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COLUMBUS, Ohio - It is Veterans Day weekend. The celebration of our nation's heroes began Friday with the annual Veterans Day parade in Downtown Columbus. Thousands of Central Ohioans lined the streets to showing their gratitude to the men and women who served our country. While many fought in wars decades ago, there is also a new generation of heroes. "It's just an honor and a privilege to look across this formation to see combat veterans, just like their grandfathers were from an Ohio unit," said Colonel Gordon Ellis of the Ohio National Guard 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Different...

The Democrats who voted for the debacle are now scrambling for cover. The torrents of Affordable Care Act monsoon season aren't letting up, so Democrats are scrambling to help the victims: namely, their own careers. The Senators up for re-election in competitive states in 2014 are starting to panic, though they still aren't offering solutions for anything other than their own growing political jeopardy. Meanwhile, the Salesman in Chief has been exposed for his fraudulent promises. All of which has the ObamaCare Dozen—the Democrats who each cast the decisive 60th vote and are running for re-election in 2014—fleeing for political...

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Don’t Give it Up! Today's Scripture “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” (Proverbs 17:22, ESV) Today's Word from Joel and Victoria Throughout life, there will always be something that will try to take our joy. If it’s not a grumpy sales person, it’s a family member aggravating you, traffic is backed up, your flight got delayed, or your spouse is taking too long! Don’t go the next 20 years allowing the same people and same circumstances to frustrate you. Change your approach. What’s upsetting you now doesn’t have to upset you...

The Unrivaled Power of Prayer "We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered" —Romans 8:26 We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; and we know what it is to pray in accordance with the Spirit; but we don’t often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays prayers in us which we cannot utter ourselves. When we are born again of God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable.“He,” the...

After titillating the media for the past few days with hints of a “big announcement,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told an audience in Atlanta that her office was taking a “historic step to aggressively deal with mental health issues under the Affordable Care Act.” Undaunted by a spattering of audible groans from the audience, Sebelius plowed ahead explaining that “studies show that nearly 50% of Americans have serious mental health issues that have gone untreated. People who should be on medication are not currently receiving this benefit. People who should be institutionalized are not receiving this...

Obamacare: Day 39America Held HostageRoundup of News & ViewsNo. 9.  Nov 8, 2013   Humana exec predicts Obamacare open enrollment extensionArticle at Gov Health IT   Howard Dean doubts Nov. 30 website fixFormer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Friday was pessimistic that the administration can fix the problems with the health care exchange website by its promised date of Nov. 30.The former Democratic National Committee chairman said it wasn’t smart for the White House to promise a fix by that date.Article at Politico   Obama's HealthCare.gov Czar Jeffrey Zients Hints Site Won't Be Fixed On TimeArticle at Townhall   Healthcare.gov Encountering...

(image courtesy of solidconcepts.com) Let me start out by saying one, very important thing: This is not about desktop 3D Printers. Solid Concepts is a world leader of 3D Printing services, and our ability to 3D Print the world’s first metal gun solidifies our standing. The gun is a classic 1911, a model that is at once timeless and public domain. It functions beautifully: Our resident gun expert has fired 50 successful rounds and hit a few bull’s eyes at over 30 yards. The gun is composed of 30+ 3D Printed components with 17-4 Stainless Steel and Inconel 625...

This happened a few days ago, on Nov. 1st. To be honest, I saw the headlines, but was sure somebody was speaking figuratively, not that some guy literally handed the "Honorable" Kathleen Sebelius one of those how to Dummy books. The look on her face is priceless, once she realized what she was holding. As I would expect, Kate hands the ugly little instrument of GOP hate off to the nearest flunky. "Here! Take this icky, damnable object away from my esteemed presence. I command you!!" Senator Brian Kelsey (R) of Tennessee, pranked the Ice Maiden but good. Kate Sebelius...

STAFFORD, VA, November 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police in a northern Virginia town are looking for a prisoner who escaped after she was released in order to obtain an abortion. When police arrested 28-year-old Kristy Lechelle Cokley and another woman for stealing more than $550 of clothes from a T.J. Maxx store, she was already a felon. Cokley was out on bond after being arrested in another city for possessing a firearm as a felon and allegedly manufacturing illegal drugs. Kristy Cokley, 28 Kristy Cokley, 28 In September, Cokley petitioned for bond in Stafford County Circuit Court on two grounds:...

Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines across the United States last year, with the highest concentration of kills in the Appalachian Mountains, according to new research. "Dead bats are being found underneath wind turbines across North America," Hayes wrote. "This estimate of bat fatalities is probably conservative."

Although much attention was focused on the elections on Tuesday of decidedly left-of-center Democrats in Boston and New York City, little reported was the major gain of Republicans in two Northeastern states long considered "no man's land" for the GOP. Republicans took considerable new ground in contests for city halls and county offices in New York and Connecticut. In New York, Republicans re-elected county executives in Westchester and Nassau Counties, captured the mayoralty in Binghamton and a majority of the county legislature in Erie County for the first time since 1977, and won a special election for the state Assembly...

Lt Samuel Nicholas was recruiting his first recruit for the Marine Corps in Tun's Tavern, Philadelphia, November 10, 1775. His first recruit came up to him. "Here , sign your name or make your mark. Here's $10 pay for your first month. Did you bring your rifle?" The first Marine Recruit signed his name, took the money and said, "Yes, Sir, I have my rifle." "Lt Nicholas said, "Outstanding! Go sit down in the room in the back!" The second Marine recruit shows up. Lt Nicholas says, "Here, sign your name or make your mark! Here's $10 for your first...

The correspondent for the disputed “60 Minutes'’ segment about the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year apologized on the air Friday morning, saying it was a “mistake'’ to put on a security officer whose credibility has since been undermined by his diverging accounts of his actions that night. The correspondent, Lara Logan, said on “CBS This Morning'’ that the news division was misled by the officer, adding, “We will apologize to our viewers, and we will correct the record on our broadcast on Sunday night.” The apology followed disclosure by The New York Times...

A Japanese company has created Nyan Nyan Nouveau, a non-alcoholic wine for cats. Let's face it, your cat probably doesn't like you. Or need you. But maybe that can change. In the likely case that you're drinking that glass of Napa red alone, give your feline a reason to join you. As Kotaku reported earlier today, Japanese company B&H Lifes has released Nyan Nyan Nouveau, a wine made exclusively for cats. See also: Adventures of the Radish That Looks Like a Man Nyan Nyan in Japanese means "cats meow." Nouveau refers to Beaujolais Nouveau produced in the Beaujolais region of...

California students continue to score near the bottom among states in math and reading, according to results of a national test released Thursday. The Golden State's fourth-graders ranked 47th in the nation in both math and reading. Eighth-graders ranked 45th in math and 42nd in reading. And the scores show that the gap separating white students from their black and Latino peers in English and math is bigger in California than it is nationwide.

Ron Paul speaks at Ken Cuccinelli Rally 11/04/13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTqE0aIPI4c Former Rep. Ron Paul speaks at Ken Cuccinelli's election-eve campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, November 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Colleges often boast that they offer students more choices. Colorado College, located in Colorado Springs, lists five separate options for gender on its job applications and numerous other documents. The listed categories are male, female, transgender, decline to answer, or “queer.” Ironically, the term – intended to be a positive and affirming choice for the LGBT community – was discovered by a gay job-seeker. "I couldn't believe it. I thought I was going to have a stroke," John Kichi of Pennsylvania told the Denver Post. "If them including it on applications isn't...

The federal government this week rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's request to help pay for damage caused by the Rim Fire, leaving the state and the small Sierra communities that suffered in the blaze on the hook for potentially tens of millions of dollars. In a letter sent to the governor Monday, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said California's third largest wildfire was not severe enough to qualify as a federal disaster. As a result, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties won't get financial aid to repair roads, water systems and other damaged infrastructure.

I was just thinking about how radically America has changed in the past five years. Then I realized what was up. OZero is turning us into the USSR! - Taking state control of every aspect of health care? CHECK! - Nationalizing industry and banks? CHECK! - Complete disregard for rule of law? CHECK! - Rigged elections? CHECK! - State control of the mainstream media? CHECK! - Military purges? CHECK! We might as well have Leonid Brezhnev as our president.