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In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers … have a secular outlook on life. … They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to.”

These secular conservatives may think that “America can survive the death of God and religion,” writes Prager, but they are wrong. And, indeed, the last half-century seems to bear him out.

• Obama sending more forces to Syria to consolidate gains against Islamic State (Reuters)
• Global stocks, dollar stumble ahead of Fed, BOJ meetings (Reuters)
• The Rise and Deadly Fall of Islamic State’s Oil Tycoon (WSJ)
• Oil Producers Lock In Once-Snubbed Prices (WSJ)
• Yellen's Scope for Summer Rate Hike Widens as ECB Signals a Hold (BBG)
• 11,000 jobs at risk as BHS teeters on brink (The Times)
• China's Xi Shakes Up Rival Power Base Before Party Reshuffle (BBG)
• As Bond Yields Rise, Some Investors Fear Another False Dawn (WSJ)

Submitted by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,

• The European Union now finds itself in a classic catch-22 situation. Large numbers of Muslim migrants will flow to Europe regardless of whether or not the EU approves the visa waiver for Turkey.

Washington Is Forcing Its European Vassals To Accept 2nd Wave of Immigrants

The Obama Regime forced the EU to accept millions of refugees from Washington’s failed wars in the Middle East and Africa. Now the Obama Regime is forcing the EU to accept millions of refugees from its failed policy in Ukraine. Europe as we once knew it no longer exists. Washington has thrown the European peoples into the trash bin of history.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160423/1038492048/ukraine-visa-free-regime-analysis.html