated to Israel, completing what they believe is an extraordinary, 2,700-year exile that took them from the Middle East seven centuries before the Christian era, through Afghanistan, China, Burma and India, before they heard that a new state of Israel had been created 62 years ago.
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May Day, May Day
By Robin of Berkeley, AT:
I’ve never been big on holidays. Growing up Jewish, my family didn’t celebrate Christmas or Easter. And being secular, we didn’t do much for the Jewish holidays either. Since arriving in Berkeley decades ago, one of the few holidays I’ve enjoyed is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day.
As you can imagine, IWD is a popular day around these parts. In fact, it’s an official city holiday. Along with Malcolm X’s Birthday, Indigenous People’s Day, and International Women’s Day, the school kiddies and the city rank and file get the day off. Even some popular places, like Berkeley’s Cheese Board Collective, close in observance.
I considered it a great honor to celebrate May Day, which represents all things Marxist. My deep and exhaustive knowledge of Communism was limited to the movies, for instance, “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and “Reds.” Warren Beattie and Diane Keaton appeared so courageous and passionate in “Reds,” and the guy playing Che was hecka hot. Anyway, Hollywood wouldn’t mislead us, would they?
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The Terrorist-Loving Left Is Trying To Destroy Me: Radical-Turned-Hero Brandon Darby on the G. Gordon Liddy Show
by Matthew Vadum, BG:
The hardcore haters of the criminal left don’t forgive – and they don’t forget.
Ever since he saved the lives of who-knows-how-many Americans by thwarting the planned fire-bombing of the 2008 Republican convention by left-wing terrorists, Brandon Darby’s been a target.
Left-wing activists have tried to destroy Darby in the court of public opinion. It’s standard operating procedure when you become an informant and turn against the terrorist left, he says.
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Roubini: Debt Crisis Will Spark Defaults, Higher Inflation
By: Dan Weil, NEWSMAX:
The exploding government debt burden in nations ranging from Greece, to the United States, to Japan will end in government defaults or higher inflation, says New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.
“The bond vigilantes are walking out on Greece, Spain, Portugal, the U.K. and Iceland,” Roubini said at a recent conference, Bloomberg reports.
[...]If the debt problems aren’t solved soon, nations will either default on their government debt or monetize them by printing money, which would create inflation, he maintains.
“Greece is just the tip of the iceberg, or the canary in the coal mine for a much broader range of fiscal problems.”
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Oil slick poses political peril for Obama
By Joseph Curl, Washington Times:
The rapidly expanding environmental catastrophe caused by the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is presenting a growing political challenge to the Obama White House, with Mr. Obama and his aides at pains to defend the response and forestall comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
Nine days after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew apart and began spewing 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, a massive oil slick is set to wash ashore on the southern coast Thursday evening and, experts say, could dwarf the damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Failure to get control of the relief effort and contain the environmental challenge could pose the same kind of political threat to Mr. Obama’s popular standing that the much-criticized handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina did for former President George W. Bush. And unlike Katrina, it is likely the federal government will be the clear lead authority in dealing with the BP spill.
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Oslo Journal, Part II
by Jay Nordlinger:
Welcome to the second installment of these jottings from the Oslo Freedom Forum, here in the historic, smart Norwegian capital. Part I appeared on Monday: here. Sorry for the long delay between installments. With that delay in mind, should I just wade in, without further prelude?
One morning, there is a press conference, featuring a slew of Freedom Forum speakers — about a dozen of them. Most have stood up for human rights in their countries (as well as all over), and paid a serious price for it. These people are amazingly, almost shamingly brave. Let me discuss just a few of them — though each of them deserves a long piece all to himself.
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Obama’s stealth attack on our legal foundations
Walt Elgin, AT:
Bowing to foreign power was not just a matter of misplaced etiquette. As its creeping socialism morphs into a quirky gallop, Obama’s State Department is supporting an International Criminal Court (ICC) with jurisdiction over what has always been sovereign U.S. powers:
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New Group, Keep Israel Safe, Launches with Hard-hitting Ad
BY John McCormack, Weekly Standard:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained an advance copy of a web ad with which a new organization, Keep Israel Safe, is launching in the near future. Keep Israel Safe is obviously patterned after Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe (of which—full disclosure!—the boss is a director). Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the video resembles some of KAS’s successful ads. It will be interesting to see who’s behind this new pro-Israel effort. For now, if you go to KeepIsraelSafe.com, you get a notice that the website is coming soon (within the next 24 hours, I’m told).
Watch the group’s first web ad:
Spencer interview: Is Obama a Muslim?
Posted by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch:
Here is part 3 of my interview Monday with NYC ITV, in which I answer the Question That Won’t Die. You can access all of the segments of the interview here (they’re on the lower right).
Telling the truth about abortion in Oklahoma
Jeannie DeAngelis, AT:
In an effort to provide the tools to make an informed decision before murdering an unborn child a new law in Oklahoma requires women undergo a sonogram. During the pre-abortion procedure the Oklahoma law also requires the attending physicians turn the screen toward the woman, and describe fetal size, weight and facts such as, “number of fingers and toes and heart activity.”
Detractors claim the law so traumatizes women that, according to Linda Meek, director of one of Tulsa’s more fashionable abortion mills, “Not one patient would look at the screen and they all closed their eyes or turned their heads.”
A woman being unwilling to look at a blob of cells on a sonogram screen is certainly a puzzling reaction because, since Roe v. Wade raised public awareness, everybody knows it’s a “choice” not a child.
Abortion rights organizations are protesting the law claiming it provides no exemption for the less than 2% of women desiring to terminate a pregnancy due to rape (1%) and incest (<0.5%). Female reproductive advocates claim the mandatory sonogram adds additional suffering to innocent victims of violence. Presenting once again, the question as to how violence is eradicated by sentencing the innocent to the violence of abortion?
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The Big Alienation
By PEGGY NOONAN:
The American president has the power to control America’s borders if he wants to, but George W. Bush and Barack Obama did not and do not want to, and for the same reason, and we all know what it is. The fastest-growing demographic in America is the Hispanic vote, and if either party cracks down on illegal immigration, it risks losing that vote for generations.
But while the Democrats worry about the prospects of the Democrats and the Republicans about the well-being of the Republicans, who worries about America?
No one. Which the American people have noticed, and which adds to the dangerous alienation—actually it’s at the heart of the alienation—of the age.
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House Approves Puerto Rico Statehood Measure
FOXNews.com:
The House voted Thursday to allow Puerto Ricans to change the island’s commonwealth status, in what critics are saying is a backdoor attempt to force Puerto Ricans into choosing U.S. statehood — something Puerto Rican voters already have rejected three times.
The bill, which passed 223-169 and now must be taken up by the Senate, would introduce a two-step ballot measure for Puerto Rico to decide if its residents want to change their current relationship with the United States. If they vote to change their status, they can then choose to become a state, pursue independence, or seek some other “political association between sovereign nations.”
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said that while Puerto Rico doesn’t need congressional authorization to hold such a nonbinding vote, the bill could be a game-changer — part of a plan, he said, to give the island’s progressive activists “legitimacy” in a push toward statehood. Chaffetz suggested it was part of an effort to bring more Democrats into Congress.
“That’s what some of us who understand this bill are so just frightened about,” Chaffetz told radio and Fox News host Glenn Beck. “The majority of people in Puerto Rico don’t even necessarily want this.”
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Beware of Greeks bearing debts
Terence Corcoran, National Post:
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The biggest changes are going to land on the Greek government and the Greek people. An OECD report ranks Greece, riddled with bureaucracy, as the worst place to do business in Europe. It also has the most heavily regulated product markets among developed nations. Its social programs, labour markets, pension burdens and information technology sectors are among the worst in Europe. The OECD says government-owned state enterprises, an unproductive group of 74 heavily politicized firms, “act as a major drag on the government budget” and on national productivity.
A lot rides on Greece revamping its political and economic affairs. If Greece cannot get its Trojan debt horse back on track, the future of much more than Greece is at stake and becomes unpredictably dangerous.
Game over: UN elects Iran to its commission on … women’s rights
by Allahpundit, HOT AIR:
I think Neda would have wanted it this way, don’t you?
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women,” according to its website.
This is the same group whose Human Rights Council includes luminaries like China and Saudi Arabia. See now why Ahmadinejad always includes a passage in his annual speech about expanding the number of permanent members in the Security Council or giving more power to the General Assembly? In the interest of “equality,” there’s no laugh test for exerting influence at the UN. The task for its more cretinous members is simply to extend that principle to the real levers of power. Because Iran’s all about equality, you see.
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Obama denies individual assistance for CT storm victims
David Jeffers, AT:
On Inauguration Day 2009, Barack Obama slammed the outgoing President for the “Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina.”No doubt the mainstream media will pick up the regional story coming out of Connecticut where Mr. Obama “has denied aid to individuals affected by March’s massive storms.”
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Without a doubt the White House Press Corps will question why the Obama Administration is not meeting the needs of individuals in their time of personal tragedy.
Actually, none of that will happen because Gov. Rell is a Republican.
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I reported this yesterday but I failed to note the state governor is a Republican.
From pro-Israel to anti-Israel apologist
By ISI LEIBLER, J’POST:
Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has emerged as one of the leading Jewish apologists for President Barack Obama in his confrontation with the Israeli government.
With the American public now beginning to express resentment of the anti-Israeli tilt adopted by the Obama administration, Indyk has been intensifying his attacks on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, blaming him for the crisis and slandering him as an instrument of extremist nationalist elements.
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The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
http://www.persecution.net
Thursday, April 29, 2010
A weekly news and prayer digest on the Persecuted Church.
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In this week’s edition: reports from Nigeria and Bangladesh, with
updates from Pakistan, Egypt and Iran.
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1. Christians killed by Muslim youths in Jos, Nigeria
Seven people were killed by Muslim youths on April 24 in Jos, Nigeria.
Thirty-six year old Nathan S. Dabak, an assistant editor, and
39-year-old Sunday Gyang Bwede, a reporter, were on their way to
interview a local politician in Gado-Bako when they were attacked by
youths who stabbed them to death. Both men were journalists for “The
Light Bearer,” a newspaper published by the Church of Christ in
Nigeria. An unidentified motorcyclist was also killed in the attack.
Only weeks ago, a pastor of the same church was murdered along with
his wife in Bauchi state (see
http://www.persecution.net/ng-2010-04-22.htm
for more information).
Four other Christians were murdered on the same day in Dutse Uku
district following the discovery of the body of a teenage Muslim who
had gone missing. The believers, three of whom were stabbed, were
killed when hundreds of Muslim youths rampaged throughout the area in
protest. (Source: Compass Direct)
Pray for the family members and friends mourning the loss of these
believers. Pray that, as sufferings overflow, their comfort in Christ
will be more than enough for them (2 Corinthians 1:5). Ask God to
change the hearts and minds of the Muslim youths who perpetrated this
violence. Pray for lasting peace in Nigeria. To post a prayer of
solidarity with mourning believers in Nigeria, go to
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall
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To find out more about persecution in Nigeria, please visit
http://www.persecution.net/nigeria.htm
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2. Christians held captive in Bangladesh
Three tribal Christians are being held captive at a pagoda in
Lemuchari village, Khagrachari district, Bangladesh by Buddhist
members of an armed rebel group and their sympathizers. The three
Christians — Pastor Shushil Jibon Talukder (55), Bimol Kanti Chakma
(50) and Laksmi Bilas Chakma (40) — are all members of the Maddha
Lemuchari Baptist Church. They were taken to the pagoda on April 16
after being beaten in an attempt to force them to return to Buddhism.
Pastor Shushil was injured so severely that he couldn’t walk and was
taken to the pagoda on a stretcher. The Regional Sub-district Chairman
has stated, “They became Christian, and they were breaking the rules
and customs of the Buddhist society, so elders of the society were
angry with them…. That is why they were sent to a pagoda for 15 to
20 days for their spiritual enlightenment, so that they can come back
to their previous place .” The next day, armed Buddhists
seized blankets, Bibles and song books from the believers’ church
building and forced Christians to dismantle the building. (Source:
Compass Direct)
Pray for the safe release of the three believers. Pray that they will
remain steadfast in the faith (1 Peter 5:8-10). Pray that those
inflicting harm on Christians in Lemuchari village will repent and
accept Jesus as their Saviour.
For more information on the plight of believers in Bangladesh, go to
http://www.persecution.net/bangladesh.htm
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3. Update: Christian woman accused of blasphemy denied bail in
Pakistan
A Christian woman who was arrested for making derogatory remarks about
the Prophet Muhammad on March 21 in Pakistan’s Punjab province (see
http://www.persecution.net/pk-2010-04-01.htm
) has been denied bail. On April 20, a judge rejected Rubina Bibi’s
petition and instead transferred her case to the district session
judge of Wazirabad. Judges in Pakistan are often reluctant to make
decisions in such cases due to pressure from Muslims and it is not
uncommon for them to refuse bail so the case can be moved to the high
court in Lahore. At last report, Rubina was being held in prison with
her one-year-old son while the rest of her family had gone into hiding
out of concern for their lives. (Source: Centre for Legal Aid
Assistance & Settlement, ASSIST News Service)
Pray that the charges against Rubina will be dropped and that she will
be released from prison. Pray for safety and health for her family at
this time. Pray that freedom of religion and speech will be respected
in Pakistan.
To learn more about the persecuted Church in Pakistan, check out
http://www.persecution.net/pakistan.htm
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4. Update: Egyptian court rejects lawsuit to restore Christian boys’
religious identification
A lawsuit filed by the mother of 15-year-old Coptic twins, Mario and
Andrew, was rejected by an administrative judicial court on March 30
in Egypt. Camilia Lutfi filed the lawsuit against the Interior
Minister and the director of the Civil Status Department for refusing
to re-instate the Christian religion on the boys’ birth certificates.
Mario and Andrew’s certificates were changed to reflect Islam as their
religion when their father converted in 2005 (see
http://www.persecution.net/eg-2009-06-24.htm
for more information). Camilia desires to restore her sons’ identity
as Christians on their birth certificates before they turn 16 in June,
the age at which national ID cards are issued in Egypt. She fears that
if their ID cards are issued with Islam as their religious
affiliation, they will be considered apostates if they try to change
their cards to reflect their Christian faith. Mario and Andrew were
reportedly extremely disappointed with the verdict, saying “faith is
not by force, we want to remain Christians and we do not wish to
become Muslims.” (Source: Assyrian International News Agency)
Pray that Mario and Andrew’s birth certificates will be changed before
their national ID cards are issued this June. Pray that they will
rejoice in the opportunity to grow in Christlikeness through the
ongoing opposition they face (James 1:2-4). Pray for strength and
endurance for Camilia as she fights for her sons’ rights. Pray that
authorities in Egypt will respect religious freedom.
Go to http://www.persecution.net/egypt.htm
to find out more about persecution in Egypt. To watch a video
interview with Mario and Andrew, please visit http://bit.ly/9wYZAT
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5. Update: Young Christian man released from prison in Iran
Daniel Shahri, a 19-year-old Iranian Christian who was arrested by
officers in Isfahan on April 11 (see
http://www.persecution.net/ir-2010-04-22.htm
for more information), has been released on bail. Daniel has been
accused of blasphemy and spreading Christian propaganda and faces
possible court proceedings. (Source: Middle East Concern, Farsi
Christian News Network)
Pray that Daniel will know the presence and healing touch of Jesus.
Pray that the charges against him will be dropped. Pray that the
Iranian government will stop regarding Christians as being
anti-government and a threat.
For more on suffering believers in Iran, go to
http://www.persecution.net/iran.htm
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Martyrs, Canada. (Mailing address: P.O. Box 608, Streetsville,
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Contacts: Adele Konyndyk & Erin Vandenberg
Roubini: Bailout Will Fail as Greece ‘Nearly Insolvent’
By: Ellen Chang, NEWSMAX:
The bailout plan proposed by Europe for Greece “is not going to work,” said economist Nouriel Roubini.
The plan will fail since “Greece is nearly insolvent,” he says. “A restructuring of its debt is going to be necessary,” said Roubini, RGEmonitor.com chairman and NYU professor.
If the economy of Greece falls apart, it could really damage other countries such as Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, he told CNBC.
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You know the more I read about these sorts of things the more I realise no one knows what’s going to happen which reinforces my conviction that we must protect ourselves as much as possible and learn not to rely on external forces or entities to safeguard our future. It’s a no-brainer really. My default position is to be very fiscally conservative.
You Want News, Go To the Blogs, Not the In-the-Tank MSM
Posted by Pamela Geller, BJ:
A New Jersey court has ruled that bloggers are not journalists (now they’ve taken to the courts to establish this!). New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Judge Anthony J. Parrillo ruled last week that a blogger named Shellee Hale is not a journalist, and so does not enjoy the same protections that journalists do from being forced to reveal their sources.
Actually, this tool of a judge is right. For the most part, journalists today act as shills for the Democrat party. They cover up for the party’s crimes and excesses, obfuscate the effects of its disastrous policies, and propagandize for Obama’s agenda.
In that sense, bloggers are not journalists. The best bloggers aren’t shilling for Obama and Pelosi the way journalists are. Instead, bloggers are doing the heavy lifting. Who breaks the stories today? Bloggers.
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Pakistani Muslims Severely Beat, Sodomize Christian Barber
CDN:
A Christian barber in this Punjab Province city is still recovering from broken bones and other injuries sustained earlier this month after eight Muslims allegedly beat and sodomized him for cutting the beard of a Muslim.
Marwat Masih, 29, initially refused the request of 19-year-old Qandeel Cheema to cut his beard in Sargodha’s Gulshan-e-Bashir town on April 13, knowing that area Sunni Muslims believe the Quran prohibits it. But Cheema, a high school student, told Masih that he had lived and studied in Lahore and therefore wanted a more modern look, the bed-ridden and feeble Masih told Compass.
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To Comedy Central, Islam Means Submission
Clifford D. May:
What do Comedy Central and Yale University Press have in common? In the Islamist war against free speech, both have been on the front lines. And both have surrendered.
Last week, Comedy Central censored any depiction or even mention of the Prophet Mohammed from an episode of the adult cartoon series South Park. This capitulation followed a “warning” from a group calling itself “Revolution Muslim” that those responsible would “probably wind up like Theo van Gogh” — the Dutch filmmaker murdered by a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim for producing Submission, a documentary about the plight of women in Islamic societies.
Also censored by Comedy Central was a speech about intimidation and fear. Though the speech made no mention of Mohammed, the executives at Comedy Central evidently decided it might offend or anger someone — perhaps Islamists who make it their business to intimidate and frighten. Kind of comedic when you think about it, no?
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Nobel Laureates and Texas Cowboys
Victor Davis Hanson:
In politics, having power and keeping it often mean fudging a little on ideology. Conservatives sometimes persuade the country to do very liberal things — think of Richard Nixon going to China, Ronald Reagan granting a blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, or George W. Bush running big deficits. Liberals can sometimes act like conservatives without worry of being smeared by their base as heartless right-wingers — remember Bill Clinton’s agreement to sign welfare reform and put caps on federal spending.
But in matters of war, being liberal is a great advantage for a president.
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The “Collapse” of Communism
by Jamie Glazov, FrontPage:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Robert Buchar, an associate professor and author of the Cinematography Program at Columbia College in Chicago. A political refugee from former Czechoslovakia, he is the producer of the documentary, Velvet Hangover, which is about Czech New Wave filmmakers, how they survived the period of “normalization” and their reflections on the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989. He is the author of the new book, And Reality be Damned… Undoing America: What The Media Didn’t Tell You About the End of the Cold War and Fall of Communism in Europe. The book is based on a documentary feature he is currently working on, The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story.
FP: Robert Buchar, welcome to Frontpage Interview.You have some quite startling things to say about the fall, or lack thereof, of the Soviet Empire in the period 1989-1991. What is it that we don’t know about the “collapse of communism” as it has been described to us in the media?
Nina Karsov recently informed us, here at Frontpage Interview, of many troubling facts connected to The Triumph of Soviet Deception. Please also comment on her interview and give us your own angle.
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Attacking the Church and Double Standards
by William Kilpatrick, FrontPage:
In the war against jihad it might seem that President Obama’s plan to remove all discussion of Islam and jihad from our national security document would rank higher as a threat to Western security than recent attempts to link the pope to 40 year-old sex crimes in Milwaukee. But the perfect storm that has hit the Catholic Church may turn out to be of greater consequence for the West’s survival. For that reason it’s important to sort out how much of the current indignation toward Rome represents justified anger, and how much of it represents a larger anti-Christian agenda.
Non-Catholic Christians who think the recent media blitz against the Catholic Church is mainly about sex abuse should think again. Likewise, Christians would be naïve to think that those who would like to discredit the Catholic Church will be content, should they succeed, to leave the rest of Christianity alone. The attack on the Catholic Church should be seen as part of a larger attack against Christianity itself. Of course, there have been attacks on Christianity before, but never before have the stakes been so high. From the standpoint of the West’s survival it would be difficult to imagine a worse time for the pundits to launch a campaign to undermine Christian belief.
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The Catholic Church has essentially discredited itself and the criticism is perfectly called for but the author is correct that there is a broader agenda at work here which is profoundly dangerous to all of Christianity. Still, these problems were largely avoidable and in the end the suffering of the victims is what matters.
The face of hypocrisy
Melanie Phillips:
Suddenly Labour is falling over itself to say that immigration is not off-limits. This morning, the Home Secretary Alan Johnson said it was perfectly legitimate to raise the topic. Big of him. The fact is that the second most pressing concern on voters’ minds has been all but invisible as an issue across all three main political parties.
The most toxic aspect of Brown’s debacle yesterday, when he accused pensioner Gillian Duffy of being a ‘bigoted woman’, was that the appalling attitude he displayed could not be dismissed as a one-off, heat of the moment, poor fellow under enormous pressure sort of thing. That whole constellation of contempt for ordinary people, consisting of a) the view that their attitudes on immigration and a host of other matters are pig-ignorant and prejudiced and b) the politicians’ pretence that they are on the side of these ordinary people, shaking their hands and beaming at them and telling them they are the kind of people who make this country great, was suddenly revealed in all its grubby cynicism. It was that mixture of utter contempt, hypocrisy and profound mendacity which characterises the ‘progressive’ mind and the politicians who lay claim to that mantle which Brown so shockingly illuminated.
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The Climategate Investigation
By Dexter Wright, AT:
Last month, while the American media were distracted by the health care vote in Congress, the British Parliament published the results of its investigation into East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) that has been at the center of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) controversy. It seems that many were hoping that no one would read this report, at least not beyond the milquetoast executive summary.
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