AFP reports:

Nigerian parents lashed out on Tuesday at the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamists, as a local leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad.

"May God curse every one of those who has failed to free our girls," said Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were among the more than 100 students abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok area of northeastern Borno state.

The attack was one of the most shocking in Boko Haram's five-year uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across northern and central Nigeria.

"Pogo Bitrus, leader of a Chibok elders group [said] locals had been tracking the movements of the hostages with the help of 'various sources' across the northeast," AFP reports.

"From the information we received yesterday from Cameroonian border towns, our abducted girls were taken . . . into Chad and Cameroon," Bitrus is quoted as saying.

"The girls were then sold as brides to Islamist fighters for 2,000 naira ($12) each, Mr. Bitrus added," according to AFP.

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"Shocking allegations by former child actor Michael Egan against openly 'gay' X-Men director and producer Bryan Singer have stunned Hollywood into relative silence. I say 'relative silence' because, unless he’s a Catholic priest, the relativist left’s false narrative is that a 'gay' man is always the victim and never the victimizer," Matt Barber writes.

"Nonetheless, this latest episode has once again shined the spotlight on the long-established link between the homosexual lifestyle/movement and pedophilia -- a link that, despite 'progressive' denials to the contrary, is hiding in plain sight," says Barber.

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Claire Healey writes at The College Fix:

A new word-discouragement campaign at Duke University has labeled phrases such as "Man Up," "That’s So Gay," and "Don’t Be a Pussy" offensive language that "delegitimizes" homosexuality and oppresses and insults people.

But as the campaign has gained national popularity, its detractors have bristled at the effort, calling it a politically correct war on words that will stifle free speech and suggesting its true aim is to redefine terms to control public opinion and -- ultimately -- public policy.

I am a proud user of the phrase "man up," but other words and phrases these students at Duke University wish to control are not part of my thinking or verbalizing.

Having said that, I wonder whether these students have thought through their position, for it seems rather easy to defend the uses of such language these days. 

As I have shown elsewhere, the "tools with which to" defend such language "are available on the nightly news, college campus, and in the elite neighborhoods of secular America."

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Matthew Boyle reports at Breitbart.com:

In a video posted late Wednesday, two . . . prominent Mississippi Tea Party activists said [Sen. Thad] Cochran told them in a 2012 meeting at his office in Washington, D.C. that repealing Obamacare was a lost battle.

In the video, Mississippi Tea Party president Laura Van Overshelde said she and a group of activists visited Cochran's office on the day of the oral argument before the Supreme Court on whether Obamacare is constitutional.

"He asked us in that situation: 'What argument’s before the Supreme Court today?'" Van Overshelde said. "We were astounded that the Senator did not realize that the most important arguments before the Supreme Court for people since the Obama administration took office was the Obamacare arguments and he didn’t know that that was actually happening on that day and a couple other days. We were pretty disappointed that he didn’t realize that this very important issue was being seen by the Supreme Court."

Cindy Wilkerson, another Tea Party activist who also met with Cochran that day, also appears in this video describing Cochran’s alleged defense of Obamacare. "Thad Cochran told me that 'fighting Obamacare would be a lost cause,'" Wilkerson says in the video.

"After Cochran made such statements in his D.C. office meeting with the Mississippi Tea Partiers, Wilkerson said 'silence' swept the room," according to Breitbart.com.

As noted here previously, Breitbart also reports that Sen. Cochran "is facing a primary challenger from . . .  two-term State Sen. Chris McDaniel. McDaniel has the support of Tea Party leaders like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, radio host Mark Levin, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express, Club for Growth, and various others."

McDaniel "dubs himself as a 'constitutional conservative,'" the Washington Times reports.

A poll taken April 3-5 shows "Cochran Up" at 52%, but "McDaniel Gaining" at 35%, according to the Clarion-Ledger, based in Jackson, Mississippi.

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"It's not a dare. It's a promise that we're going to stand up for private property rights in the State of Texas," Texas governor Rick Perry told Fox News, according to Newsmax.

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Dustin Siggins reports at LifeSiteNews:

Republican voters continue to be at odds with many party leaders and donors on the issue of marriage, a new national poll shows.

Over three-quarters of GOP voters support marriage being kept between a man and a woman, according to the poll, released last week by the Family Research Council and American Values.

The release came a few days after the Nevada GOP decided to drop support for marriage from its platform, and in Illinois six of seven state party committee members were replaced after they pushed back against a former chairman's support for same-sex "marriage." 

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Bob Price writes at Breitbart:

After the recent Bundy Ranch episode by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Texans are becoming more concerned about the BLM’s focus on 90,000 acres along a 116 mile stretch of the Texas/Oklahoma boundary.

The BLM is reviewing the possible federal takeover and ownership of privately held lands which have been deeded property for generations of Texas landowners.

So says Joe Scarborough of MSNBC.

Memo to Joe: Having the 1st Lady of the United States show up to speak might have been a big deal in the past. That is no longer the case.

Michael Chapman reports at CNSNews.com:

"We should be afraid of sharia law" in America, and Muslims here who want to practice sharia should go back to where they came from, "to those nations that recognize sharia law," said Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

In a recent interview with the Charlotte Observer, Graham was asked, "Some say you demonize Islam, and Christians in this country have opposed building a mosque or are worried about Sharia law. Isn't it -- "

Graham, who oversees the international Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse, said, "We should be afraid of Sharia law. We should be absolutely afraid of it. No question about it, because there’s no tolerance in Sharia law. It persecutes those that do not believe in Islam."

"And I would say to Muslims in this country, if they want to practice Sharia law, go back to where you came from, to those nations that recognize sharia law," CNSNews quotes Graham as saying. "But we have our own laws here."

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Dr. Michael Brown writes at Barbwire:

For many years now, publishers have been releasing books that claim that the Bible does not oppose committed homosexual relationships. That is nothing new. But it is a sad and shameful day when a major Christian publisher releases such a book and claims that it is a solid evangelical publication. This is abhorrent, disgraceful, and terribly misleading. And it needs to be addressed and exposed.

But first, the background to the story.  

In 2012, a young man named Matthew Vines, who professes to be a  "gay Christian," released a video of his talk about the Bible and homosexuality, and it quickly went viral. His demeanor was engaging and his appeal to the Scriptures very serious, but for those who know the Word well, there was nothing in the least bit persuasive in his presentation. In fact, it underscored just how impossible it is to use the Bible to justify any form of homosexual acts or to sanctify intimate homosexual relationships.

The impossibility of Matthew’s position was further emphasized when my colleague, the well-known apologist Dr. James White, put out a series of YouTube videos that thoroughly rebutted the Vines’ video. And both Dr. White and I have offered to debate Matthew and any colleague he would choose, but to date, there has been no response, although we’re still hoping that a debate (or a series of debates) will take place.

"Here is the disturbing news," Brown continues. "The book is being published by Convergent Books, which is part of a publishing conglomerate that includes much respected, evangelical publishing group Waterbrook Multnomah (also sharing some of the same staff). And the chief executive of the company, Mr. Stephen W. Cobb, is vigorously defending his choice to publish the book. In fact, he is making an extraordinary effort to publicize it and claiming that it is thoroughly evangelical."

This is the same "Waterbrook Multnomah Group" that "publishes books by authors like John Piper, Chuck Swindoll, Ravi Zacharias, David Jeremiah, Randy Alcorn, David Platt, Bill Gothard," Brown notes, "and now its sister publisher is releasing a purported evangelical book defending homosexuality? (This is not being written on April 1 as some kind of April Fool’s joke. I am being dead serious.)"

Cobb has responded "to an investigative piece written by Christian attorney Matt Barber," Brown writes. "Mr. Cobb explained that his company was publishing the book 'because we believe it offers a thoughtful examination of Scripture on the topic of same-sex relationships from a bold, young, evangelical writer whose first calling is to promote a civil, loving, and Biblically based conversation on the subject'." 

Brown agrees that the "tone of the book is meant to be civil, and it does attempt to interact with the Scriptures," but "you can no more use the Bible to legitimize homosexual relationships than you can use it to legitimize adultery. . . . To describe the author as 'a bold, young, evangelical writer' is to make the word evangelical utterly meaningless."

Brown concludes: "As things stand now, the same publishing conglomerate that released books by an evangelical author like Joshua Harris with titles and subtitles like I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Sexual Purity in a Lust Saturated World is releasing a book championing the idea that God blesses two men (or women) having sex with each other as long as they are committed.

"This is madness."

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So notes the Washington Examiner, with a link to IRS publication 502.

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Erica Ritz reports at The Blaze:

Cliven Bundy, the last remaining rancher in Clark County, Nev., stands at the center of what has become a national controversy over the private use of federal land. He is focused on one big issue, he said in a radio interview with Glenn Beck on Monday: He doesn’t believe the land belongs to the federal government.

"I think this is very clarifying to people," Beck said. "Your stance is, 'I do not recognize these lands to be federal . . . I am staking out my claim that the United States government does not have any jurisdiction, and any rights to the land that [I am] now grazing on'."

"That’s right," Bundy said. "It's Nevada land."

"Bundy said he has 'no contract with the United States government,' and the federal government has 'no jurisdiction or authority' on his grazing rights, water rights, access rights, ranch improvement rights or anything else that 'belongs to "we the people" of Clark County'," the Blaze reports.

"The rancher took his argument back to the 19th century, when Nevada became a state," the Blaze continues. "According to him, the federal government did, in fact, control the land when Nevada was a territory. But, he claimed, when the territory became a state, the government turned that land over to the sovereignty of the state of Nevada, and thus the federal government lacks the power to control it today."

"At the moment of statehood, what happened?" Bundy is quoted as asking. "At the moment of statehood the people of the territory become people of the United States with the Constitution, with equal footing to the original 13 states. They had boundaries allowing them a state line. And that boundary was divided into 17 subdivisions, which were counties. Which I live in one of those counties, Clark County, Nevada."

"As a citizen of that county, I abide by all the state laws," Bundy said, according to The Blaze.

Matt Barber writes at Barbwire:

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group is planning to release, through its liberal imprint Convergent Books, a manuscript titled God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships.

Is the Christian world about to suffer through another World Vision moment?

The book’s author, Matthew Vines is a homosexual activist and Bible revisionist known for manipulating Christian terminology to advance the counter-Christian homosexualist agenda.

Despite his frequent use of a Christian-like lexicon, Vines surprisingly admits to running an apostate enterprise that he calls The Reformation Project.

"An unabashed denier of Biblical teaching on sexual morality, Vines has publicly acknowledged that his goal is to 'reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity'," Barber writes. "The book is scheduled to be published on April 22, 2014."

If I may, here is another title Multnomah might consider publishing: God and Atheism: The Biblical Case in Support of the Non-Existence of Yahweh. 

There is no doubt a twenty-something author out there willing to assert that when the Bible says, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1), what is being given is culturally conditioned by ancient thought-forms in a temporal milieu shaped by the struggle for human liberation and survival against a plethora of gods and goddesses evoked by privileged elites of wealth and power. 

Further study of the living text reveals what it actually means is: "The wise man says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" 

Thus is achieved a "third way" of church reformation that transcends old dichotomies of existence and non-existence. Thus, the Bible liberates human beings from all idolatry! How cool and affirming is that! I mean, how can there be idolatry is there are no gods whatsoever?

O the joy that "honors scripture" and "those who are different." And O the wonder of being released from the shadows of idolatry!

On the other hand, April 22, 2014, may go down in Multnomah history as the date marking the decline and fall of a once-trusted Christian publisher. Time, and the choices people make in the next days and weeks, will tell. Meanwhile, intelligence revolts.

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"That's fine with me," said state representative Alvin Holmes on WVAS radio. "It doesn't bother me any kind of way."

Mr. Holmes also expressed his support for homosex "marriage."

Read the news story at The Blaze.

Here is audio of the interview (Holmes makes his mule comments near the 3:50 mark).

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Tony Lee reports at Breitbart:

After Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that he was considering forcing gun owners to wear identifying bracelets, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin harshly warned him that he better not even think about trying to implement the idea.

"Eric, 'You don't want to go there, buddy'," she declared on Wednesday. 

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The video Attacked by "Tolerance" is produced by a group called Tradition, Family, and Property.

"Will CNN and MSNBC run this footage?" ask a TFP spokesman as the video concludes.

"Probably not," he answers. "So please share it with your friends."

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Hilary White reports at LifeSiteNews.com:

This week, a group of parents told the city administration in the small Tuscan town of Pontassieve that they would not go along with the introduction of the homosexualist "gender" ideology in their schools.

The parents addressed the proposed "ECOS -- Deconstructing to Build" program that aims to "help eliminate the stereotypes associated with gender." Parents quoted the Italian Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights that say in the area of public education, the state "must respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions." The school, they said, "must not invade the field of education within the family."

The parents said, "The appropriate and necessary fight against bullying and all forms of discrimination cannot be manipulated by anyone or used to spread messages of other kinds, such as the affirmation of gender identity."

"While a project to make 'diversity education' standard throughout Italy’s schools has been successfully blocked in Parliament, the same work is proceeding at the municipal level," White reports. "It was recently blasted by the Archbishop of Turin who called it an attempt to turn local schools into 're-education camps' for the extreme left."

LifeSiteNews also reports that, "at the same time, a set of government guidelines instructs journalists never to portray homosexuals or 'transsexuals' in a negative light. The document, created according to a mandate by the Council of Europe, threatens journalists with unnamed 'professional sanctions' and even possible jail time for failing to comply."

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Attorney and author Scott Lively writes at BarbWire:

The cover-up of the homosexual roots of Nazism is one of, if not the greatest, feat of historical revisionism the world has ever seen. The sheer volume of documentation that has been suppressed to protect the homosexual movement from its own past is staggering.

Kevin [Abrams] and I are now working on the fifth edition of The Pink Swastika, a slow process, because, believe it or not, there is still such an enormous volume of additional material that our researchers have uncovered. I am methodically working (in my spare time) through a three-foot stack of photocopied pages from at least 200 new sources. The fifth edition may be over 500 pages long by the time we get finished with it.

Importantly, and alarmingly, The Pink Swastika’s claims linking homosexuality with fascism are also being proven by the emergence of a form of homo-fascism in our own society. The forced resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich is the latest example, but there are many in recent years. "Gay" bullies have become the new Brownshirts (just as they were the original Brownshirts).

Lively concludes: "History never repeats identically, there are always variations colored by culture of the day. The cultural color of Nazi Germany was brown, but in millennial America pink is the new brown."

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Raymond Ibrahim quotes a Muslim sheikh:

We hereby give fatwa permitting the Syrian woman who desires to be married to a Muslim man, via a "right hand possession" contract -- whereby he becomes her master and she becomes his slave -- that all this contract needs is for the woman be clean of her menstruation period, and that this contract be registered with the sheikhs or other authorities, either in a Sharia or civil court. . . . 

Afterwards, once the woman says, "I give you possession over myself," via contract of "right hand possession," this woman becomes his loyal servant, and he her lord; she becomes a slave and concubine to him, and he must support her according to a previously agreed upon monetary fee . . . thus they become governed by the rulings of "right hand possession," and there is no problem with this, Allah willing.

Go here to read the entire article. 

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Kirsten Andersen reports at LifeSiteNews:

A North Carolina Roman Catholic school [held a meeting April 2] to address the concerns of parents and students who say they are outraged about remarks a visiting nun made criticizing homosexuality, divorce, and sex outside of marriage during a recent speech.

Dominican Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, who often speaks to high school and college-age students on matters of sexuality, gave an hour-long presentation to students at Charlotte Catholic High School on March 21 called "Masculinity and Femininity: Difference and Gift." School officials told the Catholic News Herald she spent about half her allotted time discussing homosexuality, blaming its rising influence in part on fatherless homes created by divorce and extramarital sex. . . .

Although the Catholic Church has always held both homosexual behavior and sex outside of marriage to be gravely sinful, students and parents at the Catholic school reacted to her remarks with shock and anger, launching both an online petition and a letter-writing campaign calling the sister’s words "offensive and unnecessarily derogatory."

"Not all students were upset by the nun’s presentation," LifeSiteNews reports. "A group of students who adhere to Catholic teaching on sexuality have launched a counter-petition condemning the protesters’ actions. 'We are outraged that the topics talked about are being debated within a community where the shared faith teaches us what truly is holy and that anyone would stand up against a nun, who has given her life for the Lord, and blantly [sic] deny God's teachings,' the petition reads."

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From NRO:

President Obama announced [yesterday] that 7.1 million Americans have enrolled on health-insurance plans through Obamacare, a number that is "wonderfully precise," according to Charles Krauthammer.

"These guys go six months without any idea what the numbers are, and all of a sudden it’s to a decimal point."

Watch this Youtube video to see Krauthammer's full statement on Fox News.

Thaddeus Baklinski reports at LifeSiteNews:

A noted Catholic academic and leading marriage defender is calling for a boycott of tech company Mozilla after homosexualist pressure from inside and outside the company led newly-appointed CEO Brendan Eich to apologize for previously supporting true marriage and pledge his "active commitment to equality."

Eich had contributed $1,000 in 2008 to support California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that opposed same-sex "marriage."

"The employees of Mozilla evidently think that people like me, and perhaps you, are not morally fit to be employees of their company," wrote Dr. Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence, whom the NY Times called America’s "most influential conservative Christian thinker."

"I have just deleted Mozilla Firefox from my computer," writes Dr. George, according to LifeSiteNews. "If I'm not morally fit to be their employee, I'm not morally fit to use their products."

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