The Palestinian End Run (Townhall.com) November 4, 2011
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The Palestinian campaign for statehood marked one more notch towards
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victory when the U.N. cultural arm, UNESCO, voted to admit them to membership. But the win came at a high price—the U.S. will end its financial support, which comprises 22 percent of the agency’s budget.
There is an established and objective test for statehood, which Palestine does not meet. But in recent years, a competing postmodern approach says, if other nations think you are a nation-state and treat you as one, then you must be one.
It is this kind of international legal nonsense that Palestine is pursuing, seeking to get its statehood card punched by every international body and nation it can. The U.S. is right to oppose this end-run by vetoing it in the Security Council, voting against it elsewhere, and declining further funding to bodies that give into it. Otherwise international law reflects little more than the mood of international leaders on a given day.
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National Popular Vote Interview (The John Batchelor Show 77 WABC) November 1, 2011
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David discusses the National Popular Vote movement.
GUESTS: David Davenport, Hoover; Jeff Foust, Space Review; Mark Schroeder, Stratfor; Bob Zimmerman, Behind the Black…
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Public Prayer Does Not “Establish Religion” (Townhall.com) November 28, 2011
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For years, clergy have led prayers to open sessions of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Board of Commissioners in Forsyth County, North Carolina. But according to a federal court, they can’t do that in Forsyth County anymore because it violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment.
The winds of postmodernism and diversity are trying to blow God out of the public square. Cases have challenged “under God” in the pledge of allegiance, “in God we trust” on our money, and now public prayer at county commissioner meetings.
The point of the Establishment clause was to prevent the government from establishing state religions, not to remove God from the public square entirely. Indeed, the Founders said that a free republic requires a virtuous people which, in turn, requires faith.
The case has now been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where we should all hope they have a better sense of history and the Constitution.
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