Not only is pedophilia legal in many countries around the world, it is culturally acceptable.  I was sent another news article about an 8 year old girl seeking a divorce from her betrothed, a 47 year old man.  In this case the 'Judge' ruled that she was TOO YOUNG TO SEEK A DIVORCE!!!  This is the epitome of up side down thinking.  The judge further said that she could apply for a divorce WHEN SHE REACHED PUBERTY!!!  The truth is that this behavior is rampant in Islamic culture around the world because the 'perfect man' demonstrated it himself.  These stories only make the news because the big business news industry uses the shock value to turn a dime.  If it were not for this money motive, they would not come close to the politically incorrect job of criticizing Islam or its prophet.  Because they do have the profit motive, the politically correct attitude is beginning to turn, however they would not deign to criticize the bloodiest religion of our time and in my opinion, of all time for being bloody.  And since the PC attitude is changing the Islamic culture is changing, however slowly to stop the practice of selling children to be wed.  This barely scratches the surface of human rights abuses within the Islamic culture.  I've written about the official rejection of any other faith in their midst by violent means.  I've written about the capital punishment of rape victims and homosexuals.  I've written about the Palestinian lies against Israel.  I've written about the grade school indoctrination to hatred.  What I don't see is the media focus on the ills of Islam, ever.  There are a few exceptions, like John Stossel, Glen Beck, Michelle Malkin who are willing to put the facts together to get an over all view, but all you'll see in the MSM is 'isolated stories' of feudal gang rapes, child brides, and suicide bombings.

 The liberal elite and the complicit media have done tremendous damage to our reputation around the world claiming we are the greatest source of evil in the world.  I was angry at the liberals before 9/11/1 and I was angry at the discrimination against my faith long before they piled on the American presidency making him out to be the war monger instead of the agency charged with keeping this nation safe.  The more I learn the angrier I become.  I am currently working on a series called Big Lies as I study authors like Michael Medved, Victor Davis Hansen, and many other historians.  So I'll broach this topic again in the near future.  For now, I want to address how the liberals would defend Islam. 

I know there will be those who will try to defend Islamic nations by attacking America, since there is no logical reason to defend Islam in this issue.  Instead they would try to make Western cultures, especially American culture appear morally equivalent.  So let's just compare child marriages that occur in the U.S. to child marriages that occur in Islamic nations.  Here we have a 12 year old child who is seeking help and protection from her husband who has hurt her with a knife and threatens to do much worse.  According to Sharia Law, he would be within his rights.  Leaving aside the beatings on the street by the morality police, this is essentially slavery.  A woman is not her own.  In other words, her entire life is spent under the authority of a man.  If not her father, then her brother or uncle until she is married.  Then it is her husband and if not her husband then her son or her brother in law.

Here you have a woman who is still in her marriage at 35 after being married at 14 against her mother's will.  In the next case you have a similar case where the girl wanted to be married as a child and it was against her parent's wishes and the state imprisoned her husband for having sexual relations with a minor of 15 while he was 22 years of age.  The next case again was similar.  These are marriages by choice of the girl, frowned upon by all their authority figures.  The one case that was not the girl's desire was among the Hmong immigrant community at age 15.  The youngest among these cases was age 13 and again, against her parents' wishes.  In all these cases except the Hmong arranged marriage, the age disparity between the husband and wife was no more than 10 years.  In all these cases the wife has the option at any time to divorce her husband with the legal authorities' support.  While I abhor the sexual activation of anyone under the age of 17 and prefer that they wait until they are mature enough to make life long consequential decisions, I can certainly see a moral difference between a culture who works to discourage this behavior and one which embraces it.  There may be comments of criticism within the Muslim society, there is no internal incentive for correction among the authorities of the culture.

A chemical attack against pro-lifers on their own property.
Terrorizing a Catholic church in meeting.
Calls to burn Mormon temples were sent out via gays' blogs and threats against Mormons and Catholics were posted there.
Anthrax scare at the HQ of the Mormon religion.  Churches being vandalized.
Anthrax scare at the Los Angeles Ward.
Anthrax scare at a Catholic Knights of Columbus HQ in New Haven, Connecticut.
Man received 16 stitches after being struck by a "No on Prop 8" advocate.
Burning copies of the Book of Mormon on the steps of local Mormon Wards

Theater director driven out over gay marriage

From intimidation tactics to outright violent attacks are being perpetrated on the organizations who supported Prop 8 all across this nation.  This is terrorism and in every case, if the roles had been reversed the legal actions that would have been taken not to mention the media coverage that would have been dedicated to 'informing' the public would have sparked an outrage that would have undermined any credibility of those organizations.  However, since the crimes are being committed by a protected group, the media have been all but silent and in at least one case the commentator equated the criminal activity with that of the victims of that crime calling both sides hate filled and angry.

This episode of obfuscation is but one more step toward the outright persecution and expunging of religion and conservatism in our land.  City councils have in the past condemned the religious organizations for their stance on the issue of family values in opposition to calling the same sex relationship equivalent and God ordained marriage.  We are headed for dark times in this world as believers.  Though there are official gay voices denouncing this behavior, they are being drowned out by the vast numbers of very vocal proponents of their agenda. 

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council
"We are going to see, I think, unprecedented attacks against our faith through measures like the hate crimes [legislation] to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act," he says. "We're going to see attacks on innocent human life through the Freedom of Choice Act, trying to erase all the gains that have been made in the pro-life movement. And I think even our freedoms are going to come under attack." 

Please act immediately to defend the pro-family victory won in California last week when the people of California passed a constitutional amendment (Proposition 8) by a 52%-48% margin to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman.  Since Election Day, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has made statements supporting demonstrations against Proposition 8, and urging California 's Supreme Court to block the amendment's enforcement.

History Of Man:  from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage – Alexander Tylers

The great cycle of faith living can be modified, interrupted, as seen in the several Jesus movements over this past century.  The Azusa Street outpouring and many other examples were exactly that.  A movement back toward Christ and the faithful church.  We who believe should first pray and then act in accordance with the Spirit who guides us.  It is very likely that the California Supreme court will again try to thwart the will of Californians to support this lobbying agenda to ruin everything this country was built upon.  Its not just the issue of homosexual marriage, its naming pornography free speech and devaluing the life of every human being.  There is so much more going on than destroying the family values that have made and kept this country strong.  Eventually, it will come down to the demonizing of our world view.

Long before Jonah Goldberg published his book, 'Bias' conservatives have been charging the media with double standard reporting in favor of liberal pundits, politicians and agenda.  Today I was listening to Hugh Hewitt's program and one of his regular guests, Mark Steyn of Steynonline fame and author of the book 'America Alone' observed that the big media are fighting for their lives.  Their motivation for all this bias is primarily due to the fact that Democrats are advocating for the Fairness Doctrine.  There is nothing fair about the fairness doctrine.  It is in effect a breach of free speech rights because it only affects those media outlets the Conservatives have a strong or dominant presence in.  Those outlets are Talk Radio and the online blogs.  They do not include news papers or the big three evening news on TV, or colleges where the liberal voices dominate or the movie messages dominated by the liberal elite in Hollywood.  Talk show hosts have been preaching against the fairness doctrine but they haven't put the mainstream media together with the advocates of the unfairness doctrine.  They have in fact, been wondering why the media are so biased toward the liberal ideology and dismissing it or blaming it on their college training or their own personal politics.  This is far more insipid than they realize.  The editors and producers are participating in this double standard by burying positive conservative news and promoting negative conservative news and vice versa.  They are less and less subtle about it in regard to this election and Mark Steyn is the first to have put his finger on it.  He is the first to connect the dots for all the conservative talk show hosts and conservative pundits.  I have a new found respect for this man and believe me, I had plenty to start with.  He has been sued in his country of citizenship for practicing his free speech rights which are now being squelched by recent legislation there and the abuse thereof by one, just one vile, hate filled, Islamic pundit.  That alone, would have given me deep respect for Steyn.  He is fighting this abuse of rights to the end rather than cower away from his duty to inform us of American influence for good around the world and to defeat this anti-free speach commission in Canada.

Please sign the petition to urge Congress to defund and exit the United Nations.

Child sexual exploitation as young as six years old by paid personnel.  Funding and active participation in terrorist activities by paid personnel.  Mentally ill patients are routinely sexually and physically abused by paid personnel.  Involved in illicit gold and ivory and weapons trade and sexual exploitation and rape of Congo women and girls replete with photo and video evidence.  Paid personnel roasting a fourteen year old Somali boy.

This is the organization who would claim moral authority to investigate human rights violations by the United States of America?  Whose appointed commission is headed and bodied by some of the worst human rights violators in history including Sudan, Cuba, and Pakistan.

A waste of billions of dollars annually in fraudulent carbon footprint reduction programs abuses.  It has a reputation for ignoring evidence in its internal investigations including rape and murder.  Its filled with hypocrites who condemned Israel four times compared to the six times it has condemned any of the other 191 countries represented.  Who claim to self police their organization but even their own appointed investigators quit in protest of limiting access and non-application of recommendations.  Against its own charter, it is maneuvering for final authority over any military action by any nation including in case of grave threat even though they have a record of complete inaction on those same threats.  Now it has banned criticism of Islam.

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The Dictators' Roman Holiday

Only the United Nations would invite a dictator who has purposefully starved his own people to a summit on the international food crisis. But that is precisely what happened in Rome last week. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who has starved his political enemies and channeled food aid to only favored groups, was in attendance, as was the Iranian dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It has already been one year since the U.S. Congress voted 411-2 to call on the UN Security Council to punish Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for violating the UN Charter and the UN Convention on Genocide for his repeated incitement of genocide against the Israeli people, yet the Iranian dictator is still welcome at UN events.

True to form, Ahmadinejad used the international spotlight to once again predict the demise of the state of Israel and accuse the U.S. of plotting an attack on him.

Mugabe accused the West, not his own genocidal policies, of starving his people.

In other words, it was a typical gathering for the United Nations.

Europe's Resistance to GM Foods, Not America's Support for Biofuels, Has Contributed to the Global Food Crisis

But the infuriating arrogance of UN bureaucrats lecturing the world's largest provider of food aid - and the single greatest contributor to the UN food fund - cannot be allowed to pass without comment.

In fact, it is the Europeans irrational resistance to genetically modified (GM) crops - aided and abetted by extremists on the left -- that is responsible for much of the hunger in Africa and the rest of the developing world.

GM crops that are commonplace in the U.S. - crops that don't need expensive pesticides and even potentially are drought resistance - are banned in Europe. And Europe and the Left's misinformation about the health and safety of these foods has led most African nations to ban them too for fear of being shut out of lucrative European export markets.

South Africa is the only African nation that grows GM crops. And while food production in the rest of Africa is 20 percent per capita less than it was in 1970, South Africa is producing surplus amounts of crops through biotechnology.

The U.S. Should Refuse to Participate in Future UN Charades

The UN food crisis gathering ignored the issue of GM foods, of course, but it did call on member nations to kick in at least $20 billion a year to help ease global hunger.

President Bush, who has tripled U.S. aid to Africa during his presidency, should ignore this demand and publicly refuse to participate in farces with vicious, murdering thugs like Mugabe and Ahmadinejad like the one in Rome last week.

President Bush should transition U.S. assistance to direct, bilateral forms only. Our willingness to allow UN bureaucrats and international dictators to lecture us in public strengthens them and isolates us. Far from feeding hungry people, it consigns them to lives of poverty, desperation and premature death.

For their good, and for our national self-respect, we should stop being a part this charade.

Your friend,

Newt Gingrich

U.S. does not stand for Uncle Sam, rather we are considered Uncle Sugar by the nations least appreciative yet most benefited by our aid programs.  Let's take a look at votes in the United Nations by a long list of nations wallowing in Uncle Sugar's foreign aid like spoiled hogs:

Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.  Yet, Egypt receives $2 billion annually in Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.  Yet, Jordan receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.  Yet, Pakistan receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes against the United States 81% of the time. Yet, India receives $143,699,000 annually in U.S. Foreign Aid.

The Arab states, all recipients of foreign aid, consistently vote against the U.S. by lopsided margins. 

Even Kuwait -- for whose independence American servicemen fought and died -- votes against us 67% of the time!