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Don Henderson lived in his van and walked the streets of Federal Way Wa for eight years and lived out in proxy the discipline the Lord has for the United States. This is his story and the words the Lord gave him to share with Amercia and how He will correct all the problems that are being brought on by the ingratitude being shown by the most blessed nation on earth and how this nation is ignoring the Creator.

Iran is ready to take "real and decisive" action if Israel attacks its nuclear facilities, a senior Iranian parliamentary official says. The remarks by Alaeddin Broujerdi, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, came after US Vice President Joe Biden signalled that Washington would not try to prevent any such Israeli assault. "Both the US and Israel are aware of the consequence of an erroneous decision," Broujerdi told reporters at the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday. "I believe our response will be real and decisive," Broujerdi said. He declined to elaborate. Israel fears Iran...

Conservative backlash against Palin @ 1:45 pm by Eric Zimmermann Sarah Palin's resignation has left political analysts scratching their heads. But it has also left conservative activists and bloggers confused, frustrated, and often times upset. Some of Sarah Palin's biggest fans now openly wonder if she has any shot at the 2012 nomination. Ed Morrisey at Hot Air calls Palin's move "easily the most bizarre resignation I've seen, and just about senseless." Citing her lame-duck status as a reason to resign was "the most incoherent part of the entire statement," Morrissey ads. Using this logic, Palin should never have run...

Drastic situations demand drastic measures. Democratic Socialists running Washington DC have the American people on their heels as they launch a continuous barrage of attacks on all fundamental American principles, values and rights. Their strategy of attacking on every front all at once makes it impossible for the average American to keep up, much less defend against the daily attacks on an issue by issue basis. Democratic Socialists are working at a fever pace to dismantle the United States of America before the people can mount a viable defense, and they are taking no prisoners. They are well organized and...

Mark McKinnon and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell share a laugh over the McCain advsior's remark about Sarah Palin.

Barack Obama has now made a statement far more significant than any of the stale rhetoric of his Inauguration Address. It is both a major upheaval in US foreign policy and a frightening insight into Obama’s total incapacity for office. If you are American, read it and weep. If you are not an American, but have concerns about freedom, be very afraid. In response to the crisis in Honduras and the growing turmoil in Latin America, the President of the United States has now said: “The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling...

Psalm 98:1 O Sing Unto the LORD a New Song; For He hath Done Marvelous Things: His Right Hand, and His Holy Arm, Hath Gotten Him the Victory.

MSNBC anchor and Keith Olbermann wannabe David Shuster is so beside himself with glee over Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation that he's eager to let the whole world -- or at least some 18,000+ followers on Twitter -- know about it 140 characters at a time. In the process Shuster spewed ad hominem attacks on Palin backers on Twitter and endorsed as a knee-slapper a July 3 slam of Palin penned by veteran Democratic hack Paul Begala. Earlier Sunday evening the regular substitute host for "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" snickered over Palin's choice of legal counsel and his "intellectual vapidity." Those...

Mark McKinnon, vice chairman of Public Strategies & President of Maverick Media, wrote a great article for The Daily Beast titled "How her mind works" about the time he spent with Governor Palin.

Alexandria, VA – New polling data released today from Gallup and Rasmussen caused Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell to issue a challenge to the liberal media: Report the facts. Americans are growing vastly more conservative as voter approval ratings tank to their lowest levels for the most radically liberal President in our nation’s history: • Gallup – “Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%.” In fact, Gallup also cites that “more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views...

A barber has been publicly executed in Yemen after he was found guilty of raping and killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut. Pictures of the execution Monday in the capital of San'a showed hundreds of people gathered around as Yehya Hussein was killed. The images showed the barber lying face down on a large piece of red cloth, his hands bound behind him, as Yemeni police official stood over him with what appeared to be a machine gun. According to the news agency, SAB'A, the barber was arrested in December 2008 and confessed during...

In an interview with ABC's George Stephanoupolos taped Saturday, vice president Joseph Biden said in answer to a question: "Look, Israel can determine for itself — it's a sovereign nation — what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else." Whether we agree or not? The interviewer asked. "Whether we agree or not," said the vice president. This was the first time a senior Obama administration official left Israeli the military option against Iran's nuclear sites. DEBKAfile's Washington sources note that the vice president has the reputation for fast draws which are sometimes...

Congressman Pete King (R-NY) feels we should be honoring the men and women of the Armed Forces -- and not a "pedophile" and "child molester" like Michael Jackson. Standing in front of the American Legion in Wantagh, King ripped into America's celebration of the life of Michael Jackson -- instead of the people who serve in the military. It's safe to say King wasn't one of the 1.6 million people who signed up for memorial tickets.

Smart Dog Uses Gravity for Back Scratches

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is helping the nation celebrate its birthday and his daughter Malia celebrate hers. The president on Friday morning flew to Camp David, Md., for the first part of the first family's Fourth of July celebration, including daughter Malia's 11th birthday on Saturday. He set off with friend Martin Nesbitt to meet first lady Michelle Obama, who was already at Camp David.

Interview - Athena Andreadis Crossed Genres co-editor K.T. Holt recently had the pleasure of interviewing Athena Andreadis, Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek. Read on to see what a bioscientist has to say about werewolves and other human-hybrids, settling on other planets, and human evolution both past and future. Crossed Genres: LetÂ’s talk about genetics and Fantasy. IÂ’ll just state up front that I donÂ’t believe that the sort of radical back-and-forth transformation we see with things like werewolves...

In my family I am an island, the lone conservative and sole person to ever vote Republican. This has resulted in few political discussions coming up in my presence. However, the other day while speaking to my mother — a devout leftist who regularly refers to the hosts of [1] MSLSD by their first names — the beltway sledge seeped into our conversation. I could not resist expressing disgust over the bizarre cult that has formed around our shallow and foppish president, Barack Obama. I wondered aloud why leftists seem uniformly incapable of criticizing any of their co-religionists. My mother...

La Prensa Gráfica (San Salvador, El Salv.) 7/2/09 “Narcos become hostile toward priests to halt ”criticisms”. Drug traffickers in Mexico have begun to attack clerics who have denounced drug traffic, breaking unwritten laws and honor codes in the country with the second highest number of catholics in the world. In the midst of a brutal war between narcos and the government, early in June gunmen killed a catholic priest and two seminarians. According to the Episcopal Conference of Mexico nearly 1,000 catholic priests face constant threats from the drug cartels in the whole country and at least 400 have received...

The job picture shows IT jobs suffering along with the rest of the economy, but the hemorrhaging appears to have stopped in 2Q. BY CHRIS MURPHY The hemorrhaging of IT jobs stopped in the second quarter, as the IT sector added about 44,000 jobs amid a moribund white-collar job market, the latest government surveys show. However, the IT unemployment rate, at 5.5%, remains at its worst mark in five years. The economy employs about 8% fewer IT professionals than one year ago, a 343,000 job decline, with just under 3.8 million employed today. The analysis is based on Bureau of...

The foundation of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in favor of 19 white and Hispanic New Haven firefighters who claimed they were denied promotions because of their race were clearer than the 5-4 vote would indicate. This was a simple case of government depriving workers of what they had earned through their own merit. Justices knew the story of lead plaintiff Frank Ricci, who went to extreme lengths and personal cost to overcome his dyslexia and make the cut. Lack of effort, not racism or any other -ism, separated the also-rans from the firefighters who earned promotions. As columnist George...