A UN committee just named abortion as a universally recognized human right and will soon begin ordering governments to legalize abortion.

We have warned our supporters for 16 years that this day would come and now it has.

Of course, this UN committee lies. There is no universal right to abortion. These types of committees lie all the time. This committee does not have the right to claim a right to kill unborn babies exists in international law. But they have.

What are we going to do about it?

First, tell you. It is vital that you tell everyone you know that this has happened. An educated global citizenship is our best defense.

Second, tell people all over the world. This story needs to be told to everyone we can reach. The Friday Fax goes to a few hundred thousand people in four languages and we will certainly tell them.

Third, tell policy makers and legislators. There needs to be official condemnation of such an act. I promise you that we will tell this tale at the highest levels of governments around the world.

How do we know such a thing happened? Because we are at the UN or working on UN issues every day of the week. There are six of us doing this work full time.

We are the early warning signs of trouble coming out of UN headquarters in New York City and elsewhere. We do this because hardly anyone else will! And we are happy doing it.

C-FAM and the Friday Fax were created at the urging of the Papal Nuncio in 1996 that there needed to be a full-time office of lay experts on life and family matters monitoring the UN and trying to defend life and family.

God called us into this fight. But, we cannot fight alone.

A few times a year, I need to come to you asking for your prayers first and foremost because we know our fight is not with any man or woman but with the devil and his minions.

We are approaching the end of the year and we face the inevitable budget shortfall. We are not supported by rich men or rich foundations or wealthy governments. Our support comes almost exclusively from you and people like you.

Can you help us finish this year strong? Over the next 60 days we need to raise $75,000. We can accept donations from any place in the world. If you live in the US, your donations are fully tax deductible.

Go to www.c-fam.org/donate and give as much as you can to help us fight this UN committee! If you click www.c-fam.org you will find directions on many ways to give; by mail, by credit card using our totally secure server, by PayPal, or by wire transfer.

This UN committee may have declared abortion a universal human right but we can and will still stop them! But we cannot do it without your help right now.

Can you afford $500? How about $100? Or $50?

Go to www.c-fam.org/donate and help us fight back against the universal baby-killing machine that we face every day of our lives.

If not us, who? If not now, when? It is up to US RIGHT NOW to stop them.

Pray for us now and as often as you can.

Yours sincerely,

HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THIS SCARY PARALLEL?

The nation has been mired for years in a deep economic downturn. 

The Branches of Federal Government are steeped in fundamental controversies.

The nation faces severe and expanding threats from strong and growing alien forces.

Within our borders, citizens with continuing foreign allegiances are becoming progressively more insistent in their demands for special - and foreign - consideration.

The nation is withdrawing within itself - "Fortress America" - becoming progressively more isolationist vis a vis the rest of the world.

Our Military are being systematically drawn down toward a vestige of its former - and necessary - self.

Some of our leaders are basing their hopes and "plans" on engaging these alien forces through "discussion and negotiation" - while these forces continue to grow and to make very clear their intentions for world dominance. 

Yes, this is America today.  And no, this is not what I am describing. 

The time is the late 1930's. 

America is deep in the Great Depression. 

The President is fighting the other branches of government over his attempt to "stack the Supreme Court" by expanding its membership.

Dictatorships in Germany and in Japan are invading their neighbors with massive and increasing land and naval forces.

In America, The Bund is carrying out increasingly strident demands through meetings and pronouncements, large and small, on behalf of Germany.

American isolationism and withdrawal are approaching fever pitch, despite the invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, the rape of China by the Japanese, the near destruction and defeat of our British friends on their homeland, and the spread of Fascism everywhere.

Our Military is a joke, with soldiers forced to drill with broomsticks.

Nevil Chamberlain returns from his meetings with Hitler with his announcement of "Peace in Our Time". 

To paraphrase: "He who does not know History is doomed to repeat it".  Only this time, we will not be fighting in Pearl Harbor or North Africa or Italy or Normandy...but in New England and Florida and New York and the Mid-West and the Rocky Mountains, and on our southern border and on the Pacific coast - and in our great cities...and among ourselves. 

Whatever your political affiliation is this is important! 

Listen to the entire video. 

What a MESS. WOW !

COULD IT BE...ANOTHER WORTH-WHILE MOVIE?

"The Fifth Estate".  I give it an A: in plot, in characterization and acting, in telling us what the makers had in mind, and in what they revealed without intending to.  

As I left the theater after viewing this movie, a statement made in another movie immediately came to mind:

"You want the Truth?  You can't handle the Truth"! (Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men".).

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THIS REQUIRES NO INTRODUCTION FROM ME.

GS

Who Shut Down the Government? Excellent Non-Partisan Clarification! 

There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going -- except for ObamaCare.   This is not a matter of opinion. You can check the Congressional Record.

As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.

Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.
ObamaCare is indeed "the law of the land," as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.

But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.

The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies -- unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.

Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who -- if anybody -- "wants to shut down the government." But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.

The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a "clean" bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word "clean" like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?

If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.         

When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie. You can check the history of other examples of "legislation by appropriation" as it used to be called.

Whether legislation by appropriation is a good idea or a bad idea is a matter of opinion. But whether it is both legal and not unprecedented is a matter of fact.

Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.

Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.

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SORRY, CHARLES...BUT ON THIS WE DIFFER. "History And Reason Lead To 'Hail 'Skins'".

I believe that this is the first time I differ with the opinions of Charles Krauthammer, as frequent flyers on this site will note.

Always reasoned, always balanced.  But on this subject, which he admits is "A close call....", 2+2=5.  This column appeared in The Day (www.theday.com) on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 and concerns the name of the Washington Redskins.  An interesting read, wherein he notes "that words don't stand still.  They evolve".  Yes.  But that's just one point of the two points that are needed to draw a straight line.  The other is History...Tradition.  Too little attention is being payed these days to that star.  And more.  "I know there are surveys that say that most Native Americans aren't bothered by the word. But that's not the point."  Indeed, it is not.  What most Native Americans (aka American Indians) are bothered by is crushing poverty, disease, alcoholism and inattention that their leaders should spend more time correcting while a tiny minority of them become rich. 

NOW HEAR THIS!   

AMAZING: yet another movie worth seeing.  But no "A" here.

"Enough Said"...too much said.  

I give it a B- overall, with a C for plot(s) and a B for acting. 

SO, WHO IN DISNEYLAND, D.C. WILL PROPOSE A FENCE ACROSS OUR ENTIRE NORTHERN BORDER? 

GS

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OH, I FORGOT...

The movie Blue Jasmine: FUGGEDEBOUDED.

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TIME FOR ANOTHER "POT POURRI"...just in case you missed these pearls.

• Dennis Prager announces "The Obama Doctrine", as compared with those of Presidents Monroe, Truman and W. "Call it USLKOE", as provided by Sec. of State John Kerry.  "Kerry stated that an American attack on the Assad regime for using chemical weapons would be an 'unbelievably small, limited kind of effort'".  Say what??  President Obama, America is truly Exceptional. As are you: worse than Jimmy Carter.
• "How Al Qaeda Made Its Comeback", by Ali Soufan, in WSJ Thursday, August 8, 2013.  And in today's news, the comeback in Iraq, reportedly unstoppable.  And on-going in Afghanistan, as we negotiate the terms of our defeat - including whether any remaining American citizens will be under the jurisdiction of Afghan law.  Way to Go, Commander in Chief!
• Public Education in this nation continues in the death-grip of the teachers' unions.  Whether relating to standardized tests, or vouchers, or magnet schools or teacher / administrator accountability, we keep hearing a resounding "NO" from  these "dissembling miscreants", recalling the glory days of the tobacco industry vis a vis lung cancer.
• "US Adults Score Below Average On Worldwide Test".  DUH!  That's what happens when a dumb kid becomes an adult.  
• And talk about DUMB: HOW ABOUT THOSE REPUBLICANS.  Outfoxed at every turn, thanks to "a house divided on itself".  If you don't want an unprincipled and ignominious defeat at the hands of the Democrats, you must compromise among yourselves. 

Time for another attempt to inject some "culture" among these heavy topics.

• "Captain Phillips".....worth seeing, but a B-.
• "Fast"...Great: an A, and not for the races or the racy scenes.  Great characterizations, great acting,and fine directing by Ron Howard. 
• "Killing Jesus"...Julius Caesar and you Romans: I never knew ye.  But O'Reilly, why did you omit the most important part of the Last Supper?

And I want to thank the movie moguls for preceding each feature attraction with four or five "coming attractions", generally the most execrable wastes of time that I can now avoid.

"THE JIHADISTS' MOVE ON SYRIA"

Please read this report from the American Center for Democracy, for which a link is posted. 
As I have said for some time,  the only development that will prevent a World War lll between the Muslim and Western worlds is a civil war among Muslims...between the fundamentalist crazies and the moderate secular Muslims.  It turns out that this is well under way: in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Turkey, in Egypt and in Syria.  And in each of these sites, our current American foreign policy is oblivious to both the threat and to the opportunity presented for our own self-interest. For certainly the avoidance of a World War lll is in our self-interest.  Indeed, this Administration does not seem to have a policy - except to get out of these messy affairs.  Wrong on two counts. Wrong in that we are not supporting the moderate secularists.  And wrong in that American "foreign policy" changes direction every four to eight years, totally destroying our credibility among friend and foe alike. 

THE FINAL INSPECTION

The Soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
'Step forward now, Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?'

The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
'no, Lord, I guess I ain't.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can't always be a saint.
I've had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny,
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.

And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.

I know I don't deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears
If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand.

I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand.
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.

As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
'Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burdens well.

Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell.'

~Author Unknown~

It's the Soldier, not the reporter

Who has given us the freedom of the press.

It's the Soldier, not the poet,

Who has given us the freedom of speech.

It's the Soldier, not the politicians, who ensures

Our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

It's the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,

Obama is blaming Fox News for 2/3 of the country disliking Obamacare.  Here's Neal Cavuto's explanation and it is great.  If you don't understand what is bad about ObamaCare please read his comments and you will understand.

AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT:

What has happened to the "Free Press",

to "Freedom of the Press", and

to "All the news that's fit to print"?

The major media in this country have become enthusiastic and craven tools of the Far Left point of view, day in and day out, election in and election out, having abandoned any claim to be sources of facts and measured opinions on issues of the day.  In the process, they have left the critical task of informing the people in a democracy to that cacophony of misinformation called the Internet.  

As long as they maintain that posture, they deserve no credence, no respect, and no special place in the public life of this nation.

QUO VADIS, AMERICA?

More than anything else, the current shut-down of some parts of Federal Government caused by the impasse faced by our government has caused pundits and plain folks alike to ask this fundamental question.  Indeed, it has been bubbling just below the surface of our attention for the last several years.  Thinking Americans, reduced in number during the last two decades due to a variety of factors enumerated below, are now anxious and distressed, facing even the possibility of a national default.  What has happened to bring us to this point? It is the culmination of a series of serious errors committed during the last several decades by our leaders and by the people themselves.  And it was brought to a head by the results of the last two Presidential elections.

• First and foremost, nearly a majority of Americans have not really accepted Barack Obama as our legitimate President.  This has nothing to do with his race or background.  It has everything to do with his lack of credentials for the position and especially for his far-left leadership direction, both domestic and internationally.   So what we are seeing now in the actions of the Tea Party and other conservative and libertarian citizens is the beginnings of national civil disobedience.  Thus, the stakes are high for the future in a nation born and bred of defiance, revolution, civil war, assassinations and crises.
• The Far Left and the Far Right dislike each other intensely.  The Far Left rejects the principles of personal independence, personal responsibility and free enterprise on which this nation was founded and built.  The Far Right rejects the cradle – to  - grave governmental role and power embraced by their counterparts. The rest of us are anxious about the results of this animus.
• The following old saw was never more true: “Whenever I think of becoming a Democrat, they do something stupid. Whenever I think of becoming a Republican, they do something greedy.”
• But there is more.  There is the drug culture. There is the failure of public education. There is the “value neutral” philosophy that has permeated the upbringing of children both in school and in the family – when there is a family.  There is the debasing of our culture and of our national dialogue to the lowest common denominator promoted by and reflected in our popular media.  There is the abomination of abortion, the intentional killing of a human being, that has devalued the rest of us human beings.  And there is the focused effort  by large groups of people to ridicule and marginalize not only Religion but Spirituality itself, leaving nothing in its place but isolation , cynicism, anger, depression and mental illness.