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I firmly believe that Obama thinks he was elected King. Never have I seen a president abuse executive orders to the extent that Obama is attempting to do. I’m glad to see that at least one judge finally ruled that the President can’t ignore federal law and create contradictory legislation via executive order. I predict this won’t stop him from trying, especially when Republicans take over congress in November. As Obama said several times, “He won!”, and the separation of powers means nothing to him. It’s incredibly sad that anyone in this country still supports this man in his agenda to transform America. Nothing good will come from a transformation in keeping with the Marxist values of our narcissistic President.

A federal judge on Monday issued a decision forcing the Obama administration to stop funding embryonic stem cell research with taxpayer funds. The judge ruled the executive order Obama issued allowing such funding contravened a federal law prohibiting taxpayer funding of the destruction of human embryos.

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This article makes me so angry, I’m at a loss for words (I’ll likely find them, if I keep writing), other than to say, when did our country become Communist China? Next it will be considered child abuse to teach our children about the Bible. America desperately needs to fight back and use the remedies provided in the constitution for getting rid of anti-Christian, bigoted judges! Christians also need to get off their duffs and fight back against this kind of discrimination wherever it exists. It’ll be you and your your children next, so wake up, and speak up!

A 10-year-old homeschool girl described as “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level” has been told by a New Hampshire court official to attend a government
school because she was too “vigorous” in defense of her Christian faith.

The decision from Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl’s “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view.”

The recommendation was approved by Judge Lucinda V. Sadler, but it is being challenged by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, who said it was “a step too far” for any court.

The ADF confirmed today it has filed motions with the court seeking reconsideration of the order and a stay of the decision sending the 10-year-old student in government-run schools in Meredith, N.H.

The dispute arose as part of a modification of a parenting plan for the girl. The parents divorced in 1999 when she was a newborn, and the mother has homeschooled her daughter since first grade with texts that meet all state standards.

In addition to homeschooling, the girl attends supplemental public school classes and has also been involved in a variety of extra-curricular sports activities, the ADF reported.

But during the process of negotiating the terms of the plan, a guardian ad litem appointed to participate concluded the girl “appeared to reflect her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith” and that the girl’s interests “would be best served by exposure to a public school setting” and “different points of view at a time when she must begin to critically evaluate multiple systems of belief … in order to select, as a young adult, which of those systems will best suit her own needs.”

According to court documents, the guardian ad litem earlier had told the mother, “If I want her in public school, she’ll be in public school.”

The marital master hearing the case proposed the Christian girl be ordered into public school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.”

In other words, if the government wants your child to be an atheist, they’ll be an atheist. Unless Christians make sure the entire country knows we exist in the form of a MAJORITY, this will become the norm.
Get out of your pews, send money to legal organizations that defend Christians, tell your friends and neighbors what’s really going on in our court rooms, and write or call your state and federal legislators when you see garbage like this. These are just a few of the things you can do. Christians also need to start running for public office, and stop letting liberals control our schools and local governments. Most importantly, know who you’re voting for. That includes judges.

The ACLU completely sickens me. They spy on teachers private lives and try to get them thrown in jail for saying grace at a private function off campus. What is wrong with the evil lawyers at the ACLU?!!!! Praying is not a crime in this country, and they need to step back, read the constitution and remember what country they are living in. They should all be locked up for their harassment and constant attacks on Christians who are exercising their first amendment rights. Thank God for Christian legal non-profit groups who will stand up to these bigoted, communist thugs.

“The wheels
came off the ACLU’s steamroller. While we are pleased with the ruling, we are saddened that a wonderful woman had to spend a day in court, with the ACLU’s crosshairs aimed at her back. Prayer is neither contemptuous nor criminal. It is outrageous that the ACLU sought civil contempt charges against an outstanding woman whose husband prayed a beautiful prayer at a privately sponsored event held off campus. The ACLU needs to take a good dose
of the First Amendment and call us in the morning,” he said.

The fight isn’t over, even though a judge ruled against them, and rightly upheld a private citizens right to bless their food before they eat it.

The fight, however, remains far from over.

Principal Frank Lay

On Sept. 17, Liberty Counsel is scheduled to return to court to defend Principal Frank Lay and Robert Freeman, the athletic director, from charges of criminal contempt for praying over a meal at an event for private contributors to the school’s athletic program.

Staver will defend Lay and Freeman. According to FoxNews.com both school officials are at risk of being given jail time and having their retirement savings
revoked by the state.

Accusations against the two stem from a blessing of a meal at a separate luncheon to honor private contributors to the athletic program, LC said.

The war against the school employees erupted when the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the district and Rodgers issued a broadly worded injunction regarding prayer and religious activities at school.

The event Winkler attended, and for which she was charged, was a privately funded event off campus after school hours to honor district workers. She was accompanied by her husband, who read a prayer blessing.

Those great men who wrote our constitution are rolling over in their graves at what has become of a large portion of this country. We must fight this kind of discrimination and harassment everywhere it exists. And, the ACLU should be forced to pay the legal fees of every person they falsely accuse out of a disgusting hatred of anything related to Christianity. We still have freedom of religion and speech in this country, and the ACLU must be forced to accept that.

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If you elect a Muslim Marxist, suddenly Islamists become America’s friends and Christians are the new terrorists. From page 5 of the Homeland Security Report detailing the “Right Wing Extremist threat”:

Historically, domestic rightwing extremists have feared, predicted, and anticipated a cataclysmic economic collapse in the United States. Prominent antigovernment conspiracy theorists have incorporated aspects of an impending economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like-minded individuals and to attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty. Conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of a failed economy. Antigovernment conspiracy theories and “end times” prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons. These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist individuals and groups in the past, such as violent Christian Identity organizations and extremist members of the militia movement.

I don’t think an apology is gonna cut it.

Obama and Homeland Security are following the Marxist Handbook and busying themselves labeling us conservatives as right wing extremists, and even terrorists. In this report that was originally intended for office use only, but got leaked, DHS insults Veterans by warning that they may come home from war and use their skills for terrorist attacks at home. It also warns of the threat posed by Christians who believe in end-time prophecy. Clinton went after the Militias of the 90′s in a similar way, but he wasn’t this insulting, and he didn’t take it to this extreme. Below are a few choice paragraphs and quotes from the report, but you should read the whole article. This country is going to change drastically in the near future, I fear. And it’s not the kind of change the Left thought they would get (with the exception of the hard left, who’ve been calling us conservatives terrorists for years). We elected a Kenyan Muslim, and now Christians and Veterans are the new terrorists among us. Nice. I hope they don’t expect us to be intimidated by this report and go into hiding. The tax day Tea Parties should dispel any notion that we aren’t going to fight the communist takeover of our country by Obama and his tax evading thugs.

A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed “right-wing extremists” concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats.

The report, titled “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” dated April 7, states that “threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts.”

However, the document, first reported by talk-radio host and WND columnist Roger Hedgecock, goes on to suggest worsening economic woes, potential new legislative restrictions on firearms and “the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

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“Proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans likely would attract new members into the ranks of right-wing extremist groups as well as potentially spur some of them to begin planning and training for violence against the government,” the report continues. “The high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by right-wing extremists in anticipation of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary concern to law enforcement.”

Most notable is the report’s focus on the impact of returning war veterans.

“Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists,” it says. “DHS/I&A is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities.”

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The report also mentions “‘end times’ prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition and weapons. These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist individuals and groups in the past, such as the violent Christian Identity organizations and extremist members of the militia movement.”

Yeah, us Christians have been blowing up buildings, planning attacks on military bases, and bombing peoples homes for years. Wait, no, that was Obama’s long time friend, the author of his memoirs, William Ayers of the Weather Underground. My mistake.

UPDATE: For anyone who doubted the authenticity of the DHS report above, Michelle Malkin is reporting that the hit job Obama did on conservatives through DHS is indeed an accurate report, and the Report is real.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen in quite some time. A group home counselor in Orange County, CA has been suspended for six weeks for – oh, the horror – allowing kids in her charge to overhear Christian music. This is just insane! The Pacific Justice Institute is representing the counselor and has the details:

A lawsuit has been filed against Orange County by a veteran group home counselor who was suspended six weeks for exposing four teenagers to Christian music. The counselor is represented by affiliate and staff attorneys of Pacific Justice Institute.

The lawsuit states that, in the summer of 2006, the counselor took four teenage girls from the Orangewood Children’s Home on an approved field trip to a 5K run and then to the beach. At the beach, the group encountered a “Surf Jam” taking place at the Huntington Beach pier. The group also overheard Christian music for about ten minutes while they were eating.

Following the beach outing, the counselor, an eighteen-year employee, was summoned to a disciplinary meeting focusing on the Christian music. Several months later, the same incident was brought up again and the counselor was slapped with a six-week suspension for “exposing children to unapproved religious activities.”

After many months of exhausting state administrative remedies, the counselor filed suit late last week in Orange County Superior Court to recover the financial losses she suffered from the suspension and to vindicate her constitutional rights. The counselor is represented by John and Laurie Messerly Stewart, attorneys in Orange, California, and the Pacific Justice Institute.

Nancy Pelosi is busy pushing The One’s agenda, and has hit the talk show circuit to explain how fewer babies will save the economy. When confronted with the exorbitant amount of money Congress is allocating to family planning (aka sex ed and abortion), Pelosi’s reply was that we have to deal with this economic downturn, and one one of the ways to do that is to fund family planning that leads to fewer babies. Wow, Nancy. Maybe all conservatives should just be asked to offer up their first born as a sacrifice to Obama’s trillion dollar spending extravaganza. How much more can we devalue human life? Now babies are just an expendable burden on on the state, and something to be prevented so Washington can spend more money? These people really are sick. Maybe Pelosi would like to bring back the forced sterilizations of the 1920′s and 30′s and weed out the “unfit” to save a buck. Eugenics is alive and well in America, thanks to the godless liberals.

I guess it makes sense to give a huge chunk of that change going to Planned Parenthood. The founder of PPA, Margaret Sanger, was a staunch supporter of Eugenics, and the board of PPFA was made up of the same people who sat on the board of the Eugenics Society of America. My, how history repeats itself when you stop teaching history, and begin revising it. I guess she’s only following in her President’s footsteps. Speaking of his daughter during the campaign, he said “If she makes a mistake…I don’t want to punish her with a baby!” So, babies are punishments, and now an unnecessary tax burden on the government. But, hey, population control is working out great for China…..Unless you’re the mother who wants to have more than two children. No choice for you! Come back, 30 year!

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, “Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom,” seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC’s THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

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This piece is an excellent wake up call to the state of denial and delusional worship that we’ve seen across the country since the coronation of our new dear leader, and the consequences it will have for all of us. The masses celebrate as Obama and his minions in Congress prepare to remove all restrictions on abortion, making even partial birth abortion legal once again. For those of you who don’t know, let me describe exactly what happens in a partial birth abortion. It will be a shocking revelation to many of you.

In a partial birth abortion, a baby that, if born, would surely survive is brutally murdered. If you think I’m being overly dramatic about this, read on. The baby that requires a partial birth abortion to bring about its death is in an advanced stage of development. For some time it has been able to cry, it sucks its thumb, it moves about the womb, it can recognize its mother’s voice, it yawns, dreams, and most importantly, it can feel pain just as you and I do. Remember that last point, especially, as you read on.

The abortion begins when the abortionist uses forceps to grab the baby’s little legs and pull it through the birth canal, until all of the baby is delivered, except the head. The doctor leaves the head in the birth canal so that he doesn’t have to witness the horror and mutilation he is about to inflict an an innocent victim. He also leaves its head concealed so that he and the mother won’t have to hear the baby’s scream when he rams the forceps into the back of her head and spreads them apart to create a gaping hole at the base of her skull. The Abortionist then inserts a suction tube into the hole, and mercifully sucks the baby’s brains out, collapsing the skull. Only then does he deliver the rest of the dead baby to be disposed of as medical waste.

This is what Obama and the Godless liberals call choice. Sadly, abortion procedures used prior to the last stages of pregnancy are equally brutal, and in some cases even more painful for the baby. Chemical abortions for example, burn the top layer of skin off the baby before it is poisoned to death. Some of those babies have actually been born alive in “botched abortions” and have testified before Congress as adults to the horrors of abortion. They’ve offered their own lives as proof that a living child is being tortured and killed in an abortion. Only soulless animals lacking any compassion or conscience could witness their testimony and still support abortion. Yet, that is exactly the caliber of people we obviously have running our country.

If you didn’t know about any of these facts, I hope it makes you realize that there is more to the abortion debate than the simple issue of choice. Every person on this planet has a duty to educate themselves before they make a decision on whether they support abortion on demand. Millions of lives could be saved if they did.

Getting back to the article I reference in this post, people are soon going to be forced to wake up to the real “change” that Obama is going to bring to our country. Change, like thousands more government funded jobs that will do nothing to grow the economy. Things like terrorists being released from Guantanamo Bay Cuba that will go right back to their Jihad ways with renewed vigor, hatred, and determination to kill as many Americans as possible. We’ve already seen this result with the terrorists that have been released.

Obama is nothing more than a rock star personality, and his plans for this country are dangerous. The consequences of electing an inexperienced, Narcissistic Marxist are going to become a reality in the coming weeks, months, and years. Prepare yourselves and pray for our country.

This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence – la trahison des clercs – in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.

We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the Blair/Brown imposture.

The burnt child, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not fear the fire. After the Blair experience there is no excuse for anybody in Britain falling for Obama. Yet today, in this country, even some of those who remained sane during the emotional spasm of the Diana aberration are pumping the air for Princess Barack. At a time of gross economic and geopolitical instability throughout the Western world, this is beyond irresponsibility.

To anyone who kept his head, the string of Christmas cracker mottoes booming through the public address system on Washington’s National Mall can only excite scepticism. It is crucial to recall the reality that lies behind the rhetoric. Denouncing “those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents” comes ill from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.

Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is like one of those toxic packages traded by bankers: it camouflages many unaffordable gifts to his client state. With a federal deficit already at $1.2 trillion, Obama wants to squander $825 billion (which will undoubtedly mushroom to more than $1 trillion) on creating 600,000 more government jobs and a further 459,000 in “green energy” (useless wind turbines and other Heath-Robinson contraptions favoured by Beltway environmentalists).

It is frightening to think there is a real possibility that the entire world economy could go into complete meltdown and famine kill millions. Yet Western – and British – commentators are cocooned in a warm comfort zone of infatuation with America’s answer to Neil Kinnock. We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.

These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.

A school in Florida celebrated “religious freedom day” by banning a Christian group from distributing Bibles. I’m not sure – do they not understand what religious freedom day is supposed to be about, or are they protesting the fact that we have religious freedom? Only liberal God haters could be that hypocritical.

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It looks like the Iraq war will soon become a part of prophecy fulfillment. The United States has pledged $700,000 to rebuild ancient Babylon. This is significant because, the Bible teaches that Babylon will be rebuilt and rise again in the end times.

Unfortunately, the article mentions just part of a verse from Isiah at the end of the article, which is totally misleading and seems to imply that the Bible prophesied that Babylon would never be inhabited again. For the full text of the scripture they partially quote, and an explanation of why Babylon must be rebuilt before the end-times, see this article: http://www.frankcaw.com/Babylon-Rebuilt.html. In short, Babylon “never again being inhabited” is referring to the period of time following its complete destruction during Armageddon, and not any current period of time. Babylon must first be rebuilt in order to be destroyed in the manner described in Isiah.

The United States has pledged $700,000 to help preserve and restore ancient Babylon.

In a news release, the U.S. State Department says “‘The Future of Babylon’ project exemplifies the American people’s commitment to the preservation of human heritage and their respect for the cultural heritage of Iraq.”

The State Department says the funding will allow the World Monuments Fund and Iraq’s Board of Antiquities and Heritage to plan for Babylon’s “conservation, study and tourism.”

In the Bible, Isaiah prophesies that Babylon “will never be inhabited, nor will it be settled from generation to generation.”

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UC Berkeley, along with most universities and colleges in this country, is actively endorsing and promoting religions that disbelieve the creation account of the origins of man in favor of evolution. Somehow, this doesn’t constitute the endorsement of religion using tax dollars, though. Isn’t that interesting how religions that teach a liberal view of the world don’t receive the same censorship that other religions do. I’m growing about as weary of our liberal education system’s hypocrisy as I am their “creationism isn’t science” mantra. Intelligent Design has a wealth of scientific evidence to support it. The problem is, the Darwinists are just too afraid to let it be heard, or acknowledge peer reviewed research on the subject. The problems with the THEORY of evolution must be kept under wraps, and Darwinists must not be expected to answer questions. That’s the only way you can handle the opposition when your science is flawed, and your theory is based on blind faith. It takes far more faith to be an atheist and evolutionist than it does to be a Christian who believes in Intelligent Design.

Whether a public university can use taxpayer funds from the federal government for a website that overtly endorses the beliefs of some religious groups regarding evolution and creation – but not others – is the focus of a case that’s being prepared for submission to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“This is a classic example of what the Founding Fathers did not want,” Brad Dacus, of the Pacific Justice Institute, told WND.

His organization is working on the case that revolves around a University of California-Berkeley website that advocates for a single perspective in the arguments over evolution – and highlights a list of religious groups whose beliefs agree with that perspective.

The site, funded by a federal grant and aimed at influencing teachers to promote evolution, excludes and ridicules perspectives – and religious groups that hold those perspectives – that fail to align with its stated beliefs.

“Some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science (e.g., the belief that the world and all life on it was created in six literal days); however, most religious groups have no conflict with the theory of evolution or other scientific findings,” states the website.

“This [website] injures religious freedom in this country,” Dacus said. “The government is playing a role that is overtly hostile to some religious groups and denominations while favoring and giving greater recognition towards others.”

He continued, “This case involves the ability of the state to use taxpayer money to overtly endorse and encourage support of one set of religious denominations over others.”

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By the way, if you want to really upset an evolutionist, try to get them to answer questions about the evolution that had to take place to get from primordial ooze to an ape. They like to pretend the ape to man part of evolution is all that exists. “Ooze to ape” presents all sorts of problems for them, and they don’t like to talk about it. Darwin didn’t write a book about “change in species over time”. Christians wouldn’t argue that species change. Darwin wrote a book on “the ORIGINS of man”, meaning where humans came from and where it all began. Asking a Darwinist about the billions of years of evolution that supposedly took place before apes and ape-men appeared on the scene can lead to hours of highly entertaining theories that often involve some form of intelligent design, or some off the wall theory about the necessary components for life piggybacking on crystals from another galaxy. More often than not, however, you’ll get a frustrated attempt to steer the conversation back to the magical point in time when all the intricate and delicately balanced parts of a living ape had evolved to begin the process of becoming humans.

Kissinger, a long time foreign policy expert and member of the Bilderberg Group, usually knows what he’s talking about when it comes to globalization. He sees Obama’s situation – taking office when different crises are affecting every part of the globe – as presenting a huge opportunity to finally usher in the New World Order. He has the Messiah image, both internationally and in America, to finally do what globalists have been trying to do for decades. Rapid prophecy fulfillment, the turmoil in the Middle East, Russia’s continued aggression and funding of Arab military programs, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions make this scenario seem even more likely. We should all be watching Israel. It’s God’s prophetic clock.

If any of you are thinking Obama is the Antichrist however, you should know that the Bible is very clear about where the Antichrist will come from, and it’s not America. He will come from the same people who killed Jesus, and later invaded Israel – the Romans. If someone like Obama rises to power in the EU (the old Roman Empire), start looking up. Interestingly the E.U. is coming closer to passing the treaty that replaced the defeated E.U. constitution. That means a powerful U.E. presidency is likely on the horizon. It’s all coming together just as God said it would.

Conflicts across the globe and an international respect for Barack Obama have created the perfect setting for establishment of “a New World Order,” according to Henry Kissinger, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former secretary of state under President Nixon.

Kissinger has long been an integral figure in U.S. foreign policy, holding positions in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations. Author of over a dozen books on foreign policy, Kissinger was also named by President Bush as the chairman of the Sept. 11 investigatory commission.

Kissinger made the remark in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” hosts Mark Haines and Erin Burnett at the New York Stock Exchange, after Burnett asked him what international conflict would define the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

“The president-elect is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously,” Kissinger responded. “You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can’t really say there is one problem, that it’s the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It’s a great opportunity, it isn’t just a crisis.”

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Police in the E.U. can now hack a persons personal computer without getting a warrant to look for evidence of a crime they suspect has been, or will be committed. The Bible says the Antichrist will rise out of the EU, and the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels certainly act like they are preparing for his arrival. Computers and the internet are becoming a powerful tool in the hands of the average person. With access to information, it’s much harder for governments and political elites to control the masses. Watch for them to begin attacking that freedom, and increase regulation on the last source of free speech and thought we have.

A spokesperson for the UK’s Association of Chief Police Officers told the Times that hacking into private citizens’ computers is sometimes necessary in investigating cybercrimes such as child pornography, identity theft and terrorism.

Anything can be deemed “necessary” when governments reach is not limited. When privacy laws are completely ignored, the list of necessary targets will grow until anything that poses even a remote threat to government power and control is under surveillance. Sadly, people will blindly accept just about anything in the name of tolerance these days.

Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens’ personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.

According to a London Times report, the police hacking process, called “remote searching,” enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.

Furthermore, the Times reports, a new edict by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other. According to the Times, the United Kingdom’s Home Office, the nation’s lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens’ computers.

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In Brighton, Michigan the First Amendment has been rescinded in favor of a more tolerant interpretation of freedom of speech. Choose your words wisely when in Brighton, or you could be cited and fined for annoying someone. I kid you not. Annoying speech has been banned. All that’s needed to find yourself on the wrong side of the law is a complaint from someone who is annoyed by you, or a Brighton police officer catching you in the act of saying something that annoys him, or her. I’m guessing something like a pro-life opinion would be deemed annoying by the liberal chief of police. Eventually, someone will point out to them that the courts have already ruled viewpoint discrimination is unconstitutional. Lawsuits in 3..2…

Brighton, Michigan, apparently wants to stop “annoying” free speech.

The Brighton City Council recently passed a strict code for public conduct, and those who violate the law, including those who annoy someone else, could be cited and fined. LivingstonDaily.com reports Brighton Police Chief Tom Wightman issued the ordinance. Even though the edict features the word “annoy” at least twice, he contends it “is not for somebody that says something annoying” but rather for “some course of action for repeated acts.”

Gary Glenn, head of American Family Association of Michigan, disagrees. “I think this ordinance in Brighton is clearly unconstitutional in that it attempts to restrict people’s exercise of their free-speech rights based on the content of their speech,” he says. “That’s clearly viewpoint discrimination.”

Police Chief Wightman says the ordinance would apply more to verbal interactions than an upsetting or annoying T-shirt, for example. However, Glen believes it could have a negative effect on individuals and pro-family groups.

“If someone dared, in a public place in Brighton, expressed their sincere religious conviction — for example, that homosexual behavior is sinful — obviously if someone was offended or insulted or even ‘annoyed,’ as the ordinance says, they might try to bring charges against somebody for merely expressing their sincerely held Christian beliefs,” he points out.

The town is ripe for a lawsuit, says Glenn, if officials try to enforce the new decree.

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A court rightly decided that a business has the right to put a sign on private property and that right cannot be taken away, and the business own punished simply because the message on the sign is Christian in nature. It’s absurd that the State of New York thought they could treat this man like a criminal, and deny him the rights other business owners have under the constitution, just because of his religious beliefs. Christians must take a lesson from this gentleman and fight back when the left tries to make us accept being second class citizens. Don’t wait until your rights are taken away to realize how important they are to you.

A New York man has won a battle with the New York Department of Transportation over a trailer he parked on his private property along a public highway that was targeted because of its Christian message.

Daniel Burritt installed a tractor-trailer for his company, Acts II Construction, Inc., on private business property along U.S. Route 11 in 2007.

In May he got a letter from the New York State Department of Transportation stating that his trailer violated a state law and constituted a “public nuisance.” The NYDOT said a permit had to be obtained or the trailer would be forcibly removed and legal action would follow, even though the agency does not require permits for commercial messages being displayed.

Burritt’s legal counsel objected to the NYDOT’s requirement for a permit, saying it penalized him because of his faith.

“Christians shouldn’t be singled out and penalized for sharing their beliefs,” Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Matt Bowman said. “We are pleased the court recognizes that displaying a religious message on private property has always been protected under the First Amendment.”

Bowman said the state violated the Constitution by treating religion in a less favorable manner than business because it did not take into account that a central aspect of the Burritt’s construction business is evangelism.

ADF attorneys
filed suit on behalf of Burritt in June and reached an agreement with the NYDOT to allow the trailer to stay until a decision could be reached. A state district court decision now has ordered the state to allow the sign to remain.

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It looks like the testing of Obama is beginning. I’m sure he’ll just talk with Putin and explain the hope and changiness that he is to usher in, and all will be well. He handled that Georgia thing so well, I’m sure we have nothing to fear. And those missiles that Russia is selling to Iran for use with their soon to be built nukes? Not a problem. Diplomacy Obama style will convince Amadinnerjacket that he doesn’t really need to nuke Israel or the Great Satan. Times they are a changin’. Can you say Gog and Magog?

Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles.

In the latest of a series of combative moves by the Kremlin, a senior government official in Moscow said the Russian military would commission 70 strategic missiles over the next three years, as part of a massive rearmament programme which will also include short-range missiles, 300 tanks, 14 warships and 50 planes.

Military experts said the planned new arsenal was presumed to consist of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) rather than submarine-launched missiles. If this is the case, the plans represent a fourfold increase in the rate of ICBM deployment. The arsenal will include a new-generation, multiple-warhead ICBM called the RS-24. It was first test-fired in 2007, with first deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov boasting it was “capable of overcoming any existing or future missile defence systems”.

The new missiles will be part of a £95bn defence procurement package for 2009-2011, a 28% increase in arms spending, according to Vladislav Putilin of the cabinet’s military-industrial commission. There will be further increases in spending in the following two years.

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Buddhists are taking a few lines from the Islamists’ playbook, and either holding Christian converts captive in attempt to force them back to Buddhism, or demanding that they leave the prominently Buddhist area. It’s a peaceful and tolerant religion, though. These false religions that are so often championed by the left all have one thing in common – hypocrisy.

Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism.

A spokesman for the Parbatta Adivasi (Hill Tract) Christian Church told Compass on condition of anonymity that “the plight of the Christians is horrifying.”

Local government council officials in Jorachuri sub-district in Rangamati district, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Dhaka, are helping the Buddhist monks to hold the Christians against their will, he said.

“The 13 tribal Christians were taken forcefully to a pagoda on Dec. 10 to accept Buddhism against their will,” he said. “They will be kept in a pagoda for 10 days to perform the rituals to be Buddhists – their heads were shaved, and they were given yellow saffron robes to dress in.”

All the captive Christians are men between 28 and 52 years old, he said. They became Christians around four months ago at various times in the country, which has a Buddhist population of 0.7 percent. Muslims make up nearly 90 percent of the Bangladeshi population, with Hindus accounting for about 9 percent, according to government figures.

According to the source, two Buddhist clerics, Pronoyon Chakma and Jianoprio Vikku, and two local council members, Vira Chakma and Rubichandra Chakma, were behind the anti-Christian activities along with nine other Buddhist leaders.

“It’s the first time they have taken 13 Christians to the pagoda to make them Buddhist – this is how they plan to make Buddhists of all the converted Christians in that area,” he said. “The pagoda has little capacity to accommodate them; otherwise they would hold captive more than 13 people.”

The Christian leader said Buddhist leaders and local council officials have warned Christians to return to Buddhism or be evicted, saying, “You cannot live here – you have to leave this place with your family members because you became Christians. Those who became Christians cannot live in this predominantly Buddhist area.”

Fearing for their lives, the source said, some area Christians have gone into hiding……

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Obama revealed on his website his plan to dramatically increase funding for abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. During an economic crisis, it is the height of arrogance to increase funding to the death cult abortionists, especially when a majority of Americans do not think people who are against abortion should be forced by the government to fund it. Obama could take a lesson from Sarah Palin on how to spend the people’s money.

A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama’s planned $1.5 billion “bailout” of the abortion industry.

Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The report, titled “Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration,” also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, is hoping a Republican-led effort in the Senate will block Obama’s plan to substantially increase taxpayer funding of Marjorie Dannenfelserthe abortion industry.

“This billion-dollar bailout of the abortion industry comes at a time, number one, when the economy is suffering dramatically with true need. And number two, it communicates an incredible depth of arrogance, especially when you consider that the vast majority of Americans — men and women, no matter who you talk to — they don’t believe that people who don’t believe in abortion should be funding it,” she contends. “Most Americans don’t believe that we should be funding abortions, especially in a time of economic crisis.”

The Susan B. Anthony List has started a “Stop the Abortion Bailout” campaign designed to recruit thousands of activists to send letters to their senators “with the goal of securing the 41 votes necessary to sustain a Senate filibuster of the abortion bailout.”

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I had no idea politicians were trying to get enough states to vote for a new Constitutional Convention. Why hasn’t the MSM reported this? Don’t answer that.

If today’s politicians and judges are allowed to change our constitution to “reflect today’s societal mores”, we will see our right to self defense taken away, free speech will be made a right given to us by the government instead of by our Creator, and abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage will become rights under the constitution.

Chuck Baldwin, presidential candidate for the Constitution Party this year, said “If called, a modern Constitutional Convention could declare the U.S. Constitution to be null and void, and could completely rewrite the document. For example, former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger once declared, ‘There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda.’”

This may be what finally takes America down, and it’s being kept from the public until they have enough votes to move on it. Read this entire article and stay informed on what’s happening with this movement to rewrite our constitution. I’ll be blogging everything I find on it. This is by far the scariest move on our freedoms by the left that I’ve seen yet, and Obama’s election has only emboldened them. We have to wake up and fight back on this one.

A team of lawmakers in Wyoming, alarmed by WND reports that the U.S. is only two state votes away from having a new Constitutional Convention, has begun work to make certain that if a convention is held, it would have to convene in the face of their opposition.

Wyoming previously called for a Constitutional Convention but rescinded the votes in 1999.

It is unclear whether even a formal vote to withdraw a request for a convention would have an impact or whether any limits could be imposed, according to constitutional expert John Eidsmoe, author of the book, “Christianity & the Constitution. But he encouraged such rescission votes, saying if nothing more, it certainly would dampen the enthusiasm for a convention.

Last week, a public policy organization issued an urgent alert that affirmative votes are needed from only two more states before a Constitutional Convention could be assembled in which “today’s corrupt politicians and judges” could formally change the U.S. Constitution’s “‘problematic’ provisions to reflect the philosophical and social mores of our contemporary society.”

“Don’t for one second doubt that delegates to a Con Con wouldn’t revise the First Amendment into a government-controlled privilege, replace the 2nd Amendment with a ‘collective’ right to self-defense, and abolish the 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments, and the rest of the Bill of Rights,” said the warning from the American Policy Institute.

Changes also could include the incorporation of “rights” to abortion and euthanasia, as well as the “separation” of church and state, the group said.

The warning comes at a time when Barack Obama, who was voted the next president by the Electoral College yesterday, has expressed his belief the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted through the lens of current events.

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For background information see this article.

I guess “free speech zones” aren’t just for liberal university campuses anymore. A pro-life activist who simply held up a sign near an abortion clinic could be sent to prison for one year for supposedly stepping into a zone where his right to free speech is no longer allowed. When the cops are pro-choice, it only takes an accusation from an abortion clinic to send a pro-lifer to jail. It’s getting scarier every day.

A Wisconsin pro-life counselor could be heading to jail again.

baby ultrasoundA Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic called police complaining that Drew Heiss violated an injunction that requires protestors to stay within a certain zone.

“All he did was stand on a sidewalk holding a sign, and they alleged that he was closer than 25 feet to the door,” says Pastor Matt Trewhella, founder of Missionaries to the Preborn.

Trewhella adds that the distance has never been measured by Planned Parenthood or the police, so there is no way of proving the case. “And you know, for that the state wants to put [Heiss] in a prison for a year,” he notes. “Last time that he was facing these charges, they offered him seven months in jail if he would just confess — and he refused to do so.”

The first case was thrown out on a technicality. Meanwhile, Heiss has a wife and children at home. “Yes, Drew’s been married for about 18 years now,” Trewhella explains. “They have five kids — four daughters, one son — ranging in age from 15 down to five.”

Trewhella maintains Milwaukee police have been notoriously against pro-lifers, and he is calling for prayer for Heiss and deliverance from false charges.

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Barack Obama’s pastor of “G D America” fame is back on the speaking circuit and drawing large crowds of haters who can’t get enough of Wright’s blame America first garbage. Since one of Wright’s favorite rants is to blast Bush for not capturing Osama Bin Laden, I wonder if Wright will attack Obama with the same vitriolic rants when he doesn’t capture him either. One would have to be insane to think Bin Laden hasn’t been captured because Bush was president.

It’s also interesting that we never hear a word from the “freedom from religion” crowd, or the “separation of church and state”, ACLU types when it’s someone like Reverend Wright mixing politics and religion.

As people headed inside St. Paul AME Church in East Macon to hear controversial the Rev. Jeremiah Wright deliver a revival sermon today, a band of nearly 20 people, led by a local radio talk show host, protested the visit.

Wright silently entered the sanctuary during a choir anthem along with other ministers.

He knelt at the altar to pray while the choir finished singing.

Outside of the church, protesters shouted, “Not G.D. America, God Bless America” and “Jeremiah Wright is wrong.”

They tried to warn people going to hear the sermon that Wright preaches hate, not love.

Wright, speaking to about 350 people, delivered a traditional revival sermon based on the story of Jesus healing a blind beggar on his way to Jerico.

It should come as no surprise that Wright also expressed opinions about politics and current events.

Shouting into the microphone, Wright criticized President George W. Bush, the United States’ declaration of war against Iraq and the media.

“American boys and girls are still dying,” Wright said.

He questioned why the military hasn’t been able to find Osama Bin Ladin and the truthfulness of the media and government regarding the war.

“Wake up and smell the oil,” he said.

Wright, a Chicago minister, was President Elect Barack Obama’s preacher before snippets of some of his sermons — including one where he says “God Damn America” for its treatment of black people — became an Internet and national news media sensation.

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Wright doesn’t worship the God of the Bible. He worships himself and his culture.

We’re living in scary and sad times as Christians. Palin was targeted by the media, and viciously attacked by the left because of her religion. And now, an arsonist has set her church in Alaska on fire, causing an estimated one million dollars in damage. The hatred in this country is out of control, and if you look at the news with an honest eye, that hatred is coming from one direction. The Left! Now watch as the MSM gives this story a fraction of the coverage it would have gotten if it were Reverend Wright’s church that was burned down.

Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church was badly damaged by arson, leading the governor to apologize if the fire was connected to “undeserved negative attention” from her failed campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Damage to the Wasilla Bible Church was estimated at $1 million, authorities said Saturday. No one was injured in the fire, which was set Friday night while a handful of people, including two children, were inside, according to Central Mat-Su Fire Chief James Steele.

He said the blaze was being investigated as an arson but didn’t know of any recent threats to the church. Authorities didn’t know whether Palin’s connection to the church was relevant to the fire, Steele said.

“It’s hard to say at this point. Everything is just speculation,” he said. “We have no information on intent or motive.”

Steele would not comment on the means used to set the fire.

Pastor Larry Kroon declined to say whether the church had received any recent threats.

“There are so many variables,” he said. “I don’t want to comment in that direction.”

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The ACLU in Missouri is apposing a school policy that dared to treat the Bible the same way it treats all other books and literature, secular and religious. Sadly, a District Court agreed that censorship remains unconstitutional, except in the case of the Bible. Koran’s are okay for children to read in school, as are other religious texts and secular reading, but the ACLU wants to single out the Bible because, as the District Court says, “‘Bibles are different’ from other forms of religious Literature’”. I would love to hear this court explain how the Christian Bible is different than any other religious book, and how the constitution supports discriminating against one religion, while allowing others.

“How ironic that in America, until recent times, the Bible formed the basis of education, and now its mere presence is radioactive in the opinion of some judges,” he said. “The Founders never envisioned such open hostility toward the Christian religion as we see today in some venues. To single out the Bible alone for discriminatory treatment harkens back to the Dark Ages. America deserves better. Our Constitution should be respected, not disregarded.”

Staver told WND that a decision is not expected to be announced for about two months.

He said the lower court’s ban targets only the Bible.

“The Quran is OK, and other kinds of religious texts; just not the Bible. The Bible alone is impermissible in the public school,” he said.

WND reported earlier when a brief was filed with the federal appeals court.

Among the groups that have distributed material at the school are the Army Corps of Engineers, Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Iron County Health Department, Missouri Water Patrol, Missouri Highland Healthcare and Union Pacific Railroad, officials said.

“The ACLU might not like the fact that equal access also means equal treatment for religious speech, but the Constitution requires equal treatment. The First Amendment protects private religious viewpoints. Hecklers may heckle but they may not veto private religious speech. … Religious viewpoints have Constitutional protection,” Staver said.

The minutes from board meetings noted the board president “explained to the board at this point, we are an open forum and any group can request to enter our school and distribute materials – atheists, communists, gay rights, etc.” The minutes note the board members acknowledged the policy.

However, Perry banned the district “from distributing or allowing distribution of Bibles to elementary school children on school property at any time during the school day.”

“The district court
also opined that ‘Bibles are different’ from other forms of religious literature,” Liberty Counsel said.

The Gideons, a group founded in the late 1800s, have as their “sole purpose” the goal “to win men, women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through association for service, personal testimony, and distributing the Bible in the human traffic lanes and streams of everyday life.”

Gideons have placed the Bible in 181 nations in 82 different languages over the years.

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Too many Christians in this country are in denial about the growing hostility toward Christianity in this country. This kind of blatant view-point discrimination should be causing outrage among parents, the public, and the nation. Unfortunately, I think too many Christians are willing to accept defeat, give up their constitutionally protected freedoms, and hide in their churches and private schools. We could actually take a lesson from liberals on this. Gays are an extreme minority in this country, yet they make sure they are heard, and often drown out the majority. We can do the same if we act together, and we need not use the bully tactics of the left. We can start by convincing our friends and relatives that the threat to our freedoms is real. Make sure they know about things like this. Take advantage of free Christian legal organizations like the ACLJ, and fight back when someone tries to deny you, or your children their right to free speech, or tell you when and where you can read your Bible. Don’t let your teachers, employers, etc. get away with it, and don’t let them convince you that you’re intolerant or evil for demanding the same rights they do. We are as much to blame as the Christian haters, if we continue to let them label us and intimidate us.

I’m not holding my breath for the MSM to cover this story. They barely cover Christian persecution in areas where genocide is effectively being carried out, so they likely won’t cover persecution on our side of the pond, especially when those doing the persecuting are Catholics.

As the end draws near, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of this kind of intolerance toward evangelical Christians – the only religion it’s not intolerant to not tolerate.

According to Open Doors USA, most of the persecution against Christians comes from traditionalist Catholics in southern Mexico who believe they have the right to force others to conform to their religion. Recently, four Christians were jailed for refusing to take part in a traditionalist Catholic festival and for not paying the high quotas they were assigned to Carl Moellerhelp cover its costs.

Dr. Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA, notes that such oppression is common throughout Mexico. “In that case in Mexico, traditionalist Catholics is kind — they are really quasi-animists who take local beliefs and translate it into anti-Christian, anti-evangelical Christian in particular, attacks,” he contends.

Recently, evangelical families in one city were forced to sign documents promising to hold religious services only on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday or pay fines of $74 per family.

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I figured Obama would have some plan to silence free speech on the internet. It is, after all, the goal of every good Marxist to silence decent and foster group think through government control, and indoctrination. I am actually shocked, though, to learn just how far he will be willing to go to achieve this goal. Not only does he want to deprivatize the internet, making it fully under government control, he wants to create “international norms” for internet use, and require all citizens to use government issued smart cards to access the internet, or do anything while you’re there. This would be done in the name of security, and to prevent identity fraud.

I’d like to think this kind of power grab and violation of our civil liberties would never survive the public outrage, but, if a majority of the country is willing to elect a narcissistic Socialist to lead them, they may also be willing to defer to the wisdom of their new messiah when it comes to internet security. Read on, and be very afraid.

Newspapers are widely covering a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies calling for Obama to appoint a “Cyberspace Czar” to oversee cyberspace security. And in the words of the New York Times article, “License plates may be coming to cyberspace.”

The Center for Strategic and International Studies, whose chairman is Obama advisor Sam Nunn and whose President and CEO is John J Hamre, who was a possible candidate for Secretary of Defense under Obama. One of the members of the board of trustees is our old friend and Obama advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. The report’s recommendations are unsurprisingly expected to be fast tracked through the Obama administration.

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The report’s recommendations emphasize taking away cybersecurity from DHS in order to create a special department to oversee cybersecurity. It recommends ending the division between civilian and national security systems. And calls for establishing “international norms” when it comes to the internet.

And it focuses a good deal on identity verification, not just for Federal employees, but for ordinary Americans as well.

The report urges a move away from passwords, and toward physical identity verification, via a device that would verify an individual’s identity. And calls for “government issued credentials” to be used by consumers.

From Page 14 of the report.

17. The United States should allow consumers to use strong government-issued credentials (or commercially issued credentials based on them) for online activities.

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The American people better wake up and ask themselves if they really know the man who is running for President on the Democrat ticket. The Washington Times is finally reporting today on Obama’s campaign activities in Kenya in 2006. Barrack actively campaigned for and supported a man who caused the deaths of thousands of Christians, promised to impose Sharia law and make Islam the official religion of Kenya if elected, and promised to regulate and restrict all other Religions in Kenya. This article is a must read for every American who plans to vote. We can NOT elect a man to the most powerful office in the world who supports a murderous tyrant like Odinga. It’s truly disturbing that many Americans are, only now, finding this out.

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama’s father.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya’s Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of “Islam as the only true religion,” Islamic leaders would have an “oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original],” installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who “allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists,” adoption of a women’s dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

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This is why a constitutional amendment is needed! We must amend the constitution to protect our children from this kind of indoctrination. There is a reason our politicians pretend that amending the constitution is a dangerous step that should be taken only as a last resort. It’s a ridiculous position to present a constitutional amendment as something dangerous, as if it’s never been done before. When our founding fathers wrote the constitution, they immediately amended it many times. That’s where we get our Bill of Rights. They were the first 10 AMENDMENTS to the constitution. There have been other amendments to the constitution that were just as culturally important as defining marriage and stopping gay marriage. Amendments gave black people the right to vote as a whole person, an amendment gave women the right to vote, civil rights were granted to slaves, alcohol was prohibited, and when that didn’t work out, the amendment was undone with another amendment. By amending our constitution in response to the gay agenda, we are not stepping out onto a slippery slope that can never be undone. History proves this. So, when you hear your senators, the president, presidential candidates, or other politicians use boogey man tactics in response to conservative calls for a federal marriage amendment, please know that they are simply afraid of giving too much power back to the people. If the American people knew the history of the amendment process, how many times it’s been used, and for what, they would demand that their voices be heard in Congress, rather than having them constantly ignored and dismissed in the courts. Sadly, too many politicians don’t like the idea of being forced to answer to the people who elected them. This is especially true of liberals, who are desperately trying to bring about a cultural shift and destroy capitalism, in exchange for Obama’s thinly veiled Socialist policies (redistribution of wealth). They like the fact that, once they get into office, they can forget their campaign promises and rely on the courts to toss out any legislation that doesn’t further their agenda.

All across this country Americans are voting against gay marriage. Yet, unelected judges are consistently ignoring our vote and legislating from the bench. All they have to do is deem the laws we vote on unconstitutional to reverse our vote. The judicial branch has, in effect, given themselves a judicial veto that they were never intended to have under our constitution (look up “judicial review” to see how that power was stolen).

Americans must wake up and take back their government. We have every right to amend our constitution, and make our vote and our voices count again. It’s our constitution, and we can force our representative government to change it. We don’t have to live by the opinions of unelected judges. If we don’t fight back, we’ll see more articles like this:

A group of first graders in San Francisco took a school-sponsored field trip to a homosexual wedding.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports the five-and six-year-olds were pulled out of school to “toss rose petals” on their newly married teacher.

Click play to hear Pat Robertson’s comments following this CBN News report.

The school’s interim director called it “a teachable moment.” But one pro-family group called it “overt indoctrination.”

“This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to understand it,” said Chip White, Press Secretary for Yes on Proposition 8.

The parents of two students opted out of letting them go to the gay wedding.

School administrators admit the trip was controversial, but say same sex marriage is legal in their state.

Californians vote next month on whether to overturn the state supreme court’s ruling allowing same-sex marriage.

The ad below shows Barack Obama standing at a podium mocking several books of the Bible and those who believe what the Bible says. Obama has a history of mocking Christians who, according to him are just dolts that “cling to their guns and religion”. What kind of Christian mocks the word of God and has nothing but disdain for those who hold to the Word of God to be truth? A true Christian doesn’t! Nor does a true believer in Christ sit in a pew for 20 years and listen to an angry, hate filled pastor spew bile and hatred against his country, and white people. It will be a tragedy for this country if we elect this hateful, Marxist, Socialist phony. To any Christians who are uninformed enough to consider voting for this man, do you really want a leader running our country who mocks your faith, laughs at the Bible, and listened to 20 years of Jeremiah Wrights “God Damn America!” speeches? Not to mention his years of work and socializing with a domestic terrorist, and his support for the election of Odinga in Kenya – a man who burned down 800 Christian churches, had his thugs go on a murderous rampage, and wanted to impose Sharia Law on the Christians of Kenya.

This is the shorter version of the advertisement. Watch the longer one at the website mentioned at the end of the ad. Oh, and if you here from Obama’s “Stop the Smears” crew that the person who made the ad is “just trying to dupe Christians out of their money, and he hasn’t run any ads”, Obama is lying as usual. The ad has been running in PA, and every dime of the contributions has gone to a small cost of making the video and the rest to air time. Obama has a problem with lying. Just what we need more of in our government.

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More than ever before, it’s looking like prophecy is soon going to be fulfilled with a war in the Middle East involving Russia and Israel’s Arab enemies. Start looking up folks! The time is near.

JERUSALEM – Israeli security officials have confirmed fears in Jerusalem that Russia may spark a Cold War-like military build up in the Middle East by sending war ships and advanced weaponry to foe Syria.

Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived today on a two-day visit to Moscow, where he will reportedly discuss with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ways to expand military ties with Moscow, whose arms sales to Mideast countries, including Syria and Iran, have angered Israel and the U.S.

In a widely-circulated article, the London Times reported today Russia is expected to propose a revival of its Cold War-era naval bases at the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia on the Mediterranean. Moscow maintained bases in Damascus during the Cold War, but Russia’s influence in the region weakened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Leave it to Carter to meet with a terrorist leader responsible for scores of Jewish deaths. It sickens me that he calls himself a Christian.

he Hamas terrorist organization has confirmed to WND plans are in the works for former President Jimmy Carter to meet the chief of Hamas on a trip this month to Syria.

Sources in the Gaza Strip office of Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, confirmed Hamas is in talks with Carter’s representatives about setting up a meeting during his trip, scheduled for later this month.

The Hamas sources said no concrete date has been set but that Carter has expressed interest in meeting Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshaal, who resides in Syria.

In a statement to Fox News today, Carter’s press secretary, Deanna Congileo, did not deny the former president was slated to meet Meshaal.

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Here’s further proof that the unconstitutional policy of “separation of church and state” in our public schools is only enforced when it comes to Christianity. In Minnesota, a public school is openly operating as an Islamic school, complete with mandatory Islamic prayer, and Quranic studies after school that are not optional. Yet, the ACLU has seen no problem with this use of tax dollars to teach religion in school. Only after a substitute teacher called attention to the schools curriculum, did the ACLU begin an investigation. If Christian pastors had been offering prayers at assemblies and holding Bible studies at the end of the day, you can bet the ACLU would be screaming that the religious right is taking over the country and establishing a theocracy.

A Minnesota teacher who substituted for two fifth-grade classes at a publicly funded school located in the same building as an Islamic mosque says religion appears to be a significant focus of the education.

Amanda Getz of Bloomington, Minn., told a columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune her duties at Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove Heights included taking students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform “their ritual washing.”

Then, the teacher told columnist Katherine Kersten, “teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day,” was preparing to lead prayer.

Beside him, another man “was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered,” the teacher said.

The Star-Tribune previously documented that the charter high school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students is named after a Muslim warlord, shares the address of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, is led by two imams, is composed almost exclusively (99 percent) of blacks and has as its top goal to preserve “our values.”

And it’s all funded by the taxpayers of Minnesota. . . . .

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This is a scary thought. The Council on Foreign Relations has warned that when Iran gets the bomb, it will likely set off a nuclear arms race among Islamic nations in the Middle East. It makes sense, however, in light of the prophesied Islamic invasion of Israel that will coincide with the start of the Tribulation. It’s interesting that many of the nations the Bible says will be involved in the attack, are the same ones now admitting that they will likely pursue their own nuclear weapons programs if Iran gets nukes.

Saudi Arabia most likely would develop nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, according to a report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

High-level American diplomats in Riyadh with excellent access to Saudi decision-makers said an Iranian nuclear weapon frightens the Saudis “to their core” and would compel the Saudis to seek nuclear weapons, the report said. The American diplomats were not identified.

Turkey also would come under pressure to follow suit if Iran builds nuclear weapons in the next decade, said the report prepared by a committee staff member after interviewing hundreds of individuals in Washington and the Middle East last July through December.

While Turkey and Iran do not see themselves as adversaries, Turkey believes a power balance between them is the primary reason for a peaceful relationship, the report said…..

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Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to Christian students, apparently. A Tomah High School student was given a zero on an art project because it had religious content…correction…Christian content in it. The teacher felt other student’s depictions of demons and satanic imagery were perfectly acceptable, proving that liberals don’t have a problem with religion in our schools. Islam, Satanism, and any other cult that opposes Christianity are welcome. Christians, however, must obey the unconstitutional, made up wall of separation between Church (Christianity) and State. Hypocritical liberal bias, as usual.

A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference.

The lawsuit alleges other students were allowed to draw “demonic” images and asks a judge to declare a class policy prohibiting religion in art unconstitutional.

“We hear so much today about tolerance,” said David Cortman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal advocacy group representing the student. “But where is the tolerance for religious beliefs? The whole purpose of art is to reflect your own personal experience. To tell a student his religious beliefs can legally be censored sends the wrong message.”

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Well, this is more than just a little bit spooky. What do you bet Obama won’t be grilled about his religious beliefs in the debate like the evangelical George Bush was. We can only hope someone brings this into the light and asks some questions before primaries are over.

While some election commentators are looking carefully at the level of devotion Sen. Barack Obama has to Islam, it is the strong African-centered and race-based philosophy of the senator’s United Church of Christ that has some bloggers crying foul.

Obama and Wright

Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is where Obama was baptized as a Christian two decades ago, even borrowing the title for one of his books, “The Audacity of Hope,” from a sermon by his senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

The first paragraph of the “About Us” section of the church’s website mentions the word “black” or “Africa” five times:

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian. … Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.

Focus on the African continent continues in two of the 10-point vision of the church:

1. A congregation committed to ADORATION.
2. A congregation preaching SALVATION.
3. A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
4. A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
5. A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
6. A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
7. A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
8. A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
9. A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

Commented Florida blogger “Ric” in discussing vision No. 4: “Commitment to Africa? I thought Christians were to have a commitment to God alone?”

The blogger continued: “First off just by this 10-point layout describing Barack Obama’s church, we see that on some issues they are not clear. Even though it sounds good to the reader, it still leaves one guessing and not knowing where they truly stand as a congregation.

“Second, the church seems to place Africa and African people before God, and says nothing about other races in their community or a commitment to help the people in their community.

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The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, and only the THIRD holiest site in Islam. Jerusalem didn’t even become important to Muslims until the 7th century when Caliph Abd el-Malik commissioned the best architects to build the Dome of the Rock on the conquered Temple Mount, after a successful invasion of the Jewish Holy Lands. His plan was based upon a Fourth Century Christian shrine on the Mount of Olives marking the site of Jesus’ Ascension. The Caliph’s new shrine was deliberately built as a political, economic, and religious counter attraction to Mecca. Medina and Mecca, the two cities holy to Islam, were under the control of a rival Caliph. Abd El-Malik sought to build up the importance of Jerusalem as an Islamic center for pilgrimage and worship. The holiest site in Judaism was only then identified with the spot where Mohammed’s horse ascended to heaven.

There is a great deal of evidence proving that Islam never considered the Temple Mount to be a holy site until it became politically important to the Arabs, and an excuse to wage war on the Jews. Their revisionist history has been so successful that Jews aren’t even allowed to give the APPEARANCE of praying on the Temple Mount, and anything even remotely related to Judaism is banned from being taken onto the site during the limited times when Jews are even allowed to go there. It’s not uncommon to see Jews being stoned by Palestinian youths, or arrested by Wafq police who determine the site has somehow been desecrated by their presence.

Anywhere else in the world, it would be considered totally unacceptable, and a violation of human rights, to forbid a person from praying whenever and wherever they want. The United States condemns China for their persecution of Christians (although they do little about it), and free speech laws in countries around the world would be quickly enforced if such restrictions were placed on any other religion (with the exception of Christianity, or course). Muslims would be the first to scream discrimination and Islamophobia if their right to pray five times a day were in any way hindered. Yet, the world is silent and sees absolutely no problem with religious persecution when it’s directed at Jews. Even more perplexing, a large percentage of the Jewish population sees no problem with it either. They might change their mind, though, when the Palestinians are given the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the rockets currently being fired at them from Gaza are suddenly coming at them from all sides. Or, maybe not.

Jews are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount in any way whatsoever, even if they only move their lips or demonstrate other “signs” of prayer on Judaism’s holiest site, ruled Avi Dichter, Israel’s public security minister.

Dichter was responding to a recent decision by two Knesset members who said they would ascend the Temple Mount quietly – without informing the media or making any protest – and attempt to pray on the holy site.

Unbelievable. Tax-payer funded schools in Iowa are requiring boys to dress as girls, and girls to dress as boys for “cross-dressing” day. I thought liberals and the homosexual, transgender, etc., etc. lobby was for choice? Would they be okay with a straight day at school where all transgender people were forced to dress as the gender God gave them? Probably not. Only Christians are expected to change their beliefs and accept other’s beliefs as their own.

A public school’s “gender-bender” cross-dressing event, where boys were supposed to dress as girls and girls as boys, has prompted at least dozens, perhaps hundreds, of students to flee the tax-supported institutions in Iowa.

Many of the parents apparently are members of the Christ Apostolic Temple in Des Moines, which teaches a biblically based doctrine of rejecting the world’s values.

“Christ Apostolic Temple Inc. Fellowship … is a Bible-based organization that believes one must ‘come out from among them and be ye separate.’ (2 Cor. 6:14-17),” the organization’s website says.

That apparently includes cross-dressing, an event which has found sponsorship in other arenas from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which has promoted a school lesson plan for teaching boys and girls to cross-dress.

State officials in Des Moines confirmed to WND that at least 80 children whose parents were alarmed by the “Gender-Bender Day” during homecoming week at the city’s East High School have moved their children from the various districts in the area into homeschooling plans. Several parents told WND that the number could be in the hundreds.

This kind of religious discrimination, not to mention the persecution of Christians living in China, should not be rewarded by allowing them to host the 2008 Olympics. If China banned the Koran at the Olympics, there would be a public outcry and Muslims would riot. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise us that this kind of intolerance toward Christians will be met by silence and a few absurd justifications, if it’s even reported in the MSM.

Chinese officials have announced athletes who compete in the 2008 Beijing Games will be banned from having Bibles in their Olympic village housing, and even visitors are being warned not to bring more than a single Bible with them when they come to China.

According to a report from the Catholic News Agency, Bibles will be among the list of “prohibited objects” for athletes at the Beijing housing complexes being built now for the thousands of athletes expected to participate.

“According to the Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, organizers have cited ‘security reasons’ and have prohibited athletes from bearing any kind of religious symbol at Olympic facilities,” the report said.

Also banned will be video cameras and cups, the report said.

“The Spanish daily La Razon said the rule was one of a number of ‘signs of censure and intolerance’ towards religious objects, particularly those used by Christians in China,” the report said. “Currently in China five bishops and 15 priests are in prison for opposing the official [government-run] church.”

Awwwwww. That’s too bad. Coincidence? I doubt it.

The sudden outbreak of new violence in the Middle East may have the unexpected effect of cancelling the week-long homosexual extravaganza WorldPride in Jerusalem, scheduled for August 6 to 12.

An outcry went up from religious groups and faith communities around the world when Jerusalem was named by organizers as the city of choice for the next WorldPride event. The choice of Jerusalem was seen by many as a flagrant taunting of religious groups opposed to homosexuality, as was the choice of Rome for WorldPride 2000.

The gay pride event was originally scheduled to be held last year in Jerusalem, which led to concerted efforts by religious leaders in the country to block the homosexual celebration from taking place. Organizers eventually decided to postpone the event, citing upheaval due to the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip.

Religious leaders from the Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities within Israel have been working together to prevent the event from taking place in the holy city—earlier in the month Jerusalem police officials finally conceded that the event would “likely” be moved to Tel Aviv. The decision was not finalized, but the police said in a statement to the press, “Tel Aviv is more used to such events, and therefore it should take place there also this time.”

Jennifer Rast wrote to inform us that Ben’s dad passed away yesterday.

Ben asked me to write all of you and let you know that his Dad passed
away today. He was in good spirits this morning, and he had a good day
with Ben’s mom. They watched “Cat Ballew” on TV and had some good
laughs together. After lunch, at about 1:30, he laid down for a nap and
died peacefully in his sleep. Ben wanted you to know that his Dad and
Mom were very grateful for everyone’s prayers, as is the rest of the
family. We’d appreciate continued prayer for the family and especially
Ben’s Mom. You are all part of our family as brothers and sisters in
Christ. Someday you’ll meet Don if you haven’t already, and we’ll get
to see him again.

Please join me in praying for God’s peace and comfort for Ben, Jennifer and all the rest of their family and friends.

I don’t think that Ben and Jennifer would mind me posting this, but I have a prayer request this morning for a good friend, Randy.
Randy has cancer and is going to have to undergo both chemotherapy and radiation therapy soon. He is a Christian, but is in need of both direct healing from God and support of his spirit. I know that God listens to us when we pray. Please pray unceasingly for Randy. Please pray that God will completely heal him and that God will lift him up when he is feeling bad, sick and worn out. Please pray also for his wife and children, that they will feel God’s comfort and protection over them.
Please add him to your prayer list at church and let’s put the power of the internet to good use by collectively praying for Randy.
Thank you for your prayers!
-Steve