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November 2014

November 13, 2014

Human Rights/Social Justice Advocate Leaving Legislature After 18 Years

November 12, 2014 Human Rights / Social Justice Advocate Leaving Legislature After 18...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Book Review: Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore

To join the discussion about Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore, or to...

October 24, 2014

NYC Police Commissioner Says Hatchet Attack was Act of Terror

Photo Source: ABC News New York City’s Police Commissioner has said that the hatchet attack...

October 24, 2014

New York Police Officers Wounded in Hatchet Attack. Possible Terrorist Connections.

Photo Source: Zale Thompson’s web site. The New York Police Department is investigating a possible...

October 17, 2014

Four Londoners Charged with ISIS-Related Terrorism

Four men have been accused of plotting a terrorist attack on police officers and soldiers...

October 14, 2014

If You’re a Christian and They Know it, Hire Your Lawyer

On the one hand, we have the Freedom From Religion boors, sending off lawyer letters...

October 10, 2014

The Crazy People File

Note: I published this post a few years' back. It seemed apt to republish...

October 08, 2014

The Supremes KO Marriage as a State’s Right Issue

They didn’t do it directly. It was an indirect, “if you say so” kind...

October 08, 2014

President Obama Sends Message to Killer’s Mosque. Did He Ignore Victim’s Family?

My mother was an amazing woman, loving wife to my father and adoring grandmother....

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Eric Holder to Resign

Eric Holder will announce later today that he is going to resign as Attorney General...

September 25, 2014

Iraq’s Prime Minister Says ISIS Plans Terrorist Attack on US, France

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, says that his country’s intelligence systems have uncovered a plot...

September 25, 2014

ISIS Imitators Behead French Tourist

I watched another video of another helpless man being used as a trophy before he...

September 23, 2014

Be Ready to Take a Beating: OKC Bishop Emeritus Marched with Martin Luther King, Jr

Our current leader, Archbishop Paul Coakley, and Archbishop Emeritus Eusebius Beltran. Oklahoma City’s Archbishop Emeritus...

September 19, 2014

France Launches First Air Strikes Against ISIS

France bombed an ISIS depot in northeast Iraq today. President Hollande issued a statement saying...

September 17, 2014

Are We at the Beginning of World War III?

Are we fighting World War III, only on a piecemeal basis? Pope Francis seems to...

September 16, 2014

Our Sorrowful Mother: Ndi Nyina wa Jambo

Ndi Nyina wa Jambo — I am the Mother of the Word Today is...

September 15, 2014

Another Beheading Video: David Cawthorne Haines, British Aid Worker, Murdered by ISIS

My husband and I were leaving church. He was driving. I got out my...

September 13, 2014

Obama Meets with Eastern Christian Leaders. Hears of Plight of Persecuted Christians.

President Obama “dropped by" National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s meeting with Eastern Christian leaders for...

September 12, 2014

CIA says ISIS has 30000 Fighters. Turkey, Germany Won’t Join in USA-led Bombing. Britain Not Sure.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani places ISIS blame on Obama administration (IMAGE SOURCE: Monitor Mideast) Tweedle...

September 11, 2014

My Questions about President Obama’s Address on ISIS

It's almost too ironic that the president announced this on the eve of the...

September 10, 2014

Proportion and Reality in an Age of Mass Slaughter

I started to use the phrase “age of genocide” in the title for this post....

September 06, 2014

Britain, You’ve Got a Problem.

At the expense of being called a few names, I'm going to post these videos....

September 06, 2014

Court Strikes Down Polygamy Law in Utah.

The courts have once against legislated by fiat. In this instance, a federal judge basically...

September 05, 2014

Steven Sotloff: Observant Jew. Grandson of Holocaust Survivors.

ISIS recently released another video of their British Muslim terrorist, beheading an American journalist....

September 03, 2014

Rotherham and the Cowardly Act of Offering Up Young Girls to the Dragon of Misogyny

It’s an old myth, the story of villagers who sacrifice a virgin to the...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

ISIS Demanded $132 M for James Foley. When They Didn’t Get It, They Beheaded Him.

If you’ve seen the video of James Foley’s beheading, you witnessed a speech from...

August 20, 2014

President Obama’s Statement Regarding the Murder of James Foley

This is the strongest statement I can remember from President Obama.

August 20, 2014

Supremes Put Gay Marriage on Hold in Virginia.

Maybe the Supremes meant it when they said that marriage was a state issue....

August 20, 2014

Oklahoma Archbishop Files Suit Over Stolen Host that Satanists Have Slotted for Desecration

Archbishop Paul Coakley filed suit today against the group which has said it will...

August 16, 2014

Texas Governor Perry Indicted in Texas-Sized Partisan Shoot-Out

Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted by a grand jury for “abuse of...