Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts

Jacob Sullum: Slandering Muhammad Is Not A Crime

Pandering to Muslims at the expense of free speech. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, President Obama tried to explain this strange attachment that Americans have to freedom of speech. He was handicapped by his attraction to a moral principle whose dangers the journalist Jonathan Rauch presciently highlighted in his 1993 book  ... MORE

Top Muslim Calls For U.N. To End Free Speech

Free thinking identified as an insult to Islam. One of the world’s most influential Muslims is now calling on the United Nations – in light of the YouTube movie blamed for violent protests across the Mideast – to impose international restrictions on free speech, criminalizing any statement that impugns Islam. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, a  ... MORE

Washington Times: The U.N. Is Coming For Your Guns

Obama administration is pushing for global arms control. The United Nations is deliberating over a treaty that will place comprehensive limits on the international weapons trade. The language of the draft agreement is so expansive it wouldn’t take an Obama-appointed judge very long to extend the treaty to cover the domestic firearms market ... MORE

Patrick Michaels: UN Prepares Shakedown Attempt Of U.S.

End of the world predictions lay the groundwork.  Notice all the horrendous news about our environment?  That’s a sure sign that the UN is about to throw another mega-gabfest where global leaders will shake their heads and shake down the U.S. for monies that Congress will wisely refuse to fork over. Two weekends from now, the UN is holding its “Rio+20   ... MORE

Michael Flood McNulty: Obama Wants UN Gun Control

A backdoor attempt to impose gun right restrictions.   Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. gun rights.  While negotiations on the treaty are ... MORE

Eliza Krigman: U.N. Seeks Power For Internet Regulation

What will be America's response to Russia and China? Faced with the prospect of United Nations regulation of the Internet, the United States has yet to appoint a leader for an upcoming battle with other countries over Web management. Less than a year from a historic treaty negotiation that will redefine international agreements on Internet management, the   ... MORE

Neil Snyder: A World Tax? Keep Your Eyes On The Internet

A compelling reason not to elect Obama.    The United Nations is finally moving toward the creation of a world tax. "No one should live below a certain income level," stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. "Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water       ... MORE

Ben Stein: We Have An Illegal War

What will tomorrow bring from this third-rate crowd?
Okay, kids. Now, let's see where we are today in the wacky, mad, wonderful world of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton playing at war and diplomacy. When we last looked in, Hill and Barack had just junked the U.S. Constitution and gone to war at the order -- not of Congress but of the United Nations Security Council... But look.  ....  MORE