The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.

He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’

Daily Mail

Every time some damning story comes out about how the once “Great” Britain has sunk further into the abyss of tyranny and despotism, I ask myself, “What is it going to take for these people to wake up?”  Then something even more startling pops up.

This is unreal.  What in the hell are those people doing over there?  How much more evidence do they need that their country has been pulled out from under them by the enemy within?  I love the UK.  I’ve visited there and I almost went to college in London with the intention of even possibly remaining there afterwards.  In hindsight I thank God those plans never worked out.  I fear if I went back now I wouldn’t recognize it anymore.

Shortly after joining the U.S. Senate and while enjoying a surge in income, Barack Obama bought a $1.65 million restored Georgian mansion in an upscale Chicago neighborhood. To finance the purchase, he secured a $1.32 million loan from Northern Trust in Illinois.

The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the average for such loans at the time in Chicago. The loan was unusually large, known in banker lingo as a “super super jumbo.” Obama paid no origination fee or discount points, as some consumers do to reduce their interest rates.

Compared with the average terms offered at the time in Chicago, Obama’s rate could have saved him more than $300 per month.

Washington Post

Clearly the appropriate thing for Obama to do would be to demand that his interest rate as well as those of all the other greedy rich people be raised a few percent so that the poor and downtrodden who are losing their homes to foreclosure can get a break on their rates and stay in their homes.  I think that pretty much lines up with Obama’s general philosophy of wealth redistribution.  He should make an example of himself to show how much he cares about the little guy.

First Principles.