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Date: February 4th, 2012

Obama Flip-Flops On Church and State, GOP Rep Walks Out

4 February, 2012 (15:39) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Representative Phil Gingrey (R-Georgia), walked out of President Barack Obama‘s address at the annual National Prayer Breakfast after becoming offended that the president insinuated politics into what is supposed to be a non-partisan event, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE ALSO: Young Futurists Of 2012 “He was glad that the president attended, but he felt [...]

Wireless Microphone System – Quad – AVTronics – Kingdom

4 February, 2012 (15:39) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

#wireless #microphone #sponsor http://www.kingdom.com/avtronics-uhf-wireless-quad-mic-system-p/sys… If you’re looking for a quality set of microphones for worship, sermons, public preaching, etc. then look no further. These microphones were built to last, and to resist any interference. Their color-coding make them easy to recognize so you will never grab the wrong mic again! For more information on this [...]

Naifeh questions proposed changes to TRA board

4 February, 2012 (15:39) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Home Back Naifeh questions proposed changes to TRA board   If it ain’t broke, why fix it? That question recently came from House Speaker Emeritus Jimmy Naifeh concerning Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposal to change the Tennessee Regulatory Authority’s board from four full-time members to five part-time members with a full-time executive director. “We have questions [...]

Reality Check: Activists Say Most Women Pro-Life – US

4 February, 2012 (15:39) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

WASHINGTON — The mainstream media often frames the abortion debate as being about a woman’s right. They make it sound as if women are working against their own freedom if they oppose abortion. But female leaders in the pro-life movement insist a majority of American women are pro-life and it is they who lead the [...]

What Does the Susan G. Komen Controversy Mean for the GOP

4 February, 2012 (15:39) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

by Bree Tracey The controversy surrounding the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation and Planned Parenthood may become a launching pad to discuss the issue of abortion in upcoming elections. Friday, The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed their decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening after four [...]

PRO LIFE ISSUES BACK IN THE FORE FRONT 02/03 by The

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

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homeschoolingChristian Home Schooling

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The standards and motivation for a Christlike homeschool is dominated by the juvenile’s work that is based from the Testament, wherein the course of study of the lad should be left in the moms’ control. As seen in all Christlike homeschools, parents educate the word of the lord, to cultivate their young people for favorable [...]

Washington State Senate passes gay marriage bill | anglicansunited

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

[Ed. Note:  The bill is expected to go to the House next week, where it will easily pass.  Washington passed the Defense of Marriage act in 1998 and installed civil unions, with full equality to marriage benefits.  The amendments added to protect religious witness for those opposed to gay marriage do not apply to marriage [...]

Legislation America Needs « From the Desk of… the National

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Vicki Shabo, Director of Work and Family Programs On Wednesday morning, at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) described for the first time sweeping new legislation that he plans to introduce this spring: the Rebuild America Act. This welcome and badly needed bill aims to help restore economic [...]

RPOF: Democrats Playing Politics with

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Los Angeles TimesRPOF: Democrats Playing Politics with Redistricting ProcessSunshine State NewsThe Republican Party of Florida says Democrats are playing politics with the state’s process to redraw voting districts to accommodate a growing population — districts that were approved in the House in a party-line vote Friday.Ideas emerge from political parties outside of Republican-Democrat paradigmRenegade RipFlorida [...]

The Realist Prism: Preparing for the 'Day After'

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Home Column The Realist Prism: Preparing for the ‘Day After’ in Syria By Nikolas Gvosdev | 03 Feb 2012Column Login to Discuss Email Print Share Republish PDF | Kindle Now that the United States, France and other Western powers have endorsed the Arab League’s call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down — even [...]

Representative of Baptist Joint Council Visits Gardner-Webb University

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

<!–<!–<!– BJC’s Hollman Challenges GWU Students to Defend Freedom and to Claim their Voice  BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.— A leading Baptist voice for national religious liberty recently brought the issues of religious freedom and Election 2012 from the Capital to the Quad at Gardner-Webb University. K. Hollyn Hollman is general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee [...]

homeschoolingChristian Home Schooling

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The standards and motivation for a Christlike homeschool is dominated by the juvenile’s work that is based from the Testament, wherein the course of study of the lad should be left in the moms’ control. As seen in all Christlike homeschools, parents educate the word of the lord, to cultivate their young people for favorable [...]

Super Bowl Sunday: Where religion and sport intersect – The

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

ReligionLink writes about how there will be about as many Americans watching Super Bowl LXVI on Sunday as attend church on Sunday: Football has certainly enjoyed some faith-based coverage this past season, thanks in large part to the public displays of religion by Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, an outspoken evangelical Christian. But there have also [...]

Islamic countries' “religious intolerance” move ignores oppression at

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Last month the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed alarm at the escalating intensity and popular appeal of anti-Islamic rhetoric from politicians in the USA and Europe. This critical issue has long acted as an animus for the OIC and, in December, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution titled, “Combating [...]

Quick Takes from Christians Involved in the Public Square

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

From Christian Persecution News Source: http://trueblueconservative.com/2012/02/quick-takes-from-christians-involved-in-the-public-square-unbound/ ____________________________________________________ Article source: http://justiceunbound.org/journal/current-issue/quick-takes-from- christians -involved-in-the- public – square /. Online Game For Kids Bible Islands is a safe and protected online virtual world fora kids. It is a series of fun … Tags: blog search, christian news, christian politics, christian public square , conservative news. « 5 Signs [...]

For Now, Government Still Lets You Pick Your Own Roommate

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The people of the United States ordained a Constitution of limited government.  As time passes, the people have more of the “government” and less of the “limited.”  Americans must work at maintaining their freedoms.  Defense of the constitutional freedom of association involved in choosing roommates to share housing illustrates the effort required.  Government has attempted [...]

Up-date on Ministry work/Christian persecution/Drugs in the last

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

This is a special note to anyone who chooses to read my prophecy documentary. My book was written in the hope that those reading it will be driven to the Bible where they should have been in the first place. This book, or for that matter any other book, should never come or be placed [...]

The America Needs Fatima Blog: Confronting Religious Persecution

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

At least 142 U.S. Catholic bishops, representing almost 80% of America’s dioceses, have strongly denounced the religious persecution expressed in the rules promulgated January 20, 2012 by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HSS), in connection with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly dubbed “Obamacare.” Other major [...]

Boko Haram, Nigeria's Mega Pastors and their Doctrine on SELF

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

It is hardly an understatement to tag these times as one of the Darkest for Nigeria, which plays host to world renowned pastors and prophets. first off, there’s almost no form of difficulty or hardship that hasn’t surfaced on the country’s terrain in the last decade, ranging from poverty, unemployment, insecurity to economic hardships but [...]

Question of the Week: What is the Second Most Compelling Issue

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

When she visited St. Stephen’s a week ago, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said that she had declared immigration reform to be her number one public issue to concentrate on in the first phase of her episcopacy. She explained that she has decided that two such issues are a plenty for a bishop to make priorities. [...]

Advocates see growing support for pro-life act

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The legislation would better protect health care providers who don’t want to participate in abortions A coalition of pro-life organizations, lawmakers and health care professionals are aiming to strengthen and protect the conscience rights of medical providers who refuse to participate in abortions. Supporters of the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act argue that Congress should pass the [...]

Atheiests….Did you enjoy the book In Search of Christian Freedom

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Home Jehovah’s Witnesses Friends Atheiests….Did you enjoy the book In Search of Christian Freedom? Viewed 267 times Diest Atheiests….Did you enjoy the book In Search of Christian Freedom? posted Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:42:00 GMT (2/3/2012) Post 504 of 510 Since 6/8/2011 I was not in the mood to be a christian, even before reading [...]

The Knightdale Christian Childcare Center is having an open house

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Knightdale childcare facility hosts open house KNIGHTDALE – The Knightdale Christian Childcare Center is having an open house noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb 4. KCCC offers care for pre- school children ages six weeks to four-years-old and school age children ages 5-12. This center also offers first- and second-shift care along with weekend care. They also [...]

Fumbling Toward God | Pavarti

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Religion is a difficult topic. It’s one of those “never talk about on a first date” taboos like politics and abortion. Watch the television and election coverage – you’d think that religion was something on the forefront of people’s minds, but in casual conversation these days it seems like G*d has become a dirty word. [...]

Perspective: CS Lewis on Christian politics

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

I had a post about an article at ABC Religion Ethics – A Christian alternative to America’s broken political duopoly – but deleted it in one of my bad moods. I mention it now because Lee at A Thinking Reed has posted on the same article and gives an interesting argument from CS Lewis to [...]

Santorum pushes discredited stroke claim (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Friday backed prominent conservative James Dobson’s claim that President Barack Obama’s administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus. During a forum inside a church, Dobson cited an anonymous caller to a conservative radio show [...]

Nev. caucuses offer state a rare say in nomination (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:38) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

RENO, Nev. – With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. When it comes to voting in presidential elections, it’s as mainstream as it gets. Nevada hasn’t made much of a difference in selecting the nominee for president or on national politics in general. State officials are [...]

Gingrich hoping to beat Paul for 2nd place in Nev. (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

LAS VEGAS – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has little hope for an upset in Nevada’s caucuses and instead is looking to best rival Ron Paul for second place. Trounced in Florida on Tuesday, Gingrich had just a few days to regroup in Nevada, a state that front-runner Mitt Romney won when he sought the [...]

Romney using Nev. as springboard for Feb. contests (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

LAS VEGAS – Mitt Romney expects Nevada’s caucuses to kick off a month of primary and caucus contests to keep momentum on his side in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Polls show Romney far ahead in advance of Saturday’s voting, which follows months of organizing by the campaign of the former Massachusetts governor. [...]

Romney, Gingrich expect Romney to win Nev. Vote (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

LAS VEGAS – A confident Mitt Romney is looking past his GOP opponents and Nevada’s caucuses the day the state votes. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is bracing for defeat in a state the former Massachusetts governor won in 2008. Romney was scheduled to fly to Colorado Saturday morning for a campaign rally before returning to [...]

How Romney leads from behind on the stump: surrogates with more charisma than the candidate (The Ticket)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

LAS VEGAS—Mitt Romney’s stump speech, absent a tweak here and there at the top of his remarks, is virtually the same everyday, right down to the closing meditation on his unwavering love for the nation’s patriotic hymns. “I love the hymns,” Romney has said at virtually every campaign stop throughout the early primary states. “‘America [...]

Senate Democrats ready backup plan on payroll tax bill (Reuters)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats have begun preparing a backup plan to extend a tax cut for workers if a special congressional negotiating committee fails to reach quick agreement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday. Reid’s comments, in a conference call with reporters, were seen by some congressional aides as a signal to [...]

House to move insider trading bill next week (Reuters)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives will swiftly take up a Senate-passed bill to curb insider trading by lawmakers next week, a top Republican said on Friday as Congress clamors to promote the measure in the face of flagging approval ratings. The “clean government” bill, which aims to prevent lawmakers from using knowledge gained [...]

Mo. candidate would be among richest in US Senate (AP)

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – St. Louis businessman John Brunner has already poured at least $1 million into his Republican quest to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, and new documents show Brunner has a lot more where that came from. Brunner and his wife, Jan, have assets worth at least $26 million and perhaps as [...]

Surprise! Harry Reid, Democrats, Say No To Any 2012 Or 2013 Budget Bill

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Written By : William Teach This is getting rather repetitive (Washington Examiner) “Let’s see it,” a frustrated Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon. “Let’s bring it forward.” By “it,” Sessions meant a Democratic proposal for a 2012 federal budget. In recent days Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, [...]

Excitable Andy Revkin And NY Times: You Tea Partiers See UN Black Helicopters In Green Projects

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Written By : William Teach It’s like all you Tea Partying climate realists are conspiracy nuts or something (via Tom Nelson) Said story: Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve [...]

Gingrich challenging the Florida delegate allocation?

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Written By : TrogloPundit Well this is interesting: The Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the Florida Republican presidential primary based on the Republican National Committee’s own rules which state that no contest can be winner-take-all prior to April 1, 2012. (See RNC memo.) The Romney campaign – and just [...]

Former DEA Chief: Hezbollah Eyeing Southwest Border, ‘Hell to Pay in the Not Too Distant Future’

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Michael Braun, former Chief of Operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Feb. 2, 2012 that Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere reaches all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all [...]

Holder Admits ‘National Security Crisis Along Our Southwest Border’

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Attorney General Eric Holder announces the formation of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama directed Holder to collaborate with several state attorneys general and other federal entities to investigate those responsible for misconduct contributing to the financial crisis [...]

Holder Wants ‘Some Credit’ for What ‘This Justice Department Has Done’

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the arms trafficking investigation called Operation Fast and Furious. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, during a House oversight panel hearing on the botched gun-walking Operation Fast and Furious, [...]

Georgia congressman: Dock lawmakers’ pay until budget passed

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

How long would you go without a paycheck? Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun expects that most people wouldn’t allow 1,000 days to go by without pay — about how long Congress has gone without passing a budget. In the spirit of that sentiment, Broun has introduced the “Budget or Bust Act” to hold all lawmaker’s [...]

Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas lobby to battle coal industry

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

A Time magazine blogger reported Thursday that the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and most august environmental organization, accepted millions of dollars in donations from one of the nation’s biggest natural gas-drilling companies for a program lambasting coal-fired power plants as environmental evildoers. The total take for John Muir’s conservation group? A whopping $26 million over [...]

Maher to leftover Occupy movement ‘douchebags’: ‘Get a job’

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The Occupy Wall Street movement is almost five months old and although some vow not to abandon their posts throughout the country, HBO’s Bill Maher says the protest has ran its course. On Friday night’s airing of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher likened the Occupy movement to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, which according [...]

U.S. urges more health care argument

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Fri, February 3rd, 2012 8:31 pm The Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to expand by a half-hour — to a total of six hours — the time allowed for oral arguments in late March on the constitutionality of the new federal health care law.   In a ten-page motion, [...]

What Does the Same Sex Marriage Bill Mean for Washington?

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Commenting Is OpenComments are allowed for two weeks from the posted date.If you have something to say, say it now! Shame on the 21 who voted against equal civil rights and protections for all Washington citizens! jasonjdotbiz.wordpre… I’m not looking forward to what is likely to be an ugly Referendum campaign, but I am looking [...]

White House, religious groups in fight over doctrine, religious freedom and …

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

For a church, mosque or synagogue, the answer is mostly straightforward. But for the massive network of religious-run social service agencies there is no simple solution. Federal law lays out several criteria for the government to determine which are religious. But in the case of the contraception mandate, critics say Health and Human Services Secretary [...]

School Choice Advocates Pitch Tax Credit Scholarship Program

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Many proposals encouraging educational choice are pending in Concord this year. One with strong backing would use tax credits to encourage businesses to pay for school scholarships. Critics say this would starve public schools of much needed funding, but supporters say this is a way to give students more options while avoiding constitutional concerns that have [...]

School choice period opens Monday

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2012 12:00 am School choice period opens Monday By GAYLE PEREZ | ​gperez@chieftain.com The Pueblo Chieftain | 0 comments The open enrollment period begins Monday for students who plan to attend a school outside their attendance area in the Pueblo City Schools district (D60). Parents who would like to have their child [...]

Israel: New subsidies for poor communities don’t apply to West Bank settlements

4 February, 2012 (15:37) | Feeds | By: staffwriter

The Post MostMost-viewed stories, videos, and galleries in the past two hours Most Popular The GOP’s ‘Europe’ is a land of make-believe As Romney’s slip-ups show, gaffes nearly unavoidable on modern campaign trail If recovery strengthens, Romney’s pitch could be undercut Iran begins new military exercises after threat to close strategic Strait of Hormuz Occupy [...]