By now everyone knows about his transgressions. If even only some of the reports are true, Brian Williams is a serial embellisher, a self-aggrandizing fabulist. No doubt everyone knows somebody like this, and if you don’t it’s probably because you’re that guy. But Williams’ case is special. This isn’t some sad Willy Loman at the end of the bar who…
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When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified. Two weeks ago, under the headline…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring that “no god condones terror.” “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out…
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It’s an unmitigated disaster for Brian Williams and NBC News. The revelation that the NBC anchor had lied on air about being in a helicopter that was forced down after it was hit by enemy fire during the Iraq War is devastating. It’s hard to see how Williams gets past this, and how he survives as the face of NBC…
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An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement testified Friday during a discussion on immigration detention facilities, hosted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, about a “special housing unit in the Los Angeles area dedicated to the gay, bisexual and transgender detainees.” “We have a special housing unit in the Los Angeles area dedicated to the gay, bisexual and transgender…
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To coincide with the 42nd anniversary of Roe Vs. Wade, pro-lifers were promised, by House leaders they just helped elect and re-elect, that there would be a vote on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks — that’s five months — gestation. It’s called the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act because there is now lots of research…
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Two Senate Republicans told Newsmax on Thursday that Congress was going to bring the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline to the American people whether President Barack Obama approves it or not. “If he vetoes it, we’ll have other options that we’ll work on,” said North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, who co-sponsored the bill that the Senate approved on a 62-36…
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A form of Islamic law has taken force in Texas, right next door to Louisiana where Gov. Bobby Jindal has warned of Muslim immigrants who refuse to adopt Western culture. An Islamic Tribunal of four attorneys is operating in Dallas where it issues voluntary rulings on civil disputes, Breitbart Texas reported Tuesday. Taher El-badawi, one of the lawyers who call…
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Mathew D. Staver, dean of the Liberty University School of Law, said that efforts to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex “marriage” would be like trying to re-define the law of gravity, adding that, if it were tried, it would mark “the beginning of the end of Western civilization.” “We’ve never been in this situation before,” Staver said…
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Mathew D. Staver, dean of the Liberty University School of Law, said that efforts to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex “marriage” would be like trying to re-define the law of gravity, adding that, if it were tried, it would mark “the beginning of the end of Western civilization.” “We’ve never been in this situation before,” Staver said…
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Barely five days after The New York Times ran a major news article on the firing of Atlanta’s fire chief for his views on homosexuality, a major Times opinion writer declared that religious liberty is a fine thing, so long as it is restricted to “pews, homes, and hearts” — far from public consequence. The firing of Kelvin Cochran as…
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