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In this supposedly enlightened, modern world of ours, many people take a perverse pride in mocking those symbols and beliefs that other people hold dear. Judaism and Christianity are among the most popular targets of today’s iconoclasts, embodied in the stupidity of Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” through the deadly serious Zionist conspiracy theories that permeate the highest levels of the United Nations. Yet, somehow Jews and Christians endure these slings and arrows, remaining confident and secure in their faith in spite of the insults. At the other end of the spectrum, we have one major religion in the world so...

In the year 2061, the President of the United States of America, Hussein Ali, delivered an uplifting speech at the 9/11-memorial service at the Cordoba House mosque in lower Manhattan. New York City mayor Mohammed Ahmed Abdullah, as well as many other dignitaries and a crowd numbering in the tens of thousands filling the surrounding streets with their prayer rugs, were there to listen and to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Below is the text of President Ali’s speech:We stand here today just two blocks from the sacred Ground Zero where 60 years ago today three...

It is time for a "Team B" approach to Islamist ideology. The strategy has worked before, against a similarly determined threat to freedom. In 1976, George H.W. Bush, then director of central intelligence, invited a group of known skeptics about the strategy of detente to review the classified intelligence regarding Soviet intentions and capabilities. The point was to provide an informed second opinion on U.S. policy toward the Kremlin. The conclusions of this experimental Team B study differed sharply from the government's regnant theory. The skeptics found that, pursuant to its communist ideology, the Soviet Union was determined to secure...

Mr. Prime Minister; Many Jews both from Israel and in the Diaspora have reacted with horror and revulsion to the latest Time Magazine Cover Story, “Why Jews Don’t Care About Peace.” Time’s base use of the Shylock blood libel is beyond false, it is disgusting. But perhaps there is a lesson beyond the obvious hatred against Jews in general, Israel specially, and you, Mr. Prime Minister, can take from this journalistic episode. Time has unwittingly pulled back the veil and shown exactly how the world media will, for the most part, depict the breakup of the current peace talks should...

MADISON — James Byrne, 70, of 34 Hotchkiss Lane, was arrested today in connection with the Sunday bomb threat called into police headquarters against a house where a Republican political fundraiser that featured GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon was being held. At the time of the bomb threat, there were about 50 people, including candidates for statewide office, at the 554 Boston Post Road home of Republican Town Committee Chairman Tom Banisch. The threat was called into police headquarters at about 4:35 pm. Police, assisted by the state police bomb squad responded. The house was evacuated. The bomb threat was...

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". antecessor\an-tih-SESS-er\ noun one that goes before Example sentence: Literary critics hailed the first novel as a brilliant and groundbreaking follow-up to famous antecessors in the genre. Extra example: "The relentless show-biz blitz by Gov. Bill Richardson, and all the movie- and TV-shooting it's brought to our state, will be a big part of his legend…. Before Richardson's initiative, antecessor Dave Cargo was beckoning to Beverly Hills." -- From an editorial in the Santa...

Just a short tribute to Madam President who, you may or may not remember, was the one who advised us all to have good contested primaries.......it was her who showed us that we could get rid of "dead wood" in the primary and have new blood to vote for.... It was Sarah who got us in gear to get rid of these RINOs in the primary stage so we would have good republicans TO ELECT RATHER THAN A RINO or a socialist to choose between in the general election

He is a Rewarder Today's Scripture " And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6, NIV). Today's Word from Joel and Victoria Do you see God as a rewarder today? Notice this verse doesn't say that God rewards those who "deserve" it or have "earned" it. It doesn't say that God rewards those who act perfectly and never make mistakes. No, God's blessing isn't based on our performance, it's based on our faith—our belief in Him...

KERR COUNTY, Texas -- A Kerr County man has been arrested in connection with an attack on a senior citizen that investigators said was prompted by his desire for prescription drugs. Jason Curtis, 32, is charged with injury to the elderly in connection with the Sunday attack. He's being held on a $10,000 bond. Capt. Scott Prout, with the Kerr County Sheriff's Office, said deputies were called to the home in the 300 block of Westway Drive around 8 p.m. Sunday for a report of an assault with shots fired. Prout said the 79-year-old victim told deputies Curtis had hit...

What To Renounce "We have renounced the hidden things of shame . . ." —2 Corinthians 4:2 Have you “renounced the hidden things of shame” in your life—the things that your sense of honor or pride will not allow to come into the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone that you would not like to be brought into the light? Then renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all. Envy, jealousy, and strife...

Sep 15, 1862: Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson captures Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and 12,000 Union soldiers as General Robert E. Lee's army moves north into Maryland. The Federal garrison inside Harpers Ferry was vulnerable to a Confederate attack after Lee's invasion of Maryland. The strategic town on the Potomac River was cut off from the rest of the Union army. General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, sent messages to Union General Dixon Miles, commander of the Harpers Ferry garrison, to hold the town at all costs. McClellan promised to send...

About all the Guardian could say about Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware GOP primary was to blubber incredulously that a person who “is pro-gun, anti-abortion, fiscally conservative and believes masturbation is a sin” could win 53% of the relevant vote. They could only maintain self-respect by sneering that the “Delaware result will at least give the Democrats hope that they can hold it. The seat might hold the balance in the Senate.” If that’s the good news, the bad news is that a “surge of anger among US conservatives both with Barack Obama and the Republican Party” — the...

QUESTION OF THE DAY TODAY'S QUESTION: Will the GOP take the House and Senate in November? (Poll closes at 7 p.m.) YES (148 responses) 68% NO (69 responses) 32% 217 total responses

Gold prices were likely to touch $1,300 an ounce before the end of this calendar year, said Philip Klapwijk, the chairman of GFMS, the London-based independent metals research consultancy. He was speaking at the launch of the year’s first update of Gold Survey 2010 in London on Monday. Profit-booking pulled the yellow metal back to $1,250 an oz on Tusday after hitting an all-time high of $1,264 last week. It’s hard to see how price gains can be sustainable when major processors of gold into jewellery like India and Turkey are net exporters of bullion, the position the sector was...

Jim DeMint's political operation is firing back at anonymous Senate Republican aides who criticized the conservative South Carolina Senator on Tuesday night for helping Christine O'Donnell capture the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, possibly jeopardizing the party's chances of winning the seat in November. One unnamed senior GOP aide told CNN's Dana Bash: "I wonder who Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer are calling first tonight - Chris Coons for becoming the next Senator from Delaware or Jim DeMint for helping to make it happen. Another GOP leadership aide griped to Hotline On Call that "DeMint is not interested in a...

Police in Covington, Louisiana have arrested a woman who allegedly stripped naked during a cab ride before stealing the vehicle. 29-year-old Jennifer Gille from St. Clair Shores, Michican, was picked up by a driver at 1am on Sunday morning but refused to get out at the Harrison Avenue address she originally asked for, WDSU reports. A police statement read: "To further complicate matters the female began acting crazy and took off her clothing, demanding the cab driver take her to Michigan." The driver then travelled to Covington Police Department, but his naked passenger moved into the front of the vehicle...

For you radio guys, the audio of this is worth playing — no video needed to get the point. Milton Friedman defends capitalism to Phil Donohue. (2 minute video clip at link)

Joe Scarborough believes Christine O'Donnell's win has cost Republicans the Delaware Senate seat and their best shot at a Senate majority. And the Morning Joe host made no bones about singling out the person he considers responsible: "I blame Sarah Palin," said Scarborough bluntly on today's show. Scarborough's comment came not long after Morning Joe aired a clip of Karl Rove's scalding comments about O'Donnell, which I noted here last night, in which among other things the former Bush adviser declared that O'Donnell "doesn't evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that voters are looking for."...