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A social engineering bill to restrict residence in the suburbs and rural areas and force Americans into city centers has passed the United States Senate Banking Committee and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate.The bill is called the Livable Communities Act (SB 1619) and it was introduced by corruptocrat outgoing Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). It seeks to fulfill the United Nation’s plan Agenda 21, adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and signed onto by “New World Order” President George H.W. Bush.This bill is designed to destroy your community. According to the...

Ground has been broken. A few surrounding buildings and a little placeholder replica of the Freedom Tower have been erected. Ceremonial beams of light have been displayed where the Twin Towers once loomed. But as the Bergen (NJ) Record put it: “We are supposed to be pleased that One World Trade Center is rising, that work on that national Sept. 11 memorial is well under way, as is the transportation hub and one of three additional commercial towers. And we are pleased that these projects are moving along. But it has been nine years. Nine years and nothing is completed.”...

We're going to have Republican primary numbers out in Delaware and New Hampshire late tonight and based on the first day of polling it's clear both of these races are in single digit territory- there is not likely to be a run away winner in either. Here are a couple key facts based on the numbers so far: -53% of primary voters in Delaware think that Mike Castle is too liberal.

Mike Castle has a serious challenger in Christine O'Donnell. Why is a guy whose been in Politics for decades being challenged. Well, most likely its because he has been in Politics for decades. It seems that Mike Castle has all the traits that Republicans are beginning to dislike these days. First of all he's been there for decades, so people are looking for a fresh face with no ties to the "inside the beltway" group think. Secondly he's not a conservative and breaks ranks to join the Democrats on some key issues.

Our Savior’s Love 1. Our Savior’s love Shines like the sun with perfect light, As from above It breaks thru clouds of strife. Lighting our way, It leads us back into his sight, Where we may stay To share eternal life. 2. The Spirit, voice Of goodness, whispers to our hearts A better choice Than evil’s anguished cries. Loud may the sound Of hope ring till all doubt departs, And we are bound To him by loving ties. 3. Our Father, God Of all creation, hear us pray In rev’rence, awed By thy Son’s sacrifice. Praises we sing. We love...

President Barack Obama's two biggest legislative triumphs -- a healthcare overhaul and financial regulatory reform -- have become liabilities for his fellow Democrats campaigning for the Nov. 2 U.S. congressionalelections. Some business leaders say Obama's regulatory and fiscal policies have created too much uncertainty, and promptedcompanies to sit on their cash rather than add jobs or invest. Republicans have vowed to repeal the healthcare reformlegislation if they win majorities in Congress.

Peace Now: At least 2,000 W. Bank units have foundations laid, ready to be built as freeze expires; 11,000 ready for construction without further gov't approval. More than 13,000 settlement housing units in the West Bank are ready for construction once the building moratorium ends on September 26th and at least 2,000 are ready for immediate construction, according to a report by Peace Now released on Sunday. According to the report, 2,066 units in the West Bank have either had construction permits approved or their ground works already laid. Peace Now said that hundreds of additional units, whose foundations have...

Displeasure with President Obama in the polls has invaded the merchandising of the U.S. president across the country, souvenir vendors say. Sellers in Washington said once-vibrant sales of the merchandise hawking the president, from T-shirts to cologne, are nowhere near what they were two years ago when he took office, The Washington Post reported Sunday. "Obamamania" sales peaked between the election and the inauguration,

She stole millions of hearts around the world when, as a girl, she was lifted from her wheelchair and carried by her mother to receive communion from Pope John Paul II during his visit to Britain in 1982. Now, Rosemarie Stevenson is to make history again by meeting Pope Benedict during his visit later this month. The 37-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, was eight when her mother Annette carried her up stairs in front of a cheering crowd of 300,000. Millions of television viewers around the world also saw her take faltering steps towards Pope John Paul on the dais...

A new poll by the Spanish government released on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in Madrid shows that one in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic, maintaining negative opinions about Jews. Another 46 percent had favorable views of Jews. One in nine Spaniards, the survey found, supports the statement that "Israel should disappear because it was established on Arab land." Another 77 percent disagree with the statement. The results of the study indicate that the major cause of the rise in anti-Semitic feelings is Israel's policy toward the Palestinians in the territories.

NEW YORK (AP) - Nine years of denouncing terrorism, of praying side-by-side with Jews and Christians, of insisting "I'm American, too." None of it could stop a season of hate against Muslims that made for an especially fraught Sept. 11. Now, Muslims are asking why their efforts to be accepted in the United States have been so easily thwarted. Excerpted per FR posting rules.

The first departure wave from the ELCA took place immediately prior to the ELCA’s organization in 1988 and lasted through July 2009. According to the ELCA’s own statistics, 737 congregations were lost to the ELCA between 1988 and 2008. The loss of membership during that same period was 654,161. The second departure wave from the ELCA began in August 2009, following the Churchwide Assembly’s vote to permit practicing homosexuals to be placed on its clergy roster. Since that fateful decision in August 2009, an estimated 400 congregations have successfully taken their first and/or second votes to leave. These congregations that...

The new generation of priests and young Catholics become independent of the decaying Old Liberal ideology. [kreuz.net, Herzogenrath] Beginning this December in the City of Herzogenrath -- by Aachen in west Germany -- a Conference on the Liturgy will take place. This has been organized by the website Liturgische-Tagung.de. They give detailed information about the program and the background of the Conference. The Congress will be carried by several Traditional Societies. Among them are the 'Initiativekreise' of Cologne and Hamburg as well as the Lay Society, 'Una Voce'.

A mini-Vatican accompanies the pope on his trips abroad. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec) VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When he visits Great Britain in mid-September, Pope Benedict XVI will be shadowed by a roster of aides who ensure smooth sailing for the 83-year-old pontiff whenever he travels abroad. This "mini-Vatican" is small enough to fit on his chartered jet, but diverse enough to respond to challenges in strategic areas -- including diplomatic crises, security breaches, liturgical snafus, reporters' questions and even medical emergencies. Many of the key players on the Vatican's traveling team are veterans with on-the-road experience going back decades. But...

These past four decades have been quite a ride. We went through a liturgical reform which was to have renewed the Church; a sixty percent decline in Mass attendance over thirty years resulted. There was a catechetical revolution, myriad new textbooks, methods, programs and approaches replacing the tried and true Catechism: forty years later religious ignorance abounds to such an extent that two-thirds of Mass-going Catholics cannot identify the Catholic doctrine on the Eucharist when it is presented to them. The Religious communities which were such a vibrant part of the Catholic scene before the Council underwent "renewal" and have...

September 12, 2010 Obama Gives Al Qaeda a Pass Ann KanePlease tell me this nightmare will be over soon. What kind of person in this world would characterize ruthless, evil, filthy, and beheading sadists as “a sorry band of men?”  The President of the United States in a memorial address at the Pentagon on Saturday 9/11, that’s who. “It was not a religion that attacked us that September day -- it was al-Qaeda, a sorry band of men which perverts religion.” Obama must not have read the terrorists’ manifesto after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Here’s an...

Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays serving in the military are hoping for another major legal victory as a federal trial begins Monday over whether to reinstate a lesbian flight nurse discharged from the Air Force Reserve. The trial comes just days after a federal judge in California declared "don't ask, don't tell" an unconstitutional violation of the due process and free speech rights of gays and lesbians. While the ruling does not affect the legal issues in the case of former Maj. Margaret Witt, gay rights activists believe a victory—and her reinstatement—could help build momentum...

They came at him with knives carved a swastika on his forehead. In Sweden Democrats on Friday organized a meeting square in central Malmö. About 500 left-wing extremists sabotaged the meeting by including, rockets and arson. Later in the evening appeared a couple of leftist extremists at the apartment of the Sweden Democrat, David von Arnold, who is a candidate to municipality and county. With knife threats they forced themselves into the apartment where in about 20 minutes they were torturing David with a knife, for example, a neck scratch and cut a swastika on his forehead. Leftist extremists, who...

USA vs Turkey. It is not time for thanksgiving dinner yet. Team USA gobbled Team Turkey at the World Basketball Championship finale 81:64. The last time the US won the title was 1994 when the Dream Team led by Shaquille O’Neal, Reggie Miller and Dominique Wilkins became world champions in Toronto. If the 2008 US Olympic Team was the Redeem Team that brought the gold home, the 2010 US World Championship team is more like ‘US: The Next Generation’ Team. Legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski, (Duke University) came up with a bunch of rookies instead of super-stars. Lamar Odom and Chauncey...

Here is video of President George W. Bush addressing the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001, at the end of the long and devastating day. Bush reassured the nation that while terrorists could shake the “foundations of our biggest buildings,” but they could not shake the “foundations of America.”