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President Obama had ulterior motives when challenging the religiously attached institutions such as Catholic Hospitals, health providers, and other institutions which employ other than solely from within their religion. His demand that such institutions not be exempted from the requirement to provide coverage for contraceptive care, as had been assured during the debate on Obamacare, instigated a much larger and stronger response from the Catholic Church than he had probably expected. But why... Read Full Story

One would think that once the Freedom and Justice Party, also known as the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, took almost half of the seats which were recently elected to the to be formed Egyptian Parliament in the just ended three part elections, would be patient enough to wait a couple more months to take the reins of power. Well, you had better rethink that premise as the Muslim Brotherhood has now requested that the ruling Military Council surrender their power to the elected Parliament... Read Full Story

Way back at the beginning of what transformed into the Arab Winter, known by the optimistic term Arab Spring, and freedom was presumably breaking out all over the Arab Middle East, numerous pro-democracy Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were represented by numerous optimistic representatives who dreamed they were assisting the removal of a viscous dictator and replace it with a democratically elected liberal governance to uphold the Western standards of human rights, equality, religious... Read Full Story

The three main concerns in the Middle East currently consist of what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen. Taking them in order, we start with the pretty much completed Arab Spring. As we here at BTC have pointed out from its beginnings, the revolutionary fever that spread through the Middle East was, in reality, the Arab Winter. There will be no freedoms won from the removal of the old dictators, only replacement of the old dictators with the new theocratic dictators. The... Read Full Story

The United Nations Security Council was unable to come to an agreement last week on the wording or actions to employ against the Assad government in Syria which has murdered over 7,000 Syrian citizens in an ever increasing violent confrontation. The tumult and conflagration has continued to slowly grow taking more lives week after week for close to a year now. The Security Council had attempted to water down the wording of the sanctioning rhetoric in their motion against President Assad’s... Read Full Story

The biggest story in the Middle East happened this past week and almost nobody covered the story. Twenty months after the Gaza Flotilla fiasco where the Turkish IHH terrorists viciously attacked and attempted to kill or kidnap the IDF soldiers enforcing the legal embargo on Hamas in Gaza we are treated to the complete opposite sending real honest aid into Gaza under a self-imposed press blackout. This happened on a ship named the Mavi Marmara and instantaneously the entire world heard that... Read Full Story

Over the past month the Obama Administration issued statements by Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Defense Panetta, and President Obama referring to the potential for an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear program, as well as sending the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, to Israel insisting Netanyahu inform and receive permission from the United States before taking any actions against Iran. Add to this the presumed accidental slip made by <a href=http... Read Full Story

First things first, this week saw a decision coming down from the White House that with the new healthcare regulations make it such that the only places of employment which may opt out of offering such coverage to their employees are those which are strictly of a religious nature. This means that Catholic and other Churches, and similar places of worship whose religion forbids the use of such drugs or services will have to choose between obeying this ruling or obeying their religious decrees... Read Full Story

It seems virtually every fifth story in the news is related in one way or another to the coming military strike on Iran and their nuclear program, more often than not intimating that Israel will be the country to first push an attack, not giving the sanctions against Iran by the United States and the European Union time to work despite them ramping up steadily with time. The basic formula that has been presented is that Iran will be containable even should they have nuclear weaponry in much... Read Full Story

I guess the first thing we should do is define what exactly Senator Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein allowed to slip out. During a televised Intelligence Committee meeting Senator Feinstein stated that Mossad director Tamir Pardo is in Washington for talks about a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. When you take into consideration that President Obama is so completely against any concrete actions that would physically impede or, preferably, destroy the Iranian... Read Full Story