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In August 1989, I spoke with Dr. Pat Robertson about the need to form a new national organization to encourage Christians to participate in the process of electing government officials. A few days later, at his invitation, we met in the living room of his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After discussing the need to organize we analyzed the vast resources accumulated during Dr. Robertson's run for the Republican Nomination for President. We concluded the meeting with an agreement to begin the new work at once. In a matter of days we met in Atlanta, Georgia with America's top evangelical organizational leaders to secure their blessing. The Christian Coalition was born.

With state organizations still active from the campaign we were off and running. The grassroots were still vibrant. When the 1994 federal elections were held the American people, inspired by Christian leaders, "cataclysmatized" the Congress. Democrats in power for 40 years were suddenly dislodged. The Christian Coalition, by organizing concerned citizens throughout America, had played a major role in the sea-change election.  read more »

I've heard the talking heads say that people would respect Democrats that are willing to stand on principle and not be moved by a mere majority of Americans. They neglect the reality that the number of Americans that reject Obamacare is considerably more than a mere majority - It is approaching the numbers that would be needed to for Constitution convention. What is this righteous principle that they are standing on?

DEAL WATCH: Boyd a “Yes” Vote on Gov’t Health care Takeover After His Forest Bill Passes House

Was this Yet Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats?

With a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of health care expected tomorrow, Rep. Alan Boyd (D-FL) finally got off the fence and announced yesterday that he would vote “yes” for the bill.

Boyd’s announcement came just days after one of his pet bills passed the House. Boyd is the sponsor of a bill, the Florida National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2009 (H.R. 3954). The bill languished in committee after being introduced in October 2009. Suddenly, though, it received a vote Thursday in the House.

Boyd’s bill was not originally on the schedule for this week when it was released by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) last Friday. However, Thursday it appeared on the calendar and was passed this afternoon in the full House.

Will Boyd come clean about this apparent backroom deal for his vote?  read more »

There is a new addition to a unique newscast being produced and aired by Mountain View Christian Center in Oakley, California which is now being aired throughout the world. The Kidscast consists of a team of young girls that everyone would love to have as daughters, or, later on, as daughters-in-law.

The AGN-TCL Good News For The World immediately caught favor with viewers because of the uplifting content, not preaching mind you, but stories gathered from news reports that the mainstream media have either buried or censored altogether (they prefer the detailed gory stuff).

The AGN (America's Good News) TCL (The Connecting Link) newscast spotlights such under-reported stories as a black high school where every student there graduated, were tested and accepted by major colleges and universities...an incredible art auction during the Viet Nam era...a new look at "Old Geezers" and other stories from the news that will tickle the funny bone. It makes for a neat break in the midst of a chaotic day.

What is especially appealing, according to viewers, is that each newscast features tidbits of the news in segments that run less than 10 minutes. Short, sweet, and meaningful.

Starting with no fanfare or advanced publicity, curious viewers saw the listing,  tuned in, liked it, told others, sent links to friends and other news sources. Plus the newscasts are being picked up by Asian countries that particularly seem to enjoy this approach to the news-of-the-day coming from America.  read more »

Hot Air: Democratic memo instructs staffers to mislead voters and media on “doctor fix”

As most health staff knows, Leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians support for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand that we do not want that policy discussed at this time, lest I [sic] complicate the last critical push for health reform.

Can anybody tell me why an Office which must be open to the public because of FOIA laws. Unlike a private office which does not need to be open or follow FOIA laws. Should not allow videos to be made?  read more »

by permission
©Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D.

Subway riders know the adage – The third rail is deadly –it carries the
current that can kill
you. Avoid the third rail.
We are about to get that “third rail” for government-controlled
healthcare. Then comes the
death blow to your medical privacy, your freedom to choose medical
treatment options, and
your ability to control the cost of any private health insurance you may
want to buy.
Democrats, working in the shadows away from public view and using
devious “divide and
conquer” strategies, have already laid two tracks for a complete
government control of your
healthcare. They only have one more rail to go.
The first two rails were craftily hidden in the Stimulus Bill of
February 2009. While the
public thinks healthcare bills are still “out there” and not yet passed,
the Democrats have
been celebrating the anniversary of the Stimulus Bill, knowing that
their “Stimulus” stealth
tactics already laid those first two healthcare tracks for government
control.
Populist rhetoric hides the lethal third rail. It is called “insurance
reform.”
It’s brilliantly deceptive and diabolical in its 3-step simplicity:
1. Control medical records and private health information of every
person in the
United States, and penalize health professionals who refuse to release
your
personal information. ALREADY PASSED into law February 2009. Come 2014,  read more »

Remember "Jobs, jobs, jobs"?  That's what Obama and the Democrats told us they were going to focus on a few months ago after that big upset win by Scott Brown in Massachusetts, (after he campaigned almost exclusively against ObamaCare).

Well not only have they not changed their focus to jobs, we've spent another two months mired in debating their health care takeover scheme.  And now comes a study from Americans for Tax Reform and the Beacon Hill Institute that projects ObamaCare would cost the economy around 700,000 jobs by 2019.

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has urged
passage of the massive health reform plan moving through Congress as a
way to create up to 400,000 jobs.  Speaker Pelosi bases her claim on a
report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) in which the Center
estimates that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
would create 250,000 to 400,000 jobs per year over 10 years.

This estimate by CAP amounts to a hurried effort to add academic
heft to the claim that national health care reform offers a collateral
benefit in the form of an economic “stimulus.” It turns out, however,
that its methodology, stripped of unsupportable claims about savings in
health care costs, shows just the opposite of what CAP intended. PPACA
is a job killer, not a job creator.  read more »

The President of the Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs, in her January 13, 2009 column entitled:  "Bipartisan leaders support Israel as it should be," published a week before Barack Obama became president, wrote that she was pleased to see the cooperation in their support for Israel between the Democratic House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, and the Republican Minority Whip, Eric Cantor.   

It seems that the president is departing from this bipartisan support of Israel and is relentlessly attacking Israel.  Indeed, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Oren, recently stated:  "We are facing the worst crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations since 1975."   

Right from the beginning, the Obama administration has been attacking Israel over Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank.  Most recently, both Obama and his Secretary of State have condemned Israel over its rightful policy of building new apartments in Israeli territory in north Jerusalem.  During a recent visit to Israel, Vice President Joe Biden blasted Israel's building of 1,600 new housing units in territory which is rightfully Israel's land.     read more »

Cross posted on At The Water Cooler

In the last presidential election, over 50% of Catholics voted for Obama. In a recent column penned by Russell Shaw (Our Sunday Visitor[OSV]), he proclaimed that "conservative" Catholics don't listen to the words of St. Paul---a major Catholic saint.

More troubling is when Shaw stated the "conservatives" complained that 31 of 150 organizations in the Center for Community Change got grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). In other words, did these 31 organizations promote and/or exercise actions within groups that were involved with abortions and/or same sex marriages? More succinctly, was any monies donated to these 31 organizations who espouse items directly against Catholic teaching? If money is given for a membership in one of these coalitions, it is donating to a very anti-Catholic cause. This author evidently thinks this is OK.

Several things almost 'pop' out at you with his comments. 1) Why does he highlight "conservatives"? Does he have some inner anguish with conservative principles? Conservative Catholics usually are the ones that almost always follow Catholic teachings. Are organizations promoting abortions and same-sex marriages getting any of their funds from CCHD somehow?  read more »

When a piece of legislation reaches over 2,700 pages, it becomes pretty likely (if not a certainty) that it will contain lots of things that most people aren't aware of.  And you can pretty well increase those odds in inverse proportion to how fast the bill's proponents are trying to push it through.  So it is with ObamaCare.

A new analysis of the massive legislation by ATR shows that it contains over nineteen tax increases.  Yes, tax increases.  Big government is not a free lunch, remember.

Of course the President and the Democrat leadership have spent all their time talking about who's going to get insurance, and how it will be a great thing for the latest hard case they hold up as a public relations prop to push the bill, but they fail to speak at any length about any hardships brought on by the increases in taxes to pay for the monstrosity, (to say nothing of lost liberties, choices, higher debt, bigger federal government, etc.).

Here's s summary of some of the taxes in the bill:  read more »