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Happy Fireworks Day - Part 1

July 3rd, 2008 · 8 Comments, Read them and Leave Your Own Here

by Gary North

The best way to destroy the public’s memory of an important event is to make it into an American national holiday.

Every Christmas, Americans celebrate the arrival of a bearded, red-suited Communist who looks suspiciously like Karl Marx, and who gives presents to everyone, irrespective of race, color, creed, or national origin. Parents tell their children that only good little boys and girls are so rewarded, but the kids catch on fast: they’re going to get some of the loot, no matter what. Also, they never think that their share of the booty is fair. This prepares them to be voters. [Read more →]

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Today, Tending Lawns and Scrubbing Toilets: Tomorrow, Changing the World

July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments, Read them and Leave Your Own Here

by Dr. Richard A. Jones

On June 23, 2008 (with a follow-up on June 25) Gary DeMar made public the outlandish claim of a chronic web malcontent who said that homeschool graduates are only fit for lifetime occupations of “scrubbing toilets and mowing lawns.” DeMar addressed this nonsense with a challenge that stirred up the blogosphere in a big way. Within hours, more than 250 striking testimonies by parents and their homeschooled graduates poured in showing (and very graciously, too) how far off the mark the skeptic was. [Read more →]

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The End of the World, 2012, 2015, or Just around the Corner?

July 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments, Read them and Leave Your Own Here

by Gary DeMar

“‘Apocalyptic thinking is in the air,’” University of Connecticut psychologist Kenneth Ring said as we approached the year 2000. “Images stored in the collective unconscious begin to populate our dreams and visions.’”1 The year 2000 was thought to be a significant eschatological date for sociologists, utopians, New Agers, cultists, psychics, and even some Christians. The late Robert A. Nisbet (1913–1996), long-time professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, commented in 1968 that “The approach of the year 2000 is certain to be attended by a greater fanfare of predictions, prophecies, surmises, and forewarnings than any millennial year in history.”2 He made this prediction before there was any thought of Y2K. [Read more →]

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The 40th Anniversary of Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb”

June 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments, Read them and Leave Your Own Here

By Gary DeMar

In his book The Population Bomb, first published in 1968, Paul R. Ehrlich made a number of predictions about the future of our planet based on his understanding of population growth and food supplies. Ehrlich’s projections were not new. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), a British political economist and mathematician, proposed that population growth would outstrip any increase in food supplies in his day. [Read more →]

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Gorillas’ Rights and Atheist Wrongs

June 27th, 2008 · 21 Comments, Read them and Leave Your Own Here

By Joel McDurmon

You probably have heard the quip attributed to the famous Christian writer G. K. Chesterton concerning atheists, “He who does not believe in God will believe in anything.”1 The unfortunate truth resonating in this wisdom finds yet another exponent in the Oxford-sanctioned senselessness of atheist Richard Dawkins. What is the atheist’s great burden of our generation? Humanism? No. Human rights? No. Actually, it is Gorillas’ Rights. Don’t believe it? Watch the video here.

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