Kurdish children tortured and forced to watch beheading videos by ISIS; Why kids sext; Voter Fraud and Voter I.D....more

Kurdish children detained, tortured and forced to watch beheading videos by ISIS ...Islamic State militants have detained and tortured Kurdish children, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed.

Stories from four teenage boys who were released in September reveal repeated beatings, intense "religious instruction" and forced viewings of brutal violence and beheadings.

"Those who didn't conform to the program were beaten. They beat us with a green hose or a thick cable with wire running through it. They also beat the soles of our feet," one 16-year-old recalled...

Sowell: Voter Fraud and Voter I.D.
One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting.

Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote...

Why kids sext
...One recent study found that young adults who engaged in sexting were more likely to report recent substance abuse and high-risk sexual behavior, like unprotected sex or sex with multiple partners. Another found exactly the opposite, that “sexting is not related to sexual risk behavior or psychological well-being.” In Englander’s study, many of the worrisome behaviors associated with sexting showed up more in those who had been pressured. They were more likely, for example, to engage in a practice researchers call self-cyberbullying, a disturbing phenomenon in which teens post mean things about themselves on social-media sites, usually to get sympathy or attention. Pressured sexters were also more likely to have had problems with sexual violence in dating...


Episcopal Church in Michigan votes to crack down on gun rights  The Episcopal Church in Michigan — which includes the areas of Lansing and Jackson — voted to crack down on Second Amendment rights via a resolution at the 180th convention of the Episcopal Diocese.

Specifically, the resolution — which passed with a large majority — expresses favor for universal background checks for all gun buys and for bans on all sales of decreed semiautomatic weapons and high-impact, high-capacity ammunition and magazines, the Detroit Free Press reported. The resolution also calls to make gun trafficking a federal crime...

Sex-selection abortions are perfectly legal in Canada

Planned Parenthood doc who killed woman in botched abortion closes her clinic  ...The closure was discovered when members of the Chicago-based group arrived at the clinic on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, for a planned public outreach only to find the facility closed and a “For Rent” sign on the door. A phone call placed by a League member confirmed that the abortion clinic had gone out of business...

Why More Than 1,800 Pastors and Churches Are Battling Against Atheist Activists and the IRS  ...The massive surge in participation comes following a now-settled lawsuit that the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist activist group, waged against the IRS, claiming that the tax authority has not been holding churches accountable to rules restricting politics from the pulpit.

Despite the lawsuit and a purported pledge from the IRS this summer that it will hold churches accountable, Politico reported that, “A record number of rogue Christian pastors are endorsing candidates from the pulpit this election cycle, using Sunday sermons to defiantly flout tax rules,” as the IRS appears to be avoiding the issue...