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Fascinating video. One hour, 21 minutes, documenting crimes around the events of 9-11. http://buriedtreasurebooks.com/weblog/?p=1515

Philip Jenkins, the author of "The Next Christianity" in the October Atlantic, argues that most Americans and Europeans are blind to Christianity's real future In the past year, coverage of religious issues has focused tightly on two themes—the present and future dangers of Islamic fundamentalism, and the scandal in the American Catholic Church. There's an assumption that Christianity's worldwide influence is waning, as Islam's influence—especially in the political sphere—grows. And there's a belief that if Catholicism is to remain a healthy, vibrant religion, it must adjust itself to "modern" mores by revisiting its policies on celibacy, women's roles in the...

AOL web site hosting service down My personal web site has been inaccessible for a week or so. Are any of you all having the same problem? I've suggested to AOL that, since web sit hosting is half the value of what they offer, the should refund half of my fees for every month (or portion thereof) when they are unable to deliver this promised service.

James Dobson's crusade against TV ads for booze is misdirected For years, Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family has been a ministry dedicated to the preservation of the Christian family. In the course of its mission, it has often advocated, in the name of the family, boycotting various television shows, networks and companies, especially Disney. Its latest boycott is of television network NBC and parent company General Electric.1 The reason? NBC is now airing hard liquor ads. Oh, the sinister evil. After a 50-year voluntary ban on liquor advertisements, NBC has decided to lift the ban and enjoy ...

“North Carolina is depending on today’s children to grow into the type of skilled workforce that attracts new business and investment. We ignore the education of 38,000 of these priceless resources at our peril.” What is wrong with this excerpt from Friday’s editorial page? What makes it so obnoxious, threatening, condescending? To be blunt, the “we.” The imperial/imperious “we.” “We” the masters must make sure that “you” the subjects don’t mess with “our” merchandise. “Our” possessions. “Our” “resources.” Got news for you, N&O, and coercive utopians everywhere. Home school children are cherished family treasures. Family responsibilities. They are not yours ...

Beloved people of the Living God, it looks like we are being prepared for more than war. We are being prepared for the further concentration of power in the hands of government, and we are being prepared for the eradication of the voice of God from the Public Square. When the God of the Bible is accorded His rightful place as Lord of nations, many peoples can gather under Him. But when a nation pretends to ultimate deity, as Rome did, and as America is, I fear, doing, than many gods will be gathered under her-- many gods, but not ...

... There must be something about the Islamic worldview or state of mind that produces this fanatic lust for destruction. In Algeria, Islamic terrorists slit the throats of school children in their beds. In the West Bank and Gaza, children turn themselves into human suicide bombers eager to blow up Israeli teenagers. Adult terrorists engineer the most brutal and devastating airplane hijackings, killing themselves, the innocent passengers on board, and thousands of civilians in the targets they hit with explosive jet fuel. For what reason? Is this kind of cruelty and murder called for in the Koran? Is hatred of ...

A broken clock is right twice a day. Every now and then, Hal Lindsey can be an astute commentator. However, his relapses into fortune telling are undercutting WorldNetDaily's credibility. Hal Lindsey is, you recall, the guy who aborted the Jesus Movement by redirecting those youthful energies into the dead-end sterility of apocalyptic speculation. Then, the '80s became "the terminal generation." That prophecy also was a dud, but there's a sucker born every minute, so Hal simply re-targeted apocalypse, and traded in another wife for a newer model. Today, this "authority" tells us, "America is not a major player in ...

Thank you for your feedback on the upcoming SUCCESS Seminar. You made some very good points and we share your concern. Since its inception, the Success Seminar Series has endeavored to book every former U.S. president and major world leader at least once. This assists us to maintain our status as the number one producer of world-class business events. In the past 10 years the Success Seminar Series has featured: Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, Former U.S. President George Bush, Former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher, Former British Prime Minister John Major, Former Soviet ...

Special Keynote Presentation The Honorable Al Gore former Vice President of the United States Thursday, May 24th - 10:00 am Come hear the winner of the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election discuss his views on technology's impact on the economy, the opportunities new technologies create for business and consumers -- and their impact on quality of life in America. As a house member, Mr. Gore popularized the term "Information Superhighway" and was instrumental in fighting for federal funds for what later became the internet ...

The death of Rousas John Rushdoony on February 8 at the age of 84 will not be perceived as newsworthy by the American media, any more than Ludwig von Mises’s death in 1973 and Murray Rothbard’s death in 1995 were regarded as newsworthy. But being a newsworthy event is rarely the same as being a significant event. Rushdoony’s writings are the source of many of the core ideas of the New Christian Right, a voting bloc whose unforeseen arrival in American politics in 1980 caught the media by surprise. This bloc voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan. Two weeks after ...

How To Win the War on Drugs by Gary North Conservatives are unwilling to give up the war on drugs. They are convinced that there is a war of drug lords on innocent victims, beginning with teenage children, and they are uninterested in arguments for de-criminalization. Conservatives want the State to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on prisons to house convicted drug pushers – after the fact. Liberals want the State to spend at least an equal amount on treatment and rehabilitation – after the fact. I’m interested in shutting down the market for illegal drugs. I say ...

Will a Bush administration support home schooling? Of course it will. Let me tell you, I’ll give you a living example. My communications director, Karen Hughes, been by my side now ever since I started running for governor in 1994. She asked me, she said, I love my son, I’d like to home school him on the airplane this fall. Can I have permission for my eighth-grade son to travel on the campaign? I said, “Absolutely.” I can’t think of a better way for Mom and son to experience life, and at the same time, for a mom to be ...

The Bible addresses these staggeringly accurate predictions to a single generation, somewhere in time. "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Matthew 24:34). It takes no selective interpretation of either the Scriptures or of current events to see the pattern emerging. And it was Jesus Christ who warned that generation to come, "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:26).

Hacking Hal the theologian I was disappointed when Joe Farah announced that he was bringing Hal Lindsey on board as a regular columnist, and after reading Hal's first column, I see that my disappointment is well justified. Hal Lindsey is, and always has been, a hack theologian. The wide popularity of his sensationalistic books have only served to reinforce the world's impression that Christianity is a religion for fools, simpletons, and the gullible -- on a par with readers who believe every word of the "National Inquirer." I know that someone will probably respond to this by quoting the ...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist missionaries and laypersons who share their faith in Jesus could be imprisoned for up to two years under a proposed French law that accuses religious "proselytizers" of "mental manipulation" of the public. Southern Baptists are just one of 173 religious groups labeled "dangerous sects" by members of France's Socialist party. The proposed bill aims to limit the spread of what French officials have called the mental manipulation of the public by evangelical and other religious groups.