Scientists irate after top education official questions evolution - Haaretz - Israel News

"'There are those for whom evolution is a religion and are unwilling to hear about anything else. Part of my responsibility, in light of my position with the Education Ministry, is to examine textbooks and curricula,' he said. 'If they keep writing in textbooks that the Earth is growing warmer because of carbon dioxide emissions, I'll insist that isn't the case.'
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Prof. Hava Yablonka of Tel Aviv University said Avital's statements are tantamount 'to saying that space should be given in textbooks to the view that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it. It's astonishing that the chief scientist of a government ministry can say such bizarre things.'"

N.Y. Times Laments Media Mistreatment of Voodoo, Including 'Voodoo Economics' | NewsBusters.org

"The New York Times is pro-voodoo, or perhaps they are just an informal Voodoo Anti-Defamation League. On Saturday, religion writer Samuel G. Freedman wrote a story headlined 'Voodoo, a Source of Comfort in Haiti, Remains Misunderstood.' For political junkies, this passage was the most indulgent:

In American political rhetoric, 'voodoo' functions as a synonym for 'fraudulent,' going back to George Bush’s description of supply-side economics. Would any public figure dare use 'Baptist' or 'Hindu' or 'Hasidic' in the same way?

Freedman also lamented this religion’s mistreatment at the hands of Hollywood movie executives (not a normal complaint from the Times if the movies are raucously caricaturing Christianity)"

CBS ripped over black-on-white smackdown 'bias'

"You idiots at CBS for even making this older man look like a racist! Unbelievable! Did you even watch the video???' wrote one."

Elton John claims Jesus was a 'super-intelligent gay man' in U.S. magazine interview | Mail Online

Elton John claims Jesus was a 'super-intelligent gay man' in U.S. magazine interview Mail Online: "Elton John has dubbed Jesus a 'super-intelligent gay man' in a controversial new interview.The singer made the throw-away comment while talking about lesbians trying to survive in the Middle East.'I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems,' he told American magazine Parade in an interview due to be published on Sunday.'On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.'I don’t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East – you’re as good as dead.'"

What women want in 2010: A husband who'll be the main breadwinner | Mail Online

"Young mothers are turning their backs on high-powered careers to raise their children, a study has found. Their mothers, or even grandmothers, lived through a time when women fought for full-time work and better pay. But today's generation is returning to the traditional values of home and family - and looking to men to be the breadwinners."

Counter-terror adviser: U.S. should 'never' profile

"Speaking at a question-and-answer session for Muslim law students last week at New York University, Brennan declared himself a 'citizen of the world.'

'We need to be looking at ourselves as individuals. Not the way we look or the creed we have or our ethnic background. I consider myself a citizen of the world,' he said.

Brennan told the audience the Obama administration is trying to 'make sure that we as Americans can interact in a safe way, balance policies in a way that optimizes national security but also optimizes the opportunity in this country never to be profiled, never to be discriminated against.'

Profiling has long been a controversial issue. Many counter-terrorism officials believe profiling is necessary to ensure U.S. security, but liberal and human rights groups largely oppose the practice."

"Nor does President Obama see this challenge as a fight against 'jihadists,'" said Brennan.

"Describing terrorists in this way – using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal – risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself. And this is why President Obama has confronted this perception directly and forcefully in his speeches to Muslim audiences, declaring that America is not and never will be at war with Islam."

TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives - CNN.com

"The American Civil Liberties Union has 'always supported explosive detection as a good form of security that doesn't really invade privacy,' said Jay Stanley, an attorney and privacy expert with the organization.

Stanley said the ACLU is chiefly concerned that the TSA does not discriminate when selecting people for enhanced screening -- something the agency said it does not do -- and that it treat people with dignity.

'We would not want to see it implemented in a discriminatory fashion, for example, in a disproportionate way against Muslims and Arabs or, for example, people with red hair or anything else. Security experts from across the spectrum will tell you that that's not just unfair and unjust and not the American way, it's also a terrible way to do security,' Stanley said."

Spanish intelligence probe 'debt attacks' blamed for sabotaging country's economy | Mail Online

"Spain's intelligence services are investigating the role of investors and media in debt market turbulence over the last few weeks.

The National Intelligence Centre (CNI) is looking into 'speculative attacks' on Spain following the Greek debt crisis, according to El Pais newspaper.

'The (CNI's) Economic Intelligence division... is investigating whether investors' attacks and the aggressiveness of some Anglo-Saxon media are driven by market forces and challenges facing the Spanish economy, or whether there is something more behind this campaign,' the newspaper added.

The report comes days after Public Works Minister Jose Blanco protested 'somewhat murky manoeuvres' were behind financial market pressure on Spain."

No guns allowed, declares city, it's a 'snow emergency'

No guns allowed, declares city, it's a 'snow emergency': "Residents of King, N.C., were startled earlier this month when a declared snow emergency triggered a law forbidding the possession of firearms in public.

Furthermore, North Carolina isn't the only state where authorities can ban gun sales, or even possession, upon declaration of 'emergency,' even though what constitutes an 'emergency' might be deemed questionable."

‘Oddball’ portrait of Amy Bishop emerges - BostonHerald.com

"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."

How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com

"LAST MONTH, A WEEK before the Senate seat of the liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy fell into Republican hands, his legacy suffered another blow that was perhaps just as damaging, if less noticed. It happened during what has become an annual spectacle in the culture wars."

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power - NYTimes.com

"With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

Watch MSNBC's hosts duel during angry tirade

Liberal tactic or emotionalism over substance, and revealing that MSNBC are not journalist,or reporters of the news, but pushers and defenders of the DNC!

"You wrote a book that says the president of the United States – on its title – the president is inviting the next attack," said O'Donnell, pointing a finger and growing increasingly accusatory. "Isn't it true that the president you worked for invited the first attack?"

O'Donnell continued escalating and pointing a finger until Scarborough implored O'Donnell to stop the tirade and let Thiessen answer the torrent of questions he had unleashed. Nonetheless, O'Donnell continued badgering without pause, over every interruption, until Scarborough cut off the segment, went to break and announced he would conduct the rest of the interview without the other MSNBC personalities.

"You just admitted," O'Donnell persisted before fellow MSNBC host Scarborough pulled the plug, "that when you were hit on 9-11, you just said, 'We didn't know who hit us.' You said, 'We didn't know who hit us.' You were told who was going to hit you before we were hit on 9-11, and your administration invited the first attack for which you should live in shame."

O'Donnell, who is also an actor on HBO's series "Big Love" and was a producer and writer for "West Wing," has made headlines for out-of-control rants in interviews before.

In a 2004 interview of John O'Neill, co-founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and coauthor with WND's Jerome Corsi of "Unfit for Command," O'Donnell came unhinged, repeatedly shouting that O'Neill was "a professional liar" and "unfit to publish." A commenter at SwiftVets.com later did a count, discovering that in a 10-minute interview, O'Donnell shouted the words "lie," "lies" or "liar" 46 times.

During the more recent presidential campaign, O'Donnell repeatedly talked over Pat Buchanan on "The McLaughlin Group" while discussing Mitt Romney's Mormon "faith of his fathers," which O'Donnell went on to call "racist," "demented," and "based on the work of a lying, fraudulent criminal named Joseph Smith."

Sex Valentines issued by Planned Parenthood

"Planned Parenthood is giving out free Valentine's Day cards – with depictions of pants on the ground, condoms and genitalia and special messages such as, 'I like playing with you!'

'If Planned Parenthood's honest goal is to help women control their procreation – to plan their parenthood – why does it expend so much energy promoting sexual titillation and promiscuity?' WND columnist Jill Stanek asked on her blog.

'Obviously the organization has become financially dependent on selling contraceptives and abortion, and what better way to increase sales than promote rampant sex?' Stanek added."

Glenn Beck - Salon.com

"On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting the now familiar tea-bagger accoutrements of 'Don't Tread on Me' T-shirts, Revolutionary War outfits and Obama-the-Joker placards. The male-skewing, nearly all-white throng had come to denounce the president and what they believe is his communist-fascist agenda.

Even if the turnout wasn't the 2 million that some conservatives tried, briefly, to claim, it was still enough to fill the streets near the Capitol. It was also ample testament to the strength of a certain strain of right-wing populist rage and the talking head who has harnessed it."

Learn the Constitution - Five Thousand Year Leap

"About The 5000 Year Leap

Author: W. Cleon Skousen

Discover the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom.

These beliefs have made possible more progress in 200 years than was made previously in over 5,000 years.

The following is a brief overview of the principles found in The Five Thousand Year Leap, and one chapter is devotes to each of these 28 principles."

Pajamas Media » Who Is Behind the Persecution of Geert Wilders?

"Freedom of speech in the West is threatened by the trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. But both within and beyond the Netherlands, few people have noticed the political origins of the most enthusiastic supporters of this political witch hunt."

Gramsci's Grand Plan

"One of the most interesting aspects of the study of history is that very often men born in the most humble of circumstances nevertheless rise up to affect the course of human history dramatically. They may be men of action or men of thought, yet in either case their activities can father tremendous changes across the years. Antonio Gramsci was both a man of action and thought and, whatever the outcome of the events of the next several decades, he will almost certainly be reckoned by future historians to have been a remarkable figure."

What Gramsci proposed, in short, was a renovation of Communist methodology and a streamlining and updating of Marx's antiquated strategies. Let there be no doubt that Gramsci's vision of the future was entirely Marxist and that he accepted the validity of Marxism's overall worldview. Where he differed was in the process for achieving the victory of that worldview. Gramsci wrote that "there can and must be a 'political hegemony' even before assuming government power, and in order to exercise political leadership or hegemony one must not count solely on the power and material force that are given by government." What he meant is that it is incumbent upon Marxists to win the hearts and minds of the people, and not to rest hopes for the future solely on force or power.

The first phase in achieving "cultural hegemony" over a nation is the undermining of all elements of traditional culture. Churches are thus transformed into ideology-driven political clubs, with the stress on "social justice" and egalitarianism, with worship reduced to trivialized entertainment, and with age-old doctrinal and moral teachings "modernized" or diminished to the point of irrelevancy. Genuine education is replaced by "dumbed down" and "politically correct" curricula, and standards are reduced dramatically. The mass media are fashioned into instruments for mass manipulation and for harassing and discrediting traditional institutions and their spokesmen. Morality, decency, and old virtues are ridiculed without respite. Tradition-minded clergymen are portrayed as hypocrites and virtuous men and women as prudish, stuffy, and unenlightened.

With respect to the subject of the undermining of the American family, and to many other aspects of the Gramscian technique, let us explore briefly the story of the Frankfurt School. This organization of leftist intellectuals, also known as the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, was founded in the 1920s in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There it flourished amidst the decadence of the Weimar period, both compounding and feeding off the decadence, and extending its influence throughout the country.

With Hitler's acquisition of the chancellorship in 1933, the leftist stalwarts of the Frankfurt School fled Germany for the United States, where they soon established a new institute at Columbia University. As is characteristic of such men, they repaid their debt to the U.S. for sheltering them from Nazi brutality by turning their attention to what they regarded as the injustices and social deficiencies inherent to our system and society. Immediately they set about devising a program of revolutionary reform for America.

African Immigrants Accuse Wal-Mart of Discrimination - NYTimes.com

"Since the mid-1990s, the commission has filed about 60 employment-discrimination lawsuits against Wal-Mart.

Last year, the company agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of discriminating against African-Americans applying for jobs as truck drivers. And it is now facing the largest employment-discrimination class-action suit in American history, a sex-discrimination suit brought on behalf of more than 1.5 million women who are current or former employees.

But in the last six years, Wal-Mart has tried to recast its image — tying bonuses of corporate officers to minority hiring and mentoring, putting employees through diversity training and using suppliers owned by minorities and women.

“We have an extraordinarily diverse base of customers and an extraordinarily diverse base of associates.” Mr. Rossiter said. “We understand and embrace that commitment.”"

Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, the Former Soviet Union and North Korea

"Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, the Former Soviet Union and North Korea"

The Reign of Terror in the French Revolution: Jacobins Under Robespierre Eliminate Counterrevolutionaries

"The September Massacres of 1792 changed the direction of the French Revolution. Within the next two years, a Reign of Terror would engulf France as thousands of royalists, political moderates, revolutionaries, and members of the bourgeoisie were beheaded. The excesses of the Revolution at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety gave impetus to counterrevolutionary forces in France as well as the prospect of foreign intervention."

China's strident tone raises concerns among Western governments, analysts - washingtonpost.com

"United States would be responsible for 'serious repercussions' if it did not reverse the decision to sell Taiwan $6.4 billion worth of helicopters, Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles, minesweepers and communications gear. The reaction came even though China has known for months about the planned deal, U.S. officials said."

Redemption | Print Article | Newsweek.com

"As the Washington lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals for nearly 30 years, Cizik should have known better. Even as polls continued to show a younger generation of Christians who were more accepting than their parents of homosexuality and gay marriage, the men who were running the old-school religious right remained completely and unequivocally opposed—and the NAE, an association of tens of thousands of churches, had always been positioned squarely within that flank. But for some time Cizik had been distancing himself from the old-timers, promoting global warming and environmentalism as Christian causes and supporting government-funded contraception as a way to reduce teen pregnancy. Religious-right stalwarts had long been calling out Cizik as insufficiently orthodox, but until now the NAE had his back."

He reiterates his support for civil unions this way: "Is it possible to deny due process and equal protection to those people whose personal lifestyle I disagree with?" And then, our meeting over, he goes off to see his new friends at the Open Society Institute, the group funded by George Soros—who is, as everybody knows, a billionaire and a liberal.