ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith. Francis spoke about the Paris terror attacks while en route to the Philippines, defending free speech as not only a fundamental human right but a duty to speak one’s mind for the sake of the…
Read NowUnless you’ve been living under a rock, or hanging out in the White House with nothing to do, you no doubt have heard about President Obama’s conspicuous absence at yesterday’s Paris peace march. After all, there were over 40 world leaders in attendance but nary a White House bigwig in site. Well, the Obama team has admitted their mistake, although with…
Read NowAs more than 40 heads of state locked arms and marched through the streets of Paris on Sunday, one country was noticeably absent: the United States. While President Barack Obama took heat from political foes for failing to attend a historic event that drew major world leaders, he also was criticized by members of the mainstream media. CNN’s Jake Tapper…
Read Now“There is none as blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who chose to ignore what they already know.” According to what I could find during my two-minute Internet research session, the above saying is an old English proverb first attributed to Sir John Hayward in 1546. But the sentiments expressed could easily be…
Read NowIn the wake of the terrorist attack on the offices of French satirist paper Charlie Hebdo, one Muslim cleric justified the murders under Islamic law. USA today published a column by avowed “radical Muslim cleric” Anjem Choudary. The piece titled “People know the consequences” asks why France would allow the paper to mock Islam, and further excused the systematic murders…
Read NowAs they went on their rampage, the men who killed 12 people in Paris this week yelled that they had “avenged the prophet.” They follow in the path of other terrorists who have bombed newspaper offices, stabbed a filmmaker and killed writers and translators, all to mete out what they believe is the proper Koranic punishment for blasphemy. But in…
Read NowPARIS (AP) — Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack. Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men also spoke flawless, unaccented French in the military-style noon-time attack on the weekly newspaper…
Read NowRepublicans blasted President Barack Obama on Tuesday for threatening to veto the $5.4 billion Keystone XL pipeline, charging him with pandering to liberal environmentalists instead of passing legislation that has strong bipartisan support in Congress. “President Obama’s veto threat comes as no surprise,” said Sen. John Hoeven, the North Dakota Republican who co-sponsored the legislation. “He has held the Keystone…
Read NowThere will be one noticeable difference when Republicans take over the Senate on Tuesday, says Sen. Rand Paul: there will be votes. Republicans have complained that outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, refused to allow votes — even from members of his own party — if the legislation was something President Barack Obama didn’t want to sign. With the…
Read NowWith former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s announcement this month that he would “actively explore” a run for the White House in 2016, the race for the Republican nomination has begun. Bush is among many possible contenders. They span the full conservative spectrum, from tea party-based legislators like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to former three-time New York Gov. George Pataki and…
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