News/Politics 1-15-13

What’s news today?

Open Thread, so what have you got?

Here’s a couple to start.

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Welcome to the Arab Winter.

From TheTelegraph/UK

“Tens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of the Egyptian revolution and subsequent Islamist takeover of politics, priests and community leaders say.”

“Coptic Christian churches in the United States say they are having to expand to cope with new arrivals, as priests in cities like Cairo and Alexandria talk of a new climate of fear and uncertainty.

“Most of our people are afraid,” Father Mina Adel, a priest at the Church of Two Saints in Alexandria said. “Not a few are leaving – for America, Canada and Australia. Dozens of families from this church alone are trying to go too.””

Here’s more on why, from AsiaNews.it

“The criminal court of Beni Suef (115 km south of Cairo) has sentenced an entire family to prison for converting to Christianity. Nadia Mohamed Ali and her children Mohab, Maged, Sherif, Amira, Amir, and Nancy Ahmed Mohamed abdel-Wahab will spend 15 years in prison. Seven other people involved in the case were sentenced to five years in prison.

The case of the family of Nadia Ali Mohamed began in 2004 when, after the conversion, she and her children decided to replace their Muslim names on their identity cards with their Christian names and city of residence change. To do this she was aided by seven Registry office employees e. Born Christian, she had changed her religion to marry her husband Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Wahab. After the man’s death in 1991, Nadia decided to return to her religion of origins and to push her seven children to convert. In 2006, one of the boys was arrested by police in an information center in the city of Beni Suef. Suspicious of the young man from the documents he as carrying, where he had changed its name to Bishoy Malak Abdel-Massih, police agents interrogated him for hours until he confessed his conversion to Christianity as desired by the mother. The judges then decide to stop not only the woman, but all of her children and seven clerks from the registration office, responsible for changing the documents.”

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And this one. Yes, it should be considered, if necessary. 

From Politico

“Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is threatening to file articles of impeachment against President Barack Obama if he moves to change gun regulations through executive order.

“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” Stockman said.

In a statement, Stockman didn’t hold back, saying Obama is launching an “attack on the very founding principles of this republic.”

“The President’s actions are an existential threat to this nation,” Stockman said in a statement. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is what has kept this nation free and secure for over 200 years.  The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.””

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8 thoughts on “News/Politics 1-15-13

  1. Obama has a Democratic Senate. It will turn out the same as the Clinton impeachment. Obama thinks he has dictatorial power and is exercising it.
    You ain’t seen nothing yet.

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  2. I’m posting something later this week, tomorrow if I finish, that touches on the lack of constitutionality in the responses and solutions to many issues this nation faces. I read a piece that addresses this, and the author has agreed to let me share it here. I will include some of my thoughts on it, and I hope to get input from you folks. I also have questions. Some parties, even our supposed “Constitutional scholar” in chief, seem to prefer the dictator method to following the Constitution. It’s a dangerous precedent to allow a leader to violate the rules at his whim. We’re seeing this today.

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  3. (clapping)

    http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/magnolia/news/state-rep-steve-toth-to-file-firearm-protection-act/article_870f2cd6-5d11-11e2-9ddb-0019bb2963f4.html#.UPMD2LhqhI8.twitter

    “State Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) has begun the process to file legislation assisting the protection of the Second Amendment of the United State Constitution.

    The “Firearms Protection Act” bill would make any federal law banning semi-automatic firearms or limiting the size of gun magazines unenforceable within the state’s boundaries. Anyone trying to enforce a federal gun ban could face felony charges under the proposal.

    “We can no longer depend on the Federal Government and this Administration to uphold a Constitution that they no longer believe in. The liberties of the People of Texas and the sovereignty of our State are too important to just let the Federal Government take them away. The overreach of the federal administrations executive orders that are do not align with the Constitution, are not very popular here in Texas,” said Toth.”

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