Archive for the 'Current events' Category

Rwanda prohibits death penalty for perpetrators of genocide

Joseph Farah writes of his frustration in an article entitled, Help me Rwanda! He is such an eloquent writer that I really have nothing to add. I highly recommend the article. Some excerpts follow:
Some 13 years after the government of Rwanda sparked the genocide of some 800,000 mostly Christian ethnic Tutsis, a new government had, [...]

Praying for bin Laden

Brother Andrew, founder of the persecuted-church ministry Open Doors, is asking Christians whether they have prayed for Osama bin Laden today. The man is obviously a good evangelist, but he is clueless when it comes to national security.
He says,
They have a very strong belief, and they act upon it, that in the end times in [...]

Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament

A professor from Vienna makes an important archaelogical discovery, and a British museum expert provides another example of the double standard applied to the Bible:
Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna…made what has been called the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books [...]

Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006

Okay, let’s get rid of this stereotype that Americans are stingy. It’s about time that self-righteous hollywood stars and irrelevant has-beens like Jimmy Carter quit saying things like rich states “don’t give a damn” about people in poor countries.
The ABC report notes that the governments of “many other countries, such as Norway, Portugal and Japan, [...]

The Politically Incorrect Americanism of Alba, Pacino, and Arnold

Mary Katharine Ham, the managing editor for Townhall.com, has an excellent piece on assimilation. She quotes pro-American comments by Jessica Alba, Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger and then the reactions from the anti-American, anti-melting pot, hate-filled, leftist, illegal immigration supporters.

Father of scientific climatology calls man-made global warming theory ‘hooey’

The “father of scientific climatology” says that talk about man-made global warming is a bunch of hooey. When are people going to wake up and realize that we’re all being had by people trying to make money?

Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey.
The UW-Madison professor [...]

Why put the animal down?

In February this year, a jaguar killed a zookeeper. The other zookeepers put the animal down. Rush Limbaugh made the following comment on his radio show:
Even if it hadn’t attacked the other rescuers, and it didn’t say attack, it said it was “approaching.” They couldn’t take any chances. In this case, I understand it. But [...]

Why do liberals blame the US for the Iraqi death toll?

Why is it that liberals like to place banners on their websites showing the Iraqi death toll? Obviously, it is because they believe that the US is to blame for the casualties. Victor Davis Hanson notes on National Review:
Somehow “thousands have been killed” is never qualified as those mostly butchered and blown up by insurgents–since [...]

Evolutionists fear other ideas

As you may know, Answers in Genesis has opened a huge Creation Museum in Kentucky. On Ken Ham’s blog, he gives some responses by people at the University of Cincinnati.
“What I have a problem with is how the Answers in Genesis movement twists science — repeatedly taking facts out of context — in order to [...]

Violent crime up again, more murders, robberies

There’s a story on Yahoo that reports that the murder rate in the US is going up.
The FBI reported that the number of violent crimes nationwide went up by 1.3 percent last year, following a 2.3 percent increase in 2005. That had been the first rise in four years and the biggest percentage gain in [...]