A priest is being investigated as a potential criminal under a federal "hate crimes" law for quoting from the Bible, and he's being targeted using a Canadian provision under which no defendant ever has been acquitted, according to a new report. Priest investigated for quoting Bible.
FORT WORTH, Texas â A college violated some students' constitutional rights by not allowing them to wear empty gun holsters as part of a nationwide protest over campus bans on concealed weapons, a student claims.
Link: News: Sad reaction to guns column | gun, comments, think, law, defensive - OCRegister.com.
My column last week about the defensive use of guns prompted a lot of comments from readers. And in a way it was sort of sad. What was sad was how many people were surprised – and even grateful – to see a pro-gun story appear in the so-called "mainstream" news media.
Link (WND): Author: George Soros brains behind McCain-Feingold.
The Reform Institute opened its doors in July 2001, with John McCain listed as chairman on the organization's homepage and Arianna Huffington listed as a member of the Advisory Committee. "McCain's Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues received generous funding from several Pewgate foundations, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. Revocable Trust, and George Soros' Open Society Institute," wrote Horowitz and Poe in "The Shadow Party." After studying the Reform Institute's website, Horowitz and Poe concluded that "almost all of McCain's funders who have contributed more than $50,000 are left-wing foundations." WND previously has reported McCain used the Reform Institute to provide salaries for his 2000 presidential campaign staff, including Rich Davis, McCain's campaign manager, who received six figure compensation from the Reform Institute in 2003 and 2004, first as a consultant, then as the Reform Institute's president.
Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen is in the news again, this time for abridgment of her right to free speech. This is deja vu for me, since my own speech was banned after I posted about this good lady several years ago. Ladera Ranch Community Services (LARCS) banned me, along with my entire family, from posting on the community intranet, LaderaLife, for a period of six months. LARCS claimed my post was graphic, but my post simply referred to the fact she survived a saline abortion. My post contained no photograph and simply linked to a news story about her. That online news story had a beautiful photo of her, certainly nothing graphic.
Consider that LaderaLife, operated by the private developers of Ladera Ranch through LARCS and Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corporation (LARMAC), was the main community forum for this high-tech broadband-wired community of some 24,000 people, and thus had a quasi-public function. Consider that John McCain, supposed hero of campaign finance reform, locally pulled in maximum donations mainly from developer types and people who work with developers, according to the OC Register's political contribution database. Consider that John McCain, supposedly pro-life, was just endorsed by Republicans for Choice.
The anti-life crowd cannot respond with arguments, or insults, or shout these abortion survivors down. The only thing they can do is keep them from speaking, and keep us from speaking about them.
Link: Lawsuit after abortion survivor's speech banned (WorldNetDaily).
A lawsuit has been filed against the school district in Rapid City, S.D., after a facilities manager refused permission for a community group to use an auditorium to feature the testimony of an abortion survivor.
Link: WorldNetDaily: The most ignored stories of 2007.
At the end of each year, news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories in the previous 12 months. WND's editors, however, have long considered it far more newsworthy to publicize the most important unreported or underreported news events of the year – to highlight perhaps for one last time major news stories that were undeservedly "spiked" by the establishment press. WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988, and since founding WorldNetDaily in May 1997, he has continued the annual tradition.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Don't silence Ron Paul!. Farah writes:
As almost everyone who reads this column regularly know, I do not support Ron Paul's bid for the presidency. My strong preference is for another admittedly long-shot candidate, Rep. Duncan Hunter. I have even offered up my share of unflattering commentary directed toward Ron Paul. But, from my perspective as a newsman of 30 years, one thing is certain – Ron Paul has more than earned the right to participate in the Jan. 6 presidential debate sponsored by Fox News Channel. Yet, he is being barred, censored, silenced, eliminated, squelched, muted, suppressed, stifled. It's outrageous. It's unconscionable. It's unfair. It's unbalanced.
Link: Putin Is Named Time 'Person of the Year'.
Time magazine on Wednesday named Russian President Vladimir Putin its 2007 "Person of the Year." The nod went to the Russian leader because of Putin's "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability,"
Please remember the opponents of Putin (rhymes with protein) who are doing time now.
By a vote of 309-115, lawmakers amended the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill to bar the FCC from requiring broadcasters to balance conservative content with liberal programming such as Air America.
Cam Edwards (of NRAnews.com) offers his professional insight in warning us of the recent attempt to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine tyranny. I can't believe anyone who recalls the stultifying broadcasts of that period could possibly tolerate returning to that regime.
A 55-year-old Lutheran pastor will spend a year in jail for comparing Germany's abortion rate of 150,000 annually to the murder of Jews in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, according to Salem Voice Ministries.
CUG warns us of more frightful developments in France. Link: Macworld: News: France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence. (Via Conservative UAW Guy.)
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Law would make Minutemen guilty of 'domestic terrorism'.
A. An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.
You mean, like this? The groups I participated in were well armed (especially during the July '05 incident) but there was a third group (Friends of the Border Patrol) I did not participate with because that group's rules limited carry to LEO's only. Predictably, that group ended up being assaulted by a mob, resulting in injuries and theft of membership lists, etc. The border is a dangerous place. (And as jimmyb of Conservative UAW Guy reminds us: free speech isn't free.)
Link: Of Arms and the Law: Register bloggers, not guns?. Excerpt:
S.1 has been introduced in the Senate as "lobbying reform" -- which in this case means "First Amendment infringements." An amendment has been attached, which requires registration of bloggers with more than 500 readers, and who comment on policy issues. Violation would be a criminal offense.
Link: Can't Shut Me Up (Wayne LaPierre's blog). Excerpt:
As gun owners, we know the drill. First comes registration, then comes confiscation. If Pelosi gets her way, it won't be long before Congress is deciding whether what you have to say can ever be said without their review and approval.
Unbelievable--she actually wants to register speech? We used to joke about this!
