Gen. Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, said the commission provides many of the same protections that defendants would get in civilian court.

5 charged in 9/11 attack resist Gitmo hearing

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks repeatedly declined to answer a judge’s questions Saturday and his co-defendants knelt in prayer in what appeared to be a concerted protest against the military proceedings.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men appeared for the first time in more than three years for arraignment at a military tribunal atGuantanamo Bay. They’re charged with 2,976 counts of murder for the 2001 attacks.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/5/911-mastermind-back-guantanamo-judge/

Les cinq accusés du 11 Septembre devant la justice militaire

Le procès, à Guantánamo, lance une procédure qui pourrait durer plus d'un an

Les cinq accusés du 11 Septembre ont commencé à comparaître devant un tribunal militaire de Guantánamo, samedi, pour leur audience de mise en accusation pour les attentats les plus meurtriers de l'histoire américaine. "L'accusation est prête à procéder dans l'affaire de Khaled Cheikh Mohammed contre États-Unis", a déclaré le chef procureur, le général Mark Martins. Les cinq hommes n'ont pas été vus en public depuis plus de trois ans. Ils étaient tous les cinq assis à distance les uns des autres, vêtus de combinaisons blanches, certains portant un chapeau blanc musulman. Quatre d'entre eux n'étaient pas menottés.

http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/les-cinq-accuses-du-11-septembre-devant-la-justice-militaire-05-05-2012-1458334_24.php?xtor=EPR-6-[Newsletter-Quotidienne]-20120505

Rediscovering the original and best social safety net

Best recession insurance: Marriage

Americans rediscovering the original and best social safety net

By Janice Shaw Crouse

Economists refer to the economic benefit that accrues to married couples as the “marriage premium.” A recent CBS television special asked the question, “Why is marriage such an economic turn-on?” The program “MoneyWatch” gave three reasons based on a report from the Pew Research Center’s report, “Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage”:

Economies of scale: Married couples share the cost of necessary expenses, such as health insurance, utility bills and mortgage payments. That is especially significant today when more than two-thirds of men have working spouses and 22 percent of wives make more than their husbands.

Married couples earn more: From 1970 to 2007, the median household income for married couples rose more than incomes for unmarried couples. The mutual support that couples give each other and their mutual stake in the relationship means they work together toward their financial goals.

Married couples invest better: Married women invest in stocks more than unmarried women and, as couples, they “invest more, save more and are more future-oriented.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/best-recession-insurance-marriage/

West must not surrender permanent liberty for temporary tolerance

Resisting threat of fanatical Islam

Who am I? I am neither a king nor a president, nor even a government minister; I am just a simple politician in the Netherlands. But because I speak out against expanding Islamic influence in Europe, I have been marked for death. If you criticize Islam, this is the risk you run. That is why so few politicians dare to tell the truth about the greatest threat to our liberties today. The Islamic threat to the West is worse than the communist threat ever was. Think of it this way: Politicians who warned against the Soviet threat weren’t forced into hiding, as we who speak out against Islam are.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/4/resisting-threat-of-fanatical-islam/

  -  By Geert Wilders  -  

Succeeding waves of elitist opposition to our inherited moral, aesthetic, and spiritual standards had issued finally in a nihilistic anti-culture, hostile not only to religion, family, patriotism and traditional morality, but even to the promise of enlightenment reason itself.

The other war on poverty: Finding meaning in America

The Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner, May 2, 2012.

Leon R. Kass | AEI

On this occasion twenty years ago, in his Boyer Lecture entitled “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,” Irving Kristol explored the growing gap between our thriving capitalist economy and our unraveling bourgeois culture. Regarding the economy, he showed how capitalism had produced a widely shared prosperity that put paid to arguments in favor of the socialist alternative. Regarding the culture, he showed how succeeding waves of elitist opposition to our inherited moral, aesthetic, and spiritual standards had issued finally in a nihilistic anti-culture, hostile not only to religion, family, patriotism and traditional morality, but even to the promise of enlightenment reason itself.

Concluding with a look to the future, Kristol foresaw both good news and bad. In the short run, he was confident that the nihilism preached by our elites would not prevail politically, because our sensible, bourgeois, property-owning democracy breeds its own antibodies that “immunize it, in large degree, against the lunacies of its intellectuals and artists.” For the long run, he was much less sanguine

http://www.aei.org/speech/society-and-culture/free-enterprise/the-other-war-on-poverty-finding-meaning-in-america/

Le vote national

Hilaire de Crémiers, directeur de Politique magazine

analyse les raisons et les conséquences du vote national lors des élections présidentielles

Père Zanotti-Sorkine 

 "C'est par la beauté qu'on conduit à Dieu"

Au siècle de l’image, il faut donner du beau à voir dans les églises. La richesse de la liturgie plaît aux plus pauvres, précisément parce qu’elle les sort de leur quotidien.  » 

Les fidèles, ensuite, ne cachent pas que la qualité des sermons du père Zanotti-Sorkine compte beaucoup dans leur assiduité aux Réformés. Rien n’est le fruit du hasard : le prêtre, de son propre aveu, consacre de longues heures à leur préparation.

http://www.jeansevillia.com/index.php?page=fiche_article&id=209