August 31, 2007
Will Lady Liberty Last Beyond 2010?
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of this once-great country believed there was a controlling cabal that was crafting America's servitude. With the assistance of Heaven, they decided to fight those forces. Pastors fought with fiery sermons from the pulpit; newsmen fought with the power of the pen; statesmen fought in the halls of congress; and merchants fought with the sacrifice of their material gain. Together, they lifted Lady Liberty to her feet and defeated the powers of darkness. It took the global elite a long time to recover, but they have reemerged with a vengeance.
Posted by Editor at 02:57 PM
Jesus banned in Statehouse prayers
Dr. Patrick Johnston / Coshocton Tribune:Did you know that the Ohio Statehouse has recently disallowed Christian pastors from mentioning the name of Jesus when they open the daily session with prayer? Majority speaker notified House members of the "increasing tendency of guest invocators to use language referring to a particular deity. If a prayer is not received in writing and approved by the Clerk's Office at least 72 hours prior to a session day, the guest invocator will be asked not to deliver the prayer." He cited the Supreme Court as the authority to police public Christian prayers.
Posted by Editor at 09:03 AM
Southern Baptists Still Mulling Over Public Schools
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:The Raleigh News & Observer featured an article in its Lifestyles section entitled "Baptists turn from public schools." I really wish people would get the story straight. The Southern Baptist Convention is slow in turning on the public school issue. In fact, they're still quicker to vote on whether an elder can drink alcohol.
Posted by Editor at 04:37 AM
S Korea Churches to End Afghan Missions
Aljazeera.net News Agencies:South Korean Christian groups have said they will end missionary work in Afghanistan following news of an apparent end to a 41-day hostage crisis that has gripped the country. The Taliban were expected to begin freeing 19 South Korean Christian volunteers on Wednesday, under an agreement reached a day earlier in face-to-face talks with the South Korean government brokered by the Red Crescent. Under the terms of the deal, South Korea agreed to end missionary activities by Christian groups in Afghanistan.
Posted by Editor at 02:16 AM
Cop Accused Queer Senator of Lying
Matthew Daly / The Associated Press:The police officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig in an airport men's room accused the senator of lying to him during an interrogation afterward, according to an audiotape of the arrest. The disclosure of Craig's guilty plea earlier this month to the lesser charge of disorderly conduct has led to snowballing demands for his resignation from Republican ranks.
Posted by Editor at 01:33 AM
Haggard Told to Get a Job
Tillie Fong / Rocky Mountain News:Ted Haggard won't be fundraising for a Monument nonprofit run by a sex offender, won't be ministering to anyone and needs to get a job, his overseers said in a statement released Wednesday. "Mr. Haggard's solicitation for personal support was inappropriate," his church supervisors said. The statement came one day after the four-member team of ministers responsible for overseeing the spiritual restoration of Haggard met with him in Phoenix.
Related:
Sex Offender Linked to Ted Haggard
By Mary Adamski / Star Bulletin
HAWAII -- A Big Island registered sex offender has been caught in the public spotlight focused on a nationally prominent Christian pastor whose relationship with a male prostitute led to scandal last year. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and was forced out of the 10,000-member Colorado church he founded, after admitting to paying for massages and buying methamphetamine from a Denver male escort. Haggard made an appeal for financial help last week in Colorado, suggesting that donations for his family be made to Families With a Mission, a nonprofit group run by Paul Gerard Huberty. Huberty, 50, is listed on the sex offender registry of the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, which shows that he moved this year to Monument.
Posted by Editor at 01:28 AM
Study: Genghis Khan Executed Sodomites
PR Inside:Homosexuality was punishable by death under Genghis Khan's rule. That was among the findings of Chinese researchers who spent more than a year compiling the legendary Mongolian conqueror's code of laws, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. His early 13th century empire stretched across Asia all the way to central Europe. Article 48 of the code said men who "committed sodomy shall be put to death," according to experts at a research institute in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia.
Posted by Editor at 01:27 AM
Paula White & Randy to Divorce
Big Business Church to Blame?Lynda Johnson / National Ledger:
Randy and Paula White were the founders and co-pastors of Without Walls International Church, one of the largest "mega Churches" in the country. They are divorcing and announced it to their congregation last week. Did the big business of the church cause the split of this couple?
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Interruption During Megapastors'
Divorce Announcement Was Intentional
Tampa Tribune
The 10-minute interruption of Thursday night's service at Without Walls International Church, during which pastors Randy and Paula White announced their impending divorce, wasn't a technical issue. Viewers who tuned in to a live webcast of the service missed the announcement; the video and audio were cut off for about 10 minutes. Randy said Friday morning that he assumed the entire service would be broadcast. But Paula's TV associates decided it should not be aired, so the audio and video were cut. Members of Without Walls International Church reacted with tears and a chorus of "Oh, no" after the the founders and co-pastors of what has been one of the nation's biggest and fastest-growing churches announced the divorce at Thursday night's service.
Posted by Editor at 01:04 AM
August 30, 2007
John Lofton Interviews Tim Wildmon
The American View Radio:In this program, John Lofton interviews "American Family Association" President Tim Wildmon re: his view that it's OK for Christians to vote for non-Christians, specifically non-Christians such as Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon. A warning, please: You should have no less that two rolls of duct tape at hand if you plan to listen closely to this interview.
Posted by Editor at 01:15 PM
American Idols
Michael Tennant / LewRockwell.com:How I wish that Christians who are outraged over the removal of a monument of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse would instead concern themselves with their own fealty to the commandments! If they did, these same conservative Christians would realize that they do indeed worship another god – one that they put on an equal footing with, if not above, the God of the Bible. That god, of course, is the United States government; and the idol of many of these Christians is George W. Bush.
Posted by Editor at 09:27 AM
Brainwashing of Public School Children
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Organizations like GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network) are completely linked with powerful teacher's unions and heavily involved in indoctrinating public school children into embracing the gay lifestyle. Under the auspices of "making schools safe" a more insidious agenda is undermining our national morality. In this Faith for All of Life podcast I interview investigative journalist Lee Duigon about the organized efforts of the American Federation of Teachers and GSLEN.
Posted by Editor at 04:51 AM
Teachers Push Homosexuality
Teaching Children How to Go to Hell and You Pay for It.Lee Duigon / The Chalcedon Foundation:
Does the nation's second-largest teachers' union, the American Federation of Teachers, actively promote homosexuality to children in America's public schools? The answer is "yes." Indeed, "actively" is maybe too mild a word for it. The AFT has 1.3 million members and staffs thousands of schools nationwide. As with all unions, members’ dues pay for the AFT’s activities. Like all teachers' unions, the AFT is ultimately funded by property taxes levied in the communities where the schools are located. This means that, whether they are aware of it or not, dues-paying AFT members and tax-paying property owners in AFT school districts (even those who have no children in the schools) are financing the AFT's efforts in support of the homosexual agenda in the public schools.
Posted by Editor at 04:24 AM
Are We Teaching Children To Lie?
Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:As some of you might be aware I have begun to coach high school football again. I don’t work as a teacher, but I am starting a football team at a local Christian school. I figured rather than complain about the condition of Christianity in America my time might be better spent engaging the next generation of Christian-leaders. I took the plunge, not so much to train football players, but to train young Christians how to be men. Suffice it to say that our churches are producing passive Christian boys whose greatest Christian attribute is "niceness."
Posted by Editor at 02:17 AM
Church Overseers Chastise Ted Haggard
The Associated Press:The new senior pastor of a Colorado megachurch said Wednesday he was optimistic for its future even as the church's overseers chastised their disgraced former leader, Ted Haggard. Brady Boyd, selected Monday by members of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said he knew he wasn't facing a routine pastoral transition and had plenty of questions for church members.
Posted by Editor at 01:45 AM
Queer Senator Removed From Posts
Karl Vick / The Washington Post:Sen. Larry Craig went on vacation with his wife Wednesday, according to aides, as calls for his resignation intensified, Republican leaders stripped him of his committee assignments, and support in his home state appeared to be eroding. On the day after Craig dismissed having pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in an airport restroom as an overreaction to a mistaken arrest, and insisted that he is not gay, even longtime supporters expressed disappointment.
Posted by Editor at 01:23 AM
Not All of Foley's Computer Files Examined
Congress Protecting Child Predator from State Investigation: U.S. House officials, in rebuffing efforts by Florida investigators to access former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's congressional computers, said they found no sexually explicit photos in e-mails they reviewed, according to a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The July 24 letter by House Deputy General Counsel Kerry Kircher was a response to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's request for information. The e-mails being examined, however, do not include all of Foley's communications through his House account. Some may have been deleted from the main congressional computer server, which was searched, but would likely still be accessible from an examination of the actual computers, which were not searched. Foley has refused access, citing congressional privilege. Full story...
Posted by Editor at 01:07 AM
August 29, 2007
The Post-Political Church
David Alan Black / The Covenant News:Over the span of 31 years of teaching my understanding of the Christian faith and theology has changed in several significant ways. One of the most important is that I have come to identify myself not so much with the Reformers of the sixteenth century but rather with the Anabaptist dissenters whom they opposed (often to the death) – those simple men and women who believed that the church needed, not reforming, but rebuilding from the ground up.
Posted by Editor at 12:05 PM
Michael Vick: Appeal to Darwin!
Gary DeMar / American Vision:We live in a topsy-turvy world. News articles have reported that Michael Vick has found Jesus. Since the popularity of the atheist tomes by Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and Dawkins, I would have called on these defenders of Darwin and the no-God hypothesis and pleaded for evolutionary understanding rather than Jesus since He’s no longer in style.
Posted by Editor at 05:12 AM
The Highway to Serfdom
William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:Anastasio Prieto, a truck driver from El Paso, Texas, doesn't trust banks and prefers to carry his savings with him in cash. While this is a dangerous way to manage one's money, a cursory glance at recent headlines tends to validate Prieto's concerns about the stability of the fractional-reserve banking system. During a stop at a weigh station in New Mexico on August 8, Prieto made a critical mistake: He cooperated with the police, assuming that as a law-abiding individual he had nothing to fear from them. Never make that assumption.
Posted by Editor at 02:54 AM
Questions Raised Over Haggard Financial Plea
ABC 7 News TheDenverChannel:An address where Ted Haggard said supporters could send him donations is the same as one listed for a man registered as a sex offender in Hawaii. In an e-mail KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs received from Haggard, Haggard said he would seek financial support while he pursues a master's degree in Phoenix and works in a halfway house. The e-mail from the New Life Church founder said supporters could send donations either directly to his family or to a Colorado Springs post office box held by a group called Families With a Mission if they wanted a tax deduction. Families With a Mission lists the Colorado Springs post office box as a mailing address for Paul Huberty, the group's registering agent, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's office. It also lists an address in Monument as its principal mailing address, according to the office. Huberty is listed in Hawaii's sex offender registry for attempted sexual assault under the Monument address.
Posted by Editor at 02:05 AM
Feds: Abortion Foe's Website Makes Threats
The Associated Press:Federal prosecutors sought court action Tuesday to force a Web site to remove postings they said exhorted readers to kill a former abortion provider by shooting her in the head. One posting targeted a former clinician for the Philadelphia Women's Center and featured the provider's name, photo and address, stating that "while it does not sound good to say go shoot her between the eyes, it sounds even worse to say let her alone," according to the request. "This type of intimidation and scare tactic, regardless of one's beliefs or religious convictions, simply cannot be condoned," U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said. "Using a public forum, such as the Internet, to incite and instruct people to kill is tantamount to a form of domestic terrorism." Dunkle said that he did not write the message on the blog, but that he did post it. He said that, if asked, he would take it down and identify its author.
Editor's note: Does the Philadelphia Women's Center's website use a public forum, such as the Internet, "to instruct people to kill"?
On one of its web pages called "Abortion Care," this clinic says, "Philadelphia Women’s Center uses this in-person appointment as an opportunity to introduce patients to the office and the staff, and to give information on what a patient can expect on the procedure day. The information session is a chance for patients to ask questions, speak with a staff member one-on-one, and complete some testing prior to the abortion." In fact, this website goes into great detail "instructing people to kill"!
Since U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan is all fired up to hunt "domestic terrorists" who are instructing people to kill, then maybe someone should forward him this nationwide list of abortion clinics. The time he spends reading pro-life blogs at taxpayers expense can be better served by getting off his duff and arresting real domestic terrorists.
--Jim Rudd
Posted by Editor at 01:09 AM
August 28, 2007
Conservatives Have Only One Choice In 2008
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:Let's cut to the chase: conservative Republicans have only one choice for President in 2008: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Unlike the GOP frontrunners, Paul is the real deal. No real conservative could support Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Fred Thompson, or Newt Gingrich. When it comes to historic conservative principles, each of these men is as phony as a three dollar bill. That they are now attempting to cast themselves as conservatives is more than laughable: it is downright hilarious.
Posted by Editor at 11:39 AM
San Antonio Developing NAFTA Inland Port
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:Union Pacific has announced plans to build a $90 million state-of-the-art 300-acre intermodal rail terminal alongside Interstate 35 in San Antonio, advancing the city's goal to establish itself as a NAFTA inland port. In an Aug. 23 announcement, the railroad said the San Antonio terminal will process more than 100,000 truck trailers annually when completed in 2008, with the capacity to grow to a potential of 250,000 trailers and containers per year.
Posted by Editor at 08:35 AM
GOP Senator Pleaded Guilty After Restroom Arrest
Paul Kane / The Washington Post:Sen. Larry E. Craig pleaded guilty earlier this month to misdemeanor disorderly-conduct charges stemming from his June arrest by an undercover police officer in a men's restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Craig issued a statement confirming his arrest and guilty plea, which were reported in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Sodomite activist, Mike Rogers, who runs the Web site BlogActive.com, has complained about Craig's opposition to sodomite rights. The "conservative" senator has supported an amendment to the Constitution banning same-sex marriage and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in the 1990s. Craig, who served in the National Guard, has also spoken out against homosexuals serving in the military. Craig was a member of the "Singing Senators," a Republican barbershop quartet. It included Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.) and then-Sen. John D. Ashcroft (Mo.), who broke up the group when he was named attorney general.
Related:
Sen. Larry Craig Quits Romney Campaign
After Pleading Guilty to Homosexual Crime
Erika Bolstad / Idaho Statesman
Sen. Larry Craig agreed today to resign as the U.S. Senate co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Craig served as co-chair with Robert Bennett of Utah. "He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision," said Romney’s communications director, Matt Rhoades. The arrest, first reported this afternoon in the magazine Roll Call, occurred June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Flashback - July 26, 2007
Romney Acknowledges He's A Sodomite-Enabler
Kevin Landrigan / The Nashua Telegraph
Republican hopeful Mitt Romney said he's not anti-gay but has never supported legalizing marriage for homosexuals. "I know there are some who say that is a difference, my view, and it is the view I have had from the very beginning. I have opposed gay marriage from the beginning," Romney said Wednesday during a question-and-answer forum at the Lincoln Financial Group. But Ray Fortier of Manchester accused Romney of cozying up to the gay community and giving the impression he was supportive while running for governor in 2002.
Posted by Editor at 06:42 AM
Teaching Kids To Love Sodomy
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Watch these videos and forward them to those you know. The most deplorable example of the homosexual invasion of public schools I've ever seen! get your kids out now! Bear in mind that these videos were done nearly 10 years ago. You can only imagine what they're doing now. While secularists drone on about the Ten Commandments or religious displays in public schools, the homosexual agenda is fully financed BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS! You may not be able to get your money back, or stop them from using your taxes to fund this, but you can get your children out. You have every right to do so.
Posted by Editor at 06:38 AM
Baptists Turn From Public Schools
Yonat Shimron / The News Observer:Convinced that God has been erased from public schools, Southern Baptists are now working to open their own schools, where Jesus is writ large and Bible study is part of the daily curriculum. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is leading the push, sponsoring a Christian School 101 workshop Monday and Tuesday. The program is designed to train church leaders to open private schools.
Posted by Editor at 06:29 AM
Exodus Mandate's Tenth Anniversary
Exodus Mandate / Press Release:Frontline Ministries will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Exodus Mandate with a gala banquet October 9. Featured speaker will be the former Attorney General of Virginia, Mark Earley, who is now president of PFM. The Exodus Mandate project has become a leading advocate in America today for K-12 Christian and home-based education as an alternative to state-run public schools.
Posted by Editor at 06:19 AM
The Prophecies of Daniel
Why They Don't Point to Us.Gary DeMar / American Vision:
For Hal Lindsey, every news story is a sign that we are living in the "rapture generation." It wasn't too long ago that he claimed in his wildly popular prophetic book The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) that the "this generation" of Matthew 24:34 would end sometime before 1988 (1948+40 years=1988). In an interview published in Christianity Today (April 15, 1977), Ward Gasque asked Lindsey: "But what if you're wrong?" Lindsey replied: "Well, there’s just a split second’s difference between a hero and a bum. I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum."
Posted by Editor at 05:05 AM
Observation from a Pro-life Doorstop
Lawrence Reves / MTTU News:Since I first got involved in the fight against child killing, I've always known that I was best suited for one thing. I can't walk the line and carry a sign. I don't have the patience. It was hard for me to try to counsel the mothers, I was never sure just what to say. I could pray, however, the old Army in me felt like I needed to do more. Then, I found the perfect action that I could do to try to help the mothers and their babies. I became a door stop. A pro-life door stop. I realized that if I truly believed that the children in the womb are fully human, and if I was to act on that belief for them and their mothers, then the only logical action was to put my wide body in between them and the abortionist.
Posted by Editor at 04:51 AM
Michael Vick: I Found Jesus
Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:NFL superstar Michael Vick apologized yesterday for the first time over his role in a brutal dogfighting ring - and vowed to come back a better man. "I offer my deepest apologies to everyone," the Atlanta Falcons quarterback said after pleading guilty in a Virginia federal court to animal cruelty charges. "And I will redeem myself. I have to." "Through this situation, I found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God," said Vick, 27. "I think that's the right thing."
Posted by Editor at 03:48 AM
Treason vs. Presidential Candidates
Nancy Levant / NewsWithViews.com:I believe the definition of treason has also fallen victim to bureaucratic phoney-bologne nonsense that suits the partnerships with the best contacts and funding bases – just like the rights of American citizens.
Posted by Editor at 03:11 AM
Lawmakers Spouses Get Special Interest Money
Judicial Watch:A recently approved House bill that if passed by the U.S. Senate will prevent federal lawmakers from putting spouses and relatives on campaign payrolls is meeting strong resistance in the home state of the Congressman who sponsored the measure because the practice is rampant there. Congressman Adam Schiff, who represents the Southern California city of Burbank in the U.S. House of Representatives, sponsored the legislation to end the corrupt practice of members of Congress writing big checks from donor funds to their spouses for services.
Posted by Editor at 01:32 AM
Dr. Kennedy Retires for Health Reasons
The Christian Broadcasting Network:Dr. D. James Kennedy is retiring from ministry because of health reasons, ministry officials announced Monday. Dr. Kennedy founded Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., almost 50 years ago. Through his radio and television ministries, he became one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders.
Related:
Politics Will Get Church's Rear Pew
By Donna Gehrke-White / The Miami Herald
With the retirement of the Rev. D. James Kennedy, its voice for nearly 50 years, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church will move away from its founder's political activism to focus on finding a successor and shaping the church's future, Coral Ridge leaders said Monday. ''Let's say the emphasis will diminish short term for sure,'' church elder Ron Kovack said. ``I think the issues remain the same -- but it will be other pastors across the country to pick up the torch of Pastor Kennedy.''
Posted by Editor at 12:21 AM
Chertoff May Get the Nod
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:There is already speculation that the vacancy left by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be filled by Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security. Granted, Chertoff has the credentials. He's a Harvard law graduate, served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York serving alongside Rudy Giuliani, and sat on the 3rd U.S. District Court of Appeals.
Posted by Editor at 12:09 AM
August 27, 2007
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns
Howard Schneider / The Washington Post:Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced his resignation today, ending a controversial cabinet tenure that included clashes with Congress over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and over the use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terror.
Posted by Editor at 11:30 AM
Reasons Most Men Hate Going To Church
Brandon Vallorani / American Vision:I drive past several churches on my way into the office each day. It's encouraging to see such a frequent reminder of God's visible Kingdom on a regular basis. This morning, however, I saw a sign for one of these churches that frustrated me. The sign at this prominent Baptist church read, "Wonderful Wednesdays with Dr. _ _ _ _ _". Wonderful Wednesdays? Please. That's the type of stuff that's guaranteed to keep any hairy, red-blooded, NASCAR loving man from ever darkening the door of a church.
Posted by Editor at 07:11 AM
The Fed Is Evil
Gary North / LewRockwell.com:Let me present a syllogism. 1. Theft is immoral. 2. Inflation is theft. 3. Fractional reserve banking is inflationary. 4. Central banking is government-guaranteed fractional reserve banking. 5. Immorality leads to judgment. Therefore, we should expect. . . ? Economists, other than Murray Rothbard's disciples, never associate the concept of theft with monetary inflation. They speak of theft in terms of reduced inefficiency and increased transactions costs, not morality.
Posted by Editor at 06:22 AM
Aging Infrastructure
Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:The recent and tragic bridge collapse in Minnesota raises many questions in Americans' minds about our aging infrastructure, and what is being done to maintain it. Questions such as: "Was I-35 an isolated accident or are we approaching days when crumbling bridges and bursting pipes will be regular features on the evening news?" The poor ratings on the inspection report of that bridge, and similar deficiency findings on as many as 25% of our bridges suggests the latter. Estimates on what it will cost to bring deficiencies in our infrastructure back up to par range from massive to astronomical.
Posted by Editor at 06:12 AM
Stop NAU/SPP - What Does That Really Mean?
Devvy Kidd / NewsWithViews.com:In July 2005, Phyllis Schlafly exposed the plans to integrate our republic with Canada and Mexico, although there were spotty articles here and there over the years about this treason (list of them at bottom of my column here). Dr. Jerome Corsi has also spent the past couple of years exposing this insidious grand plan to finally do away with our borders all in the name of global trade. This issue is a major battle ground, although tens of millions of Americans have no idea what it's about thanks to the compromised media and network cable channels.
Posted by Editor at 05:07 AM
Corsi Named 'Project Censored' Winner
WorldNetDaily.com:WND staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi has been honored for his reporting on NAFTA Superhighways by Project Censored, a prestigious project on media accountability at Sonoma State University. His work was listed at No. 9 on the 2008 list for "The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007." The list soon will be published, and will replace the existing 2007 honors for 2006 publishing posted on the website now.
Posted by Editor at 04:43 AM
2007 Montebello SPP Summit ends
Steve Lefemine / LefemineforLife.net:Paternalistic 'Three Amigos' and their fellow globalist cabalists appear to believe they know what's best for North America - better than the American conservative nationalist 'conspiracy theorists' mocked by Canada's Harper, America's Bush, and Mexico's Calderon.
Posted by Editor at 04:03 AM
The Purpose of a Seminary
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:I thoroughly enjoy teaching, especially interacting with the fantastic students God has given me. One of my goals as a prof is to instill a love for global missions in my students. In fact, that's my main goal.
Posted by Editor at 02:45 AM
Haggard Seeks Financial Support
The Associated Press:Ted Haggard, who left the megachurch he founded after admitting to "sexual immorality," has asked supporters for financial assistance while he and his wife pursue their studies. The former New Life Church pastor plans to seek a master's degree in counseling at the University of Phoenix while his wife studies psychology, he said in an e-mail sent this week to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs. Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006 and an $85,000 anniversary bonus before the scandal broke, The Gazette reported. Haggard's severance package included a year's salary of $138,000, and he collects royalties on his book titles, the newspaper reported. El Paso County records show Haggard's home, which has been up for sale, has a market value of $715,051.
Posted by Editor at 02:04 AM
How to Undermine the Bible
R. Albert Mohler, Jr. / The Christian Post:The great obstruction in the path of homosexual activists in the church is the Bible. This is not really a limitation on the thinking of the theological elites within liberal churches, but it is a problem at the grassroots. Liberal theologians long ago decided that the Bible is hopelessly homophobic, hostile to women, and that it presents a judgmental deity with all kinds of hang-ups.
Posted by Editor at 01:53 AM
Bush Kills Sixty-One Women in Iraq
All Things Considered / NPR:Sixty-one women in the U.S. military have been killed by hostile fire in Iraq -- more than twice as many female casualties suffered since women were allowed to join the military after World War II. The number indicates that women are playing new roles in combat zones. The new data comes from a report by the Rand Corporation examining how the Army assigns women to units in Iraq. The Pentagon released the report this month.
A Nation of Cowards!
Covenant News Wire Service"A nation that dresses women like men and then places them in harm's way so their enemies can shoot at them, is a nation of cowards and 'abomination unto the LORD thy God'". -- Jim Rudd
- U.S. Women In 'Combat' by John Lofton
- The Effeminate Army General by Michael A. Peroutka
- Transvestitism, Egalitarianism, and Women in Combat by Darrell Dow
- Mr. President, Bring Our Ladies Home by Nicholas A. Jackson
- Sissy Men in The White House by Rowan Scarborough
- Miliary Violating 'Women in Combat' Ban
- Women Warriors and the American Empire by Steven LaTulippe
- Military Is No Place For Women
- GOP Supports Women In Combat
- Military Wages War On Your Gender by Henry Makow
- What Kind of Nation Sends Women into Combat? by R. Cort Kirkwood, Jr.
- Women in Combat - Bible-Researcher.com
- Does Bush Care? by George Neumayr
Posted by Editor at 01:42 AM
For Televangelist 'Prophetess' Marriage a Mess
Rosalind Bentley / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:With each sheet she wrapped around her body that day, the crowd roared for "Prophetess" Juanita Bynum. At the singles' conference, sponsored by fellow evangelist T.D. Jakes, Bynum spoke to her audience in plain, smoky-nightclub language about her battle with the flesh and her longing for a husband. The bedsheets represented all the empty sex she'd had with men.
Posted by Editor at 01:03 AM
August 25, 2007
Supreme Justice - The Law
Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:My last article concerned Justice, the platform of peace. This article is about Law, the platform of justice. God’s Laws are ultimately just. Obedience to them produces a just life and disobedience to them produces just punishments. Exodus 21:23-25 describes the principle behind God’s punitive commandments. "...you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
Posted by Editor at 08:01 PM
Government Control of Church Leaders
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Whether it be Right or Left Wing, government organizations like FEMA and the DHS, and think-tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), are seeking to influence the power of Christian leaders over their respective followers. For example, during the last seven years we've witnessed the Religious Right become a de facto department of the GOP.
Posted by Editor at 07:45 PM
NAFTA Superhighway System in 2005
Larry Greenley / JBS.org:In the context of the rapidly escalating national debate over the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the North American Union, The Nation chose the closely-related topic of the NAFTA Superhighway for the cover story of its August 27 issue. Superimposed on a full-bleed graphic of a mega-highway against a background of blue sky and white clouds are the words: "The NAFTA Superhighway -- It’s Big. It’s Scary. But Is It Real?" According to the article’s summary, "The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth." The author, Christopher Hayes, then goes on in the article to refer to the John Birch Society (JBS) as "one of the leading purveyors of the highway myth."
Posted by Editor at 03:32 PM
Televangelist's Husband Surrenders to Police
D. Aileen Dodd / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:Thomas Weeks, the 54-year-old bishop who shares an international ministry with estranged wife Juanita Bynum, was released on bond Friday after surrendering on charges that he assaulted his wife. Weeks spent about six hours inside the Fulton County Jail before emerging at 1:40 p.m., holding a finger to his lips to signal that he had no comment. He climbed into the passenger seat of a silver, four-door Jaguar and rode away.
Posted by Editor at 01:06 AM
August 24, 2007
John Lofton Interviews Ron Paul
The American View Radio:In this program John Lofton interviews Texas Republican Congressman and GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul. They discuss, of course, his campaign and his beliefs about: God, the Bible and government; abortion, does he think it’s murder?; homosexuality and homosexuals in our military; why he stays in the Republican Party; and much more.
Posted by Editor at 11:22 AM
We Need An American President
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:What we need is an old-fashioned AMERICAN President. A President who will put the interests of America above the interests of internationalists. A President who will stop selling out American workers to China and Mexico. A President who will keep his word to support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. A President who will protect America's borders. A President who will stop using America's fighting men as the world's policemen. A President who is more concerned about the economic well-being of Americans than he is about constructing some "global economy" for the multinational corporations and international bankers.
Posted by Editor at 07:56 AM
Role of Telecom Firms in Wiretaps Is Confirmed
Eric Lichtblau / The New York Times:The Bush administration has confirmed for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a crucial role in the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program after asserting for more than a year that any role played by them was a "state secret." The acknowledgment was in an unusual interview that Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, gave last week to The El Paso Times in which he disclosed details on classified intelligence issues that the administration has long insisted would harm national security if discussed publicly.
Posted by Editor at 07:20 AM
Not a Dime's Worth of Difference
Laurence M. Vance / LewRockwell.com:Not only is there not a "dime’s worth of difference" between the Democrat and Republican Parties when it comes to just about anything, there is certainly no difference at all when it comes to increased federal spending, the expansion of government power, the destruction of liberty, and interventionism in general, both at home and abroad. One quick way to see this is "The Freedom Index," published about every six months by The New American magazine. This index, which used to be called "The Conservative Index," rates Congressman "based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements." The higher the number, the stronger is a congressman’s commitment to these constitutional principles.
Posted by Editor at 06:52 AM
Mexican Rigs Ready to Roll
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:The requirements for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Mexican Truck Demonstration Project have been met, and some 37 Mexican trucking companies have been approved to run their long-haul rigs through the U.S. starting as early as Sept. 1, according to a Mexican government report. In the United States, the inspector general of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Aug. 6 issued to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee an audit about implementing NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions, the last hurdle DOT faced before allowing the Mexican truck demonstration project to begin.
Posted by Editor at 06:04 AM
Hitler's Favorite Bible Verse
Lew Rockwell / LewRockwell.com:Eric Voegelin points out that the Nazis loved Romans 13, misinterpreted to mean obedience to the state. It turns out that Mugabe does too.
Posted by Editor at 02:28 AM
What I Have Learned from the Anabaptists
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:Conclusion: Today I come to my final essay in our series on Anabaptism. A question may legitimately be asked by those who have had the patience to complete the reading of the preceding sketches in this series: Why should a committed Baptist so vigorously promote Anabaptist ideals? The answer is that Anabaptist principles can be applied to many modern problems of church life – restoring church discipline to our nominal memberships, fostering the ministry of the "laity," furthering religious liberty, promoting global missions – to name but a few. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Conclusion]
Posted by Editor at 02:11 AM
It's the Ideology, Stupid
Eric Rauch / American Vision:Creationists are often accused of allowing their ideology to get in the way of their science. They are ostracized from the academic scientific community, not because of their lack of scientific understanding or merit, but because of their basic operating premises. For its part, the scientific community has more or less denied this to be the case and insist that their refusal to allow professed creationists admittance to the academic table is based solely on the lack of the testability of the claims of the creationists (as if the materialists have somehow found a way to test evolution). Now however, this holy war of science is reaching beyond the creation/evolution boundaries and excluding members of its own persuasion who have the temerity to question the status quo. Dr. J. Michael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University, is one of the recent victims.
Posted by Editor at 01:46 AM
Warrants Issued for Televangelist's Husband
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:The husband of popular TV evangelist Juanita Bynum has been charged with felony aggravated assault and making terrorist threats after he allegedly struck and choked his wife in a hotel parking lot. A spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Department said the suspect, Thomas W. Weeks, a bishop, who shares an international ministry with his wife, had not been taken into custody. "Anytime you tell a person, 'I'm going to kill you,' that moves it up to a felony," officer Ronald Campbell said. "We are hoping he will turn himself into Atlanta police or the Fulton County Jail," Campbell said.
Posted by Editor at 01:12 AM
August 23, 2007
Christians Reject God as Their King
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Yes, believe it or not, this a photo of Rude Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag. The former Mayor of New York, admitted adulterer, estranged father, two-time divorcee, son of a mob enforcer, and nephew of a mobster that ran loan sharking and gambling in Flatbush, Brooklyn; but, the Religious Right loves him: Religious Protestants have come to view the issues that Giuliani has emphasized, "national security" and "fighting terror," as more crucial than those family issues they stressed in the past.
Posted by Editor at 08:44 AM
Christiane Amanpour and the Moral Lottery
Gary DeMar / American Vision:Kay Haugaard has taught creative writing since 1970. As with most of her classes, students read and discuss Shirley Jackson’s short story "The Lottery." Jackson’s lottery isn’t about winning millions of dollars by picking the right Lotto numbers; it’s about human sacrifice that a small town accepts and takes part in with no questions asked. Of course, the premise is absurd. Or is it?
Posted by Editor at 04:12 AM
Ron Paul Wins Five Straw Polls
Mainstream Media Remains Silent.Chris Brunner / LewRockwell.com:
Whether it's Washington, Alabama, New Hampshire, or South Carolina, the message is the same. We want our freedom, our rights, our money, and our country back, and we're willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Thousands are driving from all of their states to show support resulting in straw poll victories for Ron Paul with percentages as high as 81%. Dr. Paul has placed in a total of 16 straw polls now, tying him with Romney and thrusting him far beyond Giuliani in terms of visible support, and not a word about the trend can be heard from the mainstream media.
Posted by Editor at 03:03 AM
Forget War Pullout, Bush Tells Veterans
Richard Sisk / New York Daily News:President Bush resurrected Vietnam's agonizing legacy yesterday, vowing to fight on indefinitely in Iraq to avoid the bloodbath he predicted would follow a U.S. withdrawal without victory. "Then, as now, people argued the real problem was America's presence and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end," Bush reminded in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. "As long as I am commander in chief, we will fight to win," he vowed to cheers and applause.
Posted by Editor at 02:34 AM
White House Seeks to Withhold Records
The Associated Press:A House committee chairman led the criticism Wednesday about the Bush administration's claim that a White House office involved in a dispute over missing e-mails can keep records from the public. The Justice Department detailed the argument in a lawsuit seeking to force the White House Office of Administration to say what it knows about the disappearance of an undisclosed amount of messages. The White House has provided few details about the e-mail problem. It came to light more than a year and a half ago and resurfaced amid the uproar over the firing of U.S. attorneys.
Posted by Editor at 02:30 AM
Spy Chief Reveals Classified Details
The Associated Press:National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell pulled the curtain back on previously classified details of government surveillance and of a secretive court whose recent rulings created new hurdles for the Bush administration as it tries to prevent terrorism. McConnell's comments—made in an interview with the El Paso (Texas) Times last week and posted as a transcript on the newspaper's Web site Wednesday—raised eyebrows for their frank discussion of previously classified eavesdropping work conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA.
Posted by Editor at 02:25 AM
White House Seeks Delay on Subpoenas
The Associated Press:Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged it has documents that "may be responsive" to an investigation into a secret eavesdropping program, although it indicated it would not turn over the papers without a fight. Lawyers speaking on behalf of both President Bush and Cheney asked the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday for more time to respond to subpoenas involving a wiretapping program that Democrats in Congress have harshly questioned.
Posted by Editor at 02:16 AM
Census Bureau Pimps
Frederick Meekins / Ether Zone:One of the foremost aspects of freedom is the ability to withhold from those in power information regarding one’s private affairs that is not necessary to the fulfillment of legitimate government functions. However, as the state seeks to concentrate power in order to become the dominate social institution over individual human lives with the hopes of surpassing the influence of church, family, and even the self, those administering these bureaucratic constructs have come to believe that collecting reams of data regarding every possible fact of your existence is necessary to carry out its constantly expanding functions.
Posted by Editor at 01:24 AM
Preacher Assaults His Televangelist Wife
The Associated Press:Police said Juanita Bynum, a televangelist who has won a national following with sermons about women's empowerment, was assaulted by her preacher husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday. Bynum and her estranged husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, met at Renaissance Concourse Hotel near Atlanta's airport to try to reconcile, police said. About 4 a.m., they fought in the parking lot until a hotel bellman pulled Weeks off, Officer Ronald Campbell said.
Posted by Editor at 01:10 AM
August 22, 2007
Blood Sport: Jaguars Kill Babies
Jaguars.com:NFL Jacksonville Jaguars Pay Planned Parenthood $30,000 to Kill Babies. The Jaguars Foundation Board announced the awarding of grants in its first grant cycle of 2007. Under the leadership of Delores Barr Weaver, Jaguars Foundation Chair and CEO, the Foundation made the following grant award: Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida: $30,000.
Posted by Editor at 03:57 PM
Churches, Train Your People to Use Firearms
The American View:The following is the transcript of a "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" program which ran on Public TV on July 17, 2007. Pastor David Whitney –- in addition to being the Pastor of the Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Pasadena, Maryland — is also a Senior Instructor at "Institute On The Constitution."
Posted by Editor at 10:33 AM
Using the Wrong Text to Make a Point
Gary DeMar / American Vision:"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come" (Matt. 24:14). Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis(AiG) sees the newly opened Creation Museum contributing to the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophetic words in Matthew 24:14.
Posted by Editor at 04:24 AM
True Blindness
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:Truly blind men are men who believe only in what they see, and they deliberately see nothing. They look at the world around them, and they refuse to see order, direction, or meaning. They deny God and the supernatural, and they insist that the magnificent and intricate design in the natural world is not planned and ordered but accidental. This is not only a deliberate self-blinding but an amazing faith in mindless miracles. To believe that the created universe, with all its order, law, and design, is an accident requires a greater faith in miracles than the Bible ever requires.
Posted by Editor at 04:09 AM
High Risk Credit
Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:As markets went on a rollercoaster ride last week, our economy is coming close to a day of reckoning for loose credit policies being followed by the Federal Reserve Bank. Simply, foreign banks we have been relying on to buy our debt are waking up to the reality of much higher default rates than predicted, and many mortgage backed securities have been reduced to “junk” ratings. Wall Street fears the possibility of tightening credit and the tightening of America’s belts. Why, they say, “if Americans spend only what they can afford, think of the ripple effects throughout the economy!” This is the cry, as the call comes for the fed to cut rates and bail out companies in trouble.
Posted by Editor at 03:18 AM
Bush doesn't deny N. American Union
WorldNetDaily.com:President Bush sidestepped a direct question about whether he'd be willing to categorically deny there is a plan to create the North American Union. Instead, he ridiculed those who believe that is taking place as conspiracy theorists.
Posted by Editor at 01:10 AM
Bush Denies Planning for a Superstate
Jon Ward / The Washington Times:President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico yesterday ridiculed the notion that their countries are conspiring to create a regional supergovernment similar to the European Union. Mr. Bush said it is important for the U.S. to work with Canada and Mexico on facilitating trade while securing their borders, under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a series of negotiations started in 2005. Mr. Bush said the charges of a plot to form a North American Union were "political scare tactics."
Posted by Editor at 01:05 AM
SPP Summit Ends With 'Conspiracy' Denial
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:President Bush used the occasion of the first Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Waco, Texas, in 2005 to call The Minuteman Project "vigilantes." Yesterday, at the third SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec, he charged that anyone who was concerned the SPP was advancing a North American Union agenda or supporting NAFTA Superhighways was a "conspiracy theorist."
Posted by Editor at 01:01 AM
August 21, 2007
Ten Reasons Why Ron Paul Can't Win
Thomas R. Eddlem / LewRockwell.com:It always perturbed me that the wide variety of neocon commentators on television regularly pronounce with such fury and unison that Ron Paul "can’t win" but never give any reasons why he couldn’t win the presidential race. At first, I assumed that these guys would be denying he had a chance up until and including Ron Paul’s inauguration day. And why shouldn’t I assume that? The pundits probably don’t give any reasons he can’t win, I thought, because there aren’t any.
Posted by Editor at 06:05 AM
The Three Amigos, Erasing Borders?
Wesley Pruden / The Washington Times:Some of the folks who gave President Bush a country lickin' on his immigration "reform" are spoiling for another round with him. The reason why is on display at the "Three Amigos" summit in Canada. Mr. Bush and President Felipe Calderon of Mexico are guests of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for another workout of a vaguely described scheme called the Security and Prosperity Partnership, which the White House says is nothing more than three amigos getting together to swap yarns, pull a cork and talk about NAFTA writ large. But a remarkably diverse group of skeptics, including congressmen of both parties, critics of unrestrained global trade, conservative activists and left-wing academics and trade unionists, say it's free trade run amok.
Posted by Editor at 05:11 AM
Real ID Act: Countdown to Tyranny
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:By May 11, 2008, if you don't have federal Real ID card to identify yourself, you won't be able to board an airplane, walk into a federal building, or national park. Any citizen that lives in a state that refuses to comply with this tyranny must have a passport instead. Imagine, you can't go to Yosemite National Park without a passport!
Posted by Editor at 04:24 AM
What I Have Learned from the Anabaptists VII
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:One Sunday evening in a church in Nikolayev, Ukraine, I witnessed baptismal candidates being interviewed for membership. It was a sight to behold. I promised you I would give you a brief report. This is it. The candidate is asked to stand on the platform in the front of the church building. She (or he) is given a microphone. Standing next to her is one of the church elders, also with a microphone. He begins by introducing her to the congregation. He states her name, date of birth, and date of conversion. Usually the candidate has been a believer for about a year. Then anyone in the congregation can ask the candidate any questions they like. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]
Posted by Editor at 03:11 AM
Global Food Imperialism - U.N. Style
Elissa Meininger / NewsWithViews.com:Recently, I had occasion to pick up a copy of a new book called, "Codex Alimentarius – Global Food Imperialism." It bowled me over. It is a compendium of articles on Codex (which I describe briefly below) compiled and edited by Scott Tips, someone I consider a major authority on Codex. Scott has tracked Codex for many years, even before he began attending its meetings in 2000 as a member of the U.S. Delegation to Codex, headed by FDA officials, and then later arranged to have his organization, the National Health Federation (NHF) officially-recognized as a non-government organization (NGO) allowed to represent consumers at its meetings and deliberations. For those not familiar with the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), it is a commission established under the auspices of both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Posted by Editor at 01:44 AM
Leahy Threatens Bush Aides With Contempt
The Associated Press:A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush's secretive eavesdropping program. "When the Senate comes back in the session, I'll bring it up before the committee," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there's no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress." Leahy's committee on June 27 subpoenaed the Justice Department, National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president for documents relating to the National Security Agency's legal justification for the wiretapping program.
Posted by Editor at 12:09 AM
Police Deploy Tear Gas at North American Summit
EUX.tv:North American leaders started meeting Monday to discuss closer trade, defence and security collaboration amidst growing protests outside the resort compound aimed at disrupting the gathering. In the standoff at the gates to the Chateau Montebello resort, protestors threw rocks and riot police retaliated with tear gas canisters and several rubber bullets. One person was arrested, but there were no injuries, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman confirmed.
Tear Gas Fired at Trade Summit Protesters
Advertiser Adelaide
Protesters and riot police have clashed outside a posh Canadian resort where North American leaders are meeting to discuss trade, security, and the recent turmoil in global credit markets. Police fired tear gas as they pushed back about 150 people outside the Chateau Montebello resort in Montebello, Quebec, about 70km east of Ottawa.
Prime Minister Dismisses Protest As 'Sad'
CJOB.com
MONTEBELLO -- As riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray to hold back demonstrators outside the Montebello summit, Stephen Harper shook hands with George W. Bush and dismissed the protest as a "sad" spectacle.
Posted by Editor at 12:06 AM
Remains of 13th Bridge Victim Are Found
The Associated Press:The remains of the last person missing after an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River nearly three weeks ago have been found, bringing the official death toll to 13 and relief to the only family still awaiting word on a missing loved one. Gregory Jolstad, nicknamed "Jolly," was on the construction crew that was resurfacing the bridge when it fell Aug. 1 during the evening rush hour. Jolstad, 45, was driving a skid loader, commonly known by the brand name Bobcat.
Posted by Editor at 12:04 AM
Embalming Fluid in Clothing Made In China
WorldNetDaily.com:China's massive export industry has provided ginger contaminated with a pesticide, fish food raised in untreated sewage and toothpaste containing a solvent – and now children's clothing containing the poison formaldehyde. According to a report in the Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday Star Times, an investigative team from the city's TV3 Target program has detailed how scientists found formaldehyde, a chemical preservative, in wool and cotton clothing at levels hundreds of times higher than levels considered safe.
Posted by Editor at 12:02 AM
August 20, 2007
Preachers of Truth Or Promoters of Tyranny?
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:A startling television news report from Shreveport, Louisiana has revealed a sinister plot hatched deep inside the diabolical brain cells of the Bush administration to use America's pulpits as promoters of tyranny. That is a strong statement, I know. But it is true. According to KSLA television in Shreveport, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to use America's preachers to help pave the way for martial law in the event of another terrorist attack upon the United States.
Posted by Editor at 06:01 PM
Summit Prompts Super-Government Fears
Jon Ward / The Washington Times:President Bush's two-day summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, beginning today in nearby Montebello, is raising fears among some conservatives that the three governments are planning a European Union-style super-government.
Posted by Editor at 05:55 PM
Lofton Discusses Senate Gallery Protest
The American View Radio:In this program John Lofton interviews and discuss in depth Ante Pavkovic's God-honoring, prayerful protest, from the U.S. Senate gallery, of a Hindu priest who was invited to deliver his abomination by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, a Democrat and (no surprise here) a Mormon. Ante was joined in his prayer by his wife and daughter. All three were arrested. You'll also hear Mr. Lofton's interview of this Hindu priest which was, alas, pretty much a failure because he lied to Lofton saying he would talk to me later but he did not. Oh, well, this proves one of "Lofton's Laws": "Never trust anyone who believes in 350 million gods – NEVER!"– J.L.
Posted by Editor at 08:53 AM
Romans 13 - Is God A Nazi?
Alan Stang / Ether Zone:The most frightening thing I have ever seen on the Internet just erupted on my screen, and remember that, maybe like you, I read about true horrors there daily. But now comes a report – on television, no less, which is usually the last to know – which says that the Department of Geheimstadt Security has discreetly been training "Clergy Response Teams," to pacify the population in the event of martial law.
Posted by Editor at 06:34 AM
Thoughts On Justice
Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:In the late Eighteenth Century, our nation, then as now, predominantly Christian in population, fell under the dominion of a secular document wielded by political officials whose Christian pronouncements often came from pagan hearts. If the Laws of the Living God had been encoded as the platform of the fledgling United States legal system, they might have offered protection to the Constitution which was designed to protect our freedom. As it happened, justice was thwarted by their absence.
Posted by Editor at 05:22 AM
Use The Tools The Law Allows
Bob Strodtbeck / Ether Zone:The framers of our governing system gave us the institutions to check uncontrolled power. If we began putting more interest and political pressure on state and local officials than is given to the national political system, perhaps they will begin defending their responsibilities from federal usurpation.
Posted by Editor at 04:32 AM
Rushdoony on Romans 13
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:In light of the disturbing revelation that the U.S. government has been training clergy to help quell civil unrest in lieu of martial law, the issue surrounding Romans 13 has become central. This video clip shows how the ignorant clergy will feed their flocks with doses of Romans 13 in order to get the "sheeple" to submit. But, is that what Romans 13 teaches? I've taken the time to extract and publish here Rushdoony's commentary on this important portion of Scripture.
Posted by Editor at 03:33 AM
Republican Party Cheerleaders Plan Straw Poll
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:The Family Research Council is planning a three-day "Values Voter Summit" this fall, complete with a presidential straw poll and a neocon-liberal faceoff on religion and politics. The council advertises the conference, Oct. 19-21 in Washington, as "the largest gathering of values voters from across the nation." It will include a gala dinner honoring James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Other confirmed big names include council president Tony Perkins; Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum; activists Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich; Robert Bork, Bill Bennett and former senator Rick Santorum. No word yet on whether any presidential candidates will be working the crowd.
Posted by Editor at 02:23 AM
Bush Thumbs Nose at Congress
Deb Riechmann / The Associated Press:The door is closing rapidly on President Bush's opportunity to shape domestic policy. With dwindling options, Bush has decided he might get more done in his final months by going it alone. Outgoing presidents often unleash a flurry of executive orders and regulations in last-minute attempts to leave their mark on U.S. policy. Frustrated by Congress' inability or unwillingness to pass the president's agenda, the administration already is taking steps to do it through executive action.
Posted by Editor at 02:14 AM
China to Install Sensors Along NAFTA Highway
WorldNetDaily.com:Radio sensing stations to track traffic and cargo up and down the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway corridor are being installed by Communist China, operating through a port operator subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.
Posted by Editor at 01:42 AM
The Nation Cover Story Denies Superhighway
WorldNetDaily.com:In a cover story for the current Nation magazine, Christopher Hayes is the latest to join a growing list of those who deny a NAFTA Superhighway exists. "There is no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway," Hayes declares. The remainder of the article, however, shows how the Trans Texas Corridor under construction parallel to Interstate 35 is specifically designed to accommodate the steadily growing volume of NAFTA and World Trade Organization traffic pouring into Texas from China and the Far East through Mexican ports on the Pacific such as Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas.
Posted by Editor at 01:39 AM
Lawsuit to Obtain Hillary's White House File
Judicial Watch:Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on July 16, 2007 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to obtain access to the following records from the Clinton Presidential Library: "First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s calendar, to include but not limited to her daily office diary, schedule, day planner, telephone log book, and chronological file." The Archives, which operates and maintains Clinton Presidential Library records, failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s April 5, 2006 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Posted by Editor at 01:31 AM
Husband Shoots Wife, Lover
The Titusville Herald:A Butler County man told police that he did not regret shooting and killing his wife and her lover, who were both Meadville residents. James Borchert, 50, Cherry Valley Borough, was arraigned on two counts of criminal homicide Tuesday evening after confessing to the shooting deaths of his wife, Esther Borchert, 42, and Lonnie R. Schwab, 49, both of Meadville. Borchert told police he shot the two victims twice each with a .270 caliber rifle.
Posted by Editor at 01:22 AM
Wife Who Shot Husband Not Indicted
The Associated Press:Prosecutors said Friday they will drop the case against a Cape Cod doctor who fatally shot her husband, whom she and other witnesses called physically abusive. The Barnstable County grand jury failed to indict after considering testimony from 27 witnesses who said Ann Gryboski, 51, was a victim of physical and psychological abuse by Patrick Lancaster, 50, her husband of more than 20 years, prosecutor Michael O'Keefe's office said in a statement Friday. "This is a finding by the Grand Jury consistent with the evidence in this particular case," O'Keefe said.
Posted by Editor at 01:09 AM
Billy Graham Recovering From Intestinal Bleed
The Associated Press:Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said. Graham, 88, was fully alert, and his doctors don't think his condition is life-threatening, said his spokesman, Larry Ross.
Posted by Editor at 01:01 AM
August 17, 2007
Nazi Clergy to Help Feds During Martial Law
Statist pastors to chant "Romans 13", "Romans 13"when the feds come to take your guns.
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
For over a year now, the U.S. goverment has been secretly training ministers to be part of a "Clergy Response Team" to "help quell public unrest if martial law is ever declared." Shreveport's KSLA News 12 broke this story on Wednesday, and a once secret program is now openly publicized. The clergy are being advised to use Romans 13 to encourage parishioners to submit to the sudden and massive expansion of government control that takes place during martial law.
Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell
Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared
KSLA News 12
SHREVEPORT, LA
Posted by Editor at 01:15 PM
Still Looking For The Black Regiment
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:I am happy to say that I have received nearly 500 responses to my initial appeal. However, I know that there are many hundreds more such men out there. I am confident that there are still "7000" who have not bowed the knee to Baal. I am asking readers to help me find them. I need their name, church name, city and state, and contact information.
Posted by Editor at 07:39 AM
Ridding The Nation of A Parasitic Affliction
Jim R. Schwiesow / The Covenant News:The invasion by illegal aliens is not the only dire threat that confronts us today, but other than the fascist government that deliberately enables it, it is the most critical threat to face this nation in its history, and that includes two world wars, the fighting of which never reached our shores.
Posted by Editor at 04:31 AM
The Principles of Freedom
Tom DeWeese / NewsWithViews.com:"Freedom." We use that word a lot. Do we all really know what that word means? It's used in so many different ways. Do we understand how it is attained? Most importantly, do we understand how it is used by some to actually take freedom away? Why do some who profess to advocate freedom actually accept policies, which diminish freedom and call it "restoring the Republic?" Simply put, freedom is the ability to act without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is owning your life, your actions, your labor.
Posted by Editor at 02:01 AM
What I Have Learned from the Anabaptists VI
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:I want to talk in this essay about what Christians call missions. (The term does not appear in the Greek New Testament.) I want to start by saying something that I would like everyone to notice carefully. Unlike many Christians today, and unlike perhaps the majority of Reformers of the sixteenth century, the Anabaptists believed that the Great Commission was the responsibility of every believer and could not be left to pastors or mission agencies. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6]
Posted by Editor at 01:49 AM
August 16, 2007
Big Brother & the Fear of Freedom
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Big Brother is big business in the "land of the free(?) and home of the brave (or frightened)." Presently, video surveillance is the "fastest growing industry within the major categories of electronic security." The business profitability is expected to hit $21 billion by 2010. This doesn't include all the ancillary technologies to monitor internet usage, transportation, and the ever-controversial wire-tapping.
Posted by Editor at 09:11 AM
Use of Spy Satellites Against U.S. Citizens
Joby Warrick / The Washington Post:The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can see through cloud cover and even penetrate buildings and underground bunkers. A program approved by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security will allow broader domestic use of secret overhead imagery beginning as early as this fall, with the expectation that state and local law enforcement officials will eventually be able to tap into technology once largely restricted to foreign surveillance.
U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites
By Robert Block / The Wall Street Journal
Posted by Editor at 08:43 AM
Freedom From Fear Is Your Responsibility
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr. / NewsWithViews.com:Franklin D. Roosevelt promised this country “freedom from fear.” In keeping with most of his grandiose pronouncements, he spoke with a forked tongue. (As General Douglas MacArthur reputedly quipped, Roosevelt never told the truth if a lie would suffice.) In any event, today Americans live in a nation beset by ever-expanding fear and ever-contracting freedom. This is because all too many of them have forgotten that freedom from fear requires the wit to identify, and especially the courage to eliminate, the causes of fear—through their own exercise of their constitutional freedoms. [Part 1] [Part 2]
Posted by Editor at 07:38 AM
New Passport Rules to Cost Us $1 Billion
The Associated Press:The nation's passport headaches may be easing a bit, but now comes the bill: almost $1 billion. New travel rules that swamped passport offices and frustrated U.S. travelers this summer will cost the government an estimated $944 million over three years, according to federal paperwork filed Wednesday. That amount is more than three times the State Department's estimate for the first three years. To raise the extra dollars, the department wants to keep a larger share of what U.S. citizens pay to get a passport — $20 of the nearly $100 fee for first-time applicants instead of $6.
Posted by Editor at 06:42 AM
The Malevolent Machine Rolls On
Chris Floyd / LewRockwell.com:Karl Rove has resigned, and for the moment that seems like good news – although given the history and M.O. of the Bush gang, it will probably lead to something worse in one way or another. For example, look how much better things are now that Don Rumsfeld has gone! We've progressed from his last-days, panicky memos about curtailing the war (while spinning it as a victory) to a full-bore, wide-open escalation of the conflict which the chief surger, Gen. David Petraeus, tells us could last for 10 more years.
Posted by Editor at 02:23 AM
Lincoln Unmasked
David Gordon / The American View:"Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Crown Forum, 2006. 223 pgs. Thomas DiLorenzo calls attention to a vital fact that demolishes the popular view that one of Lincoln’s primary motives for opposing secession in 1861 was his distaste for slavery.
Posted by Editor at 02:01 AM
The Impossibility of Equality
Justus Stout / American Vision:The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Brown v. Board of Education (1954) has created a stir, as well as brought up several issues that deserve our attention. We have reached a paramount point in our struggle with racism, and have evidence of a strongly conservative Supreme Court that has shown the courage to make ground-breaking decisions. On top of this, their decision makes us wonder about the underlying themes that led the court to decide to force desegregation, and then what happened to make our new court disagree with the prior decision.
Posted by Editor at 01:58 AM
Church Sues NJ Over 'Civil Unions'
Rebecca Santana / The Associated Press:A church group sued New Jersey over the state's investigation of a complaint that the group refused to allow a lesbian couple to hold a civil union ceremony at a beachfront pavilion it owns. The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group, alleges that by finding enough reason to investigate the complaint, the state's Division on Civil Rights is threatening to prosecute the group in order to force it to allow such ceremonies to take place.
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Same-Sex Ceremony vs. N.J. Camp Meeting
Jane Holahan / Lancaster New Era
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Now that same-sex civil unions are legal in New Jersey, should two women be allowed to hold a civil union ceremony at a popular seaside camp meeting association if the association doesn't want them to? Randall Wenger, of Rothsville, chief council of the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center, filed suit in Federal Court Saturday on behalf of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the United Methodist Church, declaring that the association should not "need to violate its religious beliefs for what is politically correct.
Posted by Editor at 01:28 AM
August 15, 2007
The Fear of Freedom
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:E. R. Dodds, in his study of The Greeks and the Irrational, titles a chapter "The Fear of Freedom." The whole of the ancient world was marked by this fear of freedom. Plato and Aristotle planned states in which freedom was to be denied to most men, and pagan rulers uniformly acted on this principle. Freedom was believed to be a dangerous thing, and only a handful of rulers could be trusted with it. Through the centuries, men have noticed how fearful men are of freedom and how most men are unable to cope with it. T. H. Huxley said, "A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."
Posted by Editor at 07:01 AM
A Great Cloud of Scientific Witnesses
Gary DeMar / American Vision:If we are to believe secularists, the Christian religion has been the enemy of science. In reality, "it is the Christian world which finally gave birth in a clear, articulate fashion to the experimental method of science itself." For millennia, people from around the globe operated in terms of these assumptions even though they did not always comprehend them theoretically or scientifically. They came to be designated "natural laws," the "laws of nature," or the "laws of Nature’s God," critical assumptions that did not exist in India, China, Islamic nations, or among Native Americans. These universal laws operated predictably because the majority of people—scientists included—accepted that they were God’s laws, established and upheld by Him.
Posted by Editor at 05:56 AM
Mommy, My Professor's Not Nice!
Stiles Watson / Chalcedon Blog:Today in college, if the student does not like the grade his professor gave him on, well, anything, out comes the cell phone and an angry, "My Mom wants to talk to you!" This really happens. Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler, in her article, Mommy, tell my professor he's not nice!
Posted by Editor at 03:07 AM
Pluralism An Alibi for the Empty-Headed
John Lofton / The American View:The following excerpts are from the book "The Timeless Christian" (Franciscan Herald Press, 1969) by the late Dr. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Anything by him is worth reading.
Posted by Editor at 02:35 AM
Christians Should Know About Romanism
Dr. Robert Saucy / Talbot School of Theology:What are the differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants? They're the same as they were at the Reformation. There are three significant ones. First is the question of final authority. Protestants hold to sola scriptura [Scripture as their final authority]. For Catholics, the final authority is Scripture as interpreted by the church, that is, the magisterium (the pope and bishops).
Posted by Editor at 02:12 AM
Have We Accepted The Mark Of The Beast?
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:George W. Bush (as did Adolph Hitler) has led America into a preemptive and aggressive war against a foreign nation without provocation. Now, there is even talk at the White House of expanding the war in Iraq with attacks against Iran and Syria, and maybe even Pakistan. In addition, he is in the process of turning America into a Hitlerian surveillance society where our every move, phone call, and email are being monitored by federal police agencies.
Posted by Editor at 02:01 AM
Elvis and Entrepreneurship
Gary North / LewRockwell.com:I have just returned from the Shrine. The acolytes have prepared the grounds for holy week. The Porta-Potties are lined up and ready to go. August 16 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Memphis entrepreneurs have arranged lots of promotional events, all of which are sold out. It is too late to make a reservation at Heartbreak Hotel, which is within walking distance of the Shrine. There will be busloads of disciples visiting on this holy day. I want to see how many bus-loads.
Posted by Editor at 01:42 AM
Pastor's Killer Wife Released
The Associated Press:The woman convicted of manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of her minister husband was freed Tuesday after serving 67 days in custody. Mary Winkler was released from a mental health facility where she had been undergoing treatment for about two months, defense attorney Steve Farese Sr. said. He has declined to identify the facility where Winkler was held.
Posted by Editor at 01:26 AM
Church Shooter Charged
MSNBC News:Prosecutors filed three murder charges against a Micronesian man accused of opening fire in a church, killing three people and wounding five others during a service for a mostly Micronesian congregation. Prosecutors also charged the man, Eiken Elam Saimon, 52, with assault, felonious restraint for holding the congregation hostage, and armed criminal action. Another assault charge was pending, Newton County Prosecutor Scott Watson said.
Posted by Editor at 01:14 AM
August 14, 2007
High Risk Spending
Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:Last week this column addressed the train wreck that federal spending has become. To score political points politicians will make loud noise about fairly small matters such as earmarks, even while refusing to address the real problem. Namely, that our federal government is too big and does too much. Politicians prefer to pass a bill or create a program every time somebody points to a new social problem, this way they can tell their constituents how much they are doing to help. Instead of rationally explaining the proper role of government, politicians have attempted to play the role of friend, preacher, parent, social worker, etcetera-- in essence, whatever any organized special interest can demand.
Posted by Editor at 06:20 AM
Reality vs. the State
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. / LewRockwell.com:If you have boarded an airplane recently, you know something about how the state lives in a strange, alternative universe in which good sense, normal courtesies, and sound judgment play no role. No aspect of life is perfect, but the sectors the state manages are wacky and topsy-turvy. Thus we are expected to believe that every living person who boards an airplane is a potential terrorist, and every person is just as much a risk as every other person. We are expected to believe that because the state forces us to carry deodorant in a little baggy, that we are safer from hijackings than we would otherwise be. We are supposed to gain comfort when we see a TSA employee testing a tube of toothpaste to make sure that it won't explode on board.
Posted by Editor at 02:12 AM
Has Martial Law Arrived?
Nancy Levant / NewsWithViews.com:On May 9, 2007, our president signed a National Security Presidential Directive – an unconstitutional piece of paper – which gave to himself the powers of total dictatorship over the entire nation (NSPD-51) and CONgress has no say so whatsoever. Can you say "total dictatorship?" But more to the point, the question we must ask ourselves is this: are we NOW under Martial Law?
Posted by Editor at 01:14 AM
August 13, 2007
At the Non-Gay Debate
Gary DeMar / American Vision:The Democrats, if you don’t know it by now, are pro-homosexual. They actually believe that homosexuality is a natural sexual act that should be sanctioned by law. Former Sen. Mike Gravel and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, both from Ohio, delighted the mostly homosexual studio audience at the "gay debate" held in Los Angeles on August 9, 2007 because they are the only candidates who believe that homosexual couples should have the legal right to marry. The other candidates support civil unions. All of them would open the military to self-avowed and openly homosexual recruits. It wasn’t much of a debate.
Posted by Editor at 09:11 AM
Military Wages War On Your Gender
Henry Makow / Ether Zone:The US army is circumventing laws that shield women from combat dangers. The reason isn't just a shortage of male recruits. It is part of a larger psychological strategy to render us dysfunctional and docile by undermining heterosexuality and the nuclear family by denying/erasing male-female differences. We are victims of Orwellian social engineering so successful that we don't even realize it happened.
Posted by Editor at 08:20 AM
Discussion With Jan Mickelson on Mitt Romney
The American View Radio:It's not that we need more evidence as to why Mitt Romney is not qualified to be President. But, such evidence has been provided thanks to Jan Mickelson, host of "Mickelson In The Morning" on radio station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. On Jan's program, Romney says, among other things, that: The Presidency is a "secular" office and Roe vs. Wade is now the law of the land.
Gov. Romney Interview With Jan Mickelson
Posted by Editor at 06:54 AM
What Happened to the Southern Baptists?
Laurence M. Vance / LewRockwell.com:The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. The annual meeting of the SBC was held this year in San Antonio, Texas, on June 12 and 13. President Bush addressed the crowd of thousands of messengers via satellite with a nine-minute speech on the closing day "to multiple lengthy applauses and standing ovations," according to Baptist Press, the official news agency of the SBC. Southern Baptists have been some of the greatest supporters of Bush and his war.
Posted by Editor at 02:53 AM
The Death Of Freedom
Joe American / NewsWithViews.com:Rome's Emperor's understood the importance of bread and circus'. The empire knew that if they kept their population in a perpetual state of war, provided cheap bread and offered the spectacle of the Roman Circus in the Coliseum, they could rule with an iron hand and no one would complain. It worked for nearly five-hundred years. Yet Romans thought themselves "free." Today, the grain provides cheap beer instead of bread and the "circus" has become television. Just like Imperial Rome, Imperial America has been in a state of perpetual war since 1861.
Posted by Editor at 01:37 AM
3 Killed in Church Shooting
The Associated Press:A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri church Sunday, killing three people and wounding several others, authorities said. About 25 to 50 people were briefly held hostage at the First Congregational Church until the gunman surrendered, Neosho spokeswoman Desiree Bridges said. About four or five people were wounded, Police Chief Dave McCracken said, but several others who were injured fled the scene.
Posted by Editor at 01:11 AM
Christian Boot Camp Pastor Arrested
Jeorge Zarazua / San Antonio Express-News:A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested Friday on aggravated assault charges, accusing them of dragging a girl behind a van after failing to keep up with others during a running exercise. Investigators with the Nueces County Sheriff's Office arrested Charles E. Flowers shortly before noon at the Faith Outreach Center in northwest San Antonio. Boot camp trainer Stephanie Bassitt was arrested later in Kirby.
Posted by Editor at 12:21 AM
August 11, 2007
A Great Commission Marriage
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:I have already sketched in numerous places the implications of missions as the strategy by which a married couple relates most faithfully to God’s world. The essence of a good marriage, I am gradually discovering, is not companionship, although that is an essential ingredient. Nor is it love, if by love we mean an emotional attachment. If you have companionship and love in your marriage, that is wonderful. But neither comprises the essence of a good marriage. It seems to me that there is no greater value to a marriage than an interrelationship that is living for something greater than itself. I said as much in my essay Partners in the Gospel. I believe it bears repeating today.
Posted by Editor at 07:26 PM
'It Is Truly Extraordinary'
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. / LewRockwell.com:It is truly extraordinary: Ron Paul's campaign stops are attracting crowds that would make the other Republicans envious. His supporters make homemade T-shirts, flyers, yard signs, and more. Ron Paul fans drive hundreds of miles to hear their candidate speak without giving the matter a second thought.
Posted by Editor at 02:20 AM
Great Ron Paul Media Clip!
A stirring and creative independent video:Produced and broadcasted on YouTube by Ken, Age: 27. "I do not speak for Congressman Paul. He can more than do that for himself."
Ron Paul Headlines at CovenantNews.com
Posted by Editor at 01:22 AM
August 10, 2007
Romans Chapter 13
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:Civil government must not be a "terror to good works." It has no power or authority to terrorize good works or good people. God never gave it that authority. And any government that oversteps that divine boundary has no divine authority or protection.
Posted by Editor at 10:48 AM
'Illogical Logic'
Eric Rauch / American Vision:American Vision has received quite a bit of feedback regarding our two-minute "commercial" about the New Atheists. If you haven’t seen it yet you can watch it here.Some of the responses have been positive, some have been negative, but most have misunderstood our main intent with this short video. One of the negative responses was from an individual wishing to be known as "Zinnmaster".
Posted by Editor at 07:37 AM
Burnout and Whining
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:Ed Young, Jr. is the trendy senior pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas (suburb of DFW), a church so large it features five locations. His father, Ed Young, Sr., also pastors a massive mega-church--Second Baptist Church--in the Houston area with five campus locations. Both have successful television ministries. Trendy Eddy Young, Jr. began a video blog in March of this year, and the following video clip shows just how far the warped mentality of mega-church pastors has gone.
Posted by Editor at 07:15 AM
Not Holier Than Thou - How Queer Is Bush?
Alan Stang / Ether Zone:That is the title of my new book, which has finally hit the streets. It is the story of the takeover of the Republicrud Party by Organized Sodomy, arranged by el presidente Jorge W. Boosh. If you have not heard of this yet, and maybe you haven’t because of media spiking, you probably just gasped. You know about sodomite Mark Foley, the Republicrud Congressman from Florida who was forced to resign. But Mark Foley was not an aberration. Organized sodomy wields gargantuan power on Capitol Hill, because Boosh has done even more than his predecessor to advance it.
Posted by Editor at 05:23 AM
Young Republican Accused of Homosexual Crimes
Lee Russ / Watchers.org:Glenn Murphy Jr., who has been credited with reviving the Republican Party in in his Indiana county, and was recently elected president of the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), has been accused by a 22-year old male of performing an unwanted sex act on him while he slept. Details of the claim became public by virtue of a copy of the police report being posted on an Indiana political blog, and being given to a local reporter. Although police have not charged Murphy with a crime, they are investigating the report for possible criminal prosecution as criminal deviate conduct, an offense that a local newspaper reports could be a class B felony.
Posted by Editor at 05:01 AM
A Twisted TV Game Show On Our Borders?
Dr. Laurie Roth Ph.D. / NewsWithViews.com:What is this? A new, twisted, reality TV game show "Which foreign Government will prosecute our Border Patrol Agents." Sponsored by, the US Government. Now here's your host……..drum roll…..prosecutor Sutton and his team. Just when you think you might take in a breath for a moment in between the endless harassment and charges against our fine border patrol agents, now we find that an Arizona Judge has now ordered agent Nicholas Corbett to be tried on charges of second-degree murder.
Posted by Editor at 03:14 AM
U.S. Border Agent Shoots Smuggler
Alicia A. Caldwell / The Associated Press:A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a suspected smuggler at a fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico after the agent felt threatened by the man, authorities said Thursday. Jose Alejandro Ortiz Castillo, a 23-year-old man who had been caught crossing the border 28 times since 1999, died in Mexico shortly after the Wednesday night shooting, Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said. Jesus Castillo, 43, Ortiz's brother, initially acknowledged that his brother had worked as an immigrant smuggler.
Posted by Editor at 03:06 AM
Gay Indoctrination Classes Proposed for D.C.
Gary Emerling / The Washington Times:Proposed guidelines for a sex-education curriculum to be used in D.C. Public Schools recommend that middle-school students learn to define sexual orientation and be taught about homosexuality. The guidelines — contained in a 43-page draft document titled "Health Learning Standards" — say eighth-grade students should be taught the definition of sexual orientation "using correct terminology" and learn that some people "may begin to feel romantically and/or sexually attracted to people of a different gender and/or to people of the same gender."
Posted by Editor at 02:55 AM
Divers Find Another Body at Minn. Bridge
The Associated Press:Divers removed another body from the wreckage of a freeway bridge Friday, while the federal transportation secretary offered $50 million to help with recovery and rebuilding. The known death toll from last week's collapse reached eight when Navy divers found a body about noon. The body belonged to Sadiya Sahal, 23, of St. Paul. A body found Thursday was identified as her 2-year-old daughter, Hanah Sahal. Both had been on the list of missing.
Posted by Editor at 01:38 AM
August 09, 2007
'Economic Borrowed Capital'
Gary DeMar / American Vision:With some variations, those who hold to a biblical economic model share many fundamental principles with advocates of a free market, or, as I hope to demonstrate, free marketers share many fundamental economic principles with advocates of a biblical worldview.
Posted by Editor at 06:36 AM
Nursing Fathers
Greg Dickison / The American View:"It is beyond dispute that, at a minimum, the Constitution guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise, or otherwise act in a way which 'establishes a religion or religious faith, or tends to do so.'" -- U.S. Supreme Court
Posted by Editor at 04:34 AM
What I Have Learned from the Anabaptists V
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:In this essay I must turn aside from weightier matters of historical theology to deal with a rather simple-minded subject. If we were to read Matthew 23 and take Jesus' words at face value, we should come away with the notion that He was not very impressed with all the titles we make so much of today. We should feel that all this talk about "Doctor" and "Reverend" and "Senior Pastor" is somewhat superficial, that titles are merely manmade epithets and quite contrary to the idea of a brotherhood church.
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]
Posted by Editor at 04:06 AM
I'll Have To Pray On It
Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:Last week I saw a story in the local paper that made me squirm. It seems that a public library was putting up a fight over the placement of sexually-suggestive books in the children’s section of the library. When a politically incorrect parent complained about the placement of such materials in an area that was open to the perusal of young eyes, it seems that the local librarian got all bent out of shape over the attempt of the parent to "censure" from children "educational" materials that the library board had deemed "appropriate."
Posted by Editor at 03:26 AM
Woman Kills Beggar
ABC News:In Cincinnati Ohio a woman shot and killed a homeless man who asked her for 25 cents, police say. "He asked her for a quarter," Police Chief Tom Streicher said. "That's apparently all there was to it."
Posted by Editor at 03:14 AM
NYPD Must Turn Over Surveillance Reports
Reuters:The New York Police Department must release undercover police reports on protester activity planned for the 2004 Republican National Convention, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The ruling came in response to two lawsuits filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union for protesters. The police department argued the arrests were justified due to information gleaned from a surveillance operation by undercover officers who attended protester meetings before the convention, but have not released the details.
Posted by Editor at 01:11 AM
State to Pay Teens to Stay in School
KVOA TV-4 News:High school students will soon be cashing in for hitting the books. A new pilot program promises to pay them to stay in school. More than 20,000 Arizona teens dropped out of the class of 2006. To fight the problem, 75 students from low income families at Amphi High and 100 from Rincon high were picked for the new program. The students will get $25 a week as an incentive to stay in school. A local nonprofit will pay for the project.
Posted by Editor at 01:07 AM
August 08, 2007
Christianity, Repentance, Accurate Analysis
Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:The road on which the United States is traveling at an ever increasing speed has a terrible precipice that promises to render it unrecognizable. It is time to apply the national brakes by recognizing our errors and repenting from them. The belligerent and stubborn among us who have been able to rationalize the conquest of other nations and the needless killing of hundreds of thousands of innocents need to recognize and repent from their support of an evil agenda. Patriotism does not trump God’s legal system where unconfessed and unrepented breaches always await retribution.
Posted by Editor at 08:24 AM
Can We Sanctify Folly?
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / The Chalcedon Foundation:If the world lacks sound judgment in coping with its problems, it is because the church has failed to teach it properly, or to set a godly example.
Posted by Editor at 07:27 AM
'Pop Culture Atheism'
Gary DeMar / American Vision:What's missing in the Harry Potter series? According to Lev Grossman, it's God. "Harry Potter lives in a world free of any religion or spirituality of any kind. He lives surrounded by ghosts but has no one to pray to, even if he were so inclined, which he isn’t. Rowling has more in common with celebrity atheists like Christopher Hitchens than she has with Tolkien and Lewis."
Posted by Editor at 05:07 AM
'Simple Church' Or Another Smoke Screen?
Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:Well, it seems the mad scientists of the church growth movement have once again emerged from the laboratory of the living dead with yet another chia pet project for the jaded masses. The latest concoction they've come up with is something called "Simple Church." Apparently, after a decade or so of injecting the "body of Christ" with every conceivable church growth hormone known to man, church leaders have determined that, in light of the plummeting numbers, it is now time to go cold turkey and ditch all of that junk we were sold and told we had to have to succeed in the 90s and try something new.
Posted by Editor at 03:25 AM
Giuliani questioned about his Catholicism
"My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not so good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests," Giuliani said. "That would be a much better way to discuss it. That's a personal discussion and they have a much better sense of how good a Catholic I am or how bad a Catholic I am." Full story...
Posted by Editor at 01:31 AM
Navy Divers Join Minn. Bridge Search
Patrick Condon / The Associated Press:An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of the interstate bridge collapse Tuesday. The team of 16 divers and a five-member command crew arrived a day earlier. Once their gear arrived before dawn Tuesday, several divers immediately entered the Mississippi River even though local officials encouraged them to wait until daybreak. "Two in the morning, they dove into the water," Minneapolis Police Capt. Mike Martin said, calling them "the best divers in the world." "These guys make our SWAT guys look humble," Martin said.
Car Pulled From Wreckage But No Bodies Found
FOX News Twin Cities
"The U.S. Navy divers and the FBI divers are starting to remove debris that our public safety divers couldn't get to," said Minneapolis Police Capt. Mike Martin at a press conference Tuesday. "They are actively working to get in there and recover any victims we can find or any evidence we can find."
Posted by Editor at 01:18 AM
Nightmare on NAFTA Superhighway
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily.com:As details of the Minnesota bridge collapse become clearer, the role of international freight carried by NAFTA Superhighway trucks on I-35 remains an important backdrop of the human tragedy and the traffic nightmare the city is just now beginning to appreciate. U.S. Navy divers have come to the scene to assist in efforts to find the eight people who remain missing since the bridge collapsed last Wednesday.
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Bush Approves $250 Million to Rebuild Bridge
WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed legislation on Monday that directs $250 million to rebuild the Minnesota bridge that was destroyed in last week’s deadly collapse. The bill was passed by Congress over the weekend in the waning hours of its work before an August recess. Bush visited the stricken site on Saturday. The legislation waives the $100 million federal limit per state for emergency relief funds, authorizing $250 million for rebuilding the bridge. The money itself still needs to be appropriated by Congress in future legislation.
Posted by Editor at 01:03 AM
Bonds Makes History With 756th Home Run
The Associated Press:Barry Bonds hit No. 756 to the deepest part of the ballpark Tuesday night, and hammered home the point: Like him or not, legitimate or not, he is baseball's new home run king. Bonds broke Hank Aaron's storied record in the fifth inning, hitting a 3-2 pitch from Washington's Mike Bacsik 435 feet to right-center field. Three days earlier, Bonds tied the Hammer with a shot to left-center in San Diego.
Posted by Editor at 12:34 AM
China Threatens to Hold U.S.A. Hostage
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph UK:The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Described as China's "nuclear option" in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels. A bill drafted by a group of US senators, and backed by the Senate Finance Committee, calls for trade tariffs against Chinese goods as retaliation for alleged currency manipulation.
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Fu Manchu Threatens Innocent America
by Lew Rockwell
Or so Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's story about the alleged Yellow Peril to the dollar would have us believe. But here's another way to look at it. The great counterfeiting machine in DC has been printing dollars at an unimaginable rate, and browbeating China and other countries into accepting them for real goods. Now, naturally, China is denounced for not kowtowing to the Emperor. Those wily Orientals say No, and if the US tries more mercantilist trade attacks, they hint that they may have to sell some of their vast pile of dollars and Treasury bonds. This is an outrage, according to the US and the establishment media. But the fault lies with DC. Its massive inflation, deficits, and spending have set the world up for a financial crisis.
Posted by Editor at 12:13 AM
August 07, 2007
Why Are Christians So Gullible?
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:Today, the largest and most influential churches are pastored by fluff-daisies such as Joel Osteen, Bill Hybels, and Rick Warren: men who preach entertainment evangelism, political correctness, and feel-goodism. Today's largest churches share absolutely nothing in common with America's historic revival-style churches. How can Christians be so gullible to fall for these snake oil salesmen?
Posted by Editor at 08:19 AM
Special Thanks to the Religious Right
Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:On this eventful day in U.S. history (August 05, 2007), I want to send out a heartfelt "thank you" to the mass of Christian conservatives known as the "Religious Right." Because of their silence, the President effortlessly signed into law an expansive piece of legislation that gives the federal government full authority to wiretap on all the international emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens. You can bet your last dollar that is already happening on domestic communications and a law for that is soon forthcoming. Just one more national disaster, and we lose it all.
Posted by Editor at 08:01 AM
Spending Spree Continues
Rep. Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:These last few weeks the House has been in a rush to pass spending bills before August recess. In fact, visitors walking the hallways of Congress become immediately struck by the apparent spending battle between the "conservative Democrats" of the so-called "Blue Dog Coalition," and the Republican Study Committee, or RSC, generally representing the more conservative bloc of Republican House members. Members of each of these groups place large posters on easels outside their offices. The purpose behind this seems clear, to point the finger at the opposite party for the current budget mess that continues to threaten America’s future.
Posted by Editor at 03:48 AM
'Oil - What I would do if I were President'
Gary DeMar / American Vision:On Saturday, August 4, 2007, the House of Representatives passed a $16 billion increase in taxes on oil companies. Actually, this is a lie. Oil companies, like every company in America, see taxes as the cost of doing business. Any tax increase will be passed onto consumers. If the voting public supports this increase, then they have only voted for a tax increase on themselves.
Posted by Editor at 03:20 AM
Ron Paul and the Empire
Steven LaTulippe / LewRockwell.com:Can Ron Paul really win? Does he have a snowball's chance of becoming the next president, or are we all kidding ourselves? At the moment, Rep. Paul’s quixotic campaign seems to be picking up steam. His recent fundraising statistics reveal a blossoming, internet-based movement that is uniting libertarians and other concerned citizens from across the political spectrum. His performance in the media has been sharp, and his organization seems to be honing its message. While there are plenty of reasons for optimism, I think we need to be clear-eyed about the road ahead.
Ron Paul Wins MSNBC Post-Debate Poll
Posted by Editor at 03:04 AM
Communist 'God-Hating Claptrap'
John Lofton / The American View:In the summer of 1917, two Soviet Communist theorists, N. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky, wrote "The ABC Of Communism." What they said about Communism and its incompatibility with "religion" sounds a lot like some of the God-hating claptrap we hear in our country today from anti-Christians such as Barry Lynn.
Posted by Editor at 02:52 AM
The Bush Family America Doesn't Know
Lynn Stuter / NewsWithViews.com:Who were the American bankers and industrialists involved in this plot to overthrow the legal government of the United States? According to Wikipedia, while most of the funding came from the Du Pont family, participants included U.S. Steel, General Motors, General Foods, Standard Oil, Birdseye, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. And among the participants in this coup attempt was one Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States, grandfather of George W Bush, current president of the United States.
Posted by Editor at 01:07 AM
US Embassy Built With Slave Labor
David Isenberg / Asia Times:Disturbing reports have surfaced about the nearly 900 laborers being used to build the new multimillion-dollar US Embassy in Baghdad and the conditions under which they work. The specific allegations are that the new US Embassy compound is being built by trafficked workers from Asia and Africa who were beaten and subjected to squalid living conditions. Former employees of First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Co (FKTC), the contractor building the nearly 42-hectare, US$600 million embassy complex on the Tigris River scheduled for completion next month, are making some of the charges.
Posted by Editor at 12:31 AM
Feds Search Home In Probe of Wiretap Leak
The Associated Press:FBI agents searched the home of a former Justice Department lawyer last week in an effort to determine who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday, citing two anonymous legal sources. The agents, who had obtained a classified search warrant, took Thomas Tamm's desktop computer, two laptops belonging to his children and some of Tamm's personal files, Newsweek reported.
Posted by Editor at 12:18 AM
August 06, 2007
Clips of Ron Paul at the Iowa Debate
Iowavoice has extracted parts of the debate on YouTubed.--
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Posted by Editor at 08:27 AM
Mitt Romney On 'Faith'
The American View Radio:On this program, a close look at Mitt Romney’s views on "religion/faith" and his basic stump speech is analyzed and commented upon; you'll hear him, in Iowa, among other things, refer to "our friends" in Communist China; mention 3 things that make our nation strong (faith in God/Christ and His Word are not among these things); advocate unConstitutional foreign aid; suggest we become involved in a 1400 year old fight among Muslims; and you’ll hear him say how when he’s President all computers will have a certain type of filtering device in them.
Posted by Editor at 08:26 AM
Bush Signs Bill to Expand Wiretap Powers
The Associated Press:President Bush on Sunday signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants. The law, approved by the Senate and the House just before Congress adjourned for its summer break, was deemed a priority by Bush and his chief intelligence officials. Bush signed the bill into law on Sunday afternoon at his retreat at Camp David, Md.
Posted by Editor at 08:10 AM
Conscripted Into A New World Order
Jim R. Schwiesow / The Covenant News:The people of this nation should be aware of the deadly intent of President George W. Bush, and of those in government who mentor him, to destroy those who stand in the way of his wars for dominance and his destruction of those who refuse to submit to his international bullying. He is a deluded egotist who believes that he is divinely guided to rain destruction upon those who oppose him.
Posted by Editor at 08:01 AM
One Nation Under Fill-in-the-Blank
Reed R. Heustis, Jr. / The Covenant News:Amidst constant ongoing efforts to erase all mentions of God from our national and public life, conservative do-gooders stand up to defend acknowledgements of God wherever and whenever they can.
Posted by Editor at 03:31 AM
Has the Court Moved Right?
George Detweiler / The New American:According to the New York Times, the new "Roberts" Supreme Court has swung significantly to the right since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito joined its ranks and liberal-leaning Justice Sandra Day O'Connor departed. Really? In truth, the Roberts court is not the court conservatives "long yearned for," if by "conservative" it is meant a constitutionalist who values and upholds the original intent of the Constitution, and who opposes judicial activism.
Posted by Editor at 01:21 AM
August 04, 2007
House OKs Bush's Warrantless Wiretaps
Charles Babington / The Associated Press:The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States. The 227-183 vote, which followed the Senate's approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature. He had urged Congress to approve it, saying Saturday, "Protecting America is our most solemn obligation."
Posted by Editor at 10:50 PM
More Surveillance, More Often
Philip Giraldi / The National Interest:No one could possibly object to intercepting terrorist communications, but there is a logical inconsistency in the FISA reform proposal and the evidence cited by President Bush to support it. The threat is described as "plotting" in the Middle East—again, read Iraq, which the White House has frequently described as the epicenter for the "Global War on Terror." But the assertion that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a genuine danger to the United States is lacking in credibility and is little more than an administration attempt to create a straw man enemy where none really exists to bolster support for increasingly unpopular policies.
Posted by Editor at 10:40 PM
The Myth of 'Executive Privilege'
Kevin R. C. Gutzman / LewRockwell.com:Bush Administration officials have announced that President Bush will use a claim of "Executive Privilege" to thwart congressional investigation into the firings of several U.S. attorneys. This claim is the latest in a long series of unconstitutional invocations of the notion of Executive Privilege by presidents prominent and obscure. In fact, Executive Privilege is itself a myth unfounded in the language or original understanding of the Constitution. The Constitution was not supposed to give presidents power to withhold information from Congress.
Posted by Editor at 10:30 PM
Bush to Attend Globalization Summit
Tom Fitton / National Ledger:Next month, President Bush will join Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Quebec for a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit. So, what is the purpose of this summit, the third since the partnership was announced in 2005? The State Department claims the purpose is to "develop common approaches to transnational security threats and to expand economic productivity by streamlining trade among the countries." Critics, however, maintain the true purpose is to develop and implement policies that would ultimately erase the borders between all three nations and form a North American Union, much like the European Union.
Posted by Editor at 09:56 PM
GOP Masters Of Marginalization
Bob Strodtbeck / Ether Zone:Since the rise of Barry Goldwater various factions of the conservative movement have felt the sting of ostracism simply because their ideas have been a threat to the orthodoxy of the Republican National Committee. It is currently attempting to push Texas Congressman Ron Paul to the political fringes because, during a May presidential beauty pageant (a.k.a. candidate debate), he had the audacity to suggest that American foreign policy was, "major contributing factor (to the 9/11 attacks).
Posted by Editor at 07:20 PM
Groups Appeal Gay Indoctrination Classes
The Washington Post:Opponents of new sex education lessons in public schools announced yesterday that they have taken their appeal to the courts. An administrative appeal filed July 26 in Montgomery County Circuit Court signals the escalation of a year-long legal battle over the lessons on sexual orientation, approved in January by the county school board and scheduled to be taught county-wide this fall in eighth- and 10th-grade health classes.
Posted by Editor at 10:41 AM
Adult Indoctrination
Erica Carle / NewsWithViews.com:As terrible as our present Theosophically and sociologically controlled education system for children is, the most frightening deception and control is not in the grade and high schools, but in the thousands of programs, courses, seminars, training sessions, workshops, conventions, retreats, growth centers and counseling services that government, churches, fraternal, business and social organizations are using to affect behavior of participants. These organizations are training, hypnotizing, bribing, flattering, frightening, deceiving, and directing millions of people into lines of thought, or non-thought which will make them easier to con and use.
Posted by Editor at 10:29 AM
George 'The Killer' Tiller Charged
John Boyd / KBSD Eyewitness News TV-12:Wichita abortion provider, Doctor George Tiller has been charged. Attorneys for Tiller say, he presented himself for processing by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's office. Tiller faces 19 misdemeanor charges. Attorney General Paul Morrison alleges the Wichita doctor broke the law by consulting in 2003 on late-term abortions with a doctor who had business ties to him. Tiller's attorney Lee Thompson said he anticipated no court appearance on Tuesday, but said a Friday hearing was still scheduled.
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Tiller Enters Not Guilty Plea on Abortion Related Charges
By Roxana Hegeman / The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. -- Dr. George Tiller on Friday pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges related to performing late-term abortions. Tiller turned himself in to the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office for processing on misdemeanor charges and was released on his own recognizance, commonly done in misdemeanor cases, his attorney said. Tiller, one of the few U.S. doctors performing late term abortions, faces 19 misdemeanor charges in Sedgwick County District Court. Attorney General Paul Morrison alleges the Wichita doctor broke the law by consulting in 2003 on late-term abortions with a doctor who had business ties to him.
Posted by Editor at 03:01 AM
August 03, 2007
An Appeal To My Fellow Christians
Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:I often hear Christians, and even my fellow pastors, say things such as, 'God has not called us to get involved in politics,' or 'This President is God's man, and while we should pray for him, we should never oppose him,' or 'This is all part of prophecy; there is nothing we can do about it.' To all of that, I say, Balderdash! If Nathan the prophet dared to confront the great King David, the man after God's own heart, one of the three greatest men of the Old Testament, do you mean to tell me that we should not be willing to resist those within our own government (regardless of party or religious profession) who would play fast and loose with our liberties? I say again: Balderdash!
Posted by Editor at 08:34 AM
Big Government and Ron Paul
Dennis Behreandt / JBS:Why aren't conservatives - supposedly the mainline central core of the Republican Party - flocking to Ron Paul? That's the question asked recently by John Derbyshire in a column for National Review Online. Candidate Paul is, after all, quintessentially conservative. Reading through Paul's policy positions, Derbyshire notes, "an American conservative can hear the mystic chords of memory sounding in the distance, and hear the call of ancestral voices wafted on the breeze: Hayek, von Mises, Rothbard, Nock, Kirk, John Chamberlain... Unlike the product in that automobile commercial, this is your father's conservatism - the Old-Time Religion."
Posted by Editor at 07:37 AM
The Inherent Presidential Power to Seize
Larry Becraft, Jr. / NewsWithViews.com:On July 17, 2007, President Bush issued EO 13438. This EO concerns "persons" who "have committed, or [ ] pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of: [ ] threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; [ ] or undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people." This EO must be read and construed in light of the statutory authority of the President in this respect.
Posted by Editor at 03:34 AM
Behind the Surveillance Debate
Web exclusive / MSNBC News:A secret ruling by a federal judge has restricted the U.S. intelligence community's surveillance of suspected terrorists overseas and prompted the Bush administration's current push for "emergency" legislation to expand its wiretapping powers, according to a leading congressman and a legal source who has been briefed on the matter.
Posted by Editor at 02:29 AM
We're All Defeatocrats Now
Christopher Manion / LewRockwell.com:In George Orwell's Oceana, the wordsmiths at the Ministry of Truth conjure up new truths daily, as they purge unwelcome old truths from history with the help of the Memory Hole. Their efforts are constantly aimed at keeping the populace under control, confused and off-balance – "We are at War with Eastasia – Eurasia is our ally." "We are at war with Eurasia – Eastasia is our ally." Fear abides. The only thing citizens of Oceana have to hang on to is Big Brother – who is, mystically, the personification of the Inner Party – which, in turn, represents the best interests of the people of Oceana. Just ask the torturers at the Ministry of Love. Power is their love potion.
Posted by Editor at 01:09 AM
Tests Children Poisoned by Toys Made-in-China
The Associated Press:Parents worried their children may have been exposed to excessive levels of lead in recalled Fisher-Price toys should visit the pediatrician for a blood test, experts said Thursday. Dr. John Rosen, a lead poisoning specialist at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City, said the blood test can effectively measure recent lead exposure. Fisher-Price and its parent company Mattel Inc. are recalling 967,000 plastic preschool toys made in China because of excessive lead levels in the paint. Eighty-three types of toys are on the list, including popular characters such as Elmo, Big Bird, Dora and Diego.
Posted by Editor at 12:28 AM
5th Body Found in Minn. Bridge Debris
The Associated Press:Fears that an interstate bridge collapse might produce dozens of deaths eased Friday as authorities said the number of missing, once thought to be as many as 30, was just eight. Firefighters pulled the fifth victim, the driver of a tractor-trailer rig that was engulfed in flames immediately after the collapse, from the wreckage late Thursday, fire department spokeswoman Kristi Rollwagen said. Video of the fire was among the most compelling images show in the immediate aftermath of the collapse.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The House Transportation Committee has approved legislation that would direct $250 million to Minnesota to help it replace a bridge that collapsed near downtown Minneapolis.
Minn. Bridge Found 'Structurally Deficient' in 1990
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on patchwork repairs and stepped-up inspections that unraveled amid a thunderous plunge of concrete and automobiles. In 1990, the federal government gave the I-35W bridge a rating of "structurally deficient," citing significant corrosion in its bearings.
More Than 70,000 Bridges Rated Deficient
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.That works out to at least $9.4 billion a year over 20 years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The bridges carry an average of more than 300 million vehicles a day.
Posted by Editor at 12:13 AM
Scientists Issue Warning on Chemical
Marla Cone / Los Angeles Times:In an unusual effort targeting a single chemical, several dozen scientists on Thursday issued a strongly worded consensus statement warning that an estrogen-like compound in plastic is likely causing an array of serious reproductive disorders in people. The compound, bisphenol A or BPA, is one of the highest-volume chemicals in the world and has found its way into the bodies of most human beings. Used to make hard plastic, BPA can seep from beverage containers and other materials. It is used in all polycarbonate plastic baby bottles as well as other items, including large water cooler containers, sports bottles and microwave oven dishes, along with canned food liners and some dental sealants for children.
Posted by Editor at 12:06 AM
August 02, 2007
Rudy Giuliani Praises Veteran Perverts
John Lofton / The American View:You should know that when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York City, he repeatedly honored and posed for photographs with members of an organization called "STONEWALL Veterans Association" (SVA). For example, in a "Dear Friends" letter to this group dated June 25, 2002, Giuliani extended his "warmest regards" to them on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion which he called "a triumph at a time when the struggle for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights was beginning."
Posted by Editor at 08:19 AM
Who Let The Dogs Out?
Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:If the image of dogs fighting could have such a powerful impact on our nation can you image what would happen if America were ever permitted to look at an abortion? If Americans are still sensitive enough to be moved by the images of dogs fighting to the death, what would be the impact of watching an innocent unborn child being ripped apart? Why won't they show us those pictures? The pro-aborts cry that they want to make abortion rare and safe! Do they apply the same standards to dog-fighting: let’s make them rare and safe? Is the killing of a dog more heinous than the dismemberment of a child? If you have the stomach, here it is. This is a link to the picture of an actual abortion.
Posted by Editor at 07:21 AM
Conspiracies: Satanic Determinism
R.J. Rushdoony / Chalcedon Blog:Too many churchmen have laid the foundation, over the centuries, for a doctrine of satanic determinism. We can call it also the conspiracy theory. Now very clearly Scripture affirms the fact of conspiracies; Psalm 2 is a classic statement of their reality. This same psalm, however, strongly underscores their futility; God laughs at the conspiracies of the ungodly nations and summons His people to share in His laughter.
Posted by Editor at 04:39 AM
Merchants of Death
Charley Reese / LewRockwell.com:I don't see the point of further discussion of the Republican War in Iraq. The president is stubborn and only repeats himself. The war will go on. The country will bleed blood and treasure. In the end, Iraq will end up with a dictator of one sort or another, which is what it had before the war. Hopefully, a new president will end it, though I would wait a few months before placing any bets. War, as it is being fought in Iraq, is a highly profitable operation for the war service industry, which Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld created. They called it "outsourcing." I call it "mercenaries," and there are now almost as many of them in Iraq as there are uniformed soldiers. As always in war, it is highly unprofitable to the young men and women who have to fight it on military pay.
Posted by Editor at 04:10 AM
Feds: Turn Internet into Spy Machine
Ryan Singel / Wired News:The Associated Press's Laurie Kellman leads off her Tuesday story about the mid-summer "emergency" fight over expanding the nation's surveillance laws with this paean to power: "Congress and President Bush's aides worked on Monday to expand the government's surveillance authority without jeopardizing citizens' rights, aides to lawmakers and the White House said." Did Kellman read the proposed bill? The bill (.pdf) that would change the nation's surveillance laws so that that the government would be free to spy on the contents of an Americans' phone or emails so long as the government "reasonably believes" the person is not in the country.
Posted by Editor at 03:03 AM
Creation Museum Exceeds Expectations
Religious Briefs / The Washington Times:Less than two months after opening, a northern Kentucky museum dedicated to promoting creationism has drawn 100,000 visitors, causing some growing pains, museum officials said. The milestone visit — the honor went to a Buffalo, N.Y., family — means the $27 million museum is on pace to easily shatter the first-year attendance projection of 250,000 visits, officials said.
Posted by Editor at 01:19 AM
Fisher-Price Recalls 1M Toys Made-in-China
Anne D'innocenzio / The Associated Press:Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.
Posted by Editor at 12:01 AM
August 01, 2007
Bible-Quoting Defendant Gets 99 Years
Martha Deller / Fort Worth Star Telegram:William Dean Resto repeatedly urged jurors to acquit him of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at their church on Easter 2005, saying his truthful testimony and Jesus' forgiveness had freed him under God's law. Johnson County prosecutor Martin Strahan countered that man's law dictates that Resto be imprisoned for as long as legally allowable to protect other children from an evil "wolf in sheep's clothing" who preys on trusting church people.
Posted by Editor at 10:53 AM
'Dr. Armageddon' and the Future of Israel
Gary DeMar / American Vision:John Hagee's "Christians United for Israel" held its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., last month (July 2007). Supporters of CUFI are looking forward to Armageddon. Of course, they believe they won’t be around to experience it. God will finally fulfill his covenant promises to Israel, but not until He wipes out millions of Jews and billions of others around the world in one final judgment. No wonder an increasing number of people fear "Dr. Armageddon" and his millions of followers. Could their political clout push us toward an all-out Mideast war? There are Jews who support Hagee and CUFI, but I bet they don’t know the whole story.
Posted by Editor at 04:10 AM
Bush's Homosexual Administration
John Jalsevac / LifeSiteNews.com:Recently the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to give official consultative status to several homosexual rights groups, including one from Quebec that had previously been rejected by the NGO accrediting committee. On Friday, July 20, the ECOSOC voted to overturn the decision by the NGO committee, giving official consultative status to the Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec and the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Geneva. Asked why he thought that the Bush Administration would chose to alienate its supporter base in this way, Austin Ruse, director of C-Fam responded, "There is a large and influential homosexual lobby within the state department."
Posted by Editor at 03:00 AM
Bush Seeks Warrantless Authority
Ellen Nakashima / The Washington Post:The Bush administration is pressing Congress this week for the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international phone call or e-mail between a surveillance target outside the United States and any person in the United States. The proposal, submitted by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell to congressional leaders on Friday, would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the first time since 2006 so that a court order would no longer be needed before wiretapping anyone "reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States."
Posted by Editor at 02:33 AM
NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort
Dan Eggen / The Washington Post:The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described. The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls. Kate Martin, executive director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the new disclosures show that Gonzales and other administration officials have "repeatedly misled the Congress and the American public" about the extent of NSA surveillance efforts.
Posted by Editor at 02:10 AM
'To Punish and Enslave'
William Norman Grigg / LewRockwell.com:Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina are devoted activists who pursue political change using non-violent means. The message on their answering machine – which I've heard twice, in unsuccessful attempts to contact them directly – offers the greeting: "Peace and love." Mortified over the violent, corrupt, and increasingly degenerate nature of the regime that rules us, the Kuhns displayed, on their own property, a U.S. flag – an item they had legally purchased – displayed upside-down.
Posted by Editor at 01:34 AM
What I Have Learned from the Anabaptists IV
David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:I had just arrived in Basel when I happened upon a sporting goods store that had a large display window facing the street. To my amazement I saw something I never dreamed I would see in landlocked Switzerland – a surfboard for sale with the word “Kailua” on it, a reference to the beach where I grew up in Hawaii. I was delightfully surprised by this discovery. Warm, happy memories of my home town and its magnificent beach came to me. I had discovered in that shop window the sense of belonging that I had lost in that far-away city on the Rhine. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
Posted by Editor at 01:12 AM