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Budget: The U.S. is on the fiscal road to ruin — with massive spending expected to create soaring deficits and mountains of debt. Don't take our word for it. Just listen to the nonpartisan think tank that advises Congress."Under current law," said the Congressional Budget Office in its long-term budget outlook, released late last week, "the federal budget is on an unsustainable path — meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run." The CBO goes on to describe our rather bleak choices: "Keeping deficits and debt from reaching levels that would...

Many clear-thinking Americans believe that Marxists are in control of our country — and that there is no reason to believe they will ever give up their power. The question at hand is what can be done to remedy the situation we as a nation find ourselves in? Dare to be a Daniel The answer is clear. The strategy for survival of any society is repeated throughout the Holy Scriptures and must be applied today. We need to enlist this vital strategy to preserve America's freedom and strength. People of faith need to persuade decent, patriotic, God-fearing Americans to turn...

Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?This was supposed to be the most transparent administration ever. Yet as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Waxman-Markey bill, the largest tax increase in U.S. history on 100% of Americans, an attempt was made to suppress a study shredding supporters' arguments. On Friday, the day of the vote, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said it was releasing "an internal study on climate science which...

I really do believe the USA needs our prayers at this time. God in the name of Jesus please forgive us all for every thought, word, deed, and intention that does not line up with your Word and your purpose for this Nation. Clean us up Lord and all things that are done in darkness bring to the light to be exposed. Help us to stand up for the principle that you founded this country on through the Founding Fathers. The ones that asked you for guidance and you gave it to them. Clean this nation up and turn it...

Clearer terminology could alleviate confusionIn the exploding field of stem cell biology, confusion pervades among some newcomers, and even veterans. The question is simple: When do we call a cell - stem cell?Some would argue that a fertilized egg is the ultimate stem cell. It is totipotent, giving rise to the embryo and extra-embryonic structures. The more fate-restricted cells of the inner cell mass of a blastocyst give rise to all body tissues and, with appropriate culture, to embryonic stem cells, which are considered to be pluripotent. Yet another term is reserved for the even more fate-restricted often multipotent stem...

Like the Israelites who sinned before GodBob and John are condemned to wander the desert for 40 years. Desperately wailing and gnashing their teeth as they seek the true meaning of Conservatism

Freepers, like many of you, I am very disappointed in the vote today. I am angered over the betrayal of this 8 Rinos that helped secure passage (of a bill they didn't have time to read). We are all angry over this. But we should channel this energy into something positive. I think we should honor these 8 Rinos who voted for this Cr@p and Tax legislation at the Tea Parties this 4th of July. Make them a focal point of the Tea Parties. Make posters mocking and ridiculing them. Perhaps even make paper dummies of them and burn them...

A visual illusion has provided clues about how monkeys recognise faces. In a study, rhesus monkeys responded to the "Thatcher effect", a strange phenomenon that makes it difficult to detect changes in an upside down face. The study, in the journal Current Biology, is the first to show this effect in non-human animals. The authors say this suggests that the ability to identify a familiar face may have evolved in an ancestor common to humans and rhesus monkeys. The Thatcher effect is named after Margaret Thatcher, because images of the former UK prime minister's face were used its first demonstration,...

Today, at least, no one can say that our legislators didn't earn their salaries. It was a rather long day in the House and it only just ended with the House approving cap and trade 219-212. Initially, in the morning, news reports expected the House to vote on the bill sometime in the afternoon. The afternoon came and went and the rumors began that the Democrats didn't have the votes to pass it. Then, we got to 5 PM ET and suddenly things truly turned surreal. John Boehner stepped to the floor. In the middle of his speech, Boehner put...

Fed Chairman Bernanke is up for reappointment next year, and the questions are beginning in earnest about how he’s handled monetary policy. Some of the best-informed people out there insist that the cause of the housing bubble and the subsequent crash was an episode of low interest rates during 2003 and 2004, as the U.S. economy was recovering from the post-9/11 recession. Alan Greenspan was the Fed Chairman at that time, but Bernanke was prominent among the Fed’s governors, and fully supported the loose policy.

Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill? This was supposed to be the most transparent administration ever. Yet as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Waxman-Markey bill, the largest tax increase in U.S. history on 100% of Americans, an attempt was made to suppress a study shredding supporters' arguments.

Definition of Marxism Vic Biorseth, http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com Definition of Marxism: The economic, social, political, pseudo-scientific philosophy, theory, belief, or system based on the works of Karl Marx of Germany. The theory seeks the elimination of the notion of private property in order to gain control of the economic "means of production" by taking it from the bourgeois (the wealthy or propertied class) for the benefit of the proletariat (working class.) His philosophy of history was called "historical materialism" in which his goal was to bring about the end of history, by means of an eventual perfect, classless, utopian society he called...

Monica Conyers, the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in a federal court in Detroit, this morning. According to court documents, in late 2007, Mrs. Conyers, president pro tem of the Detroit City Council, twice accepted envelopes filled with cash, once in the parking lot of a Detroit McDonalds. Mrs. Conyers faces up to 5 year in prison, three years supervised release and/or a $250,000 fine. Calls to an attorney for Mrs. Conyers were not immediately returned. Jackson was working as a consultant for Synagro...

During ABC's health-care session with Barack Obama the other night, our charming, articulate, exceedingly clever president essentially repeated the same answer to all the questions in roughly the same way. Leave the system alone and it will deteriorate, he said. Sure, there are some questions and problems with what we plan to do. But there has already been plenty of debate. We know what the best answers are. We are going to phase this thing in and it will be pretty much OK in the end.

List of the despicable eight. Bono Mack (CA) 202-225-5330 Castle (DE) 202-225-4165 Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835 Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361 Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572 McHugh (NY) 202-225-4611 Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761 Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765

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Text translated by R. Payne Smith, 1859. Christ, therefore, was born in Bethlehem at the time when Augustus Caesar gave orders that the first enrollment should be made. But what necessity was there, some one may perhaps say, for the very wise Evangelist to make special mention of this? Yes, I answer: it was both useful and necessary for him to mark the period when our Savior was born; for it was said by the voice of the Patriarch: The head shall not depart from Judah, nor a governor from his thighs until He come, for Whom it is...

This was back during the "Hope and Change" cult-like phenomenon when people weren't (still aren't in my opinion, but I digress) listening to his words, but how he said them:

What was once seen as preordained now seems problematic. A massive reworking of the American health care system, with government as a central player, was thought to be unavoidable with the election of Barack Obama and large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. But gradually, as the public and conservative opposition has mounted, there is a real question as to whether we actually will see health care “reform” — at least anything resembling what liberal Democrats have pined for these many years. The idea of health care reform — like “New Politics,” or “hope and change” — was most...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtKshycrCrs While most of the world is focused on the death of Michael Jackson, people in Iran continue to be slaughtered. It sends a blunt message to the West, pretty much saying, "You don't care about us, but you need to!" I wish everyone in America could see this video.