Atheist Michael Newdow has been pestering the courts to rule that the phrase “under God,” found in the Pledge of Allegiance, and “In God We Trust,” imprinted and stamped on our currency, are unconstitutional. In 2010, even the usually liberal San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Newdow’s legal challenges that the references [...]
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Shortly after Congressman Paul Ryan’s appearance at the 2011 Faith and Freedom Conference in D.C., a Bible-waving protester confronted the Chairman of the House Budget Committee and questioned him for modeling his proposed budget after “the extreme ideology of Ayn Rand rather than the basic economic justice values of the Bible.” The protestor offered Ryan [...]
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More from my “county rights” project: part two of three on education. After this, we’ll talk about how to take back the freedom. Restoring America: One County at a Time Chapter 1: Education 1.2 How Freedom Was Lost In the last article, I discussed how free, purely private education was the American way, and it [...]
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The folks at the Christian Post web site have published a news article about American Vision’s National Prophecy Conference. I go to Christian Post several times a week. It’s a very good site for up-to-date news. Here’s how the article by Michelle A. Vu begins: Mainstream Christian end times theology, subscribed to by many respected [...]
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In the comments to my article, “Restoring America, One County at a Time: Introduction,” someone repeated one of those old worn-out yet persistent myths about decentralized government: “States Rights or county rights were one thing during the era of the horse and buggy and no technology to speak of.” The implication is, of course, that [...]
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When earlier this year Judge Richard Nielsen decreed that a dispute brought to his court between the trustees and the ex-trustees of a mosque in Florida must be decided by the Sharia law, few observers – with the exception of those on the far left – were able to see any logic in the judge’s [...]
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My article “Justifying Bad Behavior with a Mix of Good” (June 13, 2011) was an introductory response to a lengthy email I received from an advocate of homosexuality. In his email, Mr. Himes argues for the normality and morality of homosexuality on several levels. He began by arguing that homosexuals are good people and homosexual [...]
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A pro-homosexual advocate named Ed Himes sent a lengthy letter to American Vision decrying how groups like American Vision and the American Family Association (the targeted recipient) “continue to harass, degrade and demean the Gay Community on a regular basis.” He objects to Christians who “pick on a group of good people that are NOT [...]
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Here is an excerpt from my “County Rights” Project, Restoring America One County at a Time. This is part one of three pertaining to education. It will be released also in video soon. Social security is next in three parts: the text is already done and video will soon follow. Restoring America: One County at [...]
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A man represents the ideology, character, or action he lauds in his own parables. Jesus’s parables, of course, are a prime example. The return of the prodigal son and the finding of the hundredth sheep are representations of Jesus’s character and actions. Likewise are the jokes and sayings of different nations and cultures: we can [...]
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