Sunday, January 25, 2015

NEWS BRIEFS: JANUARY 25, 2015


Current Events And Commentaries
“And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.”
~ Jesus
Luke 12:39

Ted Cruz Throws Down The Gauntlet
To GOP Establishment Presidential Hopefuls:
‘Show Me Where You Fought’

TPNN
Tea Party News Network


By Matthew Burke — Senator Ted Cruz is sounding like a 2016 presidential candidate, even though he’s not officially declared, with striking a cord as patriotic, principled and passionate as the last conservative president in America, Ronald Reagan.

And the enthusiastic crowd of conservatives at the Iowa Freedom Summit greeted Cruz with repeated breaks of thunderous applause on Saturday as Cruz brought the house down.

“What I want to talk to you about today is reigniting the Miracle of America,” Cruz began the body of his unifying remarks. “This country was built on an extraordinary miracle. The miracle of America began with the revolutionary idea, which is that our rights — they don’t come from government; they come from God Almighty,” Cruz affirmed.

Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the Texas senator and Tea Party favorite said that the Constitution serves as “chains to bind the mischief of government.”

There has been no country in the history of the world that has allowed so many millions with nothing to come and seek the unlimited dreams of their potential,” Cruz stated, using the example of America being the only country in the world where you can start out washing dishes or waiting tables, and rise up to be anything.

Cruz said that we must get the “senseless obstacles from Washington out-of-the-way,” and received perhaps his biggest applause of the day when he said regulatory reform meant “sending the locusts of the EPA back to Washington,” repealing “every word of Obamacare” and “we need to abolish the IRS,” which he call the most important tax reform.

Seeming to speak directly to the other potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates, especially the establishment types, Cruz threw down a gauntlet of powerful “show me where you stood up and fought” challenges:


“Ye shall know them by their fruits...”
Jesus, Matthew 7:16

“And one of the most important roles for the men and women in this room is to look each candidate in the eye and say, Don’t talk; show me.’

If you say you support liberty, show me where you stood up and fought it.

If you say you support religious liberty, show me where you stood up and fought for it.

If you say you oppose Obamacare, show me where you stood up and fought against it.

If you say you oppose the president’s unconstitutional executive amnesty, show me where you’ve stood up and fought.

If you say you support life and you support marriage, show me where you stood up and fought.

If you say you’ll stand up to the Washington establishment, the career politicians of both parties, that gave gotten us in this mess, show me where you stood up and fought.

If you say you oppose Common Core, show me where you where you stood up and fought.

And if you say you stand with our friend and ally, the Nation of Israel, show me where you stood up and fought.”
Cruz, who has fought the political establishment in both parties to balance the budget, repeal Obamacare and fight Obama’s illegal amnesty, urged conservatives to “reassemble the Reagan coalition.”

“We need to unify — we need to bring together conservatives, and evangelicals, and Libertarians, and Republican men and women and Reagan Democrats, and young people. We need to bring together a coalition of Americans who want to believe again,” he proclaimed.

It looks like the 2016 presidential campaign has at least unofficially kicked off, folks.

“Ye shall know them by their fruits...”


Lack Of Integration Of Europe’s Muslims
Is Great Danger: Obama

By Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project — President Obama said the lack of Muslim integration in some areas of Europe is “probably the greatest danger that Europe faces,” echoing the warnings of terrorism experts about the link between Islamist terrorism and a lack of assimilation.

[Whatever Happened To "Climate Change" Being The Greatest Danger? Can’t Have It Both Ways! -Linkster]

He contrasted it with the Muslim-American community that polls show is largely moderate and hostile to Islamist terrorists and their anti-Western themes....

While Arguing That Islam Is Not The Problem,
Secretary Of State Says,‘We Have To… Keep Our Heads
(Don’t Get It Chopped Off!)

By Ben Barrack, Shoebat.com — From the Secretary of State who insists man-made climate change is the greatest threat to the world comes another irresponsible and outrageous assertion that Islamic terrorists who commit acts of Islamic terrorism are not Islamic. Ironically, while making this asinine claim, Kerry used a bizarre metaphor that takes on added significance when paired with his twisted postulation. He Argued that it is important to ‘keep our heads’.

The irony is that the best way to do that in a literal sense would be to quit putting his head in the sand in the figurative sense...

Obama’s Failed Leadership
In Confronting Islamic Terrorism

“The Shadow of Crisis Has Passed” -Obama, SOTU Speech

Media Research Center (MRC) TV

U.S. Teams Up With Rebels Taking Over Yemen

Official Confirms Intelligence Ties With Iran-Linked Houthis

By F. Michael Maloof, WND — (WASHINGTON) As the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthis take over the Yemeni capital, there are indications the U.S. and the Houthis may be teaming up to battle a common foe, al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula, or AQAP. Senior U.S. intelligence official Michael Vickers has indicated that despite the political unrest in Yemen, the U.S. has developed an intelligence relationship with the Houthis that may allow the U.S. to continue its counterterrorism attacks against AQAP. The undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Vickers told the Washington-based Atlantic Council that it is a “safe assumption” that the U.S. maintains these intelligence ties.

This revelation comes even as the Obama administration has suspended its counterterrorism operations in Yemen with the resignation of U.S. ally and Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi....

New Report On Anti-Semitism Finds France
Is Most Dangerous Country For Jews

Study presented to the government shows anti-Semitic incidents
rose by 400 percent during Operation Protective Edge

The Jerusalem Post — A report on anti-Semitism presented on Sunday to the government found that France was the most dangerous country for Jews in the world in 2014. During the past year, levels of anti-Semitism and violence against Jews in France reached new records, according to the report prepared by the Ministry of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs in cooperation with the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitsm (CFCA).

The report was presented to the government during the same week that the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Anti-Semitic incidents in France rose by 100 percent in the last year, with half of the racially related incidents in the country being directed at Jews, despite the fact that Jews make up less than one percent of the French population, the report found. ...

What Will It Take For America To Wake-Up?

Gabor (Gabe) Zolna
Referenced Video & Article

At Controversial Prayer Rally,
Governor Jindal Calls For Spiritual Revival

By Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post — Skipping an Iowa event that drew a number of 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls in favor of a controversial Louisiana prayer rally, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) called for a national spiritual revival and urged event attendees to proselytize on behalf of their Christian beliefs.

Jindal had insisted the day-long evangelical event hosted by the American Family Association on the campus of Louisiana State University was a religious and not political gathering. And, indeed, his 15-minute long remarks to the group consisted entirely of a highly personal testimony about how he had come to his Catholic beliefs. Jindal was raised by Hindu parents but converted to Catholicism in high school....

“The Miracle of America”

Ted Cruz Details ‘Path To Victory’ For ‘Epochal
Fork In The Road’ 2016 Election With ‘Miracle of America’

By Michael Boyle, Breitbart— (DES MOINES, Iowa) In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News backstage at the Iowa Freedom Summit, potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) detailed the pathway to victory for Republicans in 2016—and he explained a new phrase he started using in his speech minutes earlier.

Cruz introduced a new major theme, the “Miracle of America,” in his speech to the thousands of Iowans gathered at the event hosted by Citizens United and Rep. Steve King (R-IA).

“What I want to talk to you about today is reigniting the Miracle of America,” Cruz said in his speech in the Hoyt Sherman Place theater in downtown Des Moines. “This country was built on an extraordinary miracle. The Miracle of America began with a revolutionary idea—which was that our rights, they don’t come from government. They come from God almighty. The Constitution, as Jefferson says, serves as chains to bind the mischief of government.”

He used the phrase, “Miracle of America, many more times throughout the speech, and after almost every line, Cruz earned loud applause from the thousand-plus in the room....

Obama’s Broken Promises, 2014

Truth Revolt Originals: Ben Shapiro’s Reality Check
Ben Shapiro takes a look at the President Obama’s tough talk from 2014 - and the dismal results.

Obama’s Bloody Yemen Disaster

Commentary by Michelle Malkin, CNS News — When President Obama declares something a "success story," you know it has "TOTAL FAILURE" embedded in its DNA.

Four months ago, America's King Midas in Reverse crowed about the fruits of his triumphant foreign policy in jihad-infested Yemen. A "light footprint" approach to counterterrorism operations, he claimed, was the most effective path to stability. In addition, Obama has shoveled nearly $1 billion in American tax-subsidized foreign aid to Yemen.

Four months later, Iran-backed Shia rebels seized a Yemeni presidential palace. The president and his entire cabinet tendered their resignations on Thursday, creating a vacuum that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is ready and eager to fill. ISIS is gaining its own Sunni foothold in the Muslim terror-breeding ground. And while the JV team at the State Department dithers with hashtag games and selfies, adults at the Pentagon want to evacuate U.S. embassy personnel and other Americans before it's too late....

Bush Judge Declares Alabama’s
Sanctity Of Marriage Amendment Unconstitutional

By Heather Clark, Christian News Network — (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) A federal judge nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush has declared Alabama’s marriage amendment unconstitutional, thus paving the way for two lesbian women to obtain legal recognition as the parents of a nine-year-old boy.

As previously reported, Kimberly McKeand and Cari Searcy have been in a relationship for 15 years, and traveled to California to “wed” in 2008 after winning a contest held by the San Diego Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.

In 2005, McKeand conceived via a sperm donor and gave birth to a baby boy that she named Khaya. However, neither the hospital nor the state would recognize Searcy as the parent because of Alabama’s constitutional marriage amendment, also known as the “Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.”

“Marriage is inherently a unique relationship between a man and a woman,” it reads in part. “As a matter of public policy, this state has a special interest in encouraging, supporting, and protecting this unique relationship in order to promote, among other goals, the stability and welfare of society and its children. A marriage contracted between individuals of the same sex is invalid in this state.”...

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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. ~ Matthew 24:3-14