-By Warner Todd Huston USA Today published a story recently by Bob Smietana of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean attacking the integrity and work of well-known Christian First Amendment defense attorney Jay Sekulow that is shocking for what is left out. Sekulow is the head man of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Washington
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USA Today Hit Piece on Christian Defense Attorney, Jay Sekulow
The final comment: ” Thank you and goodbye: After 168 years, we finally say a sad but very proud farewell to our 7.5m loyal readers .” And at Los Angeles Times , ” Rupert Murdoch visits a London that’s turned on him .” And, ” British tabloid scandal envelops three pillars already stained “: Even before the hacking allegations exploded into the national consciousness after reports that the News of the World may have tapped into the voicemails of murder victims’ families as well as those of movie stars and other celebrities, the reputations of lawmakers, journalists and the police had been tarnished. Two years ago, Britons were outraged to learn that members of Parliament were claiming reimbursement from taxpayers for expenses such as home improvements and horse manure for their gardens. Lawmakers have pledged to clean up their act, but voter faith in their integrity dropped dramatically. The police have been hit by accusations of using excessive force against protesters and spying on environmental activists. And criticizing the media is as much a pastime here as it is in the United States. “All the institutions of politics, press and police have emerged the worse for their involvement in the affair,” said Ian Burrell, the media editor at the Independent newspaper. “This is a big newspaper-reading society. People still take immense pride in the ‘mother of parliaments’ and the integrity of British bobbies…. This story is going to undermine public trust in the way society operates.”
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The End of News of the World
AP – The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the integrity of estimates that for months were inaccurate in showing how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, disclosing thousands of pages of internal e-mails written by government scientists on the project. “It is a guess,” a senior U.S. scientist acknowledged to his colleagues.
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Obama admin. backs spill figures, releases e-mails
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AFP – President Barack Obama’s top ally in Congress called his Tea Party-backed rival “extreme” Thursday, while she questioned his integrity in their sole face-to-face debate before crunch polls.
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Top Obama ally clashes with rival in tight poll race
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Photoshop credit: Another Black Conservative Wonderful. Guess DHS Secretary Clownitano would call this more evidence that the system is working. Via AP : On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico. The footpaths that could easily guide illegal immigrants and smugglers across the Rio Grande without getting wet seem to be there because of what amounts to federal linguistics. While just about anyone would call them bridges, the U.S.-Mexico group that owns them calls them something else. “Technically speaking it’s not a bridge, it’s a grade control structure,” said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the International Boundary and Water Commission, which maintains the integrity of the 1,200-mile river border between the U.S. and Mexico. Technically speaking, this is suicidal insanity.
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Open-borders bridges into America
From Chapter 4 in Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power: What have the issues of anthropogenic global warming, the war in Iraq, Israel and scientism got in common? Not a lot, you might think. But in fact a number of threads link them all. Most fundamentally, they involve the promotion of beliefs that purport to be unchallengeable truths but are in fact ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted and distorted to support or “prove” their governing idea. All are therefore based on false or unsupported beliefs that are presented as axiomatically true. Moreover, because each assumes itself to be proclaiming the sole and exclusive truth, it cannot permit any challenge to itself. It has to maintain at all costs the integrity of the falsehood. So all challenges have to be resisted through coercive means. Knowledge is thus forced to give way to power. Reason is replaced by bullying, intimidation and the suppression of debate. This makes them all deeply regressive movements of thought, which corrode the most fundamental concept of the Western world. The principle characteristic of Western modernity is freedom of thought and expression and the ability to express dissent. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment ushered in the modern age by breaking the power of the church to control the terms of debate and punish heresy. Church and state were separated, and a space was created for individual freedom and the toleration of differences — the essence of liberal society.
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The Secular Inquisition
AP – The White House says President Barack Obama plans to visit the Gulf region again soon as efforts to contain a devastating oil spill continue.
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Obama to visit Gulf region again soon
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