(210,'Prepared for the Times, Part 41','prepared-for-the-times-part-41','','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">Week 41, 2010\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><strong><span> </span></strong></p>\r\nIn Matthew 12:28 Jesus said, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” </span><br /><br />As we discussed last week, every Christian is called to be the light and salt, and to occupy until the Lord returns. We all have a responsibility to help fulfill the mandate of The Great Commission and to preach the gospel of the kingdom throughout the world, which must be done before the end of this age can come. However, for the kingdom of God to come upon the world, we must do this in the Spirit of God, which will always be with the class and dignity of the fruit of the Spirit. <br /><br />We are also told in I Corinthians 2:10 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.” </span>Therefore, if we are truly Spirit led, we will be searchers, and we will not be shallow in our understanding. Therefore, we want to take some time with current events and seek to understand them from a biblical worldview, developing as much depth as required to understand them. <br />\r\n','\r\n<br />As we have also discussed before, to understand means “to stand under,” or to see from another’s perspective. When there is a stirring and controversy, it is a great opportunity to understand what is happening in a culture or nation. This is true in how America was agitated by the proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Nearly everyone seemed to have an opinion on it. Both sides were accusing of the other being extremists and were themselves making extreme accusations, which shows the depth of care people had for this matter. Certainly extremists are likely on both sides of a volatile issue like this, but sometimes an extreme position is the accurate one. Is it true with this one?<br /><br />Those who oppose this planned mosque have been accused of everything from not believing in religious liberty, to being Islamophobic, to being religious bigots. Certainly these are extreme accusations, but are they accurate? Often those who make the most extreme accusations are the ones guilty of extreme intolerance for those whose opinions differ from theirs. Like the charge of racism, Islamophobia is being so overused now that it is fast losing its impact. As has been said about the charge of racism, “Racism is what a liberal calls a conservative when they start losing the argument.” This is not always true because there is still too much racism. However, the charge is overused and is often used just to intimidate or deflect from the real issue, which has lost much of its power. Those who use this charge frivolously lose respect of others, as they should.<br /><br />Of course, it is likely that there are some religious bigots in the opposition of the Ground Zero mosque, but that is surely not the reason why 70 percent of Americans are against this. One of the most costly and deadly deceptions that we are prone to have is judging other people groups after their most extreme elements. When one side starts making extreme accusations, like this, it is likely they are the ones with something indefensible in their position that they want to deflect the emphasis from. That is certainly the case here. <br /><br />The charge of Islamophobia seems to be losing its power to intimidate even faster than the overused charge of racism. This shows that the American people are growing in both discernment and understanding. A phobia is an irrational fear. There are rational fears which are not phobias, and this controversy has caused many to study Islam, and the more they have, the more alarmed they have rightly become. <br /><br />One remarkable factor to consider when we look at the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque is that it came from 70 percent of American people! Such a lopsided opinion on anything is considered virtually impossible. On almost every issue, 30 percent will side with the liberal perspective regardless of the issue, and about the same percentage will side with the conservative perspective, which leaves 40 percent in the middle. This means that with the Ground Zero mosque, virtually the entire middle went in one direction—opposing this mosque. This truly is extraordinary. <br /><br />Even though it seems like neither the government nor the media understands this—those who attacked us on 9/11 were not Christian extremists, or Hindu extremists, or Buddhist extremists; they were all Muslims. Almost all of the terrorist attacks worldwide over the last half century have been done by Muslims and not from proponents of any other religion. The majority of the American people are not stupid. To open a mosque near Ground Zero was understandably salt in the wound. For the developers to set the date for its opening on 9/11 was even more salt in the wound. For them to call it The Cordoba Mosque was like using a fork to stir the salt in the wound. <br /><br />With the media becoming increasingly unreliable and not trusted, Americans have been doing their own research, which is a very healthy and encouraging development. Just a cursory study of what took place at the conquest of Cordoba, Spain by Muslims, with the terrible slaughter or enslavement of Christians and Jews, and where the Muslims were the most vocal about how building mosques over church ruins, or turning churches into mosques, as a declaration of the triumph of Islam—to have the ground zero mosque named for Cordoba was an obvious symbol to Islamists everywhere and could hardly have been a more arrogant poke in the eye of America. That any American political leaders would not understand this is more than remarkable in its dullness. <br /><br />Intolerance can be evil, and it can be right. The intolerance of America toward this mosque at this site is understandable. It’s less understandable why all Americans are not against it except that they do not understand the real issues and symbolism of this mosque. It’s an amazing degree of tolerance that any American would accept mosques anywhere in America when so many Americans have died at the hands of Islamic terrorists, not just at the WTC and the Pentagon, but thousands of others have died all over the world, even in our embassies. For those who are for this Ground Zero mosque to declare Americans intolerant is not only a false charge, but itself is a demonstration of extreme intolerance.<br /><br />It is a serious distortion to call Americans intolerant or Islamophobic because they oppose the mosque at Ground Zero, and there is a good reason why those who make such charges lose their respect in the eyes of Americans. However, as Christians, we must have a resolve to “love our enemies,” but this does not mean we don’t understand those who are in fact our enemies. It is definitely a good thing that this controversy, and the deadly attacks that Americans and others around the world have suffered at the hands of Islamic jihadists, is causing more and more to wake up and seek understanding of those who have been forthright about their desire to destroy us. The sooner we wake up, the fewer lives that will likely be lost. This is a most deadly threat. </span></p>',1,19,0,76,'2010-10-04 23:55:36',63,'','2012-02-04 13:06:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-10-04 23:55:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,9,'Prepared for the Times, Part 41, mosque, religious liberty, Islamophobic, religious bigots.','Prepared for the Times, Part 41 Those who oppose this planned mosque have been accused of everything from not believing in religious liberty, to being Islamophobic, to being religious bigots.',0,695,'robots=\nauthor='),(211,'Support of Archbishop Nienstedt','support-of-archbishop-nienstedt','','<p>Dear Friend of CatholicVote, <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720602:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\" target=\"&lt;not set&gt;\"><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/2fab8fbddcd5c8f3aca57af7ec3f0aa8/Support%20Niedstedt2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Support Nienstedt\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" /></a><br /><br />Minnesota’s Archbishop John Nienstedt needs  your prayers and support. <br /><br />Just a few days ago, homosexual activists  wearing rainbow sashes and buttons attempted to receive Holy Communion from him  during Mass. The activists even bragged: “We were making a statement during the  Eucharist.” <br /><br />His Excellency stood firm, blessed them, but charitably  denied them the Eucharist. <br /><br /><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720602:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\"><strong>Sign  our petition in support of Archbishop Nienstedt here! </strong></a><br /><br />Anti-marriage activists in Minnesota are furious at the  Archbishop for backing a statewide mailing of DVD’s to every Catholic in  Minnesota urging them to support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.  The media is hounding the Church, calling the effort ‘too political’ and  demanding to know who paid for the mailing (a private donor paid for the DVD’s).  <br /><br />As Americans, we acknowledge that citizens are free to disagree with the  Church. But a Catholic bishop has every right to speak to the Catholics in his  diocese – even during election season! <br /><br />And those that disagree with the  Church have no right to scandalize the faithful by turning the “source and  summit” of our life as Catholics into a political spectacle. <br /><br />Our Bishops  get criticized a lot -- sometimes legitimately, sometimes unfairly. For this  reason, we believe it is all the more important that the laity encourage and  applaud the courage of Bishops when they boldly stand up for the teachings of  our Church, and in this case – to protect the Holy Eucharist. <br /><br />We have a  simple message for Archbishop Nienstedt --- THANK YOU! We stand with you. We are  praying for you. May Our Lord grant you the graces necessary to resist the  attacks, and the courage to stand firm in defense of His Church and the Holy  Eucharist. <br /><br />Add your name to our letter to Archbishop Nienstedt here --  <a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/4720603:7098278106:m:1:162579565:E30DA121F343A81F4410893659776757\"><strong>http://cvote.to/15</strong></a> <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Brian Burch <br />President <br />CatholicVote.org</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-10-09 12:55:58',62,'CatholicVote.org','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-10-09 12:55:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,255,'homosexual activists, rainbow sashes, Holy Communion, Mass, Eucharist','Homosexual activists wearing rainbow sashes and buttons attempted to receive Holy Communion from him during Mass. The activists even bragged: “We were making a statement during the Eucharist.” ',0,263,'robots=\nauthor=CatholicVote.org'),(213,'Could This Be the Reason We Have Full Body Scanners?','could-this-be-the-reason-we-have-full-body-scanners','','<p>January 2010 Article but I just heard about it now. Imagine that...</p>\r\n<h1>Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion</h1>\r\n<p>January 2, 2010</p>\r\n<p>WASHINGTON - Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.</p>\r\n<p>What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.</p>\r\n<p>An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.</p>\r\n<p>“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive,’’ said Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.</p>\r\n<p>Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners - five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Rapiscan is one of only two companies that make full-body scanners in accordance with current contract specifications required by the federal government.</p>\r\n<p>Currently 40 body scanners are in use among 19 US airports. The number is expected to skyrocket, at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration has said it will order 300 more machines.</p>\r\n<p>In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Rapiscan was the only company that qualified for the contract because it had developed technology that performs the screening using a less-graphic body imaging system, which is also less controversial. (Since then, another company, L-3 Communications, has qualified for future contracts, but no new contracts have been awarded.)</p>\r\n<p>-- Washington Post</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-11-20 14:10:36',62,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-20 14:10:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,253,'Former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and Full Body Scanners','Former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and Full Body Scanners',0,211,'robots=\nauthor='),(214,'Napolitano Considering Exempting Arabic Women From Full Body Scanners?','napolitano-considering-exempting-arabic-women-from-full-body-scanners','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/AI1n15lD6O8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/param<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/AI1n15lD6O8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/embed<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/object<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-11-20 16:41:32',62,'','2010-11-20 16:44:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-20 16:41:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,252,'','',0,225,'robots=\nauthor='),(215,'Say What Mahmoud?','mosque-makeovers-with-your-tax-dollars','','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 13px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #9c2520; font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #9c2520; font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px;\">Mosque Makeovers With Your Tax Dollars</span></span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"storyDateTime\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span class=\"posted\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; color: #5b5b5b;\">Posted: 3:57 pm EST November 11, 2010</span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; color: #5b5b5b;\">Updated: 6:42 am EST November 12, 2010</span></p>\r\n<div class=\"StoryBody\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><strong class=\"Dateline\" style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;\">WASHINGTON, D.C -- </strong>A <a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 2 Action News</a> investigation found that the State Department is sending millions of dollars to save mosques overseas. This investment has received criticism as the United States makes an effort to slash nearly $4 trillion in government spending. <a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">MORE&gt;&gt;</a><a href=\"http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25762604/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">{jcomments on}</a></div>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-11-22 18:55:29',62,'Channel 2 Action News','2010-11-23 00:09:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 18:55:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',6,0,250,'','',0,325,'robots=\nauthor='),(216,'Socialized Health Care','socialized-health-care-in-cuba-a-la-fidel','','<p><img src=\"images/US_CUBA_flags.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Salud a Miami!\" width=\"104\" height=\"69\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" /></p>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Socialized Health Care in Cuba a la Fidel</strong></span></h2>\r\n<p>Sent by a friend in Miami who wants to share what Cuba\'s socialized, redistribution of wealth health care system looks like 50 years later. It\'s in Spanish, however the photos tell the story.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Click Here: </span> <a href=\"uploads/41857-SALUD_EN_CUBA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Health Care a la Fidelistas!\">SALUD EN CUBA.PDF</a> (pdf format)</p>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"ES\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">From: </span></span></strong></span>Helio Rodriguez-Ecay  CPA</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\'; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \r\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" />\r\n</span></span></div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\">From:</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;\"> Armando  Merino<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sent:</span></strong> Monday, November 22, 2010 11:06  AM<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">To:</span></strong> ap_merino<br /><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Subject:</span></strong> FW: SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE IN  CUBA AFTER 50  YEARS</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px;\">Kate</span></p>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\">These are terrible  pictures of the Health Care in Cuba unfortunately they are the real thing and  many people around the world</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: navy; font-family: Georgia;\">,</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\"> as well as here in  the US, still think that that bastard </span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: navy; font-family: Georgia;\">Castro</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\"> and his  communist/socialist nongovernment is the best in the  world.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\"> </span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\"> </span></span></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n</div>\r\n<div>Jose</div>\r\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;\">Sent: Sat, Nov 20,  2010 7:16 am</span></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;\">Subject: FW: SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE IN CUBA  AFTER 50 YEARS</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<div id=\"AOLMsgPart_3_1d599522-bbc7-4fe7-b618-88c8d00b56e7\">\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0in; border-top: #b5c4df 1pt solid; padding-left: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left: medium none; padding-top: 3pt; border-bottom: medium none;\">\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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line-height: 32px; font-size: 13px;\"> </span></p>\r\n<div id=\"StoryTitle\" class=\"storytitle\" style=\"width: auto; height: 68px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; color: #003399; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 7px;\">Schools: Islam...yes! Christianity...no!\r\n<div id=\"reporter\" class=\"reporter\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Sans\', \'Lucida Sans Unicode\', \'Lucida Grande\', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;\">Becky Yeh - OneNewsNow California correspondent - 11/23/2010 4:10:00 AM</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\">An expert on Islam explains that schools across the United States have implemented radical Islamic curriculum in public schools.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/Mugs/BrigitteGabriel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brigitte Gabriel\" title=\"Brigitte Gabriel\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Brigitte Gabriel, founder of <a href=\"http://www.actforamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ACT! for America\" style=\"color: #0e4d8b; background: inherit;\">ACT! for America</a>, explains that students are required to become a Muslim for three weeks, adopt Muslim names, memorize verses from the Quran, and visit a mosque for a field trip. If students try their best on assignments, she says, they will be guaranteed a good grade.<br /> <br />Students in these programs, laments the conservative activist, must also recite the Islamic prayer for salvation, which describes Islam as a straight path to God -- and Christianity in error.<br /> <br />\"Here\'s what they\'re teaching in the public schools; [here\'s] what they\'re telling the students they have to memorize and recite,\" she says -- \"\'Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation, the compassionate, the merciful, king of judgment day. You alone we worship, and to you alone we pray for help.\'\"<br /> <br /><img src=\"http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/ChristianMuslim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Christian and Muslim symbols\" title=\"Christian and Muslim symbols\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px;\" />Gabriel sees more than a little inconsistency in how the material is being presented. \"Remember, this is public school where we can\'t even say we have a Christmas break -- we have a \'winter break,\'\" she exclaims. \"Where we can\'t even say we have Easter break -- it\'s now called \'spring break.\'\"<br /> <br />The ACT! for America president explains that Islamic ideologies are prevalent in textbooks, such as the way the term \"jihad\" is explained. She says instead of portraying the idea as one of violence and bloodshed, the texts describe it as a struggle against oppression -- the same description that al-Qaeda presents.<br /> <br />She argues that \"what they\'re doing is literally brainwashing our students to prepare them to turn against our own soldiers and our own military and government by basically feeding them the talking points of al-Qaeda.\"<br /> <br />Gabriel contends that if students were to recite Bible verses, adopt Christian names, and learn a Christian prayer for salvation, many Americans would be infuriated, arguing it violates the alleged separation of church and state. But because of political correctness, she says, Islamic indoctrination is allowed in public schools.</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-11-23 18:47:27',62,'OneNewsNow.com','2010-11-23 18:55:00',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-23 18:47:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,247,'','',0,272,'robots=\nauthor='),(218,'Auschwitz Album','the-only-surviving-album-of-auschwitz','','<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">The Only Surviving Album of Auschwitz</span></p>\r\n<p>This is the story of a Hungarian Jewish woman who survived Auschwitz. Immediately after her liberation, she found a coat belonging to a guard, which she took to shield herself from the cold.  In the pocket of this coat she found a photo album.  It contained pictures of what went on in this extermination camp.  Imagine her reaction when she saw a picture of herself coming off of the train, as well pictures of her family, who had already been murdered.  This album at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem was donated by this woman in 1980, and will forever be displayed there.  When you have 5 minutes of peace and quiet in front of your computer, watch it and consider passing it around to people that you know so they can share it and know about it.  It is truly moving and important.</p>\r\n<p>I hope this can be kept moving as this time in the history of the world must never be forgotten.</p>\r\n<p>Click this link:</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_Auschwitz/mutimedia/index.HTML\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Auschwitz Album\">Auschwitz Album{jcomments on}</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2010-11-22 23:21:30',62,'Submitted by Matthew T. Krol Sr.','2010-11-23 00:05:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 23:21:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,248,'Auschwitz Album','Auschwitz Album',0,431,'robots=\nauthor='),(219,'Prepared for the Times, Part 48','prepared-for-the-times-part-48','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Week 48, 2010</p>\r\n<p>The United States was the first, and some say the only, nation created through the belief that God, not government, has given to all men certain unalienable rights, and that government exists for the purpose of protecting those rights. For this reason, the government is a servant of the people, not the other way around. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to ensure the understanding and protection of those basic rights.</p>\r\n<p>The vision for such freedom was born out of the Protestant Reformation when salvation became individual, not corporate. Also during the Reformation came the truth that in order to be saved we must have personal faith in God and His atonement, not that we are saved because we came from a Christian family, lived in a Christian nation, or were raised in an institutional church. This gave infinite value to the individual and made all institutions, including government, servants of God for ensuring peace and liberty for His people. This was a radical new concept for government that took several centuries to flesh out and become the basis for an actual government. <br /><br />Freedom is required for true worship. For us to have true worship of God, we must have the freedom not to worship. This is why the Lord put the Tree of Knowledge...</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>in the Garden—there could be no true obedience unless there was the freedom not to obey. God wanted those who worshiped Him to do so because they loved Him and loved His truth, not out of compulsion. True religion is from the heart and cannot be forced or imposed. This is why we are told that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (see II Corinthians 3:17). This is why the freedom of religion is a foundational liberty upon which all of our liberties are based, and why there was insistence that the government would have no power to establish religion. <br /><br />The term “the separation of church and state” is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, but rather was coined by Thomas Jefferson in a letter. Consequently, there was no intention by the Founders to have a separation of church and state, but simply that the government would have no power to impose any religion on the people. We know from the other writings of the Founders, which were intended with these documents, that all who gave an opinion on it did not think that the Republic could last without a strong mooring to our Judea/Christian underpinnings. However, they also saw that these underpinnings would be artificial, and therefore weak, if the freedom of religion was not a necessary seedbed of true religion. <br /><br />Being the first such government in history brought out many naysayers and critics who thought that such a country could not survive long without falling into anarchy and then tyranny. Certainly the maturing of the nation brought about many crises that seemed to threaten its very existence, such as the Civil War. The danger would swing from tyranny to anarchy, but through each crisis, the nation emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Living under the relative peace and prosperity in the U.S. soon became the desire of the world, and the world came to America until we became a nation made up of all nations, which added greatly to our strength. <br /><br />Every generation has had its tests, and many of these were so severe that there were serious questions whether the Republic could survive. The generation before us had to face some of history’s worst and most deadly despots—Hitler, Stalin, and Mao being the major ones, but others like Pol Pot and Chauchescu who may have been even more cruel in their murder of men. After surviving the Great Depression, that generation had to fight World War II and then the Cold War, which threatened the destruction of the entire earth. Through all of this, the United States was left far stronger and more prosperous than they had received it.<br /><br />We are going through a test now that threatens our continued survival as a Republic. Millions of Islamic jihadists have arisen whose ultimate goal is to destroy America and Western civilization and would consider it the work of God to kill Americans and Jews. At the same time, a new form of socialism has arisen within the nation that threatens the foundations of American economic strength, which is the initiative promoted by economic freedom. From within and without, we are facing ultimate threats, but we should not think this is unusual, but rather that it is now our turn. This is not something that we have to face but that we get to face. <br /><br />The very foundations of the Republic are under assault, and without a doubt we could lose everything that all of the previous generations worked so hard to give to us. However, we can also come out of this much stronger and much better than ever. It really is our choice. <br /><br />When I say our choice, it is the choice of Christians. Even though we must promote and defend the freedom of every religion as a core value of Christianity as well as our Republic, without the core of Judeo/Christian moral underpinnings, the Republic will not last. Even so, we must understand that the freedom of belief is not the freedom to practice. For example, people are free to believe in animal sacrifices as a part of their religion, but they are not free to practice that here. They are free to believe in polygamy, and even female circumcision, honor killing, the cutting off of the hands of a thief, etc., but they are not free to practice these things here. <br /><br />Freedom is not unlimited, but it does have restraints. These restraints are in order to protect the freedom of those who would otherwise be victims of tyranny. Of course, where the lines of our freedoms will be drawn are fought over in each generation. However, our love for God demands that we love His people, all people, and protect the freedom without which they cannot rise to the greatest height a human can rise—to be a lover of God, and by doing this, loving one another as we should.</p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,19,0,76,'2010-11-22 23:33:31',63,'','2012-02-04 13:06:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-11-22 23:33:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,8,'United States, created, belief, God, government, unalienable rights, government is a servant of the people. Constitution, Bill of Rights','Prepared for the Times, Part 48. The United States was the first, and some say the only, nation created through the belief that God, not government, has given to all men certain unalienable rights, and that government exists for the purpose of protecting those rights. For this reason, the government is a servant of the people, not the other way around. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to ensure the understanding and protection of those basic rights.',0,642,'robots=\nauthor='),(221,'World Changing Events','world-changing-events','','<p> </p>\r\n<p>November 30, 2010</p>\r\n<h1>World Changing Events by Rick Joyner</h1>\r\n<p>The following are world events now unfolding that have the potential to have a major impact on our times.</p>\r\n<h2>WikiLeaks complicates U.S. foreign policy.</h2>\r\n<p>More than 200,000 pages of classified and sensitive U.S. State Department documents being opened to the world by WikiLeaks.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This will no doubt complicate U.S. foreign policy, and insult a number of foreign leaders, but will likely not do any permanent or deep damage to our foreign relations. Worse than what is in these documents is the embarrassment that there is such a lack of security in the State Department that such material could be leaked.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> This could be very bad timing because it will certainly put a damper on communications within the State Department, and between the U.S. and other nations, which could be critical as tensions and crises around the world are rising. Potentially this could also work for good by causing all to be much more careful in their communications about others—always a good thing.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><strong>Other Analyses:</strong></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#nskorea\">North and South Korea square off</a></span></h2>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#rccurrencies\">Russia and China decide to use their own currencies for trade in place of the dollar.</a></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#ireland\">EU bails out Ireland.</a></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"> </span></span></p>\r\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=221:world-changing-events&amp;catid=3:newsflash#kingdom\">The Kingdom of God is Coming</a></span></h2>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n','\r\n<h2><a name=\"nskorea\"></a>North and South Korea square off.</h2>\r\n<p>After the unstable and unpredictable North Korea shelled a South Korean base and fishing village, tensions have not abated.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This is a very real threat to many nations in the region, and does have the potential of pulling China and the U.S. into a confrontation. In this crisis China is holding most of the options. It is assumed that China can control its ally North Korea if it wants to, but so far it has just lamely offered to host talks. This signals that China does not want to reign in their belligerent neighbor. Why?</p>\r\n<p>China is an economic superpower that will likely surpass the U.S. as the biggest economy in the world very soon. However, its military is still no match for the U.S., and would not fare well in a military confrontation. China has a very obvious plan to wear down the U.S. by supporting constant crises and conflicts that stretch and consume U.S. military and economic resources.</p>\r\n<p>It is unthinkable that China would want a war between North and South Korea. Not only would such a conflict be dangerously close to their own border, but could be devastating to its rising economy. It would also be a huge blow to China’s rising diplomatic stature in the world because China would be widely viewed as the one nation that could have prevented such a war, but did not.</p>\r\n<p>Even with these risks China obviously believes it is in its interest to keep the tensions high between North and South Korea, as well as keep the U.S. on edge. This situation is so tense that any little spark could easily flame up into all out war between North and South Korea, which the U.S. would almost certainly be dragged into with nearly 30,000 U.S. troops now based in South Korea.</p>\r\n<p>Why would China risk so much by allowing these tensions to rise on the Korean Peninsula? Energy—specifically Middle Eastern oil. China’s economic growth is making its energy needs rise faster than any other nation in the world and it has very little of its own reserves. China does not like to be in a position of needing diplomatic cooperation but rather wants to control its own destiny and therefore it will have to ultimately control its own energy source. China needs the U.S. out of the Middle East, which means the U.S. must be so worn down that it cannot continue to intervene there. This is a simple and brilliant strategy that has been working.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES</strong>: North Korea has proven itself to be a rogue state for decades but it only seems to be getting more belligerent and more dangerous every time it causes a crisis and gets away with it - usually even getting rewarded with more aid or concessions. This is never the way to deal with a bully and if we keep giving in as we have, the cost of not standing up to them will get more expensive.</p>\r\n<p>We’ve allowed North Korea to become a nuclear power that is now in desperate need for hard cash and with only one thing of value to sell - these terrible weapons. Are we going to pay the ultimate price for letting this go on for so long?</p>\r\n<p>If you are secure in thinking they do not have missiles that can hit the continental U.S., this has changed because we’ve now given them time to develop one that puts our West Coast within their range. Even so a short-range missile could work even better for those seeking to do us harm, as it could be launched from a trawler or fishing vessel right off the coast. What were those contrails just off the West Coast a few weeks ago? How about tests?</p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"rccurrencies\"></a>Russia and China decide to use their own currencies for trade in place of the dollar.</h2>\r\n<p>To replace the dollar as the world’s common trading currency has been a stated goal of both Russia and China for some time, but this agreement now makes it a reality.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> This agreement has been in the works for some time, but their ability to actually complete it was likely stepped up by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s stated intention to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars more to place in circulation this coming year. This strategy brought a sharp rebuke to President Obama at virtually every stop of his recent Asian tour.</p>\r\n<p>What would cause Russia and China to make such a move? When the Federal Reserve puts more dollars in circulation it automatically devalues the dollar by creating inflation. Those who are holding large amounts of U.S. currency have the value of their holdings cut dramatically by such actions. A main reason why Russia, China, and other nations have been pushing for changing the U.S. dollar from being the world’s main base currency in trade and going to a basket of currencies has been the tendency of Washington to implement currency policies unilaterally that can impact the entire world without even consulting those it impacts.</p>\r\n<p>This action on the part of Russia and China signals a loss of confidence in the U.S. as the world’s economic leader, and they have perceived an opportunity to now seize it. This will have to play out, and it is by no means a slam dunk for Russia and China, but it was a bold move they must have had a great deal of confidence in to make at this time, or they felt a desperation that forced them to do it.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> This does not bode well for the U.S. dollar. For those who believe that the strength of the U.S. dollar is essential to U.S. economic strength, an action such as this one has been one of their greatest fears. In military terms, to have the initiative in any battle is a huge advantage, giving you more options and limiting the enemy’s options. By this move on the part of Russia and China the U.S. may have just lost the initiative in the world economic contest. Instead of just being able to act and expect the rest of the world to react to what we do, our options have at the very least now become more limited, and they may well be severely restricted.</p>\r\n<p>Inflation in the U.S. is much higher now than the government is reporting because the government determined to move two of the most basic factors from the equation determining the rate of inflation—fuel and food prices. Removing fuel and food as factors determining the rate of inflation was done because they said these two commodities were too volatile to give us accurate readings. Volatile or not, they are very basic to the factoring of inflation across the whole economy. This reasoning is fallacious, and a very obvious ruse that did not build temporary confidence in the economy by hiding the true rate of inflation, but has caused even a greater erosion of faith in U.S. economic leadership.</p>\r\n<p>Printing more money and putting it into circulation automatically devalues the treasuries of those holding U.S. dollars. This was foreseen as a potential strategy of the Federal Reserve to thereby devalue the debt and deficits of the U.S. government. This will also stimulate the U.S. economy by making our goods more affordable to other nations. However, this only works while the dollar remains the world’s trading currency, and this agreement between Russia and China not only undermines this plan, but can have devastating long term economic repercussions for the already limping U.S. economy.</p>\r\n<p>The most basic fuel of the U.S. economy is faith, and faith in our economic leadership which had already been shaken worldwide by our wildly out of control spending, but is being further eroded by such schemes as this that just seem to be taking pot shots at what might work. The economic policies of the Obama Administration has been rebuked by virtually every friend and foe we have in the world, and the Russian/Chinese accord seems to mark that they are now taking steps to abandon what they see is a sinking ship.</p>\r\n<p>A weak U.S. dollar can have some trade advantages, which can help stimulate the domestic economy. We could see a bit of a boost from these actions. However, there is a way to allow the U.S. dollar to weaken in a slower and orderly way that does not erode confidence in the economy, so any advantages gained by this has likely been lost already. The result: inflation with a weakening economy, which is economic quicksand. We are on a path that could doom the dollar as not only the world’s trading currency, but as a viable currency at all, even in the U.S.</p>\r\n<p>This worst-case scenario has been forecast by many for some time, and the events that seem to be leading to this have been unfolding. It is conceivable that this could lead to a time when bartering is the currency in the U.S. for a time. As the strength of the dollar is based entirely on people having enough faith in it for them to take it in exchange for goods and services, that faith is being lost very steadily, and it could be completely lost overnight under certain potential circumstances.</p>\r\n<p>If this happens the only way the government could restore faith in its currency would be to make it a commodity based currency again (i.e. gold or silver backed). If the government sees this coming, they will likely react by starting to call in all gold and silver, even outlawing them being held by private citizens until the transition is made.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"ireland\"></a>EU bails out Ireland.</h2>\r\n<p>Over $100 billion was required to stabilize Ireland’s bond crisis.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland are all bleeding Euros, and Germany and France continues to give transfusions. The ultimate cause of virtually every crisis is entitlements, and few have had the political will to address them so the meltdown of the E.U. continues, and the U.S. is not far behind.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> The E.U. is looking more and more like, at best, a good idea badly implemented. At worst it could result in a devastating collapse of this entity that is more of a bureaucracy than a government. Without Germany, and to a lesser degree France, this could have never happened, and it is not likely that the people of either Germany or France, who are paying the price for the E.U., are going to continue to let it go on for much longer. The big question is if this is going to result in a pre-World War II like chaos, or a post World War II like chaos.</p>\r\n<h2><a name=\"kingdom\"></a>The Kingdom of God is Coming:</h2>\r\n<p>The kingdom of God cannot be shaken, and is not subject to any of the crises of this world. Those who have built their life on His kingdom will not be shaken either.</p>\r\n<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> Biblical prophecy has a lot to say about these times, and makes it clear that at the end of this age there will be the greatest time of trouble the world has ever seen. These troubles are all basically the result of man trying to run this world without God, and all of creation will have learned from our story that this is something that no one should ever try again.</p>\r\n<p>In virtually every area now the crises are getting beyond human remedy, but God will help all who call upon Him. There are answers to every human problem, and for those who turn to Him with the resolve to hear and obey His word, they will not only build their own houses upon the rock that can stand against the coming storms, but they will be able to reach in and save many others too.</p>\r\n<p><strong>CONSEQUENCES:</strong> There is hope. The gospel of the kingdom, which is the ?good news? about the coming kingdom, is the greatest message of hope the world has ever, or will ever, hear. If we see it we can enter it. If we enter it we can show others the way to it. As we see in Is.60:1-5, it is during the time when darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the people that the glory of the Lord appears upon His people. The result of this is that the nations come to the light! 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What we distribute as <strong><em>“Oak Leaves”</em></strong> addresses mostly current events, and what we distribute as <strong><em>“Root Truth”</em></strong> is from more of a historical perspective, but which is a basis for understanding the important issues of our times.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Root Truth #3</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Top Ten Gay Marriage False \"Facts\" ~ Part 1 <br /></strong><br />(Author: Frank Turek - From his article with the same name. Presented with Permission)<strong><br /></strong></p>\r\n<p>When one judge overturned the will of more than seven million Californians last week (Aug.04, 2010) in <em>Perry vs. Schwarzenegger</em>, he listed 80 supposed “findings of fact” (FF) as evidence that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Many of those 80 findings are not facts at all. They’re lies or distortions.</p>\r\n<p>Before we address the top ten false “facts” asserted by Judge Vaughn Walker, there is one <em>real</em> fact in his opinion that defeats the entire case for his opinion. Here it is: <br />“The evidence at trial shows that marriage in the United States traditionally has not been open to same-sex couples.”</p>\r\n<p>Since that fact is unquestionably true, how can Judge Walker honestly declare that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment? Certainly no one in 1868 intended the Fourteenth Amendment to redefine marriage. Only the most tyrannical form of judicial activism can get Judge Walker to his conclusion.</p>\r\n<p>Second, Prop 8 doesn’t violate the Fourteenth Amendment because every person in America already has equal marriage rights. We’re all playing by the same rules—we all have the same right to marry any non-related adult of the opposite sex. Those rules do not deny anyone “equal protection of the laws” because the qualifications to enter a marriage apply equally to everyone—every adult person has the same right to marry.</p>\r\n<p>What about homosexuals? That leads us to Judge Walker’s first false “fact.”</p>\r\n','\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"843\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"23\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>1.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"12\"> </td>\r\n<td width=\"780\">\r\n<p><strong>“Sexual orientation is fundamental to a person’s identity and is a distinguishing characteristic that defines gays and lesbians as a discrete group.”</strong> (FF 44) This is the most important of the false facts because Walker’s entire case collapses without it. The “fact” is false because it ignores the difference between <em>desires</em> and <em>behavior</em>.</p>\r\n<p>Having certain sexual desires—whether you were “born” with them or acquired them sometime in life—does not mean that <em>you</em> are being discriminated against if the law doesn’t allow the <em>behavior</em> you desire. Good laws discriminate against behavior. They do not discriminate against people. If Walker’s false “fact” was a real fact, we’d have to redefine marriage to include not just same sex couples, but also relatives, multiple partners, children or any other sexual relationship people desire. After all, those are “sexual orientations” too.</p>\r\n<p>In other words, there should be no legal class of “gay” or “straight,” just a legal class called “person.” And it doesn’t matter whether persons desire sex with the same or opposite sex, or whether they desire sex with children, parents, multiple partners or farm animals. What matters is whether the <em>behavior</em> desired is something the country should prohibit, permit or promote. And that’s a job for the people, not judges.<br /><br /></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"10\"> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>2.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><strong>“California has no interest in asking gays and lesbians to change their sexual orientation or in reducing the number of gays and lesbians in California.” </strong>(FF 47) Other than helping them avoid disease and live longer, absolutely no reason. As I document <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Correct-Politically-Same-Sex-Marriage-Everyone/dp/1607081628/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1239070012&amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>, health problems are higher and life spans shorter for homosexuals. This has touched me personally (and perhaps someone you know as well)—a childhood friend of mine died from AIDS at the age of 36. How is it wise public policy to endorse behavior that leads to such tragic results? That’s exactly what same-sex marriage does—it endorses homosexual behavior, which results in serious health problems and shorter life spans. Permitting unhealthy behavior is one thing, but endorsing it is quite another.</p>\r\n<p>But won’t same-sex marriage help reduce gay health issues? Not likely. See Judge Walker’s next false fact.<br /><br /></p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>3.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td><strong>“Same-sex couples are identical to opposite-sex couples in the characteristics relevant to the ability to form successful marital unions.”</strong> (FF 48) What does “successful” mean? It has nothing to do with children according to Judge Walker. In his “the stork brings children” universe, marriage is merely about coupling; procreation is just incidental to it. He thinks a “successful” marriage is merely about commitment, but he can’t even support <em>that</em> case. In another instance of special pleading, Judge Walker ignores the evidence that at least half of committed homosexual relationships are open as even the <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29sfmetro.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times</em></a> reported. (Other studies found even higher rates of promiscuity and infidelity.) This is so well known it’s a travesty that Judge Walker claims exactly the opposite is true. The <em>Times</em> reported, “None of this is news in the gay community, but few will speak publicly about it. Of the dozen people in open relationships contacted for this column, no one would agree to use his or her full name, citing privacy concerns. They also worried that discussing the subject could undermine the legal fight for same-sex marriage.” Maybe Judge Walker was worried too, and that’s why he didn’t bother mentioning this real fact with his false facts.<br /><br /></td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>4.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td><strong>“Permitting same-sex couples to marry will not affect the number of opposite-sex couples who marry, divorce, cohabit, have children outside of marriage or otherwise affect the stability of opposite-sex marriages.” (FF 55)</strong>Judge Walker cites just four years of data from Massachusetts to make that sweeping conclusion about the most important relationship in human civilization. The truth is that <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Correct-Politically-Same-Sex-Marriage-Everyone/dp/1607081628/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2\" target=\"_blank\">evidence from other countries</a> over a much longer period shows a mutually reinforcing relationship between same-sex marriage and illegitimacy. And the disastrous results of 40 years of liberalized divorce laws show how monumentally important marriage laws are to the health of marriages, children, and the nation.<br /><br /></td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><strong>5.</strong></div>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td>\r\n<p><strong>“Proposition 8 does not affect the First Amendment rights of those opposed to marriage for same-sex couples.”</strong>(FF 62) It’s too bad Judge Walker didn’t look to <a href=\"http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html\" target=\"_blank\">evidence from Massachusetts</a> for this false fact. If he had he would have seen that court-imposed same-sex marriage <em>has</em> severely affected First Amendment rights. Same sex marriage may not affect heterosexual marriage behavior quickly, but it certainly affects the free exercise of religion very quickly.</p>\r\n<p>Parents in Massachusetts now have no right to know when their children are being taught homosexuality in grades as low as Kindergarten, neither can they opt their kids out (one parent was even jailed overnight for protesting this). Businesses are now <em>forced</em> to give benefits to same-sex couples regardless of any moral or religious objection the business owner may have. The government also ordered Catholic Charities to give children to homosexuals wanting to adopt. As a result, Catholic Charities closed their adoption agency rather than submit to an immoral order. Unfortunately, children are again the victims of the morality that comes with same-sex marriage.</p>\r\n<p>“But you can’t legislate morality!” some say. Nonsense. Not only do all laws legislate morality, sometimes <em>immorality</em> is imposed by judges against the will of the people and in violation of religious rights. There is no neutral ground here. Either we will have freedom of religion and conscience, or we will be forced to adhere to the whims of judges who declare that their own distorted view of morality supersedes our rights—rights that our founders declared self-evident.</p>\r\n<p>Think I’m overreacting? If this decision survives and nullifies all democratically decided laws in the 45 states that preserve natural marriage, religious rights violations in Massachusetts will go nationwide. In fact, it’s poised to happen already at the federal level. President Obama recently appointed gay activist Chai Feldblum to the EEOC. Speaking of the inevitable conflict between religious rights and so-called gay rights, Feldblum said, “I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.”</p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p>Printer Friendly Version (PDF) <a href=\"http://theoakinitiative.org/pdfs/rt_3_514296.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here</a></p>',1,20,0,78,'2010-12-06 14:02:56',63,'Submitted by The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:05:02',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2010-12-06 14:02:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,56,'','',0,449,'robots=\nauthor=');

INSERT INTO `jos_content` VALUES (432,'IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 1','if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-just-study-history','','<h2><span><strong>William Wallace</strong>:[seeing the spirit of his wife] <em>I\'m dreaming</em>. <br /><strong>Murron</strong>: <em>Yes, you are. And you must wake</em>. <br /><strong>William Wallace</strong>: [pause] <em>I don\'t want to wake. I want to stay here with you</em>.</span></h2>\r\n<div>-Braveheart</div>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/change-hitler-obama-lenin-300x196.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">More and more people in the United States today are asking themselves: Just what are the similarities, if any, between today\'s Democrat Socialists and, so-called, \"Socialists\" of the past? Looking at a few excerpts from the following articles may help you to answer this question for yourself.</span></p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!</span>--</strong> Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichsparteitag, 1935</p>\r\n<h3>Fascism\'s Appeal to Youth</h3>\r\n<p>Fascism recognizes youth as a vulnerable and politically significant population. In the 1920s and 1930s, fascist parties promised young people not only jobs and educational opportunities, but also a divine mission–to be the leaders of a revolutionary movement that would purify the nation. The fascists promoted a cult of the youthful, featuring young heroes in their music, film and literature, rejecting the ruling elite as cynical and complacent, and emphasizing the relative youthfulness of their own leaders. Fascism celebrated duty, loyalty and physical vitality, and challenged the young to use their natural energy, idealism and competitiveness for the good of the national community.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Fa-Gr/Fascist-Youth.html\">http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Fa-Gr/Fascist-Youth.html</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_19194194?source=rss\">Obama visits Denver to unveil plan to ease students\' debt load </a><br /><a href=\"http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=7433\">President Obama Visits FDU</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2011/112505.html\">First Lady Michelle Obama visits Oxford</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.ncsu.edu/features/2011/09/obama-visits-nc-state/\">Obama visits NC State</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-obama-to-visit-university-of-richmond-friday-20110907,0,2255814.story\">Obama to visit University of Richmond Friday</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/newsreleases/Pages/Obama-visit-10-2011.aspx\">President Obama to visit CU Denver on Oct. 26</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.nmu.edu/obama/obama_visit.shtml\">President Barack Obama Visits Northern Michigan University</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2011/summer/presidents-visit.shtml\">President Barack Obama launched a major manufacturing initiative today from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.osu.edu/obama_visit/\">President Obama Visits Ohio State</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/president-obama-visits-miami-dade-college-with-an-eye-on-2012/1166610\">President Obama visits Miami Dade College with an eye on 2012</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/politics/president-obama-visits-austin\">President spoke to University of Austin students about higher education</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/us/29land.html\">President Obama greeted supporters on Tuesday at a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.</a><br /><a href=\"http://live.psu.edu/story/51094\">President Barack Obama will visit Penn State\'s University Park campus on Thursday</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-obama-arcadia-pictures-030810,0,254225.photogallery\">Obama visits Arcadia University </a><br /><a href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xji7iq_michelle-obama-visits-university-of-cape-town_news\">Michelle Obama Visits University of Cape Town</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.wfaa.com/news/politics/President-Obama-to-visit--130818483.html\">President Obama to visit Mesquite community college</a><br /><a href=\"http://obama.net/obama-visits-denver-talks-college-students/\">Obama Visits Denver, Talks to College Students</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/obama-to-visit-northern_n_872987.html\">WATCH: Obama To Visit Northern Virginia Community College </a><br /><a href=\"http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/obama-to-visit-golden-temple-college-in-amritsar-60045\">Obama to visit Golden Temple, college in Amritsar</a><br /><a href=\"http://uanews.org/node/36874\">President and Mrs. Obama to Visit UA Campus Wednesday</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.nowpublic.com/world/obama-visits-widener-university-chester-pa-0\">Obama Visits Widener University in Chester, PA </a><br /><a href=\"http://www.suite101.com/news/president-obama-to-visit-forsyth-tech-community-college-in-nc-a316535\">President Obama to Visit Forsyth Tech Community College in NC</a><br /><a href=\"http://keranews.org/post/president-obama-visits-eastfield-college\">President Obama Visits Eastfield College</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGZCWScrYY\">Barack Obama visits the University of Washington</a><br /><a href=\"http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/obama_visits_east_carolina_university\">Obama visits East Carolina University</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.duclarion.com/mobile/news/obama-visit-evokes-controversy-hope-for-local-college-students-1.2674280\">President Barack Obama unveiled a new executive order plan that will reduce monthly payments of student loans in a speech at the Auraria Campus last Wednesday</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2009/090211obama.htm\">First Lady Michelle Obama Visits Howard to Discuss Women\'s Roles</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.gtcc.edu/presidential-address.aspx\">GTCC, A Place Where The President Visited</a><br /><a href=\"http://the44diaries.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/first-lady-michelle-obama-visits-wayne-state-university-in-detroit/\">First Lady Michelle Obama Visits Wayne State University in Detroit</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2010/05/031.shtml\">President Obama to visit WMU campus</a><br /><a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/26/obama-taps-taxpayers-for-student-stimulus/\">Obama Taps Taxpayers For Student Stimulus</a><br /><br />For more listings, do a simple search on \"Obama visits university\"<br />Also do a search on \"Bush visits university\"</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<div>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Inside Obama\'s Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax<br />| from the this-is-politics-in-the-future-and-i-am-sad dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 23, @13:28 (Communications)<br />| with 257 comments<br />| <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:https:/politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Hugh Pickens writes \"Brandon Rittiman reports that White House officials launched a Twitter campaign Tuesday to put pressure on Congress to reach a deal extending the payroll-tax cut. Using the Twitter hashtag #40dollars, the White House successfully got thousands of people to respond and explain what a $40 cut to each paycheck would mean to them personally. By Wednesday morning, the #40dollars hashtag started \'trending,\' which is what happens when Twitter\'s algorithms see a topic suddenly surge. It\'s not easy to create that kind of surge, but the White House has 2.5 million Twitter followers to call upon. Macon Phillips, the President\'s Director of Digital Strategy, says his team has managed to get a few Twitter topics to rise to the level of \'trending\' before” most notably when they began tweeting about the death of Osama bin Laden. \'What\'s very important about a social-media campaign like this is that regular people are making the point about how this would affect them. It\'s not us here in Washington trying to argue on their behalf.\' says Phillips. \'The #40dollars campaign puts a face on that amount to demonstrate the payroll tax cut\'s real-world impact on middle-class families.\'\" <br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:https:/politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/hughpickens.com/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://hughpickens.com/</span></span></a><br />1. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/www.9news.com/news/article/237275/339/Inside-the-White-Houses-Twitter-blitz-on-payroll-tax\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.9news.com/news/article/237275/339/Inside-the-White-Houses-Twitter-blitz-on-payroll-tax</span></span></a><br />2. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/white-house-launches-40dollars-twitter-campaign-to-win-payroll-tax-debate/2011/12/21/gIQAbyL78O_blog.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/white-house-launches-40dollars-twitter-campaign-to-win-payroll-tax-debate/2011/12/21/gIQAbyL78O_blog.html</span></span></a><br />3. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Phillips\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Phillips</span></span></a><br />4. <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/mashable.com/2011/12/21/white-house-twitter-payroll-tax/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/white-house-twitter-payroll-tax/</span></span></a></div>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><strong>New Dictionary of the History of Ideas | 2005 | Griffin, Roger | Copyright</strong></p>\r\n<p><br /><strong>FASCISM.<br /></strong><br />For the purposes of this article, fascism will be treated as a politicized and revolutionary form of ultranationalism bent on mobilizing all remaining \"healthy\" social and political energies to resist the perceived onslaught of decadence so as to achieve the goal of a regenerated national community. It is a project that involves the rebirth (palingenesis) of both the political system and the social and moral culture that underpins it...</p>\r\n<p> <a href=\"http://theuniversityofobama.com/\"><img src=\"images/stories/uobama444.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>...Schools, universities, youth and leisure organizations, mass rallies, news-reels, newspapers, sporting events, national holidays, local festivals, the organization of work, business, and industry, in fact any context in which the public sphere impinged on the private became sites for the further integration of the individual into the national community. In this sense the deepest level of the fascist revolution was not political or military, but cultural.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/fascism.aspx\">http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/fascism.aspx</a></p>\r\n<h3>Encyclopedia.com</h3>\r\n<p>\r\n<hr />\r\nNovember 7, 2005<br /><strong>Communism Over; Now Fascism<br /></strong><br />Yuri Mamchur</p>\r\n<p><br />Moscow Friday, November 4, 2005 - 5,000 people paraded through downtown, carrying icons of Jesus Christ among other symbols. There was no violence, a great attitude, and very loud shouts of \"Seig Heil\", \"Heil Hitler\", along with \"Russia for Russians\", \"Glory to Russia, Russians rise!\",\" Russia is everything, everything else is nothing\". \"God, this is just like Germany in 1933,\" -- said one old lady observing the march, while taking her dog for a walk in downtown park, - \"didn\'t we fight exactly this stuff?\"</p>\r\n<h3>Source: Russia Blog</h3>\r\n<h3><a href=\"http://www.russiablog.org/2005/11/communism_over_now_fascism.php\"><strong>http://www.russiablog.org/2005/11/communism_over_now_fascism.php</strong></a></h3>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=512:if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-study-history-part-2&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Go to \"IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 2\"</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=513:if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-study-history-part-2&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Go to \"IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 3\"</a></p>','',1,17,0,74,'2011-12-25 22:53:32',62,'From the Repeating History Department','2012-03-11 23:28:26',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-25 22:53:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',17,0,21,'','',0,861,'robots=\nauthor='),(513,'IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 3','if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-study-history-part-2','','<h3><strong>A History of the Young Communist League, USA</strong></h3>\r\n<div>Author: Tony Pecinovsky</div>\r\n<div>In 1970, as more and more young people were understanding the central role of the working class in social change, the Young Workers Liberation League (YWLL) was formed. The YWLL was based on two basic concepts. The first was the fight against oppression and a need to unify all youth, across racial and ethnic lines. The second was the strategy of organizing young workers around issues of wages, job security, discrimination in the work place and peace; and show the relationship these struggles had to the working class and socialism.<br /><br />Repression, war, militarism and the prospect of dying for US imperialist aggression in Vietnam was the only future capitalist society offered American youth. But the YWLL offered something else, a future free of poverty, racism, sexism, exploitation and war.<br /><br />Shortly after its founding the YWLL was invited, by the Ho Chi Minh Working Youth Union to visit Vietnam, see areas destroyed by US bombing and exchange experiences with Vietnamese youth. In 1970 half a million US troops were still in Vietnam. Between 200 and 400 US soldiers, and thousands of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians, were being killed every week. And the war was costing US taxpayers $30 billion a year, diverting money from social programs like education, healthcare and social security.<br /><br />The YWLL played a key role in the growing anti-war movement in the 1970\\\'s, always emphasizing labor\\\'s material interest in ending the war. In 1974, the peace majority in the US and the heroic people of Vietnam forced the US to withdraw from Vietnam.<br /><br />Under the Nixon Administration youth were branded as criminals and access to higher education was a luxury few could afford. In this period the YWLL spearheaded the struggle for youth jobs at union wages, affirmative action and academic freedom. It helped to make the connection between jobs and peace, social needs and military spending, racism and budget cuts.<br /><br />The YWLL organized among young workers, especially those in basic industry, in its ranks, and reflected the diverse, multi-ethnic, multiracial working class. A centerpiece of Marxist-Leninist ideology is internationalism and the YWLL always struggled against imperialism around the world.<br /><br />On September 4, 1970 Allende was elected President of Chile. During this period the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) held a regional youth conference in Chile. The YWLL sent a delegation and were invited to a reception with President Allende, just weeks before the US backed coup by fascist general Augusto Pinochet. After the bloody overthrow the YWLL played a leading role in campus organizing, sponsoring speakers and forming a broad-based community, religious, labor and student solidarity movement.<br /><br />During the labor and social upheavals of the 1970\\\'s the YWLL was a strong organizer of youth. But the election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1979 marked a huge setback to youth, working people and peace worldwide. In 1983, as the Reagan Administration was cutting more and more money from social programs and diverting it into the military budget to fight the \\\"Evil Empire\\\", the YWLL set about re-organizing itself into a Marxist-Leninist youth organization, the Young Communist League (YCL).</div>\r\n<div><strong>Young Communist League USA</strong></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/20/1/278/\">http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/20/1/278/</a></div>\r\n<hr />\r\n<h3><strong>SOURCE: \"IDEAS\" WEBPAGE, YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE USA (YCLUSA)</strong></h3>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/section-standard\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http://yclusa.org/section-standard</span></span></a></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><a href=\"article/articleview/1998/1/6/\"><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/437-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"87\" /></a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1998/1/6/\">Attacks on protesters backfire as Occupy raises the heat on banks</a></div>\r\n<div>by John Wojcik, 31.10.2011</div>\r\n<!-- START Sociable Links --><!-- END Sociable links -->\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Outrage over a Marine who survived enemy fire only to be wounded by Oakland, Calif., police at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration has elicited more sympathy for the movement nationally as protesters turn up the heat on banks.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"48%\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1996/1/6/\">This is Britain\'s zombie generation</a></div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Ann Czernik asks why wealthy Harrogate has welcomed the new Jarrow march with as much enthusiasm as their 1936 forebears<br /><br />When the Jarrow marchers arrived in Harrogate 75 years ago it was reported that they were welcomed \"like a relief column raising a siege.\"</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<img src=\"http://yclusa.org/images/path-arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"12\" height=\"10\" /><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1996/1/6/\">More</a> | <a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/archive/6/\">Latest News</a><br /><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/images/1x1.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"4\" height=\"8\" /><br /></td>\r\n<td width=\"2%\"><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/images/1x1.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"4\" height=\"10\" /></td>\r\n<td width=\"48%\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1995/1/6/\">Over 800 youth converge in Minneapolis for AFL-CIO Next Up Summit</a></div>\r\n<table style=\"width: 1%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"right\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1995/1/6/\"><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/436-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>MINNEAPOLIS - This year\'s AFL-CIO Next Up Summit, held here Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, had a very different flavor. Unlike the 2010 summit, this conference was lead and organized by young union members from across the country.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<img src=\"http://yclusa.org/images/path-arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"12\" height=\"10\" /><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1995/1/6/\">More</a> | <a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/archive/6/\">Latest News</a><br /><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/images/1x1.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"4\" height=\"8\" /><br /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1994/1/6/\"><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/435-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" /></a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1994/1/6/\">YCL calls for members to join in national actions! Find one near you here!</a></div>\r\n<div>by YCL, 06.10.2011</div>\r\n<!-- START Sociable Links --><!-- END Sociable links -->\r\n<div>\r\n<div>All over the country, youth are talking about the immediate need to redistribute wealth and political power from the hands of a few to the working class majority.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1992/1/6/\"><img src=\"http://yclusa.org/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/434-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" /></a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1992/1/6/\">America\'s kids tell their stories from their Wall Street camp</a></div>\r\n<div>by Roberta Wood, 04.10.2011</div>\r\n<!-- START Sociable Links --><!-- END Sociable links -->\r\n<div>\r\n<div>NEW YORK CITY -- \"I figured if I\'m going to be homeless, I might as well be homeless for a good reason,\" said Matt Kitchens. The Alabama native is one of the hundreds of restless youth Occupying Wall Street, determined that their voices be heard.</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=432:if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-just-study-history&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Go to \"IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 1\"</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=512:if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-study-history-part-2&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Go to \"IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 2\"</a></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>{jcomments on}</div>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-11 23:19:03',62,'Various','2012-03-11 23:31:57',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-11 23:19:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,23,'','',0,1126,'robots=\nauthor='),(434,'The Relevance of a 224 Year Old Constitution','the-relevance-of-a-224-year-old-constitution','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-18\"><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /></a>An ongoing argument over modern political and social issues centers on whether the U.S. Constitution is relevant in today’s world. With all the advancements in technology, communication, transportation, commerce, and in the medical field, some argue that the Founding Fathers could not have foreseen what would be necessary for the United States to remain a healthy society 224 years in the future.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    Such arguments are generally connected to an agenda for social entitlement and the redistribution of wealth. The original intent of the U.S. Constitution stands in the way of advancing their agenda.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    In spite of arguments over our Constitution’s modern relevance, the Founding Fathers did consider our constitutional republic form of government in an advancing world of diverse breakthroughs. For example, Benjamin Franklin articulated how quickly the world could change based on inventions and personally proved it with the success of his own creative experiments.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    Yet, when forming the Constitution, the framers did NOT construct its survival based on any advancement in technologies or society. They wrote the restrictive forces of the Constitution on something far more predictable…the heart of man. They understood that times would change, and that breakthroughs would come in many forms and on many levels. They therefore constructed the Constitution on one thing that they knew would not change, and that is human nature.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    The U.S. Constitution is relevant today because a person or a group of people will just as quickly oppress a culture in 2011 as they would in the 1780s. The Constitution is NOT built in a way to ensure people’s rights to access future provisions, but to protect people in any time period from the ruthlessness and oppressive nature of both individuals and governments. </p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    If we continue to eradicate and corrode the authority and restraints of the U.S. Constitution, regardless of our justifications and reasons, then we will fall under the tyrannical control of a leader or an oppressive government. The lessons of both ancient and modern history guarantee this.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    Thomas Jefferson said, \"<em style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution</em>\". That is what the Constitution is really about. It gives freedom from oppression by those in authority. When people say that our Constitution is obsolete based on current world circumstances, then they are usually ignorant of its genius and function.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">     When we get into discussion with people regarding the modern relevance of the U.S. Constitution in regards to the needs of the American citizen, then we need to know how to respond intelligently. Many of the advancing ideologies people argue are based more in socialism than liberty. They tend to advocate that every human has a right to a job, a home, health insurance, home internet access, equal pay and benefits, and the list goes on.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    These are NOT unalienable rights, nor is it what Americans supported and fought for in the late 1700s. To be clear, unalienable rights are rights that are unable to be alienated, given up, or transferred to someone else. They come from God, and no man or government can rightly give them or take them away. Some examples of unalienable rights are life; liberty; self-government; to bear arms; to purchase, develop and dispose of property; make personal choices; free conscience; choice of profession; choice of a mate; to assemble; to petition; to free speech; to a free press; to the fruits of one’s labor; to privacy; to provide personal security; to a fair trial; of free association; and to contract.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    The Constitution guarantees citizens the right to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">equal opportunities</em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>to pursue and establish a better lifestyle, not the right to that lifestyle without personal effort and investment. Today, our Constitution is under attack more than ever. If we do not have a restoration of Constitutional authority and restraint upon our government, then our children and grandchildren will not only be poor… they will be oppressed.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">    Remember that we the people are the authority in America. We only lend our authority to representatives and to our government. We must continue to educate ourselves on the truth and stand for what is right.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-shadow: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-18\">Goto The Oak Initiative&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,20,0,78,'2011-12-31 22:38:07',62,'Hombre Liggett as posted in The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:09:40',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2011-12-31 22:38:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,64,'','',0,365,'robots=\nauthor='),(435,'Why the West Won\'t Hear about Persecution','why-the-west-wont-hear-about-persecution','','<p class=\"adjusted\">WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hundreds of millions of Christians have suffered discrimination or even persecution in lands as diverse as China and India, but mostly in countries where Islam is the top religion.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">Despite this, persecution of Christians is one topic the American public doesn\'t hear much about. One possible reason: an anti-Christian bias among Western elites.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">These Western elites often control the media and educational institutions that spread information to the general public.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">But they rarely cover or discuss the reality that Christians may well be the most persecuted religious group on the planet. It has been estimated that Christians number some 2.2 billion people. Harassment of them can range from loss of life to loss of livelihood.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><strong>From Communists to Muslim Extremists</strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">Paul Marshall of the <a href=\"http://www.hudson.org/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Hudson Institute</span></span></a> has authored seven books on Christian persecution and discrimination.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"Including discrimination, you\'re talking 600, 700 million Christians,\" Marshall told CBN News.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"In about two-thirds of the world, Christians of one stripe or another face some sort of harassment,\" said Brian Grim, senior researcher at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">Persecution of Christians dates back to the time of Jesus and his disciples, but it is increasing rapidly in the new century. Christian journalist and author David Aikman touches upon this fact frequently in his work.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"Christians in innumerable countries are under huge amounts of pressure, either from the government or from the societies in which they find themselves,\" Aikman said.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">Throughout the 20th century, communist countries caused the most problems for Christians. Today, however, the fear and harassment has shifted to the Muslim world.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><a href=\"http://www.opendoorsusa.org/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Open Doors USA</span></span></a> tracks persecution around the world and publishes a watch list every January of the worst offenders.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"In this year\'s top 10, eight of those worst offenders are Islamic countries,\" Dr. Carl Moeller, Open Doors president and chief executive officer, told CBN News</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><strong>Iraq\'s \'Religicide\'</strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">Iraq made the top 10 list of offending countries because of the recent brutal attacks on Christians, including the massacre of 58 Christians in a Baghdad Catholic Church in October 2010.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"The level of brutality is almost unbelievable,\" Marshall said.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\">\"We\'re actually labelling it as \'religicide,\' as extremists there want to exterminate all Christians from the country of Iraq,\" Moeller added.</p>\r\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><a href=\"why-the-west-wont-hear-about-christian-persecution\">Read More on CBN Post &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-02 21:32:18',62,'CBN','2012-01-02 22:03:04',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-02 21:32:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,190,'','',0,130,'robots=\nauthor='),(436,'Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here\'s the text that says so','myth-busted-yes-the-ndaa-does-apply-to-americans-and-heres-the-text-that-says-so','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In the aftermath of the signing of the NDAA by the traitorous President Obama, some citizens remain completely hoodwinked by the language of the bill, running around the internet screaming that the law \"does not apply to American citizens.\"<br /><br />This is, naturally, part of the side effect of having such a dumbed-down education system where people can\'t even parse the English language anymore. If you read the bill and<strong>understand what it says</strong>, it clearly offers absolutely no protections of U.S. citizens. In fact, it affirms that Americans are subjected to indefinite detainment under \"existing authorities.\"<br /><br />Let\'s parse it intelligently, shall we?<br /><br />First off, the offending section of the bill that used to be called 1031 was moved to 1021. Here is the title:<br /><br />(<a href=\"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;\">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-...</a>)<br /><br /><strong>SEC. 1021. AFFIRMATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES TO DETAIN COVERED PERSONS PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE.</strong><br /><br />The two relevant sections to consider are titled and stated as follows;<br /><br /><strong>(d) CONSTRUCTION. -- Nothing in this section is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force.</strong><br /><br />By PARSING the language here, we must split it into two sentences based on the \"or\" operator. This statement essentially means:<br /><br />• Nothing in this section is intended to LIMIT the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force.<br /><br />• Nothing in this section is intended to EXPAND the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force.<br /><br />In other words, this section places no limits whatsoever of the \"authority of the President\" to use military force (against American citizens). Keep that in mind as you read the next section:<span><br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_detainment.html#ixzz1iQUmpng2\">Read more on Natural News Post &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-01-03 19:47:14',62,'Posted on Natural News','2012-03-25 23:35:34',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-03 19:47:14','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,52,'','',0,119,'robots=\nauthor='),(437,'Why Are Pastors Afraid to Speak Out on Politics?','why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-out-on-politics','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">An untapped resource to turn America around is found in the tens of thousands of churches in America. Many Christians don’t vote and their pastors encourage them to avoid politics. Then there are other churches where pastors are fearful of government reprisals, mostly from the IRS at the prompting of groups like the ACLU.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Keeping Christians from being involved beyond the church building and Sunday worship hour is becoming more common. But ever since Christians become politically active in the mid 1970s, secularists have gotten more vocal and strident. “That [Christians] may rant and rave against humanism and feminism and any other ‘ism’ on Sunday, but come Monday the children belong in school.”[<a id=\"identifier_0_2953\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/#footnote_0_2953\" title=\"Rheta Grimsley Johnson, “‘People’ vs. fundamentalists,” The Marietta Daily Journal (September 2, 1986), 4A.\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1</span></a>]</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Tyrannical regimes are most fearful of organizations that don’t easily acquiesce to authority. We’re seeing this take place in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/01/nearly-50-shouwang-house-church-members.html\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">China</span></a>. “On the first Sunday of 2012, nearly 50 members of Shouwang Church in Beijing were detained following the church’s decision to continue its outdoor worship services that began in April, ChinaAid has learned.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The latest attempt in the United States at intimidation is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/2944/christian-applicant-denied-charter-school-because-of-faith/\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pastor Charles Patrick</span></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>of the Sunago Christian Fellowship Church who applied for the right to open a charter school. The application was denied because the applicant was a pastor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">It wasn’t that long ago in a nation not that far away that Christianity was seen as a threat to the governing authorities. Over time, churches in Nazi German were “confined as far as possible to the performance of narrowly religious functions, and even within this narrow sphere were subjected to as many hindrances as the Nazis dared to impose.” This is the evaluation of a 1945 report published by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA. It was called<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches</em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>and was prepared for the War Crimes Staff. It offered the following summary: “This study describes, with illustrative factual evidence, Nazi purposes, policies and methods of persecuting the Christian Churches in Germany and occupied Europe.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><span><br />Read more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3\" style=\"color: #003399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why are Pastors Afraid to Speak about Politics? | Godfather Politics</span></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3\" style=\"color: #003399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3</span></a></span></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',-2,1,0,1,'2012-01-04 02:41:27',62,'Posted on Godfather Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-04 02:41:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,0,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(439,'63 Year Old Cartoon Depicts America Today','63-year-old-cartoon-depicts-america-today','','<p>One of the most accurate depictions of America today was a cartoon made in 1948 by the Extension Department of Harding College. The cartoon, entitled Make Mine Freedom, shows what happens when an unsuspecting society sells their freedoms for ‘ism’. Watch for yourself and see just how close this 63 year old cartoon describes America today as it is being run by the liberals of both parties.<br /><br /> {source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/mVh75ylAUXY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"63 Year Old Cartoon Depicts America Today | Godfather Politics http:/godfatherpolitics.com/1006/63-year-old-cartoon-depicts-america-today/#ixzz1iSK0EZdt\">Read more on Godfather Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-04 03:14:00',62,'As posted on Godfather Politics','2012-01-04 03:20:25',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-04 03:14:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,188,'','',0,125,'robots=\nauthor='),(438,'Why Are Pastors Afraid to Speak Out on Politics?','why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-out-on-politics','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">An untapped resource to turn America around is found in the tens of thousands of churches in America. Many Christians don’t vote and their pastors encourage them to avoid politics. Then there are other churches where pastors are fearful of government reprisals, mostly from the IRS at the prompting of groups like the ACLU.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Keeping Christians from being involved beyond the church building and Sunday worship hour is becoming more common. But ever since Christians become politically active in the mid 1970s, secularists have gotten more vocal and strident. “That [Christians] may rant and rave against humanism and feminism and any other ‘ism’ on Sunday, but come Monday the children belong in school.”[<a id=\"identifier_0_2953\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" href=\"#footnote_0_2953\" title=\"Rheta Grimsley Johnson, “‘People’ vs. fundamentalists,” The Marietta Daily Journal (September 2, 1986), 4A.\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1</span></a>]</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Tyrannical regimes are most fearful of organizations that don’t easily acquiesce to authority. We’re seeing this take place in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/01/nearly-50-shouwang-house-church-members.html\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">China</span></a>. “On the first Sunday of 2012, nearly 50 members of Shouwang Church in Beijing were detained following the church’s decision to continue its outdoor worship services that began in April, ChinaAid has learned.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The latest attempt in the United States at intimidation is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"2944/christian-applicant-denied-charter-school-because-of-faith/\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pastor Charles Patrick</span></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>of the Sunago Christian Fellowship Church who applied for the right to open a charter school. The application was denied because the applicant was a pastor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">It wasn’t that long ago in a nation not that far away that Christianity was seen as a threat to the governing authorities. Over time, churches in Nazi German were “confined as far as possible to the performance of narrowly religious functions, and even within this narrow sphere were subjected to as many hindrances as the Nazis dared to impose.” This is the evaluation of a 1945 report published by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA. It was called<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches</em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>and was prepared for the War Crimes Staff. It offered the following summary: “This study describes, with illustrative factual evidence, Nazi purposes, policies and methods of persecuting the Christian Churches in Germany and occupied Europe.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><span><br />Read more:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3\" style=\"color: #003399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why are Pastors Afraid to Speak about Politics? | Godfather Politics</span></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3\" style=\"color: #003399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http://godfatherpolitics.com/2953/why-are-pastors-afraid-to-speak-about-politics/#ixzz1iSAzlHc3</span></a></span></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-04 02:41:27',62,'Posted on Godfather Politics','2012-01-04 02:46:18',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-04 02:41:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,189,'','',0,165,'robots=\nauthor='),(440,'A Year For The Ages','a-year-for-the-ages','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px; font-family: verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Week 1, 2012<br /><br />     The New Year is always a time for hope, and hope is one of the most powerful forces. It is often a time when we resolve to fulfill certain vows like getting in shape, spending more time with family, or being faithful to certain spiritual disciplines like more prayer or Bible study. These often help people focus enough to actually accomplish them, certainly a good thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />     This is the year the Mayan calendar, which indicated it would be the end of the world. As the Apostle Paul wrote about the Cretan prophets, that they were right about what they were saying about the Cretans, even false prophets can be right about some things. In a way, I think the Mayan calendar is right—this year will mark the end of this world<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">as we know it</span>.<br /><br />     I am not prophesying that this year will be the end of the world, or the end of the age, or the second coming of Christ. I am saying radical changes are coming to the whole world this year. Whether they turn out for good or bad will depend more on the body of Christ than any other factor. This year will be the greatest opportunity we’ve had, not just in our generation, but maybe ever. Times of change are usually steered by a small number of people, and if just a small part of the body of Christ wakes up and gets engaged, the impact this year can be greater than ever.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  <a href=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000117142/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Word_for_the/2012/A_Year_For.aspx?utm_source=The+MorningStar+Ministries+eNewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=32280cf8fa-eNewsletter_January_05_201211_3_2011&amp;utm_medium=email\">Click to Read More at Morningstar Ministries &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></span></span></p>','',1,19,0,76,'2012-01-05 18:41:51',62,'Rick Joyner Morningstar Ministries','2012-02-04 13:09:09',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-05 18:41:51','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,12,'','',0,524,'robots=\nauthor='),(441,'Question of the Day?','question-of-the-day','','<h1>Question of the Day?</h1>\r\n<h1><img src=\"images/stories/darkness_v_light.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"DARKNESS VS LIGHT\" /></h1>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>{jcomments on}</p>','',1,14,0,71,'2012-01-06 14:37:31',62,'EdG','2012-01-06 15:11:03',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-06 14:37:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',6,0,5,'','',0,527,'robots=\nauthor='),(442,'All-American comic book hosts ‘gay’ wedding','all-american-comic-book-hosts-gay-wedding','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"> </span><span class=\"keywordresultextras\"> <img src=\"images/stories/fruit/nofruitsandnuts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"No Fruits and Nuts\" width=\"68\" height=\"69\" /></span></p>\r\n<p> Less than a year after the all-American comic book Archie announced it was adding a homosexual character to the cast of <img src=\"images/stories/120106archie.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" align=\"right\" />Jughead, Veronica, Betty and the gang, a new issue is hitting newsstands celebrating that character’s same-sex “marriage.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">“Life with Archie No. 16? hits newsstands next week, featuring the interracial, same-sex wedding of character Lt. Kevin Keller, a white American soldier wounded in Iraq, and Clay Walker, the black physical therapist who helped him recover.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Archie Comics CEO Jonathan Goldwater told CNN it’s part of a concerted effort to make Archie Andrews’ universe mirror the diversity and complexity of today’s world.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">“Riverdale, Archie and the gang are set in high school, and we ran a risk, unless we reflect what’s going on with kids today in the real world, of becoming irrelevant,” said Goldwater, the son of Archie creator John L. Goldwater.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/2012/01/all-american-comic-book-hosts-‘gay’-wedding/\">GOTO Conservative.byte.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<h2>Here\'s the Good News: There is hope in God for those who are engaged in a homosexual lifestyle.</h2>\r\n<p>Deviant societies call bad behaviour good. Those who engage in bad behaviour, in this case the homosexual lifestyle, are told it is their legal \"right\". Practicing homosexuals obtain their legal rights from those who desire their political support. Devious lawyers and corrupt politicians encourage people to cast off moral restraint in hopes of gaining their vote. In his book , \"Lift Up Your Heart\", Fulton Sheen described modern society this way: <em>\"Unable to live by the old mores, they changed the rules to fit their new behaviour\"</em> (paraphrasing mine).</p>\r\n<p>Do not be fooled (or surprised) by societal, or \"lawful\", approval of aberrant behaviour. Societal approval and/or judicial approval is by design a balm, albeit conterfeit, for a guilty conscience. The \"conscience\" is the spiritual and psychological mechanism God uses to lead people back to the Truth. Unless the conscience has been nullified, we turn to God in sorrow after doing something we, intuitively, know is wrong. Again I say, do not be fooled.</p>\r\n<h2>For those seeking freedom from the bondage of homosexuality, here is understanding and a great promise:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"passage/?search=Matthew+19:12&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 19:12</span></strong></span></a><br />For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother\'s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven\'s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.<br /><br /><a href=\"passage/?search=Isaiah+56:4-5&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 56:4-5</span></strong></span></a><br /><sup id=\"en-KJV-18758\" class=\"versenum\">4</sup>For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; <sup id=\"en-KJV-18759\" class=\"versenum\">5</sup>Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</p>\r\n<h2>For those who lead these astray:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"passage/?search=Matthew+18:6&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 18:6</span></span></strong></a><br />But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"passage/?search=Isaiah+5:20&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 5:20</span></span></strong></a><br />Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-08 15:57:37',62,'Article posted on Consevative.byte.com, comments by Jack Brake','2012-02-02 14:31:43',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-08 15:57:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',14,0,187,'','',0,289,'robots=\nauthor='),(443,'AP/Washington Post Article November 2, 1922','global-warming','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/ap_washingtonpostglobalwarming.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Global Warming\" title=\"Washington Post Article November 2, 1922.\" /></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-08 19:13:15',62,'Washington Post, November 2, 1922','2012-01-08 19:25:03',62,62,'2012-03-10 01:45:53','2012-01-08 19:13:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,186,'','',0,3662,'robots=\nauthor='),(444,'Obama guts military but gives raises to bureaucrats','obama-guts-military-but-gives-raises-to-bureaucrats','','<p>Hard facts ought to prevail where American security is concerned. This applies equally whether the issue at hand is the geopolitical consequences of ill-advised defense cuts or the possibility that waste and fraud in military procurement might result in the deaths of American soldiers. It is in that spirit that we view President Obama\'s announcement last week at the Pentagon of his new national defense doctrine. While there will be much more to say here in the future, two points stand out for now.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>Obama could say nothing like that because no such surrender has been tendered, and it is clear to anybody with open eyes that the aggressors in the War on Terror are -- Osama bin Laden\'s death notwithstanding -- planning lethal new attacks on Americans here at home and American interests around the world. It is as though FDR had said in April 1943 that the tide of World War II was receding and therefore it was time to slash American defense spending because American pilots had shot down a plane carrying Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, chief planner behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. No matter that Japanese troops still occupied half of the Pacific and would continue to wage war against the U.S.</p>\r\n<p>Second, another Obama decision became public last week: The chief executive wants to give federal civil servants a half-percent pay raise. The absurdity of this proposal is clear in light of the excellent reporting of USA Today\'s Dennis Cauchon. In a series of stories in 2010 that drew emotional criticism from federal employee union leaders but no factual refutations, Cauchon used the government\'s own data to show that civil servants\' compensation has far outstripped that of private-sector workers. \"The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade,\" Cauchon found. \"Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009, while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.\" If anything, Obama should freeze federal pay indefinitely so private-sector employees can catch up with the bureaucrats.</p>\r\n<p>To be sure, the proposed raise is so small as to be largely symbolic, but that\'s precisely the point: It carries a vital re-election year message from Obama to a key sector of his base constituency -- unionized public employees. It tells them Obama will take care of them, even as he paves the way for firing half a million men and women in uniform who likely are not among his re-election supporters. The hard-eyed conclusion here must be that winning re-election is more important to Obama than assuring American security at home and abroad.</p>\r\n<br /><br /><a href=\"http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2012/01/obama-guts-military-gives-raises-bureaucrats/2074876#ixzz1iyf3TLOg\">Read more at the Washington Examiner&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-09 15:59:41',62,'The Washington Examner','2012-01-11 15:20:29',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-09 15:59:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,185,'','',0,254,'robots=\nauthor='),(448,'‘Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus’: Controversial Viral Video Logs 10 Million Hits in Four Days','why-i-hate-religion-but-love-jesus-controversial-viral-video-logs-10-million-hits-in-four-days','','<p><a href=\"theblaze.com\">TheBlaze.com&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"392\" height=\"221\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/1IAhDGYlpqY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-16 02:20:08',62,'Posted on The Blaze','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-01-16 02:24:20','2012-01-16 02:20:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,183,'','',0,246,'robots=\nauthor='),(449,'Did President Obama send a secret letter to Iran asking for talks?','did-president-obama-send-a-secret-letter-to-iran-asking-for-talks','','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><img src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" align=\"left\" />I am greatly burdened by today’s news. We must pray. We must intercede. We must go before the throne of grace and beseech God for help for the nation of Israel like never before. </span></p>\r\n<p>An Iranian member of Parliament has gone public with a claim that President Obama sent Iran’s leaders a secret letter asking for direct talks between Washington and Tehran. Relations between the countries have been broken since the hostage crisis during the Iranian revolution in 1979. There are no formal diplomatic ties, and there have been no direct communications for decades. The White House is refusing comment on the authenticity of the story, neither confirming nor denying Iran’s claims.</p>\r\n<p>The question we must ask if this story is true is: What is President Obama planning to tell Iran’s leaders in the talks? What will he offer them? What promises will he make? Will he undercut Israel in an attempt to avoid a war? Will he remain committed to America’s traditional support of the Jewish state and convey that message in uncertain terms? This is a critical moment for Israel. The entire Middle East is precariously balanced on the brink of war.</p>\r\n<p>The bottom line is that Genesis 12:3 is just as true today as it was thousands of years ago when God made the promise to Abraham. Every nation that blesses Israel will be blessed. Every nation that curses Israel will be cursed. I know which side I choose!</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/email/2012/0119.htm\">GOTO&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,22,0,80,'2012-01-19 22:53:42',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','2012-02-27 03:05:02',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-19 22:53:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,18,'','',0,649,'robots=\nauthor='),(450,'WARNING- New government regulations require us to HIDE taxes in your fares','warning-new-government-regulations-require-us-to-hide-taxes-in-your-fares','','<table class=\"main-content-wrap\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"350\" frame=\"border\" rules=\"none\" align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" bordercolor=\"#c2c2c2\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><!-- Main Newsletter Content Starts here. Add Modules below this line --><br /><!-- Module: Header -->\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"340\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td valign=\"top\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?MYGj6AXpwbSrPJ8Hn7h=1\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/promo/spirit_logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Spirit Airlines\" width=\"216\" align=\"top\" /></a></td>\r\n<td align=\"right\"> </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td align=\"right\"><br /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!-- End Module --><!-- Module: 1 column - image -->\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"340\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?JYGj6AXpwbSrPJ8Hn7k=11\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/promo/main_promo-warning.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Click here for sale information.\" width=\"340\" height=\"100\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!-- End Module --><a name=\"sale\"></a><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/module-divider.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"51\" /> <!-- Module: 1 column - text + images -->\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"320\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h1>WARNING:</h1>\r\n<h3>New government regulations require us to HIDE taxes in your fares.</h3>\r\n<p>This is not consumer-friendly or in your best interest. It\'s wrong and you shouldn\'t stand for it.</p>\r\n<p>Starting January 24, 2012, fares are distorted.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Why?</strong><br />Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation\'s latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government\'s taxes and fees in your fares.</p>\r\n<p>If the government can hide taxes in your airfares, then they can carry out their hidden agenda and quietly increase their taxes. (Yes, such talks are already underway.)</p>\r\n<p><strong>And if they can do it to the airline industry, what\'s next?</strong><br />As the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline, Spirit DOES NOT support this new USDOT mandate. We believe the better form of transparency is to break out costs so customers know exactly what they\'re buying.</p>\r\n<p><strong>What can you do to help stop this injustice?</strong><br />Join us in keeping government taxes and fees low and transparent by contacting your elected officials.</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td> </td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?KYGj6AXpwbSrPJ8Hn7r=21\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/congress.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"190\" height=\"57\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?U4Gj6AXpwbSrPJ8Hn7u=31\"><img src=\"http://www.spirit.com/content/images/email/senator.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"190\" height=\"56\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td align=\"right\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<!-- End Module --><!-- Module: 2 columns - right sidebar + content --><!-- End Module --><!-- Module: 1 column - text + images --><!-- End Module --><!-- Main Newsletter Content Ends here. --><br /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-25 00:39:00',62,'spirit airlines','2012-02-07 12:18:42',62,62,'2012-02-07 12:18:42','2012-01-25 00:39:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,182,'','',0,136,'robots=\nauthor='),(445,'Feds Now Monitoring Journalists','feds-now-monitoring-journalists','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/president_obama_change.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Change\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use <em style=\"font-style: italic;\">“traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">According to the Department of Homeland Security’s own definition of personal identifiable information, or PII, such data could consist of any intellect <em style=\"font-style: italic;\">“that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.” </em>Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Feds Now Monitoring Journalists\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on rt.com</span></strong></a></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-01-11 14:53:16',62,'posted on slashdot','2012-01-11 15:01:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-11 14:53:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,26,'','',0,196,'robots=\nauthor='),(446,'A Year Like No Other','a-year-like-no-other','','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva;\"><strong><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />A Year Like No Other</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Special Bulletin</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>by Rick Joyner </em></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><em> </em></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">This could be the best year of our lives. It will also likely be the most challenging. It\'s not either/or, but both. Many ultimate issues will be determined this year. They can be determined in a way that gets us back on the path of greater peace, stability, and prosperity. They could also be determined in a way that leads to the worst economic and political meltdown in history. Even if this is the case, if we\'re prepared to resist the tyranny that always seeks to gain entrance in such times, this could be a reset, a kind of jubilee that enables us to return to the foundations of our greatness and strength. <br /><br />One thing is for sure: We may die of a lot of things, but boredom will not be one of them! The Mayans saw 2012 as the end of the world. In a way they may be right-it could be the end of the world as we know it. Key civilization markers are pointing to this year being one of the great demarcation points in history. Major changes are inevitable-for good or bad. This is no doubt a time fraught with dangers but also opportunities. Are we ready?...<a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/special-bulletin-01-2012\"> read more </a></span></p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-01-12 00:45:49',62,'Rick Joyner--The Oak Initiative','2012-02-04 13:13:34',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-12 00:45:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,59,'','',0,350,'robots=\nauthor='),(447,'After all these years, mainstream media is still giving Obama a pass','after-all-these-years-mainstream-media-is-still-giving-obama-a-pass','','<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><img src=\"images/stories/logo-foxnews.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fox News\" align=\"left\" />Like the discovery of gambling in “Casablanca,” the mainstream media is shocked, shocked! to learn there is chaos and back-stabbing in the Obama <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/white-house.htm#r_src=ramp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">White House</span></span></a>. The media missed the story for the same reason Capt. <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/car-racing/formula-one-indy/renault.htm#r_src=ramp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Renault</span></span></a> missed gambling at Rick’s Cafe: They chose to.</p>\r\n<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">A cash kickback did the trick in the film. In real life, the Washington pack turns away from the truth for something less forgivable.<br />Three years after <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">President Obama</span></span></a> took office, much of the national press corps remains remarkably uncurious about what has gone wrong inside the land of Hope &amp; Change. Whether still mesmerized by hypnotic chants of “Yes we can” or afraid to risk access by asking unpleasant questions, the press largely has failed to pierce the secrecy surrounding all the president’s men, their conflicts and policies. </p>\r\n<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">It is a shameful dereliction, given that the Great Recession has left 25 million Americans out of work or looking for a full-time job, and the national debt has reached 100 percent of GDP. To state the obvious, no Republican president ever enjoyed a similar lack of scrutiny during a national emergency.</p>\r\n<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">Consider that nearly all of Obama’s economic team left in stunningly short order, yet no newspaper, magazine or broadcast news show connected the dots. Only author <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/reporters/ron-suskind.htm#r_src=ramp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Ron Suskind</span></span></a> late last year exposed the incompetence and bitter tensions behind the failed policies the team produced.</p>\r\n<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">Suskind’s “Confidence Men” showed that Obama’s lack of experience and overconfidence created a mash-up of male egos that caused top female <a id=\"KonaLink1\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/#\" style=\"POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline !important\"><span style=\"position: static; color: #0000ff; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"POSITION: relative; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; COLOR: blue !important; FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400\">staffers</span></span></a> to complain their views were not taken seriously. Suskind also showed how Treasury Secretary <a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/timothy-geithner.htm#r_src=ramp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Tim Geithner</span></span></a> ignored harebrained Obama decisions that would have rocked the financial world, such as effectively nationalizing Citibank.</p>\r\n<p style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><br /><br />Read more: <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/12/after-all-these-years-mainstream-media-is-still-giving-obama-pass/#ixzz1jLqgL100\" style=\"COLOR: #003399\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/12/after-all-these-years-mainstream-media-is-still-giving-obama-pass/#ixzz1jLqgL100</span></a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-13 15:10:42',62,'Michael Goodwin | FoxNews','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-01-13 15:16:28','2012-01-13 15:10:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,184,'','',0,1052,'robots=\nauthor='),(454,'Obama\'s Role in the Occupy Movement Exposed','obamas-role-in-the-occupy-movement-exposed','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/horowitz.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"David Horowitz\" title=\"David Horowitz\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />Dear Fellow Conservative,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://sm.responsebeacon.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTI3MDA0Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0yNjAwNSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTg4MDMmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg0OTAzJmVtYWlsaWQ9amJyYWtlQG5zY29uc3RydWN0LmNvbSZ1c2VyaWQ9MV8xMDA5NjkmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;2003&amp;&amp;&amp;https://secure.donationreport.com/donate.html?key=NY3NZAUUCOQA\" style=\"color: #003768; text-decoration: underline;\"></a><br /><br />Like a recurring bad dream, the Occupy movement returned this past weekend. This time there were no appeals about the downtrodden and left behind--only an outburst of violence and vile rhetoric that showed its true face. This is a movement that only pretends to be sympathetic to the victims of America\'s current economic problems. Actually, the Occupy gang is thankful for the opportunity these problems offer--an opportunity to bash America once again and everything it stands for.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br /><strong>The violence and chaos we saw over the weekend--highlighted by ritualized burning of the American flag and expressions of naked anti-Semitism--is what the Occupy movement is all about.</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>Never mind the 1% and the 99%: that\'s all window dressing for a movement that is and always has been 100% anti-American. I say \"always has been\" because the occupiers are umbilically connected to the Communist Party of the 1930s and the radical New Left of the 1960s. We have seen these people before. They come not to make America better, but to destroy it and to substitute their deformed totalitarian ideas for a system of government and an engine of economic power that have been the envy of the world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />And the worst thing about the Occupy movement that trashed our cities this past weekend is that it has been given the tacit go ahead by the White House.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><strong>Barack Obama has winked at the occupiers and let them know he\'s with them.</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>His administration and the Democratic Party own the Occupy movement. The occupiers are moving the President\'s agenda in the streets with their calls for class warfare and a transformation of America, as the hardcore left has always said, by any means necessary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />In \"Occcupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn,\" my colleague John Perazzo and I have exposed how today\'s occupiers share the twisted DNA of the communist organizers of two generations ago and the apologists for communism that attacked America so viciously in the 1960s. These are the people who used to be on the outside, propely the objects of suspicion and contempt. But in the 1970s, using the McGovern movement as their Trojan Horse, they were able to occupy the Democratic Party and take it over. That is why today the agenda of the Occupy Movement is indistinguishable from that of the Democrats (and vice versa.) That is why the President can\'t bring himself to condemn the nihilists now bringing destruction and chaos to our cities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"http://sm.responsebeacon.com/track?t=v&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWlkPTI3MDA0Jm1zZ2lkPTI2MDA1JmRpZD04ODAzJmVkaWQ9ODgwMyZzbj0xNjc4NDkwMyZlaWQ9amJyYWtlQG5zY29uc3RydWN0LmNvbSZlZWlkPWpicmFrZUBuc2NvbnN0cnVjdC5jb20mdWlkPTFfMTAwOTY5JnJpZD0xMDA5NjkmZXJpZD0xMDA5NjkmZmw9Jm12aWQ9JnRnaWQ9JmV4dHJhPQ==&amp;&amp;&amp;2000&amp;eu=801&amp;&amp;&amp;http://frontporch.com/browser/\">READ MORE ON FRONT PORCH POLITICS &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></span></span></p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-02-02 13:25:45',62,'David Horowitz as posted on Front Porch Politics','2012-02-02 13:47:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-02 13:25:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',9,0,19,'','',0,352,'robots=\nauthor='),(451,'We Won\'t Back Down','we-wont-back-down','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/life-sign-march3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Life\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The sleeping giant has been awakened. <br />Right now we\'re witnessing an unprecedented response to the Obama administration\'s decision last Friday to proceed with their new mandate forcing all Americans (including the Catholic Church) to fund birth control, sterilization, and some abortion-inducing drugs. <br /><br />Since Friday we have been receiving reports from individuals and parishes across the country. Catholics of all stripes, left, right, and center -- \"political\" categories that are not typically helpful -- are nevertheless coming together like never before. <br /><br />We are united as one Church. <br /><br />Bishops, priests, pastors and the laity are rising up. Many priests and bishops preached last Sunday on the threat, with numerous reports of congregations spontaneously erupting with standing ovations. Blogs, news sites, and grassroots organizations (on both left and right!) have erupted. The emails and calls to CV are pouring in. <br /><br />Retired Cardinal Mahoney in Los Angeles responded to the decision saying: \"This decision must be fought against with all the energies the Catholic Community can muster...there is no other fundamental issue as important as this one as we enter into the Presidential and Congressional campaigns...[i]f any candidate refuses to acknowledge and to promote those rights, then that candidate will not receive my vote.\" <br /><br />And just this morning, New York\'s Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan authored a blistering editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he concluded: <br /><br />\"This latest erosion of our first freedom should make all Americans pause. When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental to the life of our nation, one shudders to think what lies ahead.\" <br /><br />The assault on our religious freedom may not come as a surprise to many of you. For years, hostile groups and some elected officials have been working to destroy the influence of the Church in America. For years they have flaunted our social teachings, insulted our clergy and hierarchy, and mocked our Pope. The attacks are endless. <br /><br />And now they want us to fund their agenda. <br /><br />NO WAY. <br /><br />We will not accept this new mandate, and we will not rest until it is overturned. <br /><br />Our goal: Ensure that every Catholic voter in every swing state understands this decision - and what is at stake in November. <br /><br /><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000628/!x-usc:http:/email.vervemail.com/ct/24501834:5659262167:m:1:416074533:3A0A2B5290A27446F9544F4BBAC9B77B:r\">Can you chip in $10 to help power this campaign?</a> <br /><br />As Catholics, we are a diverse bunch. We argue about politics, candidates, and the issues. We disagree on how to solve our economic problems, immigration, and the role of government. There are even some Catholics who struggle with the Church on the foundational issues of life and marriage. <br /><br />But on the issue of religious liberty -- our First Freedom -- there must be unity. <br /><br />This is not the time for \"I told you so,\" or finger pointing. <br /><br />We must lock arms with each other. Pray. Fast. And fight back like never before.<br /><br />We are united. <br /><br />We are Catholic. <br /><br />And we won\'t back down.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p><br />Federal Government Mandate for Contraceptive/Sterilization Coverage - by Cardinal Roger Mahoney <br /><a href=\"http://email.vervemail.com/ct/24501835:5659262167:m:N:416074533:3A0A2B5290A27446F9544F4BBAC9B77B\">http://cardinalrogermahonyblogsla.blogspot.com/2012/01/federal-government-mandate-for.html <br /></a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.catholicvote.org/index.php?/site/\">GOTO CatholicVote.org &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-01-26 11:31:17',62,'CatholicVote.org - Brian Burch','2012-01-26 11:45:12',62,62,'2012-01-26 11:45:12','2012-01-26 11:31:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,181,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(452,'Parent of Obama-backed battery maker goes bankrupt','parent-of-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt','','<p>n</p>','',-2,1,0,1,'2012-01-27 13:10:38',62,'','2012-01-27 13:16:40',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-27 13:10:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,0,'','',0,1,'robots=\nauthor='),(453,'Parent of Obama-backed battery maker goes bankrupt','parent-of-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/396/223/Joe-Biden-tours-Ener1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"January 26, 2011: Vice President Joe Biden tours Ener1 in Greenfield, Ind.\" title=\"January 26, 2011: Vice President Joe Biden tours Ener1 in Greenfield, Ind.\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"center\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>AP WASHINGTON</strong> –  The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.</p>\r\n<p>New York-based Ener1 said it has been affected by competition from <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/china.htm#r_src=ramp\">China</a> and other countries.</p>\r\n<p>Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel received a $118 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department in 2009, and Vice President <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/joe-biden.htm#r_src=ramp\">Joe Biden</a> visited the <a id=\"KonaLink0\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/parent-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt/\">company\'s</a> new battery plant in Indiana last year.</p>\r\n<p>Ener1 is the third company to seek bankruptcy protection after receiving assistance from the Energy Department under the <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/economic-stimulus.htm#r_src=ramp\">economic stimulus</a> law. California solar panel maker Solyndra Inc. and Beacon Power, a Massachusetts energy-storage firm, declared bankruptcy last year. Solyndra received a $528 million federal loan, while Beacon Power got a $43 million loan guarantee.</p>\r\n<p>Solyndra, of Fremont, Calif., was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under the 2009 stimulus law, and the Obama administration frequently touted it as a model for its clean energy program.</p>\r\n<p>Since then, the company\'s implosion and revelations that the administration hurried a review of the loan in time for a 2009 groundbreaking has become an embarrassment for President <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp\">Barack Obama</a> and a rallying cry for GOP critics of the administration\'s green energy program.</p>\r\n<p>The chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating Solyndra said the latest <a id=\"KonaLink1\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/parent-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt/\">bankruptcy</a> showed that the administration\'s clean energy program has failed.</p>\r\n<p>\"Unfortunately, you can now add Ener1 to the growing list of failed companies that went belly up after hundreds of millions of dollars in administration backing,\" said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.</p>\r\n<p>\"One bankruptcy may be a fluke, two could be coincidence, but three is a trend,\" Stearns said. \"Our <a id=\"KonaLink2\" href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/parent-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt/\">investigation</a> continues, and we are working to ensure taxpayers are never again stuck paying hundreds of millions of dollars because of the administration\'s risky bets.\"</p>\r\n<p>An Energy Department spokeswoman said EnerDel had received $55 million so far under a program in which EnerDel matches federal investment dollar-for-dollar. Ener1 said in a statement that the restructuring would not affect EnerDel\'s operations. The company makes lithium-ion batteries for electric cars such as the <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/energy/chevrolet-volt.htm#r_src=ramp\">Chevrolet Volt</a>.</p>\r\n<p>\"While it\'s unfortunate that Ener1, the parent company, has entered a restructuring process,\" a recent infusion of $80 million in private investment \"demonstrates that the technology has merit,\" said Jen Stutsman, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department.</p>\r\n<p>\"The restructuring is not expected to impact EnerDel\'s operations and they do not expect to reduce employment at the site\" near Indianapolis, Stutsman said.</p>\r\n<p><br /><br />Read more: <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/parent-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt/#ixzz1kfDytiEY\">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/27/parent-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt/#ixzz1kfDytiEY</a></p>','',1,25,0,84,'2012-01-27 13:15:28',62,'AP on FoxNews.com','2012-03-25 23:34:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-01-27 13:15:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,4,'','',0,474,'robots=\nauthor='),(455,'Police Beat Woman, Steal Her Cell Phone’s Memory Card','police-beat-woman-steal-her-cell-phones-memory-card','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Police are scared of citizens with cell phones that have video capability. Citizens can record what the police do. This woman claims that she was beaten by three police officers. The police took her cell phone and removed the card.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">This made it into the local newspaper and onto local TV.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The police are saying nothing. They are hoping this will blow over. I don’t think it will. A lot of people own cell phones. They will notice.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Here is the description of her condition: bruised face, bruised arm, bruised lips:</p>\r\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: url(http://visiontoamerica.org/wp-content/themes/SwiftPremium/images/SWIFT-sprites.png); padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; background-color: #ffffff; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding-left: 48px; width: 589px; padding-right: 1em; background-position: -160px -1320px; color: #666666; font-size: 1.1em; padding-top: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-color: #eeeeee;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px;\">Lewis’ husband, Sebastian Prevot, was taken into custody Friday morning and charged with resisting arrest. Houston police declined to comment on his case and said the incident report would not be available until Monday.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px;\">On the phone, Prevot said he did not stop far enough behind a stop sign. Prevot said he was pulled over then beaten in front of his northeast Houston home. Lewis, who was inside, came out armed with her cell phone. She said she recorded video until officers took her memory card.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/02/01/police-beat-woman-steal-her-cell-phone/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Police Beat Woman, Steal Her Cell Phone’s Memory Card\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>teapartyeconomist.com</span></span></strong></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-02 13:43:11',62,'teapartyeconomist.com','2012-02-02 13:46:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-02 13:43:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,25,'','',0,43,'robots=\nauthor='),(456,'Dems Release False Report on Fast and Furious','dems-release-false-report-on-fast-and-furious','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and other Democrats in the minority of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have made an attempt to whitewash apparent felonies committed by the Department of Justice during Operation Fast and Furious:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Democrats looking into Operation Fast and Furious say a yearlong investigation has turned up no evidence that the flawed gun smuggling probe was conceived or directed by high-level political appointees at Justice Department headquarters.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The probe, the Democrats say, was just one of four such operations that were part of a misguided five-year-long effort, during both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, in the Phoenix division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against firearms trafficking along the Southwest border.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">“Operation Fast and Furious was the latest in a series of fatally flawed operations run by ATF agents in Phoenix and the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the report from Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Senator Charles Grassley, who has helped lead the investigation of the gunwalking plot, reacted angrily to the minority report:</p>\r\n<a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://pjmedia.com/blog/dems-release-false-report-on-fast-and-furious/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Dems Release False Report on Fast and Furious\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>pjmedia.com</span></span></strong></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></span></span></p>','',1,15,0,72,'2012-02-02 13:51:43',62,'Vision to America','2012-02-03 12:21:47',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-02 13:51:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,19,'','',0,381,'robots=\nauthor='),(457,'West Coast Disaster: Sounding the Alarm','west-coast-disaster-sounding-the-alarm','','<div>\r\n<h1 style=\"margin: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What is the Spirit Saying? - Part 3</strong></span></h1>\r\n<h2 class=\"with-tabs page-title\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px;\">West Coast Disaster: Sounding the Alarm</h2>\r\n<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Joyner\" title=\"Rick Joyner\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />One of the greatest revivals of all time began at Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906. The wretched former stable burned so brightly with the glory of God that for a time it was called “the second most famous address in the world.” God can do it again, and will, if we want it enough.<br /><br />Every revival in history seems to be the result of a few people becoming so hungry for God that they wanted Him more than oxygen. Those who have such hunger will not be denied. It’s time to seek a revival that becomes the most famous address in the world. It’s time to seek a move of God that won’t quit moving.<br /><br />I’ve seen in visions and dreams the destruction that is destined, especially on our West Coast. This has caused some to say that I have a hatred for our West Coast, which is not true, but rather the opposite. I really can’t help what I dream, and though a psycho analyst might say it is the result of deep feelings, I know these are prophetic dreams. They never leave me pleased, but rather I’m grieved enough to take all of the heat for sharing them with the hope that people will listen, repent, and they will not have to come true.</p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/resources/word-week/2012/west-coast-disaster-sounding-alarm-what-spirit-saying-part-3?utm_source=The+MorningStar+Ministries+eNewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ba9e525a84-eNewsletter_January_31_201211_3_2011&amp;utm_medium=email\" style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Click Here to Read More</strong></span></span></a></div>\r\n</div>','',1,19,0,76,'2012-02-02 13:55:00',62,'Rick Joyner','2012-02-04 13:08:26',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-02 13:55:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',6,0,4,'','',0,423,'robots=\nauthor='),(458,'THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE!','three-cheers-for-romneycare','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 12px \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/ann_coulter.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ann Coulter\" title=\"Ann Coulter\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles -- as it was at the time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />It\'s not as if we had a beautifully functioning free market in health care until Gov. Mitt Romney came along and wrecked it by requiring that Massachusetts residents purchase their own health insurance. In 2007, when Romneycare became law, the federal government alone was already picking up the tab for 45.4 percent of all health care expenditures in the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats\' piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />In November 2004, for example, libertarian Ronald Bailey praised mandated private health insurance in Reason magazine, saying that it \"could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion.\"<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /><br />Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 12px \'Helvetica Neue\', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-02-01.html\">Click to read more on anncoulter.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></span></span></span></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-03 11:32:50',62,'Ann Coulter','2012-02-03 11:40:05',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-03 11:32:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,180,'','',0,151,'robots=\nauthor='),(459,'SHARIAH\'S SYMPATHIZERS - THE BATTLE OVER BOYKIN AT WEST POINT','shariahs-sympathizers-the-battle-over-boykin-at-west-point','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px; font-family: Times, \'Times New Roman\', serif; color: #222222;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/diana-west_avatar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Diana West\" title=\"Diana West\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />Even after all these years, journalist-socialite Sally Quinn still embodies a Washington way of thinking – a heart-of-Georgetown, A-list set of salon-tested assumptions “everyone” knows that provides attitudes for any occasion.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Take the surreal state of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. One day, William G. “Jerry” Boykin, a highly decorated retired Army general and ordained minister, and a founding member and leader of Delta Force, was scheduled to speak at a West Point prayer breakfast. The next day, following a campaign to stop Boykin’s appearance by what the New York Times describes as “liberal veterans’ groups, civil liberties advocates and Muslim organizations,” Boykin was<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">not</em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>scheduled to speak at West Point. “In fulfilling its commitment to the community,” West Point announced, “the U.S. Military Academy will feature another speaker for the event.”</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/the-battle-over-boykin-at-west-point/\">Click to read more at WND &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-02-03 12:03:42',62,'Diana West','2012-02-03 12:12:38',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-03 12:03:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,16,'','',0,379,'robots=\nauthor='),(460,'WHAT HAPPENED AT OBAMA-NO-SHOW TRIAL','what-happened-at-obama-no-show-trial','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; FONT-FAMILY: Times, \'Times New Roman\', serif; COLOR: #222222\">\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 15px 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\"><img src=\"images/stories/bho.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Barack Hussein Obama\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama\" align=\"right\" />Georgia citizens today delivered sworn testimony to a court that Barack Obama is slam-dunk disqualified from having his name on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state, because his father never was a U.S. citizen, which prevents him from qualifying as a “natural-born citizen” as the U.S. Constitution requires for a president.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 15px 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">The historic hearing was the first time that a court has accepted arguments on the merits of the controversy over Obama’s status. His critics say he never met the constitutional requirements to occupy the Oval Office, and the states and Congress failed in their obligations to make sure only a qualified president is inaugurated. His supporters, meanwhile, argue he won the 2008 election and therefore was “vetted” by America.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 15px 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\"><a href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/georgia-court-told-obama-slam-dunk-disqualified/\">Read more at WND &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-03 12:14:07',62,'','2012-02-03 12:19:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-03 12:14:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,179,'','',0,135,'robots=\nauthor='),(461,'Pelosi Vows to Stand With Obama Against Catholic Church; Says Decision Forcing Catholics to Act Against Faith Was ‘Very Courageous’','pelosi-vows-to-stand-with-obama-against-catholic-church-says-decision-forcing-catholics-to-act-against-faith-was-very-courageous','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, \'Liberation Sans\', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing <img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/comradepelosi2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Comrade Pelosi\" title=\"Pelosi\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"right\" />up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The Catholic church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and the Catholic bishops of the United States have argued that forcing a Catholic individual to purchase a health insurance plan that covers these things--or forcing a Catholic institution to provide such a plan--forces Catholics to act against their consciences and is a violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pelosi-vows-stand-obama-against-catholic-church-says-decision-forcing-catholics-act\">Click to read more at CNSNews.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-02-03 14:21:06',62,'','2012-02-03 14:33:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-03 14:21:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,15,'','',0,308,'robots=\nauthor='),(462,'MorningStar Prophetic Bulletin #70 - Calling the Sons of Zadok','morningstar-prophetic-bulletin-70-calling-the-sons-of-zadok','','<p>\r\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">\r\n<h2 class=\"page-title\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; letter-spacing: -0.02em; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px;\">Calling the Sons of Zadok</h2>\r\n<div class=\"clear-block\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div id=\"node-12185\" class=\"node\" style=\"padding-bottom: 1.5em; margin: 0px -26px 1.5em; padding-left: 26px; outline-width: 0px; padding-right: 26px; padding-top: 1.5em;\">\r\n<div class=\"content clear-block\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px; outline-width: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-sub-title\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-items\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">MorningStar Prophetic Bulletin #70</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"field field-type-content-taxonomy field-field-author\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-items\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"field-item odd\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"biographies/rick-joyner\" title=\"                                        Rick Joyner is the founder and executive director of MorningStar Ministries and Heritage International Ministries and is the Senior Pastor of MorningStar Fellowship Church. He is the author of more than forty books, including The Final Quest, A Prophetic History, and Church History. He is also the president of The Oak Initiative, an interdenominational movement that is mobilizing thousands of Christians to be engaged in the great issues of our times, being the salt and light that they are called to be. Rick and his wife, Julie, have five children: Anna, Aaryn, Amber, Ben, and Sam.              \" rel=\"tag\" style=\"margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; color: #054687; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px;\">Rick Joyner</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>\r\nAmerica is suffering under a vacuum of leadership. This is not just in government but also in virtually every major center of influence, including the church. In Isaiah chapters three through five, we are told that capricious, immature leaders are the beginning of the judgment of God for the nation that turns from God and falls to the ultimate depravity of calling good evil and evil good, and for dishonoring the honorable while honoring the dishonorable. That is an accurate description of America. It will take more than an election to get us out of the mire we’re in. We must have revival. We must have another Great Awakening or we will not survive much longer as a Republic.</span></span></p>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>This is not to imply that the elections are not important. America and the rest of Western civilization have been led to the edge of a most dangerous precipice. Even Tony Blair, the recent Prime Minister of Great Britain who is from the liberal Labor Party, warned recently that Europe could not long survive if they did not forsake the entitlement mentality. The whole world is about to crash on the rocks of financial bankruptcy, but financial problems are just a root of something worse. The West has lost its spiritual and moral underpinnings without which we cannot survive as a free people.</p>\r\n<p>A financial change of direction could buy us more time, but without a change of heart, we will end up at the same place very quickly. America has fallen into virtually every trap that the Founding Fathers warned would doom the Republic. These warnings were specific and clear and the results of going the direction we have gone were accurately foreseen. These warnings have been repeated often from Congress and the Oval Office, but nothing has been done to change the course. Leadership requires more than knowledge of what needs to be done—it requires the courage, resolve, and endurance to take the helm and steer the ship out of danger.</p>\r\n<p>Again, our problems are not just economic problems—they are character problems. The economy is just a reflection of the sickness of heart we now have. We do need to evaluate what is being done and what the consequences will be if we do not change our course, but we also need to evaluate why we have been doing them.</p>\r\n<p>The whole world is entering “the valley of decision.” What is going to be our decision? If we follow the crowd, we may feel more secure for a time, but we also may be putting ourselves in far more jeopardy. The same crowd that welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem by crying, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,” were just five days later crying, “Crucify Him!” The discernment of the crowd in such matters has seldom been good. We each must have in our own core a moral compass that we will navigate by regardless of whether others are going that way or not.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>The Sons of Zadok</p>\r\n<p>In Ezekiel 44, the Lord said that the sons of Zadok would be the ones honored with coming near to Him and ministering to Him personally. Zadok was the high priest during David’s reign. When all of Israel went astray and followed after Absalom, Zadok picked up the ark and followed David even though it seemed that this would be certain doom. Zadok did not do what was politically expedient, but he did what was right. He knew that the Lord had anointed David as king and that He had not anointed Absalom. David was still the king, even though “all Israel” did not see it that way. The crowd paid a dear price, but Zadok’s reward would last forever. To this day, his sons are those whom are closest to the Lord.</p>\r\n<p>Who are the sons of Zadok? When the Pharisees told Jesus that they had Abraham as their father, the Lord replied to them, “If you are the sons of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham” (see John 8:39). Likewise, the sons of Zadok are the ones who do the deeds of Zadok. Do we have the faith in God and the substance of character to go the way we think is right even if everyone else goes the other direction? That was the resolve of Zadok, and we are in desperate need of that kind of leadership right now.</p>\r\n<p>There is a great danger with a vacuum of leadership because it always has been the greatest opportunity for tyranny. Americans have lost more of their freedoms in the last three years than possibly in the last two centuries. Recent Obama Administration orders have been described as a frontal attack on the Catholic Church, but they are much more than that. They are a very basic and bold attack on the entire church in America, as well as religious liberty in America. If the church in America continues to sleep through what is being done to it, then it will very soon wake up dead.</p>\r\n<p>Where are the voices like John the Baptist who would challenge Herod? This is the time for courage and unyielding resolve. If we are afraid, we will be killed like John the Baptist. We must remember that there are worse things than dying. It will be far worse to stand on that great Judgment Day as a watchman who did not sound the alarm or as a shepherd who did not protect those entrusted to them.</p>\r\n<p>In Revelation 21:8, we see that the “cowardly” are the first ones thrown into the lake of fire. The cowards precede the unbelievers, the sorcerers, and even the murderers to this doom of “the second death.” It will be much better to suffer now, even imprisonment or death, than to suffer then. There is no place for cowardice in the true faith. The Lord made it clear that those who sought to save their lives would lose them, but those who would lose their lives for His sake would find them (see Matthew 16:25). This is our time. This is our watch. Will we show the courage that is demanded of the true servants of the King?</p>\r\n<p>We are hosting a Prophetic Conference on February 23 – 25 at Heritage. These are always encouraging as we witness growing prophetic gifts that the Lord has given to His people in these times. Even so, there is much more to the prophetic ministry than prophetic gifts and experiences. The one the Lord called the greatest ever born of woman, John the Baptist, rarely had prophetic experiences, but he was a preacher of righteousness and justice with an uncompromising resolve. His message of repentance compelled the entire nation to come out and listen to him. Repentance has to be preached to prepare the way for the Lord. It is the most important message that we can preach in this hour.</p>\r\n<p>Both righteousness and wickedness are what God defines, not what political correctness says they are. Not long ago, America was a nation that possibly aligned itself with God’s definition of righteousness and justice possibly more than any other nation. Because of this, we received what God promised to any nation that walked in His ways. Now we are starting to suffer the consequences that He warned would come upon the nation that departed from His ways, and this began with a vacuum of leadership.</p>\r\n<p>The answer is not to pursue leadership, but to pursue the repentance that will lead us back to God’s favor, and then He will raise up righteous leaders. In II Chronicles 7:14 we are promised, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin an heal their land.” Here we see that the Lord requires four things to heal a land:</p>\r\n<p>1) Humility</p>\r\n<p>2) Prayer</p>\r\n<p>3) Seeking His face</p>\r\n<p>4) Repentance from wickedness</p>\r\n<p><br />These are required of the Lord’s people, not the heathen. It seems that a new humility is coming upon much of the church, which is encouraging. We also have had some of the greatest prayer movements in history raised up in recent times. Multitudes of Christians, especially youth, are now seeking an intimate relationship with the Lord. These are all very encouraging signs. However, there has been little or no repentance from wickedness. In- depth studies reveal that even the most devout Christian groups have fallen to such a level of unrighteousness and the sins that the Lord called “wickedness” that Christians are no longer distinguishable from non- Christians in basic morality and integrity. This is an appalling and biblically terrifying state for the church in America. It has happened on our watch.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>The Opposite of Zadok</p>\r\n<p>Eli, the high priest who raised the prophet Samuel, is a striking contrast to Zadok. Eli had been a faithful priest in the house of the Lord his whole life. He loved the Lord so much that when he received the news that the ark of God had been captured by the Philistines, he fell over and died. Yet he was given one of the worst rebukes from the Lord in Scripture. Why?</p>\r\n<p>The first word from the Lord that Samuel received was condemnation for Eli because he had let his sons fall into wickedness and bring a curse upon themselves, and Eli had not rebuked them. In this message, Eli was told that sacrifices and offerings forever could not atone for this sin. Eli admitted that this was the word of the Lord, but still made no changes. Eli was not told that his sins could not be forgiven, but that all of his good works, even if done forever, could not atone for his irresponsibility of not bringing the necessary correction to those who had been entrusted to his care.</p>\r\n<p>This being translated for us today would be that all of the good works and charity in the world will not atone for the failure of letting those entrusted to us fall into the iniquity and wickedness that will be their doom. Are we the “sons of Zadok” or the “sons of Eli?”</p>\r\n<p>The warning of Galatians 5:19-21 is very clear:</p>\r\n<p><br />Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,</p>\r\n<p>idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,</p>\r\n<p>envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.</p>\r\n<p><br />Make no mistake—“those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”It does not say those who have done these things, but those who “practice” them. If we have given our lives to Christ and we continue to live according to the flesh as described here, the message is just as clear in the other primary books of the New Testament, such as the Book of Romans, that we will perish.</p>\r\n<p>In II Timothy 4, the Apostle Paul warned about the time when a great deception would come upon believers because they would “only want to have their ears tickled” or could only hear positive things. Much of the body of Christ in America has fallen to that state now since they will automatically reject anything they consider to be negative. As both the Lord and His apostles warned, such are heading for a terrible end.</p>\r\n<p>An abundance of teachers and teachings today can make people feel better about themselves, even though their eternal lives are in jeopardy. Such teachings have so watered down the clear teachings of Scripture that they can make people feel comfortable in your sin, but they are deceiving you. Even the most devout can stumble at times; however, they will not rationalize their sin but rather repent. To repent means to both feel remorse and to turn from the sin.</p>\r\n<p>Doctrines are now being promoted that since the New Covenant was established, the Lord no longer judges. The New Testament makes it clear that He not only continues to bring judgment upon sin, but that His judgment begins with His own household (see I Peter 4:17). The New Testament is also clear about the judgment that will come upon those who so dilute His Word as to become stumbling blocks to His people.</p>\r\n<p>I have been stretched far beyond my own reasoning as I have beheld the mercy and grace of God for sinners. That He would love us so much to go to the cross as He did will be a marvel for all of eternity. That we can behold His patience in our own times because He does not want any to perish is a marvel. Even so, as the New Testament also makes clear, there is a limit to His patience, and we are foolish to presume upon it.</p>\r\n<p>We are told Romans 11:22, we must “behold then the kindness and the severity of God.” Those who can only see His kindness without seeing His severity do not see Him as He is. Those who only see His severity without seeing His kindness do not see Him as He is. He is both kind and severe, and those who see Him as He is see both.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Understanding Judgment</p>\r\n<p>God is a righteous and just God, and all of His judgments are righteous and just. His judgments are not all negative, but can be positive, affirming the good. They can declare innocence as well as guilt. The biblical teachings on judgment have often been distorted, but the righteous always rejoice at His judgments. We also are told that the whole world will rejoice when He comes to judge the earth even to the point of the “trees will clap their hands” (see Isaiah 55:12).</p>\r\n<p>The Scriptures are also clear that everyone will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. This will be a good thing for the righteous and only bad for the wicked.</p>\r\n<p>Many types of judgment from God are in Scripture, and only one is condemnation and only one is destruction. The rest are discipline from the Lord for those whom He loves. As we read in Hebrews 12, the most frightening thing of all should be if we are still living in sin and getting away with it. This means that we are not His. If we are His sons, He will discipline us.</p>\r\n<p>America has been receiving His judgments because He still loves America, and this is evidence that He has not given up on her. Like an alarm that gets continually louder if we do not wake up, His judgments are getting increasingly severe. Even insurance companies have more discernment than some Christian leaders. What these leaders have called “acts of nature,” they call “acts of God,” and they are.</p>\r\n<p>Many of the things being released upon the world are not directly God’s doing but are the removing of His restraints so that the world begins to reap what it has sown. This is clear in such places as Revelation 7. Even so, His releasing of these things is His judgment, and if we do not recognize it as such, no one will repent to keep even worse things from coming.</p>\r\n<p>If this offends you, then you have a distorted, warped view of Scripture. Such will take what are in fact acts of love and interpret them as acts of condemnation. These are the ones Peter referred to as the untaught and unstable who will distort the Scriptures to their own destruction. The destruction is only necessary if we do not recognize the judgments and repent. God would much rather show mercy, but there is a time when judgment is necessary, and if this does not work, destruction follows. This is why the Lord Jesus lamented over Jerusalem. He would much rather have gathered her under His wings, but she rejected the time of her visitation, and destruction followed.</p>\r\n<p>Let us repent while the judgment is still discipline, before it gets to the point of destruction. We are also told that we can judge ourselves and He will not have to do it (see I Corinthians 11:31). As the Lord Jesus made clear, if we do not humble ourselves and fall on the Rock to be broken, then the Rock will fall on us and grind us into powder. Let’s take the easy way out!</p>\r\n<p>America is in jeopardy. “If you do not change your direction, you will end up where you are headed.” We will not survive much longer going in the direction we are headed. Much of 2012 may look like things are getting better, but when men are saying, “peace and safety,” that is when sudden destruction will come. We cannot look at external conditions to see how we’re doing—we need to look at our own hearts. If we will turn from that which will keep us from inheriting the kingdom of God, turn from our wicked ways, embracing the humility that would also compel us to pray and seek His face, it too will be evident as the rest of Galatians 5 declares:</p>\r\n<p><br />But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.</p>\r\n<p>Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.</p>\r\n<p>If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25).</p>\r\n<p><br />If we, God’s people, will “walk by the Spirit” instead of the flesh, then He will heal our land, and He will use us to do it.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>SPECIAL NOTE ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ORDER ON RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS</p>\r\n<p>Last week, the Obama administration finalized a radical new rule that uses the health care law to require all health insurance providers to cover abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization as well as contraception, all free of charge. The administration based the rule’s “religious exemption” on a provision drafted by the ACLU, applying the rule even to religious organizations such as Catholic schools, hospitals, universities, and charities that oppose such things as a matter of religious belief.</p>\r\n<p>The weak exemption the administration allowed applies only to religious organizations serving primarily people of the same religion. It is so narrow that Timothy Dolan, the Catholic archbishop of New York City and current head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “even Jesus and His disciples would not qualify for the exemption in that case, because they were committed to serve those of other faiths.”</p>\r\n<p>Because Catholic institutions serve people of all faiths, the adoption by the Obama administration of the ACLU exemption language is an explicit and intentional assault on the Catholic Church in the United States. President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius know full well that they are ordering Catholic institutions to violate their church’s teachings if they want to stay in business. They also know full well that they are explicitly running over the First Amendment protection of religious freedom that every American is supposed to enjoy as a birthright.</p>\r\n<p>President Obama’s message to Catholics is clear: Catholics will not be able to build organizations according to their faith and the teachings of their church as long as they refuse to accept President Obama’s radicalism. President Obama’s order is a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of conscience and an unprecedented assault on Christianity.</p>\r\n<p>Catholics are uniformly opposed to the rule. Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association—an Obamacare supporter—expressed disappointment “that the definition of a religious employer was not broadened.” Even liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne blasted the rule, arguing that “the Church’s leaders had a right to ask for broader relief from a contraception mandate that would require it to act against its own teachings.” Newt Gingrich, <a href=\"http://www.Newsmax.com\">www.Newsmax.com</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.morningstarministries.org/resources/prophetic-bulletins/2012/calling-sons-zadok?utm_source=The+MorningStar+Ministries+eNewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=37a2cf5346-Special_Prophetic_Bulletin_2_03_2011&amp;utm_medium=email\">Morningstar Ministries &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,19,0,76,'2012-02-04 12:46:55',63,'','2012-02-04 12:52:01',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-04 12:46:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,2,'','',0,462,'robots=\nauthor='),(464,'Radio Ad for Texas CHL Class - No Socialist Liberals or Muslims','radio-ad-for-texas-chl-class-no-liberals-or-muslims','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/TepdEvqV8lw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,16,0,73,'2012-02-06 13:14:35',62,'Keller\'s Riverside Store','2012-02-06 13:20:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-06 13:14:35','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,14,'','',0,456,'robots=\nauthor='),(465,'Preempt Iran—At All Costs!','preempt-iranat-all-costs','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/ettinger.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger\" title=\"Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The discussion about the cost of a pre-emptive strike on Iran\'s nuclear facilities is valuable only if intended to advance the attack and neutralize the possible retaliation by Iran and its allies. However, such a discussion is harmful, ignores precedents, plays into Iran\'s hands and threatens Israel\'s existence, if it reflects hesitancy, skepticism and fatalism, aiming to preclude preemption, and assuming that Israel can co-exist with a nuclear-armed Iran.</p>\r\n<p>On May 12, 1948, the pre-state Israeli Cabinet decided by a vote of six to four to declare independence and include Jerusalem within Israel\'s boundaries, despite internal opposition and pressure by the U.S. and despite a terrible price: The U.S. withheld military aid, threatened economic sanctions and surmised that the declaration of independence would result in a second Holocaust, this time at the hands of the Arabs. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused to abide by the American pressure to postpone the declaration of independence by a few years, knowing that such a delay would be tragic in the long run, and that independence exacts a painful price.</p>\r\n<p><strong>On Oct. 5, 1973, the eve of the Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Golda Meir</strong> rejected the option of a pre-emptive strike to repel the clear and present danger of a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack. She was concerned about the cost of such a strike -- namely appearing as the aggressor and severely damaging ties with the U.S. -- and preferred to be portrayed as the victim. However, the terrible, long-term cost of that war has been far greater than pre-emptive action would have been. As expected, Israel was not viewed as a victim, but rather as a country that lost the \"spirit of the Six-Day War,\" eroding is own deterrent power, and undermining its position as a strategic asset for the U.S.</p>\r\n<p>In June 1981, on the eve of the destruction of the nuclear reactor in Iraq, then Prime Minister Menachem Begin weighed the cost of a pre-emptive strike versus the cost of inaction. The heads of the Mossad and Military Intelligence, former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, opposition leader Shimon Peres, Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, Israel\'s national security adviser and the Head of the Atomic Energy Commission all opposed striking Iraq. They presented apocalyptic scenarios that would result from such action: an irreparable rift with the U.S., harsh sanctions, conflict with the Soviet Union and Western Europe, reconciliation between Muslim countries and a pan-Islamic attack, threats to the peace treaty with Egypt and other doomsday events. They underestimated the probability of a successful pre-emptive attack and overestimated Iraq\'s military capabilities. Some claimed there was a greater chance of seeing Israeli pilots being dragged through the streets of Baghdad than being welcomed back to their bases. But, Begin decided in favor of a pre-emptive strike, determining that the cost of restraint could be far greater than that of a pre-emptive strike; that a nuclear threat would subordinate Israel both politically and militarily; that a nuclear attack could not be ruled out considering the violent, unpredictable and hateful nature of regimes in the region, and that the ratio of Israeli territory to that of surrounding Arab states (0.2%) did not allow for a Mutual Assured Destruction. Begin understood that the window of opportunity for a strike against Iraq\'s nuclear reactor was about to close. The destruction of the reactor drew short-term isolation, which was promptly substituted by a long-term strategic esteem and cooperation.</p>\r\n<p><strong>In 2012, after a decade of failed attempts at engagement and sanctions,</strong> and in light of the assistance (in terms of development and acquisition) Iran has received from Pakistan, North Korea, Russia and China for its nuclear program, Israel must decide between launching a pre-emptive attack to eliminate that threat or facing it. Opponents of an attack warn that it could potentially result in a harsh response from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, and international anger directed at Israel over higher oil prices, a wave of terror and Persian Gulf turbulence. Yet, these pale in comparison to the lethal cost of a nuclear threat, which includes a withdrawal of overseas and Israeli investors from the country, a record number of Israeli emigrants and a sharp decline of Aliya (Jewish immigration), dwindling tourism, intensification of military-political-economic dependence on the U.S., a more powerful and influential Iranian regime that takes control of the Persian Gulf , and the transformation of Israel from a strategic asset to a strategic liability. Israel would wither without even one nuclear warhead needing to be launched.</p>\r\n<p>A pre-emptive attack against Iran would exert non-lethal and short-term cost, but would boost Israel\'s long-term strategic image. It would also provide a tailwind for the opposition to the ayatollahs\' regime. Will Israel embrace the legacy of Ben-Gurion and Begin, or that of their opponents?</p>\r\n<!-- End Featured Article Copy --><!-- End Featured Article --><!-- Print Document Link -->','',1,22,0,80,'2012-02-08 13:09:26',62,'Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, Israel Hayom January 31, 2012','2012-02-27 03:04:34',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-08 13:09:26','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,17,'','',0,527,'robots=\nauthor='),(466,'Parents Charged for Bringing Kids to School Late','parents-charged-for-bringing-kids-to-school-late','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Amy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to elementary school too often.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The Loudoun County couple was arraigned Monday morning in juvenile and domestic relations court. Judge Pamela L. Brooks set a trial date of March 14.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The Denicores are each charged with three Class 3 misdemeanors, each of which carries a maximum fine of $500. Their three children, ages 6, 7 and 9, have been late to school almost 30 times since September. Most of their tardies were three minutes or less.</p>\r\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-schools-insider/post/judge-sets-trial-date-in-loudoun-school-tardiness-case/2012/02/06/gIQALdJ4tQ_blog.html\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>www.washingtonpost.com</span></a></span></strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-08 13:32:11',62,'Vision to America','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-08 13:32:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,24,'','',0,41,'robots=\nauthor='),(467,'Cops Confiscate a Reporter’s Cell Phone','cops-confiscate-a-reporters-cell-phone','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said that’s what happened to him Sunday morning. Police never charged Monroe with a crime, but this could happen to anyone with a cell phone camera.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Monroe said police went too far outside Thai Bistro Restaurant in downtown Memphis that morning, and that they violated his rights.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">As police were giving the restaurant’s owner, Loy Bouaphaypengerprachan, a ticket for parking illegally, Monroe went to see what was going on and started taking pictures of the parking ticket fiasco.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The owner told abc24.com, “I think he was doing what a regular citizen would do if they see a situation that’s happening they’re trying to evidence.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Monroe said he was “just trying to document the situation going on.”</p>\r\n<a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/02/06/cops-confiscate-a-rreporters-cell-phone/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Cops Confiscate a Reporter’s Cell Phone\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>teapartyeconomist.com</span></span></strong></a></span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-08 13:36:20',62,'Vision to America','2012-02-08 13:38:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-08 13:36:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,23,'','',0,32,'robots=\nauthor='),(468,'Teachers Union Staffers Set Sail on Seven-Day Caribbean Cruise','teachers-union-staffers-set-sail-on-seven-day-caribbean-cruise','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Imagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides.  Imagine it’s losing members and revenue.  Imagine governors and mayors – of both political parties – publicly denouncing your industry as “broken” and move swiftly to stifle your power and influence, while you flail away helplessly.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">What to do?  What else to do but go down drinking?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">That’s what members of the National Education Association’s National Staff Organization have apparently decided.  The NSO is an association of sorts for teachers’ union staff – political and communications types.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Following an “Advocacy Retreat” with the theme “Building Our Unionism,” members set sail on a 7-day cruise from Miami on February 5<sup style=\"font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: super;\">th</sup> “with stops at Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and Isla Roatan.”  Sounds fun!  [In case the Facebook link disappears, never fear: here’s <a href=\"http://www.publicschoolspending.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NSO-Contact-issue-3.pdf\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a PDF</span></a> of the NSO newsletter.]</p>\r\n<a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2012/02/06/eag-exclusive-teachers-union-staffers-set-sail-on-7-day-caribbean-cruise/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Teachers Union Staffers Set Sail on Seven-Day Caribbean Cruise\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>biggovernment.com</span></span></strong></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><br /></span></span></p>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-02-08 13:50:45',62,'Posted on Vision to America','2012-02-08 13:51:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-08 13:50:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,10,'','',0,259,'robots=\nauthor='),(469,'OUTRAGEOUS: Wisconsin Recall petitions will NOT be verified!','outrageous-wisconsin-recall-petitions-will-not-be-verified','','<table style=\"height: 78px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"623\" align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/Wisconsin%20recall%20banner%202.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"623\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" width=\"300\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/p/vW5rdrr87N\"><img src=\"http://www.paramountcommunication.com/images/vo_1014.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View Online\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/forwardthis/ft.php?mID=2285287&amp;em=jhbrake%40comcast.net&amp;ch=1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b\"><img src=\"http://www.paramountcommunication.com/images/f2f_1014.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Forward\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788197:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\"><img src=\"http://www.paramountcommunication.com/rf_1014.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Share This\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/p/sW5rdrr87N?show=1&amp;h=1&amp;ch=1&amp;CID=11078452597\"><img src=\"http://www.paramountcommunication.com/images/share_1014.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Share This\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" /></a></td>\r\n<td><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788198:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.paramountcommunication.com/images/d_1014.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Donate\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" /></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<div><strong>WE MUST FIGHT BACK!</strong></div>\r\n<div>.</div>\r\n<div>This ruling and makes you question the motives of Wisconsin\'s Government Accountability Board (GAB). The GAB is the state board that is responsible for verifying the Recall signatures and managing the Recall election should it qualify.</div>\r\n<p>Yesterday, a Wisconsin Appeals Court overturned a Circuit Court decision that would have required the GAB to actually verify the signatures turned in by the union led recall groups. We had a feeling that the state would fail to verify the signatures and that is why we have been encouraging you to lend support to groups like Verify the Recall to check the validity of signatures on our own and you guys have responded greatly.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/2-7-12%20Badger%20Herald%202.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p>Well guess what? Today, the GAB announced that they would not accept the volunteer help of groups like Verify the Recall in verifying the petitions. That\'s right, the GAB is not going to do their job and verify the signatures, but they are refusing any help to do the job that they are unable to do.</p>\r\n<p><strong>We need you immediate support to help fight back against this injustice! </strong></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788198:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\"><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/ContributeButtonFuzzy.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>What this all means is that even if someone sees their name fraudulently signed to a Recall petition, there is nothing they can do about it! <strong>The GAB actually stated in a public meeting that \"the GAB can not and will not verify every signature\". </strong></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/2-7-12%20Radio%202.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>They won\'t even check to see if the signer is a registered voter! This means that the petitions that are signed by Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler or other fraudulent names will be counted and can not be challenged. Outrageous! </strong></p>\r\n<div>Neither the ridiculous policies of the Wisconsin GAB or smear campaign being waged by the liberal left and the union bosses can cover up Governor Walker\'s stellar record of bring conservative governance to Wisconsin.</div>\r\n<p><strong>Tea Party Express is continuing to defend Walker, but we need your help NOW! </strong>Please don’t hesitate. Donate and help us stand up for Walker and the Tea Party values that are under attack by Obama’s campaign machine and his radical union mobs!</p>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788198:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\"><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/ContributeButtonFuzzy.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<p>We traveled across Wisconsin this past summer, holding rallies to defeat the first wave of the union Recalls. This battle, however, is on a much larger scale as MoveOn.org, George Soros, and the OWS movement converge in Madison, Wisconsin to defeat Walker and deliver the first victory of Obama’s re-election campaign.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/Wisconsin%20Rally%202.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p><em>The Tea Party Express bus rolling through Wisconsin holding rallies and supporting the Republican Senators facing recalls in 2011</em></p>\r\n<div>The Tea Party Express not only helps to elect conservatives, but also defends them when they make the hard, but courageous decisions. Join the Tea Party Express and send Obama a message: We the People will NOT be bullied and we will NOT be silenced! We are here to fight for our country and defend the principles she was founded on!</div>\r\n<div><strong>Donate $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000, or even more! </strong><strong><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788198:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\">Click here to contribute now!</a></strong></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/7788198:11078452597:m:1:171285432:34BB2EB3666ECC717B28118E36215CBF:r\"><img src=\"http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/1aab26c0b6d4330e03e6f17b5724c03b/clicktodonate.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"188\" height=\"155\" /></a></div>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-02-08 13:53:42',62,'Tea Party Express','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-02-08 14:02:47','2012-02-08 13:53:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,375,'robots=\nauthor='),(470,'Obama Goes Henry the 8th On the Church','obama-goes-henry-the-8th-on-the-church','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><img src=\"images/stories/obey_obama.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’ edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished to separate from was that of the British monarch, who remains to this day Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This convenient arrangement dates from the 1534 Act of Supremacy. The title of the law gives you the general upshot, but, just in case you’re a bit slow on the uptake, the text proclaims “the King’s Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England.” That’s to say, the sovereign is “the only supreme head on earth of the Church” and he shall enjoy “all honors, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits and commodities to the said dignity,” not to mention His Majesty “shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit, repress, redress, record, order, correct, restrain and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offenses, contempts and enormities, whatsoever they be.”</p>\r\n<a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/church-339789-one-catholic.html\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Obama Goes Henry the 8th On the Church\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>www.ocregister.com</span></span></strong></a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-02-12 14:25:38',62,'posted on Vision to America','2012-02-27 03:36:44',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-12 14:25:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,14,'','',0,389,'robots=\nauthor='),(471,'Limited Government, Religious Liberty, and Joe Biden\'s Rosary','limited-government-religious-liberty-and-joe-bidens-rosary','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 12px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 12px;\">\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;\">I was talking to a friend in California yesterday about the Obama administration’s latest assault on religious liberty — the “interim final rule” issued by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring all health plans, including those at Catholic institutions, to cover prescription contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion. Paul Rahe, in a brilliant historical reflection called “<a href=\"http://ricochet.com/main-feed/American-Catholicism-s-Pact-With-the-Devil\" style=\"color: #24839f; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">American Catholicism’s Pact with the Devil</a>,” shows how this latest example of government-by-decree “unmasked in the most thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative entitlements state and of the Democratic Party.” Mr. Rahe also shows how closely the Roman Catholic establishment has collaborated in that despotism since its embrace of the New Deal in the 1930s.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;\">Step back even further. We’re always hearing people — well, some people — go on about the ideals of “limited government.” It was, remember, a leitmotif of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><em>The Federalist</em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>and other founding documents of the United States. Government should be limited to protect the individual, and groups of individuals, from the coercive power of the state.</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/02/13/limited-government-religious-liberty-and-joe-bidens-rosary/?singlepage=true\">READ MORE ON PJMEDIA&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-14 16:46:59',62,'Roger Kimball','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-14 16:46:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,177,'','',0,618,'robots=\nauthor='),(472,'Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk','feds-shut-down-amish-farm-for-selling-fresh-milk','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;\">The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/topics/daniel-allgyer/\" style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; color: #164a6e; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 2px;\">Daniel Allgyer</a>from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;\">The decision has enraged<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/topics/daniel-allgyer/\" style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; color: #164a6e; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 2px;\">Mr. Allgyer</a>’s supporters, some of whom have been buying from him for six years and say the government is interfering with their parental rights to feed their children.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/13/feds-shut-down-amish-farm-selling-fresh-milk/\">READ MORE AT WASHINGTON TIMES &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-14 16:52:39',62,'Stephen Dinan - Washington Times','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-14 16:52:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,22,'','',0,155,'robots=\nauthor='),(473,'Special Bulletin #3 - The Summit','special-bulletin-3-the-summit','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Dear Jack,</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">In this issue, Rick Joyner writes about the recent Summit and shares his thoughts for the future of The Oak Initiative. <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1109306842836&amp;s=1183&amp;e=001iWaLmZ_FBak4stUa2Mpz_SpSqZEgjzTHnLrq6VSQMeuhYgQdKU4ZZzpqtRhH5Ew4HXEUCyJ_t74C7YDDRTmrKRVyBIlfIXwiNk0YYhbk4ig3YsMj64i2wkKQqp1JC7Y2dDATwQk1j3lHLDGU-9wBtVMbzaVMF6-2TSzoa8DEceE=\" target=\"_blank\">Visit our website</a> and read previous issues online.</p>\r\n<div>____________________________________<br /><br />\r\n<div>\r\n<p><strong>The Summit</strong></p>\r\n<p>Special Bulletin</p>\r\n<p><em>by Rick Joyner</em></p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">On February 9-11, we hosted the 2012 Oak Initiative Summit. It was an exceptional gathering with many calling it the best yet. It began with a stunning presentation by Kevin Freeman, the author of Secret Weapon, which well deserves its present rise on the New York Times bestseller list. It is a brilliant and scholarly work on one of the greatest threats to America in these times-economic terrorism.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\">It is well-known that events like the 2008 stock market crash were caused by someone trying to do great harm to America. On an otherwise normal day, suddenly more than five hundred and fifty billion dollars was pulled out within just one hour, and the ensuing cascade led to the Fed declaring an emergency and shutting the trading down after estimating that five trillion would be pulled out in just a matter of hours. <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8viQ_DhS4\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman Jankowski related</a> the following about the briefing Congress was given on the event, \"We almost lost our entire economy and government.\"</p>\r\n<div>This leads to several questions that our government has never publicly answered: How have we been allowed to be in a place where something like this could be done to us? Who did this to us? Why did they do this to us? Are we still in such jeopardy?... <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1109306842836&amp;s=1183&amp;e=001iWaLmZ_FBalRzU4UpmjahJ3k-d1rQoPzVKJbURGWdsKeEpqHX59BDTiTwj8Q6C3U0dklXZRh0q6MJ1afep4FMNd2ftsGnnuP0ZXUNNbNzHQnFPGyegSFD3O0oKwt5dPHKZJp9KqygltfliOcCNNq3dRi5fUwJlbL\" target=\"_blank\">read more</a></div>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Print Friendly Version</strong>: <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=6blbffdab&amp;et=1109306842836&amp;s=1183&amp;e=001iWaLmZ_FBakz1_z775Lonn6CoTvzu71iiVe5QJ3jtcSyc9kmBg8wuEq7Wi3Rq6d4dIGk3-GAZdBsoHaJhMl9L0gcM7cFkG1tcyyfGHvd7xIUxH-OL0XPR3bxmUkMsniUtfivu4bGIcM9Sy2_ynfOtrYOv4GDtSgd\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here</a></p>\r\n</div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-16 14:46:33',63,'The Oak Initiative','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-16 14:46:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,176,'','',0,233,'robots=\nauthor='),(474,'Sound Familiar Anyone?','sound-familiar-anyone','','<p align=\"left\"><em><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/change-hitler-obama-lenin-300x196.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"History Repeating\" title=\"History Repeating\" align=\"left\" />\"Much has been made of the reported silence, and in some cases complicity, of the supposed Christian churches during the Third Reich. But few have noted the long period of \"Biblical deconstruction\" that preceded the rise of Nazism, and fewer still have chronicled the diabolical perversion of German religious culture by the Nazis themselves. While the neo-pagans were busy attacking from without, liberal theologians undermined Biblical authority from within the Christian church. The school of so-called \"higher criticism,\" which began in Germany in the late 1800s, portrayed the miracles of God as myths; by implication making true believers (Jew and Christian alike) into fools. And since the Bible was no longer accepted as God\'s divine and inerrant guide, it could be ignored or reinterpreted. By the time the Nazis came to power, \"Bible-believing\" Christians, (the Confessing Church) were a small minority. As Grunberger asserts, Nazism itself was a \"pseudo-religion\" (ibid.:79) that competed, in a sense, with Christianity and Judaism.</em></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><em>The schools were heavily targeted in order to de-Christianize the young. Mandatory prayer in schools was stopped in 1935, and from 1941 onward, religious instruction was completely eliminated for all students over 14 years old (ibid.:494f). The Nazi Teachers Association actively discouraged its members from taking religious instruction, while at the same time many teachers of religious studies (who were all required to be licensed by the state) \"inculcated neo-paganism into their pupils during periods of religious instruction.\" Later, teachers were outright prohibited from attending voluntary religion classes organized by the Catholic church (ibid.:495).\"</em></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Excerpt from:  <strong><a href=\"http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id12.html\">Homosexuality and the Nazi Party by Scott Lively</a></strong></p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-02-18 01:56:07',62,'History Repeating Itself Department','2012-02-18 04:06:50',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-18 01:56:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,49,'','',0,225,'robots=\nauthor='),(475,'Lest We Forget','lest-we-forget','','<p><br />{source}</p>\r\n<p>&lt;iframe</p>\r\n<p><br />src=\"<a href=\"http://viewer.zoho.com/api/urlview.do?zc_EditRec=false?url=http://letsrebuildit.com/images/stories/holocaust.pps\">http://viewer.zoho.com/api/urlview.do?url=http://letsrebuildit.com/images/stories/holocaust.pps</a>\" <br />width=\"450\" <br />height=\"385\" <br />cache=\"true\" <br />embed=\"true\"<br />frameborder=\"0\"&gt;<br />&lt;/iframe&gt;</p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-19 16:57:58',62,'Unknown','2012-02-19 19:51:27',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-19 16:57:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',22,0,175,'','',0,83,'robots=\nauthor='),(476,'President Obama’s new budget proposal cuts funding for Israel’s missile defense program','president-obamas-new-budget-proposal-cuts-funding-for-israels-missile-defense-program','','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" title=\"Dr. Michael Evans\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />I am shocked and appalled at the latest news out of Washington. Despite the fact that there are more than 200,000 missiles aimed at Israel today, President Obama’s new budget proposal cuts funding for Israel’s missile defense program by nearly 7%! </span></p>\r\n<p>This program is probably the most important part of their defense shield. Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and Iran (and potentially Egypt as well under the new Muslim Brotherhood government) all possess advanced missiles capable of striking every city and village inside the nation of Israel. So far, the “Iron Dome” missile defense system Israel is building is only capable of stopping a small number of attacks and will not cover the entire nation for several more years. This is a crucial time for Israel, and cutting funding to this vital protection would be a tragedy—and a great danger to the Jewish people.</p>\r\n<p>Several Republican lawmakers in Congress have vowed to overturn these proposed cuts to make sure that the US continues to stand with our best ally in this crisis moment. Please join me in praying that they will succeed and that this vital part of Israel’s defense will not face the budget cuts that would make the Jewish state more vulnerable to attack.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org\">Goto Jerusalem Prayer Team Website &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,22,0,80,'2012-02-19 19:51:33',62,'Jerusalem Prayer Team','2012-02-27 03:04:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-19 19:51:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,16,'','',0,399,'robots=\nauthor='),(477,'Have You Seen the Creepy Planned Parenthood Cartoon They Would Like to Forget?','have-you-seen-the-creepy-planned-parenthood-cartoon-they-would-like-to-forget','','<p><a href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/2012/02/have-you-seen-the-creepy-planned-parenthood-cartoon-they-would-like-to-forget/\">Posted on February 5, 2012 by Conservative Byte</a></p>\r\n<p><br /><a href=\"http://conservativebyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/pp7.jpg\"></a><img src=\"images/stories/planned_parenthood.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Planned Parenthood Propaganda\" align=\"right\" />In a week filled with discussions about the funding of Planned Parenthood, it seems appropriate to share a 2007 video from the organization.</p>\r\n<p>This was a cartoon distributed by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate called “Superhero for Choice!”</p>\r\n<p>The 8:55 animated cartoon features a Pro-Choice Superhero named Dionysus. Throughout the feature, she is attacking anyone who supports the pro-life movement. And in most cases, her attacks are violent.</p>\r\n<p>Curiously, all who oppose the abortion rights folks are white people. The first scene has a strangely attired man telling kids about abstinence.</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/9l0SAVeK2Rg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-02-19 22:05:22',62,'Conservative Byte','2012-02-19 22:26:56',62,62,'2012-04-04 22:24:32','2012-02-19 22:05:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,174,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(478,'Light V Darkness','light-v-darkness','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/count-barackula.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Light vs. Darkness\" align=\"left\" /></p>','',1,16,0,73,'2012-02-19 22:40:57',62,'Posted on Conservative Byte','2012-02-19 22:44:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-19 22:40:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,15,'','',0,85,'robots=\nauthor='),(479,'Unions Prepare to Spend Over $400M to Re-Elect President','unions-prepare-to-spend-over-400m-to-re-elect-president','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/unions.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"680\" align=\"middle\" /></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><strong>Unions say they are gearing up to spend more than $400 million</strong> to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this election year in a fight for “labor’s survival,” according to the Associated Press.</p>\r\n<p>Having recently come under close scrutiny around the country — and fearing the consequences of a Republican in the White House — union leaders say they have little choice as they try to beat back GOP efforts to curb “collective bargaining rights” and limit their ability to collect dues.</p>\r\n<p>“People are digging deeper,” said Larry Scanlon, political director of the country’s largest public workers union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). “If Republicans take over the presidency, Congress and enough state legislatures, unions will be out of business, pure and simple.”</p>\r\n<p>By “digging deeper,” he means “collecting dues from <a href=\"www.theblaze.com/stories/see-true-stories-behind-forced-union-membership-and-political-contributions/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">workers who have no choice but to pay</span></span></a>,” right?</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/unions-prepared-to-spend-over-400m-to-re-elect-president/\">Read more on The Blaze &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-02-25 01:32:32',62,'The Blaze','2012-02-26 16:22:45',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-25 01:32:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',14,0,11,'','',0,398,'robots=\nauthor='),(483,'State Farm is There','state-farm-is-there','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/humor/state_farm_sign.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"State Farm Is There\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>Snopes.com: </strong>A State Farm representative said that Bud Gregg’s office sign bore these messages until 3 July 2008 and that the company had requested the sign be removed as soon as they became aware of it because the sign was inconsistent with State Farm’s policy of not endorsing candidates or taking sides in political campaigns.</p>','',1,16,0,73,'2012-02-26 15:02:50',62,'Submitted by Jan Thompson','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 15:02:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,13,'','',0,75,'robots=\nauthor='),(480,'Obama to law enforcement: Stop linking Muslims to terrorism','obama-to-law-enforcement-stop-linking-muslims-to-terrorism','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px\"> </span></span></p>\r\n<div id=\"content-sidebar\">\r\n<div class=\"region region-content-sidebar\">\r\n<div id=\"block-ex_upload-content-photos\" class=\"block block-ex-upload block-merge-above block-odd aside\">\r\n<div class=\"block-padding-thin block-content\">\r\n<div class=\"field field-name-image field-type-image field-label-hidden field-bundle-photo entry-media\">\r\n<div class=\"field-items\">\r\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><a class=\"ocmap ocm-main-photo\" href=\"law-enforcement-in-national/secretary-janet-napolitano-photo-6\"><img src=\"http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/hash/d8/82/janet_napolitano_homeland_security-4876_5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Last month, the Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano released a security report that mentioned the word Muslim once. \" title=\"Secretary Janet Napolitano\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"210\" height=\"161\" align=\"left\" /></a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div id=\"block-ex_article-article-page-tags\" class=\"block block-ex-article block-even aside\">\r\n<h2 class=\"clearfix block-title\">In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama\'s White House plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism training classes, according to a Beltway public-interest organization.</h2>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">The first bit of \"revamping\" is the removal of all material that groups, such as the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://www.cair.org/ny\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"COLOR: #336699; TEXT-DECORATION: none\"><strong style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Council on American Islamic Relations</strong></a> , or CAIR, find offensive or containing a \"negative\" image  of Muslims.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">It’s a government-wide call to end Islamophobia, according to a blog by a Washington, DC-based<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><strong> </strong></span><a><strong>watchdog group</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></a>that investigates, exposes and prosecutes government corruption.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">A few months after the Obama White House ordered an investigation of government counterterrorism training, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has destroyed instructional material that characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism, according to the Judicial Watch blog.</p>\r\n<p><span><br /><br /><strong>Continue reading on Examiner.com<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>Obama to law enforcement:</strong><a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obama-to-law-enforcement-stop-linking-muslims-to-terrorism#ixzz1nD59ZT80\"><strong> Stop linking Muslims to terrorism </strong></a></span></p>','',-2,1,0,1,'2012-02-25 01:47:41',62,'Jim Khouri - The Examiner','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-25 01:47:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,0,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(481,'Obama to law enforcement: Stop linking Muslims to terrorism','obama-to-law-enforcement-stop-linking-muslims-to-terrorism','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/napolitano_obama.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Secretary Janet Napolitano\" title=\"Last month, the Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano released a security report that mentioned the word Muslim once. \" hspace=\"7\" width=\"210\" height=\"161\" align=\"left\" />In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama\'s White House plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism training classes, according to a Beltway public-interest organization.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">The first bit of \"revamping\" is the removal of all material that groups, such as the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><a href=\"http://www.cair.org/ny\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"COLOR: #336699; TEXT-DECORATION: none\"><strong style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Council on American Islamic Relations</strong></a> , or CAIR, find offensive or containing a \"negative\" image of Muslims.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">It’s a government-wide call to end Islamophobia, according to a blog by a Washington, DC-based<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><strong> </strong></span><a><strong>watchdog group</strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span></a>that investigates, exposes and prosecutes government corruption.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em\">A few months after the Obama White House ordered an investigation of government counterterrorism training, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has destroyed instructional material that characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism, according to the Judicial Watch blog.</p>\r\n<p><span><br /><br /><strong>Continue reading on Examiner.com<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>Obama to law enforcement:</strong><a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obama-to-law-enforcement-stop-linking-muslims-to-terrorism#ixzz1nD59ZT80\"><strong> Stop linking Muslims to terrorism </strong></a></span></p>','',1,14,0,71,'2012-02-25 01:47:41',62,'Jim Khouri - The Examiner','2012-02-26 22:23:28',62,62,'2012-02-26 22:23:28','2012-02-25 01:47:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',8,0,6,'','',0,382,'robots=\nauthor='),(482,'US Judge Allows Muslim to Choke Atheist Over Islam','us-judge-allows-muslim-to-choke-atheist-over-islam','','<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/moderate-muslims-flag-burning.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Exploring the Loving Peaceful Religion\" title=\"Exploring the Loving Peaceful Religion\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"422\" height=\"280\" align=\"middle\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\"><strong>A Muslim judge in Pennsylvania – who scolded a local atheist for offending Islam</strong>, called him a doofus and accused him of “using the First Amendment” to madden Muslims – dismissed harassment charges against the Muslim defendant who purportedly choked the atheist during a Halloween parade.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">District Judge Mark Martin brought a Quran to court and told the alleged victim, American Atheists’ Pennsylvania State Director Ernest Perce V, “I think you misinterpreted a couple of things. So before you start mocking somebody else’s religion, you might want to find out a little more about it. It kind of makes you look like a doofus.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The judge added, “I think our forefathers intended to use the First Amendment so we can speak with our mind, not to p— off other people and cultures – which is what you did.”</p>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/atheist-choked-by-muslim-and-then/\" target=\"_new\" title=\"US Judge Allows Muslim to Choke Atheist Over Islam\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>www.wnd.com</span></span></strong></a></div>','',1,14,0,71,'2012-02-25 15:53:46',62,'Posted on Vision to America','2012-02-26 16:22:08',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-25 15:53:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',9,0,4,'','',0,386,'robots=\nauthor='),(484,'But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men Jn 2.24','but-jesus-did-not-commit-himself-unto-them-because-he-knew-all-men-jn-224','','<h1>The Kill Switch Comes to the PC</h1>\r\n<h2>A feature common in phones will let Microsoft remotely disable malware</h2>\r\n<p>By <a href=\"www.businessweek.com/bios/jordan-robertson-3449.html\" title=\"Jordan Robertson\" rel=\"author\">Jordan Robertson</a></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-02-22/tech_killswitch08_01_190x127.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-02-22/tech_killswitch08_01_190x127.jpg\" title=\"Illustration by Angus Greig\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p>Janne Kytömäki, a Finnish software developer, was cruising <span>Google’s</span> Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. It was as if Stephen King’s name had vanished from the covers of his books, replaced by an unknown author. Kytömäki realized the culprit was a piece of malware that was spreading quickly, and he posted his findings online.</p>\r\n<p>Google responded swiftly. It flipped a little-known kill switch, reaching into more than 250,000 infected Android smartphones and forcibly removing the malicious code. “It was sort of unreal, watching something like that unfold,” says Kytömäki, who makes dice simulator apps. Kill switches are a standard part of most smartphones, tablets, and e-readers. Google, <span>Apple</span>, and <span>Amazon</span> all have the ability to reach into devices to delete illicit content or edit code without users’ permission. It’s a powerful way to stop threats that spread quickly, but it’s also a privacy and security land mine.</p>\r\n<p>With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time. <span>Microsoft</span> hasn’t spoken publicly about its reasons for including this capability in Windows 8 beyond a cryptic warning that it might be compelled to use it for legal or security reasons.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-kill-switch-comes-to-the-pc-02162012.html\">Read More at Bloomberg Businessweek &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-02-26 15:31:01',62,'Jordan Robertson on Bloomberg Businessweek','2012-02-26 15:52:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 15:31:01','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,48,'','',0,624,'robots=\nauthor='),(485,'Auto Workers Tap Network for Obama','auto-workers-tap-network-for-obama','','<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">The United Automobile Workers union, a primary beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to rescue domestic carmakers, is now trying to return the favor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">As Mitt Romney prepared to deliver an economic address here on Friday declaring Mr. Obama’s three years in office a “failed presidency,” hundreds of union members gathered on the top level of a parking deck as a freezing drizzle fell.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">“Thank you, President Obama!” shouted the union’s president, Bob King. He gripped a bullhorn as he exhorted the crowd, “Everyone!” They roared back, “Thank you, President Obama!”</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">It was the beginning of an effort by the U.A.W. and others in the labor movement to put their vast political organizations into motion behind Mr. Obama, testing their power in a difficult economy after years of declining membership. This is an election that both parties say could turn on their ability to win over working-class voters in the industrial Midwest, where battlegrounds like Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin could determine the outcome.</p>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/us/politics/uaw-tries-to-help-obama-win-working-class-voters.html\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Auto Workers Tap Network for Obama\" style=\"color: #287bac;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post Continues on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span><span>www.nytimes.com</span></span></strong></a></div>\r\n</span></span><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" /></p>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-02-26 16:32:29',62,'Posted on Vision to America','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 16:32:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,334,'robots=\nauthor='),(486,'Union violence of little interest to media','union-violence-of-little-interest-to-media','','<h3>“There is no other way to Socialism,” he insisted, “but the dictatorship of the proletariat...Violence, when it is committed by the toiling and exploited masses, is the kind of violence of which we approve” (Lenin 1918, vol. 35, p. 265).</h3>\r\n<hr />\r\n<h2>American Thinker<br />September 2011</h2>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2011/09/08/2016145140.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />Over 500 people \"<a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016144477_longshoremen09m.html\"></a> private property, break windows and vandalize other property, wield baseball bats and crowbars, make death threats, and allegedly hold six guards hostage. Fifty law enforcement officers respond. U.S. Marshalls are placed on standby to enforce a related injunction issued by a federal judge.</p>\r\n<p>It happened yesterday at a grain terminal at Port of Longview in southwest Washington State. The perpetrators? Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The local police chief was <a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016144477_longshoremen09m.html\">quoted as saying, \"A lot of the protesters were telling us this is only the start.\"<br /><br /></a><a href=\"http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/union_violence_of_little_interest_to_media.html#ixzz1nVTmutGD\">Read more: American Thinker &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-02-26 16:38:59',62,'American Thinker Sept 2011','2012-02-26 17:26:43',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 16:38:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,5,'','',0,459,'robots=\nauthor='),(487,'Lest We Forget','lest-we-forget','','<h3>CLICK PHOTO TO SCROLL</h3>\r\n<p>\r\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"267\" data=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/images/stories/holocaust.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\">\r\n<param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/images/stories/holocaust.swf\" />\r\n</object>\r\n</p>','',1,22,0,80,'2012-02-26 19:39:28',62,'Unknown','2012-02-27 03:03:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 19:39:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,14,'','',0,479,'robots=\nauthor='),(488,'Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2011','judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011','','<p><a href=\"http://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/\"><img src=\"images/stories/10MostCorrupt.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Judicial Watch 10 Most Corrupt Politicians\" onmouseover=\"this.src=\'images/stories/JudicialWatch10MostWanted2011.jpg\';\" onmouseout=\"this.src=\'images/stories/10MostCorrupt.jpg\';\" style=\"border: 0px;\" /></a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/\"> &gt;&gt;READ MORE AT JUDICIAL WATCH&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-26 21:31:37',62,'Judicial Watch','2012-02-26 21:43:12',62,62,'2012-02-26 21:43:12','2012-02-26 21:31:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,21,'','',0,106,'robots=\nauthor='),(489,'Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home','pressure-builds-for-civilian-drone-flights-at-home','','<p><span style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, \'Liberation Sans\', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, Arial, \'Liberation Sans\', FreeSans, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">\r\n<div style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">By </div>\r\n<div style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">February 26, 2012</div>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Along with the enthusiasm, there are qualms.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Drones overhead could invade people\'s privacy. The government worries they could collide with passenger planes or come crashing down to the ground, concerns that have slowed more widespread adoption of the technology.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Despite that, pressure is building to give drones the same access as manned aircraft to the sky at home.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\"It\'s going to be the next big revolution in aviation. It\'s coming,\" says Dan Elwell, the Aerospace Industries Association\'s vice president for civil aviation.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Some impetus comes from the military, which will bring home drones from Afghanistan and wants room to test and use them. In December, Congress gave the Federal Aviation Administration six months to pick half a dozen sites around the country where the military and others can fly unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of regular air traffic, with the aim of demonstrating they\'re safe.</p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The Defense Department says the demand for drones and their expanding missions requires routine and unfettered access to domestic airspace, including around airports and cities. In a report last October, the Pentagon called for flights first by small drones both solo and in groups, day and night, expanding over several years. Flights by large and medium-sized drones would follow in the latter half of this decade.</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span><span style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">JOAN LOWY</span>, Associated Press</span>WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments, border patrols, power companies, news organizations and others wanting a bird\'s-eye view that\'s too impractical or dangerous for conventional planes or helicopters to get.</span></span></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pressure-builds-civilian-drone-flights-home-0\">Read More on cnsnews.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-02-26 22:36:27',62,'Posted on cnsnews.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-02-26 22:36:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,20,'','',0,72,'robots=\nauthor='),(495,'The next time you feel like GOD can\'t use YOU, just remember...','the-next-time-you-feel-like-god-cant-use-you-just-remember','','<p><strong>The next time you feel like GOD can\'t use YOU, just remember...</strong><br />Abraham was too old<br />Isaac was a daydreamer<br />Jacob was a liar<br />Leah was not beautiful<br />Joseph was abused<br />Moses had a stuttering problem<br />Gideon was afraid<br />Rahab was a prostitute<br />Jeremiah and Timothy were too young<br />David had an affair and was a murderer<br />Elijah was suicidal<br />Isaiah preached naked<br />Jonah ran from God<br />Naomi was a widow<br />Job went bankrupt<br />John the Baptist ate bugs<br />Peter denied Christ<br />The Disciples fell asleep while praying<br />Martha worried about everything<br />The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once<br />Zaccheus was too small<br />Paul was too religious<br />Timothy had an ulcer...<br />AND Lazarus was dead!<br /><br />No more excuses now!! God can use you to your full potential. Besides you<span> </span>aren\'t the message, you are just the messenger.</p>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-02 17:11:22',62,'Submitted by Doug Burnie','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-02 17:11:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,12,'','',0,167,'robots=\nauthor='),(496,'My Feet Are Off The Ground','my-feet-are-off-the-ground','','<p align=\"left\"><em><strong>My Feet Are Off   The Ground</strong></em><strong><br /> <em>From Tyler Perry</em></strong><br /> <em><br /><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/tyler_perry.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tyler Perry\" title=\"Writer and Actor - Tyler Perry\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />This morning I awoke and was so   frustrated about all of the stuff that I\'m dealing with in trying to get this   studio open.</em><br /> <em>I was about to open my mouth &amp;start complaining when I remembered something that happened to   me a year ago.</em> <br /> <br /> <em>I was walking to my car when this woman who appeared to be   homeless started walking towards me. I\'m ashamed to say this but I thought, \'I   don\'t feel like being hustled today.\' Then I got quickly convicted. I felt   guilty so I started digging in my pocket for some money. As she got closer I   noticed that she had the kindest eyes that I had ever seen. </em></p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><em>As I was   reaching into my pocket she started to speak. I thought, \'Here goes the sales   pitch\'. She said \'Excuse me sir, I need some shoes. Can you help me?\' My eyes   filled with water because I remember being out on the streets and having only   one pair of run over shoes. I was taken aback for a second.<br /> <br /> I took her   inside the studio and had my wardrobe people find shoes in her size. As she put   the shoes on she started crying, praising God and thanking Jesus, and saying,   \'My feet are off the ground! My feet are off the \' ground!     Several of the   wardrobe people started crying. I was crying. But I never forgot those words.   \'My feet are off the ground!\' I thought, \'Wow! All she wanted was some shoes.\'   She quickly disappeared and never asked me for a dime. I realized that I still   had the money in my hand so I went out looking for her. She was gone just that   quick so I looked all around the neighbourhood for her. I found her standing on   a corner looking down at her shoes, still crying. I was so touched. I asked her   how she had gotten homeless. She told me that she had AIDS and that she was   waiting to get into a shelter.. She said that her family had turned their backs   on her and that she had no place to go, but she knew that God would make a way   for her. I said to myself, \'He just did</em><br /> <br /> <em>\' Her faith and her praise moved me. I   took her to a nearby hotel and put her up until she was able to get on her feet   I had someone that worked for me to check on her from time to time and to make   sure that she had food and clothes. After about a month or so we lost touch, but   I never forgot her.<br /> <br /> This past summer I was shooting \'Daddy\'s Little Girls\' and   this woman walks up to me smiling. I didn\'t recognize her face, but her eyes   were familiar. She had on a really nice dress and her hair was done. It was her!   She told me that the little help that I had given her had changed her   life.</em><br /> <em>She was in a house now and doing very   well. I said all of that to say this. After I met this woman, every time I think   about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">complaining </span>and<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> mumbling </span>I remember, \'My <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">feet</span> are off the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ground</span>!\'<br /> <br /> I wanted to share this with you just to let you know that   when I say that I am thankful for you, I mean it. And when I say that you are a   blessing to me, I mean it.</em><br /> <br /> <em>We take so much for granted sometimes that   I just wanted all of you to know that I am grateful to God for you every day.   Thank you for being in my life.<br /> <br /><strong> ~Tyler Perry</strong></em></p>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-03 01:09:13',62,'Submitted by Bill Brake','2012-03-03 01:35:19',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-03 01:09:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,11,'','',0,611,'robots=\nauthor='),(497,'My Bucket List ........2012','my-bucket-list-2012','','<h3><span style=\"color: #135cae;\"><em>*Obama: Gone!</em> <br /><br /><em>*Borders: Closed!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Congress: Obey it\'s own   laws!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Language: English Only!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of   Rights!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Welfare: Time Limits with Mandatory Drug   Screening!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Federal Income Tax: If you don\'t contribute   to your country, </em><em> you lose your voting   privileges!</em><br /><br /> <em>*Repeal: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ObamaCare!</span></em><br /><br /> <em>*NO freebies to :   Non-Citizens!</em><br /><br /> <em>* EPA:  ELIMINATE!</em><br /><br /> <em>* Budget: Pass Budget Amendment ... Don\'t   spend more than what </em><em>comes in!</em></span></h3>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-03 01:37:47',62,'Submitted by Bill Brake','2012-03-03 01:53:47',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-03 01:37:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,10,'','',0,399,'robots=\nauthor='),(498,'An Urgent Request','an-urgent-request','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/mikeevans.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />God has laid an urgent burden on my heart to work to help save the life of Yousef Nadarkhani. Because the Spirit of God opened a miraculous door for me to have a personal relationship with Ali Salehi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, I feel a special responsibility to do everything possible to spare this young man from death.</p>\r\n<p>This young Iranian pastor has been sentenced to death by the government of Iran for apostasy against Islam and attempting to evangelize Muslims. He has been in and out of jail for the past six years. The sentence of death by hanging has been upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court; although the government officially denies this, Nadarkhani’s attorney has released the ruling that declares it.</p>\r\n<p>The sentence was upheld on appeal late last year and could be carried out at any time. The government has offered to vacate the sentence if Nadarkhani recants his faith, but he has refused to do so. Today I’m asking you to join with me in an effort to help save his life. God has given me an open door to reach out to the leaders of Iran that no one else has.</p>\r\n<p>To the best of my knowledge, I am the only minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the world who has a personal relationship with Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Salehi. We met two years ago in New York City when I was staying at the hotel with the Iranian delegation to the United Nations. The Spirit of God directed me to go to him and ask for his help, and he is the man who arranged my personal meeting with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</p>\r\n<p>I believe this relationship offers us a unique opportunity to speak directly to the leaders of Iran. I urge you to sign the petition to save the life of Pastor Nadarkhani today…and to forward this to everyone in your address book. Share it on Facebook. Print it out and take it to church. We need to get as many people as possible involved in this effort before it is too late.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/petition-President-Ahmadinejad-Sign-Online.asp\">SIGN THE PETITION TODAY</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-03 16:30:48',62,'Dr. Michael Evans','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-03 16:30:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,172,'','',0,238,'robots=\nauthor='),(499,'Maxine Waters Big Slip of the Tongue','maxine-waters-big-slip-of-the-tongue','','<p>\"Everything must be different!\" or <em>\"Alles muss anders sein!\"</em> was a slogan of the Nazi Party. It is also the heart\'s desire of every Leftist since Karl Marx. Nazism was a deeply revolutionary creed, a fact that is always denied by the Left; but it\'s true. Hitler and his criminal gang hated the rich, the capitalists, the Jews, the Christian Churches, and \"the System\".</p>\r\n<p>John J. Ray, M.A., PhD<br />From <a href=\"http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id9.html\">\"Hitler Was a Socialist\"<br /></a>February 2012</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/o3I-PVVowFY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,18,0,75,'2012-03-04 16:50:05',62,'Submitted by Bill Brake','2012-03-04 19:01:40',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-04 16:50:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,3,'','',0,355,'robots=\nauthor='),(500,'Homily by Fr. Sammie L. Maletta Jr.','homily-by-fr-sammie-l-maletta-jr','','<h3>Time We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ALL</span> Take the Same Stand!</h3>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/ltTd81XpDnc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-03-04 19:01:49',62,'Submitted by Matthew Krol','2012-03-04 22:13:37',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-04 19:01:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,47,'','',0,658,'robots=\nauthor='),(501,'The Government Healthcare Plan Explained','the-government-healthcare-plan-explained','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/HcBaSP31Be8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-06 15:05:15',62,'YouTube','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-06 15:05:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,12,'','',0,322,'robots=\nauthor='),(502,'Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed that Obama himself personally approves the policy to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial on a case by case basis','secretary-of-defense-leon-panetta-revealed-that-obama-himself-personally-approves-the-policy-to-kill-american-citizens-suspected-of-terrorism-without-trial-on-a-case-by-case-basis','','<p>As you watch this video, keep in mind how Obama\'s Department of Homeland Security defines \"terrorist\" e.g. \"returning veterans and abortion oponents, etc.\".</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>embed src=\"http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" background=\"#333333\" width=\"425\" height=\"279\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50119125&amp;shareUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7396830n&amp;tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox\" /<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-06 15:32:45',62,'60 Minutes','2012-03-06 16:05:48',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-06 15:32:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,11,'','',0,302,'robots=\nauthor='),(503,'Isn\'t April 20th Adolph Hitler\'s Birthday?','isnt-april-20th-adolph-hitlers-birthday','','<p>DHS memo <a href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1303296515462.shtm\">\"Secretary Napolitano Announces Implementation of National Terrorism Advisory System\"</a> dated April 20, 2011.</p>','',0,17,0,74,'2012-03-06 16:05:57',62,'Department of Homeland Security','2012-03-06 16:10:29',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-06 16:05:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,10,'','',0,1,'robots=\nauthor='),(504,'Pelosi: Gov’t Should Shut Down Plant Where Workers Refuse to Unionize','pelosi-govt-should-shut-down-plant-where-workers-refuse-to-unionize','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/cnpeBTX-DMA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-06 17:06:13',62,'Posted on Conservative Byte','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-06 17:06:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,9,'','',0,345,'robots=\nauthor='),(505,'Putin steals an election, Obama’s State Department cheers','putin-steals-an-election-obamas-state-department-cheers','','<p><span style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"text-align: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;\">\r\n<p><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: arial; FONT-SIZE: 14px\">By </span><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/jennifer-rubin/2011/02/24/ABbIUXN_page.html\" rel=\"author\" style=\"COLOR: #0c4790; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\">Jennifer Rubin</a></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>In Russia, democracy advocates are taking to the streets, according to <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/asia/moscow-protesters-denounce-putin-victory.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;\">this report</a>: “A day after claiming an overwhelming victory in Russia’s presidential elections, Vladimir V. Putin on Monday faced a range of challenges to his legitimacy, including charges of fraud from international observers and a defiant opposition that vowed to keep him from serving his full six-year term.” The iron fist came down hard:</p>\r\n<blockquote style=\"padding-bottom: 17px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;\">In Moscow, thousands of antigovernment protesters gathered in a city square to blast it as illegitimate, chanting “Russia without Putin,” and “Putin is a thief; we are the government!” When riot police demanded that the crowd disperse after a couple of hours, dozens of demonstrators encircled the blogger Aleksei Navalny, the most charismatic figure to emerge in this wave of activism, trying to prevent his arrest. But officers detained him anyway, pushing him into a police van along with most of the movement’s other prominent leaders. The police said 150 people were detained.</blockquote>\r\n<blockquote style=\"padding-bottom: 17px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;\">Another 300 people were detained after a similar event in St. Petersburg.</blockquote>\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Rick Santorum’s <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/santorum-presses-culture-wars-attack/2012/02/26/gIQAqSkicR_story.html?hpid=z1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"COLOR: #0c4790; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\">reaction to the JFK speech</a> may mirror your reaction to our <a href=\"http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/03/185210.htm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"COLOR: #0c4790; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\">State Department’s</a> repulsive fawning over the elections. An excerpt from a written statement: “We are encouraged to see so many Russian citizens voting, monitoring voting in their local precincts, exercising their constitutional right to free assembly, and expressing their views peacefully about the political and electoral processes. The number of Russian election observers who monitored this vote is unprecedented and a sign that Russian society seeks to participate in the improvement of Russia’s democratic institutions. We also recognize the government’s efforts to reform the political system, including the reintroduction of direct elections for governors, the simplification of party registration procedures, and the reduction in the numbers of signatures needed to register presidential candidates.”<em> Good grief</em>.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>No condemnation. No rejection of the results as invalid. No protest over the arrest of an opposition leader. This sort of mealy-mouthed suggestion is all we get: “We urge the Russian Government to conduct an independent, credible investigation of all reported electoral violations. As underscored in the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] report, we also note the new steps that the Central Election Commission took to increase transparency of the voting process since the parliamentary elections last December. We urge Russian authorities to build on these steps to ensure that the procedures for future elections will be more transparent.”</p>\r\n<p>Mitt Romney issued a <a href=\"http://www.mittromney.com/news/press/2012/03/mitt-romney-russian-election-mockery-democratic-process\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;\">statement</a> that could not be more different:</p>\r\n<a name=\"pagebreak\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"></a>\r\n<blockquote style=\"padding-bottom: 17px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;\">“What the world witnessed in Russia yesterday was a mockery of the democratic process. Instead of stating that it ‘congratulates the Russian people on the completion of the Presidential elections,’ as the Obama Administration has done, it should have condemned the flagrant manipulation and media restrictions that marred this election. With the dimming of democracy in Russia, a better label for President Obama’s Russia policy is ‘set back’ rather than ‘reset.’?”</blockquote>\r\n<p>There you have it. One 2012 presidential candidate is unwilling to dissemble and to ignore not only a gross violation of human rights, but also a slap in the face of the U.S. administration that has dispensed one benefit after another (e.g., removing missile site from Eastern Europe, letting Russia into the World Trade Organization) with the lame promise that Russia would reform. The president is living in a fantasy world in which his sole objective is to avoid confrontation in an election year.</p>\r\n<p>In the meantime, both our foes and repressed people around the world see our lack of support for democracy, our unwillingness to stand up to bullies and our determination to double-talk in order to avoid tangling with aggressive regimes. No doubt the despots in China, Iran, North Korea and the rest are breathing easier; they don’t even have to come up with their own propaganda anymore. Obama will do it for them.</p>\r\n</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-06 17:35:38',62,'The Washington Post','2012-03-07 00:30:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-06 17:35:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,171,'','',0,323,'robots=\nauthor='),(506,'The Volt','the-volt','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/volt_problems.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>','',1,16,0,73,'2012-03-07 04:33:11',62,'Posted on Conservative Byte','2012-03-07 04:44:11',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-07 04:33:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,12,'','',0,264,'robots=\nauthor='),(507,'Glen Beck - Obama, FDR and Regulations','glen-beck-obama-fdr-and-regulations','','<h3>This cut is from a May 2010 Fox News segment. It may be worth viewing again and again before next November.</h3>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/0PE4b0VFzYI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<h3>Then read<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=357:obamas-agenda-overwhelm-the-system&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">: \"Obama\'s agenda: Overwhelm the System\" by former Obama classmate Wayne Allyn Root</a>.</h3>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-08 02:35:23',62,'Submitted by Bill Brake','2012-03-08 03:41:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-08 02:35:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,7,'','',0,781,'robots=\nauthor='),(508,'PANETTA: \'INTERNATIONAL PERMISSION’ TRUMPS CONGRESSIONAL PERMISSION FOR MILITARY ACTIONS','panetta-international-permission-trumps-congressional-permission-for-military-actions','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/5zNwOeyuG84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-08 13:35:17',62,'Submitted by JS','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-08 13:35:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,170,'','',0,240,'robots=\nauthor='),(509,'The real unemployment rate? It sure isn’t 8.3%','the-real-unemployment-rate-it-sure-isnt-83','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/rbchart.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Real Unemployment\" align=\"middle\" /></p>\r\n<p>Even if it were a legit number, the 8.3% February unemployment rate, released today by the Labor Department, would be simply terrible—and unacceptable. It would still extend the longest streak of 8%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression. The U.S. economy hasn’t been below 8% unemployment since Obama took office in January 2009. And back in May 2007, unemployment was just 4.4%.</p>\r\n<p>But, unfortunately, the true measure of U.S. unemployment is much, much worse.</p>\r\n<p>1. If the size of the U.S. labor force as a share of the total population was the same as it was when Barack Obama took office—65.7% then vs. 63.9% today—the U-3 unemployment rate would be 10.8%.</p>\r\n<p>2. But what if you take into the account the aging of the Baby Boomers, which means the labor force participation (LFP) rate should be trending lower. Indeed, it has been doing just that since 2000. Before the Great Recession, the Congressional Budget Office predicted what the LFP would be in 2012, assuming such demographic changes. Using that number, the real unemployment rate would be 10.4%.</p>\r\n<p>3. Of course, the LFP rate usually falls during recessions. Yet even if you discount for that and the aging issue, the real unemployment rate would be 9.5%.</p>\r\n<p>4. Then there’s the broader, U-6 measure of unemployment which includes the discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work. That unemployment rate, perhaps the truest measure of the labor market’s health, is still a sky-high 14.9%.</p>\r\n<p> <a href=\"http://blog.american.com/2012/03/the-real-unemployment-rate-its-sure-isnt-8-3/\">Continue reading on The American Enterprise Institute &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-11 15:28:43',62,'James Pethokoukis - The American Enterprise Institute','2012-03-11 15:55:06',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-11 15:28:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,169,'','',0,240,'robots=\nauthor='),(510,'Useful Idiots','useful-idiots','','<p><a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/\">Thomas Sowell<br />Townhall.com</a><br />Originally published May 20, 2003<br /><br /><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/sowell.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Thomas Sowell\" title=\"Thomas Sowell\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The term \"useful idiots\" has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen\'s new book <a href=\"http://www.thbookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C6143\"><em>Useful Idiots</em></a> shows that such people are still with us.</p>\r\n<p>Long after the Soviet Union\'s horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics.</p>\r\n<p>As Mona Charen\'s book &lt;<a href=\"http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/charen.html\">read book review</a>&gt; makes painfully clear, this usually happened in a pattern that was repeated again and again, with the same useful idiots saying the same kinds of things again and again. She spells this out and names names, quoting Peter Jennings, Jesse Jackson, Anthony Lewis, Ted Kennedy, Ted Turner and a long list of others.</p>\r\n<p>The founding of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba set the pattern that was followed later in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Grenada. By initially concealing the fact that he was a Communist, and having some non-Communists around him as window dressing, Fidel Castro was able to play the role of a popular liberator, out to end oppression, hold free elections, and do all sorts of good things for \"the people.\"</p>\r\n<p>The useful idiots in the United States and other Western democracies ate it up. Many still do, to this very moment.</p>\r\n<p>Once in power, Castro tolerated no opposition, held no free elections, and established a police state that made the previous dictators look like amateurs. Those who spoke out against what was happening were jailed or executed. So were those who tried to flee the country.</p>\r\n<p>Now that the mask of liberator was no longer necessary, Castro revealed that he was -- and always had been -- a Communist, despite useful idiots who claimed that it was American hostility which drove him into the arms of the Soviet Union.</p>\r\n<p>Not only was Castro part of the Soviet bloc from day one, he made Cuba the first Soviet military base in the Western Hemisphere and supplied Cuban troops to go help other Communists to gain and hold power in Africa.</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-11 20:12:54',62,'Thomas Sowell','2012-03-11 20:30:11',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-11 20:12:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,168,'','',0,282,'robots=\nauthor='),(511,'Obama impeachment bill now in Congress','obama-impeachment-bill-now-in-congress','','<p>Let the president be duly warned.</p>\r\n<p>Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, “it is the sense of Congress” that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor.”</p>\r\n<div>\r\n<div id=\"pmad-in2\">\r\n<div>Specifically, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution reserves for Congress alone the power to declare war, a restriction that has been sorely tested in recent years, including Obama’s authorization of military force in Libya.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/our-choice-impeachment-or-dictatorship/\">In an exclusive WND column</a>, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo claims that Jones introduced his <a href=\"http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107:\">House Concurrent Resolution 107</a> in response to startling recent comments from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.</p>\r\n<p>“This week it was Secretary of Defense Panetta’s declaration before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and President Obama look not to the Congress for authorization to bomb Syria but to NATO and the United Nations,” Tancredo writes. “This led to Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., introducing an official resolution calling for impeachment should Obama take offensive action based on Panetta’s policy statement, because it would violate the Constitution.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-impeachment-bill-now-in-congress/?cat_orig=us\">Continue reading on WND &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-11 20:49:40',62,'Drew Zahn','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-11 20:49:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,167,'','',0,186,'robots=\nauthor='),(515,'Why U.S. military in Uganda? Soros fingerprints all over it','why-us-military-in-uganda-soros-fingerprints-all-over-it','','<p>After President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that he would be sending American troops into Uganda, WND uncovered billionaire activist George Soros’ ties both to the political pressure behind the decision and to the African nation’s fledgling oil industry.</p>\r\n<p>Soros sits on the executive board of an influential “crisis management organization” that recently recommended the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda to help with operations and run an intelligence platform, a recommendation Obama’s action seems to fulfill.</p>\r\n<p>The president emeritus of that organization, the International Crisis Group, is also the principal author of “Responsibility to Protect,” the military doctrine used by Obama to justify the U.S.-led NATO campaign in Libya.</p>\r\n<p>Soros’ own Open Society Institute is one of only three nongovernmental funders of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect, a doctrine that has been cited many times by activists urging intervention in Uganda.</p>\r\n<p>Authors and advisers of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, including a center founded and led by Samantha Power, the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights, also helped to found the International Criminal Court.</p>\r\n<p>Several of the doctrine’s main founders also sit on boards with Soros, who is a major proponent of the doctrine.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/356321/\">Continue reading on WND &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,17,0,74,'2012-03-12 06:40:44',62,'Aaron Klein - WND','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-12 06:40:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,330,'robots=\nauthor='),(516,'Department of Energy Timeline of Growth','department-of-energy-timeline-of-growth','','<h3>Excerpt from the CATO Institute - Timeline and description of the development of the U.S. Department of Energy 1866 thru 2009.<br /><br /></h3>\r\n<li><strong>1977:</strong> The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act regulates surface coal mines and imposes new fees on the coal industry.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1977:</strong> As a consequence of price controls, many parts of the country experience severe natural gas shortages, and thousands of industrial plants and schools are closed.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1977:</strong> At the urging of President Jimmy Carter, Congress creates the Department of Energy, which combines the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.<sup><a id=\"_ednref5\" name=\"_ednref5\" href=\"#_edn5\">5</a></sup>At birth, the department has about 20,000 employees. Today, it has 16,000 permanent employees and about 100,000 contract employees, who work in the national laboratories and other facilities.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1978:</strong> President Carter signs the National Energy Act, which is a massive piece of legislation nine inches thick containing a slew of subsidies and tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1978:</strong> The NEA includes the Natural Gas Policy Act, which responds to natural gas shortages with an extremely complex and gradual phase-out of wellhead price controls by 1985, although additional legislation in 1989 is needed to complete the job.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1979:</strong> Political turmoil in Iran, as well as OPEC actions, cause crude oil prices to soar. President Carter proposes bureaucratic solutions such as mandating allowable room temperatures in buildings and creating rationing coupons for gasoline. Shortages create automobile line-ups at gas stations in some regions, and \"strike forces\" of Department of Energy auditors swoop down on refiners and gas stations across the country looking for price-ceiling violators.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1979:</strong> President Carter invites the media to the roof of the White House to see his new solar panel display, and promises to increase subsidies for alternative fuel technologies. President Ronald Reagan removes the panels in 1986.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1979:</strong> President Carter proposes a gradual lifting of domestic oil price controls, but in a swap for a windfall profits tax on oil. Carter\'s tax idea is not new: both the Nixon and Ford administrations had pushed for a windfall profits tax.<sup><a id=\"_ednref6\" name=\"_ednref6\" href=\"#_edn6\">6</a></sup></li>\r\n<li><strong>1980:</strong> Congress passes the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act, which imposes an excise tax on earnings from domestic crude oil sales above a base or \"normal\" rate of profit. The tax is expected to generate massive revenues of $227 billion during the 1980s.<sup><a id=\"_ednref7\" name=\"_ednref7\" href=\"#_edn7\">7</a></sup> But it is repealed in 1988 as a complete failure—it raises a lot less revenue than expected, it stifles domestic oil production, and it increases oil imports.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1980:</strong> President Carter signs the Energy Security Act, which includes a range of new subsidies and tax breaks for conservation and alternative energy.</li>\r\n<li><strong>1980:</strong> As part of the ESA, Congress creates the Synthetic Fuels Corporation to develop alternatives to imported oil. The project is a giant boondoggle, and it is closed down in 1986 after wasting $4 billion of taxpayer money.<sup><a id=\"_ednref8\" name=\"_ednref8\" href=\"#_edn8\">8</a></sup></li>\r\n<li><strong>1980:</strong> Ronald Reagan is elected president promising to abolish the Department of Energy, arguing that it \"hasn\'t produced a quart of oil or a lump of coal, or anything else in the line of energy.\"<sup><a id=\"_ednref9\" name=\"_ednref9\" href=\"#_edn9\">9</a></sup></li>\r\n<h3><a href=\"http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/energy/timeline\">Read more ...</a></h3>','',1,25,0,84,'2012-03-13 13:04:01',62,'CATO Institute by Chris Edwards','2012-03-25 23:32:10',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-13 13:04:01','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,2,'','',0,416,'robots=\nauthor='),(517,'IT\'S ALGAEMAN!','its-algaeman','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/algaeman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ALGAEMAN\" /></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 16px\">\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">So sad.<br />President Obama plays comedian and cracks jokes about gas prices. He told an audience today that there’s “a few places” we’re not drilling… the National Mall… at your house.”</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">Of course, like most everything Obama says, a quick Google search paints a totally different picture of the truth.<br />Investor’s reported:</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.”</p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 24px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\"><a href=\"http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/hilarious-obama-theres-a-few-places-were-not-drilling-were-not-drilling-in-the-national-mall-were-not-drilling-at-your-house-video/\"> Continue Reading on www.thegatewaypundit.com </a></p>','',1,16,0,73,'2012-03-16 18:23:22',62,'Posted on ConservativeByte','2012-03-16 19:10:34',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-16 18:23:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,11,'','',0,446,'robots=\nauthor='),(518,'UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws','un-rights-council-delves-into-us-voter-id-laws','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/naacp-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NAACP\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />For years conservatives have been telling the federal government to get out of the United Nations (UN). They should have no authority at all in the business of the United States of America. However, recently the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have presented their case against U S voter laws to the United Nations Human Rights Council. They argue that the requirements disenfranchise voters and suppress the minority. Now the Council is investigating.</p>\r\n<p>What is most incredible in all of this is the people on the panel they are presenting these matters to: Saudi Arabia, China and Cuba. These have been some of the greatest human rights violators in recent history!</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/03/naacp-un-investigating-us-election-laws/\">Continue reading on Front Porch Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-17 01:18:45',62,'Posted on Front Porch Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-03-17 01:29:21','2012-03-17 01:18:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,166,'','',0,144,'robots=\nauthor='),(519,'Death By Paper Cuts','death-by-paper-cuts','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Joyner\" title=\"Rick Joyner\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />SPECIAL BULLETIN 06-2012<br />Death By Paper Cuts<br />by Rick Joyner</p>\r\n<p>        When Europeans start chiding America for our overregulation, we should know we’ve crossed a Rubicon. A recent article in The Economist about the suffocating of the U.S. economy by overregulation was brilliant, insightful, and true. It begins with a few examples of how ridiculous the micromanaging of our lives by government has now become, such as:</p>\r\n<p><br />-- The Florida law that requires vending machine labels with a phone number for the public to call to report if the label is not there.</p>\r\n<p>-- The Federal Railroad Admin that requires an “F” to be painted on the front of trains so you can tell which end it is.</p>\r\n<p>-- The Bethesda, Maryland Ordinance to shut down children’s lemonade stands that do not have a license.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/special-bulletin-06-2012\">Continue reading on The Oak Initiative &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-17 18:23:43',62,'The Oak Initiative','2012-03-17 18:30:31',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-17 18:23:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,165,'','',0,178,'robots=\nauthor='),(520,'ISPs Are Hirelings For The Police State','isps-are-hirelings-for-the-police-state','','<p><span style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: medium \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Remember that battle over SOPA, in which the world’s largest websites beat back a congressional threat that would have changed the Internet forever? It was pretty obvious within a day after this Pyrrhic victory that the existing laws in place were enough to give the government the power to wreck the digital world. But how would it happen? How would government end digital freedom?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Well, the excuse is obvious. It is “intellectual property.” This phrase serves the same purpose for would-be censors that “terrorism” does for warmongers. It is a way to ramp up government control while kicking sand in the faces of those who would oppose such control. Are you for terrorism? Are you for theft?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">It’s rather easy to detect normal theft. One day, I have a planter on my porch. The next day, the planter is on your porch, and it got there without my permission. Or one day, I’m driving my car. The next day, you are driving my car because you took it from me in the night. This is the way normal theft occurs. You can tell when it has happened. And the means of redress are obvious.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Now imagine a different scenario. One day, the paragraph above appears on the website for Laissez Faire Books. The next day, it appears on your Facebook page or blog. But it is not thereby removed from lfb.org. Instead, it is copied. A second instance of the paragraph has been created, taking nothing from me. My paragraph still exists. And let’s say this happens 10 billion times in the course of a few minutes, as can happen in the digital world.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\">Is this a case of mass looting, or is it a mass compliment to me?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/isps-are-hirelings-for-the-police-state/\" target=\"_new\" style=\"font-family: \'Droid Sans\', sans-serif; color: #006699; font-weight: 700; word-spacing: 0.2em;\">Continue Reading on whiskeyandgunpowder.com</a></strong></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-03-18 15:27:28',62,'Posted on Front Porch Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-18 15:27:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,18,'','',0,59,'robots=\nauthor='),(521,'Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?','can-the-secret-service-tell-you-to-shut-up','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/napolitano.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Andrew Napolitano\" title=\"Judge Andrew Napaolitano\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Speech is language and other forms of expression; and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable proximity to those of like mind and to government officials, so as to make your opinions known to them.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n<p>The Declaration of Independence recognizes all three freedoms as stemming from our humanity. So, what happens if you can speak freely, but the government officials at whom your speech is aimed refuse to hear you? And what happens if your right to associate and to petition the government is confined to areas where those of like mind and the government are not present? This is coming to a street corner near you.</p>\r\n<p>Certain rights, like thought and privacy and travel, can be exercised on their own. You don\'t need the government to cooperate with you; you just need to be left alone. Other rights, like those intended to influence the political process, require that the government not resist your exercise of them. Remember the old one-liner from Philosophy 101: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make any noise? Here\'s the contemporary version of that: If you can criticize the government, but it refuses to hear you, does your exercise of the freedom of speech have any value?</p>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2012/03/15/can_the_secret_service_tell_you_to_shut_up/page/full/\">Continue Reading on Town Hall &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-03-18 15:36:32',62,'Andrew Napolitano','2012-03-18 16:38:33',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-18 15:36:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,16,'','',0,132,'robots=\nauthor='),(522,'The Gaystapo Wants to have Christians Arrested','the-gaystapo-wants-to-have-christians-arrested','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/fpp_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FrontPorchPolitics.com\" /></p>\r\n<p>A recent article in the UK’s Christian Institute quoted pop star Will Young, a member of the new Gaystapo, as he referred to clergymen who referenced homosexual unions, which they are trying to get everyone to say they are “gay marriage” (which this writer will not do), as “abhorrent”. Mr. Young didn’t stop there though. He continued expressing the desire to have those who see the new Gaystapo and their unions as abhorrent as those who should be prosecuted for hate crimes. He certainly wouldn’t like what I call it: sodomy, homosexualality, debauchery, unnatural, depraved, perverse, evil, disgusting, wretched and a host of other terms to describe the Gaystapo perverts.</p>\r\n<p>Somehow Mr. Young thinks it’s ok to call people with convictions other than his own criminals and hatemongers that should be in jail, but when they disagree with his position he cries “foul” like a little child kicking and screaming that they are intolerant. See the utter intolerance of the tolerance movement?</p>\r\n<p>These statements appeared live on BBC1?s Question Time.</p>\r\n<p>I like to identify people like Mr. Young as the new Gaystapo, or among the militant sodomites who are showing themselves for who they truly are. They are those who claim to love and be tolerant, yet they are the very epitome of hate and intolerance. They want to silence anyone who would call their perverse behavior….well, perverse!</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/03/gaystapo-wants-christians-arrested/\">Continue reading on FrontPorchPolitics.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>SIMILAR   <a href=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=358:homosexuality-and-the-nazi-party&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE NAZI PARTY &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-18 16:04:18',62,'FronT Porch Politics','2012-03-20 21:08:52',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-18 16:04:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,164,'','',0,131,'robots=\nauthor='),(523,'Barack Obama, Oil Prices and Reality ','barack-obama-oil-prices-and-reality-','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/hunter.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Derek Hunter\" title=\"Derek Hunter TownHall.com\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" align=\"left\" />Is there anything worse than this president? I mean, maybe having worms is worse, but I never spent the night at an Occupy Wall Street camp, so I don’t know for sure. But I have had Barack Obama as my president for more than three years, and it’s been a disaster.</p>\r\n<p>Seriously, if I wanted to be lied to regularly, I’d rather do a daily affirmation in the bathroom mirror than watch him tour community college gymnasiums to claim credit for what he hasn’t done and blame all his problems on someone else.</p>\r\n<p>When he was running for president, then-Sen. Obama basically told people President George W. Bush owned Exxon/Mobil and Vice-President Dick Cheney’s pacemaker was a secret implant from Halliburton that contained a hidden valve to control the world’s oil supply. Now that prices have gone through the roof and he needs to hide, the president presents himself as a helpless observer at the mercy of evil oil speculators.</p>\r\n<p>He’ll tell you the United States is producing more oil than ever before, but he fails to add that’s because of the drilling leases approved by the previous administrations (both Clinton and Bush), or how most of that is on private lands because he’s rejected new drilling leases on public lands at a record pace. He’s had as much to do with the oil production in this country as the number of jobs created by his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline – zero.</p>\r\n<p>He’s said several times we have only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves but use 20 percent of the world’s oil.</p>\r\n<p>First, who cares? We use the oil we need. We don’t buy it to set it on fire so we can make s’mores and roast weenies on a stick while telling ghost stories about “saved or created” jobs.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2012/03/18/barack_obama_oil_prices_and_reality\">Read more at TownHall.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,25,0,84,'2012-03-18 17:22:30',62,'Derek Hunter  - Town Hall','2012-03-25 23:34:17',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-18 17:22:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,3,'','',0,454,'robots=\nauthor='),(524,'WISCONSIN:  29 judges signed Walker recall petitions','wisconsin-29-judges-commit-outrageous-act','','<p>A startling report has come out today from Gannett Wisconsin Media (the same company that publishes USA Today):  29 Wisconsin judges who are currently sitting on the bench signed RECALL petitions against Gov. Scott Walker.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/recallpetitionjudgessign.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Recall Petition\" align=\"center\" /></p>\r\n<p>This is outrageous!  Some of these very same judges have made rulings that impact the upcoming RECALL election, yet none of them have recused themselves from these matters.  It is part of the corrupt liberal network in Wisconsin that is attempting to seize power for the Democrat Party.</p>\r\n<p><br />This shows you how desperate the liberals are to steal power away from the Republicans in Wisconsin.  They want to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office, they want Democrats to take control of the State Legislature and they want to steal away the 10 Electoral Votes for Barack Obama in November.</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> <strong>Above editorial comments excerpted from a Campaign to Defeat Obama dot com email. Copy of the petition is from Gannett Media.</strong></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120318/WDH0101/203180435/29-judges-signed-Walker-recall-petitions?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|WDH-News\">READ MORE wasaudailyherald.com (Gannett) &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,21,0,79,'2012-03-18 17:38:03',62,'Info at Campaign to Defeat Obama','2012-03-18 18:04:13',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-18 17:38:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',8,0,6,'','',0,372,'robots=\nauthor='),(525,'The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha','the-impossible-dream-man-of-la-mancha','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /></span>&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/RfHnzYEHAow\">http://www.youtube.com/embed/RfHnzYEHAow</a>\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-19 03:32:22',62,'The Man of La Mancha','2012-12-04 04:37:35',62,62,'2015-12-10 23:50:18','2012-03-19 03:32:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,8,'','',0,739,'robots=\nauthor='),(526,'Reining in Political Pendulum Shifts ','reining-in-political-pendulum-shifts-','','<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\r\n<p><span style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<p style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"left\" />Excerpted from The Oak Initiative Bulletin #22 <br />March 20, 2012<br />By Debra Durstewitz</strong></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Constitutional Protection for Landowners</strong></span></span></p>\r\n</span></span></p>\r\n</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px \'Times New Roman\'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">   Third, this nation must move back to the place where we honor the right of an individual or family to own land. Landowners must be able to pass that land down to their descendants, despite their ability to pay taxes. Land and home ownership prevents people from winding up homeless and on welfare programs. It allows even desperate people the opportunity to have a roof over their heads, to grow their own food, rent rooms, or pasture for income.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    It was infuriating that Nancy Pelosi turned the passage of the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare) into a civil rights issue, when, in this great and free nation, citizens can have their land confiscated  and sold from underneath them if they can’t afford to pay property taxes. Clearly, our Founders would have considered the right to own land and to pass that ownership as an inheritance as one of the most fundamental of rights, and we must honor that.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    During the subprime mortgage crisis that started in 2008, millions of people lost their homes and moved in with their friends or families or even lived out of their automobiles. I would propose that land ownership is such a sacred and inalienable right that there should be legislation which prevents banks from foreclosing on properties that have paid up to 70 percent of their principal. In these cases, the bank would be forced to renegotiate their mortgages so that the payments were affordable enough for the homeowners that they can keep their parcels.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\">    Last, our Founders would be horrified by the way our government has accumulated debt, to the hindering of our national security, and the burdening of our posterity. We must pass a balanced budget amendment so that we can honor our children’s right to live in a nation that has not compromised its national defense by indebting itself to potential national enemies. We must correct our course now so that the next generation will not be forced to have a huge portion of their paycheck pay off the follies of their elders.</p>\r\n<p style=\"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none\"><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-22\">Read entire post at The Oak Initiative &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</span></span></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-20 20:54:19',62,'Debra Durstewitz | The oak Initiative','2012-03-20 21:07:33',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-20 20:54:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,163,'','',0,135,'robots=\nauthor='),(527,'The Road We\'ve Travelled','the-road-weve-travelled','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe src=\'http://web.gbtv.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=20229977&amp;width=400&amp;height=224&amp;property=gbtv\' width=\'400\' height=\'224\' frameborder=\'0\'<span>&gt;</span>Your browser does not support iframes.<span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-21 04:24:50',62,'GBTV','2012-03-21 04:48:33',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-21 04:24:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,162,'','',0,242,'robots=\nauthor='),(528,'DID BECK JUST UNCOVER THE ORIGINS OF OBAMA’S NEW DOCUMENTARY?','did-beck-just-uncover-the-origins-of-obamas-new-documentary','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/road-we-are-traveling-stuart-chase.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Road We are Travelling\" align=\"left\" />“The Road We’ve Traveled” is an Obama campaign short movie — or alternatively dubbed “docu-ganda” — that, to many, is a stunningly fawning 17-minute account of what the filmmaker posits are the president’s myriad “accomplishments” during his first term.</p>\r\n<p>“Remember how far we’ve come,” opens director Davis Guggenheim’s film. Guggenheim, of course, made waves recently when he asserted that the only “negative” about President Obama is that he has too many positives.</p>\r\n<p>But where does the title and theme for Obama’s mini propagandist piece hail from? Glenn Beck went digging and thinks he might have found the answers in a book from 1942.</p>\r\n<p>First, a recap of the film. From the movie’s YouTube page:</p>\r\n<p>This film gives an inside look at some of the tough calls President Obama made to get our country back on track. Featuring interviews from President Bill Clinton, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Austan Goolsbee, and more. It’s a film everyone should see.</p>\r\n<p><br />During his Monday morning radio broadcast, Beck reiterated an important observation he made last Friday, and discussed the uncanny resemblance Obama’s movie bears to a book titled, ”The Road We Are Traveling 1914-1942.”</p>\r\n<p>Written by FDR-admirer Stuart Chase, the book focuses on America once it has dispensed with free enterprise entirely. Chase wrote that while he could call this new society “communist, state capitalist, or fascist,“ he preferred the more ambiguous ”Political System X.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/complete-government-control-beck-uncovers-origins-of-obama-movie-the-road-weve-traveled/road-we-are-traveling-stuart-chase/\">Continue reading on The Blaze &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Other Resources:</p>\r\n<p> <a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=432:if-you-wish-to-know-the-future-just-study-history&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE FUTURE, STUDY HISTORY! Part 1</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/03/20/j-p-morgan-chase-to-close-vatican-accounts\">J.P. Morgan Chase to close Vatican accounts</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-21 04:48:41',62,'The Blaze','2012-03-21 05:35:32',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-21 04:48:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,161,'','',0,219,'robots=\nauthor='),(529,'Our Father','our-father','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /></span><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">&lt;iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/aEplqV0scyo\">http://www.youtube.com/embed/aEplqV0scyo</a>\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;<br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-25 01:29:40',62,'Andrea Bocelli - Mormon Tabernacle Choir','2012-10-03 02:56:52',62,62,'2015-12-10 23:48:23','2012-03-25 01:29:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,6,'','',0,583,'robots=\nauthor='),(530,'Newt Rips Gore\'s \'Facts\' to Shreds','newt-rips-gores-facts-to-shreds','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/G7VUg7nG3lw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,24,0,83,'2012-03-25 23:12:25',62,'Townhall.com','2012-03-25 23:22:00',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-25 23:12:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,389,'robots=\nauthor='),(531,'Gas Price Hypocrisy','gas-price-hypocrisy','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/qKdScVerrBU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,25,0,84,'2012-03-25 23:29:20',62,'The Don Smith Show','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-25 23:29:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,362,'robots=\nauthor='),(532,'Operation Fast and Furious investigation escalates as ATF, FBI disconnect revealed','operation-fast-and-furious-investigation-escalates-as-atf-fbi-disconnect-revealed','','<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img src=\"images/stories/logo-foxnews.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fox News\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The investigation of Operation Fast and Furious escalated this past week as Fox News learned a leak at the <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/us/justice-department.htm#r_src=ramp\">Justice Department</a> is providing documents to the Congressional investigators.</p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The scope of investigation also includes the <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/topics/us/federal-bureau-of-investigation.htm#r_src=ramp\">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, which records show failed to tell ATF its own confidential informants were helping finance the illegal gun purchases.</p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Eduardo and Jesus A. Miramontes-Varela, Mexican nationals born in Juarez worked for the Sinaloa Cartel when they became informants for the FBI in 2009, according to sources.</p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Previously, the brothers, ages 36 and 37, worked as informants for police in Miami, the U.S. Marshall\'s Service, and the DEA.</p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">According to DEA and Congressional reports, the two men were the primary cartel contacts used to finance the illegal gun trafficking ring. Jim Needles, the assistant Agent in Charge of the Phoenix ATF office estimated the brothers spent $250,000 on guns tracked by his agency while conducting Operation Fast and Furious. Needles called it “a disappointment” the FBI didn’t bother to tell his agency of the connection.<br /><br />Read more: <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/24/operation-fast-and-furious-investigation-escalates-justice-department-faulted/#ixzz1qB3y6EUv\" style=\"color: #003399;\">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/24/operation-fast-and-furious-investigation-escalates-justice-department-faulted/#ixzz1qB3y6EUv</a></p>','',1,15,0,72,'2012-03-26 00:16:22',62,'William Lajeunesse - Fox News','2012-03-26 00:22:41',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-26 00:16:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,15,'','',0,763,'robots=\nauthor='),(533,'Can America Be Cured of Its Marxist Cancer?','can-america-be-cured-of-its-marxist-cancer','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/blumenfeld.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sam Blumenfeld\" title=\"Sam Blumenfeld\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" />I have just finished reading Andrew Breitbart’s remarkable book, <em>Righteous Indignation</em>, published in 2011. Andrew’s sudden, mysterious death at the age of 43 has deprived us of a courageous fighter, a brave intellect, and honest soul whose odyssey from liberalism to conservatism is akin to the same odyssey that playwright David Mamet experienced. Two brilliant minds in pursuit of truth.</p>\r\n<p>Why is this phenomenon so rare?</p>\r\n<p>For one thing, it explains why the human race suffered for centuries under tyrants, poverty, and scarcity until there arose in the 18th century in the American wilderness a group of extraordinary men, in pursuit of religious and political freedom, who conceived of a society built on the premise that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” That was a revolutionary philosophy of government never before conceived of in all of human history. These courageous original thinkers then pledged their “lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to achieve their goal. It required no less than fighting a bloody war against the mightiest military power on earth to make this society a reality — and they won.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/11191-can-america-be-cured-of-its-marxist-cancer\">Continue Reading on New American &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-26 00:23:19',62,'Sam Blumenfeld - New American','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-26 00:23:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,160,'','',0,166,'robots=\nauthor='),(534,' Top DOJ Official Refuses Fast and Furious Subpoena','-top-doj-official-refuses-fast-and-furious-subpoena','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/holder_weich.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Weich and Holder\" title=\"Weich and Holder\" /></p>\r\n<p>On Friday evening, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich refused the congressional request for subpoenaed documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious– claiming that GOP lawmakers can’t be trusted with the information.</p>\r\n<p>According to <a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/23/politics/fast-furious-leaks/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN\">CNN</a>, in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), Weich suggested that sensitive information was being leaked to the media by their staffs.</p>\r\n<p>“While we do not know who provided these letters to reporters, we are deeply disturbed that the sensitive law-enforcement information contained in them has now entered the public realm…This public disclosure is impeding the department’s efforts to hold individuals accountable for their illegal acts,” he said.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/top-doj-official-refuses-fast-and-furious-subpoena/\">Continue Reading on TheBlaze.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,15,0,72,'2012-03-26 00:39:49',62,'Posted on TheBlaze.com','2012-03-26 00:53:33',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-26 00:39:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,13,'','',0,409,'robots=\nauthor='),(535,'Why the Founders Chose a Republic ','why-the-founders-chose-a-republic-','','<p>Why the Founders Chose a Republic <br />By Karla Perry<br /><br /><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />When Benjamin Franklin emerged from The Constitutional Convention that convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787 to address the problems facing post Revolutionary War America, he was asked by a passerby what was the outcome of the assembly. Franklin responded, \"It\'s a Republic, if you can keep it.\"<br /><br />The great American government created by those men in 1787 was not anything akin to the current or past governments of the world. It was not just a democracy, it was a Republic, and therein lies an important distinction.<br /><br />The best source on the meaning of the Constitution and the authority on the government created by the Founders is a collection of essays written in 1787 to the average American, posted in the newspapers of the day. These essays were written under the pseudonym of Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.<br /><br />The essays were written in explanatory defense of the newly drafted Constitution because a group of people, known as anti-Federalists, opposed the creation of a centralized government and were giving speeches and writing articles which caused the Federalists to compose and publish the essays in defense of the Constitution. The Constitution required ratification by the States. Therefore, the Federalists?essays were an apologetic, a defense, for this Constitutional Republic form of government. Today, these documents are compiled into one book titled, The Federalist Papers.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-23\">Continue Reading on The Oak Initiative &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,7,0,34,'2012-03-26 19:03:10',62,'The Oak Initiative','2012-03-26 19:28:59',62,62,'2012-03-26 19:29:00','2012-03-26 19:03:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,356,'robots=\nauthor='),(536,'OBAMA: AFTER MY ELECTION I HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY','obama-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility','','<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva; FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><strong>President Obama Asks Medvedev for \'Space\' on Missile Defense - \'After My Election I Have More Flexibility</strong>\'</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva; FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">SEOUL, South Korea - At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have \"more flexibility\" to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him \"space.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">The exchange was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room for remarks by the two leaders.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\">The exchange:</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">President Obama:</span> On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it\'s important for him to give me space.</p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 30px\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 30px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">President Medvedev:</span> Yeah, I understand. 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Watch the video below. The current president has used Executive Orders to by-pass congressional vote and review as well as by-pass the voice of the American People - the True Sovereigns of America.</p>\r\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000\" align=\"justify\">It has been said, and many concerns have arisen, that we have a President that does not respect the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Progressing an agenda and balancing the changes of reelection are removed on a second term - then who knows what will be pressed through.</p>\r\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000\" align=\"justify\">It is time for the government to serve the people and time for the American people to decline a King. 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Also, be sure to remember to renew your membership if necessary so you continue the member resources.</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-27 02:03:55',62,'Posted on The Oak Initiative','2012-05-01 04:08:14',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-27 02:03:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,158,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(538,'Ave Maria - Luciano Pavarotti','ave-maria-luciano-pavarotti','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /></span></p>\r\n<p>&lt;iframe width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/sGr6B6Rp4PU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p>\r\n<p>{/source}</p>','',1,23,0,81,'2012-03-28 02:31:03',62,'YouTube','2015-11-28 05:43:45',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-28 02:31:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',10,0,7,'','',0,524,'robots=\nauthor='),(818,'OBAMA\'S MOST DANGEROUS YEAR','obamas-most-dangerous-year','','<p style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\"><img src=\"images/stories/national_review.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Review\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;\" />Obama Has Just Begun</p>\r\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">How much damage can he do in his last year in office?  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I conducted 12 percent more Google searches than in the previous month, and my top queries reflected the vacation I was planning: [rome] and [hotel].</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/comforting-or-creepy-google-to-provide-a-monthly-report-of-what-it-knows-about-you/\">Continue Post on the Blaze &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p><strong>RELATED ARTICLES</strong></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-google/8369/\"><strong>Obama White House Adds Google Exec to Head Social Media Project</strong></a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/06/consumer-groups-challenge-obamas-appointment-google-executive/#ixzz1qW1iiM2o\"><strong>Consumer Groups Challenge Obama\'s Appointment of Google Executive</strong></a></p>\r\n<p><br /><a href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/168359-consumer-group-tells-white-house-to-distance-itself-from-google\"><strong>Consumer group says White House is too friendly with Google</strong></a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/168359-consumer-group-tells-white-house-to-distance-itself-from-google\"></a></p>\r\n</blockquote>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-29 13:51:15',62,'Posted on The Blaze','2012-03-29 14:33:15',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-29 13:51:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,157,'','',0,552,'robots=\nauthor='),(542,'Boehner to Obama: Explain ‘troubling’ hot-mic comments on missile defense','boehner-to-obama-explain-troubling-hot-mic-comments-on-missile-defense','','<p><img src=\"http://THEHILL.COM/images/stories/stock_photos/house/boehner/boehnertaxvotethumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"74\" style=\"float: left;\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong><span>Jeremy Herb </span>- </strong><span><strong>03/28/12 03:47 PM ET</strong> </span></p>\r\n<div>Boehner joined criticism of Obama for telling Russian President Medvedev he would have \"flexibility\" on missile defense after the election.…</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/218827-boehner-obama-hot-mic-comments-troubling\">Read more on The Hill &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-03-29 14:33:24',62,'The Hill','2012-03-29 16:17:32',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-29 14:33:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,156,'','',0,744,'robots=\nauthor='),(543,'Barack Obama Friend and Supporter Bill Ayers: ‘I Get Up Every Morning and Think…Today I‘m Going to End Capitalism’','bill-ayers-i-get-up-every-morning-and-thinktoday-im-going-to-end-capitalism','','<p>Radical left-wing activist Bill Ayers apparently stopped by Occupy Union Square in New York City on Friday and shared a little bit of what gets him going each day: Ending capitalism.</p>\r\n<p>“I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference,” Ayers said in a <a href=\"http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d4_1333223471\" target=\"_blank\">video clip</a> posted online. “Today I’m going to end capitalism. 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Their decision is expected in June.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/02/barack-obama-unelected-supreme-court\">Continue reading on The Guardian &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-03 03:28:23',62,'The Guardian - UK','2012-04-03 03:40:45',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-03 03:28:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,154,'','',0,193,'robots=\nauthor='),(545,'Hear Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Get Roasted On L.A. 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They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.</h3>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> April 01, 2012</p>\r\n<p>Associated Press | <span>by Tom Breen</span></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/atheist_celebration_ft_bragg.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Atheists April Fools Day \" align=\"middle\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>FORT BRAGG, N.C. -</strong> For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don\'t believe in God, with a gathering sort of like a county fair Saturday on the main parade ground at one of the world\'s largest Army bases.</p>\r\n<p>The Rock Beyond Belief event at Fort Bragg, organized by soldiers here after a 2010 evangelical Christian event at the base, is the most visible sign so far of a growing desire by military personnel with atheist or other secular beliefs to get the same recognition as their religious counterparts.</p>\r\n<p>The purpose was not to make the Army look bad, organizers said, but to show that atheists and other secular believers have a place in institutions like the military.</p>\r\n<p>\"I love the military,\" said Sgt. Justin Griffith, main organizer of the event and the military director of American Atheists. He added, \"This is not meant to be a black eye.\"</p>\r\n<p>Griffith said he and other non-religious soldiers are not permitted to hold atheist meetings at the base and have so far been rebuffed in their efforts to change that. They feel their beliefs marginalize them.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/fort-bragg-concert-geared-toward-atheists.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">Continue reading on Miltary.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Related Articles:</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-religious-reading-requirement-from-officer-school.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">AF Pulls Religious Reading Requirement From Officer School &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-07 16:01:58',62,'Posted on Miltary.com','2012-04-07 16:23:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-07 16:01:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',6,0,152,'','',0,177,'robots=\nauthor='),(547,'Gay Activists Attack Business Owners Religious Freedom','gay-activists-attack-business-owners-religious-freedom','','<p><span>Posted on</span> <a href=\"http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=13545\" title=\"10:21 am\" rel=\"bookmark\">April 4, 2012</a> by <span><a href=\"http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?author=2\" title=\"View all posts by SBrinkmann\">SBrinkmann</a></span></p>\r\n<h3>A t-shirt company in Lexington, Kentucky is under investigation by the city’s Human Rights Commission after refusing to print shirts to a local gay rights organization.</h3>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_13546\" style=\"width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hands-on-boycott.jpg\"><img src=\"http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hands-on-boycott-300x129.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Hands on boycott\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" /></a> Hands on Originals Boycott - Lexington Herald Leader</div>\r\n<p><em><strong>Fox News</strong> </em>is reporting that Blaine Adamson, managing owner of the t-shirt company named “Hands on Originals,” became the target of gay activists when he told representatives of the the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) that he could not print shirts for the city’s Pride Festival because the event runs contrary to his religious beliefs. Adamson offered to find another company who would agree to print the shirts at the same price, but this wasn’t good enough for GLSO who filed a complaint against him with Lexington’s Human Rights Commission.</p>\r\n<p>“Our feeling on that is, separate but equal wasn’t okay during the civil rights movement and it’s not okay now,” said Aaron Baker, board president of GLSO.</p>\r\n<p>Almost immediately, “Hands on Originals” came under fierce attack from activists, such as creating a Facebook page dedicated to promoting a boycott of the business. Another group is trying to buy the company’s mortgage for the purpose of getting them evicted. According to the <em>Lexington Herald-Leader</em>, the GLSO coaxed some 60 homosexual activists to picket in front of the business on March 30 to express their anger and encourage people to stop doing business with the company. The negative publicity has caused the Fayette County public school system to put a temporary hold on buying t-shirts from the company until the issue is resolved and the University of Kentucky is also reviewing its future business with the t-shirt maker.</p>\r\n<p>Lexington’s openly gay mayor has also been vocal in his attacks on the business, telling the <em>Leader </em>that “People don’t have patience for this sort of attitude today.”</p>\r\n<p>“I’m against discrimination, period,” Gray said in a statement released to television station <em>WKYT.</em> “It’s bad for business and bad for the city. I support the Human Rights Commission in a full and thorough investigation.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=13545\">Continue reading post on Women of Grace &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<h2>Here\'s the Good News: There is hope in God for those who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle.</h2>\r\n<p>Deviant societies call bad behaviour good. Those who engage in bad behaviour, in this case the homosexual lifestyle, are told it is their legal \"right\". Practicing homosexuals obtain their legal rights from those who desire their political support. Devious lawyers and corrupt politicians encourage people to cast off moral restraint in hopes of gaining their vote. In his book , \"Lift Up Your Heart\", Fulton Sheen described modern society this way: <em>\"Unable to live by the old mores, they changed the rules to fit their new behaviour\"</em> (paraphrasing mine).</p>\r\n<p>Do not be fooled (or surprised) by societal, or \"lawful\", approval of aberrant behaviour. Societal approval and/or judicial approval is by design a balm, albeit conterfeit, for a guilty conscience. The \"conscience\" is the spiritual and psychological mechanism God uses to lead people back to the Truth. Unless the conscience has been nullified, we turn to God in sorrow after doing something we, intuitively, know is wrong. Again I say, do not be fooled.</p>\r\n<h2>For those seeking freedom from the bondage of homosexuality, here is understanding and a great promise:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19:12&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 19:12</span></strong></span></a><br />For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother\'s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven\'s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+56:4-5&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 56:4-5</span></strong></span></a><br /><sup id=\"en-KJV-18758\">4</sup>For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; <sup id=\"en-KJV-18759\">5</sup>Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</p>\r\n<h2>For those who lead these astray:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18:6&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 18:6</span></span></strong></a><br />But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+5:20&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 5:20</span></span></strong></a><br />Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-07 16:31:20',62,'Posted on WOG Blog','2012-04-12 06:14:09',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-07 16:31:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,151,'','',0,254,'robots=\nauthor='),(548,'FOREIGN COMPANY BUYS U.S. ELECTION RESULTS REPORTING FIRM','foreign-company-buys-us-election-results-reporting-firm','','<p>By Bev Harris <br /><a href=\"http://www.blackboxvoting.org/\">http://www.blackboxvoting.org</a><br /><br /><img src=\"images/stories/drudge.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Drudge Report\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world\'s dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA\'s dominant election results reporting company. <br /><br />When you view your local or state election results on the Internet, on portals which often appear to be owned by the county elections division, in over 525 US jurisdictions you are actually redirected to a private corporate site controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name ClarityElections.com. <br /><br />The good news is that this firm promptly reports precinct-level detail in downloadable spreadsheet format. As reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in 2008, the bad news is that this centralizes one middleman access point for over 525 jurisdictions in AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, KY, MI, KS, IL, IN, NC, NM, MN, NY, SC, TX, UT, WA. And growing. <br /><br />As local election results funnel through SOE\'s servers (typically before they reach the public elsewhere), those who run the computer servers for SOE essentially get \"first look\" at results and the ability to immediately and privately examine vote details throughout the USA. <br /><br />In 2004, many Americans were justifiably concerned when, days before the presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell redirected Ohio election night results through the Tennessee-based server for several national Republican Party operations. <br /><br />This is worse: This redirects results reporting to a centralized privately held server which is not just for Ohio, but national; not just USA-based, but global. <br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm\">Continue reading on Drudge &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-07 17:50:50',62,'Drudge Report','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-04-07 17:57:10','2012-04-07 17:50:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,150,'','',0,124,'robots=\nauthor='),(549,'The Slow Draw of Power and Constitutional Undoing','the-slow-draw-of-power-and-constitutional-undoing','','<h3>How do you overturn fundamental American rights without forcing people into the streets with protest signs, or even rifles? By doing it slowly… slowly… Bill Whittle Looks at how the Affordable Care Act and the National Defense Authorization Act threaten our First and Fifth Amendment rights and how both parties are slowly taking away the protections that guard us from the Ring of Power.</h3>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/VgrktRgjBXk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-04-08 18:30:37',62,'Posted on Conservative Byte','2012-04-08 18:35:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-08 18:30:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,15,'','',0,134,'robots=\nauthor='),(550,'\'Obama could accept Iran civilian nuclear program\'','obama-could-accept-iran-civilian-nuclear-program','','<h3><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblTeaser\">US president sends secret message to Khamenei via Turkey, urging him to prove Tehran will not pursue nuclear weapons.</span></h3>\r\n<p><span>US President Barack Obama reportedly sent a secret message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expressing a willingness to accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Iran can prove it will not pursue nuclear weapons, <span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">The Washington Post </span>reported Friday.<br /><br />According to columnist David Ignatius, Obama sent Khamenei the message via Turkish Prime Minister Recap Erdogan, who was was in Iran last week. The message, sent ahead of next week\'s scheduled nuclear negotiations, was meant to emphasize that \"time is running out for a peaceful settlement,\" Ignatius wrote.<br /><br />A proposal allowing Iran a safeguarded, civilian nuclear program in exchange for stringent nuclear safeguards would not be new. According to the <a href=\"http://www.armscontrol.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">Arms Control Association</a>, in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq war, the George W. Bush administration rejected a proposal from Iran that would limit its nuclear program to energy production. <br /><br />Negotiations between Iran and key European countries in 2005 led to several proposals, ultimately rejected over the subject of Iranian uranium enrichment, to ensure Iran\'s nuclear program had no military aspect. </span></p>\r\n<p><span><a href=\"http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=265132&amp;R=R1\">Continue reading on Jerusalem Post &gt;&gt;&gt;</a><br /></span></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-11 00:41:56',62,'Jerusalem Post','2012-04-11 01:16:32',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-11 00:41:56','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,149,'','',0,138,'robots=\nauthor='),(551,'Rappin’ Rev. Wright! Obama‘s Old Pastor Channels Lil’ Wayne, Tokes Ganja Like Bob Marley & Sings Adultery Serenade (With Crotch Grab)…All From the Pulpit!','rappin-rev-wright-obamas-old-pastor-channels-lil-wayne-tokes-ganja-like-bob-marley-a-sings-adultery-serenade-with-crotch-graball-from-the-pulpit','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>script src=\"http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?height=228&amp;width=406&amp;embedCode=F5bWhmNDq7qsH0fwHm_82k5pmSacr9_n&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=F5bWhmNDq7qsH0fwHm_82k5pmSacr9_n\"<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/script<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-11 00:55:01',62,'Posted on The Blaze','2012-04-11 01:03:42',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-11 00:55:01','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,148,'','',0,74,'robots=\nauthor='),(552,'‘Test of Fire’: Catholic 2012 political ad goes viral','test-of-fire-catholic-2012-political-ad-goes-viral','','<p><a href=\"http://www.cc2w.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholics Called to Witness</a> (CC2W) is an organization dedicated to encouraging Catholics to participate in the political process while upholding “non-negotiable principles” of protecting life in all its stages, promoting traditional marriage and protecting parents’ right to educate their children. Their new internet video is being passed around and has reached over 100,000 views already:</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/D9vQt6IXXaM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p> </p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-12 02:06:46',62,'Posted on The Blaze','2012-04-12 02:46:12',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-12 02:06:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,145,'','',0,208,'robots=\nauthor='),(553,'One Painter\'s Brush with Intolerance','one-painters-brush-with-intolerance','','<p><img src=\"http://www.frc.org/img/item/WU12D03_NORMAL.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" /></p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rhode Island is a small state with a big censorship problem. Last week, high school junior Liz Bierendy was putting the finishing touches on a sketch for the hallway mural when an assistant principal stopped her. The design was too controversial, he insisted, because it included the picture of a married man and woman. According to the school officials, <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000299/!x-usc:http:/630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=2429898&amp;spid=37719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the image was offensive</a> because it \"may not represent the life experiences of many of the students at Pilgrim High School.\" Liz\'s idea was to show the life journey of a young boy to adulthood, ending with the scene of a husband, wife, and son with wedding rings over their heads. After the complaint of a single student, administrators ordered a custodian to paint over the offending section of Liz\'s mural until she could find \"alternative ways\" to show the progression to adulthood.</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 17-year-old artist was as surprised as anyone by the school\'s overreaction. \"I hope I didn\'t offend anyone,\" she told local reporters. \"I didn\'t want to make anyone mad.\" On the contrary, most parents are speaking out in Bierendy\'s defense. \"Political correctness is ruining America,\" said one father. Even the local newscasters shook their heads <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000299/!x-usc:http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARyAt14zoQg&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;sf3810075=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and asked</a>, \"What isn\'t offensive these days?\"</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, the irony is that modern art has been the license for dung on the Virgin Mary, ants crawling on Jesus\'s face, defecating nativities, Barbies dismembered in blenders--and traditional marriage is what shocks some people? Even more outrageous, those \"alternative\" unions the principal recommended aren\'t even legal in Rhode Island! Liz\'s representation of marriage was completely aligned with state law, which is what makes this incident so alarming. If this kind of viewpoint discrimination is tolerated now--in states that don\'t even recognize homosexual relationships--imagine the censorship of an entire nation with same-sex \"marriage!\"</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People wonder how the homosexual agenda could possibly affect them? Well, this is a perfect illustration. Americans are free to \"love\" whom they choose, but the freedom of religion, of expression, and speech cannot coexist in a culture that forces the public affirmation of homosexuality. Something has to give--and all too often, that something is traditional values. Fortunately for Liz, Superintendent Peter Horoschak felt enough blowback from the local community to step in. He overruled the school\'s administrators and said it was time to let Bierendy \"finish her vision.\"</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately for Connecticut Pastor James Loomer, protecting students wasn\'t on his school district\'s agenda. This week, at a meeting of the Milford School Board, members denied his request to stop the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network\'s (GLSEN) national \"Day of Silence.\" At past events, GLSEN was caught distributing pamphlets that promote everything from child sex to pornography. \"If parents [knew] the inappropriateness of the materials, they\'d be enraged,\" <a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000299/!x-usc:http:/www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/04/10/news/milford/doc4f84d75f51992937771478.prt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pastor Loomer said</a>. Still, the Board wouldn\'t budge. They insist on moving forward with the event on April 20 in the name of \"tolerance.\"</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is your child\'s school marking the \"Day of Silence?\" Follow Pastor Loomer\'s example and find out. You might be surprised at how quickly this agenda is being advanced in your kids\' classrooms. For more information on how you can get involved in stopping the indoctrination, check out Peter Sprigg\'s pamphlet, \"<a href=\"wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000299/!x-usc:http:/downloads.frc.org/EF/EF06K26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Homosexuality in Your Child\'s School</a>.\" Also, check out this clip about GLSEN from FRC\'s latest documentary, The Problem with Same-Sex Marriage, to see what the other side is trying to hide.</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.frc.org/index.cfm?f=WU12D03\">Read post on Family Research Council &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n<div>Other reading:</div>\r\n<div><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=547:gay-activists-attack-business-owners-religious-freedom&amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;Itemid=50\">Gay Activists Attack Business Owners Religious Freedom &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=358:homosexuality-and-the-nazi-party&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Homosexuality and the Nazi Party &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=554:there-is-hope-in-god-for-those-who-are-engaged-in-a-homosexual-lifestyle&amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;Itemid=50\">Here\'s the Good News: There is hope in God and a great promise for those who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-12 05:31:59',62,'Original Post at Tony Perkin\'s Washington Update','2012-04-12 06:12:21',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-12 05:31:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',10,0,146,'','',0,286,'robots=\nauthor='),(554,'There is hope in God for those who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle','there-is-hope-in-god-for-those-who-are-engaged-in-a-homosexual-lifestyle','','<h2>Here\'s the Good News: There is hope in God for those who are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle.</h2>\r\n<p>Deviant societies call bad behaviour good. Those who engage in bad behaviour, in this case the homosexual lifestyle, are told it is their legal \"right\". Practicing homosexuals obtain their legal rights from those who desire their political support. Devious lawyers and corrupt politicians encourage people to cast off moral restraint in hopes of gaining their vote. In his book , \"Lift Up Your Heart\", Fulton Sheen described modern society this way: <em>\"Unable to live by the old mores, they changed the rules to fit their new behaviour\"</em> (paraphrasing mine).</p>\r\n<p>Do not be fooled (or surprised) by societal, or \"lawful\", approval of aberrant behaviour. Societal approval and/or judicial approval is by design a balm, albeit conterfeit, for a guilty conscience. The \"conscience\" is the spiritual and psychological mechanism God uses to lead people back to the Truth. Unless the conscience has been nullified, we turn to God in sorrow after doing something we, intuitively, know is wrong. Again I say, do not be fooled.</p>\r\n<h2>For those seeking freedom from the bondage of homosexuality, here is understanding and a great promise:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19:12&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 19:12</span></strong></span></a><br />For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother\'s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven\'s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+56:4-5&amp;version=KJV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 56:4-5</span></strong></span></a><br /><sup id=\"en-KJV-18758\">4</sup>For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; <sup id=\"en-KJV-18759\">5</sup>Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</p>\r\n<h2>For those who lead these astray:</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18:6&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Matthew 18:6</span></span></strong></a><br />But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+5:20&amp;version=KJV\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Isaiah 5:20</span></span></strong></a><br />Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-12 05:57:33',62,'Jack Brake','2012-04-12 06:13:14',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-12 05:57:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,147,'','',0,194,'robots=\nauthor='),(555,'Panetta Has Paid $17K for $860K Worth of Commuting','panetta-has-paid-17k-for-860k-worth-of-commuting','','<div><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/panetta.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leon Panetta\" title=\"Leon Panetta\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />April 06, 2012</div>\r\n<p><strong><span id=\"article_source\">Associated Press</span><span>|</span><span>by Lolita C. Baldor</span></strong></p>\r\n<div id=\"article_page_1\">\r\n<p>WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has commuted on military aircraft to his home in northern California more than two dozen times since he took over the Pentagon in July, paying about $630 per trip for a roundtrip flight that costs the Pentagon about $32,000.</p>\r\n<p>The totals detailed by defense officials lay out his reimbursements for the first time, showing he paid the Treasury about $17,000 for the 27 personal trips. Based on fuel and other operating expenses for his Air Force plane, those same trips cost the government as much as $860,000.</p>\r\n<p>As Pentagon chief, Panetta is required to travel on military planes because they have the secure communications equipment he needs to stay in contact with the president and other top civilian and military leaders.</p>\r\n<p>His bill for the travel is calculated according to reimbursement formulas dictated by longstanding federal policies using what a full-fare coach trip would cost. And the Pentagon says it costs about $3,200 per flight hour to operate the small plane he usually uses for the 10-hour round trip.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/panetta-has-paid-17k-for-commuting-to-california.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">Continue Post on Military.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n</div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-14 15:49:26',62,'Posted on Military.com','2012-05-07 02:53:09',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-14 15:49:26','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,144,'','',0,130,'robots=\nauthor='),(556,'Reagan Vs. Obama - Social Economics 101 ','reagan-vs-obama-social-economics-101-','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"243\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/3h8O7V-WxWQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-17 15:19:44',62,'Submitted by Matt Krol','2012-04-17 15:41:03',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-17 15:19:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,143,'','',0,502,'robots=\nauthor='),(557,'Barack Obama’s Lawyer Admits Birth Certificate Is Forged','barack-obamas-lawyer-admits-birth-certificate-is-forged','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/alexandra-m-hill-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alexandra Hill\" align=\"left\" /></p>\r\n<p>It appears the web is a buzz with information concerning the New Jersey court contest in regards to Barack Obama’s eligibility to be on the state’s ballot. At the center of the controversy now is the fact that Barack Obama’s own lawyer has apparently <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwmfisorUcc\" target=\"_blank\">conceded</a> the fact that the document is a forgery.</p>\r\n<p>According to <a href=\"http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/04/13/obama-lawyer-admits-forgery-but-disregards-image-as-indication-of-obamas-ineligibility-damage-control/\" target=\"_blank\">TeaPartyTribune.com</a>, attorney Alexandra Hill, of the Newark-based law firm Genova, Burn and Giantomasi, admitted that the image of Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery and made the absurd claim that, therefore, it cannot be used as evidence to confirm his lack of natural born citizenship status. She concluded her analysis of the online birth certificate arguing that it is “irrelevant to his placement on the ballot”.</p>\r\n<p>She then went on to try and establish his eligibility by speaking of his political popularity, not legal qualification, in order to be a candidate!</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.frontporchpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bho-bc.jpg\"></a></p>\r\n<p>Penbrook Johannson, editor for <a href=\"http://thedailypen.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Pen</a> said, “Sadly, regardless of her moral deficiency, Hill is legally justified. Obama’s eligibility is a separate matter than the charges of forgery and fraud. Of course, we have evidence that he is not eligible. But, evidence of forgery by as yet unidentified counterfeiters working on behalf of Obama is not what legally excludes Obama from appearing on a ballot, by itself, until some authority is willing to consider this as evidence of forgery on its merit as an indication of actual ineligibility in a court of legal authority. Until some court of competent jurisdiction is willing to hear evidence of forgery and fraud, you can’t legally punish a political candidate for that crime which has not been proven that they committed. However, since Obama is not eligible because of a lack of authenticated evidence to the contrary, he could be held off the ballot for that reason.”</p>\r\n<p>So what this comes down to is legal tip toeing around the issue. Let me put it simply. Obama’s own lawyer admits that the birth certificate which was put out by the White House is a forgery. The forgery does not prove Obama is not a “natural born” citizen since it is a forgery. Therefore, the plaintiffs have not made their case and Barack Obama should be left on the ballot. I’ll bet Mr. “It depends on what is, is” was behind this bit of legal wrangling.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/04/barack-obamas-lawyer-admits-birth-certificate-is-forged/\">Continue post on Front Porch Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-04-17 15:20:41',62,'Front Porch Politics','2012-04-17 15:34:06',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-17 15:20:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,142,'','',0,145,'robots=\nauthor='),(558,'\'Obama\'s Attack On The Church\' ','obamas-attack-on-the-church-','','<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">Dear Jack,</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In this article, Bishop Jenky compares the current administration being on the same destructive path as past intolerant leaders, with the same goal to eradicate the competition, the church. </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a>Visit our website</a><span> and read previous issues <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001UuhHO68lwrNj5h0yklpTcVX1nFmJ6NwEJ8soKHicM5IIUjahPsld_NsjGMEi0d4nRCaj8jsg6Wtzzf_mSYEmAwhPXlhYsl09spo5eY5vpQPsm7UigN6W76pQhVc4Gbhx8-Ph3YfjLuUYe7pDiEp2ww==\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">online</a>. </span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 423px;\" border=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" width=\"9\"> </td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"396\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva;\"><strong>\'<em>Obama\'s Attack On The Church</em>\' </strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Special Bulletin</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>by Craig Bannister<br /><br /></em></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">In his homily, \"A Call to Catholic Men of Faith,\" Peoria, Ill., Bishop Jenky explains that government attacks against Christians have been going on for centuries, even in countries like Italy, Germany, and France:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"Remember that in past history other governments have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches like the first disciples locked up in the Upper Room.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"In the late 19th century, Bismark waged his \"Kultur Kamp,\" a Culture War, against the Roman Catholic Church, closing down every Catholic school and hospital, convent and monastery in Imperial Germany.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"Clemenceau, nicknamed \"the priest eater,\" tried the same thing in France in the first decade of the 20th Century.\"</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">The bishop then explained how Obama, like Hitler and Stalin, is determined to eradicate the \"competition\" of the Church - especially, in areas like education, social services, and health care:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama - with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.\"</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">Bishop Jenky then warned that all Catholic ministries, except church buildings, could be shut down by the fall of next year, due to Obama\'s efforts:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"This fall, every practicing Catholic must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences, or by the following fall our Catholic schools, our Catholic hospitals, our Catholic Newman Centers, all our public ministries -- only excepting our church buildings - could easily be shut down.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"Because no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the intrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb.\"</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">Bishop Jenky then declared directly to Pres. Obama that no Catholic institution will be a party to abortion under any circumstances:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">\"No Catholic ministry - and yes, Mr. President, for Catholics our schools and hospitals are ministries - can remain faithful to the Lordship of the Risen Christ and to his glorious Gospel of Life if they are forced to pay for abortions.\"</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">To Read Online <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001UuhHO68lwrM3N8LaIvOHIvfUTNBK_-PyxGPBS2DPIeG9eWz2-4k2ckJlrQFQxAQshlK7r-TzsQs4VECdCLoVqm6RT5LfBYT-B7jHEf1qvxcHZbOIXHEceBM-HW2Ke6OIjNZVKNm89WULbdO-zjWtog==\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here</a></span> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0in;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 9pt;\"><span> </span></p>\r\n</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 1pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\"><strong>Print Friendly Version</strong>: <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001UuhHO68lwrMKrYt_F62Ax_mLunWfsIKFBP5LZiomScKU-cTkcHLBNKNw8m7IPYKh-BRy3N7rbV9-j8o8MXk_gaTfNB_8q5plCw9GqkiJKjkQnJKbIH9nLR3xI7J1NYeWGPyoeENnqAu5GRPVFsSc0A63r9Z1ydr6\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here</a> </span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 1pt;\"> </p>\r\n</td>\r\n<td width=\"10\"><br /></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">____________________________________<br /><br />\r\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\">Be sure to register and attend the upcoming Freedom Congress Event on June 2 with Lt. 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Call 803-547-8217 for further details. </span></span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 9pt;\"><br /><br />For those who have a group, be sure to <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001UuhHO68lwrNsj3qRqpzlspiStylHy_9mangAW-jdITYykt54vCKv_s9pTkGbNnxYu4wFEvG2U8RlojaCvWVRqc9Gjf-j0C5_AP8-I-m2wiDIxbllKOf8886Q8d_L-Hz-sGJMI4o-HptVo7B74NqUq5W60K25WhiV\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">submit an update online</a>.</span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\"><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In His Service,</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bill NeSmith<br />The Oak Initiative</span></span></div>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-04-21 02:45:53',62,'The Oak Initiative','2012-04-21 03:06:51',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-21 02:45:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,46,'','',0,292,'robots=\nauthor='),(559,'Tyranny - An Old Cuban\'s Perspective','tyranny','','<p><strong>\r\n<p>This note was sent to me by a long-time and very close friend, Gabriel Sorzano. Gabriel, and his family, were friends of my wife\'s family in Cuba. Gabriel is one of the \"First Wave\" Cuban exiles who found their way to safety in America after Castro\'s takeover and subsequent efforts to save everyone from evil capitalists and God.</p>\r\n<p>It is interesting to note (for those who may not know) that after Batista fled Cuba, Castro and his \"rebels\" came down from the mountains with rosaries around their necks and a promise to lead the people from darkness to light... Sound familiar anyone?<br /><br />Gabriel is in his late 80’s.</p>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p>Jack I am trying to translate a paper that you might find interesting.<br /><br />Tirany<br /><br />When one realizas how tirany operates one is surprised because its mechanism is just the opposite of what seems at first.<br /><br />One thinks that the strength of the tirant is in him and in a certain way it may be, but that is not what gives him power. The power is in the many that obey him and also in the ones that fear the others which they believe obey him.<br /><br />Is a positive feed back effect, it begins inocently enough in the admiration of a person whose attitude that may have some risks, seems admirable to a great part of the people, that admiration is mostly emotional, an some people call it histerical, but it comes to a point where it turns violent, it is right there that starts the growth of the tirany.<br /><br />In the life of modern developed countries and also in those not developed that have a suffiently strong media, is fairly easy to that media to make visible everyday in several ways that individual that they want, having chosen one that have qualities that make it easy. continous exposure gives acertain familiarity that does away with fears and that way increases the popularity that eventually culminates in violence.<br /><br />Unluckily for the world fidel found a way to reduce an organized country to complete obedience starting from a government that was original quite popular. He incited part of the people to violence throught some 500 hours of television talk in one year stressing envies and resentment that always exist. And since then we have seen several others go the same way.<br /><br />There are countries that feel superior to this possibility but they dont realize that the media in them is malso more powerfu and dominate the country by forming public opinion.<br /><br />In a very orderly country the very forces of keeping order can be used as the necessary violence, that the media will always cover up with lies.<br /><br />In powerful countries where life level been reduced resentments have increased. Poor education also makes the recognition of these realities difficult but mainly because there is no desire to so.<br /><br />Jack I found this perhaps pertinent gabriel</p>\r\n<p>  \r\n<hr />\r\n</p>\r\n<p> Very pertinent Gabriel. It is unfolding before our eyes and the “useful idiots”, the liberal media, are falling over themselves to make it happen while ignoring the glaring danger. There has been a recent, systematic strengthening of the Executive Branch in the passing of new congressional laws, Executive Orders and/or by the Executive Branch’s blatant and arrogant disregard of Congress. Yet, in spite of this, the Press assures us that there is absolutely nothing to worry about and that all is well in Camelot.<br /><br />Life in the United States in 2012 is not unlike Winston Churchill’s time when he alone (and eventually the Roman Catholic Church) was decrying the danger of Hitler’s Germany while Chamberlain, and, ironically, our very own Joseph Kennedy, was singing Hitler’s praises. Or different than Lenin stirring up 24,000 Bolsheviks (the toiling and exploited masses) to eventually enslave a country of 150,000,000 people. Our Bolsheviks are called “Occupy Wall Streeters” or Trayvon’s Black Panthers or Wisconsin Union Public Employees. And if there is violence, or the threat of violence, the White House and the Media silently approve as did Lenin who said “violence, when it is committed by the toiling and exploited masses, is the kind of violence of which we approve”.<br /><br />It is also interesting to note that Lenin, Hitler, Castro, et al., made it their mission to destroy the Church (competition).<br /><br />No, there is truly nothing new under the sun. It is just so damn frustrating that people fall for the same tricks over and over, and that so few recognize it until thousands are enslaved or killed. It must make you sick Gabriel, after escaping this tyranny once in your lifetime, to possibly experience it again.</p>\r\n<p>{jcomments on}</p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-04-22 21:05:17',62,'Gabriel Sorzano','2012-05-19 18:01:24',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-04-22 21:05:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',10,0,45,'','',0,2071,'robots=\nauthor='),(560,'Obama\'s \"Catholic Plan\"','obamas-qcatholic-planq','','<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/vVN2MMuiedI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-05-01 03:48:17',62,'RealCatholicTV.com','2012-05-01 03:52:20',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-01 03:48:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,44,'','',0,271,'robots=\nauthor='),(561,'Kathleen Sebelius to Speak at Georgetown Commencement Ceremony','kathleen-sebelius-to-speak-at-georgetown-commencement-ceremony','','<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><img src=\"images/stories/cnf.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cardnal Newman Society\" /></span></span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">In what can only be interpreted as a direct challenge to America\'s Catholic bishops, Georgetown University has announced that \"pro-choice\" Catholic Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and lead architect of the Obama administration\'s assault on religious freedom through the HHS contraception mandate, has been invited to speak at one of Georgetown\'s several commencement ceremonies.<br /><br />The Cardinal Newman Society has posted a petition to protest this outrage here: <a href=\"http://www.georgetownscandal.com\"><strong>GeorgetownScandal.com</strong>. </a>It has also alerted Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl and sent a letter to Georgetown President John DeGioia urging him to immediately withdraw the invitation.<br /><br />Last week The Cardinal Newman Society released a list of 11 scandalous commencement speakers at Catholic colleges and universities, as well as a report on homosexual \"lavender graduations\" including one at Georgetown.<br /><br />The nation\'s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university has chosen to honor Sebelius by granting her a prestigious platform at its Public Policy Institute commencement ceremony, despite her role as the lead architect of a healthcare mandate that will force Catholic institutions to pay for contraception, abortifacients and sterilization against their religious beliefs. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has termed the mandate \"an unwarranted government definition of religion\" that is \"alien both to our Catholic tradition and to federal law,\" \"a violation of personal civil rights\" and \"a mandate to act against our teachings.\"<br /><br />But Secretary Sebelius\' record on abortion is at least as troubling as the mandate. When Governor of Kansas, Sebelius supported abortion rights and vetoed pro-life legislation. In 2008, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City reportedly told Sebelius, a Roman Catholic, to stop receiving the Eucharist until she publicly recants her position on abortion and makes a \"worthy sacramental confession.\"</span></span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14px;\"><br /><br /></span></span></span></p>\r\n<div><strong>PLEASE SHARE THIS EMAIL!</strong></div>\r\n<p><br /><br /></p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 350px; border: #e3e4e4 1px solid;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px; color:#68696a\" colspan=\"5\" align=\"center\">\r\n<div style=\"background:#e3e4e4; padding:1px 6px\">SHARE THIS EMAIL:</div>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\"><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3a%2f%2fbsfurl.com%2fbmYE/fsT/Gjm&amp;t=Alert%3a+Georgetown+Scandal\" style=\"text-decoration:none; color:#68696a;display:inline-block;margin-right:10px\"><img src=\"http://images.publicaster.com/imagelibrary/social/facebook.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-right:1px; vertical-align:middle\" /><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\">Facebook</span></a></td>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\"><a href=\"http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?status=Alert%3a+Georgetown+Scandal http%3a%2f%2fbsfurl.com%2fbmYF/fsT/Gjm\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #68696a; display:inline-block; margin-right:10px\"><img src=\"http://images.publicaster.com/imagelibrary/social/twitter.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-right:1px; vertical-align:middle\" /><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\">Twitter</span></a></td>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\"><a href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;ro=true&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fbsfurl.com%2fbmYG/fsT/Gjm&amp;armin=armin&amp;title=Alert%3a+Georgetown+Scandal\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #68696a; display:inline-block; margin-right:10px\"><img src=\"http://images.publicaster.com/imagelibrary/social/linkedin.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-right:1px; vertical-align:middle\" /><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\">LinkedIn</span></a></td>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\"><a href=\"http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3a%2f%2fbsfurl.com%2fbmYH/fsT/Gjm&amp;title=Alert%3a+Georgetown+Scandal\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #68696a; display:inline-block; margin-right:10px\"><img src=\"http://images.publicaster.com/imagelibrary/social/digg.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Digg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-right:1px; vertical-align:middle\" /><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\">Digg</span></a></td>\r\n<td style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\"><a href=\"http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=postto&amp;u=http%3a%2f%2fbsfurl.com%2fbmYI/fsT/Gjm&amp;l=3&amp;title=Alert%3a+Georgetown+Scandal\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #68696a; display:inline-block; margin-right:10px\"><img src=\"http://images.publicaster.com/imagelibrary/social/myspace.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MySpace\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"margin-right:1px; vertical-align:middle\" /><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; color:#68696a\">MySpace</span></a></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-05 14:22:44',62,'Cardinal Newman Society','2012-05-05 14:58:08',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-05 14:22:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,141,'','',0,131,'robots=\nauthor='),(562,'Once-Homeless Teen Headed to Harvard After Working as a Janitor to Get Ahead: ‘It Depends on You and No One Else’','once-homeless-teen-headed-to-harvard-after-working-as-a-janitor-to-get-ahead-it-depends-on-you-and-no-one-else','','<p>In today’s bleak economy, it is good to remember that there are still countless energetic youths in America who will work hard and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. In this so-called “rags-to-riches” tale, the once-homeless 18-year old Dawn Loggins has been accepted to Harvard University on a partial scholarship after, among other things, working as a janitor and taking night classes to get ahead.</p>\r\n<p>“When I was younger, I looked around at my family and I saw the neglect, the drug abuse, the bad choices and I saw my family living from paycheck to paycheck, and I just made a decision that I was not going to end up like my parents,” <a href=\"http://www.wistv.com/story/18121186/from-a-life-of-hell-to-harvard-university\" target=\"_blank\">she told WBTV</a>.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/it-depends-on-you-and-no-one-else-once-homeless-teen-headed-to-harvard-after-working-as-a-janitor-and-taking-night-classes-to-get-ahead/\">Read More on The Blaze &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-07 02:30:09',62,'Posted on The Blaze','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-07 02:30:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,140,'','',0,251,'robots=\nauthor='),(563,'Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat','defense-secretary-leon-panetta-declared-global-warming-a-national-security-threat','','<div id=\"big-wrapper\">\r\n<div class=\"print-header\"><img src=\"http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/profiles/custom/themes/examiner_theme/images/short_header.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"90\" /></div>\r\n<div id=\"page-wrapper\">\r\n<div id=\"page\">\r\n<div id=\"global-header\">\r\n<div class=\"tabs-nav\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"http://letsrebuildit.com/\">Campaign 2012</a></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://washingtonexaminer.com/\">Washington Examiner.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n<!--/tabs nav-->\r\n<div class=\"share-search\">\r\n<div class=\"global-share\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li class=\"title\">Share:</li>\r\n<li class=\"fb\"><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/washingtonexaminer\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n<li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/dcexaminer\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n<li class=\"rss\"><a href=\"rss-feeds\">RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n<!--/global share-->\r\n<p>Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C.</p>\r\n<p>\"The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,\" Panetta <a href=\"http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116192\">told the Environmental Defense Fund</a> last night. \"Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.\"</p>\r\n<p>The Defense Secretary must have missed <a href=\"http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2012/04/cuddly-symbols-not-coooperating-climate-panic/525971\">Examiner Columnist Mona Charen\'s recent piece</a> on how symbols of global warming aren\'t working out the way environmentalists predicted.</p>\r\n<p>For instance, The United Nations climate change panel \"admitted that the melting Himalayas prediction was not based on science but on a 1999 media interview given by one scientist,\" Charen observed. \"They said they regretted the error. Now, a study in nature, based on satellite imagery, has shown that some melting of lower altitude glaciers is taking place but that higher glaciers have been adding ice.\"</p>\r\n<p>With reference to the story of an apparently-marooned polar bear floating on an ice floe -- puzzling, as polar bears can swim for hundreds of miles -- Charen cited a new Canadian study showing that the polar bear population is on the rise.</p>\r\n<p>\"Oh, and the scientist for the Department of the Interior whose 2004 work on drowning polar bears inspired Al Gore and others has been placed on administrative leave for unspecified wrongdoing,\" she added.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-07 02:53:16',62,'The Examiner','2012-05-07 03:05:55',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-07 02:53:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,139,'','',0,270,'robots=\nauthor='),(564,'Cloward-Piven Strategy Working Perfectly — in Europe','cloward-piven-strategy-working-perfectly-in-europe','','<p>The now-infamous “Cloward-Piven Strategy” outlined by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in 1966 proposed a clear roadmap to socialism: get so many people addicted to government entitlements that the economic system collapses, and in the resulting chaos the populace will demand and vote for a new economic system in which everyone is supported by the state. Sounds logical (if nefarious), and President Obama seems hell-bent on bringing it to fruition in the United States. The problem for Obama’s inner socialist is that he’s also required for appearance’s sake to attempt a rescue of the American economy using Keynesian principles. This self-cancelling combo-strategy is the underlying cause of our economic stagnation, as outlined in <a href=\"http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2010/08/16/the-obama-piven-strategy/?singlepage=true\">“The Obama-Piven Strategy,”</a> an earlier PJM post I made last year that made some waves. What I noted back then remains true:</p>\r\n<p>I propose that President Obama is simultaneously trying to rescue the economy using the Keynesian/Democratic model while at the same time also trying to destroy the economy through the Cloward-Piven Strategy. His two mutually contradictory plans cancel each other out, rendering all his efforts self-negating, and this explains why the American economy has stalled.</p>\r\n<p>I dub this the Obama-Piven Strategy. And it’s the reason why we remain mired in a deep recession. We are neither recovering, as the Keynesian model predicts, nor is capitalism collapsing, as the revolutionaries hope; the Obama-Piven strategy ensures that we remain in suspended animation between the two extremes.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/06/cloward-piven-strategy-working-perfectly-in-europe/?singlepage=true\">Continue post on PJMedia &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Related:  <a href=\"http://www.letsrebuildit.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=357:obamas-agenda-overwhelm-the-system&amp;catid=74:commentary&amp;Itemid=94\">Obama\'s Agenda: Overwhelm the System</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-08 13:25:34',62,'PJ Media','2012-05-08 13:38:54',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-08 13:25:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,138,'','',0,244,'robots=\nauthor='),(565,'Tea Party Fights Back Against IRS Abuses!','tea-party-fights-back-against-irs-abuses','','<p><em><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"left\" />A special news report from Liberty News Network</em></p>\r\n<p>Tea Party organizations are calling out the IRS for coordinated attacks against the groups. The IRS has allegedly hindered the issuance of their tax-exempt status by creating unprecedented stipulations and making obtaining the status virtually impossible – or elongated in time. These coordinated efforts by the IRS were an apparent effort to slow down or thwart the application process.<br /><br />In November, the Grassroots Action Alert reported that Tea Party groups were being conspicuously audited and unfairly charged for access to public facilities. As we now know, that was just one of many orchestrated leftist attacks designed to silence the Tea Party or render the movement ineffective. <br /><br />Taking on the IRS is a daunting task, but now, as evidence of the assaults mounted, the Tea Party has come out “guns blazing” with a lawsuit and the launch of the Liberty Defense Foundation. <br /><br /><strong>ACTION:</strong> The Tea Party\'s counter-offensive against the IRS has taken on a multifaceted approach with their lawsuit and the launch of the Liberty Defense Foundation. Find out more in <a href=\"http://www.grassrootsaction.com/r.asp?U=87251\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty News Network\'s exclusive report: Tea Party Fights Back Against IRS Abuses.</a></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://www.grassrootsactionalert.com/images/divider.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"406\" height=\"24\" /> <br /><strong>2. 500 Million More Reasons to Stop ObamaCare and IRS Expansion</strong><br /><br /><em>A message from Liberty Counsel Founder and President, Matthew D. Staver </em><br /><br />Despite the fact that the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of ObamaCare…and ignoring the fact that a vast majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare…and turning a deaf ear to the cries of people of faith who vehemently oppose ObamaCare’s “contraceptive and abortifacient” mandate…the Obama administration doggedly continues to push ObamaCare forward.<br /><br />The Hill.com reported this week that ObamaCare is expanding the IRS sooner than later…</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/tea-party\">Continue reading on The Oak Initiative &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 12:02:18',62,'The Oak Initiative','2012-05-19 17:11:03',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 12:02:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,137,'','',0,316,'robots=\nauthor='),(566,'Charles Krauthammer On Drones In US – ‘Stop It Here, Stop It Now’','charles-krauthammer-on-drones-in-us-stop-it-here-stop-it-now','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/krauthammer-150x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"7\" align=\"left\" />The use of drones in U.S. airspace has been under attack since last year when a Predator drone was used on a man in North Dakota. Earlier this year, April 14, Barack Obama signed HR658 – FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2012, which effectively set forth that the United States will have 30,000 drones in the air by 2020. Of course, one has to wonder where the money is coming from for this. Oh that’s right, taxpayers. Now, Charles Krauthammer has joined the dissenting voices.<br /> <br />Syndicated columnist Krauthammer took off in his interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier, “I’m going to go hard left on you here, I’m going ACLU. I don’t want regulations, I don’t want restrictions, I want a ban on this. Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside even the United States. It didn’t like standing armies, it has all kinds of statutes of using the army in the country.”<br /> <br />He continued, “I would say that you ban it under all circumstances and I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I an predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/05/charles-krauthammer-on-drones-in-us-stop-it-here-stop-it-now/\">Continue post on Front Porch Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-05-19 12:08:47',62,'Front Porch Politics','2012-05-19 12:30:42',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 12:08:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,17,'','',0,267,'robots=\nauthor='),(567,'Ted Kennedy Let Mary Jo Kopechne Die in the Back Seat of His Car While Mitt Romney Cut a Kid’s Hair','ted-kennedy-let-mary-jo-kopechne-die-in-the-back-seat-of-his-car-while-mitt-romney-cut-a-kids-hair','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/ted-kennedy-kopehcne-220x120.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ms_Kopechne_Kenendy\" align=\"right\" />You’ve heard that the <em>Washington Post </em>dredged up a 47-year-old story about Mitt Romney. Supposedly he bullied some kid in high school by cutting his hair. As more of the facts have come out, it’s obvious that the lengthy hit piece was built on a foundation of “we need this story to be true” journalism.</p>\r\n<p>If this is the best the Left can do, Obama is in deep trouble. Of course, the bogus bully story won’t stop Obama and his minions from attempting to dig up more dirt on Romney. When an Obama sycophant Michelle Goldberg compares Ann Romney to Hitler and Stalin, you know the Democrat Party is an asylum run by the crazies.</p>\r\n<p>We all know that there is a liberal double standard but nothing compares to the 47-year-old Romney “bully” story. Consider how many high profile Democrats have had pasts that would sink any Republican.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/5203/ted-kennedy-let-mary-jo-kopechne-die-in-the-back-seat-of-his-car-while-mitt-romney-cut-a-kids-hair/#ixzz1vJkeUZaw\">Read more &gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 12:19:59',62,'Godfather Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 12:19:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,136,'','',0,271,'robots=\nauthor='),(568,'Anti-Gun Media Fails To Tell Nation of Conceal Carry Hero Who Saved Lives','anti-gun-media-fails-to-tell-nation-of-conceal-carry-hero-who-saved-lives','','<p>Thursday, April 26, 2012 was just another ordinary day in picturesque Salt Lake City. Just after 5:00 pm, many workers were on the way home from work with some of them stopping at stores to pick up something for dinner. Shoppers on the east side of the city were entering and leaving Smith’s Marketplace.</p>\r\n<p>One particular shopper, Kiet Thanh Ly purchased a knife and asked the clerk at the checkout to help him get the knife out of the plastic packaging. Ly, 34 years old, then left the store and started stabbing a 30 year old man in the abdomen. After stabbing him numerous times, Ly turned his knife to a 45 year old man and stabbed him in the head. The knife blow was so fierce that the knife went through the skull and into the man’s brain.</p>\r\n<p>Ly then turned to find another victim when a shopper just exiting the store saw what was happening and pulled his gun and ordered Ly to get down on the pavement. The gun wielding shopper held Ly at gun point until police arrived. It turned out that the shopper had a conceal carry permit that allowed him to carry the concealed gun in public. He is credited with saving other shoppers from falling victim to Ly’s rampage.</p>\r\n<p>Virtually every media outlet, including local media in Salt Lake City gave little coverage if any to the gun toting hero. In most of the local press accounts I could find, any mention of the hero is confined to one sentence. The <a href=\"http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54020488-78/police-wrote-stabbed-court.html.csp\">Salt Lake City Tribune’s</a> mention of the heroic save was,<br /><br /><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/5191/anti-gun-media-fails-to-tell-nation-of-conceal-carry-hero-who-saved-lives/#ixzz1vJmR8yCH\">Read more &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,15,0,72,'2012-05-19 12:28:35',62,'Godfather Politics','2012-05-19 12:31:00',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 12:28:35','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,12,'','',0,796,'robots=\nauthor='),(569,'‘Real News From The Blaze:’ Law of the Sea Treaty','real-news-from-the-blaze-law-of-the-sea-treaty','','<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">L.O.S.T. has nothing to do with the old ABC-TV show. Members of Congress know it as the \"Law of the Sea Treaty\" and Democrats are pushing to ratify this controversial pact. Last night the Real News panel explored the reasons why many in the GOP would prefer that L.O.S.T. remains adrift at sea. Learn more <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-law-of-the-sea-treaty/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #d12020; text-decoration: none;\">HERE</a>. </span></span></div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 12:35:17',62,'The Blaze','2012-05-19 13:04:53',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 12:35:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,135,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(570,'53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida','53000-dead-voters-found-in-florida','','<p>I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.</p>\r\n<p>How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.</p>\r\n<p>Here is the bad news. Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, I have heard reports that some election officials won’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate. That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.</p>\r\n<p>But surely people aren’t voting in the names of dead voters, the voter fraud deniers argue. Wrong.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/16/53000-dead-voters-found-in-florida/\">Continue post on PJ Media &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 13:04:58',62,'PJ Media','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:04:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,134,'','',0,231,'robots=\nauthor='),(571,'The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama\'s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: \'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii\'','the-vetting-exclusive-obamas-literary-agent-in-1991-booklet-born-in-kenya-and-raised-in-indonesia-and-hawaii','','<p>Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama\'s then-literary agency, Acton &amp; Dystel, which touts Obama as \"born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.\"</p>\r\n<p>The booklet, which was distributed to \"business colleagues\" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton &amp; Dystel.</p>\r\n<p>It also promotes Obama\'s anticipated first book, <em>Journeys in Black and White</em>--which <a href=\"http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/200911/barack-obama-writing-books-writer-robert-draper?printable=true\" target=\"_blank\">Obama abandoned</a>, later publishing <em>Dreams from My Father </em>instead.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii\">Continue post on Breitbart.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Related Articles:</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm\"><strong>Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate/ AP Article June 27, 2004, Sunday Standard, Nairobi, Kenya</strong></a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 13:11:23',62,'Breitbart','2012-05-19 17:25:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:11:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,133,'','',0,162,'robots=\nauthor='),(572,'Obama’s Lit Agency Used \'Born in Kenya\' Bio Until 2007','obamas-lit-agency-used-born-in-kenya-bio-until-2007','','<p>According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel &amp; Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007\">Continue Post on Breitbart.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 13:15:22',62,'Breitbart','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:15:22','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,132,'','',0,226,'robots=\nauthor='),(573,'Anita Moncrief Takes on Eric Holder on Race, ACORN and Voter Fraud','anita-moncrief-takes-on-eric-holder-on-race-acorn-and-voter-fraud','','<p><em> </em><a href=\"http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/111026\"><em>ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief</em></a><em> delivered a powerful <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-aqb5q_1Qs&amp;feature=player_embedded\">speech</a> that day, and PJ Media has finally been able to obtain it and publish it.)</em></p>\r\n<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"images/stories/anitamontcreif.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Anita Moncrief\" title=\"Anita Moncreif\" align=\"right\" />Thank you. It’s an honor to be here today and I’m glad to see that there’s so many of you with your video cameras, because after the mainstream media gets hold of this, it will be “an all-white crowd showed up to protest Eric Holder.” So I’m glad we’ll have a little bit of somebody to combat that.</p>\r\n<p>I speak from the heart and I speak plain, so if I offend some of you I’m sorry. But it’s an honor to be here today, especially to be at the LBJ Library, the father of the Great Society, the father of the social programs and the welfare state, and then the dissolution of the black family and our communities.</p>\r\n<p>When LBJ signed in the Voting Rights Act in 1965, he said: “We’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 40 years.” And that needs to be said. People need to understand that. That’s the legacy that Holder brings here with him tonight by holding his speech here. It’s not just about coming here to talk about voting rights. It’s to talk about how they’ve taken race and turned it in to something that is unrecognizable.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/03/anita-moncrief-takes-on-eric-holder-on-race-acorn-and-voter-fraud/?singlepage=true\">Continue post on PJ Media &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 13:26:59',62,'PJ Media Post','2012-05-23 15:18:07',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:26:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,131,'','',0,202,'robots=\nauthor='),(574,'Alleged Armed Officers Shut Down Mass. Ice Cream Stand Indefinitely','alleged-armed-officers-shut-down-mass-ice-cream-stand-indefinitely','','<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">After operating his ice cream stand inside a state park for 26 years, Mark Duffy had his business raided and shuttered by EPA Police. When you see why the popular ice cream stand was closed, you might be as mad as the ice cream loving patrons who have been turned away by an armed officer. Get the story <a href=\"http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alleged-armed-officers-shut-down-mass-ice-cream-stand-indefinitely/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #d12020; text-decoration: none;\">HERE</a>. </span></span></p>','',1,13,0,70,'2012-05-19 13:30:47',62,'The Blaze','2012-05-19 13:33:32',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:30:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,14,'','',0,207,'robots=\nauthor='),(575,'The Restoration of America: McGuffey Eclectic Readers','the-restoration-of-america-mcguffey-eclectic-readers','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"left\" /> American children of the mid-nineteenth century were essentially educated by the works of one man, William Holmes McGuffey. The McGuffey Eclectic Readers sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1920. These sales are comparable only to the Bible and Webster\'s Dictionary.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\">William Holmes McGuffey [1800-1873] began his educational profession at the age of fourteen after receiving a teaching certificate from his educator, Reverend William Wick. As instructed, he put an advertisement in the local paper that he would begin a four-month session of classes, six days a week, and eleven hours a day on the first day of September 1814. Forty-eight students assembled from the West Union, Ohio community, now Calcutta, Ohio. McGuffey drew his lessons primarily from the Bible.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\"> </p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"justify\">A traveling Presbyterian Pastor took notice of McGuffey\'s teaching skills and offered to take him to reside in his home while he attended Old Stone Academy. McGuffey did so for the next four years. He then continued his education at Washington College for the next six years, where he worked the farm to pay for his education, taught, and studied. <a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-24\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Calibri,Arial,sans-serif; color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt;\">...read</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 13:35:50',62,'The Oak Initiative','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 13:35:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,127,'','',0,371,'robots=\nauthor='),(576,'Why So Many Americans Still Don\'t Know Much of Anything About Barack Obama','why-so-many-americans-still-dont-know-much-of-anything-about-barack-obama','','<p>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT</p>\r\n<p>RUSH: You know, this Reverend Wright stuff with Barack Obama, it\'s back in the news again. Something is happening. It\'s anecdotal, but I happen to think that this might be applicable in a statistical way to the nation at large. We played the audio sound bite from Obama reading from one of his books a couple of weeks ago, in which he admitted bullying a young girl, in which he admitted trying cocaine, admitted that he drank a lot, basically just lollygagged around. I know we\'ve got new listeners to this program. It\'s been documented by the official ratings companies that monitor such things.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"http://www.rushimg.com/cimages//media/obamamontages/obamariddleralinskywrighthut/961594-1-eng-GB/ObamaRiddlerAlinskyWrightHut.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"86\" /></p>\r\n<p>There are tons and tons of new listeners, but even at that, I\'m overwhelmed by the number of people -- we\'re three-and-a-half years into his regime, and I\'m getting e-mails from people that the first time they\'d heard he\'d done cocaine was in the past two, three weeks. The first time they\'d heard that he had bullied a young girl. They didn\'t know his college transcripts hadn\'t been released. They just assumed all that had happened and they missed it. They didn\'t know any of this.</p>\r\n<p>Now, we know Obama wasn\'t vetted. We know the mainstream media has done everything they can to protect him. But the Reverend Wright stuff was out there. I\'m even getting e-mail from people who had not heard all the Reverend Wright stuff. New listeners, not people who listen to this program regularly. New listeners say they\'re hearing this for the first time. I\'m getting e-mails from people like we got when we were in the first year or first two years of the program. \"My gosh, I found you the other day driving around. I couldn\'t get anything else on the radio, and I\'m hooked now.\" Similar comments from customers at Two If By Tea who are finding the program for the first time and learning stuff about Obama that we\'ve all known for four years. They\'re just now hearing about it.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596987855?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596987855\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.rushimg.com/cimages//media/images/amateur-edward-klein4/961597-1-eng-GB/Amateur-Edward-Klein.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" /></a>It\'s driving home the fact that the Drive-Bys didn\'t vet this guy at all. We know it, but I\'m sitting here, I assume everybody knows that Obama did cocaine, and this is the mistake we make. We know it, so we assume everybody else knows it because of word-of-mouth and this kind of thing. Some of the Reverend Wright stuff surfaced again because there\'s some new aspects to the Reverend Wright case. For example, in Ed Klein\'s book, <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596987855?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596987855\" target=\"_blank\">The Amateur</a> -- and Klein\'s got this on tape -- a friend of Obama\'s offered Wright 150 grand, a bribe, to stop preaching during the 2008 campaign. Yeah, it was just 150. That\'s probably why Wright didn\'t take it.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/05/18/why_so_many_americans_still_don_t_know_much_of_anything_about_barack_obama\">Continue post on RushLimbaugh.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 16:39:59',62,'Rush Limbaugh','2012-05-19 16:48:47',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 16:39:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,126,'','',0,219,'robots=\nauthor='),(577,'Rep Seeks Navy Ship Named for Gay Activist','rep-seeks-navy-ship-named-for-gay-activist','','<p>A California congressman and several San Francisco officials are asking the Navy to name a ship after assassinated city supervisor and gay activist Harvey Milk, who served as a Navy officer in the early 1950s.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/rep-seeks-navy-ship-named-for-gay-activist.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">Continue post on Military.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 17:11:13',62,'Military.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 17:11:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,128,'','',0,170,'robots=\nauthor='),(578,'Ranger School Considers Going Co-Ed','ranger-school-considers-going-co-ed','','<p>The Army is addressing the specifics of the plan to allow female soldiers to join infantry battalions and – associated with that move – to make the prestigious Ranger School co-ed, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday.</p>\r\n<p>The Army\'s top leader said he wants to give women every opportunity to succeed in infantry battalions since the military reversed the policy barring them from infantry duty earlier this year.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/ranger-school-considers-going-co-ed.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">Continue post at Military.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Other reading:</p>\r\n<h2 style=\"ZOOM: normal\">Odierno Nominated to be Army Chief of Staff: 6/5/2011</h2>\r\n<div style=\"ZOOM: normal\">\r\n<div id=\"ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_Content__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField\" style=\"ZOOM: normal; DISPLAY: inline\"><span style=\"ZOOM: normal\"><a href=\"http://www.ausa.org/news/2011/Pages/OdiernoNominated.aspx\">President Barack Obama announced May 30 that he will nominate Gen. Raymond T. Odierno as the next Army chief of staff.</a><br style=\"ZOOM: normal\" /></span></div>\r\n</div>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 17:14:50',62,'Military.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 17:14:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,129,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(579,'After Years of War, Taliban Becoming Drug Cartel','after-years-of-war-taliban-becoming-drug-cartel','','<p>After a decade of fighting, the Taliban is transforming from a religion-focused revolutionary group into something that resembles a drug cartel, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday.</p>\r\n<p>And the Taliban’s increased reliance on the drug trade to stay alive is just the beginning of what will likely be a growing trend among embattled terrorist groups around the world, said California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.military.com/news/article/after-years-of-war-taliban-becoming-drug-cartel.html?ESRC=dod.nl\">Continue Post at Military.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 17:35:54',62,'Military.com','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 17:35:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,130,'','',0,179,'robots=\nauthor='),(580,'Obama’s God Complex Changing History and Destroying a Nation','obamas-god-complex-changing-history-and-destroying-a-nation','','<p><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/5261/obamas-god-complex-changing-history-and-destroying-a-nation/\" title=\"Obama’s God Complex Changing History and Destroying a Nation\"><img src=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-i-am-god-220x120.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"obama-i-am-god\" title=\"obama-i-am-god\" width=\"220\" height=\"120\" align=\"right\" /></a>I’m sixty years old and I’ve seen my share of politicians. I’ve even had the opportunity to sit on committee with some. I’ve seen politicians that I would entrust my life to and I’ve seen others that were so arrogant and self-centered that I wouldn’t trust them with the key to the bathroom.</p>\r\n<p>But there has never been such an arrogant and self-centered politician as Barack Hussein Obama.</p>\r\n<p>For example, last week, ABC’s Robin Roberts had the opportunity to speak with President Obama. During that interview, Obama told her,</p>\r\n<p>“When I think about — those soldiers or airmen or marines or — sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf…”</p>\r\n<p>He didn’t say anything about our service men and women fighting on the nation’s behalf, but on HIS behalf. In his eyes, they are giving up their lives and getting wounded for him, not the nation or the American people.</p>\r\n<p>Last month, the Obama campaign’s Truth Team website posted a list of Republican donor’s names. Behind each name they posted things about them to make them seem to be of ill-repute. The comments for each individual ranged from being successful in a business that was not in sync with Obama’s views or they had out-sourced some of their business. The whole intent of the list was to smear GOP donors, to make the entire Republican Party appear to be as corrupt as the Democrats.</p>\r\n<p>The sad part of this is that some of the individuals whose names appeared on the list are the subject of personal investigations by people of all walks of life, many of which have no other motive except to dig up trash on them. Their private lives are being scrutinized and dissected is such a way that it is interfering with the person’s ability to go about their normal life.</p>\r\n<p>Then earlier this week, President Obama stated that if anyone does not support his policies, it is not because of philosophical differences, but because of his name. Basically, if you don’t agree with him, you’re prejudiced against him and it has nothing to do with your politics or beliefs.</p>\r\n<p>Worst of all, the Obama White House has meticulously gone through a number of the official biographies of former presidents that have been posted on whitehouse.gov and inserted something about Obama into each one. They have also edited out some things about some of the presidents in order to tarnish their history. Here are a few examples,</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/calvincoolidge\">Calvin Coolidge</a>: “On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt\">Franklin D Roosevelt</a>: “On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.”<br /><br /><a href=\"http://godfatherpolitics.com/5261/obamas-god-complex-changing-history-and-destroying-a-nation/#ixzz1vL6BCIyP\">Read more on Godfather Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-19 17:53:19',62,'Godfather Politics','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-19 17:53:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,125,'','',0,187,'robots=\nauthor='),(581,'Did Bank of America make a political move concerning guns?','did-bank-of-america-make-a-political-move-concerning-guns','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/nagr_email.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"80\" /></p>\r\n<p>From Dudley Brown</p>\r\n<p>Dear Fellow Patriot:</p>\r\n<p> I’m troubled by the recent news that <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7832484.stm\">Bank of America </a>informed <a href=\"http://mcmillanusa.com/\">McMillan Group International </a>that their bank accounts were no longer welcome at their bank.</p>\r\n<p> So, I reached out directly to the source to find out exactly what happened.</p>\r\n<p> To hear for yourself what really happened, please click on the video below to listen my interview with Kelly McMillan, Director of Operations at McMillan Group International.</p>\r\n<p>{source}<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><br /><span>&lt;</span>iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/9xBpJ9DhcRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen<span>&gt;</span><span>&lt;</span>/iframe<span>&gt;</span><br /></span>{/source}</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.nagr.org/McMillanDonate.aspx?pid=N512b\">Read post at NAGR &gt;&gt;&gt;</a> </p>','',1,15,0,72,'2012-05-20 13:14:02',62,'Dudley Brown, NAGR','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-05-20 13:31:23','2012-05-20 13:14:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,11,'','',0,803,'robots=\nauthor='),(582,'A National Check-Up - The Economic Crisis','a-national-check-up-the-economic-crisis','','<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span><img src=\"images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rick Joyner\" align=\"left\" />SPECIAL BULLETIN 10-2012</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/stories/OAKI-logo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oak Initiative\" align=\"right\" />This is a brief on the second of seven main crises threatening our country. As a reminder, the Health Meter goes from <strong>1 </strong>being the lowest and most dangerous, to <strong>10</strong> being the highest and healthiest. The Trend Arrow is for a quick reference rating with UP for getting healthier, and DOWN for getting worse. These will be followed by a commentary to explain the ratings.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Economic</span></strong> Present State (3) Trend DOWN</span></p>\r\n<p>Our economy may have never been in a weaker and more vulnerable state than it is now, but in this state it has been revealed just how remarkably strong and resilient it is. In spite of all the blows that it has taken and the incomprehensible burdens our government has put on it, it is still chugging along. Even so, we should not presume that this will last. It is vulnerable and little is being done to lead it to a more stable and safe place.</p>\r\n<p>To a large degree, our economy is subject to the faith or doubts people have about it, evidenced by how just a little news can cause large swings in the stock market. This should cause all of us pause. Why is it so fragile? Why does it not have enough substance to stand on its own merit and strength?</p>\r\n<p>You can have an economy without a government, but you cannot have a government without an economy. This is the crisis that could most quickly destroy not only the American Republic but also Western civilization. This is why the economy is the main target of those who would destroy America and Western civilization.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.theoakinitiative.org/special-bulletin-10\">Continue Reading on THE OAK INITIATIVE &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,20,0,78,'2012-05-23 13:02:09',62,'Rick Joyner','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,62,'2012-05-23 13:07:54','2012-05-23 13:02:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,43,'','',0,292,'robots=\nauthor='),(583,'WHITE HOUSE - HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA MACHINE EXPOSED BY JUDICIAL WATCH','white-house-hollywood-propaganda-machine-exposed-by-judicial-watch','','<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><em><img src=\"images/stories/judicial_watch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Judicial Watch\" /></em></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><em>DOD Officials Disclosed to Filmmakers Identity of SEAL Team Six Operator and Commander; Ask Film Director to Withhold Operator’s Name, ‘because he shouldn’t be talking out of school.’</em></strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>(Washington, DC)</strong> – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of <em>The Hurt Locker</em>, and screenwriter Mark Boal. According to the records, the Obama Defense Department granted Bigelow and Boal access to a “planner, Operator and Commander of SEAL Team Six,” which was responsible for the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, to assist Bigelow prepare her upcoming feature film.</p>\r\n<p>The records, obtained pursuant to court order in a Freedom of Information Act <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94458821-Stamped-Complaint-and-Summons-Bin-Laden-Movie\">lawsuit filed</a> on January 21, 2012, include <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD\">153 pages of records from the DOD</a> and <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447731-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-CIA\">113 pages of records from the CIA</a> (<em>Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense</em> (No. 1:12-cv-00049)). The documents were delivered to Judicial Watch late last Friday (May 18). The following are the highlights from the records, which include internal Defense Department email correspondence as well as a transcript from a key July 14, 2011, meeting between DOD officials, Bigelow and Boal:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=138\">A transcript of a July 14, 2011</a>, meeting between DOD officials, including Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers, Bigelow and Boal indicates that Boal met directly with White House officials on at least two occasions regarding the film: “I took your guidance and spoke to the WH and had a good meeting with Brennan and McDonough and I plan to follow up with them; and they were forward leaning and interested in sharing their point of view; command and control; so that was great, thank you,” Boal said according to the transcript. Vickers asks if the meeting was a follow-up, to which Boal responds, “Yes correct; this was a follow-up.” The documents seemingly reference John O. Brennan, Chief Counterterrorism Advisor to President Obama and Denis McDonough, who serves as President Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>The July 14, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=140\">meeting transcript</a> also reveals that the DOD provided the filmmakers with the identity of a “planner, SEAL Team 6 Operator and Commander.” (The name is blacked out in the document.) In proposing the arrangement, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers said: “The only thing we ask is that you not reveal his name in any way as a consultant because . . . he shouldn’t be talking out of school.” Vickers went on to say during the meeting at the Pentagon: “This at least, this gives him one step removed and he knows what he can and can’t say, but this way at least he can be as open as he can with you and it ought to meet your needs.” Boal later responds, “You delivered.”</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447731-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-CIA&amp;start_page=53\">July 13, 2011, internal CIA email</a> indicates that Bigelow and Boal were granted access to “the Vault,” which is described the CIA building where some of the tactical planning for the bin Laden raid took place: “I was given your name as the POC in [redacted] who could determine the feasibility of having a potential walk-through of…the Vault in the [redacted] building that was used for some of the tactical planning in the Bin Laden Raid [sic]. In consultation with the Office of Public Affairs and as part of the larger chronicling of the Bin Laden raid, OPA will be hosting some visitors sanctioned by ODCIA this Friday afternoon.” (The name of the sender is blacked out.) “Of course this is doable,” an official responds.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>DOD Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Douglas Wilson told colleagues in a <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=39\">June 13, 2011, email</a> to limit media access and that he would follow up with the White House: “I think this looks very good as a way forward, and agree particularly that we need to be careful here so we don’t open the media floodgates on this. I’m going to check with WH to update them on status, and will report back.” A day later, he wrote Department of Defense communications staffers, saying: “Ok to set up the second session with Vickers. I am getting additional guidance from WH.”</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers told Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Douglas Wilson and two other DOD communications staffers in a <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=41\">June 13, 2011, email</a> that “[DOD] would like to shape the story to prevent any gross inaccuracies, but do not want to make it look like the commanders think it’s okay to talk to the media.” The email went on to say: “For the intelligence case, they are basically using the WH-approved talking points we used the night of the operation.” The talking points called the raid “a ‘Gutsy Decision’ by the POTUS,” adding that “WH involvement was critical.”</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=68\">June 9, 2011, email</a> from Commander Bob Mehal, Public Affairs Officer for Defense Press Operations, to Vickers and other DOD staff summarizes a meeting with Boal and notes the release date for the film: “Release date set for 4<sup>th</sup> Qtr 2012…”</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=87\">July 13, 2011, email</a> to Commander Bob Mehal, Public Affairs Officer for Defense Press Operations, indicates that Sarah Zukowski, an associate for The Glover Park Group, arranged the July 14, 2011 visit by Bigelow and Boal to the DOD and the CIA. The Glover Park Group is described by <em>Politico</em> as a <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9433.html\" target=\"_blank\">“</a><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9433.html\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic-leaning advocacy firm.”</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A <a href=\"http://www.scribd.com/JWatchDC/d/94447718-Judicial-Watch-Bin-Laden-Movie-DoD#page=71\">June 27, 2011</a>, email to an official at the Office of the Secretary of Defense suggests that the request from Bigelow and Boal to meet with Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers came via the White House press office. A June 22, 2011, email to Commander Bob Mehal, Public Affairs Officer for Defense Press Operations notes, “The White House does want to engage with Mark but it probably won’t be for a few more weeks. We should provide them a read-out of the session you do with Vickers.” The name of the White House official who forwarded the request is blacked out.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>Judicial Watch launched its investigation of Bigelow’s meetings with the Obama administration following press reports suggesting that the Obama administration may have leaked classified information to the director as source material for Bigelow’s film.</p>\r\n<p><em>New York Times</em> columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that the information leak was designed to help the Obama 2012 presidential reelection campaign: “The White House is also counting on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal big-screen version of the killing of Bin Laden to counter Obama’s growing reputation as ineffectual. The Sony film by the Oscar-winning pair who made ‘The Hurt Locker’ will no doubt reflect the president’s cool, gutsy decision against shaky odds. Just as Obamaland was hoping, the movie is scheduled to open on Oct. 12, 2012 — perfectly timed to give a home-stretch boost to a campaign that has grown tougher.”</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/13421/\">Continue Post at Judicial Watch &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-23 15:02:09',62,'Judicial Watch','2012-05-23 15:17:30',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-23 15:02:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,124,'','',0,455,'robots=\nauthor='),(584,'Dad saves boy before car plunges down cliff -- and gets pair of traffic tickets','dad-saves-boy-before-car-plunges-down-cliff-and-gets-pair-of-traffic-tickets','','<p>A New Jersey dad got the scare of his life when his 5-year-old son almost ran off a steep embankment, and though the man saved the boy from falling, he couldn\'t stop his Jeep from going over the precipice and into a river below.</p>\r\n<p>The reward for his ordeal? Two traffic tickets from local police.</p>\r\n<p>Frank Roder, a construction worker from the town of Winfield Park, had taken his son, Aidan, down to the Rahway River to feed ducks Thursday. But when he stopped briefly before settling on a parking space, the impatient boy jumped out and took off -- straight toward a ledge 35 feet above the river, Roder recalled.</p>\r\n<p>\"He hopped out, and I thought that was OK, I was just going to park,\" Roder, 38, said, but \"he just took off, made a beeline for the edge.\"</p>\r\n<p> \"Um, Daddy ...\"</p>\r\n<div style=\"display: block;\">\r\n<p>- Aidan, as he watched his dad\'s Jeep roll off an embankment.</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p>The panic-stricken father jumped out of the cab of his 2006 Jeep Commander and raced after the errant boy, catching him just feet from the edge.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s when Aidan, eyes as big as saucers, looked behind Roder and said, \"Um, Daddy ...\"</p>\r\n<p>Roder turned in time to see the Jeep nosedive down the embankment and land in the muddy water.</p>\r\n<p>Roder hugged the boy and waited as Union County police converged on the scene over the next few hours. A crane pulled the Jeep out, and amazingly, it started right up, though Roder is pretty sure his insurance company will count it as totaled.</p>\r\n<p>He was counting his blessings when a young cop approached him and handed him two tickets. One was for failure to produce the insurance card, which was somewhere in the waterlogged cab. The other was for failing to use his emergency brake.</p>\r\n<p>\"I couldn\'t believe it,\" Roder said. \"He said, \'If you would have taken the five seconds to apply the brake, this never would have happened!\'</p>\r\n<p>\"I say, \'Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then were would I be?\' He says, \'Jail, for child endangerment.\'\"</p>\r\n<p><br /><a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/21/saves-his-kid-loses-his-car-and-gets-ticket/#ixzz1vny4zHh2\">Read more &gt;&gt;&gt; </a></p>\r\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/05/why-you-should-think-twice-before-cooperating-with-police/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Why You Should Think Twice Before Cooperating With Police\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why You Should Think Twice Before Cooperating With Police</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-24 16:23:17',62,'FoxNews.com','2012-05-24 16:29:50',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-24 16:23:17','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,123,'','',0,339,'robots=\nauthor='),(585,'China Now Buying US Debt Direct','china-now-buying-us-debt-direct','','<p><img src=\"images/stories/fpp_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" /></p>\r\n<p>Well now we see the influx of China more and more into the American way of life. For years we have watched as their cheap products have come into the country and they have received “most favored nation” status. Now they have been given a green light to purchase U.S. Government debt without going through a primary dealer.</p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/us-usa-treasuries-china-idUSBRE84K11720120521\" target=\"_blank\">report </a>issued by Reuters on Monday said that China now has direct business status.</p>\r\n<p>The People’s Bank of China now has a direct link into the Treasury’s auction system.</p>\r\n<p>While the Treasury neither confirmed nor denied the report, a spokesman for the Treasury, Matt Anderson, said, “Direct bidding is open to a wide range of investors, but as a matter of general policy we do not comment on individual bidders.”</p>\r\n<p>This is all in addition to the <a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/05/federal-reserve-approve-communist-chinas-first-us-bank-takeover/\" target=\"_blank\">takeover</a> of American banks by China and their <a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2012-05-21/china-company-buys-amc-movie-theater-chain/55106114/1\" target=\"_blank\">purchase</a> of AMC Entertainment.</p>\r\n<p>The lingering uneasiness about all of this is how it effects national security. The only person, it seems in the political process, that sees <a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/02/national-security-threatened-by-overspending-on-national-security/\" target=\"_blank\">debt</a> as a national security issue is Ron Paul. While much talk is given by both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney over the national debt, it has been Paul who has led the charge that it is a national security issue and one that needs to be <a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/03/ron-paul-slams-gop-boys-their-toys-in-new-ad/\" target=\"_blank\">dealt with</a> decisively and immediately.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/05/china-now-buying-us-debt-direct/\">Front Porch Politics &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>\r\n<p>Also from Front Porch Politics: <a href=\"http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/05/barack-obama-signs-four-new-executive-orders/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Barack Obama Signs Four New Executive Orders\" rel=\"bookmark\">Barack Obama Signs Four New Executive Orders</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-24 16:29:53',62,'Front Porch Politics','2012-05-24 16:36:33',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-24 16:29:53','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,122,'','',0,426,'robots=\nauthor='),(586,'Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers','florida-thinks-their-students-are-too-stupid-to-know-the-right-answers','','<p>\"Robert Krampf, who runs the web site \'The Happy Scientist,\' recently wrote in his blog about problems with Florida\'s Science FCAT. The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test is an attempt to measure how smart the students are. Where other states have <a href=\"http://mathandreadinghelp.org/articles/Do_Standardized_Tests_Make_Teachers_Cheat.html\">teachers cheating to help students</a>, Florida decided to grade correct answers as wrong. Mr. Krampf examined the state\'s science answers and found several that clearly listed right answers as wrong. One question had 3 out of 4 answers that were scientifically true. He wrote to the Florida Department of Education\'s Test Development center. They admitted <a href=\"http://thehappyscientist.com/blog/problems-floridas-science-fcat-test\">he was right about the answers, but said they don\'t expect 5th graders to realize they were right</a>. For this reason they marked them wrong. As such, they were not changing the tests. Note: they wouldn\'t let him examine real tests, just the practice tests given out. So we have no idea if FCAT is simply too lazy to provide good practice questions, or too stupid to be allowed to test our children.\"</p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-28 13:48:46',62,'slashdot','2012-05-28 13:50:48',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-28 13:48:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,121,'','',0,323,'robots=\nauthor='),(587,'U.S. Bishops Prepare Catholics for Civil Disobedience: ‘We May Need to Witness to the Truth by Resisting the Law’','us-bishops-prepare-catholics-for-civil-disobedience-we-may-need-to-witness-to-the-truth-by-resisting-the-law','','<p><img class=\"caption\" src=\"http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/images/ST%20THOMAS%20MORE-PORTRAIT%20BY%20HANS%20HOLBEIN.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"St. Thomas More\" title=\"St. Thomas More (Portrait by Hans Hublein the Younger - Wikimedia)\" width=\"220\" height=\"274\" align=\"right\" /></p>\r\n<p>(CNSNews.com) - Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the administration is violating the religious freedom of Catholics, the Catholic bishops of the United States are now preparing Catholics for what may be the most massive campaign of civil disobedience in this country since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s.</p>\r\n<p>“Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified,” the bishops state <a href=\"http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/upload/BW-USCCB-Conscience-Bulletin-Insert_ENG.pdf\">in a document</a> developed to be inserted into church bulletins in Catholic parishes around the country in June.</p>\r\n<p>“Every effort must be made to repeal them,” the bishops say <a href=\"http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/upload/BW-USCCB-Conscience-Bulletin-Insert_ENG.pdf\">in the document</a>, which is already posted on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need to witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties.”</p>\r\n<p>The bulletin insert reminds Catholic parishioners that the bishops have called for “A Fortnight of Freedom”—which they have described as “a special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action”—to take place from June 21 to July 4.</p>\r\n<p>  The bishops have noted that June 21, when this fortnight will begin, is the Vigil of the Feast of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. Fisher was a Roman Catholic cardinal whom the English monarch Henry VIII beheaded in 1535 after he refused to act against his conscience and take an oath asserting that Henry was the supreme authority over the church in England. That same year, Henry VIII also beheaded Thomas More, his former chancellor, for the same reason.</p>\r\n<p>The sterilization-contraception-abortifacient mandate is set to go into effect for most health-care plans on Aug. 1, about four weeks after the bishops\' \"Fortnight of Freedom.\"</p>\r\n<p>In campaign speeches delivered this week after the Catholic dioceses and organizations filed their 12 lawsuits, both President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama indicated that the administration intends to move forward and enforce the mandate.</p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-bishops-prepare-catholics-civil-disobedience-we-may-need-witness-truth-resisting-law\">Continue reading on cnsnews.com &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>','',1,1,0,1,'2012-05-28 14:23:47',62,'cnsnews.com','2012-05-30 12:44:41',62,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-05-28 14:23:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',8,0,120,'','',0,434,'robots=\nauthor='),