Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Before Shooting, Dallas Police Department Known for Community Outreach ~ But why would #BlackLivesMatter care about cops helping the community? Their idea of “outreach” is reach out and destroy.
North Korea Calls U.S. Sanctions on Kim Jong Un a ‘Declaration of War’ ~
North Korean officials vowed Thursday to retaliate against the United States after Washington slapped new sanctions on the nation’s leader Kim Jong Un over human rights abuses.
Pyongyang called the U.S. sanctions a “hideous crime” that constituted a “declaration of war,” according to North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency.
Pretty sure this won’t end well. Just this morning ➡ North Korea test-fires missile from submarine, South Korea says. It apparently failed, but that doesn’t mean the crazy dictator won’t stop trying.
And then there’s Russia ~ Russian Spy Ship Spotted off Hawaiian Coast During Military Drills ~
“Obviously, we are aware that it is there, and we’ve taken all precautions necessary to protect our critical information,” Ramsden said in a statement. “Its presence has not affected the conduct of the exercise.”
Maybe they can put Hillary in charge of the security detail!
Ted Cruz’s Fight to Protect the Internet From Authoritarian Regimes ~
The Protecting Internet Freedom Act, co-sponsored by Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and James Lankford, R-Okla., would prevent the U.S. from giving up oversight of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit organization that gives out domain names and numbers for the internet) unless Congress passes legislation specifically authorizing the transition […]
The Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of regulating the internet is likely illegal, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said.
Sure, but when has that stopped the guy with the pen and the phone?
Small-Town Judge in Wyoming Threatened with Removal Over Religious Beliefs Fights Back ~ What was mainstream understanding about biology and human sexuality a decade ago is now grounds for dismissal from the bench – despite an exemplary record of service? The gaystapo has sure come a long way in normalizing sodomy.
Yet, as they sow…
Gonorrhea and syphilis skyrocketing among gay men in Britain
Syrian Refugees Admitted to U.S. More Than Doubled in June; 0.3 Percent Were Christians
Christians, Yazidis and Shi’a have been specifically targeted by the Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL), in what the U.S. government has determined is a campaign of genocide…
However, of the 2,381 Syrians admitted in June …
…eight (0.3 percent) are Christians and 2,364 (99.2 percent) are Sunni Muslims. The remainder comprise eight other Muslims, and one refugee giving no religious affiliation, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.
[BTW, ISIS is Sunni]
Texas governor mandates burial or cremation of aborted fetuses ~ A return volley to SCOTUS for their unconstitutional Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling?
[Gov.] Abbott hopes the Legislature will “enshrine” the rules into law next year even though state agencies in Texas do not need legislative approval to enact certain rules…
Olympic Committee Struggles With Transgender Issues, Men Competing as Women ~ Our Brave New World is a confusing place indeed ~
From true genetic abnormalities to those declaring themselves transgenders, the International Olympic Committee doesn’t really know what to do.
The Soul of America ~ On Independence Day, words of true wisdom from Ravi Zacharias ~
May God help us! We need His transforming power to change our thinking and to give us a hunger for what is true. True freedom is not in doing whatever we wish but in doing what we ought. That has been buried in America. And only one who knows the way out of the grave can give us a second chance to live: Jesus, the way, the truth and the life that sets us free from within first, before we learn to deal with the lies around us.
