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by Audrey Hudson
01/26/201233
The Senate on Thursday refused to side with House Republicans and block President Barack Obama’s request to raise the debt limit $1.2 trillion, clearing the way for an automatic increase that will bring the national liability to $16 trillion.
The procedural vote to block the debt increase was supported by Senate Republicans and opposed by Democrats in a mostly party-line vote of 44-52. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts was the only Republican to side with Democrats while two Democrats voted “no” with Republicans, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
“We should be working together to lower the debt, not having votes to increase it,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “But the president must be willing to face this crisis head on. He must be willing to acknowledge how serious this issue is.”
Since Obama took office in January 2009, the debt has increased $4.61 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
“More spending, more debt, fewer jobs — that’s what we’ve gotten from this administration, and now they want to make it worse,” McConnell said. Read more…
The Washington Post has run an opinion piece mocking the hero Christian Activist who is trying to stop Senator Al Franken (D-MN) from homosexualizing all public school children.
“Everyone’s favorite openly gay-hating Loudoun County supervisor, Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling), was up to more of his hijinks last week with an e-mail appeal…to protect America from two bills in Congress that would prohibit discrimination against students based on their sexual orientation.
“The bills, Delgaudio wrote, would ‘require schools to teach appalling homosexual acts…force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual agenda…ram through their entire perverted vision for a homosexual America….create a new America based on sexual promiscuity.’”
Delgaudio is a lone voice crying in the wilderness, and he needs our support to oppose Senator Al Franken’s agenda to “Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society. Their ultimate dream is to create a new America based on sexual promiscuity in which the values you and I cherish are long forgotten.”
Industry rises to challenges generated by North Dakota’s oil boom
By: Ron Ness
INFORUM
For generations, North Dakotans have been seeking to grow and diversify the state’s economy, create good-paying jobs and retain young people. Today, thanks in large part to the development of the Bakken oil reserves, we are beginning to realize the dream of making North Dakota an economic powerhouse and providing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.
The oil industry has already created more than 30,000 good-paying jobs, and our state’s per capita average income exceeds the national average for the first time in decades. We have added $12 billion in annual economic activity to the state, and we pay more than $1 billion in taxes each year. And all indications are that North Dakota will enjoy continued growth for years to come.
Challenges
There is no question that this growth has also created challenges. To realize our state’s true potential and provide long-term economic success, we must address these challenges head-on. The oil and gas industry is working aggressively to provide immediate and long-term solutions. Read more…
By Hal Lindsey
The Hal Lindsey Report
January 20, 2012
I’ve been in the ministry for more than fifty years. Yet I never cease to be surprised or disturbed (perhaps “outraged” may be a bit more accurate) when ministers and theologians attack Israel. When I say to my friends or colleagues, “Can you believe this?”, I’m sure some of them are thinking, “Hal, just accept the fact that the world hates Israel!”
I do accept that. But what I never can accept is that the Church hates Israel!
Well, certainly not the whole Church, but large portions of it. This should come as no surprise to those of you who regularly watch “The Hal Lindsey Report.” But on the other hand, like me, it probably does continue to surprise you if you love Israel and think all other Christians do, too.
Not true. In fact, there are large numbers of Christians, including many in liberal Protestant denominations, ministries, ecumenical associations, and para-church organizations that virtually despise Israel and what she stands for.
And that number is growing. And what’s worse is that it’s growing within Evangelical ranks. Read more…
By Bob Maginnis
BobMaginnis.com
January 19, 2012
Iran will become an atomic weapons state because it already has the raw materials, technology, the ambition, and no single or group of nations is willing to do what is necessary to deny that outcome.
Atomic weapons in the hands of the radical Islamic Republic of Iran has been “unacceptable” to both the Bush and Obama Administrations and most of our allies, especially Israel which considers the proposition an existential threat.
Our “unacceptable” policy translated into half measures—weak sanctions, covert action, and military threats—to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. But only two alternatives will stop Iran’s atomic weapons program: a popular uprising that installs a government which abandons atomic arms and foreign invasion. Neither alternative is likely which is why it is time to prepare for the day after Iran tests the bomb.
Before considering the “day after” it is helpful to appreciate Tehran’s bizarre motivation for atomic weapons, its hurried-up nuclear arms program, and why our half measures will inevitably fail.
First, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ruled by clerics and devout Shi’ites who hate the West and is driven by an apocalyptic branch of Islam that believes its duty is to begin world war that brings the return of their Mahdi (messiah)—an Imam so powerful he will bring the world under Islamic rule. An atomic bomb is Iran’s war trigger. Read more…
By Russ Jones
OneNewsNow.com
Sunday, January 15, 2012
While supporters of Newt Gingrich acknowledge Rick Santorum won the support of most evangelicals attending a weekend meeting in Texas, they say their candidate still has some important pro-family leaders in their camp.
In a scramble to find an alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, nearly 150 social conservatives met in the Lone Star state Saturday to discuss the Republican primary race and top policy goals. The gathering was prompted in an attempt to prevent what happened in 2008, when former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee won Iowa but quickly faltered when he was unable to unite conservatives behind him.
Surrogates for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum were present to speak on behalf of their candidate. Jon Huntsman’s campaign was not represented.
“What I did not think was possible appears to be possible,” said Family Research Council’s President Tony Perkins in a conference call to reporters. After three rounds of balloting, “there emerged a strong consensus around Rick Santorum as the preferred candidate of this room.” It was a “clear, clear majority.” Read more…
By Nathaniel Scaramouche
Canada Free Press
January 13, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mainstream media and the cover-your-tookus politicians, who deplore and denigrate Christianity and Judaism at every turn, are shocked and outraged over a video showing four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan.
The story prompted pious editorials in today’s The New York Times and The Washington Post and likely will produce reams of op-eds by Inside the Beltway pundits — very few of whom, it should be noted, have ever served a day of military service.
Even before the military confirmed the video’s authenticity, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was on the phone to apologize to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a devious snake who now takes his daily marching orders from Tehran.
It’s an open secret that Karzai, while squirreling away billions of dollars of U.S. aid, has been collaborating with Iran’s ayatollahs on ways to blow up the NATO soldiers who have spent fruitless years trying to meld Afghanistan’s collection of 14th century tribes into a functioning democracy.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, never one to miss a prime time sound bite, also was all over the news networks, expressing grave concern. “Anyone found to have participated or known about it, having engaged in this kind of conduct, must be held fully accountable,” she scolded. Read more…
The world is moving toward oppression and the United States is leading the way. By assisting in the overthrow of Middle Eastern governments, and insisting on elections for Islamists, America is pushing tyranny on people around the world. At home, the American government–Republicans and Democrats alike–is whittling away on the very Constitutional rights of free speech, freedom of religion, privacy, property ownership, and free enterprise. What made America great in the past is that as a free people, we had the courage to stand against such tyranny not promote it. It came from within the heart and soul of being an American. This rugged individualism and independence characterized Americans. Where has it gone?
In my humble opinion, just from observing events over the past 35 years, there is no longer much national identity as an American. Our national identity was that of a Christian nation. Even if not all the people were Christian, they recognized that Christian morals were an acceptable and preferred qualification for leadership. Couple this with the lack of border security resulting in millions upon millions of people unlawfully entering the country, the dilution of national identity is accelerated. Additionally, most Americans have either bought in to the leftist humanist mantra, or are too busy with their lives to care. The vacuum of leadership politically and spiritually in this nation has left it a dry, amoral place of apathy.
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By Ed Ross
January 9, 2012
Following the 2008 election Americans learned a great deal more about the man they elected president than they knew about him when they voted for him. The 2012 election will tell us more about ourselves than the man we elect as our president, no matter who he is.
In 2008, Americans elected the first Black American president, knowing relatively little about him. He was young, attractive, and articulate. He was a family man with an accomplished wife and two lovely children. Beyond that, his record in public life was short and his past sketchy.
Conservative Republicans raised questions about his 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s black-liberation-theology church, his associations with people like Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, and other people of questionable character, but the mainstream media largely ignored those stories and delved little into Barack Obama’s background, while many Democrats accused those who raised questions about him of racism.
Enthralled by his oratory and the historic nature of his presidency, voters tended to superimpose on Barack Obama their own vision of his politics and how he would govern. Evidence to the contrary, notwithstanding, most saw him as a moderate who would reach across the aisle and govern from the center, unifying the country and leading it out of its financial woes.
Three years later we now know a great deal about Barack Obama. He is the most liberal/progressive man ever elected to the office of President of the United States. His vision for America is to remake it into a social democracy on the European model with the federal government intimately involved in every aspect of daily life. He has increased government spending enormously, funneling billions to unions, Democratic constituencies, and companies owned by contributors. Once the U.S. military is extracted from both Iraq and Afghanistan, he intends to restrain U.S. military capabilities so as to prevent it from involvement in future ground wars abroad. In short, he wants to do what he said he intended to do and few took literally—fundamentally transform America. Read more…
by Brian H. Darling
01/09/2012
Last week, the President shredded yet another provision of the U.S. Constitution. He used an unconstitutional procedure to install Richard Cordray as head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Richard Griffin, Sharon Block and Terence Flynn to be on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Obama installed them claiming his constitutional power to make recess appointments. Only problem is, the Senate isn’t in recess.
The President has ignored the clear words of the Constitution. As The Heritage Foundation’s Todd Gaziano wrote, “The Constitution, in Article I, section 5, plainly states that neither house of Congress can recess for more than three days without the consent of the other house.” Congress has been in session conducting business every few days.
Gaziano further observes that the President’s power under Article II to make recess appointments “has been interpreted by scores of attorneys general and their designees in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for over 100 years to require an official, legal Senate recess of at least 10–25 days of duration.” The Senate is not even in a recess, therefore the President has abused his power.
This is an effort to circumvent the explicit language in Article II that the President can appoint officials only with the “Advice and Consent” of the Senate. Let’s hope that conservatives in the House and Senate do anything and everything in their power to fight this unconstitutional power grab. Read more…
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