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A shot now reverberating around the evangelical world was fired by Atlanta megachurch pastor Andy Stanley in recent days. Preaching at North Point Community Church, in a sermon series known as “Christian,” Stanley preached a message titled “When Gracie Met Truthy” on April 15, 2012. With reference to John 1:14, Stanley described the challenge of affirming grace and truth in full measure. He spoke of grace and truth as a tension, warning that “if you resolve it, you give up something important.” The message was insightful and winsome, and Andy Stanley is a master communicator. Early in the message he...

ANDY Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died in Sydney. Manager Sam Maydew said Whitfield died yesterday of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Whitfield's wife, Vashti, called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife".

Editor’s note: this opinion piece would usually appear on the blog. We have decided to feature it on our story side. Is this what fundamental transformation looks like? In an op-ed on the Huffington Post, former SEIU president Andy Stern decided to get all “Founding Fathers” with his audience. He went back, way back, to the time of male, powdered wigs and the Federalist Papers. His thesis: you know those checks and balances the old guys put in place? Yeah, they’re just kind of getting in the way of change. “American democracy has layers of power and responsibility, which James...

Choudary: Refuses to discuss his dissolute youth At 39, Anjem Choudary should be a symbol of success for his peers. Born into the working-class family of a market trader in Welling on the outskirts of London, he has risen - thanks to the opportunities offered by the British education system - to become a qualified lawyer. But it is unlikely his old school will be inviting him to be guest speaker on prize-giving day. Their former pupil is not famous for his elegant oratory in court. Instead, the articulate Mr Choudary preaches hatred and murder in the streets of Britain...

Old People Turn on Obama Sellout Andy Griffith The government recently enlisted aged actor Andy Griffith for a commercial showcasing Medicare benefits available through health care reform. North's Carolina's old people, at least, didn't appreciate these lies, and Griffith's favorability rating has dropped 25 percentage points there.

<p>Purple may be the official color of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), but Andy Stern is leaving the union deep in the red. Last week, he surprised the labor community by announcing his resignation as president of SEIU. Mr. Stern has claimed victories in helping pass health care legislation and getting President Obama elected, but his impact within his own organization shows gaping budget deficits and massive underfunding of pensions.</p>

Video of entire event is now available on website at WMAL. Freeper attendees, post pix here! http://www.wmal.com/default.asp

President Obama has always made a pretty big deal about not working with “lobbyists”. Registered lobbyists can’t get stimulus money, can’t be White House advisors and are not allowed access to meetings and summits. So how does one get around that? It’s simple; you just don’t register as a lobbyist. That’s what Andy Stern did and it may come back to bite him.

Martin cites an article from the Internet ezine www.WorldNetDaily.com that collects conflicting claims about the actual hospital where Barack Obama was born. "Where's the truth?" asks Martin? "Does anyone in Hawai'i care about the truth? Or don’t they care that Hawai'i is increasingly looking like Obama's own 'gangster republic?'" WND.com has carried new concerns about media "swapping" of Obama's birth location, see: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103465 [Best document view is usually at www.ContrarianCommentary.com] ANDY MARTIN Petitioner Pro Se NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER Post Office Box 1851 New York, NY 10150-1851 Toll-free tel. (866) 70-6-2639 Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639 E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only) Additional courtesy...

2009-07-08 02:28:05 - Martin says the Hawai'i courts are obstructing access to historical archives concerning President Barack Obama. In a sharply worded petition to the Hawai'i Supreme Court, to be docketed July 9th, Martin recites a history of abuse, harassment and procrastination by Hawai'i judges, clerks and the state's Attorney General. "There is no explanation for the behavior of Hawai'i officials," Martin says, "Unless someone has something to hide." ANDY MARTIN Post Office Box 1851 New York, NY 10150-1851 Toll-free tel. (866) 70-6-2639 Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639 Petitioner Pro Se IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HAWAI’I SUPREME COURT DOCKET NUMBER:...

When Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin wrote his first column on Barack Obama’s family history and birth certificate, Andy had no idea he was creating an “industry” that would pursue Obama’s records to the ends of the earth. Although Obama’s mouthpiece Robert Gibbs says the BC has been released (Gibbs lies) and Fox News’ Shepard Smith has insulted people who question Obama’s missing records, Andy’s Army continues to battle Obama & Company to find the facts and tell the truth about Obama’s hidden “roots.” (Includes article by Andy Martin.... read on)

LOCATION UPDATE (WASHINGTON, DC)(April 3, 2009) The first National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate will open in Washington, DC this evening with a new bombshell scandal involving Hawai’i state officials. Updated location information for the conference follows in this release. “People are probably thinking this is the ‘Big Surprise but it’s not says Executive Director Andy Martin. But I got one heck of a surprise from the Hawai’i Governor’s office this morning. “In preparation for the conference I opened a large box of ‘freedom-of-information’ (in Hawai’i called ‘Uniform Information Procedures Act’ materials) and it was effectively ‘empty Despite...

High Noon in Hawaii: Barack Obama and Andy Martin collide in the Aloha State October 21, 2008 by andymartinny Chicago crusader Andy Martin stands on the verge of “taking down” the Obama campaign. Martin says Obama is using his grandmother as a pretext, and that Obama really fears the secret truths about him that are about to be disclosed. Barack Obama and Andy Martin confront each other in Honolulu Andy Martin’s investigative team provokes a “suspension” of Obama’s campaign and a desperate trip to Hawai’i by the presidential candidate The drama builds to a Hollywood “High Noon” confrontation between good...

MONTREAL (AP) - Nine people filed a $1.3 million lawsuit Thursday against the globe- trotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal. Montreal lawyer Anlac Nguyen filed the motion in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of seven Canadians and two natives of the Czech Republic. Eight were passengers on the flight with Andrew Speaker and the ninth is a brother and roommate of one of the passengers. Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injuries attorney, was in Europe when he learned tests showed he had an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis...

This crap head continues to dig himself deeper every time he opens his big dumb mouth. The TB infected lawyer who ignored medical advice, and refused to go into isolation when ordered to do so, is now saying that he was tricked into going into quarantine.

Beloved TV star Andy Griffith is reportedly fighting for his life after breaking his hip in a fall. The 80-year-old actor had hip surgery on September 5 and has been in hospital in Los Angeles ever since, where he's being monitored for heart problems, according to reports that have not been confirmed by his publicist. Griffith is a high-risk patient because he has suffered from heart problems and underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2000. A source tells the Globe, "He's in a lot of pain right now, but he's just trying to tough it out so he can get...

NEW YORK -- A young man who told his family that he was distraught over the result of the presidential election was found dead Saturday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, inside the gated pit where the World Trade Center once stood, authorities said. He was identified as Andrew Veal, 25, of Athens, Ga. Veal had worked for the University of Georgia's Survey Research Center, where the center's director, James Bason, said: "He was a great worker. And he got along well with everyone. Again, we are all at a loss at to why something like this would happen."

In an appearance today on "Imus in the Morning," Andy Rooney quickly turned down the temperature in the CBS newsroom. Don Imus: "So what do you think of these changes at CBS News?" Andy Rooney: "I’m not enthusiastic about it. I think everybody likes Katie Couric, I mean how can you not like Katie Couric. But, I don’t know anybody at CBS News who is pleased that she’s coming here."

Friends: Here's a link for Andy Garcia's new film "The Lost City". It's a movie about the Cuban revolution, without Hollywood's typical pro-Castro slant. Andy wants us to send it out to all of our friends to spread the word of the film's upcoming limited release. As many of you know, he had a lot of difficulty getting Hollywood to take it on. This film is very a very important piece telling "our story" for the first time. If you can forward this poster and release information out to your friends, your support will be greatly appreciated. "The Lost City"...

This is an open thread for Illinois Freepers to talk about the GOP Primary Election today. Can Judy Baar Topinka be stopped?!?!? Stay tuned!

SAN DIEGO – For the first time in a while, voting in San Diego seemed to go smoothly. During Tuesday's balloting, there was no question of whether people remembered to fill in a bubble when writing in a name. There were no computer glitches to frustrate workers.The troubleshooters whom the San Diego County Registrar of Voters had standing by didn't have much to do."We have a whole troubleshooting hotline where people are sitting very quiet," said Registrar Mikel Haas, about a hour before voting concluded.Even a power outage in Mira Mesa didn't stop the vote scanners, which have back-up batteries....

For those watching the DUmmie "William Pitt" this past week was surely a wondrous one, full of explosive fireworks, on the heels of several weeks of utter silence on this subject from the DUmmie "William Pitt." It appears the DUmmie "William Pitt" finally read what had been said about him.....about four weeks too late. The guy is hurt, angry, insulted, and it showed. This is reminescent of a similar event about nine weeks ago, when the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson finally discovered the DUmmie FUnnies, and were alas for them three weeks too late. One suspects that during his weeks...

Henry Hyde (R-IL), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment hearings, was interviewed by ABC News political reporter Andy Shaw. The ABC headline is entitled, "Clinton Impeachment was Retaliation for Nixon, Says Retiring Congressman." This is completely bogus. When listening to the clip, I noticed a couple things. First, Andy Shaw said that the impeachment of Clinton embarrassed Henry Hyde because it brought attention to his "hypocrisy" many years earlier when he participated in an extramarital affair. (Unsurprisingly, Shaw did not mention anything about obstruction of justice.) Second, Shaw commented on Hyde's retirement, saying that some people...

Foreign Policy/Intelligence Columnist Andy Martin Says McGreevey Sex Scandal was Israeli Intelligence Operation 8/16/2004 8:49:00 AM NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- America's most respected foreign policy/intelligence analyst, Out2.com's Andy Martin, will publish a column and hold a news conference in New York today (Aug. 16) to disclose that the New Jersey sex scandal involving Gov. James McGreevey was really an Israeli intelligence operation gone sour. NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS: Time/date: today (Aug. 16) at 1 p.m. EDT Location: Southwest Corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, New York City "People have been confused by the McGreevey sex scandal," says...

  Printable Version What I Like And Dislike Nov. 23, 2003 Andy Rooney loves a short nap. He doesn't like wasting 8 hours in bed at night.  (Photo: CBS) I've acquired a reputation for being negative - you know, not liking things. I hate that. (CBS) I've acquired a reputation for being negative - you know, not liking things. I hate that. There are a lot of things I don't like. But there are a lot I do like, too. I thought I'd run through some of them. I love to go to bed at night and I love to get...

NEW YORK (CBS) In Montgomery, Ala., recently, a judge refused to remove a 5,000-pound stone bearing the Ten Commandments from his courthouse. Finally, after a higher court order, the stone was removed - and so was the judge.Three years ago, there was a similar incident outside a high school in Adams County, Ohio. The issue then was a plaque with the Ten Commandments on it.Like the stone in the Alabama courthouse, the plaque was finally removed over the objection of a lot of people who are both Christian and patriotic.Religion and patriotism have a lot of the same characteristics. My...