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Well, well, well, the Huma Abedin controversy has finally hit the legacy media. Okay, okay — it’s not the Huma Abedin controversy, but it’s one Obama’s court stenographers apparently feel comfortable talking about.

It seems Ms. Abedin, accurately described by the New York Times as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ”longtime aide and confidante,” spent her last months at the State Department not really at the State Department. Despite maintaining her title as Secretary of State Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, she was permitted, upon returning to government service from maternity leave in mid-2012, to remain at home in New York with her newborn child and her husband, the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner — he of the notorious Weiner all aTwitter photos. While the State Department was paying her $135,000 as a “special government employee,” Abedin was also permitted to moonlight as a “strategic consultant” for Teneo, a firm founded by Doug Band, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. (Teneo, the Times informs us, advises such firms as MF Global, the brokerage firm whose investors were broken by Jon Corzine — the former New Jersey governor and Obama campaign bundler.) In addition, Abedin found time in her busy “special government employee” schedule to do consultant work for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.

With that familiar Clinton flare, Abedin did not disclose her consultant income on government financial disclosure forms. According to the State Department, you see, her new “part-time” position as “special government employee” meant the usual disclosure requirements did not apply to her … notwithstanding that, the Atlantic Wire reports, Abedin continued to be referred to in official documents as deputy chief of staff to the United States secretary of state. The arrangement finally came to an end in March when Ms. Abedin officially left the State Department to head up Mrs. Clinton’s six-person “transition office” — i.e., the transition from secretary of state to what the tongue-in-cheeky Atlantic calls Mrs. Clinton’s “version of private life.”

Apparently not to the great delight of the Clintons, Weiner, as part of his effort to come back from his virtual sex scandal and maybe make a run for New York City mayor, decided to release the couple’s 2012 tax returns. They show that these dedicated public servants made just shy of a half-million dollars last year. Turns out Weiner’s been “consulting” too, but the couple is not saying how much of the haul comes from Abedin’s extracurricular activities while she was still on the government payroll.

This story is getting some attention — sure to be fleeting — from the reliably Clinton-adoring press and some “good government” types. But that has more to do with a potential Weiner political campaign than with the tangled web of government policy-making and Clinton cronies (like the Saudis and Qataris — multi-million dollar donors to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation who do mega-business with the State Department). There has to date been scant media interest in Abedin’s earlier part-time job.

As detailed previsously here at Ordered Liberty, Ms. Abedin began her long professional association with Mrs. Clinton in 1996, as an intern to the first lady in the Clinton White House. In the years that followed, she remained a Clinton staffer from the White House to the Senate, and eventually to the State Department. At the same time, she also served from 1996 through 2008 as assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, a publication founded by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major financier of al Qaeda whose Islamic “charity,” the Rabita Trust, is a designated terrorist organization (on which Naseef colluded with Wael Hamza Jalaidan, an Osama bin Laden intimate who is one of al Qaeda’s founders).

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MITIGATING ISLAM; BY JASON JAMES BUTLER

Saudi Rape Cases: Little Girl in ICU after being Raped and Serial Child Rapist Caught

12-Year-Old Girl in ICU after Being Raped

A young Saudi man raped a 12-year-old girl just as her parents went to the police station in the Gulf Kingdom after their 16-year-old son was arrested for burglary.

The girl was asleep in her bed room when the 19-year-old man stormed into the house in the western town of Makkah at night, muzzled her mouth with a piece of cloth and carried her to a nearby hill where he raped her.

Police men who rushed to the scene were accompanied by the girl’s parents, who got the shock of their life when they found that …

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GRAPHIC VIDEO WARNING: Western-Backed Syrian Rebels Publicly Execute Three Men

A video has emerged of three men being publicly executed in a town square in Syria.

The footage, filmed in the northern city of Raqqa, shows rebels shooting dead government soldiers.

Posted on the internet this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed Tuesday’s killings.

The clip shows three soldiers sitting on a plinth in the centre of the square, surrounded by masked gunmen.

They are wearing green blindfolds and holding their hands together anxiously as a crowd gathers in the background.

A masked gunman can be seen standing next to a van, reading from a piece of paper – it looks as if he is reading …

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Obama’s Indonesia Bans Millions of Porn Sites, for Ramadan

Indonesia’s minister of information said more than 1 million pornographic websites have been shut down in that country ahead of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, which begins at sunset Thursday.

Another 1 million porn sites will be shut down in the days ahead, and perhaps in the future, said the minister, Tifatul Sembiring, according to the The Times of India.

“We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn’t mean that we will allow such sites to operate during the rest of the year,” Sembiring said.

The porn websites are based outside of Indonesia, he said. The country is no stranger to such blocking efforts. Last year, …

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England: Christianity in dramatic Decline, Muslim population Rising

According to census data analysis published yesterday, the number of British-born Christians is falling significantly, whilst the number of young Muslims is on the rise.

The figures suggest Christianity is in long-term decline in the UK; there are 5.3 million fewer British-born people describing themselves as Christians, representing a decline of 15% in just a decade, despite a growth in the overall population, calling into question the establishment of the Church of England.

Notably, the proportion of young people who describe themselves as even nominal Christians has dropped below half for the first time. Younger people also drove a shift away from religion altogether, …

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Bill Banning Shariah Law Passes North Carolina House, Heading to Senate

A highly-debated North Carolina bill forbidding the application of “foreign law” in domestic and child abuse cases passed the state’s House vote Thursday.

Although the text of the bill makes no mention of it pertaining to Shariah law, many argue that its close representation to other states’ bills proves that its goal is to prevent the interpretation of Shariah law in state courtrooms.

House Bill 695, which passed the North Carolina House Thursday by 69 to 42 vote, seeks “to protect its citizens from the application of foreign law that would result in the violation of a fundamental constitutional right of a …

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http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/16/pipes-is-tolerated-geller-is-not
In matters of culture and religion, political correctness circumscribes the right to freedom of expression

GELLER TELLS THE WHOLE TRUTH WHILE PIPES HIDES BEHIND THIS HISTORICALLY INVALID THEORY: “At his lecture, he took a sympathetic view of mainstream Muslims by drawing a distinction between Islam and Islamism. He suggested it is Islamism, a political ideology, that inspires hatred of “the other,” rather than Islam. He said the religion of Islam itself is not inherently hostile to Jews, and Muslim anti-Semitism scarcely existed before the establishment of the state of Israel. He emphasized that while Islam has existed since the age of the prophet Mohammed, Islamism is a recent phenomenon and need not be considered an authentic expression of Islam.”

Huh? Faith driven and violent anti-Antisemitism has existed in every single Muslim country since the advent of Mohammed whether you call it Islam, Islamism, Islamicism or Islamorealism…..rsk

Two renowned Jewish Americans spoke about the issue of Islamic radicalism in the GTA this week.

Both recognize Islamism as a threat to peace and security; both acknowledge the existence of peace-loving Muslims, who must join hands with others fighting extremism; both wish to defend Western values.

Yet one speaker is tolerated more than the other.

Pamela Geller, blogger and author, is known for her virulently anti-Islam views. She was effectively barred from speaking at a Thornhill synagogue by York Region police.

This was followed by a rebuke from the Toronto Board of Rabbis to the Jewish Defense League, for hosting Geller at the Zionist Centre in Toronto. The board was afraid this might exacerbate already tense relations between Jews and Muslims in the GTA.

Meanwhile, The Muslim Committee Against Anti-Semitism, under the umbrella of the Canadian Thinkers Forum formed by Tahir Aslam Gora, invited Daniel Pipes to speak on Wednesday, May 15 on the causes of anti-Semitism, why it now exists predominantly among Muslims and what can be done to counter it.

Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and an acclaimed scholar. The Muslim Commitee Against Anti-Semitism is a group of Muslims newly formed to oppose anti-Semitism.

Pipes takes a conciliatory approach towards the fraying dynamics between Jewish and Muslim communities. He also appears sanguine about an Islamic reformation.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/what-the-obama-scandals-reveal-about-progressive-ideology/ The three scandals dominating the news this week all reveal the moral and intellectual corruption at the heart of progressive ideology. Whether are not these revelations gain enough traction to halt the country’s downward spiral is the more important question. Benghazi The moment it came into office the Obama administration bought into the delusional […]

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This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by Michael Chandler, a Black American Patriot, Borek Volarik, an anti-Communist Czech Defector, and Morgan Brittany, a conservative TV and movie star.

The Gang gathered to discuss Teaching Class-Hatred to America’s Youth. The dialogue occurred in Part I and focused on how the Left wages war through our children. The segment also shed light on: The Journey of a Black American Patriot and What Does It Mean To Become An American?

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/congressman-louie-gohmert-the-islamist-enemy-within/ Frank Gaffney:  I’m very pleased to present to you all tonight a great American, a great Texan, one of my personal heroes and a man I’m very proud to call a great friend, Congressman Louie Gohmert. (Applause) Louie Gohmert:  Oh, gosh.  Thank you.  Well, I’m so glad you did that before I talked.  That’s […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-thurlow/the-clinton-scandal-playbook-and-benghazi/print/ The punditocracy is pulling out its collective hair, wanting to know why there have apparently been multiple layers of cover-ups in the evolving Benghazi story.  An early scandal from the Clinton administration, the so-called “Travelgate” scandal, may be instructive. Recall that in the 1993 firings of employees at the White House Travel Office, a […]

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HE IS MY FAVORITE GOVERNOR….NOT A GOOD CANDIDATE OR DEBATER ….BUT AFTER BASHING HIM IN THE PRIMARIES, ALL THE OTHERS ADOPTED HIS POLICIES….RSK

Editor’s note: Below is the video and transcript of Gov. Rick Perry’s speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Texas Weekend. The inaugural event took place May 3rd-5th at the Las Colinas Resort in Dallas, Texas.

Rick Perry: And, David, it’s an honor to get to see you again and be in your presence. And we’re certainly glad to have you here in Texas. And even if your mailing address does continue to be in California. (laughter) I mean, really, California? It — all the cool kids are moving to Texas, David. (laughter)

But I’m just kidding because, I mean, God knows, if there is a place that needs David Horowitz, it is California. (laughter) So, you know, the basic question I love to ask folks when I talk to people in California or Illinois or overseas, for that matter, is that, you know, what makes Texas so special?

And there’s a number of ways to go about that answer. We are a unique culture. We’re proud. We are patriotic. Fiercely dedicated to the values of individual freedom and responsibility. We are a mix of backgrounds.

We are incredibly diverse state, culturally, ethically, philosophically. No matter where you come from or what you believe, you can feel right at home in Texas. Granted, if you’re a liberal, Austin’s probably about the only place that you’re going to feel really at home. (laughter)

But it’s a great place and they love it there. If you enjoy the finer things in life from world class orchestras to world class food, you can find it in Texas. Same if you enjoy camping, fishing, hunting, hiking or even surfing, we have it all.

Of course, that’s what truly sets us apart over the last decade has been our economic climate. And that’s something that we’ve worked very hard to develop, to cultivate. It’s a climate built upon the fiscally conservative principles that have served us well through good economic times and throughout major national recessions.

CEOs are looking for something simple. And that simplicity is predictability. And in Texas, they know that they’re going to get just that. They know they won’t be taxed into bankruptcy. They know that they — that we have a low tax burden here. That’s the foundation of this state’s tax philosophy.

We do that because we realize that more money in the hands of Texans is how you create more jobs in this state. We realize that more jobs for hard working Texas tax payers means more options, more freedom, healthier Texas families.

People have gotten that message, too. Our population continues to grow at somewhere north of 1,000 people every day move into this state. Employers also know that they can put down roots in Texas. That they won’t be tied up in miles and miles of government red tape.

That doesn’t mean that we don’t take care of our own. That we don’t have appropriate regulatory climates. As a matter fact, we’ve cleaned up our air in the last decade more than any other state in the nation during that same period of time.

But it’s proof that you can have thoughtful regulation and at the same time lift your environmental quality as well. What it means is that we’re reasonable. We’re efficient when it comes to the regulatory process.

Don’t a — just take my word for it. Ask people like Andy Puzder. Andy was the CEO of Carl’s Jr.’s, headquartered out in California. He said that opening a new restaurant in California takes eight months.

Eight months before you can even break ground to start the construction. In Texas, it takes about six weeks. That’s a big reason you’re seeing more Carl’s Jr.’s as you drive around, Pat. I don’t know if you use that establishment or not but you’re going to see a lot more of them in Texas.

Employers know that the Texas court system, for instance, won’t allow for over suing. Someone in the audience said a thank you as I walked in for — in 2003 we passed the most sweeping tort reform in the nation. And there — and in 2011 we passed loser pay.

And again, sending the message (applause) that you can come to the State of Texas and you won’t be over sued. The more time and money that’s spent in courtrooms is less time that you’re creating jobs in this state.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-fruits-of-falsehood?f=puball There is an understandable reluctance in President Barack Obama’s critics – a reluctance verging on a fastidious decorum and civility regarding the office of the President – that stops them from making the ultimate judgment of President Barack Hussein Obama and his administration. It is a damnation they have avoided. Perhaps it is too […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-nation-divided-then-and-now?f=puball It is fair to say that the nation is as divided today as it was in the decades leading up to the Civil War that came about by the decision to secede and thereby destroy the Union. The seeds of that decision were planted in the Constitution because of the compromises that were needed […]