Your one-stop-candidate-shopping site for today’s speeches at CPAC. Ron Paul will not be appearing… too busy to address the conservatives? He will, instead, be sending Rand Paul to be his mouthpiece. No kudos for me on that one. If he can’t bother to appear, I can’t bother to provide his proxy public address. Rand isn’t running.
A columnist for the Jeddah-based Al Bilad newspaper, Hamza Kashgari, was detained Thursday by Malaysian police after fleeing to the country from Saudi Arabia to escape execution after he insulted the Prophet Muhammad:
Mr. Kashgari’s tweets incited outrage in the conservative Islamic country, where many regarded them as blasphemous, and reportedly prompted the king to call for his arrest. Blasphemy is a crime punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.
More than 13,000 people have joined a Facebook page titled “The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari.”
That’s the question posed by the creatures of The View the other day.
When it comes to giving to the poor…the Bible does tell us to pay our taxes. And the Bible does promote GIVING to the poor. But…the government TAKING money from one person to GIVE to another is not giving, it is TAKING. Jesus promotes CHARITIBABLE giving. FORCED giving is not giving at all, it is TAKING!
