Day: April 12, 2014
Blowback question of the day: Are teachers also ceding control of their profession to parents?
TURKISH MILITARY ASSISTS ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS
Pro-regime soldiers march in Kessab, Syria. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Newscom
Evokes memory of Armenian genocide a century ago
WASHINGTON – The Turkish military is actively assisting foreign-backed Sunni Islamic militants who are routing Christian Armenians from the northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, Syrian and Lebanese sources told WND.
The Armenians are being forced to seek refuge in the Syrian city of Latakia.
While there have been numerous reports of Islamic militant groups such as the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra and the ISIS attacking Syrian Christians, the attack on Armenian Christians in Syria by Turkey has brought back memories of the Ottoman Turk attacks on Christian Armenians.
The Turkish attacks beginning in 1915 and lasting until 1923 killed more 1.5 million people and has been regarded by many experts as genocide.
As a result, many hundreds of thousands of Armenians fled to neighboring Syria and Lebanon to seek refuge and reestablish Armenian communities.
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April Hot Tracks
PHOTOS: ‘Superheroes Unite’ for Sick Babies, Children
Wars and Rumors of War
If there was ever any issue that illustrates just how far our government will go to enforce its will, we saw it this week when the Bundy Ranch was surrounded by officers from several federal agencies. It also illustrates how much things hav
e changed over the last century with respect to the perception and use of “public lands”. These actions clearly indicate that in the eyes of the federal government, these lands are not “public” at all, but belong to the government.
I don’t care that the Bundy’s supposedly owed for grazing rights, the American West had more than a century of tradition of open range before the BLM started charging fees on public lands in 1936. What I do care about is the lengths a government will go to establish a militaristic presence over some cows grazing when they can’t seem to muster that kind of motivation to…
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Sarah Palin – We Have A President Who Doesn’t Understand The Constitution
I’ll never forget all the Obama supporters in 2008 constantly talking about Obama as a constitutional scholar. He sure has a funny way of showing it now that he’s president, doesn’t he?
Here’s Sarah Palin on Eric Bolling’s FOX News show this weekend discussing Obama, the Constitution and more.
Via iOwntheworld.
