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Franklin Graham is a voice crying in the wilderness. "I believe we are perilously close to the moral tipping point for the survival of the United States of America," Graham wrote in Decision magazine. "I refuse to be silent and watch the future of our children and grandchildren be offered up on pagan altars of personal pleasure and immorality." The Supreme Court has already redefined marriage. The nation has become a killing field for Islamic radicals. And Christians have become targets for practicing their First Amendment rights. "There now exists deep-seated antagonism and hostility toward Christianity in every seat of...

The Phenomena of China's Disposable Buildings By Juliet Song, Epoch Times January 3, 2016 Last Updated: January 4, 2016 5:41 am Two nearly complete luxury housing estates in Tianjin, once the envy of builders because of healthy pre-sales, will be torn down due to dried up credit and multiple safety violations, Chinese media reported. In China, it is not uncommon to see relatively new buildings torn down, wasting an average of over $70 billion a year, according to research conducted by China Academy of Building Research (CABR) in 2014. The reasons for demolishing buildings early vary. The two luxury residential...

Warren Buffett has given at least $64 million to population control, especially abortion, of those poor Moms who have been pressured by parents, boyfriends and bosses into committing the worst mistake of their lives.All so consumers will have more disposable income with which to buy his Berkshire Hathaway products. Products that won't love you when you're old and sick.Sixty-Four Percent (64%) of Aborting Moms “Felt Pressured By Others” (217 sample population) Induced abortion and traumatic stress: A preliminary comparison of American and Russian women Vincent M. Rue, Priscilla K. Coleman, James J. Rue, David C. ReardonMed Sci Monit 2004; 10(10):...

Word For The Day, Tuesday January 12, 2015 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". stelliferous [ste-lif-er-uh s] -adjhaving or abounding with stars.[1575-85; < Latin stellifer star-bearing ( stell (a) star + -i- -i- + -fer -fer ) + -ous; see -ferous]

1) "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." -- Margaret Thatcher 2) "It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from deterioration. Competition...

Since the scores of New Year's Eve sexual attacks on German women by hundreds of men identified as Arab or North African, the left in Germany has faced a dilemma: which to fight for first -- women's human rights or multiculturalism? This was the same dilemma that faced British authorities between 1997 and 2013. During those six years at least 1,400 girls from the age of 11 in just one English city (Rotherham, population 275,000) were raped by gangs of men, nearly all of whom were immigrants (mostly from Pakistan) or their sons. But British authorities kept silent. Why? In...

As the federal land occupation hits day eight, locals visiting the besieged refuge find, "They're cowboys. They're one of us." BURNS-Ore.--"He's coming," a man on horseback shouted, waving a large American flag against the glistening backdrop of the snow-covered Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. "He" was Ammon Bundy, the leader of a group of armed protestors who occupied this federal refuge in southeastern Oregon for a week. Flanked by supporters, including his brother Ryan and spokesman LaVoy Finicum, Bundy made his way up the hill Friday to tell a swarm of reporters that he and his fellow occupiers were not planning...

I knew an Old Timey, Clawhammer banjo player who was from so far south in New Jersey that culturally his home was south of the Mason Dixon line. He was in the Navy, at Norfolk, some Limey sailors came into a bar, Jersey-Dixie immediately commenced with The Battle of New Orleans, as you can hear here in Old Timey Clawhammer style, it may have originated in that milieu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQMYrSUwlg Unfortunately, a banjar makes an excellent club for a barroom brawl. Old Andy Jackson brazenly stood up to the British, but his real forte was standing up to the banks; the...

I've organized some words that I've heard a time or two, and proposed a few of my own. Please feel free to add some of your own. This is done in fun, and not to malign, criticize or be disrespectful to anyone. I truly hope that in time, all of us here on this wonderful forum will coalesce behind one candidate and campaign for that person and return our country to its former greatness and place of leadership in the world for those who inspire for peaceful freedom and liberty. May God Bless Our Country and the people who serve...

"Let love of the brethren continue" (Hebrews 13:1). Genuine love among Christians is a testimony to the world, to ourselves, and to God. The importance of brotherly love extends well beyond the walls of your local church or fellowship hall. In John 13:35 Jesus says, "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." In effect, God has made love for one another the measuring stick by which the world can determine if our Christian profession is genuine. That's why it's so important that we have a selfless attitude and sincerely...

"In [Christ] we have redemption through His blood" (Eph. 1:7, emphasis added). Redeeming grace is free to us, but its cost to God is inestimable. Sin is not a serious issue to most people. Our culture flaunts and peddles it in countless forms. Even Christians who would never think of committing certain sins will often allow themselves to be entertained by them through television, movies, music, and other media. We sometimes flirt with sin but God hates it. The price He paid to redeem us from it speaks of the seriousness with which He views it. After all, we "were...

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The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families. The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy. But the book...

It's hard not to wonder: Is the stock market telling us something? True, the market's record in forecasting recessions is horrendous. Stocks often move according to whim or fad. But just because the market is wrong much of the time doesn't mean it's wrong all the time. Could last week's turbulent trading be one of the times it's right?... Behind this chain reaction is a huge transfer of economic power from advanced countries (mainly North America, Europe and Japan) to "emerging-market"... The trouble is that their growth is slowing... One is high debt levels... The other problem is the legacy...

SLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday took notice of a "search operation" conducted by Rangers at the house of Salman Masood, who is the New York Times Pakistan correspondent living in Islamabad. The interior minister ordered an inquiry into "how, why and on whose orders a raid was conducted at Salman Masood's house," read a statement issued from his ministry, adding that an explanation has been sought from police and relevant security agencies. "Such operations and raids are not acceptable at any cost," said Nisar. Earlier, Salman Masood had posted pictures on Twitter, showing several Rangers personnel...

"...HANNITY: ..... The relevant code is U.S. Code 1401 and it says the following as it relates to nationals and citizens of the United States at birth. "The following shall be nationals and citizens,"and it goes on,"a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents, one of whom is a citizen of the U.S. who has been physically present in the U.S. or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such a person and the other of whom is a national but not a citizen...

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Two officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations will be attending the State of the Union address Tuesday as guests of Democratic lawmakers. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and Alcee Hastings (Fla.) will both be hosting representatives from CAIR chapters in their respective states, the group announced Monday. Lofgren will be bringing Sameena Usman, a government relations coordinator in the San Francisco office, while Hastings will host Nezar Hamze, the chief operating officer of the nonprofit's Florida branch.

MANCHESTER, N. H. - Republican Donald Trump on Monday said he would slash funding for the federal education department and Environmental Protection Agency if elected president. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal and New Hampshire's WMUR at a local diner here, the celebrity businessman said he would do "tremendous cutting" of the federal government if elected. Education policy, he said, should be returned to the states, and he said he would end the Common Core education standards, which conservatives view as federal overreach. "Education should be local and locally managed," said Mr. Trump, who also criticized the administration's...