Thank you, Hobby Lobby

Michelle Malkin

"Religious liberty is front and center on the nation’s Thanksgiving table. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. The family-owned craft store company is intrepidly challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s abortion coverage mandate. Hobby Lobby’s faithful owners deserve our thanks and praise as they defend freedom of conscience for all Americans."

Opinion inequality

Jennifer Rubin   "This week the president spoke about economic inequality. It is a problem to be sure, but it tends to blot out other types of inequality that are quite significant."
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"But there is a great mass of Americans are unplugged. There were about 240 million voting-age adults in 2012; only about 130 million votes were cast. Even among the 130 million who vote, there are millions who don’t know the name of a single cabinet member, never watch a talking head cable TV show and vote (maybe at most) once every four years.

"The plugged in are highly opinionated in most cases. They thrive on confrontation and drive much of the national debate. They’ve made politics into an esoteric subject with its own language. In doing so, they make politics angry, petty and somewhat incomprehensible — which are the reasons a great many Americans choose to unplug themselves. Political insiders sneer at “low information” voters, but in reality these are “low interest” voters who have decided to check out.

  

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Yale to hold Non-Human Rights Conference

College Insurrection  "There were plenty of headlines about a lawsuit seeking a court ruling that four captive Chimpanzees were persons and entitled to “the right to bodily liberty via a writ of habeas corpus.” The suits, filed in New York Supreme Court, are based on scientific evidence proving that chimpanzees are self-aware and autonomous, and therefore entitled to be recognized as “legal persons” with certain fundamental legal rights."

 

..."Among the papers to be presented are:

• Personhood and Liberal Neutrality: Should we provide public aid to pets’ owners?”
• Posthuman Personhood
• Establishing Nonhuman Legal Personhood
• What Is A Person and How Can We Be Sure?
• The Personhood of Cyberconsciousness

A Month of Horror for Christians under Islam: September, 2013

Raymond Ibrahim   "The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing “human rights” concerns), some of the war’s worst atrocities were committed against that nation’s Christian minority, most notably in Ma‘loula, an ancient Christian region where the inhabitants still spoke the language of Jesus.
"There, among other things, the al-Qaeda-linked jihadis fired mortars and missiles onto at least two ancient churches before looting them; some 80 Christians trying to defend their homes were killed.  Others who could not flee were forced on pain of death to convert to Islam.
"One man’s last words before being slaughtered by the rebels were: “I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for this, I do not object to it.”   A nun involved with humanitarian relief said the man “Is a Martyr in Christ in the full sense of this word, since he was murdered solely because of religious hatred!'"

What Islamists do to Christians  "Maaloula was the scene of heavy fighting in September. It is considered to be one of the birthplaces of Christianity and is home to a number of shrines and monasteries, which are listed as UNESCO world heritage sites.
"According to the Syrian Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic church, Gregory Laham, some 450,000 Syrian Christians have been forced from their homes by the civil war that began in March 2011. He added that “at least 57 Christian sites” have been damaged or destroyed since the beginning of hostilities, and blamed the United States and its Western allies for aggravating the situation by providing assistance to the rebels."

Fast-food strikers, be careful what you wish for

 

The minimum wage and the rise of the machines  "After you heard President Obama’s call for a hike in the minimum wage, you probably wondered the same thing I did: Was Obama sent from the future by Skynet to prepare humanity for its ultimate dominion by robots?

"But just in case the question didn’t occur to you, let me explain. On Tuesday, the day before Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage, the restaurant chain Applebee’s announced that it will install iPad-like tablets at every table. Chili’s already made this move earlier this year. "

Fast Feud   "Which is why the same president whose signature legislation slashed employee hours and cost them their health insurance is now pushing for a higher minimum wage, so that people can enjoy self-respect and support entire families by flipping burgers. "