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This page contains the items that were once on the "Breaking News" section of the Main Page. The articles are mainly about Iran. Last date of Archived news is Dec. 31, 2011. Contains archives from Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2011.
Iranian students threaten British Embassy, chanting "Death to Britain" and "Death to America". Tip to Brits: don't make American President Jimmy Carter's mistake of 1979 and fail to protect your embassy.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Murder Machine: A Look at Tehran's Casualty List. "Ahmadinejad has taken desperate measures to reign in the escalating civil unrest throughout Iranian society by closing newspapers, enforcing strict dress codes and stepping up public hangings and stonings." Fox News [2] Iran Unveils 'Rescue the Nuke Scientist' Video Game: [3] A new intelligence report says that there is growing public discontent among citizens of Iran over the state of their nation's economy. [4] Nancy Pelosi Invests in Iran-Linked Company. Fox News: [5] A noted graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism tore up her diploma in protest to the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Columbia campus. From WorldNetDaily. [6] While Ahmadinejad visits NY, Iranian Officer arrested for smuggling roadside bombs into Iraq. Fox News And during his speech, Ahmadinejad sidestepped the question as to whether or not Iran persecuted gays: "We don’t have homosexuals, like in your country," he answered. In Iran, they get hung! [7] Iran announces it has 3000 centrifuges operating in its uranium enrichment program. This is enough to produce a nuclear weapon. [8] The USS Hopper is harassed by "five small surface craft" while transiting the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Iran. [1] Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said, "We see it as further evidence that Iran is unpredictable and remains a threat." [9] The first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ shows on Iranian Movie Screens [10] Iran Educates Children to 'Seek Martyrdom' [11] 
Obama's offer for dialogue with Iran is just not working out as planned. Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Kharrazi said Iran "will arrange contacts to America as soon as we build our own bomb." [38] UN anti-racism summit, turns into anti-Semitic summit instead. Liberal Norway strangely do not walk out from Iranian PM Ahmadinejad's tirade[39] [40] [41]. Even Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is slammed as a "racist and a bigot" for his views on Israel and Palestine. [42] The media is all abuzz about Wednesday’s tragic shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The perpetrator, 88 year old James von Brunn, was a White Supremacist, and the lefty blogs are acting as though this being some nuance of the right. Wrong. Let’s not forget that Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, are both anti-semites and neither considered spokesmen for the right. But after some research it appears the shooter is in fact - despite the protestations of the Kos Kids - is a registered Democrat and Fox News hater from Maryland. For example, he unleashed his hatred of both Presidents Bush and other “neo-conservatives” in online essays. The Kos needs to remember that it is President Obama who is wanting to meet with another Holocaust denier, Iranian President Ahmadinejad. So much for the “Right Wing Conspiracy”... [43] Many Americans stand with the Iranian people and their green revolution for Democracy. As long as the Iranian Mullahs control the government, the elections are meaningless. Christians everywhere pray for the righteous to prevail. [44] [45] [46] Muslim countries in the Middle East and north-central Africa lead the world in human trafficking This is modern-day slavery. Slavery-related practices are published by the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2009. Nine of the seventeen worst offending countries are Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Chad, Sudan, Niger , Mauritania and Eritrea. [47] [48] Seventy years ago Winston Churchill said: Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France...we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches...we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Never. Watch this video (graphic in nature) and see what Churchill's words mean in real life for the millions who yearn for freedom, and right at this moment for the freedom-loving people of Iran. [49] Uber Liberal Chris Matthews, never known for his logic, mocked Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio for pondering, on his Twitter page, that the "situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd Amendment like ours." Matthews, completely clueless that the point our Founding Fathers understood was that it is much harder to repress a free people that is armed, derided Rubio in the Sideshow portion of his June 22nd Hardball. More proof that liberals would rather see a people enslaved than admit the right to keep and bear arms is our best defense against a repressive government. [50] Real change.
U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights ! Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest." The U.N. never fails to make itself an irrelevant joke. [60] Obama blunders again: Iran signs a nuclear pact with Brazil and Turkey, making a joke out of Obama's so-called "diplomacy." "Full credit for this debacle goes to the Obama Administration and its hapless diplomatic strategy." Will we see Obama fly to Iran and bow to its leaders next? [61] International Atomic Energy Agency: Terrorist state Iran Boosts Enriched Uranium. Iran has two tons of enriched uranium, enough for two nuclear warheads and prompting concerns from the West. [62] UAE Diplomat Endorses U.S. Strike on Iran. The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that the benefits of bombing Iran's nuclear program outweigh the short-term costs such an attack would impose. [63] Liberal Idol Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed "in Context". Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with The Sunday Times yesterday, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media." The director also defended Stalin, Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and railed against the "powerful lobby" of Jews in the United States. [64] Firms Contracting With U.S. Government Flout Iran Sanctions Law, Watchdog Says. Two multinational corporations that have earned billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts are conducting business with Iran in violation of the recently signed sanctions law, according to an Iran watchdog group that has provided its research to FoxNews.com. [65] Hey Ayatollah! Leave Those Kids Alone!
Barack Obama Causing America's Stature in the Middle East to Deteriorate.'
Communism is a left-wing materialistic and often violently atheistic ideology created to justify the overthrow of Capitalism, replacing free market economics and democracy with a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Under Communism, the political system replaces the private ownership of the means of production with "collective ownership" of the economy, this is to be accomplished through direct "democratic" control by the workers.[1] Twentieth century Communism was based on Karl Marx's manifesto which proposed to establishment of a "classless society." However, all Communist societies have had a class structure, notably the USSR, which was dominated by a self appointed Nomenklatura.
In the belief that "people cannot change", governments under the banner of Communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40 million to 260 million human lives.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that it caused the death of approximately 148,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.[8]
President Ronald Reagan in an address before the British House of Commons said,
What I am describing now is a plan and hope for the long term -- the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.[9]Today, socialists who call themselves communists continue to rule over at least one-fifth of the world's people.[10]
if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); }Communism is based upon Marxism, a philosophy which uses materialism to explain all physical and social phenomena. The theory of evolution influenced the thinking of the Communists, including Marx, Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin.[11] Marx wrote, "Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history." Marx offered to dedicate the second German edition of his polemic "Das Kapital" to Charles Darwin, but Darwin declined the "honour." [12] [13]
Economically, communism advocates a socialist economy in which the government owns the means of production. In countries where communism has been imposed, the government has taken ownership of farms, factories, stores and so on in the name of the people; see "dictatorship of the proletariat". This drives all market-based economic activity underground and leads to inefficiencies and shortages. In both the Soviet Union and Red China, the number of people who starved to death when the government confiscated their farm products (animals and grain) is estimated in the tens of millions.
Even more important, one party controls every organization from the local labor union to the the army to the national government. The party is not elected. Its top officials (the "Politburo") select replacements when there is a vacancy. usually a dictator (like Stalin, Mao or Castro) controls the Politburo, but sometimes power is shared among five or six people. No dissent is allowed--all news media are controlled, and the Internet is heavily censored.
Elites do not disappear. Members of the ruling party (see Nomenklatura) have special stores in which ordinary people are barred, stores which are allegedly immune to the shortages which the lower class must endure.
Various communist doctrines have evolved or been adapted to the time and place they have been implemented. Marxism, developed by Karl Marx, and its modifications under Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong, advocates the overthrow of the existing order by a revolution of the proletariat, the social group which does not control the means of production. The goal of Marxism is supposedly to create a classless society which would result in no longer the need for any government (Communism).
The most famous government to label itself "communist" is the former USSR or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; the Communist Party controlled its government from 1918 to 1991. This government was officially atheist and attempted to suppress all religion until World War II, when it discovered religion was needed to rally the people against the Nazi invaders. Like all authoritarian regimes, it tried to cultivate reverence for the state as a psychological substitute for religion.
Marxist theory is intended to appeal to its adherents with the phrase, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", which essentially states point blank a worker does not get paid according to his abilities, and there is no incentive within the economic theory. Another quote by Marx was, "The theory of the Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property," or as some have phrased it, legalized theft.
See also: Atheism and communism
Karl Marx believed atheism to be a key part of communism. He is often very famously quoted as saying, "Religion ... is the opium of the masses."[14] His full quote was: "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."[15] He believed it was part of the "superstructure," a false culture built to maintain the status quo. Thus he denigrated Christianity as a fictional religion. Instead, Marx was an avowed atheist, as he wrote, "Communism begins from the outset with atheism; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction."[16]
Vladimir Lenin similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."[17]
In 1955, Chinese communist leader Chou En-lai declared, "We Communists are atheists".[18]
The atheism in communist regimes has been and continues to be militant atheism and various acts of repression including the razing of thousands of religious buildings and the killing, imprisoning, and oppression of religious leaders and believers.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Marxists justification for its persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church was based upon the claim that the Church was a "willing tool of Tsarism."[26]
The clergy openly stated its support for the counter-revolution (White Revolution). Lenin proclaimed that a communist regime must show itself to be merciless toward the question of religion. There was no place for the church in Lenin's regime. This led to anti-religious decrees and propaganda. All church property was expropriated by the new Soviet government. [27]
During the late 1930's and later 1940's the restrictions on church activity were loosened as Stalin needed all the support he could get for the war. This doctrine of co-operation between the church and state continued through out the existence of the Soviet republics and the other Warszawa pact nations. Though never going as far as a leader of the Soviet Union asking god to bless the country the clause in the Soviet Unions constitution addressing the separation of church and state was rendered useless.
Dr. Martin Luther King said, "for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently almost anything - force, violence, murder, lying - is a justifiable means." [28]
Communist regimes have engaged in mass killings on a scale of millions of individuals.[30] A work entitled The Black Book of Communism published by the Harvard Press focuses on the crimes, terror, and repression of modern communist regimes over a 70 year period.[31] This book is fairly controversial partly due to the various estimates regarding the millions of people who died under communist regimes.[32][33][34] [35][36]
Similarly, a influential book which concerns itself with Russian communist torture, repression and atrocities is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago which won Solzhenitsyn a Nobel Prize.[37] In 1983, Alexander Solzhenitsyn in which he gave his explanation of the cause of why millions of people died under Russian communism:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.In communist North Korea, abuse and killing in prison camps is occurring today.[38][39] In addition, the North Korean government practices brutal repression and atrocities against North Korean Christians.[40][41]
In 1999, the publication Christian Century reported that "China has persecuted religious believers by means of "harassment, prolonged detention, and incarceration in prison or `reform-through-labor' camps and police closure of places of worship."[42] In 2003, owners of Bibles in China were sent to prison camps and 125 Chinese churches were closed.[43] China continues to practice religious oppression today.[44]
See also: Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism
Communist Manifesto Nazi Party Platform Analysis "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes." "We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land." The stripping away of land from private owners. Liberalism today demands "eminent domain" on property. "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax." "We demand the nationalization of all trusts...profit-sharing in large industries...a generous increase in old-age pensions...by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor...and the creation of a national (folk) army." The points raised in the Nazi platform demand an increase in taxes to support them. Liberalism today demands heavy progressive and graduated income taxes. "Abolition of all rights of inheritance." "That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished." Liberalism today demands a "death tax" on anyone inheriting an estate. "Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels." "We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately." The Nuremburg Laws of 1934 allowed Germany to take Jewish property. "Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly." "We demand the nationalization of all trusts." Central control of the financial system. "Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State." "We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press...editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens...Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State...the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper..." Central control of the press. Liberals today demand control or suppression of talk radio and Fox News. "Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c." "In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. " Central control of education, with an emphasis on doing things their way. Liberals today are doing things their way in our schools.Some Communist ideology has made its way into the Church as a Social Gospel, interpreting the Gospel as less redemptive of sin and more of a public works campaign and activism. They often cite Jesus feeding the masses and warnings to the wealthy who believed self-seeking is all this world has to offer. Communists often cite the Acts of the Apostles, as early Christians practicing some form of sharing for the common good:
And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. (Acts 2:44-45, KJV)Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.(Acts 4:34-7, KJV)
But as Arnold Toynbee has pointed out, this Marxist view denies the most crucial points,
The passage in the Acts represents the philanthropy of the primitive Christian Society as flowing from a God-given grace which was the fruit of a belief in the divinity of Jesus. In other words, the charity which is here depicted as moving the primitive Christians to go—in their mutual concern for one another's welfare—to the extreme length of sharing all their worldly goods is not a mere love of Man for Man (which is the limited literal meaning of the word ‘philanthropy’), but is a spiritual relation to which God is a party as well as His human creatures. In fact, this Christian Socialism is a practical application, on the economic surface of life, of the fundamental religious truth that the brotherhood of man is a consequence of the fatherhood of God - a truth which is driven home with special force by a religion which teaches that God is not only the Father and Creator of man, but also his Savior, Who has been incarnate in human shape and has suffered, and triumphed over, death.[45]Adolf Hitler noted that Communists made excellent converts to Nazism, because the same personality type was attracted to both. "[T]here is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communists always will."[46] Josef Stalin also recognized that ex-Nazis and ex-fascists were natural recruits for post-war Communist regimes. As Stanley Payne notes in his A History of Fascism: 1914-1945, "All over Soviet-occupied eastern Europe (should be: Central and Eastern Europe), most rank-and-file former fascist party members, together with many lower-level leaders, were welcomed to fill the ranks of the initially exiguous local Communist parties. The psychological transition seems to have been an easy one, for obvious reasons."[47]
Cuba remains a communist state controlled by the Castro brothers since 1960 and under U.S economic sanctions.
The CCP in China retains an autocratic regime controlled by the Communist party, which allows no democracy or dissent. However it does allow capitalism, and has experienced a very rapid growth of the private sector and the middle class. Observers expect that the regime's efforts to control public opinion and forestall the will of the people will be more and more difficult.
North Korea remains a brutal dictatorship controlled by the same family. Laos, and Vietnam are also run by the old Communist cliques.
The shooting down by the Soviets on Sept. 1, 1983 of Korean Airlines Flight 007 may have been a contributing factor for the downfall of the Soviet Union as well as for the whole Soviet block. It being a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union may be inferred from the fact that NATO had decided, under the impetus of the U.S. administration, to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe, primarily West Germany. This deployment would have placed missiles just 6-10 minutes striking distance from Moscow. But support for the deployment was wavering and many doubted that the missile deployment would find enough support to effect it. When the Soviet Union shot down Flight 007 with 269 people aboard, including conservative Democratic Congressman Larry McDonald —an act which U.S. President Ronald Reagan characterized as a "massacre"—enough support was galvanized for the deployment. The deployment caused great resources of the Soviet Union to be diverted from inner economic use to military expenditures to counter the U.S. and NATO missile deployment. Between 1989 and 1991, many communist governments fell. The Berlin Wall in Germany, which had become a symbol for the division between the communist states and the rest of Europe, was torn down largely in response to Ronald Reagan in 1989, and there was also a large revolution against Romanian dictator Nicolaie Ceausescu. In 1991, the USSR broke up into several countries - each which reformed to capitalism. Some of these remained under autocratic governments, but some have embraced democracy. With the collapse the remnants of Communist parties have dropped their old names and ideologies, but still operate on the left of the political spectrum.
Main article : Committees of CorrespondenceWith the collapse of Soviet communism and the conversion of Chinese communism to "state run capitalism," the spiritual and ideological center of world of communism and the Marxist-Leninist tradition shifted to the United States. Several prominent American communists, rudderless without Moscow direction, formed a new organization in 1992 called the Committees of Correspondence for Democratic Socialism.
The initial organizational conference was held in Berkeley, California, July 17-19, 1992. Charlene Mitchell, a former leader of the California Communist Party, speaking at the conference said, "the collapse of socialism in Central Europe and the Soviet Union left the United States in a near unchallenged position of world leadership." Mitchell continued,
What began as a moment to take stock and ponder where to go from there has now become a very different entity. People from the Communist Party, from CrossRoads, from the Democratic Socialists of America, from NCIPA [National Committee for Independent Political Action], from Solidarity, from the Socialist Organizing Network and many others, including independent leftists and independent socialists, have come together here in Berkeley.Criticizing U.S. actions in the First Gulf War, Mitchell stated,
progressive forces were nearly powerless in the face of an onslaught of demagogic, patriotic jingoism and yellow ribbons. This war, fought for no legitimate reason, was the crowning height of President [George H.W.] Bush's New World Order. Previously, the Soviet Union helped to provide a certain balance to rein in the crazies in this country. Now, that balance is no longer there. It is now up to us, the American people, to rein in our own crazies. The left must take a major responsibility in organizing this task.Well known communists include:
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if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Verse King James Version Proposed Conservative Translation Analysis Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. In the days when politicians ruled there was a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehemjudah went on a trip to the country of Moab with his wife and two sons. Politicians causing famine - Biblical support for the idea of small government. And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. This man's name was Elimelech, his wife was named Naomi and his sons where called Mahlon and Chilion. They where Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. They entered they continued travelling in the country of Moab. And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. There Elimelch died, he was survived by his wife Naomi and their two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. And there they married women of Moab: One was named Orpah, the other was Ruth: They lived there for approximately ten years. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. And both Mahlon and Chilion died; and the woman was left out of her two sons and husband. Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. She then departed with her daughters in law, so that she may leave the country of Moab. She had heard that LORD had been visiting people and giving them bread in the country of Moab. Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. She and her two daughters in law then left the country they where in and went back to the land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Naomi said to here daughters in laws; Go and return to your mum's house. The LORD will kindly deal with you as you have dealt with the dead and me. The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. The LORD shall grant you and you may find rest in you house. She then kissed them as they cried. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. And they told her, for with you we will return to your people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? And Naomi said, return, my daughters: why will you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb to be your husbands? Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Return, my daughters, because I am too old to get a husband. If I will say, I have hope, if I will have a husband tonight and will give birth to children, Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. Would you wait until they are grown? Will you not give yourself to a man? No, my daughters, because it is tougher for me than you, because the hand of the LORD went out against me. And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. And they changed their voice, and cried some more: and Orpah gave a kiss to her mother in law, and Ruth stuck to her. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. And she said, here comes your sister in law back to her people, and to her gods: go back after your sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: And Ruth said, don't tell me to leave you or to return and to not follow you, because wherever you will go I will go, and when you will sleep I will sleep: your people are my people and your God is my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. Where you will die I will die, and will be buried there: this is what the LORD will do to me, and will make it so that death will separate between you and me. When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her. And she that she was trying to go with her, and she stopped talking to her. So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? And they both went until they reached Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, all the the city was excited by them, and they said, is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. And she told them, don't call me Naomi, call me Mara, because the Almighty has been bitter to me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? I went out full, and the LORD returned me empty: why should you call me Naomi when the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has done bad to me? So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. And Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, who returned from the land of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the Barley Harvest. Verse King James Version Proposed Conservative Translation Analysis And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. And Noami had a kinsman of her husband, a very wealthy man, from the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. And Ruth the Moabite told Naomi, I will go to the field and pick up grain after the one that in his eyes I will be found likeable. And she told her, go, my daughter. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. And she went and came, and picked grain in the field after the reapers: and she came to a part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the family of Elimelech. And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee. And then Boaz came from Bethlehem, and told the reapers, the LORD is with you, and they told him, the LORD will bless you. Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? And Boaz said to his boy, who was in charge of the reapers, to whom does this teenager belongs to? And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: And the boy who was in charge of the reapers said, She is a Moabite teenager that came with Naomi from the land of Moab: And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house. And she said, let me pick grains and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came and stand from the morning until now, she has been staying the house for a shot time. Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: Then Boaz told Ruth, haven't you heard my girl? Don't go to pick grains in another field, and don't go from here, but stick around with my girls. Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn. Your eyes on the field will do the reaping, and go after them: Did I not tell the boys not to touch you? And you will be thirsty, go to the tools, and drink what the boys have drawn. Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? And she fell on her face and bowed down, and told him, Why did you find me likeable, that you would like to know me, considering that I'm a foreigner? And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. And Boaz told her, I have been told of all that you have done to your mother in law since the death of your husband: and now you left your mother and father and your homeland and you went to a people you did not know before. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. The LORD will pay you for your work, and a full wage will be give to you from the LORD God of Israel, that you have come to be under his wings. Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens. And she said, Let me be likeable in your eyes, my LORD; because you have comforted me and spoken to the heart of your servant, even though I am not like your other servants. And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. And during mealtime Boaz told her, come forth and eat the bread, and dip you morsel in the vinegar. And she set next to the reapers: and he gave her parched corn, and she ate and was full and then left. And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And she rose to pick grain; Boaz commanded his boys, saying, let her pick grains even in the sheaves, and don't approach her: And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, so that she will pick them, and don't criticize her. So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. So she picked grain in the field until the evening, and beat out what she had picked: and it was about an ephah of barley. And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. And she carried it and came to the city: and her mother in law saw what she had picked: she gave to her what she saved after she was full. And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz. And her mother in law told her, where did you picked grains today? And where did you work? He who looked at you should be blessed. And she told her mother in law what she did with him, and said, The man with whom I worked today is called Boaz. And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. And Naomi told her daughter in law, Blessed he is to the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi told her, The man is a relative of ours, one of our extended family. And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. And Ruth the Moabite said, He also told me, you will stick to my boys until they will finish all of my harvest. And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field. And Naomi told Ruth her daughter in law, It will be good, my daughter, that you will go with his girls, that they will not hurt you in the other field. So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law. So she stuck to the girls of Boaz to pick to pick grains until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother in law. Verse King James Version Proposed Conservative Translation Analysis Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? And Naomi her mother in law told her, My daughter, should I not ask that you will have rest, so it will be good for you? And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. And now is not Boaz from out extended family, with whose girls you you have been? Look, he is planting barley in the night in the threshingfloor. Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. So wash and anoint yourself, and put a dress on you, and get down to the floor: but don't show yourself to the man, until he finished eating and drinking. And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do. When he lies down, you will notice the place where he will lie, uncover his feet and lay yourself down; and he will tell you what you shall do. And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do. And she told her, All that you say to me I will do. And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her. And she went down to the floor, and acted according to what her mother in law told her. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. And when Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was jolly, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid down. And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet. And so at midnight, the man was afraid and turned himself: and there it was, a woman lying by his feet. And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman. And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am Ruth your your maid, you spread your wing over your maid; because you are a near kinsman. And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. And he said, Blessed you are for the LORD, my daughter: you first act of charity was greater than your last, for you didn't go to young men, poor or rich. And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. And now, my daughter, don't fear; I will do to you everything you request: for all of my people know you are a virtuous woman. And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. And now it is true that I am your near relative: but there is a relative closer than me. Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning. Sleep tonight, and in it the morning, if he will perform the role of a relative to you then well; let him do the role of a relative: but if he will not do the role of a relative to you, then I will do the role of a relative to you, as the LORD lives: sleep until the morning. And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor. And say lat next to his feet until the morning, and she rose before one could know the other. And he, It should be known that a woman came to the floor. Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city. And he said, Bring the towel that is on you, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and put it on her: and she went to the city. And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her. And she come to her mother in law, who said, Who are you, my daughter? And she all told her all about what the man had done to her. And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law. And she said, He gave me these six measures of barley; because he told me, Don't go without nothing to your mother in law. Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day. And she said, Sit my daughter, until you will know how things will turn out: because the man will not rest until he will finish the thing today. Verse King James Version Proposed Conservative Translation Analysis Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. And Boaz went to the gate, and sat there: and then the relative that Boaz spoke about came by; he told him, Turn aside and sit here. And he turned aside and set. And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. And took ten me from the elders of the city, and said, Sit here. And they sat. And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: And he told the relative, Naomi, who came back from the land of Moab, sold the portion of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it. Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. And Boaz said, When you will buy the field from Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabite, the wife the deceased, to raise up the name of the deceased upon his inheritance. And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it. Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.A grassroots activist asks sobering questions about Edward Snowden and his motives, in light of his most recent acts, beyond revealing to the public that the American government spies on its own citizens. [1]
Switzerland, a beacon of European creationism, has the world's most competitive economy. The United States, a land filled with creationists, is expected to dominate the world economy for years. [2]
Christianity has great depth and sophistication. Also, 7 reasons why atheism has developed a reputation of being low-class and "low brow". [3]
Reuters: "For Obama, a world of Snowden troubles ... Leaders Obama has wooed - and met recently - were willing to snub the American president."[4]
Pew Research Center: 'Incompetent' and 'liar' are now among the top 5 most frequently used words to describe President Barack Hussein Obama. [5]
Edward J. Snowden apparently lost confidence in the Rule of Law of the amoral communist China and Hong Kong, packed his bags and headed for the increasingly Christian and conservative Russia.
The South China Morning Post reported this morning that Snowden may be en route to Iceland or Ecuador while others have said he is bound for Venezuela via Havana, Cuba. [6]
Mashable admits one of the internet's largest atheist communities, Reddit atheism, has developed a reputation of being "low brow" over the years by "some" (translation: by people who are not "low brow").[7]
Bold evangelism is seeing results in India. 75 - 100 people became Christians in an Indian village. Reports of the miraculous occurring.[8]
Atheist wiki drops in global market share while Gotquestions.org saw an increase in global market share.[9]
Liberal claptrap of the week: "Hillary Clinton wants a female president ‘in my lifetime.’" [10] Translation: Hillary lacks any good reasons for seeking the presidency.
A candidate in a special Senate election may not showcase her own good works in her campaign. Why not? Blame the IRS – and the late Lyndon Baines Johnson. [11]
Mimolette Cheese, a French cheese eaten safely for hundreds of years, is suddenly deemed unsafe by the nannycrats of the Barack Hussein Obama Administration.[12]
Bradlee Dean, speaking out about an attack on one of his teams, calls on America to stop asking permission to obey God. [13]
Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.” So Mrs. Clinton would never have been born if abortion had been available. [14]
Liberal double standard: an offensive racial joke by an Obama Cabinet official is somehow not racism, [15] yet the liberal media crucified golfer Sergio Garcia for making an offhand joke about Tiger Woods.
"My Deerest; another tale of evolution" [16]
Hate speech is always defended when a liberal does it. [17]
A New Jersey activist reaches a stunning conclusion: the PRISM system has always been Barack Hussein Obama's ace, and we must shut it down. [18]
Announcing a new grassroots organization evoking the life of Judge Deborah: Women of Faith in Action. [19]
NY Times fact-checkers are unfamiliar with the Bible, and had to issue this correction to a David Brooks column: An earlier version of this column incorrectly identified the biblical texts in which three figures — Saul, David and Esther — appear. Their stories are told in other books of the Jewish Bible, but not in the Torah. The column also incorrectly described a passage from I Corinthians that ends with the statement, “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” It was written by Paul, not spoken by Jesus. [20]
Retired investigators of TWA Flight 800, downed a few months before Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996, say that the government "falsified" the findings. [21] Recall that the Clinton Administration imprisoned one reporter for trying to determine the truth.
Bradlee Dean warns Barack Hussein Obama of a Biblical truism: you reap what you sow. [22]
A congressional human rights committee in Brazil approves legislation to authorize psychologists to treat and cure homosexuality. [23] The homosexual agenda continues its decline globally.
Conservative "Rand Paul: Youth with me on NSA issue." [24] "They see [Obama] now as a hypocrite," the likely 2016 presidential candidate observes.
An ugly chapter in the Republican primary for the special Senate election in New Jersey came to a close today. An Administrative Law Judge ruled that Alieta Eck, a newcomer who dared challenge the political establishment, can stay on the ballot. [25]
"Remembering Jesus, really remembering!" by Bishop Bert: [26]
Chinese dissident claims communist China now controls U.S. academia: [27]
State Senator Elbert Guillory of Louisiana becomes another ex-Democrat after seeing that party for what it really is. [28][29] “At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”
AT&T iPhone Users Forced to Receive Obama Alerts Which Can't Be Turned Off. [30] First the Verizon phone calls scandal and now this.[31]
Russia, fed up with Obama's pushing of the homosexual agenda on its own country, tells Obama to quit trying to overthrow the leadership in Syria. [32]
Edward J. Snowden continues to stand up against Obama by declaring today on a live newspaper blog, "Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped." [33] Why are liberals like Obama so opposed to the public learning the truth?
Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons discusses the Internal Revenue Service administering ObamaCare. [34]
Is the reason why atheists are more likely to commit suicide that so many of them have bad relationships with their earthly father and their heavenly father?[35] See: Paul Vitz and Atheism and suicide
If Barack Hussein Obama likes Father's Day so much, then why is the Obama Administration striving so hard to have lesbians get "married".[36]
"Britain's biggest climate problem is with cold winters that lead to thousands of excess deaths." [37] Yet liberal denial continues about the hoax of a global warming crisis.
The world's biggest population of atheists run by secular leftists may implode under crushing debt in about 6 months. Hard landing may be in store for China's economy. [38][39]
Expect the explosive growth of Christianity in China to continue. Biblical Christianity thrives under economic adversity.[40]
‘Natural’ or ‘unnatural’ human behaviour? Many evolutionists consider much of today’s human behaviour ‘unnatural’ — except when it comes to homosexual ‘marriage’.[41]
Now the Obama Administration pretends they do not know where Edward J. Snowden is, perhaps to avoid criticism if Obama tried to extradite him now. [42]
Today, a Question evolution! campaign blog went over 450,000 page views. Also, 20-30 young people will be reading the newest draft of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students.[43]
Dr. Joseph James Kennedy: Deceit: the Modus Operandi of Evolution.[44]
Vetoed! Conservative Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoes more than two dozen bills passed by RINOs. [45] Will Perry run for the presidency next?
The President of Equatorial Guinea has warned African leaders not to tolerate, accept or allow the issue of homosexuality to get roots in their countries. Also, 7 reasons why homosexuals have lower moral standards.[46]
News from the Left Coast: "'Less liberal' is the new conservative," as Dems find it necessary to restrain reckless spending by other Dems. [47]
In New Jersey, candidate Steve Lonegan wages an ugly fight before an Administrative Law Judge against a prospective primary opponent. [48][49] A grassroots activist today begs him to knock it off. [50]
Happy Flag Day: "A yearly contemplation of our flag strengthens and purifies the national conscience." — President Calvin Coolidge
God gives victory when His people fight, especially in His Name. [51]
Liberal policies have destroyed Detroit, and now the city defaults on its debt. [52] It may pay only pennies on the dollar to its creditors.
New Jersey grassroots activists have reason to cheer: two genuine conservatives in a Republican special primary for the United States Senate. [53]
Atheism will fold like an accordion in the 4th largest atheist population in the world.[54]
Russians overwhelmingly reject liberal values on homosexuality. Lawmakers pass anti-homosexuality bill in a 435-0 vote. Weak gay activists are easily overpowered by police.[55]
Liberal denial continues: Joe Biden denies that George W. Bush defeated Al Gore for president in 2000, and the liberal media praises Biden for his denial! [56]
Southern Baptist Convention blasts Boy Scouts over stance on homosexuality, votes to encourage defectors. [57]
America's first atheist monument to stand outside Florida courthouse.[58]
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deputy director Michael Morell has "decided to spend more time with his family" and resign post terror attack in Benghazi.[59]
Why moderates leave an acrid taste in a conservative's mouth. [60]
The modern civil rights movement consists of "demoralizers of the faith" – a far cry from Martin Luther King's day. [61]
The Mainstream Media always ignore this key fact about any mass murder story they cover: it happens in a gun-free zone. [62]
Pope Francis plans to purge the Vatican of the "gay lobby," and speaks candidly about the problem. [63] Why aren't Republican Party leaders as candid?
James Clapper, head of the NSA and now under-fire, said in March that he had no knowledge of the massive phone and email collecting by his agency. [64]
The socialist "paradise" of Venezuela is now on the brink of hyperinflation. [65]
Love Obamacare now? If you live in Ohio, your health insurance premiums went up 88% percent. [66]
NSA officials overheard on how to cause Edward Snowden to be "disappeared". [67]
From the IRS "Keep your religious beliefs to yourself." [68] "You cannot, you know, use your religious belief to tell other people you don’t have a belief, so I don’t believe you need the right to do this, start confrontation, protesting, uh, prot, uh, protest...you don’t apply for tax exemption."
The bright Patriots head coach treats the liberal media with disdain in dismissing their inane hostility to Tim Tebow, on his first day of practice. [69]
Is Edward J. Snowden, who revealed the breathtaking extent of how our government monitors us, a hero, or a traitor? Judge for yourself. [70]
The world's biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry's "Bible" (DSM-5).[71]
Great Conservative Sports Star Tim Tebow is reportedly joining the New England Patriots, from where he will be able to crush twice-a-year the liberal New York team that cut him. [72] God does indeed have a sense of humor.
Why is big government a Goliath and why should you fear it? Start with watching a girl with cystic fibrosis nearly die from some arcane rule, while the government waives said rule for a big campaign donor. Then remember a little bit of history. [73]
Homeschooling surge underway: Education at home is growing seven times faster than K-12 enrollment. The homeschool option makes perfect sense, "significantly higher ACT-Composite scores as high schoolers and higher grade point averages as college students." [74]
Michael Reagan: Reform the U.S. tax code. [75]
The joke sport of "rhythmic gymnastics" is part of the 2020 Olympic Games roster.[76]
Britain has a debt-to-revenue ratio of 212%. Britain's external debt to GDP ratio was 390% in 2011.[77]
How long will you keep Charles Darwin on your currency Britain? How long will you run inefficient Darwinism indoctrinating public schools? Behold! Creationism will grow mightily in your land!
Multi-ethnic, Bible-believing church is adding 40-50 new members a year via the internet. Also, will a "God-ordained meeting" prove to yield more fruit than boring atheist meetings led by boring, white, atheist males? [78]
Conservative Rand Paul may challenge the privacy-invading conduct of the Obama Administration in court. [79] Even a few Dems express their opposition to the Big Brother program.
Promoters of marijuana are quiet about the arrest Saturday of a crane operator charged with causing the deaths of 6 people while under the alleged influence of the drug. [80] Authorities still conceal how much pot was in the system of "College Weed Dealer" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. [81]
Trust the government? How can we in light of the recent scandals? [82]
Leftist vie for the Dem nomination for the special U.S. Senate election in New Jersey, with Rush Holt and media-promoted Cory Booker jumping into the race. [83]
Tag team of scientists show why the eye is still a thorn in the side of Darwinists.[84]
Protecting Christians in populist Muslim countries.[85]
Who is the enemy of the people? Barack Hussein Obama? Or institutions that enable him? [86]
Psychiatry and Darwinism: Pseudosciences in crisis.[87][88]
Primal scream therapy? A liberal evolutionist must have come up with that one!
Marijuana apparently killed again: six deaths in a building collapse have been traced back to a demolition equipment operator who, accordingly to toxicology reports, was allegedly high on pot. [89]
A Great Conservative Sports Star, the center who led the Ravens offense to the Super Bowl victory, declined to attend the White House celebration because Obama is so pro-abortion. [90] Obama-supported "Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year," Matt Birk observed.
"Reading by Bumps: How to navigate the Hebrew Braille Bible, and not go to prison" by Bishop Bert [91]
Obama administration mining Facebook data to predict crimes.[92]
New York City Mayor candidate Anthony Weiner and the New York Times are tying to rehabilitate his sleazy image, but Michelle Malkin has doubts that it will work.[93]
Barack Hussein Obama flip-flops on the Patriot Act.[94]
Why do liberals, RINOs and Darwinist posers like to flip-flop so often?[95][96] Lack of convictions?
"The administration has now lost all credibility..."
And this statement comes from the editorial board of the New York Times, a liberal newspaper. [97][98]
The NSA's domestic spying - and they are spying on Americans - violates the Fourth Amendment. [99]
A Tea Party activist denounces Chris Christie for calling a special election instead of simply appointing an interim United States Senator. (And calling a special election so fast most candidates won't have time to qualify.) [100] While we're at it: is Chris Christie really a Republican? [101]
Robert Bauer: former White House Counsel, who could be the one most responsible for the IRS targeting of the Tea Party and conservatives in general. [102]
10-year old boy fends off armed home intruders with a gun.[103]
Remember this Father's Day: The left's policies are undermining the family.[104]
The Common Core State Standards for education are unconstitutional and illegal. See here for all the laws they violate. [105]
BREAKING NEWS: Steve Lonegan will start at once to gather signatures to get on the primary ballot in the New Jersey special Senate election. [106][107]
Chris Christie called a special election to fill Frank Lautenberg's Senate seat to benefit one man only: himself. And why is he drawing big money from prominent Democratic Party financiers? [108]
The Obama administration is as transparent as a tar pit.[109] American conservatives, like the ones in Florida and Texas, like the refreshing, clear waters of government transparency.
The IRS discriminates because they are a bunch of self-serving, liberal, money grubbers.[110] Eliminate the IRS and slash U.S federal government spending.
Real austerity and not "faux austerity" will help European economies.[111] How long will the liberal heathen rage and deny the obvious?
What's really "transparent" about Barack Hussein Obama? His war on America, and American women, that's what. [112]
Conservative landslide victory Tuesday, by a remarkable 67-27% margin, for an open congressional seat in Missouri. [113]
Tyranny gets a new face today. It is not just the IRS. It is the Democratic Party Caucus of the United States House of Representatives. [114]
BREAKING NEWS: Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey will not name an interim United States Senator immediately. He will call a special election, to take place this October, to name a replacement for the late Senator Frank Lautenberg. [115]
New Jersey voters! Vote today. A Tea Party group publishes its last list of endorsements in races from sheriff to township council. [116]
The lamestream media admit that Tim Tebow is being excluded not primarily because of his quarterbacking skills. [117] Why should the public support the NFL as it discriminates against outspoken Christians?
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died Monday. Now Governor Chris Christie must appoint someone to replace him. Whom will that be? [118][119]
Liberal hatred of the First Amendment: [120]
Evolutionists failed to overturn Louisiana pro-creationism law - again! Also, another creationist mother is eager to have her daughter read a draft of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students.[121]
Forbes: Religion is an essential driver of economic growth. Evangelicalism is improving the cultures of third world countries and boosting their economies. [122]
UN Agenda 21 threatens San Francisco Bay. But two activists are preparing to sue to fight it. [123]
Liberal censorship continues, by making a big deal out of an offhand reference to "no homo" by a triumphant basketball player. [124] But there's no exception to the First Amendment allowing censorship to promote the homosexual agenda.
Anti-Darwinism has now entered into a mainstream public university. Indiana's Ball State University is now offering a course which is intelligent design friendly.[125]
Same-sex marriage is defeated in the liberal state of Illinois, despite Obama's push for it in his home state. [126] Has Obama become irrelevant?
The academic journal Sociology of Religion shows secularism losing momentum and beginning to decline in both Europe and America by 2050. Other academic research shows it may begin to happen much earlier.[127]
August 2012: A summer of triumph for biblical creation belief. Will August 2013 be a watershed month as well?[128]
Media-promoted Tiger Woods "shot his worst nine-hole score as a professional" but afterward his comments were again self-serving: "I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggled out there." [129] Actually, Woods' score is worse than 69 other players.
The number of adherents of liberal Christianity who will be spit out of Jesus's mouth will be many.[130]
The country with the world's biggest atheist population is very interested in information debunking Darwinism.[131]
The IRS and the White House definitely worked together. The visitor logs show how often IRS Commissioner Shulman visited – and how rarely anyone else did with whom he would have had meetings, of not with Barack Obama. [132]
A Tea Party activist withdraws his earlier call for a temporary criminal registry, in wake of the scandals surrounding the Internal Revenue Service. This is the same agency that will police Obamacare. [133]
Eric Holder gave a private party for his friends in the Mainstream Media, and less than half of them showed up. What does that say about those who did? [134]
After cutting Tim Tebow, the New York Jets now try to stop the building of a family amusement park. [135] Why should the increasingly anti-Christian NFL receive favoritism??
Associated Press reports that Americans may lose the health plan they like under Obamacare.[136]
Student Loan money profits are being siphoned off to pay for ObamaCare.[137]
An activist advises people to elect a sheriff who remembers his Constitutional duty to those who elect him. [138]
1960s liberalism is not only financially unsustainable, but its champions are a dying breed.[139]
Understanding gold market dynamics.[140]
Evolutionary racism directed towards an accomplished footballer puts a sour note on a football game.[141] Why are so many liberals racists?
Media bullying alert: the lamestream media spend all day picking on undefeated conservative Michele Bachmann, who repeatedly won in a liberal district. Rather their cheap criticism, the media should be asking why they could never defeat her.
Wikipedia continues to lose influence in the world in 2013.[142] Also, interest in Project 200 plus keeps expanding.
Undefeated five-term congressman Michele Bachmann announces that she will retire from her position, and may run for higher office. [143] The liberal machine was never able to defeat her in a Dem state.
Professor attacked by liberals. His "crime"? Teaching students to think for themselves. [144]
Judge-Shopping, or, How Eric Holder Got Away With Spying On A Reporter's Emails: [145]
The liberal nanny mayor of New York City doesn't like street cafes now. [146]
The IRS scandal that the news is not covering, because it's tied in with Obamacare: [147]
Eric Holder now faces investigation for perjury before Congress. Is Barack Hussein Obama paying attention? [148]
France struggles to find a strategy to turn around their economy even though it is right under their nose.[149] The Bible, Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek
Many things happen in life that cannot be explained by science or philosophy. Atheists and agnostics self intellectually cripple themselves and are clueless about much of reality.[150]
Example of how modern conservatism is more conservative than Republicans from yesteryear: Bob Dole, Republican nominee in 1996, admits that "Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn't have made it .... We might've made it, but I doubt it." [151]
A United States Senator finally says it: Barack H. Obama is throwing away his moral authority to lead. But in fact he never had legal authority to lead, either. [152]
Conservapedia pauses in prayer (not a liberal "moment of silence") in honor of Memorial Day.
RichardDawkins.net keeps getting smited! Has a plague of locusts eaten Richard Dawkins' daily website visitors?[153]
How long will you refuse to humble yourself before the Lord, Richard Dawkins?
Vox Day and a supporter of the Question evolution! campaign agree: The speed at which the secular left is collapsing is happening at an unexpectedly fast rate. [154]
Google USA estimates 101,000,000 search results for the search "Evolution and just so stories".[155]
"President Obama forgets to salute," but the lamestream media downplay gaffes by liberals. [156]
A Tea Party activist urges Congress to seize the moment, now that Obama's luck seems to have run out. [157]
Another study finds that obesity may decrease brain function.[158] See also: Atheism and obesity and Lesbianism and obesity
Have liberal policies destroyed Sweden? "Stockholm rioting continues for fifth night." [159]
The inventor of the concept "Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder" admitted, before he died, that he made the whole thing up. Think about that when the school district tells you to drug your kids. [160]
Dems admit they lack the votes to pass their amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill, where 60 votes are the minimum needed in the U.S. Senate. [161]
The cold temperatures this spring have even hurt the sale of sporting goods. [162] Yet liberal denial about the cold weather persists, in order to perpetrate a fictional global warming.
World's most popular site devoted to atheism/agnosticism sees a massive loss of global market share according to Alexa. Also, new Question evolution! campaign group leader expected to be installed in June of 2013.[163]
Obama's paternalistic, sexist reference Thursday to a heckler as a "young lady" is no problem for the liberal media, [164] but an Hispanic golfer's offhand racial quip about Tiger Woods is unforgivable.
Liberal double standard: racist remarks by Joe Biden are no problem, but the lamestream media and Tiger Woods make a big deal about an offhand joke by an Hispanic golfer. [165] Will media bullying enable Tiger Woods to end nearly 5 years without his winning a major?
The BBC News opened a story with this nonsense: “A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.”[166] Why does Darwinism spawn such lame just so stories?
Thomas Sowell recommends parents having their children read the book The New Leviathan which has a number of essays which debunk various liberal sacred cows.[167]
Expert says that the discovery of a 20-year long rainfall in Ireland points to the Great Flood of the Bible being historical.[168]
Why do so many faux Christians deny the Great Flood and try to turn it into a non-Great Flood?[169] Did Jesus, Peter and Moses lie?[170]
A description of "Common Core Education," the harm it can do, and a list of New Jersey primary candidates pledged to stop it. [171]
Classic communist tactic by the Obama Administration: it files a document in court alleging that a reporter at Fox News is a possible co-conspirator in the "crime" of informing the public. [172] In fact this goes back further – to Henry II. Are we all Thomas Becket now? [173]
Teen awarded for improved capacitor - Intel gave a $50,000 scholarship to a girl whose titanium dioxide capacitor can store almost three times as much electrical energy as previous capacitors and is intended as a battery alternative. [174]
Most mainstream media got the story wrong, claiming incorrectly that her invention can charge a cell phone battery in 30 seconds. (Charging a battery too quickly reduces its life, which is why Motorola and Samsung and the rest keep the amperage low.)Franklin Graham, one of America's most prominent evangelical Christians, says the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service included two of his ministries.[175]
Are many evangelical Christian churches primarily growing in America due to birth rates or due to evangelism?[176]
"Quiverfull" evangelical Christianity, which does not believe in contraception, is now spreading in the UK.[177] In the past 30 years, the number of Anabaptists in North America, including the Amish, has grown significantly, from 313,000 baptized members in 1978 to more than 535,000 in 2010. [178]
Unfortunately for militant atheists, secularist philosophy breeds sub-replacement levels of fertility. See: Decline of atheism
Reuters reports: "Europe is in the midst of its longest recession since it began keeping records in 1995 — even surpassing the calamity that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-2009."[179]
Biblical creationism is growing in Europe and its growth rate will accelerate amidst Europe's economic woes.[180]
The UK has experienced one lost economic decade, and it's about to enter a second. [181] When is the UK going to remove Charles Darwin off its currency?[182]
Turkey, a world leader in anti-evolutionism, had its Moody’s credit rating upgraded to investment-grade quality. [183][184]
What is the real IRS scandal? It's the tax code itself. [185]
A video was recently produced on the topic "Why Christianity and the Bible are true." [186]
Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women?[187]
Bradlee Dean has this scathing commentary on Minnesota's gay "marriage" law. [188]
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