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MURFREESBORO — A word of advice to whoever stole the Ten Commandments monument from Sharon Bennett's yard: read Number Eight. Bennett noticed the 3-foot-tall concrete pillar with its admonition not to steal missing Wednesday. "I feel sorry for whoever did it," Bennett said. "They obviously don't have many values and must be lost." She installed the pillar three years ago at the bottom of a flag pole for about $200. During holidays, Bennett, who has a son in the Army Reserves, would decorate the monument and the flagpole with red, white and blue stars. The Northside Baptist Church member and...

Reason disputed for monument By Sheila K. Stogsdill The Oklahoman MUSKOGEE - A Stigler resident testified Tuesday that religion in the form of a Ten Commandments monument has no business on government property. "The Ten Commandments have nothing to do with our law," said Sharon Nichols, an American Civil Liberties Union member and self-described naturalist. "The Ten Commandments is a historical document with limited significance to Haskell County." Nichols said she was offended by the monument, erected on the Haskell County Courthouse lawn, because she is not a Christian. She also testified she was offended by the words "In God...

STIGLER, Okla. - The 8-foot granite slab planted in the Haskell County courthouse lawn makes the Ten Commandments easy to read and hard to miss from the state highway that doubles as this town's main thoroughfare. The monument, erected with private money in 2004 with the county's approval, doesn't stop traffic and courthouse visitors on a recent morning barely gave it a glance.

Quote of the day: “All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.” — Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet (1809-1892) As income tax time approaches, did you ever notice: When you put the two words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “THEIRS”? The 10 Marriage Commandments — Commandment 1: Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. — Commandment 2:...

Values group hails unanimous decision Tuesday CINCINNATI -- In an astounding return to judicial interpretation of the actual text of the United States Constitution, a unanimous panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Tuesday issued an historic decision declaring that "the First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state." In upholding a Kentucky county's right to display the Ten Commandments, the panel called the American Civil Liberties Union's repeated claims to the contrary "extra-constitutional" and "tiresome." See Cincinnat Enquirer at: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS01/512210356/1056 See U.S. Court of Appeals decision, page 13: http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/05a0477p-06.pdf "Patriotic Americans should...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A group of pastors fired up a crowd of more than 300 people during a rally around a monument engraved with the Ten Commandments on the Haskell County Courthouse lawn. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn spoke Saturday at the gathering in favor of the monument, which a recent American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit says is a sign of the government favoring one religion over another. But Coburn and others who were vocal at the rally contend that the statements listed in the Ten Commandments are guidelines to a moral, law-abiding society regardless of religious beliefs. "I wish...

COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them each a cow. CONSTITUTION They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart Guys, it's worked for over 200...

BECK/SMITH HOLLYWOOD EXCLUSIVE New 'Ten Commandments' to Stir Hornet's Nest Says Naveen ABC's upcoming miniseries of 'The Ten Commandments' promises to push quite a few buttons, reports 'Lost' regular Naveen Andrews, who stars in the epic project with Dougray Scott, Omar Sharif, Linus Roache, Mia Maestro and Paul Rhys. Andrews predicts it will stir up a hornet's nest. 'What was unusual about the way we did this version of 'The Ten Commandments' was we treated Moses like he was a lunatic. If somebody came and told you today, 'I've just been talking to a burning bush,' you would try and...

I recently wrote about the fact that Liberals don’t really hate war, but they demonstrably do hate freedom — and America, too. The numerous responses I got to that intentionally provocative topic were quite interesting, to say the least. Predictably, most Conservatives seemed to love the concept. Meanwhile, most Liberals really “hated” it. Funny how intolerant these Left-wing, progressive, sometimes-defenders of the virtue of universal “tolerance” can be when it’s their own ox getting gored. I truly think some of these Woodstock Nation peaceniks might get a little violent if provoked. So then I got to thinking, “What else do...

Commandments For Politically Incorrect Living Thou shalt have no nation before The United States of America.Thou shalt always say "Under God" when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.Honor thy Bush and thy Cheney.Thou shalt not blaspheme against Microsoft or Haliburton.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's CorvetteThou shalt use every tax loophole in existence, and hoard thy money.Thou shalt not buy an electric car, for it is uncool.Thou shalt not oppose drilling for domestic oil.Thou shalt not try to "understand" weird people.Thou shalt not have a sex-change.Thou shalt not trust any man who weareth a diaper upon his headThou shalt not suffer...

Reports about the state of world Jewry tend to focus on anti-Semitism. Although the annual report of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, submitted to the cabinet this week, rightly cautions about such dangers, it devotes more attention to other problems facing Western Jewry: intermarriage, assimilation and waning Jewish connectedness. No single Diaspora community is immune from the crisis in Jewish demography. But the crisis is most acute in the United States, where the "core" Jewish population as defined by the JPPPI has actually declined over the past 35 years, and is projected to decline further in the next 15...

Psa 119:1 ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.Psa 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.Psa 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Psa 119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.Psa 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Psa 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous...

This week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on government displays of the Ten Commandments. Apparently some of the justices have enrolled in the John Kerry School of Advanced Nuance and Nonsense. Displaying the Ten Commandments outside the Texas state capitol is OK, but displaying them inside Kentucky courthouses isn’t. Bringing some common sense to the matter was, as usual, Justice Antonin Scalia. In his dissent he wrote: "What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle." Consistency? Principle? In present...

WASHINGTON -- The mystery surrounding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's future took much of the attention Monday as the Supreme Court finished its business with no retirements. Rehnquist, who is 80 and has cancer, could step down anytime. He chose not to make any comments about his plans while in court, although he appeared weak. The chief justice, who has a trachea tube, had difficulty as he announced the final ruling of the term, his opinion that upheld a Ten Commandments display in Texas. His breathing was labored, and he kept the explanation short. On Monday morning hundreds of people...

(United Socialist States of America) Well folks, we might just as well get used to it. As long as our country is being governed by a group of nine unelected and unaccountable federal judges where the majority consistently rules against the basic framework of our sacred US Constitution, we will continue to slide further and further into the crippling grip of socialist rule. Every time SCOTUS sneezes or takes a dump, they have the audacity of wiping themselves with the document they swore to protect and uphold. Considering the fact that seven out of nine of those over glorified Jurist...

According to the Associated Press: A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments on government land, but drew the line on displays inside courthouses, saying they violated the doctrine of separation of church and state. Sending dual signals in ruling on this issue for the first time in a quarter-century, the high court said that displays of the Ten Commandments — like their own courtroom frieze — are not inherently unconstitutional. But each exhibit demands scrutiny to determine whether it goes too far in amounting to a governmental promotion of religion, the court...

The Fourth Commandment: Key to a Relationshup With Our Creator "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the...

WASHINGTON -- As Republican strategists weigh the party's prospects for 2006 and 2008, they are increasingly worried about a political confrontation with Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who became a hero to religious conservatives when he refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building.

Just when I thought I had seen everything, I stumble across what might be the most grotesque example of intellectual insanity in the history of the universe. It figures I would find such a shining example of imbecilic lunacy in the halls of our own congress. This special kind of idiocy takes the form of House Resolution 288, conceived and sponsored by none other than Mr. “can’t we all just get along without religion” John Conyers, Jr. [(D) of course…] our esteemed Representative from Michigan. The pending bill is Mr. Conyers answer to the bogus Newsweek report which wrongly accused...

In a Mel Brooks 1981 film "History of the World - Part 1" there is a scene where Brooks plays the part of Moses coming down from Sinai with three stone tablets. He shouts out to the crowd assembled "Here are the Lord's Fifteen... (then he drops one tablet which shatters) uhhhh... Ten Commandments." This was of course meant to be comedic but one wonders if we are not in danger of dropping a tablet ourselves. The dropping shatters not just the tablet but the unity of the church. The unity of the church is the Gospel of Christ through...