Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From IHT:
PARIS: The surgery in the private clinic off the Champs-Élysées involved one semicircular cut, 10 self-dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900.
But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent from Montpellier, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity.
Like an increasing number of other [...]
From The Clash:
By: Doug Giles
As much as I think a lot of the American “churches” are about as useful to God as a pitch pipe is to Yoko Ono, I’m not completely depressed by this dilemma. Matter of fact, I’m pretty giddy as the emails have started to pour in from readers from around the [...]
From Fox News:
The British government’s “deep religious illiteracy” is failing society as it discriminates against Christian churches and favors other faiths, including Islam, the Church of England fires off in its strongest attack on the government in decades.The policies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have helped to generate a spiritual, civic and economic [...]
From The Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Every day, people send me the most worrisome and surreal newspaper accounts about Islamic gender and religious apartheid and the Islamification of Europe. To me, these clippings are prescient warnings; they describe patterns and the gathering storm. My informants live on five continents. Here’s a quick round-up [...]
From ICEJ:
On Saturday morning radical Muslim elements assaulted guards and hijacked a bus at a Christian school run by the Baptist Church in Gaza, reported The Palestinian Center for Human Rights. A Palestinian Christian was killed in October while working at a Christian bookshop located nearby. The bookstore was also bombed earlier, while a bomb [...]
From Iran Focus:
Telegraph.co.uk
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Benedict XVI has cancelled meetings with seven world leaders to avoid an encounter with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
Mr Ahmadinejad is one of 40 heads of state arriving in Rome on Tuesday for a vital United Nations summit on the world’s food crisis.
Mr Ahmadinejad was keen to meet Benedict [...]
From Fox News:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, a diplomatic source told The Australian newspaper on Tuesday. A meeting between the political and spiritual leader would be a first.Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for Israel to be wiped off the map, is among the heads of state expected [...]
From Palestinian Media Watch:
Fatah and Hamas use identical symbols to teach children hatred of Israel
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Teaching children that all of Israel is occupied “Palestine” is a backbone of Palestinian Authority education for both Fatah and Hamas.
Both Hamas and Fatah recently broadcast TV programs featuring children with giant keys hanging from their [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
WWGPD
Columnist Diana West wonders what Gen. George Patton would do if during World War II one of his soldiers had been caught using a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” for target practice. Certainly not what Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond did in Iraq last week under similar circumstances. Read all [...]
From ACT! for America:
Yesterday we emailed you the KSTP News story about how the director of TIZA (Tarik ibn Zayad Academy) in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, assaulted a KSTP News crew.
As you may recall, two months ago news stories broke raising questions about TIZA, a tax-funded charter school, impermissibly advancing Islam. TIZA’s director denied all [...]
From The Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Well, our era’s Dreyfus has just been vindicated. Or, as an Israeli website would have it: “Pigs Fly Over the Eiffel Tower.” See my previous interview with Karsenty HERE.
A few hours ago, a French Appeals Court finally decided that Phillipe Karsenty did not libel Charles Enderlin of [...]
From The Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Lately, the days are all raw and rainy. This is strange weather for May in Manhattan but who dares to complain? At least we are not enduring earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis, or forest fires.
I cannot imagine the suffering of those in Myanmar who have just lost their [...]
From My Way News:
By KIM GAMEL
BAGHDAD (AP) – An American soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the U.S. military, a spokesman said Sunday.
Separately, mortar shells slammed into a residential area north of the Iraqi capital, killing at least [...]
From Joel C. Rosenberg:
Bush, Obama, and Dobson are riveted on Israel and Iran. They’re not alone.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., May 15, 2008)—The eyes of the world are riveted today on Israel, the epicenter of the momentous events that are shaking our world and shaping our future.
President Bush delivered an important and controversial address to [...]
From Joel C. Rosenberg:
FYI: Joel will appear on Dr. James Dobson’s radio show Thursday and Friday to discuss God’s unconditional love for Israel and her neighbors.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., May 14, 2008)—Happy Birthday, Israel!
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the dramatic rebirth of the modern State of Israel—on the Western (solar) calendar, anyway. Israelis [...]
From Doug Giles:
By Doug Giles
“One of the most salient features of our culture is there is so much bull——.”
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton philosophy professor
How many of you have met the book smart 4.0 magna cum laude lady who, in regard to street smarts, is a magna dumb loopy chick? What about the poor honey who [...]
BY: FERN SIDMAN
As Jews around the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel as a modern state, the annual Yom Ha’Atzmaout (Israeli Independence Day) festivities in New York took place amidst a backdrop of controversy and protest outside of Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday evening May 7th.
At a gala, star studded [...]
From the Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Dear Readers:
Greetings! I am recovering rather slowly from a non-life threatening surgical procedure but will begin posting new material together with the ongoing retrospective of some of my writing.
The distinguished editor and author, Leo Haber, asked me to contribute an article about my memories of Israel for [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Steven Emerson
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the “influential Muslim Americans” and “leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam” who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape a softer approach to government lexicon about terrorists and their ideological motivations.
“Our policy is we don’t comment on the Secretary’s [...]
From Doug Giles:
By Doug Giles
No, Reverend Jeremiah Wright hasn’t hoodwinked me with his fiery flapdoodle from this past week’s press briefing. Yes, I still think the guy is certifiable. Listening to Wright last Monday at the National Press Club was like listening to Charles Manson during one of his parole hearings; the guy’s frickin’ insane! [...]
From NewsMax:
By: Ronald Kessler
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s denunciations of America and of whites.Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said Wright “went through experiences that I never went through.”
In [...]
From NewsMax:
Sen. John McCain came out swinging against the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Sunday and suggested Sen. Barack Obama’s relationship with the controversial minister was “beyond belief.”Campaigning in Coral Gables, Fla., McCain reiterated that he still wants the North Carolina Republican Party to stop running an ad that shows Wright screaming “God damn America.” [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
HAVING A BALL
Boy, can Nevada GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden throw a party.
Last night’s Boots and Rhinestones Ball at the Peppermill Casino in Reno was, by every measure, a smashing success. A star-studded who’s-who of Republican leaders, elected officials and grassroots activists turned out to kick off what is expected to [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
IS THERE A CONTEST HERE?
The following email is making its way around the ‘net. You may have already seen it. Not sure who the original author is, or I’d give ‘em credit:
“We in Holland cannot figure out why you (Americans) are even bothering to hold an election. On [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Here’s a claim that warrants closer scrutiny in light of recent events related to a Church’s Chicken franchisee in Baltimore: The demand for Islamic financial products has surged in recent years due largely to their transparent nature.
That claim stands as the lead paragraph of a news release issued out of Hong Kong [...]
From ACT! for America:
The eye-opening commentary below illustrates why a government focus on terrorism to the exclusion of “Cultural Jihad” is foolish and dangerous. It illustrates why the purveyors of political correctness, who go to great lengths to tolerate Islamic intolerance, are helping to plant the seeds of our own destruction. Lastly, it illustrates why [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
“I seek daily to imitate his faith.”
– Barack Obama
To whom is the Democrat presidential hopeful Obama referring? The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, of course. That news comes to us in the form of a piece written by a columnist and clergywoman who supports the junior senator from Illinois in his bid for [...]
From NewsMax:
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Thousands of Christians fleeing persecution in other parts of Iraq have returned since 2004 to ancestral lands in the Nineveh Plain, just north and east of Mosul.
While they have escaped the Islamic militias who slaughtered family members and burned down their houses and churches in Baghdad and Mosul, now they face [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Mark your calendar! The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, will discuss the role of faith in the public square in a presentation entitled, The African American Religious Experience; Theology & Practice, at a National Press Club breakfast Monday.
According to an [...]
From The Loft:
Posted by Bobby Eberle
The North Carolina Republican Party has put together an ad opposing gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore. The ad focuses on the duo’s endorsement of Barack Obama and notes that Obama is “too extreme for North Carolina.” To illuminate their point in this brief ad, clips are shown of [...]
From NewsMax:
By: Ronald Kessler
The Detroit chapter of the NAACP is featuring Barack Obama’s longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright, as keynote speaker at its annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner.The event this Sunday is billed as the largest annual sit-down dinner of African Americans in the country. At least 10,000 people are expected to hear the [...]
From Joel C. Rosenberg:
Note: I will be on “The Glenn Beck Show” on CNN Headline News each night this week discussing current events, Bible prophecy, and Dead Heat. On Friday, Glenn and I will do a one-hour special together.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., April 22, 2008)—At the end of last night’s segment on CNN regarding [...]
From WYFF4.com:
JONESVILLE, S.C.—The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.
Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.
It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are [...]
From Fox News:
MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a U.S. pastor to more than three years in prison for smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia.
Phillip Miles, from South Carolina, has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 3. He was arrested several days after customs agents at a Moscow airport found a [...]
From The Radio Patriot:
This morning’s fallout from yesterday’s premiere of Ben Stein’s movie EXPELLED shows up in this piece in the LA Times in which famed atheist (and mendacious) Richard Dawkins (prominently featured) characterizes a belief in a supernatural being tantamount to belief in “space aliens”. Gawd, this guy is condescending…
“I… sometimes hand an olive [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
BLOGGERS OF THE RIGHT, UNITE
Folks in Colorado, specifically those who have had to deal with the liberal media machine known as Colorado Media Matters, will be happy to know that center-right/Free-market bloggers are organizing and networking to counter the message of bigger government and more regulation on the lives/businesses of free [...]
From Fox News:
A father and his 10-year-old son were barred from swimming at a U.K. sports center because they are not Muslims, the London Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The father, identified only as David T., told the newspaper that he and his son were stopped before going for a swim at the Clissold Leisure Centre in [...]
From Fox News:
NEW YORK — A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants’ orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.
The Orthodox Jewish man, who wore a full beard, a black hat [...]
From NewsMax:
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
The Kurdish regional government in Northern Iraq is providing a safe haven to several thousand Iraqi Christians who have fled persecution in other parts of the country, government officials and local pastors told Newsmax.
Unlike refugee camps set up for some 100,000 Shia Muslims fleeing attacks from Sunnis, which are closely monitored [...]
From Human Events Online:
by Ann Coulter
The Democrats’ “Fake-Out America” adviser, Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff, must be beside himself. Despite Lakoff’s years spent training Democrats to “frame” their language to stop scaring Americans, B. Hussein Obama was caught on tape speaking candidly to other liberals in San Francisco last week.
One minute Obama was bowling in [...]
From Iran Focus:
Adnkronos International
ImageTehran, 15 April (AKI) – Seven ancient synagogues in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have been destroyed by local authorities.
The synagogues were in the Oudlajan suburb of Tehran, where many Iranian Jews used to live.
“These buildings, which were part of our cultural, artistic and architectural heritage were burnt to the ground,” said Ahmad [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Patrick J. Buchanan
It was said behind closed doors to the chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania.Like Dr. Schweitzer, home from Africa to address the Royal Society on the customs of the [...]
From Fox News:
A sermon last Friday by a prominent Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament openly declared that “the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital,” would soon be conquered by Islam.The fiery sermon, delivered by Yunis al-Astal and aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV, predicted that Rome would become “an [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TESTING, 1,2,3
As a home-school dad and unapologetic school choice advocate I often encounter the complaint from public school defenders that home-schoolers and private school students don’t have to take the same tests as the public school students. In short, I’ll take theirs if they’ll take mine. Click HERE and [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
It’s time to take off the party hat, Barack. Realizing bitterness and hope don’t mix, rural Americans are blowing out the candles on the Obama campaign cake as fast as they can after learning of the comments below which he made during a fundraising event in San Francisco Sunday:
“You go into some [...]
“Minnesota Madrassa”: the spreading of Cultural Jihad on your tax dollars
comment by Jerry Gordon
This Investor’s Business Daily editorial underscores our earlier posting, today, on Katherine Kersten’s revelatory column in the Minnesota Star Tribune, yesterday. It notes the following: Forced conversion is a genuine concern at TIZA. How many of its 300 students have recited the [...]
From NewsMax:
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Despite rosy statistics released by the State Department this week, families and children who have been approved to legally immigrate to the United States are still waiting in misery in Amman for U.S. embassy officials to process their visas, refugees and community leaders told Newsmax.
Iraqi Christian refugees who had been approved [...]
From kstp.com:
A Star Tribune newspaper column has prompted a state investigation into a charter school. A substitute teacher said a school in Inver Grove Heights is blurring the line of separation of church and state.
Being a charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, or TIZA, is supported by tax dollars. The teacher told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS [...]
From ACT! New York Metro:
Received from a NYC member. Thanks, Patti. M!
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PASTOR JEREMIAH WRIGHT WAS A MUSLIM
Could explain why Barak Hussein Obama selected THAT church?
Via Little Green Footballs April 9, 2008
A reader of Free Republic dug up an old article from The New Republic, where it stated explicitly that Obama’s pastor was a [...]
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