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On July 29, 1997, a representative philosophe of our abortion culture, retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, was lavishly eulogized in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where the Requiem Mass for President Kennedy had been sung in 1963. Richard Cardinal Cushing was relatively constrained back then, because liturgical depredations had not yet switched into high gear. It was not thus when President Clinton, who vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions, was permitted to announce to all corners of the cathedral for consumption in all corners of the world: "Brennan's America is America at its best." That is, internecine...

The terrorist release that has garnered headlines is Scotland's release of the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. On his return home, al-Megrahi was fêted as a hero by Libya's President Moammar Gadhafi. Such merriment is a sad capstone to events unleashed on December 21, 1988, when the flight, full of 259 unsuspecting people from 21 nations, was blown from the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland. We have no ability to assess what dreams died that day. The families of these innocent victims have the right to be outraged. We also heard outrage from Washington, but we cannot help...

To them God has chosen to make known amonng the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the HOPE of glory. The biggest story in the last 20 yrs is the Tea Party Revolution. We're witnessing the largest crowds protesting the gummit we have seen since Vietnam. The difference w/these protests is they are not organized and financed by the communist Party and these are people that work and pay the taxes. This was started by a reporter in Chicago just mentioning the Boston Tea Parties and the movement was begun. This movement has stirred...

Is there any pictures of the recent tea party from the Alamo on 9/3/2009?

There was a lot of nervous laughter in the room. Some of it was mine. I was leading a church discussion on religious practices in Appalachia. The topic of the night was snake handling. The multitudes had not shown up; I think it was because of the subject. Just the thought of snakes, much less the thought of handling them, gives most folks cold chills. A number of people in the room alluded to Wendy Bagwell’s old story of singing in a West Virginia church. Bagwell described how people had begun to take snakes out of baskets and boxes while...

Over the last week-and-a-half I’ve gotten an overwhelming number of inquiries relating to the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Why me? Because of my report back in 2006 of Kennedy’s confidential offer to Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov. That offer was evident in a fascinating May 14, 1983 memo written by KGB head Victor Chebrikov to Andropov, simply titled, “Regarding Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Y. V. Andropov.” I published the document in its entirety in my book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. When Senator Kennedy passed away, I got...

The jobless-recovery theme re-emerged on Friday with the arrival of a disappointing employment report. The daunting number was the unemployment rate, which jumped from 9.4 percent in July to 9.7 percent in August. This is a big-versus-small-business issue. Sort of the haves versus the have-nots. The large companies are gradually recovering as a result of major cost-cutting, inventory reduction, and a lean-and-mean return to profitability and high productivity. So the payroll survey registered a 216,000 job loss, the smallest drop in over a year. However, the household survey, which picks up small, owner-operated, LLC/S-Corp-type businesses, registered a devastating 392,000 job...

SOLAR MINIMUM VS. GLOBAL WARMING: From 2002 to 2008, decreasing solar irradiance has countered much anthropogenic warming of Earth's surface. That's the conclusion of researchers Judith Lean (NRL) and David Rind (NASA/GISS), who have just published a new analysis of global temperatures in the Geophysical Research Letters. Lean and Rind considered four drivers of climate change: solar activity, volcanic eruptions, ENSO (El Nino), and the accumulation of greenhouse gases. The following plot shows how much each has contributed to the changing temperature of Earth's surface since 1980: Volcanic aerosols are a source of cooling; ENSO and greenhouse gases cause heating;...

Bob Beckel said on Fox this morning that Obama White House green jobs czar Van Jones will be canned by Tuesday. Beckel reasoned that Jones's background is simply indefensible for a White house appointment, and wondered if the FBI screwed up because they must not have uncovered this in the vetting process. Former White House staffers I’ve spoken with say they would bet the FBI uncovered much of Jones’s past--especially if Jones truthfully answered their questions. What would then happen is this: the background report would go to the Counsel’s office (run by Greg Craig), who would then raise the...

“Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.” The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow? Even in America, and certainly on the world stage, the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Pancho Sanza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant of infamous repute” – climate disasters conjured up by computer models and Hollywood special effects masters – their erstwhile followers are making...

A Muslim separatist rebel wanted for arson and bombings has been arrested in the southern Philippines, police said on Saturday. Smawtin Basilan, who is a member of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and who had a 12,000-dollar bounty on his head, was arrested at his home in Midsayap town Wednesday, police said. Basilan is believed to be a top lieutenant of MILF commander Ameril Umbrakato, one of two MILF leaders wanted for large-scale attacks on several mostly Christian towns and provinces in the south in August last year. The attacks led to the deaths of over 300 people...

A few hundred protesters rallied in downtown Miami on a soggy Friday as part of a worldwide effort calling for the removal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. ``I want to do anything I can against the tyranny of Chávez,'' said Pablo Carrillo, 25, an economics student at Florida International University who came to South Florida two years ago for his studies. ``I'm here for solidarity for those who suffer in Venezuela.'' The afternoon protest at the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami -- a longtime setting for rallies for overseas causes -- was part of a day of protests against...

My wife is a school teacher and just received word that Obama's recruiting speech to school kids will not be carried by her school. She teaches in a large, very liberal town. The school will, instead, record the harrange "and may or may not show it at a later time." (Heh). It will also be taped and shown by local cabel access at a later date, if anyone cares to watch. The "workbooks and assignments" have also been dumped. When liberal parents dump Obama he is truly in trouble.

Spurgeon's Morning & Evening - September 5 -------------------------------- Morning Devotional "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar." - Psalm 120:5 As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is of little use for you to cry "Woe is me." Jesus did not pray that you should be taken out of the world, and what he did not pray for, you need not desire. Better far in the Lord's strength to meet the difficulty, and glorify him in it. The enemy is ever...

“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama ... Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” Joe Biden 10/19/08. ---- Just when the world is in the palms of your hands your nose begins to itch. It’s been 8.5 months since the “Won” and his gaffer vice-president entered office and the only “crises” I can detect are fantasized by their administration. Joe Biden, more cagy than credited, was merely setting the scenario by which this president chooses to rule: “imagined” disasters, a.k.a., health care, stimuli, cap...

Just as the U.N. General Assembly is due to meet later this month to consider what to do about Iran's insistence on enriching uranium as part of its nuclear development program, Tehran has announced that it is open to further discussions on the issue, but it will not be pressured to meet any September deadline. "No one can impose sanctions on Iran anymore," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a recent press conference. "The Iranian nation favors interaction and dialogue but will not surrender to pressure," according to Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi.

Most people have now heard that President Obama is going to address America’s school children on September 8. He’ll be speaking to them directly, without their parents there to serve as a filter. Taken with an outrageous situation unfolding in New Hampshire, where a home-schooling mother has been ordered to put her daughter in public school because the daughter is too outspoken in her Christian beliefs, a terrifying truth emerges: If you can force a child into government schools, you can control that child’s mind On Tuesday, around the nation, millions of children will be in a setting where they’re...

A new high-tech Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Racism. And parents too dumb to raise their children. That was how NBC sought to explain away opposition to Pres. Obama's planned speech to schoolchildren. View video here.

Why is the US Army hiring mortuary specialists who will train others or serve operationally in "mass fatality management and response...determining and tracking mortuary affairs capabilities and readiness status.. Participates with... Federal civilian agencies...on such matters as Homeland Defense and Civil Support operations, consequence management operations, planning future operations"? The US Federal Govt's official job recruitment website is http://www.usajobs.opm.gov where you may search on 'mortuary' and see the many returns. The vacancy for 'Services Technicians' is recruiting MANY candidates via one vacancy announcement that will execute CIVILIAN mortuary affair functions all across the USA. Do you suppose that the US...