William Been

This sounds like genuine Hope and Change and we have the sacred Book instead
of Rules for Radicals.

This from Dave Kistler

> At the moment, I am traveling home from three incredibly impacting days in
> our nation's capital. Thankfully, I have a a dear pastor friend driving,
> which allows me the occasion to draft this post.
>
> The title of our three days on "the Hill" was "Congressional Clergy Town
> Hall"--an opportunity for 20 of the most committed Christians in Congress
> to speak to us regarding what is now happening in Washington after the
> historic elections of November 8.
>
> What was slated as a town hall developed into much more, I believe. From
> the "after hours" tour of the United States Capitol, to the amazing
> service last evening in Capitol room H 137, the entire three days had the
> breath of God on it. Most memorable for me was the Tuesday evening prayer
> and praise time in the Senate chamber and the same last night in the
> Capitol Rotunda. To hear prayers being offered up "with strong crying" in
> both locations was astounding. Then, to follow those intense times of
> supplication with unrestrained strains of "God Bless America" was beyond
> stirring.
>
> This was the first of many future pastor/ministry leader/legislator events
> in Washington, DC in the days ahead. The 14 pastors/committed believers
> who made the trip with me were moved, challenged, and forever changed.
> NEVER have I seen congressional leaders so enthused at what God has
> done/is doing! For the last eight years, a dark cloud has hovered over
> Washington--a darkness that could be felt. But, these last three days, I
> sensed a totally different spirit. Truly "enthuse"/enthusiastic (en=in,
> Theos=God--literally meaning "God within") is the fitting term(s) to
> describe what I saw and sensed.
>
> Congressman Louie Gohmert, Senator Jim Inhoffe, Congresswoman Marsha
> Blackburn, Senator Ted Cruz, Senate Chaplain Barry Black, and others, were
> among the many to whom we were able to listen and with whom we had
> occasion to interact. Though Chaplain Barry Black is always spot on, my
> favorite was Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. In all candor, I think he's
> missed his calling, for he didn't speak, he PREACHED, and powerfully! I
> love his favorite expression--"To hide behind the sovereignty of God,
> using it as an excuse to do nothing, is like leaning on a shovel and
> expecting a hole to appear." No, we need to trust God, but also ACT.
>
> Capping off the three days, was last evening's stellar worship service in
> the Capitol. To hear shouts of praise and Spirit-inspired singing IN THE
> CAPITOL was, well, over the top! For the first time, it was my delight to
> speak briefly to a gathering of approximately 100 legislators, pastors,
> ministry leaders, and committed followers of Christ.
>
> As I reflect, all I can utter are the words of Mordacai to Esther--"For
> such a time as this!" Stay tuned for ongoing updates on all that God is
> doing and doors He is opening through our "HOPE To The Hill" ministry.
>
> One final comment. Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black evidently concurs with
> my assessment--that a revival is on the way. His added thought is that
> the revival will commence in the halls of Congress. If what I saw over the
> last three days is any indication, he may well be right! Now is NOT the
> time for any kind of retreat. Rather let us ADVANCE in repentance,
> earnest prayer, determined obedience and enthusiastic expectation of
> another Great Awakening in our land.
>
> Dave Kistler
> President, HOPE Ministries International/HOPE To The Hill
> President, North Carolina Pastors Network (NCPN)
> Co-host, Stand In The Gap Radio

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Jack Kemp

When Martha Stewart was on trail in 2004, New York papers made a point of mentioning that the former contributor to Hillary Clinton brought a fancy Hermes Birkin designer purse to court, something estimated to have cost anywhere from $6,000 to $11,000. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37117-2004Jan21.html Martha thought it would impress jurors - and she was right. But that impression did not work the way Martha wanted and she was found guilty and was sent to prison in West Virginia.

Now both Democrats and Republicans are rejoicing as Nancy Pelosi has been re-elected House Minority Leader. Pelosi, a wealthy resort hotel owner from San Francisco who has hired non-union help at her properties, has presided over YUGE (to borrow a Trump phrase) losses of Democrats in the House and, by extension, elsewhere in the country's legislatures. She represents the bicoastal elitist wing of the Democratic Party. And I would bet she owns a few $6,000 purses, whether she flaunts them or not.

As for Pelosi's level of non-concern for American citizens finding work, it also extends beyond her own jobsites. In 2009, Pelosi told a bunch of illegal aliens that work site immigration raids were illegal. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/18/pelosi-tells-illegal-immigrants-work-site-raids-american.html Yes, there's nothing like encouraging illegal immigrant and non-union help to drive voters to the polls - to vote for Republicans.

So I will join the chorus and congratulate Nancy Pelosi on her being named, once again, the Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. I think she is doing a great job in inspiring Americans to vote for Republicans both now and hopefully in the future.

Perhaps Martha Stewat can cater Ms. Pelosi's victory party. Martha can prepare a fine dish of crow and make it look and taste like pheasant under glass (ceiling).

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Timothy Birdnow

I posted this at American Thinker a few years ago, when Keith Ellison was first perjured, er, sworn in to Congress. I think it is pertinent now, as the Democrats are going to make him the Sheik of their party.

The Oath that Binds

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/12/post_9.html

Timothy Birdnow

Bookworm recently made the case against Keith Ellison`s swearing on the Koran:

" All of which gets us back to Keith Ellison and his originally stated intention to take the oath of office relying solely on his Koran. Although there is often a vast chasm between theory and practice, theory, as I understand it, says that a true Muslim cannot simultaneously believe in the Koran's dictates and swear an oath to protect a Western legal document such as the Constitution. The two documents (the Koran and the Constitution) envision entirely antithetical laws and the Koran mandates that its believers, as part of their faith, bend every effort to ensuring the Koran's ascendancy over all other forms of government and faith.

In other words, Prager was wrong about Ellison's using the Koran at his swearing-in, not because it represented an act of multiculturalist self-obsession, but because a really religious man cannot do both acts at the same time. That is, as a devout Muslim, one cannot swear to support any political system other than Shari'a, and one certainly can't do so using the very same Koran that proscribes all other systems."

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This was followed today by Alamgir Hussain, who makes a solid case that the Koranic view of "infidels" (such as the citizens of the United States) necessitates that he take his oath not on the Bible but the Koran-at least from Ellison`s perspective.

Of course, there is no reason to believe that a Muslim would feel bound by an oath on the Bible, but will he honor his vow on the Koran?

[Bukhari:V7B67N427] "The Prophet said, ‘If I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.'"

In short, the Koran commands Ellison to break any vow to a secular government when that vow becomes inconvenient.

Do we really want this guy swearing at all?

End

The modern Left and their party of record, the Democrats, are nothing but oathbreakers and liars, and putting Ellison in the position of Party Boss Hog is probably proper. Islam and Leftism have been flirty friends since the time of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and are now in a concubinal relationship, so why not simply stop the pretense and embrace the inner Ayatollah?

Alahu Akhbar can be their next slogan; Stronger Together just didn't pan out.

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Dana Mathewson

No surprise here.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/01/greg-gutfeld-obama-slams-fox-news-and-rings-division-bell-for-last-time.html

In an interview in that reprehensible wad of trash called Rolling Stone, President Obama pinpointed why Democrats lost the election. He blamed it on the prevalence of Fox News.

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Bob Redmond

Saw an open letter on Drudge by Congressman Keith Ellison, I pulled a quote and translated a sentence for better clarity.

"As Democrats we want the millions of young activists — the Dreamers, Black Lives Matter, young labor organizers, environmentalists and everyone — to see the Democratic party as the place where they can organize for a better future for their families and neighborhoods.”

Funny wording, allow me to translate:

Dreamers= Illegal aliens

Black Lives Matter= Black version of National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the Nazis.

Young labor organizers= Thugs and authoritarians

Environmentalists= Totalitarian theocrat

And best of all;

Everyone= Everyone but White Americans, especially Jews

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Dana Mathewson

The Clintonistas just can't believe they made key mistakes, and ran a flawed candidate. As far as Russia maybe hacking the emails, whose fault was it that the server was unsecured?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/02/clinton-campaign-team-says-trump-gave-platform-to-white-supremacists-blames-fbis-comey-and-wikileaks-for-her-defeat.html.

The wounds from one of the fiercest election campaigns in American history were still raw Thursday as the campaign teams for President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed while offering their behind-the-scenes perspectives at a Harvard University forum.

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Dana Mathewson

Good choice? I think so.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/01/trump-think-lot-democrats-are-going-to-join-us.html.

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday night that he expected congressional Democrats to join Republicans in helping his planned programs through Congress.

End excerpt.

Here are a few quotes from "Mad Dog" Mattis:

"I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

"You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.”

"No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

"Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”

"I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f*** with me, I’ll kill you all.”

"The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.”

End

A NOTE FROM TIM:

I looked at his Wikipedia page and he looks o.k. although I am a bit worried about anyone appointed by Obama to anything. Also, he supports a two state solution in Israel, which is a dreadful idea. But he seems like our kind of guy otherwise. He is a member of the Hoover Institute, for what that's worth.

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Jack Kemp

Kellogg's lost another dollar in stock value today. If you read the Yahoo stock board Converstations for Kellogg's, you see people saying things like the summer camp they own will no longer buy Kellogg's cereals. Someone suggested that Donald Trump will urge school systems that take federal money to not buy cereal from a company that uses child labor and supports racists like Black Lives Matter. I wonder if various conservative states will urge the stopping of purchases of Kellogg's cereals in their school breakfast and lunch programs.

What's that line about don't fight with people who buy (laserjet) ink by the barrel? Yes, I bet Kellogg's marketing dept. at least realizes they don't need these problems or exposure on the part of Breitbart. A boycott by conservatives and news of child labor usedfor making vegetable oil for Kellogg overseas wasn't enough. Now they have this.

Jack


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/01/kellogg-foundation-provided-nearly-1-million-support-black-lives-matter/
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which maintains strong financial ties to the Kellogg Company, has provided at least $930,000 in support of the controversial work of the Black Lives Matter organization.
The financing is listed on the Foundation’s website. It includes a June 1, 2016 grant to the International Development Exchange, which is in a contractual relationship with Black Lives Matter to process donations for the group.
The Associated Press reported the International Development Exchange, also known as IDEX, "has been acting as a mostly unseen financial arm of Black Lives Matter, with the ability to receive grants and tax-deductible donations on the group’s behalf.”
"More recently, the relationship evolved into a contractual partnership that will run through at least mid-2017,” the AP reported.

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Fay Voshell

It appears former president Jimmy Carter, now 92 years old, has yet to meet a tyrant he doesn’t admire.

His continuing embrace of terrorist regimes makes some wonder when we will see the cessation of his continual self-exhumations from political burial in order to once again resume his prophetic declamations on behalf of odious regimes, past and present. Carter’s latest declamation on the demise of the pitiless tyrant Fidel Castro reveals once again his lifelong empathy for totalitarian regimes:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/11126/jimmy-carter-mourns-fidel-castro-hank-berrien

"Rosalynn and I share our sympathies with the Castro family and the Cuban people on the death of Fidel Castro. We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country. We wish the Cuban citizens peace and prosperity in the years ahead.”

Just as bad, if not worse, Carter wants Obama to recognize a Palestinian state before Barack Obama leaves office. His love for brutal despotism does not end with his affection for Castro, but extends to leaders who wish to exterminate Israel and the Jews.

end excerpt.

Newsweek’s Eddie Mullholland reports:
http://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-carter-barack-obama-recognize-state-palestine-526252

"Carter has now stepped into the debate with an op-ed for the New York Times on Monday.

‘It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace. That prospect is now in grave doubt,’ he [Carter] wrote. ‘I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short.

‘The simple but vital step this administration must take before its term expires on January 20 is to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine as 137 nations have done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership.’

end excerpt.

The fact of the matter is this: there has never been a Palestinian leader, including Mahmoud Abbas, who has not denied Israel’s right to exist; and who has not wanted to eliminate Israel the nation from the map. Education follows policy. It is well known that Harper Collins publishes textbooks with illustrations of the Middle East completely erase Israel from the map. http://politicaloutcast.com/harpercollins-unmakes-israel-middle-east-customers/

As Frontpage magazine’s Ari Lieberman reported in February of 2016:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261727/palestinian-moderate-leaders-ari-lieberman

"Palestinian Authority incitement and outright anti-Semitism are all but ignored by the Obama administration as is the fact that 6% of the PA’s budget is earmarked toward paying the salaries of convicted terrorists or their families. Since a substantial portion of that budget is subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer, it places the administration of being in the odd position of being an accessary to terror.

The incidents and examples of Palestinian Authority incitement are too voluminous to note in this piece but there are a few recurring themes. Jews (and sometimes Christians) are routinely referred to as apes, pigs or monkeys. Ancient blood libels accusing Jews of kidnapping Arab children for the purpose of using their blood in preparing Passover Matzah are regurgitated with regularity and lastly, those who engage in terrorism and murder are extolled as heroes or Shahids. They or their families are often rewarded with cash payments or lucrative job opportunities. Some have even had public places named after them.”

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But the prospect of openly endorsing those with genocidal impulses toward the Jews has never deterred Carter from consistently embracing the world’s most vicious terrorists, including the odious Yasser Arafat, who had more blood on his hands than in his veins.

One only has to recall the New York Times article written in 1990 http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/world/carter-meets-arafat-in-paris-praises-him-as-peacemaker.html, which reported Carter’s meeting with Arafat in Paris. Carter, who laid a wreath at Arafat’s tomb in 2008, praised him as a "peacemaker” even though Arafat the "peacemaker” as head of the Palestinian Liberation Front, was responsible for countless gruesome acts of terrorism. After all, it was Arafat who once said, "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.” http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/jimmy-carter-lays-wreath-arafats-tomb

Arafat meant his words, as do Palestinian leaders today, regardless of what some more moderate Palestinians may believe.

Carter has even endorsed Hamas, a terrorist organization, as a "legitimate political actor,” causing Alan Dershowitz to ask if the former president was guilty of a "criminal offense.” http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/08/12/does-jimmy-carter-s-support-for-hamas-constitute-criminal-offense-under-us-law/

Ari Leberman writes of Hamas’ implacable hatred of Israel:

"The Palestinian Authority is only half the problem. In the south, Israel must contend with the spawn of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas. In the summer of 2014, Israel fought a 50-day war with the terror group and during the course of that conflict, uncovered a vast network of tunnels constructed for the ghoulish purpose of carrying out mass terror attacks and kidnapping. Some of these tunnels actually targeted kindergartens as well as schools. Incidentally, much of the building material used to construct these tunnels were donated by the EU, the United States or NGOs financed by the West. Since Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and internal controls are virtually non-existent, it was relatively easy for the terror group to divert funds earmarked for civilian use.”

end excerpt.

In view of the constant antipathy toward Israel by the Palestinians and Hamas; and given his supposedly peace-loving nature, how did Carter arrive at his anti-Semitism?

For one thing, Carter is a believer in replacement theology; that is, that the Christian church replaces Israel and that Israel no longer holds a special place in covenant theology. Israel is just another nation and people. This false doctrine has been the basis of deleterious and sometimes fatal foreign policy involving Jews and Israel. Carter’s realpolitik favors current demographics and the global order embraced by the U.N., which partly explains his appeal to President Obama to recognize Palestine. Carter’s globalist vision and belief in supra-national entities as the way for the future replace the Christian vision of the kingdom of God.

Those who insist politics and religion never mix need to re-examine their thinking. Replacement theology has dangerous, even fatal implications for Israel and the Jews. Certainly, replacement theology has contributed to anti-Semitism, including Carter’s implacable hatred of Israel.

On the other hand, there is hope. Certainly, not every Christian leader believes as Carter believes.

Many Christians, particularly American evangelicals and members of the Reformed denominations in the U.S., reject replacement theology entirely, believing in the inseparable link between Judaism and Christianity; and believing in the unity of the Old and New Testaments. Evangelicals and those of the Reformed faith hold with St. Paul, who as a Jew believing in Christ as the long-promised Messiah, taught that the Jews still had a covenantal bond with God; and that Christianity, far from being an entirely new sect, owed its genesis to Judaism. Christians, Paul, and other apostles wrote, regard Christ as the fulfillment of all that went before and as the promise of the future. They were and are merely grafted into the older vine that was Judaism.

The above is why so many evangelicals and those of the Reformed faith support Israel and her right to exist and flourish as a nation. They will not sever their spiritual roots. Nor will they embrace a secular globalist vision at the expense of Israel and the Jews.

Let us hope and pray the incoming Trump administration strengthens America's alliance with Israel, repudiating Carter’s and the Left’s onus toward her; and may it also cherish and reinforce the priceless heritage Western civilization has in both Judaism and Christianity.

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Jack Kemp

Erick Erickson pushes back against BuzzFeed's singling out a Christian church and family for believing in the teachings of the...Christian (and Jewish) Bible. Erickson agrees with U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia who calls for a national law protecting the rights Christians. Such a law would most probably also protect the religious practices of Jews, Muslims, and Hindus as well.
http://theresurgent.com/buzzfeed-shows-why-republicans-need-to-expand-religious-liberty-protections-federally/
This article was followed by a second one in which Erickson details how BuzzFeed attacked Chip and Joanna Gaines of HGTV and their church, two organizations (the Gaines family and the church) that have limited power to defend themselves against a national campaign. Erickson includes an analysis of the pathetic defense by BuzzFeed of their muddled, bigoted statements. That article's link and major segments appear below. In the conclusion, they also make reference to the phrase "you will be made to care" which a reference to the title of the book "You Will Be Made to Care: The War on Faith, Family, and Your Freedom to Believe" by Erick Erickson and Bill Blankschaen.

http://theresurgent.com/ben-smith-goes-into-damage-control-over-buzzfeeds-bigoted-attack-on-christians-but-his-defense-is-bullcrap/
Ben Smith Goes into Damage Control Over BuzzFeed’s Bigoted Attack on Christians. But His Defense Is Bullcrap.
By Erick Erickson | November 30, 2016, 09:43pm | @ewerickson

As Gabriella noted earlier today, BuzzFeed is running an attack against Chip and Joanna Gaines, two orthodox Christian evangelical believers who dare to have a show on HGTV.
Ben Smith, the Editor of BuzzFeed, is trying to defend the attack on Chip and Joanna Gaines by claiming the piece is not about them, but about HGTV.
Really?
Here is the headline of the article:

Chip And Joanna Gaines’ Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage

That references a Bible believing Christian church. It never mentions HGTV.
What about the subtitle. That reads:

Their pastor considers homosexuality to be a "sin” caused by abuse — whether the Fixer Upper couple agrees is unclear.

That references the couples’ pastor and the couple. It never mentions HGTV. In fact, it makes the story expressly about the couple, not HGTV.
So let’s review the story. The first paragraph opens this way:

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ series Fixer Upper is one of the most popular shows on HGTV. The couple…

That makes the first paragraph about the couple, only referencing HGTV to describe the couple is worth covering because they have a popular TV show on HGTV.
What about the second paragraph? It begins

They have built a small empire, and they are not done yet.

Again, that’s about the couple, not HGTV. Third paragraph? It begins

They are also, as they detail in The Magnolia Story, devout Christians — Joanna has spoken of and written about her conversations with God.

Oh, so now not only is it not about HGTV, it focuses on the couple’s faith and then goes into their church’s beliefs, which are shared by thousands of mainstream churches across the country. You get the sense of where this is headed by the opening of the fourth paragraph.

So are the Gaineses against same-sex marriage? So are the Gaineses against same-sex marriage? And would they ever feature a same-sex couple on the show, as have HGTV’s House Hunters and Property Brothers? ever feature a same-sex couple on the show, as have HGTV’s House Hunters and Property Brothers?

Wait. I thought Ben Smith says this is about HGTV. That paragraph starts again about the Gaineses and then asks if they, not HGTV would have a gay couple on the show.
Maybe the next paragraph will make this about HGTV and not the couple. Let’s see. The next paragraph begins

Fixer Upper has fans of all stripes: Christians, feminists, and LGBT viewers have all found something to love in the Gaineses. So in the absence of a response from them or their representatives, it’s worth looking at the severe, unmoving position Seibert and Antioch take on same-sex marriage.

That’s the full paragraph.
If the story is about HGTV, why not look at the copious examples of HGTV putting homosexuals on HGTV. The network is inarguably inclusive. If the story is about HGTV, why look at the "sever, unmoving position” of orthodox Christianity.
And that’s where we get to the bigotry of Buzzfeed.
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Jack Kemp

Not only is Kellogg's losing business for its p.c. attack on Breitbart, but Breitbart is organizing a boycott and Amnesty International is claiming - and Breitbart is reporting - that one of Kellogg's ingredients is produced with child labor overseas.

Kellogg's stock has been going steadily down from a mid-July high of $87. Today, as word of their boycott of Breitbart got out, the stock lost $1.62 a share to close at $72. Nothing like alienating more than half the country's voters to not help sales.

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