Michigan student confesses to murder in Florence, Italy

Universities are infested with psychopaths.

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com A 24-year-old honor student from Olivet College in central Michigan has confessed to police in Florence, Italy, for the murder of man there, WILX television in Michigan reports. According to a statement published on the college website, Johnathan Hindenach is a junior art major who had just transferred to Olivet at the beginning of the spring semester, and who was traveling with seven other students and a professor throughout Italy on a 16-day class trip. The lead investigator in Italy on the case has told the Associated Press that Hindenach ran out of a hotel in Florence on Wednesday night where the group was staying, saying that the other students wanted to kill him. The investigator, Filippo Ferri, also told the Associated Press that Hindenach suffers from psychological problems and that he had consumed alcohol and taken drugs before killing Riccardo Nistri, 62, on Thursday. Police arrested Hindenach on Thursday near the storefront where they discovered Nistri's body.

Pelosi Says She's ‘Unaware’ of Obama Adviser's Claim that Pope Benedict is 'Discredited Leader'

In an interview with CNSNews.com after his appointment, Knox stood by his comments about the pope. This prompted a public dustup as the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the Family Research Council, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a recent convert to Catholicism, publicly criticized Obama for appointing Knox to the faith-based advisory board.

clipped from www.cnsnews.com Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she was not aware of the negative comments about Pope Benedict XVI made by an adviser to President Barack Obama that were published in a San Francisco newspaper. However, Pelosi praised the Catholic Church for what it has done about poverty, disease and climate change when asked about the Obama adviser's comments. In April, Obama named Harry Knox to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Knox, a Christian, is the director of the faith and religion program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual rights organization. On Mar. 19, Knox told the Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco-based gay newspaper, that the Catholic Knights of Columbus do “a great deal of good” but they are following “discredited leaders,” such as Pope Benedict.

Confronting Jihad on Campus

I can tell you are a conservative when you use a word like “juvenile” to describe fascists. Yes, it’s very juvenile but also very sinister. The left has purged the conservative presence from almost all academic faculties and constantly attacks conservative student organizations and individuals. It’s a very intimidating force and it’s pervasive in the academic world.

clipped from www.frontpagemag.com Parcbench`s Chris Yogerst had the recent opportunity to interview David Horowitz. CY: Last year you spoke at UW-Milwaukee, my undergraduate alma mater, and you were able to point out how radical the Muslim Student Association (MSA) was there.   How does this school rank as far as the MSA is concerned? CY: Name-calling is really just a juvenile tactic for arguing serious issues. DH:  I can tell you are a conservative when you use a word like “juvenile” to describe fascists.  Yes, it’s very juvenile but also very sinister.  The left has purged the conservative presence from almost all academic faculties and constantly attacks conservative student organizations and individuals.  It’s a very intimidating force and it’s pervasive in the academic world.

Freddie Pressured Over Accounting Disclosure

Creeping Fascism

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com When Freddie Mac privately suggested to regulators last month how it planned to account for its mounting losses, the mortgage giant set off a firestorm. Freddie Mac's regulator pressed the company to withhold information related to the proposal from a federal filing, concerned that this seemingly arcane discussion of accounting practices could add billions of dollars to the government's cost of bailing out financial firms, two people familiar with the matter said. But the company's executives refused, the sources said. They worried that removing the information from the report to the Securities and Exchange Commission could expose them to accusations they'd hid required details from regulators.

Prosecution of German Parents Has Ominous Implications for U.S. Families

If Obama signs the UN human rights declaration, it will happen here.

clipped from www.alliancedefensefund.org Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is only the latest and most high-profile jurist to express her enthusiasm for overseas precedents; in fact, a growing number of judges in American appellate courts are indicating a willingness to submit U.S. jurisprudence – and the meaning of the United States Constitution – to the rulings of foreign judges and international courts. Ordinarily, I keep the focus of these columns on court cases and litigation based here in the United States.  But anyone keenly watching the political skies has to realize that legal clouds are gathering dark and fast over other parts of the world – particularly Europe – and those clouds, sooner than we want to think, will be precipitating undesirable judicial activity on this side of the Atlantic.