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1 Corinthians 15 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the...

Three people are arrested in New York for attempting murder and burglary after posing as promoters of President Barack Obama's healthcare plan. Suffolk County Police arrested a woman and two men faking as government insurance agents in Long Island last Friday, according to a FOXNews report. Under the guise of offering government insurance, the suspects had forced their way into the victims' house in the town of Huntington. They then shot two residents and hit another with a firearm when they refused to be extorted.

HIS NAME WAS KENNEDY. He was the preeminent figure in the Democratic Party. And he was a resolute supply-side tax-cutter. "It is a paradoxical truth," he once told the Economic Club of New York, "that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." What he had in mind, he said, was not "a 'quickie' or a temporary tax cut." He wanted nothing less than "an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes." Those were not the...

[Excerpts] Decentralization enforces pragmatism. In a competitive economy markets test firms. Decentralization creates competition and so the possibility of failure. Without failure there is no pragmatism, for experiments fail more often than they succeed. Centralization presupposes the ability of the rational mind to solve problems. It denigrates or neglects experimentation, even as it uses the rhetoric of science as its rationale. Without trial and error there is no science and no reason. There is no such thing as a priori expertise. Progressivism claims to be a movement of experts, but its claims are self contradictory. Progressivism forestalls experimentation by centralizing...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document intended to justify a six-day-long course of sleep deprivation for one CIA detainee in November of 2007. The newly declassified memo by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel mentions a secret briefing McCain and other members of Congress received sometime before October 17, 2006. The memo says the lawmakers were told about six CIA interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation....

Kenneth Melson, acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives, was in San Antonio, Texas, on August 12 for the signing of a new agreement with ranking Mexican counterparts to more effectively interdict gun smugglers moving weapons into the hands of Mexico’s drug cartels. The pact, which is designed to allow for a far greater number of serial number traces of captured weapons long kept off limits in Mexican military vaults, is part of President Barack Obama’s new push to address the problem. Controversy has erupted between Second Amendment rights advocates and gun ban advocates...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The family of an Illinois boy who was fatally shot by his friend have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a federal law that protects gun companies from most civil lawsuits. The family of Joshua Adames want the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 overturned, a move that would allow them to sue a gun manufacturer over the 13-year-old boy's accidental death.

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the...

Here is video of Sen. John Kerry today being asked on Meet the Press if Ted Kennedy would have wanted his Senate seat "to be filled by a Kennedy?" Kerry said, "Of course he would, but the people of Massachusetts will make that decision." There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether one of the Kennedys will run for the vacant seat that Ted Kennedy held for 47 years. . . . . . (Watch Video)

A misguided ideology has taken root in America and has brought this nation to the brink of collapse. A battle of two ideals has ensued, both of which have a significant impact on our national security and ultimate fate of the nation. Can America return to conservative values and save itself from the jaws of Marxism, or will it spiral down a path of self destruction guided by none other than the former Soviet Union? It can be argued that the destabilization of our culture and economy, magnified by policies of the Obama Administration, conform to KGB plans for the...

One hundred and fifty years ago, on August 27, 1859 Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, giving rise to the modern oil industry. What was sought as a replacement for depleting stocks of whale oil used as a fuel for lamps, gradually turned into the world’s most strategic commodity. Today oil supplies 40% of global energy. During its century-and-a-half long history, oil has been a source of both prosperity and global volatility. Petroleum has enabled the production of industrial chemicals, heating oil, medicines, plastics, asphalt and lubricants, all of them critical to our modern society (contrary to popular...

(IsraelNN.com) Hareidi and national-religious rabbis will meet Monday in Jerusalem to discuss ways of dealing with the Arab influx into Jewish neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem, as well as the purchasing of agricultural land in the Galilee by wealthy foreign Arabs. The rabbis are expected to call for an end to the phenomenon of sale of land and houses by Jews to Arabs. The organizer, Aryeh King, who heads the Israel Lands Fund, told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service that he is hoping to see the rabbis issue a pronouncement that sale of land and houses to Arabs is forbidden.

In today's interview with Chris Wallace, former VP Dick Cheney really goes after some of Obama policies, and reminds us of things we may have forgotten, such as the fact that there were two previous investigations of the CIA's execution of enhanced interrogation techniques, one by the Justice Department. He also clears up some of the initial reports about his relationship with former President, indicating the reports of a spat between the two are way overblown. Cheney is also not a big fan of Bill Clinton's recent trip to North Korea. Read the full interview below:

"Death makes angels of us all," wrote the author and poet, Jim Morrison. So it appears to be with the demise of the "Liberal lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy. The man whose life reads like a manual for bad behavior is, in death, being lionized by those who continue to repudiate his myriad transgressions. What kind of a country are we if we willingly blind ourselves to evil because it masquerades as virtue?

Both Islamic Hamas movement and Israel said on Sunday that an Egyptian and German-mediated prisoners swap deal aimed to free a captive Israeli soldier for the release of some 1,000 Palestinians from Israeli jails is not about to happen soon. Various media reports said over the weekend that there was a breakthrough in the indirect talks to finalize the deal. The German weekly of Der Spiegel said on Saturday a German mediator in the talks over the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit presented Hamas leaders "a new proposal." Hamas would respond to the new proposal on early September, according...

Generally speaking, Americans – as citizens of a representative democracy – are rather like children. At some point in our growth as a nation, we lost all perspective on the matter of what is necessary for our survival, and even for a respectable degree of comfort – as individuals, families and citizens –and how we should go about acquiring these things. Children have many genuine needs and even more wants, as they're still in the process of learning about and developing their system of values and work ethic. They’re completely dependent upon their caregiver for the provisions necessary to meet...

When Obama appointed Cass Sustein to be in his Shadow Government to control the White House Office of Information, was it one more step in his effort to close down free speech on the Internet?

If you've been to any tea party, then you've probably seen someone that supports H.R. 1207. That's a bill sponsored by Ron Paul that would mandate a full and complete audit. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the matter, you might be shocked. You'd probably assume that the finances and balance sheets of our own Central Bank would already be a matter of public record. Not so. The public doesn't know exactly what the central bank owes and owns. That appears to be coming to an end. H.R. 1207 is favored overwhelmingly. More than that, it gets support from a cross...

Mac Freepers I need your help! Every time I load hotair.com, Safari loads 3/4 of the way, then crashes. These are the plug-ins I have now: -MoveNetworks Quantum Media Player -iPhotoPhotocast -Java Plug-in for Cocoa -Shockwave for Director -QuickTime Plug-in 7.6 -PhotoCenterPlugin1.1.2.2 -Quartz Composer Plug-In -Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin 2.2.1 -Flip4Mac Windows Media Web Plugin 2.2.1 -Verified Download Plugin -Shockwave Flash -Microsoft Office Live Plug-in -QuickTime Plug-In 7.6 -DivX Web Player I already tried "resetting" Safari in the menu. Please help! Safari works so well, but I always forget and go to hotair and then it crashes all my windows....

Why is it that atheists so vehemently deny that there is a correlation between atheism and Communism? It is that they are simply unaware of history as recent as that of the 20th century: the most secular and bloodiest century in human history? Have they really not read texts as basic to the issue as the “Communist Manifesto” the “ABC of Communism” Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism or any other statements at all written by founding Communists and Regime leaders? Is it that one of their favorite talking points is that “religion” is discredited by the evil done in its name...