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A religious school in Florida says it will only refer to students by their sex assigned at birth, while pupils who are gay, transgender or gender nonconforming "will be asked to leave the school immediately." NBC News obtained an email from Grace Christian School in Valrico, about 20 miles east of Tampa, sent before the beginning of the school year by Administrator Barry McKeen. The subject line of the email reads: "Important School Policy Point of Emphasis. ... Please Read." The June 6 correspondence to parents cited scripture and said that students will be referred to by the "gender on...

or the second time in a month, President Trump has rushed to condemn a terrorist attack abroad as the work of Islamist terrorists, speaking out before the facts are known even to local officials. Trump’s remarks came just a day after he once again insisted he was right to cast blame on both sides after violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. And they renew the question of why he is so quick to speak with such clarity in cases involving Islamist terrorism and yet so deliberate and equivocating in a clash involving white supremacists. Within hours of an apparent attack...

When I see the $170 million Inaugural celebrations, I am reminded of “Belshazzar the king of Babylon. [He] made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God...

Deals from the Dark Ages George Jonas, National Post Published: Saturday, July 28, 2007 On Wednesday, the bullet-riddled body of 42-year-old Bae Hyung-kyu was discovered in the Qarabagh district of Afghanistan, the region where 23 South Korean Christian aid workers had been abducted on July 19 by the Taliban. The initial response of Baek Jong-chun, South Korea's chief presidential secretary for security affairs, was to sound a stern warning. The kidnappers "will be held accountable for taking the life of a Korean citizen," he said in a statement before leaving Seoul for Afghanistan. There was a trace of bewilderment...

Don't get deafened by the noise - do something By Christie Blatchford Toronto Globe and Mail Wednesday, July 25, 2007 – Page A16 In the CTV News footage taken from the Saturday night - early Sunday morning, actually - that Ephraim Brown was killed, there is one particularly significant bit. In several frames, six or seven tiny children, who look to be between 4 and 8, are walking down a darkened street. There are enough of them that they take up almost the entire road. They hold hands, and are being led to the safety of a city bus...

The God that whined Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 Back in the day, the many atheists I knew went about their unbelieving lives in a quietly sardonic, but non-combative way: They'd abandoned organized religion, but sought no quarrel with those who stayed. They explained their non-belief to their children, but let them join the boy scouts. Everything old is new again, but ? different. Yesterday's live-and-let-live atheism has morphed into today's truculent "atheism with attitude," where God is not only dead, but --postmodern glee having replaced Nietszchean gloom regarding His demise -- with good riddance...

Cross-dressing coward David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, July 08, 2007 Should a man have the right to an opinion about how a woman dresses? We could argue about this all day, but the short answer is, yes. Women may obviously comment on what men wear, and I'm tired of conceding "rights" to people who do not recognize my own. An example is the Pakistani policewoman in Islamabad last week who found Maulana Abdul Aziz wearing a full-length burka. She did not think this was an appropriate way for him to dress, and turned him over to her...

What the ice tells us, 'experts' don't care to hear David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Saturday, July 07, 2007 Surely summertime is the best time to think about ice caps. And it is certainly summertime again up here in the northern hemisphere. Down there in the southern, I have noticed from passing weather reports, new cold records have been set in sundry locations in Patagonia, South Africa, Australia -- just as the "global warming" scare is peaking. My reader will of course realize it is winter down there, and winter is when cold records tend to be set....

Defeatism leads to defeat David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 One really has to wonder about the efficiency of the British National Health Service after seeing how incompetently a group of Islamist doctors carried off their weekend car-bombing and fire-throwing attacks in London and Glasgow. Not one death; not even a successful suicide. We can thank the indiscretion of the British police for the information that the persons since rounded up were mostly doctors and laboratory technicians working for the NHS. "Of Asian origin." Am I jumping to conclusions by guessing that they were all...

The State of Israel has entered a sort of values vertigo. The heavens are the earth, the earth is the heavens, good is evil and evil is good. The first obvious expression of this vertigo was Rabin's handshake with Arafat on the White House lawn. It blurred the distinction between friend and foe, good and evil and justice and depravity. "Behold, I have set before you today life and goodness, and death and evil." (Deuteronomy 30:15) There is good and there is evil -- and not as the paganistic post-modernism would have us believe. There is life and there is...

Anarchist leaker covets disorder By Ezra Levant Calgary Sun Monday, May 14, 2007 Jeff Monaghan, a communications worker in the federal environment department, was arrested last week in connection with an illegal leak of a confidential draft of the government's policy on Kyoto. Monaghan has not been charged with anything, but he has been fired from his job and he has not denied leaking the document. Leaking government secrets can be more than just a political embarrassment. If government announcements are known before they are officially made public, it grants an advantage to anyone looking to take advantage of...

Legendary actor Jon Voight on his controversial new movie September Dawn, his career, and his politics, which might surprise you. (snip) HH: Now in your assessment of whose going to be the next president, and we’re going to now transition to the war and come back to your career and come back to the film, what do you most want in a commander in chief? JV: Well, I think you have to have many things. One is someone who is able to look beyond partisanship and see what’s right for the country, and understand what’s really happening. In this day...

Idiotization of the masses David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, May 06, 2007 In my absence I see that the Conservative government I voted for has embraced a broad new "post-Kyoto" nanny-state environmentalist agenda, to head off competition from the environmentalist lunatics on the other side of the Commons floor. Also, that they have sunk in the polls -- having been trashed by the media for insufficient environmentalist zeal, and for insufficient sensitivity to the health and safety concerns of Islamist psychopaths caught red-handed by our military in Afghanistan. The sense that one is returning from vacation to...

This is a war - not a grad seminar Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Last week's headline-hogging story was alleged prisoner abuse in Afghanistan. Well, not so much alleged prisoner abuse in Afghanistan itself, but rather what different Canadian politicians had to say about alleged prisoner abuse in Afghanistan. "Ottawa stirs storm of confusion," blared The Globe and Mail in an especially breathless Friday banner headline. And then another front page Globe splash on Saturday: "The government's changing story." Even if the charge of Canadian wrongdoing remains unproven, the barrage of accusations made for compelling...

First, they came for the guns ? George Jonas, National Post Published: Saturday, April 28, 2007 Human beings live in worlds of their own making. This is true of individuals as well as nations -- even entire periods. I suppose a person couldn't help being born in the Dark Ages, but it was still people who created the Dark Ages and people who ended them. They weren't cosmic events. If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it will be our own doing, too. Nobody is making us. None of our Evil Empires came from outer space....

NBC Proud Part of the Culture of Death HumanEvents.com by Charles Adler (more by this author) Posted 04/23/2007 ET It was late Wednesday afternoon, April eighteenth, when a Virginia police officer told the world that NBC had received a so-called manifesto from the Virginia Tech gunman. We were told that the tape and the ramblings would help in the investigation. Within minutes of the news conference, some of the sick pictures that the gunman took of himself were released on an NBC Web site. Pretty soon, all the media had the images. Many newspapers decided to publish them on...

Blame the killer By Michael Coren Toronto Sun Saturday, April 21, 2007 One question that should be asked following the massacre of the innocents in Virginia is where on earth did the media find so many social workers, child psychologists and pop philosophers and how were they able to utter such complete rubbish for so long? For the most part they are mere puppets of fashion, tossing around cliches and soppy explanations when the answers are really very simple. It's not about bullying and certainly not about gun control. This terrible case is about an insane, evil person committing...

Date of the inversion David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, April 01, 2007 The question, at what precise moment did Western Civilization capsize, continues to interest me. (It is still floating, but upside down in the water.) I've brought it up before. Once, for instance, I called attention to a fine book by the historian John Lukacs, A Thread of Years, in which, through a series of anecdotes, one for each year from 1901 to 1969, he reviews the decline, fall and final extinction of "the idea of a gentleman." Note the terminal year. For long I've mentioned...

Class war masquerading as law George Jonas, National Post Published: Saturday, March 31, 2007 The idea that I'd ever agree with Naomi Klein about anything would have struck me as bizarre until a few days ago. Then I saw an observation she made in The Guardian. "There is no doubt," the poster girl of Canada's left wrote about the trial of Conrad Black and three codefendants in Chicago, "that what is going on in that courtroom looks less like a fraud trial than class war." Indeed. Now Ms. Klein may regard this as a good thing. I regard it...

Two years later, John Paul II remembered Ian Hunter, National Post Published: Saturday, March 31, 2007 The life of Karol Wojtyla, the relatively unknown Polish Cardinal who became Pope John Paul II, came to an end two years ago this Monday: April 2, 2005. And what a life it was. Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev credits the late Pope for bringing about the end of communism. During his 27-year papacy, John Paul II conducted mass in the presence of countless worshippers; he was seen in the flesh by more people than any other human being who ever lived. John...