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Support SB 134, Stop Supporting Belligerent Iran
Earlier this morning I discussed SB 134 in the South Dakota legislature to divest South Dakota’s state-controlled pension and trust funds of interests in Iran. Iran is a threat to the United States, our allies in the Middle East and Europe, and to our troops serving in the Middle East. This video shows why this bill is important. Read more »
Former CIA Director Supports South Dakota Divestment from Iran
On principle alone, free peoples should not be investing in the belligerent state of Iran. That is why SB 134 was introduced in the South Dakota Legislature this year. Now former CIA director James Woolsey has come out in support of this effort. Read more »
Iranian Revolution Anniversary Comes With Allegations of Religious Abuse
The 31st anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution was marred Thursday by protests and criticism of religious abuse. Civilians took to the streets to demonstrate against the current hard-line government led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The pro-reform demonstrators were headed towards Tehran square, where Ahmadinejad was to give a speech, but were blocked by security forces. Read more »
South Dakota Veterans’ Organizations Unanimously Support Iran Divestment Legislation
South Dakota’s major veterans’ organizations announced their support of SB 134, a bill in the South Dakota Legislature that requires the State Investment Council to divest holdings in companies that do business in Iran. The bill focuses on foreign oil companies to target Iran’s oil refining capacity. Read more »
State Legislator Sponsors Legislation to Divest South Dakota Investment Assets from Iran
A coalition of South Dakota legislators, veterans, and foreign fund investment experts has announced plans for a bill that would force state-controlled pension and trust funds to divest themselves of more than $68 million dollars worth of stock in foreign companies doing business in Iran. Read more »
Carter defends his cowardice in the face of radical Islam
Not that anyone really cares what he has to say, but the country’s second worst president recently defended his handling of the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. Read more »
Israeli PM Netanyahu on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he believes there is an American commitment to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But while Netanyahu is an extremely capable PM, with President Obama’s recent “Apologies & Bows World Tour,” evidence is scant that the world’s lone superpower will do anything. Read more »
Iranian Christians: Election Was a Total Fraud
Many Iranians are refusing to accept the results of the recent election, with some calling it a “total fraud.” Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets demanding more freedom and true democracy. Read more »
Twitterers Take CNN, Media to the Woodshed
The online networking service Twitter has so far been used mainly for people to send little messages to their friends about what they’re eating, what they’re watching, etc. But the unrest surrounding the elections in Iran–and the “mainstream” media’s usual pathetic coverage of the misdeeds of oppressive governments–has found Twitter being used to send otherwise unseen images of protests and government violence around government censors and out to the free world. Read more »
Iran Gets Nuclear Capability, America Gets Windmills
President Barack Obama now says the oil-rich nation of Iran needs “peaceful” nuclear power. But folks in the foreign-oil-dependent United States are not allowed to drill for their own oil or build more nuclear power plants. Just whose interest is President Obama looking out for?
From Americans for Limited Government. Read more »
Iran Convicts American Journalist of Spying
Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Aaron J. Leichman
Christian Post Reporter
Sun, Apr. 19 2009 08:42 AM EDT
An American journalist detained in Iran has been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison, her lawyer reported Saturday.
Both U.S. president Barack Obama and U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton said they were “deeply disappointed” [...] Read more »
Iran is Right for a Change
It’s not often that I find myself agreeing with an antisemitic, terrorism-supporting, belligerent despot, but apparently anything is possible.
From Haaretz:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed international sanctions against Iran as a “childish idea” on Friday as he officially launched a natural gas project in the Gulf, Iranian media reported.
His comments came a day after U.S. President [...] Read more »
Notable Quotes for Feb. 5, 2009
“More than 50 million babies have been aborted since the Supreme Court’s decision in 1973, because at least one parent considered that child too expensive, too embarrassing, too disruptive, too much of a burden or just too inconvenient.” – Dr. Richard Land (Source: Christian Post)
“We’re gonna be in the Hudson.” - Pilot Chesley Sullenberger of Flight 1549 [...] Read more »
Iran Takes the Offensive
On November 4, 1979 Iranian Islamists revolutionaries violated the centuries-old principle of international law granting diplomats immunity from arrest and foreign embassies sovereignty in the territory of the host country they occupy. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days, occurring during the latter days of the Carter administration.
On January 19, 1981 the Algiers Accord [...] Read more »
