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At least not in their treatment of Rifqa Bary.
After Rifqa Bary was returned to Ohio per a Florida Judge’s order, Mary Goodrich acted on a request from the Franklin County Children’s Services to restrict and supervise Rifqa’s use of her cell phone and internet.
This amounts to trampling on her Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Expression. Constitutional rights that even “illegal aliens” are acknowledged to have.
North Dakota sits on one of the largest pools of oil in North America.
The Bakken Shale Formation is estimated to hold nearly four billion barrels of oil that can be extracted.
And now, a new batch of oil just under the Bakken is adding even more interest to oil exploration in the state.
Jim Olson reports on the Three Forks-Sanish Formation.
The Bakken Shale Formation has created excitement in western North Dakota – the kind of excitement that leads to things like bumper stickers. But even as oil companies scramble to tap into the Bakken, there’s a new oil play brewing – it’s called the Three Forks-Sanish Formation.
(Jeff Wirth, Hess ND Manager) “As if the Bakken wasn’t exciting enough, this just adds to it obviously.”
But watch what the Obama administration does, not just what it says. I’m not talking about its attacks on Fox News. I’m talking about a little-publicized October 2 resolution in which Clinton’s own State Department joined Islamic nations in adopting language all-too-friendly to censoring speech that some religions and races find offensive.
The ambiguously worded United Nations Human Rights Council resolution could plausibly be read as encouraging or even obliging the U.S. to make it a crime to engage in hate speech, or, perhaps, in mere “negative racial and religious stereotyping.” This despite decades of First Amendment case law protecting such speech.
The New York Times reported earlier that there was a “small contingent” of media at Dover. However, two dozen is a crowd, especially when vulnerable grieving families are involved.
Liz Cheney is being attacked (and here) for pointing out that Obama imposed the question of media coverage on the families by his presence at Dover. Seventeen out of the eighteen families of the fifteen soldiers and three DEA agents refused media coverage of the return to American soil of their loved ones.
The AP reports that one family changed their minds and decided against media coverage when they were informed Obama would be there:
The wife of Army Pfc. Brian Bates, who died Tuesday in Afghanistan, said she changed her mind and decided against allowing coverage after learning by phone around 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday that Obama would attend.
“Brian met the president, and that’s all that matters,” Enjolie Bates, who was not at Dover for the transfer, said in a telephone interview from her home in Lakewood, Wash. “I know he would like that. We didn’t need to broadcast it to the world.”
So, naturally, liberals aren’t sure. In Democratic circles, the jury’s still out on free market economics. It’s not settled science like global warming or Darwinian evolution. But in the meantime, they’d like to spend trillions of dollars to remake our entire health care system on a European socialist model.
Sometimes the evidence for the superiority of the free market is hidden in liberals’ own obtuse reporting.
In the past few years, The New York Times has indignantly reported that doctors’ appointments for Botox can be obtained much faster than appointments to check on possibly cancerous moles. The paper’s entire editorial staff was enraged by this preferential treatment for Botox patients, with the exception of a strangely silent Maureen Dowd.
As the Times reported: “In some dermatologists’ offices, freer-spending cosmetic patients are given appointments more quickly than medical patients for whom health insurance pays fixed reimbursement fees.”
As the kids say: Duh.
President Obama he has paid nearly $1.7 million to his top eligibility lawyer since the election.
Obama for America, Obama’s 2008 political campaign, merged with the Democratic National Committee in January and is now known as Organizing for America. The grassroots army that some refer to as “Obama 2.0″ is still collecting financial contributions.
Federal Election Commission records for “Obama for America” show that the lobby organization has paid international law firm Perkins Coie exactly $1,666,397.01 since the 2008 election
Take, for instance, the president’s Cairo pledge, back in June, to help correct “under-investment” in Muslim nations. Last Friday Obama announced that the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation would commit between $25 million and $150 million to fund investment “throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa.”
This president is politically aware of the U.S.’s 10 percent unemployment rate, but he can’t resist the grand global gesture to under-funded Muslim entrepreneurs in Damascus and Tehran.
Then there’s the United Nations and nuclear disarmament: In a precedent-shattering lunge, Obama grabbed the U.N. Security Council gavel last month, denying Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an assignment that befell her office. Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi was so mesmerized by the president’s magnetism that he embraced him as “my son,” and suggested that Americans make Obama “president for life.”
Obama has bigger ambitions.
Three years ago, six Islamic clerics sued US Airways and Minneapolis airport police for discrimination and false arrest after they were bounced from a Phoenix-bound flight for behaving much like the 9/11 hijackers.
Some yelled “Allah, Allah, Allah,” and changed their seats while asking for seat belt extensions they never used. Though situated throughout the cabin, the six men appeared to be acting in concert. Witnesses also said they loudly cursed the U.S.
Also raising flags, half of them had no checked baggage and what appeared to be one-way tickets.
The imams didn’t seem to have a case — until that is, they got liberal federal judge Ann Montgomery to hear it. A Clinton appointee, she denied the defendants’ request for dismissal.
And her ruling, strongly worded in favor of the plaintiffs, made it clear law enforcement wasn’t immune from being sued. Convinced they wouldn’t succeed at trial, the defendants settled.
Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin, both talked about as 2012 candidates, have stood with the base.
If all goes as planned, the 27 member states of the European Union will soon have a common hate crime legislation, which will turn disapproval for Islamic practices or homosexual lifestyles into crimes.
Knowing they will face unyielding GOP attacks for voting to increase the eye-popping debt, Democrats are considering attaching a debt increase provision to a must-pass bill, possibly the Defense Department spending bill, according to Democratic and Republican sources.
