RUTHFULLY YOURS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/picture-worth-1000-words-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-and-thousands-of-jobs

What do you do as president when faced with record-high gas prices, unemployment above eight percent and the Middle East sitting on a powder keg that could go off at any time?

Shut down oil drilling along about 85 percent of the U.S. coastline, of course.

You might have already heard about Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s five-year leasing plan for offshore drilling. Maybe you didn’t hear about it, since it was released the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision to be able to fly under the media radar as stealthily as possible.

Every five years, the Department of the Interior must create a drilling and permitting plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), which has to go through 60 days of congressional review before approval.

Here is what the plan looked like under the Bush Administration:

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/aurora-colorado-politicizing-a-tragedy The horrific attack by (alleged) gunman James Holmes at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater last week was naturally big news – and naturally, media outlets rushed to cover the tragedy as it unfolded. As of this writing, 12 people are dead, including several children, and 59 were wounded, many in critical condition. Most Americans […]

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2189/Forty-Five-Percent.aspx From YouGov polling: Polling conducted last week suggests that whatever remaining effect of the release of the birth certificate that persisted through January is completely gone today. From June 30-July 2, 2012, YouGov surveyed 1000 Americans and asked whether “Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.” In the table below, I […]

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/22/saleha-abedin-and-the-muslim-sisterhood/ Saleha Mahmood Abedin is intimately associated with Muslim educational, cultural, and charitable organizations that represent dangerous simulacra of their Western counterparts, and are designed to promulgate liberty-crushing Sharia supremacism, not free, objective inquiry, genuine respect for cultural differences, or even unfettered charity for the needy, regardless of creed. The extent of Dr. Abedin’s influence […]

In French at: http://jssnews.com/2012/07/22/hollandehistorique

IT MAY SUFFER A BIT IN TRANSLATION BUT IT IS A MAGNIFICENT SPEECH…NEVER MIND LEFT OR RIGHT….

ALSO PLEASE READ RITA KRAMER’S COLUMN ON VEL D’HIV PUBLISHED TODAY IN OUTPOST ONLINE:

France’s Shame: Rita Kramer

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/frances-shame-rita-kramer.html

We gather this morning to recall the horror of a crime, expressing the grief of those who lived through the tragedy, evoking the dark hours of collaboration, our history, and therefore the responsibility of France.
We are here also to transmit the memory of the Shoah, which the raids were the first step, to lead the fight against oblivion, to testify to the new generations of barbarism that is capable of doing and what humanity may itself contain resources to defeat it.

70 years ago, July 16, 1942, at dawn, 13,152 men, women and children were arrested at their homes. Childless couples and singles were interned in Drancy, where the fall will amount to the museum created by the Shoah Memorial.

Others were taken to the Velodrome d’Hiver. Crammed for five days in inhumane conditions, they were transferred from there to the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande.

Clear direction was given by the Vichy administration: “Children should not be dispatched in the same convoy as the parents.” So, after agonizing separations that parents on one side, the other children, went to Auschwitz-Birkenau where deported from Drancy had preceded them a few days.

They were murdered. Simply because they were Jews.

This crime took place here in our city, our streets, in our current building, in our stairwells, in our school yards.

War Breaks Out Over Scott Walker — on The Glazov Gang
by Frontpagemag.com
Leftist activist Brandelynn Turner confronts Dwight Schultz and Rob Nelson on Wisconsin politics — and fireworks break out.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/war-breaks-out-over-scott-walker-on-the-glazov-gang/

http://www.meforum.org/3288/syria-minorities It’s become an article of faith among policy makers and analysts in the West that Syria is a nation of minorities. Various sources put the share of non-Sunni Muslim minorities at around one quarter of the population. These minorities are believed to constitute the bulk of the support base of the Syrian regime. Some […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/robert-spencer/why-michele-bachmann-is-right-about-keith-ellison/ Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has accused Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) of having a “long record of being associated” with the Hamas-linked Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood. Evoking the days of McCarthyism, a common charge being leveled at Bachmann these days, Ellison responded: “I am not now, nor have I ever […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3187/germany-circumcision In violation of their Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, doctors are interpreting a medical practice in purely religious terms — choosing religion over science. During the past decade, life has become more difficult for Jews in Europe. They are not only the victims of a rise in anti-Semitic violence and intimidation, mostly as […]

When I needed a laugh I used to go to the “funnies” or watch an Inspector Clouseau movie. Now I just check on the antics of the formerly prestigious Chautauqua Institution.

Exhibit A: ‘
The Ethics of Cheating

Who regulates behavior? To whose ethical standards should society be held? Lectures this week will examine cheating as an ethical wrong, but also challenge the assumption that cheating is always wrong. What are the motivations for cheating — psychological, evolutionary — and do we see it in nature? Do we make a distinction between cheating and “finding a loophole” or “bending the rules”? We will explore the history of cheating and its effect on business, sports, politics, technology, relationships and society. How can we maintain a culture of honor and integrity?