Drug Smuggling Music Is Dangerous to Your Health
It's a very grim sign of the times.
Among the best of the obituary columns on Manute Bol is this one by Jon Sheilds in the Wall Street Journal.
Congressman Tom Rooney, a Republican representing Florida's 16th District, has an excellent article published in The Caller detailing why removing the travel ban to Cuba would be a blow against human rights. Here's a portion of that article:
"What should be done with a man who infiltrated the terrorist group Hamas, spied for Israeli intelligence and broke up terror attacks, saving countless Israeli, as well as Palestinian, lives? Most people would say he should be honored. Not the U.S. government, it's trying to deport him."
Amy Carmichael landed on the shores of India in 1895. Soon she and her band of native women, called "The Starry Cluster," began teaching the gospel wherever they could gain an audience. But on a trip to the village of Pannaivilai in 1901, Amy met Preena, a child of seven who had been sold by her mother to the Hindu temple to become a temple prostitute.
While it is true that President Obama's dismal performance has been so terribly bad that even some liberal journalists have dared to criticize him, the mainstream press remains solidly in his corner. Yes, the Obama administration is so clutzy, so clueless that the media may not find enough to really champion him. But they can still help him out (and help him out plenty) by simply refusing to give proper coverage to the news.
Rory Cooper has one of the must-reads of the day, one that outlines the 10 steps the Obama administration should do right now (71 days have already been wasted) to deal with the oil spill crisis. I print below an excerpt of the article but for the details behind each of the 10 items in the "to do" list you'll have to follow this link to the original piece in The Foundry of the Heritage Foundation.
The weird deconstruction process that Franky Schaeffer is going through (the Bible simply calls it "apostasy") is an agonizing thing to watch. For like so many others who walk away from the moorings of their faith, Franky has found himself adrift in a sea of irrationality, ego, a lust for acceptance by somebody -- anybody -- petty grievances, and deep anger. Well, okay; he always had that.
One of my regular reads is The Corner, one of the fine blogs run by staffers of National Review Online. I've urged you to make that a frequent stop as well for there you'll find such interesting, helpful and well-written memos as these I gathered last night:
It hasn't received much press but I thought you should know that Shirley Phelps-Roper, one of the leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church which, among other things, pickets the funeral processions for American soldiers killed in combat, has lost her latest legal action against Nebraska Dave Heinemen and the Nebraska Funeral Picketing Law.
Liberal journalists, like liberal politicians, never really apologize for anything. And they get away with it. They can wish someone tortured and dead, they can make cruel and racist jokes, they can smear and slander up a storm -- and in the end, the public is supposed to shrug it off and let things go on as before.
It's often said that Washington, D.C. is a town full of idiots. Heaven knows, I won't dispute that. However, the much greater problem is that Washington, D.C. is a town full of leftist ideologues who are deliberate enemies of both the Constitution and common sense.
Very sad news last night -- Planned Parenthood, the eugenics-based abortion organization that has been exposed as a criminal as well as an immoral outfit of thugs, will be opening an abortion clinic at 93rd and Maple in northwest Omaha.
S. E. Cupp, writing in the New York Daily News, bemoans the Embarrassment-In-Chief:
Last December I alerted you to the disturbing fact that Nickelodeon, the TV and online "children’s entertainment" conglomerate, is providing video games involving sex play and violence on its popular website, AddictingGames.com.
Elena Kagan would be a disaster on the Supreme Court.
The New Orleans newspaper that first broke the story of the Obama administration's lies about the seven National Academy of Engineering experts who supported a complete moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf (they didn't at all) now has a stinging editorial against Team Obama's ongoing efforts to force that moratorium come hell, high water, or a federal judge.
Why the Pro-Abortion Movement Is Bummed Out
Lamenting to pro-abortion (and dying) Newsweek magazine last spring, Nancy Keenan from NARAL admitted that the "thrill is gone" from the pro-abortion movement. In particular, she noted they are losing the young, losing the enthusiasm, and losing the battle against technology.
When unabashed Democrat stalwarts in the press like Richard Cohen over at the Washington Post write a column like this one, you'd better know Barack Obama is in a world of hurt. Yes, the notoriously naive Cohen still believes that the President is a relatively moderate fellow (as opposed to those "archconservatives" like George W. Bush) and he is sure that Obama is a gifted orator with "a shimmering intellect."
The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Though Colorado Democrats and their pals in the press are trying to downplay (even discredit) a Denver Post poll which asked Coloradans about illegal immigration, the results were compelling. For despite all of the biased reporting the liberal media across the nation has done on the new Arizona law, most citizens of her neighbor to the northeast like very much what Arizona did.
Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials, federal agents tell Fox News. 
Party down in Riyadh nowadays and you're facing barbaric beatings and a stretch in a stinking Saudi Arabian prison. And to suffer this fate, your party doesn't need to have been loud, raucous, or destructive. It only needs to have members of both sexes!
"The Talking Donkey," an exposition of Numbers 22 and a few other Scriptures, was the first sermon in our "Beasts of the Bible" series over at Faith Bible Church.
The mainstream press, which has been so enamored with the hyped promises of embryonic stem cell research, has failed to accurately report the dismal failures of that research. Nor have they bothered much to report on the good news stories all around them of the amazing successes already achieved that have come through the use of adult stem cells.
Yes, I too am standing with Arizona in her fight against illegal immigration.
"For half a century, the federal government’s role in education has continued to increase significantly with no positive impact on student learning."
It was almost a year ago that I linked to this Chuck Colson BreakPoint article -- an article in which he exposed the cruelty of the British health care system and its "checkbook euthanasia" policies. As Colson explained, the rules for excluding certain patients from receiving medical treatment (like newborn baby Jayden Capewell who died because he was denied proper medical assistance) were written up by NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Morocco, a nation that receives millions of dollars every year from taxpayers in the U.S., is the latest country to force a mass deportation of Christians, over 100 of them Americans. It's an alarming injustice, all the more dramatic because Morocco was supposed to be a "moderate" Islamic government.
The Department of Homeland Security Reports that it has nothing to show for spending 1.3 Billion during the last five years to build a fence to keep out illegal aliens, the fence along our border with Mexico doesn’t exist and the money is gone.
Since 2009, at least five nationwide polls have confirmed that a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.
There will be no headlines in the newspapers, no TV camera crews on the scene. But six children were brutally murdered this morning in Bellevue, Nebraska -- less than a mile away from the local police headquarters, almost directly across the street from a church and a school.
As agreed upon by many trusted sources, these are two of today's must-reads. Both concern the furious but flailing presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.
