The United Methodist Church (UMC) is at it again, although other denominations have engaged in this abysmal behavior as well. Their 225-page report, "Israel-Palestine: A 2007-2008 Mission Study," likens Jews to "monsters" and compares the actions of Israelis to Nazis. Strange, indeed, when Hamas TV is currently running a kids' special suggesting that they "eat Danes, not Danish pastries." The UMC uses "terrorism" to describe Israeli actions while the actions of Palestinian Arabs are described as "activism." The desire to strap explosives onto oneself has dropped to that level, I guess, in the eyes of the UMC.
The 11 million-member church is expected to take up the issue of divesting stock from companies that do business with Israel at its quadrennial national conference in April. And those behind the effort are asking for the following:
1) That Israel end its "occupation" and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantle her security wall which has reduced homicide bombing by 95%. Here's a note to the UMC: Israel didn't "occupy" or "colonize" anything. She has seized land since 1948 only to take territory that would defend her from further attack. She got her God-given land back very officially in 1948. But at ...   more »

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday that Iran was the world's "number one" power, as he launched a bitter new assault on domestic critics he accused of siding with the enemy.
"Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to families who lost loved ones in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
"Today the name of Iran means a firm punch in the teeth of the powerful and it puts them in their place," he added in the address broadcast live on state television.
Ahmadinejad's comments come amid renewed Western efforts on the UN Security Council to agree a third package of sanctions against Tehran over its refusal to suspend sensitive nuclear activities.
They also came a day after former top nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani launched an unprecedented attack on Ahmadinejad's foreign policy, accusing him of using "coarse slogans and grandstanding".
"You can see how some people here... try to materialise the plans of the enemies and by showing that Iran is small and the enemy is big," added Ahmadinejad.
"These are the people who put the enemies of humanity in the place of God," said the deeply religious president.
He also ...   more »

By Spengler
"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.
We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he
edited, or a single piece of legislation. He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him. But there is a real Barack Obama. No man - least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father - can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.
America is not the embodiment of hope, but the abandonment of one kind of hope in return for another. America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its ...   more »

Seventy-four year old Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has joined the chorus of those who speak of Obama in messianic terms.  Farrakhan did not specifically endorse Obama but in a rambling address in front of over 20,000 people, oddly enough in celebration of “Saviour”s Day,” he called Obama, “the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.” 
He also compared Obama to Fard Muhammad saying, “A black man with a white mother became a savior to us.  A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”  Farrakhan’s comments come just one week after Hollywood icon Halle Berry, speaking of Obama said she would, “Do whatever he says do.”  She continued, “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.” 
And it isn’t just the privileged and powerful that are measuring Obama for a celestial throne.  If you Google Obama’s name you will find a plethora of websites that range from questioning the possibility of his messiahship to outright pronouncements that he is a saviour.  One site (obamamessiah.blogspot.com) even offers pictures of Obama that appear to show light emanating from his ...   more »

Issue of Farrakhan 'endorsement' of Obama doesn't deserve answer
A spokeswoman for the president has evaded a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, about Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan's praise for Sen. Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential hopeful, at a Muslim religious event.
"I think we're just going to steer clear of that one," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "Move on to your next question; hurry up."
"Do you want to evade that?" asked Kinsolving.
"I do. So go on to your next one," Perino said. 
Kinsolving had sparked the evasion with this question:
"The AP reports from Chicago that 20,000 people attending the Nation of Islam's Savior's Day spent nearly two hours hearing Louis Farrakhan spend most of his speech praising Sen. Obama as 'the hope of the entire world who can lift America from her fall.' And my question. Does the president believe that any religious organization's tax exemption should allow such endorsement of any political candidate?"
Under the Johnson Amendment, pastors and leaders of tax-exempt 501(c)3 religious organizations in the United States, such as the Nation of Islam, are prohibited for actually endorsing or condemning an individual candidate, although they are ...   more »