What’s interesting in the news today?
Open thread, here’s a few to start things off.
1. This should be viewed by everyone. And it should outrage you too. But thankfully, he now gets to tell his side. The Marines and White House should be ashamed of themselves.
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2. A veterans group is vowing to appeal a decision on a cross at a veterans memorial.
From MSNNews “A veterans association that built a massive cross overlooking San Diego as part of a war memorial plans to fight a federal judge’s order to tear it down, a lawyer for the group said on Friday.
Attorney Jeff Mateer said he hoped the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year declined to intervene in the 25-year legal battle, will step in now that there has been an order to dismantle the cross, and rule for his clients.
“We are definitely appealing and are committed to preserving this veterans memorial the way it was intended to be, which includes a cross,” said Mateer, general counsel for the Liberty Institute, which is representing the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Association in the case.”
“On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Larry Burns grudgingly ruled that the 43-foot-tall (13-meter) cross, a local landmark that has stood atop Mount Soledad in San Diego since 1954, must be taken down because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found it violated a constitutional ban on government endorsement of religion.
Burns said in his ruling that he disagreed with the Ninth Circuit but that his hands were tied. He stayed his order to give the veterans group and the Obama administration, which has also fought removal of the cross, time to appeal.”
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3. ObamaCare, and it’s trinity of lies.
From TheNYPost “ObamaCare was sold on a trinity of lies.”
That ornate phrase, more suitable for the Book of Revelations or perhaps the next “Game of Thrones,” installment comes from my colleague Rich Lowry. But I like it.
Most people know the first deception in the triumvirate of deceit: “If you like your health insurance you can keep it, period.” The second leg in the tripod of deception was “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
But the third plank in the triad of disinformation hasn’t gotten much attention: ObamaCare will save you, me and the country a lot of money. This lie took several forms.”
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Wandering Views 
What’s to say?
Seems like everything is backward these days.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/12/now-he-belongs-to-the-gauges.php
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“Sister” wives and polygamy, the next wave?
http://www.albertmohler.com/2013/12/16/moral-mahem-multiplied-now-its-polygamys-turn/
“… Last Friday, Judge Clark Waddoups of the United States District Court in Utah ruled that Utah’s anti-polygamy law is unconstitutional, violating the free exercise clause of the First Amendment as well as the guarantee of due process.
“In one sense, the decision was almost inevitable, given the trajectory of both the culture and the federal courts. On the other hand, the sheer shock of the decision serves as an alarm: marriage is being utterly redefined before our eyes, and in the span of a single generation. …”
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Donna – My younger friend (the one who claims to be a devout Christian, but holds many unbiblical beliefs) has claimed, a couple times, that the fact that we know longer sell our daughters to their husbands for three goats & a cow means we’ve already redefined marriage. I pointed out that God’s definition never involved selling our daughters.
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Oops. That should be “…we no longer…”
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