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The Bishop of Cordoba, Demetrio Fernndez Gonzlez, is waging holy war against Muslims and lefties who want to wrest control of a cathedral away from the Catholic Church who stole it from the Moors 800 years ago.

The bitter fight has broken out over the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in Andalusia, in southern Spain.

The consecrated site is believed to have originally been a Christian church dedicated to Saint Vincent the third.

The city was seized in 711 by a Moorish army, and it became a provincial capital.

But it was recaptured from the Moors in 1236 during the Spanish Reconquista by King Ferdinand III of Castile, following a siege lasting several months, and the Mosque was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral.

Gonzlez has now claimed opponents now want to reverse the Reconquista.

Gonzlez said: For eight centuries we have lived peacefully with the cathedral in Catholic hands.

But right now, the idea the Muslims have had, this dream that theyve had to somehow take back the cathedral, is being helped by the political left.

So it is a kind of alliance coming in from the left.

The politicians realize that the cathedral is the property of the Church, but what they would like is for it to become public property.

So it would be a type of expropriation.

Gonzlez was speaking at a meeting in Washington DC, organizedby the Center for Religious Freedom of the Hudson Institute.

Fernndez added that sharing the cathedral with Muslims would not be possible, neither for the Catholics nor for the Muslims.

A church dedicated to St Vincent of Saragossa occupied the site and was razed by the Moors in 711.

Cordoba was governed by direct Moorish rule, with commanders establishing themselves within the city.

The city became a provincial capital in 716, and was subordinate to the Caliphate of Damascus.

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Clockwise from top left, Surrey-White Rock MLA Tracy Redies, former Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon Hogg, Surrey South MLA Stephanie Cadieux, Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Marvin Hunt.

Former Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon Hogg suggests former premiers throne speech caused instability

As BC Liberal Party MLAs check their shoulders to see which one of their colleagues will make the first step toward becoming the partys leader, current and former Surrey MLAs are suggesting that the most appropriate candidate may be one from outside the caucus.

Former premier and BC Liberal Party leader Christy Clark stepped down June 29 after holding B.C.s top job for six years. Her decision came as a surprise to many, because the week before she reaffirmed her commitment to leading the party in opposition.

As the party searches for a new boss, former Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon Hogg who did not seek re-election May 9 after five terms in provincial office said there are advantages to recruiting from outside of the party.

He said the BC Liberals need someone who can reaffirm the partys stability after Clarks throne speech, which was made two weeks after the election. The speech, Hogg said, contradicted a number of positions made by the party during the campaign.

We lost a little bit of balance when we ran on a platform and shortly after the election we introduced a throne speech that really diverted a long way from the platform we ran on, Hogg told Peace Arch News Wednesday.

We went through a campaign and presented all of the things we believed we were going to carry out and then there was a quick change. I think theres some instability around that and theres a need to build back the confidence and stability that is needed to go forward, I think some of that was lost.

Hogg said the BC Liberals should have put more of a focus on education and health care during the partys most recent campaign.

This has been said, I dont think the campaign was run as well as it could have and as well as it should have been run. I think part of that now needs to be readdressed.

As for potential leaders, Hogg said he doesnt have any that come to mind.

Depending on the level of renewal the party wants to address, I think there are some distinctive advantages of getting someone who is outside of the party who is not part of the old regime that has been in power for 16 years and went through the election, he said.

Theres been some media speculation that South Surrey-White Rock MP Dianne Watts a former Surrey mayor is making a move for the position. Hogg said he hasnt spoken with the MP, but Ive heard those rumours that she may be interested.

Certainly Dianne is well known, particularly in the Lower Mainland. Im just not sure about her relationship and commitment to the federal Conservatives at this point.

PAN attempted to contact Watts, but her legislative assistant emailed back saying Watts is unavailable for an interview at this time. PAN asked why but received no response.

However, the Globe and Mail received a statement this week from Watts saying that she had received a lot of calls and emails about the contest, but I have not made any decisions at all one way or another.

BC Liberal Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Marvin Hunt told PAN this week that there are a number of people that would make a good fit for the leadership, inside and outside the party.

Youve got, for example, people like (Kamloops-South Thompson MLA) Todd Stone who are young, smart, good head on their shoulders.

Asked if he was referring to Watts when he said theres potential leadership from outside of the party, Hunt said Sure.

Shes one that certainly the press has been making a fair bit of lately, and I suspect there will be others as well.

Although he hasnt seriously considered making a move for the leadership, Hunt said the thought did cross his mind.

Just about as fast as it went into my mind, it went out the other side, he said, noting media attention is a deterrent.

The saying goes that you go from being a big fish in a little pond to a little fish in a big pond. The press are piranhas.

Another aspect of the leadership job Hunt wouldnt enjoy, he said, are vicious online trolls who hide behind fake names.

Thats why I enjoyed municipal politics because it was much more local. Sure, you still had people that were upset with you no matter what happened, but by the same token, they were far more gentle because they knew that they could meet you in the grocery store.

Stephanie Cadieux, BC Liberal MLA for Surrey South, also said she has no interest in leading the party.

Im very happy in my role. (Leading the party) is another level of commitment to the province and it takes a certain type of person. I certainly have passion and ideas but I am comfortable for someone else to have that (job), she said.

Cadieux said that at this point, she wont identify any potential candidates.

There are a lot of names being bantered about, of course, and Im sure there are likely to be some that havent yet circulated. Right now were getting speculation from all sorts of arenas, but until individuals make it known publicly that theyre going to make a run for it and put their positions on their table, Im not going to presuppose it.

She said there are capable people both inside and outside the caucus that could fill the role.

It will be about who I believe puts forward the vision for the province that is best for today.

BC Liberal Surrey-White Rock MLA Tracy Redies said she was disappointed with Clarks resignation, however starting on a clean slate could be healthy for the party.

Its not what I would have picked but now that the premier made her decision, theres an opportunity for us to rejuvenate the party and think about what we need to do for the people of British Columbia and come up with a plan, Redies said.

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HBOs Confederate, dreamt up by the producers behind Game of Thrones, hasnt even been scripted yet and some people already hate it. This is how the press release reads: The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the Southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. MSNBC host Joy Reid called the idea repugnant; film writer ReBecca Theodore said: black trauma is not for sale. The hashtag campaign on Twitter is #NoConfederate.

So, is this it? Has American TV - after years of cashing in on sex, violence and genocide - finally found the line it cannot cross? Is slavery the new taboo? Yes and no. The problem with Confederate might be less its content than its context, and while some say the protest is knee-jerk, its reasoning is just.

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Do you see the problem? It's a common one in liberal defenses of affirmative action. We realize it in an admission a few sentences later in the story. The Justice Department document that The Times has obtained, you see, says nothing about white people. In fact, the document doesn't identify any specific victim of affirmative action, only the procedures of "intentional race-based discrimination."

The big surprise in the study was that Asians had to score significantly higher than whites, as well as blacks and Hispanics. Despite having a higher average SAT score, Asians have lower odds of admission than do "comparable whites."

Liberals can't absorb the Asian factor. It doesn't fit the whites vs. people of color setup. What is most frustrating to liberals is that advocates can't point to Asians as victimizers of blacks and Hispanics to justify the unequal treatment. The old argument of compensation-for-past-abuses doesn't apply to them, only to whites.

In other words, the element of white guilt disappears. And with it goes the most powerful moral argument for affirmative action. It is true, yes, that advocates have shifted their arguments for affirmative action from compensation-for-past-abuses to diversity -- that is, the contention that a more diverse classroom produces better learning -- but the diversity rationale doesn't impress most people except in a fuzzy way. They can't quite see how a student in calculus will improve his grades if he has a different race representative sitting next to him.

Nobody wants to take sides against the victims. Unless, that is, someone uncovers a new, nonwhite beneficiary to the elimination of preferences.

With legal efforts by Asian groups against affirmative action policies likely to continue as Asian high schoolers, foreign and domestic, flood the applicant pools, it is reasonable to expect that the Trump administration investigation will end up saying much more about the admission of Asians relative to blacks, whites, and Hispanics than it will about whites relative to Asians, blacks, and Hispanics.

In this narrow focus on affirmative action in America today, the Trump administration is once again crossing a progressive sacred principle, the division of educational achievement into whites and everybody else.

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A new progressive coalition, the Not One Penny campaign, is launching today to build opposition to any Republican tax reform plan that lowers rates on corporations or the very wealthy.

Progressives have known for a while that tax cuts were the number two priority for Trump, after Obamacare repeal, said Nicole Gill, executive director of TaxMarch, one of the groups spearheading the new campaign alongside MoveOn and the Working Families Party. They havethe money, and we have the millions we have actual people who want to fight this.

Starting today, the Not One Penny campaign includes a seven-figure ad buy in eight Republican-held congressional districts,* all with large numbers of white voters without college degrees, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but have not historically been passionate about tax cuts. Its a fraction of what pro-tax reform groups like the American Action Network have pledged, but it mirrors what progressive groups and allies did during the effort to stop the Obamacare repeal in the Senate.

The competitive advantage of Not One Penny, say organizers, will be direct action and activism, building on the Tax March an April 15 rally to demand the presidents tax returns and on the victory of the anti-repeal campaign. In mid-July, as the fight to kill repeal was underway, more than 50 organizers from the resistance underwent training on best practices for organizing against tax cuts. Theyve fanned out to create anti-tax-cut presences in congressional districts over the long August recess.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke about the Democrats' "preferred path" for tax reform on Aug. 1. "The best tax reform is bipartisan tax reform aimed at helping the middle class," he said. (The Washington Post)

The goals of Not One Penny (as in, not one penny in tax cuts for the rich) are laid out in a pledge on the campaign website. The last thing we need is for the tax code to be even more rigged in favor of millionaires, billionaires, and corporate insiders, write organizers. Even more tax breaks for the super rich will undermine our commitment to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and make it impossible to invest in the middle class.

The anti-rigging rhetoric runs right into the messaging that tax cut supporters began using this week. At a series of events at the Newseum, two hubs of the Koch donor network Freedom Partners and Americans for Prosperity debuted a logo for their un-rig the economy campaign, which had been underway for a month.

Progressives see an opening in that message an admission, by the supporters of tax cuts, that reform cant be seen as a benefit only for the very rich. Polls this year from Pew and Gallup have found supermajorities of voters skeptical that corporations pay sufficient taxes. In April, 63 percent of voters said that the rich were taxed too little in the current system; 67 percent of voters said the same of corporations.

If its about whether or not the rich should get a tax cut, then conservatives will lose, said Michael Linden, a senior fellow at the progressive Roosevelt Institute. Its why they frame their plans as tax cuts for the middle class, or for competitiveness; if they talked about the distributional consequences, theyd lose.

*IA-01, IA-03, AZ-02, KS-03, ME-02, TX-23, AR-01, CA-49

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