Year: 2011

Egyptians Burn Down the Two Biggest Christian Churches in Cairo-12 Dead-200 Injured

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From Libertarian Republican:

Two of Cairo’s largest Churches were burned to the ground last night by Salafist Muslim mobs. There are reports that the Egyptian Army stopped firefighters from entering the premises of one church until it was completely burned down. Other reports that the fires started by Muslim Youth throwing molotov cocktails.

As described the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (via the AP):

Muslim mobs set fire to a church and a Christian-owned apartment building in a frenzy of violence that killed 12 people and injured more than 200.

Muslim youths attacked a large crowd of Coptic Christian protesters…

Hours earlier, mobs of ultraconservative (sic) Muslims attacked the Virgin Mary Church [also known as the Hanging Church] in the slum of Imbaba on the opposite side of the Nile. The attack was fueled by rumors that a Christian woman married to a Muslim man had been abducted by the church. Residents said a separate mob of youths armed with knives and machetes attacked an apartment building several blocks away with firebombs.

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Fanatical Arm-Chair Apologetist

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Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_politics
Bill Gates responds to Malcolm Gladwell’s theory that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. Apart from acknowledging luck, timing and an open mind, Gates suggests that a successful person survives many cycles of attrition to make it to 10,000 hours of experience. “You do have to be lucky enough, but also fanatical enough to keep going,” explains Gates.

Team Scotland Beat the Libs up in the UK-Good News

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David Cameron said the Coalition has vital issues ahead on welfare reform, improving schools and dealing with Labour’s terrible economic legacy.

This is some really good news coming out of the UK! I am sharing here with my readers from Libertarian Republican:

The Deputy Prime Minister responds to news that voters have decisively rejected the Liberal Democrats' project of electoral reform.

Several cross-currents in the just conducted elections in the United Kingdom. The Scottish National Party has won a majority in the local parliament. There is now a real prospect for the scheduling of a referendum regarding independence.

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Along with the loss of the referendum on AV, the Lib Dems suffered huge losses all throughout the country. The success of the party, in the last national parliamentary election, can now be seen as a personal triumph for its leader, but not part of a movement to a new orientation of the electorate. This centrist party finds itself, again, in a struggle for meaning in a voting system that call forth two major parties.

If anything, the Conservatives find themselves in an even stronger position with regard to local councils throughout England, following this election. Given the increasingly clear choice between a Labour Party that acts as though Tony Blair had never re-defined it, and a Conservative Party that embraces the growing diversity of the place, a clear majority of the voters of England are going with the center-right alternative.

 

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Alex Salmond on the SNP’s unprecedented victory after it took a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament election.

Some Regulatory Straight Talk from Larry Elder

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I put together just a few clips and a phone call of Larry Elder commenting on:

1) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (from zero to 3:30),
2) a caller asks about regulatory issues about the Federal Reserve (3:35 to 6:41),
3) Burden of Government on Families (7:50 to 10:50),
4) as well as the stated reasoning for Obama “ramming down our throats” health care – failing (10:50 to the end).

For more clear thinking like this from Larry Elder… I invite you to become an Eldorado: larryelder.com/​

Milton Friedman on the Welfare System (Serious Saturday)

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – CS Lewis, God in the Dock,