North Carolina: It's About Crushing Dissent; Christians hacked to death in Congo...more

Obamas Lawsuit Against NC Isn't About Civil Rights. It's About Crushing Dissent ... In a broader sense, the suit is symbolic of the federal government’s eight-year crusade to decimate any semblance of federalism and streamline progressive morality. The administration ignores state laws that conflict with federal policy when it approves and it sues states when it does not. States that pass law enforcement bills President Obama finds unsatisfactory will see the full force of the Justice Department come down on them....

Krauthammer: Obama Admin Lied 'Point By Point, All the Way Through' Selling the Iran Deal  ...Krauthammer said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:35] “[T]he point about the scandal here is not that it was just spinning on either side. They were spinning beyond spinning. They were lying. And our side, the one that argued against it, was simply saying this is not true. Example, the ballistic missiles. We were told they’d be denied ballistic missiles for eight years, not true. They changed the language. [Under] the Security Council resolution, the Iranians are allowed. Secondly, they promised us, Kerry had said, there will be no deal unless the Iranians account for what’s called previous military activity, the work that was done on warhead miniaturization at Parchin. There was none of that, and the deal was signed. They lied. There was lying point by point, all the way through. That’s not spin. That’s lying. And it’s not just, I had to keep the negotiations secret. It’s that they told the American people stuff about what was in there that wasn’t true, and the 27-year-olds never looked into it.”...

The Spiritual and Physical Death of Europe: One Follows the Other ...Also lost in this conversation over Belgium’s future, Islam and its jettisoned Christian heritage, is that the nation has turned euthanasia into a fundamental right. As PBS put it, and everyone already knows, Belgium has “the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws.” Physician-assisted suicide there isn’t limited to the terminally-ill – people with psychiatric illnesses or even children can also be euthanized...

Thousands flee after dozens of Christians hacked to death in Congo  On May 3, suspected Islamic militants attacked Christian villagers in the eastern region of the DRC. Although local administrator Bernard Amisi Kalonda earlier said that the hacking had left 16 people dead, advocacy group Open Doors cited local sources saying 34 to 38 people were killed in the incident, according to Bos News Life....

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