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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? Gal 4:16
I’m sorry to say that Obama meant what he said in the campaign; most of our fears about the policies of President Obama are being fulfilled:
And this Presidency is still young.
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Given Obama’s plans for significantly-increased spending, many have wondered where the new tax revenue that will be required will come from. We know about the new taxes on the “rich”, but certainly the hundreds of billions can’t all come from there.
An interview with Obama from almost a year ago tells the tale. In it, Obama talks about his energy policy and his plans to adopt Al Gore’s “Cap and Trade” system. But we should let him speak for himself:
“Let me sort of describe my overall policy… What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else’s out there…”
“Every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that is emitted would be charged to the poluter…”
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered power plan, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re gonna be charged a huge sum…”
Now whenever producers are taxed, these new taxes must be passed on to consumers – you and I. Since about 50 percent of US electricity production comes from coal, we’re talking about potentially huge increases in the cost of energy in the US.
So let’s be clear. Obama’s policies require not just new taxes on the rich. They are new taxes on everyone.
I hope America knows what its doing.
As anyone who has been monitoring the news or the value of their 401K’s has witnessed, shock waves have been going through the U.S. banking system and economy. Home loan crisis, investment banking collapse, and what next?
Now let me be the first to say that I don’t claim to be a Prophet of God. But, with a little understanding, the current crisis looks more and more like pages from the Bible’s book of last things – the book of Revelation:
“Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.” (from Rev 18:2-3, NIV)
When you consider the origins of the fractional banking system – the interest bearing system that gives out loans repaid with compounded interest, then current events become particularly interesting. Interest bearing loans where invented in ancient Babylon! more »»
Man-made global warming: Is it the largest threat to our future? Very possibly! But NOT for the reasons that you may have been told.
There is ample evidence for global warming, but doom-Sayers are telling us that greenhouse gases, produced by the burning of fossil fuels and other human
activities, are the cause - which they claim is threatening to destroy planet Earth. Is humanity the cause? The evidence challenges this assertion, but our attempts to fix the issue - by attacking the wrong problems, are indeed a very large threat!
The idea of man-made global warming will certainly allow select people to gain a power over our lives. And attempts to mitigate an improperly diagnosed cause will prevent us from effectively addressing real threats – such as those caused by scarce energy supplies and terrorism.
Now we clearly have an unhealthy reliance on Arab oil, which generates the primary funding for global terrorism. But if we fight the wrong battles, then we bankrupt ourselves and limit our options for creating energy independence. We have made the idea of man-made global warming an extreme threat; thereby translating an artificial threat into a real one that could destroy us!
But are humans causing global warming?
Did you know that evidence points to global warming on Mars also?
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The US-based Christian charity World Vision said Wednesday, March 10, it has suspended operations in Pakistan after militants stormed its offices, killing six staff members and injuring several others.
Hungary's President Lszl Slyom signed a law Wednesday, March 10, making denial, or playing down, of the Holocaust a criminal offense punishable by up to three years imprisonment.
A funeral service was underway Wednesday, March 10, for a former Hungarian chief rabbi who was persecuted under Communism because of his involvement in spreading the Jewish faith,the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (MAZSIHISZ) confirmed.
A young Christian man died of a heart attack after armed Muslim gunmen stormed his house in the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, where Islamic attacks against minority Christians are increasing, two advocacy groups said Wednesday, March 10.
The detained Assyrian pastor of an evangelical church in Iran has been tortured and told he may be executed for converting Muslims to Christianity and related charges, his wife and Christians with close knowledge about his situation said.
Bodies of the dead including many women and children lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of Nigeria's regional capital of Jos early Monday, March 8, after rioters armed with machetes "slaughtered" over 200 people here, witnesses said.
Minority Christians in Iraq anxiously awaited the outcome of a parliamentary vote testing the country's still fragile democracy Sunday, March 7, as suspected Islamic militants killed up to 30 people in the capital Baghdad and other areas of the troubled nation.
Thousands of Christians worldwide will unite in prayer for Burma next week as part of global day of prayer for the nation, organizers said.
Several bishops were detained Friday, March 5, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu where police halted a protest march against the alleged discrimination of Dalit Christians here and elsewhere in this mainly Hindu nation, Christian officials said.
Chinese security forces detained a prominent house church leader Thursday, March 4, at a restaurant in southern China where he and a dozen other Christians had lunch, Chinese Christians said.
Ive followed the back and forth between Francisco Ayala and Steve Meyer with interest. I happened to have just read Meyers book Signature in the Cell when I first saw Ayalas commentary/review on it at the Biologos Foundation website. My initial response was that Ayala obviously hadnt read the book, and, as a result, made some embarrassing mistakes that any reader of the book would recognize. Darrell Falk at the Biologos Foundation was apparently responsible for inviting Ayala to comment on Meyers book, and has been drawn into the debate. He published the first part of Meyers response to Ayala,...
Earlier this week, the Biologos Foundation posted part of Stephen Meyers response to a review of his book Signature in the Cell by evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala. Because Biologos decided to introduce its partial posting of Meyers response with a misleading and inaccurate preface, and because Biologos further decided to rebut part 1 of Meyers response before readers had a chance to read his entire response, we have decided to make the rest of Dr. Meyers response available on his website immediately. Just as readers were allowed to read Dr. Ayalas critique in its entirety before reading Dr. Meyers response,...
The Discovery Institute has invited Dr. Francisco Ayala to debate the thesis of the book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design with the book's author, Dr. Stephen Meyer. Those who've been following the debate between Meyer and his critics know that there has been a bit of back and forth since Ayala was invited to critique SITC on the Biologos website. Meyer has responded this week, with the first of two parts on the Biologos site. Discovery Institute would like to initiate a full-fledged, official debate between the two, and so we have already sent...
Last updated 3/9/10, 7:00 pm. As a former book review editor (at National Review), I take a professional interest in book reviews and all the things that can go right or wrong with them. I confess, though, Ive never seen anything quite like the treatment of Stephen Meyers book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, on BioLogos, the curious website funded by the Templeton Foundation and specializing in Christian apologetics for Darwin. The site published what was clearly, unambiguously written to look like a review by biologist Francisco Ayala that, as Steve Meyer pointed out...
Last weeks New York Times article on academic freedom legislation makes a false assertion that the Selman v. Cobb County Board of Education claimed it was illegal to single out evolution in a curricular policy. The NY Times article wrongly states:The legal incentive to pair global warming with evolution in curriculum battles stems in part from a 2005 ruling by a United States District Court judge in Atlanta that the Cobb County Board of Education, which had placed stickers on certain textbooks encouraging students to view evolution as only a theory, had violated First Amendment strictures on the separation of...
by Jeff Zweerink Twinkle, twinkle little star, My, oh my, how large you are. How’d you get to be so big? When gas pressure and magnetic fields should have prevented you from forming?Okay, so my poem doesn’t rhyme, but it does communicate two important issues regarding stars. First, astronomers [...]
Kenneth Richard SamplesHow can a Christian think about eschatology (the study of “last things”) in a careful and intellectually responsible manner?Let me offer three suggestions for believers to carefully consider when approaching the controversial theological topic of the “end times.”1. Understanding the Bible’s Apocalyptic LiteratureEvangelical theologian and eschatology specialist George Eldon Ladd notes the following: [...]
Over the next few days in my homeland of Australia, atheists are converging from around the world in the city of Melbourne for what many of the organizers are calling a celebration of atheism.
Recent generations have been brought up to see the Bible as a book that contains many interesting stories and religious teaching, but has no connection to reality. This limited viewpoint helps explain why there are so many questions.
When scientists find that virtue brings reward and vice bring trouble, are they doing a better job than preachers? Hold that thought while reading some of the things scientists have been telling us lately about ourselves. (7 examples of moral "findings" and judgments made by scientists.)
Contrary to the claims of atheists, the earthquake in Haiti does not show that God does not exist or that He is indifferent to our suffering. It does show that the sin of greed and shoddy construction has had very deadly consequences.
