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Why Muslims Convert In church yesterday, as you celebrated Easter, did you notice anything—or anyone—unusual? In churches all over the world, there were millions of people celebrating the resurrection of Christ, who were not there just a few years ago—because they were worshipping in a mosque instead. It is thrilling evidence that God is doing a mighty work among Muslims. According to the website Islam Watch, in Russia, some two million ethnic Muslims converted to Christianity last year. Ten thousand French Muslims converted, as did 35,000 Turkish Muslims. In India, approximately 10,000 people abandoned Islam for Christianity. In his book...

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, NO it's Super Spitzer. Well like kryptonite in the old comic books, all super heroes have their Akiles Heel. For New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the Prosecutor of Wall Street corruption, it’s hot petit prostitutes with a side of money laundering. But the question is what will happen to Super Delegate Spitzer’s support of Senator Clinton? Will Senator Clinton have to stand by another man who is a known adulterer? Will Democratic hacks have to go on cable TV and promote that this is just a private matter between...

Before Senator John McCain had a chance of becoming the Republican Party’s 2008 Presidential nominee, Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty offered him loyal support and became one of his most vocal campaign volunteers. When the contest seemed to be a horserace between McCain, Romney, and Huckabee, speculations about Tim Pawlenty’s chances to change addresses quieted, though he continued to travel on behalf of the unpopular McCain. Now, since McCain has all but become the GOP’s Presidential nominee, Pawlenty’s name is coming up again. He showed in a surprisingly tough State of the State speech last week, why he should still be...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows Democrat Barack Obama would narrowly defeat John McCain if the presidential election were being held now. If Hillary Rodham Clinton were the Democratic nominee, she and the Republican front-runner would be about even. The AP-Ipsos poll, released Monday, is an initial look at voter sentiment since the Super Tuesday contests last week. In the poll, Illinois senator Obama leads McCain 48 percent to 42 percent. New York senator Clinton gets 46 percent to 45 percent for McCain.

The elephant in the room issue of this campaign is Energy. No one really wants to discuss this issue. The reason is because with all the warm fuzzes over new technologies and conservation, the bottom line is that for the United States to become energy independent, it must start exploiting for the greatest free energy source- Hydro Carbon Fuels. This scares politicians because of the strength of the socialist environmental movement aided by the MSM. For the Republicans, they don’t want to discuss Florida offshore drilling or oil exploration in the Everglades and lose must win electoral votes. I hope...

It is Halloween again, and to be frank, I really don’t look forward to talking about it on “BreakPoint” every year. At best, Halloween has become an excuse to ask total strangers for candy. At worst, it is a celebration of the mindless paganism our ancestors wisely turned their backs on. So this year, I would like to turn your attention to the often-overlooked celebration that Halloween calls to mind. In case you have missed it before, the name Halloween is a shortening of All Hallow’s Eve and signifies the night before All Saints’ Day. For centuries on All Saints’...

In his book, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that religious belief is—what else?—delusional. He mocks the irrationality of believing in something that you cannot subject to scientific scrutiny; he rails against the so-called “immorality” of the Bible, like the sanctioning of slavery—untrue—and the alleged way that religion, especially Christianity, stands in the way of scientific progress—also untrue. Just in case his readers are not convinced, however, he then pulls out the really big gun: Religious belief is a kind of child abuse. By “child abuse” Dawkins is not, at least not principally, referring to the scandals involving sexual misconduct...

Christopher Hitchens’s new book, God Is Not Great, is subtitled How Religion Poisons Everything. Everything is a big word, but I guess Hitchens means it. According to him, “religion makes people do wicked things they wouldn’t ordinarily do . . . the licenses for genocide, slavery, racism, are all right there in the holy text.” By “holy text” he means the Bible, which raises a difficult question for people like Hitchens: If Christianity “licenses” slavery, then why was the abolition of slavery, both in antiquity and in modern times, driven by Christians? As I write in my new book, The...

Let’s consider two more reasons for the critical importance of the historic Christian doctrine of the Trinity. First, the Trinity doctrine sets the Christian view of God apart from all other religious perspectives, including other monotheistic viewpoints (such as Judaism and Islam). Only the Christian God is one in essence but three in personhood (in philosophical terms: one What and three Whos). This triune nature means that God is superpersonal (more than merely a personal being).

You Republican voters know all too well now what it's like to be betrayed after eight years of unforgivable domestic spending capped by the Grand Illegal Alien Dump on the U.S.A. But will those of you investing in the Democratic Party last election know betrayal when you see it or will you just be content to remain HillObamcrats forever no matter what? Okaaayyyyy. Maybe you will. But here's a shot at Common Sense for you. The Democratic Party's cut and run from

Yesterday on O’Reilly’s radio show, he cleverly criticized Anne Coulter’s book with a caller who was a Christian by stating that Jesus never personally attacked anyone. The caller pointed out Jesus overturning the money tables in the temple. O’Reilly correctly pointed out that this was not a personal attack, but righteous anger. What the caller did not bring up was Jesus’ personal attacks on the Jewish religious leaders. Matt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sad'ducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to...

Let’s compare what we know about Dick Cheney’s Hunting accident to Ted Kennedy’s accident at Chappaquiddick.      Cheney Kennedy Alcohol one beer Witnesses account of a wild party Weapon Shot Gun Drunk Driver, driving into a pond Response Immediate Medical Attention Emergency Services never called to the scene Police Notification  Within the hour Police alerted the next morning when the car is discovered in the pond Press Notification 15 – 18 hours Never formally reported Press Response Media Frenzy- calling the White House Press Secretary a Jerk Sympatric response, spun as another Kennedy tragedy Democratic Response Accusations of a...

Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus Abraham Lincoln September 24, 1862 Printer-Friendly Version Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION Whereas, it has become necessary to call into service not only volunteers but also portions of the militia of the States by draft in order to suppress the insurrection existing in the United States, and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained by the ordinary processes of law from hindering this measure and from giving aid and comfort in various ways to the insurrection; Now, therefore, be it ordered,...

With chance as its mechanism, evolution should not produce the same outcome repeatedly. Yet increasing examples of biological convergence demonstrate such repetitions....

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday pointedly declined to rule out running for president in 2008, and gave her most detailed explanation of a "mildly pro-choice" stance on abortion.

I put this joke together from an interview with Tony Snow on the Smash in the Morning Show. What do you have when Kennedy and Kerry are together?

From Mr. Clinton’s Monday address: Consider this, just this. We in America would already have this year a real patients' bill of rights, a minimum wage increase, stronger equal pay laws for women and middle-class tax cuts for college tuition and long-term care if the Democratic Party were in the majority in Congress with Dick Gephardt as speaker and Tom Daschle as majority leader. In 2002, Mr. Gephardt resigned his position a Minority Leader in 2002 after losing seats to the GOP. Nancy Pelosi (D) 8th Congressional District California, was elected Minority Leader. If Democrats take control of the House,...

CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats won't have Miguel Estrada to filibuster anymore: Twenty-eight months after President Bush named the Hispanic attorney to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Estrada is saying "never mind," The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. In a letter to President Bush, the 41-year-old attorney asked that his nomination be withdrawn so he can end two-and-a-half years of limbo and return to his law practice -- and who can blame him, the newspaper said in an editorial. "His withdrawal should embarrass Republicans who have been outwitted on judgeships by Ted Kennedy and...

With Saddam not appearing on TV, old video clips, audio bits, etc... This is starting to remind me of the movie, "Weekend at Bernie's" TopMovies | PhotoGalleries | Video/DVD | BrowseIMDb | IndependentFilm     More searches | TipsIMDbPro.com free trial  main details  combined details  full cast and crew  company credits  user comments  external reviews  newsgroup reviews  awards & nominations  user ratings  recommendations  plot summary  plot keywords  Amazon.com summary  memorable quotes  trivia  goofs  soundtrack listing  crazy credits  alternate versions  movie connections  merchandising links  box office & business  release dates  filming locations  technical specs  laserdisc details  DVD details  literature listings  news...

Bye bye GeraldoMar 31, 2003 Former talk show host and journalist wannabe Geraldo Rivera's brief (but not brief enough) career as an Iraqi war correspondent is over. FoxNews is removing the mouth that roared as an "embedded" reporter with the 101st Airborne after he reported the unit's position in detail in a broadcast on FoxNews. "If you were to ask me on whether or not he had reported on things that were of tactical value and compromised operational security, I would have to say yes. In the eyes of the commander on the ground, he did," says Pentagon spokesman Bryan...