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Ruth King

ANDREW McCARTHY: COERCING CONFORMITY ****

Hillary & Co. create a climate for bullying.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/367132/print

In “protecting the rights of all people to worship the way they choose,” then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton vowed “to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”

Mrs. Clinton required translation into the language of truth, as she generally does when her lips are moving. By the “rights” of “all people” to “worship” as “they choose,” she meant the sharia-based desire of Muslim supremacists to foreclose critical examination of Islam. Madame Secretary, you see, was speechifying before her friends at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) — the bloc of 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinian territories.

At that very moment in July 2011, Christians were under siege in Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Iraq, and Iran — being gradually purged from those Islamic countries just as they’d been purged from Turkey, which hosted Mrs. Clinton’s speech. As Christians from the Middle East to West Monroe, La., can tell you, the Left and its Obama vanguard are not remotely interested in their “rights . . . to worship the way they choose.”

What they choose, after all, is to honor Christian tenets about sexuality, freedom of conscience, and the sanctity of life. Those tenets, just like honest criticism of Islam, are consigned to the category Clinton calls “what we abhor.” And if progressives abhor something, it somehow always becomes everyone’s duty to make certain that those who embrace that something “don’t feel that they have . . . support.”

DANIEL GREENFIELD: ANTHONY AND HUMA…THE COMEBACK TEAM???

URL to article: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/anthony-weiner-threatens-comeback-over-tea-party/

If there’s anything that can make people hate the Tea Party, it’s being held responsible for another Anthony Weiner comeback. But it’s not like Anthony has a choice.

It’s not the Tea Party’s fault that he has to make a comeback. It’s Huma’s. She’s not about to spend the rest of her life as a failed agent without an important politician to manipulate. And if Hillary goes down in flames in 2016, Anthony Weiner is her fallback position.

So she’s going to take away his computer, feed him all the saltpeter he can stomach and get him out there and running for Congress if it’s the last thing she does.

“What’s next? I’ll keep you posted on my plans,” Anthony Weiner writes. “But I hope we keep the band together. You have been an amazing resource and the network we have all become part of has helped lead the debate on national health care, the need for a smarter and more compassionate approach to the growing pockets of need in our nation, and we all have sought to make the argument that too often we progressives come to knife fights carrying library books.

“Although my Republican friends have to decide what to do with the tea party wackadoo wing of their party, it does not constitute a strategy to simply sit back and watch them immolate.

GIDON BEN-ZVI: BILL PRESENTED TO ISRAELI PARLIAMENT TO ANNEX THE JORDAN VALLEY

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/27/knesset-member-proposes-bill-that-would-annex-the-jordan-valley-forever/#

In response to the continuation of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, despite the recent escalation of terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria, Knesset Member Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) has presented a bill for Israel to annex the Jordan Valley, Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported on Friday.

Yogev’s bill has the support of MKs from right-wing parties, partners in Israel’s governing coalition, and even members of the left-leaning opposition.

An excerpt from the bill reads as follows: “Over the course of years, a consensus has built around the Jordan Valley with respect to its importance to Israel,” Ma’ariv reports. In an apparent appeal to Israel’s political opposition, the bill asserts that the first, “…valley communities were established by the labor movement… any future political settlement must include the Jordan Valley remaining under Israeli sovereignty.”

According to MK Yogev, “Israel should decide to exercise dominion over this vast region, whose Palestinian [Arab] population is sparse, and openly state that the Jordan Valley will remain under Israeli sovereignty forever.”

THE REPUGNANT MAHMOUD ABBAS: GUY MILLIERE….A TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH original column included below

http://www.dreuz.info/2013/12/le-repugnant-mahmoud-abbas/ As expected, a midnight mass was celebrated by Fouad Twal in Bethlehem , the town where Christians are persecuted and sometimes killed by Muslims and where , at the rate things are going, Fouad Twal will soon probably be the only Christian , and show even more his face fraud and second status knife […]

A MESSAGE FROM JOHN REDWOOD M.P.: EUROPE WILL BE OUTPACED BY AMERICA AND ASIA

Forecasts reveal growing irrelevance of Europe to the progress of the world economy. China’s population will grow to be more than twice that of Europe’s and India’s will be more than 2.4 times. Europe will make its position worse by continuing with high energy prices, relatively high taxes, and an excess of poor regulation http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4514/why_europe_will_be_outpaced_by_asia_and_america […]

OBAMA’S APPALLING YEAR….DR. JAMES BOYS

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4513/obama_s_2013_appalling_could_2014_be_better This year has not been good for President Obama. Dr. James Boys takes a look at Obama’s stunning 2013 policy fumbles, which look even worse in light of the promise brought by his re-election barely one year ago. From domestic to foreign policy, it’s been something of a nightmare. How could 2014 possibly be […]

ALAN CARUBA: AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION

  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/america-a-christian-nation It is a great regret that arrogant atheists attack Christmas at this time of year and that too many institutions from schools to stores feel intimidated enough to remove mention of it. It is one thing to deny the existence of God, but the attacks are intended to undermine the faith of millions […]

America’s Bright Fuel Future Faces a Hostile White House by WILLIAM C. TRIPLETT II

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/americas-bright-fuel-future-faces-a-hostile-white-house?f=puball The International Energy Agency (IEA) made a mistake. Formed in 1974 at the behest of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and headquartered in Paris, the IEA was designed to be the organization for energy-consuming countries, countering OPEC, the organization representing the producers. It never really had much of a political role, and these days, […]

Mariah Carey Gives Her All to Angolan Dictator By Bruce Bawer

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/mariah-carey-gives-her-all-to-angolan-dictator/print/ Millions love her music, look up to her, indeed worship her not only as a musical artist but as an exemplary human being. But on December 15, in return for a hefty payout, Mariah Carey held two performances in Angola that were – as the New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) revealed four days […]

A New “Animal Farm” Targets Capitalism By Mark Tapson

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/a-new-animal-farm-targets-capitalism/print/ Actor Andy Serkis is set to direct an upcoming movie adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm. But there will be a slight deviation from the story’s original focus: rather than serve as a cautionary tale about Communist totalitarianism, this updated version will address Hollywood’s predictable, go-to embodiment of evil, the Darth Vader […]