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U.S. School Fails Christian Student
for Refusing Islamic Prayer
by wnd.com: The declarations could have been made by an imam in a mosque sermon. “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.” “Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”... Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.” “To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.” “Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.” The problem is that those statements were part of the instruction in a public school in Maryland, and one of the students in the classroom now is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to condemn such religious lessons funded by taxpayers. The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a petition asking the high court to take up the case of student Caleigh Wood. “As a Christian and 11th-grader at La Plata High School in Maryland, Caleigh Wood was taught that ‘Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.’ She was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.’ Ms. Wood believed that it is a sin to profess by word or in writing, that there is any other god except the Christian God. She stood firm in her Christian beliefs and was punished for it. The school refused her request to opt-out or give her an alternative assignment. She refused to complete her anti-Christian assignment and consequently received a failing grade,” the legal team explained Wednesday. Lower courts have given a free pass to the school district to teach Islam, and so TMLC filed the request with the Supreme Court to decide “whether any legal basis exists to allow public schools to discriminate against Christianity while at the same time promote Islam.”...
What is going on America, we don't allow religion in our schools but allow Islam. We need to wake up and stop brainwashing our kids..
Trump says war would be ‘official end of Iran’
by Kelly Jane Torrance Trump tweeted. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the first anniversary of Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal May 28. President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran would start stockpiling enriched uranium and heavy water beyond the limits agreed to in the deal and would make more serious violations if the rest of the deal's signatories did not give Iran better terms within 60 days. The United States increased its military presence in the Persian Gulf region soon after, accelerating deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln and dispatching B-52 bombers and Patriot defense missiles, citing "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Tehran. Intelligence indicates Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the U.S. government recently designated a foreign terrorist organization, loaded missiles onto boats in the Persian Gulf and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave the go-ahead to proxy forces to attack U.S. forces and diplomatic facilities, according to officials. The U.S. withdrew all nonessential personnel from Iraq last week. Members of Congress in both parties have expressed skepticism of the threats officials have cited, and the administration plans to brief all lawmakers Tuesday. Virginia Democrat Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was circumspect after he left a classified briefing Thursday. "It's very important that more members hear this story," he said. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan recently briefed officials on a Pentagon plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East if Iran attacked U.S. forces, according to a New York Times report. Trump dismissed the story as "fake news."...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/trump-says-war-would-be-official-end-of-iran?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_05/19/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261 .
Burying Hitler’s Heroic Opponents 75 Years Late
by Doug Bandow. However, the microscopic remains of several hundred of those opposed the Nazis were recently discovered and finally interred, almost 75 years after the failed plot which came closest to killing him. In July 1944 the catastrophe known as World War II was racing toward its inevitable end. Hitler’s decision to battle much of the known world, most importantly the U.S., Soviet Union, and British Empire, ensured destruction of the Tausendjähriges or Thousand-Year Reich a little early. However, even after the D-Day landings, creating a three-front war, counting Italy, Hitler still inspired fanatical loyalty and resistance, dragging Germany and the rest of Europe toward the abyss. Aggression and atrocity, mass murder and genocide, irrevocably stained the German nation’s reputation. The Nazis’ descent to unimaginable depths of depravity gave new meaning to an old word, Holocaust. Still, there was a German resistance. Good and decent people, but divided, weak, dispirited, horrified, and frustrated. The German military plotted against Hitler early, before the British and French yielded at Munich. There were several unsuccessful assassination attempts against the Führer, some only narrowly missing their target. For instance, in 1943 the detonator failed on a bomb placed on Hitler’s plane when he was returning from the Soviet Union to Germany. The would-be assassin coolly retrieved the defective device before its discovery. However, “almost” successful did nothing to halt the Nazi war machine. Germany’s bloody crimes multiplied and defeat became more certain. On July 20, 1944, Lt. Col. Claus Graf von Stauffenberg, a 36-year-old decorated war hero who had been badly injured in combat, set off a bomb in Hitler’s Wolfsschanze, or Wolf’s Lair military headquarters in Prussia. Hitler’s luck held — quirks of timing and construction spared his life. Nevertheless, Stauffenberg flew back to Berlin and triggered the planned uprising. He infused Operation Valkyrie with energy and determination, but Hitler’s survival ensured the plan’s quick collapse. Stauffenberg was shot just after midnight by his superior, Gen. Friedrich Fromm, desperate to cover up his tepid involvement in the plot. (The Gestapo was not fooled: Fromm was quickly arrested and later executed.) The reconstructed defense ministry building, the Bendlerblock, where Stauffenberg desperately led Operation Valkyrie, now houses the Memorial to the German Resistance; a statue of Stauffenberg stands in the courtyard where he died...
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FBI Has Papadopoulos Transcripts
That Are Potential ‘Game-Changer’
by Chuck Ross
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said he is aware of potentially game-changing evidence in the FBI’s Russia probe regarding George Papadopoulos... the former Trump campaign adviser. During an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Gowdy indicated he has seen FBI transcripts related to Papadopoulos that contain potentially exculpatory information on the question of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. “If the bureau’s going to send in an informant in, the informant’s going to be wired, and if the bureau is monitoring telephone calls, there’s going to be a transcript of that,” Gowdy told host Maria Bartiromo. “Some of us have been fortunate enough to know whether or not those transcripts exist.But they haven’t been made public, and I think one in particular is going — it has the potential to actually persuade people. Very little in this Russia probe I’m afraid is going to persuade people who hate Trump or love Trump. But there is some information in these transcripts that has the potential to be a game-changer if it’s ever made public.” The FBI officially opened its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign July 31, 2016, after receiving information from the Australian government regarding Papadopoulos. A top Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, claimed Papadopoulos told him during a conversation May 10, 2016, that he heard Russia might release information on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton close to the campaign...
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/19/gowdy-papadopoulos-transcripts/?utm_medium=email .
Trump critic and former CIA chief scumbag/
commie-John Brennan to brief Democrats on Iran
by Caitlin Yilekscumbag/commie-Brennan is scheduled to speak at the party's weekly caucus meeting Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Wendy Sherman, a former State Department official who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, was also invited. The meeting will take place the same day Trump administration officials will update lawmakers on escalating tensions between the two countries. Democrats will likely attend both briefings. In recent weeks, the administration has increased U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf and withdrawn nonessential personnel from Iraq, citing "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Tehran. scumbag/commie-Brennan, who left the CIA in 2017, has been highly critical of President Trump, especially throughout special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history," scumbag/commie-Brennan tweeted in March 2018. "America will triumph over you." Trump later called scumbag/commie-Brennan a "total lowlife." White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said last August that Trump had decided to strip scumbag/commie-Brennan and some other former officials of their security clearances. Certain officials generally keep their clearances after office to be able to provide insight and advice to their successors. It’s not clear if scumbag/commie-Brennan actually was stripped of his clearance.
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Democrats Unhinged Over
Alabama's Abortion Bill
{ townhall.com } ~ Alabama's mostly Republican lawmakers and governor passed a strong abortion ban this week, and liberals are fit to be tied.
"Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, a bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the legislature," said Gov. Kay Ivey. "To the bill's many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians' deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God."
In today's secular culture, the governor's invocation of God is almost as bold as signing the bill into law. But it's gratifying that some public officials are willing to observe that respect for life is fundamentally a spiritual issue.
I'm sure many leftists are horrified at the reference to God, but they have their hands full hyperventilating over the strictness of the law itself, and so, they will probably let this slide for now. The bill prohibits abortion except when the life of the mother is in jeopardy or the unborn child has a "lethal anomaly." The bill makes it a felony for doctors to perform or attempt to perform an abortion.
In her statement, Ivey acknowledged that the law might not be constitutional under the Supreme Court's notorious 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. But she noted that the bill's sponsors hope the bill will prompt the court to revisit this issue.
Not to be unduly pessimistic, but frankly, I'm not sure why Democrats are so exercised. Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh have both expressed their abiding respect for longstanding Supreme Court precedent, apparently even if, like Roe, its rationale was manufactured out of whole cloth. The court's decision was not only egregious in substance -- inventing a constitutional right to abortion out of imaginary language in the Constitution creatively referred to as "emanations" and "penumbras"; its effect on society was just as bad.
Before the decision, the issue of abortion was the prerogative of the individual states, determined democratically by their duly elected representatives. The court's fiat was not only erroneous on its face; it tyrannically divested the authority of the states. This federal judicial travesty sparked national acrimony over abortion. Judicial tyranny, where it occurs, is just as bad as executive despotism.
Here we are almost 50 years later, and the court still hasn't overturned Roe. But when any of the sovereign states dares to pass a law outside Roe's parameters, liberals become unhinged, huffing hysterically about the state's audacity to deviate from the court's ruling.
Yet every day, liberals around the nation enact measures they know violate existing constitutional precedent with the undisguised intent that they serve as test cases and that courts, under relentless pressure from their activism, will change the law. When liberals do it, it's noble activism; when conservatives do it, it's anarchy.
The Guardian, for example, framed the Alabama law in racial and gender terms. Why not? That's what liberals do. It's almost all they know anymore. "These 25 Republicans -- all white men -- just voted to ban abortion in Alabama," the headline reads. The law, according to the article, "will disproportionately affect black and poor women, because they are more likely to seek abortions, and less likely to have resources to obtain an abortion out-of-state."
Not once did the article allude to the only innocent party in the equation: the unborn baby. Nor did it mention that America's abominably liberal abortion laws result in the grossly disproportionate killing of innocent black babies. Pro-life leaders in the black community have said that "the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb" and that abortion "is the most institutionalized form of racism" in America.
Planned Parenthood, the left's favorite abortion factory, was outraged at the bill. "Today is a dark day for women in Alabama and across the country," said Staci Fox, CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast. "Banning abortion is horrible ... We will take this to court and ensure abortion remains safe and legal and accessible in the state of Alabama." She forgot "profitable."
Democratic leaders were seemingly in a competition over who could condemn the law most harshly. scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton said it is an example of "appalling attacks on women's lives and fundamental freedoms." We can safely infer that she was not factoring in the female babies' lives the law would protect. Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren said the "ban is dangerous and exceptionally cruel." She did not comment on whether the law is cruel to the unborn babies. Warren and Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris both noted that the law is an attack on Roe v. Wade.
Yes, that's kind of the point, and Alabama's Republicans are admitting it. Isn't it about time the court revisited Roe in earnest? What these Democrats don't say is that their best hope of preserving existing abortion law is for the court to affirm its lawless 1973 decision, either through some newly created legal fiction or in almost-idolatrous fidelity to long-standing but screamingly bad precedent.
As I say, I doubt the court, even as currently constituted, will overrule Roe outright, but it would be a glorious day for America, and for God's innocent unborn babies, if it were to do so.
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