News and Views

Denins Prager compares and contrasts Tibet and Palestine. Very thought provoking. (bonnet tip Betsy).

And speaking of Betsy's page, I enjoyed this read on the disparate levels of charitable giving between 'liberals' and conservatives, although it was no surprise to me, nor am I surprised to read that most people I know give larger percentage of their income to charity than the Obamas (who make nearly a million a year), even accounting for their cynical increase in giving once he decided to run for president. On the other hand, I know that much of our own charitable giving doesn't get put down on the tax returns, and I am sure that is true for many others on both left and right. Still, the story does smash a few stereotypes for those who are open to having stereotypes overturned.

Democrat linked to oil for food scandal, As reported here:

The Justice Department said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein’s principal foreign intelligence agency and an Iraqi-American man had organized and paid for a 2002 visit to Iraq by three House Democrats whose trip was harshly criticized by colleagues at the time. The arrangements for the trip were described in the indictment of an Iraq-born former employee of a Detroit-area charity group who was charged Wednesday with accepting millions of dollars’ worth of Iraqi oil contracts in exchange for assisting the Iraqi spy agency...

Did they know? Possibly not. Did they want to know? Probably not.

Speaking of oil, just who are the 'big oil' guys?


Columbia siezes 66 pounds of uranium from left wing terrorist group.

Does the freedom of the press include the right to ruin reputations with impunity?

Mark Steyn on the ongoing court case over the alleged Toronto terrorist plot:

Young Muslims who've spent virtually their entire lives in the west. Interestingly, the above guys also met with the two Georgia Tech students currently facing trial. Not sure whether they're on scholarships, but they're another stirring tribute to the soothing effect of western education on the jihadist brow:

Excellent read at Belmont- Coptic Christian priest Zakaria Botros and his success at winning converts from Islam, why and how he succeeds.

Is buying green really all that green? Or is it still just about buying?

I am pro-choice on the light-bulb issue..

I'm nearly speechless:

That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today – Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto’s West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian churches across the country.

But at West Hill on the faith’s holiest day, it will be done with a huge difference. The words “Jesus Christ” will be excised from what the congregation sings and replaced with “Glorious hope.”
The pastor, Rev. Gretta Vosper, has had it with “Big God-ism” and wants to turn the West Hill United Church into a New Age encounter group. Vosper says that the world has outgrown Jesus Christ and the church is finished unless it gives up God, Jesus, and pretty much the entire Bible, except possibly for the Sermon on the Mount. Her new book, With or Without God, makes plain her hostility to the tenets of Christianity over the last two millenia and the need to replace God with Human.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain... and so is your faith" (1 Corinthians 15) Without the resurrection, it's not Christianity, and there is no hope for us apart from that resurrection.