Recently Allen West has attracted a strong and loyal following. He has the courage to speak the truth and stand against the prevailing political winds. Many of you are already fans of what may be a modern day Patrick Henry. He has been so effective at stirring up the populace that the powers that be in the Florida Republican Party are working at redistricting him out of his seat in congress so he would no longer be the standard by which they are judged.
Using Lt. Col. West as the standard for judging congress is not really a bad idea, yet there are few who would benefit by the comparison. So for those of you know about the man already… enjoy. For those who are not familiar with him… enjoy!
A while back a Facebook friend made the comment that she was just so frustrated with the war in Afghanistan and thought we should just nuke the whole mountainous area. Someone else commented that here solution was not “socially acceptable”. Now I’m not going to get into the virtue of using nuclear weapons to root out Taliban, or any jihadists in the area, but I do want to look at the reason for rejecting the idea. We all want to be accepted socially… which is another way of saying that we have developed an, often overwhelming acquiescence to peer pressure.
However, when we see that killing unborn babies is socially acceptable and prayer is not… when we see that it is acceptable to our country’s ivory tower elites for people to sneak into our country and take jobs from out of work Americans and inflate our welfare rolls, while those trying to protect our country and culture are condemned as narrow minded racists… one wonders why anyone with any principles would concern themselves with being “socially acceptable”, or “politically correct” as it is known in academic and media circles.
This striving for social acceptance has even infected many churches as they attempt to appeal to those in the outside world. Some have removed cross from their buildings, adopted secular appearing logos and… worst of all, toned down the gospel of truth and grace so as not to offend the outside world.
Pope Benedict XVI recently told US Bishops, “The present moment can thus be seen, in positive terms, as a summons to exercise the prophetic dimension of your episcopal ministry by speaking out, humbly yet insistently, in defense of moral truth, and offering a word of hope, capable of opening hearts and minds to the truth that sets us free.”
On another occasion, he said, “No one who looks realistically at our world today could think that Christians can afford to go on with business as usual, ignoring the profound crisis of faith which has overtaken our society, or simply trusting that the patrimony of values handed down by the Christian centuries will continue to inspire and shape the future of our society,”
He was correct on both counts. His truth does not only apply to the business in the Catholic church. It applies to the Christian church as a whole. An entire industry made up of lawyers and bureaucrats is dedicated to pushing Christians in to background of irrelevance. In an attempt to be cooperative and non-confrontational, so many good men have backed away from from the role assigned to us in Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.” (NIV)
It’s almost impossible to give Barack Hussein Obama the benefit of the doubt these days, even if one were inclined to do so at the start of his reign. Our betters tell us we should cut him some slack and give him a chance. The good intentions of looking for the best in the President have only compounded our problems – not solved them! We’ve seen him change the federal policy to use our tax money to pay for overseas abortions when most people don’t even want them at home. We see more money just thrown at programs of little use, some with negative impact, to most of us and now… and now we are told that the faith based organizations are doing wonderful work, BUT now the new administration is looking at telling these organizations that they can continue to contribute their time and efforts, but they need to discontinue the very aspects of their work that makes them unique and effective.
On one hand, this idea of forcing any organization taking federal funds to hire anyone regardless of compatibility with the charities beliefs and values could be looked at as just another waste of government (read taxpayer) money or an attempt to diminish their ability to spread the Christian values. Beyond hiring even, several womens’ centers have had their funding withheld for the crime of including the wisdom of the Bible in their program The thing they don’t comprehend about these rules is that it is these distinctions and people that define many faith based ministries and that make them effective. Or, perhaps they do. It shows a lack of understanding or concern that it is the faith element that keeps prisoners from returning to prison and lets welfare mothers pull their families and their lives together.
The time may be ripe being that Chief Justice Roberts clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, and this Rehnquist DISSENT in Bigelow v. Virginia case (heard 18 December a.d. 1974, decision 15 June a.d. 1975) involves the state protecting its Citizens from adverse health “services” available in another state. Rehnquist wrote:
The result is the fashioning of a doctrine which appears designed to obtain reversal of this judgment,
Remember that in the movie “Amazing Grace” after years of failure at the “direct approach” of outlawing Slavery in the British Empire, as suggested by a young man NOT involved in the years of unsuccessful legislative efforts, Wilberforce obtained an inroad against Slave Traders by a “flanking attack”, passing a law that Slave Ships had to meed certain health and safety requirements.
Sunday morning as I sat in church listening to the choir singing about our unchanging God, it occurred to me why even those who say they are open to any and every new idea are so closed minded when it comes to the Christian influence on society. We live in a world where attempts to rewrite our history run rampant on almost every college campus. We have judges deciding cases based on their “new and improved” ideas rather than on the Constitution that is to be the basis of our justice and government. Traditional values are not only disregarded, they are openly scorned by the elites in media and government.
Refugees from the sixties protests have taken shelter in the academic world where they have done their best to complete the job they began fifty some years ago. In that time our real heroes have been rendered irrelevant and leaders of the their attempted revolution have been revered. The morality of the day is, in reality, no morality at all as their actions are guided not so much by doing that which feels good, as they tell us, but to show that they are free from old fashioned restraints that have been honored for centuries.
In their efforts to demonstrate their rejection of Christianity, many modern day “free thinkers” have embraced most everything else. They have even gone so far as to praise the introduction of Islam and it’s sharia law as being a welcome addition to our society. If they really looked into what they were supporting, the homosexuals among them would be unhappy with their fate in Muslim societies. Being thrown from high building tends to shorten one’s life expectancy. Those addicted to alcohol, drugs or sex, would likewise find themselves in a sad situation with these newcomers in control.
[Revisionist historians would have us believe that our founders were irreligious or, at best deists, who did not believe in a personal God involved in every area of our lives. Instead taking the word of ivory tower academics, let's look at the words of one our most courageous founders.]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His EXCELLENCY
John Hancock, Esq.
GOVERNOR of the COMMONWEALTH
of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMATION,
For a Day of Public Thanksgiving.
In consideration of the many undeserved Blessings conferred upon us by GOD, the Father of all Mercies; it becomes us no only in our private and usual devotion, to express our obligations to Him, as well as our dependence upon Him; but also specially to set a part a Day to be employed for this great and important Purpose:
I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and by the advice and consent of the Council, do hereby accordingly appoint, THURSDAY, the seventeenth of November next, to be observed as a Day of Public THANKSGIVING and PRAISE, throughout this Commonwealth:—Hereby calling upon Ministers and People of every denomination, to assemble on the said Day—and in the name of the Great Mediator, devoutly and sincerely offer to Almighty God, the gratitude of our Hearts, for all his goodness towards us; more especially in that HE has been pleased to continue to us so a great a measure of Health—to cause the Earth plentifully to yield her increase, so that we are supplied with the Necessaries, and the Comforts of Life—to prosper our Merchandise and Fishery—And above all, not only to continue to us the enjoyment of our civil Rights and Liberties; but the great and most important Blessing, the Gospel of Jesus Christ:
No one takes on a public policy stance without some firmly held belief, some foundational principle or worldview which they embrace, and from which they reason.
What has been happening in our society for decades is a titanic battle between two powerful, competing worldviews.
Unfortunately, one of those worldviews has had the advantage of pretending to be a ‘reasonable’ belief that is ‘free from religion,’ and which has gained access to your tax dollars. We have been financing a takeover by a Christianity-replacing faith. The new PC faith, the belief system of true-believing liberals, is actually a thoroughly developed, reasonable-sounding worldview. It is self-identified as a “Bold new faith” which must be “Established” in “All mankind’s institutions and associations,” in Humanist Manifesto I.
And in Manifesto II we find the ultimate goal: “World Community TWELFTH: We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds. We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move toward the building of a world community in which all sectors of the human family can participate. Thus we look to the development of a system of world law and a world order based upon transnational federal government. This would appreciate cultural pluralism and diversity.”
There are many things going wrong in our wonderful country today, and there have been many solutions proposed. Most are well intentioned and most that show some common sense would work fine to fix the specific problem. However each is akin to putting a band aid on a broken leg. We are being hit with too many different attacks from too many different angles to be content with repairing our country piecemeal. It’s like the Cloward-Piven plan to overwhelm the system.
The father of our country, George Washington, understood “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His mercy, to implore His protection and favor… That great and beneficent author of all good that was, that is, or ever shall be, that we may then unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people.” He was not alone.
I can just hear the “fiscal conservatives” scream bloody murder almost as loudly as the atheist progressives now running the country and our lives. Many think all we have to do get our financial situation in order and things will be just fine. It is, unfortunately, not too surprising with the way the educational system has become a materialistic indoctrination operation and our courts have done their best to remove understanding of the Christian bent of most of our founders from the public knowledge. They believe this does no harm. They actually believe there is a real benefit to removing religion, especially Christianity from the public sphere. Then, they also think we can fix the problems ourselves… or really, themselves. Read more of this article »
A lot of readers may take offense at this question about their sincerity in wanting to stop the slaughter of innocent babies. How could this be? You vote for the candidates who promise to put an end to the grizzly practice. If you are like most, you even pray about it from time to time. If you are really unusual, you may have picketed a facility once or twice.
As Dr. Phil would ask, “How’s that working out for you?” The last I checked, young lives are still being destroyed, and members of the medical profession, those who have sworn to do no harm, are making a nice living doing it. Obviously this approach has not gotten the job done.
For those who have carried the battle to the enemy consistently over the years, congratulations, but as you are painfully aware, the job is not done. You’ve seen people get excited about the struggle and join in for a few days to a few weeks, but then they disappear like the morning mist… and the job is not done. Read more of this article »
So… we all know things are falling apart all around us. Many of us find it easy to blame Barack Hussein Obama, Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, Van Jones and the rest of the unholy alliance trying to run our lives. Of course this black hearted gang would be more than happy to place the blame on George Bush. This excuse, in addition to just being tiresome, is simply not true.
We are a country that has been blessed in an unprecedented manner over the years. From the miraculous protection of the retreating colonials at Brooklyn Heights, to the economic prosperity that brought the United States to a position of world leadership, to surviving two worldwide conflicts with our continental home unscared by the wars’ destruction, we have seen the divine guidance and protection that far exceeded any honest persons concept of coincidence.
All this time, there was a Christian consensus. We, as a people, were honoring our Creator and He was watching over us. We sing “God Bless America” and hope He will continue to keep his protective and guiding hand on our country. However we now find many in our country, our government and our academic institutions that believe they have a better idea. Read more of this article »
Sometimes I have to wonder if the usually wrong, Arianna Huffington was right that our two party system has given us a pro-abortion corporate party and an anti-abortion corporate party. Over recent years it seems the similarities extend far beyond the concern for corporate welfare. It seems that for all the partisan rhetoric each side produces, the net results of their efforts is remarkably similar. For the partisans who believe their favorite political organization can do no wrong… read on, I shall explain.
For those whose memories extend back as far as the 2008 presidential campaign, you may recall how adamant Barack Obama was about closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. His followers hung on his every word, swooning occasionally for good measure. They thought the goal of world peace was at hand as their messiah would lead our enemies, which they didn’t really admit were our enemies, to beat there swords into plowshares. The reality is that he continued the war, even taking credit for the demise of Usama bin Laden. Our soldiers continued to die, and now, we are hearing reports of military involvement in Libya. The more pragmatic of his followers are amazingly silent while the true believers are hopping mad. And to put icing on the cake, Guantanamo Bay is still opened!
On the other side of the aisle, most Republicans talk a good fiscal conservatism game, yet, when push comes to shove, so many are entrenched in their own world of earmarks and pet government programs that economizing efforts are tepid at best. Many of their number have been infected with beltway fever to the point where they don’t even point out the madness exemplified by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recent pronouncements that it may become necessary to reduce military pay… while we are borrowing and sending billions to countries that don’t even like us and our tax dollars pay for gay film festivals in eastern European counties and support research that puts crabs on treadmills. Read more of this article »
This past weekend I went back to my old home town in Upper Bucks County, PA. On the way back from my old church – a good evangelical church – I passed St. Isidore’s Roman Catholic Church. My primary recollection of it from my younger days was weekend dances at their old location for area teenagers. This time, however, something other than their beautiful building caught my eye. Close to a hundred white crosses dotted the front lawn along with several signs explaining that each one represented thousands of innocent children who lost their chance at life to a greedy abortionist. Their wording was a little more euphemistic, but carried the same message.
This got me to thinking. Why is it evangelical churches who say they take the Bible seriously and literally are seldom heard from on this issue? Is it not part of being salt and light in this troubled world to stand up for these weakest ones who cannot speak for themselves? Is it not part of being salt and light to stand for good and against evil?
I understand that most churches that would classify themselves as evangelical would claim to be against abortion. But for all our numbers, we allow our Catholic brothers to carry on the fight virtually all alone. Sure our understanding of our relationship to our Creator is somewhat different, but our understanding on the issue of killing babies comes from the same scriptures to the same conclusion. Read more of this article »
Most of country was shocked and saddened by the death and destruction tornadoes brought to Alabama, Mississippi and even my home state of Virginia. I say most, because there are reports that the leftist blogosphere is abuzz with joy that those killed deserved it because they were Republicans. There may be reasons that go far deeper than that.
I am waiting for the usual reports that the violent weather patterns are the result of “global warming”… even the fault of the hated George Bush. Again, it may well go far deeper than that.
It may be that our Creator is trying to get our attention for all the abominations we have been permitting and even encouraging in our land. We, as a nation, seem to have been doing all we could to tell our Creator that we are just going our own way.
Why then, one would ask, would the poor southerners be bearing the brunt of God’s wrath? Would one not expect Washington or Los Angeles be a more appropriate target? To your thinking, and my thinking, that would seem to be a logical choice. However, we are told that His ways are above our ways. His logic is greater than our logic. Read more of this article »
During the first American Revolution, many of the unsung heroes were men of the cloth who would preach about salvation for mens souls and the relationship of the same men to each other and the world around them. They spoke of the revelation of God to the world beyond scriptures in the nature of creation itself, and along with it, the concept of natural law which recognized the worth of each individual… and the rights, natural rights, that came along with this unique position.
Ignored by many historians, blinded by the “separation of church and state” mantra, was the role Jonas Clark played in Lexington MA on April 19, 1775 when British troops marched into town looking for Samuel Adams and John Hancock. He had been working with the men of his congregation, preparing them for the time when it would be necessary for them to defend their homes and families. His followers were among the first on the scene to stand their ground against their masters from across the sea.
John Peter Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor in Woodstock VA, upon hearing of the fighting in the northern colonies, preached a sermon on Ecclesiastes 3, then removed his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of general in the Continental Army. He then went on distinguish himself in numerous battles to rid the new land of foreign oppression and control. Read more of this article »
President Obama says he wants to find common ground with the GOP as they look for a way to solve the budget impasse. He has this fantasy that there is a common ground between his spendthrift policies and the teaparty inspired push for fiscal restraint and respect for the taxpayers. The sad fact is that some of the old timers in the Republican Party also believe this is possible.
One has to consider if there is really a common ground between wisdom and foolishness… sanity and insanity… right and wrong that is not foolish, insane or wrong in itself. In the quest to be seen as reasonable, many of our congressmen and senators who give really great campaign speeches, act like compromise is the way to get things done. Unfortunately, it is… but not what the people need.
If something is wrong, like spending money we don’t have, and charging it to to generations not yet born, putting us in debt to people who don’t like us and giving it to, among others, people who have sneaked into our country illegally… then what justification is there for a compromise of any kind? If giving a hundred million dollars to Planned Parenthood to facilitate the killing of babies is wrong… is not giving them fifty million dollars wrong as well. Read more of this article »
“This is a saaad day for the women of Virginia” was the sound bite that was played and replayed on radio and television stations around the Commonwealth of Virginia on the day that the General Assembly voted to require abortion clinics to adhere to much the same standards as hospitals. Forget the fact that women have died because facilities were not adequate to handle the emergencies of an abortion gone wrong… that was a small price to pay for the convenience of easily killing one’s offspring.
In some ways, it is kind of useless trying to make such places safer, since, by definition half the people who come onto the premises die before they leave. Yet, it is a step in the right direction. How, one would ask, is making abortions safer a step in the right direction. The pro-death crowd understood immediately – mourning the fact that the new regulations would cause more than half the of Virginia’s clinics to close their doors.
This may be the first time that the progressive left recognized the reality that heavy regulations close business and increase unemployment. We can hope that the lesson, that put the squeeze on one of their sacred cows, will carry over to other areas of government action. We can also hope that they care about business and workers who are not about perpetuating this American holocaust. Read more of this article »
[The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill that requires abortion clinics to meet the same standards as hospitals. It will never make them safe for babies, but it is moving in the right direction.]
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s Statement on Passage of Abortion Clinic Safety Bill, SB924
Today, a long, hard-fought battle for women’s health and dignity has finally been won in the State Senate.
Just this afternoon, the Democrat controlled Virginia State Senate passed a bill which will require abortion clinics to meet hospital-style safety standards. This will mean that any abortion clinic which performs more than 5 abortions in a month will need to meet safety standards comparable to any other clinic which performs out-patient procedures.
For over 25 years, Virginia abortion clinics have not been held to minimal health and safety standards. As a result, women who walk into these clinics are often not treated with the care and respect that any human being deserves.
January was Santity of Life Month. The folks from the ManhattanDeclaration.org decided to hold a video contest to encourage people to get the word out about the abomination of abortion. They received a variety of entries… some really hit the nail on the head and got the eye-popping message across.
Below are a few of the entries that approach the subject from a variety of viewpoints. All are worth viewing.
My first experience with George Allen came a few years after I escaped from Sopranoland and arrived in the Old Dominion. He was a one term congressman who had just been redistricted out of his seat by the partisan Democrat machine that ruled the commonwealth with an iron fist in those dark, dreary days. He was a young and hungry politician eager to press the flesh and meet the people.
He was running for governor in the early days of 1993 eagerly seeking people to join his “A-Team” as he ran on a “Jeffersonian conservative” platform that included keeping bad actors off the streets longer through the abolition of parole and a generally more efficient government in Richmond. My teenage daughter spent time working at his campaign headquarters and was thrilled when he came around and chatted with those volunteering their time on his behalf.
Much to the chagrin of the entrenched Democrat establishment, Allen won and took up residency in the Governor’s Mansion. He kept his promise to restore truth in sentencing and end the practice of paroling violent criminals long before their time was served. He even went further and made the Department of Motor Vehicles a functioning part of Virginia government. Many other accomplishments marked his time in office, which was ended by term limits, and the citizens were indeed better off for George Allen having served. Read more of this article »
Newspapers, along with TV anchors and infobabes love to tell stories of dissension within the ranks of the Republican Party. They enjoy pouring fuel on any kind of sparks, trying to fan them into a blaze that negates the effectiveness of any politician not pushing progressive Democrat values. The problem is that there is some basis for the stories about factions within the Grand Old Party.
To those on the outside, the differences may appear to be simple personality conflicts or random loyalty fights. The fact is it goes much deeper than that. There are really two distinct groups within the party. When things are going well, it’s hard to tell one from the other. However the recent electoral victories by tea party candidates have deepened these differences and peeled back the veneer of smiling faces.
The first type is the structural Republican. With these, it is a tradition and they may have been in the party all their lives. They feel a kind of proprietary interest in it. They would vote for anyone as long as they have an R by their name on the ballot and will continue to support them no matter how far they stray from party orthodoxy. Because of their party orientation, these are usually the people who show up at party functions and usually run for party offices.
Washington, DC – In a recently released video, Planned Parenthood has been caught offering assistance to a man posing as a child sex trafficker in New Jersey. An office manager is caught in a private meeting with this man as he makes the nature of his business clear and details that his “clients” (victims) are either minors or illegally present in the United States.
The footage captures on camera the sinister side of Planned Parenthood, as an office manager laughs and jokes with the pimp and gives tips on how to make his business appear more “ligit.” Planned Parenthood has long contended that its purpose of existence is to protect the health and well-being of women, yet this Planned Parenthood official never reported the existence of an acknowledged child sex trafficking operation to police. Obviously, if this trafficking ring were to have been real, Planned Parenthood would have made money from aborting the babies that came as a consequence of the ring’s activities, thus directly taking advantage of these victims. Live Action is well noted as having done these kinds of undercover operations before, often exposing the horrors of abortion clinics around the country. Read more of this article »
Washington, DC – As hundreds of thousands of citizens and volunteers gather in DC to protest the preborn killing of American children, President Obama greeted their arrival with a public statement recommitting to continue abortion. As estimates suggest that last November, America exceeded 53 million people who were not allowed to continue living because of Roe v. Wade, this anniversary should be hallowed in their memory, not rededicated to additional killing of innocent children.
Obama said, “Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, and affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters. I am committed to protecting this constitutional right. I also remain committed to policies, initiatives, and programs that help prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant women and mothers, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption. And on this anniversary, I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
In all the wars in American history combined, from the Revolution to Afghanistan, we have lost approximately 910,000 people. However, in 38 years we have lost about 53 million children to abortion. We lose more children to abortion each day than we lost in all the tragedies on September 11, 2001. About 98 percent of abortions are done for convenience unrelated to health. Less than 2 percent of abortions are done for serious health reasons, rape or incest. Minorities have also been hit hard by abortion. African-Americans account for about 12 percent of the population, but 37 percent of the 1.3 million abortions each year. Latinos make up about 15 percent of the population, yet account for about 22 percent of the annual number of abortions. Read more of this article »
[Editors note: I received this from a friend today and felt the message was so important that I had to share it.]
This month as we focus on the birth of our Saviour, let us also spend time praying for the unborn and for our government’s response to choose life.
Today December 1st, let us pray that all Christians and Pro Lifers would not remain silent on the mass murder of God’s image in the womb, the innocent unborn.
Pray for abortion clinics all over the USA to close. For more prolifers to join us in prayer in front of clinics, regardless of the personal cost.
For congressmen and governors to act and not wait any longer on righting a 37 years’ wrong. Read more of this article »
Is your voting and other public involvement strictly a political effort in a compartmentalized political world… or is there something more to it than that? The politically correct, secularized society we live in would like to have us think that it is. They want us to believe that who we vote for, who we work to get elected and the issues we support come from a separate part of our lives from the our Sunday morning church activities. It’s a form of divide and conquer. If they can separate our political activities from our values, they can get us to do must about anything.
In the unique progressive form of intolerant tolerance, we have people who are perfectly happy to let us have our religious beliefs and practices, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their plans to manipulate and enslave us. We are expected to keep our Christian principles to ourselves, as the world is rearranged so as not to offend the Muslims who have recently arrived in our presence.
To some, voting is something they do if they have strong feelings about some issue or other… and if it isn’t too inconvenient. They don’t understand the real relationship between the individual citizen and the world around us. They have managed to fit the expectations of our society and compartmentalize their lives into discreet spheres like community, work, parenting, church life and the like. Is this as it should be? Read more of this article »
It’s sad what is happening to the National Rifle Association (NRA). For decades they have stood for the rights of gun owners and helped elect legislators who will vote to preserve them. They are still doing this, more or less. However, in their tunnel vision, focusing only on the right to protect ones self with a fire arm, they are exposing the fallacy of any single issue organization.
In pursuing this course, they are being sucked into a trap that could ultimately frustrate their lifelong struggle. This is the same error many pro-lifers make when they only look at the abortion issue. Here in Virginia, we see three Democrat congressmen who vote consistently with the Pelosi, Reid, Obama axis of evil.
However, the Old Dominion is not alone. This pattern is repeated throughout the nation. Go to the NRA web site to see who the Political Victory Fund is supporting in your state. Mr. LaPierre and company, in supporting legislators who vote correctly on various specific bills, ignore the whole body of their work in congress. In supporting Democrat lawmakers, they are, ultimately, empowering Speaker Pelosi and her extreme anti-gun agenda. This is kind of an awkward situation to be in… if it were to be acknowledged. Read more of this article »
Let’s try something new shall we? I got this idea after spending a weekend with my wife’s family. The Andersons are great group of folks who I enjoy spending time with, however, they are about as politically divided a family as I have ever seen. This is not just your standard “this is my view, this is your view lets have a drink and discuss it” type of family. Politics are a sport and are argued as vehemently as two teams fighting like the score is tied with 30 seconds to go in the championship game. Based on my wife’s request, I try to stay out of the circle of engagement, but every now and then I am drawn into an argument. My party affiliation is no secret as I am a registered independent, but my viewpoints are anything but neutral. I am, as my brother-in-law has labeled me, “a right-wing-nut-job”. I am devoutly conservative with my ideals and hence am a target for the “left-wing-kooks”. More times than not, I am challenged to defend the actions of my party affiliations or my ideologies. This has grown tiresome, as my arguments are often dismissed by the those who do not like to hear what I have say or are interrupted prior to my conclusions, so I am going to make an offer of unusual stature.
I do not believe the Republican party has the answer to every problem, nor do I always agree with they way they handle situations, however, I almost always find myself in disagreement with the Democrats and their ideology. Above all, I am searching for what I believe is best for AMERICA. I do not care about political affiliations, but I believe in upholding the ideals of our Founding Fathers and the integrity of the Red, White, and Blue. I do not believe I can effectively call myself a supporter of Americanism if I do not listen to both sides of the argument, likewise, I do not give much weight to an someone’s opinion who does not let me finish a statement without interjecting, arguing, or being otherwise “closed-minded”. Read more of this article »
Rev Patrick Mahoney is a man of principle and courage. On a beautiful spring day in our nations capital he set out to pray for women seeking to end their pregnancies and their soon to die offspring. By simply kneeling on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood abortion mill, he found himself arrested, handcuffed and driven off in the back of a District of Columbia police car.
Showing the power of political connections, the organization claimed the outdoors portion of the property to be part of the indoor section… and the city attorney went along with their scheme. Of course Planned Parenthood did not like Rev. Mahoney and his compatriots letting women know what was really going on inside the building and inside their bodies. There were too many dollars at stake. Besides killing babies is a woman’s right.
The thing that makes this event so notable is that he knew this would be the result… and he did it anyway. Many of us will cheer on a courageous patriot who will stand up, not only to the police but the legal system as well. Then, use the legal system to take back the ground we are losing every day. The complete story is covered in Christian News Wire. Read more of this article »
You are my shepherds. You are responsible for the protection of the lambs. How has the fox entered into the fields? You were asleep? The Word was left for your guidance and to proclaim the laws for the Fathers children. Do you not see and understand the meaning of the Word? Nations have been lost. Multitudes of the Fathers children have not survived. Darkness covers the earth. The Fathers children have been deceived and are now asleep. You are to awaken them.
The Churches have been silent. Your silence is approval of injustice. You were told to love one another. To love is to correct. The good father that fails to correct his child, loses that child forever. Silence has destroyed the families. Silence has allowed the murder of millions of the Fathers children. Silence is approval. Love,or correction, demands that any injustice be corrected immediately. Every wrong word must be corrected. Forgiveness is for your benefit. Forgiveness prevents you from judging and therefor saves you from resentment. Resentment separates you from the Father. Your forgiveness does not excuse the sinner. Forgiveness is for your benefit. Only the Father can forgive sin. Read more of this article »
Not long after we saw the downfall of the pseudoscience of global warming, we are beginning to see cracks in the battle against abstinence only education. The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine recently published a detailed study showing that the methodology so despised by the the progressive elites and academic aristocracy to actually have the effectiveness they long denied. There is no joy in Mudville… or at UC Berkley.
The specifics of the study are not as important as the fact that academic rejection of the results was as predictable as Barack Hussein Obama’s use of duel teleprompters. Instead of hailing the study as something promising in the battle against teen pregnancy and STDs, the reaction showed the kneejerk reaction of the entrenched secularists as they sought to discredit both the study and its conclusions. We have seen this behavior before… many times.
Instead of using science as the path the truth, it is being used like a drunk clinging to a lamp post… more for support than illumination. This is the very same intellectual dishonesty they continually accuse those who are foolish enough to actually believe the principles of the Bible. We should be used to this by now… science eventually confirming the words of the same creator that endowed us with unalienable rights. Read more of this article »
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A while back a Facebook friend made the comment that she was just so frustrated with the war in Afghanistan and thought we should just nuke the whole mountainous area. Someone else commented that here solution was not “socially acceptable”. Now I’m not going to get into the virtue of using nuclear weapons to root out Taliban, or any jihadists in the area, but I do want to look at the reason for rejecting the idea. We all want to be accepted socially… which is another way of saying that we have developed an, often overwhelming acquiescence to peer pressure.
Pope Benedict XVI recently told US Bishops, “The present moment can thus be seen, in positive terms, as a summons to exercise the prophetic dimension of your episcopal ministry by speaking out, humbly yet insistently, in defense of moral truth, and offering a word of hope, capable of opening hearts and minds to the truth that sets us free.”
It’s almost impossible to give Barack Hussein Obama the benefit of the doubt these days, even if one were inclined to do so at the start of his reign. Our betters tell us we should cut him some slack and give him a chance. The good intentions of looking for the best in the President have only compounded our problems – not solved them! We’ve seen him change the federal policy to use our tax money to pay for overseas abortions when most people don’t even want them at home. We see more money just thrown at programs of little use, some with negative impact, to most of us and now… and now we are told that the faith based organizations are doing wonderful work, BUT now the new administration is looking at telling these organizations that they can continue to contribute their time and efforts, but they need to discontinue the very aspects of their work that makes them unique and effective.
by James Renwick Manship, Sr.
Sunday morning as I sat in church listening to the choir singing about our unchanging God, it occurred to me why even those who say they are open to any and every new idea are so closed minded when it comes to the Christian influence on society. We live in a world where attempts to rewrite our history run rampant on almost every college campus. We have judges deciding cases based on their “new and improved” ideas rather than on the Constitution that is to be the basis of our justice and government. Traditional values are not only disregarded, they are openly scorned by the elites in media and government.
By Bob Larimer
There are many things going wrong in our wonderful country today, and there have been many solutions proposed. Most are well intentioned and most that show some common sense would work fine to fix the specific problem. However each is akin to putting a band aid on a broken leg. We are being hit with too many different attacks from too many different angles to be content with repairing our country piecemeal. It’s like the Cloward-Piven plan to overwhelm the system.
A lot of readers may take offense at this question about their sincerity in wanting to stop the slaughter of innocent babies. How could this be? You vote for the candidates who promise to put an end to the grizzly practice. If you are like most, you even pray about it from time to time. If you are really unusual, you may have picketed a facility once or twice.
So… we all know things are falling apart all around us. Many of us find it easy to blame Barack Hussein Obama, Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, Van Jones and the rest of the unholy alliance trying to run our lives. Of course this black hearted gang would be more than happy to place the blame on George Bush. This excuse, in addition to just being tiresome, is simply not true.
Sometimes I have to wonder if the usually wrong, Arianna Huffington was right that our two party system has given us a pro-abortion corporate party and an anti-abortion corporate party. Over recent years it seems the similarities extend far beyond the concern for corporate welfare. It seems that for all the partisan rhetoric each side produces, the net results of their efforts is remarkably similar. For the partisans who believe their favorite political organization can do no wrong… read on, I shall explain.
This past weekend I went back to my old home town in Upper Bucks County, PA. On the way back from my old church – a good evangelical church – I passed St. Isidore’s Roman Catholic Church. My primary recollection of it from my younger days was weekend dances at their old location for area teenagers. This time, however, something other than their beautiful building caught my eye. Close to a hundred white crosses dotted the front lawn along with several signs explaining that each one represented thousands of innocent children who lost their chance at life to a greedy abortionist. Their wording was a little more euphemistic, but carried the same message.
Most of country was shocked and saddened by the death and destruction tornadoes brought to Alabama, Mississippi and even my home state of Virginia. I say most, because there are reports that the leftist blogosphere is abuzz with joy that those killed deserved it because they were Republicans. There may be reasons that go far deeper than that.
During the first American Revolution, many of the unsung heroes were men of the cloth who would preach about salvation for mens souls and the relationship of the same men to each other and the world around them. They spoke of the revelation of God to the world beyond scriptures in the nature of creation itself, and along with it, the concept of natural law which recognized the worth of each individual… and the rights, natural rights, that came along with this unique position.
President Obama says he wants to find common ground with the GOP as they look for a way to solve the budget impasse. He has this fantasy that there is a common ground between his spendthrift policies and the teaparty inspired push for fiscal restraint and respect for the taxpayers. The sad fact is that some of the old timers in the Republican Party also believe this is possible.
“This is a saaad day for the women of Virginia” was the sound bite that was played and replayed on radio and television stations around the Commonwealth of Virginia on the day that the General Assembly voted to require abortion clinics to adhere to much the same standards as hospitals. Forget the fact that women have died because facilities were not adequate to handle the emergencies of an abortion gone wrong… that was a small price to pay for the convenience of easily killing one’s offspring.
[The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill that requires abortion clinics to meet the same standards as hospitals. It will never make them safe for babies, but it is moving in the right direction.]
My first experience with George Allen came a few years after I escaped from Sopranoland and arrived in the Old Dominion. He was a one term congressman who had just been redistricted out of his seat by the partisan Democrat machine that ruled the commonwealth with an iron fist in those dark, dreary days. He was a young and hungry politician eager to press the flesh and meet the people.
Newspapers, along with TV anchors and infobabes love to tell stories of dissension within the ranks of the Republican Party. They enjoy pouring fuel on any kind of sparks, trying to fan them into a blaze that negates the effectiveness of any politician not pushing progressive Democrat values. The problem is that there is some basis for the stories about factions within the Grand Old Party.
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By Rachel Sargent
Is your voting and other public involvement strictly a political effort in a compartmentalized political world… or is there something more to it than that? The politically correct, secularized society we live in would like to have us think that it is. They want us to believe that who we vote for, who we work to get elected and the issues we support come from a separate part of our lives from the our Sunday morning church activities. It’s a form of divide and conquer. If they can separate our political activities from our values, they can get us to do must about anything.
It’s sad what is happening to the National Rifle Association (NRA). For decades they have stood for the rights of gun owners and helped elect legislators who will vote to preserve them. They are still doing this, more or less. However, in their tunnel vision, focusing only on the right to protect ones self with a fire arm, they are exposing the fallacy of any single issue organization.
by Kelsey Hilderbrand
This message is directed to Christ’s Churches.
Not long after we saw the downfall of the pseudoscience of global warming, we are beginning to see cracks in the battle against abstinence only education. The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine recently published a detailed study showing that the methodology so despised by the the progressive elites and academic aristocracy to actually have the effectiveness they long denied. There is no joy in Mudville… or at UC Berkley.
