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Extraordinary mystics and visionaries of the Church – Hierognosis –The mystical ability to recognize blessed items – A crucifix containing a holy relic of a Saint

A closer look into the supernatural ability of recognizing items that have been blessed (Hierognosis). – Link to Website

The Fatima Crusader – The Confessions of a Former Mason: Masonry is Against  Our Lady of Fatima – by John Salza – By Todd Starnes – Now let’s recall Our Lady’s warnings at Quito, which pre-figured  Fatima.  Remember that  She  sad:  “Freemasonry  will  reign,  satan  will  reign,  almost   exclusively  through  Freemasonry in the Twentieth Century.”   And   the   Church   will   be   punished,   for   heresy, impiety   and   impurity.   And  these  things  have  been  confirmed  by  Our  Lady  at Fatima. So what have we seen since 1960,  the  year  that  the  Third  Secret  was  to  be  revealed?  – Link to Website

Massachusetts School Issues Permission Slips for Pledge of Allegiance – By Todd Starnes – The principal of a public school in Brookline, Mass., is asking parents to fill out permission slips before their children can participate in a weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Gerardo Martinez, the principal of The Devotion School, informed parents that the school would begin reciting the pledge in January over the public address system. … – Link to Website

Oregon students can use spell check on tests – Portland, Ore. (AP) — Oregon middle and high school students will be able to use computer spell check on state writing tests starting next month. Oregon Department of Education staff presented the change Tuesday to the Oregon House Education Committee, the Oregonian reported. – Link to Website

Iran Just Shipped Missiles to Venezuela. Hello? Is This Thing On? – A massive security threat just blossomed, and you’d be hard-pressed to find an MSM or administration official who cares. – by Mike McDaniel –  Among the two most alarming revelations is the already completed sale and delivery, to Venezuela by Russia, of nearly 2,000 advanced, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles capable of hitting aircraft as high as 19,000 feet. Equally and perhaps more alarming is an October agreement between Iran and Venezuela. The agreement establishes a joint ground-to-ground missile base on Venezuelan soil and calls for the sharing of missile technology and the training of technicians and officers. In addition, Venezuela may use the missiles as it chooses for “national needs” and in case of “emergency.” Several types of missiles will be deployed, giving Venezuela the ability to strike targets throughout South and Central America and throughout the U.S. … – Link to Website

Do you know they are asking your children about sexual intercourse? – By Dean Kalahar – Youth Risk Survey is putting your children at risk . The Federal Government, through The Center for Disease Control (CDC), is once again conducting its national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). States, through their county school systems, administer the test to children in grades 6, 8, 9 and 11 to collect data on youth behaviors.

“The purpose of the YRBS is to monitor priority health-risk behaviors that contribute substantially to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth, which contribute to patterns in adulthood.” Stop and think to yourself: have you ever heard of this survey taking place in your child’s school? Do you know what is in the survey? … (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED)  – Link to Website

A Joe Biden (War On) Christmas – (Humor) –  – Link to Web Video

U.S. congressman declares: Borders will be ‘irrelevant’ Stunning statement from same lawmaker sworn in with hand on Quran, not Bible – By Aaron Klein – A so-called spiritual conference at which Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., called for the U.S. border to become an “irrelevancy” was led by a slew of extremists, including a Marxist who reportedly compared the tea-party movement to Hitler. Conference speakers include radicals with deep ties to President Obama.

Yesterday, The Blaze.com, founded by Fox News host Glenn Beck, posted a video from a conference led by the Network of Spiritual Progressives, or NSP, in which Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, declared to about 400 attendees that “God willing,” the U.S. border will become irrelevant. … – Link to Website

Karl Marx, Founding Father? Survey Shows Knowledge Gaps – By Erik Robelen – It’s not exactly news that many Americans are a bit weak in their knowledge of civics and history, but new survey results help put the situation in sharp relief. The most striking finding was that nearly half of U.S. adults identified a phrase popularized by Karl Marx—”from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”—as coming from one of America’s founding documents. Of the 42 percent of respondents who incorrectly identified the phrase, the most common response was that it could be found in the Bill of Rights.  – Link to Website

“My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism” “we are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism.”

— Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist, humanist, political economist & sociologist

NH Democratic Party accused of ‘religious intolerance’ – By Patrick Hynes – The head of a pro-family political group in New Hampshire accused the New Hampshire Democratic Party of “religious intolerance” on Thursday for criticizing a Christian state legislator for conducting what it called “a religious tirade” at a Christian gathering in September.

Democratic spokeswoman Harrell Kirstien accused Republican State Rep. David Bates of attempting to impose a “Bible belt social agenda” after video surfaced of Bates saying “the only hope for America” is to “turn from our wicked ways and ask god to heal our land” and “the problem we have here in this country and in all of our states is that we no longer fear god” at New England Solemn Assembly in Plymouth Massachusetts. …

“The NHDP’s mischaracterization of Representative Bates’ faith are not only rooted in religious bigotry, but represents the height of hypocrisy for a party that supposedly prides itself in being tolerant of other’s beliefs,” Smith said. “ The NHDP owes Rep. Bates and the hundreds of thousands of Christians in this state an apology for his truly offensive and ignorant remarks.”  – Link to Website

David Bates, State Representative from New Hampshire speech – Godly leaders in the Government: – Link to Video

Text from David Bates’ speech

I bring you greeting from your neighbors to the north in the Granite State …  It truly is an honor for me to join with you here in the birth place of America, to pray for America. And America needs prayer. You have heard it before, but I will say it again it bears repeating that American needs to humble itself in pray and to seek Gods face. We, we need to turn from our wicked ways and ask God to heal our land. He will hear from heaven, He will forgive our sins and He will heal our land. My friends that is the hope of America, that in fact is the only hope of America.

I am very please to tell you that the winds of change are beginning to blow blowing again back in New Hampshire. We are about to see a very dramatic shift in the government in New Hampshire. But let me hasten to say that change in power in our legislature is not what my hopes is based on. The hope for New Hampshire, and the hope of Massachusetts and the hope of New England and all of America does not rest in the success or defeat of a political party. And I am here to tell you today unequivocally, as a Republican, the Republican Party is not our savior.

The problem we have here in this our land, our country and each of our States is we no longer fear God. We as a nation have forgotten God. We have left our first love and oh what heights we have fallen from. Our forefathers who established this Republic they understood the reality that seems to evade so many people today day. They recognized that righteous exalt a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Our national sins are a disgrace, and really have no reason to expect blessings from God, if we continue to call evil, what God says is good. While embracing, while embracing and not just tolerating, but embracing and affirming what God condemns as sin. Our forefathers understood these principles. They understood that righteous exalts a nation, but sin will destroy it. …

 “A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations binds, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? … The Scriptures tell us “righteousness exalteth a Nation.”

— Abigail Adams (1744-1818) Wife of John Adams, Mother & Patriot  

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it.”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.”

— Psalms 14:1 RSV

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin’d to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

Nickle and Dimed: Another Example of Socialist Activism in our Classrooms – by Ann-Marie Banfield – … Recently parents of a high school student discovered a book had been assigned to their son in a Personal Finance class.  After reading the book, the parents determined this book was not appropriate reading material for a 16 year old and wasn’t quality material one would expect to find in a Personal Finance class.

They went through the proper channels in an effort to either remove the book or remove parts of the book they found to be the most offensive.  Some of the most offensive parts to the book were: the profanity, references to Jesus and people of faith that readers would find offensive and instructions on how to clear your urine if you use drugs prior to applying for a job.

I think the average person expects a personal finance text to offer students information on banking, insurance, balancing a checkbook and other important financial matters that will face these kids as they move into adulthood.  What we found was, a book written by a social activist being used in  a Personal Finance class in an attempt to change the values, beliefs and attitudes of the students. …

So what are we trying to teach students in Personal Finance?  Instructional value in what?  The author is an avowed Marxist pushing her own Socialist agenda on those who read her books.  Does Personal Finance now equal political indoctrination?  That certainly seems to be the instructional value one would acquire after reading a book from a political activist who has an obvious agenda within her book. … Those who promote Marxism tend to be the ones who don’t appreciate having to live within that utopia. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

Congress’ Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History – Thirteen percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job – Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance. – Link to Website

“Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

“The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.”

— Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British Statesman, Lawyer, Writer, and Philosopher

“No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.” – By Marti Oakley – Washington D.C., known more these days as the “district of criminals” commits so many crimes each day as a collective body that a moratorium on government should be declared until we can clean this nest of globalists … As congress moves forward with plans to end our sovereignty, as they collude with foreign interests to take our jobs, to destroy our culture and to subject us to international laws and agreements harmful to us as a nation, we need to remember who we are.  We are not globalists; we are Americans.  We are not “citizens” of some new world. … The greatest threat America faces on a day to day basis are those who masquerade as protectors and defenders of the American people.   D.C. has long since ceased to be of any value to the public although corporations and the obscenely rich find a home away from home in this ten square mile district.

We are also standing on the edge of a precipice and if we don’t stand up and collectively demand a return to, and an affirmation of, who we are and what has bound us together for more than 200 years, we will be driven over the edge into an unimaginable abyss. … Consider this opinion of the Supreme Court:

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it . . . A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one.

An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.

Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.

No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.  – Link to Website

“Every word [of the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.”

— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.”

— Joseph Story (1779-1845) Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice & influential commentators on the U.S. Constitution

“The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.”

— Hugo Black (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice

“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”

— Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury vs Madison, 5 US 137(1803)

The Long Retreat in the Culture War – by Pat Buchanan – … Politics follows culture. And the cultural revolution of the ’60s is triumphant. Traditional Christianity, driven out of schools and the public square, is being whipped back into the churches and told to stay there.

America has gone over to the revolution.

Looking back, the sweep of the capitulation becomes stark.

First came the plea of atheists not to have their children forced to participate in prayers at school. – Link to Website

Irony alert: The unusually chilly global-warming summit Cancun is hosting the U.N. conference on man-made climate change — amid record cold temperatures – Best Opinion:  Wall St. Pit, Independent – The irony: As negotiators from bearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. (Oddly, low temperatures and snow seems to have followed a number global-warming summits. Divine message?)  – Link to Website

E pluribus buffoonum? Congress slams Obama – Lawmakers say president’s omitting of God undercuts American history – By Bob Unruh – Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus have written to President Obama asking him to correct a speech he gave in Indonesia incorrectly replacing the nation’s motto of “In God We Trust” with “E pluribus unum.” … “‘E pluribus unum’ is not our national motto,” the letter, dated yesterday, said. “As members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, a bipartisan group of members of the United States House of Representatives, we are dedicated to preserving America’s religious heritage and protecting our religious liberty.” – Link to Website

Members of the Prayer Caucus to President Obama: Issue Correction for Inaccurate Reference of National Motto President Obama Inaccurately States National Motto is “E Pluribus Unum” … Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04), along with 42 bipartisan Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, today sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling on him to issue a correction to a speech he gave in Jakarta, Indonesia, in which he inaccurately referred to our national motto as being “E Pluribus unum.” The official national motto is “In God We Trust.”

“For the President of the United States to incorrectly state something as foundational as our national motto in another country is unacceptable. The President is the primary representative of our nation to the world, and whether mistake or intention, his actions cast aside an integral part of American society,” … “In God We Trust” has been a foundational phrase used throughout our nation’s history, from Presidential proclamations, to engravings in both the House and Senate chambers, to the oath taken by all federal employees. In 1956, Congress passed and President Eisenhower signed into law establishing “In God We Trust” as the official national motto of the United States. The motto is referred to in the national anthem and is engraved on U.S. coins and currency. – Link to Website

“But whether as a day [July 4th] of festivity and joy, or of humiliation and mourning,—that, fellow-citizens, —that, depends not upon the event itself, but upon its consequences; … upon the moral, political and intellectual character of the present generation,— of yourselves. …

These are the glories of a generation past away,—what are the duties, which they devolve upon us? … [To] bear true allegiance to that Sovereign [God], upon the principles set forth in that paper [Declaration of Independence]. The lives, the fortunes, and the honour, of every free human being forming a part of those Colonies, were pledged, in the face of God and man, to the principles therein promulgated.”

— John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848)  6th President of the United States

University: Dump Christian beliefs on homosexuality, or else Demands student get re-educated, attend ‘pride’ event – By Drew Zahn – Augusta State University graduate student Jen Keeton alleges school officials demand she be re-educated in morality, giving her the choice of giving up her Christian beliefs on homosexuality or being expelled from the school’s counseling program. .. According to a complaint filed against the school earlier this year, school officials demanded Keeton, 24, go through a “remediation” program after she asserted homosexuality is a behavioral choice, not a “state of being” as a professor said.

Specifically, the remediation program was to include “sensitivity training” on homosexual issues, additional outside study on literature promoting homosexuality and the plan that she attend a “gay pride parade” and report on it. – Link to Website

Report: Poor science education impairs U. S. economy – … U.S. mathematics and science K-12 education ranks 48th worldwide. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

Parents outraged over finance class reading – By Greg Kwasink – The parents of a Bedford teen are calling for the ouster of school officials who assigned their son a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.” “We had almost PhD people letting this fumble through their fingers, and they all said it was grand,” said Dennis Taylor, a conservative Christian. “I think there should be a review of these individuals and perhaps some firing done.” … “The author is a known social Marxist, hates everything American, everything that America stands for or was built on,” Aimee Taylor said. “I mean when you read the book you see that strongly in this woman’s agenda. It’s horrible.” (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever . …”

— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

“It is not easy to determine who are the more criminal. They who would make their way to places of power and trust by indirect means, or they who have so little concern for the welfare of their country as to harken to them. No civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God: All such disobedience is lawful and glorious.”

— Jonathan Mayew (1720-1766) Preacher in The First Great Spiritual Awakening

“No nation which has out grown its God has lived to write the additional pages of history. This nation is in need of a spiritual reawakening, and a reaffirmation in trust in God.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“In Hebrew and in the Bible right and left are not directional, they are moral. … In the Hebrew, text going left means departing from the moral foundations of civilization. … Right and left always means good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, the moral structure of civilization Vs the structure barbarism and emptiness. So God says how can I destroy the city of Nineveh when they don’t know right from left or in other words, right from wrong. People who don’t know their right from wrong how can you punish them. That is what it means. Up and down in scripture means exactly the same thing, up is always toward God, down is away.”

— Rabbi Daniel Lapin  (1950-   ) Orthodox rabbi, talk show host and author

Cardinal Bertone: ‘Christians the Most Persecuted Religious Group in the World’ – By Deacon Keith Fournier – ‘If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first…. because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you… No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.’ (John 15:18-20) … Most of our readers know that I write often about the growing persecution faced by our brothers and sisters throughout the world. Just yesterday we published a stunning account from a survivor of the evil attack on Catholics during Holy Mass at Our Lady of Salvation (Deliverance) in Iraq. Here is an excerpt … I am grateful for the efforts of Church leaders like Cardinal Bertone. …  Christians are the most persecuted group in the world (Even in the United States of America). – Link to Website

“The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.”

— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

International Baccalaureate Debate – This clip is public information from the Minnesota House of Representatives floor session of Wednesday, April 18th, 2007. This is the full length debate on the A103 amendment that pertains to the International Baccalaureate Program. “We are teaching kids against that [Declaration of Independence].”  – Link to Website

Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says – René Schoemaker – Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. – Link to Website

Lesbianism linked to upbringing – By Charlie Butts – A recently released study shows a link between childhood family structure and the rate of female homosexuality –– undermining the claim that sexual orientation is genetic or biological.  – Link to Website

School board chair steps down over “5 evil words” speech – A New Hampshire school board chairman has resigned after an outcry over a Veterans Day speech in which he told students to repeat what he called five evil words: socialism, communism, progressivism, totalitarianism and liberalism. Gordon Ellis … claimed he was trying to teach students about enemies of the constitution. – Link to Website

VETS DAY SPEECH SPARKS UPROAR – ‘Enemy’ ‘isms’ talk draws fire – Epsom school chairman gives up post after protest – By Dan O’Brien – During his four-minute presentation, Ellis asked the students to repeat five words: socialism, communism, totalitarianism, progressivism and liberalism, before referring to them as “enemies of the Constitution.”

“Those are big words for little kids,” parent Dan Manchester said outside school Thursday. Ellis said he didn’t plan on asking the students to repeat back the words out loud, but decided to do so because of the reaction in the crowd. “I said, ‘socialism,’” he explained. “There were three adults standing about 10 feet in front of me. Their mouths dropped open in disbelief. “I looked at the kids. They looked at me like they never heard that word before,” Ellis continued. “Then I get the bright idea that I would have them repeat the words, so they’d remember it.”

Ellis said he doesn’t think kids today are learning as much as they should about American history. “I don’t think we’re teaching enough about the Constitution,” he said. “People forget about the Cold War. They forget about Vietnam. Korea is almost forgotten.”  – Link to Website

“These are words that are enemies of the Constitution … socialism, communism, totalitarianism, progressivism and liberalism.”

— Gordon Ellis (Epsom, New Hampshire, Veterans Day speech to students 2010)

“If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.”

— John “Birdman” Bryant (1943-2009) Author, philosopher, anti-establishmentarian

Does the Pledge of Allegiance still carry the same meaning it used to? – By Hannah Zeltner – The Pledge of Allegiance is recited in schools all across America on a daily basis yet unfortunately it has become a blind ritual with a dwindling meaning. In stating the pledge, every American promises to be true to the US and to display an ongoing gratitude for the freedom our nation provides. It proclaims that the innumerable men, women, and children, who have given their lives throughout the centuries to grant us liberty, have not perished unrecognized.

Yet with the lack of regard from students it truly has no meaning anymore. The days of patriotic fever are no longer visible.

Recently a federal appeals court had upheld a New Hampshire law that requires schools to designate a time each day for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, however speaking remains voluntary. The court believed the law to be “not the advancement of religion, but the advancement of patriotism.” … – Link to Website

“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”

— Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953) Dictator & Russian political leader of the USSR

School Gives Girl An ‘F’ For Refusing To Write Essay on How She Would Sell Her Soul To The Devil. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness.”

— James Wilson (1742-1798) Founding Father, assisted in drafting the Constitution, Supreme Court Justice

Failure to educate – The Boston school system is churning out illiterate students whose only skills are to pass predictable standard tests – By Junia Yearwood – I DID not attend a graduation ceremony in 25 years as a Boston public high school teacher. This was my silent protest against a skillfully choreographed mockery of an authentic education — a charade by adults who, knowingly or unwittingly, played games with other people’s children. I knew that most of my students who walked across the stage, amidst the cheers, whistles, camera flashes, and shout-outs from parents, family, and friends, were not functionally literate. They were unable to perform the minimum skills necessary to negotiate society: reading the local newspapers, filling out a job application, or following basic written instructions; even fewer had achieved empowering literacy enabling them to closely read, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate text. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

Communist Party covers up support for Obama – Radical group previously mapped out strategy for president’s 1st term in office.  – Link to Website

“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag. The American people will hoist it themselves.”

— Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Leader of the Soviet Union

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”

— Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953) Dictator & Russian political leader of the USSR

“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.”

— Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Communist Dictator of the USSR who lead the Bolshevik Revolution

“My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism” “we are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism.”

— Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist, humanist, political economist & sociologist

Olbermann backed co-chair of ‘Marxist-socialist’ bloc – Congressional group wants to remove socialism’s stigma in eyes of Americans – By Aaron Klein – One of three Democrats financially backed by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is the co-chairman of a Marxist/socialist-founded bloc in Congress. … WND reported the caucus was founded by the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, and remains close to the group.

Demonstrating the close relationship between the DSA and the Progressive Caucus, two weeks ago WND reported the Democratic chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee was caught on tape meeting with DSA leaders to discuss how the group could cooperate to strengthen President Obama and advance their “one-world” plans.  – Link to Website

“Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? And such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy;  its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

— Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Politician & Leader

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

— Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist, humanist, political economist & sociologist

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

— Norman Thomas (1884-1968) Socialist Party Presidential candidate

Obama Loses His Pro-Abortion “Yes Men” in Congress – by Bill Saunder – Though the dust is still settling on the last of the election results, the picture is clear.  Last night was a huge victory for Life on both the federal and state levels.  – Link to Website

Rubio Scares Democrats the Most – RUBIO:  We make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party.  What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not so long ago. (cheers) You see, I learned early on in this campaign –– in fact, it’s what propelled me to enter it –– that what this race was about, was about the great future that lies ahead for our country, a future that Americans know is there for the taking. … I know America’s great, not because I read about it in a book, but because I’ve seen it with my eyes.  I’ve been raised in a community of exiles, of people who lost their country, of people who know what it’s like to live somewhere else.  By the way, a community that I am proud to be a part of. …  A community of men and women that were once my age, and when they were they had dreams like we have now, and yet they lost all those things through an accident of history.  No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.  – Link to Website

Voters ban judges from using international law – Oklahoma voters have approved a measure that would forbid judges from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases. …  – Link to Website

Iowans dismiss three justices – Three Iowa Supreme Court justices lost their seats Tuesday in a historic upset fueled by their 2009 decision that allowed same-sex couples to marry. … Their removal marked the first time an Iowa Supreme Court justice has not been retained since 1962, when the merit selection and retention system for judges was adopted. The decision is expected to echo to courts throughout the country, as conservative activists had hoped.

“It appears we’re headed for a resounding victory tonight and a historic moment in the state of Iowa,” said Bob Vander Plaats, the Sioux City businessman who led a campaign to remove the justices because of the 2009 gay marriage ruling. “The people of Iowa stood up in record numbers and sent a message … that it is ‘We the people, ‘not ‘We the courts.'” – Link to Website

Election, November 2, 2010

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

Voter Responsibilities – A short video by David Barton with Biblical advice for voters in choosing their candidate.  – Link to Video

Woman seeks ‘Christian roommate,’ state cites her for discrimination – Michigan alleges notice posted on church billboard breaks rules – By Bob Unruh – A single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a “Christian roommate” to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths. The complaint signed by Tyra Khan, a “Civil Rights Representative” of the state of Michagan Department of Civil Rights. … “Christians shouldn’t live in fear of being punished by the government for being Christians. It is completely absurd to try to penalize a single Christian woman for privately seeking a Christian roommate at church – an obviously legal and constitutionally protected activity,” said Oster, a senior legal counsel with the ADF.  – Link to Website

Parents Upset About Sexual Survey Given to 7th Graders – by Candi Cushman – It’s happened again. Another disturbing example of public schools and advocacy groups intruding into areas they shouldn’t without parental notification and permission. This time a Washington, D.C., middle school (Hardy Middle School) is eliciting heartfelt, and even tearful, complaints from parents for distributing a sexually graphic survey to kids as young as 11 or 12 years old. … Parents are raising concerns about age-appropriateness. After all, how many 11 year olds do you know who understand what a male-to-female transgender is? But that’s not even the worst of it. The survey also included explicit questions, such as: … (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”

— Matthew 18:6 RSV

“Your children are being educated in the schools to take all Christianity from their lives, and believe not in the supernatural things of God, but the diabolical processes of satan, in cults.”

— Our Lady, June 18, 1987

“You see, from the beginning, the goal was never about education, it has always been about indoctrination. That is why our kids know everyting about sex and nothing about history.”

— Molotov Mitchell

“Public education today doesn’t honor God, doesn’t recognize God, in truth doesn’t rally want there to be a God.”

— David, Kupelian, Author of the book The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom

“The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights. … Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first—the most basic—expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be. … the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of U.S

AMERICA’S FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM – By Ashley Anderson, 16 years old – … This is for all the parents and their children who attend public school. I attended public school all my life, until September 2002 when I began attending a private, Christian school. The differences are incredible!

Reading, writing, and arithmetic used to be what a child learned in school. Is this what you think your child is getting in school? …  (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right [religious] education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.”

— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

“Education is useless without the Bible.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) 26th President of the United States

“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn’t because of any constitutional proscription—there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half—but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.”

— John Taylor Gatto (1935-) Retired teacher and author on education

“Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral truth. ‘Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.’

Our fathers came here to enjoy their religion free and unmolested, and, at the end of two centuries, there is nothing upon which we can pronounce more confidently, nothing of which we can express a more deep and earnest conviction, than the inestimable importance of that religion to man, both in regard to this life and that which is to come.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

Signs For Jesus – Sign of the times? – By Kathleen Foster – Fab Cusson says the Bible helped him beat an addiction to the painkiller Oxycontin five years ago. Now he wants to share the Scripture passages he says saved his life… by displaying them on electronic roadside signs.  – Link to Website

The rest of the story the media is reluctant to cover from Fab Cusson and his wife. – Link to Website

Make sure history isn’t left in the dust – By Roger Desrosiers –… Knowledge of history and related disciplines is the cornerstone of learning about liberty in a democratic society. Without history, we have little to write about, little to relate to, little that connects our lives with the past and the future.

History is uniquely important in the United States. We’re a country based on principles, not ethnicity or religion. Knowledge of shared civic ideals is what binds us as a nation. As we approach an important election, historians, journalists, think tanks, politicians, and many in the media bemoan the fact that so many citizens lack the understanding of history, geography, economics, and civics needed to make informed choices.

Sadly, the data lend credence to their concerns… Intercollegiate Studies Institute gave more than 2,500 randomly selected Americans a test consisting of 33 straightforward civics questions. More than 70 percent failed; the average grade was a 49… But right here in the cradle of liberty, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has postponed making passage of an MCAS test in U.S. history a high school graduation requirement. The move will result in a continued marginalization of the discipline….- Link to Website

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

Christianity gets flayed at home of Liberty Bell – By Bob Unruh – A Christian chaplain has written to officials at the nation’s historic Independence Hall in Philadelphia asking them to provide a better experience for visitors after a tour guide there discounted the Christian beliefs of the Founders, saying, “Washington didn’t even go to church.

The letter from Pastor Todd DuBord, now the chaplain for the enterprises of actor, martial arts champion and philanthropist Chuck Norris, was sent to the superintendent of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, where some of the nation’s founding documents were assembled and where the Liberty Bell now is exhibited. … Among the guide’s statements that DuBord challenged: “George Washington didn’t even attend church!”- Link to Website

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”

— George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) The British novelist & essayist

Think What We Think…Or Else: Thought Control on the American Campus  –  Link to Video

Poll: Tea Partiers back ‘Christian conservative agenda’ Members are more likely to view America as a Christian nation, new study finds – By Andy Sullivan – … While the loosely organized Tea Party movement has focused largely on shrinking the size of government and other fiscal issues, its backers are more likely to support government restrictions on gay marriage and other social issues, the Public Religion Research Institute found in its American Values Survey. …

But Tea Party supporters report a stronger opposition to government than Republicans or Christian conservatives as a whole, Jones said. Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion, the survey found. They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation. –  Link to Website

“Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society and without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

Now ‘under God’ dropped from Gettysburg Address! – Barack Obama twice in recent days has dropped from a quotation from the Declaration of Independence a reference to the “Creator,” and now a columnist at First Things has documented how a self-described “leading progressive legal organization” has simply dropped “under God” from the Gettysburg address.

“The omission of the words ‘under God’ in a document characterized as a founding text by a liberal legal advocacy organization in the context of our contemporary debates over the role of religion in American public life and the meaning of the Constitution’s provisions pertaining to religion is just too convenient. We now have positive evidence that they know exactly what they are doing, and, to achieve the result they want, they are willing to violate scholarly consensus, common sense, and the memorization of generations of schoolchildren.” –  Link to Website

“Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant?  fidelity from the  profligate?  assiduity and application to public business from men of a  dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the management of public revenue to one who hath wasted his own  patrimony? Those, therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and will soon pay dear for their folly.”

— John Witherspoon (1722-1794) Educator, Economist, Minister, Writer & Founding Father

“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.”

— John Witherspoon (1722-1794) Educator, Economist, Minister, Writer & Founding Father

“A wise man’s heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool’s heart toward the left. Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.”

— Ecclesiastes 10:2-3  RSV

“In Hebrew and in the Bible right and left are not directional, they are moral. And think about this for a second, according to ancient Jewish wisdom, right and left do not exist. It’s a meaningless human convention…In chapter 13 of Genesis when Lot and Abraham separate and Abraham caries the moral structure of civilization, Abraham is the soul of monotheism, Abraham walks not with God, but ladies and gentlemen, before God. …Leadership means walking in front of God and knowing that He is behind you. Lot separates from Abraham and chooses to go and live in the city of Sodom. … Lot goes to live there, Isn’t it odd that he is described in the conversation with Abraham; he is described as going to the left. It should say he is going to the east. … Abraham says I’ll go right; you are going to go left.* In the Hebrew, text going left means departing from the moral foundations of civilization. Now you will understand ancient Jewish wisdom on the closing verse of the book of Jonah. Jonah was all very upset that God did not destroy the city of Nineveh. .. God said how I can destroy them; they are people who don’t know their right from their left. …Right and left always means good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, the moral structure of civilization Vs the structure barbarism and emptiness. So God says how can I destroy the city of Nineveh when they don’t know right from left or in other words, right from wrong.** People who don’t know their right from wrong how can you punish them. That is what it means. Up and down in scripture means exactly the same thing, up is always toward God, down is away.”

— Rabbi Daniel Lapin  (1950-   ) Orthodox rabbi, talk show host and author (WallBuilders Radio Dec 29&30-2009)

Quotes of Right Vs Wrong  – Link to Website

“[Liberal] Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) The British novelist & essayist

“The government we have in Washington D.C. today is the government our founders feared and wrote Constitution to prevent.”

— Michael Holler – Author of book The Constitution Made Easy

Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession. Why Christians should be wary of the late pop philosopher and her disciples.- Gary Moore

“Whereas traditional conservatism emphasized duties, responsibilities, and social interconnectedness, at the core of the right-wing ideology that Rand spearheaded was a rejection of moral obligations to others.”

—Jennifer Burns, in Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

This past spring, the Financial Industry Inquiry Commission held hearings on the world’s recent financial crisis. The star witness was Alan Greenspan. The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan translated Greenspan’s typically elusive testimony this way: “I didn’t do anything wrong, and neither did Ayn Rand by the way, but next time you might try more regulation.”

There were obviously many reasons for the Great Recession. But I believe Noonan got to the root of one particular evil….  – Link to Website

Howard Storm – The Future of the United States – Link to Video

Personal Census Questions Anger Hawaii Residents – Link to Video

In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity – by Lymari Morales, Gallup – Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news –– with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007… – Link to Website

“Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.” (The First American by H.W. Brands)

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

Why a Town in Iowa Sought to Abolish Good Friday – Dennis Prager –  When a town in Iowa seeks to rename Good Friday “Spring Holiday,” you know America has problems. Those of us who affirm the Judeo-Christian values that have constituted the basis of America’s values since before the founding of the United States expect such things on the two coasts. The West Coast and the East Coast (at least down to Virginia) have largely abandoned the God-based morality of the Declaration of Independence and all the Founders. Yes, all the Founders…. – Link to Website

The American Trinit – Link to Video

“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.  The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue; and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies.”

— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

Congressman at Town Hall: ‘The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country’ ??? .. Sir, that is a form of slavery… You sir and people who think like you are destroying this country. – Link to Video

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator

“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws —the first growing out of the last.”

— Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”

— Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury vs Madison, 5 US 137(1803)

In the lull of the summer are many and various queries, from ‘Feminizing’ of the Church to ’11:11’ – Spirit Daily – Let’s go to the mailbag, which is always filled with little insights and comments and questions (many of which, of course, we can’t answer). The mysteries of life! Do they include numbers? There’s always a fascination with that (whether “333” or “666”) –– and lately many have added “11:11.” …Very interesting. There is also this strange notion in prophetic circles that some day the U.S. will be “invaded.” … – Link to Website

Salinas 7th Grader Draws U.S. Flag; Teacher Calls It “Offensive” – SALINAS, Calif. – A picture of the stars and stripes is putting the Central Coast back in the national spotlight.  A Salinas family is outraged after a teacher called it offensive. The 13-year-old’s mother, Tracy Hathaway said she doesn’t know why the Gavilan Middle School teacher called the drawing offensive because she won’t tell the family what’s wrong with the picture.  Hathaway wants to know why the teacher praised another student for drawing a picture of President Barack Obama.

“The president is a part of that and if one can be done then the other can be done as well,” said Tracy Hathaway. Tracy Hathaway said an art teacher told her daughter Taryn to stop drawing.  The Hathaways wanted to know why, so they met with the vice principal and art teacher. “We asked her what was offensive, the God Bless America or the flag itself?  There was no answer,” said Hathaway. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED)  – Link to Website

“On the people, therefore, of these United States it depends whether wise men, or fools, good or bad men, shall govern them; whether they shall have righteous laws, a faithful administration of government, and permanent good order, peace, and liberty; or, on the contrary, feel insupportable burdens, and see all their affairs run to confusion and ruin.”

— Samuel Langdon (1723-1797) – Thirteenth president of Harvard University, delegate to the New Hampshire convention that adopted the Constitution

School Officials in Mass. Town Won’t Let Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance – by Todd Starnes –  When Sean Harrington entered his freshman year at Arlington High School, he noticed something peculiar: There were no American flags in the classrooms, and no one recited the Pledge of Allegiance. So Harrington enlisted the aid of his fellow students, and now, three years later, they have succeeded in getting flags installed in the classrooms. But the pledge still will not be recited.  – Link to Website

Obama Moves Away From ‘Freedom of Religion’ Toward ‘Freedom of Worship’ – The change in language was barely noticeable to the average citizen but political observers are raising red flags at the use of a new term “freedom of worship” by President Obama and Secretary Clinton as a replacement for the term freedom of religion. .. n her article for “First Things” magazine, Ashley Samelson, International Programs Director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, stated, “To anyone who closely follows prominent discussion of religious freedom in the diplomatic and political arena, this linguistic shift is troubling: “The reason is simple. Any person of faith knows that religious exercise is about a lot more than freedom of worship. It’s about the right to dress according to one’s religious dictates, to preach openly, to evangelize, to engage in the public square.

Everyone knows that religious Jews keep kosher, religious Quakers don’t go to war, and religious Muslim women wear headscarves-yet “freedom of worship” would protect none of these acts of faith.”  – Link to Website

‘Lose Christianity or face expulsion’ – Georgia student told to read ‘gay’ lit, attend ‘pride parade,’ change beliefs – by Bob Unruh, World NetDaily – A lawsuit against Augusta State University in Georgia alleges school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling the choice of giving up her Christian beliefs or being expelled from the graduate program. School officials Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley, Paulette Schenck and Richard Deaner demanded student Jen Keeton, 24, go through a “remediation” program after she asserted homosexuality is a behavioral choice, not a “state of being” as a professor said, according to the complaint. …The remediation program was to include “sensitivity training” on homosexual issues, additional outside study on literature promoting homosexuality and the plan that she attend a “gay pride parade” and report on it. …The lawsuit, filed by attorneys working with the Alliance Defense Fund, asserted the school cannot violate the Constitution by demanding that a person’s beliefs be changed. … State Rep. Tom McMillin told WND at the time the case was “extremely alarming,” and there was growing support for an effort to penalize universities that don’t accommodate religious beliefs. “This is a state-taxpayer-supported university,” he said. “She’s got a court case. Hopefully that will be resolved.” …  – Link to Website

Pro-family group boycotting Home Depot – Sponsorship of “gay pride” festivals has gotten a major U.S. retailer in hot water with a prominent pro-family group –– so much so that the group is asking its supporters to boycott the retailer. After several requests that The Home Depot remain neutral in the debate surrounding the issue of homosexuality, American Family Association has formally announced it has launched a boycott of the national retailer. According to a press release from the pro-family organization, The Home Depot has provided both financial and corporate support to “open displays of homosexual activism” on America’s main streets for several years. AFA says the company’s sponsorship of and participation in numerous “gay pride” parades and festivals has included deliberate exposure of “lascivious displays of sexual conduct” to small children. …  – Link to Website

“The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

Tea Parties – Same Song, Second Verse – David Barton –  America’s first Tea Party in 1773 was not an act of wanton lawlessness but rather a deliberate protest against heavy-handed government and excessive taxation. Its leaders took great care to ensure that nothing but tea was thrown overboard – no other items were damaged. The “Indians” even swept the decks of the ships before they left.

Tea Parties occurred not only in Boston but also in numerous other locales. And those who participated were just ordinary citizens expressing their frustration over a government that had refused to listen to them for almost a decade. Their reasonable requests had fallen on deaf ears. Of course, the out-of-touch British claimed that the Tea Parties were lawless and violent, but such was not the case.

Interestingly, in many ways, today’s Tea Parties parallel those of long ago. But rather than protesting a tax on tea, today they are protesting dozens of taxes represented by what they call the Porkulus/Generational Theft Act of 2009 (officially called the “American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act”). For Tea Party members (and for most Americans), that act and the way it was passed epitomizes a broken system whose arrogant leaders often scorn the concerns of the citizens they purport to represent. …

Citizens are angry about the current direction of government. As John Zubly, a member of the Continental Congress in 1775, reminded the British: “My Lord, the Americans are no idiots, and they appear determined not to be slaves. Oppression will make wise men mad.” But does that anger automatically equate to violence? Of course not. It does equate to action, however; but instead of throwing tea overboard, modern Tea Parties are throwing out-of-touch politicians from both parties overboard.

The Tea Parties represent much of what is right in America – citizens reacquainting themselves with the Constitution and holding their elected officials accountable to its standards. Two centuries ago, Daniel Webster could have been talking to today’s Tea Party rallies when he said: “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution!”  – Link to Website

“My Lord, the Americans are no idiots, and they appear determined not to be slaves. Oppression will make wise men mad, but oppressors in the end frequently find that they were not wise men; there may be resources even in despair sufficient to render any set of men strong enough not to be bound in all cases whatsoever. Your Lordship believes a Supreme Ruler of the earth, and that the small and great must stand before Him at last—would your Lordship be willing, at the general meeting of all mankind, to take a place among those who destroyed or enslaved empires, or risk your future state on the merit of having, at the expense of British blood and treasure, taken away the property, the life and liberty of the largest part of the British empire? Can your Lordship think those who fear the Lord will not cry to Him against their oppressors? And will not the Father of mankind hear the cries of the oppressed? Or would you be willing that their cries and tears should rise against you as a forward instrument of their oppression?”

— John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781) Pastor, farmer and statesman

“Excessive taxation … will carry reason and reflection to every man’s door, and particularly in the hour of election.”

— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

Congress Ranks Last in Confidence in Institutions – Gallup – Fifty percent “little” or “no” confidence in Congress reading is record high. Gallup’s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. … The military continues its long-standing run as the highest-rated U.S. institution. Small business and the police occupy second and third places, respectively. These three top-tier institutions all earn high confidence from a majority of Americans, something no other institution achieves this year. The military has been No. 1 in Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions list continuously since 1998, and has ranked No.1 or No. 2 almost every year since its initial 1975 measure.  – Link to Website

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual-–or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

“It is not easy to determine who are the more criminal. They who would make their way to places of power and trust by indirect means, or they who have so little concern for the welfare of their country as to harken to them. No civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God: All such disobedience is lawful and glorious.”

— Jonathan Mayew (1720-1766) Preacher in The First Great Spiritual Awakening

“Gentlemen indulge too many unreasonable apprehensions of danger to the state governments. They seem to suppose that the moment you put men into the national council they become corrupt and tyrannical, and lose all their affection for their fellow citizens. But can we imagine that the senators will ever be so insensible of their own advantage as to sacrifice the genuine interest of their constituents? The state governments are essentially necessary to the form and spirit of the general system. As long, therefore, as Congress has a full conviction of this necessity, it must, even upon principles purely national, have as firm an attachment to the one as to the other. This conviction can never leave its members unless they become madmen (& women). While the Constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of the Union; and therefore the idea of sacrificing the former to the latter is totally inadmissible.”

— Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

Bailout reaches $3.7 Trillion – Total US govt financial system support seen at $3.7 trln – Reuters – … Indeed, the current outstanding balance of overall Federal support for the nation’s financial system…has actually increased more than 23% over the past year, from approximately $3.0 trillion to $3.7 trillion –– the equivalent of a fully deployed TARP program –– largely without congressional action, even as the banking crisis has, by most measures, abated from its most acute phases,” the TARP inspector general, Neil Barofsky, wrote in the report. The total includes Federal Reserve programs and a myriad of asset guarantees, including Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. protection for bank deposits. The increased government commitments more than offset about a $300 billion decline in the U.S. Treasury’s TARP commitments in the past year as programs have closed and banks have repaid taxpayer funds. …

“The fact that the Obama administration is treating TARP like its own personal slush-fund is beyond egregious and a complete betrayal of what the American people were told would be then when their tax-dollars were used to bailout Wall Street,” Issa said in a statement, adding that the housing efforts were “dumping good money after bad”  – Link to Website

“I place economy among the first and most important of virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.” “To preserve our independence we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. ….If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of caring for them, we will be wise.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

— Deuteronomy 8:17-20 RSV

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

— Alexis de Toqueville (1805-1859) French Author

“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”

—  Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist, humanist, political economist & sociologist

America’s National Debt tops 13 Trillion, Debt per Taxpayer $119,457. – Debt Bondage – Link to Website

Ron Paul Exposes the Real GDP and Unemployment Numbers – Link to Video

“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering, also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”

— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”

— Thomas Paine (1736-1809) Patriot, Author & Pamphleteer

“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government a greater than in any other.”

—  James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

NOT YOUR FATHER’S AMERICA – Obama adviser: U.S. ‘ideal place for renewal of Islam’- by Aaron Klein WorldNet Daily – Religion aide closely linked to imam seeking to build Ground Zero mosque A religion adviser to President Obama has close ties to the imam who wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. The two have been documented together discussing America as “the ideal place for a renewal of Islam” … In February, Obama named a Chicago Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects. … Patel is listed as one of 15 “Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow” – Link to Website

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“No free government now exists in the world, unless where Christianity is acknowledged, and is the religion of the country. Christianity is part of the common law of this State. It is not proclaimed by the commanding voice of any human superior, but expressed in the calm and mild accents of customary law. Its foundations are broad, and strong, and deep; they are laid in the authority, the interest, the affections of the people.

Christianity is part of the common law of this State. It is not proclaimed by the commanding voice of any human superior, but expressed in the calm and mild accents of customary law. Its foundations are broad, and strong, and deep; they are laid in the authority, the interest, the affections of the people. Waiving all questions of hereafter, it is the purest system of morality, the firmest auxiliary, and only stable support of all human laws.”

— Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1824

Bias and bigotry in academia – Patrick Buchanan – A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in numbers approaching their share of the population. And who were the most underrepresented Americans at Harvard? White Christians and ethnic Catholics. Though two-thirds of the U.S. population then, they had dropped to one-fourth of the student body. Comes now a more scientific study from Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford to confirm that a deep bias against the white conservative and Christian young of America is pervasive at America’s elite colleges and Ivy League schools. …To achieve even these percentages, however, the discrimination against white and Asian applicants, because of the color of their skin and where their ancestors came from, is astonishing. …

For admissions officers at our top private and public schools, diversity is “a code word” for particular prejudices. For these schools are not interested in a diversity that would include “born-again Christians from the Bible belt, students from Appalachia and other rural and small-town areas, people who have served in the U.S. military, those who have grown up on farms or ranches, Mormons, Pentecostals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, lower- and middle-class Catholics, working class ‘white ethnics,’ social and political conservatives, wheelchair users, married students, married students with children or older students just starting into college and raising children.” …

Many of these elite public and private colleges and universities benefit from U.S. tax dollars through student loans and direct grants. The future flow of those tax dollars should be made contingent on Harvard and Yale ending racial practices that went out at Little Rock Central High in 1957. – Link to Website

“The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is the genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitution of government.”

— Noah Webster (1758-1843)  Father of the Dictionary & American Patriot

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“I am now—the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and tho Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our national rights; and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and Constitution of the states. I am the enemy of all foreign influence, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of liberty—this is the only republic on earth.”

— General John Stark (1728-1822) Served at Bunker Hill & General in the Continental Army

“Equal laws are essential to liberty. Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.”

— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of Independence

“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”

— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

“Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation concieved in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

“Equal laws, protecting equal rights … the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination, which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.”

— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

“Among the objects of the Constitution of this Commonwealth, Liberty & Equality stand in a conspicuous light—It is the first article in our declaration of rights, “all men are born free & equal, & have certain natural, essential & unalienable rights.”—In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator …Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that ‘all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights’ This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

Students, Alumni Rally Behind Illinois Professor Fired for Expressing Catholic Beliefs – Faculty and students are rallying behind a University of Illinois professor whom they say was fired simply because of his religious beliefs. Dr. Kenneth Howell, an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism, was told recently that he could no longer teach in the university’s Department of Religion. A student at the university accused Howell of engaging in hate speech when he stated in a class review session that he agreed with the Church’s teaching that homosexual sex is immoral. … – Link to Website

Don’t Know Much About History? – By Marist Poll – There’s good news for American education.  About three-quarters of residents — 74% — know the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776.  The bad news for the academic system — 26% do not.  This 26% includes one-fifth who are unsure and 6% who thought the U.S. separated from another nation.  That begs the question, “From where do the latter think the U.S. achieved its independence?”  Among the countries mentioned are France, China, Japan, Mexico, and Spain.  –  Link to Website

Jaywalking – 4th of July 2010 (Embarrassing!) – Link to Video

Dumbing Down America’s Youth- Whose fault is it & where does it start? – Mindy Peck – We are noticing a trend that a lot of this dummying down is starting in the primary and secondary schools… But I have noticed that there does seem to be a difference between parochial and private schools Vs the public schools  ..But [parochial and private schools] their students seem to be grasping the concepts much greater ….so what is it that they are doing? … The critical thinking skils are what is lacking, that is our problem.   – Link to Video

“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.”

— John Witherspoon (1722-1794) Educator, Economist, Minister, Writer & Founding Father

Andy Grove: Knowledge Work Isn’t Enough – by Chris Murphy – Intel co-founder Andy Grove doesn’t have all the answers in his Bloomberg column on “How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late.” But he makes one opinion clear: The U.S. can’t innovate if it doesn’t also build stuff.

Among many intriguing ideas in the full colum, which you should read, Grove attacks the notion that the U.S. can focus on knowledge work, doing the design and engineering and feeling comfortable leaving the manufacturing to lower-cost countries.

He offers two main reasons. One, that approach just doesn’t create enough jobs. Writes Grove:

Startups are a wonderful thing, but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment. Equally important is what comes after that mythical moment of creation in the garage, as technology goes from prototype to mass production. This is the phase where companies scale up. They work out design details, figure out how to make things affordably, build factories, and hire people by the thousands. Scaling is hard work but necessary to make innovation matter. The scaling process is no longer happening in the U.S. And as long as that’s the case, plowing capital into young companies that build their factories elsewhere will continue to yield a bad return in terms of American jobs.  – Link to Website

How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late: Andy Grove – Link to Website

Rescuing our kids (& country) from Karl Marx – by Steve Farrell – It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America’s descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — “education is the key.”

And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by Karl Marx and the Almighty State; no, nor by anyone far removed from our home, our values, our input, and our right to say, “You’re fired!”

Of course, Marx, and every godless statist there ever was and is, knew the road to their Godless tyranny was lined with schools, colleges, and universities created, funded, and controlled by the state … and the more centralized that control the better.

He also recognized the absolute necessity of an ongoing propaganda and legal campaign against parent controlled models like home schools, church schools, private schools, and small locally funded-locally controlled public schools; and this too: against any and all curricula that defends or promotes God, eternal truth, moral responsibility, the traditional family, limited government, the United States Constitution, the Free Enterprise System, and of course, private property. In short, an ongoing war against the very foundation, tools, weapons, and inspiration of free men.

A Brief Review From the Mouth of Marx and Co: In 1932 Communist Party USA founder, William Z. Foster, outline in his book Toward Soviet America “the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution.” His target was America’s schools. His strategy:

[S]tudies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society. Present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy …

As to those “other features of the bourgeois ideology” that were to be ‘cleansed’ the traditional family topped the list. Recall, if you will, communism founder Karl Marx bragging that he and his comrades would “Abolish the family!” Why? Because the traditional family was the transmission belt of christian and capitalist values. Plain and simple. The traditional family had to go; and with it home schools, private schools, and old-styled public schools where parents were the employers, the curriculum chiefs, the bosses over the neighborhood school. … – Link to Website

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) 26th President of the United States

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“At the establishment of our Constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the Constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.”

— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

What Americans don’t know about their history – By Valerie Strauss – A new poll gauging American knowledge on a basic question about the nation’s history — “From which country did the United States win its independence?“ — is either good news or bad news, depending on your expectations: Twenty-six percent of those surveyed did not know that the United States achieved its independence from Great Britain, according to the poll, conducted by the nonprofit Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Six percent named a different country, including France, China, Japan, Mexico and Spain.

Twenty percent said they weren’t sure. …More depressing results — depending on your expectations — were found in a 2007 poll conducted by the U.S. Mint.

It showed that only 7 percent of those surveyed could name the first four Presidents in order: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

Thirty percent knew that Jefferson was the third President, 57 percent identified Jefferson as the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and 57 percent knew that Washington led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. (*The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) – Link to Website

“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S

“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right [religious] education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.”

— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free. It expects what never was and never will be.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S

Howard Davidowitz: U.S. Economy “Is a Complete Disaster” –  The U.S. economy is in shambles and Americans will continue to see high unemployment and lower living standards in the years to come, Howard Davidowitz tells Henry and Aaron in the accompanying clip.  Davidowitz lays much of the blame for the economy’s woes at the feet of the Obama administration, which he calls “the worst of my lifetime.”

Obama “Mr. Mass Destruction”

Davidowitz says that the key to Obama’s success is his ability to sell his policies to the public. He can confidently read from a teleprompter and appear competent and in control, when in reality, “it’s one big bag of empty words,” Davidowitz says of Obama’s messages.

Davidowitz contends that the President’s spending, including the health-care bill, is creating massive deficits that will take the U.S. years to dig itself out of.  “He is Mr. Mass Destruction,” Davidowitz says of Obama. “I mean he is a human destroyer. This guy has spent his way into oblivion and we don’t have a budget. He is surrounded by a bunch of complete incompetents, led by himself. “

Housing Gloom

As far as the actual economy goes, Davidowitz’s chief concern is the strained state of the housing market, from which the bad news continues to pour in. According to Davidowitz, Americans are facing an $8 trillion negative wealth effect from the bursting of the housing bubble. “We’re talking about some serious money here,”.  – Link to Website

“Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

— Deuteronomy 8:17-20 RSV

Top 10 Things You Didn’t know About Alcoholics Anonymous – William Griffith Wilson “Bill W.” and Robert Holbrook Smith (“Dr. Bob S.”) founded what would eventually be known as Alcoholics Anonymous. Wilson, a New York stockbroker, had recently overcome his ruinous alcoholism after speaking with a friend who’d sworn off drinking — in exchange for religion — and witnessing “a great white light” in his hospital room. He joined a Christian movement called the Oxford Group.  – Link to Website

Two-Minute Warning – Chuck Colson – Freedom of Worship: an anorexic description of our rights….- Link to Website

48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights – Nearly half of American Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Adults see the government today as a threat to rights. … Most Republicans (74%) and unaffiliateds (51%) consider the government to be a threat to individual rights. Most Democrats (64%) regard the government as a protector of rights.

Additionally, most Americans (52%) say it is more important for the government to protect individual rights than to promote economic growth. Just 31% say promoting economic growth is more important. But again a sizable number (17%) of Adults aren’t sure which is more important.  – Link to Website

America’s Fourth Debt – St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that every person has three debts that he can never repay: to God, who created him; to his parents, who gave him life and nurtured him; and to the nation that formed and educated him.

But on July 4, as we celebrate our nation’s freedom, we have a fourth unpayable debt to acknowledge. The men and women who went before us — pioneers and GIs, innovators and laborers — have left us a legacy of freedom from fear and freedom from want as they built a superpower.

America isn’t powerful enough to win all its wars or even its arguments, but it stands for now as King of the Hill, unmatched in its military and economic might.

But has America really ever been about power? The founders never sought it, after all. They sought something totally different, and that’s our fourth debt.

Greatness. Its economy or its military will never make a nation great. We don’t celebrate the “greatness” of the Soviet Union or of the Ottoman Empire or of Babylon. Greatness comes from principle. More than being King of the Hill, the first generations saw America as a “city on a hill.” …

the Declaration of Independence spells out is intimately linked to a moral order governed by God the Creator: “The framers of this nation’s founding documents … proclaimed the ‘self-evident truth’ that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights grounded in the laws of nature and of nature’s God. The course of American history demonstrates the difficulties, the struggles, and the great intellectual and moral resolve which were demanded to shape a society which faithfully embodied these noble principles.”…

 – Link to Website

The Relentless Effort to Control the News – The Constitution is quite clear: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. …”  This treasured principle of freedom is unknown in most of the world and greatly compromised in many nations.  Canada, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Sweden, Belgium, Australia, and France all provide subsidies to the press ranging from $7 billion to $35 billion per year.

The Obama administration, and some in Congress, are looking for ways that government might exert more control over free speech, and particularly over the press.

Since 1987, when the Fairness Doctrine was abandoned by the Federal Communications Commission, every Democratic majority in Congress has tried to restore it.  Through its power to license broadcast stations, the FCC, through the Fairness Doctrine, gave the federal government the power to force radio and television stations to air content that countered opinions and points of view the government didn’t like. The sad result of the Fairness Doctrine was a chilling effect on all controversial opinions. Broadcasters simply chose to avoid controversial programming that might invoke an FCC-required Fairness Doctrine response.

A more sophisticated effort is now under way to give government control of the information available to the public. “News” is what newspapers, radio and television, and now the Internet deliver to the public.  “News,” it is argued, is what provides the information needed for a free people to make intelligent public-policy decisions.  Therefore, “news” is a public good, in much the same way that the national defense and highways are public goods.  Consider the reasoning of University of Illinois professor Robert McChesney in a paper prepared for a   Federal Trade Commission workshop:

The starting point for exiting this dead-end street is the recognition that journalism is best understood as increasingly having the attributes of a public good, not a private good.  It is like military defense, physical infrastructure, education, public health, and basic research in that regard.  It is something society requires, and people want, but the market cannot generate in sufficient quantity or quality.  It requires government leadership to exist.  There may be an important role for the private sector, but with public goods the government plays quarterback, or the game never starts.

If it is appropriate for government to pay for national defense and highways, then it must be equally appropriate for government to pay for “news.” This is the logic that prevails in Europe and is being advanced here. … – Link to Website

Constitution of the United States: Bill of Rights  

Article 1 – Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petititon

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.”

— Joseph Story (1779-1845) Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice & influential commentators on the U.S. Constitution

“The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written.”

— Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury vs Madison, 5 US 137(1803)

66% of Voters Are Angry At The Media – Rasmussen Reports – Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters describe themselves as at least somewhat angry at the media, including 33% who are Very Angry. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 31% say they are not angry at the media, but that includes just nine percent (9%) who say they are not at all angry. It’s important to note, however, that the question did not in any way define media or differentiate between media outlets such as CNN and Fox News. But voters have consistently said in surveys that they believe the national media has a liberal bias and that most reporters try to help the candidates they want to win. …

Unhappiness with the media comes at a time when many government policies are unpopular with a majority of voters and two-thirds (67%) think the news media has too much influence over the actions of government. Sixty-two percent (62%) say what the media thinks is more important to the average member of Congress than what the voters think. Seventy percent (70% of voters are angry at the current policies of the federal government.

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans and 68% of voters not affiliated with either major party are angry at the media. Democrats are more closely divided on the question. – Link to Website

Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd! – This is beautiful, and very touching! It is actually the 4th verse. Here is verse 4: Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! God bless America! – Link to Website

“A satisfactory plan for primary education is certainly a vital desideratum in our republics. A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

Christian Purge – The Obama factor (Part One) – by Sharon Sebastian – It’s afoot. The target: Christianity. Hijack, overthrow, or purge, the Obama government is making its move. True Christianity consists of people of biblical faith who are tolerant and giving while adhering to the Judeo-Christian teachings of Jesus Christ. …

Though over 75% of Americans profess to be Christian, Washington’s Liberal-Progressive leaders hold particular disdain for conservative Christian voters who steadfastly obey the biblical teachings of Jesus Christ. And, there’s the rub. True Christians always put faith before politics. To both circumvent or purge Christianity or ridicule Christians who question the left’s agenda, political instigators have three choices. The government can discredit the faith and its pastors, they can enact laws that prohibit specific Christian scripture, or they can, via Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, infiltrate and falsely lay claim to the faith of Jesus Christ through the power of government by manipulating and counterfeiting it into something it is not, and still call it by its name – Christianity. All three strategies are currently in play. – Link to Website

“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

Christian Purge – The Hitler Factor (Part Two) – by Sharon Sebastian – Mid-1800, the false scientific justification to deny God as Creator started with a man named Charles Darwin. Darwin’s theory of evolution divided humans into superior and inferior status. Darwin, in his own writings, labeled people of color, in particular black people, as sub-par and sub-human. The appeal of such a theory held great appeal to men who both denied the existence of God and sought superiority over fellow humans. Among them was Karl Marx, the father of Communism, who was so pleased with Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution that he sent him gifts, including a signed copy of Das Kapital in 1873 inscribed: “From a devoted admirer to Charles Darwin, Karl Marx.” Equally grateful to Darwin were mass murderers Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler. All wrote of Darwin’s influence on them and their policies to oppress masses of people. (For more on Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler’s views on evolution

Though Marxism seeks to rid society of God, Hitler allowed religions. Early in his political career, he praised Catholicism. Initially, he also was favorably inclined towards Christianity. In time as he garnered power, Hitler came to find Christianity particularly troublesome when Christian pastors spoke out against his systematic annihilation of Germany’s Jews. Hitler set out to wash the veneer of Christian beliefs from German society. He sought a new religion that would spring from the Nazi party with the pagan Swastika as its symbol to replace the Cross in Germany’s New World Order. In time, Hitler allowed comment that: “You can be German or you can be Christian, but you can’t be both.” Hitler declared. …

Hitler created the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) and surrounded himself with men who were atheists or occultists who shared the desire to replace Christianity with a religion that did not require conscience. … – Link to Website

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President ot the United States

“We cannot say the past is past without surrendering the future.” “The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.” “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Politician & Leader

What Scientists Really Think About Religion – By Hugh Pickens – The Washington Post has a book review of Science and Religion: What Scientists Really Think by Rice University sociologist Elaine Ecklund, who spent four years doing a detailed survey of 1,646 scientists at elite American research universities. The study reveals that scientists often practice a closet faith,  worrying about how their peers would react to learning about their religious views. ‘After four years of research, at least one thing became clear: Much of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong…- Link to Website

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

— Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German born theoretical physicist

America’s National Debt tops 13 Trillion, Debt per Taxpayer $117,975, US Debt to GDP ratio 90.3% – Debt Bondage – Link to Website

Quotes from the Founding Fathers on debt – Link to Website

“People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they’re angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind’s problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers’ dollars at them.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty.”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”

—  Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States

“The borrower is the slave of the lender.”

— Proverbs 22:7

Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study – Dr Mercola/Jeffrey Smith – (When man plays God with food) – Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, discusses the latest GMO research findings coming out of Russia, which adds fuel to previous concerns about long-term sterility and other highly bizarre physiological side effects. –  Link to Website   –  Link to Video  

American Trinity – By Dennis Prager – Ask almost any American what’s different about America. What are American values different…. – Link to Web Site   –  Link to Video  

Why Are So Many Horrible Things Happening To America All Of A Sudden? – Once upon a time the United States was a land of abundance and prosperity that was truly blessed from sea to shining sea.  Tens of millions of Americans enjoyed living the American Dream in a land filled with happy, healthy and prosperous people.  But these days it seems as though there are new stories of tragedy and despair almost daily. Whether it is the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, or the horrific flooding in Tennessee, or the tornadoes ripping through the Midwest, or the gut-wrenching economic despair in cities like Detroit, it just seems like a whole lot of horrible things are happening to America all at once.  So why is all of this hitting the U.S. right now?  Why does it seem like there is just about nowhere in the United States right now that is untouched by a major crisis? …

So why is this happening?

Well, certainly there are a lot of reasons, but it certainly does not help that we have allowed the government to push God totally out of public life.  …As a society we have told God that we want nothing to do with Him. We have pushed and pushed and pushed Him into the shadows… – Link to Website

Fighting for Our Children’s Mind – Fox News Reports –  Link to Website

Florida’s Decade of Education Improvement Proves Reform Works – by Patrick R. Gobbons, Matthew Ladner – Nevada Policy Research Institute – Starting in 1999, Florida lawmakers passed a series of reforms – including real standards and accountability for public schools, parental choice options for students in failing schools, tuition scholarship programs, the termination of “social promotion,” the institution of instructional reforms and the addition of merit pay to reward quality teachers.

The results over the last decade have been dramatic. In 1998, nearly half of Florida’s fourth graders were scoring “below basic” on the NAEP reading test. By 2007, the state had dramatically increased reading  performance, and 70 percent of students scored basic or better on the reading test.

In less than a decade Florida’s fourth-grade reading proficiency went from near the bottom of the 50 states to well above the national average…. – Link to Wesite

California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo – (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) by Joshua Rhett Miller – Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas –– garments the school officials deemed “incendiary” on Cinco de Mayo. … The five students –– Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard –– were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags. – Link to Website

What public educators can learn from Catholic schools – by Samuel G. Freedman –  Within the 242 pages of Diane Ravitch’s lightning rod of a book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” there appear exactly three references to Catholic education. …her book offer evidence of how some public-education scholars and reformers have been learning from what Catholic education is doing right. What one might call the Catholic-school model is perhaps the most unappreciated influence on the nation’s continuing public-education debate. …Her interest was initially piqued by the work of James S. Coleman, a sociologist of education and fellow apostate. Despite his roots in civil rights liberalism, Mr. Coleman began arguing in the 1970s and early 1980s that segregation alone could not explain the achievement gap between black and white students. His research into various types of high schools –– tens of thousands of students’ records –– convinced him that the same kind of poor, inner-city black student performed markedly better in a Catholic school than in a public one. – Link to Website

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as Governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good [virtue & fear of God] and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.”

— William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

Patrick Henry’s Assessment Of The U.S. Constitution: I Smell A Rat! – Dennis Oliver Woods – The “give me liberty” speech is well known compared to Patrick Henry’s equally pithy I smell a rat! proclamation. Even fewer realize the phrase refers to his assessment of the U.S. Constitutional Convention.

Why was Patrick Henry such a Party Pooper when it came to the Constitutional Convention? If Patrick means patriotic why didn’t he live up to his name? Hmm…maybe he did. …

America today is much like ancient Israel, who often broke her covenant with God. God patiently chastised the nation and entered into covenant renewal on numerous occasions. Eventually He divorced Himself from national Israel at the time of the incarnation.

Jesus told the leaders of the Jewish nation in no uncertain terms, “The kingdom of God is taken away from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits thereof” (Mt. 21:43). If God’s chosen nation was not immune, how can America presume to escape the judgment of God? – Link to Website

“Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as Governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good [virtue & fear of God] and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.”

— William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin’d to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

Remarkable Photos of Nevada Tea Party – Tea Party protests continue to grow across the United States of America as citizens exercise their 1st Amendment rights. At the same time, the main stream media continues to miss report events and abuse the freedom of the press or their 1st Amendment rights. –  Link to Website

Constitution of the United States : Bill of Rights

1- Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government—from their carelessness and negligence—I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct.—that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant—give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

Recent Virginia Church Service – Stimulus Sermon Gen 47:13-27 –  Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray… So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. …

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes. … That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes. …

We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh’s government.

In God We Trust… –  Link to Website

Statesmen v.s. Politician – Paul Jehle – Executive Director of the Plymouth Rock Foundation highlights the differences between a Statesman and Politician.  –  Link to Video  

“When a citizen gives his suffrage [vote] to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country.”

— Noah Webster (1758-1843)  Father of the Dictionary & American Patriot

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerates, their political character must soon follow. A friendly consideration of our fellow-citizens, who by our free choice become the public servants, and manage the affairs of our common country, is but a reasonable return for their diligence and care in our service.

The most enlightened and zealous of our public servants can do little without the exertions of private citizens to perfect what they do but form as it were in embryo. The highest officers of our government are but the first servants of the people and always in their power: they have, therefore, a just claim to a fair and candid experiment of the plans they form and the laws they enact for the public weal. Too much should not be expected from them; they are but men and of like passions and of like infirmities with ourselves; they are liable to err, though exercising the purest motives and best abilities required for the purpose.

Times and circumstances may change and accidents intervene to disappoint the wisest measures. Mistaken and wicked men (who cannot live but in troubled waters) are often laboring with indefatigable zeal, which sometimes proves but too successful, to sour our minds and derange the best-formed systems. Plausible pretensions and censorious insinuations are always at hand to transfer the deadly poison of jealousy by which the best citizens may for a time be deceived.

 These considerations should lead to an attentive solicitude to keep the pure, unadulterated principles of our constitution always in view; to be religiously careful in our choice of public officers; and as they are again in oar power at very. short periods lend not too easily a patient ear to every invidious insinuation or improbable story, but prudently mark the effects of their public measures and judge of the tree by its fruits.”

— Elias Boudinot (1740–1821) Founding Father, statesman and patriot

Dear President Obama, We the People …  “We the people” have assembed across America  … –  Link to Video  

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree [& Nations] that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits.”

— Matthew 7:11-20 RSV

Not Yours To Give – (Congress) – David Crockett was his name. … Crocket was later asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, and he replied: “Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many women and children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.” …

Crocket explained, “The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but, as I thought, rather coldly.

“I began: ‘Well, friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates, and…”

His constituent interrupted, “Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again.”

Crockett replied, “This was a sockdolager … I begged him to tell me what was the matter.”

The farmer said, “Well, Colonel, it is hardly worth-while to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. …   –  Link to Website

Biblical plagues really happened say scientists – The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption, scientists have claimed. – Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather than explaining them as the wrathful act of a vengeful God, the scientists claim the plagues can be attributed to a chain of natural phenomena triggered by changes in the climate and environmental disasters that happened hundreds of miles away. …

The problem with the naturalistic explanations, is that they lose the whole point. “And the whole point was that you didn’t come out of Egypt by natural causes, you came out by the hand of God.”  –  Link to Website

House Judiciary Chairman Says Constitution’s Non-Existent ‘Good and Welfare Clause’ Authorizes Congress to Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the “good and welfare clause” gives Congress the authority to require individuals to buy health insurance as mandated in the health care bill. However, there is no “good and welfare clause” in the U.S. Constitution. … –  Link to Website –  Link to Video

“It broaches a new Constitutional doctrine of vast consequence, and demanding the serious attention of the public. I consider it myself as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the government; as contrary to the true and fair, as well as the received construction, and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”

— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States  

“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.”

— James Wilson (1742-1798) Founding Father, assisted in drafting the Constitution, Supreme Court Justice

Rep. Dingell Says ObamaCare Will Eventually ‘Control the People’ –  Link to Video

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”

— Proverbs 29:2 RSV

Al Sharpton – The American public overwhelming voted for Socialism when they elected President Obama. –  Link to Video

“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag. The American people will hoist it themselves.”

— Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Leader of the Soviet Union

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”

— Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953) Dictator & Russian political leader of the USSR

“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.”

— Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Communist Dictator of the USSR who lead the Bolshevik Revolution

“My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism” “we are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism.” “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

— Karl Marx (1818-1883) Father of Communism, atheist, humanist, political economist & sociologist

Health Care Law Signals US Empire Decline? – David Murrin Author of the book breaking the code of history – …To understand some of the bit changes we are going through,  I think sometimes long-term history impacts the now and we’re in it like a schism, like two tectonic plates that suddenly shift after a hundred years of energy building up.  And that’s really the end of the Western Christian empire. It’s bigger than the British empire, the American empire. It’s the sum of all the Christian empires for nearly 900 years. And America is the last one.

And when the last one changes and declines, which it’s in, it will be very rapid, it’s the end of the whole system. At the same time the system that rises challenges far quicker as it moves into the vacuum created by the old system, and that’s the East. The surprise will be the rate of that change. And we view the new administration in America as new hope. Unfortunately, if you look at historical precedents of underclass and the mechanisms of an underclass actually coming to the fore demographically, it is not new hope, it’s the beginning of the end. And we’re seeing that very quickly take place. –  Link to Video

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

— Proverbs 14:34 RSV

Paul Ryan on the steep climb to reclaim the American Idea – Health Care Vote – Madam speaker, there is a lot wrong with this bill [Health Care]. We know the problems with its cost. We know it doesnt really reduce the deficit. We know that it increases health care premiums. …  –  Link to Video

Paul Ryan raises a point of order: “This bill is the mother of all unfunded mandates” – Congressman Ryans point of order would remove the approximately $20 billion in unfunded mandates on states, as well as small businesses, individuals and health care providers.  –  Link to Video

Health-care ‘trickery’ called overthrow of Constitution – ‘This makes Watergate look like Romper Room’ – America’s system of government based on the U.S. Constitution is being overthrown through illegal legislative “trickery” Congress is using to pass controversial health-care reform.

That’s the conclusion of some on the political right who are calling for the impeachment of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi along with the defeat of the health legislation. “This is the overthrow of the U.S. constitutional system, orchestrated from the White House through the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid,” said radio host Rush Limbaugh today “This is beyond rational explanation and description. This makes Watergate look like Romper Room.” At issue is the possibility that reforms pushed by President Obama and other Democrats will be approved without ever actually having a direct vote, but could be “deemed” to have been passed, then signed into law by Obama. …

“The other thing is treason media,” Bachmann told radion host Sean Hannity. “Where is the mainstream media in all of this not telling this story? This is a compelling story, that the speaker of the House would even consider having us pass a bill that no one votes on? That should laugh her out of the House and there should be people that are calling for impeachment off of something like this. That’s how bad this is. I mean, trust me. –  Link to Website

United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 7:

Section 7 – House to originate all revenue bills. Veto. Bill may be passed by two-thirds of each House, notwithstanding, etc. Bill, not returned in ten days to become a law. Provisions as to orders, concurrent resolutions, etc.

1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.

2. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the president of the United States; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the president within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

“Let every man remember that to violate the law [Constitution], is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children’s liberty.”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

Wyoming Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution  – This week, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal signed House Joint Resolution 2 (HJ0002), claiming “sovereignty on behalf of the State of Wyoming and for its citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government or reserved to the people by the Constitution of the United States.”

Freudenthal, a long-time Democrat, was previously a US attorney for the Clinton administration, and is currently serving his 2nd term as Governor of Wyoming. He endorsed Barack Obama for president and is commonly referred to as one of the most popular governors in the country.

In a memorandum sent to the Wyoming legislature in late January, Freudenthal made clear his position that the federal government has gone beyond the limits of the constitution:

“For decades we have shared increased frustration dealing with the federal government and its agencies. What started out as a leak in the erosion of state prerogative and independence has today turned into a flood. From wolf and grizzly bear management, to gun control, to endless regulation and unfunded mandates – the federal government has become far too powerful and intrusive.”…

Wyoming joins 10 other states that have passed similar resolutions since last year; Alaska, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Tennessee passed theirs in 2009, and Utah, Alabama, and South Carolina have joined Wyoming in passing resolutions this year. These resolutions are part of a growing grassroots movement in state legislatures across the country as a protest to the intrusion of the federal government into state government affairs, and is an essential first step towards efforts to push back, or nullify, unconstitutional federal laws and regulations. –  Link to Website

Constitution of the United States: Bill of Rights  

Article 10 – Rights of the States under Constitution

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine – “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project,” he said in the recording. But he said most people in America oppose “socialized medicine” when given the choice. “From here, it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism ..” –  Link to Video

May Day! Americans call upon God to forgive nation – Christian and Jewish leaders are inviting Americans to join them at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to pray and repent for how the nation has turned from God. “May Day, a Cry to God for our Nation in Distress”will l take place May 1 from sunrise to 2 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

“Our nation faces what is perhaps the most serious moral crisis since the civil war as we’ve turned our backs on God and have clearly displeased him,” Dr. James Dobson said in an invitation to Americans to attend the event. “May Day 2010 is a time to come together and proclaim what God has done in the past, to pray for forgiveness and to plead for God’s mercy on all of us.”

They will gather for one purpose: repentance. The group will repent for how the nation has turned from God in every area of influence: 1) business 2) government, 3) media, 4) arts and entertainment, 5) education, 6) the family and 7) religion and invite God back into each area of Americans’ lives. –  Link to Website

TEACHERS WERE WARNED – By Lynn Stuter – There has been a growing controversy — in Rhode Island and across the nation — about the firing of the teachers at Central Falls Highs School. Teachers are in an uproar, the union is “outraged,” the parents are “outraged,” the students are surely “going to be traumatized”  …Systems education, what was implemented in every school nation-wide under Goals 2000, is a system intended specifically to coalesce the sustainable global environment agenda. …In other documents, it is made very clear that America is to become a “service economy.” With manufacturing jobs being outsourced to foreign countries left and right, the majority of the jobs remaining would be in the service sector, such as cleaning toilets, scrubbing floors, changing beds, washing laundry, flipping burgers, repairing cars, stocking shelves, running a cash register, repairing appliances and equipment.

Under such a system, innovation is not an imperative, nor is the goal of education, in public schools, to discipline the mind of the child such that the child has a vast knowledge base on which to draw in articulating a reasoned conclusion as an individual (classical education). Under systems education, it is no longer important that children be able to think and reason; only that they respond appropriately to the given behaviorally oriented prompt or trigger—the Skinnerian operant conditioning technique of punishment and reward used to train animals. …

Teachers were warned but they were so enamored with systems education holding children accountable for the demonstration of the wanted subjective behaviors that they refused to listen. So, is it really anyone’s fault but their own when children fail to demonstrate the wanted behaviors? Is it anyone’s fault but their own that they jumped on the education transformation (a.k.a., systems education) band-wagon when they had no clue what it was really all about beyond what they were told to believe, and did believe?

When people ask me about sending their children to public (i.e., government) schools, I tell them two things,

1. do not put your child in harm’s way; no child is capable of withstanding the brainwashing going on in government schools under systems education; either home school your child or put your child in a private school that does not accept public money;

2. get involved because all really does mean all, and the government fully intends that all children be subjected to systems education; thus the advent of charter schools and public schools in homes (like K-12™) to suck parents into the system.

Systems education has cost the taxpayers billions (if not trillions) of dollars to implement and sustain. In the top-heavy school administrations, full of counselors, psychologists, play-ground monitors, and aides, all seeking to pry into the minds of children, billions more are being wasted. …States are now in financial trouble. When Washington State legislators were asked what they intended to do when systems education became a financial burden on the taxpayers, as it was bound to do, not one legislator had an answer. And not one of them, beyond the Republican Senator who was castigated by his own party for letting the truth be told, has had the courage to do anything to avoid the inevitable.

Parents who tried to tell teachers, administrators and legislators certainly have the right to say “we told you so” but that does not change the bottom-line fact that children are paying the ultimate price, as is our nation and our society as a whole, for the failure to properly educate children for intelligence. –  Link to Website

“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

Ronald Reagan on American history and education – Link to Video

Teacher wins major victory for God in school – Judge scolds district for trying to scrub America’s Christian heritage – A federal judge in California has handed down a scathing ruling against a school that required one of its teachers to remove signs celebrating the role of God in American history from his classroom walls. As WND reported, math teacher Bradley Johnson had banners hanging in his classroom at Westview High School in San Diego, Calif., for more than 17 years with phrases like “In God We Trust” and “All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed by Their Creator,” only to have the principal order them torn down during the 2007 school year. But Johnson filed a lawsuit alleging the order a violation of his constitutional rights, and the teacher has now been rewarded with a court victory and a powerfully-worded ruling.

“May a school district censor a high school teacher’s expression because it refers to Judeo-Christian views, while allowing other teachers to express views on a number of controversial subjects, including religion and anti-religion?” posited U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez in his judgement. “On undisputed evidence, this court holds that it may not.”…

“Many school officials exhibit hostility towards our nation’s Christian heritage. Yet, these same officials see no problem in actively promoting atheism or other religions under the guise of cultural diversity and tolerance,” said Thompson, whose firm filed the lawsuit on Johnson’s behalf. “Hopefully, Judge Benitez’s decision will help put an end to this double standard. It is the responsibility of our public schools to educate students on the crucial role Christianity played in our nation’s founding.”

The charge of a double standard was not lost on Judge Benitez. “Fostering diversity,” Benitez ruled, “does not mean bleaching out historical religious expression or mainstream morality. By squelching only Johnson’s patriotic and religious classroom banners, while permitting other diverse religious and anti-religious classroom displays, the school district does a disservice to the students of Westview High School, and the federal and state constitutions do not permit this one-sided censorship.” –  Link to Website  

“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ; cursed be all that learning that is not coincident with the cross of Christ; cursed be all that learning that is not subservient to the cross of Christ.”

— John Witherspoon (1722-1794) Educator, Economist, Minister, Writer & Founding Father

Government, Yes! God and Parents, No! – by Dennis Prager – One of the major differences between the right and the left concerns the question of authority: To whom do we owe obedience and who is the ultimate moral authority? For the right, the primary moral authority is God (or, for secular conservatives, Judeo-Christian values), followed by parents. Of course, government must also play a role, but it is ultimately accountable to God and it should do nothing to undermine parental authority.

For the left, the state and its government are the supreme authorities, while parental and divine authority are seen as impediments to state authority. …

That is why the further left a government or an ideology, the more it has opposed religion. The first targets of Lenin and Stalin were churches, synagogues and clergy. At the modern Western university, the epicenter of leftist ideology, the same has held true. A clear, if unstated, goal of modern liberal arts education is that as few college graduates as possible hold values rooted in traditional Judaism or Christianity.  –  Link to Website

God has a Plan & Now America & the World are in Trouble – by Bill Haymin – … As we have entered this new decade and year, things have obviously and dramatically changed (if we have been paying attention.) We are witnessing what the Scriptures have said about the “Last Days.” The changes have been so swift; that most of us are unable to catch up to what has been happening and assimilate them. We are unable to process those changes and to assimilate and use the prophetic warnings that the Scriptures have said would take place in our day because it´s happening so fast. Just as surely as the Scriptures say there will come a time for all men to die, God also fulfills His word about the end times that no living person or spirit being can change. This brings to mind the valiant efforts of many American patriots in trying to stem the tide of those working feverously to rebuild the world into their beastly image. Revelation 13

Many of us are trying to stop the ominous changes that are happening, by thinking that if we can just get this candidate or that candidate into political office, we can turn America around. There have been many Tea Party groups and political meetings around the country discussing how to do this. Now don´t misunderstand what I´m about to say: It is always in the best interests of the people to keep a diligent and critical eye on those whom we elect to represent “we” the people. It is still our calling as citizens of a once Republic, to stand up for righteousness and try to keep what freedoms we have left. But, in an era long since gone, there was a time that we could have stopped the narrow stream of political, moral and spiritual decay and corruption that our fathers saw coming down like a raging river into our day.

We must realize and come to grips with the reality that we have entered the time of “Jacob´s trouble” that the Scriptures have said would come to pass. We have entered, and are now living in a different day and we can´t continue to rely on men and the institutions that once held secure our freedoms. We cannot do the things that we have taken for granted, because all those things are in the process of being radically transformed right before our very eyes. Our way of life is being allowed by heaven to be taken away. …”God doesn´t have coincidence, God has plans, and when you can figure out what the plan is, all of a sudden you go, oh that´s not a coincidence, that´s part of the plan. That´s what God has shown me so that I can believe Him and trust Him so that when He quickly brings it to pass I´ll be prepared, I´ll be a part of what it is. …. –  Link to Website

One young persons view on the indocuration and social-engineering in the Public School system – Link to Video

Alpine School District Endorses “Christ was a Vampire” Author – (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) I am a parent of 4 children in Alpine School District (ASD) in Utah and I just found out some alarming things that our district is promoting. Please take the time to read this as we need to come together as a community to fix a monumental problem which has crept into our local district. …

Many are aware that our country’s leaders are trying to transform this nation into democratic socialism. You already know that one of their main techniques is to indoctrinate school children around the nation into gradually believing Progressive ideology and move away from our great Constitutional heritage. I moved here in the heart of a conservative city and state from California hoping for a better education and environment for my children. However, I was shocked to find out recently that our own Alpine School District has been aligning itself with people who believe that we are NOT a great God-inspired Republic. They are teaching that our Founding Fathers were wrong in establishing a Republic, that the Constitution was set up by wealthy elitists who only wanted gain for themselves and that we should transform our Republic nation into a social and political Democracy by teaching this false doctrine to our children. They even went as far as linking their Mission Statement page with a California Green Party candidate who believes Jesus is a vampire. …

Last week my daughter’s 6th grade history teacher was falsely teaching the class that the United States of America is not a Constitutional Republic but a Democracy even when my daughter corrected him twice. One of his main jobs at the school is to teach the Constitution to all 5th and 6th grade students. He also told her that a book she was reading made up of quotes from our Founding Fathers about the Constitution was “pure science fiction”. Because she was not being challenged in any of her subjects and learning false ideas about our country, we decided to check her out of Alpine School District.  As we walked into the district office, my daughter and I were shocked to be greeted by a huge sign spanning about 30 feet down the hallway in 12 inch high letters that said: “Enculturating the Young into a Social and Political Democracy”  

I immediately wondered why the school district’s motto wasn’t “We Strive for Excellence in Education” or something similar. Nothing about education, only politics. I don’t want the schools teaching my children about politics or enculturating them into any other belief system other than what we teach at home. Enculturating is a brand new word invented by Progressives which means changing someone’s core belief system. –  Link to Website

“We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”

— Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

“A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”

— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of Independence

Survey asks students when they lost virginity – Results in newspaper show classes counseled ‘why not’ be sexually active. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) A team of lawyers who advocate for parental rights is working with parents whose children attend Ventura High School in Southern California to raise a formal objection after teachers had students fill out a survey on sex with questions such as “Are you sexually active” and “If not, why not?”… “The parents have tried to reason with school officials about this, but so far administrators have failed to grasp that giving the students this survey without prior written notice and consent was illegal,” he said. –  Link to Website

“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion…are undermining the solid morals, the best security for the duration of free government.”

— Charles Carroll (1737-1832) Founding Father

Who Funds the Radical Left In America? – Very few Americans realize there exists a large network of far left philanthropists and foundations in America dedicated to destroying the American way of life, our Christian-based culture and our free enterprise system. They seek to remove America from its constitutional foundations and move it toward a European-style socialism. …-  Link to Website

“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness.. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”

— Rev. Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) Author, minister and teacher

“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure than they have it now, They may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies.”

— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

George Washington takes the Oath of Office (Inauguration)

George Washington’s Oath of Office

     I George Washington do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. “So help me God.” –  Link to Video

CNN Poll: Majority say government is a threat to citizen’s rights – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans …Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. …According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broke. –  Link to Website

“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.”

— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

Congressional Performance – 71% Give Congress Poor Rating – Rasmussen Reports – Nearly half of Democratic voters (48%) now give Congress a poor rating, up 17 points since January. The vast majority of Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party also give Congress poor ratings. Seventy percent (70%) of voters say Congress has not passed any legislation that would significantly improve life for Americans, up 10 points over the past month and the highest level of dissatisfaction measured in regular tracking in over three years. … Three out of four voters (75%) report being at least somewhat angry at the policies of the federal government. Part of the frustration is likely due to the belief of 60% of voters that neither Republican political leaders nor Democratic political leaders have a good understanding of what is needed today. …The plurality of voters (42%) continues to believe most members of Congress are corrupt, a result that has remained fairly consistent over the past several months. … In 2010, Republican candidates have consistently held an advantage over Democrats in the Generic Congressional Ballot. –  Link to Website

“Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant? fidelity from the  profligate?  assiduity and application to public business from men of a  dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the management of public revenue to one who hath wasted his own  patrimony? Those, therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and will soon pay dear for their folly.”

— John Witherspoon (1722-1794) Educator, Economist, Minister, Writer & Founding Father

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defenses are impregnable from without.  It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE.”

— Joseph Story (1779-1845) Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice & influential commentators on the U.S. Constitution

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann at CPAC – The Founding Fathers chose greatness, not decline.

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“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations binds, can have any real good will towards men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of society? … The Scriptures tell us ‘righteousness exalteth a nation.’”

— Abigail Adams (1744-1818) Wife of John Adams, Mother & Patriot

Imprisoning Kids – This is is a MUST watch for everyone here. Watch the entire show, it doesn’t disappoint! – John Stossel – Stossel does a fabulous job exposing what’s wrong with our ‘government’ (monolopy) schools. (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) –  Link to Video

“To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible, the observation which Cicero makes respecting that of his own country is much more emphatically applicable, that ‘it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.’”

— John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848)  6th President of the United States

“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.”

— Noah Webster (1758-1843)  Father of the Dictionary & American Patriot

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural rights –  Link to Video

— Judge Andrew Napolitano – In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of freedom of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger. You are that generation, this is your role; this is the time—freedom must be defended!

United States Debt Clock & Unfunded Liabilities – Debt Bondage – Link to Website

“I place economy among the first and most important of virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.” “To preserve our independence we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. ….If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of caring for them, we will be wise.”

—   Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S

“The borrower is the slave of the lender.”

—   Proverbs 22:7

“The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of our Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.”

— Hugo Black (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice

Were all of America’s Founding Fathers racists, pro-slavery, and hypocrites? – One of the most frequent tactics employed to discredit America’s Founding Fathers is to say that the Founding Fathers were all pro-slavery racists and hypocrites. Therefore, why should we care what their views were on any subject? African-American professor Walter Williams wisely explained the use of this tactic in these words:

“Politicians, news media, college professors and leftists of other stripes are selling us lies and propaganda. To lay the groundwork for their increasingly successful attack on our Constitution, they must demean and criticize its authors. As Senator Joe Biden demonstrated during the Clarence Thomas hearings, the framers’ ideas about natural law must be trivialized or they must be seen as racists.”

These people paint a false picture of the Founding Fathers and the issue of slavery. The historical fact is that slavery was not the product of, nor was it an evil introduced by the Founders; slavery was introduced in America nearly two centuries before the Founders. … –  Link to Website

How Education is Deliberately Dumbing You Down – (Undermining God, the Constitution and deliberately dumming down students and undermining traditional values in public schools) (The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED) Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration.  At that time, she blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

— Benjamin Bloom – “The purpose of education is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students.”  “Good teaching” is defined as “challenging the students’ fixed beliefs and getting them to discuss issues.” (To undermine God, founding princilpes, traditional values and beliefs)

The second video is from Jay Leno’s “Jay Walking” feature and is clearly a biased, but nevertheless amazingly humorous, example of how ignorant many Americans are on so many basic topics. – Link to Website

“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals and morals are the only possible support of free governments. Therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.”

— Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Statesman, Diplomat, writer of the final draft of the Constitution

“A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins!”

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.”

— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— Proverbs 22:6 RSV

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”

— Mark 9:42 RSV

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.”

— Hosea 4:6-7 RSV

Charlotte Iserbyt – The deliberate dumming down of america –  Link to Website

Free book, The deliberate dumming down of america –  E-Book Download

Tea Party in danger – A political firestorm is inevitable as the Tea Party is quietly targeted for capture! – by Dale Robinson-  …Therefore, I am calling on all Tea Party members to cling fast to our core beliefs and tell the world: What we believe is non-negotiable. What are the Tea Party Non-negotiable core beliefs?

Illegal Aliens are illegal.

Pro-Domestic Employment is indispensable.

Stronger Military is essential.

Gun ownership is sacred.

Government must be downsized.

National Budget must be balanced.

Deficit Spending will end.

Bail-out and Stimulus Plans are illegal.

Reduce Personal Income Taxes a must.

Reduce Business Income Taxes is mandatory.

Intrusive Government Stopped.

English only is required.

Traditional Family Values are encouraged.

Common Sense Constitutional Conservative Self-Governance is our mode of operation.

 ….and Yes, we are a Christian Nation!

The Tea Party must stay independent or we shall die. – Link to Website

“A freeborn people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties.” (after the Boston Tea Party)

— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed. It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. …Human beings, we may be assured, will generally exercise power when they can get it; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular governments, under pretences of public safety or high public interest. It may be very possible that good intentions do really sometimes exist when constitutional restraints are disregarded. There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.”

— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

Take Supplements or Herbs? Not For Long if McCain Has His Way! – Link to Website

“Unless we put medical freedom into The Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic. …The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.”

— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of Independence

Indoctrination Disguised as Education Reform – Apparently, $4.35 Billion is not enough for education reform — at least, not the kind that President Obama and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan are pushing. … Texas Governor Rick Perry, one of the few staunch opponents of the program, stated that it would be “foolish and irresponsible to place our children’s future in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and special interest groups thousands of miles away in Washington, virtually eliminating parents’ participation in their children’s education.” He added that if Washington truly cared about education, it would give the money to the states with “no strings attached.” Among those “strings attached” is a commitment to abandon local curricula to adopt unproven, national curriculum standards. …

One of the most startling facets of Race to the Top is its attempt to get rid of as many traditionally educated teachers — i.e., those who go to a college to earn a master’s degree in education — and replace them with “alternatively” certified teachers; and, not just any alternatively certified teachers, but those certified by AmeriCorps’ Teach for America (TFA) and Teaching Fellows, which it runs jointly with the New Teachers Project (TNTP). … Replacing traditionally educated teachers with AmeriCorps-certified teachers. –  Link to Website

Marriage Penalty in the U.S. House and Senate Health Care Bills – (Congress works to destroy the institution of marriage through excessive taxes) – “The House and Senate Health Care bills contain a huge marriage penalty for the American middle class.” Allen Quist said today.

 “There is a huge middle class marriage penalty hidden in the House and Senate health care bills. The penalty becomes evident by evaluating questions like the following: How much would two single people, each making $30,000 per year, pay for private health insurance if the Pelosi bill was in effect now? The answer is $1,320 per year for both individuals combined (based on the premium limits and subsidies outlined on the charts below). But how much would they pay for the same level of insurance under the Pelosi bill if they were to marry? Their combined cost would then be about $12,000 a year (the estimated cost for private insurance).

“The Senate bill stipulates that two unmarried people, 52 years of age, with private insurance and a combined income of $60,000, $30,000 each, will pay a combined cost of $2,483 for medical insurance. Should they marry, however, they will pay a combined cost of $11,666 for insurance—a penalty of $9,183 for getting married.  –  Link to Website  –  Link to Website

“A wise man’s heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool’s heart toward the left. Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.”

— Ecclesiastes 10:2-3  RSV

German homeschoolers’ political asylum in America exposes the EU Gulag – The case of the homeschooling couple from Germany who were granted political asylum in the United States, …becomes even more interesting if one reads the remarks of the man who granted the Romeikes asylum, Immigration Judge Lawrence O. Burman, of Memphis, Tennessee.

Burman said: “We can’t expect every country to follow our constitution. The world might be a better place if it did. However, the rights being violated here are basic human rights that no country has a right to violate.” He observed: “Homeschoolers are a particular social group that the German government is trying to suppress. This family has a well-founded fear of persecution… therefore, they are eligible for asylum…” … Those last remarks might have been uttered in 1933. Do we truly realise the significance of what has happened? Do we understand that, as citizens of the European Union, we now belong to a totalitarian state from which fleeing citizens are being granted political asylum in the United States? Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, tyranny is back in business in Germany.

Judge Burman added that the scariest thing about this case was the motivation of the German government. He said that, rather than being concerned with the welfare of the children, it was trying to stamp out parallel societies. Making his court order, the judge voiced concern that, although Germany was a democratic country and an ally, the policy of persecuting homeschoolers was “repellent to everything we believe as Americans”.

That offers a useful insight into how Americans, living in a free country, view the creeping totalitarianism that has engulfed Europe. … –  Link to Website

Biblically Correct Versus Politically Correct: A Perspective – Respected pastor and author Charles Stanley once said, “We have no obligation before God to be politically correct.  Rather, we have a divine obligation to be Biblically correct –– because if we’re Biblically correct, people’s lives will change and we’ll positively impact society.”

This is a hard-hitting statement, especially in a postmodern culture that tends to tiptoe around difficult issues in the name of being “PC” and not “offending” anyone of a different persuasion.  Christians often find themselves in this quandary — many of us have experienced similar situations, whether feeling uncomfortably silent at a dinner party where friends or co-workers railed against the “intolerance” of people of faith, or experiencing waves of nausea when even fellow “Christians” deny the existence of absolute truth and preach that all religions or doctrines are valid in the eyes of a vague God.

The dilemma of choosing between political correctness and Biblical correctness is nothing new under the sun.  In fact, numerous historical examples exist in the pages of the very book that unapologetically contradicts political correctness — the Bible.  One such example, 2 Chronicles 14, is a fascinating account of part of the life of King Asa of Judah. –  Link to Website

Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points (God out, government in on virtually all on your health care decisions) –  Link to Video

The State of the Nation: I am afraid:  By John W. Whitehead – Ominous developments in America have been a long time coming, in part precipitated by “we the people”-–a citizenry that has been asleep at the wheel for too long. And while there have been wake-up calls, we have failed to heed the warnings.

Just consider the state of our nation: We’re encased in what some are calling an electronic concentration camp. The government continues to amass data files on more and more Americans. Everywhere we go, we are watched: at the banks, at the grocery store, at the mall, crossing the street. This loss of privacy is symptomatic of the growing surveillance being carried out on average Americans. Such surveillance gradually poisons the soul of a nation, transforming us from one in which we’re presumed innocent until proven guilty to one in which everyone is a suspect and presumed guilty. Thus, the question that must be asked is: can freedom in the United States flourish in an age when the physical movements, individual purchases, conversations and meetings of every citizen are under constant surveillance by private companies and government agencies?

We are metamorphosing into a police state. Governmental tentacles now invade virtually every facet of our lives, with agents of the government listening in on our telephone calls and reading our emails. … We are plagued by a faltering economy and a monstrous financial deficit that threatens to bankrupt us. Our national debt is more than $12 trillion (which translates to more than $110,000 per taxpayer), and is expected to nearly double to $20 trillion by 2015. The unemployment rate is over 10% and growing, …

Our representatives in the White House and Congress bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent. Many of our politicians live like kings. Chauffeured around in limousines, flying in private jets and eating gourmet meals, all paid for by the American taxpayer, they are far removed from those they represent. What’s more, they continue to spend money we don’t have on pork-laden stimulus packages while running up a huge deficit and leaving the American taxpayers to foot the bill…

The corporate media, increasingly acting as a mouthpiece for governmental propaganda, no longer serves a primary function as watchdogs, guarding against encroachments of our rights. Instead, much of the mainstream media has given itself over to mindless, celebrity-driven news, which bodes ill for our country. …Americans have largely lost the ability to ask questions and think analytically. Indeed, most citizens have little, if any, knowledge about their rights or how their government even works. For example, a national poll found that less than one percent of adults could name the five freedoms protected in the First Amendment. … – Link to Website

Thirty-Seven Years After Roe v. Wade, a Disenfranchised ‘Silent Generation’ – An entire generation of Democrat voters failed to vote in Massachusetts Tuesday night. The same generation of Democrat voters failed to thwart recent GOP victories in New Jersey and Virginia. But no one’s reporting on them. They’re the silent generation.

The Silent Generation is between the favored ages of 18 and 37 years old. There are over 49 million of them, and they make up approximately 15% of the American population, certainly enough to swing any election in any state in any race. Problem is this: they have been denied the right to vote in these elections. That’s because, thanks to Roe v. Wade, which was decieded 37 years ago today, they’re not even here.

Ironically, the ACLU does not concern itself with them. They are never interviewed and are rarely mentioned by Democrat candidates. No one knows for sure how many of them are Democrats or Republicans or independents for that matter because they are invisible and unregistered. They are those Americans, those voters, who have been aborted since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized their demise.  They cannot vote because they were denied lives as American citizens. – Link to Website

Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny – … Mind Over Matter – Just as your epigenome controls the expression of disease –– your mind controls your epigenome. Therefore, your mind controls your healing. – Link to Website

Majority of Americans, and Nearly 6 in 10 Young Adults, View Abortion as Morally Wrong – On the eve of the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new survey shows a strong majority of Americans believe abortion to be “morally wrong.”

“Millennials” (those 18-29) consider abortion to be “morally wrong” even more (58%) than Baby Boomers (those 45-64) (51%). Generation X (those 30-44) are similar to Millennials (60% see abortion as “morally wrong”). More than 6 in 10 of the Greatest Generation (those 65+) feel the same. … – Link to Website

“Well I believe we [our generation more pro-life] are because all of us were born since Roe vs. Wade and we realize that our birth was not guaranteed.”

— Unknown

Holy smokes! Psalms banned, but witchcraft OK – Supreme Court endorses ‘hostility’ toward Christianity – A lower court’s “hostility” towards Christianity will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court today refused to intervene in a school district’s censorship of a kindergartener’s choice of literature for a class reading. … – Link to Website

Scott Brown: the tea party’s first electoral victory – Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts special senate election could realign the Republican Party around clean government, fiscal discipline, and respect for the Constitution….His very persona suggests he has what it takes to stand up to the corruption of political practices and take on the Democrat establishment. Proud of driving a truck, Brown is the nemesis of elitists and openly offers himself as a lightning rod for a national referendum on the Democrat’s filibuster-proof majority in the US Senate.

With a single stone, this David intends to take down Goliath and kill the unpopular healthcare bill. But he’s not content to join a party of “No,” either. He voted for bold healthcare reform in Massachusetts, and he’s said he wants to start fresh on a new reform bill in Washington – one that’s undertaken with transparency and bipartisan input.  – Link to Website

Shocking U.S. Senate Hearing Confirms Dangers of Cell Phones – Witnesses before a Senate Committee testified about research into cell phone use and its potential impact on human health, as well as the potential side effects such as brain and salivary gland tumors. ….The second video above by Electromagnetichealth.org, filmed at Columbia University Law School at a presentation on Wireless Hazards, explains how wireless radiation creates cognitive problems, damages DNA, diminishes fertility, causes disorientation and navigation difficulties for birds, bees and other wildlife, and may contribute to Bee Colony Collapse, which, if not reversed, will jeopardize the future of life on earth. – Link to Website

Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked to Organ Failure, Study Reveals – (Man playing God with the food supply) – In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. …

Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. –  Link to Website

The Risks of Genetically Modified Foods – Seeds of Deception talk by Jeffrey R. Smith – Link to Video

Seeds of Deception – Link to Website

Tea Party Activists Gaining Steam Across the Country – From Florida to California, Conservatives Are Challenging Moderate Republicans. So-called “tea party patriots” are members of a political movement sweeping America whose core beliefs center around fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. …”I think Republicans definitely dismiss this at their peril. I also think Democrats, by trying to marginalize it, underestimate the anger out there,” political analyst Matthew Dowd said. …

“The tea party aligned with what I was already feeling with three core values, which are fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets,” Whigham said. The nationwide movement has no identifiable leader, but there is plenty of star power. Conservative television news talk show host Glenn Beck has given a face to the movement. And former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is confirmed to speak at two upcoming tea party conferences in Nashville and San Antonio. Because they have growing influence, moderates are scrambling to show their support. Rob Simmons, a former Connecticut congressman who is running for Senate, recently added a tea bag to the copy of the U.S. Constitution he always carries in his pocket. Think of it as armor, proof of his solidarity with the tea party. –  Link to Website

North Magnetic Pole Moving Due to Core Flux – North Magnetic Pole Is Shifting Rapidly Toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core, new research says. …The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year. In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.  –  Link to Website

The True Purpose of Tongues –  Q: What is the true purpose of tongues? A: There are two primary purposes for speaking in tongues. One is to edify the individual believer who exercises the gift of tongues in private devotional time with God. The other is to combat racial and cultural prejudices among different people groups and thus promote Christian unity amongst diverse peoples. I believe this purpose is clearly depicted in the book of Acts.

In Acts 1:8, Jesus commanded his followers to take the gospel to “the ends of the earth.” These first followers were all Jews who didn’t believe non-Jews could become Christians without undergoing Mosaic rites such as circumcision. Unless this conviction was discarded, the gospel could not penetrate the non-Jewish world. When Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit upon Gentiles at Caesarea, tongues accompanied the outpouring just as it did at Pentecost. These tongues were for the sake of the Jewish Christians who didn’t believe Gentiles were eligible to be received into the Church without submitting to Jewish rites. …

The Jewish leaders of the early church accepted Samaritans, Gentiles, and the polyglot society of Ephesus into the church because they heard them speak in tongues just like the one hundred twenty at Pentecost. Tongues were God’s sign that He would not tolerate racism in His family.

History demonstrated this in the 1906 revival at Los Angeles’ Azusa Street. It was no accident that God chose a half-blind African-American pastor to lead the revival. Racism was still rampant in America less than fifty years after the Civil War. When the revival at Azusa Street was launched, powerful demonstrations of God’s presence drew people from all races and walks of life. They worshipped together; they cried together; they laughed together; they were one in Spirit together.

For a short time there was genuine evidence of the equality of people groups within the Christian community. This is the purpose of tongues — to unite the church of Christ. What a shame it is that our erroneous doctrine today has made them a divisive force within the church. –  Link to Website

Idaho GOP gubernatorial candidate Rammell expands on controversial prophecy in YouTube video – Idaho GOP gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell says saving the U.S. Constitution requires God’s help. Rammell’s thoughts are captured in a nine-minute excerpt from a recent news conference now available on YouTube.  

“America would not exist if it wasn’t for the divine hand of providence in not only intervening to win the Revolutionary War but in writing the inspired words of the Constitution,” Rammell says in the video. “To think that we can save the Constitution without God’s help when the government of the United States is corrupt is absurdity.”

Adds Rammell: “We are in America’s second Revolutionary War to save our freedom, which we paid for with blood. We need God’s help and I’m not ashamed to ask for it.” Rammell says he has invited about 100 Mormon men to a Jan. 19 meeting in Idaho Falls to discuss the “White Horse Prophecy,” which some attribute to Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith. The prophecy, which is not embraced by top Latter-day Saints Church officials, holds that the Constitution “will hang … by a single thread”…  –  Link to Wesite

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High-Ranking Soviet Defector Endorses Ohio Congressional Candidate Paul Schiffer, Warns of Socialism of Democrats – The highest-ranking Soviet and Eastern Bloc Intelligence Official ever to defect to America (in 1978) –– who went on to help Ronald Reagan win the Cold War –– has endorsed Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 16th Congressional District. Pacepa escaped Romania to become an American citizen.

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa’s statement follows: “Thirty-one years ago I paid with two-death sentences-–from Communist Romania-–for my desire to break with Marxism and become a citizen of the greatest country on earth. All former Soviet satellites have now ‘defected’ from Marx’s socialism, which had transformed a third of the world into an abysmal 20th century feudalism. Great Britain, Italy, Germany, France and Greece have also abandoned their ruinous experiments with Marx’s socialism.

“Alas, now the virus of Marxism with its fatal governmental takeovers has started infecting our shores. If the Democratic Party has its way, it will transform the United States into a socialist country in all but name. The 2010 elections could prevent that catastrophe from happening.”  –  Link to Website