Editorial: Race Relations under our current president

Editorial


After everything that happened in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, one can ask if race relations have gotten better in the U.S. under the current president. It seems they have gotten worse, right?

After Losing to Hobby Lobby, Obama Admin Pushes Crippling Fines for HHS Mandate Violators

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After Losing to Hobby Lobby, Obama Admin Pushes Crippling Fines for HHS Mandate Violators

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com |
After losing to Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court in a case about whether certain businesses who object to paying for abortion-causing drugs for their employees must follow the HHS mandate, the Obama administration has revised the HHS mandate rules.
The revisions target religious nonprofits and those pro-life companies like Hobby Lobby.
The Obama administration released a fact sheet on the newly-proposed HHS mandate rule pertaining to non-profit organizations and closely held for-profit entities, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties. The factsheet on the new rules makes it clear that the HHS mandate violates the conscience rights of non-profit organizations and family businesses across the country.
According to the factsheet, the Obama administration will publish two new regulations relating to the HHS preventive services mandate. One is an interim final rule regarding an additional mechanism for non-profits to provide notification of their objection to the mandate. The second is a proposed final rule and request for comment on applying an accommodation procedure to for-profit businesses, like family-owned companies Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood.
The upshot of the new rules? As Arina Grossu, Director for the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, tells LifeNews, it’s “the threat of crippling fines on non-profits who stand up for their freedom of conscience.”
“What remains an insulting accounting gimmick does not protect the rights of Americans with sincere conscientious objections. It is simply another clerical layer to an already existing accounting gimmick that does nothing to protect religious freedom because the employer still remains the legal gateway by which these drugs and services will be provided to their employees,” she said. “It’s very disappointing that the Obama administration is doubling down on its plans to punish charities and non-profits that assist the poor and homeless, who in some cases have nowhere else to turn for assistance.”
“Effective immediately, this latest rule still orders charities like the Little Sisters of the Poor, non-profit Christian colleges like Wheaton College, and religious broadcasters like EWTN to violate their consciences simply because they legally contract for health coverage,” Grossu continued. “The government uses their contract as the basis to force their insurers to provide their employees with free contraception and drugs that can kill human embryos, against their sincere conscientious beliefs.”
“If these charities and non-profits follow their conscience and decline to participate in the meaningless accounting gimmick, the administration will make them pay huge penalties accruable on a daily basis — one hundred dollars per employee per day,” she said.
“Additionally, the government is also soliciting comment on new ways to force family businesses to violate their deeply held moral and religious convictions due to the HHS mandate in an attempt to address and skirt the recent Supreme Court ruling. However, the government’s actions here still force family businesses to be complicit in what they view as morally wrong,” Grossu added.
Per the CMS factsheet, the interim final rule will create an additional option for how religious nonprofits may register their objection to the HHS preventive services mandate. Instead of filling out the self-certification form (created in the July 2013 final rules), a religious nonprofit may notify HHS in writing of its objection.
Then, as the factsheet provided by CMS goes on to explain, “HHS will then notify the insurer for an insured health plan, or the Department of Labor will notify the TPA for a self-insured plan, that the organization objects to providing contraception coverage and that the insurer or TPA is responsible for providing enrollees in the health plan separate no-cost payments for contraceptive services for as long as they remain enrolled in the health plan. Regardless of whether the eligible organization self-certifies in accordance with the July 2013 final rules, or provides notice to HHS in accordance with the August 2014 IFR, the obligations of insurers and/or TPAs regarding providing or arranging separate payments for contraceptive services are the same, as discussed in this Fact Sheet. The interim final rule solicits comments but is effective on date of publication in the Federal Register.”
The accommodation created under the July 2013 final rule remains in effect. Today’s announcement creates another notification procedure, which produces the same effect. There are over 50 cases of religious nonprofits suing in objection to the adequacy of the accommodation created by the July 2013 final rule.
In addition, today’s announcement includes notice of a proposed rule to apply the “accommodation” to certain for-profit companies. This includes a request for comments on a new proposed rule for how to define closely-held corporations and how these for-profit organizations (like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood) will provide notification of their objection to providing contraception coverage.
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Grossu, of the Family Research Council, told LifeNews, “The Family Research Council urges the administration to offer a full exemption from the mandate to charities and non-profits that have sincere conscientious objections and to respect the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding family businesses like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties.”
Lori Windham, Senior Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told LifeNews that charities should not be punished for standing up for their pro-life beliefs.
“Religious ministries in these cases serve tens of thousands of Americans, helping the poor and homeless and healing the sick. The Little Sisters of the Poor alone serve more than ten thousand of the elderly poor. These charities want to continue following their faith. They want to focus on ministry—such as sharing their faith and serving the poor—without worrying about the threat of massive IRS penalties,” she said.

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to choosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: If I Stay, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, When the Game Stands Tall, Code Black, Life After Beth, Are You Here

by Debbie Schlussel
Sorry that I’m so late in putting up this week’s movie reviews, but there were six of them, none of them I liked much, and I couldn’t get ‘em up in time before the Jewish Sabbath. In any event, this has to be the crappiest weekend for movies in the crappiest summer for movies that I can remember. So here they are:

* “If I Stay“: More like, Stay Away! Yet another cloying, manipulative, overwrought, melodrama-filled movie based on a Young Adult novel. Long, boring, and annoying. I couldn’t wait for this to end, and each time you thought (and hoped like hell) it would, it trudged onward.
The story: a couple of pretentious hipsters in America’s Northwest (Seattle, Portland, or some other such overgrown hipster colony–I forgot which one and just don’t care) have a good girl daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) who likes to play the cello and is quite good at it. She has a chance to go to Juilliard. But she also has a hipster-style boyfriend who is in a band, and he wants to stay in the Northwest. By the way, her parents were in a rock band–well, her father was, and her mother was a groupie. And they don’t seem to like that their daughter is a good girl. They encourage her to stay out all night with the boyfriend, when she comes home early, and other such annoying absentee/immature/friend-as-parent, hipsteresque behavior. GUH-REAAAT parenting.
One day, the whole family is on the road in the same car, when snow is falling, and they get into a car accident. Everyone is rushed to the hospital. The parents are dead, and the son and good girl daughter are in a coma, struggling to survive. The girl’s ghost is outside of her body, watching her grandparents, parents’ friends, and her own friends, all visiting her and urging her to wake up. Stitched in are memories of her life with the parents and boyfriend.
Don’t waste your time on this dull, maudlin snoozer.
TWO-AND-A-HALF MARXES

Watch the trailer . . .
* “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For“: I never saw the first “Sin City” movie, so apparently you can see this without that one and basically know everything that’s going on. The problem is there is no point in seeing this horribly violent movie. Gratuitous violence, torture, and blood dominate this movie, which is too bad, because it is shot in a very cool, sharp, black and white, with strategic pops of bright color (I saw it in 3D, but you’re fine without that).
The stories are tragic and bleak, and I’m not sure what the point is, other than to get you to voluntarily transfer your money to Hollywood stars and filmmakers who want to also rob you of your time in the process. The stories, which intertwine are about various crooks and desperados: a stripper (Jessica Alba) whose love was murdered and she wants revenge; a gambler (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who has a lot of luck and is the illegitimate son of an evil U.S. Senator who is a thug and wants him dead; a woman (Eva Green) who wants her rich husband murdered so she can collect the money, and so she sets up a lover (Josh Brolin) to kill him; and then there is Mickey Rourke, who is from the dark, welfare-ridden ghetto that is Sin City.
Cool cinematography of gratuitously violent, pointless garbage. Don’t waste your time.
By the way, I don’t need to see this because, hey, I live in Detroit (or close enough).
THREE MARXES

Watch the trailer . . .

* “When the Game Stands Tall“: While this is generally another predictable, cliche-filled high school football movie, it did have a religious Christian element, which was positively portrayed, so that gains points with me. I also liked a scene in which the high school football team goes to the hospital to help amputee military veterans with their rehab.
Still, I wasn’t sure what the point of this movie was. The story–about a real life coach at a Catholic high school in California–is filled with inconsistencies and multiple directions. The coach’s wife and son are upset with him because he spends all of his time on the football team and not family. And, yet, his wife urges him to take a college coaching job–at Stanford, no less–where he would have even less time for them. The coach has a medical problem, like a heart attack (though they never say what it is), as he is under pressure to continue his team’s non-stop winning streak. But, then, at the end, his star player refuses to break the state’s touchdown record and takes a knee repeatedly to “honor the coach.” Ridiculous. Yup, the movie honors communism, not individual recognition. Yuck.
And, mostly, I found this movie to be a bore. Among high school football movies, this was not one of the best ones and it was somewhat disjointed. Because of the favorable Christian stuff (rare for Hollywood), I am being very generous when I give this . . .
ONE REAGAN

Watch the trailer . . .
* “Code Black“: I’m not sure what the point of this boring, repetitive documentary was, other than to tell me that I need ObamaCare so that illegal aliens and all real Americans can have crappy emergency room care like the people who go to Los Angeles County Hospital and can wait up to 24 hours to be seen by a doctor. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Also, maybe the point was for me to hear a young Asian doctor swearing, telling of his life of living Asian stereotypes, and talking about how he “d*cked around” (yeah, just the guy I’d want treating me!). Or maybe the point was for me to hear from a preppy-looking doc about how his illegal alien . . . er, “undocumented immigrant,” friend didn’t have access to medical care (when it appears the alien actually had better health care than the rest of us).
This movie was only 1.5 hours but seemed like it went on forever. It wasn’t well done or edited, and didn’t have a tight and interesting narrative (as is the case with decent documentaries). I wouldn’t pay ten bucks to see this. In fact, the only way I’d go see this–if I didn’t have to review it–was if you paid me. And you’d have to pay me well to sit through this.
FOUR MARXES

Watch the trailer . . .
* “Life After Beth“: This “comedy” isn’t funny, but it’s supposed to be some kind of parody of zombie movies or something. The makers of this should have left that to the professionals at “The Walking Dead.” This was boring and pointless, and I felt like a time bandit just robbed me of almost two hours of my life.
The story: A guy’s girlfriend comes back to life after she died of a snake bite. But she soon becomes a zombie. And suddenly many others are coming back to life, but they are dangerous and kill and eat people (the movie, thankfully, doesn’t really show much of this), so people fight back, and then, suddenly, it’s all over. The end.
A total waste of time and money.
THREE MARXES

Watch the trailer . . .
* “Are You Here“: Another absolutely awful, entirely unfunny “comedy.” Matthew Weiner, the creator, writer, director, and producer of “Mad Men” is trying to show those who ask that he’s more than a one-trick pony, as he wrote and directed this absolutely malodorous dung heap. The answer is a resounding “NO.” This was just plain terrible.
Owen Wilson plays a sleazy, lascivious weatherman who is irresponsible, says gross things on the air, and does a lot of drugs. His crazy friend, Zach Galifianakis, plays the same role he plays in every movie, especially “The Hangover” movies. The only difference is that he is an animal rights nut in this movie. Galifianakis’ father dies and leaves everything to him. Wilson is trying to get in on the money, too, as he’s also trying to get in bed with the father’s young, hippie chick widow. Amish people are thrown into this horrible story, as they, too, apparently must be abused by Matthew Weiner’s lack of talent blatantly on display in this trash. I’m not sure why the Amish are in this, but as with everything else in this movie, Weiner just threw stuff in, tossed it around, and said, hey, it’s a movie–go see it!
Um, no it isn’t, and you shouldn’t. Another time and money bandit you should avoid as if it were AIDS.
FOUR MARXES PLUS FOUR BIN LADENS

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The Image of Daniel 2

Prophecy points to a fulfillment of Daniel's pivotal prophecy and the soon coming of the Kingdom of God.

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[Gary Petty] We just finished recording a Beyond Today program on the image of Daniel 2. And this is one of the charts that we use – we're using a number of different charts, but this one really shows and gives us an understanding of what the image of Daniel 2 is all about. We see that the image that was given to Nebuchadnezzar in his dream – and Daniel of course came along and gave him an explanation of the head, the chest and arms, the belly and thighs, and these legs of iron and feet of iron and clay.
And we show through the program – we invite you to be sure and see this program when it's on – that what he was talking about is the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, and the Roman Empire. And of course we can see that these empires have actually happened during the course of history, which inspires us, because we can look back and see, wow, these prophecies took place. But this prophecy also reaches out into the future and it's going to predict some of the headlines in the news that you and I are going to see in the near future. And that involves the rise of ten toes that are ten kings that are part of the Roman Empire.
So what we know from this is that there's going to be an attempt to restore the Roman Empire. And this is very important because when this happens, this is when Jesus Christ returns, which is the stone cut out to become a mountain and sets up God's kingdom on this earth. So we invite you to be sure and watch this program when it comes out in a little bit. It's on the image of Daniel 2.
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An interesting article from www.Vdare.com about Ferguson, Missouri. This follows this post about the Central Park Five. 
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No Facts, No Peace In Ferguson: “You Don’t Want To End Up Looking Like Rich Lowry…”

By Ann Coulter       

It’s important to remember that, in police shooting cases like the one in Ferguson, Missouri, the initial facts are often wrong. You don’t want to end up looking like Rich Lowry, National Review editor, whose March 23, 2012, column on the Trayvon Martin shooting was titled, “Al Sharpton is Right.”
Early accounts are especially unreliable when reporters think they have a white racism story. Stirring up racial hatred is how journalists make up for sending their own kids to lily-white private schools.
As detailed in my book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, the old media’s standard for any police shooting of a black person is: “Racist until proved innocent.” We got three-alarm racism stories for the shootings of Jose (Kiko) Garcia, Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Stewart and Edmund Perry.
And then it turned out Garcia was a drugged-up coke dealer who pulled a gun on the cop, Bumpurs was a psychotic who came at the cops with a machete, Stewart fought the cops so violently he gave himself a heart attack, and Perry mugged an undercover cop.
Witness statements aren’t always 100 percent accurate. In Garcia’s case, innumerable neighbors gave the media florid accounts of Officer Michael O’Keefe beating and kicking Garcia, before repeatedly shooting the unarmed man in the back as he lay facedown on the floor. The Garcia family lawyer assured The New York Times that “this kid never was arrested; he wasn’t a drug dealer.”
It later turned out that Garcia was a convicted felon.
He had a gun the night of the shooting.
The autopsy proved he was not shot in the back, nor was he beaten.
The only eyewitnesses against Officer O’Keefe were drug dealers—for whom Garcia worked—who could not possibly have seen anything from their vantage point, as confirmed with a laser pointer used by the Garcia family lawyer.
The first headlines in the Edmund Perry case were:
The New York Post: “COP KILLS HARLEM HONOR STUDENT”
The New York Times: “HONOR STUDENT, 17, IS KILLED BY POLICEMAN ON WEST SIDE.”
The Los Angeles Times: “SAYS VICTIM ATTACKED HIM, MOTHER CHARGES RACISM: OFFICER KILLS TOP STUDENT, SETS OFF FUROR.”
Two dozen witnesses—many of them black—established that Perry had mugged the cop and was stomping on him when the officer shot him. Those witnesses were the heroes, not elite news anchors, who leave their doorman buildings to rail against “racism” from well-guarded studios or brief reporting forays to black neighborhoods.
Follow-up stories admitting that some some sensational racist crime turned out to be false are never a high priority with the press.
After all the media’s hysteria about the Kiko Garcia shooting (New York Newsday: “COP SHOOTING VICTIM: HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK”) the story just faded away.
That incident provoked riots that resulted in one person dead, 90 injured, 53 policemen hospitalized, 121 vehicles torched, 11 police cars damaged, and dozens of businesses burned or looted. But when the early accounts turned out to be lies, the media whispered the ending and tiptoed out of the room, as if reading a bedtime story to a child.
The old media just love creating huge racist hoaxes—which has done so much to improve the lives of ordinary black people!
Luckily for America, especially African-Americans, the advent of alternative media has reduced the Non-Fox Media’s ability to stir up urban riots. Today, it’s possible to get information that never would have seen the light of day in the 1980s.
In less than two weeks, the original version of the racist police execution of Michael Brown—or “Big Mike”—has already undergone major revisions. We were told:

• Big Mike was the sweetest kid, he’d never hurt a flea.

Then we got the store surveillance video of him robbing a liquor store and manhandling the clerk. Perhaps Big Mike committed his first-ever crime 11 minutes before his encounter with Officer Darren Wilson, but it doesn’t look good.

• He was shot in the back.

At least two autopsies now establish Big Mike was not shot in the back.

• He didn’t touch the police officer.

This week, we saw the X-ray of Officer Wilson’s fractured eye socket.

• He was holding his arms up surrendering when Officer Wilson shot him.

That’s at least in doubt now that a video of a Big Mike supporter has emerged, capturing the private conversation of an eyewitness confirming the officer’s claim that Big Mike was running at him.
On the tape, one black man tells another:

“Him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran—the police got out and ran after him … Then the next thing I know he comes back toward the truck ’cause—the police had his gun drawn already on him. The police kept dumping on him, and I’m thinking that the police missing … but he kept coming toward him.”

Some would say a private conversation, unintentionally recorded immediately after an event, is more credible than alleged eyewitness accounts by people who know they’re talking to the press.
But if MSNBC can spend six months on a bridge closure in Fort Lee, New Jersey, they can probably do at least a year on a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Ann Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate. She is the author of TEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her most recent book is Never Trust a Liberal Over Three-Especially a Republican.

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World News and Trends: U.S. crime peril ahead?

article by Good News Editor

According to a recent report from Washington, D.C., "America is bracing itself for a storm of criminal violence that, if some experts are to be believed, will sweep the country on a scale unprecedented in the nation's history."

Right now crime rates are decreasing in most American cities. Washington, D.C., is a major exception. "But gloomy demographers warn the fall in crime will soon end. Over the next decade, they say, some 52 million sub-teens will expand the base of 15- to 19-year-olds—the prime source of armed thuggery—by 15 per cent."
"Make a chain," wrote the prophet Ezekiel, "for the land is filled with crimes of blood, and the city is full of violence" (Ezekiel:7:23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.). One crime would follow another just like links on a chain. No prophecy of your Bible is any more up to date than this one. (Source: The Sunday Times .)

An interesting article from www.NumbersUSA.com about the next wave of border crossers. This follows this post about getting the Senate to take up HR 5230.  Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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Second wave of illegal border crossings expected this fall

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An official with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants expects a second wave of at least 30,000 unaccompanied alien children to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border this fall. Tiffany Nelms told the Washington Examiner that the flow has temporarily slowed because of the summer heat, making the journey across Mexico and into the United States more difficult.
"Right now it’s just too hard for them to cross, but we expect when it cools down a little bit in August or in September, October, we’ll see another surge again," Nelms said.
Over the last few weeks, reports from the border indicate that the illegal-alien border surge has slowed from its peak in May and June. More than 60,000 UACs have been apprehended from the start of FY2014 through the end of July, but the federal government still expects more than 90,000 to cross before the end of the fiscal year on September 30.
"Historically there have been periods when we don’t see a lot of kids, and because right now it is very hot in the desert. And so typically, June, July and August are slow months," Nelms said. "I think the slowdown really is related to the weather."
For more on this story, see the Washington Examiner.