Pope visits with Little Sisters of the Poor, who are suing over ObamaCare

" . . .President Obama said the United States "stands" with Francis "in defense of religious freedom."

Pope to meet with nuns challenging Obamacare contraception mandate
. . . "The symbolism of this visit cannot be overstated.  It is a direct challenge to the administration and their bogus "workaround" for people of conscience.  The "compromise" is fine if you don't mind compromising your principles.  But those without strong religious beliefs cannot fathom why the workaround isn't acceptable.  It is beyond the ken of their understanding, hence they believe that resistance is petty and unnecessary.

"The pope may not have intended this challenge to be political, but he must have understood the political perception of his gesture.  It makes his speech this afternoon before a joint session of Congress even more interesting than it would have been. 

Pope Francis Met Little Sisters Of The Poor In Quiet Protest Of Obamacare

. . . "According to Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, the pope made an unscheduled stop to meet with the Little Sisters. The order, which operates health care centers for the impoverished elderly, is fighting the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for employers to pay for their employees’ contraception despite the Catholic Church’s opposition to birth control. The case may go to the Supreme Court in the coming judicial term." . . .

Pope chews out Congress

Francis takes Congress to task on immigration, abortion, gay marriage and the Syrian refugee crisis

. . . "'When the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past,' the Roman Catholic pontiff said. 'We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our “neighbors” and everything around us.'

He also dropped coded messages to conservatives about gay marriage and abortion, and made an impassioned plea for a left-leaning approach to capital punishment in an unprecedented visit to Capitol Hill by a sitting Pope." . . .

The full text of the Pope's address to Congress

He had the Supreme Court justices on the edge of their seats. Justice Ginsburg was deep in prayer.

NRO: Our Fallible Pope   " “I ask you to join me in praying for my trip to Cuba and the United States. I need your prayers.” The response to this request, particularly from the right, was dispiriting. “I pray for those in Castro’s dungeons whose suffering you callously ignored. Screw you, Peronista pontiff,” wrote one critic. “He’s forfeited his moral authority.' ”

Those Democrats don't miss an opportunity

"Middle East refugees changed course Monday and began flooding into Europe through Croatia from the Adriatic after Hungary put up a tall fence. The Obama Administration moved swiftly to help these people. Within the hour, the Democrats put up voter registration tables at every border checkpoint."
Comedian Argus Hamilton

Slice of Life

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Yesterday, Democrats defeated a Republican bill which would have made the most horrorific late term abortions illegal. And by "late term," we're largely referring to infants who could possibly survive outside the womb with proper medical care (22 weeks being the age cited by the NY Times referring to a new New England Journal of Medicine study).
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"So what does this have to do with Ahmed the alleged clockmaker? Plenty - and not just the "parts is parts" comparison made in the cartoon above. Obama tweeted "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

"Only you can't really "like science" and like late term abortion, because the science says that the young victims are fully capable of feeling every bit of the pain and agony of being dismembered alive. And the science says that mothers are 35 times more likely to die from late term abortions than abortions performed in the first trimester.

"Ignoring science doesn't "make America great," Mr. Obama. But it does win a lot of bloodsoaked votes for Democrats from people who don't give a damn about human life."

Liberals after Ben Carson's scalp; supporters increase giving to him

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Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor for Allen West

"Anyone watching GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comments on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” could immediately predict the ensuing outrage from the liberal media over his comments that he would not support a Muslim as President of the United States.

"Never mind that none other than our dear president can freely make critical comments about “less-than-loving Christians” — and call out the “terrible deeds” during the Crusades and Inquisition and, more recently, involving slavery and Jim Crow, “justified in the name of Christ.”

"Meanwhile, when one of the leading GOP candidates for president cited Islam’s incompatibility with our nation’s Constitution — our nation’s rule of law — the media pounced.

"But perhaps contrary to the intent of many of those pouncing, candidate Carson’s campaign appears not to be suffering any fallout from the controversy. Quite the contrary: in the wake of Carson’s “politically incorrect” comments, fundraising money is now pouring in." . . .

Hat tip to The Comical Conservative

How's the #BlackLivesMatter movement going?

The Desecration of Fallen Officers

. . . "Destroying symbols of power expiates shame, diminishes humiliation and restores respect. Which is why desecrating police memorials feels good. It is a form of stealing valor. When the vandal is glorified by anti-police movements for defiling monuments he is hijacking heroism." . . .

Valerie Jarrett Meets With Black Lives Matter Leaders At The White House
. . . "She also revealed that Obama sympathized with the movement, thanks to his background as a community organizer in Chicago." . . .

In the view of America’s race-hustling professionals, there is no principled disagreement with them — there is only gross racism, either hidden or open.

. . . "If you believe that black lives matter, then you should be working for school reform, economic growth, and — yes — more effective law-enforcement and crime-prevention measures to protect black communities, which suffer an enormously disproportionate share of crime and violence. Never mind the stagecraft: That’s what you actually do if you think black lives matter.

"And the drama that’s going on in Ferguson right now? That’s what you do if you think black lives are merely useful to you — and, in the end, expendable."

How Black Lives Matter activists are influencing 2016 race

. . . "Writing in The Washington Post, Patrisse Cullors, said Democrats have, "milked the Black vote while creating policies that completely decimate Black communities."

"No presidential candidate has ever centered their agenda around the worth of Black lives," she wrote. "We are committed to redefining our worth as Black people and holding our country's representatives accountable.' "

Weasel of the Week Nominees

Nice Deb

It’s time once again for the Watcher’s Council’s ‘Weasel Of The Week’ nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

The Mainstream Media!

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MSNBC’s Chuck Todd! . .

Major General Kenneth Dahl . . .

"Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels…ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame! "

Obama's Islamic State War Czar Stepping Down

Bloomberg

. . . "The timing of Allen’s departure could not be worse for the Obama administration. The incoming Marine Corps Commandant, Lieutenant General Robert Neller, testified last month that the war is at a “stalemate.” Last week, the head of the U.S. Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, testified that of the 54 Syrian rebels trained and equipped by the U.S. military, only “4 or 5” were still in the fight. And now the Pentagon is investigating allegations by dozens of intelligence analysts that their reporting on the progress in the war effort was altered before being given to top officials.

"U.S. officials familiar with Allen's decision say he has been frustrated with White House micromanagement of the war and its failure to provide adequate resources to the fight. He unsuccessfully tried to convince the administration to allow U.S. tactical air control teams to deploy on the ground to help pick targets for air strikes in Iraq. Allen also tried several times to convince the White House to agree to Turkish demands for a civilian protection zone in Syria, to no avail. Nonetheless, administration officials stress that Allen's decision to leave his post was motivated mainly by the health of his wife, who suffers from an auto-immune disorder."

Finding someone to take the job won’t be easy. Just before he became Obama’s lead official in the fight against the Islamic State, Allen wrote an op-ed article in which he called the group a “clear and present danger to the U.S.” and said it “must be destroyed” quickly, using capabilities and power only the U.S. can bring to bear. Just over one year later, the president has yet to commit to a real plan to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State, as he has repeatedly said is his goal. Until that changes, Allen’s replacement will face the same roadblocks that he did, and the war against the Islamic State will continue to flounder.

 

Ben Carson's view of radical Islam is shared by - Islamist extremists. Assimilation UPDATE at bottom

Ben Carson Exposes Islamic ‘Taqiyya,’ But There’s Even More You Should Know
. . . "For those with a discerning eye, taqiyya is all around us. Muslim refugees have pretended to convert to Christianity (in the past and the present); an Islamic gunman gained entrance inside a church by feigning interest in Christian prayers. Examples abound on a daily basis.
"Consider the following anecdote from Turkey. In order to get close enough to a Christian pastor to assassinate him, a group of Muslims — including three women — feigned interest in Christianity, attended his church for over a year, and even participated in baptism ceremonies. Said the pastor, Emre Karaali:

These people had infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my family and the church and were preparing an attack against us. … Two of them attended our church for over a year and they were like family.

"If some Muslims are willing to go to such lengths to eliminate the already downtrodden Christian minorities in their midst, does anyone doubt that a taqiyya-practicing Muslim presidential candidate might have no reservations about swearing on a stack of Bibles?"

The UK Guardian; how a liberal news outlet sees this Carson incident.
. . . "And on that narrow point, Carson’s caution is reasonable and astute. All holy texts make claims about crime, punishment, war, human relationships and a whole host of other facets of social and political life that, if interpreted literally, cannot help but clash with the freedoms and frameworks of governance set out in the US constitution. A literal, fundamentalist reading of Islam – like Christianity, Judaism, or any other revealed faith [!]*– is thoroughly incompatible with the founding documents of this country.

"But that Carson knows and understands this actually serves to underline the underlying bigotry of his initial response, because Carson, presented on Saturday with the idea of a Muslim president, did not equivocate. There was no thoughtful generalizing, no common sense qualifiers about fundamentalists vs. moderates." . . .
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Feckless liberals fearful of violent Muslims. The nation of Israel is a Jewish nation, led by Jews and  the only free nation in a sea of Muslims who would like to kill every one of them. Christians? All the noble tenets in the American founding are Biblical principles, only tainted by fallen men.
The West has had such liberals as this before; those who saw no danger in a warlike Germany. They called insightful British leaders such as Churchill "warmongers" because they stressed the need to prepare for war with Hitler.

Lord Carey: Britain has a duty to rescue Syria’s Christians

Carson's Right -- Islam is Incompatible with the Constitution
. . . "Ben Carson is right. So says Syrian Islamic scholar Abd Al-Karim Bakkar who said in 2009 that democracy and Islam are like matter and anti-matter in physics:

Democracy runs counter to Islam on several issues….
In democracy, legislation is the prerogative of the people. It is the people who draw up the constitution, and they have the authority to amend it as well. On this issue we differ.

"This is self-evident in the fact that Islamic theocracy rules throughout the Islamic world, crushing human rights such as those delineated in our Bill of Rights."

CAIR Calls for Carson to Drop Out of Presidential Race
. . . "Earnest called Carson’s views “not something that’s consistent with the values of the vast majority of Americans, and — you know, ironically enough, I — I actually do think that the views articulated by Dr. Carson are entirely inconsistent with the Constitution, that does actually guarantee the freedom of religion in this country.' ”

UPDATE: Muslims Warn NJ School Board: 'We're Going to Be the Majority Soon'

"Things got heated at a Board of Education meeting last week in Jersey City after officials decided not to close schools for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. " . . .

"The uproar that took place at the local Board of Education meeting comes as a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that based on census data, Muslims are the fastest growing bloc of immigrants in America."

As you have read many times, Muslims do not assimilate.

Christianity in the Middle East under Obama

2000 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION: Has Been Destroyed Under Obama’s Watch

"The Islamic State has managed to destroy two thousand years of Christian civilization in the Middle East in just a couple of years, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters noted on The O’Reilly Factor last week. And he placed the blame squarely on President Obama’s cowardly, feckless, incompetent foreign policy."

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. . . "Fleeing Muslim persecution, Christian refugees are often targeted and persecuted anew by fleeing Muslim refugees.
An egregious example from last April: 12 Christian refuges lost their lives during a particularly harrowing trip — not due to their boat capsizing, but through Islamic violence.

The International Business Times reported:

Italian police have arrested 15 Muslim immigrants in Palermo, for allegedly having thrown Christian refugees off the rubber boat that was taking them to Italy after a fight for “religious reasons”, according to media reports.
Those arrested – from Mali, Guinea and Ivory Coast – were part of a group of 100 that were rescued off the Libyan coast by the Italian coastguard.

The archbishop of Canterbury recently warned British Prime Minister David Cameron that his government’s refugee policy was discriminating against Christians because Christians are not among the refugees being helped in UN camps. They’re not in the UN camps because they fear persecution from radicalized Muslim refugees.

And now these thoughts on this White House

"The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in California for shows this week in Sacramento. They agreed to phase out the elephants in their shows next year. Now all the clowns who sweep up after the elephants may have to take on new jobs as presidential campaign spokespersons."

"The White House is planning a huge welcome ceremony when Pope Francis arrives for his visit with President Obama Thursday. On a personal level, eyewitnesses have noticed there’s a natural friction between Pope Francis and President Obama. Neither likes the other’s holier-than-thou attitude."

Comedian Argus Hamilton

Does this Pope prefer Communism to Capitalism?

Miami Priest to Pope Francis: Why Condemn Capitalism So Strongly, but Not Communism?

“ 'I know,” Father Cutié concludes solemnly, “the majority of people reading this will say, ‘those Miami Cubans,’ we don’t understand. I’ve come to the conclusion that they are right. … I don’t understand–and don’t think I will ever begin to understand–why a man of God can meet with oppressors, but not the oppressed.' ”

Why do you and other religion leaders condemn capitalism so strongly, and offer us a list of all the disasters that result from it on earth, but we never see an equally strong condemnation of atheist communism, which continues to cause the world so much harm? This inequality when the time comes to condemn appears unjust. […]
Why do we ignore those who suffer from the great poverty of a lack of freedom and who, only for expressing their desperation and demanding respect for the most basic human rights, are detained, harassed, and beaten? […]
Is it really more important to have diplomatic relations with a country that has not had free elections in 50 years, that abuses its people, that has a well-documented history of oppressing and robbing the Church–than to seek justice, the common good and freedom for all Cubans?