China threatened to kill me, B.C. reporter says
The Vancouver Sun:
RCMP have launched a “very serious” investigation into a B.C. reporter’s claims that Chinese officials are threatening to kill him for his critical coverage of the government.
Tao Wang moved to Surrey, B.C., from China in 2007 and began working as a local general assignment reporter for the Canadian branch of Falun Gong-affiliated New Tang Dynasty Television in July 2009.
Most of his assignments for the international broadcaster have been innocuous, on topics such as the Olympics and the harmonized sales tax.
Some of his reports, however, have been critical of the Chinese government and its practices.
NTDTV is one of the few networks with dissenting views that broadcasts in the Communist nation.
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The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
http://www.persecution.net
Thursday, September 23, 2010
A weekly news and prayer digest on the Persecuted Church.
Follow The Voice of the Martyrs on Twitter at
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In this week’s edition: reports from Iran, Pakistan, China, Eritrea
and Indonesia.
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1. Nine believers arrested in Iran
Nine believers were recently arrested on the charge of carrying out
journalism just outside Hamedan, Iran, according to a broadcast on
Iranian State television. Two of the arrested were reportedly
supported by organizations based outside the country, in particular
the United States and Great Britain, but their nationalities are
unknown. The other seven detained were reportedly cooperating with
“Christian-Zionist organizations” — a term used in Iranian government
culture for evangelical Christians who are benefiting from having
access to a number of networks and TV satellite programs for
evangelism. It is reportedly the first time in three decades that the
State TV has broadcast news about the arrest of a group of Christians.
(Source: Farsi Christian News Network)
Pray for the release of these believers. Pray that God will equip them
to share the truth for which they suffer, even in prison. Pray that
increased persecution in Iran will result in increased boldness among
Christians (Acts 4:29-31).
For more on the suffering of Iranian Christians, visit
http://www.persecution.net/iran.htm
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2. Church attacked by militant Muslims in Pakistan
On September 18, the Nasri Pentecostal Church in Shah Latif Town,
Karachi, Pakistan was attacked and vandalized by militants angered
over a threat to burn Qur’ans in the United States earlier this month.
“The church gates were open and the locks broken. The attackers broke
open a cupboard and vandalized religious items at around midnight,”
said Pastor Peter Shahzad. Nine copies of the Bible, three hymn books
and three wooden crosses were found burned, and a drum was damaged. It
was the second church attack within a week as countrywide protests
continue against American Pastor Terry Jones, who withdrew his threat
to burn copies of the Islamic holy book on the anniversary of the 9/11
attacks (see http://www.persecution.net/dove.htm
for more information). (Source: Union of Catholic Asian News)
Pray that members of this church will act in a Christ-like manner
towards the perpetrators of this attack, committing them to the Lord
in prayer. Pray that their hearts and minds will be governed by a
spirit of trust in the Lord, not fear. Pray for God’s peace in
Pakistan, where many Christians continue to live amid daily threat of
attacks by those opposed to their faith in Jesus.
For more on the persecution of Pakistani Christians, go to
http://www.persecution.net/pakistan.htm
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3. Pastor detained at trial for Chinese house church leaders
The court proceedings for the trial of Liu Yunhua and Gao Jianli, two
Chinese Christians imprisoned in Xuchang, Henan province, began on
September 20. The outcome of the proceedings is not yet known. It was
reported, however, that several believers who had come to witness the
event were detained, including the previously imprisoned Pastor “Bike”
Zhang Mingxuan and his wife (for more about the trials Pastor “Bike”
has faced from authorities see
http://www.persecution.net/cn-2009-10-14.htm
). Pastor Zhang and his wife were released a few hours later. Other
local Christians, including the son of the defendant Liu Yunhua, were
detained by authorities on their way home from the trial. These
believers remained detained at last report. (Source: ChinaAid)
Pray for the release of the detained believers. Pray for patience of
heart and strength of faith for Liu and Gao as they face opposition.
Ask God to continue to equip and embolden Pastor Zhang in his
ministry.
For more information on the opposition facing Christians in China,
visit http://www.persecution.net/china.htm
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4. Update: Eritrean pastor released
A prominent Eritrean pastor, whose name is being withheld for security
reasons, has been released from prison after over five years in
captivity. The pastor has reportedly been safely relocated to another
country and was in hospital at last report. Said one Eritrean
Christian on the news, “We thank God for the release of pastor
from prison, and pray that he will now get the proper medical
attention in Kenya. We also pray for the release of other Christians
imprisoned for their faith in Christ.”
Praise the Lord for the release of this faithful brother! Please
continue to keep him and his family in your prayers. You can post a
prayer for him and his family on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall.htm
.
For information on the treatment of Christians in Eritrea, go to
http://www.persecution.net/eritrea.htm
. For video reports on the challenges Eritrean Christians are facing,
please visit http://www.tinyurl.com/26v9ko2
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5. Update: Decree prohibiting church’s activities revoked in Bekasi,
Indonesia
After months of conflict and legal battles, the State Administrative
Court in Bandung, Indonesia has revoked the December 31, 2009 decree
prohibiting the Christian activities of Batak Christian Protestant
Filadelfia Church in Jejalan village, Bekasi. The ruling decreed that
the regent of Bekasi should issue a permit for the church to establish
a place of worship. The church has faced severe opposition in recent
months, including recent violence in which two members were injured
(see http://www.persecution.net/id-2010-09-16.htm
for more information).
Since 2008, the church members have sought permission for a place of
worship from Bekasi Regent H. Sa’duddin. According to church leaders,
Sa’duddin declined their request following pressure from a small group
of Islamists called the Forum Islamic Ummah Jejalen Raya Bekasi. The
church was temporarily closed for worship shortly afterwards on
January 12, 2010. As a result, the church had been holding services on
a strip of roadside land in front of the temporary site, using
umbrellas to protect them from the intense heat of the sun and from
sudden rainstorms. Reverend Palti Panjaitan has shared that he is
happy that the church has found at last fair authorities who base
their decisions on the rule of law. (Source: Compass Direct)
Thank the Lord that officials acted fairly in this situation. Pray
that other such justice will reign in instances of harassment and
opposition against Indonesian Christians. Pray that Christ will equip
Indonesian believers to follow His example of faithfulness amid
persecution (2 Corinthians 1:8-9)
For more on the persecuted Church in Indonesia, go to
http://www.persecution.net/indonesia.htm
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The Persecution & Prayer Alert is a ministry of The Voice of the
Martyrs, Canada. (Mailing address: P.O. Box 608, Streetsville,
Ontario, L5M 2C1)
Tel. (905) 670.9721. Website: http://www.persecution.net
For the truth on the Gaza flotilla, don’t look to the UN Human Rights Council
Jonathan Kay:
“A report by three U.N.-appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year.” With these words did a Toronto-area newspaper lead off its report on the international community’s latest ritual excoriation of Israel. Only later in the article does one learn that these “experts” has been commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, a discredited sham that is dominated by brutal rogue dictatorships.
In fact, recent days have brought to light some interesting new information about the flotilla raid. But it doesn’t come to us from the UN. Rather, it comes from an independent Turkish book author who’s confirmed that the flotilla leaders all along planned to instigate violence against the Israelis. Whatever the conclusions of the UN’s kangaroo inquiry, it is these anti-Israeli ringleaders who ultimately bear responsibility for the deaths that took place that day.
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Defending the oil sands
National Post:
For more than two years, Canada’s oil sands have been attacked by environmentalists and left-leaning think-tanks. In particular, these critics accuse the project of producing more carbon emissions than any other energy-extraction effort on the face of the Earth, and of “ravaging” the northern Alberta landscape. In Copenhagen last December, at the largest climate change conference ever convened by the United Nations, Canada was branded as a “climate criminal.” In 2009, no less revered a journalistic outlet than National Geographic magazine published an attack on the oil sands.
The lesson from all this is that Alberta politicians and oil sands officials must do a better job defending the project — its worth to the national economy, its fine record of land reclamation and the manner by which it makes Canada self-sufficient.
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Defeating the Obama Machine
Lauri Regan:
PoliticalFables has an excellent video out entitled “Defeating the Obama Machine.” It includes various quotes from our favorite politicians and political players including George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Andy Stern, and of course, Barack Obama. Many of the more well-known quotes including Rahm Emmanuel’s famous comment regarding never letting a crisis go to waste and Pelosi’s infamous line that ObamaCare had to be passed first before American’s could learn what was in the bill are incorporated into the animated political fable.
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» This Story:Read +|Watch +| Comments Abortion does not further children’s health
By Chris Smith:
An army of health activists and world leaders will gather at the United Nations this week to review the eight Millennium Development Goals agreed to at the start of the century and to recalibrate and recommit to more effectively achieve them by 2015. The overarching and noble goal is reducing global poverty. But the most compelling and achievable objectives — huge reductions in maternal and child mortality worldwide — will be severely undermined if the Obama administration either directly or covertly integrates abortion into the final outcome document.
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h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
The Capitalist Parable
JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J.:
The capitalist parable, as I call it, when spelled out, deals with God’s ways with us.
In Matthew 20, we find parables on the Kingdom of Heaven. The first parable concerns a man who is a grape grower. The harvest is here. The grapes need picking. Evidently, a hiring hall is available. Workers congregate for daily jobs. The owner is early. He hires several workers for a set daily wage. The workers agree to this wage. They hasten off to the vineyard. No problem here. The employer owns the property. He needs workers. Workers are available. The going wages are agreed upon. No one complains.
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H/T: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
Gay population much lower than believed, first official figures show
Telegraph [UK]:
Just one and a half per cent of the UK population is gay or bisexual, far lower than previous estimates suggested, the first official survey on sexual identity has revealed.
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Swedish pastor explains why he supports Israel, and why all Christians should
JPOST:
“Appreciation of the scriptures arouses love of the Jewish people; there’s no way we can appreciate scripture without having a great respect for the Jewish people. The historical line is very important. If you cut off the historical line… that’s a form of post-modernism that cuts itself off from the roots,” he says. “The roots are very important, in the sense that we are coming from somewhere. And if we don’t understand where we’re coming from, we’ll have no idea where we’re headed.”
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Criminal Black Panthers
The Washington Times:
The White House is trying to dodge the issue, but the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case is a growing scandal about political interference by the Obama administration into law-enforcement matters. The latest outrages to come to light are the brutal criminal histories of the Black Panthers who threatened Philadelphia voters on Election Day, 2008.
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RELATED:
New Information Raises More Questions About DOJ and the Black Panthers
WH Science Advisor gives away warmist game
Henry Percy:
I would direct your attention to Slide 22, where he gives the game away on:
Just to have a 50% chance of staying below 2°C, developed-country emissions must peak no later than 2015 and decline rapidly thereafter, developing-country emissions must peak no later than 2025 and decline rapidly thereafter.
So let’s follow this logic: earth, Mother Gaia, is faced with catastrophic “global climate disruption,” a disruption caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Why, then, must the First World drastically reduce its emissions, i.e., cripple its economies, 10 years before the Third World does the same? Because the First World produces more carbon than the Third World? No! According to the very next slide, “Industrialized & developing countries are now about equal in total CO2 emissions.” Either “global climate disruption” is a problem affecting everyone residing on Gaia or it is not. If it is, then why wouldn’t those producing one-half of the carbon releases do as much as those producing the other half? After all, if species will die off, if we are looking at widespread famine and pestilence, if the seas rise and flood one of Al Gore’s mansions — isn’t that a crisis? Don’t we have to do everything possible to stop it now?
Is your first priority, Dr. Holdren, stopping “global climate disruption,” saving Mother Gaia, or redistributing wealth? Come on, Dr. Holdren, you love transparency, why so coy? Why not put this in a PowerPoint slide: “Fighting global climate disruption is a stalking horse for impoverishing the developed nations and enriching the developing ones.” There: are we clear now?
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The Strange Case of J.B. Matthews, the Religious Left and the Censure of Senator McCarthy
By Dr. Norman Berdichevsky:
While the term “Religious Right” is one of the most frequently used terms in the political lexicon, notably since the rise of what is usually referred to as the Evangelical Churches, the Political Left is alive and well and a strong crutch for the Democratic Party calling for “social justice”. During the first term of the Eisenhower administration, the role of American churches in politics became a major issue and helped precipitate the campaign to defame and censure Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
Joseph Brown Matthews was an important witness for McCarthy, testifying before Congressional committees and had the advantage of personal experience as an organizer for communist front organizations before World War II. He took pains to explain that naïve and busy people of good will including many clergymen who were often duped into signing petitions and lending their names to what appeared as ostensibly good causes, but unaware that the leading personalities in these organizations were fronting for the Communist Party.
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The Great War On Koch Industries
IBD:
Is the White House now targeting a dissident company with the tax code? Sure looks that way, given a menacing reference to Koch Industries from an anonymous official to its trusted media allies.
The private Wichita, Kan.-based conglomerate, which operates ranches, drills oil, runs pulp and paper mills, and creates specialized textiles for athletes, among other activities, is owned by two brothers, David and Charles, who openly fund free-market causes. And that, apparently, was enough to draw White House attention to their company’s tax structure.
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Obama’s Glass House
Victor Davis Hanson:
Preachers and professors have it hard as presidents. They sermonize too much. Finally the public gets tired of being lectured by those whom they increasingly see as no more upright than themselves. Prophets crumble from feet of clay, and stones shatter glass houses. So it was with Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter, and so it is now with Barack Obama.
The Obama administration is throwing stones at a lot of people — John Boehner, Republicans, tea-partiers, Fox News, Glenn Beck, doctors, insurers, Wall Street, and business in general.
Such invective invites a response, and here the White House is becoming as fragile as glass. We saw that recently in the presidential petulance at supposedly being talked about “like a dog,” and in a touchy press secretary Robert Gibbs unloading at everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Forbes magazine.
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Elitism will likely save the registry
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
Earlier this month, when I first heard the spin the NDP had concocted as an excuse that their rural MPs could use to vote to keep the long-gun registry, I suspected the fix was in. I was pretty sure the private member’s bill that would have ended the registration of rifles and shotguns, introduced by Manitoba Tory Candice Hoeppner, was going to down to defeat.
Much as I wish I were wrong, I suspect today that is just what’s going to happen in the House of Commons.
In a nutshell, the NDP brains trust came up with the not-so-novel idea to blame the Tories by claiming the government was forcing anti-registry New Dems’ hands. This Tories-are-being-mean story is easily swallowed by opposition-friendly reporters on any issue, so almost no one questioned the logic of the NDP’s storyline.
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Canadians are an incredibly weak and servile people.
The Obama Agenda and the New Global Elite
By L.E. Ikenga:
Barack Obama is a 21st-century example of a multicultural globalist — fairly young, trendy “people of color,” “well-educated,” belonging to no specific tribe or cultural group (or openly shunning such memberships), obsessed with bourgeois leisure culture, moderately wealthy, and very successful in their respective professions. Barack Obama and his compatriots are those who “grew up” and, having abandoned their black turtlenecks, berets, and expensive, imported cigarettes, swapped their former post-colonial ideological talking points for ones that now appear thoughtful, pragmatic, and less antagonistic toward “oppressive capitalist systems.” They calmly advocate the use of “smart power” to create “commonsense solutions for working families.” But don’t be fooled — copies of Black Skin, White Masks still rest on their nightstands.
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Titanic sunk by steering blunder, new book claims
Telegraph:
It was always thought the Titanic sank because its crew were sailing too fast and failed to see the iceberg before it was too late.
But now it has been revealed they spotted it well in advance but still steamed straight into it because of a basic steering blunder.
According to a new book, the ship had plenty of time to miss the iceberg but the helmsman panicked and turned the wrong way.
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Obama makes rare church appearance on same day as pro-Palestinian teaching?
Israel Today:
Before last Sunday, US President Barack Obama and his family had only been to church a handful of times since he became commander-in-chief. And two of those visits were for Inauguration Day and Easter.
The Obama family’s sixth time at church in Washington, DC may also have been for a special occasion – to hear a pro-Palestinian activist teach about how Israel needs to surrender its biblical heartland for a phony “peace.”
The president, his wife Michelle and their two daughters attended St. John’s Church, an Episcopal church just across the street from the White House, for the morning service on September 19. Low and behold, that is the same morning that guest speaker Ziad Asali of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) had the podium.
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Wow. What a cynical, two-faced, disingenuous jerk.
Really? Yet another Bush … doh … Obamism (the brilliant one)
Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”
A Message from Israel
BY William Kristol:
Yes, the peace process, with its vision of two peoples living in adjacent states in a relationship of permanent and legitimate peace. What could be so hazardous about that?
Well, let’s return to that Kafkaesque scenario in which you wake up one morning and find yourself transformed into Israel’s prime minister.
You know that to create that neighboring state that you’re going to have to give up some land, but not just any land, but land regarded as sacred by the majority of the Jewish people for more than three thousand years. You know that a great many of your countrymen have made their homes in these areas and that numerous Israelis have given their lives in their defense. You know that Israel has in the past withdrawn from territories in an effort to generate peace but that it received no peace but rather war. And, lastly, you know that many Arabs view the two-state solution as a two stage solution in which the ultimate stage is Israel’s dissolution.
What, then, Mr. or Ms. Prime Minister, do you do?
You could opt for maintaining the status quo, with the risk of deepening Israel’s international isolation or you could specify a vision of peace that significantly reduces its perils. You could, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done, insist that the future Palestinian State be effectively demilitarized, without an army that could bombard Israeli cities or an air force that could shoot down planes landing at Ben-Gurion Airport. You could insist that the Palestinian State reciprocally recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and so put an end to all future claims and conflicts.
Even then, of course, Israel will be running incalculable risks, for what if the Palestinian state implodes and becomes another Gaza or Lebanon? What do you do if, a week after the peace treaty is signed, a rocket falls on Tel Aviv?
More than Gaza, more than peace, the ultimate quandary of statecraft centers on Iran.
This is the radical, genocidal Iran whose leaders regularly call for Israel’s annihilation and provides terrorists with the means for accomplishing that goal. This is the Iran that undermines governments throughout the Middle East and even South America, and an Iran that shoots its own people protesting for freedom.
Iran does all this without nuclear weapons—imagine what it would do with the nuclear arms it is assiduously developing.
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The Road to Sharia
by William Kilpatrick, FrontPage:
Freedom of religion for Christians has been under attack for some time, but liberal opinion makers haven’t evinced much concern. Indeed, judging by their non-reaction to the fining or jailing of Christian pastors in Canada and Europe who have spoken out against same-sex marriage, the opinion elites seem perfectly willing to sacrifice Christian religious freedom on the altar of gay rights.
But when it comes to the religious freedom of Muslims, it’s a different matter. As a result of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, the liberal elites have suddenly become stout defenders of religious freedom. Moreover, they seem to have taken an absolutist stance on its meaning.
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The Death Toll Rising: “3 Billion and Counting”
by Kathy Shaidle:
Earlier this month, we broke the news that Hollywood is producing a fawning biopic of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement. Silent Spring focused on the supposed dangers of the pesticide DDT. Those dangers turned out to be highly exaggerated — but in the meantime, millions of Africans died of preventable malaria due directly to the ban on DDT.
It’s an indication of just how shallow and morally bankrupt today’s left really is, that their showbiz cheerleaders plan to glorify a woman responsible for the deaths of more Africans than all those “evil”, slave-owning Founding Fathers combined.
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Abortion at Government Facilities?
Denise Burke:
As combat operations in Iraq came to an end at the end of August, President Obama rightly lauded the patriotism and sacrifice of America’s servicemen and -women and their families. What he didn’t acknowledge, however, is that radical legislation being advanced by abortion advocates will require our military families to make unnecessary sacrifices and to pay an even higher price for their service.
Abortion advocates are agitating for the passage of the Burris Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. In direct contravention of President Obama’s promises, longstanding federal law, and the will of the American people, this amendment would allow military hospitals, military personnel, and taxpayer dollars to be used for elective abortions.
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Baal’s lust for babies’ blood is unrelenting. Pagan rites have returned to our world. Resist these degenerate impulses and turn back to God before it is too late and our civilisation collapses.
The Middle East Arms Race
Steve McCann:
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Unfortunately President Obama is a creature of the liberal mindset of those in the 20th Century directly responsible for the death of untold millions that believed they could, by sheer force of their will and glibness, reason with those determined to conquer others. Because of a lack of leadership and determination the world is witnessing yet again the coming together of the witch’s brew that will spell disaster.
EU legislation puts herbal medicine under threat
Deutsche Welle:
With strict European legislation due to come into force next April, will some age-old herbal remedies on sale in health food stores today become, quite literally, a thing of the past?
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‘Public schools’ should not mean ‘atheist schools’
By Iain T. Benson:
How religions and the public sphere relate is not something we are very clear about in Canada. We like to think we have the principles worked out but then some conflict comes along and we seem to be back in the land of confused debates.
A recent Quebec court decision involving a subsidized private Catholic school slammed that province for denying the right to teach a provincially mandated ethics course from a confessional perspective. In the wake of that decision, some have suggested religious liberty — which includes public practices and the right to non-discriminatory treatment — should vary with whether or not the school received public funding.
For some, the fact that the school was partly subsidized should qualify the rights of the Catholic school on the theory there is a generalized and valid “secularized curriculum,” that is “the state’s.”
This approach, though it is commonly heard, is, with respect to those who differ, incorrect in both law and principle.
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The third party no one talks about
Kevin Libin:
The influence of third parties that intervene in Canadian political matters doesn’t usually get much attention. Then again, by law, they’re not supposed to have much influence.
But on Tuesday, a top story on CBC’s The National reported that America’s National Rifle Association (NRA) “has been hard at work on this side of the border” meddling, allegedly, in the gun registry debate, causing Liberal House Leader David McGuinty to worry aloud in a news release Monday that the government would “listen to a powerful foreign influence” when considering Canadian policy.
But during the last federal election, Avaaz, an internationally based liberal activist group, registered for the first time as a third party in Canada — meaning it raised and spent money on campaigning, but wasn’t an official party or candidate.
It spent tens of thousands of dollars aimed at defeating three Conservative candidates in three federal ridings, even though the Elections Act puts a tight limit on that kind of targeted spending to just a few thousand dollars. It has lately been lobbying the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s chairman to influence his decisions.
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MoDo, D’Souza and the Shame of the New York Times
Posted by Andrew Klavan:
We all know by now how the left reacts to the presence of the truth: the screaming, the name-calling, the hysterical slander; the way they designate the craziest Koran-burning, abortionist-shooting nutcase they can find to represent the right; the way they demonize commentators like Rush and Coulter and Glenn Beck, without ever engaging with their ideas, and then use their names as insults to fling at people who have nothing to do with them.
In short, the left reacts to the truth the way a vampire reacts to a cross… or the way the left reacts to a cross, come to think of it. So when I see their brains start to smoke, I know one of the good guys is talking sense.
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Political Appointees Involved in New Black Panther Case, and More DOJ Stonewalling
BY Daniel Halper:
Jennifer Rubin follows up on several recent stories she’s written for THE WEEKLY STANDARD (see here, here, and here) with this email:
The Obama administration for over a year has insisted that the decision to dismiss an egregious case of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party was made by career attorneys. In a series of letters to Republican Reps. Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf, and in sworn testimony by the head of the civil rights division Thomas Perez, the Obama team stuck to its story that career attorneys made the call. (In fact the two individuals the Justice Department identified, Loretta King and Steve Rosenbaum, were then the interim head of the civil rights division and the deputy, both political positions.) THE WEEKLY STANDARD, however, previously reported that in written discovery responses to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights the Justice Department let on that both the associate attorney general (the number three man in the Justice Department) Thomas J. Perrelli and his boss Eric Holder had been consulted on the dismissal. Today, further evidence came to light indicating the Obama Justice Department has lied about the involvement of political appointees.
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Soros’s Anti-Human-Rights Agenda
Anne Bayefsky:
George Soros’s enormous gift of $100 million to the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch is a serious shot across the bow for Republicans and conservatives. Billionaire Sheldon Adelson once said he would become “the Right’s answer to George Soros,” but he has not. Although “human rights” is the most powerful political currency of our time, no one on the right has stepped up to the plate, and Soros has the playing field to himself.
The significance of his gift can be understood only by appreciating the web of connections associated with this human-rights organization and its resulting influence.
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Obama’s U.N. Record
John Bolton:
Barack Obama will make his second address as president to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, and engage in the customary ceremonies, social events, and consultations with other heads of government. Twenty months into the tenure of our most multilateral president, what has he accomplished at the U.N.? The short answer: Not much.
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The Counter-Revolution Has Begun
By J.R. Dunn:
The Tea Party victories of last week have clearly revealed the movement for what it actually is: not a tantrum, not a voter mutiny, not a short-term insurrection, but something never actually seen before in this country — it is a counter-revolution.
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