{"id":4167,"date":"2011-03-04T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:00:26","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Left has been energized lately about Charles and David Koch; the brothers who run Koch Industries and give to right-leaning causes. What&#8217;s interesting is that the Left simultaneously ignores the money that comes in from George Soros. Personally, I don&#8217;t mind rich people giving their money away to causes they agree with, whether liberal, conservative or otherwise.&#160; But the Left has been apoplectic over the Kochs, or, as John Hinderaker says, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/02\/28\/opinion-the-lefts-unhealthy-koch-habit\/\" target=\"_blank\">an unhealthy Koch habit<\/a>. Charles Koch wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704288304576170974226083178.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"_blank\">an op-ed in the Wall St. Journal<\/a> on Tuesday laying out what his issues are; getting rid of &quot;crony capitalism&quot; and massive government spending &amp; debt so that entrepreneurs aren&#8217;t stifled at the expense of the politically connected. So&#8230;why is the Left <em>against <\/em>this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0311\/50543.html\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare is losing $48 billion a year<\/a> from fraud and otherwise improper payments. And Democrats want to give the government <em>more<\/em> control over our health care purse? Really?<\/p>\n<p>A Christian politician in Pakistan, the country&#8217;s minister for minorities&#8217; affairs, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-03-03\/pakistan-minister-assassinated-after-blasphemy-law-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">assassinated yesterday<\/a> for speaking out against the proposed blasphemy law, that would make it a crime to insult the Prophet Muhammad. This is the second high-profile murder related to this law. This may have been perpetrated by Islamic militants, but moderates within the &quot;religion of peace&quot; are getting a bad name from all of this. The problem is, there are a <em>lot<\/em> of those militants all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a civics lesson. (Click for a larger image.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=asay&amp;date=110303\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/110303\/asay.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left has been energized lately about Charles and David Koch; the brothers who run Koch Industries and give to right-leaning causes. What&#8217;s interesting is that the Left simultaneously ignores the money that comes in from George Soros. Personally, I don&#8217;t mind rich people giving their money away to causes they agree with, whether liberal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27,9,18,275,34,60,26,29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-democrats","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare","category-islam","category-links","category-politics","category-religion","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}