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IN GOD WE TRUST FROM A PASTOR, JIM TUCKER! HE SERVED 20 YEARS IN AIR FORCE AND RETIRED! "I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama. Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I AM NOT uniting behind Obama! I will respect the office which he holds, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and wordsmith and pray for him, BUT that is it!!! I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure that he is a one-term...

Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. For spearheading this achievement, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. One of the great privileges of my life was meeting and talking with Borlaug many times over the past few years. In remembrance, I cite the introduction to Reason's 2000 interview with Borlaug below:

White House Dismisses Dowd Claim That Wilson Outburst Was Race-Based Maureen Dowd writes in The New York Times that Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday -- when he shouted, You lie," at the president for claiming his health care reform plan would not cover illegal immigrants -- convinced her that racial angst is the underlying motive among Obama critics like Wilson. FOXNews.com Sunday, September 13, 2009 The White House on Sunday dismissed a claim by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that administration critics like Rep. Joe Wilson, who called President Obama a liar during his health care address to Congress,...

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. People were chanting "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

Wilson: No second apology for ‘You lie’ words Democratic leaders are demanding he apologize on the House floor WASHINGTON - One apology is enough, a digging-in-his heels Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday, challenging Democratic leaders who want him to say on the House floor that he's sorry for yelling "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's health care speech to Congress. The leadership plans to propose a resolution of disapproval this week if the South Carolina Republican doesn't publicly apologize to Congress. Such a measure would put lawmakers on the record as condemning those two words, uttered during last Wednesday's prime-time...

A British judge lambasted a rapist for claiming his victim was a liar - then commended him for becoming a muslim. Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC sentenced Stuart Wood for seven years for the attack, then told him: 'You have turned to Islam and this promises well for your future, particularly as you are now an adherent of a religion which respects women and self-discipline.'

Various photos of notorious sex scandals between teacher and student Lisa Marinelli, 40, substitute teacher at Mitchell High School, charged with having sex with a 16 year-old boy. Investigators say Marinelli gave the boy a pair of her underwear, called him hundreds of times as well as sent text messages.The young man’sfather called police when he saw him getting out of Marinelli’s car pulling up his pants. Maggie Laughlin, the 23-year-old former Mentor math teacher sentenced to three years in prison for having oral sex with a ninth-grade student, is asking to be released early from prison. Autumn Leathers, 24,...

Reporting from Chicago - Alicia Torres must raise $94,000 in order to take a vow of poverty. Drawn to the Roman Catholic sisterhood while she was a student at Loyola University here, Torres faces the same barrier as many others considering such a religious life: college debt. Today, Torres and a group of friends will run Chicago's Half Marathon -- 13.1 miles along the lakefront -- in hopes of receiving enough pledges to pay off $94,000 in student loans. "You can't live a vow of poverty with a bunch of debt," said Torres, a 2007 graduate. "If God wants you...

Interview with Senator Harry Reid, NBC’s Meet the Press, December 5, 2004 MR. RUSSERT: When the president talked about Yucca Mountain and moving the nation's nuclear waste there, you were very, very, very strong in your words. You said, "President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country." Is that rhetoric appropriate? SEN. REID: I don't know if that rhetoric is appropriate. That's how I feel, and that's how I felt. I think to take that issue, Tim, to take the most poisonous substance known to man, plutonium, and haul 70,000 tons of it across the...

An F-16 from the IDFAF crashed in the Southern hills near Hebron. The pilot who was killed was the son of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. he pilot Lt. Assaf Ramon, 20, was on his 47th training flight since completing his pilot training in June 2009. He was flying an unarmed training mission when the accident happened. IAF commander Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan and the head of the IDF Manpower Division Avi Zamir personally delivered the sad news to his mother, Rona Ramon's at there home. The news of the...

about 40 percent of medical malpractice lawsuits filed in America were without merit. Eighty percent of physicians cite fear of being sued in their decisions to practice defensive medicine. If we want to try to make health care more affordable, we can't leave tort reform out of the equation... In the 24 U.S. States with tort reform, their insurance rates have dropped 27 percent in the past five years, and some 15,000 doctors have returned to practice in Texas alone.

What makes Saturday’s massive turnout around the country so significant is that it is the first truly conservative mass movement in American history. The amorphousness of conservatism until the 1950s probably had something to do with that. Conservatism prior to then was rather clubby and its “leaders” had very little interest in developing a mass movement like labor, socialists, or communists were attempting to do. Even the candidacies of Goldwater and Reagan were more party-oriented than ideological in nature, although there is little doubt that conservative activists learned how to organize an effective movement by being involved in both those...

Sorry for the vanity, but ever since yesterday I have been thinking that it is high-time for the Tea Party to be a little less laissez-faire about politics and perhaps recruit and groom it's own candidates. I used to consider myself a Republican, but now am a equal-opportunity hater of everything and everybody in DC. ALL the bums must go, no matter what the party. Ideally, I would remove the center of gravity from DC and return it where it belongs: the state legislatures. Nobody in WDC speaks for me, nor for -- I suspect -- most of the Tea...

The president recently said; “no body should go broke because they got sick”. That didn’t tell the whole story. What he could have, and should have said was that no body should go broke because they got sick and had already blown all of their money on things they had no business buying at their income level. I grew up in a dirt-poor home that had a policy that if we couldn’t afford it, we didn’t get it. We did always have some kind of health insurance. I have heard the left talk about “means testing” a number of government...

The man responsible for the Europe-wide ban on traditional light bulbs can be revealed as a former Soviet Communist party member from Latvia. Andris Piebalgs, 51, the European Commissioner for Energy, leads the team which drafted the controversial regulations that will see all incandescent bulbs phased out by 2012. Far from being a faceless bureaucrat, Mr Piebalgs has waged a public war against opponents of the ban, mocking their stance and accusing them of being “resistant to change”. Five UK MEPs – including representatives of Sinn Fein, Plaid Cymru, Labour and the Liberal Democrats – endorsed the policy in a...

In 1939 Lilly Cassirer Neubauer was desperate to escape Germany. She was a member of a prominent Jewish family of publishers and gallery owners, and as the Nazi oppression escalated, it was clear they would have to leave or die. Lilly was told there was only one way for her to obtain an exit visa. The family would have to hand over one of their most prized possessions: a Parisian street scene painted by Camille Pissarro. The work, an atmosphere depiction of a rain-soaked Paris boulevard, had hung on the walls of the family's Berlin and Munich homes since the...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has begun putting into place a new program under which hundreds of prisoners being held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan will be given the right to challenge their detentions, a defense official said Sunday. Prisoners at the Bagram military base are all to be given a U.S. military official to serve as their personal representative and a chance to go before new so-called Detainee Review Boards, to have their cases considered, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to be able to discuss a program that has not been formally announced.

We will be marching on September 13th @ 12:00 PM in every city across the country for affordable healthcare. We demand a public option. Let the president and congress know that we will not accept a watered down bill. Click on events to see locations that are confirmed for the march. We will need help to organize all of these rallies. Please fill out your information in the contact us section if you can help. List of Cities Washington DC New York City San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago Boston Portland, OR Seattle, WA Austin, TX Atlanta, GA Madison, WI Wilmington,...

Some breathed a sigh of relief that a new health care bill introduced by Sen. Max Baucus does not include government insurance. This solace is premature. The Montana Democrat's bill proposes new regulations that would doom the private insurance industry. . . .

Traditional Holy Mass Propers † Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost † † Feast of John Chrysostrom, Doctor of His Church † St John Chrysostom Missa Inclina, Dómine, aurem tuam ad me, et exáudi me ( "....Bow down Thine ear, O Lord, to me and hear me...." ) 13 September 2009 Anno Dómini "....Young man, I say to thee, Arise...." "Nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming, as the Mass, said as it is among us.I could attend Mass forever, and not be tired.It is not a mere form of words; it is a great action.The greatest action...