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Category Archives: Politics
Amazon Closes Minnesota Accounts
Amazon Closes Minnesota Accounts
I received this email below from Amazon.com this morning for all of my business accounts there. This is another great example of terrible policy produces terrible results. Thanks Governor Dayton and Democrats, much of my business revenue has just been devastated. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged amazon, Amazon Closes Minnesota Accounts, Amazon Closes Minnesota Associates Accounts, Amazon Minnesota Accounts, amazon.com, close accounts, minnesota
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God Bible and The Death Penalty: Capital Punishment
Many people with kind compassionate hearts are appalled at the concept of capital punishment. The idea that we as a government would take the life of someone that has committed a heinous crime is in conceivable to then and they think it is against God’s law or against the will of God somehow. I often hear the arguments like
• as the person is alive, they have an opportunity to repent
• It is not our place to kill a person. The is to be left to God
• The ten commandments say “Thou shall not kill”
These are common thoughts and common misconceptions so let’s try to sort these issues out.
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Freedom – Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Freedom Originally uploaded by !!WaynePhotoGuy. Freedom of thought and expression are two of the most basic tenants of any free society.Without those two things, you do not have a free society. We went to a must see movie this weekend. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Current Affairs, Photography, Politics, Science
Tagged academic, Arian Nation, art, Ben Stein, church, Darwin, Darwinian, evolution, Expelled, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, freedom, Hitler, Id, intelligent design, jew, jews, movie, photography, Stalin, the master race, universities
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Bush Taps Snow As New Press Secretary – Yahoo! News
I love Tony Snow!!! Great Job Tony, do good work. Complete Story: Bush Taps Snow As New Press Secretary. WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on … Continue reading
Homosexual Rights Group – Early Supporter of VIRTUS in Twin Cities
This letter went out yesterday from primaryeducators.org . From: webmaster@primaryeducators.org Dear Parents, You may have missed this in the previous broadcast message due to its length. Some additional information is provided. A question was raised at the meeting that if … Continue reading
Parent’s Group Oversees Cleaning up the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse Scandals
If you are not aware of the "Clean up" of the Catholic Preist Sex abuse scandals, this may all be new to you. There is a concerned parents organization that is currently head quartered in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Current Affairs, Misc, Politics, Religion, Weblogs
Tagged Parent's Group Oversees Cleaning up the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse Scandals, Primary educators, primaryeducators.org, safe environments, VIRTUS
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Anti-conversion law passed in ‘tolerant’ Algeria
Another Islamic government has made it illegal to convert to Christianity. As attention focused on an Afghan Christian convert who faced the death penalty for his conversion, Algeria quietly passed a law that punishes anyone who persuades a Muslim to … Continue reading
The Cost of becoming a Christian in Afghanistan
Of course you don’t hear this in the MSM but this is what happens pretty regularly in the Muslim world. Abdul Rahman is facing a death sentence for becoming a Christian. What a heinous crime! One bystander states… "Cut off … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged afghanistan, christian, death, death sentence, Rahman, sentence, the cost of becoming a Christian in Afghanistan
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Update on Blogs For Terri
Dear Friends, One year ago we fought together on behalf of Terri Schiavo at BlogsforTerri as a loose coalition of independent bloggers, commenters and readers. Despite our protests, we watched with sadness and alarm as Terri’s food and water were … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Weblogs
Tagged blogs for terri, blogsforterri
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My State Rep takes up life issues
I knew there was a reason why I liked this guy…. With heated debate reflecting a deep social divide over issues of life and death, a Minnesota House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would require health-care professionals to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Current Affairs, Health, Politics
Tagged Eagan, food and water, life, minnesota, mn, R, Rep, republican, Terri Schiavo, Tim Wilkin
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South Dakota bans most abortions
South Dakota has now been placed on the map as a state that is not afraid of a big fight. The Gov has signed into law legislation that would ban almost all abortions. These guys know there is going to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Current Affairs, Misc, Politics, Religion, Science, Wisdom
Tagged abortion, ban, gov, law, Mike, Mike Rounds, Rounds, signed, South dakota
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Why does Hollywood hate Israel?
The new Israel bashing movie "Paradise Now" is another fine example of Hollywood hating Israel. Link: Ynetnews – Culture – Oscar nominee: People hate Israelis for a reason. HOLLYWOOD – Hany Abu-Assad’s film "Paradise Now" left few Israelis indifferent. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Film, Misc, Movies, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged film, nominated, Oscar, Paradise Now, Yedioth Ahronoth
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Hurricane Katrina Relief: New Orleans Trip Report
By Paul Rivenburg February 4th – February 12th 2006 We left the parking lot of South Suburban on a very chilly Saturday morning. We drove in three different vans. At our lunch stop in Mount Pleasant, Iowa Ken discovered that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Travel
Tagged christian, church, effort, evangelical, faith, french quarter, hurricane, katrina, mission trip, new orleans, Paul Rivenburg, relief, rivenburg, South Suburban, trip, urban impact, yellow house
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SADDAM and the tapes about his WMD Program
You have of course heard about Scott Ritter. You know the guy that was so mad about how the weapons inspections had been cut short before the Iraq war. But have you heard about Bill Tierney? Bill was a weapons … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Misc, Politics
Tagged Bill, Bill Tierney, ingraham, laura ingraham, lauraingraham.com, saddam, saddam secret tapes, saddam unplugged, scott ritter, secret, tapes, Tierney, WMD, WMDS
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Whatever Happened To Masculinity?
Like I have said before, there are many things with which I disagree with Chuck Baldwin. But when I agree, I really agree. This commentary is one in which I agree whole heartedly, so I had to post it. Enjoy … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged boy, chuck baldwin, courage, manhood, masculinity, men, Whatever Happened To Masculinity?, women
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Roe v. Wade anniversary
On this 33rd Roe v. Wade anniversary I would like to do a little math. Abortion has been "legal" for 33 years now. According to the many sources (do your own research if you don’t believe me), in the US … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged 33, abortion, abortions, anniversary, roe v wade
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Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream
On this Martin Luther King holiday I only thought it would be right to post one of the greatest speaches of all time by the great leader Dr Martin Luther King. Keep in mind that this man’s view of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Literature, Misc, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged Dr Martin Luther King, dream, I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, speach
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Destroying the Icons of Radical Feminism
This morning Bill Bennett had Kate O’Beirne of National Review Online on his show mostly discussing the Sam Alito Supreme Court Judicial Court confirmation hearings that are getting under way. O’Beirne recently wrote a piece that outlines her dream speech … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Books, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Health, Politics, Religion, Wisdom
Tagged amazon, bill bennett, Carrie Bradshaw, Dianne Feinstein, Eleanor Smeal, Feinstein, Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton, Kate, Kate Michelman, Kate O’Beirne, Maureen Dowd, O’Beirne, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sex and the City
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This Man Should Not Be on The Bench!
This is insane to me! Check this out: Judge gives child-rapist 60-day sentence. "No longer believes in punishment: ‘Anger doesn’t solve anything’" Who is talking anger? We are talking justice. The action requires justice! There is no anger involved at … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Wisdom
Tagged Cashman, Edward Cashman, impeach, judge, Judge Edward Cashman, vermont
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American Corporations: Leading the Gay Agenda
Over the Christmas holiday my brother in law (BIL) and I managed to embarrass my wife my sister and my brother by talking openly about the damage homosexuality has done to the Catholic Church. How did this simple little discussion … Continue reading
Navy Chaplain living by convictions
I would like to point out an interesting article that tells about a Navy Chaplain who is fasting from food in protest to the Military’s ban on praying in Jesus’ name. This man takes his faith and his duty seriously.
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion
Tagged fasting, Gordon James Klingenschmitt, Gordon Klingenschmitt, jesus, Klingenschmitt, navy, navy chaplain, no, no Jesus, pray, prayer, praying, starving
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Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie
Can you believe it, there really was no racism in the way that the government responded to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophy? In a recent commentary, Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie Kevin McCollough points how slanted the coverage was about … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Commentary, Current Affairs, Politics
Tagged Black 'leaders' caught in Katrina lie, Black leaders, katrina, lie
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Purple Finger Campaign Update
purple finger Originally uploaded by carcollectorz. Today is the day of Iraqi elections. Turnout is expected to be huge. My request for you is to please pray for fair, clean and peaceful elections. This is the latest shot contributed to … Continue reading
More female tachers having sex with their students
There seems to be an epidemic of female teachers having sex with their students. Now we see it in Austrailia. The seeming U.S. epidemic of cases involving female teachers raping or molesting their students has been "sexported" Down Under, as … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: 911 We Remember : Dedicated to those who fell and to those who carry on.
During our trip to New York City we had the honor of stopping at ground zero to rememeber those that were lost and all those that still live with the pain of that day. This was a very moving place.
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