Gallery’s invitation to deface the Bible brings obscene response -Times Online

"A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity."

"But to the horror of many Christians, including the community church, visitors have daubed its pages with comments such as “This is all sexist pish, so disregard it all.” A contributor wrote on the first page of Genesis: “I am Bi, Female & Proud. I want no god who is disappointed in this.”

'Shut up Lou Dobbs' campaign hits stride

"The report said Klein wrote that CNN researchers found Hawaiian records were discarded in 2001 when the state's records system went electronic. Therefore, the report said, Obama's original long-form birth certificate no longer exists, and a computer-generated abbreviated version that has been promoted on the Internet is the official record.

'It seems to definitively answer the question,' Klein's e-mail said, according to the newspaper. 'Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead – because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.'"

J. Richard Cohen, chief of the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center, went even further. He wrote a letter to CNN suggesting, "Respectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda. It's time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves."

Isn't it proof of dishonest behavior of men in power, and who run liberal media outlets, to use claims of "racism" and so-called "false propaganda" against those that question or disagree with their, or their political allies' ideas and actions? Why not just show the birth-certificate and stop all these games? What's he hiding?

Library Association Abandons Principle, Allows Censorship

"When an organization organizes an annual banned books week to celebrate 'the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular,' it is a little disturbing to see the same group cancel a panel discussion because one of the invited speakers is considered objectionable.

But that's how the American Library Association (ALA) handled pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to silence an invited speaker for a panel discussion at its annual convention who has a perspective on Islam, jihad, and terrorism that CAIR doesn't like.

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, author of eight books on Islam and jihad, had been scheduled to appear July 12 on an ALA panel entitled 'Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping.' ALA canceled the panel after the other speakers decided to boycott the panel due to Spencer's participation. But rather than inviting others to replace them, or letting Spencer honor his commitment, the ALA capitulated and gave the critics what they wanted."

Newsmax.com - Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu

"It is helpful to recall that the Centers for Disease Control with the collusion of the media, constantly tell us that 36,000 people die from the flu each year, a figure that has been shown to be a lie. In this case, we are talking about 300 plus deaths for the entire world.

This virus continues to be an enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of Nature, a virologist was quoted as saying,“Where the h--l it got all these genes from we don’t know.” Extensive analysis of the virus found that it contained the original 1918 H1N1 flu virus, the avian flu virus (bird flu), and two new H3N2 virus genes from Eurasia. Debate continues over the possibility that swine flu is a genetically engineered virus."

Newsmax.com - Swine Flu Could Hit up to 40 Percent in U.S.

"In a disturbing new projection, health officials say up to 40 percent of Americans could get swine flu this year and next and several hundred thousand could die without a successful vaccine campaign and other measures."

A world health official said the first vaccines are expected in September and October. The United States expects to begin testing on some volunteers in August, with 160 million doses ready in October.

Washington drops hammer on state gun plan

"The pushback from the states comes at a time when the federal administration is replete with anti-gun activists in influential positions, including an attorney general, Eric Holder, who supported a complete handgun ban in the District of Columbia before it was tossed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Obama administration has even pushed for a treaty that would require sportsmen who reload their ammunition to obtain a federal license."

DEBKAfile - Russia builds key naval HQ in Syria: Missile presence worries Israel

"A high-ranking Russian navy source reported July 21 that the Soviet-era naval maintenance base near Tartus in Syria is to be expanded and modernized to become 'fully operational.' DEBKAfile's military sources report that Russian is building the facility up as its main sea base for operations in four seas: The Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The upgrade of Russian port facilities at Tartus, its only foothold in the Mediterranean, will automatically enhance Moscow's strategic interests in Syria and Bashar Assad's regime.

The Russian source said that the 50 naval personnel and three berthing floats currently deployed at Tartus with accommodation for up a dozen warships will be beefed up with a new berthing float delivered by two tugboats from the Black Sea Fleet. DEBKAfile's sources disclose that those warships will include large vessels such as the nuclear-armed guided missile cruiser Peter the Great and the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which called in at Tartus in January."

State House edits 'Jesus' from pastor's prayer - The York Daily Record

"The pastor declined the invitation after someone on McCall's staff told him he could not use Jesus' name in the prayer.

'First of all, I don't see how Jesus is denominational. The whole Christian world is called after him,' Stoltzfoos said. 'I just feel like, if you want me to pray, then I have to pray to the one thing I know. I only know one God personally. I only serve one God. How do I do something that dishonors him?'

The policy -- not yet three months old -- requires guest chaplains to first submit their prayers in writing and then, if deemed necessary, agree to change their words to meet 'nondenominational' guidelines established by McCall's staff."

Meet the real Walter Cronkite

"I know liberalism isn't dead in this country," he said. "It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice."

"'American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law, and I think that's going to come to other people as well,' he said. 'It's a fair distance to get there, but we are not ever going to get there unless we keep trying to push ourselves onto the road.'"

'Global governance' coming with carbon tax, says Gore

"Former Vice President Al Gore, whose 'An Inconvenient Truth' video epistle on the claims of global warming has not weathered recent scientific research, now has promised at a conference in the United Kingdom that the impending virtual energy tax under the U.S. 'cap-and-trade' legislation will bring about 'global governance.'"

Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions

"The man President Obama has chosen to be his science czar once advocated a shocking approach to the 'population crisis' feared by scientists at the time: namely, compulsory abortions in the U.S. and a 'Planetary Regime' with the power to enforce human reproduction restrictions."

GAG THE INTERNET! - New York Post

"Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a 'chilling effect' on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them."

Episcopal Bishop calls individual salvation 'heresy,' 'idolatry' (OneNewsNow.com)

"In her opening address to the church's General Conference in California, Jefferts Schori called that 'the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God.'"

The Temple Mount Faithful Presents the Cornerstone for the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day

Though most people missed this, I wanted to bring it up to reflect upon. We are living in the time before the Messiah's return.

"The Cornerstone for the Third Temple, weighing 13 tons, that the Temple Mount Faithful Movement prepared to be laid on the Temple Mount and start the process of the building of the Third Temple, was carried by the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement as they marched from Ammunition Hill to the Temple Mount on 'Jerusalem Day', 27 Iyar 5769 (21 May 2009). The holy Cornerstone was driven from Ammunition Hill to Jaffa Gate and along the western walls of the Old City to the downtown streets of Jerusalem and was presented to the people of Israel and to the entire world for the first time since the destruction of the Holy Temple in the year 70 CE."

Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/02/2009

"Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a real-life Big Brother nightmare.

'I'm doing, I think, what the legislature does too little of,' she said. 'This is a problem on the horizon, and I want to address it before it becomes a societal disgrace.'"

Newsmax.com - Schumer: Amnesty Bill for Illegals by Labor Day