What’s interesting in the news today?
1. First up today, an update to a story from last week.
From National Review “An independent investigation released last week says: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated.”
In other words, the local government tolerated sexual violence on a vast scale. Why? In part, because the criminals who committed these sickening acts were Muslims from the local Pakistani community, and noticing their depravity was considered insensitive at best, racist at worst.
The British home secretary says “institutionalized political correctness” contributed to the abandonment of hundreds of girls to their tormentors. Imagine something out of the nightmarish world of Stieg Larsson, brought to life and abetted by the muddle-headed cowardice of people who fear the disapproval of the diversity police.
In Rotherham, multiculturalism triumphed over not just feminism, but over the law, over basic human decency, and over civilization itself.”
And over at Patheos the Anchoress raises some good questions.
From Patheos “For days I avoided the story, as I know many others have. Coming on the heels of the atrocities of the Islamic State, the take-over of Mosul (now a holding camp for kidnapped Yazidi “brides”) the purging of the Iraqi Christians from their ancient lands and the pursuit of genocide — the disheartening knowledge that, despite the official pivot away by our government, there are still thousands on Mount Sinjar who will not be rescued, because they are very old, or very young, or very weak — who could take any more? Who could read about 15 years of rape and abuse, happening while authorities feared breaking the rules of political correctness by questioning cultural practices?
Download the report and read it. Note that over 100 babies have been born of all this. Note also how, again and again, the official response to this behavior seemed to be a puzzled shrug.
What Rotherham puts me in mind of is the behavior of the conqueror. One of the terrible after-effects of invasion and war has been the subjugation of the women, the rape of wives and daughters, the seed of the conqueror, inserted into a culture and a society — yet another tactic meant to subdue and eradicate.
And yet, there has been no old-fashioned “invasion” and no “war” in the southern part of Yorkshire. This conquering was invited, and it was invited throughout Europe, where Rotherham will be discovered to have been replicated. Why wouldn’t it be? Who in Europe would dare to prosecute?”
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2. Meanwhile, in liberal LaLa Land, DWS whines about an imaginary war on women, while ignoring real ones like the story above.
From TheJournalSentinel “Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ripped into Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s record Wednesday during a round-table discussion on women’s issues at the Milwaukee Athletic Club.
The Florida congresswoman said: “Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality.”
Wasserman Schultz added: “What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch.”
Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch said she was “shocked” that Wasserman Schultz used domestic violence language to discuss political disagreements.
“I think the remarks were absolutely hideous and the motive behind them was despicable,” Kleefisch said.”
And a perfect example of Debbie’s character.
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3. A federal judge has upheld Louisiana’s marriage law.
From ArkLaTex “A federal court in New Orleans issued a landmark decision on Wednesday upholding Louisiana’s constitutional right to maintain its traditional definition of marriage. Judge Martin L.C. Feldman ruled in Robicheaux, et al v. Caldwell, et al, that “[t]he State of Louisiana has a legitimate interest under a rational basis standard of review for addressing the meaning of marriage through the democratic process.” The opinion upholds Louisiana’s Defense of Marriage Constitutional Amendment (Art. XII, Sec. 15), which was adopted by a statewide vote of 78% in 2004.
Wednesday’s decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana is significant as it is the first federal court victory for traditional marriage in more than a year. Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act last June in Windsor v. U.S., at least 40 consecutive lower courts have issued rulings that same-sex marriage must be imposed on the various states.
Attorneys representing Louisiana in Robicheaux applauded the ruling, and vowed to continue the state’s vigorous defense if the case is appealed. “The decision today is precisely correct,” said Mike Johnson, a Shreveport attorney hired by the state to help defend its law. “The Court has merely affirmed that it is the people of each state who have the authority to define and regulate marriage within their borders—rather than a handful of unelected federal judges. We believe the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately uphold this important principle.””
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4. The Ebola outbreak in Africa continues to worsen.
From AtlantaCBSLocal “The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse.
Speaking to “CBS This Morning” following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control.
“It is the world’s first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It’s bad now and it’s going to get worse in the very near future,” Frieden told CBS News. “There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.”
Frieden, who visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will tell Washington tomorrow that the Ebola outbreak is “spiraling upward.” The CDC director explained that these countries still need help to deal with the deadly outbreak.”
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5. The surge in school taxes will be coming as well.
From TheWashingtonExaminer “Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America who have recently crossed into the United States will cost state and local governments a staggering $761 million dollars this year, a group that favors immigration reduction has calculated.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which is pushing for reduced legal immigration and stronger border security, made its calculation based on federal government data indicating that more than 37,000 children who are part of the recent border surge have now been placed with families across the United States and are eligible to attend public schools.
The immigrants will cost local schools far more than other students, FAIR contests, not only because they speak little English but because most have likely had little schooling.”
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Wandering Views 
#1. You think it couldn’t happen here?
Yesterday, it was revealed that one of the Americans fighting for ISIS was a Muslim working at the airport in Minneapolis. He was in a position to do major harm.
Someday, there will be a court decision made by sharia law in America. That must be prevented.
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In some states, same sex marriage is a constitutional right. In some states it’s against the law.
This will be settled on the federal level someday. We need to get conservatives in Washington. Hopefully on the Supreme Court.
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Re #3 and Chas’ comment – I don’t understand how this works. When SCOTUS struck down DOMA, Pennsylvania apparently felt that they had to immediately start allowing gay marriage even though our state laws correctly defined marriage. Why was this the case here and not in Louisiana?
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Linda,
Because in PA there’s nobody willing to fight it. LA has a real AG, we don’t. We have liberal Democrat Kane, who supports gay marriage, so she won’t defend traditional marriage regardless of what the voters want or the state constitution says.
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Linda, The elected officials in Pennsylvania support perverted marriage and believe most Pennsylvanians agree with them. This is not the case in the South. Chas, If it is decided at the federal level, the bad guys will win as they did on abortion.
Watch the Scottish secession election. It may inspire Southern secessionists. That is the only way to keep perversion from becoming widespread in the South as it already is in the Northeast and on the West Coast.
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Ricky, that’s why I said we need conservatives at the federal level.
Judgment may come before secession. I’m afraid it will.
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You may be right, Chas. However, we have a better chance of seceding than we do of electing a conservative president of the US. Reagan was the last one.
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I have a question about need to know. After 20 years as a Navy wife, there were plenty of things I did not need to know and wasn’t told about. I was told just what I needed so I could what was expected of me (pick up my husband when the boat came in, for example).
I’m looking at FB articles about ISIL here and there, and worries about blowing up the electric grid and I think, “do we need to be fostering a spirit of fear? Do we need to be giving them ideas about where our vulnerability is?”
I don’t think it’s wise.
One of my outlaws, a Holocaust survivor didn’t like the Bush family. No matter what the president did, it was wrong, even when he took steps to mitigate the same things that happened to her family in 1939. The knee jerk was fascinating and upsetting.
When I pointed that discrepancy out, she replied, “I don’t care. I don’t trust him.”
It looks like the same thing going on, now, with the conservative side of the aisle.
Is this good for our country?
At some point, don’t you have to trust and stand united?
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Michelle, not participating is not an option.
Obama is president today because lots of people didn’t like Romney. No matter what you think of Romney, He would be better than Obama.
I am reluctantly beginning to see Ricky’s point, though.
I prayed a lot about that election. My prayers weren’t answered the way I wanted.
I am beginning to think that it is part of God’s plan to have a weak America that has no influence in the world. I see a situation arising in the Middle East that seems to be a setup for the Little Horn which Daniel talks about.
This, understand, from one who disregarded all previous claims and warnings of end times situations. The US was too powerful. We were a nation that would not permit such a thing.
We are encouraging it now. Intentional? I’m not going that far. But I wouldn’t argue against it either.
BTW Do you know what happened when you said ISIL rather than ISIS? ISIS means Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL means Islamic State of Iraq and he Levant. Levant includes Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, part of Egypt and Cyprus. To say ISIL recognizes their claim to that area, The administration uses ISIL all the time. FoxNews still says ISIS.
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ricky,
Calling same sex marriage “perversion” while correct may not be wise. When we speak in public about our loving Jesus, most non-Christians would just hear “perversion” and their hearing would turn off. I would rather see if they couldn’t accept Jesus and let Him convict them of they need to be straight , not bent.
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On ISIS: No one suggests various solutions are not complex or risky or fraught with potential disaster. This president obviously has been thrust into a world situation that has caught him off guard. Post W, hiis term was supposed to make things better with the Muslim world, right?
Weren’t they supposed to like us now?
There seems to be a serious vacuum at the top (along with muddled confusion) and that’s unsettling. Exactly what is our foreign policy anymore?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-collapse-of-obamas-foreign-policy-110575.html#.VAiE90uQlBU
From Rich Lowry on Politico:
” … Vice President Joe Biden says, ‘We will follow them to the gates of hell.’ Secretary of State John Kerry tweets, ‘ISIL must be destroyed/will be crushed.’
“The president himself? He says it will be ‘degraded to the point where it is no longer the kind of factor that we’ve seen it being over the last several months.’
“Put to the rhythms of Winston Churchill’s famous call to arms in Parliament in June 1940, the Obama posture is, ‘We shall degrade you, we shall lessen you as a factor, we shall make you manageable, we shall hope that the attention of this great continental nation … turns to something else soon.’
“What we have been witnessing the past few weeks, in real time, is the intellectual collapse of Obama’s foreign policy, accompanied by its rapid political unraveling. …”
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Bob, You may well be right. Most American Christians would agree with you.
Here is why I don’t use the term “gay”. When a homosexual says he is “gay”, he is not using the term as a synonym for “homosexual”. He defines the term “gay” as a person who is irreversibly attracted to the same sex. To me, that is like saying a person is a unicorn (something that doesn’t exist). It conflicts with Paul’s teaching that homosexuals can be delivered from that lifestyle.
We want them to “accept Jesus”, but accept Jesus as what? American churches are very weak in teaching repentance. Jesus must be our Lord as well as our Savior.
Our churches should be open to all kinds of sinners and I fill several categories. However, I was concerned when I heard that Andy Stanley’s church was letting a man serve as an usher who had abandoned his wife and family and was living with another man as an unrepentant homosexual. I would not want an unrepentant prostitute or an unrepentant child-molester serving as an usher in church. If we soften our message to the point where we no longer call sin what it is, we are not preaching the Gospel and we are not doing homosexuals any favors as they truly need to repent.
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1. This story is being treated in a rather simplistic manner ie bad Pakistani Muslims aided by liberal politically correct officials. First, these men are from honor based societies where women are objects of family honor or nothing at all. Thdy (and this includes Hindu, sikhs , Christians, and Muslims) truly don’t understand the modern western individualism. They see girls and families without honor and therefore unworthy of any respect. Of course this doesnt ex use them and in fact is something social workers, immigration authorities, should stress to immigrants – don’t misunderstand individualism. The other issue is class. The misperception of Pakistani men was reinforced by police, social workers, etc who treated the girls as slags from the projects. The exact opposite of what they should’ve done.
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Not sure where there’s any misunderstanding of the sex abuse story here.
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