Evening Reading: Proverbs 22.24-25 NLT

A word to the wise: “Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.” Proverbs 22.24-25 NLT

Oman: Waking up too | The Economist

Peanut Gallery: This article gives a good overview of the challenges facing Oman in the future – government succession and diminishing oil revenue. However it does not recount the amazing forward leap into the 21st century that Oman has made under the wise leadership of Sultan Qaboos. While there certainly is censorship of government criticism, Sultan Qaboos rightly deserves and receives the respect and admiration of the Omani people. Western democracies would be well served by statesmen like the Sultan.

Oman: Waking up too | The Economist.

Oman: Waking up too
Even placid Oman is being buffeted by the Arab winds of change
Jun 23rd 2012 | MUSCAT | from the print edition

IT HAS been described as the world’s most charming police state. Oman’s ruler, Sultan Qaboos, who overthrew his father in 1970, now stands out as easily the longest-serving ruler in the Middle East, and perhaps as the world’s only absolute monarch not to have a publicly designated successor. A few reforms have got under way since strikes and protests hit the country last year. But with most power still in the sultan’s hands, questions about the future have begun to loom. The calm is now being challenged, albeit still a lot less fiercely than elsewhere in the Arab world. Continue reading “Oman: Waking up too | The Economist” →

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In my opinion, the HHS Mandate which would force religious institutions to violate their teachings or face crippling fines and sanctions represents one of the most serious challenges to America’s Constitutional Government since the Civil War.

This mandate is not a law. It is a government agency rule, established by vote of a small committee of private individuals who were not elected by or answerable to the American people. If allowed to stand, the mandate will establish the precedent that the government may coerce the ministries of whole denominations to violate their own moral teachings or be shut down by government fines and sanctions. This is a direct, deliberate violation of the freedom of religion which Americans have enjoyed for over 200 years. This mandate must not stand.

I feel it is our duty as Americans to oppose the HHS Mandate and to insist that our elected officials act to…

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