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OBAMA
Barack Obama's Square Box
Observers are now beginning to talk about his inevitable crash. There's no dispute about Barack Obama's executive experience: he has none. In fact, he is the least qualified person ever to be elected president. Prior to being elected, he had done almost nothing. Certainly nothing requiring, or teaching, executive ability.
https://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/18/barack-obamas-square-box
A Roadmap for American Renewal by Star Parker
“The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency”, by Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski, provides comprehensive chapter and verse of what we need to understand and what we can do about the challenges we’re now confronting.
https://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2010/06/21/a_roadmap_for_american_renewal?page=2
Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur
The president is well-intentioned but can't walk the walk on the world stage. The reviews of Obama's performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America's role in the world. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one's own tribe while in the lands of others.
https://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2010/06/18/mort-zuckerman-world-sees-obama-as-incompetent-and-amateur.html
A Disaster for the Gulf Coast, A Disaster for Obama – Peter Wehner
The oil spill is an environmental catastrophe for the Gulf Coast and a political disaster for Barack Obama. It is doing significant, and possibly irreparable, damage to his presidency
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4193/pub_detail.asp
Obama and the Rising Mob Against Israel
The Middle East is now teetering on the brink of war because a vast international mob has been loosed, with the tacit approval of Barack Hussein Obama. That is the real meaning of the Gaza martyrdom stunt of May 31, 2010.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/obama_and_the_rising_mob_again.html
A Snakebit President – Americans want leaders on whom the sun shines – By PEGGY NOONAN
The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704289504575313181930072638.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories
President Barack Obama has made more LGBT appointments than any commander-in-chief
https://www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2010/06/18/president-barack-obama-has-made-more-lgbt-appointments-than-any-commander-in-chief/
Homosexuality and the Military: What “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is and Why It Matters
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/18936/CFI/nation/index.htm
USA Today Celebrates Teen Lesbian Meeting Obama After Her 'Traumatic' Prom-Canceling Activism
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/06/21/usa-today-celebrates-teen-lesbian-meeting-obama-after-her-traumatic-prom
RELIGION
In the Shoes of a Shepherd – A Week in the Life of Phoenix Bishop Olmsted
After just over a year into his post, Olmsted's leadership had been praised by both Catholic and secular media, and he's widely considered one of the best bishops in America, a rising star in the land of the sun.
Soon after his installation, he disciplined eight priests who had signed a document contradicting Catholic teaching on homosexuality. In his weekly column in the diocesan newspaper, he challenged—with unusually blunt language—politicians who use the “I'm Catholic but…” approach to voting. He then suspended one priest for celebrating Mass with a non-Catholic minister and turned another over to authorities for embezzlement charges.
Along the way to instituting his tough reforms, something surprising happened: The faithful cheered.
He organized a teen pro-life group after discovering that there was none and prayed with them at the doors of local abortion clinics.
When Olmsted came to Phoenix and cleaned house, he installed his own people in most key positions
Mary Jo West, his press secretary. I've never seen him cross. Oh, and have you noticed the man absolutely eats like a bird?”
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8301&Itemid=48
Hold Fast to What is Good – Cardinal George Pell
One of the most prominent Catholic voices in the English-speaking world on the sex-abuse crisis, Islam, and the future of Christianity in an exclusive MercatorNet interview.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/hold_fast_to_what_is_good/
Cardinal Pell Victim of Smear Campaign – Damian Thompson, Telegraph.uk
Cardinal Pell is the victim of a smear campaign designed to stop him reforming the world's bishops.
I now have good reason to believe that Cardinal Pell – a man of towering presence and intellect, utterly faithful to Pope Benedict’s vision for renewing the Church – is the victim of a smear campaign endorsed by certain bishops, especially Italian ones, who are desperate to stop Pell cleaning up what are in effect the “rotten boroughs” of their dioceses.
My question: why should this campaign of black propaganda succeed? Not since the election of Benedict XVI has an appointment so horrified the smug, lazy, liberal establishment in the Vatican and the dioceses. That’s because Cardinal Pell has detailed knowledge of the situation not only in Italy, where many bishops do about as much to earn their positions as British MPs did before the Reform Act of 1832, but also in Latin America and Asia.
Cardinal Pell’s message to the bishops woud be: “Sorry, gentlemen, but this is not a job for life. You must exhibit evangelical dynamism and obedience to the Holy Father – and, if you don’t, then there are holy priests ready to take your place.” Hence this foul campaign.
https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100043709/cardinal-pell-is-the-victim-of-a-smear-campaign-designed-to-stop-him-reforming-the-worlds-bishops/
Let’s Face it—Vatican Needs a Push to Change L’Osservatore Romano - Tom Roeser
On the other hand, it is rogue, having taken issue with Church theology at least once in the past, stepping forth in a 2008 article calling for a re-opening on brain death because of “new developments in the scientific world.” (Actually the “new developments” change Church theology not in the slightest). It is wantonly frivolous: listing the top ten all-time great rock records.
https://blog.tomroeser.com/2010/06/personal-asides-lets-face-itvatican.html
Milwaukee vice chancellor rips La Crosse diocese’s abuse policy
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6681
According to the lead Italian vaticanista of the moment, the Holy See's top money man will be named to oversee the reinvention of the scandal-scarred Legionaries of Christ.
https://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2010/06/legion-gets-its-visitor.html
Pastor Axes Conversion Of Convent To Mosque
Midland Beach Community Pressures Pastor Fennessy To Pull Out Of Mosque Deal; Muslim American Society Livid
https://wcbstv.com/topstories/staten.island.mosque.2.1760381.html
LIFE ISSUES
What Happened to (Our Only Hope) Embryonic Stem Cell Research? – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/06/17/what-happened-to-the-our-only-hope-embryonic-stem-cell-research/
The 2010 United Nations Population Award goes to Bill and Melinda Gates.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/population_and_philanthropy/
DILLER: Planned Parenthood's missing millions
New GAO report reveals disturbing financial discrepancies
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/18/planned-parenthoods-missing-millions/
Jack Kevorkian Admits to Committing Second Murder on Larry King – Wesley J. Smith
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/06/21/jack-kevorkian-admits-to-committing-second-murder-on-larry-king/
HOMOSEXUALITY
'Rainbow' proms growing into social phenomenon across Canada
https://www.vancouversun.com/life/Rainbow+proms+growing+into+social+phenomenon+across+Canada/3172684/story.html
Macy's department store showcases drag queen in downtown store for “gay pride week” fashion show
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10c/pride_week/macys.html
GOP Candidate for Massachusetts Governor marches with hateful anti-family homosexual activist leaders in Gay Pride parade
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10c/pride_week/baker.html
Boston's “gay pride week” Activities Unbelievably Depraved
Politicians and corporations give full support
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10c/pride_week/general.html
MISCELLANEOUS
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Official Trailer [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJQDPpIK6I&feature=player_embedded
Global Warming Hysteria: An Hysteric Chokes on His Own Hysteria – Wesley J. Smith
A global warming alarmist from Australia named Tim Flannery, who was Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, was interviewed about his own hysterical predictions that haven’t, shall we say, panned out. Flannery’s back peddling was so furious it could become a new source of renewable energy.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/06/20/global-warming-hysteria-an-hysteric-chokes-on-his-own-hysteria/
Journalism's Worst Enemy in the World
Let's go straight to the top: CNN's very founder, Ted Turner: “Fidel Castro is one helluva guy! You people [Harvard Law School audience] would love him!” Castro's fiefdom wins the prize “for most journalists jailed (by far!) per capita on earth. In fact, in total numbers jailed, Cuba (a nation of 11 million subjects) is only slightly behind China (a nation of 1.4 billion!).
According to the Paris-based (not Miami—please note!) Reporters Without Borders, Cuba today holds 20 percent of the world's jailed journalists. Today, Cuba—a nation that in 1958 had more TVs, telephones, and newspapers per capita than any continental European country—has one newspaper and fewer internet connections than Uganda, the lowest number in the hemisphere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/journalisms_worst_enemy_in_the.html
Russian Leader Warns of Political Instability
“Centrifugal” forces could threaten the European Union, while the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might “annihilate” BP, the Russian president said in a wide-ranging interview with The Wall Street Journal.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703650604575313071587256604.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection
Medvedev Pushes Ruble Reserve Currency to Cut Dollar Dominance – June 19 (Bloomberg)
Russia wants the ruble to be one of the world’s reserve currencies as President Dmitry Medvedev renews his push to reduce the dollar’s dominance and make Moscow a global financial hub.
https://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-18/medvedev-pushes-ruble-reserve-currency-to-cut-dollar-dominance.html