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Is it just a coincidence the VP debate is scheduled during the week of prayer and fasting,, Sept 28-Oct 4! Or is God encouraging His church to pray?Please consider joining with us and setting some time aside to pray and/or fast during that week! America needs a church in revival!Please visit our website, 7DaysForOurNationJames Madison“ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.” “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon...

While we wait for John Robinson to finish feeding the hamsters that work very hard at keeping FR running (applause for the little guys) Here is a very funny commercial that was banned in the Netherlands. Worth watching while we wait! Funny YouTube - Click here

CITRA, Fla. -- Four men made some heroic rescues when a Marion County school bus was engulfed in flames after being hit by a big rig on Tuesday. The men jumped from their vehicles after the crash and said they just did what they had to do. "If God would have taken me that day, it's my time to go. I'm not afraid to die. That's (why) God put us here to help our fellow man," James Horton said. Horton was driving to Jacksonville on U.S. Highway 301, when he saw a big rig crash into the back of the...

Stanley Kurtz has been investigating the Chicago Annenberg Challenge files in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, and he has reported on his results in the Wall Street Journal. I have written before on Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist bomber, who claims to have set bombs at the U.S. Capitol, and Kurtz notes that Obama has tried to play down his long and close association with Ayers. Ayers was the cofounder of the CAC, and Obama was chairman of the board; Kurtz makes it clear that Obama worked more closely with Ayers than previously...

Never has the United States had to make such a momentous decision so quickly, except on more memorable dates such as December 7, 1941 or September 11, 2001. Is this really that urgent? Our betters tell us that the “financial meltdown” leaves us only two choices: Either put this nation in hock in unspeakable amounts to who-knows-whom for how long. Or bring on another Depression. And we must pick our poison right now -- no looking for reasonable alternatives. All the key players agree that we’ve got no time to spare; all us bit players can’t fully understand why. If...

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WASHINGTON | It could be the last battle of World War I, nearly 100 years later. A Republican congressman from Texas wants to create a memorial to the “war to end all wars” on the National Mall. But Kansas City feels like it already has that covered. Congress, after all, has designated the city’s Liberty Memorial as the National World War I Museum. It’s also a National Historic Landmark. To bolster its claim, the Missouri congressional delegation is behind legislation to ensure that Kansas City serves as the anchor for events surrounding the centennial commemoration of the war, which will...

Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.

Since our original thread may be down all day.....I am posting an alternative thread till then........ Bilious blah, blah, blah, see Democratic House Leadership for further definition....

And another poll in Michigan -- by the Marketing Resource Group of Lansing for the newsletter Inside Michigan Politics -- showed McCain leading Obama in the state, 46%-43%.

Harry Potter Author Backs Labour PM Gordon Brown faces his party conference today, after winning the backing of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. She's donated £1m to the Labour Party. Sky's Joey Jones reports from Manchester. Harry Potter joins the Labor Party    

With any luck, Britney Spears will soon be homeless. That's of course if she can sell her six-bedroom, six-bath Studio City home which is on the market for $7.9 million. The pop star wouldn't be homeless for long, however, as she is reportedly looking at a new home about an hour drive north of Los Angeles in Calabasas, California. The goal of the move is to give Spears and her two boys more room and wide open spaces.

John McCain didn’t want to respond in kind to Barack Obama’s silly and ignorant attack on McCain’s inability to use computers and e-mail, but a 527 group has decided to fill the vacuum on their own. In a 30-second spot called “Wounded Veterans”, Lt. Col. Mike Fairhead asks Obama why he attacks McCain’s war wounds...

• Lehman Brothers Chairman and CEO Richard Fuld Jr. made $34 million in 2007. Lehman (OTC:LEHMQ) filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection earlier this month. Fuld also sold nearly a half-billion –$490 million – from selling LEH stock; • Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS)paid its Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein $70 million last year. Co-Chief Operating Officers Gary Cohn and Jon Winkereid were paid $72.5 million and $71 million, respectively. • Bears Sterns (BSC JPM)former chairman Jimmy Cayne, rescued by a $29 billion Fed shotgun wedding to JPM, received $60 million when he was replaced; • American International Group (AIG) chief executive...

A banking system in crisis after the collapse of a housing bubble. An economy hemorrhaging jobs. A market-oriented government struggling to stem the panic. Sound familiar?...

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This is a strange and scary story. It’d be a thriller of a Tom Clancy novel or a Hollywood movie, but it’s real. Take a deep breath, then check it out… A tense standoff is underway in northeastern Somalia between pirates, Somali authorities, and Iran over a suspicious merchant vessel and its mysterious cargo. Hijacked late last month in the Gulf of Aden, the MV Iran Deyanat remains moored offshore in Somali waters and inaccessible for inspection. The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of...

A federal search warrant is being executed at the headquarters of Petters Group Worldwide, which has Sun Country Airlines and Polaroid among its holdings. FBI spokesman Paul McCabe confirmed Wednesday that the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the IRS criminal investigative division and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service were all part of an ongoing investigation. He says agents on Wednesday were executing the search warrant at 4400 Baker Road in Minnetonka, which is where Petters Group Worldwide is located.

Existing-home sales resumed falling in August and prices took a record drop of 9.5% from a year earlier, but inventories decreased sharply. Sales of previously owned homes declined in August, but in a promising sign the backlog of unsold homes shrank. Sales of existing homes fell 2.2% in August from the previous month to an annual sales pace of 4.91 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. The data cover sales of homes, condominiums, and townhouses. The inventory of unsold houses fell to a 10.4-month supply at the current sales pace, compared to July's 10.9-month supply. The current...