If his Republican opponents will not take down Donald Trump, Fox
News will not only show them how it is done. Fox News will do the job
for them.
That is the message that came out loud and clear from last
Thursday's debate in Cleveland, which was viewed by the largest cable
audience ever to watch a political event — 24 million Americans.
As political theater, it was exciting and entertaining.
But what was supposed to be a debate among the top-10 Republican candidates turned into a bear-baiting of Donald Trump.
What a great story today from the Syrian desert, where a British special forces marksman saved an 8-year-old boy and his father moments before they were to be beheaded by ISIS cockroaches. Shooting from a half mile away, an SAS sniper was able to take out the three ISIS subhumans without a bullet wasted.
A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS)
maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young
son.
An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time
The brave British marksman saved
the terrified eight-year-old and his father after taking out the crazed
jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 metres away.
The special
forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror
group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.
ISIS
militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after
branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.
They
were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop
the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the
minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical.
They were saved from a cruel and
painful death at the hands of the fanatics after an Iraqi spy tipped off
British special forces to the planned execution.
Special forces
troops who arrived at the killing site, where ISIS was carrying out a
series of rigged 'trials' of locals, discovered a gruesome scene with
several headless bodies already lying bloodied on the desert floor.
The
dramatic rescue operation took place last month near the Syrian border
with Turkey, where an elite SAS unit had been conducting covert patrols.
Defence
sources described how the SAS unit moved into a position just outside a
village where ISIS members were holding the 'trial' in front of a crowd
of locals who had been forced to attend at gunpoint.
The crack team considered calling
in an air strike using a Reaper Drone, but the elite troops feared many
of the innocent civilians who had been forced to watch the executions
might also be killed.
Instead the SAS unit decided on a risky long-range kill using the team’s sniper.
Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday, one source said: “There were several decapitated bodies already lying on the ground.
"Through binoculars the soldiers could see that the crowd were terrified and many were in tears."
A man and a young boy were dragged out in front of the crowd and were made to kneel down.
"They were both wearing blindfolds and looked terrified.
"A tall bearded man emerged and drew a long knife.
"He began addressing the crowd and slapping the father and his son around the head and kicking them on to the floor.
"Standing either side of the executioner were two other Isis fighters, both armed with AK47s."
The SAS marksman, using a .50 calibre sniper rifle fitted with a silencer, killed the executioner just in time.
The source added: "The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed.
"Everyone
just stared in confusion. The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen
with single shots – three kills with three bullets.
"Someone from the crowd then ran over and untied the father and son’s hands and took their blindfolds off.
"They just stared at the bodies and then ran. They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck.
"It was a good day’s work."
The
SAS team was later told the village held a party to celebrate the
deaths of the ISIS fighters and it is understood terrorists have since
refused to enter the town.
SAS teams have fought alongside resistance fighters in both Iraq and Syria for more than a year.
Dr. Timothy O'Donnell is the President of Christendom College in Front
Royal, VA. He received both his licentiate and doctoral degrees in
Ascetical and Mystical Theology from the Pontifical University of St.
Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is a Knight of the Grand Cross in
the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a Consultor to the Pontifical
Council for the Family. A respected author and lecturer, Dr. O'Donnell
has filmed ten lecture series for EWTN.
O'Donnell's lecture is part of an ongoing series sponsored by The Institute of Catholic Culture,
an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the
Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new
evangelization. The Institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering
education programs structured upon the classical liberal arts and by
offering opportunities in which authentic Catholic culture is
experienced and lived.
In his new biography “Being Nixon: A Man Divided,”
Evan Thomas concedes a point. Richard Nixon, he writes, “was not
paranoid; the press and the ‘Georgetown set’ really were out to get
him.”
Carl Bernstein’s review found Thomas’ book deficient in its failure
to chronicle the “endemic criminality” of the Nixon presidency.
Yet,
recent revelations suggest that “endemic criminality” is a phrase that
might well be applied to the newsroom of The Washington Post when Bob
Woodward and Bernstein worked there.
Consider. In “All the President’s Men,” Woodward and Bernstein admit
that, in collusion with Post editors and with the approval of Post
lawyers, they approached half a dozen Watergate grand jurors.
All current or likely Republican presidential candidates were invited to
take part in a “Voters First Republican Presidential Forum” on the
campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. This event
was the first opportunity to hear all of the 2016 Republican
presidential candidates on one stage. The candidates appeared one at a
time, answering questions determined by the editors of the Union Leader
based on the topics suggested by the public. Senators Crux (R-TX), Paul
(R-KY), and Rubio (R-FL) appeared via video link from Washington, D.C.
Jack Heath moderated.
Magna Carta – the Great Charter – is one of the foundational
documents in Anglo-American legal history. Ironically, it began, not as
a statement of principle, like our Declaration of Independence, but as a
peace treaty. Signed on June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede,
England, Magna Carta sought to end the barons’ rebellion against King
John by forcing the crown to adhere to the laws and customs of the
realm. Magna Carta was initially thought to be a failure because King
John repudiated the treaty almost before the ink was dry. But time has
been good to the Great Charter. In fact, it is difficult to overstate
the importance of Magna Carta in the development of Anglo-American law.
English law treats it as “the Bible of the English Constitution.”
The American Framers used the phrases “the law of the land” or “due
process of law” in numerous important contemporary legal documents,
including statutes passed by colonial assemblies, resolutions enacted by
the Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence, and state
constitutions. Magna Carta has come to stand as proof that a written
document can make important revisions to the law, fend off tyrannical
government officials, restrain even the sovereign’s power, and grant
rights to the entire community, not merely to certain favored
individuals – an enduring legacy that helped to establish “the rule of
law.”
In an event at The Heritage Foundation, recorded above, two esteemed historians reflect
on the contributions of the Great Charter from both the British and
American perspectives.
,”
Evan Thomas concedes a point. Richard Nixon, he writes, “was not
paranoid; the press and the ‘Georgetown set’ really were out to get
him.”
