From Washington:

May 14, 2017 / 04:03 pm

Although the North Korean government is doing everything it can to suppress Christianity, the faith continues to spread, said a defector and missionary who called for prayers and action to increase religious freedom in the country.

“It is my prayer that all the international Christian communities will pray for those North Korean Christians to really help and engage them to spread the Gospel, not only through the works of the underground Church network, but also through the government and request for this religious freedom that they are earnestly praying for,” Kim Chung-seong, a North Korean defector, told reporters through a translator on Friday.
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In an item likely targeted for mid-morning Saturday publication in the hope that few would notice it, the Associated Press’s James MacPherson covered “SIGNS OF (an) OIL BOOMLET IN NORTH DAKOTA AFTER PIPELINE FINISHED.” The “pipeline” in question is the Dakota Access Pipeline the hard-left so despises. Though it inexplicably took the AP reporter four paragraphs to identify the pipeline as the DAPL, the most remarkable aspect of the story was his specific identification of its vast economic benefits in the space of a mere three paragraphs.

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In a Saturday op-ed in the Washington Post, Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe wrote that “The time has come for Congress to launch an impeachment investigation of President Trump for obstruction of justice.” Tribe says it should happen now, because “To wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation’s fate to the whims of an authoritarian leader.” (Conviction first, trial later.) To make his case, Tribe distorted both past history and current reality, while the Post failed to disclose key matters about the professor’s entanglements which readers deserve to know.

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