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Painting by Jon McNaughton – One Nation Under God - McNaughton’s response to liberal criticisms of “One Nation under God.”  -  Link to Website

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The Teaching of American History: Promise and Performance -  The appalling results of de-emphasizing the study of U.S. history in elementary and secondary schools have become painfully obvious in recent years. In the most recent round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only one fourth of American schoolchildren tested as proficient in their knowledge of U.S. history. A study in Arizona found that only 3.5 percent of high school students could pass the test of civic knowledge given to immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens.

An analysis of adults’ knowledge of the American Revolution and the Founding of the United States exposed the sad reality that while 60 percent of respondents knew how many children “Jon and Kate” of reality-TV fame have, only slightly more than one-half could correctly identify James Madison as the “Father of the Constitution.” ..  -  Link to Website

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66% Celebrate Christmas As A Religious Holiday – Rasmussen Reports - Sixty-six percent (66%) of Americans celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that another 20% celebrate the event as a secular holiday.

Of those who celebrate Christmas, 81% believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God sent to earth to die for our sins and 72% say Jesus was born to a virgin. 

Among all Americans, whether they celebrate Christmas or not, 82% say the person known to history as Jesus Christ actually walked the earth 2,000 years ago. Only three percent (3%) say he did not and 15% aren’t sure. …  -  Link to Website

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Exclusive: ‘Abigail Adams Project’ To Provide Valuable Service to American Voters - 2010 is gearing up to be a critical election year. If you’re looking for a way to find out where political candidates stand on the issues without having to worry about party affiliation – which can sometimes be more burdensome than helpful – look no further. Homemakers for America is launching the Abigail Adams Project. The Abigail Adams Project is a grassroots voter information initiative that will provide candidate information without including party affiliation. Who are the candidates? Where do they stand on the pressing issues of the day? From the President of the United Statesall the way down the school board in every city, county and state in the country, the Abigail Adams Project has the answers voters need. This information will be open to candidates from all parties, not just those running with one of the two main parties. ...Homemakers for America is teaming up with As A Mom and several other organizations including Tea Party, Liberty, and 9-12 Groups to coordinate efforts and provide the tens of thousands of volunteers needed to carry out the project in time for the 2010 General Election. -  Link to Website

"Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself"
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

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Obamacare is Seriously Unconstitutional - Yesterday The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies released a Legal Memorandum written in conjunction with Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy Barnett and Nathaniel Stewart explaining: Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional.  -  Link to Website

“Socialized medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialist society.”
— Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Communist Dictator of the USSR who lead the Bolshevik Revolution

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NJ Teacher Tells Girl to Put Away Bible - A teacher at the Madison Park Elementary School in Old Bridge, N.J., told a 3rd grader that the Bible was not appropriate reading material for quiet time, and ordered the girl to put the book away, according to the girl's parents. …

Michelle Jordat says her daughter, Mariah, cried when the teacher told her to put away the Bible. Jordat says her daughter's feelings were hurt and she was confused. "This was injustice," Jordat says. "No other child has to go through this again." Jordat accepted the principal's apology, but wants something in writing stating that reading the Bible is OK during personal reading time. She also says she will speak to a lawyer. -  Link to Website

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Religious Liberty - In December 1944, American soldiers were fighting desperately against the last great German offensive of World War II, the Battle of the Bulge. Men were dying in large numbers. The counterattack had bogged down in mud and rain. Planes could not fly because of low clouds. General George Patton, commander of the Third Army, called his chaplain into his headquarters and said:

Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather. I'm tired of these soldiers having to fight mud and floods as well as Germans. See if we can't get God to work on our side. …

Patton's memoirs tells what happened next: "The day after the prayer was issued, the weather cleared and remained perfect for about six days. Enough to allow the Allies to break the backbone of the German offensive and turn a temporary setback for the Allies into a crushing defeat for the enemy. -  Link to Website

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Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday. … -  Link to Website

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Congressional Health Care Sunday?  - On Sunday, December 6, 2009, President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill to speak to the Senate Democrat Caucus to rally their support for the federal government health care seizure and takeover plan. Following that lobbying meeting with the President, Senate leader Harry Reid took the Senate into an extremely rare Sunday session where they continued debating the many problems with the health care bill, including required abortion coverage and the public option issue.

Sunday sessions have been extremely rare because of the U. S. Constitution's Article I "Sundays Excepted" Clause, which excludes Sunday from the federal lawmaking process. The Framers of the Constitution held great respect for the Christian Sabbath and therefore removed it from the federal lawmaking calendar. …

Despite such concerns, earlier in the year Senator Harry Reid called the Senate into a rare Sunday session for a vote on a lands bill - a session which, in the words of one prominent national newspaper, communicated the clear message "church be damned."

Significantly, until the twentieth century, Sunday remained off-limits as a legislative day. Then after a few Sunday sessions popped up in the early twentieth century, Congress returned to the constitutional directive. In fact, there were no congressional Sunday sessions even during the nation's most serious crises, including World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Only in recent years has Congress decided to violate the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution's "Sunday's Excepted" Clause.

Even the liberal 1961 U. S. Supreme Court recognized and acknowledged the religious significance of this important constitutional clause:

First is the inclusion in the U. S. Constitution of the recognition of the Sabbath in Art. I, Sec. 7, 2, stipulating that the President has 10 days to sign a law, "Sundays excepted." . . . Can any impartial mind deny that it contains a recognition of the Lord's Day as a day exempted by law from all worldly pursuits? . . . Sunday was recognized as a day of rest. … -  Link to Website

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Six Bogus Beliefs Held By Youth - Young people are incapable of recognizing their own enemy -  This is the essential condition required for the peaceful transfer of political power to a world dictatorship. As a young man who recently received an "education" from one of the finest schools in the U.S., I can state beyond doubt that this condition has been met. In a society conditioned to champion personal ambition, self-expression and self-empowerment, the educated youth of today are kept intoxicated with illusions.  Everyone is looking up, staring at the sun, and unable to stop and think for even a moment out of fear of losing their momentum up the ladder. Here is the script my generation sticks to. …(1-6)

With these unquestioned six beliefs alone, defenders of humanistic internationalist doctrine are created. Good, intelligent kids that are just trying to do their best and find their place in the world while fulfilling their parents' expectations have been conditioned to unwittingly serve and defend the interests of a small group of psychotic criminals.  

Reversing this process will require an equally gradual counter-movement based on restoring God (reality) and destroying Evil (illusion). We lack the luxury of trying to stop the momentum of the opposing movement.  Instead we must strike with the power of our spirit and moral superiority.  

If we would like to establish a world where people are held accountable for the actions, we must be willing to give everyone a clean slate. We cannot hold people responsible for their actions when they live in a state of confusion. People must be reached individually, and to do so we must find ways to ease their minds back to reality as gently as possible. -  Link to Website

"In the Soviet Union you could clearly see your enemy, where in the west you don't."
— Josjo [Joseph] Terelya, Ukrane (now Canada) (1943-2009) Imprisoned & tortured for twenty years because of his Catholic faith; experienced visions and given messages by the Virgin Mary while in the Soviet Gulags.

“But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian novelist & historian, spent years in a Soviet Labor Camp for criticizing Joseph Stalin (talk at Harvard, 1978)

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'Safe schools' chief recommends child porn for classroom reading - 'Sex acts between preschoolers' among subjects of books backed by openly 'gay' Obama adviser -  A new report is raising alarms that the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, a homosexual advocacy organization founded by Kevin Jennings, now head of the U.S. Office of Safe Schools for the Obama administration, is recommending XXX-rated sex writings for children as young as preschoolers. 

"We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren't merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between preschoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, ....

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
— Isaiah 5:20 RSV

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”
— Mark 9:42 RSV

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
— Matthew 18:6 RSV

What the Founding Fathers intended for education. - Northwest Ordinance - 1787 - Article 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - Judge: Parents bigots for opposing 'gay' lessons Families grilled about religious beliefs, church sermons against homosexuality - A judge has attacked parents, suggesting they are bigots for seeking to opt-out their elementary-age children from a mandatory controversial pro-homosexual curriculum, according to a non-profit law firm. …California's Alameda Superior Court by Pacific Justice Institute. On Dec. 1, Judge Frank Roesch denied a motion to allow them to have their children excused from the lessons. According to the group, Roesch blasted the parents for seeking enforcement of a provision of the California Education Code that gives parents a right to opt their kids out of health education.

Education Code Section 51240 allows a parent to have a student excused from instruction, "If any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil."
However, Pacific Justice Institute said Roesch repeatedly insinuated that the parents are bigots and insisted there can be no homosexual indoctrination because, he purportedly argued, people are born that way. …

He explained, "The whole purpose of the book was to get the subject [of same-sex parents] out into the minds and the awareness of children before they are old enough to have been convinced that there's another way of looking at life. … It would be really nice if children were not subjected to the – I don't want to use the word 'bigotry,' but that's what I want to say anyway – of their parents and older people." ...

Second grade students read about two homosexual penguins that raise a young chick in the book "And Tango Makes Three" by J. Richardson and P. Parnell.The two male penguins, Roy and Silo, are described as being "a little bit different." … In the third grade, students watch a film called "That's a Family," featuring some homosexual couples in addition to traditional families. …Fourth graders are required to read an essay titled, "My School is Accepting – but Things Could be Better" by Robert, an 11-year-old who has two lesbian mothers. They are introduced to terms such as "ally," "gay," "lesbian" and "LGBT." 
Teachers are instructed to ask, "How do you think Robert feels when he hears people say things like, 'this is gay' or 'You're so gay'?" By fifth grade, students learn to "identify stereotypes about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people." They are told that "LGBT people have made important contributions within the United States and beyond." -  Link to Website

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One Million Moms - Mom, are you fed up with the filth many segments of our society, especially the entertainment media, are throwing at our children? Are you tired of all the negative influences our children are forced to contend with? If so, we urge you to become a member of OneMillionMoms.com.

OneMillionMoms.com was begun to give moms an impact with the decision-makers and let them know we are upset with the messages they are sending our children and the values (or lack of them) they are pushing.
Our goal is to stop the exploitation of our children, especially by the entertainment media (TV, music, movies, etc.). Mom, OneMillionMoms.com is the most powerful tool you have to stand against the immorality, violence, vulgarity and profanity the entertainment media is throwing at your children. It is time to fight back! … -  Link to Website

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Wake Up, America! – Pravada - To my Fellow Americans,

“I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within” - General Douglas MacArthur.

What exactly did General MacArthur mean? Let me try to explain. The United States was founded as a Constitutional Republic based on liberty and the unalienable rights of the individual; and where the government exercised it’s limited power and authority with the consent of “We the people”. But slowly, over the course of the past 100 years, … -  Link to Website

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Out with Jesus, in with 'Frosty the Snowman' - Federal court upholds school district's ban on tunes about Christ - The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has upheld a school district's ban on Christmas carols such as "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "Oh, Come All Ye Faithful" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" – and approved "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman."

In the Nov. 24 ruling the Third Circuit approved the school policy banning all religious Christmas music, including instrumentals, that had been part of the South Orange-Maplewood School District’s Christmas program for years – until one parent complained. … the school's ban was specifically aimed at preventing Christmas music, including simple instrumentals without words, during holiday concerts. As WND reported, , the district had allowed the performance of traditional Christmas music for more than 60 years but in 2004 suddenly banned it.  -  Link to Website

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The Secret History of Our Time: The Pope and Satan, War and the Anti-Christ, Revelations and the Last Days - But at the time Pope Leo published Rerum Novarum, he had already experienced a vision of things to come of an entirely different and deeply disturbing nature. As described in the Catholic on-line Michael Journal: “Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision. When the aged Pontiff had finished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican Chapel, attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff, he suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar. He stood there for about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white. Then, going immediately from the Chapel to his office, he composed [a] prayer to St. Michael, with instructions it be said after all Low Masses everywhere.

“When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he suddenly heard voices – two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:

“The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord: ‘I can destroy your Church.’
“The gentle voice of Our Lord: ‘You can? Then go ahead and do so.’
“Satan: ‘To do so, I need more time and more power.’
“Our Lord: ‘How much time? How much power?’
“Satan: ‘75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.’
“Our Lord: ‘You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.’

“The prayer Pope Leo XIII decreed be said at the end of Low Mass was: ‘Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell, Satan and all the other evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.’ Pope Leo’s vision, of course, is strikingly similar to the power granted Satan by God in the Book of Job.

The 75-100 years of Satanic power Pope Leo foresaw through his vision would, at its greatest extent, take the world through the year 1984, halfway through the Ronald Reagan presidency in the U.S. It would have encompassed World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. It would have included the assassinations of U.S. Presidents William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.  -  Link to Website

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POW Jeremiah Denton: God Spoke to Me in Prison - Adm. Jeremiah Denton, a former U.S. senator who spent seven years in brutal conditions as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, credits his survival and subsequent success to giving himself over to God after enduring years of torture. … “Well, this is going to sound kooky I guess, but I heard a voice in my cell when I was nearing despair and saying to the Lord I’m not sure I can go on comporting myself in an honorable fashion,” Denton told Martella. “I’ve just got to have some help. About five or ten seconds after I said that... the only noise I could hear was this man being tortured who was shrieking... and this clear voice came out and said, ‘Say sacred heart of Jesus, I give myself to you.’ “ … “And that just broke me up. I broke down and cried and since that time I’ve learned that if you do that, turn yourself over to God and say, ‘Look, you be the origin of the stimuli for my thoughts for my actions and make it be in accordance with your will’ and it’s amazing how that will work,” Denton said -  Link to Website

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Threats, Coercion, and Bullying at Missouri State - … The free exchange of ideas is the great essence of a quality higher education. But there is evidence across the country that students rather than being taught how to think are being taught what to think. -  Link to Website

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Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole' - University outlines 're-education' for those who hold 'wrong' views - A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on "white privilege" as well as "remedial re-education" for those who hold the "wrong" views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. …

By any "non-totalitarian" standards, he wrote, plans being made so far by the school are "severely unjust and impermissibly intrude into matters of individual conscience." Kissel wrote that it appears that the university "intends to redesign its admissions process so that it screens out people with the 'wrong' beliefs and values – those who either do not have sufficient 'cultural competence' or those who the college judges will not be able to be converted to the 'correct' beliefs and values even after remedial re-education." "These intentions violate the freedom of conscience of the university's students. As a public university bound by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the university is both legally and morally obligated to uphold this fundamental right," he wrote.   - Link to Website

“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience ....”
— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

“The free and uninterrupted exercise of our consciences in that way of worship we are most clearly persuaded God requires us to serve Him in, without endangering undoubted birthright of English freedom.” “By Liberty of Conscience, we understand not only a mere Liberty of the Mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but ‘the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”  
— William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

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Think What We Think ...Or Else: Thought Control on the American Campus – ... This is what they meant by citizenship. To teach students that America is an oppressive country and they are responsible and they must change to change America.  -  Link to Video

“Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.” “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
— George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) The British novelist & essayist

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Why sin cannot be condoned by state - Joseph Farah - On Friday, more than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration reaffirming their opposition to homosexual marriage on the basis of protecting religious freedom. While I agree that government's granting of special "rights" based on aberrant sexual behavior is a religious freedom issue, it's not the main reason for concern by Christians and Jews. The Bible clearly identifies homosexual behavior, as opposed to homosexual thoughts or predilections, as sin. The issue Christians and Jews should be focused upon is whether it can ever be acceptable for the government to condone sin – or, worse yet, encourage it by making it a "right." I don't believe government can do that without dire consequences. … 

He's saying something to which every Christian, every Jew and every American should pay close attention: God has revealed to all men the difference between right and wrong. You may not like God's rules, but we are all without excuse as to what those rules are. If you don't obey God's rules, your heart becomes darkened to the truth. You might think you know better than God, but you are actually a fool if you do. When a whole society rejects the One True God and begins worshipping false gods, it opens the society up to judgment.

Those judgments include the following: more unrighteous behavior, sexual immorality, meanness, greed, envy, violence, conflict, lies, gossip, hate for God, pride, self-centeredness, mercilessness and disrespect for parents by children. Notice that No. 1 on that list is homosexuality. However, also notice, it's not just homosexuality, but an increase in those who take pleasure in the exhibition of homosexual behavior that comes as a judgment on a society rejecting God.

Does this sound like any societies you know? America is being judged by God.  - Link to Website

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We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering America’s Founding - Matthew Spalding -  Our Revolution was a revolution about principles. As a result, that means our nation always looks back and upholds those principles … it is that debate between the founders and their world view and the modern progressives view is at issue here. - Link to Video

We Still Hold These Truths: The Progressive Assault on America - Matthew Spalding -  In many ways the centerpiece of the progressive argument is the idea of realitivisin. … Which is that there are no perminate principles. The idea of self evident truth does not make sense, everything changes, everything evolves. And they needed that principle and they believed that principle, because that was the core thing that went against the founding in the first place. The idea of perminate principles  … their principles were directed to undermine the core principles of the American founding….- Link to Video

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American Patriotism Is Still Alive - We are a Homeschooling family. American History is our favorite subject, and we love going to the Taxpayers Tea Parties. …The kids were amazed by the passion of the speakers addressing the crowd in the open air. They liked answering the speakers saying,”We say no,” in unison with the crowd.  …I told them that Patrick Henry made a stirring speech in which he said “Give me liberty, or give me death.” And that speech was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. It must have been some speech.

So I found it and read it to the children While I was reading it, I realized that I had never seen the entire speech before. some important things about it. I studied American History in college, but we only read the part where Patrick Henry proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death.” It’s very likely that you have never read it either, and I’ll tell you why. Patrick Henry’s speech has been removed from our textbooks because he talks about God in it.  If  young and impressionable school children read this, they might be inspired to love God and to love America. That would defeat the purpose of modern education which is to indoctrinate our children with secularism, multi-culturism, and socialism. …- Link to Website -  Linkable Page

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A Thanksgiving Lesson - Did you know that our Pilgrim forefathers tried communism when they first landed at Plymouth Rock? - How’s that for a dramatic beginning to a story? Years ago, when I used to give a lot of talks to high school classes, this was one of my favorites. It always got the students’ attention. And I have to admit, I also enjoyed seeing some liberal teachers get so upset with me they almost lost their lunches. ... The Pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620 were incredibly brave and hardy souls. They were motivated by the noblest of virtues. They vowed, each and every one, to be as selfless as possible—to always put the needs of the group first. They agreed to own everything in common and to share everything equally. 

And their naïve piety almost killed the entire colony. We all know how the adventure begins. A group of devout Christians, seeking religious freedom for themselves and eager to "advance the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ" in the New World …Unfortunately, thanks to illness, injury and attitude, the system did not work. Pilferage from the storehouse became common. Suspicions of malingering were muttered. Over the course of that first, harsh winter, nearly half of the colonists perished. Four families were wiped out completely; ...The colonists struggled desperately for two more years. When spring arrived in April 1623, virtually all of their provisions were gone. Unless that year’s harvest improved, they feared few would survive the next winter. The Pilgrim leaders decided on a bold course. The colony would abandon its communal approach and permit each person to work for his own benefit, not for the common good. …

Once they replaced communal efforts with individual responsibility the differences were dramatic—and life-saving. Men went into the fields earlier and stayed later. In many cases, their wives and even their children (some barely past the toddler stage) worked right alongside them. More acres were planted, more trees were felled, more houses were built, and more game was slaughtered because of one simple change: People were allowed to keep the fruits of their own labors. …  - Link to Website

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Finnish parents get tax credits so they get to send the kids to what ever school they want, pubic for private. Isn’t that the way it should be? Isn’t that best for the kid? Shouldn’t parents decide which school their kids go to and where their tax dollar going? But here, in the land of the free ...  unless you are talking about teen abortions without parental consent, choice is a dirty word ... homeschooled kids understand the Constitution, on average, far better than public school kids. That would make sense, the Founding Fathers were, after all, homeschooled.

This year an organization called Exodus Mandate has called on all Christian families to yank their kids out of the public education system, immediately. It has been a long time coming brother. The public education systems can NOT BE REFORMED. Public education founder C. F. Potter stated that one hour of Sunday School cannot possibly stem the tide of five days of humanist education. You see, from the beginning, the goal was never about education, it has always been about indoctrination. That is why our kids know everyting about sex and nothing about history. (scroll down to Government schools are killing America video) - Link to Video - Linkable Page

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National Park Service removes God from Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation – These days, it seems to be getting more and more difficult to know what information you can trust, especially with the main stream media and many web sites on the internet. If you expected federal government web sites that exhibit our founding history, documents and historical sites immune from revision or omission, you would be wrong. In our politically correct, secular, anti-God society today, nothing it seems is off limits. Not even Lincoln’s Proclamation establishing the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving is immune from revision.

Revising, and sanitizing, American history, by removing God is nothing new; it has been going on in the public school system for two or three generations. So too has this been happening to many of our important national documents, and historical sites, as well. A number of books like The Rewriting of American’s History and other books document expunging God from our national history. The same has been observed, and documented, with many of our historical sites as well. Examples are too numerous to mention. One such example I ran into today that prompted this piece was the National Park Service's web site listing Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation.

One of the most common “omissions” in documents on many federal and state web sites is to remove the last paragraph or words “in the year of our Lord …” Another is to post only a portion of the document or letter thus, removing the religious portion. And yet another is to make the document harder to find, or in rare cases, removing the document altogether. Below is an example from the National Park Service web site of Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. Omitted from Lincoln’s October 3, 1863, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation is in the last paragraph of the text, “Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.” - Link to National Park Service Web Site

Phrases like, “in the year of our Lord,” not only define the religious nature of our country’s founding, they show that our calendar is dated to the birth of Jesus Christ. This is why it is often removed from many historical documents. ....  - Article Link

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The Results of Our Ignorance - Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, education or awareness. There are many people today who know little or nothing about the U.S. Constitution. There are many who know little or nothing of U.S. history, let alone world history. There are many who know little or nothing about central banks, and how they are used to steal our wealth. There are many who buy into the glossed-over news of the day. There are many who take at face value the words of the elected class, the pundits and main stream media talking heads and printed headlines. There are many who buy into the party line of their preferred political party. There are many who blindly believe the various political parties have a platform on which they base their actions and agendas and are committed to following through on those policies. There are many who believe the president, senator or representative they elected has in their hearts the best interests of the people they supposedly serve.

There are many who are ignorant. It’s not all their fault—particularly the younger generations. Their education system has been corrupted by 1960s radicalism—the same radicalism that has infected our government. Public education has become a sad joke. …Don’t think the elected class is ignorant. They’re not. They know exactly what they’re doing—stealing your wealth and your liberty. Never mind whether it’s Constitutional, says the elected class. We know what’s best for you. Never mind whether it’s Constitutional, it’s free, say the ignorant. … Some are waking up. The Tea Parties demonstrate that. But too many are ignorant. And apparently they’re ready to accept anything as long as it’s “free.” After all: ignorance is bliss and free is good. - Link to Website  - Linkable Page

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

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Thy kingdom come - You cannot understand history without understanding Divine Providence. The whole of history can be looked at from a Biblical philosophy, because there is an overall purpose that unifies all the specific events of history. From a humanistic standpoint, there is no purpose in history and hence no unifying theme that ties the events of history together. Many modern educators deny the Providential view of history and would have us believe that their promotion of one of several “secular” views of history is simply the recounting of brute facts.

God’s plan for the nations has been unfolding in a specific geographic direction. This geographical march of history is called the Chain of Christianity or the Chain of Liberty. It seems as if God’s direction is westward. “Christian” geography (which is true geography) is the view that the earth’s origin, end, purposes, and physiography are for Christ and His glory. Like individuals, nations have a unique purpose. We will see throughout this book how God has raised up and put down nations of the world for His purposes. … During the Revolutionary War, God performed many miracles on behalf of the American army, for God desired to see America win its struggle for freedom, become a nation, and fulfill its divine purposes. - Link to Website

“I always, consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

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SAINT PATRICK’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN (CHRISTIAN) CIVILIZATION - Across America, great frustration and anger are rising, as productive Americans feel that they are buried in hundreds of thousands of laws and tax codes that dominate their everyday lives, families, property and businesses. …Why is this happening? America is at the tipping point between the two major conflicting law systems of people and nations: King’s or Ruler’s Law and God’s Law. America was founded upon a simple and yet profoundly effective infrastructure built upon voluntary obedience to God’s Law. The result was blessing, prosperity and personal liberty as the world had never before experienced. Taxes were low, laws were few and life and charity were focused at the family and community level.

But the past few generations have been seduced back toward the top-down Ruler’s Law which has dominated most nations of the world. This system always enslaves a people through an elaborate network of bureaucracy and ruler’s laws, eventually leaving them dependent upon government for everything. The rulers often make god-like promises and always exempt themselves from their own onerous laws and taxes.

The answer to this juggernaut of Ruler’s Law has always been the same throughout history. The story of the rise of liberty has repeated itself for two millennia. First a people find themselves in misery under the strong arm of their government. Then God raises up a small minority, sometimes one individual, who rediscovers that the only source of liberty is God and His Word. Working together with God, they then proceed to liberate millions with His truth. Be encouraged that we can restore our nation against all odds. There is no better place to start to see what can be done than to track the impact of early believers as they faced the cruelty of Rome on the one hand and the anarchy and barbarity of the pagan tribes of Europe on the other. They ultimately outlasted and defeated the Roman Empire and laid the foundations for Western Civilization. They turned the world upside down by following their Lord’s strategy of servant leadership (Mathew 20:25). They started by first living out God’s Law in their homes, businesses and church fellowships. Then they extended charity in many ways including, feeding the poor and saving abandoned babies left to die. They evangelized the unbelievers, and established God’s Law as the basis for all of their societal institutions.  - Link to Website

“If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.”
— William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

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You Might Be A Constitutionalist If … - More than thirty years as a student of American history, constitutional government, and the Holy Bible leads me to the conviction that the two major political parties in this country (at the national level) are equally culpable in stripping America of its founding principles. In my opinion, both the Democrat and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., have zero fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and zero respect for America's foundational precepts. ….I am absolutely convinced that without a renewed allegiance to constitutional government and State sovereignty, there can be no resolution to America's current slide into socialism and oppression. …

1. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that every congressman, senator, President, and Supreme Court justice is required to obey the U.S. Constitution.

2. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that before the United States invades and occupies another country, Congress must first declare war.

3. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe the federal government should live within its means, like everyone else is forced to do.

4. You might be a Constitutionalist if you think that taking away people's liberties in the name of security is not patriotic, nor does it make the country more secure.

5. You might be a Constitutionalist if you would like to see politicians be forced to abide by the same laws they make everyone else submit to.

7. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that the federal government has no authority to be involved in education or law enforcement, or in any other issue that the Tenth Amendment reserves to the States, or to the People.

13. You might be a Constitutionalist if you understand that outsourcing American jobs overseas is not good for America.

36. You might be a Constitutionalist if you would like to meet one single congressman or senator besides Ron Paul who acts as if he or she has ever read the U.S. Constitution.

Well, how did you fare? Are you a Constitutionalist? If so, your country desperately needs you to stand up and fight for freedom's principles before they are forever taken from us. This means never again voting for anyone--from any party--who will not preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution. So, don't just take the test; make the pledge! -  - Link to Website

"While most nations trace their origin to barbarians, the foundations of our nation were laid by civilized men, by Christians."
— Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) Presbyterian minister & founder of the American Temperance Society

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Alexander's Essay - Nobody Questions That? - Never before has there been more evidence of outright contempt for our Constitution than under the current liberal hegemony presiding over the executive and legislative branches of our federal government. …Those who laid our constitutional foundation were very clear about its limits on government. Our Constitution's principle author, James Madison, wrote, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined [and] will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce."

Concerning the legislature's authority, Thomas Jefferson asserted: "[G]iving [Congress] a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole [Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly, no such universal power was meant to be given them. [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." Madison added, "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."…

In every successive Congress since 1995, conservative Arizona Republican Rep. John Shadegg has sponsored the Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359), which requires that "Each Act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act." The measure continues to fail, however, because of a dirty little secret: There is no legitimate constitutional authority for almost 70 percent of current federal government programs, and, thus, no authority for the collection of taxes to fund such activities. Though Obama swore to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," and every member of Congress has pledged "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and "bear true faith and allegiance to the same," Democrats, and too many Republicans, have forsaken their sacred oaths. In doing so, they have inflicted grievous injury upon our Constitution, thereby placing our Essential Liberty in eminent peril. - Link to Website

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"Every word [of the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty."
— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

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1954 8th Grade Civics Test - Could You Pass? What more proof do we need that our children are being deliberately dumbed down than this standard 1954 civics test on the U.S. Constitution …- Link to Website

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator

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The Intelligent Student’s Guide to the New World Order - What is the New World Order? (Godless socialism)  How does it affect you? The essence of the New World Order or WORld Management System (WORMS) is that it is management by social engineers, rather than government based on a written constitution. How you are affected by this management system, depends on what the social engineers decide the system should do for you and require of you. The social engineers and system managers think of themselves as scientists applying the scientific method to the control of group behavior. Your behavior and relationships are regarded as subjects of investigation and control by those who call themselves ‘social scientists.’ You are among their test animals, and you have no say in, and often no knowledge of experiments that involve you….

…From then on your local school board and your parents have had little to say about what you should be expected to learn. NCSS CONTROLS what you should know, when you should know it. If you, your school or community have different standards and do not try to live up to NCSS standards for the New World Order, your schools can be closed or your community punished by depriving it of federal, foundation, and state money. - Link to Website

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Barack Obama has failed to defeat conservatism in America - This week’s striking Gallop poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. …These are staggering figures when you consider that the Left currently dominates the Executive Branch of the US Government, both Houses of the United States Congress, the federal bureaucracy, huge swathes of local government in many big cities, academia, the public school system, and most of the establishment broadcast and print media in America. The figures show there is a huge disconnect between the American public and those who wield much of the political power in the country. ...The spirit of Ronald Reagan is alive and well in America, exemplified by strong public backing for the principles of limited government, free enterprise, individual responsibility and a strong defence. The White House should sit up and take note: it is liberalism, and not conservatism, that is in decline in the United States.  - Link to Website

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Nebraska’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice – … An overarching theme emerging out of the survey results is a major disconnect between parental schooling preferences and actual school enrollments. 44% of K-12 parents say they would like to send their child to a private school.2 In reality, however, approximately 12% of Nebraska’s K-12 students attend private schools. 11% of parents say they would like to send their child to a charter school. The state of Nebraska does not have a charter school law. 
21% of parents said they would choose a regular public school for their child. Approximately 88% of Nebraska’s K-12 students attend regular public schools. - Link to Website

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
— Plato

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Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claim British Lord - (One Nation Under God or One Nation Under World Government?) ...I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosparity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
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WHY WE NEED THE FREEDOM IN EDUCATION ACT - (Undermining God, the Constitution and perverting history in schools) By Tom DeWeese - Your elected Representatives and Senators in Congress deny that this nation has a mandatory national education curriculum. Congress hides the fact of the existence of a mandatory national curriculum behind the historic arrangement of state and local control of schools. The U.S. national government denies that there is a national curriculum that teaches the need for world government over the need to safequard American national sovereignty and independence. Your Representatives and Senators in Congress are in the dark and the national government is lying.

The fact is, the building blocks of world government are being taught in a number of ways. There are several specific programs in today’s education curriculum designed to promote global government.

The International Baccalaureate Program (IB) created by the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is now in more than 500 American public schools and the U.S. Department of Education is helping to fund it. UNESCO says, “the program remains committed to changing children’s values so they think globally, rather than in parochial national terms from their own country’s viewpoint.” The IB curriculum achieves that goal, says UNESCO, by promoting human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental, and immigration concerns. This is political indoctrination, not education. It’s propaganda for a certain political agenda. - Link to Website

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principle of freedom.”
— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot 

“No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example.”
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
— Northwest Ordinance - Article 3. 1787

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A Brief Analysis of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution - We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is a civics textbook that is currently being used in many high schools throughout the country. By its own admission, this book is a "project of the Center for Civic Education, funded by the U.S. Department of Education by act of Congress."

This subsidized textbook is sowing the seeds of doubt in our nation's school children, getting them to question the brilliant principles our Founding Fathers instilled in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. What follows is an analysis of just some of the antithetical principles that are taught in this civics textbook: - Link to Website

1. Ignoring the clearest limitation upon the federal government.
2. Skewed view of federalism
3. Second Amendment rights denigrated.
4. Unalienable vs. evolving rights.

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Social Utility: How Much Are Grandpa and Grandma Worth? - Rus­sell L. Blay­lock, M.D. - … I dis­cussed a con­cept that is always on the mind of the socialist planner and that is “social utility”. To fully under­stand this con­cept one has to under­stand the socialist phi­los­ophy, if it can indeed be called a phi­los­ophy—in gen­eral, philoso­phies are ana­lyt­ical. In their world view, which is basi­cally a gnostic one, the world is occu­pied by two basic forms of human life—those who are wise and chosen and those who make up the common rabble?—the masses. … 

To have the older gen­er­a­tion around as long as pos­sible is a great value to us all. There was a time when we hon­ored our par­ents and grand­par­ents as sources of great wisdom, yet in modern times we just see them as old fogies that have no idea how to send emails or pro­gram a DVD. We are now being taught by our “elite leaders” and intel­lec­tuals that we would all be better off if the elderly would just accept death and that denying them health care can speed the process.

There is a polar­iza­tion between the young and old, which can only be wors­ened by the present debate on the elderly’s “social utility”. With so many divorcees, a growing number of youth often feel little real attach­ment, appre­ci­a­tion or abiding love for their par­ents or grand­par­ents. One can make a strong case for the present destruc­tion of fam­i­lies and mar­riages being the result of a series of ear­lier social engi­neering plans and schemes. …

A great number have served nobly during America’s wars–lost limbs and suf­fered from the stress of war. Are we to dis­honor them now for their sac­ri­fice by telling them they are a lia­bility? Others gave their sons and daugh­ters during wars and lived with the anguish of the loss. Is this how we honor that sac­ri­fice?—?to tell them that they are of no use? When I read the sto­ries of the young men and women who have sac­ri­ficed their lives in battle in today’s wars I wonder will they be dis­hon­ored in such a way when they get old or sick?.

We can hon­estly say that it was the labor of our seniors that built this great country, so how can be betray them now? Even worse is that we are telling them that we don’t even care that they are suf­fering during their last days and that they are aware that relief of their suf­fering exist, but they cannot have it??the money, they are told, would be better spent on edu­ca­tional pro­grams, studies of global cli­mate change and a plethora of other socialist dreams.  If we let this happen, we should hold our heads in shame. -  Link to Website

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75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S. - Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. … A thousand students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens.

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Is America at a Dangerous Tipping Point for Receiving God's Judgment? - ... I believe God uses the same template to judge nations … I believe God always warns nation's before He judges them and in doing so gives them the chance to repent. However, if the nation does not repent, God's judgment will become more severe. In reading what God said He would do to the nation of Israel if they continue in their rebellion against God as found in Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26, and Isaiah 5, it is in many ways like reading the newspapers here in America -  Link to Web Link

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Taxpayers march on Washington DC - Millions of concerned citizens descend on Washington to protest tyranny by government.- Link to Website

“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations binds, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? ... The Scriptures tell us ‘righteousness exalteth a Nation.’”
— Abigail Adams (1744-1818) Wife of John Adams, Mother & Patriot

“And this leads me to say, now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in national legislature. ... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation. ... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
— James Garfield (1831-1881) Twentieth president of the United States

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

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Cartoon predicts the future 50 years ago. This is amazing insight! – The secret of American prosperity. -  Link to Web Video

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President Obama Praises and Celebrates the Islamic Faith While Ignoring and Disrespecting the Christian Faith Tradition - On Tuesday evening, President Obama praised American Muslims at a White House dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
 
With respect to Christianity President Obama has: * Covered a cross and a sacred symbol for the name of Jesus at a Georgetown University Speech. * Chosen not to celebrate the National Day of Prayer at the White House. Even though the National Day of Prayer is an official event declared by Congress. * For the first time in 42 years, the Pentagon denied a military flyover at a Patriotic rally in Nampa, Idaho because the event was "too Christian."  -  Link to Website

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom [liberty]" 
— 2 Corinthians 3:17 RSV

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness.. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”
— Rev. Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) Author, minister and teacher

Obama Denies Flyover of 'GOD & Country Rally'—1st Time In 42Yrs Why? Because Of Its 'Christian Nature' -  Link to Web Video

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Some Parents Revolt Over Obama's Planned Speech to Children - President Obama's plan to deliver a televised speech to public school students caused an uproar among conservative parents in Texas, who demanded that their children be allowed to skip the event, scheduled for Tuesday. "It seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child," said Brent Curtis, an engineer who is keeping his three kids at home. "I don't want our schools turned over to some socialist movement." Most of the opposition was along similar lines, complaining either that the speech was indoctrination or that it had not been screened for political content.

White House officials stressed that the speech was not political, and would simply encourage children to work hard and stay in school. "It's not a policy speech," a spokeswoman for the Department of Education said, repeating the assurances that White House spokespeople issued Thursday.

Criticism of the speech began when it was learned that an accompanying lesson plan referred to ways students can "help the President" and urged them to think about "what the President wants us to do." ...
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In violation of Federal Law enlisting kids to push an agenda…..

20 U.S.C. § 3403 (Pub.L. 96-88, Title I, § 103, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 670)

United States Code Title 20. Education Chapter 48. Department of Education Subchapter I. General Provisions § 3403. Relationship with States

(a) Rights of local governments and educational institutions

It is the intention of the Congress in the establishment of the Department to protect the rights of State and local governments and public and private educational institutions in the areas of educational policies and administration of programs and to strengthen and improve the control of such governments and institutions over their own educational programs and policies. The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal Government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States.

(b) Curriculum, administration, and personnel; library resources

No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.

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Mandatory Gay-Friendly Classes - A lawsuit in California that was filed last month by angry parents who object to a gay-friendly curriculum they say is being foisted on kindergartners could well become a test case for schools around the country. Parents in the Alameda Unified School District were refused the right to excuse their kids from classes that would teach all kids in the district's elementary schools about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender alternative families. 

The parents say they are concerned about "indoctrination" in the schools, but administrators say the course is needed to protect against sexual discrimination — and that the lessons are protected by laws in California and 10 other states. Those states, which stretch from Washington to Maine, will now be eyeing the court results in California in a case that warring sides say pits parents' rights against a schools' responsibilities. ….The contested California curriculum includes an annual 45-minute LGBT lesson taught to kids from kindergarten through the fifth grade. The kindergartners will focus on the harms of teasing, while the fifth graders will study sexual orientation stereotypes. 
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“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.”
— Fisher Ames (1758-1808) Founding Father and framer of the First Amendment to the Constitution

“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
— Noah Webster (1758-1843)  Father of the Dictionary & American Patriot

“He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.”

“The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order, and to impress them with respect for. lawful authority. Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.

These duties are, internally, love and adoration; externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should bo made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religion opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man ; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority."
— Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Statesman, Diplomat, writer of the final draft of the Constitution

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The Threat from International Treaty Law - The vital child-parent relationship is deeply valued in millions of homes across the nation. Yet most American families have no idea of the extent to which this precious relationship is now jeopardized by the threat of international treaty law.

Today the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is approaching a possible ratification by the United States Senate. This treaty, as harmless as it may appear, is capable of attacking the very core of the child-parent relationship, removing parents from their central role in the growth and development of a child, and replacing them with the long arm of government supervision within the home. …

A DEPARTURE FROM AMERICAN LAW But the Convention's emphasis on the "best interests" principle is a sharp break from American law. In the 1993 case of Reno v. Flores, the U.S. Supreme Court held that "the 'best interests of the child' is not the legal standard that governs parents' or guardians' exercise of their custody." -  Link to Website

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Court orders Christian child into government education - A 10-year-old homeschool girl described as "well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level" has been told by a New Hampshire court official to attend a government school because she was too "vigorous" in defense of her Christian faith.

The decision from Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl's "vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view." The recommendation was approved by JudgeLucinda V. Sadler, but it is being challenged by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund who said it was "a step too far" for any court. 

The ADF confirmed today it has filed motions with the court seeking reconsideration of the order and a stay of the decision sending the 10-year-old student in government-run schools in Meredith, N.H. -  Link to Website

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.”
—Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Statesman, Diplomat, writer of the final draft of the Constitution

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary - Preface “
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. …No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary 
EDUCATION: The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

Florida Governor Credits Prayer at Kotel for No Hurricanes - Florida Governor Charlie Crist said his written prayers that were placed at the Western Wall (Kotel) have prevented hurricanes from striking the state the past two years. Crist, a Methodist, told real estate agents that during a trade mission to Israel in 2007, he went to the Western Wall and placed a note that said, “Dear G-d, please protect our Florida from storms and other difficulties. Charlie." Crist noted that the state, often devastated by hurricanes, was hit eight times in 2004 and 2005 but has been spared since his prayer. -  Link to Website

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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine - Link to audio

“All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it’ a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay. And pretty soon your son won’t decide, when he’s in school, where he will go, or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do. Write those letters now. Call your friends, and tell them to write them. If you don't, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country, until, one day…. we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this, and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

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As storms flare, so do attempts to deciede which are ‘SIGNS’ and which are not - …That was never more obvious than in Minneapolis last week -- when an extremely rare tornado roared near the downtown and ripped a steeple off the flagship Lutheran cathedral while national leaders of that congregation were there in Minneapolis -- across the street, at that very moment -- preparing to vote on whether to have a more accepting policy toward homosexuals. So stark was the "sign" that it was commented about on both religious and secular blogs and even by leaders at the event itself -- yet when it came down to the vote, they obviously dismissed it, for they proceeded not only to vote for a more accepting policy but, two days later, to allow actively homosexual as clergy!

Some said there had not been such a storm in ninety years (about as long as anyone could remember), and if that wasn't enough of a "sign," the tornado itself was brief and just a hundred yards wide and moved only over a distance of only half a mile -- just enough to knock off the steeple, disrupt the meeting, and also destroy the roof and windows of a famous local music store called the "Electric Fetus." This perhaps is taking happenstance -- and rejection of signs -- to a new level. A rare meteorological event like out of the Old Testament occurs and still Lutheran leaders proceed with a matter that contravenes Old and New Testament teachings. At the same time, a bizarre dark cloud and tornado warnings swept over Toronto, Canada and a vicious storm felled a hundred trees in New York City's Central Park. - Link to Website

“The LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
— Psalms 127:1 RSV

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American Providentialial History - The History Guru  -  American history is, in the view of some, not the same as the history of any other nation. Instead, American History is the history of Providence. It is the history of how the divine hand has interacted with the human element to create a nation that is, in many ways, unique among the nations of the world. As such, its history is also unique among the history of the nations. In this view, American history is really American providential history; it’s the story of God’s interaction with humanity.

American providential history focuses on the unique elements in American history in which human beings have interacted with the divine. As such, it begins with a study of the early American settlers. These settlers, in many cases, came to America from Europe for religious reasons. In some instances, they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, such as was the case with the Pilgrims. In other instances, people came to America for missionary purposes - they hoped to spread Christianity to the native people of America.

From there, people interested in American providential history focus on the amazing events that occurred during the nation’s founding. They look at movements like the Great Awakening, which had a significant impact on the religious views of the colonists. In many ways, it was this Great Awakening that was responsible for the political spirit of independence that ultimately led to the creation of the United States.

The interaction of the Divine with America doesn’t stop there, however. American providential history looks at the subsequent events that have occurred, as well. For example, the struggle over slavery is viewed as God’s working in society to make sure that the God-given rights of life and liberty are protected for all people, not just the privileged few. A providential view of American history also sees America as a unique country in the eyes of God. It views America as a “city on a hill” that serves as a model for the rest of the world when it comes to liberty and freedom.  - Link to Website

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Minneapolis tornado rips Lutheran conference on gays in the church. Here’s the church… Where’s the steeple? - The inverted Cross atop Central Lutheran church Minneapolis dangled from the steeple on Wednesday following a rare downtown twister as the ELCA Churchwide Assembly was in legislative session across the street at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Things that make you go, hmmm… … The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is considering a proposal that would allow members in homosexual relationships to serve as clergy. It has denied a motion to require a higher proportion of votes for the proposal to pass. On Monday delegates gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center rejected a proposal to require approval from a two-thirds supermajority instead of a simple majority when the measure comes to a final vote, expected on Friday.  - Link to Website

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
— Revelation 3:13 RSV

“Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.”
— Romans 1:25-28 RSV

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Enumerated Powers Act - Would Require Congress to Cite Constitutional Authority - The Enumerated Powers Act, H.R. 2458, requires that all bills introduced in the U.S. Congress include a statement setting forth the specific constitutional authority under which the law is being enacted. This measure will force a continual re-examination of the role of the national government, and will fundamentally alter the ever-expanding reach of the federal government. For too long, the federal government has operated without constitutional restraint. In doing so, it has created ineffective and costly programs, massive deficits year after year, and a national debt totaling nearly $7 trillion. The Enumerated Powers Act will help slow the flood of unconstitutional legislation and force Congress to reexamine the proper role of the federal government. - Link to Website

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New study shows homeschoolers excel academically - HSLDA released a new study: the Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics, conducted by Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute, which surveyed 11,739 homeschooled students for the 2007–08 academic school year. The results were consistent with previous studies on homeschool academic achievement and showed that homeschoolers, on average, scored 37 percentile points above public school students on standardized achievement tests.

….“Because of the one-on-one instruction homeschoolers receive, we are prepared academically to be productive and contributing members of today’s society,” said Smith. The average public school spends nearly $10,000 per child per year whereas the Progress Report shows that the average homeschool parent spends about $500 per child per year.

“Homeschooling is a rapidly growing, thriving education movement that is challenging the conventional wisdom about the best way to raise and educate the next generation,” said Smith. There are an estimated 2 million homeschooled children in the U.S. today, which is about 4% of the school-aged population, and homeschooling is growing at around 7% per year. - Link to Website

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
— Proverbs 22:6 RSV

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Codex Threatens Health of Billions - Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global implementation on December 31, 2009 …

In 1995, the FDA issued a policy statement saying that international standards such as Codex would supersede U.S. laws governing all food. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is illegal under current U.S. law, but is legal under international law, the U.S. is required to conform to Codex as it stands on December 31, 2009, unless it creates its own guidelines and gets them approved under the two step process. Given current government sentiment, this seems unlikely. Besides, as guidelines are one-by-one chiseled into standards, time is running out. - Link to Web Site

“Unless we put medical freedom into The Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic. ...The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
— Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Founding Father& signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Obama Administration To Impose Liberal UN Curriculum - by Allen Quist - …the Obama administration's education reform efforts" in its "$4.35 billion Race to the Top," will include "adopting internationally benchmarked education standards." These will be national standards, said the press release, keyed to international standards and will be incentivized to the states with federal "stimulus" dollars. … 

According to the announcement, this federal curriculum will consist of "internationally benchmarked" standards. The only extant comprehensive "internationally benchmarked" education standards are those developed by UNESCO, the UN's education arm The UNESCO website clarifies that its education standards conform to the treaties and agreements of the UN. This means that its curriculum includes, for example, the requirements of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which says, "Education shall . . . further the activities of the United Nations" (Art. 26:2).

American schools used to teach the fundamental values of the United States--including the inalienable, God-given rights of life, liberty and property, as guaranteed by our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Not any more. Now our students will be indoctrinated in the UN's definition of human rights. As clarified by the UN's UDHR, our rights now may not "be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations" (Art 29:3). Our children will be taught that they have only those rights the UN says they have. …  - Link to Website

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”
— Mark 9:42 RSV

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
— Matthew 18:6 RSV

“For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
— Ephesians 6:12 RSV

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Nebraska legislators seek to assert state sovereignty - At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government: Butt out of state business. Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees. The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Nebraska wouldn't try to secede from the union under their proposals but would go on record objecting to federal laws that they say go beyond constitutional authority. “My goal here is to shine light on the fact that the federal government is overstepping its bounds,” said State Sen. Tony Fulton of Lincoln. “We would be making a statement on behalf of Nebraska.”

The tension between states' rights and federal authority has been a repeated theme in U.S. history, starting with arguments among the founding fathers. The struggle turned bloody when Southern states seceded, citing states' rights on the question of slavery, and the Civil War ensued.  - Link to Website

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Palin to feds: Alaska is sovereign state - Constitutional rights reasserted in growing resistance to Washington -  Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government.

Just weeks before she plans to step down from her position as Alaska governor, Palin signed House Joint Resolution 27, sponsored by state Rep. Mike Kelly on July 10, according to a Tenth Admendment Center report. The resolution "claims sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States." Alaska's House passed HJR 27 by a vote of 37-0, and the Senate passed it by a vote of 40-0.  - Link to Website

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New Hampshire Sovereignty Under the Constitution - Citizens petition for redress of grievances by legislature – Dan Itse - HB1543 

Glen Beck Interview - Link to Video

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More than eight of ten Ohio likely voters would opt out of regular public schools - Survey results find strong support for school choice among Democrats, Independents, Republicans - More than eight out of ten Ohio residents would have their children educated in a private, charter, virtual, or home school setting if they had the opportunity, according to the results of a public opinion survey released today by School Choice Ohio and several other state and national organizations.  Eighty-three percent of residents polled would opt for schools other than traditional public schools, according to the survey. 

… “The results of this survey confirm what we have known all along in Ohio, parents want an environment where they believe their child can be successful … This support cuts across numerous demographic groups.”
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“No Nation can long survive if it teaches its children to hate their ancesters and be ashamed of their heritage and that is exactly what we are doing in America today.”
— John Eidsmoe,  Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, Constitutional Attorney & Author

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Atheists Sue to Kill D.C. 'In God We Trust' Engraving - The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block an architect from engraving "In God We Trust" and the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.

The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in western Wisconsin, claims the taxpayer-funded engravings would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.The House and Senate passed identical resolutions this month directing the Architect of the Capitol to engrave "In God We Trust" and the pledge in prominent places at the entrance for 3 million tourists who visit the Capitol each year.- Link to Website

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Is President Obama Correct: Is America No Longer a Christian Nation? - Over the past several years, President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that America is not a Christian nation. He asserted that while a U. S. Senator, repeated it as a presidential candidate, and on a recent presidential trip to Turkey announced to the world that Americans “do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” (He made that announcement in Turkey because he said it was “a location he said he chose to send a clear message.” ) Then preceding a subsequent trip to Egypt, he declared that America was “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world” (even though the federal government’s own statistics show that less than one-percent of Americans are Muslims. 

The President’s statements were publicized across the world but received little attention in the American media. Had they been carried here, the President might have been surprised to learn that nearly two-thirds of Americans currently consider America to be a Christian nation and therefore certainly might have taken exception with his remarks. But regardless of what today’s Americans might think, it is unquestionable that four previous centuries of American leaders would definitely take umbrage with the President’s statements. 
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Angels, the future Church, The Virgin: Man, who was abducted by drug lords, follows with further mystical details - As for the world -- and its future -- Marino says the Lord told him it will become even more industrialized: "a Godless world centered in materialism."

"Religions are going to be a private activity that can not be  publicly exhibited and will be watched and controlled by the governments," he claims. "The true Church will live practically as in the beginning of Christianity. He told me that the conversion of Israel has to take place before Jesus will come again. 

"That conversion will happen overnight and there is going to be much confusion among the Jews...."
 
"Many will fall away from the faith within the next years. The Lord is cleaning up the house. A lot of dirt is going to be uncovered. All that was hidden is going to come to light. Many will lose their faith. Our Church may become smaller, but it will become a Church of real believers. The times we are facing will not be possible to endure without a faith that is radically centered [as with the apostles; praise God!] in perfect obedience."
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Who Lost the Children? - …Where the Law of God is neglected—and it is neglected almost everywhere in churches today—all the benefits outlined above escape us. No appeal to some vaguely defined “law of love” can take the place in spiritual, moral, and ethical development that the Law of God is intended to fill. God is adamant about this. He warns us in the most severe terms that where men neglect the Law of God, the displeasure of the Lord will not be far away: “If one turns away his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination” (Proverbs 28:9). “So the Law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth” (Habakkuk 1:4). “And since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children” (Hosea 4:6).

To be blunt: The neglect of God’s Law, for the better part of the last two generations, is coming home to roost. Our young people are bailing out on the church, and our prayers that God will rescue them are falling on deaf divine ears. - Link to Website

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Man playing God with the food supply - The Risks of Genetically Modified Foods - Seeds of Deception talk by Jeffrey R. Smith - Link to Video

Seeds of Deception - Link to Website

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NBC had a poll on the question of keeping In God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance - 86% to keep the words in the pledge, 14% voted against  - Link to Web Site

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Silencing The Christians – Movie trailer - Link to Website

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Tenth Amendment Center, State Sovereignty Movement - Thirty five states have State sovereignty resolutions passed or pending. - Link to Website

Tenth Admentment Points - Link to Website

Constitution of the United States: Bill of Rights  
Article 10 - Rights of the States under Constitution

Glenn Beck: The Letter - … I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.… Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. 

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“Let me …warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party …[it’s] common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. …It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another,  …It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. …in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
— Proverbs 29:2 RSV

Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber - The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students ranked 25th of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science. McKinsey & Company, in releasing its report "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools" (April 2009) said, "Several other facts paint a worrisome picture. First, the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers. In recent cross-country comparisons of fourth grade reading, math, and science, US students scored in the top quarter or top half of advanced nations. - Link to Website 

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be aid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.”
— Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Statesman, Diplomat, writer of the final draft of the Constitution

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The White House Attack on Religion Continues: Repealing Conscience Protection -  Link to Web Site 

“The free and uninterrupted exercise of our consciences in that way of worship we are most clearly persuaded God requires us to serve Him in, without endangering undoubted birthright of English freedom.” “By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but ‘the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.” 
— William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.”
— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

Obama declares June 'LGBT Pride Month' -  In a presidential proclamation on the White House website, Barack Obama has lauded what he calls "the determination and dedication" of the LGBT movement by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. - Link to Website 

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Our Fading Heritage - Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions is the third major study conducted by ISI on the kind of knowledge required for informed citizenship. … Each year, approximately 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given a 60-question, multiple-choice exam on basic knowledge of America’s heritage. Both years, the students failed. The average freshman scored 51.7% the first year and 51.4% the next. The average senior scored 53.2%, then 54.2%. After all the time, effort, and money spent on college, students emerge no better off in understanding the fundamental features of American self-government.

Seventy-one percent of Americans fail the test, with an overall average score of 49%. Liberals score 49%; conservatives score 48%. Republicans score 52%; Democrats scored 45%. Fewer than half of all Americans can name all three branches of government, a minimal requirement for understanding America’s constitutional system. - Link to Website 

“To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible, the observation which Cicero makes respecting that of his own country is much more emphatically applicable, that ‘it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.’”
— John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848)  6th President of the United States

“A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins!”
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Printer and Philosopher

“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana (1863-1952) American Philosopher, Poet and Author

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
—  Plato

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American capitalism gone with a whimper - "... the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. …But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

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Whaddya mean, 'America is not a Christian nation'? Congressmen challenge Obama assertion by drafting 'spiritual heritage' legislation – While Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. is “no longer a Christian nation,”  several members of Congress have taken a stand to boldly disagree.

A bipartisan group of 25 members of the House of Representatives earlier this month submitted H.Res. 397, which calls on Congress to affirm "the rich spiritual and religious history of our nation's founding and subsequent history" and to designate the first week of May as America's Spiritual Heritage Week for "the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith."

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., specifically challenged the president's claims that America is not a Christian nation in a news conference announcing the bill immediately following last week's National Day of Prayer observance.

"The overwhelming evidence suggests that this nation was born and birthed with Judeo-Christian principles," Forbes told reporters, "and I would challenge anybody to tell me that point in time when we ceased to be so, because it doesn't exist." The bill itself cites over 70 historical references and quotes from past presidents, Founding Fathers and Supreme Court decisions as proof that Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation of our nation. - Link to Article

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator

The Constitution is not a partisan issue; without it, our Republic would cease to exist.

“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon”
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry (1736-1799) Patriot, Lawyer and Orator

"Let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

"The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but
in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”
— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the United States

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. When the people once surrender their share of the legislature, and their right of defending the limitations upon the government, and of resisting every encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”
— John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

"The hand that destroys the Constitution renders our Union asunder for ever."
— Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot

"Upon this country more than any other has, in the providence of God, been cast the special guardianship of the great principle of adherence to written constitutions. If it fail here, all hope in regard to it will be extinguished.
— Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th President of the United States

“Let every man remember that to violate the law [Constitution], is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

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Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request - "Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there." 
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Patriots Day - Lexington MA - April 19, 2009  - Link to Video

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Texas Governor Affirms State Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment - “I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.” 
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Webster's dictionary redefines 'marriage' Now includes references to same-sex relationships - One of the nation's most prominent dictionary companies has resolved the argument over whether the term "marriage" should apply to same-sex duos or be reserved for the institution that has held families together for millennia: by simply writing a new definition. …The new definition references "marriage" as the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife. But the definition also includes "the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage." - Link to Website

Merriam-Webster 2009 Online dictionary  
mar·riage - 1 a (1): the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law 

(2): the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage> b: the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock c: the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage2: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected ; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities3: an intimate or close union <the marriage of painting and poetry — J. T. Shawcross>

Webster’s 1828 dictionary
mar·riage - The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity,and for securing the maintenance and education of children.

Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Heb.13.

1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Matt.22.

2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Rev.19.

Hillary Clinton leaves flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, asks ‘Who painted it?’ -  During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the American people,” after asking who painted the famous image.

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.

Mrs. Clinton was received on Thursday at 8:15 a.m. by the rector of the Basilica, Msgr. Diego Monroy. Msgr. Monroy took Mrs. Clinton to the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which had been previously lowered from its usual altar for the occasion.

After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded “God!” 
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The story of Guadalupe, page 1-4  (page link, half way down left side of web site)  - Link to Website

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U.S. Ranked 36th Freest Press in the World - The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Destabilised and on the defensive, the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms. The economically most powerful dictatorships arrogantly proclaim their authoritarianism, exploiting the international community’s divisions and the ravages of the wars carried out in the name of the fight against terrorism. Religious and political taboos are taking greater hold by the year in countries that used to be advancing down the road of freedom.”

“The world’s closed countries, governed by the worst press freedom predators, continue to muzzle their media at will, with complete impunity, while organisations such as the UN lose all authority over their members,” Reporters Without Borders added. “In contrast with this generalised decline, there are economically weak countries that nonetheless guarantee their population the right to disagree with the government and to say so publicly.”

Two aspects stand out in the index, which covers the 12 months to 1 September 2008. One is Europe’s preeminence. Aside from New Zealand and Canada, the first 20 positions are held by European countries. The other is the very respectable ranking achieved by certain Central American and Caribbean countries. Jamaica and Costa Rica are in 21st and 22nd positions, rubbing shoulders with Hungary (23rd). -  Link to Website

"The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country,is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men, and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation."
— Noah Webster (1758-1843)  Father of the Dictionary & American Patriot

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one."
— Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, editor & satirist

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
— Samuel Adams (1722–1803) Father of the American Revolution, Patriot and Statesman

"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
— Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) Army General, involved in war in the Philippines, WWI, WWII, & Korean War

"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses."
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Author

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New Hampshire and now over 13 states are pushing back to reclaim their Constitutional rights -  

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE    In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled; and

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign and independent body-politic, or State, by the name of The State of New Hampshire; and ....- Link to Website

"Can any good be effected by taking from the States the moral rule of their citizens, and subordinating it to the general authority….Such an intention was impossible, and such a licentiousness of construction and inference, if exercised by both governments, as may be done with equal right, would equally authorize both to claim all power, general and particular, and break up the foundations of the Union. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. …..

I believe the States can best govern our home concerns, and the General Government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore, to see maintained that wholesome distribution of powers established by the constitution for the limitation of both; and never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold as at market."
— Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

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Only 12% of Idahoans Would Choose Regular Public School if Given a Choice -  A poll commissioned by the prestigious Friedman Foundation and co-sponsored by the Idaho Values Alliance and Education Excellence Idaho found that only 12% of Idahoans would chose a “regular public school” if they had a full range of options. 

Even more striking, this figure drops to just 4% among Idahoans age 36-55, who are the chief consumers of public education services in Idaho. Said Bryan Fischer, Executive Director of the Idaho Values Alliance, “This is an astonishing number, because it tells us that the more Idaho’s parents use conventional public education, the less they like it. This is the most powerful argument possible for increasing school choice in the Gem State.” 

The survey revealed that 25% of Idahoans would, however, choose charter schools, which are public schools free from much of the bureaucratic red tape that hampers education reform in conventional public schools. ... - Link to Website

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Sixteenth President of the United States

“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.”
— Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Communist Dictator of the USSR who lead the Bolshevik Revolution

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States were men were free.”
— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States

“No Nation can long survive if it teaches its children to hate their ancesters and be ashamed of their heritage and that is exactly what we are doing in America today.”
— John Eidsmoe,  Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, Constitutional Attorney & Author