Salon Writer Admits Embellishing Abortion Story
By Jill Stanek:
For several reasons I doubted the veracity of Kendall’s story (see the 1st comment on my blog and my comments at Salon on 5/27 at 8:30a, 11:23a, 11:33a, 12:32p, and 12:37p ).
There were many red flags. But the biggest was Kendall’s claim that a doctor was willing to let her bleed to death after she presented with placental abruption, because he knew treatment would result in her baby’s death, a nonviable 20-weeker. This made no sense, particularly knowing nontreatment would ensure both the mother and baby died.
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Political Correctness vs. Individual Rights
The View from 1776:
Liberal-progressives don’t bother themselves with matters like due process or “innocent until proved guilty.” As an elite class, they believe themselves entitled to override the Constitution and civil law, so long as they do so in service of political correctness.
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Ex-Intel Chairman Hoekstra Says There’s “Dissent And Dislike” For Pres At CIA
by John Gizzi:
“And what’s really amazing is that all the things in the realm of intelligence that Obama badmouthed as a candidate in ’08, he has now embraced as President,” said Hoekstra, “He has been much more aggressive in the use of predator drones than the Bush Administration was. The Obama Administration has acknowledged that enhanced interrogation techniques helped get the information that led to the successful raid on bin Laden’s compound. And President Obama has never closed down the U.S. operation at Guantanamo, as Candidate Obama promised to do over and over again. Under Obama, the U.S. has continued the policy of unlimited detentions and the use of military tribunals.”
“Quite frankly, who would have thought Barack Obama would have sent an assassination team to get bin Laden?”
And what is most stunning in Obama embracing the tactics in fighting terrorism from what he so harshly criticized as a candidate, Hoekstra added, “is that he won’t now say he was wrong in the first place.”
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Bachmann: I consider Sarah Palin a friend, not a competitor
by The Right Scoop:
As much as Stephanopoulos was trying to pit Michele Bachmann against Sarah Palin in this interview, Bachmann refused to play his game and instead said that there is not only plenty of room in this presidential race for Palin (or any candidate), but also that she views Sarah Palin as a friend and not a competitor. When asked what is the one thing that makes her different from Palin, Bachmann said she doesn’t compare herself to other conservatives but rather to Barack Obama.
Class act.
Moderate Arabs and Muslims Under Threat
by Khaled Abu Toameh:
As Syrian dictator Bashar Assad continues to slaughter his people under the pretext that his regime is facing an “external conspiracy,” a growing number of Arab and Muslim leaders are turning their backs on him.
The only two leaders who continue to support Assad’s brutal and merciless crackdown on his people are Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah.
Iran and Hizbollah want Syria’s Bashar Assad to stay in power so that they can continue flooding the region with weapons in preparation for war not only against Israel, but also against moderate Arabs and Muslims.
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Report: Police Refuse Help After Christian Pakistani Woman ‘Gang-Raped for an Entire Night’
by Billy Hallowell:
The situation is becoming increasingly grim for Pakistan’s Christian population. Unimaginable fits of violence and acts of desecration against sacred lands barely begin to describe the horror and devastation that non-Muslims face in a nation that is becoming increasingly less tolerant. Last week, the Asia Times reported on two alleged instances that perfectly illustrate how the situation has devolved:
Christian tombs were recently desecrated and a young Christian woman was gang-raped for an entire night. In both cases, police refused to file a First Information Report, allowing the culprits to escape justice. These are examples of the ordinary violence visited upon Pakistan’s Christian minority.
The woman in question was a 29-year-old mother who was allegedly abducted by a Muslim co-worker, beaten and then violently raped. The most perplexing and infuriating part of her story is her quest for justice following the incident. According to accounts, despite her attempt to file a report, the police refused to help. Instead, they offered to assist the rapists in “cover[ing] their tracks.” The Catholic Church is understandably perplexed and disgusted by these developments:
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Hope and Change, the Communist Way
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh:
I am in Washington, D.C. surrounded by expensive SUVs, Hummers, Mercedes, and “environmentally friendly” Priuses sporting stickers with Hope and Change, Socialism 2012, advertising socialism and communism, to the detriment of the “evil” capitalist system that afforded them those cars and a luxurious lifestyle.
A few beat up cars are liberally covered in communist slogan stickers, phony empty words that promise “redistribution of wealth” and a nanny state. I ponder for a moment if progressives are still waiting for their free gas, housing, day care, jobs, education, medical care, endless vacations, and a chunk of paradise from the “filthy, rotten rich” who deserve to be stripped of everything they own. I still do not understand why they call themselves “progressives” when they are really longing for regression to a life of slavery to the government.
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Where Obama is leading Israel
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined in that speech was not anti-Israel. As they presented it, Obama’s assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps does not mark a substantive departure from the positions adopted by his predecessors in the Oval Office.
But this claim is exposed as a lie by previous administration statements. On November 25, 2009, in response to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of Obama’s demand for a 10-month moratorium on Jewish property rights in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the State Department issued the following statement: “Today’s announcement by the Government of Israel helps move forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Stopping the Hate
Matthew Shaffer:
Incidentally, Cathy is also an enthusiastic Baptist, and one domain of his charitable giving reflects that fact. Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, includes religious language in its mission statement, and donates some money to causes like the Campus Crusade for Christ. Consequently, a meme has developed on left-leaning and pro-gay-rights websites in the past year that Chick-fil-A is virulently anti-gay. Since then, the nonagenarian Samuel Truett Cathy has gone from a noted philanthropist to a hate-figure — in two senses of the phrase — for many liberals, and has gotten a string of very negative press.
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Patronize Chick-fil-A, folks, and spread the word to your friends, church and family members.
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