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liberty
"There is but one straight
course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
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Newtown Calls for Armed School Officers
The Newtown Board
of Education will be asking the town to make room for more armed police
officers in its budget. In a meeting
Thursday, the board voted to request the town to add full time uniformed school
resource officers to its four elementary school s for the next fiscal year was
approved this evening. The officers would be Newtown police officers. “Our parents are demanding of us that
things are made safe and secure and certain measures are put in place,” said
Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein. “So we’re being very thoughtful.” Multiple
police officers have been stationed at all Newtown schools since the December 14th
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary killed twenty children and 6 teachers. Those officers will remain at the school
through the remainder of the school year. For the next fiscal year, resource
officers were budgeted only to be at Middle and High Schools.
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Gabby Giffords’ Job: Manipulate “the Jury” Against Second
Amendment
by Chris Graham
We conservatives
are often on the receiving end of the liberal line, “You don’t know what it’s like to be [a woman/gay/etc.], so your
opinion [on abortion/gay marriage/etc.] is invalid.” The implication in
saying that we may not opine on such
issues since we cannot experience womanhood or homosexuality is that we do not
have the emotions that those demographics do; that we do not feel the
same things they do. But is that not
the very thing that makes it possible, or at least much easier, for us to see
such issues objectively? When
a man is on trial for rape and murder, no person who has personally gone
through a rape or been close to a murdered individual will be permitted on the
jury. Why? This is precisely because
a person for whom rape or murder is a sensitive subject is more likely to let
his emotions dictate whether he finds the defendant guilty or not. If a
jury member knows what it’s like to be raped, then he has no business being a
part of a jury that is supposed to look purely at the facts presented before the court, devoid of emotion. My lack of
emotional attachment to the issue of gay marriage is precisely what makes me a
better judge as to whether gay, governmental marriage makes any sort of
rational sense. I have no emotional
connection to the issue, so my ability to reason remains unhindered. Democrats lately have been playing a
flagrant but undeniably skilled game of demagoguery. They have realized that
they cannot win the recent debate over gun control using that most pure of
judges called numbers, so they have made a left turn, down the path of
emotional appeal.
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A few years before
Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away, I spent an afternoon with him at his church
in Florida. Dr. Kennedy was the founder of world-renown Coral Ridge
Presbyterian Church, known for stating
on national television regarding abortion, “Four thousand die daily and 300,000
pulpits are silent.” On one occasion, Dr. Kennedy told me that while he was
holding a large convention at his church, the homosexual lobby was protesting
him. A pastor attending the convention was shocked and asked, “Why is your
church being protested?” D. James
Kennedy corrected this pastor with a relevant question: “You mean, your church
doesn’t get protested?” Friends, protestant has a meaning: someone who protests. It’s right in the word. America is looking for the Christ 78 percent of Americans
claim they serve. Agree or disagree with him, Rev. Charles
Finney stated:
“Brethren,
our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the
land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience,
the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral
discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate
and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest
in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of
legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so
corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the
pulpit is responsible for it.”
How deprived is the understanding of the modern church
when it comes to its own history! Nowadays,
effeminate hirelings have infiltrated the pulpits – pulpits they have no
business occupying.
By the looks of
them, I can see why the enemies of America are so encouraged. Instead of preaching against sin (transgression of God’s
Law: 1 John 3:4), these hirelings accept sin, attempt to cover it with a false
grace, and in so doing, teach their congregants to war against a just and holy
God (Micah 3:5).
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Gun-Control Liberals Are Missing the Point by Sean Aland
As the gun-control debate rages, the left continues to
miss the point or, more likely, chooses to ignore it.
It is heartbreaking to see innocent children and adults murdered in acts of gun
violence across our country, but, sadly, these
incidents prove once again that evil exists in society. Liberals can say what
they want. The truth is that those who use guns to
express their frustration and unhappiness are deeply disturbed and evil resides
in their hearts. Nothing else can explain why an individual would slaughter
innocent people in cold blood, especially children. To blame gun
violence on the guns rather than those who pulled the trigger makes as much
sense as shutting down the New York subway system because the trains have
killed people, abolishing baseball bats because someone was beaten with one, or
taking away cars because of drunk drivers. Since
stricter gun-control laws make no sense, the real motivation of the anti-gun
lobby must be to disarm the opposition—literally. Columbine High School
survivor Craig Scott, who lost his sister and several close friends during the
tragic shooting incident in April, 1999 has stated clearly what liberals do not
want to admit: “What happens when you are a person that grows up today and at school
you’re not taught about character, integrity or values…at school you are picked
on and bullied and at school teachers care more about your test scores and your
knowledge and your academic achievement than the condition of your heart,” Scott
said. “And when we were concerned about the heart we were number one in the
world in education as a first world nation. On the deepest level, these are
spiritual problems that we are having in our country.” In today’s
society where we call the murder of innocent children by abortion “choice,”
human life has lost its value. When our so-called leaders at the highest levels
fight hard to protect a woman’s right to kill her unborn child for the sake of
convenience, why are we surprised when evil people pick up a gun and start
killing indiscriminately? In
our schools we teach that abortion on demand is acceptable, and then we are
shocked when a student picks up a gun and kills.
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Wyoming State House Blocks Obama Gun Laws
Wyoming’s House of
Representatives has passed legislation
that attempts to exempt the state from proposed federal regulations restricting
assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
The law would also
charge federal officials who try to enforce the ban with a misdemeanor, reports
CBS. The state could have problems enforcing its own law. The U.S. Supreme
Court has ruled that federal laws supersede state laws. It’s uncertain whether
the block would be legally enforceable.
President Barack Obama has called for reinstituting a federal assault weapons
ban following the shootings in Connecticut in December that killed 20
elementary school students. However, it’s far from certain whether there are
enough Republicans who would join with Democrats to pass a renewal of the ban,
as Republicans in general have been cool to the idea. The Wyoming House also preliminarily approved a bill that would allow
residents who hold permits to carry weapons on public school campuses,
colleges, and on the grounds of the University of Wyoming. Likely they know
the outcome, but it sends the right message!
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Why Don’t Governments Actually Solve Problems? By Wes Walker
Do they want to fail? Those big-ticket government
programs we set up as the panaceas for all of society’s ills … do they want to
fail? Of course not, that would be stupid, right?
I want to dismiss that idea as stupid. I really do, because the alternative is
nauseating. I want to believe that
public servants wish to serve their country; that teachers care about students,
and nurses about patients. I want to believe that blue collar workers take
pride in a job well done, and that white collar ones take pride in turning
ideas into reality. I want to believe in
politicians that will stake their careers on a principle, and in judges that
prize real justice. Should that really be too much to ask? I even suspect
that many people live up to that expectation — shining examples of good and
decent people quietly doing the right thing, day by day. So why do the wheels come off when you assign a task to a Government
program? Low-income government
housing chronically fails to meet minimum living standards. Education devours mountains of tax dollars
while our students still struggle to read or add. Public libraries cry poor, but stock their shelves with movies and
video games. We spend resources on home-delivering free needles to addicts, but
lack sufficient rehab spaces for people who want to kick the habit. Assigning a government agency to solve any
social problem seems the surest route to failure. Two possible explanations
readily present themselves. (If I have overlooked others, the comment section
is open.) The first possibility is that government has a busted Midas touch. Everything they touch turns to crud, and
costs a lot of gold. The original assignment becomes
wrapped in red tape, subject to layers of administration, endless policies and
legalistic protocols until they choke out their own intended purpose beneath
the crushing weight of bureaucracy. It’s well-intentioned death by a thousand cuts. The second possibility is that the agencies assigned to solve a problem
have a financial interest in perpetuating that problem. Now we come to the
real problem. Hypothetically, imagine two solutions presented themselves. Let’s
say one is a “legacy” solution, something that will meet some needs of the
people suffering from homelessness, but will require more staff, experts, systems
money and real estate to operate in perpetuity. And say the other was a “silver
bullet” solution that actually resolves the homeless problem within a year. What is the manager to do? If he uses the
silver bullet solution, he has committed career suicide, not just for himself,
but for the entire department. He will have put all those people out of
work. So he picks the other solution. And back to the status consideration. If you intentionally exclude conclusive
silver bullet options, the problem will always be “just a little bigger than
our current budget can fix.” On that basis, legislators can be regularly
pressured to expand the department, increasing the managers’ relative prestige.
And thus, Government bureaucracy flips
the results-based free market model upside down, and for the same reasons, it
could be said that departments incapable of solving real-world problems are
actually profiting from their failures.
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Pew: 53% Feel Rights Threatened By US Government
For
the first time, a majority of Americans feel that the government threatens
their individual rights and freedoms, according to a survey released on
Thursday.
Fifty-three percent of the 1,502 adults surveyed Jan.
9-13 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press responded
that they believe that the federal government threatens their personal rights
and freedoms. The Pew survey found that 43 percent disagreed. The findings come
as President Barack Obama begins his second term and differ from survey results
from March 2010, when adults were divided on the issue. Forty-seven percent
agreed that the government represented a threat to personal freedoms, while 50
percent disagreed, Pew found. Men, the survey found, are more likely than women
to believe their rights are under assault, while Republicans — 70 percent — are
far more likely than Democrats — 38 percent — to say so.
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Why Are Black ‘Leaders’ Anti-Gun?
Is gun control Racist? MrColionNoir explains how gun
rights are not a black/white issue, they are simply natural rights. Watch here...
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Bill Whittle Tells Hillary Clinton Exactly ‘What
Difference It Makes’
Hillary Clinton
asked “what difference does it make?” in response to questions about the murder
of a US Ambassador in Benghazi. Bill Whittle lets you know what difference it
makes for our country. From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Secretary of
State John Kerry hear what Bill Whittle thinks. Watch...
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Cruz Control: Ted Cruz to Rahm Emanuel- “Back off the gun
makers and their banks.”
Sen. Ted Cruz,
R-Texas, responded to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s suggestion that banks stop
working with gun makers by telling ‘the Godfather’ he’s a bully and inviting
the companies involved in the gun industry to run their businesses out of
Texas. “[Y]our city’s longstanding policies stripping citizens of their
constitutional right to keep and bear arms have, in turn, produced some of the
very highest crime and murder rates in the nation,” Cruz wrote to Emanuel, whom
he suggested is pushing “a partisan agenda” at the expense of Chicagoans.
“Regardless, directing your attack at legitimate firearms manufacturers
undermines the Second Amendment rights of Texans, Cruz added. “In the future, I
would ask that you keep your efforts to diminish the Bill of Rights north of
the Red River.” Emanuel reportedly wrote TD Bank and Bank of America to
request that they revoke the lines of credit they offer to Sturm, Ruger, and
Co., and Smith & Wesson, respectively, unless those weapons manufacturers
back gun control measures. “Collectively
we can send a clear and unambiguous message to the entire gun industry that
investors will no longer financially support companies that support gun
violence,” Emanuel wrote. The new Texas senator said that Emanuel’s letter was “a
manifestation of an unabashed agenda to deprive law-abiding citizens of our
right to keep and bear arms.”
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Paul Krugman: There Is No Debt Crisis by Philip Hodges
Krugman, the liberal economist who has found a home at
the New York Times writing columns about how everyone else is an idiot,
recently responded to a question on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” about Paul
Ryan’s statement on the debt and deficit. Ryan
stated that we’re spending a trillion dollars more than we take in, and that if
we continue down this path, we’ll have a debt crisis. He said that the debt
crisis will be manifested when our financial system has collapsed and our
economy has stalled. He’s right except that I think we are already in the
middle of a debt crisis. Our entire financial system is an unsustainable house
of cards, and the debt is incapable of being paid. Our money itself is debt, is
inherently worthless and even a small geopolitical “flick” of an event could be
the catalyst that sends our illusory financial system toppling down. That
sounds like a crisis to me. But Krugman laughed
at such assertions:
“There’s
a whole bunch of reasons why that’s not true. First of all… that
trillion-dollar deficit is overwhelmingly the result of a depressed economy.
And when the economy’s depressed it’s good to run a deficit. You don’t want the
government to try and balance its budget right now.” We don’t have a debt problem,
and we don’t have a deficit problem. In fact, since
our economy is in depression, the government needs to run a deficit.
This isn’t the time to be cutting spending. We need to increase spending. And don’t worry. We won’t run out
of cash trying to “fix the economy” because the government can just print the
money.
So, if the government can just print the money, then why
do we have to pay taxes? Why is Krugman so in favor of
raising taxes, especially on those the government arbitrarily decides are rich?
Just have the government print the money. Krugman
champions this Keynesian mentality not as a philosophy, but as a “model of how
the real world works.” In other words, it’s scientific, and it’s been proven to
work. But how exactly is it “working?”
Unemployment rose
in January to 7.9%. 169,000 people dropped out of the labor force last month.
Ever since Obama took office, 8.5 million people have completely fallen out of
the labor force. Obama even had
to fire his “Jobs Council” a couple days ago, the economic advisory
committee supposedly focused on “job creation.” Heck, if they can’t even
hold a job, we must be in really bad shape. We can thank John Maynard Keynes, the great homosexual eugenicist and
economist, for this big government
mentality that has infected most politicians and college professors today like
an STD. Central economic planning doesn’t work, hasn’t worked and is the reason
our economy is bad and getting worse. No amount of government spending,
bailouts, money printing or widening of the deficit will revive this economy.
And when the economy does collapse, Krugman will be there yelling that it was
all the GOP’s fault.
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"Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from
the ignorant? Fidelity from the profligate? Assiduity and application to public
business from men of a dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the
management of public revenue to one who has wasted his own patrimony? Those,
therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they
send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and
will soon pay dear for their folly." --John Witherspoon, A Sermon Delivered at Public
Thanksgiving after Peace
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Obama Offers Faith Groups New Birth Control Rule
The Obama
administration on Friday proposed a work-around for religious nonprofits that
object to providing health insurance that covers birth control. Why
you may ask? He is desperately trying to
keep the issue out of the courts where he will surely lose! The
government's new regulation attempts to create a barrier between religious
groups and contraception coverage, through insurers or a third party, that
would still give women free access to contraception. The U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops had no immediate reaction, saying it was studying the
regulations. Policy analyst Sarah Lipton-Lubet of the American Civil Liberties
Union said the rule appeared to meet the ACLU's goal of providing
"seamless coverage" of birth control for the affected women. In its
new rule, the Department of Health and Human Services argued that the change
wouldn't impose new costs on insurers because it would save them money "from
improvements in women's health and fewer child births."
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More to explain
about "evolution"
Psalm
101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
We are praying this
is information is encouraging you in your faith. It’s exciting to me to
see that when we start evaluating what we are told by the world by using the
Bible as our standard what we see in the world actually confirms what we
read in the Word of God. We just have to learn to critically evaluate the
messages we’re receiving. We’ll consider the claims made for Lucy’s knee and
hips. Next we’ll deal with the claims made about her/his hands and feet and
then we’ll wrap it up by pulling all of the pieces together and seeing what the
observational evidence actually supports. Let’s continue our critical
evaluation of Lucy, the most famous fossil evidence supposedly supporting the
teaching that man evolved from an apelike ancestor. Remember, when it
comes to human evolution just finding human fossils or ape fossils isn’t
enough. To prove that you must find a
common ancestor between humans and apes. How would you know that you found
a “common ancestor?” One way that
this can be accomplished is to find the bones of a hominid that had
characteristics of both apes and humans. If you were to find a hominid that
walked like a human, but looked like an ape, you are golden. Supposedly Lucy
does just that, so let’s continue our critical evaluation of the observational
evidence…..
Two interesting statements were made here!
1. “her knee looked human”.
2. ”the shape of her hips didn’t”!
2. ”the shape of her hips didn’t”!
Let’s focus on the first statement.
Remember, in order for Lucy to be a “common ancestor” between ape’s and
humans, she would have had to walk like a human and look like a chimp.
Well, the looking like a “ape” part isn’t a problem, we all agree that
was the case, with exceptions to the eye’s and skin color of course, there’s no
doubt about that. We showed that her skull was very chimpanzee. But, in order
to walk like a human the hip and knee would have to be like a human! Dr.
Johanson said, “the knee looked human.” That settles it, right? Not so quickly, let’s start by looking at
the observational evidence.
I don’t know about you, but as I look at the actual
evidence, I don’t even see a complete knee to back up that statement!
But, since I’m biased, don’t trust me, let’s take a look at a screenshot from a non-Christian,
anti-creationist website and see what they say. (By the way, everyone
is biased, including those that don’t believe in God. This is why we need to
make sure we’re checking our beliefs against what we actually see in the
world.)
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