September 4, 2009 - Washington, DC

Presidential pandering to Islam / Obama in the classroom / US will not honor democratic election in Honduras / Obama to control Internet? / Hollywood "servants" of Obama / Teen spared from Sharia / Eco-nuts morn loss of tree / Obama's FATAH buddies still pledge violence / Christians jailed in China for helping refugees from North Korea

THE PRESIDENCY

PANDERING TO ISLAM - The manner in which George W. Bush pandered to Islam was disturbing. The manner in which Barack Obama panders to Islam is disgusting. In his address to a Ramadan dinner at the White House, Obama said that "the contributions of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country." Well, I imagine the number of our service men killed by Muslims would be too long to list or for him to recite, as would the list of 9-11 victims. And Islam does have a long history with the United States. Thomas Jefferson ordered our infant Navy and Marines to what is now Libya, to stop the Muslim pirates from raiding our merchant ships and enslaving our citizens. Virtually every mosque in the United States teaches that democracy is an apostate religion that must be destroyed. These are the characteristics of Islam President Obama holds so dear and of which he speaks so kindly. Read Washington Times Editorial See my video comments at Youtube  
OBAMA IN THE CLASSROOM - It was the intent of the Obama Administration and the Department of Education to have elementary school children write letters promising to "help," (promote) the agenda of the president. When the Department of Education sent out the materials for use in classrooms during next week's talk to the students by Obama, an assumption was made. The authors thought all teachers were left-wing nuts like themselves, and thought they would carry out the orders without hesitation. An inside source at FoxNews tells me that hundreds of copies of the documents were sent to Fox. Oops! having been caught in a Hugo Chavez style indoctrination in the schools, the White House was forced to back off some of the agenda for the classrooms but still some parents may keep their kids home.
CLINTON: USA WILL NOT HONOR FREE ELECTION - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated this week that the United States will not honor the free and democratic presidential election to be held in Honduras in November. Instead, she has demanded that the man who was ousted by the Supreme Court of that nation for attempting to alter the Constitution be reinstated. Secretary Hillary Clinton is following the orders of her boss, Barack Obama, who favors left-wing dictators such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez instead of the democratic process.

THE CONGRESS

CONTROL OF INTERNET BY OBAMA? - It just sounds unbelievable. Imagine the outrage in the liberal media if President George W. Bush had asked for emergency powers to take over and control the Internet! Fast forward to the Obama presidency in which leftwing loon Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid intend to give this extraordinary power to Barack Obama. What little mention there is of the bill in the mainstream media is about how it is needed in case of an "emergency" which, by the way, is not defined by the legislation. It is up to Barack Obama to decide what emergency would require him to take over communications in the United States. Read more THE AUGUST RECESS - Both the House and Senate are still in the August recess and will not return until after Labor Day, which falls on September 7th this year.

CULTURE AND RELIGION

TEEN SPARED FROM SHARIA -- FOR NOW - Christian teenager Rifqa Bary, age 17, is safe in Florida for the time being from her Muslim father who has threatened to kill her for converting from Islam. This week a Florida judge allowed her to remain there and not be sent back to almost certain death in Ohio. Meanwhile the Muslim father and Islamic leaders claim there is no such thing as an "honor killing" in Islam, which is just laughable. Rifqa's parents attend the Noor Islamic Center in Dublin, Ohio which is reported to have ties with terrorist groups. Read more ECO-NUTS MOURN TREE - The question of our times is deep and saddening: how many extremist nuts are there in America? Just when you think you have seen it all, a YouTube video shows Eco-nuts screaming and crying over the death of a tree and proclaiming the life of a rock. At first you may think this video clip is a joke, but then the level of derangement in this group of Eco-nuts becomes all too apparent. View clip
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SERVANT OF OBAMA

THIS IS SCARY - A large group of Hollywood stars, on video, stated: "I pledge to be a servant of our president." The pledge of the group comes at the end of the video. To get there you have to listen to the word "change" being used so many times it is sort of sickening and you just want to turn it off. I have seen lots of soviet communist and Nazi propaganda films, and this falls right into that category. See Youtube Clip

INTERNATIONAL

OBAMA'S PALESTINIAN ALLY FOR "PEACE" - President Barack Obama plans to sit down and meet with the prime minister of Israel and the current head of Yassar Arafat's FATAH movement which controls the West Bank. He believes that if Israel will just give up more land and surrender tens of thousands of homes and billions of dollars in factories to FATAH, that then there will be peace. But did the FATAH organization proclaim at its last conference that even this much surrender would bring peace? Far from it! FATAH declared the right to armed struggle and the eventual return of all "Palestine" to their control. Read more CHRISTIANS JAILED FOR HELPING REFUGEES - Li Mingshun and Zhang Yonghu were sentenced to ten years in a prison camp at a trial held August 17, 2009 in the Erlianhaote City People's Court. Their crime was giving food and water to refugees from North Korea who had crossed over into China. The refugees crossed the Chinese border only to make their way safely to South Korea. But China has made it a crime to help North Koreans escaping to South Korea. Read more
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February 27, 2009 - Washington, DC

Obama: Force doctors to do abortions / Obama: Give more tax dollars to other nations / What does this stimulate? / Senate stops "fairness doctrine" for now / Hillary Clinton and the Congress / Hillary says human rights abuse OK in China / Congressmen move to protect pro-life "riders" / Geert Wilders is a hero of free speech / Wilders speaks to Senators / Jordan wants to try Wilders / Why so much worry about Wilders? / Does the UN hate freedom?

THE PRESIDENCY

FORCE DOCTORS TO DO ABORTIONS - President Barack Obama will revoke a Bush administration rule that shielded health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of their pro-life beliefs. The rule, issued by Bush health chief Michael Leavitt, prohibited groups that take U.S. money from firing, denying professional certification to or otherwise discriminating against medical providers who refuse to perform or assist in abortions, or give referral information. At first glace this seems like a reversal of policy; however, the Bush rule only took effect a few hours before Barack Obama was sworn into office. Why did Bush wait eight years to implement this rule? Had Bush issued the rule the first year of his Administration, it would have been very difficult for Obama to rescind it.Read more

THIS IS A STIMULUS? - Under the $787 billion Stimulus Bill, you can write off the state sales tax on a new car you buy this year. How it works: If the tax on the car is say, $750 you can deduct it from your adjusted gross income. If you are in the 25% tax bracket you would then pay $187.50 less in income tax. WOW ... just spend $25,000 on a new car and the government pays $187.50 of the cost!

MORE MONEY TO OTHER NATIONS - As bad as things are in the United States, most people would think that President Obama's new budget should focus on America. Well, it doesn't. The State Department budget, including USAID funds and other overseas aid programs, was increased by 40.9% to $51.7 billion. The Health and Human Services budget that includes Medicaid for the poor was actually reduced by President Obama by 1.7%. The Justice Department, which includes the FBI, will receive 6.3% less at a time it must investigate massive financial fraud. However, the Commerce Budget to will increase by 48.4% as a result of refocusing the department on "climate change." See graph at WSJ.com

THE CONGRESS

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE - Last week I reported that President Obama claimed he was against the return of censorship in the form of the "Fairness Doctrine." That did not stop a Democrat, Senator Durbin, from trying to add language to the DC Voting Rights Act to allow the FCC to once again censor radio. However, Senator DeMint (R-SC) introduced a competing amendment that would bar the FCC from censorship, titled the Broadcaster Freedom Act. The DeMint bill passed 87 to 11. At this point it is unknown if this will survive the House vote. Read more

HILLARY CLINTON AND THE CONGRESS - Members of Congress were appalled when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear to the Chinese and others that the Obama Administration would look away from human rights abuses in order to borrow money to fund US deficit spending.

"In a shocking display of pandering, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in Beijing, that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world and is willing to ignore the torture, forced abortion, forced labor, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide," Congressman Chris Smith said. "Secretary Clinton said concern for the protection of human rights of the Chinese people can't 'interfere' with the economic crisis, climate change, and security - as if human rights were somehow disconnected and irrelevant to those issues." Read more

Congressman Wolf of Virginia, who is an outspoken supporter of religious freedom, also wrote Secretary Clinton a blistering letter. Read PDF version here

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. 22:7. America is the borrower. China and Saudi Arabia are the lenders.

CONGRESSMEN MOVE TO PROTECT PRO-LIFE RIDERS - Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Heath Shuler (D-NC) have obtained 180 signatures form Members of the House to the Appropriations Committee asking for protection of pro-life provisions traditionally included in the annual appropriations bills. These are contained in various appropriations bills and must be retained every year to remain in place. The provisions deal with issues such as funding for abortion, conscience protection for health care providers and embryo research. Removing any of these provisions would represent an erosion of current pro-life law. Read PDF of Jim Jordan authored letter here.

CULTURE AND RELIGION

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INTERNATIONAL

GEERT WILDERS IS A TRUE HERO - This week I met with Geert Wilders, a Member of the Dutch Parliament who is threatened with jail time for telling the truth about Islam and the Koran in his short film FITNA. For five years this brave man has been forced to sleep in safe-houses and sometimes jail cells because he is virtually the only politician in the West that will speak truthfully about the dangers of Islam to the West. He was invited to the United States by Senator Kyl (R-AZ) after the United Kingdom refused to allow him to accept an invitation to speak at the House of Lords. The British have become such cowards that they fear the words of free men such as Geert Wilders. (Read my op-ed on the UK and Wilders here.) This man may well be the only hope for Europe and we can only pray that his political party gains strength not only in the Netherlands but in the European Parliament as well. Read his speech to Congress. NEW: View the question I ask Geert Wilders at a press conference on Friday as well as his response. See clip on YouTube.

JORDAN WANTS TO PUNISH WILDERS - Not only is Geert Wilders under indictment for "hate speech" in the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Jordan wants him to be extradited to that nation to stand trial for "blasphemy." The punishment of course is death. The United States considers the Kingdom of Jordan to be a "moderate" Islamic State. Imams in other Islamic nations have issued Fatwas calling for the murder of Geert Wilders. The government of the Netherlands cowers in fear of their Muslim population as do other Western nations.

THE UN HATES FREEDOM - Let's get real here ... Most of the member states of the United Nations are not real democracies. The Islamic members allow the abuse of women and have virtually no free speech. Durban II is an upcoming United Nations conference to he held on "anti-racism." It appears the conference will find that Israel is racist while Saudi Arabia is just all wonderful. They will probably also declare that insulting Islam is "defamation of religion" and punishable. Why are we a part of this madness? Read more

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Week Ending November 14, 2008 - Washington, DC

Why the Palin attacks continue / US Treasury loves Sharia law / Obama and cross dressing / GM bail out / Eric Cantor tells the truth about the GOP / Atheist "Christmas" ads" / More murders of Christians in Mosul

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The all new November 12, 2008 Chairman's Report is now available to read in PDF format. Read about the good news from the election and how social conservatives may fair the next four years. Persecution of Christians continues in Mosul, Iraq Click here to view new issue.

THE PRESIDENCY

WHY THE PALIN ATTACKS CONTINUE -The media just can't stop beating up on Sarah Palin because they see her as dangerous. She is a woman who believes that an unborn baby is a human being, and that is contrary to the core beliefs of those on the left who control the media. But why did those in the McCain campaign attack Sarah Palin. Read my current Op-ed.

SHARIA LAW TAUGHT BY OUR GOVERNMENT - The Treasury Department is part of the Bush Administration. It was therefore a dangerous precedent for the Treasury to hold a seminar to explain to US businesses how to adhere to Sharia law. They may not realize that you cannot pick and choose which parts of Sharia you want to follow. If our government approves the financial aspects of Sharia, we are on our way to agreeing with Sharia law that also allows plural marriages, slavery, and mandated inequality under the law for women and for non Muslims. Read more on "Sharia finance."

OBAMA AND CROSS DRESSING - The Obama transition team issued a statement that it will not discriminate in hiring based on "sexual orientation or gender identity." For instance, because of their "gender identity" (or confusion thereof), some men may or may not dress as women and frequently demand to be able to use either a men's or women's restroom. Under the Obama Administration policy, men who have a "gender identity" as a woman would use the women's restroom in Federal buildings. Read more.

THE CONGRESS

GM BAIL-OUT --At the request of labor unions, the Democrats in Congress headed by Nancy Pelosi want to loan GM and other automakers $25 billion. Oddly Republicans don't want to bail-out the "bad executives." What a reversal! What happens if GM goes bankrupt? To start with the government will have to take over all pension payments of the 750,000 current and former employees. Then there is the $32.5 billion that GM currently owes to banks and other financial institutions that the Federal government is currently bailing out. Total bill to taxpayers if GM reorganizes in bankruptcy dumping its pension and other obligations on federal agencies .... about $200 billion. I hate to disagree with my GOP friends, but it sounds like the "bail-out" loan of $25 billion may be the cheaper route.

CANTOR TELLS THE TRUTH - Congressman Eric Cantor, who will soon be number two in the leadership of House Republicans, has cut through the fog and said publicly what is wrong with the GOP. He told the Washington Times, "Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people's lives. Let's set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do." He went on to say, "It's the roads, it's going to the gas station, that's still there when the price will bump back up. It's education, it's health care. These are the issues, frankly, that we have not been on offense with" At last someone in the GOP that wants to talk about today rather than rest on the laurels of Ronald Reagan's accomplishments. Read more.

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CULTURE AND RELIGION

HOMOSEXUAL LAWSUITS AND VIOLENCE - Three more states passed Constitutional Amendments to bar homosexual marriage and the result, as expected, has been homosexual violence and lawsuits. The ACLU is at the forefront of the lawsuits, once again trying to overturn the will of the people and traditional marriage in the Courts. On the streets homosexuals are assaulting elderly women and couples with children in an apparent attempt to prove their "normality". Envelopes of white powder have been sent to Catholic and Mormon churches, and at least one church was invaded during services. Meanwhile, California leaders fail to react to homosexual violence. Read more.

ATHEIST CHRISTMAS AD CAMPAIGN - Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on the outside and inside of DC Metro buses as part of an advertising campaign during Christmas by the American Humanist Association. The atheist group believes mankind is inherently good and does not need a God to direct morality. The group never mentions some of the better knows atheists of the 20th Century, such as mass murderers Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao Tse-tung. During the 20th Century, atheist dictators murdered more of their own citizens than the number of people killed in all the wars in all the prior history of mankind. Read more about atheist campaign.

INTERNATIONAL

MORE MURDERS IN MOSUL -Two sisters were murdered in front of their home, and their mother was seriously wounded, in new attacks on Christians in Mosul, Iraq. Christians say the Muslim Kurds and the Muslim Arabs are using them as pawns in a political game with the Untied States as they die. Read more.

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