Another shakedown by the left

Posted at Sense of Events; "There will be a lot more of this in the coming months."
 
Tell me again about the freedom of our convictions here in America. Here is an article from Think Progress, a left-wing publication, and part of what Professor Mike Adams calls the "gaystapo":

Washington Florist Faces Second Suit Unless She Donates To An LGBT Organization
"Here are the conditions the couple’s lawyers provided to the discriminating florist:

• You agree not to refuse to provide flowers and other goods and services to any person on the basis of his or her sexual orientation.
• You agree to write a letter of apology to Mr. Freed and Mr. Ingersoll to be published in the Tri-City Herald.
• You agree to donate $5,000 to the Vista Youth Center, in lieu of payment of attorneys’ fees.

MSNBC segment: Host asks young daughter if she’d marry a girl when she grows up   "Flip the subject being pushed on the little girl to something like pro-life values and MSNBC would be reporting it as child abuse:"

John Piper: A thoughtful pastor’s teaching on what the Apostle Paul says about homosexual behavior in his letter to the Romans
The time is coming when John Piper can be jailed because of these words.
C.S. Lewis recommended reading at least one old book to every three new ones, because while the new ones may be trendy, books that have stood the test of time are more likely to reflect “the great body of Christian thought down the ages.”
What Lewis said about books also pertains to sermons. When a new idea—like same-sex marriage—is sweeping through society like a scythe, it’s good to see how thoughtful pastors in past years have taught their congregations to think about homosexuality. [Linked here] is a sermon that Minnesota minister John Piper gave on Oct. 11, 1998.

Never Again!

Derek Thomas  "I have been listening to Dimitri Shostakovich’s Trio No. 2 in E Minor, op. 67. It is a vivid depiction of the Nazi death camps. And this past week saw the 60th anniversary of a Soviet army officer (Anatoli Shapiro) and his battalion’s arrival at Auschwitz to discover 7,000 starved and emaciated prisoners left behind when more than 50,000 had been marched out to the snow and almost certain death in the Nazi attempt to cover up the evidence of what was taking place. 1.5 million Jews were exterminated at Auschwitz, a place that has become symbolic of the Nazi holocaust. Shapiro, now 92 still recalls the scene: "We came upon groups of people in striped uniforms. They were no more than skeletons. They were unable to talk. They had a blank look in their eyes," the 92-year-old Shapiro told Reuters."....

The narrator who introduces this film is Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. 

 

Continuing with Thomas's article:

The Nuremberg trials showed that Germany's trend toward atrocity began with their progressive embrace of the Hegelian doctrine of "rational utility," where an individual's worth is in relation to their contribution to the state, rather than determined in light of traditional moral, ethical and religious values. Read more.

Obama pictured by an Israeli cartoonist

Our free press at work in the Gosnell trial

Photo of the Day:  Media Row at the Gosnell trial

"Well, we can’t have that, can we? Patheos’ Mollie Hemingway followed up with Mullane to confirm that the media section was really this empty..."

...".Mollie challenged reporters on Twitter yesterday why they write about abortion policy but not the Gosnell trial. ...

Mollie Z. Hemingway @MZHemingway

WaPo health policy reporter @SarahKliff has 80+ site hits on Akin/Fluke/Komen and zero on Gosnell? Would love an explanation.

"Compare this to the media firestorm over the Komen Foundation’s all-too-temporary decision not to fund Planned Parenthood for breast-cancer screening over the tiny detail of PP not having any mammograms in their clinics.  For that matter, Mollie writes, compare that to the “local crime story” coverage of the Trayvon Martin or Matthew Shepard cases:"....

 

Gosnell case and mainstream media: Answers, please?   "The pressure is working. Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic today published a long story titled: “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story.” The piece goes through the various reasons — abuse of women, killing of babies, failure of government oversight and so much more — that news organizations should give prominent placement to the Gosnell trial. Friedersdorf held off on any judgments on why the media has made its various coverage decisions, pending a survey of “some of the editors and writers making coverage decisions.”"

Washington Post pledges Gosnell coverage  "That’s something. Still waiting on the three big broadcast networks and the New York Times."

Krauthammer; The Obama budget and the appearance of reform

Charles Krauthammer  "The cards laid down by the White House are quite unimpressive. The 2014 budget is tax-and-spend as usual. The actual deficit reduction over a decade is a minuscule $0.6 trillion — out of a total spending of $46.5 trillion. And every penny of this tiny reduction comes from tax hikes. Nothing from spending cuts, which all end up getting spent elsewhere.
Moreover, where’s the compromise? The Obama budget calls for not only more spending than the GOP’s, but more than the Democratic Senate’s as well."

Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader’s Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’

The Blaze

"The paper sat unnoticed in Harvey’s son’s backpack for several months until last week, when his son’s mother almost threw it away. The words caught her eye in the trash, and she showed it to Harvey, who said he was at a loss for words. He asked his son, who said Sabb had spoken the sentence out loud and told them to write it down. Harvey said he asked some of his son’s classmates and got a similar answer."

Via Rich Cutter Avalone at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Republicans introduce bill to protect crosses, other religious symbols on war memorials

In this June, 27, 2012, file photo, supporters of a war memorial cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego are not giving up in their fight to keep the 58-year-old monument right where it is in the face of an adverse ruling from a federal appeals court.

The Washington Times  "Two congressional Republicans want to end, once and for all, the attempts of atheist groups and others to remove religious symbols from war memorials.
"Rep. Duncan Hunter of California and Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina on Thursday introduced the “War Memorial Protection Act,” which they say will create a “foundation in federal law” for public veterans’ and war memorials that include crosses or similar items."
....
"For years, atheist groups and others have fought to remove religious symbols from public lands and war memorials. One of the most recent uproars have come in Coos Bay, Oregon, where the Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a complaint to remove a cross from the local Vietnam Memorial. The group says that memorial violates separation of church and state provisions."

Warning: graphic photo you may find offensive

Apology to follow.

The McConnell Tapes

The McConnell Tapes: Dems Feel Heat, Shed Light
"The head of Progress Kentucky has resigned and is in discussions with the FBI. Ooops."

The tape of McConnell people discussing Ashley Judd's statements: (audio only)  Be sure to turn your volume up. 

They are making nothing up; just listening to Judd's own words.  One interesting section is where she claimed several places as "her home", depending on whom she was speaking to. The sound begins poorly, but is very clear as it progresses.

Legal Insurrection says "If this holds up, it is very, very big time, and on its face appears to be a violation of law."

The McConnell Test of Progressive Media Power  "The progressives who run the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are flexing their muscles, attempting to frame the story of a possible political crime through the wrong end of a telescope, in the belief that the MSM's sheer mindshare can win out over the facts."

Our watchdog media and the Philly abortion doctor

Media Not Reporting on Mass Murdering Baby Killer who happens to be African American, Why not?   "You can easily tell that Kirsten Powers, Charles Krauthammer, and Jonah Golberg are disturbed and frustrated with the lack of attention paid to the murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor."

Fear Government greed! Obama Wants Americans’ Hard-Earned Retirement Savings

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We the People  "Obama’s plan won’t raise much revenue — just $9 billion over 10 years. It’s simply more of the Obama fairness campaign. The White House made this clear when it said last week that under current law “some wealthy individuals” can amass “substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving.”
"Think about that statement for a moment, for it reveals a corrupt mind-set. The administration is saying that America has a government that believes it has the moral authority to decide just what a “reasonable” level of retirement savings is. That’s an alarming statement.
"Of course the White House and its allies will pitch the plan as a reasonable means to bring down deficits."
....
 "If it becomes law, Democrats will take the next step, putting a stranglehold on the trillions Americans now hold in their retirement accounts."

Shall We Look at the Differences between Corporate Greed and Government Greed?  " "Corporate greed" rhetoric must be put into perspective. The American people are not told that there are two kinds of social domination: 1) class domination, due to the fact that some people are wealthier than others, and 2) political domination, due to the fact that some people gain political office and government jobs1. These are the political elites. Media and the Democrats tell us only about the first "class warfare" kind of domination, and never the second kind -- i.e., exploitation by those in public office."

President Obama's Weirdest New Taxes  "As laid out this week by the Treasury Department in its "green book," a massive spiral-bound document that explains tax changes in the White House budget proposal - it is pale green, and 246 pages - here are some quirky maneuvers the president suggests to offset spending and keep the deficit just a bit lower:"....

Master at the sleight-of-hand

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Gazing through the window at our celebrity-in-chief

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2013/04/11/108505

 

 

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