A top police official has issued a stark warning about President Barack Obama’s recent presidential pardons: America will pay “with blood and tears.”
Obama pardoned 46 prisoners last month, forgiving a slew of drug and weapons charges. Jon Adler, National President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, recently published a scathing editorial in Police Magazine lambasting the decision.
Adler argues that drug trafficking by its very nature is a violent enterprise, from overdoses to crimes committed to pay for drug addictions to territorial battles between dealers.
“So how would the president resolve an over-crowding problem at a zoo?” Adler writes. “With limited space, rising labor, and lodging costs, which animals would the president let go? Using the president’s methodology, the lions would likely be set free. Why? They eat the most food and therefore cost the most to maintain. During the 10 years of their captivity, they haven’t eaten anyone or attacked their handlers. They have no known affiliation to any violent lion groups. They are totally safe to release into the public.” (Read more from “Top Cop: America Will Pay for Obama’s Pardons With ‘Blood and Tears'” HERE)
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How does anyone who claims to have a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” two weeks after 9/11 praise an Islamic Civilization that has historically– and continues– to institutionalize violence against women, children, Christians, Jews, and slavery of Blacks, non-Muslims, and children over the last 1400 years?
Fox News recently highlighted Carly Fiorina’s comments, “It was my personal relationship with Jesus Christ that saved me” and “no one needs to question or tell me about my faith.”
Contrary to Scripture, Christians are in fact instructed to use Biblical discernment to correct error and advocate righteousness first and foremost among self-identifying Christians. Carly provides an excellent non-answer and continues to not take responsibility for her remarks in which two weeks after 9/11 she praised the very Islamic Civilization that caused 8 Crusades and instituted the sex slave trade and abuse of women and girls, which continues today. Not to mention the greatest terrorist attacks to ever occur on American soil.
I’ve challenged Carly Fiorina, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and many others who claim to be Christians while also advocating falsehoods about Islam.
Christians should be well aware that throughout the Bible, God commands his people to name, fight, and warn of evil. If they don’t– the blood of the innocent and martyrs is on their hands. (Ezekiel 33: 7-9). He says:
“So hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.”
Consequences, both punishment and redemption, exist for those who heed or reject His warning:
“If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’
“If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right— if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.”
Christians are commanded to provide for and protect widows and orphans (the majority of whom exist in 57 Islamic-majority countries.) James, Jesus’s half-brother, remarked, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27).
Further still, Timothy warned, “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” (1 Tim. 5:8).
The primary contribution of all Islamic civilizations, past and present, is death and destruction.
Since the mid-late 600s, Islamic military invasions spanned from North Africa, to Spain, France, the Mediterranean, Balkan, Asian and East Asian and former Russian and Mongol territories. No Muslims existed in Jerusalem until their final and successful invasion in 1244. The Dome of the Rock was specifically built on top of Israel’s holiest site, the Temple Mount.
Yet, the God of the Bible pleads for his people to choose life. He said,
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may liveand that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life.” (Deut. 30:19, 20).
It is to life that Christian Governors Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal, and Senator Ted Cruz consistently point.
Cruz recently pointed to the Ninth Commandment, “’Thou shalt not bear false witness,’ when clarifying that, “When we call evil by its name, it has a clarifying power that has never been more needed than it is this instant, right now.”
Last fall, standing outside of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Huckabee remarked,“The very people who created the death industry and ‘scientifically’ and medically experimented on prisoners … went home every day, ate dinner with their families, played with their children, went to concerts, and lived normal lives, knowing all the while those under their authority were living in horror.”
As political leaders, they are required to name and fight evil. Elected officials have taken oaths to defend American citizens and the U.S. Constitution from threats both foreign and domestic. Article VI of the Constitution requires federal officials to swear, “to support this Constitution.” The U.S. statute 5 U.S.C. 3331 specifies officials to “solemnly swear [or affirm]” that they “will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
These leaders have not hesitated to name evil. But more importantly, they continue to promote that which is good, which best contributes to human flourishing.
Leadership and Christianity both require what Andrew Breitbart admonished, “No matter what the threat, no matter what the peril, stand up, speak the truth. Speak truth to power and call evil by its name.”
Praising a civilization that caused death and destruction both during the 800 years Carly cites, and today, bears false witness. Worse still, condoning institutionalized violence against women and children opposes everything Biblical and the nature of Christianity itself. (Re-posted with permission, “Cruz, Jindal, Huckabee Have No Problem Naming Evil, Why Does Carly?” originally appeared HERE)
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I talked the talk. Every life is a gift, and worthy of defense. We are not promised a particular quality of life, or a number of days that we will get to live. We are only promised that our lives are God-given and their length, their demise, is not for us to determine. These are truths that I have espoused since the days I felt myself called to be an active part of the pro-life movement.
Then one day I was asked to walk the walk. In a cold, sterile ultrasound room a doctor – Not even my doctor, but some stand-in – shattered the world that I knew when she told me my child, gender then unknown, had a condition that she described as “incompatible with life.” My mother cried, my ex-husband held my hand in stoic silence, and my mind raced to try to keep up with what the doctor was saying. My child, the 21 week old fetus whom I would come to know as my son, had anencephaly. If he were born alive, he would die shortly thereafter . . .
Gabriel Michael Gerard Cude was born on June 10, 2011. His name, Gabriel, was chosen for its symbolism. Of course, Gabriel is the archangel known as the messenger angel who delivered the news of the impending birth of the Savior of Man. Since his diagnosis, Gabriel represented a message that I could only speak, but that he was living: Every life matters. Gabriel means “God is my strength,” and I know that when I was weak, it was God who carried me . . .
For ten days Gabriel clung to this world. On that tenth day, through tears my ex-husband and I told our son we loved him, that he had given us more than we could have asked for, and that we knew it was time for him to go. In our arms, Gabriel took his last breath. We washed and dressed and held his lifeless body until the funeral home’s representative appeared to take our son away. His tiny body was respectfully placed in a car and we watched as it backed out of our driveway and disappeared at the end of the street . . .
I have since remarried, and so has Gabriel’s father. We each have little girls now with our respective spouses. Life is good – beyond good. Life is better than I ever thought it could be when I was in my moments of despair. That nurse was right. We were three of the luckiest people she’d ever have the chance to meet, though happiness hasn’t looked like I expected. Happiness looks like my husband, and my beautiful little girl Eden, and the knowledge that Gabriel’s father may have found the same thing with someone else, on the other side of the country. We are only promised life, not days, not outcomes, not ease, and not happiness. We chose to make the most out of what was promised. We chose life. (Read more from “Baby Gabriel Only Lived 10 Days After Birth, but His Life Proves Every Child Is Precious” HERE)
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By Clifford Krauss and Rick Gladstone. Oil, the lifeblood of many countries that produce and sell it, appears to be rapidly turning into an ever-cheaper economic curse.
A year ago, the international price per barrel of oil was about $103. By Monday, the price was about $42, roughly 6 percent lower than on Friday.
In oil-endowed Iraq, where an Islamic State insurgency and fractious sectarian politics are growing threats, a new source of instability erupted this month with violent protests over the government’s failure to provide reliable electricity and explain what has been done with all the promised petroleum money. In Russia, a leading oil producer, consumers are now paying far more for imports, largely because of their currency’s plummeting value. In Nigeria and Venezuela, which rely almost completely on oil exports, fears of unrest and economic instability are building. In Ecuador, where oil revenue has fallen by nearly half since last year, tens of thousands of demonstrators pour into the streets every week, angered by the government’s economic policies.
Even in wealthy Saudi Arabia, where the ruling family spends oil money lavishly to preserve its legitimacy, the government has been burning through roughly $10 billion a month in foreign exchange holdings to help pay expenses, and it is borrowing in the financial markets for the first time since 2007. Other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf that are dependent on oil exports, including Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, are facing fiscal deficits for the first time in two decades.
While the price has been declining for months, forecasts have always been hedged with the assumption that oil would eventually stabilize or at least not stay low for long. But new anxieties about frailties in China, the world’s most voracious consumer of energy, have raised fears that oil, now 30 percent lower than it was just a few months ago, could remain depressed far longer than even the most pessimistic projections, and do even deeper damage to oil exporters. (Read more from “From Venezuela to Iraq to Russia, Oil Price Drops Raise Fears of Unrest” HERE)
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Chinese Stocks Tumble for a Second Day After Global Fall
By BBC News. Chinese stocks have plunged for a second day after worries over China’s slowing growth triggered a global sell-off.
The Shanghai Composite, China’s main stock exchange, fell 7.6% on Tuesday – after losing 8.5% on what state media have called China’s “Black Monday”.
It was the worst fall since 2007 and caused sharp drops in markets in the US and Europe
Tokyo’s Nikkei index had a volatile day, closing 4% lower . . .
After decades of rapid growth, China is slowing down, and investors globally are worried that firms and countries which rely on high demand from China – the world’s second largest economy and the second largest importer of both goods and commercial services – will be affected. (Read more from this story HERE)
Want to get a handgun, some synthetic marijuana and porn into a prison?
Two men in Maryland allegedly tried to do just that — by remote controlled aircraft — though their plot never got off the ground, authorities said Monday.
The pair was found Saturday on a side road that runs alongside the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland with the aircraft — which officials called a drone — in their vehicle, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services announced in a press release . . .
Not after what else they found in the vehicle, which they suspect the two men planned to fly over onto the WCI’s grounds. One tweet from the state agency apparently shows the bounty: packets of K2 (or synthetic marijuana), tobacco, suboxone, pornographic DVDs and a handgun laid out on a table next to the four-propellered miniature aircraft . . .
The vehicle’s owner had been under surveillance for some time. An intelligence officer at the western Maryland prison and a state corrections department detective suspected the owner and his associate along with at least one inmate planned to use an unmanned drone to drop off contraband at the prison. (Read more from “Authorities Foil Drone-Delivery of Porn, Drugs and Gun to Maryland Prison” HERE)
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That hamburger you’re grilling could contain harmful bacteria, and unless you cook it thoroughly, it could make you sick.
New lab tests conducted by Consumer Reports found that of the 300 packages of ground beef purchased in stores across the country, almost all contained bacteria that signified fecal contamination.
More than 40 percent contained Staphylococcus aureus. Almost 20 percent contained Clostridium perfringens, which causes nearly 1 million cases of food poisoning annually, many related to beef . . .
“That practice can lead to the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major public health problem. If you get sick from these bugs, your infection can be difficult to treat,” said Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., director of Food Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports . . .
Consumer Reports contacted the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and got this comment: “If all cattle were grass-fed, we’d have less beef, and it would be less affordable. Since grass doesn’t grow on pasture year-round in many parts of the country, feed lots evolved to make the most efficient use of land, water, fuel, labor and feed,” Kansas State University professor Mike Apley said. (Read more from “Consumer Reports Find Fecal Contamination in Ground Beef” HERE)
Under a new proposal, sanitation workers could be picking up much more than trash during their weekly visits to residents’ homes.
Officials in San Jose, California, are working on a proposal to increase Big Brother’s spying powers by affixing law enforcement license plate readers to city garbage trucks.
According to a proposal from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilmen Johnny Khamis and Raul Peralez, the city wants to place license readers with the ability to send real-time information to the police to the front of each of the privately operated sanitation vehicles collecting trash in the city . . .
Northern California-based ACLU privacy attorney Chris Conley noted that the scheme would provide police with far more information than leads on stolen vehicles.
“If it’s collected repeatedly over a long period of time, it can reveal intimate data about you like attending a religious service or a gay bar,” the attorney told a local reporter. “People have a right to live their lives without constantly being monitored by the government.” (Read more from “California Officials Considering Using This to Spy on Residents” HERE)
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the decade, so it’s no great surprise that Duke University chose it as one of the summer reading selections for its incoming freshman class. But the selection has also sparked controversy among some students who have refused to read Fun Home, citing personal religious and moral beliefs.
The Duke Chronicle profiled a number of students who objected to being asked to read Fun Home, which depicts Bechdel’s experience coming out as a lesbian, as well as her father’s own closeted homosexuality. “I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it,” wrote freshman Brian Grasso in a much-discussed Facebook post. (Read more from “Duke Freshmen Refuse to Read Fun Home, Citing Christian Beliefs” HERE)
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An average of presidential polls in Iowa puts Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at just 3.3 percent support. An average of polls in New Hampshire puts him at 6.3 percent. In national polls, he’s just above the threshold to make the next Republican debate, hosted by CNN.
Naturally, Rand Paul is heading to Alaska.
On Tuesday, Paul will begin a five-state march, across a part of the country that will not hold primaries or caucuses until after 2016’s “Super Tuesday.” Paul will begin in Anchorage, Alaska, fly to Fairbanks, shoot down to Seattle, then go east to Spokane and the cities of western Idaho. On Thursday, he’ll speak at a Republican Party BBQ at the Idaho Falls home of GOP mega-donor Frank VanderSloot, who is best known for claiming that the IRS slapped him with audits after he donated to a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC. On Friday, Paul will campaign across Wyoming with Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), one of his earliest congressional endorsers. And Labrador will follow him down to Utah.
Why the West — and why now? It’s part of a strategy to build campaign networks early, taking advantage of the infrastructure and goodwill left by Paul’s father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Idaho will hold caucuses on March 8, and Alaska and Washington will vote together on March 26. (Utah and Wyoming have not locked in dates yet.) Ron Paul performed credibly in each of those states, with 24 percent in Alaska, 25 percent in Washington, and 18 percent in Idaho.
“Alaska has a tradition for having a libertarian bent,” Rand Paul explained in an interview last week. “Washington has a big liberty movement. I think there’s room for growth. They’re early caucuses, and we already have strong support out there, with the endorsements from Raul Labrador and Cynthia Lummis.” (Read more from “Rand Paul, Fresh off Caucus Victory, Will Campaign in Alaska” HERE)
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Fourteen people have been detained in Morocco and Spain on suspicion of recruiting people to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.
The suspects were arrested in a town outside Madrid and in several locations in Morocco — Fez, Casablanca, Nador, Al Hoceima and Driouech — during a joint operation between the two countries, the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
They are accused of being part of a network that recruited and sent foreign fighters to join the ranks of ISIS, it said. (Read more from “Spain, Morocco Arrest 14 Accused of Recruiting ISIS Fighters” HERE)
A top police official has issued a stark warning about President Barack Obama’s recent presidential pardons: America will pay “with blood and tears.”
