It’s an Obama World… Walter Reed Hospital Bars Family Members From Bringing Bibles to Injured Soldiers | The Gateway Pundit

It’s an Obama World… Walter Reed Hospital Bars Family Members From Bringing Bibles to Injured Soldiers | The Gateway Pundit: It’s an Obama world.
While we were preoccupied with other disastrous Obama policies, military bureaucrats under Barack Obama passed a new rule that barred loved ones from bringing Bibles to wounded soldiers.

Boy wanting to join Girl Scouts told 'no' | 9news.com

Boy wanting to join Girl Scouts told 'no' | 9news.com: Girl Scouts of Colorado released this statement to 9NEWS:

"Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. Our requests for support of transgender kids have grown, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is working to best support these children, their families and the volunteers who serve them. In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts. We are accelerating our support systems and training so that we're better able to serve all girls, families and volunteers."

Liberalism’s Auto-De-Fe � Commentary Magazine

Liberalism’s Auto-De-Fe � Commentary Magazine
Ed Schultz​, the (white) host of MSNBC’s Ed Show, believes that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain is pandering to “white Republicans out there who don’t like black folks.” Professor Cornell West said that Mr. Cain needs to get off his “symbolic crack pipe” because Cain doesn’t believe racism is a major factor in keeping blacks behind these days. And Harry Belafonte says that Cain is a “bad apple in the black community.”

These statements should be considered along with the ones insisting that Republicans refuse to “put country ahead of party” (Barack Obama​), that Republicans “don’t love this country” (Representative Linda Sanchez) and that Republicans who vote in favor of a bill that would prohibit federal funds from being used to pay for any part of a health plan that covers abortion will “be voting to say that women can die on the floor” (Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi).

Wisconsin Judge Rules No Right to Own a Cow or Drink Its Milk | Food Freedom

Wisconsin Judge Rules No Right to Own a Cow or Drink Its Milk | Food Freedom: In a decision denying basic property rights and even exceeding the FDA’s contempt for the rights of private contract and food freedom of choice, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Fiedler has issued an order holding that owners of cows do not have a fundamental right to consume milk from their own cow.

Teacher Bans “Bless You” Phrase

Teacher Bans “Bless You” Phrase: A California teacher has banned students from saying “bless you” when someone sneezes in his class.

Health teacher Steve Cuckovick says it has nothing to do with religious beliefs, he claims it becomes a disruption in class and is serious about enforcing it.

He deducts 25 points from student’s grades every time someone breaks the “bless you” ban.

Only Non-Smokers Need Apply At Baylor � CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Only Non-Smokers Need Apply At Baylor � CBS Dallas / Fort Worth: Currently there are some 14 million jobless Americans. And if you’re one of the thousands of North Texans looking for work, the competition is tough.

Now, a new hiring limitation by one employer could make the job search even harder.

The Baylor Health Care System has decided that if you use tobacco, in any form, you won’t get a job with them.

Public school coaches told not to participate in prayer - WSMV Channel 4

Public school coaches told not to participate in prayer - WSMV Channel 4: Some football coaches are in trouble for something they did with their players. They said a prayer.

That has the school district taking action.

And the policy, while it may be the law, has plenty of people up in arms.

Every school district has a responsibility to follow the law, and separate private faith from public school. It can be a fine line at times. One crossed in Sumner County, it seems, when the coaches didn't say a word during a student-led prayer, but they did bow their heads.

City demands Christians get permit for Bible study

City demands Christians get permit for Bible study: Chuck and Stephanie Fromm already have been fined $300 for holding Bible studies for their friends at their home, and they face the potential for additional fines of $500 for each study held, according to a legal team taking their case to court.

The newest conflict over Bible studies in homes in America arose in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., where city officials say city code section 9-3.301 prohibits religious organizations in residential neighborhoods without a conditional-use permit, a sometimes very expensive procedure.

Indiana College Bans "Too Violent" National Anthem | NBC Washington

Indiana College Bans "Too Violent" National Anthem | NBC Washington

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the "The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school's president considers the National Anthem's words to be too violent.

The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according to NBC Sports.

The school’s board of directors told college President Jim Brenneman to “find an alternative to playing the National Anthem that fits with sports tradition, that honors country and that resonates with Goshen College’s core values and respects the views of diverse constituencies.”

Brenneman was okay with that.

“I am committed to retaining the best of what it means to be a Mennonite college, while opening the doors wider to all who share our core values,” Brenneman said. “And I invite others to join us at Goshen College as we make peace in all of its forms, even with the national anthem.”

Art professor John Blosser told The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren't going to blindly accept what the country does.

NBC Sports' Rick Chandler weighed in, saying: "I suppose we could have followed the example of the Mennonites and simply fled, giving the nation back to the British. But then we’d all be playing cricket."

John Kerry: Media Has "Responsibility" To "Not Give Equal Time" To Tea Party | RealClearPolitics

John Kerry: Media Has "Responsibility" To "Not Give Equal Time" To Tea Party | RealClearPolitics: "Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Friday that the media has the responsibility to not give equal time or credence to the Tea Party's views:

SEN. JOHN KERRY: 'And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.'

'It doesn't deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what's real, of who's accountable, of who is not accountable, of who's real, who isn't, who's serious, who isn't?'"

The Government War On Kid-Run Concession Stands

The Government War On Kid-Run Concession Stands

Air Force Suspends Christian-Themed Ethics Training Program Over Bible Passages - FoxNews.com

Air Force Suspends Christian-Themed Ethics Training Program Over Bible Passages - FoxNews.com: "The Air Force has suspended a course that was taught by chaplains for more than 20 years because the material included Bible passages.

The course, called “Christian Just War Theory” was taught by chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and used Scripture from both the Old and New Testaments to show missile launch officers that it can be moral to go to war.

But the watchdog group, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said the course violated the constitutional separation of church and state and filed a complaint last Wednesday on behalf of 31 missile launch officers – both instructors and students."

Catholic scholars blast 'aggressive' US contraceptive mandate :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Catholic scholars blast 'aggressive' US contraceptive mandate :: Catholic News Agency (CNA): "A new federal requirement that employers’ health care plans must cover contraceptives is an “aggressive” approach that could hinder or shut down Catholic institutions because of inadequate and “impossibly narrow” religious exemptions, several Catholic commentators have said.

“This will likely drive many important Catholic social service providers to close up shop, inevitably harming the poor communities that they serve,” Notre Dame Law School professor O. Carter Snead told CNA Aug. 2."

Green Movement–Saving the Planet By Destroying Our Wildlife � Commentary Magazine

Green Movement–Saving the Planet By Destroying Our Wildlife � Commentary Magazine:

More evidence has emerged that the environmentalist movement–and not the oil industry–is the premier energy-related threat to the survival of America’s wildlife. The obsession with green energy has led to the growth of the wind power industry, which has been killing birds and bats since its inception–and usually with impunity.

But that may come to an end, according to today’s L.A. Times. The paper reports the federal government is investigating the killing of six golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Pine Tree Wind Project:

So far, no wind-energy company has been prosecuted by federal wildlife authorities in connection with the death of birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. A prosecution in the Pine Tree case could cause some rethinking and redesigning of this booming alternative energy source. Facilities elsewhere also have been under scrutiny, according to a federal official familiar with the investigations.

“Wind farms have been killing birds for decades and law enforcement has done nothing about it, so this investigation is long overdue,” said Shawn Smallwood, an expert on raptor ecology and wind farms. “It’s going to ruffle wind industry feathers across the country.”

Get it? Ruffle their feathers. But seriously, the green movement isn’t just killing federally protected animals; they may also be sending some animals on their way to the list of endangered species. Take the bat, for example. In addition to fighting off white-nose syndrome, bats are falling victim to the wind turbines too:

Wind turbines are apparently killing migratory bats as well—by 2020, an estimated 33,000 to 111,000 bats are predicted to be killed by turbines in the mid-Atlantic Highlands alone. The authors in the Science paper worry that as wind power ramps up in the U.S., more bats will end up pureed by the blades.

This is bad for the economy, since bats eat an astounding number of insects and save farmers billions on pesticides. It’s terrible for the environment too, since those pesticides will have to replace the bats. And nobody wins when our food supply is eroded in the meantime by the pests that survive thanks to the wind turbines.

So the green movement is destroying wildlife, the environment and our nation’s food supply. But don’t worry: at least we’re not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Federal appeals court: Saying “Jesus” during public prayer is unconstitutional Read more at the Washington Examiner:

 

Judge Paul Victor Niemeyer, a judicial conservative regarded as one of the smartest judges on the federal bench, wrote in a strong dissent: “Thus … the majority has dared to step in and regulate the language of prayer—the sacred dialogue between humankind and God. Such a decision treats prayer agnostically; reduces it to a civil nicety; … Most frightfully, it will require secular [authorities] to evaluate and parse particular religious prayers…”

This is yet another instance of a “heckler’s veto,” where one hypersensitive person in a crowd is offended, and makes the whole group conform to the heckler’s demands.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com

Freedom in the 50 States | Mercatus

Freedom in the 50 States | Mercatus: "Executive Summary
This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. It updates, expands, and improves upon our inaugural 2009 Freedom in the 50 States study. For this new edition, we have added more policy variables (such as bans on trans fats and the audio recording of police, Massachusetts’s individual health-insurance mandate, and mandated family leave), improved existing measures (such as those for fiscal policies, workers’ compensation regulations, and asset-forfeiture rules), and developed specific policy prescriptions for each of the 50 states based on our data and a survey of state policy experts. With a consistent time series, we are also able to discover for the first time which states have improved and worsened in regard to freedom recently."

Leave the Cannoli, Take the Kid . . . - By Julie Gunlock - The Corner - National Review Online

Leave the Cannoli, Take the Kid . . . - By Julie Gunlock - The Corner - National Review Online: "A new report out of Harvard, published in the latest edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, advocates removing dangerously obese children from their homes and putting them in foster care where ostensibly they will lose weight and begin to eat healthily."

Don't let Uncle Sam shoot Tony the Tiger | David Freddoso | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

 

You have probably heard that the Obama administration wants Tony the Tiger to go the way of Joe Camel.

A special interagency working group, composed of several federal agencies, was commissioned by Congress in 2009 to perform a study of how food is marketed to children. It has instead released a set of "voluntary" guidelines for self-regulation in food advertising.

These guidelines hint, in not-so-subtle terms, that food companies must either change their recipes or stop advertising on shows watched by children, which are defined as those with audiences composed of just 20 or 30 percent children. Cereal manufacturers would also have to remove those cartoon mascots from all of their packaging.

Don't let Uncle Sam shoot Tony the Tiger | David Freddoso | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

Exposing the Mindset of Modern Liberalism « Commentary Magazine

 

On ABC’s “This Week”, George Will was on a panel with Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson, Harvard’s Jill Lepore, and Time magazine’s Richard Stengel, all of whom discussed Obamacare and the Constitution. 

In the course of the conversation, Will said this:

The question is, has the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce been so loosely construed that now Congress can do anything at all, that there is nothing it cannot do. Let me ask the three of you. Obviously, obesity and its costs affect interstate commerce. Does Congress have the constitutional power to require obese people to sign up for Weight Watchers? If not, why not?

The other panelists tried to duck Will’s question. To his credit, Will doesn’t allow them to be evasive. In pressing his point, Will elicits some remarkably illuminating answers. “I don’t know the answer to that,” Stengel admits. “It’s open,” according to Dyson.

Will did us the service of exposing the mindset of modern liberalism in the course of roughly two minutes. Two leading progressive are totally at sea when asked whether Congress has the constitutional power to require obese people to sign up for Weight Watchers.

Call it the Nanny State in a nutshell.

Exposing the Mindset of Modern Liberalism « Commentary Magazine

West Hollywood bans retail sales of dogs and cats | Comments Blog | Los Angeles Times

 

The West Hollywood City Council has put an end to sales of dogs and cats in pet stores.

In an ordinance that passed unanimously Tuesday night, sales of animals in stores are now prohibited in the city.

The ordinance, unanimously approved at its first reading a few weeks ago, is just the latest piece of animal-welfare legislation the city has taken up. In 2003, West Hollywood became the first city in the country to outlaw the declawing of cats.

West Hollywood bans retail sales of dogs and cats | Comments Blog | Los Angeles Times

Meghan Daum: Why San Francisco's pet ban won't fly - latimes.com

 

Dear San Francisco,
Will you please get a life? First you passed a law prohibiting the sale of most Happy Meals. Then you set your sights on banning circumcision. Now you're trying to make it illegal to sell almost every kind of pet, including goldfish, within city limits.

In one way, this isn't entirely surprising. In order to buy a goldfish, you usually need to carry it home in a plastic Ziploc bag. You haven't banned those yet, only plastic grocery bags, but it can only be a matter of time. (Transporting a live fish in one of those eco-bags? Sounds a little dicey.)

And come on, how are kids supposed to learn the facts of life if they can't beg their parents to buy them a fish, forget to change the water in its bowl and stand there crying when it gets flushed down the toilet after it dies from bacterial poisoning? These are teachable moments to be cherished.

Look, San Francisco, I know your intentions are good. With shelters full of adoptable animals, it's more than a little heartbreaking to walk past a pet store and see doggies in the window that undoubtedly came from puppy mills. If a major metropolitan area like yourself banned the sale of cats and dogs, it would be a boon to animals, especially if you found a way to grant exceptions to smaller-scale, responsible breeders, a point your officials say they're still discussing.

But apparently that wasn't enough. Last year, the ban on the sale of cats and dogs was put on hold when your Commission of Animal Control and Welfare decided to extend the prohibition to "anything with fur or feathers," which would include hamsters, rats, guinea pigs and all manner of birds.

And as if the resulting media mockery wasn't enough (Bill O'Reilly, predictably, branded all San Franciscans "kooks"), the authors of the proposal used the extra time to up the ante by adding fish, reptiles and amphibians to the ban. (The proposal would not affect selling live animals for human consumption, raising the question of whether aquarium enthusiasts will soon be buying castles and little scuba-diver figurines for new home lobster tanks.)

Here's your problem, San Francisco: You don't realize that social legislation is like garlic. When used sparingly, it can provide a useful kick to a dish. When overused, it makes people run away every time you open your mouth.

Meghan Daum: Why San Francisco's pet ban won't fly - latimes.com

Anti-circumcision movement anti-Semitic says San Francisco City Attorney | Dan Schreiber | Local | San Francisco Examiner

 

A circumcision ban measure on the November ballot contains clearly anti-Semitic campaign material and targets members of the Jewish faith, according to a press release Thursday from the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.

Jewish groups, along with some Muslim individuals, filed a lawsuit over the measure last week against The City’s director of elections and Lloyd Schofield, the San Francisco resident who gathered more than 12,000 signatures to get the proposed ban on the ballot.

Groups that filed the suit argue that state law prevents local jurisdictions from restricting medical practice by “healing arts professionals” and that the ban would limit First Amendment rights to free religious practice.
The ban would make male circumcision a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.

The City Attorney’s Office release said while it normally reserves judgment on pre-election challenges, the circumcision ban is a special case because of comic books depicting Jewish mohels as sinister villains, material that was endorsed by the organization seeking the ban.
The release said the comic books are “darkly evocative of Nazi propaganda of the 1930s and 1940s.”

Anti-circumcision movement anti-Semitic says San Francisco City Attorney | Dan Schreiber | Local | San Francisco Examiner

Philosemitism: France: anti-Semitic Dieudonné shooting first "popular comedy on the Holocaust"

 

The film poster shows French comic actor Dieudonné, dressed in military uniform and hilarious, feeding a tiny portion of food [is it food?] to a hungry man dressed as a concentration camp prisoner begging for something to eat. The subtitle of the film refers to "the first popular comedy about the Holocaust". According to the poster, the film has been preemptively banned from cinemas and video outlets in France. It will be sold through Dieudonné's website.

Philosemitism: France: anti-Semitic Dieudonné shooting first "popular comedy on the Holocaust"

Veterans Allege VA Censoring Prayer

 

HOUSTON - Local veterans say the Department of Veterans Affairs is consistently censoring their prayers, banning them from saying the words "God," and "Jesus" during funeral services at Houston National Cemetery.

Veterans Allege VA Censoring Prayer