In the last two weeks, I've encountered two different kinds of Clinton supporters. The first kind are voting for Clinton because she best represents them. And though I disagree with them on what should represent them, I respect their choice. The other kind of Clinton supporters are what I would call 'election bullies.' Why the moniker? It is because in trying to persuade those of us who are planning to vote for third party candidates, they try to manipulate us by shaming or insulting us to vote for Hillary. Such is an authoritarian move.
I found 2 examples of such bullies while on the internet. While one such bully derogatorily labels anyone who would dare criticize Clinton while heavily filtering the information they say supports their candidate, the other kind of bully wants third party voters to be blamed if Trump is elected. This is nothing more than a repeat of the way how some Democrats treated Nader supporters in 2000. But what if instead of blaming Nader for Bush's election, people were encouraged to continue to vote for Nader or other third party candidates in 2004? If that happened, we might not have to choose between Hillary and Trump today. For not only could we possibly have more than 2 viable candidates to vote for by now, both the Republican and/or Democratic Parties might have produced better candidates this year.
Currently, both of our major political parties take many of their voters for granted. The Democratic takes minorities and political liberals for granted much in the same way that the Republican Party takes religiously conservative Christians for granted. And just as the Democratic Party has more often than not failed to keep their promises to minorities and liberals, people from these groups often feel compelled to vote for the Democrats simply because the Democratic candidates are not Republicans. And likewise, even though Republicans have failed to successfully advance the conservative agenda on some key social issues like abortion or reducing federal spending, many conservatives automatically vote Republican because Republican candidates are not Democrats. Here we should note that for as long as either major political party can take significant blocks of voters for granted, they don't have to prove themselves by performing well while they are in office.
Thus, I am voting for a third party candidate for president because neither of the candidates from the two major parties represent me. In addition, it seems that the Republican and Democratic candidates have also quit trying to represent the voters they say they represent.
Currently I plan on voting for Jill Stein. I am doing so despite a few glaring flaws she has exhibited as a candidate. The reason why I am voting for her is because of the direction she wants to pursue if she is elected. Yes, Trump knows business to an extent and, like George W. H. Bush was, Hillary is the résumé candidate. But neither of them have earned my vote. Why? It is because, IMO, both, in their own individual ways, want to pursue neoconservative foreign policies and neoliberal economic policies. And just one set of these policies, let alone both, are very destructive and thus immoral. So neither Trump's "tell it like it is" behavior nor Hillary's experience represent me as a voter. And if the Democrats really wanted to get me to support their stop-Trump campaign, they would have nominated someone who really represents me. I refuse to vote for Hillary because she is not Trump.
The second part of this post deals with debate audiences. We should note that Trump really did not behave any differently in the Republican primary debates as he did in his debate against Clinton. And yet, he did not get the same results in his debate against Hillary as he got in the primary debates. Some have attributed the difference solely to Hillary's political savvy. But in all honesty, we should note that the first person to predict Trump's failure in his debate with Hillary was Jeb Bush. We should remember that Bush repeatedly told Trump that he could not insult his way into the Presidency. The public perception of Bush after he gave those warnings was negative, but Bush's warnings came true. Why? The difference could at least partially be explained by noting that the audience for the first debate with Hillary was far more diverse than the audiences were for the primary debates. What a difference an audience makes!
For Trump to compete with Hillary for the Presidency, he will have to be able to broaden his appeal to more than just disgruntled, anti-establishment conservatives. And such appears to be another episode of Mission Impossible given Trump's record. It was those conservatives who could either laugh with Trump when he spoke inappropriately or, because they were angry at the Republican establishment, they could ignore him. Trump's problem now is that with the general election comes a more diverse audience. And with a more diverse audience comes an intolerance for what got him through the primaries.
However, Trump's past and present record of actions and statements provides another problem for the nation during both the remaining debates and the rest of the campaign. That problem is that the bar that Trump sets for Hillary to succeed is rather low. And thus the more Trump messes up, the better Hillary looks because she is not Trump. And such shows how she can take our votes for granted.
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Comments Which Conservatives Block From Their Blogs For July 22, 2015
July 17
To Steve Hays' angry July 16 comment responding to my comment where he leveled a number of accusations against me. This was part of the discussion in the blogpost about the Wheaton staffer who changed her position on same-sex marriage. This appeared in Denny Burk's blog.
Steve,
It seems that you are venting more than making grounded statements. The personal accusations against me regarding how I pray or my preference for having the homosexual lobby bully people or saying that I thank God I am not like Denny because I belong to the Socialist Party USA are totally without grounds. Find the quotes that support those accusations. Also, just a technical note, I actually belong to the Socialist Workers Party, not the Socialist USA Party.
Second, there is nothing wrong with how I have referred to that parable. That parable provides an equal opportunity warning. And I use that parable to disagree with Marx's solution of relying on a proletariat dictatorship to usher in the classless society as much as I use it on Christians who want to feel superior to those from the LGBT community. BTW, I disagree with Marx there because such is an externalization of sin where Marx seems to be saying that only the Bourgeoisie sin. I prefer Kautsky who recognized that any group can be oppressive.
As for the issue you identified, you present a similar case as was presented in the defense of Jim Crow. This is where we disagree. I believe that the state has a right to defend the equality of all its members. And so the question becomes this: Can we use religious beliefs as a grounds for not treating people from certain groups as equals? That was one of the questions asked by some defending Jim Crow only their target was nonWhites? Note that freedom of speech isn't the issue. And freedom of association does not mean that businesses can discriminate otherwise you have defended parts of Jim Crow.
In addition, what some seem to be missing is the impact that denying business services to a group can cause in a Capitalist society. When you have a business, you have agreed to an implied social contract of serving all who legally ask for your services. Why is that a contract in a Capitalist economy? Because the majority of goods and services can only be provided by businesses in such an economy. And if a business could deny a group services for the reasons you cited, then all could and such leads to the marginalization and even the experience of the deprivation of goods and services.
BTW, I wasn't changing the subject with Romans 7. You talked about sins occurring when there are lapses, that isn't the only time. And I understand those who are advocating the acceptance of homosexuality. What I am saying here is that we have to find new ways of calling homosexuality sin that do not include denying the equality of those from the LGBT community.
And no, I don't have a single test for those who are Christian. I don't regard those who disagree with me on same-sex marriage for religious reasons as nonChristians. I believe they are wrong on this issue as much as they believe I am wrong. But never have I doubted their Christianity. What I have doubted is their consistency just as I see inconsistency in myself when I sin.
And no, I don't agree with any group calling what the Bible says hate speech. I fully disagree with the court decision in England against a street preach who was convicted of causing emotional harm to members of the LGBT community simply by reading Leviticus.
Finally, when we say such and such a lifestyle is very destructive or self-destructive and cite the destructive actions that have followed. It is our responsibility to examine why such people committed such self-destructive actions. For I see those same self-destructive actions in heterosexuals while I don't see those self-destructive actions in most, if not all, of the people I know from the LGBT community.
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To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost quote asserting that opposing same-sex marriage is not the same as opposing interracial marriage. This appeared in Heidelblog.
Same-sex marriage does not have to be identical to interracial marriage for comparing the opposition to both. There can be significant differences between the two. And yet, opposing same-sex marriage can be comparable to opposing interracial marriage.
That opposing both have been based on the Scriptures makes opposing both comparable. And while the scriptural defense for justifying same-sex marriage is completely inadequate while the scriptural defense for practicing interracial marriage is more than adequate, opposing both can still be similar enough. In either case, opposing both seems to have a personal basis in bigotry. That same-sex marriage is not justified by the Scriptures does not imply that it cannot be practiced in society, especially a society that is based on religious freedom.
And using the natural law argument for prohibiting same-sex marriage fails for two reasons. First, there is no mandate for enforcing every part of natural law otherwise Christians would still demand that homosexuality itself be a criminal offense. Second, though in terms of truth there is only one natural law, there is more than one version of natural law in society. As I have mentioned here before, homosexuality exists with benefits in 1,500 species. So when a nonChristian looks at natural law, he/she might be using the example of what occurs in nature as the rule for natural law.
Using common law and tradition to forever rule out same-sex marriage fails because we first have broken with tradition before and to allow for common law and tradition to forever rule out same-sex marriage is more authoritarian than democratic and promotes and a tyranny of tradition. In addition, much of common law and tradition assumes a particular set of religious beliefs.
Yes, opposition to interracial marriage was insidious. But what do you call it when you unnecessarily force unbelievers to abide by your religious code?
The problem here is that our opposition to same-sex marriage in society fails on multiple levels. First, it attempts to exact a measure of discrimination against and marginalization of those from the LGBT community. Second, because other Christians sense the unfairness of our discrimination, it forces them to think that homosexuality must be biblically supported in order to escape the consequence of practicing discrimination. And finally, while nonChristians witness our discrimination against those in the LGBT community and our silence over sins of economic exploitation, destruction to the environment, and our penchant for war and militarism, we give them stumbling blocks to listening to the Gospel in the first place.
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July 20
To Stephen Hale and his July 20 comment describing my previous comment as a 'sort of geopolitical socialization engineering' and that I told Christians they ought to 'consider contemporary political views when reading the Bible.' This was part of the discussion attached to the blogpost on what Christians can do about same-sex marriage. This appeared in the Gospel Coalition website.
Stephen,
No, but they should consider societal issues of equality and fairness as well as economic issues before advocating legislation or promoting/opposing Supreme Court decisions both of which determine the rules for our society. We should preach the Scriptures, not make them the law of the land.
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To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost quote on fetal tissue. This appeared in Heidelblog.
We live in a society in which people are regarded as disposable objects. So how can we expect society to treat the unborn, whose humanity is hidden by its location, with the human dignity they deserve?
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To Joseph Sunde and his blogpost about Jeb Bush's call for American workers to work longer hours. This appeared in the Acton blog.
The message of both Jeb Bush and Joseph Sunde, the writer of this blogpost, is that Americans should submit themselves as slaves to the competitive needs of business. After all, according to Joseph Sunde, our ancestors worked longer and harder hours than we currently work. But if our ancestors are setting the standard for our work ethic, we would also employ abusive child labor and slavery. We should also be willing to accept the labor standards that caused people to die on the job such as when the transcontinental railroad was built. And while Sunde complains that we are not making workers like we use to as evidenced by how today's workers complain, realize that our ancestors eventually got fed up with the poverty wages, the health threatening working environments, and the long hours so they organized and went on strike. Now how is it that Sunde can conclude that yesteryear's workers' would not complain like today's
Why does Jeb want us to work longer hours when, according to Forbes, Americans ranked 12th in 2013 and 10th in 2014 in the average number of hours worked per worker? We could answer that question with a famous movie quote: 'Follow the money.' After all, who would benefit more from the the sacrifices workers would have to make by increasing their hours? Would it be the workers or the top x%? A possible clue to the answer to that question can be found in asking this: Who benefited the most from the recovery of the 2008 economic collapse?
To Steve Hays' angry July 16 comment responding to my comment where he leveled a number of accusations against me. This was part of the discussion in the blogpost about the Wheaton staffer who changed her position on same-sex marriage. This appeared in Denny Burk's blog.
Steve,
It seems that you are venting more than making grounded statements. The personal accusations against me regarding how I pray or my preference for having the homosexual lobby bully people or saying that I thank God I am not like Denny because I belong to the Socialist Party USA are totally without grounds. Find the quotes that support those accusations. Also, just a technical note, I actually belong to the Socialist Workers Party, not the Socialist USA Party.
Second, there is nothing wrong with how I have referred to that parable. That parable provides an equal opportunity warning. And I use that parable to disagree with Marx's solution of relying on a proletariat dictatorship to usher in the classless society as much as I use it on Christians who want to feel superior to those from the LGBT community. BTW, I disagree with Marx there because such is an externalization of sin where Marx seems to be saying that only the Bourgeoisie sin. I prefer Kautsky who recognized that any group can be oppressive.
As for the issue you identified, you present a similar case as was presented in the defense of Jim Crow. This is where we disagree. I believe that the state has a right to defend the equality of all its members. And so the question becomes this: Can we use religious beliefs as a grounds for not treating people from certain groups as equals? That was one of the questions asked by some defending Jim Crow only their target was nonWhites? Note that freedom of speech isn't the issue. And freedom of association does not mean that businesses can discriminate otherwise you have defended parts of Jim Crow.
In addition, what some seem to be missing is the impact that denying business services to a group can cause in a Capitalist society. When you have a business, you have agreed to an implied social contract of serving all who legally ask for your services. Why is that a contract in a Capitalist economy? Because the majority of goods and services can only be provided by businesses in such an economy. And if a business could deny a group services for the reasons you cited, then all could and such leads to the marginalization and even the experience of the deprivation of goods and services.
BTW, I wasn't changing the subject with Romans 7. You talked about sins occurring when there are lapses, that isn't the only time. And I understand those who are advocating the acceptance of homosexuality. What I am saying here is that we have to find new ways of calling homosexuality sin that do not include denying the equality of those from the LGBT community.
And no, I don't have a single test for those who are Christian. I don't regard those who disagree with me on same-sex marriage for religious reasons as nonChristians. I believe they are wrong on this issue as much as they believe I am wrong. But never have I doubted their Christianity. What I have doubted is their consistency just as I see inconsistency in myself when I sin.
And no, I don't agree with any group calling what the Bible says hate speech. I fully disagree with the court decision in England against a street preach who was convicted of causing emotional harm to members of the LGBT community simply by reading Leviticus.
Finally, when we say such and such a lifestyle is very destructive or self-destructive and cite the destructive actions that have followed. It is our responsibility to examine why such people committed such self-destructive actions. For I see those same self-destructive actions in heterosexuals while I don't see those self-destructive actions in most, if not all, of the people I know from the LGBT community.
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To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost quote asserting that opposing same-sex marriage is not the same as opposing interracial marriage. This appeared in Heidelblog.
Same-sex marriage does not have to be identical to interracial marriage for comparing the opposition to both. There can be significant differences between the two. And yet, opposing same-sex marriage can be comparable to opposing interracial marriage.
That opposing both have been based on the Scriptures makes opposing both comparable. And while the scriptural defense for justifying same-sex marriage is completely inadequate while the scriptural defense for practicing interracial marriage is more than adequate, opposing both can still be similar enough. In either case, opposing both seems to have a personal basis in bigotry. That same-sex marriage is not justified by the Scriptures does not imply that it cannot be practiced in society, especially a society that is based on religious freedom.
And using the natural law argument for prohibiting same-sex marriage fails for two reasons. First, there is no mandate for enforcing every part of natural law otherwise Christians would still demand that homosexuality itself be a criminal offense. Second, though in terms of truth there is only one natural law, there is more than one version of natural law in society. As I have mentioned here before, homosexuality exists with benefits in 1,500 species. So when a nonChristian looks at natural law, he/she might be using the example of what occurs in nature as the rule for natural law.
Using common law and tradition to forever rule out same-sex marriage fails because we first have broken with tradition before and to allow for common law and tradition to forever rule out same-sex marriage is more authoritarian than democratic and promotes and a tyranny of tradition. In addition, much of common law and tradition assumes a particular set of religious beliefs.
Yes, opposition to interracial marriage was insidious. But what do you call it when you unnecessarily force unbelievers to abide by your religious code?
The problem here is that our opposition to same-sex marriage in society fails on multiple levels. First, it attempts to exact a measure of discrimination against and marginalization of those from the LGBT community. Second, because other Christians sense the unfairness of our discrimination, it forces them to think that homosexuality must be biblically supported in order to escape the consequence of practicing discrimination. And finally, while nonChristians witness our discrimination against those in the LGBT community and our silence over sins of economic exploitation, destruction to the environment, and our penchant for war and militarism, we give them stumbling blocks to listening to the Gospel in the first place.
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July 20
To Stephen Hale and his July 20 comment describing my previous comment as a 'sort of geopolitical socialization engineering' and that I told Christians they ought to 'consider contemporary political views when reading the Bible.' This was part of the discussion attached to the blogpost on what Christians can do about same-sex marriage. This appeared in the Gospel Coalition website.
Stephen,
No, but they should consider societal issues of equality and fairness as well as economic issues before advocating legislation or promoting/opposing Supreme Court decisions both of which determine the rules for our society. We should preach the Scriptures, not make them the law of the land.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost quote on fetal tissue. This appeared in Heidelblog.
We live in a society in which people are regarded as disposable objects. So how can we expect society to treat the unborn, whose humanity is hidden by its location, with the human dignity they deserve?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To Joseph Sunde and his blogpost about Jeb Bush's call for American workers to work longer hours. This appeared in the Acton blog.
The message of both Jeb Bush and Joseph Sunde, the writer of this blogpost, is that Americans should submit themselves as slaves to the competitive needs of business. After all, according to Joseph Sunde, our ancestors worked longer and harder hours than we currently work. But if our ancestors are setting the standard for our work ethic, we would also employ abusive child labor and slavery. We should also be willing to accept the labor standards that caused people to die on the job such as when the transcontinental railroad was built. And while Sunde complains that we are not making workers like we use to as evidenced by how today's workers complain, realize that our ancestors eventually got fed up with the poverty wages, the health threatening working environments, and the long hours so they organized and went on strike. Now how is it that Sunde can conclude that yesteryear's workers' would not complain like today's
Why does Jeb want us to work longer hours when, according to Forbes, Americans ranked 12th in 2013 and 10th in 2014 in the average number of hours worked per worker? We could answer that question with a famous movie quote: 'Follow the money.' After all, who would benefit more from the the sacrifices workers would have to make by increasing their hours? Would it be the workers or the top x%? A possible clue to the answer to that question can be found in asking this: Who benefited the most from the recovery of the 2008 economic collapse?
Monday, May 25, 2015
ONIM For May 25, 2015
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Ireland Same-Sex Marriage Vote: Catholic Church Needs A 'Reality Check', Says Archbishop -- Christian Today (UK)
- Ted Cruz On Religious Liberty In America: It's Bad...But Not That Bad -- Christian Today (UK)
- Controversial US Christian Zionist Organization To Open UK Branch -- Christian Today (UK)
- Theology Feud Pits Half Of Town's Protestant Churches Against Another -- Christianity Today
- 3 Reasons For Christians To Engage In Science -- Christianity Today
- Evangelicals, Culture, And Post-Christian America -- Christianity Today
- Six Things Christians Should Worry About More Than The Decline Of Christianity -- Huffington Post
- It's A Great Time To Be Graduating From A Mainline, Progressive, Christian Divinity School -- Huffington Post
World News
- So Why Has Obama Been Hammering Israel For So Long -- Washington Post
- White-On-White Crime Strikes Again In Waco -- Huffington Post
- Jeb Bush: A 'Tolerant Country' Should Allow Discrimination Based Upon 'Religious Beliefs' -- Raw Story
- Is Heaven Real? People With Near-Death Experiences Explain -- Huffington Post
- New York Police Dept. Questioning Of Protesters Was Improper, Rights Lawyer Tells Commissioner -- New York Times
- EU Threatens Israel With Sanctions As Peace Process Stalls -- Newsweek
- Palestinians Banned From Riding Same Buses As Israelis -- Yahoo News
- Israel Reverses Ban On Palestinians Using Settler Buses -- Yahoo News
- 105,000 Gallons Of Oil May Have Spilled In Santa Barbara County -- LA Times
- Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million A Minute: IMF -- Common Dreams
- Democratic Candidate Bernie Sanders Supports Decriminalizing Marijuana -- Truth In Media
- Monsanto's Worse Fear May Be Coming True -- Truthout
- The World Says No To War! Millions March -- Democracy Now
- 10 Reasons Why Arctic Drilling Is Really A Stupid Idea -- Greenpeace
- Obama Drills A Hole In His Climate Policy -- Truthdig
- Resilience Reflections With Robert Jensen -- Resilience
- The Incredible Arrogance Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Crowd -- Truthout
- Mom's Facebook Photo Of 'Hero' Cop Strikes A Chord -- Yahoo News
- Police Officer, Suspect Killed In Omaha Shooting -- Yahoo News
- Cancer Charities Scammed $187M From Consumers -- CNBC
- Texas Governor Bans Texan Cities And Towns From Banning Fracking -- Inhabitat
- Time For Constructive Divestment -- Huffington Post
- Grand Jury Indicts Six Officers In Freddie Gray Case -- Huffington Post
- Is New Atheism An Anti-Muslism, White Supremacy Group -- Middle East Eye
- Jeb Bush: People Who Believe In Manmade Climate Change Are 'Really Arrogant' -- Raw Story
- Police Release Surveillance Video In Shooting Investigation -- Yahoo News
- Rigging Of Foreign Exchange Markets Makes Felons Of Top Banks -- New York Times
- Senate Clears White House-Backed Trade Bill -- Yahoo News
- Shell Boss Warns That Uncheck Fossil Fuel Burning Will Cause Global Warming -- Christian Today (UK)
- Mexican Government Kills 42 In Drug Cartel Shooting -- Christian Today (UK)
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- 9 Facts That Show White-On-White Crime Far Exceeds Black-On-Black Crime And How The Media Outlets Conceals It -- Atlanta Black Star
- South Africa's Richest Black Man Gives $1.3 Billion, Half His Wealth, To The Poor -- Urban Intellectuals
- 18-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Determined To Change Face Of Modeling World -- 6 ABC Action News
- Actress Emma Sulkowicz Carries Her Mattress To Columbia University Graduation -- Yahoo News
- Video: Robert Scheer And Chris Hedges On How The Private Sector Buys And Sells Your Privacy -- Truthdig
- The Passion For Free Markets -- ZMag
- People Are Outraged About A Kansas Law That Critics Are Calling A 'Tax On The Poor' -- Yahoo News
Monday, May 18, 2015
ONIM For May 18, 2015
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Church Of Scotland Votes Yes To Ministers In Civil Partnerships -- Christian Today (UK)
- US Appeals Court Orders Release Of Nuclear-Activist Nun -- Christian Today (UK)
- One In Eight Parents Fake Religion To Get Kids In Faith School -- Christian Today (UK)
- Martin Luther's 'Great And Worthy Undertaking' -- Christianity Today
- Sister Momeka: Liberate Christian Lands From ISIS -- Christianity Today
- David Platt: Urgency For The Gospel Led To Policy Changes -- Christianity Today
- 10 Interesting Facts About Evangelicals From Pew's Religion Report -- The Christian Post
- Fourteen Key Reasons For The Breakdown In Church Unity -- The Christian Post
- God's Judgment Is Coming To America And 'It's Going To Be Ugly,' Says Billy Graham's Daughter -- The Christian Post
- The Real But Overstated Decline Of American Christianity -- New York Times
World News
- Governor Said Nuclear Plant Fire Produced Hudson Oil Slick -- Yahoo News
- Elizabeth Warren Fires Back At Obama: Here's What They're Really Fighting About -- Washington Post
- FBI Violated Its Own Rules While Spying On Keystone XL Opponents-- The Guardian
- Activists Blocked Part Of Shell Fuel Transfer Station -- The Stranger
- The Divorce Surge Is Over, But The Myth Lives On -- New York Times
- Is Assad On The Brink Of Defeat? -- The Real News
- FBI's Warning Of White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement Nearly Forgotten -- The Grio
- The New York Times Claims BDS Is The Reason For "A Wedge Between Jews And Minorities" On Campus -- Salon
- U.S. Will Allow Drilling For Oil In Arctic Ocean -- New York Times
- Israeli Extremism Will Encourage Global Boycott -- New York Times
- A Black Freedom Rider's Assessment Of Whites -- Huffington Post
- Illinois Has No Business Boycotting Those Who Boycott Israel -- Chicago Sun Times
- Worry Over Shariah Law In Idaho Jeopardizes Child Support -- Yahoo News
- Harvard Faces Admissions Bias Complaint From Asia-Americans -- Bloomberg News
- A Nation Of Snitches -- Truthdigg
- College Student Tells Jeb Bush: 'Your Brother Created ISIS' -- Truthdig
- Mitchell: Stop Ignoring Black-On-Black Violence -- Chicago Sun Times
- Beverly Hills Becomes First In California To Ban Fracking -- Reuters
- Kayaktivists Face Down Shell In Seattle -- MSNBC (Video)
- Seattle Activists Throw 'Unwelcome Party' For Arctic-Bound Shell Oil Rig -- Waging NonViolence
- Two Students Killed Amidst Chilean Nationwide Protest For Free Education -- Waging Nonviolence
- It's Time For A New Political And Economic System--A Conversation With Gar Alperovitz -- Waging NonViolence
- While We Focus On Shootings, We Ignore Victims Of Police Sexual Assault -- ZNet
- The More Israel Represses The Nabka, The Stronger The Memories -- ZNet
- UN Issues Scathing Assessment Of U.S. Human Rights Record -- Huffington Post
- Man Indicted In Ferguson Rally Shooting That Injured Police -- Yahoo News
- Israeli Court Says Arab Village Must Make Way For Jewish Town -- Middle East Eye
- Wyoming Makes It A Crime To Collect Evidence Of Pollution On Public Land -- Addicting Info
- The Right-Wing Political Record Of Bernie Sanders -- World Socialist Web Site
- Chris Hedges Makes His Case For Revolt -- Truthdig
- Members Of A Canadian Indigenous Tribe Turn Down $267,000 Per Person To Allow A Pipeline To Be Built Through Their Land -- The Fusion
- Video: Texas Soldier Dies After Telling Jail Guards He Couldn't Breathe 20 Times -- Democracy Now
- City Shuts Off Water To Delinquent Residents; Hits Baltimore County Homes Hardest -- Baltimore Sun
- Battle Over Black Freedom In Columbia -- ZCommentaries
- The Awful Truth About Climate Change No One Wants To Admit -- ZNet
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- CIA Whistleblower Jeff Sterling Speaks Out Upon Sentencing To 3.5 Years In Prison -- Democracy Now
- Noam Chomsky: Western Media Is Still Manufacturing Consent -- Sputnik News
- Many Of The NSA's Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties To NSA Contractors -- The Intercept
- Justice Dept Knows Scores Of Prisoners Are Innocent, But Says "It Is Not Their Job" To Set Them Free -- The Free Thought Project
- Noam Chomsky Explains How Islamic State Grew Out Of The Iraq War -- Truthdig
- Vatican To Recognize Palestinian State In New Treaty -- New York Times
- Israeli Soldiers, Palestinians Clash On 'Nabka' Day -- Al -Arabiya News
- Permafrost Thaw Would Have Runaway Effect On Carbon Release -- Truthdig
Monday, May 11, 2015
ONIM For May 11, 2015
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Jeb Bush Praises 'Daring, Untamed' Christian Faith, Defends Religious Freedom -- Christian Today (UK)
- Religious Freedom In China: 'Alarming Increase In Systematic, Ongoing Abuses' -- Christian Today (UK)
- Rick Warren: Government And Church Must Work Together On Foreign Aid -- Christian Today (UK)
- If You See Something, Say Something -- Christianity Today
- Angola Crackdown On Apocalyptic Christians Turns Deadly -- Christianity Today
- The Attempt To Sell Hispanic Evangelicals On Israel -- Christianity Today
- Christians Who Have Avoided The Culture Wars May No Longer Have A Choice -- The Christian Post
- Ben Carson Says God Helped Him Ace College Chemistry Exam By Giving Answers In Dream -- The Christian Post
- Christian Mother Meriam Ibrihim Reveals She Was Heavily Pressured To Deny Christ For Three Days Straight In Prison, But Refused Each Time -- The Christian Post
- Everything Must Change: On Baltimore, Drones, And Resurrection -- Sojourners
- The American War On Christianity -- Huffington Post
- Mike Huckabee: "We're Moving Rapidly Toward The Criminalization Of Christianity" -- Huffington Post
- Student: Professor Gave Me Zeros For Refusing To Condemn Christianity -- Fox News
World News
- Israel Did 'Massive And Unusual Harm' To Civilians In Gaza War, Report Says -- Newsweek
- Israeli Soldiers Reveal They Were Ordered To Shoot To Kill In Gaza--Even If The Targets May Have Been Civilian -- The Independent
- This Day In History: Four Students Killed at Kent State -- History.com
- 14 Things You Should Know About Bernie Sanders -- Newsweek
- Fracking Chemicals Detected In Pennsylvania Drinking Water -- New York Times
- Corporate Media Blacks Out Coverage Of Bill To Overturn Corporate Personhood -- Wall Street On Parade
- US Senate Approves Bill Protecting Israeli Settlements -- Middle East Monitor
- Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Texas Cartoon Attack -- Yahoo News
- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Announces White House Bid -- Yahoo News
- California Farmers Are Watering Their Crops With Oil Wastewater, And No One Knows What's In It -- Think Progress
- The Problem With Bernie Sanders -- ZNet
- Drought Kills 12 Million Trees In California's National Forests -- LA Times
- The Edward Snowden Interview The U.S. Media Didn't Want You To Watch -- Truthdig
- GOP Prosecutor Defends Scott Walker Criminal Probe -- Truthout
- "Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came From Orders For Indiscriminate Fire -- Democracy Now
- Jails Are A Cash Cow For The Rich -- Truthout
- N.S.A. Collection Of Bulk Call Data Is Ruled Illegal -- New York Times
- Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders: Sheepdogging For Hillary And The Democrats In 2016 -- Black Agenda Report
- Help The Tsleil-Waututh Nation Stop Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline -- Sum Of Us
- Kinder Morgan Gas Leak Tops 250,000 Gallons -- Statesboroherald.com
- 80 Percent Of U.S. Adults Face Near Poverty, Unemployment, Survey Finds -- CBS News
- With Support From Liberals, Tories Pass Controversial Bill C-51 -- Macleans
- That's What You Get For Filming The Police -- Truthout
- Supreme Court Allows State To Replace Bedouin Village With Jewish One -- Haaretz
- US Is World Leader In Child Poverty -- Raw Story
- Army Struggles To Cope With Rampant Fraud In The Military -- Mint Press News
- Is The News Behaving More Like Advertising -- Columbia Journalism Review
- Baltimore Probe Into Black Man's Death Fails To Support Charges -- Reuters
- Video Shows White Officer Kicking Black Man In Face -- Yahoo
- U.S. To Launch Federal Probe Into Baltimore Police Practices -- Reuters
- Texas Approves Textbooks With Moses As Honorary Founding Father -- Alternet
- Meet Jeb Bush's New Foreign Policy Advisor: His Brother -- MSNBC
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership Suggests Obama Has No Sense Of Irony -- The Guardian
- Israeli Soldier: We Bombed Civilian Targets In Gaza For Entertainment -- Middle East Monitor
- 2 Slain Police Officers Mourned In Mississippi Town -- Yahoo News
- Why Should Atheists Have To Show Respect For Religion -- Raw Story
- Suppressing Science For Monsanto? Groups Demand Investigation Of USDA -- Mint Press News
- The Real Reason America Dropped The Atomic Bomb -- Collective Evolution
- Clarence Thomas Argues States Can Establish Official Religion -- Progressive Secular Humanist
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- NYPD Officer Remembered For 'Selflessness And Courage' -- CNN
- Countries Around The World Are Revoking Freedom Of Assembly -- Aljazeera
- The Chickens Come Home To Roost In Baltimore -- ZCommentaries
- Science At MIT: From The Cold War To Climate Change -- ZVideos
- Meet The Families Affected By Police Violence Who Are Organizing To Stop The Killing -- Waging NonViolence
- Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello: Addicts Who Surrender Drugs And Ask For Help Won't Be Charged, They'll Be Helped -- Mass Live
- John Cleese Explains The U.K. Elections -- Bloomberg Politics
- Black Faces In High Places Haven't Helped Average Black People -- ZNet
- Private Prisons Suing States For Millions If They Don't Stay Full -- Rollingout
Monday, July 7, 2014
ONIM For July 7, 2014
Christian News
World News
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Christians Question Hobby Lobby's Defense, Biblical Stance Against Obamacare -- The Christian Post
- Hobby Lobby's Hypocrisy -- US News & World Report
- Russell Moore Weighs In On Hobby Lobby's China Dealings -- Religion News Service
- Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection -- Forbes
- Pastors Rarely Preach About Domestic Violence Though It Affects Countless Americans -- Huffington Post
- Pope Francis: Communists Are Closet Christians -- Huffington Post
- Iraq's Christians Are In Their 'Darkest Hour' As They Face Choice Of Converting Or Leaving -- Christian Today (UK)
- Churches Buying Back Guns To Keep Them Off The Streets -- Christian Today (UK)
- Top 10 Tweets About July 4th By Christian Leaders -- Christian Today (UK)
- America's Founding May Not Have Been Christian, But It Sure Wasn't Anti-Christian -- Christianity Today
- Christian Worshippers Latest Targets In Nigerian Violence -- Christianity Today
- How Hobby Lobby Affects Wheaton College And Nearly 100 Other Cases -- Christianity Today
- Sudanese Christian Meriam Ibrahim: Newborn Daughter Is Disabled After Prison Childbirth In Shackles -- The Christian Post
- Gay Christians Should Change Or Remain Celibate; A Response To Matthew Vines -- The Christian Post
- What Many Christians Get Wrong On July 4th -- Religion News Service
World News
- Blackwater Threatened To Kill US Investigator In Iraq -- Yahoo News
- Why Is Washington Still Protecting The Secretive Political Power Of Corporations? -- The Guardian
- Roundup Herbicide Linked To Tumors, Organ Damage-- Rodale News
- 10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know -- The Free Thought Project
- Cecily McMillan Leaves Prison Behind But Won't Forget Fellow Inmates -- DC Media Group
- Court: Public Union Cannot Make Nonmembers Pay Fees -- Journal Sentinel
- Hundreds Of Children Under 10 Being Subject To Stop And Search -- The Telegraph
- Jeb Bush Catching Up With Hillary Clinton In Presidential Polls -- RT
- How Capitalism Will End? -- New Left Review
- Unpatriotic US Corporations Increasingly Move Headquarters Overseas To Decrease Taxes -- Buzz Flash
- The Giant Methane Monster Lurking -- Truthout
- Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Released, Brings Messages From Women Held At Rikers Jail -- Democracy Now
- Environmental Groups Want NY To Release Information On Rail Shipments Of Crude Oil -- CBS
- Algeria Will Donate Their World Cup Prize Money To The Poor In Gaza, Reveals Forward Islam Slimani -- Mail Online
- Three Kidnapped Israeli Teens Found Dead In The West Bank -- 972
- Palestinian Teen Murdered In Suspected 'Revenge Kidnapping' -- 972
- Disturbing Footage Of Police Beating Palestinian In Shuafat -- 972
- Vulture Funds Against Argentina -- ZNet
- California Highway Patrol Beats Barefoot Baglady -- Yahoo News
- Fake Job Applications Prove There's Real LGBT Discrimination In Hiring -- Yahoo News
- WHO: 'Drastic Action' Is Needed To Stop The Worst Ever Ebola Outbreak -- The Christian Post
Pick(s) Of The Litter
- Pity The Children -- Truthdig
- The Searing Hypocrisy Of The West -- The Hindu
- How Washington Protects Itself And The Corporate Sector -- Truthout
- Is Christian Capitalism A Heresy -- Political Jesus
- Noam Chomsky: America's Real Foreign Policy -- Popular Resistance
- Palestine: Caught Between Selective Sympathy And Collective Punishment -- ZNet
- War Is Our Business And Business Looks Good -- ZMag
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