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A European colleague of mine lives and works in India. Recently, he came to visit. His story was unbelievable. For the last few years, every day, day after day, he, his wife, and his wifeÂ’s family have been harassed and attacked by Muslim marauders. Both his property and his medical clinic have been attacked; his Hindu wife and relatives have had their cows stolen and slaughtered, their outbuildings destroyed, their farm property taken over. The police would not help. He had to hire private security to guard his free clinic. Finally, Muslims attacked the clinic when it was filled with...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of PsalmsPsalm 81 To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.A Psalm of Asaph. 1. Sing aloud to God our strength; Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob. 2. Raise a song and strike the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the lute. 3. Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our solemn feast day. 4. For this is a statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob. 5. This He established in Joseph as a testimony, When He...

"Tis that wonderfully busy time of year again, and I haven't had time to create a new article for Yom Kippur just yet. Hopefully I'll have time in the next couple of days. In the meantime, here are links to some of the articles I've written on the subject in the past: Yom Kippur, Part 1: Traditions and BloodYom Kippur, Part 2: The Exodus and the FutureDid God Reject the Sacrifice Because of Yeshua? A Response to Rabbi Singer And an overview of the Feasts for those who might not have seen it before: The Feasts and the Exodus Shalom.

Over the past couple of years there’s been numerous rumors and reports about multiple film projects that will bring Ian Fleming to the big screen. The biggest of these is one simply titled “Fleming” which is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s company, Appian Way. In that film, which at one point was set to include scenes from the famed Thunderball legal case, Fleming may be portrayed by DiCaprio himself. Another production titled “Ian Fleming” is currently being developed by Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films, based on Andrew Lycett’s extensive 1995 biography Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond. Last

The PA prime minister will walk out if the freeze on settlements is not renewed on September 26. You don’t need to be prescient to see that coming. Talkbacks (26) The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we’re leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo Accords of 1993. The logic then was that complicated issues could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things would get easier over time. In fact, they...

The distinction frequently drawn between Islam, which is said to be moderate and peaceable, and Islamism, which is understood as a perversion of the cardinal tenets of the faith, seems both academic and unhelpful. Dutch politician Geert Wilders has claimed that no distinction exists “between good Islam and bad Islam. There is Islam and that’s it.” Might he be right? There must obviously be something inherent in Islam which allows for large numbers of believers to kill and maim without compunction while sacrificing their own lives in the process. We do not see Christian or Jewish “terrorists” ramming jetliners into...

Guns don't kill people… PEOPLE kill people! Sounds flip, but it's undeniably true. Guns are tools, inanimate objects devoid of feelings. When unassisted by the human animal a gun is no more dangerous than a paperweight. Subsequently, any debate on how to control these THINGS is not only silly, but a waste of time. What we should be debating is how to control the MISUSE of guns… how to control the PEOPLE who have them. While the vast majority of gun owners are responsible, law-abiding folk, there are others (we'll call them the "Bad Guys") who need to be prompted...

You might not have seen it reported, but the Senate will vote this morning on whether to repeal part of ObamaCare that it passed only months ago. The White House is opposed, but this fight is likely to be the first of many as Americans discover—as Nancy Pelosi once famously predicted—what's in the bill. The Senate will vote on amendments to the White House small business bill that would rescind an ObamaCare mandate that companies track and submit to the IRS all business-to-business transactions over $600 annually. Democrats tucked the 1099 reporting footnote into the bill to raise an estimated...

March 21, 2010, the day ObamaCare was passed, will be remembered as the day that the Democrats thwarted the will of the people and sealed their fate in November. This time last year, the biggest names in media were still openly deriding tea parties, that is, when they were bothering to pay the movement any attention whatsoever. In only one year, the tea party movement has gone from the force liberals loved to ignore, to the force they loved to mock with their own vulgar epithets. It has has now become the force they grudgingly respect in the way liberals...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters in the U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 3 percent are undecided and 11 percent of those who do name a candidate say they could change their mind by Election Day.

Bush is charged with putting the economy in a ditch. But who really dug the hole? President Obama is correct. Our economy is in a ditch. He has used that analogy to blame Republicans uncountable times. He did so recently, Sept 5, campaigning in Parma, Ohio, where he pleaded, “Do we return to the same failed policies that ran our economy into a ditch, or do we keep moving forward with policies that are slowly pulling us out? But it was not the economic policies of George W. Bush and the GOP that got us into this economic ditch. It...

Wild gyrations on Wall Street have made U.S investors leery of buying individual stocks and skeptical that the market is a fair place to park their money. In an Associated Press-CNBC poll of investors, 61 percent said the market's recent volatility has made them less confident about buying and selling individual stocks. And the majority of those surveyed -- 55 percent -- said the market is fair only to some investors. The survey confirms that average investors have been growing more concerned about the stock market as a safe place to invest for retirement. And news about the market has...

So many educated people are afflicted by the equivalent of a blank stare where genuine thought should exist. It’s as if they’re sleepwalkers, oblivious to reality, or under plexiglass, where they can’t hear anything with which they don’t already agree. Here’s a case in point. A woman who identifies herself as a professor at a Chicago university (it’s Northeastern Illinois) publishes this touching note in the New York (Muslim) Times today. Gail Dreyfuss describes an “encounter” she had with a student who was wearing both hijab (a headscarf) and a pin which read “I am a Muslim.” I guess the...

Two recent strings of racial attacks—one black on white in Des Moines Iowa, the other black on Hispanic in Staten Island, New York—elicited very different reactions from both law enforcement and the mainstream media. Since April, Staten Island law enforcement filed 11 “bias related” crimes committed against Mexicans, 10 of which were perpetrated by blacks. The Los Angeles Times gave an example on August 18 where, “a Mexican teen-ager was robbed by a young black man armed with a knife who used racial slurs.” The real culprit to the liberals in New York are not the thugs who committed the...

Neither candidate has addressed the unfolding multimillion dollar scandal, but one will eventually have to. The Florida race for governor between millionaire Rick Scott (Republican) and state CFO Alex Sink (Democrat) has a $30 million dollar pink elephant in the room: a lack of oversight in the stateÂ’s purchasing mechanism that has led to the loss of taxpayer dollars totaling in the tens of millions, leading to concerns of mismanagement at the stateÂ’s main purchasing entity. In a race already fraught with negative allegations on both sides, the problems at the Department of Management Services (DMS) puts forth the added...

Did this talk about taking back Denali National Park seem weird and off-the-cliff to you? It shouldn't have because we were forewarned. Instead of 'What the...?!', our reaction should have been 'Ah-ha'. Why on earth did Joe Miller pick on Denali right away? Couldn't he be content with more modest targets, then quietly work up to ... the crown jewel of the Alaska National Parks which everybody in the entire nation instantly recognizes? We were forewarned, because we now have "Guns In Parks." The key part of the new rules is that the regulation of guns in the national parks...

(CNSNews.com) – The Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau (RMCVB), which is funded in part by hotel taxes, is promoting an initiative by local businesses to attract homosexuals to Virginia’s capital. The “Rainbow Over Richmond” campaign launched on Aug. 29 as a landing page on the RMCVB’s Web site. According to the RMCVB Web site, the organization’s “primary funding” comes from a tax that hotel guests pay for lodging in five localities that make up the Richmond region – a transient lodging tax. “The RMCVB receives 1.75 percent of the transient lodging sales in the Richmond region,” states the Web...

Word For The Day, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". irk [urk] -vtto irritate, annoy, or exasperate [1300–50; ME irken to grow tired, tire < ON yrkja to work, c. OE wyrcan; see work]

Italian police have seized $1.9 billion worth of assets from green energy businessman Vito Nicastri who allegedly has ties to boss of bosses Matteo Messina Denaro from Cosa Nostra as reported by Lorenzo Totaro for Bloomberg. Among the assests seized from Nicastri are 100 properties and 43 wind power companies. In recent years the Sicilian Mafia has infiltrated the windfarm industry -- so-called "lords of the wind" -- to exploit generous government subsidies for the clean energy.

President Barack Obama has long sought to open a dialogue between his administration and evangelical religious leaders, and he has even found common ground on some issues with conservative groups like the Southern Baptist Convention and the National Association of Evangelicals. But even though Obama may have won over some religious leaders, he’s losing the battle to win over their congregants. Though several moderate to conservative evangelical pastors support the president, polls show that a significant percentage of conservative Christians remain skeptical about Obama’s sincerity when it comes to the values that he says they share, and many say they...