1. Sarah Stern: Simon Deng: A
Profile in Courage
2. Will McAndrew: Record-Setting Canadian Oil Discovery Provides Path to U.S. Energy Security
3. Doug Johnson: To Mitt Romney: John
McCain Is the Wrong Role Model
4. Dr. Elaina George: Obamacare and
Appeasement: An Unholy Alliance
5. James Hirsen: Sarah Jessica Parker
to Host Clooney-Style Fundraiser
Simon Deng: A Profile
in Courage
By
Sarah
Stern, Founder and President
of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth (EMET)
Simon
Deng was born into the Shilluk region of South Sudan. When Simon was nine years
old, his village was raided by Arab jihadist troops from Khartoum. Says Simon,
“As we ran into the bush to escape, I watched as childhood friends were shot
dead and the old and the weak who were unable to run were burned alive in their
huts. I was abducted and given to an Arab family as a gift.” As a Christian
child slave, Simon was beaten repeatedly and forced to do heavy labor. Day in
and day out he worked as chattel for those who felt entitled to own another
human being just because his race and religion were different from their own. But
remarkably Simon managed to escape this hellish existence; and rather than live
a life embittered by his experience, Simon rose to become a human rights
activist for his people of Sudan. Even more remarkable is that Simon has been
able to focus not only on his own hardship, but has become an outspoken critic
of the duplicitous double standard of the United Nations toward the state of
Israel, while it ignores the role of Islamic-sanctioned slavery and Arab racism.
[more...]
Record-Setting Canadian Oil Discovery Provides Path to U.S. Energy Security
In 1977 President Jimmy Carter created the Department of
Energy to make the U.S. energy independent and establish a uniform energy
policy. Thirty-five years later we are no less independent and outside the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve, do not have an energy policy. Right now we are
forced to rely on countries that are against us for our survival. Recently, the
largest single deposit of oil sands in the world was discovered in Alberta,
Canada. Geologists estimate the amount of oil in these oil sands anywhere
between 170-300 billion barrels of oil, more than either Saudi Arabia or
Venezuela. One may think that the federal government would respond positively
to this development. Canada is one of our top trading partners and is our
closest ally; no one from Canada has ever threatened American lives. Yet the
Obama administration has turned away from the only tangible option that has
been placed on the table for energy security. [more...]
To Mitt Romney: John
McCain Is the Wrong Role Model
By
Doug Johnson
Mitt
Romney has chosen to use John McCain’s game plan to try to win the election.
Why would he choose a losing strategy? It’s time for Romney to wake up, take
the gloves off, and get serious about winning this election. Support has grown
for Mitt Romney as people are putting their differences behind them to focus on
winning the general election. Among them is one Super PAC that wants to run
advertisements educating the public about Barack Obama’s background,
specifically Jeremiah Wright. Their reasoning is that since Obama was never
vetted in the 2008 election, the public never really learned who he was. They
want to backtrack a bit and educate people about who this man is so they have a
clear picture to consider during the election. But Romney will have none of it.
[more...]
Obamacare and
Appeasement: An Unholy Alliance
Republican
members of Congress introduced healthcare legislation entitled “The patients’
Choice Act of 2009. As per one of the sponsors, Senator Burr: “The American
health care system needs a complete transformation. The Patients’ Choice Act
will finally enable Americans to own their health care instead of being trapped
in the current system, which leaves people either uninsured, dependent on their
employer, or forced into a government program. With a focus on prevention and
wellness and covering those with pre-existing conditions, the Patients’ Choice
Act will make health care affordable and accessible to all Americans.” What
Senator Burr and other members of Congress fail to recognize is that the
healthcare system has been built on a foundation that favors the interests of
the pharmaceutical industry, large hospitals, the American Medical Association,
and the medical insurance industry. It has never represented the interests of doctors
or patients. [more...]
Sarah Jessica Parker
to Host Clooney-Style Fundraiser
By
James
Hirsen
Sarah
Jessica Parker is set to host an Obama fundraiser at the West Village home that
she shares with husband-actor Matthew Broderick. The fundraiser will parallel
Clooney’s record-breaking model. Parker’s party will reportedly utilize the
same kind of online raffle component as the Clooney fundraiser, with tickets
even having the exact same suggested contribution of $3. Participants will be
entered into a drawing, where one winner and his or her guest will be selected
to attend the event and will also be given airfare and tickets to a Mariah
Carey performance. Obama and the First Lady will appear at the "Sex and
the City" star’s home next month in New York for the event billed as "A
New York Night with the President, First Lady and Sarah Jessica Parker." [more...]
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