The man who guided President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiatives from 2002 to 2006 says the office has become a “faith-based farce” under President Barack Obama, and should be shut down.

Five years into Calderon’s war on drugs, which accumulated more than 50 thousand dead and a similar number of missing, the federal security forces did not escape the corruption that the president repeatedly attributed to police and local institutions.

According to the preliminary investigation PGR/SIEDO/UEIDCS/041/2012, made just last February 8, soldiers of the Sixth Military Zone killed citizens who were denouncing criminals and their bodies disappeared, in addition they would hide from PGR, shipments of drugs.

The investigation adds that so did the PF agents, who also identified, confronted adversaries of “Los Zetas”, they placed checkpoints where they guarded shipments. Also, they implemented the payroll of the Federal Support Forces (FFA) that sends the government temporarily to fight the narco.

And his involvement in executions of 39 Infantry Battalion, of Nuevo Casas Grandes, and now in the case of 69 Infantry Battalion, based in Saltillo.

The incriminating statements of the soldiers and officers arrested in March 2011 revealed how the corrupting power of “Los Zetas” escalated throughout the structure of the Sixth Military Zone, based in Saltillo, until the general Juan Manuel Vallejo Malibran, who served as chief of staff in the area and then was sent to Guanajuato.

In the case of Lieutenant Soto Núñez, when he was arrested they secured 300,000 pesos in cash and weapons. According to the statements of Sergeant Treviño Rios settled in the file, Soto belonged to Montiel Rumbo team, battalion commander.

Before the prosecutor, Sarabia narrated his criminal career, which began in 2005 as manager of the “little shops”, (narcomenudo) in Nuevo Laredo. Sarabia, is a compadre of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, “L-40″, who upon hiring him, assigned him the code “L-44″.

In late 2007 he joined “The operation”, as the escort of “L-40″ and his brother Omar Trevino Morales (L-42) while hiding in the cities of Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso and Matamoros, when the “Gulf Cartel”, then still allied to “Los Zetas”, were fighting for control of Nuevo Laredo against the now imprisoned Édgar Valdez Villareal “La Barbie” and Arturo Leyva, “El Barbas” was murdered in Cuernavaca.

Another involved was Emanuel Almaguer, Municipal Police Commander of Saltillo, who paid the payroll and received support for expenses of the patrols. He was executed on 5 December with his son of 12 years.

Humberto Torres was legal director of the State Health Department. Today he is a fugitive. Respondents contend that they gave him very high bribes (the first for $100 000) and gave him a BMW and a Mustang.

Despite this history and the confessions and accusations made by the detainees, who are almost a year in the power of the PGR, this office has not made any investigation against the former prosecutor Charles Torres. And it has not solved any cases of forced disappearance of any persons, although the president Felipe Calderon pledged since mid-2011 to accelerate research and respond to families seeking justice.

Sliding Down the Slippery Slope at Warp Speed

by Tom Blumer

A medical journal article ruthlessly proposes — and its editor defends — rhetorically dressed-up infanticide.

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Muslims blowing up churches.The horror turns your stomach. But criticizing Islam is the real crime. The world is on notice that criticizing Islam is the most serious crime against anti-humanity.

Where is the moral outrage?

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church in a central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, a state official said.The bomb detonated as worshippers attended the final Mass of the day at St. Finbar’s Catholic Church in Jos, a city where thousands have died in the last decade in religious and ethnic violence. Security at the gate of the church’s compound stopped the suspicious car and the bomber detonated his explosives during an altercation that followed, Plateau state spokesman Pam Ayuba said. 

The blast damaged the church’s roof, blew out its windows and destroyed a portion of the fence surrounding the church’s compound, Ayuba said. At least 10 people died, Ayuba said, while many others were wounded in the blast, including soldiers who also had been stationed at the church.

“He destroyed so many things,” the spokesman said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility though the city has been targeted in the past by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. The sect claimed a series of bombings in Jos on Christmas Eve in 2010 that killed as many as 80 people. The sect also claimed a similar church bombing on Feb. 26 on the main headquarters of the Church of Christ that killed three people and wounded 38 others.

The sect, which speaks to journalists through telephone conference calls at times of its choosing, could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday.

 

Muslim Brotherhood Group MPAC Says it was Consulted on LA Police Chief

We are under siege from within. Saboteurs. I blame the enemedia for covering up these treasonous acts.

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report » MPAC Says It Was Consulted On Choice Of L.A. Police Chief. (via Creeping)

The Muslim Public Affair Council (MPAC) has announced that the Mayor of Los Angeles has involved MPAC, along with other organizations, in the process of choosing the city’s next Chief Of Police. According to the announcement:

While making his decision on the next Chief of Police for the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last Friday reached out to local Muslim community leaders for their input on his big decision. Prior to the Mayor’s address, Deputy-Chief Michael Downing, spoke to a congregation of 1,000 worshipers after Friday prayers at the Islamic Center of Southern California, asking them for their prayers as the Mayor deliberates on his decision. During the meeting with Muslim leaders, the mayor asked for input on the qualities the community feels are especially significant for the new chief to posses. “As a member of the group of advisors who choose the last Los Angeles Police Chief, William Bratton, I strongly encourage the use of strong criteria — to not only have someone capable of upholding public safety but also to protect the civil liberties of all Angelenos,” said Dr. Maher Hathout, MPAC Senior Advisor. Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati re-enforced that “crisis management skills are of utmost importance. An example of this is the horrendous incident that took place at a synagogue in North Hollywood recently, where had the situation not been handled well, by Chief Downing, issues could have flared out of control. The acting Deputy-Chief reached out to leadership across the city to ensure proper communication. That is the type of leadership we need to have an effective leader to protect and serve Los Angeles.” Over the weekend, the mayor met with over 100 individuals to discuss his decision. The final candidates include Deputy Chief Michel Moore, First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell and Deputy Chief Charlie Beck. He as also invited MPAC leadership to meet the his pick for the new chief on Tuesday, November 3rd. The Los Angeles City Council is expected to confirm his choice by November 10. L.A.

MPAC was established initially in 1986 as the Political Action Committee of the Islamic Center of Southern California whose key leaders likely had their origins in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Since that time, MPAC has functioned as the political lobbying arm of the U.S. Brotherhood. MPAC has opposed virtually every count-terror initiative undertaken or proposed by the U.S. government. At times this opposition was said to be on civil-rights grounds but, just as often, MPAC claimed that U.S. counter-terror efforts were aimed at the U.S. Muslim community itself. MPAC has consistently supported and facilitated terrorism by supporting terrorist organizations and, more broadly, constructing an elaborate ideology defending the use of violence by Islamists and Islamist organizations. More than any other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organization, MPAC has developed extensive relationships with the U.S. government which have included numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and the FBI.

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• Los Angeles-based Muslim organization whose leadership defends extremist violence
• Opposes the shutdown of Muslim charities suspected of supporting terrorism
• Opposes the Patriot Act

Founded in 1988, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) describes itself as “a public service agency working for the civil rights of American Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their representatives.” The organization consists of eight chapters in California, and one each in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, and Iowa.

MPAC’s vision is “to establish a vibrant Muslim American community that will enrich American society through promoting the Islamic values of Mercy, Justice, Peace, Human Dignity, Freedom, and Equality for all.” In an effort to achieve this objective, the Council’s mission consists of: “effect[ing] positive change in public opinion and in policy with the purpose of realizing our vision”; “promoting an American Muslim identity”; “fostering an effective grassroots organization”; “training a future generation of men and women who share our vision”; “promoting an accurate portrayal of Islam and Muslims in mass media and popular culture”; “educating the American public, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about Islam”; “building alliances with Muslim and non-Muslims groups”; and “cultivating relationships with opinion- and decision-makers.”

From its inception, MPAC presented itself as more inclusive, and more open to peaceful coexistence with Jews and Christians, than other Arab and Muslim groups, and sought to make Americans comfortable with Islam by showing how much the religion embraced core American values. Throughout the 1990s, MPAC nurtured this image of moderation by organizing Muslim-Jewish dialogues in Los Angeles. Its members received invitations to the Clinton White House and appointments on federal commissions; they were similarly courted by the Bush campaign as the Clinton presidency drew to a close. MPAC’s Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was invited to address the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000. Shortly thereafter, however, MPAC endorsed George W. Bush for U.S. President.

MPAC’s centrist public image unraveled after the September 2000 launching of the Second Palestinian Intifada, when the Council severed its ties to the Jewish community and issued one-sided condemnations of Israel’s response to the Arab violence.

MPAC’s support for President Bush similarly disintegrated after 9/11, when the Council actively opposed Bush’s military incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as his “excesses” in the war on terror. In February 2003, MPAC joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council, and the American Muslim Alliance in forming a coalition to repeal and amend the Patriot Act, which these organizations depicted as an assault on the civil liberties of Americans, particularly Muslims. Seven months earlier (on July 14, 2002), MPAC National Director Ahmed Younis had stated that “if Thomas Jefferson or Madison or the like were alive today, they would go to John Ashcroft’s house and just shoot him.” (Ashcroft was the Attorney General who sought to enforce the Patriot Act.)

MPAC claims that Islam is a religion of peace and moderation, and contends that Muslim extremists are no more numerous or dangerous than fundamentalists in any other faith. “There are radical Christian, Jewish and Hindu movements, too,” says MPAC, “which are also capable of slaughtering innocents.” On occasion, MPAC has publicly condemned Islamic suicide bombings. These condemnations, however, are invariably accompanied by endorsements of Muslim “resistance” and “armed struggle” which MPAC frames as justified retribution against prior Israeli or Western transgressions.

Holding Israel entirely responsible for the “pattern of violence” in the Middle East, MPAC asserts that Hezbollah “could be called a liberation movement.” The Council likens Hezbollah members to American “freedom fighters hundreds of years ago whom the British regarded as terrorists.” In a November 1997 speech at the University of Pennsylvania, MPAC Co-Founder and Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati steadfastly refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization; he justified the existence of Hamas as a political entity and a provider of social programs and “educational operations”; and he equated jihad with the sentiments of the American statesman Patrick Henry, whose “Give me liberty or give me death” declaration was, in Al-Marayati’s view, “a way of looking at the term jihad from an American perspective.” In a 1999 position paper, MPAC justified Hezbollah’s deadly 1983 bombing of the American Marine barracks in Lebanon as a “military operation” rather than a terrorist attack. As Maher Hathout puts it: “Hezbollah is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its operations against military people, this is a legitimate target against occupation. … this is legitimate, this is an American value — freedom and liberty.”

MPAC’s worldview is further revealed by its many additional public statements on a wide array of issues and events:

• According to MPAC: “Israel was established by terrorism”; its founding “involved the unjust and illegal usurpation of Muslim and Christian land and rights”; and “to recognize the legitimacy of that crime is a crime in itself.”
• MPAC characterizes Israel as a “racist, chauvinistic and militaristic” state that is prosecuting “a war to steal land from Palestinians, to decimate their leadership, to humiliate the Palestinian people.”
• Condemning Israel’s “apartheid-like ideology,” MPAC warns: “History shows that Muslim and Christian religious rights are not safe under Israeli occupation.”
• Israelis are “the worst terrorists in the world,” says MPAC, “… Yet Israel is not found on the list of state sponsors of terrorism in the [U.S.] State Department Report on Terrorism.”
• MPAC co-sponsored pro-Palestinian rallies in the fall of 2000, where MPAC speakers chanted “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammed is coming for you!” The rally featured literature and many placards calling for the annihilation of the Jews and Israel.
• A few hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, MPAC Co-Founder Salam Al-Marayati told a Los Angeles talk radio audience: “If we’re going to look at suspects, we should look at the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what’s happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies.”
• On November 30, 2002, MPAC Vice Chairman Aslam Abdullah said: “Those who are part of the political Zionist movement in America … know it very well that without the support of the United States … their country, namely Israel, would not be able to pursue its apartheid and racist policies in the Middle East. They will use every means possible to ensure that American administration stays on their side. They will create false enemies, they will distort facts, they will manipulate events; and they will concoct and fabricate lies. They have taken America hostage.”
• MPAC was a signatory to a MAY 20, 2004 Joint Muslims/Arab-American Statement on Israeli Violence in Gaza, which “strongly condemn[ed]” Israel’s “indiscriminate killings of innocent Palestinians, including many children,” and its “demolition of Palestinian homes” — but made no mention of Arab terrorism.
• On March 23, 2005, MPAC National Director Ahmed Younis spoke at a Muslim Students’ Association-sponsored event, where he explained that because Adolf Eichmann was himself a Jew, it could accurately be said that Jews had killed themselves in the Holocaust.
• MPAC endorsed a November 1, 2001 document characterizing the 9/11 attacks as a legal matter to be addressed by criminal-justice procedures rather than military means. Ascribing the hijackers’ motives to alleged social injustices against which they were protesting, this document called on the United States “to promote fundamental rights around the world.”
• MPAC speakers regularly complain that the U.S. is “dominated” by Zionists and favors Jews over Muslims.
• Opposed to efforts to shut down Islamic charities that fund terrorism – alleging that such efforts interfere with freedom of religion and the exercise of the Muslim obligation to give to charity — MPAC states that the U.S. government should instead investigate what it terms Jewish “terrorists” like the Jewish Defense League. The Council signed and sponsored a petition to reinstate the assets of Hamas’ charitable front, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, after it was designated as a front for terrorist financing.
• According to MPAC, “A major threat to the safety of the Muslim community is the Islam-bashing that has been very evident since 9/11. There has been a steady stream of attacks on the Quran … These attacks are vicious, mean-spirited, and politically motivated. … [T]he most sustained and vitriolic [attacks] are from right-wing Christian groups led by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.”
• The MPAC 2002 Annual Banquet featured Ali Al-Mazrui, a SUNY-Binghamton professor who said: “There is also suspicion that some members of the Bush administration in collusion with Israel are more than ready to plunge the Middle East into turmoil in the hope that the final outcome would be to the territorial advantage of Israel and the strategic advantage of the United States. All this is part of the emerging external sadism of the United States, a readiness to hurt others abroad.”
• In a May 7, 2004 statement, MPAC said: “The scandal of Abu Ghraib was not an isolated incident but a manifestation of hate rooted in a distortion of American culture. The soldiers charged for torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners were reflecting, among other things, an irrational hatred against Arabs and Muslims. Hatred in Abu Ghraib is inextricably linked with hatred increasingly fostered by some elements of our government, our media, and other major national institutions.”
• After a series of arrests made in connection with an August 2006 airline terror scare in London, President Bush called the uncovered plot “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.” MPAC spokeswoman Edina Lekovic reacted, “When the people we need most in the fight against terrorism, American Muslims, feel alienated by the President’s characterization of these supposed terrorists, that does more damage than good.”

In September 2005, MPAC joined with the anti-war organization Code Pink for Peace to sponsor a Culver City, California event promoting a new book by UC-Irvine professor Mark LeVine, who contends that an “Axis of Empathy” is the only strategy that can bring about a long-term solution to the war between radical Islam and the West. MPAC has also worked closely with International ANSWER, which has intimate ties to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.

In November 2010, MPAC reported that it had recently given — to some 2,200 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) responsible for screening passengers and luggage at U.S. airports — a two-month training program in cultural awareness about Islam and Muslims. MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC Civic Outreach Coordinator Saadia Khan, and two MPAC volunteers conducted the trainings at Los Angeles International Airport. According to MPAC, the four trainers taught the TSOs “how to properly handle a Quran”; they “discussed the different ways Muslim women and men choose to cover or dress”; and they “allowed trainers to discuss the common practice of Muslims praying in various areas of the airport, adding that they do this because LAX does not have a designated prayer area as other airports do.”

MPAC has long worked to promote positive portrayals of Islam and Muslims in movies and television programs. Shortly after 9/11, the organization established its own Hollywood Bureau for this purpose. Since then, MPAC has consulted with the producers of such TV shows as “24,” ”Bones,” ”Lie to Me,” ”7th Heaven,” ”Saving Grace” and “Aliens in America.” The organization also has held meetings with top network executives from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, and organizes a Muslim-inspired version of a Hollywood awards show each year for productions that advance the public’s understanding of Islam. In 2009, for instance, this event recognized “The Simpsons,” for an episode that featured young Bart befriending a Muslim boy named Bashir. In early 2011, MPAC announced that it would soon be hosting a series of workshops — taught by Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated veterans of the entertainment industry — to further promote more positive images of Muslims in film and television.

In November 2011, MPAC held a Washington, DC event in honor of Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda, the Muslim Brotherhood affiliate that had recently emerged victorious in the political elections in Tunisia. Ghannouchi is a longtime Islamist who, during the 1990s, was invited to the United States by Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian but was banned from the country. Yet by MPAC’s reckoning, Ghannouchi is “one of the most important figures in modern Islamic political thought and theory.”

Just a few months prior to the November 2011 event, in an interview with an Arab-language website, Ghannouchi had stated that the Arab Spring “will achieve positive results on the path to the Palestinian cause and threaten the extinction of Israel.” Added Ghannouchi: “I give you the good news that the Arab region will get rid of the bacillus of Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the leader of Hamas, said that Israel will disappear by the year 2027. I say that this date may be too far away, and Israel may disappear before this.”
Parts of this profile are adapted, with permission, from Stand4Facts.org.

 

Keystone Cronies: State Agency Colludes with CAIR-PA

by Hillel Zaremba

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission allows the terror-tied group to file false “bias” incidents.

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Will the Iran Negotiations Be Too Big to Fail?

by Rick Richman

The nature of negotiations that are too big to fail is that no one ever wants to declare them a failure.

VIDEO: Megyn Kelly Slams Sandra Fluke’s Sense Of “Entitlement” – Shares that the average starting salary for first year out of Georgetown Law School is…
2. VIDEO: Sebelius Has ‘No Idea’ If Obamacare Adds to the Deficit – Has she read the bill?
3. VIDEO: Nancy Pelosi Refuses to Condemn Bill Maher’s Comments
4. VIDEO: Eric Holder nailed on Harry Reid’s Bush-era recess appointment precedent
5. VIDEO: CNN beclowns itself painting Breitbart editor-in-chief as racist
6. VIDEO: Students Accused Of Racism For Chanting ‘USA’ At Game
7. VIDEO: Museum of Government Waste
8. VIDEO: Napolitano unaware of how-to video on beating TSA scanners
9. VIDEO: Obama Breaks His Promises to Israel – see the proof here: This election year, just as he did in ‘08, Obama is appearing before pro-Israel groups to make promises to them which, each time he makes them, he violates. In a YouTube world, he can no longer get away with this skullduggery.
10. VIDEO: Is China selling arms to Iran?

NYPD’s Domestic Intelligence Program: Should They Apologize? Al Kuilan The FBI is an investigative agency that does a superb job in connecting the dots. The NYPD’s domestic intelligence program’s undertaking is to find the dots. Can one operate without the other?

Obama’s Risky Ploy – Iran Leslie Sacks Obama feels more comfortable with Turkey’s Erdogan and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah than he does with one of America’s greatest allies, Israel’s Netanyahu. Obama has yet to visit Israel, yet he waxed eloquent in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Are Americans fooled?

U.S. Court Sides with Iranian Opposition Group vs. U.S. State Department Ryan Mauro The MEK renounced violence in 2001 and, in 2003, it voluntarily disarmed. Every member held in Iraq was reviewed for prosecution as terrorists and no charges were brought. Is it now wise to delist the MEK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization?

Who Really Wants War? Gadi Adelman The question of Israel attacking Iran is getting to be a situation of “not if, but when”. Iran says their nuclear ambitions are strictly peaceful, Israel says it is a matter of their own survival.

Ignoring Islamo-Fascism at our Peril Alan Caruba The administration’s magical thinking about the Islamo-fascist threat makes one wonder why it has a Department of Homeland Security.

Why is the European Commission Afraid of Hungary? Alex Alexiev Hungary is being bulldozed by unelected European Commission bureaucrats who also have forced unelected governments on Greece and Italy while imposing on Europeans thousands of not-voted-upon regulations. What went so horribly wrong here?

Today’s Hot Topics We choose, you peruse. White House Official Says Obama Insisted Netanyahu Postpone Attack on Iran Until After November Elections…[YNET H/T -WEASEL ZIPPERS] U.S. offers condolences as U.S. service member investigated for alleged killing of Afghan civilians [FOX] ‘IAF strikes in Gaza kill 2 Islamic Jihad terrorists’ [JPOST] Iran rattles sabers: ’11,000 missiles ready to launch’ at Israel, US targets [DAILY CALLER] At Least 10 Killed as Suicide Bomber Attacks Catholic Church During Mass [CNS] Top Democrat’s speeches for terrorist group probed [WT] Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers [REUTERS] U.S. Report: Sanctions on Iran full of holes, failed to cause ‘demonstrable shift’ on nukes [WORLD TRIBUNE] Flight attendant restrained after 9/11 rant [CBS] PHOTO ESSAY: Japan remembers the victims of the earthquake and tsunami on first anniversary [TELEGRAPH]

It’s the War, Stupid, Not the Nukes Dr. Michael Ledeen Regime change in Tehran is the only way to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons project. It’s also the only way to win the war Iran is waging against us, in tandem with Syria, Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and a collection of wicked actors from al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad to international drug dealers.

Colorado’s Own Green Loan Sinkhole Michelle Malkin Like the rosy projections the Obama Administration used to justify pouring half-a-billion dollars in eco-subsidies down the now-bankrupt Solyndra solar drain, Abound Solar’s financial outlook was based on mathematical make-believe too. Hope plus change equals fail.

Drug Gangs Terrorizing Central America Alarms United Nations Jim Kouri, CPP Some Mexican drug cartels have moved their drug trafficking operations to Central America, resulting in increased levels of violence, kidnapping, bribery, torture and homicide there. So much for those low-cost retirement plans.

 

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ObamaCare’s ‘terrible’ 10

 

A new report from The Heritage Foundation lays out “The 10 terrible provisions of ObamaCare that you may not have heard of.”

 

• Obama to tout energy progress, oil imports down (Really? $5 a gallon and electric plants shut down!)

  Mon Mar 12 06:30:38 2012 · by tobyhill · 22 replies 

  reuters ^ | 3/12/2012 | Reuters

  President Barack Obama receives a report on Monday showing a one million barrel per day decline in U.S. oil imports in 2011, as the White House arms itself against election-year attacks on his energy policies, which Republicans blame for high gas prices. Obama, a Democrat, is stepping up defense of his record amid concern higher oil prices may lift gasoline to $5 a gallon in some parts of the country this summer, posing a potential threat to the president’s bid for reelection on Nov. 6. “When President Obama took office, America imported 11 million barrels of oil a day. By…

• Taliban vows revenge against ‘American savages’ after US soldier allegedly kills 16 Afghan civilians

  Mon Mar 12 05:56:40 2012 · by carriage_hill · 35 replies 

  Fox News ^ | March 12, 2012 | FoxNews.com

  KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban is vowing revenge against the U.S. after an American soldier allegedly shot and killed 16 Afghan civilians in a Sunday rampage. In a statement on their website, the militant group promised to “take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr.” They added “American savages” committed the “blood-soaked and inhumane crime.” “If the perpetrators of this massacre were in fact mentally ill then this testifies to yet another moral transgression by the American military because they are arming lunatics in Afghanistan who turn their weapons against the defenseless Afghans without giving…

Church-based community service doesn’t count

 

Alliance Defense Fund is coming to the aid of an honors student in Virginia who was denied community service credit because her volunteering was faith-based.

SPLC a ‘hate group’ by its own definition

 

Christian attorney and pro-family activist Matt Barber says it’s becoming more evident that the Southern Poverty Law Center and its credibility are “spiraling down the abyss of irrelevance.”

El Paso Christians facing jail time

 

Alliance Defense Fund is asking the Texas Supreme Court to expedite an appeal of an El Paso recall election case, as numerous residents have reason to be concerned about the possibility of going to jail.

Judge’s ‘conflict of interest’ re: voter ID law

 

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has filed a formal complaint against a judge who reportedly issued a “biased” ruling to block implementation of the state’s new voter ID law.

Great Lakes State cleaning up abortuaries

 

A report from Michigan’s largest pro-life organization has motivated the state to take action to clean up the abortion industry.

Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid fraud

 

Another whistleblower has launched a lawsuit against Texas Planned Parenthood on charges of fraud.

Anti-Semitic ‘cowardice’

 

A Jewish group at a California university says a recent speaking tour featuring two Israeli soldiers could have fueled a recent act of anti-Semitism on campus.

Lawsuit to follow unconstitutional arrest?

 

Jackson, Mississippi, might face a federal lawsuit over the way it recently handled a group of pro-life demonstrators at Murrah High School.

Economics, changes hard on teachers

 

Public school teacher satisfaction is at its lowest point in more than 20 years, according to a just-released survey.

California’s high-debt bullet train

 

A California state senator says if the state wants to take on the nation’s first bullet train, it ought to propose a sustainable project that makes sense.

Update on Pastor Chuck Smith

 

During a recent airing of a popular Christian radio show, a beloved California pastor discussed his legacy, his battle with cancer, and a possible successor.

Town suspends traditional prayer at meeting

 

For years, the Vermont town of Franklin near the Canadian border has started its town meetings with prayer, but a lawsuit has stopped that from happening this year.

Santorum takes Kansas, Romney strong in Wyoming

 

Rick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses in a rout on Saturday and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney showed strength in Wyoming, a weekend prelude to suddenly pivotal Southern showdowns in the week ahead.

Catholic diocese ends funding over ‘gay’ comments

 

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento will no longer fund a charity for the homeless because the charity’s director spoke in support of abortion rights and same-gender “marriage.”

Robert Schuller leaves Crystal Cathedral board

 

Dr. Robert Schuller and his wife Arvella announced “with great sadness” Saturday that they resigned from the board of directors of the Crystal Cathedral, the televangelist ministry he founded four decades ago and made famous through his “Hour of Power” television program.

 

Mormon Church restricts access to Jewish names

 

Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims.

Recent poll results (Mar. 5-9, 2012)

 

See the results from our poll questions last week.

Adopt-a-city program targets orphans

 

Bethany Christian Services is expanding its approach to helping children in impoverished countries.

• Obama’s Approval Rate Plunges Due To Gas Prices

  Mon Mar 12 06:57:31 2012 · by Past Your Eyes · 40 replies 

  Asia One News ^ | March 12, 2012 | AFP

  WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating, weighed down by soaring gas prices, has plunged below 50 per cent, giving his political opponents what appears to be an opening in the November election, a new opinion poll showed. The survey by ABC News and The Washington Post indicated that only 46 per cent of Americans now approved of the way Obama is handling his job and 50 per cent disapproved. The situation was a reversal from early February when 50 per cent approved of the president’s performance and 46 per cent disapproved. According to the survey, the drop…

WH office now ‘faith-based farce’

 

The man who guided President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiatives from 2002 to 2006 says the office has become a “faith-based farce” under President Barack Obama, and should be shut down.

Atheist protests ‘Year of the Bible’ on billboard

 

A billboard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that protests legislation designating 2012 as the “Year of the Bible” in Pennsylvania is being criticized by a legislator who calls it racist.

Fake Christian concerts

 

A federal judge has sentenced a promoter of Christian rock concerts to more than four years in prison for a Ponzi scheme involving nearly $1 million.

• COMMUNIST PARTY AWARDS REP. DANNY K DAVIS (D-ILL). OBAMA PRAISES

  Mon Mar 12 07:46:35 2012 · by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny · 6 replies 

  THE FREEDOM POST ^ | March 12, 2012 | Matthew Burke

  The Breitbart vetting of President Obama continues with this incredibly revealing, damaging, disturbing and embarrassing video starring Democrat (or, should I now say, “Communist”) Congressman, Danny K. Davis, serving the 7th district of Illinois (Chicago, of course). Here, Congressman Davis is walking out of the offices of the Communist Party USA, and is receiving an award for a “Lifetime of Inspiring Leadership”, from People’s World, the news arm for the Communist Party USA, Barack Obama is praising Davis, who he knew very well at the time, stating, “You just heard from one of the best congressman in the country, and…

• Obama’s Approval Rate Plunges Due To Gas Prices

  Mon Mar 12 06:57:31 2012 · by Past Your Eyes · 40 replies 

  Asia One News ^ | March 12, 2012 | AFP

  WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating, weighed down by soaring gas prices, has plunged below 50 per cent, giving his political opponents what appears to be an opening in the November election, a new opinion poll showed. The survey by ABC News and The Washington Post indicated that only 46 per cent of Americans now approved of the way Obama is handling his job and 50 per cent disapproved. The situation was a reversal from early February when 50 per cent approved of the president’s performance and 46 per cent disapproved. According to the survey, the drop…