Free Republic

Nov. 23, 2004, started out like any other normal morning for Randy Steele, senior pastor at Southwest Christian Church in Mount Vernon, Ill., a town about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis.Then the phone rang. It was the FBI. Steele said they wanted to meet with him personally. After agreeing to a time later that same afternoon, he said his first thoughts turned to his congregation. "One guy opened a file," Steele said. "And he said, 'This is pertaining to a sermon that you preached on Memorial Day.' "

Some Liberals -- call them the "budget hawks" -- spent most of the 2004 election season trying to drive a wedge between President Bush and his own party. For months, Democrats (the once-powerful political party now owned by Liberals) constantly harped upon government spending and the rising deficit.

Recently, three young criminals in Omaha were looking for a home to rob. Their criteria included an interesting condition. Pointing to a particular target, a townhouse in the northwest part of town, one person told them, "That house has no guns."