Charles Murray observed in his book “Human Accomplishment” that the greatness of Western European civilization itself is derived from its belief in church and God. Catholicism itself was the defender of civilization during the Crusades against the Muslims, who attempted to conquer Europe. The French Roman Catholic King Charlemagne was the great hero who saved [...]
Gregory L. Jackson is an independent Lutheran pastor, with degrees from Augustana College, Illinois; Waterloo Seminary, Ontario; Yale University; Notre Dame; and the University of Phoenix. He has been married to Christina for 40 years. Their beloved daughters Bethany and Erin Joy are with Christ. Their son Martin is married to Tammy, blessing them with [...]
Associated Press/Photo by Paul Sancya WASHINGTON—One of the nation’s top pro-life groups, the Susan B. Anthony List, announced Friday it is endorsing Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential primary race. It is the group’s first-ever endorsement of a candidate during the GOP primary season. “Among the field of strong pro-life candidates in the GOP primary, [...]
“…liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.” We are immersed in your world, and our intentions are not pure, we are the postmodern technocracy, existence as you know it is over, your life as it has been is over, we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, [...]
First-ever Endorsement for Group in GOP Presidential Primary Washington, DC ─ Today the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), a national pro-life organization, announced its endorsement of Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential primary. “Among the field of strong pro-life candidates in the GOP primary, one stands out as a proven leader in this great [...]
Shawn Carney’s message to more than 600 pro-life advocates Thursday at the 2012 Celebrate Life Banquet was simple – the battle to end abortion is waged on the local level. The annual fundraising event, held at Englewood Baptist Church, was sponsored by the Rocky Mount Pregnancy Care Center, a local Christian ministry providing alternatives to [...]
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TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie has followed through on his promise to reject a bill allowing same-sex marriage in New Jersey by quickly vetoing the measure Friday and renewing his call for a ballot question to decide the issue. The veto came a day after the state Assembly passed the bill. The state Senate [...]
Special Assignment Waukesha family fighting for legislation on elemental formula By Courtny Gerrish CREATED Feb. 14, 2012 – UPDATED: Feb. 14, 2012 Tweet Share Email Print <!– DEBUG: Lib.Desk.PagePart.ContentItemVideoPlayer 1: argContent.id = $getVideoContent_originalContent.id argContent.overrideStillVideo = $getVideoContent_originalContent.overrideStillVideo useVidePlayer = true argVideoId = 1453248912001 argVideoTags = false useImage = $useImage argMaxWidth = $argMaxWidth argPlayerId = $argPlayerId argPlayerKey [...]
Los Angeles TimesPolitics chases Romney to Olympic celebrationLos Angeles TimesThough Romney frequently cites his experience fixing the Salt Lake City Olympics as one of the reasons he is qualified to be president on the campaign trail, on Saturday, he did not mention a word about politics, instead highlighting the success of the …Romney draws on [...]
World Magazine is a relatively small publication with a big heart. For over 30 years World publishers have strived to bring readers the best information concerning Christians and conservatives around the world. Bi-monthly readers can hold in their hands a hard-copy magazine that covers the very latest in stories that are relevant to American Christians, [...]
Full Article: Persecution The White House raises with Chinese officials the issue of a visa refusal for a U.S. religious freedom envoy. 02/16/2012 China (ChinaAid) – U.S.-based Christian groups have voiced concern over the recent refusal of a visa to a U.S. religious freedom envoy who had been scheduled to visit China from Feb. 8, [...]
There have been a lot of hits to the blog lately for this post, about a sixteen year old Rhode Island high school student named Jessica Alquist, who successfully filed suit against her school to have some Christian propoganda removed from public view. This is the law, no government agency may publicly favor one religion over [...]
Campaign 2012 By STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, “ground zero” in the 2012 nomination fight. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator [...]
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Share Tweet Share Tweet No Christians Allowed? There has been a constant wave of news recently that has led some to opine that America is seeing a “war on religion” – that the current administration and liberal politicians and educators are seeking to limit the influence and power of religion in American culture. More to [...]
Fewer Christians Live in Aleppo than is Commonly Thought By Ehsani for Syria Comment February 18, 2012 – No more than 100,000 Christians live in Aleppo – 3.3% of the city’s population, not the 12% commonly stated. The exact number of religious minorities in Syria is difficult to ascertain. It is often reported that Christians [...]
The typical American church today is organized around the ideas and realities of blue model America. Denominational structures (weakened by years of cutbacks in many cases) are bureaucratic staff organizations. Most local congregations own a large building and land; most of their budgets are eaten up by professional salaries and building maintenance. The mainline Protestant [...]
Because my days do not already start with enough bile, black coffee and dread, I subscribe to the “Hatch Dispatch” (catchy!) to get my blood pressure pumped up. Senator Orrin Hatch’s e-newsletter’s most recent edition was entitled “Hatch Dispatch: Religious Freedom Under Attack.” What has Orrin stirred up? Unfortunately the White House sharpened it’s attacks [...]
Welcome to My Local Page February 15th, 2012 I am not using this page to parrot the local news or present breaking news necessarily. There will be times I simply state something that is happening or a stance of the local government and things like that. But more often I hope to have an explanation [...]
“To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn’t work.”
Jul 117 3rd Annual Lafayette Christian Child Care Center Yard Sale Bash and Family Fun Day The Yard Sale Bash was a blast! We had bouncers and a cake walk, lots of fabulous auction baskets (courtesy of Day Care parents), not to mention the endless yard sale items! Thanks to everyone involved and all the [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney took a brief respite from regular campaign events to commemorate the 2002 Olympic games here, paying tribute to a part of his biography that is central to his presidential bid. “The games were a showcase for the great qualities of the human spirit: we saw in the athletes the [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight. The first American to orbit the Earth, later a U.S. senator from Ohio, thanked the approximately 125 retired Mercury workers, now in their 70s and 80s, who gathered [...]
Written By : Warner Todd Huston The conservative bloggers at CPAC were happy to receive a visit from Representative Allen West (Florida, 22nd District) this year. The second he walked into the room he was mobbed by the bloggers and their ubiquitous handi-cams. West talked vice presidential possibilities, South America, his status as the most [...]
Written By : William Teach Late yesterday, excitable John Cole decided to name Tyler Cowen his “worst person in the world” (that’s not particularly civil discourse, but, then Powerline highlights that civil discourse is so 2011) for a tweet that wasn’t necessarily for Virginia’s abortion bill, but simply highlighted Liberal hypocrisy By informing consumers, he [...]
Written By : Chris Wysocki I saw this doozy earlier in the week and forgot to blog about it until a friend emailed last night, “can you believe it?” Sadly yes, I can believe just about anything when it comes to progressive do-gooders looking to save the world. Some New Jersey politicians want to buy [...]
A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston’s powerful voice once wowed her congregation, [...]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Barack Obama at the White House on Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) – There would be no consideration of cost effectiveness. That was the explicit condition that the Department of Health and Human Services imposed on the panel of health-care experts it commissioned to develop the “preventive [...]
(CNSNews.com) – On the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s $787-billion stimulus spending program, the unemployment rate set a new record, staying above 8 percent for the longest period since the end of World War II – 36 months. President Barack Obama signed an economic stimulus law, now determined by the CBO to cost $821 [...]
On his HBO show Friday, “Real Time” host Bill Maher offered his audience a theory about why President Obama is treated with less respect than others who have held his office, and said that his life would be threatened if he “had sex with a White House intern on Easter.” According to Maher, a protocol [...]
“The O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly got a taste of Kenan Thompson character DeAndre Cole on this week’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC. The segment, “What’s Up With That?,” spoofed BET. O’Reilly appeared on the so-called President’s Day episode and spoke about his book, “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever,” but the perplexed [...]
Michelle Obama’s pet project as first lady has been to campaign for healthier diets to fight obesity, and the cast on Saturday’s “SNL” on NBC had a little fun at her expense. During a skit mocking her campaign, former SNL regular Maya Rudolph as Michelle Obama and Fred Armisen as Barack Obama pretended to be [...]
Tom Goldstein Publisher Posted Sat, February 18th, 2012 8:49 pm Yesterday, the Supreme Court became a significant issue in the 2012 presidential election. The Court did not take center stage by deciding the constitutional challenges we are watching most closely: the cases involving the health care reform statute, Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration law, or the [...]
ANNAPOLIS — With a bill to legalize same-sex marriages clearing the Maryland House of Delegates, the legislation now moves to the Maryland Senate for likely approval and then on to Gov. Martin O’Malley for his signature. After courting the votes of a couple delegates initially opposed to the measure, House members voted 72-67 to pass [...]
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Have you ever heard of The Alliance for the Separation of School and State, where you sign a proclamation that says, “I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education?” The Alliance, along with the Cato Institute and a panoply of think tanks with cooked data, have brought us the proposed school voucher [...]
Are Gov. Bobby Jindal’s ideas on education a school reform plan or a school choice plan? School reform, of course, can mean a lot of things, but in Jindal’s plan it is focused mainly on a tough new assessment of teacher quality, including up to 50 percent of a teacher’s performance based on student test [...]
A Thai policeman patrolling Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
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“I think Israel like everyone else in the world should be giving a real chance to the approach we have adopted on very serious economic sanctions and economic pressure and the readiness to negotiate with Iran. “That’s what we need to make a success of.” Mr Hague said Israel did not share its plans with [...]
Swearing off desserts for Lent this Wednesday might seem an easy choice after downing a box full of paczki on Fat Tuesday. But compared to the way local religious leaders advise Christian believers observe the season, the real meaning of Lent — like many religious holidays — is diminished if all it means is locking [...]
There are millions of Christians in Syria, who probably have the Russians and Chinese to thank that they may live there a little longer. The Security Council vetoes, a fortnight ago, on a resolution calling upon Syria’s dictator to step down, and supporting an Arab-sponsored plan to “end the violence,” put paid to any immediate [...]
Praying Talk about it ST. PAUL — A controversial program using Christian teachings to try to turn around the lives of hundreds of Minnesota prison inmates is working, according to a new report from the Department of Corrections. Participants in the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, which operates at the Minnesota women’s prison in Shakopee and at [...]
I’m parked outside the fieldstone and adobe mansion at 29005 North 82nd Street at sunrise, eating my low-fat yogurt from the free breakfast bar at the Quality Inn, and listening to the one-note whistle of the Phainopepla birds high in the Palo Verde trees. The first yellow blossoms of the year are bursting from the [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> In 2010, the tea party philosophy of restrained government enjoyed the cachet of being an alternative to a status quo where the country wallowed in widespread economic recession. Now, the new thing is the Occupy movement. But at a Tea Party South Dakota cracker barrel session for area legislators Saturday, Allen [...]