No, Benghazi is definitely not Watergate. No one died during Watergate.
No, Benghazi is definitely not Watergate. No one died during Watergate.
By Mark Steyn
Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who “incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity.” Oddly enough, in recent days the most compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the president himself, who insists with a straight face that he had no idea that the Internal Revenue Service had spent two years targeting his political enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” Like you, all he knows is what he reads in the papers. Which is odd, because his Justice Department is bugging those same papers, so you’d think he’d at least get a bit of a heads-up.
The IRS commissioner said the targeting only of conservative groups was not motivated by politics. Ludicrous. Here’s another funny one: The IRS will soon be in charge of enforcing your health insurance. By the way, when did we ever have to have our health care enforced before?
David Axelrod says the government is simply too big for Barack Obama to keep track of. That’s quite an admission, since the president’s main mission since 2008 has been to increase the size and reach of government.
The Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made
By Mark Dever
The Old Testament is the story of God’s promises to his people. Below its somewhat obscure surface is hidden magnificent truth about the love and power of God. Throughout its pages the reader can find promise after promise from God, all of which are fulfilled in the New Testament-in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Author Mark Dever introduces readers to the Old Testament as a glorious whole so that they are able to see the big picture of the majesty of God and the wonder of his promises.
Dever’s work, including a companion volume on the New Testament, is a great way to get the overall message of Scripture. These books are nontechnical and full of pastoral application.
It seems clear that the administration targeted conservative organizations and donors and lied about Benghazi in a no-holds-barred attempt to win the election. And it worked. I think the “hope and change” slogan can be safely buried now. I’m just relieved this is all Bush’s fault.
The scandals have become so numerous that even Barack Obama’s sycophantic press has started to take notice. Of course, if the media had been doing their job all along, perhaps the administration wouldn’t have become so reckless and sloppy in its far Left smash-mouth tactics. Oh, well, at least Mr. Obama now has someone else to blame for his latest round of failures.
By The Editors
A jury in Pennsylvania has convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell of three counts of murder, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and several counts of performing illegal late-term abortions at his facility in West Philadelphia. Gosnell is eligible for the death sentence, an end that would be as close to justice as earthly powers can mete out in this episode. The English language does not contain a word sufficient for describing the crimes of Kermit Gosnell; “murder” will do, but only for legal purposes.
Gosnell’s human abattoir is the logical endpoint of our morally fraudulent national approach to abortion, the proponents of which maintain that they wish the procedure to remain “safe, legal, and rare,” in Bill Clinton’s cynically triangulating formulation, while at the same time resisting any and all restrictions upon the procedure. Gosnell’s murders are not an aberrant abuse of the abortion license but an inevitable result of it.
Gosnell had thousands of enablers: every judge and justice who has declared every abortion sacrosanct, every politician who has blocked meaningful regulation and oversight of the practice, and every intellectual who has furthered the notion that what resides in a woman’s womb is nothing more than a meaningless clump of cells. Barack Obama, who as a state senator in Illinois worked against establishing protections for infants marked for abortion but outside the womb, must assume his share of guilt in this matter. So must those who voted for him because of his abortion absolutism rather than in spite of it.
Those pro-choicers who say Gosnell’s house of horrors is what awaits us if we restrict abortion have it exactly wrong. Gosnell had the freedom (and encouragement) to do what he did by pro-abortion politicians who refused to regulate his clinic and pro-abortion activists who looked the other way.
And there is no logical reason to allow the killing of the unborn at one moment while restricting it if the child finds himself outside the mother’s womb the next. That’s why Gosnell had no doubts about infanticide. He was just following the logic of the “pro-choice” position.
Gosnell didn’t have too little freedom, but too much. His “freedom to choose ” ended the lives of thousands.
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