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Pro-Life Candidate Resigns from Constitution Party

Ben Powers / The American View:
I am writing you today to make you aware of the current status of the Constitution Party, and in particular, its affiliate here in Minnesota. I have been an active member of the Constitution Party of Minnesota since February 2003. In that time, I have served as Secretary/Treasurer of the 1st District Constitution Party, Chairman of Minnesotans for Peroutka, and most recently as their US Senate candidate. Since 2003, the Nevada affiliate of the Constitution Party, the Independent American Party of Nevada (IAPNV), has elected and retained a chairman that is a vocal proponent of aborticide, referring to children conceived of rape and incest as “trespassers and intruders deserving of extermination.”

Thank God For Lou Dobbs

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Genuinely objective reporting is almost nonexistent in today's mainstream media. They all seem to be little more than lap dogs for big-government media moguls, distracting the American public with incessant "news" coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, while providing almost no coverage of the really important issues impacting America's future survival. Thank God, there is one exception: CNN's Lou Dobbs.

Schlissel on Biblical Law

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
My favorite Hebrew presents a simple case for the wisdom of applying God's law to society. In the event that an entire community, state, or even nation, was entirely Christian, how then would we live?

IRS Complaint Filed Against Priests for Life

Covenant News Wire Service:
A Catholic abortion rights group claims Priests for Life has violated Internal Revenue Service rules by posting online videos promoting the presidential candidacy of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. Catholics for Free Choice President Jon O'Brien said the complaint specifically points to two PFL-TV videos posted on the PFL Web site as "flagrant" endorsements for Brownback. "We believe it's unacceptable for any organization to reap tax benefits for a charitable mission and then use the money to engage in a political campaign," O'Brien said.

Florida Considers Charges Against Gay Republican

Brian Ross and Vic Walter / ABC News:
Florida law enforcement officials are building a possible criminal case against disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, R-Fla., based on sexually explicit instant messages that were sent from Pensacola, Fla., to an underage high school student, thereby falling under the state's tough law on Internet sexual predators. Unlike federal law, the Florida statute makes it a crime simply to use lewd or explicit language "that is harmful to minors."

State May Charge Foley as Internet Sex Predator

Amie Parnes / Sun-Sentinel.com:
State authorities are still considering whether to charge former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley as an Internet sex predator because of online messages he sent a male teenager from a hotel room in Pensacola, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. While campaigning for a Senate seat in 2003, Foley, 52, sent the high school student and former congressional page a string of online messages describing sexual acts that a state official called a clear violation of Florida's law on Internet sex predators.

Dobson brays like she-donkey to Republican hopefuls

Dan Gilgoff / U.S. News & World Report:
While making it clear he was not endorsing any Republican presidential candidate, Dobson, who is considered the most politically powerful evangelical figure in the country, also said that Gingrich was the "brightest guy out there" and "the most articulate politician on the scene today." Gingrich recently appeared on Dobson's daily Focus on the Family radio program, carried by upward of 2,000 American radio stations, where he made headlines by discussing an extramarital affair he was having even as he pursued impeachment against President Bill Clinton for his handling of the investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair.

"A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her."--Jeremiah 2:19-25

The King of Kings

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
Paul, in 1 Timothy 6:15, speaks of Jesus Christ as “the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Ernest Gordon translated the latter part of this verse as “the King of those kinging it, the Lord of those lording it.” Behind all the powers of history, in other words, stands the Great King, Jesus Christ. This Great King allows men and nations to pursue their evil dreams and to work out their sins. Thus, what men in their evil imaginations see as the solution to man’s problems becomes in time their curse.

Call It Treason: Merger With Mexico

Juan Mann / VDARE.com:
The latest nation-destroying amnesty scheme of H.R.1645—the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act—was introduced in the House of Representatives on March 22 by Treason Lobby mouthpieces Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). But don’t be fooled. This bill is not just about selling-out America to the lowest foreign worker bidder. The end-game of H.R. 1645 is the even more deadly: the sovereignty-eroding Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) plan for regional government. H.R. 1645 is 697 pages of immigration give-aways including at least seven flavors of amnesties great and small.

Foley Sex Crime Investigation Continues

Brian Skoloff / The Associated Press:
Six months after resigning from Congress, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley remains under criminal investigation for sexually explicit Internet communications with underage boys but has not been charged, authorities said Wednesday. "I can't really give any more detail other than to say we're still in the preliminary investigative stance and we are working with state authorities," said Debra Weierman, spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office.

Under federal law if a person meets or attempts to meet a minor for sex it is a crime. Under laws in some states where the Florida Republican communicated with minors, an attempt to seduce the victim might be enough for a criminal case. Under state law in Florida, where the age of consent is 18, a crime may have been committed if Foley is simply found to have seduced or attempted to seduce a minor using lewd or explicit language.

Mark Foley Scandal Timeline
New York Post - Interactive Website:
Mark Foley, a six-term Republican from Florida who had been heading for re-election, resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives Sept. 29 after revelations of sexually explicit electronic messages he sent to a teenager and former House page. The House ethics committee investigated whether other members of Congress or staffers tried to cover up Foley's actions. It found no violations of House rules, but chastised some Capitol Hill veterans for a "disconcerting unwillingness to take responsibility for resolving issues regarding Rep. Foley's conduct."

Calif. Bill Gags Normal Christian Speech in Schools

Religion and Spirituality.com:
A bill that presumably would prevent California public school teachers from saying anything negative about homosexuality has been re-introduced in the state Senate. It is nearly identical to one vetoed by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last September. The newest bill, SB 777, would prevent teachers from "giv(ing) instruction" and school districts from sponsoring "any activity" that "reflects adversely upon persons because of" their "gender" or "sexual orientation" — phrases that encompass homosexuality and transgenderism. The bill also prohibits textbooks "or other instructional materials" from including information casting homosexuality and transgenderism in a negative light, Baptist Press reported Wednesday.

Washington State to 'Microchip' Drivers

Marc L. Songini / ComputerWorld.com:
The state of Washington and the federal Department of Homeland Security plan to jointly develop a driver's license, likely embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, for use in lieu of a passport for travel to some countries. The state and DHS last week announced plans for a pilot program to develop a license for residents in the state that complies with the recently passed Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) legislation.

Globalists Love Global Warming

Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet:
A common charge leveled against those who question the official orthodoxy of the global warming religion is that they are acting as stooges for the western establishment and big business interests. If this is the case, then why do the high priests of the elite and kingpin oil men continue to fan the flames of global warming hysteria?

Preachers as Thieves: God's People Never Learn

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
Despite the fact that most evangelical ministries are decent, honest, and hard working, there remains that element which borders on criminal. Often, they are most popular.

'Dishonest Abe' Was No Christian

Rev. Steve Wilkins / The American View:
“Lincoln was not a church member, and some doubt he was a Christian, but none can doubt that he knew Scripture.” — Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President Of Government And Policy For “Focus On The Family,” writing in “Citizen,” April, 2007, in his column in which he says other things about Abraham Lincoln which are not true such as that Lincoln believed “human life was sacred” — except, of course, I guess, the tens of thousands of Southerners he sent his armies to murder because they wanted to be independent of the “Union.”

Atheist's Scoundrels

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
In 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt the author makes the following claim:

For anyone scanning the past and surveying the current world scene, it is nearly impossible to find any outstanding person—except for popes, archbishops, kings, and other rulers—who says the purpose of life is to be saved by an invisible Jesus and to enter an invisible heaven. But it is easy to find many among the great who doubt this basic dogma.

When I first read this I thought it was a joke. Is this man ignorant, deceptive, or just plain stupid? Jesus is no more invisible than anyone else who has lived. The historical record is clear on this. Mr. Haught has trouble believing in reason and logic, and they’re invisible.

Education Bill A Threat To Gun Rights

Allen Quist / Gun Onwers of America:
Bills are being introduced in Congress that, if passed, will require schools to teach our children that there is no right to keep and bear arms. That is, these bills will make an anti-right to bear arms education program the law of the land. The bills will accomplish this by writing much of the Marc Tucker education plan into law. The most significant of these bills so far is the SPEAK Act (S 224, HR 325), also referred to as the Dodd-Ehlers bill. Future bills will likely be forthcoming to implement other features of the Tucker plan, a plan that is hostile to our right to bear arms.

Pay Close Attention to Padilla Case

Lee Shelton / The Backwater Report:
José Padilla was held by the Pentagon from May 2002 until January 2006. He was then transferred to the custody of the U.S. Justice Department where he was indicted on terrorism charges. His trial is scheduled to begin next month – five years after his arrest. Padilla filed a motion to dismiss on the basis that the government denied him his right to a speedy trial. But Judge Marcia Cooke denied the motion, holding that his status as an “enemy combatant” while in military custody precluded that right.

Supreme Court Agrees to Review Child Porn Law

Pete Yost / The Associated Press:
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide the constitutionality of a child pornography law. The issue arose in the case of Michael Williams, whose conviction in the state of Florida for promoting child porn was reversed by the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. In asking the court to take the case, the Bush administration said the appeals court read the law's language more broadly than is warranted.

Gonzales Accused of Sex Scandal Cover-Up

Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet:
Journalist Jerome Corsi appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to discuss in depth his astounding new investigation that implicates both Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in the cover-up of a pedophilia scandal involving the Texas Youth Commission. "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's minor boy inmates."

Enjoy The Sideshow

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
While everyone (especially Republicans) seems preoccupied with the fact that U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and may be fired at his discretion, they conveniently overlook the circumstances surrounding their dismissal. While President Bill Clinton fired all the U.S. attorneys almost immediately after taking office, Bush's White House apparently fired these U.S. attorneys after they had faithfully served his administration for some six years. The cloud of suspicion rises even further when it appears that at least some of these U.S. attorneys were engaged in cases involving government corruption and secret national security grand jury investigations. At the heart of the firings seems to be U.S. Attorney Carol Lam of California who was reportedly conducting testimony regarding espionage and prostitution/pedophilia sex rings.

Jewish Seminary to Admit 'Gays'

Rachel Zoll, Religion Writer for The Associated Press, is reporting that the "seminary considered the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism" said it will start accepting sodomite applicants, after so called "scholars" who guide the movement lifted the ban on ordaining the filthy abomination as rabbis. Arnold Eisen, incoming chancellor for the Jewish Theological Seminary, said the decision was made after extensive discussion with faculty and students, a survey on views of the issue within the movement and a meeting of the school's trustees. Zoll also said that "the larger and more liberal Reform Jewish movement, as well as the smaller Reconstructionist wing, allow gays to become rabbis; the Orthodox branch bars gays and women from ordination."

The Lord's Judgment

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
When we are told in Deuteronomy 1:17 that in courts of law “the judgment is God’s,” it means the judge administers God’s law faithfully. Similarly, we are told that just weights and balances are the Lord’s (Prov. 16:11). All courts of law therefore are to administer God’s justice, not man’s. In the Bible, the words for “justice” and “righteousness” are identical. God’s salvation means for us Christ’s righteousness applied to us, to give us a new standing before God. In our relationships with our fellow men, we are to apply God’s righteousness, justice or law. One of our problems today is that humanism enthrones man’s word above God’s Word, and man’s law above God’s law.

The 'Invasion' of Jamestown

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
One of the debates surrounding the “celebration” of the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown colony is that the English “invaded” the land of a native people. It’s true; it was an invasion, an invasion of a superior worldview even if the people who did the invading weren’t always morally superior. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the invasion was the other way around? Native cultures knew nothing of progress. They believed in the circularity of life and a world controlled by unpredictable forces.

More Funding for the War in Iraq

Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
Last week the House passed an emergency supplemental spending bill that was the worst of all worlds. The president’s request would have already set a spending record, but the Democratic leadership packed 21 billion additional dollars of mostly pork barrel spending in attempt to win Democrat votes. The total burden on the American taxpayer for this bill alone will be an astonishing 124 billion dollars. Democrats promised to oppose the war by adding more money to fight the war than even the president requested. I am pleased to have joined with the majority of my Republican colleagues to oppose this bill.

9/11 and the Evidence

Paul Craig Roberts / VDARE.com:
Professor David Ray Griffin is the nemesis of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In his latest book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, Griffin destroys the credibility of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Popular Mechanics reports, annihilates his critics, and proves himself to be a better scientist and engineer than the defenders of the official story.

Another Bush Crony Pleads Guilty

Jim Kouri, CPP / NewsWithViews.com:
James Steven Griles, the former deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, has pleaded guilty to obstructing the U.S. Senate's investigation into the corruption allegations surrounding former Washington lobbyist Jack A. Abramoff. Griles admitted that he knowingly and willfully lied and concealed material information about the relationship that he had with Abramoff.

Big Easy to Receive Mega-Ships from China

Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:
In a development that further reconfigures the U.S. commercial transportation network into international free trade structures, the Port of New Orleans is positioning itself to receive containers from China through the Panama Canal, taking advantage of links to emerging NAFTA superhighways. New Orleans will benefit from a 2003 joint marketing Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the Panama Canal Authority when the canal opens a third set of expanded locks in 2014.

Lap Dog, Born Again Christianity

Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:
It is way beyond time for wimpy, effete, unteachable Christian leaders extant in our nation to begin to address the blatant usurpation of God‘s authority by our government and our courts. Strong, theologically sound Christians would never have allowed the secular god of humanism to gain ascendancy and dictate terms to the Church of Jesus Christ. Every pulpit would have been on fire against it! Both Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson have offered to pray for co-presidential aspirant John Edward’s wife who is battling metastasized cancer. What god are these people calling to?

Doctrinal Blobdom

David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:
The person who masters the Word of God will apply it in his daily life. This is the teaching of such passages as Eph. 2:8-10 and 2 Tim. 3:16-17. Right doctrine without right practice (especially love of the brethren) is next to worthless. This is not to minimize doctrine. On the contrary. There are many professing Christians who use Christian language while altering the essential nature of the Christian faith. It is not only liberal theologians who are subverting Christianity by turning it into a totally different religion that is more acceptable to their tastes. True Christianity differs from all other religions in that it contains doctrine – truth claims based on the knowledge and understanding of the Word of God. True Christians cannot, therefore, reject or trivialize the central role of truth.

A Change Is Coming Are You Ready?

Bob Strodtbeck / Ether Zone:
The greatest problems facing Americans have nothing to do with terrorism or from threats that we of Iran's efforts to build a nuclear arsenal to invade Israel. We are not under some threat of becoming a huge crucible for liberal Democrat experimentation. The Democrats have shown, in the short time they have regained Congressional majorities, that their political accomplishment is in reality an accident caused by President Bush's ineptitude in handling foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Our biggest problem is our inability to accept the idea that the United States can collapse and cease to exist and that the biggest contributor to that collapse is an unrestrained, hedonistic, unintelligent public that easily accepts whatever a corrupted self-serving political class gives it.

Is North American Union About Political Ideology?

Tom DeWeese / NewsWithViews.com:
If you believe there should be no borders marking a specific entity called the United States of America, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe nationalism, meaning love and pride of country, is a bad thing, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe government control of the market, of health care, and of energy policy is a positive force, then a North American Union will not concern you. If you believe anyone should be allowed to enter our nation, even illegally, obtain work, taxpayer-paid social programs, and owe no allegiance to the U.S., then a North American Union will not concern you.

Commerce Chief Pushes for 'North American Integration'

Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:
While the Bush administration insists the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership is just a dialogue with Canada and Mexico, a State Department cable released shows Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pressing to implement major trilateral initiatives to help "capture the vision of North American integration." The cable was among some 150 pages of State Department SPP documents recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request.

El Libertador or The Enslaver?

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
Hugo Chávez is a hero to many in South America. “He roams Latin America, hurling insults at President Bush, sneering at the United States as the enemy ‘empire’ and spending billions in oil money to undermine Washington wherever he can.” Chávez’s policies will trap the people he claims to be saving. They will become dependent on the State.

Chavez Announces 'Collective Property' Plan

The Associated Press:
President Hugo Chavez announced Sunday that his government's sweeping reforms toward socialism will include the creation of "collective property." Vowing to undermine capitalism's continued influence in Venezuela during his television and radio program "Hello President," Chavez said state-financed cooperatives would operate under a new concept in which workers would share profits. "It's property that belongs to everyone and it's going to benefit everyone," said Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro whom opponents accuse of leading Venezuela toward Cuba-style communism.

Feds 'Collective Property' Plan: Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain Watch:
The U.S. Supreme Court's June 2005 Kelo decision, upholding the “right” of New London, Conn., to transfer historic homes to a private developer of condos and offices, reminded Americans of the sorry state of property rights. We have long reported on the fact that cities routinely drive small businesses and homeowners off of their property so that the land can be transferred to big developers who promise tax windfalls to government.

The Monsters of American History

Gary North wants your nominations.
Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
I need your help. I am writing a high school textbook in American history. As I research the nation's history, I keep coming across bad guys. The trouble is, most of them are widely regarded as good guys. It is very difficult to tell the story of America to teenagers when you have to point out that most of the men on white horses actually rode brown horses with whitewash. I am thinking of writing a supplemental book on the worst of the bad guys. Murray Rothbard always called these people monsters. He had a long list of them. I want to focus on the worst ones. Do you have any favorites?

Hillary to Perverts: 'God Bless You'!

The American View:
"I am proud to stand by your side. I want you to know that just as you always have an open door to my Senate office you will always have an open door to the White House. And together, we will continue our struggle against hatred and our stand for equality. Together we can continue this journey that America has been on from the very beginning; to form that more perfect union and to realize the deeply held values we share. I believe together we can renew the promise of America and restore our leadership around the world. [This job will never be finished] but we can continue to make progress together. Thank you all and God bless you."

'Filthy' Abortion Clinic Reopens

By Mary Jo Layton / The Record:
Antiabortion activists blasted state health officials for allowing an Englewood clinic to reopen Friday and urged regulators to set up a hot line for patients who may have been injured at New Jersey's largest abortion center. After the near-death of a patient and graphic news accounts of unsanitary conditions, the reopening of Metropolitan Medical Associates created quite a scene Friday morning.
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Hillary's Homosexual White House

Here’s The Talk To Sex Perverts That’s Not On
Her Web Sites, Wasn’t Reported By National Media.
The American View Radio:
The American View show presents several excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s recent talk with a group of militant, radical sex perverts working, they say, “to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality.” Evidently, cross-dressers and those who haven’t yet decided exactly which sex they are or if they want to be any particular sex, have no such “human rights.” Hillary’s message: America was founded to make the world safe for sodomites. This woman is the favorite Amazon Warrior for the abominable homosexual cause.

Feminism Destroying America

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
In just over three decades, the feminist movement has completely uprooted and rewritten the norm for American family life. No longer are women seen as nurturers and helpmeets. The push for "equality" has done much more than move America's women from the kitchen to the boardroom; it has moved them from under the arm and next to the side of their husbands to, in many cases, a place of independence from, and lordship over, them.

Bush Paves Way for Martial Law

He overturns the Posse Comitatus Act.
The Intelligence Daily:
The changes to posse comitatus signed into law by Bush are extremely significant and ominous. The new law requires the President to notify Congress "as soon as practicable after the determination and every 14 days thereafter during the duration of the exercise of the authority." However Bush, as he has often done during his presidency, modified this requirement in his signing statement, which declared, "The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, the national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive." In other words, Bush claims that he does not even need to inform Congress that martial law has been declared!

A Modest Proposal

Jim Wetzel / The Backwater Report:
"“Our” government is, by and large, a monstrous purveyor of evil; a spectacular geyser of wrongs. Producing nothing that any sane person would want to buy, it must accordingly rob and steal for its living. It reaches around the world to shed innocent blood abroad, and into mothers’ wombs to shed innocent blood at home. It specializes in calling good evil, and evil good. I know of no comprehensive cure for the disease of human government; like the other consequences of man’s sinful and fallen nature, it will be with us until the time comes in which the Lord closes out the present order of things and replaces it with a new creation. Meanwhile, I take it that our business here and now, in general, is to minimize and mitigate evils to the extent that we’re able."

Trusting God

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
Since the references to trusting in God are so abundant, might it be that a good portion of our personal tribulation, trials, setbacks, confusion, lack of peace, and misdirection is stemming from a lack of trust in the Lord? The Scriptures tell us that it is far better to trust in the Lord than to rely upon anything else. We cannot trust in ourselves. We cannot put our trust in man; and we certainly cannot rely upon our own understanding. In all our ways we must acknowledge Him, and He shall bring things to pass as well as direct our paths.

The Old Consensus

George Grant / King’s Meadow:
The original Poor Laws, enacted on this day in 1589, sought to “reinforce righteousness,” to strengthen “the family bond,” and to “set the poor to work” and turn the country into “a hive of industry.” Although far from ideal, the laws accomplished just that, and became the model for three centuries of unprecedented liberty and prosperity. The Poor Laws determined that if welfare was to be a compromise, it was to be a carefully conditioned compromise. Workhouses and labor yards were established so that those willing to work could “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps” while maintaining family integrity.

Feds Suggest Cutting Abramoff Sentence

Curt Anderson / The Associated Press:
Federal prosecutors took the first steps toward reducing the prison sentence of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, currently scheduled for release in 2011 for a Florida fraud conviction. Documents filed in federal court say Abramoff has provided ``substantial assistance'' in a separate Washington corruption scandal investigation and continues to work with investigators from his prison cell in Cumberland, Md.

Deliverance from Egypt

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
When God sent Moses to Pharaoh with the message, “Let my people go,” He added, “And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand” (Exod. 3:19). Why then did God order Moses to deliver the message? The confrontation served two purposes. First, it hardened Pharaoh’s heart. He became all the more determined to resist Moses and His God, and he punished Israel for God’s demands. Thus, things very definitely took a turn for the worse. Only God’s judgment broke down Pharaoh’s resistance. Second, Pharaoh, in punishing Israel, compelled the Israelites finally to stand with Moses. The people were cowardly and ready to continue in their slavery, but step-by-step they were driven to stand with Moses.

Interview with Alan Knox

David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:
Alan Knox is well known in the blogosphere as the publisher of the website The Assembling of the Church. Alan recently agreed to an interview with me about his life and interests. Here are the results.

Ron Paul: Defund the War

Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
The $124 billion supplemental appropriation is a good bill to oppose. I am pleased that many of my colleagues will join me in voting against this measure. If one is unhappy with our progress in Iraq after four years of war, voting to de-fund the war makes sense. If one is unhappy with the manner in which we went to war, without a constitutional declaration, voting no makes equally good sense.

White House Voices Support for 'Gay' Troops

Sodomite Publication - Bay Area Reporter:
Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, was asked last week what message Pace's comments sent to gay service members serving in Iraq. He replied, "The president appreciates the sacrifice and service of every service member, and what they're doing on a daily basis to improve the situation." Steve Ralls was stunned. The spokesman for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the leading group working to repeal DADT, said, "As far as I'm aware, this is the first time the Bush White House has said they appreciate the sacrifice of gay troops."

Pervert Federal Judge Blocks Online Porn Law

Maryclaire Dale / The Associated Press:
A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material. In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech. "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall.

Church of Christ Claims Biggest 'Gay' Church

Ed Stoddard / Reuters:
They say everything is bigger in Texas. But the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas makes one Texas-sized claim that few would expect in the conservative Bible Belt state -- it says it is the world's biggest gay church. "I think this shows that God has a tremendously great sense of humor," said senior pastor and rector Jo Hudson. On a more serious note, she says the church, affiliated with the United Church of Christ, is a spiritual refuge for gay people of faith in a region associated with more conservative brands of Christianity. "Because we are in the Bible Belt we have a lot of people of tremendous faith," she said in an interview.

Is It Time For A Street Fight?

Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:
All talk no action. That is a phrase that fits most Christians. They say they are pro-life, they say they are tired of the moral degradation; they say they want to protect marriage, but it is hard to find any evidence that their talk is any more than jaw-jabbering. The Internet is full of those who are pointing out what is wrong with America. Anyone with any discernment at all knows that America is in trouble. You don’t have to be a social scientist to realize that America is becoming a vast, moral wasteland, and that we are becoming slaves to un-elected government. You certainly know that if things continue the way they are going our children and grandchildren are in a world of hurt.

Amazing Grace: It's More Than a Hymn

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
The world is in a mess, and Christians know it. Too many of them believe that they have not been called to change the world. What if other Christians had taken a similar position? What would the world be like? John Newton (1725–1807) was an infamous slave trader. The church knows him best as the author of such well-know hymns as “Amazing Grace” and “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.” Even while Newton was a Christian, he was also a captain of a slave ship. “Newton penned the beloved hymn ‘How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds in a Believer’s Ear’ during the leisure time afforded by a voyage from Africa to the West Indies.” In time, however, Newton confessed “shame” for “the misery and mischief to which [he had], formerly, been accessory.”

Selling Indulgences, Green-Style

Lee Duigon / Chalcedon Blog:
How can movie stars like Leonardo DiCaprio or Cameron Diaz scold us for "causing global warming" with our cars and refrigerators, while they themselves zoom all over the world on private jets? How is it that Al Gore, the pope and prophet of Global Warming, lives in a palatial mansion that consumes 20 times as much electricity as the typical American home? These are not hard questions to answer.

When America Is Gone

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
Unless you consider America to be "Mystery Babylon," there's really nothing specific I can find in bible prophesy about its existence in the last days, much less, it being a world superpower. So, with that in mind, for just a few uncomfortable moments, let's think about the unthinkable. When America is gone, to whom will you pledge allegiance?

Anti-Gun Nuts Push UnGodly Laws

John Lofton / The American View:
Shelly Parker was one of seven plaintiffs who went to U.S. District Court in our Nation’s capital to challenge Washington DC’s anti-gun laws which blatantly infringe the Constitutionally protected right of private citizens to keep and bear arms. In a sworn statement to the Court explaining why she wants to possess a functional handgun in her home for self-defense, Parker says, in part: “I reside in a high-crime neighborhood of the District of Columbia….”

Nazi-Era Education Laws Return

Dr. Bruce Nevin Shortt / American Vision:
As a homeschooling father whose children speak and read German fluently, I read with some interest the recent Rome News-Tribune’s story on the German government’s abduction of Melissa Busekros as a part of its ongoing persecution of Christian homeschoolers. While the German government’s use of Nazi-era laws and Stalinist abuse of psychiatry to intimidate and coerce homeschooling families should appall any American, I found the reported comments of Rome City Schools Superintendent Cooper shameful.

Why We Need The 'We The People' Act

Tom DeWeese / NewsWithViews.com:
The United States of America was created to be a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. A Constitutionally limited republic is restricted to the protection of individual rights. As outlined in our Constitution, the role of the federal government is strictly controlled in well-defined responsibilities. According to the 10th Amendment, all other powers and responsibilities are assigned to the 50 individual, sovereign States, which also are Republican governments.

Bush to Give Illegal Aliens Medicaid Coverage

The Associated Press:
The Bush administration will issue a rule making it easier for the infants of noncitizens to gain access to services covered through Medicaid. Typically, newborns of Medicaid beneficiaries are deemed automatically eligible for the health-care program during their first year as long as the mother remains eligible. Last year, Medicaid officials said this automatic status would not extend to infants whose delivery was covered through emergency Medicaid. Such emergency care covers the labor and delivery expenses for many uninsured couples, including illegal immigrants.

The LORD is No Respecter of Excuses

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:
One of the many things people fail to understand about God is that the Lord is no respecter of excuses. In Genesis 3:9–19, God makes it clear that He regards all excuses as only ground for condemnation and judgment. Man can never approach God with anything other than perfect faith and obedience. This Jesus Christ has done in our stead, and, in addition to this, has given us grace to obey Him. We are thus required to give Him the obedience of faith, to recognize that we have been called, not to disobey God’s law, but to obey it and to serve Him in every area of life.

S.C. Gov. Supports Pre-Abortion-Ultrasound Bill

Tim Smith / The Greenville News:
Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday backed a House bill (H. 3355) requiring women to view an ultrasound image of the fetus before [the state helps them murder their babies by abortion]. His spokesman said the governor opposes an amendment granting an exception for victims of rape or incest. The House is scheduled to resume debate on the legislation, which could be the first of its kind in the nation, this week. "I believe life is sacred, and in the debate over when life begins, I believe that as a society we should always err on the side of life," Sanford's statement said.

Editor's note:
In reference to South Carolina's pre-abortion-ultrasound legislation, Gov. Mark Sanford's statements, "I believe life is sacred" and "as a society we should always err on the side of life," are clearly false imaginations meant to entertain a particular voting block - a voting block that is ignorant of what exactly the legislation says or what it means.

In the bill's first statement to "The Committee On Judiciary" it tells what it relates to:

"relating to prerequisites for the performance of an abortion."

How does legislation that spells out "the performance of an abortion" even remotely sound like the Governor believes "life is sacred?"

Is this what the "sacredness of human life" represents to "pro-lifers" in South Carolina, that in the "performance of an abortion, life is sacred?" It sounds like devil-worshipers wrote this legislation to sacrifice babies to their "sacred" gods.

Also, Gov. Sanford's statement that, "we should always err on the side of life," is erroneous. Oh, the governor and lawmakers erred all right, but they erred on the side of death. This is what a baby looks like after he's had his pre-abortion-ultrasound. Does the end result of this law look "pro-life" to you?

What Gov. Mark Sanford and the state lawmakers have done is relinquish their God ordained duty to use the sword of the State as a "minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." Specifically, it is their duty to arrest, prosecute and punish people who murder babies in the State of South Carolina. But what these office holders have done is become evangelical targets - a specific people to be called to repentance for defiling civil government by shedding innocent blood.

Are these office holders aware of the fact that if this bill becomes law it will make them directly accountable for the murder of every child killed under these regulations? The blood of babies like this will be on their hands.

Christians in South Carolina should know that murderers "shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:21). And that "murderers... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." (Rev.21:8)

As long as Christians elect men to civil office who relinquish their God ordained duty by approving of murder, then Christians in America will be ruled and judged by the damned - as is the case in South Carolina.

--Jim Rudd

Ranger: We Have Our Missing Boy Scout

Estes Thompson / The Associated Press:
Park rangers escorted a weak and dehydrated 12-year-old Boy Scout out of the rugged North Carolina mountains on Tuesday, four days after he wandered away from his troop's camp site. Michael Auberry was brought the final distance by SUV to a ranger station, where a medical team and his parents were meeting him. "We have our missing Boy Scout," said a jubilant National Park Service spokeswoman Tina White.

Missing Scout Alive But Weak
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McGRADY, N.C. -- Park rangers were escorting a weak and dehydrated boy out of the rugged North Carolina mountains on Tuesday, four days after a 12-year-old Boy Scout wandered away from his troop's camp site, officials said. "We have our missing Boy Scout," said a jubilant National Park Service spokeswoman Tina White. White said she didn't have any exact details about where Michael Auberry was found, but that officials first received word he had been found shortly before 11 a.m. within a mile and a half of the camp site. "Search and rescuers who located him have their hands on him. He is in the care of search and rescue workers," White said. "Probably the most important thing we heard on the radio is A-1, which means he is on good condition." White said she was confident the boy was Michael Auberry. The boy's parents and rangers were on their way to meet the group, she said.

Hollywood Goes To Church

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
From the March 12th edition of the Christian Post comes an article by Lillian Kwon entitled, Movies Making Way to the Pulpits.

She begins this way:

The growing phenomenon of "theater churches" and movie-like screens at the pulpits has more churches talking relevance in the 21st century.

Have you noticed that a rush to relevance has become the driving agenda in most churches today? - Not preaching repentance, faith or obedience to God's Word - all the things that Jesus demanded of His followers - only a never-ending quest to be relevant to the culture - something the Lord never taught. In fact, He referred to "friendship of the world" as a form of adultery - spiritual adultery:

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." - James 4:4

The Last Days Of Constitutional Rule?

Paul Craig Roberts / VDARE.com:
The Bush administration’s greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. The administration’s offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress and the American people, its vote-rigging scandals, its sweetheart no-bid contracts to favored firms, its political firing of Republican US Attorneys, its practice of kidnapping and torturing people in foreign hellholes, and its persecution of whistle blowers are altogether so vast that it is a major undertaking just to list them all.

When Will Conservatives Drop The GOP?

Chuck Baldwin / Chuck Baldwin Live:
It is no hyperbole to say that conservatives throughout America are extremely disappointed and disillusioned with the national Republican Party. This discouragement is only deepened as they peruse the field of prominent candidates being trotted out as "frontrunners." It appears that conservatives will be asked to choose between the chameleon Mitt Romney, the pro-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens John McCain, and philanderers Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani. A few conservatives seem slightly excited that former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson is mulling entrance into the presidential race. However, a closer inspection of his voting record finds him to be just another globalist neocon, who would do little to change things in Washington, D.C. For example, Americans for Better Immigration gives him a puny career grade of "C."

Feminist Fumes Over 'Purity Balls'

Lee Duigon / Chalcedon Blog:
Only a women's studies professor would find it "profoundly disturbing" when fathers and daughters try to promote chastity; and only the out-of-touch media would think of hiring a women's studies prof to analyze a religious issue. Writing for USA Today, Mary Zeiss Stange, a professor of women's studies and religion at Skidmore College, New York, discussed the growing popularity of "purity balls" (see "A dance for chastity.") The point of a "purity ball" is to celebrate the father-daughter bond and try to strengthen it so that the girl will be better able to resist the temptation of premarital sex.

V-Chip Education Campaign a Failure

Parents Television Council:
The Parents Television Council™ gave the television industry a failing grade on a “Progress Report” of the combined $550 million dollar advertising campaigns created to teach parents about the television ratings system. To provide evidence of the failure, the PTC released the results of questions conducted on two Zogby International polls in September 2006 and March 2007. The polls correspond to the genesis of and the reporting deadline of The TV Boss campaign.

White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements

Mike Allen / Politico.com:
Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions. Among the names floated Monday by administration officials are Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and White House anti-terrorism coordinator Frances Townsend. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is a White House prospect. So is former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, but sources were unsure whether he would want the job.

Whatever Happened to Sin?

One Christian leader suggests: it could be in 'the genes'.
Steve Camp / Steven J Camp Blogspot.com:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Dr. Al Mohler, Jr. (President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has created a firestorm of press the last few weeks due to some very perplexing and conflicting statements he made on his blog concerning the issue of prenatal sexual orientation identification, possibly, through study of what some scientists are labeling a "gay-gene". They think that if the gay-gene can be identified , then it can be reversed prenatally to a heterosexual state.

The Soul-Only 'Gospel,' and the End Times

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
A prominent end-time advocate writes that “the church is not in the business of taking anything away from Satan but the souls of men.” This person also believes that working to change culture and society is outside of God’s redemptive plan, believing that Satan has control of this world until Jesus returns and vanquishes him. In truth, Satan is a mere creature who was defeated at the cross. If we “resist the devil he will flee from” us (James 4:7). Scripture tells us that Satan is defeated, disarmed, and spoiled (Col. 2:15; Rev. 12:7; Mark 3:27).

The Bootstrap Ethic

George Grant / King’s Meadow:
The Charity Organization Society was England's leading private charity agency in the late nineteenth century. It operated on the Biblical principle of aid to foster self-help. According to Charles Loch Mowat, the historian of the society, it embodied an idea of charity, which claimed to reconcile the divisions in society, to remove poverty, and to produce a happy, self-reliant community. It believed that the most serious aspect of poverty was the degradation of the character of the poor man or woman. Indiscriminate charity only made things worse; it demoralized. True charity demanded friendship, thought, the sort of help that would restore a man's self-respect and his ability to support himself and his family. True charity demanded gainful employ.”

Historical Revisionism: Why All the Fuss?

Dr. Roger Schultz / The Chalcedon Foundation:
“History is a conflict between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots.’” That was the theme of history, my young friend earnestly explained, as she had been taught it at the local community college. Without realizing it, she had soaked up a simplistic albeit common interpretation of history and had accepted it as fact. Everyone approaches history with some assumptions, biases, and preconceptions. Even the most objective and detached historian must make judgments about the material to be studied and the facts to be analyzed. Those judgments are anchored in fundamental presuppositions about truth, historical significance, and the meaning and direction of history.

Praying for the Lost

David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:
I have a salvation prayer list. Do you? “Operation Andrew” suggests you make a list of 4 or 5 people who need salvation and pray for them daily. I might suggest that before you do this you ask God to bring certain people to your mind. Then, when He lays them upon your heart, pray for them at least once a day. Remember: no case is impossible. In New Testament times the Gospel even penetrated the household of the Emperor himself (Phil. 4:22).

Two Cheers For DC's 'Gun Control' Ruling

The American View Radio:
“The American View” analyzes in detail this recent encouraging but not perfect ruling since it does say some infringements of the right protected by the 2nd Amendment are “reasonable.” Of particular interest, perhaps, will be the interview of pro-“gun control” John Lowy, senior attorney at the absurdly named “Brady Center For The Prevention Of Gun Violence” – an absurd name because guns are neither violent nor non-violent. They are inanimate objects which can be used for good or evil. “Mothers Against Drunk Driving” have at least one thing right: they fight drunk drivers not “car violence.”

Second Amendment Used to Dump Gun Law

Larry Pratt / NewsWithViews.com:
Judge Laurence H. Silberman has written a landmark legal decision using the Second Amendment to overturn the DC gun ban. No court has ever used the Second Amendment to overthrow a gun law. The case is known as Parker v. District of Columbia. With the overturn of the DC gun ban, the very restrictive law on the books before the 1976 ban is once again the law in D.C. But, people can at least once again buy a handgun and keep it in their house.

'Ask Dad': My Patriarchal Home

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
I rule my home with an iron fist. I'm the father--the head of the household--and the Bible clearly instructs both women and children to submit to a father's divine authority. My family does not command me. That would be out of order. In fact, it was only ONCE that my wife ever attempted to "tell me what to do." Here's how the exchange developed:

Wife: Chris, come and do these dishes!
Me: No! I will NOT come and do those dishes... not until I'm done with this ironing!

Living With Depleting Resources

Al Cronkrite / Ether Zone:
Statistics seem to indicate that the mechanized life United States citizens have enjoyed through the Twentieth Century cannot be exported to the remainder of the world without depleting the limited earthly resources that are needed to produce it. Our world’s elite thinkers have already foreseen this problem and their solution involves massive reductions in population. Living off the land consumes far less earthly resources than living in cities. Cars, buses, and trains are not a daily requirement. Retail establishments, transportation, processing and packaging of food are no longer necessary. Family farms can be self sustaining and productive without using resource robbing machinery.

The Confession Backfired

Paul Craig Roberts / LewRockwell.com:
The first confession released by the Bush regime’s Military Tribunals – that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – has discredited the entire process. Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D’Amato likens Mohammed’s confession to those that emerged in Stalin’s show trials of Bolshevik leaders in the 1930s. That was my own immediate thought. I remember speaking years ago with Soviet dissident Valdimir Bukovsky about the behavior of Soviet dissidents under torture. He replied that people pressed for names under torture would try to remember the names of war dead and people who had passed away. Those who retained enough of their wits under torture would confess to an unbelievable array of crimes in an effort to alert the public to the falsity of the entire process.

Teacher's Affair Leads to Murder

The Associated Press:
A teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband. "You see all this stuff with teachers involved with their students. It just comes up time after time on the national news," said Norman McLean, father of suspect Eric McLean. But this time, he said, someone "actually died over it."

A Harsh Rebuke At An Abortuary

Life And Liberty Ministries:
Listen to a powerful message by Dennis Green.

Interfaith Tree Huggers Greeted By Snowstorm

Adam Gorlick / The Associated Press:
A group of "religious leaders" started walking across Massachusetts Friday to bring attention to global warming. The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian of the Haydenville Congregational Church said the snow was so deep, it felt like she was breaking trail. In all 24 clergy members will walk the entire distance from Northampton to Boston, while some 800 people will join for smaller portions. The group hopes to have more than 1,000 gather in Boston for a final rally. The "religious walkers" are part of Religious Witness for the Earth, a 6-year-old national interfaith environmental organization. Supporters include clergy from the Catholic, Unitarian, Jewish, Episcopalian, and Muslim faiths. Many members of Religious Witness for the Earth have used their position from the pulpit to make their congregations aware of climate change. “The interfaith aspect of what we’re doing heightens awareness among everyone,” said Rabbi Justin David of Congregation B’Nai Israel in Northampton. “Climate change is a moral issue and it’s a collective issue. It transcends the differences of faith and politics and generations. This is something everyone needs to pay attention to.”

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man... ." Romans 1

The mighty works of God and man's ignorance
The LORD answers Job...
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job.38; Job.39; Job.40; Job.41; Job.42

Is Your Baby Gay?

Setting The Record Straight.
R. Albert Mohler Jr. / Baptist Press:
Well, never doubt the power of the media. My recent article on homosexuality ignited a firestorm in the public square. Why? We may never know -- but the controversy represents both a challenge and an opportunity. Several thoughts: I must admit much frustration about the way many in the media have handled the issue. Headlines proclaimed "Seminary President Says Babies Born Gay" -- something I neither believe nor said. Other articles and reports claimed that I suggested that homosexuality may be genetic in origin and that genetic therapies should be used to create customized and corrected babies. I never even mentioned genetic therapies or germ-line experiments, and I am adamantly opposed to genetic therapies of such a sort -- real or hypothetical. Reading these reports and headlines was a painful and exasperating experience. If I believed those things attributed to me, I would not agree with myself and would condemn myself. I am even more frustrated with many conservative Christians who read the secular headlines without even bothering to read my article.

Is There A Good Reason To Be Apathetic?

Chuck Baldwin / Chuck Baldwin Live:
When responding to my pleas for Christians to get involved in helping to save the liberty and independence of these United States, I hear so many say, "All we can do is pray and win souls. After all, this is the fulfillment of prophecy, and Jesus is coming soon." When I hear Christians say those words, I want to scream. Regardless of when Christ returns, He gave us clear instructions to "Occupy till I come." To use the coming of Christ as an excuse to passively allow today's neocons, liberals, and globalists to undermine and destroy our country's heritage and future is inexcusable.

Who Will Win The War on America's History?

Doug Phillips / WorldNetDaily.com:
It's a tale of two cities. But this time the cities have the same name, the same founding fathers and the same anniversary. As America remembers her 400th birthday at Jamestown in 1607, two competing histories and two rival visions of our nation have emerged. The winner will define the way the boys and girls look at themselves, their future and their nation. The first Jamestown is a fiction. It is a pretend story that American schoolchildren are being spoon-fed by revisionist historians and special interest groups as part of the highly politicized events surrounding the quadricentennial.

War On Terror Against Our Kids

Dr. Laurie Roth Ph.D. / NewsWithViews.com:
A Jury found that John Couey will get the death penalty. Now, the whole time in this trial his attorney was arguing that the poor boy was mentally retarded and suffers from chronic mental illness. Thus I assume he was not responsible for the endless urges to rape and kill little children, the latest prize being Jessica Lunsford. At least for some of you pacifists reading this, you might notice when he buried her alive it was with her pet Dolphin. And of course, we must pause and reflect on the Psychologist’s comments, reminding us of his marginal IQ and mental challenges.

Christian Men...Too Wimpy?

John Donvan / ABC News:
Three hundred men gathered behind closed doors at a Tennessee mall trying to figure out the difference between being "nice" (which is not good) and being "good" (which is). They struggled in the dimly lit hall — after a Christian rock band handed it off to the comic in charge — to make sense of the message they were hearing from the stage: that church has been "feminized" and that the Jesus talked about in many modern churches is too wimpy and gentle. The men had to decide by day's end (that is, after six hours of listening) whether they were ready to take up the challenge of becoming a "Christian warrior" modeled on the "manlier" version of Christ they were told has been overlooked — the Christ who took a whip to moneychangers, and used the word "dung" when he had to. This was GodMen, a movement that is still a work in progress, according to principle founder Brad Stine, who calls himself "America's comic" and is often written up as "the Christian comic."

Conservative Episcopal Bishop Rejected

Rachel Zoll / The Associated Press:
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori took the highly unusual step Thursday of invalidating the election of a bishop in the tradition-minded Diocese of South Carolina, which has rejected her authority because of her liberal theological mind-set. The elevation of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence had become a flash point in the denomination's struggle over whether parishioners with conflicting views of the Bible on gays and other issues could stay in the same denomination. The last time the Episcopal Church threw out a bishop's election was more than seven decades ago.

Homicide Detectives Investigate Dog's Beheading

The Associated Press:
A 17-year-old girl who spent weeks looking for her missing dog unwrapped a box left on her doorstep and found the pet's severed head inside, authorities said. Homicide investigators were looking into the case because of the "implied" terroristic threat, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jim Gray said. The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday it was offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Web Censorship Spreading Globally

Richard Waters / The Financial Times:
Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics. The warning comes a week after a Turkish court ordered the blocking of YouTube to silence offensive comments about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, marking the most visible attack yet on a website that has been widely adopted around the world.

Oxymoron: Christian-Zionist

Michael Butler / First Word:
We are all familiar with oxymora. Some of my favorites are: military intelligence; instant classic; educational television; French deodorant; peacekeeper missile; temporary tax increase; the Patriot Act. Unlike oxymora such as these, “Christian-Zionist” is not humorous. It is as offensive and absurd as “Christian-sodomite,” “Christian-abortionist,” and “Christian-witch.” But in an era such as ours, the absurd becomes the norm. One of the main proponents of “Christian-Zionism” is the dispensationalist cult leader, “Rev.” John Hagee. Hagee usually performs weekly in front of his 18,000 member non-denominational Cornerstone faux Church in San Antonio, Texas. Last week he took his act on the road to the annual Israeli lovefest in Washington D.C. known as the AIPAC Policy Conference.

John Hagee and AIPAC

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
The Rev. John Hagee has long been playing the shill for the Zionists. There's a huge difference between honoring a particular religion and sponsoring a politico-geographical policy. Most of the Zionists within AIPAC are hardly orthodox Jews, and their agenda is squarely political. The ways and means utilized to establish the Zionist occupation of Palestine are suspect, and most conservative Christians are simply unaware of the history of Zionism between 1897-1948. Yet, Hagee sounds as if he is a hired gun aimed at Christian support of Zionism.

Who Wants to be Smarter than a 5th Grader?

Eric Rauch / American Vision:
The television game show is a format that never seems to go away. Just when you thought it was permanently relegated to the daytime daypart, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" brought it back to primetime. Comedian Howie Mandel recently resurrected his own career with an NBC game show called "Deal or No Deal" and now Jeff Foxworthy is getting in on the action on FOX with his show "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" Taking initial advantage of a cushy time slot after "American Idol," "Are You Smarter" is turning in high ratings for being such a young show.

Pedophilia Among America's Leaders

John Durr / Ezine Articles:
Pedophilia is rampant in the United States. Sales of illegal child pornography rakes in an estimated $3 billion a year in the U.S. The industry enslaves an estimated 300,000 children. Last October the nation witnessed the resignation of one of our nations leaders, Representative Mark Foley, after allegations of misconduct with Congressional pages. We are also familiar with the sex scandals surrounding President Clinton. Then there are the past sex scandals surrounding Representative Barney Frank, Representative Dan Crane and Representative Gerry Studds. But these are just the tip of the iceberg. There is a sinister and serious problem among our leaders in Washington DC and among our leaders throughout the country. This sinister problem seems to have gone uninvestigated for years. The problem involves pedophilia sex parties, child kidnapping, child sex slaves, pornography, blackmail, murder, cover-ups, and impeded investigations.

'Justice for Jessica'

Maya Bell / Orlando Sentinel:
John Evander Couey, who shattered Jessica Lunsford's family, traumatized her community and prompted tougher sex-offender laws across the nation, should be executed for kidnapping, raping and burying the 9-year-old girl alive, a Miami-Dade County jury recommended Wednesday. The six-man, six-woman jury returned its 10-2 recommendation after just 75 minutes of deliberation and less than two days of testimony that painted competing portraits of the convicted sex offender who has come to symbolize many a parent's worst nightmare. "This is justice for Jessica," her father, Mark Lunsford, a truck driver turned child-protection advocate, said after the recommendation was read in a hushed courtroom, his eyes red from weeping. "The fight continues. We still have to make things tougher. . . . Instead of them stalking our kids, we'll stalk them."

Principal Bans Parents From Sodomite Seminar

Bob Unruh / WorldNetDaily.com:
Administrators at North Newton High School in Newton, Mass., have held a seminar for students that explained how to know they are homosexual, but banned parents from attending. "It's absolutely insane," parent Brian Camenker, who also is chief of the Mass Resistance organization, said. "I met with the principal. She told me no parents are allowed. She said only by invitation. I asked, 'Can I be invited.' She said, 'No.'"

District Gags 14-Year-Olds After 'Gay' Indoctrination
Bob Unruh / WorldNetDaily.com:
Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Ill., have ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a "gay" indoctrination seminar, after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents. "This is unbelievable," said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for Concerned Women for America. "It's not enough that students at Deerfield High are being exposed to improper and offensive material relative to unhealthy and high-risk homosexual behavior, but they've essentially been told by teachers to lie to their parents about it."

Transfer Of Wealth

Larry Pratt / NewsWithViews.com:
In a just society, wealth is transferred in exchange for money, for service or by gift. Unjust forms of transferring wealth occur by means of the thug on the street or the bureaucrat who takes one’s property. Examples of the latter would even include zoning regulations intended to keep property from being developed by the owner for his profit. Conversely, a bureaucrat may arbitrarily decide that a developer will use the land more efficiently (and produce more taxes) than some widow in her old house, and thus, she’ll find that her property is stolen under the banner of "eminent domain." The Fourth Amendment was designed to protect us against unreasonable seizures. Of course, in our day, the devil is in the detail of "reasonableness." Who decides what is reasonable?

Top General Supports Turning A Blind Eye to Sodomy

Approves of lawless 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
Jon Ward / The Washington Times:
The Pentagon's top general did not apologize for calling homosexual activity "immoral" in the context of a discussion earlier this week about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, prompting continued protests from homosexual and liberal advocacy groups. But Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, clarified his remarks somewhat, saying that while he "also offered some personal opinions about moral conduct," he "should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views."

Sodomy Is A Crime
"Christians should be demanding the strongest laws and punishments against sodomy be put into effect so as to cleanse the pestilence from our society." (Lev. 20:13)

Trying to Use the Bible to Justify Homosexual Behavior

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
An article appeared in the March 10, 2007 issue of the Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal with the title “Homosexuals try to find place in Christianity.” Substitute the words “thieves,” “adulterers,” “liars,” “drunkards,” “murderers,” and any other group of sinners, and you have a good description of who makes up the church of Jesus Christ. If you are not a sinner, then you are not a Christian. Christianity is not for perfect people. The question is, Can a person roll his sin into his new life in Christ? Can a murderer, for example, continue to murder and still claim to be a Christian? The Bible says no: “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?” (Rom. 6:1–2).

Condi the Christian?

Carmon Friedrich / The Backwater Report:
At the swearing-in ceremony of the openly homosexual Global Aids Coordinator (appointed by President Bush), Mark Dybul, Ms. Rice said, “I am truly honored and delighted to have the opportunity to swear in Mark Dybul as our next Global AIDS Coordinator. I am pleased to do that in the presence of Mark’s parents, Claire and Richard, his partner, Jason, and his mother-in-law [his partner’s mother], Marilyn. You have a wonderful family to support you, Mark, and I know that’s always important to us. Welcome.” Not only is that not family friendly, in the traditional values sense, it’s not Christian-friendly and leaves some doubts about her supposed “faith.”

Hate Crime Legislation Targets Freedom

Tom DeWeese / NewsWithViews.com:
A battle has been waging during the opening months of the 110th Congress over proposed Hate Crime legislation. The main bill currently before the House is H.R. 254, titled, "The David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act," introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX). Opposition is growing to the legislation because hate crime laws would make certain types of speech a federal offense, allowing federal "thought police" to interfere in the law enforcement authority of states and local government. Such interference is blatantly unconstitutional.

'Lost Tomb of Jesus' - The Agenda

Lee Duigon / The Chalcedon Foundation:
At issue is The Lost Tomb of Jesus, aired March 4 on the Discovery Channel. Produced by James Cameron (noted for producing movies like Titanic and The Terminator), directed by Simcha Jacobovici, and theologically apologized for by Dr. James Tabor, the film promotes “scientific discoveries” supposedly disproving the physical resurrection of Christ. If the film’s claims are true, then orthodox, Biblical Christianity is a lie.

How Will the Present Earth Pass Away?

John Morris, Ph.D. / Institute for Creation Research:
First, let's review some facts of physics. We have discovered that atoms themselves are held together by mysterious forces. These forces keep each atomic nucleus, which contains particles of like electrical charge, from flying apart. They also keep the electrons in proximity to the nucleus, allowing atoms to bond to form more complex molecules, including all organic compounds which make up every cell in every living thing. These forces can be manipulated by man, in some cases with the release of great energy, but their ultimate nature is not understood, and they cannot be replaced by something of our own creation. The facts are quite compatible with the truth of Scripture, that Christ "uphold|s| all things by the word of His power" (Hebrews 1:3), and that "by Him all things consist" (Colossians 1:17).

Move Review: 300 - Rated R, Morality -2

Family Move Review:
Violence: There is a great deal of violent imagery from beginning to end; this violence is done stylistically, much like a graphic novel meant for adults. Homosexuality: Lesbians performing sexual favors while at the feet of Xerxes. Video alternative: Spartacus. Kirk Douglas stars as a slave who heads a rebellion against the tyranny of Rome. It contains terrific acting, score and theme, and in Spartacus, when you see legions of soldiers on the battlefield – they are real, not computer generated.

Lawsuit Accuses Colo. Pastor of Fraud

The Associated Press:
An insurance company sued a prominent Denver minister and four of his affiliated church groups Tuesday, accusing them of filing fraudulent life-insurance claims on behalf of parishioners. AIG Life Insurance Co. claims the Rev. Acen Phillips and other defendants obtained a group life insurance policy on behalf of as many as 316 people and falsified paperwork to ensure that the bulk of any claims payments would go to them, not surviving family members of those who were covered. The company paid $638,131 under the scheme _ more than half of which went to Phillips and other defendants, the lawsuit said. AIG terminated the group-life policy Nov. 30, 2006, after paying seven claims, according to court documents.

Pastor's Wife Charged With Lesbianism

The Associated Press:
A teacher at a Christian school in southeast Kansas has been charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl who was her student, authorities said. Marsha J. Mote, 37, of Tyro, turned herself in Tuesday and made an initial appearance in Montgomery County District Court on a charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. She was released on $20,000 bond. Mote was a teacher at Tyro Community Christian School. Her husband, Kevin, is associate pastor at Tyro Christian Church and has taken a leave of absence because of the allegations. Before being charged, Mote resigned her position as teacher. She also has stopped participating in church youth volunteer programs.

No Pink Marines

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Peter Pace, has declared homosexuality to be an immoral act along with adultery, and that the U.S. military should not condone it by allowing openly gay persons to serve. He said this yesterday to a group of reporters and editors in Chicago. Pace does support Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, but believes an open condoning of homosexuality does not well serve the United States. The sodomites have fired back declaring General Pace's comments as "outrageous, insensitive an disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces." Is there really that many?

Pink Marines? More than likely:

Top General Expresses Regret for 'Immoral' Remark.
Pauline Jelinek / The Associated Press:
The Pentagon's top general expressed regret Tuesday that he called homosexuality immoral, a remark that drew a harsh condemnation from members of Congress and gay advocacy groups (sex offenders and predators). In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces.

Forget Impeachment: Grab The Tar And Feathers

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
There is one grievance that is sticking like a bone in my throat about this administration: its careless disregard for the security of our national borders. President Bush, along with Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain, are in the process of turning America into a third world country. Their attempt to provide amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens and to virtually vanquish our national borders is nothing short of criminal.

The DC Gun Ban

Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
Last Friday a federal appeals court in Washington DC issued a ruling that hopefully will result in the restoration of 2nd Amendment rights in the nation's capital. It appears the Court rejected the District of Columbia 's nonsensical argument that the 2nd Amendment confers only a "collective right," something gun control advocates have asserted for years.

Is the World a 'Sinking Titanic'?

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
Jan Markell’s article “Kingdom Now: We’re Not Returning to Eden,” which appears on the Christian Worldview Network website, is one of the worst uninformed hit pieces I have ever read. It gets nearly everything wrong. I don’t have a problem with thoughtful, accurate, and well researched articles dealing with disagreements over theological issues, but I do have a problem with someone who refuses to study the subject and makes outlandish assertions.

The Future Has Caught Up With Us

Paul Craig Roberts / LewRockwell.com:
John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment.

Bush's Thermidor

Patrick J. Buchanan / VDARE.com:
In the calendar of the Revolution, Thermidor was the second month of summer. On 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794), Robespierre was guillotined and the Reign of Terror came to an end. Thermidor has thus come to mean the turning point in a revolution, when the fever passes on and the fury abates. Trotsky called Stalin's consolidation of power "Soviet Thermidor." In the catechism of the Bush Revolution, liberty is indivisible. If the whole world is not free, America's freedom is not secure, and we must thus use American power in perpetuity to liberate mankind and, as Bush declared in his Second Inaugural, "end tyranny on earth." No more utopian ambition has ever been declared by an American president.

Baptist 'Beer Ministry' and the Bible

Tim Townsend / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The Rev. Darrin Patrick, The Journey’s founder and lead pastor, said its nontraditional approach is aimed at those who are not likely to attend church. For nearly two years, the beer ministry has brought new members to the church. Now it’s being called unbiblical. The Journey defines itself as an interdenominational church, but it has a working relationship with the Missouri Baptist Convention. That confederation of Baptist churches is the state arm of the largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2005, The Journey borrowed $200,000 from the Baptist organization to help buy and renovate a former Catholic church in St. Louis. In December, Baptist leaders began questioning the church’s methods of attracting "worshippers," specifically its use of alcohol.

Christian Navy Chaplain Court-Martialed For Praying

The American View Radio:
“The American View” interviews a true profile in Christian courage: former U.S. Naval Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt who has been court-martialed for praying, in uniform, in the name of Jesus, outside of chapel, in public.

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'Muslim' U.S. Navy Sailor Arrested On Terror Charge
HomeLandSecurityUS.com:
HASSAN ABUJIHAAD, 31, of Phoenix, also known as Paul R. Hall, was arrested on charges of supporting terrorism with an intent to kill U.S. citizens and transmitting classified information to unauthorized people. He released classified information that ended up in the hands of a suspected financier of terrorism. ABUJIHAAD, a former enlisted man, is charged in the same case as Babar AHMAD, a British computer specialist arrested in 2004 and accused of running Web sites to raise money for terrorism.

Solution to Global Warming: the New World Order

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
The old moniker of the "New World Order" used by the senior Bush and his predecessors gave way to the Neoconservative ambition for a "New American Century" where diverse nations would not come together for peaceful resolution, but rather be subdued politically, economically, and militarily by U.S. hegemony. A century is 100 years and this span parallels Bush Jr.'s prediction that the "War on Terror" will last 100 years. Now, the rhetoric of Old Europe and it's utopian UN dream is being established upon the morass of global warming.

American Express Plans to Track People

Liz McIntyre & Katherine Albrecht / NewsWithViews.com:
The top brass at American Express, chagrined at the discovery of its people tracking plans, met with CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) last week to discuss the issue. One outcome of the meeting was a promise by American Express to review its entire patent portfolio and ensure that any people-tracking plans be accompanied by language requiring consumer notice and consent.

Bipartisan Hypocrisy at a Feverish Pitch

Victor Davis Hanson / Chicago Tribune:
For both liberals and conservatives, the days of the simple-living Harry Truman and clean-living Dwight Eisenhower are apparently long gone--and for two reasons. First, the country has changed. Globalization, high technology and billions in borrowed money have made Americans in general materially wealthy beyond our parents' wildest imagination. All that money and leisure have brought constant temptations for indulgence. For all the rhetoric of "family values" and "two nations," Americans from all walks of life gobble up everything from video games to luxury cars on nearly unlimited easy credit.

Sodomite auctioning off Haggard massage table

Paula Woodward / TV- 9NEWS.com:
Mike Jones says you can own a part of history. He is auctioning off his personal massage table on eBay. It is a table he describes as "where it all happened." Jones claims he had a three-year "sexual business" relationship with Pastor Ted Haggard of Colorado Springs. Jones, who admits he was a gay escort, claims Haggard had sex with him for three years and that Haggard used methamphetamine. In his eBay ad, Jones offers to autograph the massage table. He also promises to send the purchaser a copy of the book he is writing once it is released.

Hillary Promises 'Partnership' With Homosexuals

Michael Foust / Baptist Press:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the board members of the nation's largest homosexual activist organization March 2 she plans on working with them if she wins the White House in 2008. “This is exactly the kind of partnership we will have when I am president,” Clinton, D.-N.Y., told 400-plus board members, staff and supporters gathered in Washington for the Human Rights Campaign's board meeting.

Rebuking the Seeker-Friendly Churches

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
Rev. David Wilkerson, the puritan-loving Assemblies of God evangelist/pastor does a phenomenal job of laying the axe to modern church nonsense.

"Let Him Be Accursed"
"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
--Galatians 1: 6-10

The ABC's of Rick Warren

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
I guess it helps to have powerful friends at The Council on Foreign Relations, because the Purpose Driven Pastor, Rick Warren, has once again been puff pieced by the mainstream media - this time at ABC News - with an article subtitled: "Pastor's Unconventional Approach Inspires Some, Alienates Others." Unfortunately, that title is about as hard-hitting as ABC News gets in this little dialectic exercise - just enough to make you want to read the piece - and lame enough to make you wish you hadn't. This is controlled opposition at it finest, friends - guaranteed to neutralize naysayers by boring the as-yet-uninformed with all the trivial and underwhelming aspects of the Purpose Driven movement till everyone's sick of the subject and thoroughly convinced it is all much ado about nothing.

Should President Bush Be Impeached?

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
When considering impeachment, the American people, and their representatives in Congress, must answer one question: Does the conduct, or misconduct, of a sitting president meet constitutional criteria? Specifically, is President Bush guilty of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors? The guilty verdict of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby begs for answers to that question.

The Search For Justice

Al Cronkrite / Ether Zone:
Did you know that justice is not the goal of the court system in the United States? The product of our courts is a combination of judicial prerogative and legal restraint which is ground out in an adversarial arena by lawyers whose motivation is often a stubborn greed coupled with a competitive desire to win.

New Radio Program 'Eye On Annapolis'

John Lofton / The American View:
Beginning March 13, at 2:30 pm EST, on radio station WNAV in Annapolis, Maryland (1430 AM), Michael Anthony Peroutka and I will be co-hosting a weekly, half-hour program called “Eye On Annapolis.” The idea here is to bring “The American View” perspective to the Maryland State Government, which is to say to analyze Maryland politics from a Biblical/Constitutional view.

Homeland Security's Supersnoop Computer System

Audrey Hudson / The Washington Times:
Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

U.S. Appeals Court Overturns DC Gun Ban

Nathan Burchfiel / CNSNews.com:
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday overturned the city's extensive gun ban, giving gun rights advocates a major victory in their long battle over the restrictions. Six D.C. residents brought the suit against the city arguing that the gun ban, which in practice prohibited the possession of a functioning firearm, violated their Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms." A district court dismissed the claim, ruling that the Second Amendment did not apply to individual citizens. The Court of Appeals on Friday reversed the lower court's decision, ruling that the Second Amendment does apply to individual citizens.

Christian Coalition Hasn't a Prayer With the GOP

Jim Rudd / The Covenant News:
The Associated Press is reporting that an "important ally when George W. Bush first won the presidency," the Christian Coalition says, "it’s poised again to help a conservative win the White House." But among the GOP contenders, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani favors murdering babies by abortion, supports sodomites and has a "messy marital history." Pro-sodomite Senator John McCain, "whose loss to Bush in 2000 was helped along by the coalition" after he called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance," is viewed as one street preacher put it, "he's damned, going to hell and needs Jesus in his life." Former Massachusetts Gov., and Mormon cult member, Mitt Romney’s past political history, and shifting positions on social issues, indicates that he has no knowledge, understanding, or intention of obeying the commandments of God if elected to a federal office.

Someone should tell Roberta Combs, head of the Christian Coalition of America, what Jesus said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

Republican office holders need to turn from their wicked ways before serious Christians can even think about supporting them again. Impeaching reprobated judges, outlawing the murder of children by abortion and the sexual deviant behavior of homosexuality would be a good place to start. But as it stands right now, the Republican Party is so corrupt, evil and profane that preachers should consider all Republicans as an "Unreached People Group" - an evangelical target - a specific people to be called to repentance for defiling civil government and turning it into a vile cesspool from which their baby murdering, sodomite abominations vomit out across the land.

But the greater sin is on the so called "Christians" who give political parties a legitimacy to govern apart from our KING and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. These non-evangelizing para-church organizations (there are hundreds of them like Christian Coalition) break the commandments of God by joining with the ungodly and teach the Church to do the same. These people are not Christian. They are called "the least in the kingdom of heaven" for which the deepest part of hell is reserved. Matt.5:17-19.

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"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." Prov.28:9

Federal Government Seeks to Gag D.C. Prostitute

The Smoking Gun:
Federal prosecutors want to gag an indicted former Washington, D.C. madam who has recently threatened to go public with details about her former customers. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court, investigators are seeking a protective order covering discovery material to be provided to Deborah Palfrey and her lawyers. Palfrey, 50, was indicted last week on racketeering and money laundering charges stemming from her operation of the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service, which closed last summer after 13 years in business. In their motion, a copy of which you'll find below, government lawyers claim that some discovery documents contain "personal information" about Palfrey's former johns and prostitutes that is "sensitive."

Unchecked Executive Power

Foreign policy is the way of consolidating unchecked power.
Sydney Blumenthal / Guardian Unlimited:
The conviction of I Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, on criminal charges of obstruction of justice and perjury brings only a partial conclusion to the sordid political tragedy that is the Bush presidency. Yet the judgment on this matter goes to the heart of the administration. The means and the ends of Bush's White House have received a verdict from the bar of justice. Foreign policy was and is the principal way of consolidating unchecked executive power.

Is The End Upon Us?

Jim R. Schwiesow / NewsWithViews.com:
It is no secret that Iran looms large in the sights of the United States military. The Iranian fanatic Ahmadinejad has adroitly maneuvered an increasingly befuddled George Bush into preparation for yet another war. We have here a clash between a fatalist who believes that the time has arrived for the fulfillment of Islamic prophesy, which teaches that a divine war will usher in the emergence of a perfect human being, the 12th Imam, who will lead the world to peace, and another poor deluded soul, George Bush, who thinks that he is being divinely led to wage wars for democracy. He has been encouraged in this belief by an increasingly secularly inclined religious community in the country. It seems that heretical beliefs hold sway in the world today.

A Sea Change

Bill Jack / American Vision:
As the ocean receded nearly half a mile from the shore along the coast of Thailand and Indonesia on December 26, 2004, many tourists and natives followed it out in amazement to look for shells. Unfortunately, they did not recognize the danger until it was too late, and they were engulfed by the tsunami that eventually claimed more than 160,000 lives. Yet, amazingly the 196 villagers who live on the tiny Surin Islands off the coast of Thailand all survived the deadly tidal wave that swept their houses, boats, food and possessions out to sea. These “sea gypsies,” as the Moken people are called, have an oral tradition that includes “a wave that eats people.”

Economic Renewal: What Can You Do?

Franklin Sanders / The American View:
About 1954 Murray of Ohio moved to Lawrence County, Tennessee and opened a factory. The first generation of country people who went to work there held onto their farms and worked 18 hour days. After a shift at the factory, they’d go home and raise all the crops and animals they ever had. Owning their own land, they were able to build up an estate for their children. The second generation worked at the factory and let the land go.

YouTube Yourself

It's easy, fun, and profitable.
Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
Buy a cheap tripod. Sit in front of the tripod-mounted camera. I presume that you have an outline in your head or posted in large letters to the side of the camcorder or above it. Turn on the camcorder, sit in front of it, and say whatever you have to say. You can edit the video with any Mac computer. Windows XP has a free video-editing program.

Justice for Jessica: Couey Found Guilty

Charles Montaldo / About.com:
A jury in Miami deliberated for almost four hours before returning guilty verdicts in all charges against John Evander Couey in the kidnapping, rape and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. The same jury will now hear testimony in the penalty phase of the trial, beginning next Tuesday, to determine if convicted sex offender Couey will receive a death sentence.

TX. House Approves Death Penalty for Child Molesters

Jim Vertuno / The Associated Press:
Texas could sentence some hardcore child molesters to death under a bill given preliminary approval Monday by the state House of Representatives. In a bill designed to crack down on sex offenders who repeatedly prey on children, the House voted to create a new category of crime — continual sexual abuse of a young child or children — that carries a minimum of 25 years to life in prison and possibly the death penalty for a second offense. The bill is named Jessica's Law after Jessica Lunsford, a Florida girl who was abducted and killed. More than a dozen states have passed versions of Jessica's Law to crack down on sex offenders and Gov. Rick Perry has deemed passage of a child sex offender bill a legislative emergency.

Why Atheists are Theocrats

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
Former fundamentalist preacher Dan Barker and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, believe America is becoming a theocracy. “[Religion is] the source of the greatest violence in the world,” Gaylor said. “More people have been killed in the world for religion over any other reason.” Actually, atheism has been responsible for more than 100 million deaths during the twentieth century. As Joel McDurom writes in The Return of the Village Atheist, “in an early private notebook Marx wrote, ‘Communism begins at the outset with atheism.’” What has been the result?

Conspiracy Theories

Michael Butler / First Word:
Like a few recent commentators, I too believe that there is a good deal more to history than what the court historians report. Like the poor, conspirators will always be with us. Augustine reminds us that history is to understood as a battle between two cities. One uses the power of the Word and Spirit to advance its kingdom, the other is apt to cheat, steal, rape, kill and blunder. But the City of Man’s main method of warfare is not force, but dissimulation and secrecy. Christendom seems to have forgotten that our enemy is the deceiver of the nations.

Dumbing-Down of America

Patrick J. Buchanan / VDARE.com:
Fifty years ago this October, Americans were jolted by the news that Moscow, one year after drowning the Hungarian Revolution in blood, had put an 80-kilo satellite into Earth orbit. In December, the U.S. Navy tried to replicate the feat. Vanguard got four feet off the ground and exploded, incinerating its three-pound payload. America was humiliated. Khrushchev was Man of the Year. Some of us yet recall the Vanguard newsreels and the humiliating laughter. Stunned, America went to work to improve education in math and science, and succeeded. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of high school seniors began to rise, reaching a high in 1964. However, test scores for high school students have been falling now for 40 years.

Who Looks Foolish, Alamo Heroes Or Us?

Chuck Baldwin / Chuck Baldwin Live:
On this date back in 1836, the Alamo fell. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops. To a man, the defenders of that mission fort knew they would never leave those ramparts alive. They had several opportunities to leave and live. Yet, they chose to fight and die. How foolish they must look to this generation of spoiled Americans.

The US of Tyranny

Christopher Manion / LewRockwell.com:
I never thought that I’d have to write this about that land that I love. But now there’s no escaping the fact that our government possesses tyrannical powers that are unchecked by appeal to the "independent" courts. How this president, and future ones, will use that power is unknown. As the historian Charles Burton Marshall once famously said, "there’s no such thing as the foreseeable future." But what I have learned from people I trust tells me that the future of our liberties is in grave peril.

The Coming Amnesty Disaster

Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Last month, President Bush signed off on a few dog-and-pony illegal immigrant employment raids. Whoop-de-doo. Politically expedient holiday gestures over, the White House is now back to work pushing its long-planned, massive alien amnesty. The state of the borders, green card process and entrance system for visitors and tourists? Porous. Chaotic. Understaffed. And overwhelmed.

Death by Emergency Plan

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. / LewRockwell.com:
A strange culture of emergency has taken over this country, and the slightest provocation triggers it. It could be an expected terrorist or just an old-fashioned weather warning. The officials are quick to swing into action, and tell you what to do. The problem is that these demands are often based on nothing other than government plans that are not in your best interest. It behooves all of us to think carefully about genuine preparedness, which might often involve bucking the system and telling the emergency nazis to mind their own business.

Republicans Could Face Ethics Probe

Larry Margasak / The Associated Press:
Republicans could face ethics investigations for contacting U.S. attorneys about pending cases, a jarring political development only four months after ethical lapses helped cost the GOP control of Congress. Two veteran Republican lawmakers and a top GOP leadership aide contacted prosecutors who later were fired. All three denied wrongdoing. Democrat-run committees in both the House and Senate are investigating the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. Six of those prosecutors told Congress on Tuesday they felt pressured by the interventions.

Libby Prepares Request For New Trial

Michael J. Sniffen / The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON - Attorneys for convicted former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby began working on a request for a new trial Wednesday as the Bush White House steadfastly refused to talk about a possible pardon in the CIA leak case. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. He is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra scandal two decades ago.

'Scooter' Libby Found Guilty of Lying

David Stout and Neil A. Lewis / The New York Times:
I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted today of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the war in Iraq. The jury rejected Mr. Libby’s claims of memory lapses as it convicted him of obstruction of justice, giving false statements to the F.B.I. and perjuring himself, charges embodied in four of the five counts of the indictment. The panel acquitted him on an additional count of making false statements to the F.B.I.

Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case
Amy Goldstein and Carol D. Leonnig / The Washington Post
A federal jury today convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity, finding the vice president's former chief of staff guilty of two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, while acquitting him of single count of lying to the FBI.

New Hate Crime Bill: Power Grab!

Lee Duigon / The Chalcedon Foundation:
Should the federal government be allowed to take over the prosecution of virtually any crime — even where state or local laws don’t classify it as a “hate crime”? A new bill proposed in Congress would, if enacted into law, do just that. Nationwide pro-family organizations have denounced the bill because it would include “sexual orientation” among those categories of citizens slated to receive special protection under the law. Crimes committed against citizens “because of the actual or perceived religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person” would be addressed by federal prosecutors and punished more severely than crimes committed against ordinary citizens. Critics fear that the “David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007” would be used to criminalize Christian opposition to the homosexual socio-political agenda. In fact, it’s even worse than that.

Be Specific - Label A Provable Culprit

Al Cronkrite / Ether Zone:
There are gaggles of writers, many are patriots, who write about the underbelly of the United States. They regularly churn out factual information on what is happening to our legal structure and often point out influences that seem to be at odds with the best interests of the nation. Some of them are privy to more information than others but none of them can actually prove many of the specifics of their contentions; their contentions are usually derived from visible perceptions and the impetus is obscure. This sort of conviction is similar to circumstantial evidence at a trial and is always subject to questions and rebuttals. There is confusion about who is responsible for the continued slide of United States into World Government and Totalitarianism. A reliable yard stick is needed.

Beware the IDs of March

Michael Tennant / LewRockwell.com:
"Father Abraham" Lincoln may be the patron saint of today’s federal officials, but his descendants have come a long way from sending the U.S. military to suppress brutally any thoughts of independence on the part of the states. Within the last month or so we here at LRC have celebrated the fact that Maine has flatly refused to comply with Washington’s dictates in the REAL ID Act, which mandates that state driver’s licenses comply with federal standards, the effect of which would be to create a de facto national identification card. Several other states are threatening to follow suit. Thomas Andrew Olson even posited that state rebellions against REAL ID could portend a revival of genuine federalism.

The Holy Catholic Church

Michael Butler / First Word:
In many traditional discussions of the church, a host of definitional distinctions are brought out right away: the church invisible vs. visible; triumphant vs. militant; representational vs. lay; and so forth. All of these distinctions have their place, and in their place are very important. Here, however, I propose to start with the primary lexical meaning of the Hebrew qahal or Greek ekklesia as “the called,” which, in the biblical context, connotes a people called out of the sinful mass of humanity to be the people of God, to worship him in truth, and be constituted as the corporate body identified with the living and true God.

Layoffs at Haggard's church

Eric Gorski / The Denver Post:
Beset by scandal and a subsequent decline in giving, New Life Church in Colorado Springs has laid off 44 people - or about 12 percent of its workforce - a church official said. The nondenominational megachurch had experienced attendance and financial growth in each of its 22 previous years, said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor. That came to end in early November, when its charismatic founding pastor, the Rev. Ted Haggard, was fired amid allegations he used methamphetamine and paid a male prostitute for sex.

Global Warming Labeled A 'Scam'

Al Webb / The Washington Times:
With a packet of claims that are almost certain to defy conventional wisdom, a television documentary to be aired in Britain this week condemns man-made global warming as a myth that has become "the biggest scam of modern times." The program titled "The Great Global Warming Scandal" and set for screening by TV Channel 4 on Thursday dismisses claims that high levels of greenhouse gases generated by human activity causes climate change. Instead, the program suggests that the sun itself is the real culprit. The documentary, directed by filmmaker Martin Durkin, is at odds with scientific opinion as outlined in a United Nations report in February, which blames mankind for global warming. In his program, Mr. Durkin rejects the concept of man-made climate change, calling it "a lie ... the biggest scam of modern times."

Christians Beware Judgement Is Coming

Bob Strodtbeck / Ether Zone:
Eschatology, which is the study of end times, has gripped a sizable number of Christians in this country. It is interesting that this fascination with the final judgment of the world has coincided with the ascension of Christian influence in the Republican Party. More interesting is that as Christians have risen to influence within the GOP, so too have corruption and hypocrisy combined to bring the party to the brink of ruin.

Democracy vs. Orthodoxy

Darrell Dow / The Backwater Report:
I’ve written often about the perils of the Democratist Temptation, that the pursuit of global democracy, which is in reality a cover for American hegemony, is in fact anti-Christian at its core. In a brief essay, R. J. Rushdoony writes that the doctrine of infallibility is inescapable, that every philosophy has either explicitly or implicitly an infallible word. Therefore, if the infallibility of Scripture is denied the concept is merely transferred to something else.

The Lost Tomb of Poor Scholarship

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
I watched “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” from beginning to tortuous end. The first obvious conclusion any critical thinking viewer comes away with is that the tomb that held the ossuaries was not hidden away to conceal anything. The entrance was constructed in such a way that it invited visitors. If the tomb actually held the bones of Jesus, then why did His immediate disciples preach in His name and die for what was an obvious lie that any one could prove by going to the well marked tomb and producing the bones of Jesus? It makes no sense.

A Nation of Stupid Children

Arthur Silber / LewRockwell.com:
By the age of eight or nine, most children realize that Santa Claus isn't a real person, just as they know the Easter Bunny and similar pleasantries are only make-believe, tales of imagination offered to add a bit of fun to the holidays. The great majority of children give up these fantasies without experiencing emotional upheaval that remotely approaches serious trauma. Those very rare children fortunate enough to be raised by adults who accord them the seriousness and respect they deserve know such stories to be ones of invention from the beginning. Unfortunately, the great majority of Americans – led by a relentlessly trivial and mendacious political class and a comparably anti-intellectual media – never approach again the psychological achievement of children who undergo this transition.

American Truck Drivers Screwed by Bush

Frosty Wooldridge / SierraTimes.com:
President Bush announced that Mexican truck drivers will be allowed on America’s highways within sixty days. Soon, he’ll announce that Mexican drivers will “do the jobs that American truckers won’t do.” How many ways can an American president screw his own citizens? On Bush’s watch, America’s poor suffer job losses in landscaping, construction, dry wall, hotel, restaurant, lawn mowing, retail, fast food, roofing, taxi and dozens of other trades. On Bush’s watch, outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring work cost American citizens 1,000,000 jobs. On Bush’s watch, America’s manufacturing sector lost 3 million jobs. On Bush’s watch, over 10 million illegal aliens crossed our borders in six years. On Bush’s watch, hundreds of thousands of killers, drug dealers, rapists and child molesters roam free in America. Now, President Bush drives his serrated knife into the heart of American truckers.

Judicial Tyranny

Larry Pratt / NewsWithViews.com:
The Tyranny of Tolerance is a wide-ranging look at the many perversions of the law that have been perpetrated by the judiciary in our day. It is a wake-up call for voters to ask politicians what kind of judges they are going to place in state and federal judiciaries. If We the People don’t make an issue of it, the problem will only get worse. This is the book that should be Constitutional Law 101 in every law school. More than likely, however, students caught with a copy will face immediate expulsion.

A Tribute to My Dad

Chuck Baldwin / Chuck Baldwin Live:
Yesterday would have been my dad's one-hundredth birthday. Edwin J. Baldwin was born on March 1, 1907. This was the same year that "The Duke" John Wayne was born. However, my father, though small in stature at only 5' 6" tall, outlived the 6' 4" actor by some fourteen years. Wayne passed away in 1979; Dad went to heaven in 1993.

'Force Abortion Parents' Want A Plea Bargain

David Hench / MaineToday.com:
The couple accused of kidnapping their daughter to force her to have an abortion met with a judge to discuss legal proceedings in the criminal case and whether a trial can be avoided with a plea agreement. Nicholas and Lola Kampf face kidnapping, assault and terrorizing charges stemming from an incident in September in which their daughter Katelyn Kampf said she was tied up and carried to her parents' car, then driven toward New York, where abortion laws are more lenient.

Astronaut's Attempted Murder Charge Dropped

Barbara Liston / Reuters:
Astronaut Lisa Nowak, who drove from Houston to Orlando in a diaper to confront a woman she thought was a love rival, was charged with attempted kidnapping but not with attempted murder on Friday, prosecutors said. The former space shuttle crew member also was formally charged on Friday with battery and using a weapon to attempt a car break-in. She is accused of pepper spraying the girlfriend of fellow astronaut Bill Oefelien, the prosecutors in Orlando said in a news release. Shortly after Nowak was arrested on February 6, police said she was trying to kill U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. The police then charged Nowak, 43, with attempted first-degree murder, which carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. But the murder accusation was dropped without explanation.

Story About 'Brother Ron' of Milwaukee

Derrick Nunnally / The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The judge didn't even raise an eyebrow when Ronald Stanis turned up in court wearing a sandwich-board sign. The scene was Milwaukee Municipal Court, and Stanis, best known for driving slowly around town in a station wagon festooned with handwritten religious, moral and political placards - including, for a time, one that read "PLEASE GOD KILL THE JUDGES FIRST" -while broadcasting rambling sermons over a loudspeaker, was in court, again, to face a noise violation. "All I can do is what the Lord tells me to do," Stanis muttered as he walked in.

The Foolishness of Preaching

Bruce Evan Murch / Full Quiver Mission:
Preaching is a specific function that God uses to warn sinners of His impending judgment and it's results, and to offer the gift of salvation through repentance and belief in the redemptive work of Christ on the cross.

20 Dead As Tornadoes Hit Ga., Ala., Mo.

Stephen Majors / The Associated Press:
A violent storm system ripped apart an Alabama high school as students hunkered inside and later tore through Georgia, hitting a hospital and raising the death toll Friday to at least 20 across the Midwest and Southeast. Eight students died when a tornado struck Enterprise High School, Mayor Kenneth Boswell said Friday. The teenage victims were all in a wing of the school that took a direct hit as the tornado blew out the walls and roof.

The Emperor's Continued Nudity

Martin G. Selbrede / The Chalcedon Foundation:
In some respects, Jeff Sharlet’s recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, “Through a Glass, Darkly: How the Christian right is reimagining U.S. history,” seems to play to his base. Many sections read like exposés received from an embedded journalist, one providing disturbing information from inside the belly of the beast, viz., fundamentalist Christianity. His characterization of fundamentalists can’t be missed since he frames the article by way of a repeated theme: "Who would worship such a god? His followers must be dupes, or saps, or fools, their faith illiterate, insane, or misinformed, their strength fleeting, hollow, an aberration. A burp in American history. An unpleasant odor that will pass."

New 'Bible' Says Christ Born of Gorilla, Not Virgin

Jay Baggett / WorldNetDaily.com:
A new, lavishly illustrated book – described by its marketer as a "postmodern" edition of the Bible – takes Darwin's theory of evolution as gospel and presents Jesus as being born, "not to a virgin, but to a gorilla." According to Ruth Rimm, Bronx school teacher and book artist, her version of the Scriptures – titled "Lost Spiritual World" – "explores the emergence of a new global spirituality that mixes the best of each wisdom tradition with the latest findings in psychology, quantum physics, neuroscience, and linguistics." It is a "Bible for skeptics, seekers, and people of different faiths."

D.C. Prostitute to Sell Her Phone Records

Anne Schroeder / The Politico.com:
From 1993 until this past summer, Deborah J. Palfrey ran Pamela Martin and Associates, a “high-end adult fantasy firm which offered sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult sexual behavior,” according to a statement she put out hoping to raise funds for her legal defense. The way she plans to raise those funds could reverberate through Washington’s power corridors. She is considering “selling the entire 46 pounds of detailed and itemized phone records for the 13 year period,” reports The Politico's Ryan Grim. In October, the Internal Revenue Service seized her assets; the sale of the records would fund her fight against the seizure.

The Anguish Of A Young Man In A Depraved America

Pastor Matt Trewhella / The Covenant News:
27 year-old Joel Robison was arraigned on Monday, February 26th, for the charge of attempted murder. Seems he made the mistake after checking himself into a hospital for severe depression of telling his doctor that a week earlier he had driven to the abortion clinic where his girlfriend had aborted their child in order to kill the abortionist. He changed his mind however, and did not do it.

Liberty and the Constitution Go on Trial

Michael Gaddy / Institute on the Constitution:
On Monday, January 8th in Federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Liberty and the Constitution, represented by Hollis Wayne Fincher, are being put on trial by the jackbooted thugs at the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms Explosives (BATFE) Yes, these are the same criminal thugs responsible for the murders and other malicious acts at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

The Five-Sided Police State

Jacob G. Hornberger / LewRockwell.com:
The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. The assumption of this particular power easily constitutes one of the most monumental revolutions of liberty and power in history. It is a revolution that every American must confront now, not later. If people wait until later to confront the expanded use of this power, it will be too late, because by that time it will be too dangerous to do so.

Americans Have Lost Their Country

Paul Craig Roberts / VDARE.com:
The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America’s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.

The Storm Clouds Are Building

Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:
Look out your window. The sun may be shinning above you but the clouds are building. Christians, it is time to put our hands to the plow. As Kenny Rogers sang in The Gambler, “there’ll be time enough for counting, when the dealin’s done.” Last I checked the game wasn’t over…despite what the End-of-the-Agers want to convince us. Here is the question we must ask. Is it possible that America, as we know it, could disappear from the face of the earth and Jesus would still not have returned? Is a world without America possible? Therein lays the delusion. Much of what passes as end time prophecy today is based on the decadence that is swallowing up America.

Ignorance Is Bliss

Al Cronkrite / Ether Zone:
As Florida vacationers bask in the sun and enjoy an affluent leisure, Pat Buchanan writes that during the Clinton and Bush presidencies we have “run up $4 trillion in trade deficits in manufactured goods“ and are facing “a collapse of the dollar”, the closing down of U.S. factories with the accompanying loss of jobs, “An end of America’s pre-eminence as the world’s foremost industrial and technological power”, and the beginning of an Asian Century. He goes on to predict that, “The world is witnessing the passing of the United States as the greatest industrial power and the most self-sufficient republic the world has ever seen. Yet no one acts. Why?”

Court Weighs Right to Sue Over Church-State Separation

Robert Barnes / The Washington Post:
The Supreme Court, for the first time under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., confronted yesterday the devilishly complicated issue of church-state separation, and whether ordinary taxpayers have the right to sue over the Bush administration's embrace of faith-based organizations. With Roberts and newest member Samuel A. Alito Jr. active in the discussion, the justices bombarded the lawyers before them with questions about what kinds of government action could warrant a taxpayer suit. A church built by the government? The number of times a president appears at prayer breakfasts? Roberts even wondered whether opponents of the administration's initiatives would extend their concerns to the court itself, which opened yesterday's session, as it always does, with a marshal appealing for God to "save the United States and this honorable court."

Sanhedrin to Purchase Sheep for Passover Sacrifice

Abominations:
The modern-day Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, has decided to purchase a herd of sheep to be used for the Passover sacrifice ritual to be held this year if possible at the Temple Mount. The Sanhedrin, which was formed several years ago, meets once a week, according to the Haaretz news service, in what it says is a renewal of the Jewish High Court that existed more than a thousand years ago. -Israel National News

Sanhedrin: stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart

"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." Acts.7:51-53

Jesus Christ is the Passover

"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." 1Cor.5:7-8

"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." Heb.9:22-28