Beijing Olympic Topiary Gardens

China escalates Bible crackdown

China: Crackdown Violates Olympic Promises

Official Olympic’s page

August 8-24

NBC Plans New Olympic TV Channels

“We are knee-deep in a culture of death. …

Our moment in history is marked

by a mortal conflict between

a culture of life and a culture of death.

God put us in theworld to do noble things,

to love and to cherish our fellow human beings,

not to destroy them. Today, we must choose sides.”

— The late U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde,

in support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act,

which finally became law in 2003

Petition

Bumper sticker

“A God-fearing nation, like ours,

owes it to its inborn and sincere sense of moral duty

to testify its devout gratitude to the All-Giver

for the countless benefits it has enjoyed.”

– President William Howard Taft, Nov. 7, 1912

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.

…

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

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

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

Joel Hesch spent 15 years as an attorney in the Fraud Section of the Department of Justice helping administer the national whistleblower reward program.

Eye doctors seeing green…

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

— First lady Abigail Adams

The modern secular liberal knows that he is not only morally superior to conservatives; he is morally superior to virtually everyone who ever lived before him.

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory

by refusing to worship Him

than a lunatic can put out the sun by

scribbling the word ‘darkness’

on the walls of his cell.”

— C. S. Lewis

General IRS guidelines for political activity within the church building.

YES!

“We must realize that no arsenal,

no weapon in the arsenals of the world,

is so formidable as the

will and moral courage

of free men and women.

It is a weapon our adversaries

in today’s world do not have.”

— President Ronald Reagan

or at waste ???

The son of Democratic Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, August Ritter, 22, held a kegger at the state-owned historic Governor’s Mansion in Denver.

The partying appears to have occurred on the first floor of the century-old mansion, which is filled with antiques and historic art.

One invitation said: “We will only be able to do this for another 2 to 7 years (depending on the voters of Colorado) so we need to take advantage of it.”

The governor was out of town, but his spokesman, Evan Dreyer, told the newspaper everyone shown in the party lineup was “of legal drinking age” and also that “nothing was broken in the mansion during the parties.”

The report said the invitation stated few rules: “Mama Ritter has two rules for parties that I have at the Mansion. 1. No throwing up 2. No sexy time.“

Me thinks Mama Ritter needs some rules.

Don’t enable your legal age son & his so called friends to mis use state property.

Your boy needs a job.

He also needs some goals.

Questions …

Doesn’t he have a place of his own ?

Does he actually plan to party there yearly till he is 29 ?

If this were a Republican Governor’s son would we have heard more about it ?

Is drinking straight from the keg tasteful ?

“Coming together in prayer

not only galvanizes our hearts

but humbles our spirits

and reminds us

that we are not completely

sovereign over ourselves.”

— Dr. Ravi Zacharias,
honorary chairman of the National Day of Prayer

Cost is $5.95 for one