Successful republican governments rest on a separation between what is public and what is private. Matters of religious worship — celebrating one’s conceptualization of God — are private. Separating religion from government preserves the integrity of both. That idea is centuries old. In the 1500s, both Niccolo Machiavelli and Martin Luther argued for separation of [...]
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is under fire in South Carolina for touting his alleged pro-life beliefs but voting to subsidize abortion and Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in America, while serving in the U.S. Senate. He has also backed pro-abortion candidates and voted for legislation that is being used to federally prosecute [...]
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At least four of the five GOP candidates will be present at a pro-life forum in South Carolina Wednesday, LifeNews.com reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Congressman Ron Paul, and Texas Governor Rick Perry are scheduled to participate in the Presidential Prolife Forum at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville, South [...]
At least four of the five GOP candidates will be present at a pro-life forum in South Carolina Wednesday, LifeNews.com reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Congressman Ron Paul, and Texas Governor Rick Perry are scheduled to participate in the Presidential Prolife Forum at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville, South [...]
Thankfully Superstar is not sick and even though today is Martin Luther King Day we did school work today. This morning started off rough. Superstar had a bit of an attiude about math. He picked it as is first subject but started to cry over it because it was division. He really loaths division and [...]
A TIME FOR US AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY! “Today, you would think that because I am an African-American, that I would have awakened with a new zest for living, a belief that all things are possible and a renewed hope in America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. But instead, I felt [...]
January 17, 2012 flose Uncategorized Family Law Law firms along with Family members Regulation Attorneys typically apply family regulation as well as take up family linked circumstances of all sorts. These could end up being union, prenuptial contracts, usage, domestic assault, divorce, custody of the children as well as support, separation and divorce, settlement, adjudication, [...]
A defense of big money in politicsWashington Post (blog)Adelson is a good friend of Gingrich and a major player in Israeli politics. He owns a newspaper in Israel and supports politicians so far to the right I have to wonder if they are even Jewish. This is Sheldon Adelson, supposedly a bad man. …Cohen: Sheldon [...]
Authorities now say 29 people are missing from the Costa Concordia cruise liner that capsized of Italy’s Tuscany coast, including an American couple from Minnesota. The number of missing rose from Monday, when officials only thought 16 people were missing. Italian naval divers are using explosive charges to blast holes in the hull of [...]
Liberals get bitchy whenever Christian conservatives speak out on the social issues of the day, yet the same liberals that want the IRS to persecute any church which exercises its First Amendment rights to hte fullest have no problem with using the Catholic Church in its advocacy for immigration reform (i.e. welcome illegal aliens, the law means [...]
Controversy has erupted in Tampa, Florida. A public school teacher was discovered inviting a terrorist sympathizer into the classroom to give pro-Islamic lectures for the last three years. Hassan Shibly is from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, who is known to have ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. Their stated goal is to impose Islam [...]
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Intolerance toward Christians continued to grow in 2011, according to year-end assessments by human-rights and Christian organizations. In particular, acts of violence against Christians during the holidays increased drastically. Stonegate Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches human rights issues, cited recent Nigerian church bombings — in which the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed more [...]
Christianity is about much more than salvation; it speaks to all of life. “Jesus is Lord” was the earliest baptismal confession. Scripture mandates taking dominion and cultivating the soil (Gn 1) and being salt and light (Mt 5:13-16).Abraham Kuyper, former Dutch prime minister and theologian, famously said, “There is not a square inch in the [...]
For a while now a lot of folks on the Right have been concerned about “creeping Sharia”, the fear that Islamic law will take root in America. Bills have been put before states and the Federal government “banning” Sharia law, lest it overturn two and a half centuries of American jurisprudence overnight. I’ve noticed, however, [...]
Sabeel is coming to town March 16-17. Sabeel is a Christian liberation theology organization based in Jerusalem. It was founded by Palestinian Anglican priest, Rev. Naim Ateek, and has been widely denounced for itsone-sided anti-Israel rhetoric. from the ADL:Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA): As part of the anti-Israel movement’s effort to attract support from the [...]
One of the projects I plan to do with my newfound unemployment is a documentary about the plaintiffs in church/state cases. In nearly every case where someone has challenged Christian hegemony — school prayer, mandatory Bible reading, graduation prayers, creationism, etc — they have been the victim of harassment, intimidation, death threats, and often vandalism [...]
Tweet This jQuery(‘.nrelate_dhot’).removeClass(‘nrelate_dhot’); U.S. Newspaper “Washington Post” refers to a “war of interests” in the U.S. Capital, recording several long-term conflicts and problems, such as the case of Cyprus, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Armenian community’s persecution within Turkey. The article also presents the views of representatives from organizations dealing with Hellenic issues, [...]
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.Albert Einstein Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein Every day I [...]
Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night. The website will go dark for 24 hours in an unprecedented move that brings added muscle to a growing base of [...]
Thanks to The Merton Seasonal editor Patrick O’Connell for inviting me to review Paul Dekar’s new book Thomas Merton: Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living. The Merton Seasonal is a quarterly joint publication of the International Thomas Merton Society and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. Dekar’s book is fantastic and has all kinds of [...]
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There are times when I want to dismiss those who have held onto religion. Non-believers often look upon religious zealots as being blind, misguided, inflexible, dependent, unintelligent, lacking a sense of humor, or just plain crazy —and well, frankly, some of them are some of these things, but I know atheists who are, too. Yet, [...]
WASHINGTON – Forget kissing babies on the campaign trail. The millions of dollars’ worth of political advertisements airing before the early primary elections are turning out to be money well spent: The ads have affected primary results more than other forms of campaigning, including personal appearances by candidates, stump speeches or town hall meetings, according [...]
WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he thinks his performance in debate against fellow Republicans shows he’s best qualified to take on President Barack Obama in the fall. Gingrich tells “CBS This Morning” the party will need a first-rate debater against Obama because he has ample money and the trappings of the presidency. [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mitt Romney’s four remaining challengers are keeping the spotlight on the Republican front-runner’s wealth and business dealings by pressing him to release his income tax returns. Romney says he might make them public in April. By then, he hopes to have the presidential nomination in the bag. His rivals did their [...]
Romney addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition rally (Charles Dharapak/AP) MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—In what was billed as a political forum but felt more like an old-fashioned tent revival, Mitt Romney did his very best to fit in. Standing on a stage before hundreds of evangelical voters on hand for a cattle call of presidential candidates [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mitt Romney is offering a robust defense of his work at a venture capital fund. The former Massachusetts governor was grilled about his work at Bain Capital in a nationally televised Republican presidential debate Monday. Romney said Bain Capital did its best to grow companies and create jobs. He said venture [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mitt Romney says he’d like to scrap campaign finance laws that have given rise to a war of independent attack ads from political action committees. Romney said he’d instead like to allow candidates to accept unlimited donations and take responsibility for their own words. The comment came as Romney sparred with [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) – Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman suspended his bid for the Republican nomination on Monday, endorsing rival Mitt Romney and calling on his party to end “an onslaught of negative and personal attacks.” The former Utah governor, who also served as U.S. ambassador to China under President Barack Obama, never gained [...]
WASHINGTON – When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren over how the showdown over the Social Security tax cut turned into a year-end political debacle. The holidays and three weeks away from the Capitol have tempered some of the [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When President Barack Obama unveils his annual budget next month, the blueprint will reveal a lot about his re-election strategy but probably little about the spending and tax policies the Congress will adopt in the coming year. Obama’s budget for the 2013 fiscal year will be declared “dead on arrival” in a [...]
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Written By : William Teach We learn this in a The Hill article which suggests that liberals and leftists will not particularly like the Presidents proposed budget. Fortunately, the Democrat led Senate will never bother to pass it. Anyhow Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama’s [...]
Written By : William Teach So says the Washington Posts Michael Gerson, who starts out calling Katharine Hayhoe, who had written the chapter in Newt Gingrich’s forthcoming book that ended up being whacked, a “moderate voice.” She’s anything but. A theory about the role of carbon dioxide in climate patterns has joined abortion and gay [...]
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), a long-time advocate of international religious freedom, says no one — not the news media, not the GOP candidates — is paying heed to religious freedom and human rights as issues in the GOP presidential debates. “(I’ve) watched all the Republican debates,” Wolf [...]
Myrtle Beach, S.C. (CNSNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told CNSNews.com that his two-tier tax reform proposal is bold and would spur economic growth. “It’s a strong aggressive plan to cut taxes, simplify the code and create economic growth,” Santorum told CNSNews.com on Monday. “We feel — as the Wall Street Journal says — [...]
Myrtle Beach, S.C. (CNSNews.com) – Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, pitching himself as a Reagan conservative, has said several times that GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney – whom he calls a Massachusetts moderate — must be stopped in South Carolina. However, Gingrich would not say if this means he will concede the race if he loses [...]
1.) Gingrich uses logic, reason in debate — If you’re like most people, you look at Election 2012 and only one thought comes to mind: “Gosh darn it, why the heck aren’t these guys having more debates?” It’s like they read your mind! If the idea is to numb us into submission until we don’t [...]
Full disclosure: Two of my friends had their cars broken into in downtown Detroit last week. These incidents happened within days of each other along the same city block in the entertainment district behind Detroit’s Fillmore and Fox theaters – the exact area that this story references. Detroit is often painted in a bad light [...]
Citi’s Tobias Levkovich conducted a survey of big investors, wherein they revealed, among other things, their favorite stock market sector for the year (as well as their least favorite). The winner? Information tech. The loser: Utilities (which were a huge winner in 2011). Also: They’re still more bullish on U.S. equities than any other asset [...]
Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Tue, January 17th, 2012 10:14 am Avoiding a handful of new constitutional controversies, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear pleas by government and public school officials for a right to say prayers or invocations before their public meetings, new cases on the power of public school districts to punish [...]
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerAssemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a file photo. By Reed Gusciora In recent months, Gov. Christie has been to four out of the six states that recognize same-sex marriage: Iowa, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts. Moreover, when he visits Washington, D.C., he is in a city [...]
This week we commemorate and honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the values of freedom and equality that Dr. King fought so hard for. This week (Jan 16) we also celebrate Religious Freedom Day, which commemorates the passage of the Virginia Statue for Religious Liberty, 226 years ago. This statute laid [...]
Jindal, who says public school improvements will be his top priority this year, has repeatedly said that expanded school choice will be part of his plan, including a possible expansion of Louisiana’s existing scholarship program. That assistance, which stems from a 2008 law, only applies to 1,500 low-income students in New Orleans and a maximum [...]
<!– –> LEE COUNTY, Fla.- The county is divided into three zones. Parents can choose which school they want their child to apply within their zone.. But then the lottery system assigns them.Families who apply Tuesday don’t have any better chance than families who turn in an application on the last day they’re accepted.This first [...]
Jordan’s King Abdullah urged Israel to act quickly in order to jumpstart the stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians as long as a two-state solution remains viable. Otherwise, he told the Washington Post, Israel will have to choose between democracy and “apartheid.” Related articles: Op-ed: Jordan is Palestine Op-ed: The psychological roadblock Jordan [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — A hacker network that claims to be based in Saudi Arabia paralyzed the websites of Israel’s stock exchange and national airline on Monday, escalating an international cyber war that has jolted this security-obsessed country. Neither website contains sensitive information and trading and flights were not affected. But the ongoing salvos by hackers [...]