How very inconvenient
Researchers think one Canadian ice shelf broke up 1,400 years ago and then re-froze
Rush: Romney won’t endorse Kasich union referendum, but lefty paper will
by The Right Scoop:
Romney is once again pandering, this time to unions. From Peter Hamby with CNN:
Incredible moments in politics: Romney visits OH GOP phone bank to rally troops opposing SB5 repeal, but refuses to take a position on SB5
How ridiculous is this? He won’t take a position on it, yet he shows up to ‘rally the troops’? According to Hotair, he actually supported it in June. But now he can’t?
This is EXACTLY why I refuse to support Romney for the nomination. He is nothing more than a political opportunist who thinks more votes than he does of principles.
Senators Outraged U.S. Borrowing Big From China While Also Giving It Aid
By Jim Angle:
China is one of the biggest economies in the world and grew at more than 9 percent over the last year. It also has loaned more than $1 trillion to the U.S. to fund its deficit-spending.
But at the same time, the U.S. sends foreign aid to China, which lawmakers of all stripes say is just plain nuts.
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It’s all part of Obama’s bankrupt the U.S.A. asap plot.
Obama Doctrine: Ignore American Interests
Mona Charen:
Two successful assassinations — those of Awlaki and bin Laden — have persuaded some that President Obama, whatever his domestic failures, has presided over a successful foreign policy. This is way too generous. In fact, (with the exception of targeted assassinations and the surge in Afghanistan) the president seems to conduct foreign policy based on seat-of-the-pants responses to events, rather than relying on any overarching strategy. And his reactions to events are more often based upon reversing what he regards as past American sins than on pursuing America’s interests in the world.
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UNDER PERSECUTION
Zhang Rongliang:
Location: China
Arrested: December 2004
Days Imprisoned: 2464
Released Aug. 31, 2011
Print Fact Sheet
09/28/2007 Update
Pastor Zhang Rongliang was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison. According to China Aid Association the verdict was issued by Zhongmu County People’s Court.
Pastor Zhang Rongliang, a prominent Chinese house church leader, was arrested in a rented apartment at Xuzhai village the afternoon of December 1, 2004. Zhang already had spent 12 years in prison for his faith during five separate detentions. He experienced harsh torture, including electric shock, during his previous prison terms. After being held in prison for a year, officials attempted to transfer him from a prison in Xinmi to one in Zhongmu. Fearing that because of his fragile condition he might die, officials at Zhongmu would not accept him. He was instead taken to a hospital in Xinmi.
Pastor Zhang suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure in addition to other chronic health problems. Later he was transferred to a Zhongmu City hospital where he spent most of February and March 2006.
He appeared in court April 6, 2006, more than 16 months after his arrest, for his third hearing on charges of “attaining a passport through cheating” and “illegal border crossing.” At this hearing the court acknowledged there was insufficient evidence for the case and asked for legal advice from a higher court.
Pastor Zhang Released
After seven and half years of in prison, Pastor Zhang Rongliang was released. Even though he was tortured and even faced death, Zhang intends to continue ministering and living for the Lord. He has moved to a coastal town to live with a family member, rest, spend quiet time with God and seek his will for future ministry.
Pastor Rongliang thanks the Lord and all those who prayed for him during his time in prison. It is uncertain whether government officials are keeping him under surveillance. Please pray for Zhang as he recovers and continues ministering in China.
From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam
by Clare M. Lopez:
Across a vast expanse of the Muslim world, from Tunisia to Pakistan, the forces of Islam are rising. Tunisian voters have given the Al Nahda (Muslim Brotherhood) party a dominant position in the national assembly that will write the country’s new constitution. In Libya, Chairman of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has declared he seeks to make Islamic law the basis for legislation.
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Honor Horror Trial Opens in Canada
by Stephen Brown:
“May the devil s**t on their graves.”- Mohammad Shafia
These charming words, picked up by a police wiretap, were Mohammad Shafia’s ghoulish reaction almost three weeks after the murder of his three daughters and first wife, whose deaths he is accused of orchestrating. Daughters Zanaib, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, by all appearances beautiful and vibrant teenagers, filled with life, and first wife Rona Mohammad, were found dead in a family vehicle in a canal near Kingston, Ontario, in June 2009. Authorities gave drowning as the cause of death.
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Gaddafi: A U.N. Value
By Peggy Shapiro:
Until shortly before Gaddafi crawled out of a drain pipe and met his violent end, he was the darling of the United Nations and the “international community.”
It is perplexing why a criminal and brutal dictator would garner the accolades of an organization whose charter calls for “reaffirming faith in fundamental human rights … and living together in peace with one another as good neighbours[.]“
Gaddafi’s criminal record was long and sordid. He sponsored terrorist groups ranging from Baader Meinhof to Abu Nidal and provided compensation to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
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The Pope, Chaplain to OWS? Rubbish
By George Weigel:
“Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish,” says voice therapist Lionel Logue to King George VI as the brassy Australian walks the about-to-be-crowned king through a particularly orotund part of the coronation ceremony in The King’s Speech. Logue’s comment nicely sums up the media and Catholic Left commentary on a “Note” released today by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary System in the Context of Global Public Authority.”
Drudge got it wrong: “Vatican Calls for ‘Central World Bank’.” CNBC got it wrong: “The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a ‘global public authority’ and a ‘central world bank’.” The best of the Italian Vaticanisti, Sandro Magister of L’espresso, linked Occupy Wall Street and “the Vatican at the Barricades” in the headline of his insta-commentary, a theme also harped upon by the deposed editor of America, Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J.
All of which was “rubbish, rubbish, rubbish.”
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HT LINDA
Catholics, Finance, and the Perils of Conventional Wisdom
By Samuel Gregg:
Despite the Catholic Left’s excited hyperventilating that the document released today by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP) would put the Church “to the left of Nancy Pelosi” on economic issues, more careful reading of “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority” soon indicates that it reflects rather conventional contemporary economic thinking.
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ht LINDA
Regular TBK reader Linda notes: ‘This particular document was publicly released, as well as apparently being addressed TO the Pope, who had not yet seen it. It’s not a church document per se, nor is it in any way binding on Catholics, though it’s being spun that way. It’s a classic example of being blindsided, and on a topic that popes or any given bishop or priest has no more expertise than any given layperson…’
What the White House doesn’t want you to see is Obama schmoozing the rich
What the White House doesn’t want you to see is Obama schmoozing the rich
Christian Bible Club Sues Okla. School District Over Alleged Media Restrictions
by Billy Hallowell:
An Oklahoma school district is potentially heading to court after a Christian club claims that it was forbidden from promoting its events on campus. As a result of these purported restrictions, the group, called “Kids for Christ,” has decided to sue the Owasso Public Schools.
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Report: Obama’s Muslim Advisers Block Middle Eastern Christians’ Access to the White House
by El Cid:
From a Middle East correspondent:
Beirut Arab news agency al Nashra reported on Saturday November 22, that [White House Muslim envoy] Dalia Mogahed has succeeded in canceling a meeting between the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon and President Barack Obama. Writing in al Nashra, the reporter said “an unnamed US source told the news agency, that those who sought canceling a visit of (the spiritual head of the Maronite Church) Patriarch Beshara Rahi to the White House are Dalia Mujahid (Mogahed), the highest adviser on Arab and Islamic Affairs in the State Department, who is from Egyptian origins. And that,” according to al Nashra, “heeding a request by the higher leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who consider that US Administration must support the Islamist Sunni current facing the Iranian current in the region.”
The al Nashra report, circulating now widely in the Middle East, but also in the United States and across the Lebanese Christian Diaspora confirms what was already known about the impact the so-called “advisors on Arab and Islamic Affairs” in the White House on Middle East issues in general and on US policies regarding the Christians in the Middle East.
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