North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday

The demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at the North’s main reactor complex is a response to U.S. concessions after the North delivered a declaration Thursday of its nuclear programs to be dismantled.

“This is a very important step in the disablement process and I think it puts us in a good position to move into the next phase,” said Sung Kim, the U.S. State Department’s top expert on the Koreas who attended the demolition. Kim shook hands with a North Korean official following the tower’s tumble to the ground.

In its first reaction to the developments this week, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry welcomed Washington’s decision to take the country off the U.S. trade and sanctions blacklists.

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The declaration does not address the North’s alleged uranium enrichment program or suspicions of its nuclear proliferation to other countries, such as Syria.

“I have lived a long time and am convinced

that God governs in the affairs of men.

If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground

without His notice, is it probable

that an empire can rise without His aid?”

— Benjamin Franklin, 1787

The most well-known global warming alarmist …

Gore’s Home Still Guzzling Energy

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

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Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.

“We make a living by what we get,

but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

The Decline of the GOP

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When the GOP began its decline…

How has the Republican Party managed to squander thoroughly the commanding heights achieved under Reagan’s leadership?

“If the American constitution should fall,

there will be anarchy through out the world.”
Daniel Webster

100% al-Qaida free since 2001

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Bush’s America

But no one notices when 9/11 doesn’t happen…

“A vote is like a rifle;

its usefulness depends

upon the character of the user.”
— President Theodore Roosevelt

10 More Amazing Facts of Mormonism

by Jill Martin Rische

“With true repentance and contrition of Heart, we may unitedly implore
the forgiveness of our Sins, through the merits of Jesus Christ, and
humbly supplicate our Heavenly Father, to grant us the aids of his Grace,
for the amendment of our Hearts and Lives, and vouchsafe his
smiles upon our temporal concerns.”

Samuel Adams

Feb. 28, 1795, proclamation,
as Massachusetts governor

Mascot Politics

Thomas Sowell -

For people on the left, however, blacks are trophies or mascots, and must therefore be put on display. Nowhere is that more true than in politics.

The problem with being a mascot is that you are a symbol of someone else’s significance or virtue. The actual well-being of a mascot is not the point.

“(The federal government) can never be in danger of degenerating

into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy,

or any other despotic or oppressive

form so long as there shall remain any virtue

in the body of the People.”

– President George Washington, Feb. 7, 1788

WISDOM FROM AVIATION/MILITARY MANUALS

Written by To The Point News

“If the enemy is in range, so are you.” – Infantry Journal

“It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.” – U.S. Air Force Manual

“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” – General MacArthur

“Tracers work both ways.” – U.S. Army Ordnance

“Five second fuses only last three seconds.” – Infantry Journal

“Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.”

“Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.” – Unknown Marine Recruit

“If you see a bomb technician running, follow him.” - USAF Ammo Troop

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“You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.” – Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)

“The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.”

“When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.”

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“Friendly fire – isn’t”

“Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.”

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“There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.” Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970

As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks “What happened?” The pilot’s reply: “I don’t know, I just got here myself!” – Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating

as to be shot at without result.”

— Winston Churchill, 1898

4th Annual Abortionist of the Year Award

Jill Stanek picks a winner.

Too bad the unborn are the losers.

“The only ground of hope for the continuance

of our free institutions is in the

proper moral and religious training of the children,

that they may be prepared

to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.”

– President Zachary Taylor, July 4, 1849

Michael Crighton

Environmentalism as a religion …

Way back in 2003 Michael explains why religious approaches to the environment are inappropriate and cause damage to the natural world they intend to protect.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems.

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I studied anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear. They can’t be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion.

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Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.

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“Without God, there is no virtue,

because there’s no prompting of the conscience.

Without God, we’re mired in the material,

that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive.

Without God, there is a coarsening of the society.

And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

– President Ronald Reagan

Don’t buy the cookies!

Jane Chastain explains why purchasing Girl Scout cookies promotes the left-wing feminist agenda & suggests :

…giving each girl who approached me a letter with an offer to give her troop $100 if it will change its affiliation to the American Heritage Girls. I greet the leader or parent with the girl and hand her information from the AHG website, along with my column “Confessions of a former Girl Scout” and my contact information.

While the Boy Scouts have clung to their original God-centered charter, the Girl Scouts adopted a policy of nondiscrimination and now accepts atheists and lesbians as troop leaders and staff.

The changes began in 1970 when feminist Betty Friedan was put on the national governing board. Soon afterward, the Girl Scouts began purging their materials of all positive references to homemakers. Partnerships with Planned Parenthood followed and the Girl Scouts begin showing up at gun control rallies like the Million Mom March. The Scouts have adopted a new global agenda under the Studio 2B program. The Scouts bemoan the fact that the United States has not signed the radical feminist treaty, the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which would force nations to legalize abortion and prostitution. Guess a girl has to make a living!

To earn the Women Worldwide Interest Project Patch, senior girls are asked to research women who have made an impact. Eve Ensler, the author of the “Vagina Monologues,” and Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the lesbian Guatemalan Marxist activist, are held up as role models.

To be sure, there are many good people engaged in Girl Scouting, and the experience largely depends on the character of the local leader and the disposition of the area council. Local councils select area delegates. However, these delegates have no say in national policy. This presents a real conflict for most people of faith, especially since the Girl Scouts brought in the controversial New Age group the Ashland Institute to assist in leadership training.

Today, the American Heritage Girls is everything the Girl Scouts used to be. AHG began in 1995 and offers a scouting experience similar to the Boy Scouts of America. AHG’s highest honor is the Stars and Stripes Award patterned after the BSA’s Eagle award. It is not at all surprising that the Girl Scouts is losing members, while AHG is one of the fastest-growing youth organizations in America. AHG now boasts 185 troops and more than 6,300 members in 33 states with plans to expand to all 50 states in 2008.

I proudly support them and I hope you will too.

“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God,

then we will be a nation gone under.”

– President Ronald Reagan