Islamic State--Pope Calls For International Consensus

Pope Francis has made public his thoughts on the action necessary to counter Islamic State.

INDIA: Christians Beaten and Arrested by Hindu Radicals

Sources: AsiaNews, Release International Eight Christians have been imprisoned following a brutal attack in which a pastor and seven members of his congregation were stripped naked, whipped with belts, and punched before being arrested by local police.

Storm-Smacked Governor Makes Sunny Forecast for State-Run Weather Service

It’s time New York had its own state-run weather service to predict severe storms such as the one that has battered Buffalo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says.

The Decision on the Gaza Flotilla by the ICC Prosecutor

On November 6, 2014, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a report determining that there will be no investigation against Israel regarding the Mavi Marmara incident, which took place in late May 2010. This decision came at the end of a preliminary examination carried out in response to a complaint submitted in May 2013 by the Union of the Comoros, where the Mavi Marmara was registered and whose flag it was flying at the time of the incident. The complaint, which asked that a criminal investigation be opened against IDF soldiers for perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity against the flotilla ships and their passengers, was actually submitted by a Turkish law firm. Unlike Israel and Turkey, the Comoros is a party to the Statute of the Court.

Britain’s Energy Policy Is A Catastrophic Mess

Energy policy represents the biggest expansion of state power since the nationalisations of the 1940s and 1950s and is on course to becoming the most costly domestic policy disaster in modern British history. --Rupert Darwall, Reform, 27 November 2014

Report: Yes, Congress Can Stop Obama’s Immigration Moves With ‘Power of Purse’

Precedent ignored in granting injunction to "special interests"

The sad thing about Judge Cullen's decision to allow an injunction against Canadians trying to protect our parkland from the Kinder-Morgan pipeline is that there is a precedent in BC law he could have considered. (1)

Barack Has Given Up on Legacy---Now Covets Martyrdom!

--Satire When Barack Obama first thrust himself upon the “stupid” people of America as a candidate for the Presidency, he entertained lofty visions of a permanent legacy that would leave him as the morphing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and a managed version of Jesus Christ…. without the spiritual-Christian character defects of the Lord.

Obama on Racism

Gauntlet is thrown; Obama spurns the People, Congress

Immigration reform, Keystone XL, net neutrality, ObamaCare manipulation (Gruber disclosures), bankrupting coal, bankrupting business... Don't forget the president's encouraging the choreographed protests that followed the grand jury's lack of an indictment of Officer Darren Wilson and Obama's champion Eric Holder's unwillingness to accept the ruling.

United, But Divided

The nation united to celebrate Thanksgiving, but as anyone who follows the polls can confirm, it is sharply divided. In many ways, half of those polled see America opposite to the other half.

Marijuana Figures Big in Ferguson Meltdown

CNN’s Don Lemon is under fire for making the elementary observation that some of the Ferguson protesters planning violence and mayhem were smoking pot. Linking dope to violence is taboo for most of the media.

Blowin' In The Wind

Yes, how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind. -- Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind Yesterday Ontario's Energy Minister, Bob Chiarelli was blowing in the wind again when he said: "Businesses will come and go in Ontario... The reality is that there are more coming in than are leaving --very significant."

VIDEO-DC Protesters Endorse Ferguson Rioters: 'We Support the Violent Protests'

CTF Pleased Most Reserves Have Abided by New Transparency Law

The disclosure of chief and council pay information and band financial statements will help band members hold their elected officials accountable

Being Thankful for the Left

We face a hard fight, not only for our freedom, but the freedom of the world. The international left has made America its special project

Illegal Alien Benefit Free-for-All

Apparently President Obama's unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty to five million illegal aliens was insufficiently outrageous. On Tuesday, a White House official told the Washington Post that many illegals now protected from deportation will be eligible to receive a "wide array" of government benefits, including Social Security and Medicare.

What's Next?

Now that BHO has decreed that deportations will cease and work permits and other privileges of legal immigration will be granted to those who chose to enter our country illegally, what's next?

Rush Revere and ‘Liberty’ return American History to its Rightful Place

Not since Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has a figure from childlore done so much to lead the little people out of the fog. We look for Rudolph every Christmas, before packing him away with the ornaments til’ the next holiday season. But ‘Liberty’, the lovable, time-traveling horse of the ‘Rush Revere Adventures’ series is there every day.

Kobane: "a martyred town, a symbolic Town"

"A martyred town, a symbolic town" is the poignant description of Kobane, by French President Francois Hollande. He stated that "all countries concerned" should be providing weapons to the Kobane defenders and pointedly stated as bluntly as any diplomatic language can , that "Turkey must absolutely open its border."