Voting with Your Wallet

From Newsmax.com: The poll sketched out a swing-state electorate motivated primarily by issues related to the economy. About nine in 10 respondents in all three states said the economy was “extremely important” or “very important” in determining their vote. About eight in 10 answered the same about unemployment and the 2010 healthcare overhaul that is [...]

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Youcef Nadarkhani Still Alive

Anna Sekulow wrote: The ACLJ has received confirmation that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is alive in Iran as of today, March 26, 2012. New false reports about Pastor Youcef’s execution continue to surface – whether these reports originate from a misinformation campaign initiated by the Iranian regime or just uninformed sources is unknown. Many of these [...]

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No Sign of Global Warming

Martin Gould wrote: World temperatures have remained virtually unchanged in the past 10 years despite predictions of global warming and America’s mildest winter in decades, Princeton physics professor William Happer contends. . . . Happer has become one of the most outspoken skeptics of global warming. He told Congress in 2009 that the increase in [...]

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Top Saudi Cleric’s Call to Destroy Churches

Patrick Goodenough wrote: Ten days after Saudi Arabia’s foremost religious leader called for a demolition of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – in line with a purported injunction by Mohammed – the U.S. government and other allies of the kingdom have yet to react. Major media outlets also have largely ignored the incident; a [...]

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Obama Hikes Debt More Than Bush Did in 8 Years

Jim Meyers wrote: The national debt in the United States has now increased more during President Barack Obama’s three years and two months in office than it did during all eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. The debt rose $4.89 trillion during Bush’s two terms in the White House, and stood at $10.62 trillion [...]

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GOP Delegate Math

From Newsmax.com: Romney has 563 delegates in the overall count maintained by The Associated Press, out of 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Santorum has 263 delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul 50. Gingrich: Sure Romney Won, He Outspent Opponents 7-1 Here’s some quick GOP delegate math: Total delegates to be allocated: 2286 Delegates needed to [...]

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Egypt: Israel is Number One Enemy

Robert Spencer wrote: Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In [...]

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U.S. Catholic Bishops Stand Their Ground

From a statement of the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Second, we wish to clarify what this debate is—and is not—about. This is not about access to contraception, which is ubiquitous and inexpensive, even when it is not provided by the Church’s hand and with the Church’s funds. This is [...]

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Mitch Daniels: Debt Will Lead to National Ruin

Christopher Goins wrote: Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that the size of the U.S. national debt and the rate at which the debt is accumulating will lead the United States to “ruin” — and no other outcome is mathematically possible. “Whether one believes in a large, very active government or something more limited, [...]

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Christians Have No Right to Wear Cross

Patrick Goodenough wrote: Conservative-led government plans to argue in a European Court of Human Rights case that employers are entitled to ban the visible wearing of crosses at work because displaying the symbol is not a recognized “requirement” of the Christian faith. . . . News of the government’s intervention in the case comes amid [...]

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Jeffrey Bell on Social Issues and the Economy

From Newsmax.com: Republicans must address social issues in election campaigns because those topics are tied intrinsically to economic problems, former Reagan aide Jeffrey Bell told Newsmax.TV. Many pundits has suggested that, although the GOP presidential hopefuls need to prove their conservative credentials in the primary season, the eventual nominee should shun polarizing social topics when [...]

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IRS Intimidation Campaign Against Tea Party Groups

Susan Jones wrote: A conservative civil liberties group accuses the Internal Revenue Service of attempting to “intimidate and silence” a number of tea party groups that have applied for tax-exempt status. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) says IRS requests for information about the groups included “probing questions” that violate the free speech [...]

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Mocking Jesus (But Not Mohammed)

From The Christian Institute: The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting that mocking Mohammed might have the “emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography”. But Jesus is fair game because, he said, Christianity [...]

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Gingrich: You Don’t Apologize to the Enemy

Newt Gingrich said: When you have enemies who are determined to kill you, you owe it to the American people to tell the truth about the people who are opposing us. We have been systematically and methodically mislead by our leader. This is much deeper than Obama. We had the same problem with our State [...]

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Gingrich on the Qur’an Shootings

I’m near the end of a busy week, but I didn’t want anyone to miss this. I like people who say it like it is, and Newt is one of those people. From CNSNews.com: Campaigning in Washington State, Gingrich said Afghan President Hamid Karzi owes the U.S. an apology for the shootings. “There seems to [...]

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Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Sentenced to Death

From FoxNews.com: A trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, according to sources close to the pastor and his legal team. Supporters fear Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two who was arrested over two years ago [...]

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Rick Santorum, Satan and the Bible

As you’ve probably heard by now, Rick Santorum said something like “Satan has set his sights on the United States” a few years ago. Given that a large segment of the U.S. population has a Hollywood-crafted conception of Satan, I think the most illuminating thing I can say about this is to post a couple [...]

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Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’

Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’ But Graham, the president and chairman of the Samaritan’s Purse global relief ministry that helps millions in impoverished, war-torn hotspots around the globe, indicated that he would risk going to jail rather than comply with any such mandate from the federal government. “Even though we’re privately funded, I [...]

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ACLJ Petition for the Release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

Patrick Goodenough wrote: On Friday, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution condemning the Iranian government “for its state-sponsored persecution of religious minorities” in violation of international covenants and calling on Iran “to exonerate and immediately release Youcef Nadarkhani and all other individuals held or charged on account of their [...]

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Franklin Graham: Obama Helps Islamists, Ignores Christian Persecution

This is probably all over the news, but just in case its not, Franklin Graham made a serious faux pas by telling the truth on MSNBC. That doesn’t happen a lot, so I’m sure it was a shock for everyone involved. From Newsmax.com: Reverend Franklin Graham says President Obama has “given Islam a pass,” including [...]

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