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Houston Mayor: Whatever Floats Your Vote
Jesus said, "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no.'"
Unfortunately, that'll be a lot harder for Houston voters in the next
election. Thanks to an administration that apparently sees people as a
nuisance in their advance of an anti-religious freedom agenda, voters
will have to pay extra close attention this November, when the Houston
bathroom bill is finally on the ballot. Mayor Annise Parker is up to her
old tricks -- the most recent being her intentional manipulation of the
ballot language. Although she and the rest of the council have no choice
but to bring the issue up for a vote, they still plan on using every
stunt in the book to protect the measure -- including muddying the
question's wording.Under the city's charter, four members argued, it's wrong for voters to have to vote "yes" on repealing the ordinance but "no" on keeping it. "[T]he charter tells us... that we must put an ordinance on the ballot where qualified voters at such elections shall vote 'in favor.' So 'in favor' means, 'Yes, implement HERO [the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance],'" they said. Obviously, Parker is banking on the fact that most people will show up to the polling booth and vote "no," thinking they're opposing the ordinance. Instead, "no" is a vote against repeal -- which is a counterintuitive (and potentially counter-charter) means of phrasing things. |
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August 6, 2015
GARTH KANT — The questions don't come much
bigger. In essence, it was: Is this last chance to save America as we
know it? Some might find the answer chilling. WND asked Republican
presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas: If the Democrats win the
White House again in 2016, will it be too late to prevent the country
from turning into a permanent social-welfare state, and will it be the
end of American exceptionalism?... (more)
August 6, 2015
BOB UNRUH — Franklin Graham, chief of
Samaritan's Purse and head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
has sounded off on his opposition to abortion before, but now he's
shaming members of the U.S. Senate who this week voted to continue
funding Planned Parenthood even though videos have surfaced revealing
its executives talking about the prices of the body parts of the
unborn.... (more)
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — Chris Sununu is a pro-choice Republican, but when he voted Wednesday to defund Planned Parenthood clinics in New Hampshire, he viewed it as a vote in favor of women's health, not against.... (more)
August 6, 2015
GREG COROMBOS — President Obama made another impassioned push for Congress to support the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday,
saying it's the toughest possible agreement and the alternative is war,
a conclusion that even some loyal Democrats find infuriating.... (more)
August 6, 2015
THE HILL — The only Obama administration
official to view confidential "side deals" between Iran and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) admitted Wednesday she and her team have only seen rough drafts.... (more)
August 6, 2015
NEWSMAX — Radical Islamic activist Anjem
Choudary and associate Mohammed Mizanur Rahman have been charged in
London with "inviting support" for the Islamic State (ISIS), The
Washington Post reports.... (more)
August 6, 2015
LEO HOHMANN — Preaching directly from the
Quran before a packed Baptist church, the Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan told his adoring audience that violent retaliation is the only
way for American blacks to "rise up" and overthrow their white
oppressors.... (more)
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration
is violating a judge's order to turn over documents in the Aug. 6,
2011, shootdown of a U.S. helicopter -- call sign Extortion 17 -- that killed members of SEAL Team 6 in Afghanistan, a watchdog group is charging.... (more)
August 6, 2015
NEW YORK POST — The FBI investigation into
former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's unsecured e-mail
account is not just a fact-finding venture -- it's a criminal probe, sources told The Post on Wednesday.... (more)
August 6, 2015
BOB UNRUH — Americans are still waiting for
a resolution to the controversy that erupted when it was discovered
that the National Security Agency was spying on everyone's telephones -- lawsuits still are pending and Congress is working on making changes to the law.... (more)
August 6, 2015
NEWSMAX — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells
Newsmax Health that money is the reason Congress is delaying hearings on
accusations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hid a
link between the mumps, measles, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and
autism."The pharmaceutical industry is a trillion dollar industry,"
Kennedy said in an exclusive interview. "There are other trillion dollar
industries, but not one that spends as much on Congress as it does.... (more)
August 6, 2015
NEWSMAX — For the millions of parents who
wonder when their adult kids will move out of the basement, Goldman
Sachs Group Inc. has some insights about what's holding back the
millennial generation.... (more)
August 5, 2015
MATT BARBER — Nazi monster Dr. Josef
Mengele is known to have ordered the murder of over 400,000 Jews at
Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945. Thousands more he kept alive and
mercilessly tortured to death during experiments intended to help create
an Aryan super-race.... (more)
August 5, 2015
GREG COROMBOS — A leading pro-life activist
says the fifth undercover video depicting Planned Parenthood's alleged
profiting off the sale of aborted baby parts is the clearest evidence
yet of criminal activity, and she also says it's possible that abortion
providers are delivering babies alive and killing them outside the womb
to preserve the value of their parts for sale.... (more)
August 5, 2015
SUSAN FERRECHIO — As conservative
lawmakers look to the fall spending negotiations to defund Planned
Parenthood, Republican leaders may dash their hopes by arguing it can't
be done effectively in a government funding bill, at least in the short
term, as they work to avoid the politically damaging threat of a
government shutdown.... (more)
August 5, 2015
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daughter by his first wife, married an Iranian-American physician named
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FOX NEWS — Fox News has announced the line-up for the prime-time Republican presidential debate this Thursday,
and here's who qualified: Real estate magnate Donald Trump; former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz;
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul; New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.... (more)
August 5, 2015
EXAMINER — For many years, the Utah Eagle
Forum had a special relationship with the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as the Mormon Church. They stood
together in the fight against gender based anti-discrimination
legislation and same-sex marriage. They put forth a common front on
Utah's liquor laws. They supported the United States Constitution and
they generally supported the rule-of-law as set out in the Church's 12th
Article of Faith.... (more)
August 4, 2015
GARTH KANT — The House just went into its
August recess but Capitol Hill is abuzz with political intrigue over the
fate of one of the most powerful men in Congress, Speaker John Boehner,
R-Ohio, whose hold on power suddenly may be in serious jeopardy.... (more)
August 4, 2015
STEPHEN DINAN — Congressional Republicans lost the first battle in the war over federal funding for Planned Parenthood on Monday
as Democrats successfully filibustered to keep money flowing to the
organization in the wake of videos seemingly showing its employees
negotiating the sale of fetal body parts.... (more)
August 4, 2015
CHERYL CHUMLEY — Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee,
couldn't explain the difference between a socialist and a Democrat
during a nationally televised interview -- and when asked the same question in a second, later TV interview, similarly stumbled.... (more)
August 4, 2015
BOB UNRUH — The openly lesbian mayor of
Houston who created a national furor by allowing subpoenas to be issued
by the city for the sermons of several area Christian pastors has been
named defendant in a lawsuit by some of those same pastors who are
alleging civil-rights violations.... (more)
August 4, 2015
CHERYL CHUMLEY — Craig James, the Fox
Sports football pundit who was fired in 2013 for expressing his
traditional Christian views of "gay" marriage, filed suit Monday against his former employer, alleging religious discrimination.... (more)
August 4, 2015
LEO HOHMANN — More than two dozen Iraqi
Chaldean Christians forced from their homes by ISIS have been detained
at an ICE detention center in California for six months after crossing
the border from Mexico.... (more)
August 4, 2015
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — If you want to stay on
top of what's going on in schools, watch the policies adopted by the
National Education Association (NEA), which attracts nearly 10,000
delegates to its annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend. The
NEA's 3 million members include most of the nation's public school
teachers, who fund its half-billion dollar budget with their mandatory
union dues.... (more)
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