Palestinians in Gaza have taken it upon themselves to actively campaign for Obama from Gaza. In a world that gets smaller every day through the internet and other forms of communication, this should come as no surprise.

However, when pondering whether or not to vote for Barack Obama in the fall, one should ponder this….why would members of Hamas in the Gaza strip attempt to influence our Presidential election? Why are they so preferential to Obama? What is it about him that makes him so attractive to people who belong to terrorist groups and have pledged themselves to the destruction of Israel? Could it be that they think he’s just pretending to be a supporter of Israel and really isn’t?

That my friends, is exactly what they think. And I think they’re right.

This pro-Obama news video is from Al Jazeera.

Click here to read the Supreme Court Decision.

Naturally, gay marriage supporters hailed this ruling as a victory for their cause. However, their battle is far from over.

Currently, a coalition of religious and conservative social groups is putting together a measure that may make it onto the November ballot. The measure needs 694,354 signatures to make it on the ballot and these groups claim they have already accumulated 1.1 million signatures. This measure would allow the voters of California to decide whether or not to put a ban on gay marriage in the California constitution. If this measure passes in November, this will trump the California Supreme Court’s decision.

We can be certain that gay marriage advocacy groups will fight any measure allowing the California voters to decide this. Liberal activist groups are rarely successful implementing their agenda with voters or elected officials, so resorting to the judiciary to get their way is what we’ve come to expect.

The ruling set off a big celebration at San Francisco City Hall. This will, no doubt, be an issue in this year’s election process and is a winning issue for conservatives if they choose to use it.

The response by many was rightful condemnation over Iran’s policies towards women, gays, and Israel. Ahmadinejad kept on message during the forum by denying the holocaust and affirming that he felt that the U.S. presence in the Middle East was unwarranted. However, there was a letter-writing contingent in the audience that felt that Ahmadinejad was mistreated and wrongfully criticized by Bollinger. This contingent did what they do best–write apology letters to Iran!

So, now the Iranian Presidential Office has published a book entitled “Dialogue In Iranian Style”, which contains the letters of American Citizens apologizing for the “offensive” behavior of the Chancellor. If this contingent of communist letter-writing sympathizers was consistent in their ideology, shouldn’t letters have be written to all the holocaust survivors in the U.S. for allowing Ahmadinejad to deny the holocaust at a nationally televised forum?

Which is more offensive? Truthfully describing the devastatingly oppressive effects of communism and drawing attention to a culture of human rights violations or denying the reality of the holocaust? Apparently in this day and age, progressives find the truth more offensive than deliberate lies.

Eco-friendly groups in Edmonton were forced to abandon their original locations for their Earth Day celebration due to the blizzard. I guess they had to change their talking points from Global Warming to Global “Climate Change” to not sound like complete lunatics.

Report from the Edmonton Sun.

So much for global warming. Earth Day festivities went ahead despite the blast of frigid weather yesterday.

Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.

Organizers crammed over 40 groups in a space that would normally be occupied by half that number. Presenters’ booths were initially planned to have been spread out between at least five tents, with far larger displays.

“We’re normally here with a lineup of cyclists for our free bike repair service. No bikers came today. Big surprise,” said Chris Field of Mountain Equipment Co-Op.

A handful of visitors still took the time to inquire about several solar-powered products on display at the M.E.C. booth and browsed several others before running off toward the lone heater in the tent to warm up.

A lemonade vendor towards the front might as well not have been there.

“Obviously we’ll have fewer people than we would have liked, but to cancel an Earth Day event because of weather would kind of be the antithesis of what this is all about,” said organizer Janice Boudreau.

“This isn’t about celebrating just the parts of the Earth that we like, it’s about celebrating all of it.”

Eco-Air representative Eric Gormley couldn’t convince local kids lobbying city council for an anti-idling bylaw to brave the cold yesterday, but happily stepped up on their behalf, offering stickers and information about greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

“We’re here to raise awareness of the problem, even though on a day like today you don’t necessarily think of global warming,” he said.

“We especially want to encourage young people in school to join us. It’s the youth that have the power to make real change.”

On Tuesday, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama called for the US to talk to Iran to help sort out the Iraq situation. Which, if you think about it, is pretty funny considering that Iranians are probably largely behind the majority of attacks on US troops in Iraq. What would talking to a clown like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accomplish? Likely nothing other than embarrassing the United States for negotiating with a communist nation and bowing to their desires. Iran has a vested interest in what happens in Iraq. Iran would like nothing more than to turn Iraq into a nation much like Iran. Iran does not want any kind of democracy in the Middle East and will be a major opposing force to any kind of democratic government for a very long time.

Sure, Iran could stop a lot of the violence in the region because they’re the cause of most of it. In case Obama hasn’t noticed, Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. Iran would gladly “help” us quell the violence and in exchange get to exert more influence on Iraq and dictate where oil profits go. Why don’t we just open up negotiations and unilateral talks with Al Qaeda?

Maybe we should “talk” to Iran about the 6000 new centrifuges that they are assembling for their nuclear program. I’m so sure Iran’s only interest in uranium is for nuclear power….does anyone actually believe that?

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.

This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.

Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

I have watched the 15 minute film and it is a compilation of verses out of the Quran calling for violence, footage from terrorist activities, and Muslim leaders preaching violence against Jews and Christians. Geert Wilders has already been targeted with assassination before, but is much more likely to face it after releasing this film. He also faces some copyright charges, but that’s irrelevant if he’s killed for this.

The film is very damning against radical Islam and seeks to have the Quran banned in Holland for the same reason that Mein Kamph was banned.  It’s isn’t very well made, but it is powerful.  Geert Wilders has a right to say what he thinks without being threatened with death.

The film was downloaded from LiveLeak.com and made it onto YouTube. If you want to watch the film, the two parts are below. It is about 15 minutes long total. I wouldn’t recommend watching it with kids.

Part 1

Part 2

My personal favorite is her claim that she plays pickup basketball. Right, I’ve seen plenty of 60 year old multi-millionaire women playing pickup basketball.

NewsMax has some other hilarious claims from Hillary:

She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.

She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.

She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a “duck hunter.”

She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.

We will see how savvy the Obama campaign is if he chooses to tackle some of these blatant fabrications. Of course, Obama’s got some credibility problems of his own so he may just lay low on this one and allow the voters to figure it out on their own.

As reported by the AP, bin Laden just released a five minute long audio message specifically dealing with the topic of….(drumroll)….cartoons. The message seems to be against cartoons published in Danish newspapers of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb shaped turban that were republished on Feb 13th of this year. However, these so-called “insulting” cartoons have been around for two years now, so I guess Osama bin Laden is behind the times. Must be living in a cave or something…

But there has been increased chatter in jihad forums calling for revenge on European nations over the cartoons. Bin Laden called for “grave punishment” over them. Do these Muslims threatening to kill innocent people over cartoons actually use their brain for anything, or is their skin too thin to take any kind of joke?

Just this week the Second District Court of Appeals in California issued a ruling in a child welfare dispute that will make homeschooling a criminal act for the majority of California homeschooling parents. Justice H. Walter Croskey presided over the 3-0 ruling and stated that “California courts have held that … parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.” The ruling determined that only those parents who are credentialed teachers may teach their children at home. Parents who do not hold teaching credentials and who homeschool their children can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply with the law.

The only functions of government should be to provide justice and protection of our way of life. These are the foundations our country was founded on. It was not founded on welfare programs or education or jobs. The government’s job is not to educate your kids, provide you with work or a monthly check if you’re out of work, or give you free healthcare. Yet these are the things that our government does more and more and more of.

This ruling in California is yet another example of liberalism run amuck. Liberalism is about controlling citizens. The concept of the individual doesn’t exist in the realm of liberalism–every person must be controlled by the government for the greater good of society. Liberals believe that the government is better at raising kids than parents are. Government knows best—what to feed your kids, how to dress your kids, what to teach your kids, and how to discipline your kids. Slowly our rights as individuals and as families are decaying in this country, and there is no better place to watch it happen than in California. It seems California is leading the charge to have everyone turn all their rights over to the government.

Multiple studies have shown that homeschoolers score an average of 15 to 30 percentile points higher on achievement tests than do government schooled kids. Homeschool parents also on average are more educated than the general public—88% continued their education beyond high school versus 50% for the general population. Nearly every year the winner of the National Spelling Bee is a homeschooler. By every measurable standard, homeschoolers are better educated than government educated kids.

No matter what the situation, even if you hold an M.D, a J.D., or a Ph.D, if you don’t hold a teaching certificate in California you can go to jail for homeschooling your kids. It doesn’t matter if you are the greatest teacher in the country, if you haven’t gone to school and taken the exams to get that little sheet of paper called a teaching certificate, you go to jail. It doesn’t matter if you live in Compton and your daughter fears she will be sexually assaulted every time she goes to school, the government doesn’t care because they think they will do a better job teaching your kid than you will.

I’m not quite sure if this is just a huge power grab from the California government to get more money into an already failing school system or if they’re just trying to implement socialism as soon as possible into this country. Either way, it’s a chilling ruling and it will hopefully be reversed for the sake of the kids whose education will most definitely suffer.

San Francisco Chronicle: Homeschoolers’ setback sends shock waves through state