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South Carolina: The First State in the Country to Stand with Israel Against the BDS Movement : By Miles Terry

As Jews everywhere face a new onslaught of discrimination—most notably the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement—we are beginning to see Americans fighting back on behalf of Israel.

Now, South Carolina has just fired the first salvo against this disturbing anti-Semitic movement.

As we stated previously,     http://aclj.org/israel/congress-proposed-legislation-rejects-anti-israel-movement

[T]he primary aim of the [BDS] movement is to marginalize and delegitimize Israel on the national scene by pressuring corporate and government entities to participate in economic boycotts against Israeli institutions, pull resources and investments from those institutions, and impose sanctions against the state of Israel because of the ways in which it has chosen to defend itself from the hostile, anti-Semitic forces in the Middle East that seek the outright demise of Israel as a political state."
This is an issue we are heavily engaged in through our legal and government affairs work at the ACLJ.

And now states are starting to challenge this discrimination head-on as well.

As a native South Carolinian, I'm very pleased to report that the Palmetto State has become the first state in the country to stop the efforts of the BDS movement within its borders.

Last week, Governor Nikki Haley signed H 3583, a bill designed to "prohibit the state or a political subdivision of the state from accepting a proposal from or procuring goods or services from a business which engages in the boycott of a person or an entity based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin."

The new law will ban any public entities from "contracting with businesses engaging in the boycott of a person or an entity based in or doing business with a jurisdiction with whom South Carolina can enjoy open trade."    http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/South-Carolina-becomes-first-US-state-to-take-action-against-anti-Israel-boycotts-405120      http://aclj.org/israel/south-carolina-the-first-state-in-the-country-to-stand-with-israel-against-the-bds-movement

Bill Maher’s Malignant Mockery of Persecuted Christians is Repugnant : By Matthew Clark

With the backdrop of a Fox News banner Reading "Christians Under Attack" and "War on Christians Around World," Bill Maher sprays his vitriolic venom for Christians, running his own headline, "Witless for the Persecution."

While I can take a good (even bad) joke and Maher's (speaking of witless) attempts to get a cheap laugh while proselytizing his leftist, elitist brand of angry atheism don't send the Christian community into a fit of rage, his hostile hypocritical vile rancor went far beyond his HBO reputation for insolence.

His most recent hit piece on Christianity aired earlier this week. It started out as his normal atheist antics masquerading as comedy to take pot shots at faith from high atop his ivory media thrown. But then he said this:

"Christians love to feel persecuted. It's part of their origin story. But we're a long way from them getting eaten by lions in the coliseum."     https://youtu.be/ybH66U72xd0

That's asinine.

No. Now, they are being beheaded on beaches. Christian children are being gunned down in Christian schools. Peaceful Christian worshipers are being lured to fake church services to be massacred.    http://aclj.org/persecuted-church/isis-beheaded-21-christians-but-it-couldnt-silence-their-faith     http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/29-boys-killed-boko-haram-attacks-boarding-school-nigeria-n37991      http://aclj.org/sharia-law/evil-personified-boko-haram-uses-fake-preachers-to-gun-down-dozens

Christians face genocide in the world today. Yet Maher has the unmitigated gall to insult their suffering, parody their persecution, and degrade their death.

Maher has an agenda. He's an angry atheist (one of the angriest). He hates religion, but Christians most of all. He's a far left liberal elitist. And he's willing to stop at nothing to trash Christianity.

But the fact that he's willing to use the slaughter of innocent Christians around the world as his atheist punching bag is beyond even his pale.                                                           http://aclj.org/persecuted-church/bill-mahers-malignant-mockery-of-persecuted-christians-is-repugnant?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=newsletter

Abortion Industry’s “Hail Satan” Lawsuit Against Texas Pro-Life Law Goes Down in Flames : By Matthew Clark

They chanted, "Hail Satan," as they worshiped at the altar of abortion.    http://www.redstate.com/diary/matthewclark/2013/07/03/pro-abortion-mob-shouts-hail-satan-battle-for-life-is-battle-of-good-vs-evil/

They tried to drown out the voice of the people to defeat a lifesaving law. They failed.

This was the bill the Left abhorred, abortionists loathed, and the Culture of Death feared.

Today, the abortion industry's grand attempts to bury a critical pro-life law in Texas went down in flames.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a pro-life law in Texas that requires abortion clinics to abide by basic safety standards and mandates that abortionists in those clinics have critical lifesaving hospital admitting privileges should they botch an abortion will go into effect.

This case delivers a major blow to the abortion industry.

The court said simply: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/14/14-50928-CV0.pdf

In plain terms, H.B. 2 and its provisions may be applied throughout Texas, except that Supreme Court precedent requires us to partially uphold the district court's injunction of the [safety] requirement as applied to the Whole Woman's Health abortion facility in McAllen, Texas, and to uphold the district court's injunction of the admitting privileges requirement as applied to Dr. Lynn when he is working at the McAllen facility.
In other words, the entire attack on the law – which actually bans abortions after 20 weeks in Texas (the major portion of the law that was never challenged) – miserably failed. Except for the safety requirements for one abortion clinic and the hospital admitting privileges for one abortionist at that abortion clinic, the entire law stands. (Unfortunately, the court feels hamstrung by Supreme Court precedent as applied to this clinic.)

99% of this law goes into effect. It's a major win for the lives of unborn babies and a major defeat for the abortion industry that puts profits ahead of basic safety standards.

The result: many abortion clinics in Texas will be forced to shut down. Lives will be saved.     http://aclj.org/pro-life/culture-of-death-suffers-another-stunning-defeat-texas-abortion-clinics-being-shut-down

At the ACLJ, we filed an amicus brief in this case cutting through the abortion industry's deceptions and detailing the dangers of unregulated abortion.       http://aclj.org/pro-life/aclj-challenges-abortion-marketing-ploys

This pro-life law serves as a model for the country and a retort to big abortion's power. This week, a similar law, banning late-term abortions, is expected to be introduced in the U.S. Senate after passing the House of Representatives with bipartisan support.      http://aclj.org/pro-life/fight-to-stop-painful-late-term-abortions-goes-to-the-senate        http://aclj.org/pro-life/two-years-after-gosnell-house-will-vote-to-protect-unborn-life             http://www.redstate.com/2015/06/09/abortion-industrys-hail-satan-lawsuit-texas-pro-life-law-goes-flames/

Move to Ban Christian Club From School; Bible Deemed ‘Harmful to Children’ : By Macey France

Journalist Kathleen Stewart is raising the alarm on a Christian club called Child Evangelism Fellowship. If you have never heard of this club, you may have heard of the Christian clubs it has launched across the country in public schools called The Good News Club.

Stewart authored a book titled, "The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children." Parents became alarmed at the possible presence of The Good News Club in their local schools and staged a protest in downtown Portland, Oregon last year. They cited Stewart's book as the reason for their protest.

Oregon Live reports:

The Good News Club has been controversial across the nation, but Portland may be the first city to organize on such a large scale against the group.

The Good News Club's curriculum includes teaching children that every person is a sinner. In the eyes of many Christians, "sin" is any failure to meet God's standards. The Bible states, for example, that "all have sinned."
"We believe that these doctrines are harmful to 5-year-old children," Robert Aughenbaugh, a a co-founder of Protect Portland Children, said last July. "They teach fear. They teach shame."

Talk about cherry picking an issue that is taught in the Club. I'm positive that the Club also teaches the other side of that issue. After all, "The Good News," (or another word for it; the Gospel), is to spread the news that Jesus died for us while we were still sinners! The Good News by far outweighs the "insult" of being called a sinner.

Before anyone gets on their "separation of church and state" argument, according to The Good News Club's website:

In 2001 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Good News Clubs v. Milford Central School that Good News Clubs can meet in public schools in the United States after school hours on the same terms as other community groups. Children attend Good News Club only with their parents' permission.   https://www.cefonline.com/good-news-clubs/415-2001-supreme-court-ruling
In my town schools offer children access to the Good News Club through permission slips given to their parents. The parents then decide if their child is allowed to get on a bus and travel to the Good News Club's meeting and then ride the bus back to school. The Club doesn't even take place in the school building.

Aughenbaugh would like to usurp parental rights by saying that he and his organization are better equipped to parent your child and decide whether or not he or she should be introduced to the Gospel.

As for the author, Katherine Stewart, she will be in Portland this week stoking the flames of hatred and prejudice against Christianity with a speech entitled, "How Religious Fundamentalism Threatens Oregon's Public Schools."

I would like to see Stewart direct her attention to the lessons regarding the 5 Pillars of Islam being taught in schools across the nation. Or maybe the LGBTQ clubs present in schools. How about the atheist clubs? It's only fair, right?

Ironically, the speech will be given at a Unitarian Church. Oh wait...

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/move-to-ban-christian-club-from-school-bible-deemed-harmful-to-children/

Heart Patient Learns Firsthand: The Affordable Care Act is NOT Affordable. :By Lara Rhea

As a heart patient with a defibrillator and pacemaker due to life threatening arrhythmias, I must live with taking a certain amount of daily heart medications to survive. Months ago, I was hospitalized due to a shock by my defibrillator. The medications I take are supposed to control these deadly arrhythmias, but thankfully I have back-up when medications do not work.

While in the hospital, it came to my physician's attention that I was being given the generic form of one of my heart medications. He asked me when this switch occurred and told me to tell the pharmacy that I was absolutely, under NO circumstances, to be taking the generic form of the drug! Apparently, many people with my condition have reported problems with the generic form, although it seems to work well in people with other conditions, and even though the active ingredient in generic brands is supposed to be the same as the brand-name drug.

It is important to note, however, that the FDA allows generic drugs to use different inactive ingredients such as binders and time-release agents than their original counterparts. I wondered if anyone else experienced problems with generic drugs and found that an alarming number have. So much so, that ABC Dateline did an investigation and reported in September 2014 that the FDA had actually lied about testing certain generic drugs for safety.

Yes, the FDA lied about the safety of generic drugs. In the face of everything else surrounding the current administration, it is of little wonder, but who else is talking about it? Who else is outraged?

The lie was discovered after a doctor took it upon himself to do an independent study of one extended-release drug that was not performing as the brand-named drug, thereby giving patients an initial jolt of the medication upon ingestion and subsequently leaving them without the medication in their systems throughout the rest of the day. ABC News reported the physician, Dr. Tod Cooperman as saying, "The FDA finally admitted that there actually had never been a study of this generic, and it had never been tested in humans, and that the information in that package insert was therefore, just made up."

Made up?

The investigation also revealed that many doctors are concerned about the use of generics and have patients reporting numerous side-effects not found in the brand-named drugs originally prescribed. Heart medications, anti-depressants...medications that matter quite a bit to the patients involved.

This news was clearly upsetting to me, so I contacted the pharmacy and told them I did not appreciate being given the generic drug when my doctor prescribed the brand-named drug. I even found out that my doctor had written on the prescription, "No substitutions." Here I was in the hospital, and it was possible that this was the reason why. This is a life and death situation for someone like me. I was not prepared for what I would discover next.

The pharmacist explained that my insurance company would not allow me to take anything but the generic form of the drug. "Allow" was the actual choice of words used. So the average consumer would probably stop there believing they had no other alternative.

Furiously, I questioned, "...even when my doctor is demanding that I take the brand name?!" The pharmacist was flippant and told to contact my health insurance provider to inquire. I found out that my insurance company would in fact "allow" me to take the brand-named drug my physician prescribed, but the caveat was that I had to pay for it myself. My insurance company (like most I presume) will only pay for brand-named prescription drugs now whenever the generic form is not available. No amount of arguing about it was going to change the situation.

So my choice: Pay the monthly out-of-pocket cost for the generic drug of $40 or pay the the brand-named cost of drug, a whopping $1200!

-Per month.

-For a mediation that I must have to survive.

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/heart-patient-learns-firsthand-the-affordable-care-act-is-not-affordable/

(WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography : By Macey France

Following are graphic and explicit excerpts from The Bluest Eye, which is on the Common Core's list of exemplar texts for 11th graders. If you are easily offended you may want to skip them and go straight to the story. (Note from editor: Even heavily edited, this is still very graphic.)

Pages 162-163: "A bolt of desire ran down his genitals...and softening the lips of his anus. . . . He wanted to f*** her—tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her v****a was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made. Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her v****a. She appeared to have fainted."

Page 174: "He further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable . . . His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness." And later, this same pedophile notes, "I work only through the Lord. He sometimes uses me to help people."

Page 181: "The little girls are the only things I'll miss. Do you know that when I touched their sturdy little t*** and bit them—just a little—I felt I was being friendly?—If I'd been hurting them, would they have come back? . . . they'd eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. It was like a party."

Pages 84-85: "He must enter her surreptitiously, lifting the hem of her nightgown only to her navel. He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, to avoid hurting her breasts...When she senses some spasm about to grip him, she will make rapid movements with her hips, press her fingernails into his back, suck in her breath, and pretend she is having an orgasm. She might wonder again, for the six hundredth time, what it would be like to have that feeling while her husband's p***s is inside her."

Pages 130-131: "Then he will lean his head down and bite my t** . . . I want him to put his hand between my legs, I want him to open them for me. . . I stretch my legs open, and he is on top of me...He would die rather than take his thing out of me. Of me. I take my fingers out of his and put my hands on his behind..."

Pages 148-149: "With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. 'I said get on wid it. An'make it good, n*****, Come on c***. Faster. You ain't doing nothing for her.' He almost wished he could do it—hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much."

I understand that after reading those excerpts a lot of you may be angry that this is approved for reading in any school. I could probably end the article here.

However, there are many things that need to be addressed and I have detailed for you here with much help from Jill Manning, PhD.

Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison's 1970 novel, "The Bluest Eye," is among Common Core's exemplar texts for 11th graders.

 http://politichicks.com/2013/08/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/

Netiquette; Social Graces : By Shannon Sloane

Social graces is being polite, considerate (putting others before yourself), having a good attitude and overall good behavior in all situations.

Netiquette social graces applies to web-based technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and commenting on blogs. It's exchanging information, ideas and sharing pictures and doing it with grace.

When participating on these sites, it's important to maintain a proper decorum, but we wouldn't know that by the various rude and crass comments we see.

For example, a male friend of mine was involved in a conversation on one of his FB friend's posts when someone who didn't like what he had to say proceeded to attack his looks.

Here are some social media tips:

Debating on issues you disagree with is okay, but one of the rules of debating is to never insult your opponent with personal attacks. Passion and speaking from the heart is good, but use logic and reasoning.

If you are going to share newsworthy posts, read the article first; don't go by the headline which are often sensationalist or have nothing to do with the article.

If your write a blog, do thorough research and make sure you are accurate. Use trusted links to back up your statements.

Don't use all caps.

Stay on topic. Don't hijack someone's post.

Read through the thread before commenting because it might have already been said.

Watch out for satire sites! If something sounds too ridiculous to be true, it most likely is, although in today's society, it's sometimes difficult to tell.

Avoid typos. Some social media sites have spell-check, but if a site doesn't, type it into a Word document, then copy and paste on the post.

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/netiquette-social-graces/

The Importance of Getting Involved in Politics Locally : By Onan Coca

A few years ago conservative grassroots activists surprised the nation when we rose up together to protest the increase in spending, the creation of new regulations, the addition of new methods of taxation, and particularly, the possibility of Obamacare. The mainstream media and the establishment quickly got used to seeing Tea Party activists everywhere they went – at Town Hall meetings, at local speeches and just about anytime the politicians came home, we were there to question them about these horrible policies being handed from Washington. Many of us smelled change in the air, how could they ignore millions of us across the country protesting and demonstrating as one? But ignore us they did.

Sure, we got a few electoral victories here and there; Mike Lee in Utah, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Ted Cruz in Texas, Marco Rubio in Florida, Scott Brown in Massachusetts (yuck) and many more in the House... but has it really changed anything? I don't think so.

The problem is that while we were active publicly and on the national level, we forgot that real change starts in our communities and in our state. From home we can build a platform to affect change on a greater level, but without first winning locally, any gains we make nationally will be short-lived. For example, we might win a big victory like getting a Tea Party Senator elected... but what good will that do if our state leadership is beholden to the establishment and only willing to allow establishment candidates the chance to run for office? Sooner or later that one Tea Party voice will get drowned out.

What we need to do is first win our states, then launch our assault on the national establishment... and one state is showing us the way.

Grassroots conservatives won a major victory this past weekend when in North Carolina the conservative base won stunning victories over the GOP establishment for control of the state party!        http://www.redstate.com/diary/helmsconservative/2015/06/07/grassroots-conservatives-win-control-nc-republican-party/

http://eaglerising.com/19617/the-importance-of-getting-involved-in-politics-locally/#YA6Lg9Pthd0EYGeh.99

5 Reasons We Don't Need Bernie Sanders Free College Plans : By Michael Minkoff

Many pundits are praising presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, the "independent" Senator from Vermont, for his "bold" plan to make college education free—or at least affordable—for everyone:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has proposed a formula to create free college education at public universities and finance the program through a small transaction tax on Wall Street trades. This is a powerful, wonderful and profound idea. It should . . . become a major Democratic Party initiative that should be supported by all Democratic candidates for president, included in the Democratic platform at the next Democratic National Convention and serve as a dramatic campaign pledge to elect Democratic candidates for the House and Senate in the 2016 elections.

Sanders is absolutely right. Nothing would do more to bring opportunity to young men and women throughout the nation than to make college education at public universities affordable to all. [Elizabeth] Warren is absolutely right. It is high time to end the crushing burden of student loan debt that afflicts moms and dads, and their sons or daughters, who are hard-pressed to pay back this crushing debt.

Not so much. Here's a few reasons why:

Most people don't need a college education.
The fact is that most people, unless they are joining one of the learned professions (e.g., theology, law, medicine, academia, etc.), don't actually need a college degree. Learning a trade through apprenticeship or internship is often far more efficient than college in terms of time, practical knowledge, and work experience. More and more businesses are realizing this, and if college education becomes even more common, most employers will care even less about it, not more. Already, it means very little. It will mean even less.

Many people don't want a college education.
What about those people who don't want a college education? Surely that is a large portion of people. Subsidizing college and making college compulsory are just a few shades away from one another. We know this already from the history of public schooling. What began as a way to make schooling more affordable for "poor people" now legitimizes its own bloated budget by basically forcing people to attend.

Making college free for everyone will naturally reduce the value of a college education.

If you make it so just about anyone can get into college, you effectively force colleges to lower admittance standards and soften grading policies. This has already been happening. Plenty of people with college educations don't know anything about anything. They went to college because they were supposed to go after high school. But they spent the whole time sleeping around, drinking, and smoking weed, and yet somehow they still graduated because they majored in underwater basket weaving ... or environmental science. This is obviously an exaggeration. But not by as much as you might think. A college education currently means something (not as much as it once did) because not everyone has a college education. In order for everyone to acquire a college degree, something will have to give.

Turning college into a de facto extension of high school would further retard the development and maturation of young people in this country.

 http://eaglerising.com/19626/5-reasons-we-dont-need-bernie-sanders-free-college-plans/#oa3xdb5uUffTtB6B.99

A REAL Welsh dragon!

A new dinosaur species, dating back 200 million years, has been discovered in Wales.
The fossilised skeleton, described as a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is believed to be the earliest specimen of a Jurassic era dinosaur to be found in the world.
And while it may not have wings or breathe fire like the country's national symbol, it is the first fossil of a meat-eating theropod dinosaur to be found in Wales.

Described as the 'find of a life-time,' the bones of the unnamed dinosaur were discovered on Lavernock beach near Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan by two fossil-hunting brothers, Nick and Rob Hanigan.
A cliff fall on the beach, caused by storms in the spring of 2014 revealed several loose blocks containing part of the skeleton of the dinosaur, including razor sharp teeth and claws.

The fossilised bones were found spread across five slabs of rock and although some were preserved together in the correct position, others had been scattered and separated by the actions of scavenging fish and sea-urchins.
They were analysed by experts from the universities of Manchester and Portsmouth as well as the National Museum Wales who concluded the dinosaur lived at the very earliest part of the Jurassic period, 201 million years ago.

WALKING WITH WELSH DINOSAURS
The unnamed skeleton found near Penarth is the first fossil of a meat-eating theropod dinosaur to be found in Wales.
Dr John Nudds, senior lecturer in palaeontology at The University of Manchester said: 'It is very rare to find this type of dinosaur at all and never before in Wales.
'In fact it is only the second dinosaur ever found in Wales.
However, the area is home to perfectly preserved footprints made by dinosaurs 200 million years ago.
They lie between Barry and Sully on the South Wales coast and include prints believed to have been left by three-toed meat-eating theropod dinosaurs, that walked on their hind legs.
The recently discovered skeleton is further proof that fierce theropods roamed the area in the Jurassic.
Some wider four-toed footprints at the footprint site are thought to belong to a plant eating dinosaur which would have walked on all fours.
The footprints were made by some of the earliest dinosaurs in the world and it is possible that ancestoral crocodile-like replies walked among them.
Isolated teeth and bones of other dinosaurs have previously been found in south Wales near Bridgend, Barry and Cowbridge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3116657/A-REAL-Welsh-dragon-Fossil-meat-eating-dinosaur-terrorised-Wales-200-million-years-ago-unearthed.html