The presidential hopeful and the Founding Father seem to disagree about whether the principle is embedded in the U.S. Constitution. On Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, where news-making interviews are legion, Rick Santorum on Friday related a campaign story in which he was curiously dismissive of a voter he encountered. “I was in a town hall [...]
Former Utah Governor and prog-rock keyboardist Jon Huntsman will drop out of the GOP primary race on Monday, various media outlets are reporting this evening. According to The New York Times, Huntsman will endorse Mitt Romney later in the week. An inspired choice, considering that Huntsman accused Romney of making himself “completely unelectable,” and called [...]
This year’s ProLifeCon promises to be another exciting time to unite pro-life activists from across the country to become active online and bring awareness to the sanctity of life. We have an exciting line-up of speakers, who will not only educate you on emerging technologies to help spread the message, but make you aware of [...]
Written By : Wintery Knight If Republicans want to stand out from Democrats on social issues, then we have to find ways to make our pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-child positions resonate with the public at large. For example, on the pro-life issue, we should not be focused on outright bans on abortion, but instead on incremental [...]
nbsp During this primary season many have attacked former Gov. Mitt Romney for “not” being Pro-Life. I personally find this to be absurd. While yes it is true Mitt Romney was at one time Pro-Choice he is no longer. Mitt Romney stands firmly on the Pro-Life issues after seeing first hand what happens. Not unlike [...]
“Long before thinking of diamonds glitter, here are some things that I need to consider.”The things that make up a person’s outside are shallow, but deeper qualities like kindness, honesty, faithfulness, thoughtfulness, respect are what help build strong relationships. Written in poetry by award-winning author Gary Bower, and featuring the breathtaking oil paintings of award-winning artist Jan Bower, The Person I Marry is [...]
Loved ones Legislations Lawyers and Household Law Legal professionals typically apply family law as well as take up household associated circumstances of all sorts. These may always be matrimony, prenuptial deals, usage, household abuse, splitting up, custody of the children along with support, divorce proceedings, negotiation, adjudication, annulment, split from the house built up throughout [...]
Milwaukee Small Business Times (blog)Wisconsin politics will be even more toxic in 2012Milwaukee Small Business Times (blog)All that money will flow directly into Wisconsin’s toxic political bloodstream. For a moment, think of the time, talent and treasure that will be devoted to recalling or defending Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four [...]
World’s First ‘Inter-Religious’ University Concludes First Semester A Southern California academic institution that prides itself on being “the world’s first inter-religious university” has completed its first semester since opening its door. Claremont Lincoln University, once a Methodist seminary, has decided to add other religious schools to its program, including most recently several Eastern religions. Tammi [...]
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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 [...]
ICC Note: “After the sweeping political victories Islamists made in the early round of elections in Egypt, the Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church Yohanna Qulta was interviewed on Arab television concerning the looming threat that Egypt’s Christian communities will face in an Islamist society. The interview gives us unusual insight into the mind [...]
Posted by Guest Writer on January 17, 2012 under How | Be the First to Comment By David Theroux [We live in a secularized world of nation states in which traditional religion, especially Christianity, is unwelcome. Rooted in the “Enlightenment,” this view supports a secularized and authoritarian public square enforced by government and that progress [...]
Last week, during the Broncos-Steelers NFL playoff game, Denver quarterback Tim Tebow had “John 3:16″ painted under his eyes. When CBS aired a “John 3:16″ commercial during the Broncos-Patriots playoff game on Saturday night, I suspect it had something to do with him. The ad was paid for by Focus on the Family. John 3:16 [...]
Do you remember when Christians were persecuted in America for their faith? Neither do I. That’s because it’s never happened. But according to Tea Party Congressman Tim Scott of South Carolina, Christians are a relentlessly and mercilessly persecuted minority today, even though Christians dominate the American landscape. While speaking to a Tea Party crowd in [...]
Christian Persecution in the U.S. – Knee Deep January 17, 2012 by texaslynn Christian Persecution In a different blog posting (concerning Tim Tebow) my discussion with a friend moved into persecution of Christians in the United States. My friend mentioned how privileged we (Christians) are in the U.S. (not persecuted) and that Egyptian Christians are examples [...]
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is taking a pause from partisan campaigning in South Carolina to pray for President Barack Obama’s safety and wisdom. Perry spoke Tuesday night at a large prayer gathering called “The Response” in Greenville, S.C. He made no direct mention of the GOP presidential [...]
Honest reflection on the past twelve months of discontent, as manifested in various forms of revolutionary zeal, rhetoric, and violence, exposes a solitary thread weaving through all the demonstrations and “rebel” and “opposition” movements that cycloned through the Middle East and North Africa: In each case, local issues were the engines of public mobilization. Whether [...]
Wikipedia, along with several other major websites, will be inaccessible for 24 hours Wednesday in protest of anti-piracy legislation being considered in Congress. The Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act are designed to crack down on sales of pirated U.S. products overseas. Those in the entertainment industry who support the measure say [...]
Paul won the lost though self-denial, but also through self-control. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we [...]
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Blessed Be the Bellicose? Jesus Would Weep By Tony Norman Beaver County Peace Links via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 17, 2012 – Last week, video footage of four U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban fighters went viral. With the exception of a handful of morally dead ideologues on the right, the reaction [...]
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. – Mitt Romney has ex-POW John McCain vouching for him. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum highlights his time on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich frequently calls himself an “Army brat” who grew up on military bases. While Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Rep. Ron Paul are [...]
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney’s promise to release his 2011 tax return in April follows the practice of leading presidential candidates that began after Watergate. If history is any lesson, questions and criticism will continue long afterward. For more than three decades, the major party nominees have released their income tax records. Some offered one year [...]
WASHINGTON – Gov. Chris Christie is urging political ally Mitt Romney to immediately release his tax returns rather than waiting until April. The New Jersey governor tells NBC’s “Today” show Romney should “put them out sooner than later because it’s always better to have full disclosure.” Romney’s taxes have emerged as an issue days before [...]
Newt Gingrich speaks to the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce. (AP) COLUMBIA, S.C.–In a nutshell, here’s Newt Gingrich’s pitch to South Carolina this week, in four easy steps: 1. If you don’t elect Gingrich on Saturday, he will lose the Republican presidential nomination. 2. If Gingrich loses the nomination, Mitt Romney will win it. 3. [...]
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) – Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is “probably closer to 15 percent than anything,” suggesting that one of the wealthiest people to ever run for U.S. president pays a much lower rate than most Americans. His comment, a day after Romney agreed for the first [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a key ally of Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, on Wednesday joined Romney’s rivals in urging the candidate to release his income tax forms after he said he pays roughly a 15 percent tax rate. “Let’s get all of the facts out there. See what the tax [...]
WASHINGTON – The House on Wednesday is kicking off another session under GOP control by staging a politically-fueled vote against raising the government’s borrowing cap by $1.2 trillion as permitted under last summer’s bipartisan debt and budget pact. Under that law, supported by all of the top GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, the debt limit [...]
WASHINGTON – With television lights glaring, 20 lawmakers will gather next week to revisit the fight that consumed Congress before Christmas over renewing a Social Security payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. Little real work will be done, but the meeting will mark the formal start of an effort to untangle a dispute that both [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives will resume work next month on a controversial bill aimed at stopping online piracy of movies, music and other content, a leading lawmaker said on Tuesday. The anti-piracy legislation has been a top priority for entertainment companies, publishers, pharmaceutical firms and others, who say it is critical to [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Newsweek has gotten a great deal of attention, most of it bad, for this insipid cover. This prompted Sarah Palin to give Newsweek the smackdown it deserves. When you’re claiming to be a serious news magazine and yet, you’re running obnoxious stories by a writer who has become a laughingstock [...]
Written By : William Teach Obviously, you can tell I’m not a big Sarah Palin fan anymore, but, putting that aside, I’m not so sure this sorta endorsement will help Gingrich. It may be the equivalent of John McCain endorsing Mitt Romney to Conservatives (CBS News) It wasn’t an endorsement, but Sarah Palin gave Newt [...]
Written By : William Teach Google “oil job creation” and you will find tons of stories how some states, such as North Dakota, are seeing such an influx of new employees that the housing market cannot keep up. That these new employees have money to spend. Oh, and that there are tons of new employees. [...]
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R.) (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) Myrtle Beach, S.C. (CNSNews.com) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told CNSNews.com she would say no if offered the vice presidential spot on the 2012 Republican ticket. She also would reject a cabinet position, she said – because she is committed to serving as governor. Haley [...]
(CNSNews.com) – In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.” The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given [...]
Maasai mother and children in Africa. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – In its strategic plan for Africa for the years 2010-215, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has set an organizational goal of increasing its ”abortion services” in that part of the world by 82 percent. The number is in Figure 2, the “performance framework” of the plan (page 7), under “performance milestones/benchmarks” and [...]
Bras and bra sizes might not be the first thing that pops to mind when one thinks of labor disputes. In Sweden, however, a former employee of the lingerie company “Change,” backed by the force of Commercial Employees’ Union (Handelsanställdas förbund – Handels), is suing her former employer for having to wear a name tag [...]
Two hedge-fund employees are in custody in the U.S. probe of insider trading that has already snagged Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, and about 50 others, according to a person familiar with the matter. One person was arrested in Boston today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and another in New York, according to the person, who asked [...]
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told The Daily Caller that Texas Gov. Rick Perry challenging former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to release his tax returns is a “distraction” and “nothing but a political ploy.” “I think those are distractions. I saw it in my race. They always say ‘show me your tax return’ just so [...]
Kali Borkoski Manager Posted Wed, January 18th, 2012 9:59 am With the help of our reporter, Lyle Denniston, we will be live blogging as opinions in argued cases are issued today. In the interest of minimizing technical problems, we’ve moved the Live Blog window below the jump. Once you see the Live Blog window and [...]
State Rep. Laura Pantelakos, D-Portsmouth, was ready to vote today to oppose a repeal of the state’s same-sex marriage law. The issue was not on the House calendar, but lawmakers expected to cast their votes, she said. But Republican House leaders have delayed the vote on gay marriage, House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt, R-Salem, said [...]
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<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> The formula for public schools is based largely on enrollment. Jindal said the state is making improvements in education, but “it’s clear that we need to move faster, and we need to do it now. Our children do not have time to wait. They only grow up once, and they have [...]
A judge upheld Indiana’s private school voucher law last week, rejecting opponents’ arguments that the largest such program in the nation unconstitutionally uses public money to support religion. Indiana Superior Court Judge Michael Keele found the state’s School Choice Scholarship program doesn’t violate the state constitution because Indiana isn’t directly funding parochial schools. Instead, it [...]
18 January 2012 Last updated at 06:54 ET The Israeli military says it has carried out a ground and air attack near the border fence in northern Gaza. At least one person was killed and three injured, Palestinian medical sources said. The Israeli military said aircraft and tanks had targeted a “terrorist squad” planting an [...]
National elections are set for late 2013. Public opinion polls suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish coalition partners would maintain power if the elections were moved up. But crises threatening two of Netanyahu’s partners and the entry of a popular former journalist into the mix have reshuffled the deck. Livni, who has led [...]