Free Republic

If the President of the United States does not stand for freedom, who will? In a time of crisis, with lives in the balance, in the conflict between two powerful ideologies -- one that prizes freedom, one that would strangle its people in a totalitarian grip -- an American president spoke directly to those whose lives and liberties were most threatened and told them ... What? Not that we stand with them. Not that the fists and clubs and boots that rain down on them wound us all. Not, as the founders said far more eloquently than I, that freedom...

Can anything be Christian if it is not scriptural? and Can anything be politically right if it is morally wrong? I find that the more conservative a person is in his understanding of biblical truths, the more likely he is to belong to the right-wing politically. It should, however, be understood that the terms, "right wing" and "left wing" are actually socialist terms used to describe American politics - but the word, like the word "Christian" stuck and became a descriptive label. Conversely, the less certainty that people place in the Bibles, the more likely they are to embrace a...

Another example of Soviet style propaganda dont fall for it I hope Hannity and others wont.

In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators who they accuse of being insufficiently committed to the cause. The attacks -- ranging from tart news releases to full-fledged advertising campaigns -- have elicited rebuttals from lawmakers and sparked a debate inside the party over the best strategy for achieving President Obama's top priority of a comprehensive health-system overhaul. The rising tensions between Democratic legislators and constituencies that would typically be their natural allies underscore the high hurdles for Obama as he tries to hold together a diverse,...

Angry accusations of provocative meddling in Iran's post-election upheaval by Britain, the US, and Europe have been crisply batted away by Western politicians. But the daily torrent of allegations is straining already rocky relations with Tehran and could have a lasting, deleterious impact in a range of key policy areas, principally on efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions. A seemingly orchestrated campaign to blame Iran's troubles on the West is now in full swing and it is as yet uncertain how far the regime is prepared to go. British and European ambassadors have been repeatedly carpeted by the foreign ministry....

When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew. But Katz's life could hardly be more different from that prewar eastern European culture, at least in one key respect: He is Poland's first openly gay rabbi. Born in Argentina 53 years ago to parents who fled Poland before the Holocaust, Katz is the latest rabbi to play his part in reviving a once vibrant Jewish community...

Please forgive the accurate but inflammatory headline. I just wanted to get your attention. Did I do that? Good. Because we have another Duke Rape case. And this time it’s probably not a hoax. About the author, Professor Mike Adams: ... In his writing he examines the seamy underside of Liberal campus culture. Well, here's a seamy underside that is not going to get much sunlight in the MSM. Nowhere nearly as much attention as the trumped up Duke Lacrosse Rape case. According to Adams, it seems that ... Duke University has another rape case on its hands. This one...

As the U.S. Senate now prepares to consider the cap-and-trade climate bill recently passed by the house, they will want to consider all the facts related to this landmark spending program. So far we have learned that the Environmental Protection Agency has suppressed an internal report skeptical about the wild global warming claims and now, from across the pond, we find out that a polar bear expert has been forbidden by global warming alarmists from reporting that most of those animals have actually been increasing in population during the past few years or are at optimum levels. Although you won't...

A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security... The debate has engaged a pair of powerful personalities, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, in what their subordinates describe as a turf fight over which agency should direct the use of troops to assist in the fight against Mexican cartels and which one should pay for them. At issue is a proposal to send 1,500 additional troops to the border to analyze intelligence and to...

Brigham Young University administrators on Friday lifted a long-standing block on a popular video-sharing Web site after deciding that YouTube's rich educational content justified making it available on the campus, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Almost since YouTube's inception in 2005, the university's Internet network blocked the site, even as it morphed from a quirky cache of video clips to the self-regulated media force it is today. The YouTube policy was broadly unpopular among BYU students, although many appreciated the rationale behind it. News of the ban's lifting hadn't filtered down to students as of...

Most commentary on the regional reaction to Iran's postelection strife divides Arabs into pro-Iranian and pro-American camps, a simplistic division that misses a key distinction. At the official or semiofficial level, Arab reaction to Iran's current travail is divided into three, not two, main parts: the usual handful of pro-Iranian-government actors (Syria, Hizballah, and Qatar); the surprisingly strident anti-Iranian-government stance from Saudi Arabia; and the large camp of cautious bystanders, including major actors like Egypt, which harbors a serious grudge against Tehran. Equally noteworthy is that caution, rather than reflexive support for either Iran or the street demonstrators, is also...

As the print edition of this issue of the Church News appears, it is 165 years to the day since the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage, Ill., on June 27, 1844. Today, perhaps more precisely than at any time in history, the prophecy of the visiting angel Moroni is being fulfilled that Joseph's name "should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people" (Joseph Smith — History 1:33). With the advent of the Information Age and the pervasiveness of...

A sizable majority of Americans want the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and most call her "about right" ideologically, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Senate hearings on Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David H. Souter, begin in two weeks, and 62 percent of those polled support her elevation to the court. Sotomayor, 55, is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York. If confirmed, Sotomayor would become only the third female justice and the second on the current nine-member court. But there is...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN Sultry weather failed to dampen the spirits of hundreds of Church members and full-time missionaries gathered on Saturday, June 13, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Taiwan's dedication for the preaching of the gospel. The Taiwan Latter-day Saints were assembled on the hillside overlooking Taipei where Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Quorum of the Twelve gave the dedicatory prayer on June 1, 1959. He was surrounded by a small group of Taiwanese converts and some of the earliest missionaries called to serve on the island. In his dedicatory prayer, Elder Petersen said, "Let Thy Spirit bear testimony...

Now that The House has passed the single worst piece of legislation in US history, the Cap-and-Trade Bill, a showdown in the Senate has been set. If freedom prevails and The Senate fails to pass this bill, the US will see the high water mark of Pres. Obama's honeymoon power. Like Pres. Clinton before him, Obama has overreached and the backlash could be substantial. While Obama is popular, the polls show some dark clouds on the horizon. Obama is a highly divisive figure for a newly minted President, more divisive than was Pres. Bush following his controversial election in 2000....

Worms usually come out when it rains, but this man knows another way to get them out of the ground. Gary Revell is worm grunting - an unusual method that helps him catch worms. He pounds a wooden stake, called a stob, into the ground and levels his 10-pound flat iron over the top. Then he slowly, rhythmically, rubs the iron over the stob, back and forth. He's making the ground vibrate, and after a short while, earthworms start to climb out of the soil. Gary Revell, Worm Grunter: "There's an art to it, you know. I've tried to teach...

Britain today condemned the arrest of nine employees of the British embassy in Tehran and demanded their immediate release. An Iranian news agency reported this morning that the Iranian workers had been detained for involvement in the post-election unrest in the Islamic Republic. The arrests follow a week of escalating rhetoric against Britain, which was accused by the Iranian foreign minister of flying in jet-loads of spies to disrupt Iran's presidential elections on July 12. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, denied that the mission had been involved in any post-election unrest and called for the release of the embassy staff....

Please post the ridiculous comments made in the wake of the tragic life lived by Michael Jackson

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. grew up thinking everyone has a right to be heard and that the right to vote is a near-sacred privilege. The son of a civil rights activist who fled Florida with his family when a state trooper threatened his father at gunpoint, Mr. Jackson knows firsthand the struggles to be recognized in the democratic system. But same-sex marriage, according to Mr. Jackson, is no civil right. "How dare someone piggyback on the civil rights movement?" he said. "What you really have is an elite group of people masquerading as a minority and systematically imposing their...

A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as "conservatives" than as "liberals." Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in both the 2008 elections and the 2006 elections. In a country with more conservatives than liberals, it is puzzling-- in fact, amazing-- that we have the furthest left President of the United States in history, as well as the furthest left Speaker of the House of Representatives...