Liberal Media Celebrate State-funded 'Queer History of Fashion' Exhibit

Newsbusters.org:

The Daily Beast is celebrating a new exhibit on “A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk.” Naturally, this is funded by the New York Council on the Humanities and the New York State Council on the Arts, “with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.”

Here’s more government-subsidized liberalism, for the museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Peter Davis writes “One of the sweetest moments in the show is a celebration of the historical gay marriage rulings.”

There are two brides together and two grooms holding hands. One of the grooms represented is CFDA President Steven Kolb, who married his partner Jay Inkpen in December 2012. “I was very surprised but flattered when Valerie asked me to borrow our suits,” Kolb says, adding: “queer style is ultimately an expression of freedom to love and be who you are."

The exhibit’s also celebrated in two New York Times articles. Guy Trebay wrote: “In the age of gay marriage, it can seem almost implausible that designers like Christian Dior, Bill Blass, Halston and countless others spent their professional lives in the closet, or that homophobia was rampant in a field where stereotypes have long held that many creative types were gay.”
At least these celebrations didn't drag in the usual  Reagan-callously-ignored-AIDS myths.  

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Only In Barack Obama"s Godless America: 10-Year-Old Student Told Not To Write About God As Her Idol

Thanks to Barack Obama's Godless, social agenda, the tenets of traditional values and morals that define Christianity (and which this country was found on) are being replaced by a decadent lifestyle that breeds debauchery and moral bankruptcy. Any wonder why a 10-year-old student isn't allowed to choose God as her "idol"? Any wonder why homeschooling and charter schools are becoming more and more popular with parents fed up with the Godless, liberal indoctrination found in today's public schools?

She said her daughter was told to start over and pick another idol.

“But my teacher said I couldn’t write about God. She said It has something to do with God and God can’t be my idol,” said Shead about what her daughter told her.

Erin told her mother she was also not allowed to leave the assignment about God at school, that it must go home.

On the second try, Erin chose Michael Jackson, which was acceptable.

“How can you tell this baby, that’s a Christian, what she can say and what she can’t say?”

Shead took her concerns to the school principal at Lucy Elementary Wednesday morning.

“Can you show me this in a policy where this child cannot talk about God on paper,” asked Shead.

We reached out to Shelby County Schools Wednesday.

Spokesman Christian Ross said teachers can’t promote religion, but there is not a policy preventing students from writing assignments about any God or religion.

School officials wouldn’t say what would be done to correct the situation, since it appears the teacher was in the wrong.

Ross said they wouldn’t comment out of respect for the student’s privacy.

Shead said she is waiting to hear from the principal, “I told the principal this morning, would it be better if she wrote about Ellen Degeneres? Of course there was no comment.”

UPDATED RESPONSE FROM SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS ON 9/12:
“Shelby County Schools respects the moral and religious beliefs of all students and families. While teachers and staff are not permitted to promote religion in the classroom, no laws or district policies allow teachers to limit students’ expression of religious beliefs in their personal classwork. This was a regrettable misunderstanding, and we as educators must learn from it. The principal and teacher have had a positive and productive conversation with the family, and we are pleased this matter is being addressed at the school level. The district will not be discussing this matter further in the media.”

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Idiot College Students Chase David Petraeus and Shout at Him on First Day of Class

Mediaite.com:

Recent video shows former CIA director David Petraeus being chased down a New York City street by student activists at the City University of New York.

As BusinessInsider reported, Petraeus was on the way to teaching his first class at CUNY’s honors college, entitled “Are We on the Threshold of the North American Decade?” He took on the teaching gig as part of rehabilitating his image following an extramarital affair scandal that led to his resignation from the CIA.

The students can be heard yelling “War criminal!” at the retired military officer who played a key role in the “counterinsurgency” strategy of the Iraq War. “Every class, David!” the students shout, suggesting they plan to protest him on a weekly basis, before every lecture.

“Petraeus out of CUNY” and “Fascist” were some of the other chants.

At one point, Petraeus and two of the students dart off into the middle of a street with an oncoming bus honking. Despite the repeated expletives hurled his way, the former general never once responded to the crowd.

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Despite Best Efforts Of Far-Left Press, No "First Gay Mayor" Of New York City

For the far-Left, New York press endorsing Christine Quinn for Democrat candidate to be mayor wasn't about her many scandals or her lying to the city's voters while steamrolling the democratic process to enable Mayor Michael Bloomberg's third term, it was about trying to make "history" and elect the "first lesbian mayor" of NYC. Too bad their farce blew up in their face:

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who was once considered the heir to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s throne, ended her campaign for mayor on Tuesday night, coming in a distant third place in the polls.

“I want to congratulate my opponents Bill Thompson and Bill de Blasio on a hard-earned victory” an emotional Ms. Quinn told enthusiastic supports gathered at the swanky Dream Hotel in Chelsea, where the only decoration was a single “Christine Quinn for New York” banner hung above a simple stage.

“This was a hard-fought race, we took a lot of knocks, we were up against a lot off odds, but I am proud of the race we all ran,” she said. “There’s a young girl out there who was inspired by the thought of New York’s first woman mayor and said to herself, ‘You know what? I can do that.’”

The mood in the room was somber throughout the night as exit polls made clear that Ms. Quinn had been eclipsed by Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, whose campaign had soared from behind in the final weeks, promising a break from the Bloomberg years.

The outcome was a stunning blow for Ms. Quinn, who spent the first months of the race as the undisputed front-runner, nearly approaching the crucial 40 percent that she would have needed to win without a runoff.

But Ms. Quinn’s team and surrogates acknowledged Tuesday that they had miscalculated the growing frustrations with the current administration and desire to move in a new direction–a sentiment Mr. de Blasio seized early on. As the primary electorate skewed left, Ms. Quinn dug in her heels on positions like supporting Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and seemed reluctant to tout the historic status of her candidacy as the potential first female and openly gay mayor.

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The Blood of Christians on Barack Obama's Hands

Townhall.com:

Thirty-five miles northeast of Damascus is a small Christian village built into the mountains of Syria. Until yesterday, the most interesting thing about this town called Maaloula was that its 6,000 residents are among the last in the world who still speak Aramaic – the language Christ spoke as a boy in a carpentry shop, as man giving a sermon from a mount, and on the eve of his death and resurrection when he broke bread and poured wine and said, “This is my body…. This is my blood.”

Yesterday, according to reports by eyewitnesses, the Christians of Maaloula were attacked by a vicious army with no respect for human life and a special hatred for the Christians it calls infidels. They were driven from their homes. They were murdered in their streets. 

Based on the recent rhetoric from President Obama and his administration, you might at first assume that the Syrian dictator and his army were responsible for this hate crime against the innocent Aramaic-speaking Christians of Maaloula. But the truth is quite the contrary. As has been the case in many prior attacks on Syria’s Christian minority, the culprits were al-Qaeda-linked rebels – the very same rebels Mr. Obama is preparing to help by bombing the Assad regime.

This past Sunday, as President Obama and his administration ratcheted up the usual media spin machine to promote their agenda, I was hoping pastors across the United States would stand up with moral courage and tell their congregations the truth about the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Syria. I was hoping that they would ratchet up the calls for the truth about who our enemies are. However, this administration and their media puppets have done such a good job of confusing the situation, many of those pastors have no idea who our enemy is. 

Let’s be clear: Our greatest enemy in the world is al Qaeda. It’s the same al Qaeda that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, that blew up American embassies in Africa in 1998, that attacked the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, and that murdered 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. It’s the same al Qaeda that fought us in Iraq and that is still fighting us in Afghanistan.

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Even Liberal Radio Host Bill Press Knows That Lawrence O'Donnell Is An 'A-Hole'

Mediaite.com:

Liberal radio host Bill Press blasted MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday morning in the wake of his contentious interview with New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Press said that O’Donnell’s questions, as well as the booking itself, made no sense. He added that O’Donnell behaved like an “a-hole” during his prime time probing of Weiner.


“What is wrong with you?” O’Donnell asked Weiner on Monday night. “What is wrong with you that you cannot seem to imagine a life without elected office?”

“I think Lawrence O’Donnell proved to be a real a-hole with that question,” Press said after playing a portion of Monday night’s interview on his radio program. 

“Why even book Anthony Weiner? Everybody knows he’s a joke. Everybody knows he’s not going to win,” Press continued.

He added that the question he posed to Weiner could be asked of virtually every politician who cycles in and out of elective office, including Hillary Clinton. 

“Lawrence O’Donnell, shame on you,” Press concluded. 

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Australian Conservatives Oust Left-Wing Government

WSJ.com:

Australia's incoming Prime Minister Tony Abbott said his conservative administration would move quickly to cut taxes and take swift action to boost the slowing economy as a long mining boom fades.

Sticking closely to the campaign script that won him Saturday's national elections, Mr. Abbott also used his first day as prime minister-elect to restate his promise to scrap an unpopular tax on carbon emissions and to curb the rising tide of asylum seekers. 

Australia elected its first conservative government in six years this weekend, the Liberal National coalition, which handed Kevin Rudd's Labor party its heaviest defeat in decades. The country faces a decelerating economy as the resources boom, fed by industrializing Asia's demand for its raw materials, begins to cool.

"There is border security, there's economic security, and the people expect quite rightly that the incoming government will build a strong and prosperous economy," Mr. Abbott said in a statement Sunday after a briefing from top civil servants. "A very early item of business is scrapping the carbon tax." 

Mr. Abbott has pledged to spend billions on constructing new roads to stimulate growth, even while seeking ways to cut government spending and pay down debt as promised in the election campaign. 

The Liberal Nationals also promised to dispose of the mining tax — a levy first introduced by Mr. Rudd that sought to curb the "excessive" profits of some iron-ore and coal producers. Mr. Abbott also vowed to help the nation's struggling manufacturers by peeling back other taxes and corporate bureaucracy. 

Still, reviving the economy may prove more difficult than Mr. Abbott, who has sought to appeal to voters by mixing populism with traditional conservative values, would have liked. 

Already, economic growth has cooled from the rampant pace set at the height of the mining boom, and is expected to moderate further as China's demand for bulk commodities wanes in tune with its slowdown.

Official figures show Australia's $1.5 trillion economy expanded by 2.6% in the second quarter from a year earlier, compared with 3.7% growth in the same quarter of 2012 and 4.4% in the first quarter of that year.  

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 9/9/13

And Now It's Global COOLING! Record Return of Arctic Ice Cap as it Grows by 60% in a Year

Bradley Manning Files for Presidential Pardon

Vote For The Syria Strike But Add Iran To The List

Huckabee Blasts ‘Insane’ Dem Rep. on Syria, ‘Racist’ Hollywood for Silence

Bloomberg Says de Blasio Running 'Racist' Campaign

Purple State, Deep-Blue Media

Hollywood Reporter: Sexual Infidelity ‘Fall TV’s Hottest Topic’

National Media Completely Ignore NY Man Left Brain Dead By Attacker Shouting 'I Hate White People' 

San Antonio Christians to Face the Unseemly Side of ‘Nondiscrimination’

Unemployment Dips to 7.3 Percent, Only 63% of Americans are in Labor Force

WaPo.com:

Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work.

According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000 jobs in August. In addition, the government lowered its estimate of the number of jobs created in June and July by 74,000 positions. 

The grinding pace of recovery has hollowed out the workforce. Government data showed that only 63.2 percent of working-age Americans have a job or are looking for one, the lowest proportion since 1978.

Nearly 90 million people are now considered out of the labor force, up 1.7 million from August 2012. 

“We just don’t see this consistent, strong job market that’s really going to entice people to go back into it,” said Michael Evangelist, policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project. “You don’t want people falling out of the labor force where they’re not able to contribute and not able to find work.” 

Carol Petty, 54, is among those hanging in the balance. She lost her job as a paralegal in Nevada last summer and has struggled to find work since. Petty moved to California to be near her family and hoped she would find a better job market. She sends out as many as 10 résumés a week and knows she is unlikely to find another position that pays her old salary of $55,100 a year. 

She said others in her position have given up seeking work. The question for Petty — and the broader economy — is how long people like her will be able to hold on.

“I’m just so stubborn,” she said. “I will do anything.” 

There are demographic trends underlying the decline in the labor force. For much of the past generation, growing numbers of working women boosted its size, but that effect has leveled off. Meanwhile, the first wave of baby boomers is reaching retirement age, while younger workers are staying in school longer before looking for their first job.

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Race to the Bottom: Ed Schultz Forgets Fellow Dems, Fellow MSNBC Hosts When Playing the Race Card on Syria

Mediaite.com:

Well, you knew it was coming. 

The race card being played from the bottom of the deck… 

Even on Syria. 

Leading this charge is former MSNBC primetime-8:00 PM-host-turned-MSNBC-weekend-host (a lonely timeslot he claimed he volunteered for)-turned-early-evening-weekday-at-5:00 PM-host Ed Schultz.
Schultz contends that GOP opposition of Syrian strikes is rooted not in: 

(A) Uncertainly around a post-Assad Syria, where the opposition may somehow be worse than the current regime

(B) Possible repercussions via Iran or Hezbollah to Israel or U.S. embassies and troops in the region, or even through terror attacks here in the U.S.

(C) Making the growing refugee crisis even more grave

(D) A strong majority of the American people opposed to any military action

(E) All of the above 

Instead, Ed says Republicans oppose the President because of “hatred of our first black President.” Via Schultz’s MSNBC show on Thursday:

“I really believe that everything that we have said on this show are reasonable, patriotic reasons to be against another war, another strike, another act of war––and that’s what it is––but hatred of our first black president is not.”

If that’s the case, then there are A LOT of racists running around the country these days. First and foremost is the man who replaced him at 8:00 PM on MSNBC, Chris Hayes. After all, he vehemently opposes any action in Syria. Is he—the host with racial quotas for guests—also a racist? 

How about Alan Grayson (D-FL), easily the most outspoken liberal in Congress? He wants no part of Syria, either. Even Joe Manchin (D-WV) said, “I cannot support the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s resolution and will be working with my colleagues and the administration to develop other options.”

That just screams racism, doesn’t it? 

The nomadic Schultz has sat in three time slots in the past year alone. He was supposed to be a savior for MSNBC’s failing 5:00 PM spot. Instead, because of 5th grade comments like this, he’s getting pummeled by Fox in his time slot of the month—and by CNN as well. 

But it’s really no surprise.

In fact, it’s shocking it took this long.

The emergence of the race card in the sober debate over Syria…

Courtesy of a cartoon character posing as a serious host who carries his very own deck.

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Chicago Public Schools Mandate Sex Ed Classes for Kindergarten Students

LifeNews.com:

They are much, much too young to even be thinking about sex and sexual acts at their age are the worst form of pedophilia, but Chicago public schools think little boys and girls in kindergarten are ready for sex ed classes.


From a local report:

Some people may think a five-year old is too young for sex education. Administrators with Chicago Public schools do not.

New to the curriculum this year, mandatory sexual and health education for kindergarten classes. CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker took at look at the lesson the little ones will be learning.

But parents are already up in arms about not only how appropriate the classes are but whether they distract from real education.

Like every other kindergartner, Angelina Yang is learning reading, writing, arithmetic–and now sexual health education.

“I want to know what kind of education she is receiving before she gets that education,” said Angelia’s mom, Stella. ‘As a parent, I have a right to know.”

“If he has questions, I’m happy to answer them, but I’m not sure it belongs in a classroom setting,” said parent Brooke Lyon.

“The new policy calls for 300 minutes of instruction or about 30 minutes a month,” the report says.

North Carolina is also pushing sex education programs on kids and PLanned Parenthood pushes sex ed on 11-year-olds.

ETR Associates—a sex program clearinghouse and offshoot of Planned Parenthood of Santa Cruz—admits on its webpage that a program being taught in North Carolina schools and elsewhere across the nation teaches toward four major “outcome expectancies or behavioral beliefs.” Belief number 4 is described in the ETR overview as “Hedonistic Beliefs.” Hedonistic philosophy places pleasure above everything else—as the greatest good.

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In 35 States Welfare Pays Better Than A Minimum Wage Job

This is another reason why conservatives who argue against an increase to minimum wage fail to understand what's really going on in America.  

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Kirsten Powers Says Barack Obama ‘Should Give Back’ Nobel Peace Prize

Mediaite.com:

Wednesday night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly used a question from a Swedish reporter at this morning’s G-20 press conference to ask if President Obama should “give back” his Nobel Peace Prize now that he’s advocating military action in Syria. Fox contributor Kirsten Powers went even further, saying Obama “should have given it back a long time ago.” 

Powers said she thought the president should return the prize “for the drone war, for escalating the war in Afghanistan, having all these people die unnecessarily. Plenty of civilians have been killed by his drone war, including children.”

Taking Obama’s side in the argument, O’Reilly countered with, “you know every war in the history of mankind has resulted in collateral damage and civilian casualties.”

“First of all, I don’t use the term collateral damage because they are human beings,” Powers shot back. “I think that the war should actually be accomplishing something and I don’t think that the drones were accomplishing anything.” Instead, she said “it’s created more terrorists.” She said she may have been in favor of going into Syria earlier on but doesn’t “understand why there is a moral imperative now but there wasn’t a moral imperative a year ago.” 

Republican strategist Kate Obenshain agreed with more of what Powers said than she thought she would, saying Obama “basically won the election saying he didn’t believe in military intervention unless there was imminent threat to our national security,” but now pushing for action in Syria. She found herself in a heated debate with O’Reilly for saying the U.S. should not intervene because “seven out of nine of the factions against Assad right now is Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

If that’s the case, O’Reilly wanted to know if Obenshain thinks Sen. John McCain is “trying to deceive the American people.”

“I am saying that he is understating Bill, intentionally, to further his own objectives,” Obenshain responded.

Powers, who had been quiet for several minutes, dropped into the conversation to ask, “Has John McCain never been wrong about anything?”

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Oregon Bakery Closes Doors Over Refusal To Cater "Gay Wedding"

Honestly, I think these "gay activists" are purposely targeting Christian and conservative businesses just to put them out of business--all a part of the Godless agenda being led by Barack Obama.

HotAir.com:

A follow-up to the story of the New Mexico photographer who lost her court battle after refusing to take a job at a gay wedding. Different state and a different trade this time but a similar result potentially: The business owners in this case said no when a lesbian couple came into the shop looking for a wedding cake. The latter filed a complaint with the state under the relevant antidiscrimination law and an investigation, which could have taken up to a year, was launched. The bakers, having already been targeted for a boycott by opponents and likely fearing the expense and aggravation of a long court battle themselves, decided to close the shop and move operations into their home, which presumably renders the business “distinctly private” and therefore beyond the reach of the state’s public accommodations law. (Does it?)

Watch the extended interview with them about what they’ve gone through, paying special attention to the bit in the middle about “mafia tactics” by some gay-rights supporters. Two interesting wrinkles to this case vis-a-vis the New Mexico one. First, remember that Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh argued on the photographer’s behalf that, because photography is an art and inherently expressive, forcing her to cover an event to which she’s morally opposed necessarily violates her right of free expression. The same isn’t true, wrote Carpenter, of “more mundane and generic services (like cake-baking).” Presumably he’d agree with the gay couple, then, that the bakers have no right to refuse service. I’m not sure I grasp the distinction, though: In both cases, the business owners are being asked to celebrate an act to which they conscientiously object by producing a beautiful product in its honor. What’s more expressive, framing a shot of a married couple posing or crafting an elaborate cake to glorify the occasion? I’m not sure that there’s more artistry in photography in this case.

Second, note what the guy says in the clip about how they’ve made cakes for this couple before. They don’t refuse to serve gay customers, they refuse to serve gay weddings specifically. The same is true, I assume, of the New Mexico photographer. That’s a potential line of attack for social-conservative pols as they start to push back against cases like this — this isn’t a categorical refusal to serve a minority group, it’s a religious objection to serving at one particular type of event in which that group participates. That may not help them legally but it’ll help in the court of public opinion, where the majority in support of religious exemptions in situations like this is already overwhelming. I’d be surprised if we don’t start seeing legislative hearings about it, whether in Congress or at the state level, sometime next year. 

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Media Sees Obama's Wars As Good Because He's Not Bush

WashingtonExaminer.com:

If you've noticed that the active anti-war movement seems smaller these days, you're not alone – and just at the moment when the public seems to support their cause.

But those few who have remained consistent, along with a vast and ideologically diverse majority of Americans opposed to war with Syria, must now contend with a media that reflexively assumes purer motives of President Obama than it did of his predecessor.

This is how the media had been dragging us into a war that both Congress and the public view with great skepticism – right up to the moment the British Parliament's vote and extremely sour public opinion forced Obama to un-make his mind about invading without congressional approval.

Witness, for example, the coverage this year and last of Obama’s controversial drone-strike policy. Even while providing reasonably critical coverage, journalists did not hide their shock that Obama – “a good man ... an honorable man ... the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ... an unimpeachably upstanding citizen,” as Esquire put it – had made mass assassination his singular contribution to the history of the U.S. presidency.

The New York Times, even in revealing Obama's personal role in approving strikes, merely presented this as evidence of his credentials as a deep thinker: “A student of writings on war by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas,” the Times asserted, “he believes that he should take moral responsibility for such actions.”

That provides some insight into the sympathetic assumptions from which the media currently operate and how they have nearly got us into a war last week.

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan asked her paper’s managing editor, Dean Baquet, about whether Times coverage of Syria isn’t ignoring the lessons of Iraq.

His paraphrased reply: "Syria is not another Iraq, he said. One of the major differences, he said, is that the Obama administration has no enthusiasm for this conflict in the way that President George W. Bush’s administration did a decade ago.”

The drums of war beat to such assumptions, and to the tune of wishful thinking. Time’s Jay Newton-Small penned a post last Wednesday – “Six Ways Syria 2013 is not Iraq 2003.”

Two of her six “reasons” – the robust Arab and European support that Obama supposedly enjoys (Newton-Small sneered: “Remember ‘Freedom Fries?'”) – were falsified within 48 hours of publication.

Jordan refused U.S. access to its airspace and the British Parliament vetoed UK action against Syria. It was the first time Parliament has voted down a government-backed military action since Britain exited our own Revolutionary War. (“Freedom Muffins,” anyone?)

Newton-Small at least brought up one other important difference – the fact that Bush had placed his ill-fated invasion in Congress' hands, whereas Obama at that point had no plans to do so.

“Maybe Obama should allow the debate in Congress,” she conceded, adding that “it’d be a headache,” and referring to the constitutional process of authorizing a war as “posturing.” She was not alone in this characterization.

Yet under great pressure at home and abroad, Obama has now conceded (if not explicitly) that he can't just start foreign wars on his own – a possibility that few journalists ever took seriously, even if polls showed eight in 10 Americans were demanding it.

In 2003, the American public strongly supported the invasion of Iraq (72 percent), and its prospects seemed far more promising at the time than this new venture.

It had an actual goal (regime change), and months (not days) were spent debating the merits. One can only imagine how much more quickly that unwise war might have begun, had the contemporaneous media coverage taken the deferential tone of the Obama era.

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1st Gay President Barack Obama To Meet With Homosexual Activists In Russia

No surprise here. When it comes to taking care of the Godless "sexual minority" he's created, Barack Obama's priorities are always in order:

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists said Tuesday they have been invited to meet with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of this week's Group of 20 summit in Russia.

Obama and his administration have voiced concern over a law recently passed by Russia's parliament that targets "homosexual propaganda."

Igor Kochetkov of LGBT Network told The Associated Press that his organization will accept the invitation to meet with Obama in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The St. Petersburg-based advocacy group Coming Out said it also was invited but hasn't decided yet whether to go.

The White House would not comment on the meeting. However, Obama has frequently met with civil society groups when traveling abroad. In 2009, he met with a group of Russian rights activists while visiting Russia, but members of the LGBT community were not present then.

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Miley Cyrus Endorsed Drug "Molly" Responsible For Two Deaths At New York Festival

The general public holds celebrities to such high standards that they'll ignore facts, basic principles and even general common sense for the status symbol of a celebrity endorsed product. Indeed, for all the naive and gullible Godless souls out there, whether it's Lady Gaga endorsing "gay marriage" or Miley Cyrus endorsing a lethal drug like "molly", it's always easier to be an ignorant follower than be a rebel and lead by example:

An old drug with a hot new name is being blamed for two deaths at a New York City dance festival this holiday weekend, forcing an early end to the event.

Molly, as it’s now known, is a form of Ecstasy and is being linked to a recent string of overdoses.

Promoters shut down New York’s multi-day Electric Zoo music festival after the deaths of two young people. Police said 20-year-old Olivia Rotondo and 23-year-old Jeffery Russ died after taking Molly. Four others are in critical condition.

Molly, short for molecule, is supposed to be the purest form of MDMA, the main ingredient in Ecstasy.

“It raises your body temperature, your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, and so it does make you more prone to heat stroke,” said ABC News crime analyst Brad Garrett.

Molly has been popping up more frequently in pop culture, especially in music. At a concert last year, Madonna was caught on tape asking the crowd, “How many of you have seen Molly?” although she later said she was referring to a friend’s song. Additionally, hit songs from artists, including Kanye West and Miley Cyrus, reference the drug.

Officials warn that despite the innocent sounding name, Molly is a dangerous drug.

“It could have other amphetamines in it, it could cause you to overdose, and that may well have been the case in these deaths in recent days,” Garrett said.

Some law enforcement officials also said Molly is so dangerous because the people who take it tend to be recreational users and so they are more naive about its dangers.

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John Kerry Had Lunch With Bashar al-Assad In 2009, Now Compares Him To 'Hitler'

Remember all the noise the liberal press made about former President George W. Bush holding hands with Prince Abdullah of Saudia Arabia? Well, as current Sec. of State and noted former failed presidential candidate and leftwing senator John Kerry goes around making the case for bombing Syria, let's see how much noise the liberal press makes about this sudden revelation:

An astonishing photograph of John Kerry having a cozy and intimate dinner with Bashar al-Assad has emerged at the moment the U.S Secretary of State is making the case to bomb the Syrian dictator's country and remove him from power.

Kerry, who compared Assad to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein yesterday, is pictured around a small table with his wife Teresa Heinz and the Assads in 2009.

Assad and Kerry, then a Massachusetts senator, lean in towards each other and appear deep in conversation as their spouses look on. 

A waiter is pictured at their side with a tray of green drinks, believed to be lemon and crushed mint.

The picture was likely taken in February 2009 in the Naranj restaurant in Damascus, when Kerry led a delegation to Syria to discuss finding a way forward for peace in the region.

While President Barack Obama has softened his military threat against Syria by putting the question to Congress and guaranteeing at least a week's delay, Kerry remains outspoken about the dangers posed by the Syrian regime.

He said that Assad 'has now joined the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein' in deploying chemical weapons against his own people.

Kerry said Sunday that the U.S. now has evidence that sarin nerve gas was used in Syria and that 'the case gets stronger by the day' for a military attack.

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Justice Ruth Ginsburg Officiates At "Gay Wedding"

FOXNews.com:

Two months after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling to expand federal recognition of same-sex marriages, striking down part of an anti-gay marriage law,  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiated at a same-sex wedding.

The officiating is believed to be a first for a member of the nation's highest court. 

Ginsburg officiated Saturday at the marriage of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a government economist.

"Michael Kaiser is a friend and someone I much admire," Ginsburg said in a written statement Friday. "That is why I am officiating at his wedding."

The private ceremony took place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a national memorial to President John F. Kennedy. The 80-year-old Ginsburg, an opera lover, is a frequent guest at the center.

Same-sex marriage is legal in the District of Columbia and 13 states.

"I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship," Ginsburg told The Washington Post in an interview.

"It won't be long before there will be another" performed by a justice. She has another ceremony planned for September.

Kaiser told The Associated Press that he asked Ginsburg to officiate because she is a longtime friend.

"It's very meaningful mostly to have a friend officiate, and then for someone of her stature, it's a very big honor," Kaiser said. "I think that everything that's going on that makes same-sex marriage possible and visible helps to encourage others and to make the issue seem less of an issue, to make it just more part of life."

Justices generally avoid taking stands on political issues. 

While hearing arguments in the case in March, Ginsburg argued for treating marriages equally. The rights associated with marriage are pervasive, she said, and the law had created two classes of marriage, full and "skim-milk marriage."

Before the court heard arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act, Ginsburg told The New Yorker magazine in March that she had not performed a same-sex marriage and had not been asked. Justices do officiate at other weddings, though.

"I don't think anybody's asking us, because of these cases," she told the magazine. "No one in the gay-rights movement wants to risk having any member of the court be criticized or asked to recuse. So I think that's the reason no one has asked me."

Asked whether she would perform such a wedding in the future, she said: "Why not?"

Listen, conservatives have long known that Justice Ginsburg is a far-Left minion--she was a member of the ACLU for chrissakes. But this decision, to officiate a "gay wedding", wasn't just something Ginsburg was "doing for a friend", but an in-your-face diss towards Christians, social conservatives and anyone else who believes in and stands up for traditional marriage. Of course, she should now have to recuse herself from any future case that comes before SCOTUS involving same-sex wedding (or gays in general), but she won't. Because Justice Ginsburg doesn't care what you think and for all the disrespect Justices' Thomas and Scalia get for being 'too conservative' from the far-Left media, the hypocrites in the press will find a way to protect one of their favorite daughters.

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