Pastor Hagee: “The Sleeping Giant of Christian Zionism Has Awakened”

Heavy-handed university presidents are the problem

By EZRA LEVANT:

What is it with university presidents threatening to sic the police on their critics?

In March, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock approved a letter written by his deputy to Ann Coulter, the U.S. political commentator, warning she could be prosecuted under the Criminal Code if she said the wrong things in her speech on campus.

Incredibly, Rock was not fired by the university’s trustees for that demolition of academic freedom.

Mamdouh Shoukri, the president of York University, must have been watching, because he took the legal threats business a step further last week.

Last Tuesday, Shoukri’s university hosted a speech by George Galloway, the disgraced former MP from the U.K. On a trip to Gaza last year, Galloway was filmed handing wads of cash to Hamas, an illegal terrorist group.

Shoukri had no problem with Galloway speaking on his campus. But when Aaron Hoch, a local Jewish rabbi, criticized Galloway and encouraged people to participate in a peaceful protest against him, Shoukri leapt into action.

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A Reply to Mona Charen’s “Why Sarah Palin Shouldn’t Run”

Jedediah Bila:

First and foremost, let’s address one of Charen’s opening points as to why Palin should sit 2012 out. She stated, “Americans will be looking for sober competence, managerial skill, and maturity — not sizzle and flash.” Perhaps a walk down policy lane is in order.

As Governor, Sarah Palin actualized AGIA, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, the largest private sector infrastructure project in North American history. Palin’s administration opened up drilling for oil and gas at Point Thomson for the first time in several decades. As Governor, Palin reduced earmark requests for Alaska by 80%, established Alaska’s Petroleum Integrity Office to oversee safe energy development, placed the state checkbook online, and reduced spending for Fiscal Year 2010 by over one billion dollars from Governor Murkowski’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget. Palin signed ACES, Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share bill, into law, incentivizing development and ensuring that Alaskans would receive a “clear and equitable” share of oil profits. She cut costs by selling a private jet purchased by the previous governor and saying “no thank you” to the Executive Mansion’s personal chef. She has served as Chairperson of the AK Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Vice Chair of the National Governors Association Natural Resource Committee. Prior to her time as Governor, Palin served as Mayor of Wasilla, AK, and city council member in Wasilla. She has also been involved in running a commercial fishing business with her husband Todd.

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The Climate Cash Cow

IBD:

A high-ranking member of the U.N.’s Panel on Climate Change admits the group’s primary goal is the redistribution of wealth and not environmental protection or saving the Earth.

Money, they say, is the root of all evil. It’s also the motivating force behind what is left of the climate change movement after the devastating Climate-gate and IPCC scandals that saw the deliberate manipulation of scientific data to spur the world into taking draconian regulatory action.

Left for dead, global warm-mongers are busy planning their next move, which should occur at a climate conference in relatively balmy Cancun at month’s end. Certainly it should provide a more appropriate venue for discussing global warming than the site of the last failed climate conference — chilly Copenhagen.

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Forced adoption: another win for the child snatchers

Doing battle with the ADHD-industrial complex

By Katherine Ellison:

As the mother of a teenager who got a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 2004, I wasn’t surprised to read the new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that said the number of ADHD cases in children jumped by 22 percent between 2003 and 2007 – an increase of 1 million kids.

From the day my son started school, I’ve watched popular awareness of disabling distraction rise, to the point where it’s easy to believe the CDC estimate that one in 10 U.S. children – a total of 5.4 million kids – now has ADHD, as reported by their families. This might even be positive news, in that at least some kids who need medical attention are getting it. Except for one problem. Growing along with those numbers is one of the most aggressive, lucrative, bewildering and often just plain useless sales forces humanity has ever seen – call it the ADHD-industrial complex.

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Muslims vs. Martyrs

By Jeannie DeAngelis:

President Obama has assumed the role of a traveling advocate for Islam. Every chance the president gets, he climbs on a soapbox to address issues of callousness toward the Muslim faith. The president is well-practiced in Muslim apologetics, and regardless of nation or venue, he stresses the need for tolerance, understanding, and acceptance of all things Mohammad.

When traveling abroad, America’s living example of ecumenical tolerance makes it a priority to identify first with the religious roots of his childhood, while at home, the president forfeits religious neutrality only when hosting Ramadan celebrations at the White House.

As far as Christianity is concerned, Obama takes a “not just” approach to clarify America as “no longer a Christian nation.” In fact, Obama mentions his personal conversion to the Christian faith only as an addendum. Moreover, the president has yet to expound upon how someone so obviously enamored of Islam could leave such a “great religion” (he was registered as a Muslim in school in Indonesia) for Christendom if convinced that foundational principles of “advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings” are common to both faiths — a belief proven false daily.

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If Obama is a Bible-believing Christian then I am Joy Behar.

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Who’s the ‘Occupier’?

By Rabbi Aron Hier:

How do you bring two opponents to the peace table when their world views are separated by millennia?

In the Palestinian timetable, the Israelites’ 3,200 years of history in the land of Israel have mysteriously vanished. According to the Palestinians’ worldview, Israel Standard Time commences with the 16th or 19th century. They tell us of an incipient Palestinian nation but make no mention of a much older Jewish-Israeli civilization. And thus, they unilaterally decide when the historical narrative should rightfully begin.

History must start at the beginning. Here is one page from history (1948, Benny Morris) the Palestinians definitely don’t want you to see:

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Gun Control Advocate Traver to Head ATF

by Bob Owens:

Inexperienced and politically connected, Traver has developed a reputation as a gun control advocate. Like President Barack Obama, Traver has been tied to the left-wing Joyce Foundation, which bankrolls various anti-gun organizations and which counts among its many initiatives an attempt to subvert Second Amendment scholarship. Traver lent his voice to a deceptive NBC News article, purposefully blurring the lines between fully automatic military machine guns and civilian-legal semi-automatic rifles that fire one bullet when the trigger is pulled. Traver is also member of the anti-gun International Association of Chiefs of Police.

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