May 11, 2019

UN Farce

The UN was up to its old tricks this week — bashing Israel. At an “informal” Security Council meeting called by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa the Council gathered to condemn the building of homes for Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria.

The UN was up to its old tricks this week — bashing Israel. At an “informal” Security Council meeting called by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa the Council gathered to condemn the building of homes for Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria. Israel was not invited to speak. We join Jason Greenblatt, U.S. Envoy for International Negotiations, in condemning this latest blatant example of anti-Israel bias. Just a few days ago Israel was the target of an unprovoked attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad operating in Gaza. The attack has yet to be condemned by the UN.

God Out; Islam In

Here are two recent stories from the frontlines of America’s culture war.

The Dieringer School District in Seattle, Washington, is facing a potential lawsuit after school officials were instructed to make Muslim students feel welcome during Ramadan. They were encouraged to greet students with the Arabic phrases, “Ramadan Mubarak” or “Ramadan Kareem,” meaning “Blessed Ramadan” or “Generous Ramadan.”

The district superintendent took this action after receiving an “Informative Letter on Religious Accommodations” from CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

But as Daniel Piedra of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund notes, “A school district would never order teachers to ‘welcome’ Catholic students during Easter with ‘He is risen, alleluia!’”

Meanwhile, across the country in Springfield, Pennsylvania, Sabold Elementary School Principal Peter Brigg has been ordered by educational bureaucrats to stop saying “God Bless America” after the Pledge of Allegiance.

It seems that one individual whined to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a militant secularist organization. The atheist group warned the Springfield school district that “God Bless America” was an impermissible prayer that “does not pass constitutional muster.”

Really?

“In God We Trust” is on our currency. The Supreme Court, Congress, state legislatures and town councils routinely open their sessions with prayers.

I’d like to see this case taken to court. I could be wrong, but I doubt there are five votes on the Supreme Court today to declare “God Bless America” unconstitutional.

Confronting Judicial Supremacy

Once again, Donald Trump and Mike Pence are showing why this administration may well be the most conservative administration in modern memory. Speaking to the Federalist Society this week, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Trump Administration would take steps to reign in our rogue judiciary.

Specifically, Pence denounced left-wing district judges who have been handing out nationwide injunctions like they were candy, and he vowed that the administration would aggressively fight to end this practice.

Now I realize that for most Americans “nationwide injunctions” aren’t exactly hot topics of discussion around the dinner table. But this is a big deal. Left-wing judges have been blocking the president’s agenda every step of the way from the moment he first took office.

Here’s some of what Pence said:

These orders are issued by federal district court judges on a broad range of issues — from national security to immigration, from border security to healthcare reform. And these orders prevent the entire Executive Branch from enforcing a statute, a regulation, or a policy on a nationwide basis. And they apply everywhere, to everyone…

It’s remarkable to think a Supreme Court justice has to convince four of their colleagues to uphold a nationwide injunction, but a single district court judge can issue one, effectively preventing the duly elected president of the United States from fulfilling what he believes is a constitutional duty.

This obstruction at the district level is unprecedented. Studies show that there’s not a single example of a nationwide injunction in the first 175 years of our nation’s history… [But] our administration has been unfairly hit with more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined…

This era of judicial activism must come to an end… In the days ahead, our administration will seek opportunities to put this very question before the Supreme Court.

Pence went on to reiterate that decisions impacting every American should be made only by our elected representatives, either the president or the Congress, or the Supreme Court — not by one left-wing judge in some liberal enclave.

I sincerely hope the administration succeeds in this effort. Just imagine how much more could have been done in the past two years if the president hadn’t faced such resistance in the courts. Imagine how much more he could do in a second term.

Kudos To Santorum

God bless Rick Santorum! He was on CNN this week debating abortion with Chris Cuomo and Christine Quinn, the former speaker of the New York City Council. Even with those 2:1 odds, it wasn’t a fair fight. Rick ran rings around them both!

Santorum repeatedly pressed Cuomo and Quinn to admit that abortion is about more than just “choice,” that it also involves the destruction of an innocent human life. While Cuomo got hung up on “viability,” Quinn incredibly denied that a baby inside the womb was even human at all!

“When a woman is pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her. It is part of her body,” Quinn declared.

“So the baby is property, chattle,” Santorum responded rhetorically.

And that’s precisely the problem with Roe v. Wade.

Just like the infamous Dred Scott decision that legalized slavery, Roe is based on the fundamentally flawed idea that some humans have no rights we are bound to respect. The left views unborn babies as inconvenient “trash” to be disposed of.

I know America isn’t perfect. No nation is. It took us too long to end the scourge of slavery, but we did. And I know that someday we will end abortion on demand too.

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