KTRH/Houston has me scheduled for some dates in the up coming holiday season. Things are about to become very busy for me again. October is usually a slow month for my business. http://www.ktrh.com/
Dates and times will be posted later. Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Today's Daily Briefing
Many of you who email me constantly go back to my days in Columbus(GA) radio (1987-2001). My thoughts on the recent improvement of WRCG's signal is detailed in a blog by Richard Burkhardt.
http://columbusga.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile, more shows coming soon and I'll be posted dates/times here so you can listen.
Hopefully, we'll get this President and Democratic Controlled Congress when we get the chance to vote again. Nothing has changed, this is still a conservative country.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/gallup_poll_conservatives/2009/10/26/277020.html
I hear President Obama doesn't want any "Christmas" trees at the White House. Only holiday trees. Another indication of Obama's lack of religious appreciation for the Christian heritage of America. He has said during several interviews that there are many ways to heaven and that Jesus is just one way. That should tell you what you need to know there if his attending a church led by the bigot Rev. Jeremiah Wright didn't tell you.
Speaking of religious issues, the New Testament says that people will say it is wrong to eat meat. Don't know if this is a sign but there is a call this morning to stop eating meat to save the world from climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6891362.ece
Sarah Palin's book is coming out November 17. I'm still not a fan of Sarah for President like many of you are. May be I'm a republican "snob." LOL.
Thats it for now..keep checking back!
http://columbusga.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile, more shows coming soon and I'll be posted dates/times here so you can listen.
Hopefully, we'll get this President and Democratic Controlled Congress when we get the chance to vote again. Nothing has changed, this is still a conservative country.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/gallup_poll_conservatives/2009/10/26/277020.html
I hear President Obama doesn't want any "Christmas" trees at the White House. Only holiday trees. Another indication of Obama's lack of religious appreciation for the Christian heritage of America. He has said during several interviews that there are many ways to heaven and that Jesus is just one way. That should tell you what you need to know there if his attending a church led by the bigot Rev. Jeremiah Wright didn't tell you.
Speaking of religious issues, the New Testament says that people will say it is wrong to eat meat. Don't know if this is a sign but there is a call this morning to stop eating meat to save the world from climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6891362.ece
Sarah Palin's book is coming out November 17. I'm still not a fan of Sarah for President like many of you are. May be I'm a republican "snob." LOL.
Thats it for now..keep checking back!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Live Today on WBT/Charlotte
hosting at 3:05p-5:30p ET today on WBT/Charlotte.
President Obama says all is well as economy continues to slide....but he thinks more school days for your kid is the answer. Why? So that the government has more time to indoctrinate them with no discipline? He says he knows that it won't be popular but.....
Only 41% favor Obamacare now....that is better but what is wrong with that 41%? That is still way too high.
Iran is doing missile tests. I've told you for 3 years that Iran is our biggest threat. According to stories today, Obama knew of the Iranian nuke base from the beginning but hasn't done any thing about it.
Look forward to taking to you today! Feel free to email me: Doug@Dougtalks.com
President Obama says all is well as economy continues to slide....but he thinks more school days for your kid is the answer. Why? So that the government has more time to indoctrinate them with no discipline? He says he knows that it won't be popular but.....
Only 41% favor Obamacare now....that is better but what is wrong with that 41%? That is still way too high.
Iran is doing missile tests. I've told you for 3 years that Iran is our biggest threat. According to stories today, Obama knew of the Iranian nuke base from the beginning but hasn't done any thing about it.
Look forward to taking to you today! Feel free to email me: Doug@Dougtalks.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Live today on WRVA/Richmond at 3pm ET
4:35p ET ...I'll be join by Vern Moter to discuss the cash for clunkers fiasco and as President Obama pushes for the public option, moderate republicans say No.
5:05p ET...Virginians are concerned about giving more power to the Federal Reserve as suggested yesterday by President Obama.
Friday, September 11, 2009
SEPT 11, 2009 8 Years Later
Here we are. Eight years following 9/11/2001 and many Americans have forgotten. So much so that many experts I interview say that it will take "another 911" to "wake up the American people." Why would we need another 911 to get our attention? It could be because a large segment of our population doesn't like to remember what happened on this date eight years ago. It is buried deep in their memory as if the war against the Terrorists is over. It isn't over and the man behind the 911 attack remains at-large Osama Ben Laden. That, in itself, is inexcusable. We attempted to fight a politically correct war and he remains on the loose. Plotting, no doubt, to strike again. While I supported President Bush and his fight against Al Queda, I find fault with the half measure we fought the war. Much of it because of the public sentiment led by democrats in Congress.
As for that day itself, the one thing that I remember most is what a beautiful Tuesday it was. Not a cloud in the sky in Nashville, TN (where I was). It was a very pleasant cool early September day as far as the weather was concerned. I was back in my hometown because I had recently changed jobs after hosting on the radio in Columbus(GA) for 14 years at WRCG/WCGQ. My new job as Program Director of WWTN-FM/Nashville was about three weeks old. So, still getting my feet wet with a new job, I found myself hosting the morning show that morning because our host Steve Gill was out sick. If you know Steve, you know that Steve has to be REALLY sick to miss any time on the air. For me, my first time to host on WWTN. Rhett Harris was hosting news, Kevin Ingram with sports and Pamela Furr was producer. The show began at 5:30am and I don't even remember what subjects were discussing when Pam brought me a note that a "plane has hit the world trade center in NYC." This didn't cause me immediate alarm and I said something on the air about the note but that small planes are known to hit tall buildings in New York City on occasion. I couldn't fathom that this was any thing but that. I had reported on such small craft incidents before and I was confident this was it. I said something like "we'll have more on the story coming up at the top of the hour." A few minutes passed and we were into the top of the hour news at 8am(Nashville time). I'm still not alarmed but Pam switched on the cable news channels(usually the TV was set on ESPN because of the afternoon sports show from the day before). Rhett and I watched the TV coverage showing a large hole in one of the Towers of the World Trade Center and we both said that no small plane had hit that building. I remember saying to Rhett that looks the size of a passenger plane. While we were discussing this during a commercial break, Kevin got ready for his sports minute.
"..Now with Supertalk997 sports, here is Kevin Ingram." I said.
Both Rhett and I went back to watching the TV while Kevin was voicing the sports headlines. Like many of you, while we watched, we saw what we later realized was the second plane that hit the other tower. All I can say is that our reaction in the talk studio and control room was of a jolt. Pam was jumping up and down pointing to the TV she was watching behind the glass that separated control from the talk studio. Her eyes were wide and I know I must have frowned as what I had seen wasn't fully registering. Did I see video of the FIRST plane that hit the building and TV had caught it, or was this a second? Rhett and I looked at each other in disbelief as Kevin was finishing his sports. As soon as Kevin finished, I remember saying something like "Ladies and Gentlemen, I can't believe what I just saw..." And as I described that we just saw another airplane hit the tower, I said something like "how can this happen?" and Rhett blurted out "we are under a terrorist attack!" and then said something about a Tom Clancy novel. I looked at Rhett and had to acknowledge he was right. It was from then, we went into a full scale news mode realizing this was the biggest story we would likely cover in our lifetime. As I learned in the next couple of minutes, WWTN didn't have a way to patch a national broadcast onto our air.
An unbelievable situation I thought as in the past my stations always had a way to go immediately to network coverage. This was one of the short comings of the station that I had been recently hired to fix. I'm yelling to Pam to get an engineer and she responded quickly realizing the importance. With a sense of urgency our engineers had our network coverage (ABC) up and running within the hour. Until then, I commented on what what I knew. The swift action by our team may still have beaten our competition to the punch. I was told later that we had a 90 share the week after 911 as our station became the station of information during the immediate aftermath.
My other recollection of the day is speaking with my GM in the studio after we had gone to network coverage and saying to him "we are at war...this is big...and I'm not sure we know at this moment how big this really is...but...it is big." In a decision that I have come to have great respect, John Padgett, General Manager for WWTN-FM. WSM-FM and WSM decided on the spot not to air any commercials...until further notice! The day itself at the station is a blurr but I do remember driving home late that afternoon and realizing how eerie it was that no planes were flying. My house was near the airport and if you know how busy the Nashville airport is, it would have made an impression on you as well. Our station, WWTN-FM, built on the listeners that trusted us that day and we became a force in the Nashville market for over two years. I will always be thankful for the staff who were top notch professionals that day!
As for that day itself, the one thing that I remember most is what a beautiful Tuesday it was. Not a cloud in the sky in Nashville, TN (where I was). It was a very pleasant cool early September day as far as the weather was concerned. I was back in my hometown because I had recently changed jobs after hosting on the radio in Columbus(GA) for 14 years at WRCG/WCGQ. My new job as Program Director of WWTN-FM/Nashville was about three weeks old. So, still getting my feet wet with a new job, I found myself hosting the morning show that morning because our host Steve Gill was out sick. If you know Steve, you know that Steve has to be REALLY sick to miss any time on the air. For me, my first time to host on WWTN. Rhett Harris was hosting news, Kevin Ingram with sports and Pamela Furr was producer. The show began at 5:30am and I don't even remember what subjects were discussing when Pam brought me a note that a "plane has hit the world trade center in NYC." This didn't cause me immediate alarm and I said something on the air about the note but that small planes are known to hit tall buildings in New York City on occasion. I couldn't fathom that this was any thing but that. I had reported on such small craft incidents before and I was confident this was it. I said something like "we'll have more on the story coming up at the top of the hour." A few minutes passed and we were into the top of the hour news at 8am(Nashville time). I'm still not alarmed but Pam switched on the cable news channels(usually the TV was set on ESPN because of the afternoon sports show from the day before). Rhett and I watched the TV coverage showing a large hole in one of the Towers of the World Trade Center and we both said that no small plane had hit that building. I remember saying to Rhett that looks the size of a passenger plane. While we were discussing this during a commercial break, Kevin got ready for his sports minute.
"..Now with Supertalk997 sports, here is Kevin Ingram." I said.
Both Rhett and I went back to watching the TV while Kevin was voicing the sports headlines. Like many of you, while we watched, we saw what we later realized was the second plane that hit the other tower. All I can say is that our reaction in the talk studio and control room was of a jolt. Pam was jumping up and down pointing to the TV she was watching behind the glass that separated control from the talk studio. Her eyes were wide and I know I must have frowned as what I had seen wasn't fully registering. Did I see video of the FIRST plane that hit the building and TV had caught it, or was this a second? Rhett and I looked at each other in disbelief as Kevin was finishing his sports. As soon as Kevin finished, I remember saying something like "Ladies and Gentlemen, I can't believe what I just saw..." And as I described that we just saw another airplane hit the tower, I said something like "how can this happen?" and Rhett blurted out "we are under a terrorist attack!" and then said something about a Tom Clancy novel. I looked at Rhett and had to acknowledge he was right. It was from then, we went into a full scale news mode realizing this was the biggest story we would likely cover in our lifetime. As I learned in the next couple of minutes, WWTN didn't have a way to patch a national broadcast onto our air.
An unbelievable situation I thought as in the past my stations always had a way to go immediately to network coverage. This was one of the short comings of the station that I had been recently hired to fix. I'm yelling to Pam to get an engineer and she responded quickly realizing the importance. With a sense of urgency our engineers had our network coverage (ABC) up and running within the hour. Until then, I commented on what what I knew. The swift action by our team may still have beaten our competition to the punch. I was told later that we had a 90 share the week after 911 as our station became the station of information during the immediate aftermath.
One of my staff, James, who was our second amendment guy at the station, came to me and said that he was "packing" (which was against Gaylord Entertainment policy) and was ready if the Bastards tried anything around here. Gaylord Security had locked down the hotel and radio station area and James shadowed me the rest of the day. I was too busy to worry about terrorist hitting us.
My other recollection of the day is speaking with my GM in the studio after we had gone to network coverage and saying to him "we are at war...this is big...and I'm not sure we know at this moment how big this really is...but...it is big." In a decision that I have come to have great respect, John Padgett, General Manager for WWTN-FM. WSM-FM and WSM decided on the spot not to air any commercials...until further notice! The day itself at the station is a blurr but I do remember driving home late that afternoon and realizing how eerie it was that no planes were flying. My house was near the airport and if you know how busy the Nashville airport is, it would have made an impression on you as well. Our station, WWTN-FM, built on the listeners that trusted us that day and we became a force in the Nashville market for over two years. I will always be thankful for the staff who were top notch professionals that day!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Wednesday Briefing
Friday, I'll give you my take on where we are 8 years after 9/11 and why so many experts think we need another 9/11 to get the attention of the American people.
Coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday...Live on WRVA/Richmond from 3-6pm ET. You can watch/listen live here by clicking on the Blog TV box at the right of the screen. Station web site is wwww.WRVA.com
Another Ft. Benning solidier is questioning President Obama's legitimacy under the U.S. Constitution requirement that he be "natural born" citizen. Despite the left's adamant statements that Obama was born in Hawaii, no indisputable documents are public to prove that assertion. The solidier says they will not be deployed.
Matt Burke wrote this for our web site on the Ft. Benning solidier issue:
Some advice for the birther movement
By: Matt Burke
September 9, 2009
The internet world buzzed this past weekend with the news that a Kenyan birth certificate showing that President Obama was born in Kenya was revealed. Then yesterday, Judge David Carter, a US District Court Judge in California, set a court date in late January for one of the cases challenging President Obama’s nationality.
Lets take each of these individually. First, the Kenyan birth certificate.
There are many potential problems that I see with this evidence. First, the affidavit that was attached to the birth certificate offered testimony that the person who retrieved the document, a Lucas Daniel Smith, had to pay a “cash consideration” to a military officer to look the other way while the birth certificate was being retrieved. A good attorney, rigorously defending the President, could drive a truck through Mr. Smith’s credibility (if he paid a guard to look the other way, could more money paid to this person have produced a fraudulent copy?). That same attorney would have a good case to have the present copy of the Kenyan birth certificate thrown out as not being a properly validated public record, and as such, would be inadmissible hearsay.
There may also be other problems with the certificate, ones that would easily expose it to be possibly accurate, or a fraud. First, there is a certificate number in the top left corner. Is that number consistent with a birth in August, 1961? Also, there is a footprint at the bottom. Did Kenya even process new births this way in 1961, and of course, does that print even match the President? The certificate is also signed by a John Odomo; was he employed by the hospital in August, 1961? There is also a signature of the attending doctor that can be similarly challenged.
A wrong answer to any of these would be fatal.
Now, on to the case. Before the case is to be heard in January, 2010, the court has scheduled two motions to be addressed by the Court. The first is a Motion to Dismiss, filed by the US Attorneys Office, claiming that this case should be immediately dismissed for a number of reasons, including that the plaintiffs do not have standing, and that the Court does not have the authority to hear the case. I would put the government’s odds of winning this motion at 70%.
If the plaintiffs survive that Motion, then the Court is going to consider the discovery requests filed by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs requested discovery includes the President’s kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records. The Government has objected to all of these.
The standards for producing discovery are low, the requests just have to be reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, the evidence itself, however, does not have to be admissible. However, objections can be made for timeliness of the records (most of these are over 20 years old) and they must relate to the current claims made by the plaintiffs. Based on the fact that the plaintiffs are only seeking to determine the President’s nationality, some of these requests go beyond the claims made by the plaintiffs and I would expect them to be denied by the Judge. These would include the Columbia thesis, Harvard Law review articles (which would be published anyway), scholarly articles from the University of Chicago (also published), medical records, and files from his years as an Illinois State Senator as being outside the bounds of the claims made by the plaintiffs.
Also present in the discovery requests is a request to have the judge order the Secretary of State to obtain a certified copy of the original birth certificate from Kenya. As Kenya is a sovereign country not subject to an order from an US Judge, Kenya would have to be pressured by the US State Department. How aggressively would former rival Hillary Clinton pursue this request, an analysis which is better presented in its own column- should this case proceed that far.
After discovery, the US Attorneys Office would certainly file a Motion for Summary Judgment, which essentially asks if there are any matters of fact in dispute that should be decided by a jury. If there are none, then the case would be decided by the judge. If discovery does not produce any evidence that shows President Obama is anything but a natural born American citizen, then this case will be dismissed—and it would most likely be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that this case can never be re-filed.
So, for the birthers out there, very little has happened. Odds are that this case will be dismissed before it ever gets to trial, as a case based only on supposition and hearsay testimony will not find its way into a courtroom. The system is designed to prevent that from happening.
As a word of advice, I would remind the conservatives out there that much damage has been done to the Democrats over the past two months simply by engaging them in the marketplace of ideas. We have fundamentally weakened the domestic policy of the administration to such a level that there is an outside chance that Republicans will take over the House of Representatives after the 2010 election. If we continue to focus our attention on the flawed policies of the Democratic Party, we can regain our power without having to resort to long shot court cases based on weak evidence.
Email today from terrorism expert Ken Timmerman. He has a great column today at www.Newsmax.com
A note from Ken Timmerman:
“Honor Killings” get underplayed in the U.S. Media, which kowtows to Muslim apologists and claims that when Muslim girls and young women are murdered by their male relatives, they are merely victims of domestic violence.
17-old Rifqa Bary – the Ohio teen who fled her family after they discovered they had converted to Christianity – is an honor killing victim in the making.
Media exposure at Newsmax and elsewhere is helping to prevent this tragedy from occurring.
As I reported on Thursday, a Florida court has temporarily thrwarted efforts by Rifqa’s family to get her back to Ohio.
http://newsmax.com/timmerman/rifqa_bary_scared_mosque/2009/09/04/256426.html
To learn more how honor killings are actually conceived of and planned, see
http://kentimmerman.com/honor-killing.html
Even if you don’t read the book, you should read the blurb – and take a look at the on-line resources, here:
http://kentimmerman.com/hk-web.html
Today, Pamela Geller provides an update on the Rifqa Bary story at Newsmax.
http://www.newsmax.com/pamela_geller/rifqa_bary_islam_convert/2009/09/08/257464.html
Finally, if you want a detailed, academic account of how extensive Muslim honor kiilling has become in America, read this chilling essay by Dr. Phyllis Chesler, whom I cite at the end of my Newsmax article, below.
http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence
Best,
Ken Timmerman
Teen Christian Convert Bary Fears Mosque with Terror Ties
Friday, September 4, 2009 9:21 AM
Newsmax.com
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
17-year old Rifqa Bary, who fled her Muslim family in Ohio this summer after they suspected she had converted to Christianity, will stay in Florida for the time being, an Orlando, Florida judge decided on Thursday.
Circuit Court Judge Daniel Dawson issued a gag order on all lawyers involved in the case after a lawyer for the girl’s mother started to quote from a sealed law enforcement document during Thursday’s hearing, to argue that the girl faced no danger if she was returned to her family.
The sealed document, an investigative report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), included a videotaped interview with the 17-year old girl, where apparently she did not mention any fear of returning home.
However, the girl’s court-appointed guardian told the court that Rifqa had felt intimidated by the law enforcement officers who interviewed her and objected because the interview had been conducted without the presence of her lawyer.
In an affidavit presented to the court on Monday, Rifqa said she left home on July 17 after her father threatened to kill her because she had become a Christian.
“In a fit of anger that I had never seen before in my life, he picked up my lap top, waived it over my head as if to strike me with it and said 'If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me! You are no longer my daughter.' I continued to remain silent and then he said to me even more angry than before, 'I will kill you! Tell me the truth!'"
The case has attracted national attention, because Rifqa’s flight from her family in pursuit of religious freedom shatters one of the myths that Muslim advocacy groups are so keen to purvey.
[...]
Read the full story here:
http://newsmax.com/timmerman/rifqa_bary_scared_mosque/2009/09/04/256426.htmlT
Coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday...Live on WRVA/Richmond from 3-6pm ET. You can watch/listen live here by clicking on the Blog TV box at the right of the screen. Station web site is wwww.WRVA.com
Another Ft. Benning solidier is questioning President Obama's legitimacy under the U.S. Constitution requirement that he be "natural born" citizen. Despite the left's adamant statements that Obama was born in Hawaii, no indisputable documents are public to prove that assertion. The solidier says they will not be deployed.
Matt Burke wrote this for our web site on the Ft. Benning solidier issue:
Some advice for the birther movement
By: Matt Burke
September 9, 2009
The internet world buzzed this past weekend with the news that a Kenyan birth certificate showing that President Obama was born in Kenya was revealed. Then yesterday, Judge David Carter, a US District Court Judge in California, set a court date in late January for one of the cases challenging President Obama’s nationality.
Lets take each of these individually. First, the Kenyan birth certificate.
There are many potential problems that I see with this evidence. First, the affidavit that was attached to the birth certificate offered testimony that the person who retrieved the document, a Lucas Daniel Smith, had to pay a “cash consideration” to a military officer to look the other way while the birth certificate was being retrieved. A good attorney, rigorously defending the President, could drive a truck through Mr. Smith’s credibility (if he paid a guard to look the other way, could more money paid to this person have produced a fraudulent copy?). That same attorney would have a good case to have the present copy of the Kenyan birth certificate thrown out as not being a properly validated public record, and as such, would be inadmissible hearsay.
There may also be other problems with the certificate, ones that would easily expose it to be possibly accurate, or a fraud. First, there is a certificate number in the top left corner. Is that number consistent with a birth in August, 1961? Also, there is a footprint at the bottom. Did Kenya even process new births this way in 1961, and of course, does that print even match the President? The certificate is also signed by a John Odomo; was he employed by the hospital in August, 1961? There is also a signature of the attending doctor that can be similarly challenged.
A wrong answer to any of these would be fatal.
Now, on to the case. Before the case is to be heard in January, 2010, the court has scheduled two motions to be addressed by the Court. The first is a Motion to Dismiss, filed by the US Attorneys Office, claiming that this case should be immediately dismissed for a number of reasons, including that the plaintiffs do not have standing, and that the Court does not have the authority to hear the case. I would put the government’s odds of winning this motion at 70%.
If the plaintiffs survive that Motion, then the Court is going to consider the discovery requests filed by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs requested discovery includes the President’s kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records. The Government has objected to all of these.
The standards for producing discovery are low, the requests just have to be reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, the evidence itself, however, does not have to be admissible. However, objections can be made for timeliness of the records (most of these are over 20 years old) and they must relate to the current claims made by the plaintiffs. Based on the fact that the plaintiffs are only seeking to determine the President’s nationality, some of these requests go beyond the claims made by the plaintiffs and I would expect them to be denied by the Judge. These would include the Columbia thesis, Harvard Law review articles (which would be published anyway), scholarly articles from the University of Chicago (also published), medical records, and files from his years as an Illinois State Senator as being outside the bounds of the claims made by the plaintiffs.
Also present in the discovery requests is a request to have the judge order the Secretary of State to obtain a certified copy of the original birth certificate from Kenya. As Kenya is a sovereign country not subject to an order from an US Judge, Kenya would have to be pressured by the US State Department. How aggressively would former rival Hillary Clinton pursue this request, an analysis which is better presented in its own column- should this case proceed that far.
After discovery, the US Attorneys Office would certainly file a Motion for Summary Judgment, which essentially asks if there are any matters of fact in dispute that should be decided by a jury. If there are none, then the case would be decided by the judge. If discovery does not produce any evidence that shows President Obama is anything but a natural born American citizen, then this case will be dismissed—and it would most likely be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that this case can never be re-filed.
So, for the birthers out there, very little has happened. Odds are that this case will be dismissed before it ever gets to trial, as a case based only on supposition and hearsay testimony will not find its way into a courtroom. The system is designed to prevent that from happening.
As a word of advice, I would remind the conservatives out there that much damage has been done to the Democrats over the past two months simply by engaging them in the marketplace of ideas. We have fundamentally weakened the domestic policy of the administration to such a level that there is an outside chance that Republicans will take over the House of Representatives after the 2010 election. If we continue to focus our attention on the flawed policies of the Democratic Party, we can regain our power without having to resort to long shot court cases based on weak evidence.
Email today from terrorism expert Ken Timmerman. He has a great column today at www.Newsmax.com
A note from Ken Timmerman:
“Honor Killings” get underplayed in the U.S. Media, which kowtows to Muslim apologists and claims that when Muslim girls and young women are murdered by their male relatives, they are merely victims of domestic violence.
17-old Rifqa Bary – the Ohio teen who fled her family after they discovered they had converted to Christianity – is an honor killing victim in the making.
Media exposure at Newsmax and elsewhere is helping to prevent this tragedy from occurring.
As I reported on Thursday, a Florida court has temporarily thrwarted efforts by Rifqa’s family to get her back to Ohio.
http://newsmax.com/timmerman/rifqa_bary_scared_mosque/2009/09/04/256426.html
To learn more how honor killings are actually conceived of and planned, see
http://kentimmerman.com/honor-killing.html
Even if you don’t read the book, you should read the blurb – and take a look at the on-line resources, here:
http://kentimmerman.com/hk-web.html
Today, Pamela Geller provides an update on the Rifqa Bary story at Newsmax.
http://www.newsmax.com/pamela_geller/rifqa_bary_islam_convert/2009/09/08/257464.html
Finally, if you want a detailed, academic account of how extensive Muslim honor kiilling has become in America, read this chilling essay by Dr. Phyllis Chesler, whom I cite at the end of my Newsmax article, below.
http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence
Best,
Ken Timmerman
Teen Christian Convert Bary Fears Mosque with Terror Ties
Friday, September 4, 2009 9:21 AM
Newsmax.com
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
17-year old Rifqa Bary, who fled her Muslim family in Ohio this summer after they suspected she had converted to Christianity, will stay in Florida for the time being, an Orlando, Florida judge decided on Thursday.
Circuit Court Judge Daniel Dawson issued a gag order on all lawyers involved in the case after a lawyer for the girl’s mother started to quote from a sealed law enforcement document during Thursday’s hearing, to argue that the girl faced no danger if she was returned to her family.
The sealed document, an investigative report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), included a videotaped interview with the 17-year old girl, where apparently she did not mention any fear of returning home.
However, the girl’s court-appointed guardian told the court that Rifqa had felt intimidated by the law enforcement officers who interviewed her and objected because the interview had been conducted without the presence of her lawyer.
In an affidavit presented to the court on Monday, Rifqa said she left home on July 17 after her father threatened to kill her because she had become a Christian.
“In a fit of anger that I had never seen before in my life, he picked up my lap top, waived it over my head as if to strike me with it and said 'If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me! You are no longer my daughter.' I continued to remain silent and then he said to me even more angry than before, 'I will kill you! Tell me the truth!'"
The case has attracted national attention, because Rifqa’s flight from her family in pursuit of religious freedom shatters one of the myths that Muslim advocacy groups are so keen to purvey.
[...]
Read the full story here:
http://newsmax.com/timmerman/rifqa_bary_scared_mosque/2009/09/04/256426.htmlT
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