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Is President Bush 'Truly Pro-Life'

John Lofton / The American View Radio:
"Truly pro-life." These are the words on the cover of the June, 2008, "Focus on the Family" magazine "Citizen" which shows a photo of President Bush kissing a baby. Underneath the "Truly Pro-Life" headline are these words: "More politicians need to think like President Bush, who understands that embryonic stem-cell research is as morally reprehensible as abortion." But is George Bush "truly pro-life?" No, he is not - as his record clearly demonstrates.
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High Priests of Woodrow Wilson's Covenant

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
It is one of the oddest facts in American history that the two most important American political speeches in the twentieth century were delivered about 70 hours apart. The most prophetic Presidential speech in American history ever delivered by a sitting President was made by a man who possessed, at least until the arrival of George W. Bush, the reputation for being the least competent verbal communicator in modern Presidential history. The other speech laid the rhetorical foundations for a foreign policy that has culminated in the worst military disaster in American history.

Legal Outsourcing Suit Spotlights Surveillance Fears

Tom Ramstack / The Washington Times:
Some lawyers are worried that the growing practice of outsourcing legal work to overseas companies is undermining the constitutional guarantees that protect the privacy of lawyer-client communications, leaving them vulnerable to electronic spying by the federal government. Paralegal firms in India are doing a booming business handling the routine legal work of American law firms, such as drafting contracts, writing patents, indexing documents or researching laws. These so-called legal process outsourcing firms charge an average of about $40 an hour for their work, about one-quarter to one-third of what the work would cost in the United States. But a lawsuit filed this month by the Bethesda firm of Newman, McIntosh & Hennessey argues that the constitutional guarantees that protect confidential communications between lawyers and clients may not apply when legal work is transmitted abroad - typically by e-mail, fax or telephone.

Another Step In The Wrong Direction

Daniel Sargis / Ether Zone:
Whenever the government intervenes to solve a free market problem the outcome is always the same...ten new problems are created and the original problem remains unsolved. And Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd's "Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008" is no exception. According to Dodd, this legislation, "marks tremendous progress in my ongoing effort to help stabilize our markets and provide relief to hundreds of thousands of Americans who, due to no fault of their own, are struggling to keep their homes."

U.S. Has $99.2 Trillion In Unfunded Liabilities

Lee Rogers / RogueGovernment.com:
The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard W. Fisher recently spoke in front of the Commonwealth Club of California. In his speech at the club, Fisher remarked that the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security adds up to $99.2 trillion. Assuming Fisher's figures are accurate, this country cannot possibly pay off the debt and fund these unfunded liabilities from the Medicare and Social Security programs. The official government debt is approaching $10 trillion and combine that with these unfunded liabilities and it is obvious that this country is broke.

Snag in Deal to Return FLDS Kids to Parents

The Associated Press:
Parents' hopes of quick reunions with more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch were dashed Friday after their attorneys and a judge clashed over proposed restrictions. A decision by Texas District Judge Barbara Walther means that to regain custody, the 38 mothers whose filed the complaint that led the Texas Supreme Court to reject the state's massive seizure must personally sign an agreement their attorneys and state child-welfare officials have proposed. That could add days to the process, attorneys for the mothers said, because the women are scattered across the state to be close to their children in foster care.

Washington's Culture of Deception

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
A bomb exploded inside Washington, D.C., this week, and, no, it was not the work of a Middle Eastern terrorist. It was the work of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. He, perhaps more than anyone else, was the face of President Bush's White House. He faithfully served President George W. Bush for close to a decade and served as Bush's Press Secretary for some three years, resigning on April 19, 2006. He was also regarded as one of the most loyal and tight-lipped of the Bush insiders. However, his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" has exploded in the face of what history will probably regard as one of the most deceptive and manipulative Presidential administrations in American government.

Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant?

Patrick J. Buchanan / LewRockwell.com:
Is Bush Becoming Irrelevant? After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! On learning his trusted aide from Texas Scott McClellan has denounced as an "unnecessary war" the same Iraq war McClellan defended from the White House podium, George Bush must feel as Clinton did. The synchronized savagery of the attacks on McClellan as turncoat suggests he drew blood.

The Revolution, Phase II

Johnny Kramer / LewRockwell.com:
Wise up: There is only one political party in America: The Government Party. The phony left-right paradigm is a shell game perpetrated by the ruling elite to distract people from that fact, because if it were overt that there's only one party, the entire political system would quickly become widely despised, and the people would be more likely to overthrow it. And elections – especially presidential elections – are basically scams where the elite field two basically interchangeable candidates – both of whom are acceptable to them and are in their pockets – to con the rubes into thinking that they are running the government.

McCain May Have Alienated 'Evangelicals'

Kimberly Kindy / The Washington Post:
Images of one of the nation's rising stars of television evangelism are widely available on DVDs and Web sites, with sermons that are almost certain to inflame some segment of the voting public. But in its quest to secure support from evangelical Christians, the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain did not note a long record of inflammatory statements by Parsley and the Rev. John Hagee of Texas, another TV evangelist, until long after McCain had accepted their endorsements. The move backfired last week when clips of the ministers' sermons gained national attention, prompting McCain to reject their support.

GOP Sends Lieberman to Pacify Hagee

The Associated Press:
Sen. Joe Lieberman said he will address a conference hosted by the Rev. John Hagee, who was spurned by Republican John McCain for his claim that God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. "I believe that Pastor Hagee has made comments that are deeply unacceptable and hurtful," Lieberman, I-Conn., said in a statement. "I also believe that a person should be judged on the entire span of his or her life's works. Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews." Lieberman is one of the strongest supporters of likely GOP presidential nominee McCain. He also has been mentioned as a possible running mate.

Marine Suspended Over Coins Quoting Gospel

Amit R. Paley / The Washington Post:
The U.S. military suspended a Marine on Thursday for distributing coins quoting the Gospel to Sunni Muslims, an incident that has enraged Iraqis who view it as the latest example of American disrespect for Islam. The Marine, stationed in the western city of Fallujah, handed out silver-colored coins this week that said in Arabic: "Where will you spend eternity? (John 3:36)." The other side read: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)."

Climate-Change Bill Would Devastate Us

The John Birch Society:
Undeterred by record cold temperatures worldwide for the winter of 2007-2008 and recent admissions by the UN's World Meteorological Organization that global temperatures have been in decline for the past decade and will continue to drop through most of 2008, politicians at the local, state, and federal levels are continuing to push for more carbon dioxide emission controls. If passed, these new restrictive laws will have zero-to-negligible impact on global climate, but enormous economic impact on families, industries, communities, and countries. The most imminent threat is the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191), which is expected to come up for a vote in the United States Senate in June.

Citizens Demand Access to Grand Jury

Uncle Raisin
The Citizens of Minnesota, frustrated by their attempts to bring evidence of the corruption of certain judicial officers to their Grand Juries, placed a full-page ad in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Sunday, May 25, 2008. The Grand Jury is composed of Citizens and is required to investigate evidence of corruption of political officials. But in Minnesota, the Judicial Branch has taken over the Grand Juries and has refused to allow the Grand Juries to hear the evidence that would indict their fellow judges of crimes. The cover-up is deep and wide. In the summer of 2007 Citizens demanded to the Chief Judge of the Ramsey County district court (Gregg Johnson), access to the Grand Jury to bring evidence of corruption of public officials. The judge refused.

Sect Members Waiting for Children to Be Returned

The Associated Press:
Now, the waiting begins. A Texas Supreme Court ruling paves the way for members of a polygamist sect to get their children out of foster care, but it remains unclear when that might happen or what kind of restrictions might be imposed. "I'm happy (when) all the children are back to their mothers and we're home," said Martha Emack, who was visiting her 1-year-old and 2-year-old in foster care in Austin when word of the ruling arrived Thursday. The court said child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should be returned to their parents, a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch in western Texas.

NGOs: Global Governance By Proxy

Michael Vail / Thought Criminal:
Our government and a myriad of multinational corporations have decided that we aren't informed enough to make the decisions that affect our world. We the people have allowed the government to essentially go into 'cruise control'. While the majority of Americans slumber our nation is being transformed and the governmental power structure has been taken out of the hands of elected officials. The true power is being wielded by non-governmental organizations. Under the auspices of the United Nations numerous NGOs have amassed enormous power and influence. These loosely organized groups have no responsibility to report to the American people and that is how they have operated unmolested.

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:
Just a few observations about the Indiana Jones IV film.
1.) Sex outside of marriage turns out well for all involved.
2.) Mankind received its intelligence from Alien 'god like' beings.
3.) Knowledge is the ultimate treasure.
4.) Women are physically tough.
5.) The Issue of Myth.

A Bible Preference for Homeschooling? Part 2

Dr. Richard A. Jones / American Vision:
Last week I began to address the legitimate questions of a skeptic. She didn’t think the overall theme in my list of Bible verses proved that education at home is always the best or only method for discipling children. Nor that these verses necessarily prohibited the Private Christian School (PCS) option. My broad defense was that no matter what the debate, whether about location, vocation or education, the Bible does not provide detailed inventories and solutions for every life challenge. (Though it ultimately has the power to deal with all of them.) God knew that sincere seekers for discernment could and would find correct, logical inferences from His implications within the vast number of lessons and principles in all 66 books. When tackled logically, God enables honest searchers (made in His image) to "find His exact mind" in nearly all of life’s testings.

Texas Supreme Court rules in favor of FLDS

KLBJ News Radio 59 AM:
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch should be returned to their parents, saying child welfare officials overstepped their authority. The high court on Thursday affirmed a decision by the appellate court last week, saying Child Protective Services failed to show an immediate danger to the more than 400 children swept up from the Yearning For Zion Ranch nearly two months ago.

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CPS Loses Appeal To Texas Supreme Court
KLTV, TV-7 TX:
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the decision of a lower court finding that CPS had no legal grounds to remove more than 400 FLDS children from their parents. Though CPS could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, this ruling essentially says that those children should be returned to their parents.

Texas High Court: Removal of Sect Kids 'Not Warranted'
CNN.com
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Texas officials had no right to remove more than 440 children from a polygamist sect, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The Texas Supreme Court agreed with an earlier lower court's ruling, possibly clearing the way for the children to be returned to their families. They were removed in April from the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch, near Eldorado.

Bush's Lying Is A 'Permanent Campaign'

Terence Hunt / AP White House Correspondent:
In a White House full of Bush loyalists, none was more loyal than Scott McClellan, the bland press secretary who spread the company line for all the government to follow each day. His word, it turns out, was worthless, his confessional memoir a glimpse into Washington's world of spin and even outright deception. Instead of effective government, Americans were subjected to a "permanent campaign" that was "all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage," McClellan writes in a book stunning for its harsh criticism of Bush. "Presidential initiatives from health care programs to foreign invasions are regularly devised, named, timed and launched with one eye (or both eyes) on the electoral calendar."

Scott McClellan: 'Bush Sold War by Propaganda'

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
You gotta love it! The gentle, soft-spoken, former Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, is revealing way more than this Administration would prefer; and already, Mr. Karl Rove is denouncing McClellan for sounding like a "left-wing blogger." Ah yes, no evidence from Mr. Rove, just good ol' character assassination. McClellan says that the Iraq war was sold to Americans via a "political propaganda campaign manipulating sources of public opinion," and confirms what we all knew: Cheney--who he refers to as the "magic man"--was steering policy from the shadows. McClellan says "the Iraq was not necessary," but that "top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the war."

Not Everyone Is Hailing the Chief

Dan Eggen / The Washington Post:
President Bush was probably expecting a warm welcome at Furman University, a small Baptist-rooted school in Greenville, S.C., where he is delivering the commencement address on Saturday. It hasn't quite turned out that way. More than 200 faculty members and students signed a letter this month criticizing the Bush administration's policies on the Iraq war, secret interrogations, the environment and other issues. The letter says that although it would ordinarily be "an honor" to host a president, "these are not ordinary circumstances." "We are ashamed of these actions of this administration," the letter reads, after listing objections to Bush. "Because we love this country and the ideals it stands for, we accept our civic responsibility to speak out against these actions that violate American values."

Memorial Day - The Honored Dead

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:
On this Memorial Day I couldn't help but think about the purpose for which Memorial Day started over 100 years ago and that is to remember our war dead. And then when I started thinking about the necessity of remembering the war dead and the sacrifice they made I began to wonder if those who died for their country at Saratoga and at Cowpens died for the same country as those who died for their country at Fallujah and Rumaylah? I wondered if those Brave Americans who died on the beaches of Normandy or at sites across the South Pacific would still want to risk dying for the country we have become?

Rethinking Churchill

Ralph Raico / LewRockwell.com:
When, in a very few years, the pundits start to pontificate on the great question: "Who was the Man of the Century?" there is little doubt that they will reach virtually instant consensus. Inevitably, the answer will be: Winston Churchill. Indeed, Professor Harry Jaffa has already informed us that Churchill was not only the Man of the Twentieth Century, but the Man of Many Centuries. In a way, Churchill as Man of the Century will be appropriate. This has been the century of the State of the rise and hyper-trophic growth of the welfare-warfare state and Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state.

A Bureaucracy Bares Its Teeth

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
There are many millions of adults who suffer from a peculiar logic disorder I call "Severe Ipse-Dixitism" that leads them to mistake assertions for evidence. This affliction is quite widespread among political pundits, particularly those who pollute the talk radio industry. Both the Texas Department of Child Protective Services and its media allies suffer from a particularly acute case of that tragic condition.

Teachers Union Attacks Homeschoolers

The Pacific Justice Institute:
The closely-watched Rachel L. homeschooling case in Los Angeles is entering the final phase of briefing at the appellate level before oral arguments are scheduled. Numerous friend-of-the-court or amicus briefs have been filed with the state Court of Appeal in the last two weeks. While most of the briefs favor homeschooling, those filed by the educational establishment take some hostile - and head-scratching - positions.

U.S., Israel Seize (steal) Money

Jerry Seper / The Washington Times:
Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), working with their Israeli law enforcement counterparts in Israel and at U.S. airports, have seized nearly $500,000 in cash, negotiable checks, gold and diamonds in an investigation into the illicit movement of currency. The seizures, part of a law-enforcement initiative known as "Hands Across the World," also resulted in the arrest of Silvia Joseph, 39, from Argentina, who was apprehended as she tried to leave Newark (N.J.) Liberty International Airport without declaring $130,145 in currency.

Laws Against Buying Oil - Gold & Silver?

Julian D. W. Phillips / Gold Seek:
The chairman of a Senate oversight committee, Joseph Lieberman, has said he is considering legislation to place limits on large institutional investors in commodities markets, which have posted record prices this year in agricultural products and oil. The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee said that the legislation would be aimed at speculators and other investors who use commodities as a way to hedge against swings in other investment instruments like stocks and the dollar.

R.J. Rushdoony on Inflation

The Chalcedon Foundation:
Inflation is one of the results of managed money, and managed money is the cornerstone of socialism. In fact, socialism is impossible without managed money. Managed money is the deliberate, state-controlled debasing or counterfeiting of money as the basic form of social planning. Paper money, and coins of baser metals passing in the place of silver or gold, is managed money, whereas gold and silver coinage, which constitutes real wealth, is valid money. For money is not merely a medium of exchange: it is a form of wealth, and if the medium of exchange is a controlled and counterfeit one, wealth is progressively confiscated and destroyed.

Voyage of the Damned

Devvy Kidd / NewsWithViews.com:
The deluge of email from my last column was encouraging because it demonstrates that Americans are "getting it," like I did 18 years ago. A small number are still in denial. A sincere gentleman sent email and wrote that I should not use the word communism because among other things, it turns off liberals.

McClellan whacks Bush, White House

Mike Allen / Politico.com:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence. McClellan charges that Bush relied on "propaganda" to sell the war. "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

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Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq, Former Aide Says in New Book
By Ken Herman / Cox News Service
WASHINGTON -- The White House called former press secretary Scott McClellan "disgruntled" after he wrote a blistering review of the administration and concluded that his longtime boss misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq in a book due out Monday. In a summation, McClellan said the decision to invade Iraq "goes to an important question that critics have raised about the president: Is Bush intellectually incurious or, as some assert, actually stupid?" "Bush is plenty smart enough to be president," he concluded. "But as I've noted his leadership style is based more on instinct than deep intellectual debate."

In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush
By Elisabeth Bumiller / The New York Times
PHOENIX -- President Bush "convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment," and has engaged in "self-deception" to justify his political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing. In addition, Mr. McClellan writes, the decision to invade Iraq was a "serious strategic blunder," and yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the Bush White House made. That, he says, was "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed."

Testing the Prophets

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
The Bible establishes the standard for discerning the claims of a prophet. It's quite simple. He or she must be 100% accurate (Deut. 18:20-22). No mistakes. No adjustments. No ex post facto explanations as to why a prophecy did not come to pass as specified. In fact, the Bible bases its authority on its own claim of unquestioned prophetic integrity. With nearly two thousand predictions on everything from the birth of a promised redeemer to the destruction of particular nations, it only takes one failed prediction to call the others into question. God has set the highest standard possible. You will never hear modern-day "prophets" make the claim that all their prophecies came to pass as written. They and their reading public are satisfied with a better than average percentage of accuracy.

Study: Massive Sex Abuse of Children by UN Workers

Ann Shibler / JBS.org:
A study released May 27 by the London-based organization, Save the Children UK, found that UN peacekeepers and other aid workers around the world are perpetrators of a huge range of child exploitation and sexual abuse, running the gamut from forced sex, child prostitution, child pornography, sexual slavery, sexual assault, child trafficking, and even children forced to trade sex for food. Out of 38 focus group discussions with 250 children and 90 adults, 20 of the groups pointed fingers at the UN as having the worst record of participation in the sexual abuse of children.

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Report Details Child Abuse; Group Cites Aid Workers, U.N. Troops
By Colum Lynch / The Washington Post
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers from 23 organizations have engaged in sexual exploitation of children, including some as young as 6, in Haiti, Ivory Coast and South Sudan, according to a report by Save the Children, a British-based aid agency. The organization said its findings, combined with reports of similar abuse elsewhere, suggest that efforts to rein in such abuse over the past decade have failed. It concluded that sexual abuse of children -- often involving exchanges of food for sex -- probably occurs in virtually every post-conflict zone, and it called for creation of a global watchdog organization to probe such abuse.

The Truth About Homosexuals and the Nazi Party

Bryan Fischer / RenewAmerica:
The Interfaith Alliance, a far-left religious advocacy group in Idaho, has accused Scott Lively, a scheduled speaker at this weekend's "Shake the Nation" conference in Boise, of "bearing false witness" and of being "mean-spirited and hurtful." Lively's crime? In his book, "The Pink Swastika," Lively exposes a secret homosexual activists don't want you to know about Nazi Germany: that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.

The Next Attack on Gold Has Begun

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
When governments want to expand power over the monetary system, they invoke the need to clamp down on money laundering by criminals. There is a problem here. After these laws and new rules are passed, crime never goes down, but our privacy does. That is a problem for us. It is not a problem for governments. The Toronto Globe and Mail ran a story on money laundering and new Web-based businesses that allow people to buy small amounts of gold and then spend this gold as money. The development of these businesses is the preliminary step to the restoration of private money.

Time to Repeal the Welfare State

Ron Paul / LewRockwell.com:
Sheldon Richman's Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State is precisely the type of scholarly work needed to wake up the American people to the dangers posed by the welfare state. Richman demolishes the popular myth that the welfare state was a natural outgrowth of the Founding Fathers’ conception of individual liberty. In fact, the ideology behind the welfare state is a 180-degree turn from the individualism embraced by the Founders. The men who led the American Revolution and drafted the Constitution understood that people flourish best under conditions of freedom – and that a centralized state has neither the legitimate authority nor the competence to care for the needy. Instead, the Founders realized that a state which attempts to provide security will end up destroying both liberty and the economic prosperity necessary to enhance individual security.

Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure

Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily:
Barack Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators. Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Scientology

Neal Horsley / Christian Gallery News Service:
Steven Spielberg's latest movie, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," manages to deliver a key component of the Scientology creation myth in an entertainment package that provides so much action that no one except this writer has noticed that the movie could be a Scientology evangelistic vehicle created by L. Ron Hubbard himself if he still occupied this carnal sphere and if he held copyright on the "Indiana Jones" brand. Read on and this article can help you understand the nature of the battle everyone who is in Christ should be fighting today.

Continuing Confusion in Texas

John Hollenhorst / KSL TV-5 MSNBC:
There was continuing confusion Tuesday in the legal proceedings surrounding 450 or so FLDS children in state custody in Texas. The state's Supreme Court judges could either order the children back to their parents or uphold the state seizure action, but they have not yet taken any action. Attorneys for one group of 12 children filed a new motion today. In effect, it asks for all the children to be released. But the court has remained silent while studying a lower court ruling that the state exceeded its authority.

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Flurry of Filings in Polygamist Custody Case
ELISE HU / KVUE Texas Cable News:
Attorneys on both sides of the temporary custody battle over hundreds of children seized by the state kept busy over Memorial Day weekend. Both sides rushed to get in the final word to the Texas Supreme Court, which is expected to rule on whether the children must return to their parents as the investigation of abuse at their ranch continues. They are members of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect residing in West Texas.

FLDS Court Victory But No Closer to Home
KXAN/CNN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Joseph and Lori Jessop are grateful to be one of three couples out of the West Texas polygamist compound who could be reunited with their young children last week. When the news first broke last week it was unclear why a dozen of the 440 children had been singled out to be returned to their families. Now it appears these children were the ones specified in the motion that was filed in state district court in San Antonio, the same motion that the Third Court of Appeals used to rule that the seizure of the children was unjustified.

N.C. Police Arrest 'Pair' for Crimes Against Nature

Matthew Eisley / The News & Observer:
Raleigh police are charging two adults for private sodomy, although the U.S. Supreme Court appears to have outlawed such charges five years ago. Police on Saturday charged two West Raleigh "men" with a "crime against nature" for having sex early that morning. Each faces up to two years in prison if convicted of the Class I felony. But that charge might be unconstitutional (sic), and the circumstances are murky. North Carolina's "crime against nature" law doesn't apply only to same-sex partners. But a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court opinoin appears to forbid states (sic) from treating private, consensual, adult sex as crimes. Two months later, the Raleigh Police Department's attorney, Dawn Bryant, told officers they could keep charging people with crimes against nature for committing the acts in public places -- but not in private.

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Put Homosexuals To The Sword
By Jim Rudd / The Covenant News:
Back in 2003, when the Supreme Court issued an opinion against Texas sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, Republicans started pushing the idea of a "Marriage Protection Amendment" as a solution to the "gay problem." As we now know the amendment idea is not a solution but a red herring used by crafty politicians to distract Christians away from obedience to the commandments of God concerning homosexuality. It is a political trick used to lure the Church into a humiliating situation of begging the State to "defend marriage" while allowing civil officials to circumvent their God ordained duty to administer Justice upon sodomites!

When the Supreme Court rendered its Lawrence opinion, every U.S. Congressmen from the state of Texas should have issued an Indictment of Impeachment to have the Supreme Court Justices, responsible for such an abomination, to be kicked off the bench for sexual deviant behavior under Article III Section. I of the Constitution. Across the nation reprobate federal judges sit on the bench at the behest of our U.S. Congressmen and U.S. Senators.

No Memorial Day for America's Unborn

Reed R. Heustis, Jr. / The Covenant News:
A United States Federal holiday, Memorial Day falls on the final Monday of the month of May. Americans all over the nation remember and honor the casualties of all their nation's wars and military battles, and well they should. Some of America's wars may not have been fought for the noblest or most moral of reasons, but many of our nation's military participants faithfully discharged their duty to endeavor in what they believed was right, and they obediently did so unto death. Memorial Day is their day. May they be honored. But what about the millions of American babies who continue to be murdered in their mothers' wombs? Are they honored? There is no Federal holiday for them. They are neither honored nor remembered. They are not even acknowledged as persons.

The Troops Don't Defend Our Freedoms

Jacob G. Hornberger / LewRockwell.com:
How often do we hear the claim that American troops "defend our freedoms"? The claim is made often by U.S. officials and is echoed far and wide across the land by television commentators, newspaper columnists, public-school teachers, and many others. It's even a common assertion that emanates on Sundays from many church pulpits. Unfortunately, it just isn't so. In fact, the situation is the exact opposite – the troops serve as the primary instrument by which both our freedoms and well-being are threatened. Let's examine the three potential threats to our freedoms and the role that the troops play in them.

The JCS: Military Must Stay 'Apolitical' at All Times

Thom Shanker / International Herald Tribune:
The highest-ranking U.S. military officer has written an unusual open letter to all those in uniform, warning them to stay out of politics as the United States approaches a presidential election in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a central, and certainly divisive, issue. "The U.S. military must remain apolitical at all times," wrote Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It is and must always be a neutral instrument of the state, no matter which party holds sway." Mullen's essay appears in the coming issue of Joint Force Quarterly, an official military journal that is distributed widely among the officer corps. The statement to the armed forces is the first essay for the journal Mullen has written as chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Jimmy Carter: Israel Has 150 Nuclear Weapons

Times Online UK:
Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, former President Jimmy Carter said, while arguing that the US should talk directly to Iran to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions. Carter, whose presidency was dominated by the 444-day siege in which Iran held 52 American diplomats hostage, said "my advice to the US would be to start talking to Iran now" to persuade it to drop its nuclear work. But he cited Israel's nuclear arsenal - and those of the US, Russia, China, Britain and France - in arguing that Iran would find it almost impossible to develop, in secret, many weapons and the missiles to deliver them.

How the West Lost the World

Patrick J. Buchanan / Buchanan.org:
Europe, the Mother Continent of Western Man, is today aging and dying, unable to sustain the birth rates needed to keep her alive, or to resist conquest by an immigrant invasion from the Third World. What happened to the nations that only a century ago ruled the world? In "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World," published today, this writer will argue that it was colossal blunders of British statesmen, Winston Churchill foremost among them, that turned two European wars into world wars that may yet prove the mortal wounds of the West.

Inconvenient Facts About World War II

David Gordon / Ludwig von Mises Institute:
The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke. In the March 2008 issue of Commentary, David Pryce-Jones called it a "mendacious book." From this review, one might have thought that Nicholson Baker had written a defense of the Third Reich and its Führer. Quite the contrary: no one who reads the book can suspect Baker of the slightest sympathy for Hitler, whose evil deeds receive copious coverage in the book. Where, then, lies Baker's offense? Rather than write a standard historical narrative, he presents on each page a separate fact, often taken from contemporary newspaper accounts. A number of these facts show Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in less than a favorable light.

Merrill Sees Change In Gulf USD Peg

Reuters.com:
Merrill Lynch & Co said the United States has effectively given Gulf Arab oil producers the go ahead for making changes to their dollar-pegged foreign exchange policies, by recognizing inflation as a problem. In a report entitled "U.S. Green Light for the GCC", the U.S. investment bank said the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will probably move to a currency basket in the next few months, with their respective currencies appreciating 5 percent before the end of the year. Saudi Arabia is unlikely to follow until late next year, Merrill said in the report received on Sunday. Citing a U.S. Treasury report to Congress that for the first time mentioned currency and inflation issues in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, Merrill said the United States government had become more confident about the outlook for the dollar and therefore did not necessarily need Gulf support for its currency.

A Memorial Day Discussion on WAR

John Lofton / The American View Radio:
On this program John Lofton has a Memorial Day Discussion on WAR and the growing militarization of our society; What God says about War; The Founders Fear of Standing Armies; An Interview With Andrew Bacevich.

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Congress and The Fed Create Oil Crisis

Lee Rogers / The Covenant News:
Since oil is priced in U.S. Dollar denominated terms and the monetary unit of the U.S. Dollar continues to be devalued by the Federal Reserve's ability to create as many U.S. Dollars as they like, it isn't a real mystery as to why the oil price is so high. . . . The U.S. Congress is also helping to contribute to the high oil price with their ridiculous policies. The U.S. Senate just passed another war funding bill which will give the executive branch another $165 Billion to continue military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Coming Collapse of Oil Prices

Dom Armentano / LewRockwell.com:
Bold economic predictions are dangerous, and I've been wrong before, but here goes: Oil prices are about to tumble. There are several important reasons to believe that crude oil prices of roughly $130/barrel are simply not sustainable. The first is that world-wide economic growth, and hence the demand for crude oil, has slowed markedly due to the credit crunch and the bursting real estate bubble. The second reason is that the Federal Reserve has finally decided to stop lowering interest rates and/or creating credit as if it were the Tooth Ferry.

Embracing The Iron Fist of Totalitarian Government

Devvy Kidd / NewsWithViews.com:
Despite the massive, overwhelming documentation proving that elite groups around the world have been planning the complete annihilation of this constitutional republic for a more than a hundred years, Americans continue to deny, deny, deny. Let me give you this example. It's an email I received a few days ago regarding a January 7, 2005, column I wrote titled, "President Bush supporting global communist domination."

Overreaching Their Constitutional Mandate

Geoff Metcalf / Ether Zone:
It is not the place of the California Supreme Court (or any court) to MAKE law. The concept of separation of powers is very clearly delineated and establishes three branches of government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) each of which has very narrowly defined duties and responsibilities. Regrettably, for too long, territorial imperatives have been breached so often as to become habit if not tradition. Regardless of whatever does or not result from their recent 4-3 ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the decision was wrong and overreaching.

Southern Baptists Revive School Exodus Issue

Allie Martin / American Vision:
A resolution has been submitted for the upcoming business meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, which calls on parents to rescue their children from indoctrination in sexual deviancy in California’s public schools. The resolution was submitted by Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., and Bruce Shortt, two well-known critics of government-run schools—or as Baucham calls them, "the pagan schools."

Franky Schaeffer Thinks John Hagee is a Calvinist

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
Franky Schaeffer loves to make a fool of himself--he'll do anything for an audience, I assume. If you observe his capricious path, his recent move into the loving arms of the sodomite Left makes perfect sense. He is reinventing himself into an expert on all things Christian Conservative, and a desperate group of anti-theocrats think they've found an insider.

'Liberal' Denominations Oppose Breakaway Churches

Michelle Boorstein / The Washington Post:
A half-dozen national Protestant denominations are supporting the Episcopal Church in a multimillion-dollar Virginia property dispute, saying a state law at the heart of the case could threaten them, too. The United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA), among others, have filed court briefs in the past few weeks supporting the Episcopal Church, which is fighting 11 breakaway Virginia congregations that say the national church has become too liberal on issues from salvation to sexuality. Majorities of those congregations voted to leave and are now in Fairfax County Circuit Court over who gets to keep the property. Experts say there are 50 to 100 similar property cases across the country, mostly involving Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians. Most involve disputes over what scripture says about filthy sodomites.

Our Military Need Real Support, Not Empty Rhetoric

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
As we approach Memorial Day, we can anticipate the usual speeches and photo stunts from various and sundry politicos, each of them touting their heartfelt "support" for America's men and women in uniform. I submit that much of this political grandstanding is merely empty rhetoric. Most of us probably recall that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is quoted as having said that soldiers are just "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns by the political and commercial elite. Obviously, even the most anti-military Democrat would never be so brazen as to say what Kissinger said. In practice, however, both Democrats and Republicans demonstrate disdain for our brave military people by the way their unconstitutional policies abuse and misuse them.

$10,000 Offer to Name 'One' Pro-Life Justice

News Wire Service:
"American Right To Life is offering attorney James Bopp $10,000 for National RTL," said the group's president Brian Rohrbough, "if he can name a single justice on the current U.S. Supreme Court who has ever acknowledged that the unborn child has a right to life, whether in a majority opinion or a dissent." . . . "A quarter century after Bopp and NRTL refused President Ronald Reagan's offer to work toward federal personhood legislation, they have long opposed all state personhood efforts," says the group's site AmericanRTL.

An Ambiguous Victory

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
It was shortly before noon on Wednesday, May 20, when two Texas CPS officials, in the company of armed Sheriff's Deputies, arrived at the gates of the largely deserted YFZ Ranch. Nearly everybody involved in the custody fight over some 463 people (both children and young emancipated adults dishonestly depicted as minors by the CPS) was either in court, on the way to court, or somewhere in the vast Texas state highway system trying to visit their abducted kids.
(Published by The Right Source)

Post-Christian America

Patrick J. Buchanan / Buchanan.org:
"A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense." This was the ecstatic reaction of The New York Times to the California Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a right to marry and have their unions recognized as marriages. Now there may be hugging around the newsroom at the Times, where one senior writer said, a few years back, three-fourths of the folks who make up the front page are gay. But this is just another streetlight on America’s darkening path to perdition as a society and republic.

Are Politicians Assisting Terrorists?

Michael Cutler / NewsWithViews.com:
Many people feed at the immigration fraud trough. Among those who are benefiting the most are immigration lawyers who only make a profit when they can secure employment for aliens, thereby costing United States citizens their jobs. The guild that represents computer programmers posted a covert video made of a duplicitous lawyer who was conducting a seminar for other immigration attorneys, teaching them how to make certain that no American who applied for a posted job, as the Labor Department requires, would be qualified for the job in question.

Open Borders Prove 'War On Terror' Is Superficial

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
A glaring inconsistency regarding the "war on terror" is the fact that for some seven years since the 9/11 attacks, our nation's borders and ports are as open and porous as ever. These open borders make the argument that "we are fighting them over there, so we won't have to fight them over here" look absolutely disingenuous--even laughable.

Vet Group Banned from Memorial Day Parade

Stephen Manning / The Associated Press:
A veterans group that opposes the war in Iraq has been blocked from marching in a Memorial Day parade in Washington after being told its plans, which once included a casket representing war dead, would be too political for the event. Veterans for Peace was initially granted a spot in the Monday parade that is scheduled to travel down Constitution Avenue, past landmarks that include the Washington Monument and the White House.

Hagee Said That Hilter Fulfilled God's Will

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post
John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel. Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: "'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that."

McCain Rejects Pastors' Endorsements

Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times:
Sen. John McCain yesterday renounced the endorsements of two influential televangelists -- the Rev. John Hagee and Rod Parsley -- who both had made inflammatory statements that liberals have been using to tar Mr. McCain. Still the Arizona senator, in the latest sign of an increasingly testy campaign, took a sidelong shot at Sen. Barack Obama and his own former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Bilderberg Luminary to Pick Obama's Running Mate

Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet:
It has been announced that Bilderberg luminary and top corporate elitist James A. Johnson will select Democrat candidate Barack Obama’s running mate for the 2008 election and in turn potentially act as kingmaker for America's future President. The news further puts to rest any delusions that Bilderberg is a mere talking shop where no decisions are made. In reality, the group is shaping some of the primary developments in the domestic and geopolitical arena today, particularly in the context of oil prices which continue to accelerate towards Bilderberg’s target of $200 dollars a barrel.

Court Slams FLDS Raid

Brooke Adams / The Salt Lake Tribune:
Hours after a Texas appeals court ruled their children were wrongly taken from their polygamous sect's ranch, FLDS mothers were not yet ready to celebrate. That will come, they said, when the children are in their arms. "I will rejoice completely when I am able to hug my children," said Maggie Jessop, whose four children have been in state custody for more than six weeks. A pair of rulings issued Thursday by the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin came unexpectedly in the midst of status hearings on children taken from the YFZ Ranch.

Texas CPS Officials Plan to Appeal Ruling

The Associated Press:
Texas child welfare authorities plan Friday to appeal a stinging ruling that found they had no right to seize more than 440 children from a polygamist sect's ranch, a court spokesman said. Child Protective Services notified the Texas Supreme Court on Friday that "they will file something today," court spokesman Osler McCarthy said.

Do Funeral Protests Invade Mourners' Privacy?

Christina Wells / JURIST:
Since 2006 the Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church have gained notoriety for their controversial protests at funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars. Members of the church typically gather at such funerals chanting and displaying signs with slogans such as "God Hates You," "You're Going to Hell," "Semper Fi Fags" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers." According to church members, they protest at such funerals to disseminate their message that soldiers' deaths are a result of this country’s willingness to embrace homosexuality.

House Overrides Veto of Pork-Barrel Farm Bill

Jonathan Weisman and Dan Morgan / The Washington Post:
The House overrode President Bush's veto of a $307 billion farm bill. But a legislative glitch is likely to force embarrassed Democrats to pass the bill all over again -- and prompt a second showdown with Bush next month. The problem came when a House clerk mistakenly dropped a whole section dealing with trade policy from the 673-page bill before it was sent to the White House.

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Carolina-Virginia Farmer:
Congress moved quickly Thursday to repair a procedural error that threatened the new farm bill, but the final action on the complete package will have to wait until Congress returns to Washington from the Memorial Day recess. Meanwhile, it appears that 14 titles of the Farm Bill became law when the Senate joined the House in overriding the President's veto of the new farm bill, H.R. 2419 Thursday afternoon 82-13. The House overrode the veto on Wednesday on a 316-108 vote.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Farm Bill
Jason Vance / FarmProgress.com:
Congress passed the Farm Bill, the President vetoed it, and the House overrode the veto. But it looks like a clerical error will require a do-over starting with Congress voting on the Farm Bill Conference Report. "When the enrolling clerk enrolled the bill to send to the White House, somehow or another they inadvertently or how ever it happened did not include the trade title, Title III of the bill in the official documents that went to the White House," says House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn. "So the President vetoed the bill minus the trade title, Title III."

Texas Seizure of FLDS Children Thrown Out

The Associated Press:
A Texas appeals court said Thursday that the state had no right to take children from the YFZ Ranch, a ruling that could unravel one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history. The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the state offered "legally and factually insufficient" grounds for the "extreme" measure of removing all children from the ranch, from babies to teenagers. The state never provided evidence that the children were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court approval, the appeals court said.

Resistant, Sectarian, Reformed Folks

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
The Scripture assumes an antagonism on man's part to living in service to God. In fact, he's quite adept at developing philosophical justification for both questioning the veracity of Christianity and justifying his alleged neutrality. Scripture says he's actually engaging in truth suppression (Rom. 1:18), and we are to see man for what he is--not a lost postmodern soul, but "filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affections, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Rom. 1:29-32).

Sheep Without Shepherds

Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:
There is no law in America any more. Now, don't take that the wrong way. There are plenty of LAWS in America, but there is no law. Lex Rex is an old legal term which translated from the Latin means simply "the Law is King." It is the premise upon which all natural law and our American Constitutional Republic was formed. No one is above the law and natural laws cannot be altered. But recently in America we have seen this premise turned on its head. No longer "Lex Rex, the law is king," but now "Rex Lex the king is law" is the prevailing system in our once-great republic. Our political leaders destroy the foundations of the nation by changing the laws to legalize the current most-popular sin.

Reprobate Federal Judges' Faggot Military Opinion

Jim Rudd / The Covenant News:
Gene Johnson for The Associated Press reports on a federal appeals court opinion Wednesday that suggests the U.S. military should not be able to automatically discharge filthy sodomites/lesbians in the case of a flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal. When three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated lesbian Maj. Margaret Witt's lawsuit, "the Air Force must prove that her dismissal furthered the military's goals of troop readiness and unit cohesion," Johnson said. According to these reprobate judges, officials need to "prove" that having filthy sodomites in military units hurt morale, and the only way to improve morale is to discharge the sex offenders. The links below can help the military officials prove sodomites hurt morale.

• CDC Study: Gays Mentally Disturbed


• CDC Study -- Gays More Criminal


• Medical Consequences Of What Homosexuals Do

Pesky Limitations

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:
``... limiting the designation of marriage to a union `between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute." - California Chief Justice Ron George, Written Opinion Allowing The Legalizing Of Inverted Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
In other California Supreme Court cases the Court has also ruled,
1) ``that limiting the designation of water to a union between two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute."

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

Murray N. Rothbard / LewRockwell.com:
Businessmen or manufacturers can either be genuine free enterprisers or statists; they can either make their way on the free market or seek special government favors and privileges. They choose according to their individual preferences and values. But bankers are inherently inclined toward statism. Commercial bankers, engaged as they are in unsound fractional reserve credit, are, in the free market, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Hence they are always reaching for government aid and bailout.

Inflating Dollar Causes Oil Climbs to Above $135

The Associated Press:
Oil prices hit a record above $135 a barrel before falling back in Asia Thursday, with supply worries, rising global demand and a slumping dollar keeping crude futures on an upward track. With gas and oil prices setting new records nearly every day, many analysts are beginning to wonder what might stop prices from rising.

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Rep. Ron Paul, MD. - Texas Straight Talk
In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim that the way to reduce gas prices is by expanding the government's power to regulate prices and control the supply of gasoline. For example, the House of Representatives has even passed legislation subjecting gas stations owners to criminal penalties if they charge more than a federal bureaucrat deems appropriate. Proponents of these measures must have forgotten the 1970s, when government controls on the oil industry resulted in gas lines and shortages. It was only after President Reagan lifted federal price controls that the gas lines disappeared.

Daughter of Christian Music Star Killed by Car

The Associated Press:
The 5-year-old daughter of Grammy-winning Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman was struck and killed Wednesday by a sport utility vehicle driven by her brother, authorities said. The girl, Maria Sue, was hit in the driveway of the family's home Wednesday afternoon by a Toyota Land Cruiser driven by her teenage brother, said Laura McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol. The brother, whose name and exact age weren't available, apparently did not see the girl, McPherson said. No charges are expected. "It looks like a tragic accident," she said.

Huckster Is No Defender of The Faith

John Lofton / The American View:
Huckabee Misses Excellent Opportunity To Expose Obama's Claim To Be A Christian: Wow - what an opportunity, and on national TV, too. The pitch was a big, fat softball right down the middle; actually it was more the size of a basketball - no make that a beachball. And Mike Huckabee whiffed. He didn't even come close to hitting it. The place: NBC's "Meet The Press." The topic: Barack Obama's explicitly Christian literature being handed out in Kentucky. Huckabee's reaction?

A Pig's Philosophy

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
Darwin was not personally responsible for the Holocaust any more than Jesus is responsible for the Inquisition or the Crusades. Darwin's ideas were appropriated and used to justify the eugenics movement which included killing millions of Jews, misfits, and general enemies of the State. The eugenics movement in the United States drew validity for its views from Darwin as well. It was the science of evolution that was used to justify such actions at a time when the operating moral worldview for centuries had been founded on transcendental religious values that were shaped by Christianity.

What's With the Stock Market?

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
Why do the bulls remain bullish? Because they believe that the Federal Reserve System can solve the large banks' insolvency problem. They believe that the FED will ignore the threat of moral hazard and will do whatever is required to keep this stock market from crashing, in order to reinforce investor optimism. . . . The supreme function of the Federal Reserve System, as with every government-licensed central bank, is to save the fractionally reserved commercial banks from bank runs. So far, the FED has done this. The price has been the deterioration of the dollar's purchasing power.

Propaganda and The Media

Joseph L. Galloway / McClatchy Newspapers:
Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people. Congress viewed this so seriously that every appropriations bill passed since 1951 has contained language that says no public money “shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States” without the lawmakers' prior approval. The Bush administration has been caught violating the propaganda ban before, notably in 2005 in the case of radio host Armstrong Williams, who was paid to endorse President Bush's No Child Left Behind law. Particularly abhorrent to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which oversees compliance with the ban, is an agency’s use of "covert propaganda" or "covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties."

Bush's Nazi-Iran Analogy

Jim Lobe / LobeLog.com:
For those of you who have not yet seen it, M.J. Rosenberg's column on Bush's analogy between Nazi Germany and Iran and the contretemps between the Obama and McCain camps over Hamas is a must read, by far the best meditation on both issues, particularly on the implications for the American Jewish community, that has crossed my desk. On Bush's analogy, one issue that raises a lot of questions in my mind is who precisely was involved in getting that passage into the speech? The assumption so far has been that it must have been Bush’s political advisers who were eager to attack Obama and, as Rosenberg suggests, pander to "pro-Israel" donors.

Sodomites: The Yet Is Worst To Come

Norman Liebmann / Ether Zone:
The California Supreme Court has ruled same-sex marriage legal by a one vote majority, which adds new poignancy to the roguish question, "Are you one too?" The Court handed down its landmark decision which establishes the inalienable right of any boy to grow up to be a woman driver. This is not inconsistent with an "enlightened" 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which has worked diligently to close the gap between hospitality and homosexuality. As one California judge said, "I believe there is no such thing as a bad boy – and I've made it with most of them".

Lesbians at Smith College riot

Mass Resistance.org:
Dozens of Smith College lesbians climbed in through windows and stormed the podium in a riot scene shortly after Ryan Sorba began a speech on his upcoming book, The Born Gay Hoax. The melee forced an end to the speech before a packed hall in the library on the Northampton campus. Uniformed police officers and a plainclothes security guard were in the room but mostly just stood and watched. Rather than take action against the rioters, the officers and a university official walked to the podium and ordered Sorba to leave the room "for his own safety."

Water Supplies Poisoned by Government Mandate

PR-inside.com Health News:
There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland, according to the National Research Council's (NRC) first-ever published review of the fluoride/thyroid literature. Fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, injected into 2/3 of U.S. public water supplies, ostensibly to reduce tooth decay, was never safety-tested.

White House Denies Report on Plan to Attack Iran

The Jerusalem Post:
The White House on Tuesday flatly denied an Army Radio report that claimed US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term. It said that while the military option had not been taken off the table, the Administration preferred to resolve concerns about Iran's push for a nuclear weapon "through peaceful diplomatic means."

Senate Loads War Funding Bill With Domestic Programs

The Associated Press:
Despite numerous veto threats, senators in both parties have loaded up President Bush's war funding bill with a grab bag of domestic programs, including work permits for immigrant farm labor and heating subsidies for the poor. The Senate war funding bill combines $194.1 billion in spending over 2008-2009 for war funding, foreign aid, military base construction, heating subsidies and a variety of smaller items. Then there's $14.5 billion to give 13 weeks of unemployment checks to people whose benefits have run out and $51.6 billion over 10 years to improve GI Bill benefits. . . . The immigrant farm labor provision added to the measure at a hearing last week by Sens Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, would allow almost 1.4 million immigrant farm workers to stay in the United States for up to five years.

40,000 Told to Prepare for Action

Sara A. Carter / The Washington Times:
The Louisiana National Guard unit that was called home in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was ordered yesterday to prepare to return to Iraq for its second tour. The members of the 256th Brigade Combat Team were not alone. Pentagon officials notified about 40,000 active-duty and National Guard soldiers yesterday that they will be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the upcoming months and years. About 25,000 active-duty troops and 14,000 National Guard members will be called to replace those returning from the region. The majority will be going to Iraq.

Bush Plays the Hitler Card

Patrick J. Buchanan / VDARE.com:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing," wrote Alexander Pope. Daily, our 43rd president testifies to Pope's point. Addressing the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth, Bush said those who say we should negotiate with Iran or Hamas are like the fools who said we should negotiate with Adolf Hitler. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement. ..." Again, Bush has made a hash of history.

We'd Go Nuts

Charley Reese / LewRockwell.com:
I wonder how we would react if 50,000 of us got killed in one whack, as apparently has happened in the China earthquake. Or, God forbid, 121,000, which is the high estimate for the number of dead in the Myanmar cyclone. Judging from our reaction to the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which claimed 3,000 lives, I suspect we would go nuts.

What Makes An Atheist Happy

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
Atheists have borrowed the moral worldview of Christianity and claim that it can be sustained by the underlying assumptions of a godless existence. Atheism is an anti-worldview that, ironically, needs Christianity to exist.

31,000 Scientists: Global Warming' Is Hoax

Bob Unruh / WorldNetDaily:
More than 31,000 scientists across the United States, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields including atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate. "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate," the petition states.

'Perspectives on the Ending of Mark: Four Views'

David Alan Black / Amazon.com:
'Amazon has just listed my latest book.' "Because it is conspicuously absent from more than one early Greek manuscript, the final section of the gospel of Mark (16:9-20) that details Christ's resurrection remains a constant source of debate among serious students of the New Testament. Perspectives on the Ending of Mark presents in counterpoint form the split opinions about this difficult passage with a goal of determining which is more likely. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary professors Maurice Robinson and David Alan Black argue for the verses’ authenticity. Keith Elliott (University of Leeds) and Daniel Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary) contend that they are not original to Mark’s gospel. Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary) responds to each view and summarizes the state of current research on the entire issue. . . . "David Alan Black is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He has published more than one hundred scholarly articles, authored or edited twenty books, and lectured abroad in Spain, Romania, and England. Black and his wife live in southern Virginia."

Christian Anarchy - Every Believer A Priest

Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:
Martin Luther translated the Bible from Latin to German and Wycliffe and Tyndale produced an English version. Gutenberg's invention of the printing press allowed the reproduction of affordable copies in large volume and the laity gained access to the Holy Writ. Wide distribution of Scripture aided the Reformation but as the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers set in and every literate Christian became a theologian, individual interpretations overcame the central Calvinistic orthodoxy and the Protestant Church morphed into hundreds of denominations with thousands of individual opinions, considerable heresy, no immutable doctrine, and no cohesion.

The Economy: Another Casualty of War

Rep. Ron Paul, MD. / Texas Straight Talk:
This week, as the American economy continued to suffer the effects of big government, the House attempted to pass two multibillion dollar "emergency" spending bills, one for continued spending on the war in Iraq , and one increasing spending on domestic and international welfare programs. The plan was to pass these two bills and then send them to the president as one package. Even though the House failed to pass the war spending bill, opponents of the war should not be fooled into believing this vote signals a long term change in policy. At the end of the day, those favoring continued military occupation of Iraq will receive every penny they are requesting and more as long as they agree to dramatically increase domestic and international welfare spending as well.

Dollar Falls Most Against Euro Since March

Bloomberg:
The dollar fell the most against the euro since March as a drop in consumer confidence and record crude oil prices raised concern U.S. economic growth will slow. The dollar's second consecutive weekly decline against the euro pared its increase from the all-time low reached last month to 2.7 percent. The Australian dollar rose to the strongest level against the greenback since 1984 as oil pushed up prices of other commodities. Mexico's peso rose to a five-year high, while the Brazilian real strengthened to the most since 1999.

The Texas Child Grab

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
Arrow Child and Family Ministries, a foster care and adoption agency with headquarters near Houston, "found out today that they will be receiving 80-100 permanent placement children," exulted the sister of an assistant to Mark A. Tennant, founder and head of the agency. "More than likely, the parental rights of their parents will eventually be terminated and they will be placed in foster homes and/or adopted out."
(Published by The Right Source)

FDLS Cases Begin Individual Hearings

Brooke Adams / The Salt Lake Tribune:
Cases for seven children from one family, five from another and at least two fathered by polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs are among those set for court Monday as the next phase begins in the largest child welfare action in United States history. In all, attorneys for at least 35 children or their parents will converge on the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, for the first day of mandatory status hearings that continue through June 4.

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Age dispute could be blow to claim of widespread abuse.
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO -- When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing that almost 60 percent of the teenage girls taken from a polygamous sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what officials have claimed (sic) all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex. But in the past week, the state has twice been forced to admit that "girls" who gave birth while in state custody are adults. One, Louisa Bradshaw Jessop, is 22, and she claims to have shown state officials a Utah birth certificate shortly after she and more than 400 minors were seized in an April raid from the West Texas ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

From Failure to Threat

Paul Craig Roberts / LewRockwell.com:
UC Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as "the torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice (sic) memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The human rights violations that John Yoo sanctioned destroyed America’s reputation and exposed the Bush Regime as more inhumane than the Muslim terrorists. The acts that Yoo justified are felonies under US law and war crimes under the Nuremberg standard.

Past Warnings Now Roosting In The Present

Joe Kress / NewsWithViews.com:
Prognostications put forth by Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, have been blocked from public view. No controlled major news outlet, radio, TV, or what is in print would dare allow the public to know what is in the JB’s publications. They are squelched, demonized for years, and now, the truthful predictions, like chickens, have come home to roost.

Lobbying for Armageddon

Sarah Posner / Israel Enews.com:
Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it's not about geopolitics -- it's about bringing about the End Times. In a perfect world, a reporter at last week's press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair would have asked Bush, in the presence of his principal European ally, if he believes the European Union is the Antichrist. Although it sounds like the kind of Pat Robertson lunacy that makes even the wingnuts run for the nearest exit, it's a question Bush should be forced to answer. Bush and other leading Republicans have lined up behind a growing movement of Christian Zionists for whom a European Antichrist figures prominently in an end-times scenario. ... At the center of it all is Pastor John Hagee, a popular televangelist who leads the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas.

Passport Cards Called Security Vulnerability

Bill Gertz / The Washington Times:
The State Department will soon begin production of an electronic passport card that security specialists and members of Congress fear will be vulnerable to alteration or counterfeiting. The agency has contracted with L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. to produce electronic-passport cards as a substitute for booklet passports for use by Americans who travel frequently by road or sea to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Obama Promises Global Warming Fascism

Agence France Presse:
Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, B. Hussein Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming. "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

McCain Falls for Global Warming Hoax

Daily Green:
In a speech Sen. John McCain framed his goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2050 through a cap-and-trade regulation as a middle path between economy-crippling laws and denial that there's even a problem. The system he envisions is hardly different from that proposed by his Democratic challengers, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The big difference is the target: The Democrats, choosing a goal established by the United Nations and legions of scientists, would aim for 80% reductions in carbon dioxide pollution by 2050.

EU Outlines Plan for New Mediterranean Club

EUobserver:
The European Commission has begun to look at the possible set-up for the planned Mediterranean union by trying to breathe life into current bilateral relations between the EU and Mediterranean countries while avoiding an unwieldy new political organisation. An internal paper discussed last week in EU commissioners' cabinets, suggests the new relationship has to be a "multilateral partnership" and "encompass all member states of the European Union."

Kline vs. Kansas

YouTube.com:
Introducing an incredible new YouTube video by Jack Cashill that lays out the battle that rages on in Kansas. Kansas is the only place that a criminal case is moving forward against Planned Parenthood and also home of notorious Late Term Abortionist, George Tiller.





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Faith and Identity

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
"You can't be open to everything, if you believe in identity, and the preservation of identity. So that if a people, or a nation, or a culture, wanted to survive there has to pass on its tradition to its children and has to marry within that tradition... All men are united by virtue of their humanity, but yet we seek to preserve our uniqueness as nations, cultures, races, and peoples." ~ Rabbi Mayer Shiller

A most interesting Rabbi lays assault on the technocratic materialistic West, and places his finger squarely on the central issues that plague our time.

We Need To Revive Election Sermons

John Lofton / The American View Radio:
Election sermons! - we need to revive this colonial tradition where Bible-believing preachers told our civil government officials what God requires of them. That's right. You heard me correctly - civil government officials - governors, legislators - once assembled and preachers told them what God, in His Word, requires of them, indeed commands them to do. This, of course, no longer happens - which is one more reason why we have Godless government.

Water May Exist Deep in Mars

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
James declares that pure religion is to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction (James 1:27), but we're spending untold billions of dollars to determine whether there might be a piece of fungus on the red planet. This is the clearest indication that we're not religiously controlled as a people. To waste money on such ventures in light of our social plights demonstrates that our priorities have long been in the wrong place.

Vatican Astronomer Believes in ET?

Paul Taylor / Answers in Genesis:
"How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere?" asked Vatican astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes. Interviewed in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, he expressed the view that there could be alien intelligences elsewhere in space. "This is not in contrast with our faith," he stated, "because we can't put limits on God’s creative freedom." Indeed, we cannot put any limits on God—but we at AiG do put limits on ourselves. We should limit ourselves to believing what God actually said He'd done, rather than choosing to tell God what He really meant to say. Funes’s musings had a clear theological flavour. "Some aliens could even be free from original sin," he opined. Such opinions fly in the face of Scripture. Isaiah 45, which refers to God's creation of the heavens and the earth, makes it clear that it was the earth that was formed to be inhabited.

God's Law: Ceremonial vs. Moral

Brandon Vallorani / American Vision:
The ceremonial laws given in the Old Testament pointed to and were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The authority of the moral law, however, has never been in question. Consider the Apostle Paul's claim to the Law in Romans 3:31, Do we then make the Law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law. (Rom. 3:31, 1599 Geneva Bible). ... Jesus did not come to abolish the Law of God (Matt. 5:17-20). In John 14:15, Jesus tells us that we show our love for Him by keeping His commandments. More importantly, Jesus specifically instructed us to teach all nations to observe whatever He has commanded (Matt. 28:18-20). And believers are told that God's standards are not burdensome and, again, that we keep His commandments out of love for Him (1 John 5:3).

US Soldier Refuses to Serve in Iraq

Agence France-Presse:
On Thursday, Matthis Chiroux refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war. "I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq," Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington. "My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation... I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation," he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.

The $10,000 House

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
You read that right. You can buy a house in Atlanta for $10,000...There are a dozen houses listed by local real estate agents that you can buy for $10,000 per home. You can buy ten times as many if you are willing to pay $20,000. How can this be? It is true that we are somewhere in the unwinding of a housing market that has suffered from mania. But this is more than unwinding. There are foreclosures. But how can prices fall this far? Aren't there any bidders at $10,000? The answer is simple: no. Are these houses abandoned? Probably. Well, abandoned by their original owners. They may not be abandoned by local entrepreneurs in the pharmaceutical trade.
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Three Peas In A Pod

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
It just does not matter one whit which major party "wins." The American people, freedom, limited government, and the U.S. Constitution lose! One would think that at some point the American people would say "That's enough" and stop drinking the Kool-Aid from these two major parties. And if there was ever a year when the time appears right for such a revolution, one would think this would be the year. Look at the three leading candidates: they are three peas in a pod. There is no substantive difference between them.

Conservative Sell-Out To McCain Begins

John Lofton / The American View:
The press release arrived by email on May 8, 2008. It was headlined: "Richard Viguerie launches UltimateJohnMcCain.com Will measure conservatives’ level of support for McCain and highlight McCain news and commentary." This release begins, not with any criticism of McCain, but with some rhetorical questions: "Will John McCain receive the enthusiastic support from conservatives that he needs to win in November? Or will conservatives give him only grudging support…or vote for someone else?"

The White House Moron

Paul Craig Roberts / VDARE.com:
On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to "the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Bill Bonner / LewRockwell.com:
Ben Bernanke, too, says the crisis is easing. But he went on to say that the situation is still "far from normal." What is far from normal, we wonder? The Dow went down 44 points yesterday, leaving stock prices about where they've been for the last 10 years…nothing abnormal about that. Consumers are still spending money, too. And since they don't really have any money to spend, they're still borrowing. A report in yesterday's news tells us that one in ten baby boomers has to borrow money just to pay everyday expenses. But here's something unusual: house prices went down in two-thirds of America's cities, according to Bloomberg. In Cleveland, half of all subprime mortgages end in foreclosure.

Schaeffer Progeny And A Afrosupremacist Pastor

Frederick Meekins / Ether Zone:
Sometimes, our closeness to an individual prevents us from seeing an individual as they truly are. Usually, this causes us to gloss over the faults of our loved ones to remember them in a light probably a bit better than they really were as love covers over a multitude of sins. However, the very opposite can also take place if something causes a relationship to become strained and if we are not careful the minor faults we all struggle with can cause us to look back upon those we were once fond of in an almost criminal light. This may be the perceptual trap Frank Schaeffer, son of the late apologist Francis Schaeffer, has fallen into when he claims his own father was worse than Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright according to a March 21, 2008 WorldNetDaily.com article titled "Francis Schaeffer's Son: 'Dad worse than Obama's pastor'."

Obama Is Not Jesus Christ

Ethan Allen / Rogue Government:
A disturbing pathology has emerged from the Obama campaign in the last few months, and only seems to be gaining strength among his followers, and that is a sincere belief that only Obama can save us from our current problems. Blind faith in leaders is nothing new, and has been a social phenomenon in politics and religion for thousands of years. However, in current times when people are more cynical about their leaders, you'd think this 'kneel and pray to the glorious leader' stuff would be left in the history books. But it would seem that Obama's supporters are so enraptured by his charisma that they'll drop to their knees and cry, or even pass out at his mere presence.

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com:
Leadership is intimidated by passion. I see it over and over. The one thing that most leaders want to avoid is a crowd of people who really believe something. It is so much easier to be in charge when the natives aren’t restless. That is especially true in our churches. Lord knows we could use a little passion in the place but “wildfire” is the last thing the pulpit wants to deal with today. May 11th, Mother’s Day, was Pentecost Sunday. It is the once-a-year celebration of the arrival of the Promise of Jesus that he would send a “Comforter” that would baptize believers in fire.

The Word of Promise

Andrea Schwartz / Chalcedon Blog:
Whether you are a homeschool mom who chauffeurs her children from co-ops to music lessons or athletic events, or a dad who has a lengthy commute back and forth to work, you probably could use that time in the car to better advantage. Just recently, I purchased a copy of The Word of Promise New Testament -- an audio Bible (NKJV) presented in dramatic audio theater.

State Funded Abomination-Youth Event

Mark Westen / LifeSiteNews.com:
The now annual Massachusetts Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Youth Parade was highlighted this year by fully sanctioned participation by a variety of school groups. Children encouraged to display homosexual acts on camera to be posted to the group's website, a gay prom at Boston City Hall and the distribution a variety of information pamphlets homosexualizing Christianity.

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Bill Kauffman / Taki's Magazine:
John Quincy Adams, whose wise counsel about America going "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy" is naturally quoted in Ron Paul's post-campaign manifesto, The Revolution, also provided what may, on some (distant, we may hope) day, be the epitaph on Representative Paul's congressional career: "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." Ron Paul votes alone and has done so for almost 10 terms now. Most men, faced with such vocational isolation, would have given in to despair or booze or golf long ago. Paul's irrepressibility is a marvel.

Southern Baptists Now In Decline

Paul Proctor / The Covenant News:
In a story from the Christian Post, Lillian Kwon reports that Southern Baptists are now a declining denomination, meaning they are no longer getting the Results and Relationships they covet. Later in the article, Kwon offered a quote from the head of LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, in response to the findings.

Child Theft, Concentration Camps

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
Even before Dan Jessop's son was born, the State had already made a proprietary claim to him because of the supposed sins of his parents. I say "sins" because as of yet, neither 24-year-old Dan Jessop, Sr., nor his 22-year-old wife Louisa, has been charged with a crime. This didn't prevent the instrument of totalitarian malice called the Texas Department of Child Protective Services from trying to seize control over both the child and his mother as soon as delivery was accomplished.
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Fla. Considers Funding Hog-Trough Faith Programs

Jacqueline L. Salmon / The Washington Post:
The potential repeal of a century-old Florida law barring state funding for religiously affiliated organizations is to be put before the voters there this fall, at the end of a lobbying battle that has attracted the attention of President Bush and has engaged a coalition of liberal or secular educational groups. The vote is widely considered the first of numerous state battles over the funding ban. It exists in 36 other states but has been targeted by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington-based law firm, and by activists in the states.

Ayers, Obama, McCain & Election 08

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:
William Ayers has once again entered the American limelight due to his well known friendship with B. Hussein Obama. Doug Wilson over at his mablog site gets all hot and bothered over Ayers standing on the US flag. Wilson splashes his testosterone all over his post as he professes that if he had been present at the photo-op he would have knocked Ayers off the US flag he was standing on....The real problem with Ayers standing on the flag is he stands on the flag for the wrong reasons.

One Man's Common Sense is another's Nonsense

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
We saw in yesterday's article "Whose Common Sense?" that the call for a Common Sense approach to apologetics is naive and counterproductive. Competing worldviews are not "willing to work inductively, from particular facts to general conclusions" unless both sides agree (maybe) on the starting point of inquiry. Of course, establishing the starting point is the fundamental problem, the very thing that is up for debate.

Dave Ramsey Should Stick to Financial Advice

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
The popular Christian financial adviser, Dave Ramsey, recommends that if parents cannot afford sending their kids to a private Christian school, they should place them in public school. After all, he did, and he claims his kids are fine. Our own Andrea Schwartz addresses the multitude of errors in Ramsey's "wisdom," and shows the more excellent way.

On Bookies and Economic Gurus

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
I monitor a chart on a website that almost no economic forecaster pays any attention to. The chart has indicated a remarkable shift toward economic optimism. It has indicated that the American economy will not fall into recession this year. This shift has taken place in the last three weeks. The problem with the chart and the site is that, by design, no explanations are ever offered. There is no theory of why the economy will or will not fall into recession. That is because the site is a gambling site. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Fascism, Corporate State's Achilles Heel

Alan Stang / NewsWithViews.com:
Last week we looked at a couple of the horrors of our fascist system. Of course there are many others. Monster corporations control that system, and they have long since proved that they will do anything they can get away with to maximize that control, even including the murders of millions around the world. Is there anything we can do to defeat concentrations of power so vast? Consider that these fascist corporations have a large, soft, vulnerable Achilles heel. Yes, they are in bed with the government – their top executives go back and forth between both sides of the bed – to such an extent that it no longer is possible to tell who is impregnating whom. But there still is a difference.

House Passes $289B Pork-Barrel Farm Bill

Philip Brasher / The Des Moines Register:
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a farm bill with a veto-proof majority, defying President Bush, who says it's too costly and does little to overhaul crop subsidies. The Senate, which immediately took up debate on the measure, is expected to approve it today before sending it to the White House. The 318-106 margin in the House was well above the two-thirds majority needed to override the president. The legislation, which is expected to cost $289 billion over five years, increases spending for farmers and food stamps for the poor, as well as special projects that lawmakers can bring home to voters this election year. Two-thirds of the spending would go to food stamps and other nutrition programs.

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Farm Bill Full of Goodies for Both Rich and Poor
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A $300 billion farm bill contains a little something for everyone, including tax breaks for Kentucky racehorse owners, extra help for farmers in Hawaii and Alaska, dollars for salmon farmers in the Pacific Northwest and more food stamps for the needy. Supporters of the bill are hoping that such goodies will bring in enough votes to send the White House a strong message when the House and Senate consider the bill's final version this week. President Bush has threatened to veto the five-year bill, saying it is too expensive and too generous to wealthy farmers. Roughly two-thirds of the five-year bill would pay for the nation's nutrition programs, including food stamps and emergency food assistance for the needy...It also would pay for about $40 billion in farm subsidies and almost $30 billion for growers to idle their land.

Inhuman Sonic BOOM

Charles E. Carlson / We Hold These Truths:
Recent disclosures of the Israeli practice of sonic bombing of the 1.3 million fenced in and captive people in the Gaza Strip may take the award for the meanest trick yet. Israel's pilots fly made in the USA F-16 Fighters low and fast, deliberately breaking the sound barrier over sleeping people. Gaza is an island of children, four or five per family. Why terror? Because most people in Gaza have seen or felt death by explosive bombing.

Whose Common Sense?

Gary DeMar / American Vision:
For some time now I have been receiving emails from a belligerent atheist. Some of his emails are so vile that to describe them in general terms would be enough to offend you. Atheists are like a tube of toothpaste. The harder you squeeze them to be consistent with their operating assumptions, the more they spill what is really contained deep in their God-hating soul. Jesus described it this way: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders” (Matt. 15:19). For all their claims that atheists can be moral without God, this particular emailer proves that the more consistent an atheist becomes with his worldview assumptions, the more ethically unhinged and irrational he becomes.

Real Estate Doom

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
There are today over 18 million empty houses in the United States today. Of these, 650,000 are in foreclosure. Under these circumstances, lenders should be aggressively negotiating to get new buyers to take over the payments. They should be dropping prices to market levels. If they don't, vandals will strip these houses of everything movable. But the foreclosure system is paralyzed. The locals have no authority to negotiate. The distant bureaucrats are insulated from reality.

Home Mortgage Hijinks

Jon Christian Ryter / NewsWithViews.com:
The home mortgage default and foreclosure figures are in for February. The Bush Administration was not anxious to release them. The figures don't look good. The home mortgage crisis has become contagious. It's spreading from the subprime home market into the prime loan market. Approximately 2.3% of the holders of prime rate mortgages were at least 60 days late. That number is up 1.4% from a year ago. It is the highest level of delinquencies from prime rate borrowers in a decade. Prime rate mortgages are given only to the "A" list of credit worthiness.

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Vincent Bugliosi / Information Clearing House:
There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied to Congress and to the American public — lies that have cost the lives of more than 4,000 young American soldiers and close to $1 trillion.

McCain Freaks Out

Phil Brennan / Ether Zone:
Senator John McCain has confirmed his dedication to the holy crusade against global warming, now known to the initiates as climate change. He's told the world that nobody is more determined than he to take steps to stop Mother Nature's alleged plan to deep fry the planet. His views on global -- oops -- climate change -- have been no secret, but his latest pledge to take strong action to stop the planet from heating up dangerously puts him squarely in the ranks of Al Gore's cohort of climate change alarmists, a group known for their fanaticism.

McCain Backer John Hagee Apologizes to Catholics

Elizabeth Holmes / The Wall Street Journal:
John Hagee, the controversial evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter of apology to Catholics today for inflammatory remarks he has made, including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf Hitler and calling it "The Great Whore." In the letter, addressed to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League and one of Hagee’s biggest critics, Hagee pledges "a greater level of compassion and respect for my Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ." Hagee met with 22 Catholic leaders in Washington on Friday to apologize for his comments, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

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Catholic League accepts Hagee apology
by Foon Rhee / Boston Globe
The Rev. John Hagee -- who in some eyes threatened to become to John McCain what the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. became to Barack Obama -- has apologized for remarks that offended many Catholics. Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement today that he accepted the apology and any dispute is over. Ever since the Texas televangelist endorsed McCain for president, the presumptive Republican nominee, has sought to distance himself from the controversial comments, arguing that just because he accepts an endorsement doesn't mean he agrees with all that person's views.

Will Hagee Now Apologize to The 'Gay' Community?

Think Progress:
Since February, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accepted the long-sought endorsement of controversial Pastor John Hagee, the two have come under criticism for Hagee's past descriptions of Catholicism as "'The Great Whore,' an 'apostate church,' the 'anti-Christ,' and a 'false cult system.'" On multiple occasions, McCain has distanced himself from Hagee's anti-Catholic comments while still maintaining that he is "glad" to have his endorsement. But anti-Catholic comments are not the only reason Hagee has sparked controversy. Just last month, he reiterated his prior claim that Hurricane Katrina was punishment to New Orleans for hosting a gay pride parade. Though he appeared to back away from the claim after McCain called it "nonsense," he re-embraced it last week on a conference call with religious supporters. Will Hagee issue a similar letter to the gay community pledging "a greater level of compassion and respect for my gay brothers and sisters in Christ?"

Huckabee: Novak's Column Is 'Absolute Nonsense'

Jake Tapper / ABC News:
Bob Novak has a column suggesting that some "U.S. Christians are not reconciled to McCain's candidacy but instead regard the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people. These militants look at former Baptist preacher Huckabee as 'God's candidate' for president in 2012. Whether they can be written off as merely a troublesome fringe group depends on Huckabee's course...

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Washington Post Confirms Instincts

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:
I've been saying for some time that even though White Marxists have won the Presidency in America a Black Marxist can't win the Presidency in America. Now, I don't want any Marxist winning the Presidency, and though I shouldn't need to say it I am happy to report I would be glad to pull a lever for a Walter Williams or a Thomas Sowell if they were running against a White Marxist. The article below confirms on some level what I have instinctively known and have been saying for quite some time, which is a Black Marxist with a Muslim name can't win the Presidency in America. I link it here because I haven’t read any place else the kind of analysis that agrees with observations that I’ve been giving for some time.

Alan Keyes

Timothy J. Harris / First Word:
At its national convention Saturday April 26 in Kansas City, the Constitution Party avoided permanent disaster by declining to nominate Alan Keyes for its Presidential candidate. Losing this was a serious blow to Keyes, who left the Republican Party a couple weeks earlier, evidently with an eye on just this prize. His bitter colloquy to supporters after the vote was taken strongly suggests his exit will be as precipitate as his entrance. Grand opening; grand closing. Now the question is whether he will keep his hint of leaving politics for good, or, like a bent nickel, will he come back into circulation again, perhaps when one is least expecting it?

Birds of A Feather

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
There is an old adage that, for the most part, has proven itself to be true: "Birds of a feather flock together." In other words, one can discern much about a person by the company he or she keeps. Accordingly, here is a sample of the quirky company of Senator John McCain. As Jerome Corsi recently reported, John McCain has long enjoyed sizeable funding from the ultraliberal gazillionaire George Soros, and from liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.

McCain, Huckabee and Some 'Evangelicals'

Robert Novak / SignOn San Diego:
John McCain, who has spent the last two months trying to consolidate right-wing support as the Republican candidate for president, has a problem of disputed dimensions with a vital component of the conservative coalition: the evangelicals. The biggest question is whether Mike Huckabee is part of the problem or the solution for McCain. An element of the Christian community is not reconciled to McCain's candidacy but instead regards the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people. These militants look at former Baptist preacher Huckabee as "God's candidate" running for president in 2012. Whether they can be written off as merely a troublesome fringe group depends on Huckabee's course.

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McCain Still Failing To Close With GOP Voters
Peter Dreier / Huffington Post
"McCain Can't Close the Deal." If the mainstream media were truly being evenhanded, that's the headline that would appear in newspapers and news magazines around the country. Why? Because even after he became the presumptive Republican presidential candidate on March 4 -- when Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Rhode Island held their primaries and Mike Huckabee dropped out -- McCain can't seem to rally GOP voters behind him. In the past two months, despite McCain's status as the designated nominee, GOP primary voters have delivered significant protest votes to Huckabee and Ron Paul (who has made few campaign appearances), as well as other candidates who ended their campaigns long ago. In states as different as Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina, McCain only attracted between 73% and 79% of primary voters -- hardly the groundswell one would expect once the field had been cleared.

Voting for Yellow Dogs, Again

Henry A. Clemens / The Covenant News:
A special note: I would like to say at the very outset that I have the highest respect and admiration for Congressman Ron Paul. In past years, I have supported him with campaign contributions. I wish him well. However, it is my hope that Congressman Paul will soon resign from the Republican Party. The Republican Party is not worthy of him. In the past, the South was once referred to as the "Solid South." It got that name because of the fact that the South, as a whole, always voted Democratic.

GOP's Presence in Washington Shrinking Fast

John F. McManus / JBS.com:
Two recent interim elections for vacant House seats should have been won by Republicans. But Democrats took both and forecasts for the fall elections expect many more GOP losses. Two months ago, the Illinois seat held for many years by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert went to a Democrat in a special election. It hadn't been in Democratic hands in decades.

The Ordinary Face of Everyday Evil

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
The unremarkable face of unspeakable evil: A Sheriff's Deputy stands ready to use whatever force may be required to compel an FLDS mother to surrender her children to the State. Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends… [I]n periods when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.
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An Evangelical Response to 'An Evangelical Manifesto'

Dr. Albert Mohler / AlbertMohler.com:
Who are the Evangelicals? The issue of Evangelical identity and definition has been central to the Evangelical project from its very beginning in America. Given the nature of the movement, definition is elusive and constantly contested. The release of "An Evangelical Manifesto" on May 7 caught the attention of the national media, and thus it represents yet another opportunity for evangelical definition. The document, released May 7, also represents a challenge, for its framers hope to redefine the movement in the context of our unsettled times. The Manifesto, released at a press conference at the National Press Club, represents an agenda. The press release offered by the organizers makes that clear.

Come On, You Call This a Manifesto?

Professor Alan Jacobs / The Wall Street Journal:
Another group of evangelicals released "An Evangelical Manifesto: The Washington Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment." Like the Lausanne Covenant, it restates much basic Christian doctrine, proclaims the need for evangelism and contains passages of penitence. ("We must reform our own behavior.") So how does this document add to, or differ from, the Lausanne Covenant? I had read much of it -- it runs to 20 pages -- before I began to understand what it's all about. If Lausanne was an international document based on international concerns, the Manifesto is a very American document, the product of an election year, and a strong reaction against a quarter-century of evangelical identification with the Republican Party. But one thing the document is not is a manifesto...The true manifesto is bold, even extreme: It leaves us in no doubt about its commitments...The Evangelical Manifesto, by contrast, is both long and insistently moderate.

The Truth About Veteran Suicides

Aaron Glantz / LewRockwell.com:
Eighteen American war veterans kill themselves every day. One thousand former soldiers receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs attempt suicide every month. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. These are statistics that most Americans don't know, because the Bush administration has refused to tell them. Since the start of the Iraq War, the government has tried to present it as a war without casualties.

The Results of Christian Activism

Bigger Government, Deficits, Wars Without End.
by Bob Strodtbeck / The Covenant News:
I have a great fascination for people who believe that because we live in America and that they claim to be Christian and that they can somehow wrap Biblical language around their decisions, actions, and attitudes, that all the indicators that foretell serious social, political, and economic disasters are suddenly going to disappear like a bad dream. Or else we're just going to be raptured and the tribulation will proceed without us. To whit, might I borrow from a great guru from the athletic world, Lee Corso, by intoning, "Not so fast!!!"

All in the Family

Chris Ortiz / Chalcedon Blog:
Here's just a foretaste of what's soon to come in the great theocratic conspiracy. Secular journalist, Jeff Sharlet, is soon to release his book (The Family) on the secretive Washington-based group, The Fellowship. Doug Coe, longtime leader of The Fellowship, apparently had no communications director, because Coe often cited history's most infamous leaders as models for power and cultivating commitment. This has brought the religious political group significant criticism. Sharlet had spent some time with the group and actually "lived" to tell about it.

The Constitution Protects Us from Them

Jacob G. Hornberger / The Future of Freedom Foundation:
The Framers understood the most important point about the nature of government: It constitutes the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the citizenry. Unfortunately, it is a point that has been lost among many modern-day Americans, who have come to view government as their friend, protector, provider, and savior. If the Framers had viewed government the way that many modern-day Americans do, why would it have been necessary to limit the powers of the president, the Congress, and the judiciary to those specifically enumerated in the Constitution?

WWJD? What Would Jefferson Do?

Roderick T. Beaman / Ether Zone:
In The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "...Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed..." The American War for Independence had just begun a little more 14 1/2 months before he wrote that. That excerpt is telling and each word and phrase should be contemplated. It's obvious that Jefferson wants the reader to know that the action of that Congress was not a rash one, arrived at in the heat of the moment. No, the colonies had endured a host of abuses and could endure them no longer. Jefferson also, tellingly, observes that people tend to bear the indignities that are heaped upon them. It is an observation of human behavior that rings true today from that great hall in Philadelphia down our history to us today. It is obvious that the abuses of our American government and our state capitals far outstrip any were being heaped upon us by King George III.

The Jeffersonians Were Right After All

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. / LewRockwell.com:
To the casual eye, Kevin Gutzman has written a scholarly book about Virginian political thought and practice from revolutionary times through 1840. But its scholarly merits do not exhaust the merits of Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840. Readers are also treated to the incidental pleasure of watching the Straussian rendering of American history dismantled piece by piece.

How Military Analysts Control News Coverage

Glenn Greenwald / Salon.com:
On the question of whether the Pentagon maintained an illegal covert domestic propaganda program -- and on the broader question of whether the American media's political coverage is largely shaped and controlled by the U.S. Government -- I don't believe it's possible to obtain more conclusive evidence than this: These are excepts from a memorandum sent on January 14, 2005 -- just before President Bush was to be inaugurated for his second term -- from Capt. Roxie T. Merritt, the Director of DoD Press Operations, to several top Pentagon officials, including Larry Di Rita, the top aide to Donald Rumsfeld (pp. 7815-7816 (.pdf)). It reports on Merritt's conclusions and proposals in the wake of a Pentagon-organized trip to Iraq for their military analysts.

Guns In National Parks: Let's Make It Permanent

Gun Owners of America:
The Bush administration, after more than seven years, has finally issued regulations permitting the carrying of firearms in national parks. Gun owners will soon be able to carry firearms according to the laws of the state in which the park is located. While not perfect, the proposed regulations, which are likely to take effect at the end of June 2008, represent a sharp contrast with the steadfast refusal to allow for self-defense in national parks.

The Amtrak Security Scam

J. H. Huebert / LewRockwell.com:
Amtrak's draconian new security measures. These reflect a drastic change from Amtrak's heretofore easygoing policies that allowed you to pretty much just show up and board - no searches, no wandings, no pat-downs. Whatever one might say about Amtrak otherwise, this was its great advantage over air travel in the months and years following September 11, 2001. Now, though, Amtrak is sending police to perform random screenings of passengers' carry-on bags. It's also deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and police armed with automatic weapons to patrol trains and platforms.

Hate Crimes Charges Against Teen

Rev. Ted Pike / Uncle Raisin:
The State of Illinois has indicted 18-year-old Brett Van Asdlen for the "hate crime" of pushing a homosexual, Steven Velasquez, backward to the ground, allegedly causing trauma. Under Illinois enhanced hate crimes penalties, Brett is charged with a Class 4 felony, punishable by up to three years in prison.

Bush's Sodomite Enablers Attack Special Counsel

Carrie Johnson and Christopher Lee / The Washington Post:
Nearly two dozen federal agents fanned out in the agency's building on M Street, where they sequestered Office of Special Counsel chief Scott J. Bloch for questioning, served grand-jury subpoenas on 17 employees and shut down access to computer networks in a search lasting more than five hours. Bloch, who was nominated to his post by President Bush in 2003, is the principal official responsible for protecting federal employees from reprisals for complaints about waste and fraud. He also polices violations of Hatch Act prohibitions on political activities in federal offices.

A Kansas lawyer who previously worked at the Justice Department's Task Force on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Bloch repeatedly clashed with his own workforce and with other Bush administration officials he targeted for improper behavior. By his own account, the White House twice asked him to resign.

Since Bloch's confirmation 4 1/2 years ago, he has been fighting calls for his ouster by independent watchdog groups. He drew fire quickly for removing from the OSC Web site references to the agency's authority to hear complaints by federal employees who alleged discrimination based on their sexual orientation, said Debra S. Katz, a lawyer representing OSC whistle-blowers.

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Bloch, the man responsible for protecting whistleblowers and investigating complaints of discrimination by federal workers, has for more than five years refused to take on complaints of discrimination based on sexuality. Bloch's stonewalling complaints of discrimination by LGBT federal workers dates to February 2004 when he ordered references to sexual orientation removed from the Office of the Special Counsel website. Since 1998, when President Bill Clinton issued an executive order prohibiting bias in the civil service, the OSC has taken that to include sexuality.

What, Exactly, Is President Bush's Religion?

John Lofton / The American View Radio:
This program is a respectful, in-depth, well-documented look at many of the things Mr. Bush has said and done as President, things said and done which are viewed from the perspective of the Bible, God's Word.

Redestined to Be a 4-Point Missionist

David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:
I've begun to notice how repetitious my public speaking has become. Ethiopia or some other faraway mission field I have visited always seems to creep into the conversation, regardless of the topic at hand. I've asked myself why. Here's the best answer I can come up with. The meaning of Christianity is ministry and mission, disciple-making at home and in actual "missionary" lands. This to me has become a settled conviction. But it was only after I began my personal studies of the Scriptures, not merely on an academic level but on a more devotional level – I dislike the term, but it must suffice – that I was "redestined," as one might say, to become a 4-point missionist, that is, a world Christian. (The number "4" refers to the points of the compass: north, south, east, and west.)

Florida Revival Attracts National Attention

Michelle Bearden and Billy Townsend / Dothan Eagle:
Whether healing in a medical sense is delivered here may be hard to measure, but more people each night are finding reason to believe and pouring into the 7,000-seat arena. The Lakeland movement, still in its first month, is drawing comparisons to the "Toronto Blessing" in 1994 and the Pensacola Brownsville Revival that fired up the next year.

Bentley's Lakeland Revival Keeps Moving Spirits, Closing Date
Michelle Bearden & Billy Townsend / The Tampa Tribune:
LAKELAND -- Cassandra Serine and her two teenage children already were planning to leave Thomasville, Ga. They say they wanted more from their lives and their church there. They found it on God TV, live from Lakeland. Eight days ago, the Serines joined the inflow of pilgrims drawn by coverage of what organizers are calling the "Florida Outpouring," evangelist Todd Bentley's monthlong healing revival. Since then, they've slept each night in a tent in a Lakeland-area campground. They spend the rest of their days moving between Lakeland's Ignited Church, where the revival started in early April, and the larger local venues where it's playing now.

Lakeland Revival Miracle Healings Continue
CBN.com:
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Since April 2, what appears to be a powerful move of God is shaking Lakeland, Fla. And maybe the most interesting thing about what's happening in Lakeland is that it isn't just happening here, but all over the earth simultaneously. Revivalist Todd Bentley, 32, of Canada has been the leading figure when it comes to the thousands of healings. "We're in 214 nations a night. Potential audience of 400 million. And 10 hours a day we're literally around the world, people are seeing what's happening here in Florida," Bentley said.

The Law As Standard

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:

"This I say then, walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh." - Galatians 5:16

"We ought to mark the word fulfill; by which he means, that, though the sons of God, so long as they groan under the burden of flesh, are liable to commit sin, they are not its subjects or slaves, but make habitual opposition to its power."

John Calvin
Commentary On The Epistle To The Galatians – pg.162

It is imperative to note that the Apostle writes this letter to a group of Christians. It is Christians who must be warned to not fulfill the 'lust of the flesh.' This reminds us that our eschatology must always retain a flavor of the 'not yet' about it. It is true that we are not what we once were but it also remains true that this necessity of contending against the lust of the flesh reminds us that we are not yet what we will one day be. While here, we have only entered heaven's vestibule and so must continue to seek to press in to the inner sanctum.

God's Law: The Standard Yesterday, Today, Forever

Brandon Vallorani / American Vision:
There's great confusion and even debate in Christian circles today as to the role of God’s Law in our personal lives and in society as a whole. Is God's Law the standard for everyone or just for Christians? Should Christians seek to make civil laws conform to God's Law? Some Christians, known as antinomians, ignore God's Law altogether. Antinomianism, meaning anti-Law, is a dangerous doctrine that Christians are exempt from the obligations of God's Law. Some Christians hold antinomian views because they believe that seeking to obey God's Law is legalism or salvation by works.

A Review of 'Blasphemy'

Lee Duigon / The Chalcedon Foundation:
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence by Alan Dershowitz (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007). First let's see who's really guilty of blasphemy. Quoting Thomas Paine, Dershowitz frequently calls the Bible "a pious fraud" (p. 22), belief in an afterlife "false" (p. 33), and Jesus Christ "the first Reform rabbi" (p. 35) and "a great moral teacher" (p. 58), but nothing more than that—failing to explain how anyone can be a great moral teacher while telling lies about himself being the Son of God. He lauds Thomas Jefferson for not believing in "the virgin birth or any of the other alleged miracles surrounding the birth of the very human Jesus" (p. 73).

Allow Intelligence!

James Perloff / The New American:
Traditionally minded Americans don't often cheer Hollywood products. We gladly report an exception: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (rated PG). Charles Darwin's theory of evolution transformed Western culture. The Bible taught that life forms are creations of God, with man the centerpiece, made in God’s image. Darwin introduced a new doctrine: random interactions of chemicals had created life, and man was just an animal, evolved from lower life forms through survival of the fittest. Sold to the public as scientific fact, "Social Darwinism," with its view of man as beast, helped spawn unprecedented cruelties under communism and Naziism.

Strictly Personal

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Since I just celebrated my 56th birthday (on May 3), it is time for my annual "Strictly Personal" column. I think it only fair that readers should have an opportunity to learn a little something about the person who writes the words they read. Today's column is designed with that goal in mind.

Chuck Baldwin Acceptance Speech
Constitution Party 2008 Presidential Candidate
Delegates to the 2008 Constitution Party National Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri April 23-26 voted to elect Dr. Chuck Baldwin to serve as its 2008 Presidential candidate. Listen to his acceptance speech. Spread the word by emailing the address to this page far and wide.

Chuck Baldwin Site Goes Live!

Baldwin2008.com:
"It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it."

Report Pushes Passage of Thought Crimes Bill

Lee Rogers / RogueGovernment.com:
The Internet is now becoming a new front in the phony terror war. Legislation like the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 that is in the forms of HR 1955 and S 1959 which seek to give the government powers to define thoughts and belief systems as homegrown terrorism, is on the brink of being pushed down our throats. HR 1955 was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 404-6 and now it appears as if the U.S. Senate is attempting to justify its future passage.

The Republican Dictatorship

Glenn Greenwald / LewRockwell.com:
Ever since Ronald Reagan famously declared in his 1980 inaugural address that "government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem," Republicans have masqueraded as the party of limited government. Its leaders reflexively pledge to keep government off the backs of regular, hardworking Americans. Homage is paid to the wisdom and insight of the American people, which, Republicans endlessly insist, is far superior to the judgment of government officials.

Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Fuel, Big Fascism

Alan Stang / NewsWithViews.com:
What form of government are we supposed to have? The Founders of this country bequeathed us a system we used to call Free Enterprise, in which the government was supposed to leave business alone. Because of that system, endorsed by scripture, we became the greatest nation known to history. Now, what kind of system do we actually have today? Because the original system has been perverted – first by ordinary criminals, then by the conspiracy for world government – the system we have now, the perversion, began as "mercantilism" and today is best described as Fascism.

Will Independent Truckers Survive?

Isabel Lyman / The New American:
Think you've got it tough? Spending up to $80 bucks to fill your tank with gasoline? Consider my husband's numbers. Last May it cost Wid $800 to fill up his big rig with 300 gallons of diesel fuel. Today it costs him $1,200 -- that's over $4 per gallon for an 18-wheeler that gets 7 miles to the gallon. Ouch.

McCain's Pastor Problem: The Video

David Corn / Mother Jones:
During a 2005 sermon, a "fundamentalist pastor" whom Senator John McCain has praised and campaigned with called Islam "the greatest religious enemy of our civilization and the world," claiming that the historic mission of America is to see "this false religion destroyed." In this taped sermon, currently sold by his megachurch, the Reverend Rod Parsley reiterates and amplifies harsh and derogatory comments about Islam he made in his book, Silent No More, published the same year he delivered these remarks. Meanwhile, McCain has stuck to his stance of not criticizing Parsley, an important political ally in a crucial swing state.

'But He's No Mike Huckabee'

Isabel (Izzy) Lyman / USA Daily.com:
At its nominating convention in Missouri, the Constitution Party selected Dr. Chuck Baldwin as the party's 2008 presidential candidate (384 votes) over bombastic orator and former Reagan administration appointee Dr. Alan Keyes (126 votes). Eight candidates were vying for the top-of-the-ticket spot. Shortly after his landslide victory, Baldwin told me that he is "thrilled and honored" to receive the nomination and praised Keyes as "articulate and intelligent." The 56-year-old Baldwin of Pensacola, Florida, is a Baptist preacher, but he's no Mike Huckabee. Baldwin is the antithesis of a glib showman. He's forthright and humble in manner; think Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Baldwin won't be wooing the Religious Right, either, by playing the Christian card. The pastor, a prolific writer (ChuckBaldwinLive.com features his columns.), often criticizes the sycophantic tendencies of his church-going brethren who have habitually supported Wall Street-enabling, wire-tapping, debt-enlarging Republican administrations.

Illegals From 'Special Interest Countries'

Michael Cutler / NewsWithViews.com:
Two news articles recently appeared in their respective newspapers. Both articles deal with the same news story but the difference in the way that the stories were written is significant. The first article makes it clear that the aliens who attempted to procure driver's licenses through fraud were from so-called "special interest countries," that is to say, countries that are linked to terrorism. The second article describes these aliens as coming from "New Jersey!"

An American Gulag

William N. Grigg / Pro Libertate:
Sixty years ago a young American named Alexander Dolgun was accosted on the streets of Moscow by a couple of affable fellows working for the Soviet secret police (known at the time as the MGB). Assuming he was the victim of mistaken identity or some innocent bureaucratic bungle, Dolgun -- who worked as a file clerk at the U.S. Embassy -- offered neither resistance nor objection when he was taken to the Lubyanka Square headquarters of the secret police.
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