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I’m taking my family on a trip this year: not across the country or even across town, but through the season of Advent. Advent, a season focused on both the joyful anticipation of Jesus’ birth and on his return, begins 4 Sundays prior to Christmas Day and ends on Christmas Eve. Celebrating Advent with my parents and church family is a cherished childhood memory. Each Sunday, we lit the candles on our Advent wreath, read scripture, and sang favorite carols. It kept me focused on the real meaning of Christmas, an antidote to the toy commercials and sugar-charged lures of...

THOUGHTS ON OUR WAR WITH ISLAM. IT IS A WAR ISN’T IT? “Macbeth will not be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.” Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1, Shakespeare The bard himself told us that the incredible can happen. For some time now, I’ve been trying to write about one of my recurring fears, the surreptitious, insidious infiltration of Western Societies and ours in particular by a virus called ISLAM. The project had moved very slowly because of a feeling that readers might think me a paranoid nut-case. Dead in the water I was...

There is somebody in the the Defense Department who needs a brain transplant. According to Andy McCarthy, less than one month after an Islamist terrorist shot and Killed 14 people at Fort Hood, some brain surgeon in hired someone who promotes Islamist terrorism to lecture about Islam at Fort Hood. It's been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official...

This morning while we were going through our email we came across a notification of a comment on one of our old blog postings here on TTB. The posting that prompted the comment was our commentary on Barack Obama’s speech directed toward the leaders and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran back in March: The commenter dubbed himself “Mahdi,” which we think highly presumptuous on his part, but we suppose every man is entitled to his own delusions.

“Europe today is a powder keg,” Otto von Bismarck remarked , “and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal.” I am not going to waste your time tonight with yet another treatise on why Islam is not the Religion of Peace, Tolerance, Compassion, etc, etc. We are beyond that. Had America agonized, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, whether Shinto was actually OK but only Bushido was bad, the Greater Asian Co-prosperity Sphere would be going strong to this day. Among reasonable people, unblinkered by the dicta of political correctitude, the real score on Muhammad and his followers...

Two months ago, the Center for Inquiry sponsored a Blasphemy Contest. The results are in, and the winner is… Faith is no reason. This, it will become clear, philosophically unsound slogan was dreamt up by Ken Peters, who lives in—wait for it—California (I’ll let you know if I bump into him). Thrilled with the chant, CFI president and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay said “This entry, using only four words, summarizes nicely one of the key principles of post-Enlightenment thought. Beliefs should be based on evidence and reason. Faith is not a basis for logically sound belief.” When the CFI first...

Bastard mooslems infected Islam in Action, a blog by Christopher Logan, with malware, forcing Blogger to shut it down. The muzzies also took over Christopher’s other site, christopherlogan.org, and it now re-directs to some fetid B.S. site about “Islam is peace.” Being charitable, as those who follow the religion of blowing people to pieces typically are, the bastards also killed his computer with their malware.

My parents and I just had a wonderful time at “Hard Work U” – the school motto of College of the Ozarks. It earned that proud nickname because students there work their way through college and graduate with little or no debt. (In other words, a place after my own heart, and the hearts of others who worked their way through college and, like me, maybe took five years to finish because of work schedules!) At tonight’s patriotic event at the college we heard some amazing personal stories of heroism and sacrifice by our military veterans in attendance, including members...

Thousands of fans waited in line to hear Sarah Palin in southern Missouri. Several women spoke about their support for Sarah in this terrific video: VIDEO Her parents Chuck and Sally Heath joined her at the book signing. Sarah Palin will be in Arkansas tomorrow. Tonight, over 5,000 Missourians packed the University of the Ozarks gymnasium to hear Sarah Palin speak. The News Leader reported: Palin told an estimated crowd of 5,000 packed in Keeter Gymnasium at College of the Ozarks that despite her resignation, she is moving on “in the battle with new strategy.” Or as her father, Chuck...

Atlas reader Danielle in New Mexico made inquiries -- here's the deal: just spoke w/ Franklin County Child Services Foster Care division. I asked if I could send a gift to a specific child in care. I was asked if I was a family member. I said no. I was a concerned individual. I did not identify the child by name. I was told that I could send a gift. Just to be sure to leave it unwrapped. All gifts and mail sent to the guardian ad litem will be given to the case worker. She/he will then open and...

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama’s personalities are being split more and more with every passing presidential day.

Dr. Laurie Roth to interview Dan Zanoza regarding Springfield, Illinois Nativity Scene and attacks on the free expression of religious liberty in the public square. RFFM.org's Executive Director, Dan Zanoza, will be a guest on ...

“Luke’s Lead-up to Christmas: The Annunciation of St. John the Baptist” (Luke 1:1-25)In a few weeks we’ll be hearing one of the most familiar and well-loved passages in the Bible once again, and that is the Christmas Gospel, from Luke chapter two. But the fact that there’s a chapter two must means that there’s a chapter one before it. There is. And Luke chapter one is Luke’s lead-up to Christmas, his account of the events leading up to the birth of Christ. That’s going to be our theme for this series of midweek services, as well as for the last...

Mind-blowing. From the Denver Post: A Muslim cleric who communicated with the Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings was charged with passport fraud in Colorado in 2002. [...] U.S. Attorney David Gaouette (GOW-ette) in Denver said al-Awlaki was charged with passport fraud after a California agent discovered al-Awlaki lied on a 1990 Social Security application. The imam said he was born in Yemen, instead of Las Cruces, N.M., where he was born in 1971. But federal prosecutors said Wednesday they dismissed the charge before the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, could be arrested because they learned the charge was invalid....

Twice In the past four days Iran has thumbed its nose to President Obama and the international community's effort to prevent the terrorist regime from developing nuclear weapons. Sunday The Iranian government approved a plan to construct 10 new uranium enrichment plants, just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency voted to rebuke the Islamic Republic for building an enrichment plant in secret. Today the announcement was they will enrich uranium to a higher level on its own. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Iran will not negotiate with the West over its nuclear program. "You should know that even if...

This is a reprint of an article from October which reminds us all why we must fight and WIN in Afghanistan. This is an article that says what Obama wouldn't say and can't say. This is about the human factor, life and death, not popularity politics.

“In Global Warming We Trust?” With the Copenhagen conference on global warming approaching, I have looked for a historical context in which to couch the debate. It is difficult to find anything in recent memory and the almost religious fervor by the left to discredit global warming dissenters leaves little choice but to look at former clashes between faith and science. Few clashes were bigger than that of Galileo and the papacy.

Second, not all Gentiles are Christians. That's where the misunderstanding comes in. There are those who equate Gentile with Christian. They say that if one is not a Jew he is automatically a Christian. Not so.

It seems like everywhere you look these days while driving on the road – especially on college campuses – an odd-phrased bumper sticker with religious symbols spelling “COEXIST” can be seen. This phrase contains the spiritual ideologies of the major world religions. Every letter in the “COEXIST” phrase has a symbol representing a religious system or spiritual ideology: “C” for the crescent and star (representing Islam); “O” being dotted with the Karma Wheel (Buddhism) “E” as energy in the relativity equation (Science); “X” illustrating the star of David (Judaism); the “I” representing the pentagram (Wicca/Pagan); “S” for the Tao symbol;...

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama administration was playing along with the terrorist ruse in Lebanon when she differentiated between the military branch and a political one in Hezbollah. Clinton’s statement on the Charlie Rose Show came only 24-hours after Prime Minister Saad al-Harriri had created a cabinet of national unity, which includes two members of Hezbollah, the radical Islamist terror group. Terrorist organizations create a fake divide between political and military branches to give Western Nations "cover" to appease the terrorist groups, and still seem as if they are fighting terrorism. Its as if...

Pamela Geller in Human Events, 1 December 2009:The vise is tightening further on Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled to Florida from her Ohio home in fear for her life. Now she is in foster care in Ohio, in imminent danger of being returned to her family, and the Ohio authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer, continue to isolate her. Rifqa Bary has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list of friends who are allowed to see her. How can this...

First it was the Easter Bunny. Then it was Santa Claus. Now it's the gods of science. Despite having two non-working nipples, Percy Prescott has faithfully believed in the theory of evolution and other precepts of science. Now he finds his rock solid belief in agnosticism starting to crumble. He said the cracks began to appear about the time he read news that climatologists had hidden evidence that runs counter to global warming dogma. Prescott isn't even sure about plate tectonics anymore. "Maybe earthquakes are caused by the weight of wickedness of any given city," mused Prescott. "Although why has...

Could British politics teach us something about Sarah Palin's political future? David Frum, not my favorite conservative, recently published What the Tories Have to Teach Us in Commentary Magazine. In it, he notes that the Conservative Party in the UK, after suffering a massive defeat twelve years ago, turned its fortunes around and is now expected to return to power next year. The turning point for Britain's Conservative party may have been a single slide in a PowerPoint presentation delivered at the party conference after the 2005 election defeat. Party chairman Francis Maude showed attendees the results of an opinion...

Why won't the court listen to expert testimony on Islamic law? There is no discussion of apostasy in Islam. Seriously. Mediation between Islam and Christianity? Tell it to Mecca. I am not sure what this means. They talk about her going home but also leave open the possibility of her not going home. Get it? Me neither.

Elected Scoundrels drive Gold Higher By MrArbitrage CNBC featured another “expert” commenting on Gold today as it crossed a new threshold of $1,200 per ounce. He was bullish on it, calling for $1,800 an ounce. Yet they are still perplexed by what is driving the price because it has risen more sharply than the dollar has fallen in recent days, as though gold should only trade in perfect parity with the daily valuation of the US Dollar in relation to other fiat currencies. I don’t know why it’s so difficult to understand that it is trading not just on the...

This is one of the most moving videos I've seen regarding our goverment and its' creation

I am convinced that if Christ were physically walking on earth in this the 21st century, he would be using the Internet in wondrous and creative ways to help others in need, witness and save souls! Just as evil is being used every day in insidious and dark ways on the Internet to influence and harm the young and all ages, forces that work for good such as online Christian witnessing and evangelizing on various Christian sites, can and are, being used to bring souls to Christ.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding that the Lewiston (Maine) School District allow seventh-grader Nasra Aden to pray in school at the regularly designated times for Islamic daily prayers and in the regularly prescribed prostrated posture. The District has not been accommodating in-school prayers under the apprehension that prayers are not permitted in public schools. CAIR said it cannot accept the District’s insistence that any praying be done silently and unobtrusively. “Islam is a very vocal faith,” CAIR spokesman, Runha Amuk said. “God commands that we praise him frequently and openly. To demand silence is an insult to...

Get the feeling Reverend Manning doesn't like President Obama? Must be a racist.

The European Union usually goes out of its way to appease Palestinian Terror and prove its disdain for Israel, but the latest report goes beyond the pale even for the EU. Ha'aretz is reporting that the European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Israel and Palestine. A draft document authored by the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, Sweden, and implying that the EU would recognize a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, has been obtained by Haaretz. Jerusalem is waging a diplomatic campaign...

Today in America we have two different classes of poor: 1) the American Indigent Poor; and 2) the Capable Poor or the “New American Poor” (i.e., “The Subjective Socially Dependent”). The American Indigent Poor are those individuals who are truly helpless and indigent. These were born with physical infirmities and birth defects who suffer physical traumas or mental issues and are unable to survive through this life without help from society. Some are our valiant veterans of foreign wars and others are rejected outcasts of society. These individuals need and deserve our charity and help, and most of all we...

The WSJ calls the Swiss Minaret ban stupid, but, in my opinion, that doesn't go far enough. The ban is not only stupid; it is anti-libertarian. It is a commonly known fact that Europe is struggling with its Muslim immigrants, many of whom come from Muslim countries. These Muslim immigrants have incredible difficulties integrating into society. In Germany, Turkish immigrants still don't speak German by the third generation. Many Germans will tell you in private conversations that foreigners refuse to adapt to the European way of life and many Germans associate this refusal with Islam itself. Such expressions of opinion...

If one examines the Courts opinion in the 1962 case and cross-references it with modern arguments by groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, they will find an argument for implied compulsion where no actual compulsion exists. As articulated by Justice Douglas in his 1962 opinion, “It is said that the element of coercion is inherent in the giving of this prayer… [students in a classroom are] in a sense a “captive” audience.” This view resonates rhetorically with the contrived idea the First Amendment is intended to protect people from religion, rather than its explicit intent to protect the free...

TotalitaIRANism Sarah Carlsruh, November 30, 2009 Iran has a history of bullying its own people and the international community, an attitude exemplified today under the tight-fisted rule of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “A popular conservative newspaper critical of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been closed down for carrying a photograph of a temple of the banned Baha’i faith,” reported Reuters on November 24th, revealing the stranglehold the Iranian government has on media voice. This grip squeezes even everyday citizens with the fortitude to oppose the government. In June, more than 100 opposition figures were jailed following the election, accused of fomenting...

There is mounting evidence that the global Jihadist insurgency is fully entrenched in the USA. After the Fort Hood massacre news services seem divided between those hell-bent-for-leather on denying that it was a case of anything other than a persecuted loner “snapping” and those who proclaimed it the first “terrorist” attack on US soil since September 11th. Both were wrong. Over the last 12 months alone, we have been provided with a stack of evidence of the Jihadist insurgency inside America. Americans have largely ignored this evidence, or at least failed to “connect the dots.” I decided to go back...

Iranian thug President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: "The bottom line is we do not need a bomb. The time for nuclear bombs has ended," per AP. Then is he going to wipe out Israel with a teaspoon?

Best Buy recently removed itself from places we’ll shop by placing Islamist holidays above Thanksgiving and Christmas in things it thinks are important to celebrate. Best Buy was previously our go-to place for anything technical and electronic. The Mac we use to write this site is failing, so we’re saving up for a new computer, this time a PC, and we most likely would have bought that at Best Buy. Instead, we will be buying that new computer in 2010 at a store that does not promote Islam. On September 11th, 2001, our friend Jane was killed by Muslims in...

As Thanksgiving festivities wind down we contemplate all we have to be thankful for as free Americans! We head into the Christmas season wishing for leadership in Washington that reflects our commitment to the values and ideals that have built the freest and most prosperous and generous nation on earth. Heading into December and Tuesday’s announcement of our nation’s strategy in Afghanistan, I ask the President to reassure us that the administration is in this War on Terror to win. And I’ll pass along the following from Harold B. Estes, a 95-year-old member of the Greatest Generation: “I realize you...

With that, the United Nations partitioned Palestine...creating an Arab state and a Jewish State. (Yes Mr. Abbas it said JEWISH STATE). That day, November 29th, 1947 the Arab world declared war on the nascent Jewish State, sixty-two years later they still refuse to acknowledge that Jewish State's existence, nor will they allow her citizens to raise their children in peace:

[posted on his blog, typos corrected]. There is no need for a government in a highly developed free market society to appoint itself as "provider of healthcare coverage." None, whatsoever. The proposition would be identical to the government taking control of the restaurant and grocery businesses because there are some people who, regrettably, cannot afford to eat. To do so would undermine the market mechanism of distribution, which is quite an effective mechanism. I believe the discussion of "subsidiarity" speaks to this. Furthermore, New York City once was a shining example of what Catholicism, when practiced, can do to generously...

Well Mr. President, How is that outreach to terrorists working out for you? Today Iran provided its answer to the Presidential appeasement, they have announced they have approved a plan to build TEN new nuclear power plants. The Iranian government on Sunday approved a plan to construct 10 new uranium enrichment plants, just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency voted to rebuke the Islamic Republic for building an enrichment plant in secret. The new enrichment plants would be the same size as its main enrichment complex at Natanz, state broadcaster IRIB reported. Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran...

The Springfield Nativity Scene Committee (SNSC) will again erect a Nativity Scene that will stand in Illinois’ state Capitol Rotunda Building. Opening day ceremonies regarding the Springfield Nativity Scene (SNS) will take place between 12 Noon and 1 P.M. on December 1st in the state Capitol Rotunda located at South 2nd Street & East Capitol Avenue in Springfield, Illinois. The public is invited to attend the event. The Springfield Nativity Scene--which was originally underwritten by the Chicago-based Thomas More Society--is meant to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. This year the display is co-sponsored by Isringhausen Imports of Springfield and...

It’s Christmastime, the season for urgent cries from Christian groups who want to defend the holiday from the forces of secularism. Typical is the press release I got from the American Family Association threatening a boycott of Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic because their holiday advertising wasn’t sufficiently Christmas-y. When Gap officials said they had advertisements in the works that were Christmas oriented, the AFA took credit and suspended the boycott. “As a gesture of our ‘good will to men,’ we have decided to suspend our boycott of Gap and its divisions until we see the content of this...

I’d like to specifically request that retailers all over the U.S. stop saying “Merry Christmas” altogether. In fact, I want retailers to remove the word “Christmas” from all of their print ads, radio spots, TV spots, billboards, and in-store displays and decorations. I think it’s the least we can do for our Savior.

I would like to thank all of you for coming back over the last several months to read my story (God’s Story)…My Secret Sin. I didn’t share my story to shock anyone but my intention was to show God’s grace, and how we can trust in His Word.

“Starting Out on a Journey to Jerusalem” (Luke 19:28-40)Today is the First Sunday in Advent, and that makes it the first Sunday in a brand-new church year. And as the start of a new church year, that means it’s also the first Sunday for our main Gospel-writer for the year, which this year is St. Luke. Now on this day--the First Sunday in Advent, the first Sunday of the church year, the first Sunday in the year of St. Luke--our Gospel reading is the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. And you might ask: “Why is that?...

I only pray Rifqa gets this judge or fair minded, rational peer.. It does show that are good, decent people that understand the terrible threat and are willing to stand for American rule of law, freedom of religion and against sharia and against the pressure of the unremitting Islamic supremacists. This case gives me hope.

Stan was experiencing in jail all of these changes within his very person. From the first night, slamming his body against the cell floor in desperation, to this moment of confessing liberation, he had traveled quite the inner journey.

Another Thanxmas shopping season, another collection of news stories about social retards who don't know how to behave in public... People in other parts of the world fight over food, water or religious freedoms; we fight over DVD players and toys Store employees are to blame when two women get in a fight over a pair of discounted pajamas.  Just like... ... Teachers are to blame because our kids behave like spoiled brats, little sluts, and junior gangbangers. ... George Bush is to blame when people too benumbed by corrupt liberal governance don't know how to get out of...