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But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we Hope. Galatians 5:5 Now that the entire Establishment Attack Machine both Left and Right believes the most important person in the world to destroy is a woman, does this mean women have arrived? Does Gov Palin mean that women have reached true equality w/men and we no longer need female set asides? Apparently she is the second most powerful person in America although many would argue most powerful, we can just tell the barren liberal hags to pack up and go home w/their significant other fire...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- RIO DE JANEIRO- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been the clear winner so far in Honduras' political crisis, leading the hemispheric condemnation of the military ouster June 28 of President Manuel Zelaya while orchestrating Zelaya's most audacious attempt to regain power, analysts said. Chavez, an avowed socialist and critic of the United States, has emerged in the unlikely role as the leading champion of democracy for Honduras, though he catapulted to fame as an army colonel by trying to overthrow Venezuela's democratically elected government in 1992.

Lots and lots and lots going on today, so let me get right to it. Let me first thank all who wrote about yesterday's Tn&V, the topic of which was pro-life Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The numerous hit-jobs needed a response, and I tried my best. If you have a chance, go to www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24606.html. It is the finest rebuttal of the venomous nonsense spewed out against Palin that I've read. (And I've read a lot of 'em!) I've attached a link to the latest from NRLC concerning the attempt by pro-abortion President Obama and the equally pro-abortion Democratic leadership in...

Democratic Leader Laughs at Idea That House Members Would Actually Read Health-Care Bill Before Voting On It Wednesday, July 08, 2009 By Monica Gabriel and Marie Magleby Washington (CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference. Hoyer...

Coffin Exhumed Monday After Investigators Link Body To Connecticut Family; 2-Year-Old Found In Plastic Bag Cops: Dumping May Be Part Of Some Bizarre Grave-Digging Ritual STAMFORD, Conn. (CBS) ― Police believe the body of the 2-year-old child discovered in the Passaic River on Sunday may have been removed from a grave at a Connecticut cemetery. The body was discovered by a fisherman on the river's bank and was wrapped in a plastic bag. Officer Richard Conklin said a coffin at Stamford Cemetery was exhumed after New Jersey medical examiners linked the body to a Connecticut family. "On Monday, July 6,...

Seven people have died in a second missile strike by a suspected US drone in as many days in north-west Pakistan, officials and residents say. At least three to four missiles hit a suspected training camp for militants in South Waziristan early on Wednesday, witnesses said. At least 12 militants were killed in a similar attack in the area on Tuesday. The attacks are targeting a stronghold of Pakistan's top Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, in South Waziristan. US officials believe Mr Mehsud is providing both the Taliban and al-Qaeda with a refuge in the region. They have placed a $5m...

Jackson 5 song fitting commentary that American Culture Needs to Change

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions. The city's red light district is famed the world over for its women in tiny windows and even tinier clothing, but despite the trade being legal, many banks shy away from taking the ladies on as customers. As part of the city's "Project 1012" to remake the De Wallen neighborhood, which includes the sex district, the city council has been asked to find a way...

So many technologies of Code Encrption were used and could have been used in WW2 by both sides. David Kahn in his book THE CODEBREAKERS stated why did not the Germans, some of whom relaized that their Enigma Code Machine was far from infallible, did not adopt new dissimilar machines. Well his(Kahn's) answer was:"they did they not have another machine" That is far from true. The above are alternatives to Enigma: The Hitler-Muhle(Mill). Mill is German slang for 'typewriter'.

ATLANTA ― Words matter. Yet many politicians and diplomats, especially those in the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS), lost sight of this injunction in describing the events in Honduras in the last days as a coup d'etat. Perhaps the most misleading description appeared in a news announcement in the U.S. by National Public Radio (NPR) casting the event as a ``military coup.'' These entities might have avoided the verbal imperialism of the French language by using the well-established Spanish language phrase, Golpe de Estado. Yet both expressions mischaracterize the process leading to the removal of former...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the chief culprits in the housing crisis because they encouraged people who could not afford payments to borrow money, according to a congressional report released Tuesday. The claims in the report have long been advanced by conservatives, who argue that the Community Reinvestment Act and other federal programs fed the housing bubble that burst in 2007 and led to the economic downfall in 2008. But the report explains in detail how Fannie and Freddie -- government sponsored enterprises (GSE) that were not subject to the same oversight as other publicly traded firms -- “privatized...

... let’s talk about prostate cancer. Right now, men with the most common form can choose from at least five different courses of treatment... Some doctors swear by one treatment, others by another. But no one really knows which is best. Rigorous research has been scant. Above all, no serious study has found that the high-technology treatments do better at keeping men healthy and alive. “No therapy has been shown superior to another,” an analysis by the RAND Corporation found. Dr. Michael Rawlins, the chairman of a British medical research institute, told me, “We’re not sure how good any of...

A joke scarecrow dressed as a policeman with a fake speed radar gun was arrested by a real officer. The 7ft tall scarecrow was put on the roadside to promote a village scarecrow festival while also encouraging motorists to slow down, reports the Daily Telegraph. However, a passing policewoman thought it "inappropriate" and took it away in her patrol car within four hours of it being put up in Brancaster, Norfolk. The scarecrow was reported stolen by festival organiser Miranda Skillings, 56, who had got permission from police to put up the fake traffic officer. After three hours Norfolk Police...

The retiring general counsel for the National Education Association has complained that conservative "ba----ds" are picking on his powerful union, which boasts more than 3 million members who contributed "hundreds of millions" of dollars annually to its causes. The comments came from Bob Chanin, who gave a speech at last week's convention on the occasion of his retirement. The comments have been posted on YouTube: (Some of the language in the video will be objectionable) According to Linda Harvey of Mission America, "His prepared remarks were peppered with profanity and reflected an arrogant, in-your-face attitude about NEA's well-known political involvement....

It must be comfortable over there on the wrong side of history, because President Obama seems to have settled in quite easily. Whenever he must decide between democratic forces and those of dictatorship, he invariably sides with the world's collection of "supreme leaders," whose iron-fisted, brutally oppressive, leadership-for-life approach an American president should find uncool. But Mr. Obama doesn't just find it cool. He finds it worth affirming. From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the left of "creating chaos": chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos...

AS IF the recession hasn’t been rough enough on those near the bottom of the economic food chain, fresh bad news is on the way. Beginning July 24, the federal government will be making it more difficult for employers to hire low-skilled and unskilled American workers. Thanks to an ill-advised law enacted with bipartisan support in 2007, the cost of providing an entry-level job to individuals with few skills or minimal experience will be going up by more than 10 percent. Those who cannot find a job paying at least $7.25 an hour will not be permitted to work. Welcome...

THE detention of an Australian businessman in China on suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets is a warning about the dangers of dealing with the communist country's state-owned entities, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says Stern Hu, believed to be Rio Tinto's general manager of iron ore in China, together with three other executives from the global mining company are being detained by Chinese authorities. "This afternoon Australian officials were advised that the reason for Mr Hu's detention was that he was being detained on the suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets," Mr...

"Would you like to look inside the briefcase?" former Rep. William J. Jefferson is asked by an FBI informant on a surveillance tape played for the jury at the Louisiana Democrat's bribery trial Tuesday. "No, I would not," the congressman replies as he takes the briefcase containing $100,000 in cash from the trunk of the informant's car -- providing what the prosecution cites as clear evidence of a criminal act. Prosecutors say the July 30, 2005, payment was a bribe facilitated by Mr. Jefferson and intended for the vice president of Nigeria. In exchange for the money, American companies hoped...

Police in Germany are hunting a gang of British conmen who passed off a bag of spuds as a hoard of iPods. They convinced gullible bargain hunters to hand over the equivalent of £600 for what they believed to be a bag of MP3 players. The swindlers had shown their customers electronic goodies, including laptops and mobile phones, before agreeing the price for a bag of second hand iPods. But, after the deal was done in Braunschweig, they later opened the bag to find they had been passed off with about 2kg of potatoes. Police say they are hunting for...

More than eight months after Barack Obama was elected president, the mystery surrounding his precise birthplace is deepening as the myth-busting website Snopes.com – along with several news agencies and an Obama community blog – directly contradict the president's own claim regarding the hospital in which he was born. In an official letter signed by Obama on White House stationery, the president celebrates his birth at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. The facility has posted that letter on its website, along with video of the letter being read in public. But according to Snopes,...