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Sam Rolley Personal Liberty 4/30/2013 Notable left-wing polemicist Professor Noam Chomsky has made a career of writing and speaking out against government abuses of civil liberties in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 Presidential election, the professor endorsed Barack Obama but contended that the youthful Presidential candidate would have little positive or negative [...] May 1st, 2013 | Tags: due process, executive power, foreign terror organizations, Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project, indefinite detention, National Defense Authorization Act, Noam Chomsky, tyranny, whistleblowers | Category: 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Department of Justice, Human Rights, Politics, SCOTUS, terrorism | Comments are closed
Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human dignity. Sohrab Ahmari The Wall Street Journal 4/19/2013 …Dr. Kass says his critics misunderstand the role of repugnance in his thinking. “It’s not that repugnance is always right,” he says. “There was once repugnance at interracial marriage, and there [...] April 20th, 2013 | Tags: abortion, Boston Marathon, cloning, Columbine, Darrell Scott, evil, genetic engineering, human dignity, infanticide, Kermit Gosnell, Leon Kass, morals, psychopharmacology | Category: Ethics, Human Rights, legislation, Medicine, Michelle Obama, Politics, Progressives, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
Kirsten Powers Columnists’ Opinions USA Today 4/11/2013 Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure… …There is a reason the late Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called this procedure infanticide… …Let me state the obvious. This should be front page news. When Rush Limbaugh [...] April 11th, 2013 | Tags: infanticide, Karnamaya Mongar, Kermit Gosnell, late-term abortion, Michelle Malkin, Philadelphia, Sandy Hook Elementary School | Category: Crime, Human Rights, Media accountability, Pennsylvania | Comments are closed
Last week NYU Law announced that former Weather Underground member and convicted murderer Kathy Boudin would be a scholar-in-residence. She’s the latest in a series of former left-wing radicals with cozy university appointments. Michael Moynihan on how left-wing criminals ended up lecturing America’s college students. Michael Moynihan The Daily Beast 4/10/2013 …take former Black Panther [...] April 10th, 2013 | Tags: Alex Rackley, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Black Liberation Theology, Black Panthers, Bowdoin College, Darry Sragow, Eleanor Raskin, Ericka Huggins, home schooling, Howard Machtinger, Kathy Boudin, Larry Grathwohl, Mark Rudd, Ron Paul, Susan Rosenberg, Touré, Weather Underground | Category: Communism, Education, Glenn Beck, Human Rights, Marxism, Video | Comments are closed
Patrick Goodenough CNS News 3/6/2013 The U.N. Human Rights Council was criticized Wednesday for holding a minute of silence to honor Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a decision that again illustrated the tension between the body’s actions and its professed commitment to upholding human rights around the world. “He worked tirelessly not only for his people, [...] March 10th, 2013 | Tags: Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, Maria Lourdes Afiuni, rape, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), United Nations' Human Rights Council | Category: corruption, Cuba, Human Rights, United Nations, Venezuela | Comments are closed
A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story Daniel Schwammenthal The Comentator 24 February 2013 The speakers were never meant to live and tell their stories. Their torturers expected them to either submit or die. But somehow these men [...] February 25th, 2013 | Tags: Evin Prison, freedom, freedom of speech, Shariah Law, slavery, state terrorism, torture, UN Watch, United Nations' Human Rights Council, William Hague | Category: Africa, Human Rights, Iran, Islam, North Korea, Pakistan, United Nations | Comments are closed
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