lunes, 21 de mayo de 2012

Nuit des Témoins - Notre Dame de Paris - 25 mai 2012

MESSE à 18h30.

Nuit des Témoins de 20h à 21h30

Pour découvrir les grands invités de la Nuit des Témoins,

rdv sur www.aed-france.org

En présence de grands témoins de Chine, du Pakistan, d'Irak et d'Egypte.

Parlez-en autour de vous, et venez rendre hommage à ceux qui ont payé de leur vie leur fidélité au Christ. La soirée sera retransmise en direct sur KTO et Radio Notre-Dame.

Obama: Because of continued confusion about his faith, conservative charges that he is waging war against religious groups

The Controversial Faith of Barack Obama

by Gary S. Smith

President Obama’s recent statement on gay marriage has again thrust his religious views onto the front pages. In defending his position, Obama stressed that he and his wife were “practicing Christians” and that his stance was supported by Christ’s teaching of the Golden Rule.

Since his quest to win the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004, Barack Obama’s faith has provoked controversy. In that campaign, his Republican rival Alan Keyes—a black Catholic—accused Obama of stressing his faith only “when it’s convenient to get votes.” When faith must be followed, explained, and serve as a basis for policies, Keyes protested, Obama pled the “separation of church and state”—a concept that was neither constitutional nor scriptural. “Christ would not vote for Barack Obama,” Keyes asserted, because his behavior was so contrary to that of Christ’s.

Crisis Magazine

The partisans of the Volcker Rule would ban banks from taking proprietary risk positions...

J.P. Morgan and the conceptual confusion of the Volcker rule

Alex J. Pollock

We have certainly heard a lot about the $2 billion "trading loss" at J.P. Morgan, which is of course not at all the same as the bank experiencing a loss on its bottom line. From the perspective of the corporate profit and loss statement, a trading loss is one expense item in the context of all revenues and expenses. So $2 billion should be compared to the bank's $26.7 billion in pretax profits for 2011, suggesting a reduction of something less than 10 percent in annual profit.

So we have discovered that trading and hedging activities can have losses which somewhat reduce overall profits. Eureka! This ranks with the discovery that if you make loans, some of them will default. Does it justify the partisans of the Volcker Rule which would ban banks from taking proprietary risk positions and make them stick to the "traditional" banking business of making loans?

The American Entreprise Institute

Let the 2012 electoral predictions commence!

5 electoral college predictions for 2012

By Henrik Temp

Below are four separate electoral college predictions from some of the best analysts in the business: The Cook Report, RealClearPolitics, The Washington Post’s The Fix blog, and John Ellis’s Ellisblog. I’ll follow those up with my own prediction.

Let’s look at the maps.

The American Entreprise Institute

Obama et Sebelius : le baiser de Judas à Judas… et réciproquement

Kathleen Sebelius chahutée à la Georgetown University

Daniel Hamiche

Obama et Sebelius : le baiser de Judas à Judas… et réciproquement

Passant outre aux quelque 36 000 pétitions exigeant qu’on désinvite la scandaleuse ministre de la Santé d’Obama, la ci-devant catholique Kathleen Sebelius, et au cinglant désaveu de l’épiscopat américain, les dirigeants de la ci-devant catholique Georgetown University de Washington D.C. l’ont reçue, honorée et lui ont permis de prononcer le discours de remise des diplômes de fin d’études au Public Policy Institute de l’établissement jésuite. Une université “catholique” offrant une estrade et honorant une politicienne persévérante dans son application de la culture de mort et architecte du HHS Mandate, qui est une déclaration de guerre contre l’Église catholique et la liberté religieuse aux États-Unis – au mépris des prescriptions du Magistère exprimées dans Ex Corde Ecclesiæ–, voilà qui dépasse la raison, mais je crains qu’il n’y ait plus guère de foi et encore moins de raison à la Georgetown University… Mais il s’est, heureusement, trouvé des catholiques pour dénoncer sur le campus ce scandale(photo), et deux dizaines d’autres courageux protestataires pour chahuter Katheen Sebelius dans la salle…

Rriposte Catholique