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Patricius: The True Story of St. Patrick Before all the festivities focused on shamrocks and leprechauns and good luck wishes, there was truly something to celebrate: a man willing to stand in the gap for Jesus Christ. It was an act of defiance that changed the course of a nation. Patrick lit a fire in pagan 5th century Ireland, ushering Christianity into the country. Who was this man who became the patron saint of Ireland? Ireland was a beautiful island shrouded in terrible darkness. Warlords and druids ruled the land. But across the sea in Britain, a teen-ager was poised...

What a President Trump will be able to do: 1. Blame obama for every problem and issue for the next 7.5 years 2. Ignore laws he doesn’t like 3. Make up laws he wishes he had 4. Arrest not one banker or a John Corzine swindler 5. Get really good at killing people 6. Bitterly divide us for political power 7. Add more to the deficit in four years than all the other administrations combined and accounting for inflation 8. By-pass the Senate with Czar Appointments 9. Bomb and make war without end without any congressional approval 10. Use of...

I hate to draw parallels to video games concerning real world, life or death issues, but this is what you get for camping. Seriously though, these boys were literally camped out in this spot with bed rolls and blankets.

So why doesn’t obama cry at the hundreds of dead blacks in Chicago last year? So why doesn’t obama cry when muslims kill infidels to impose Sharia Law in America? So why doesn’t obama cry when illegals slaughter American citizens? But WHY does obama cry when he imposes Gun Control by unconstitutional fiat? Look at the video: At 1:15 where are those hands going? At 1:35 red pepper/Menthol under the eyes? Obama Crying During Gun Control Speech - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCEi_CqPU58 Please Note: How to Fake Cry Method 3 of 5: Use Menthol Rub a dab under each eye. When it’s...

#1 Kim Davis was elected to her position. Just like obama. And when obama ignores laws (and even makes up laws he wished he had) the left cheers. Same with the democrat mayors of Sanctuary Cities who ignore the law. Why are they not in jail? #2 Gay marriage is not a “law.” It is four unelected left wing progressive supreme court justices and one who leans left behaving as tyrants. Is this really how we want the most important and controversial laws to be enacted and imposed on us? Now imagine five Dick Cheneys on the bench. #3 See...

Pennsylvania's top prosecutor has taken on the new role of criminal defendant. Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arraigned Saturday afternoon in suburban Philadelphia on charges including a felony count of perjury. She did not enter a plea during the brief proceedings via closed-circuit television and did not speak other than to respond to the judge yes or no. Magisterial District Judge Cathleen Kelly Rebar set a preliminary hearing for Aug. 24 and set bail for $10,000 unsecured bond. Kane is accused of leaking secret grand jury information through an operative to a newspaper reporter as payback for a former state...

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A muslim shoots up a Marine recruitment center (ironically - an official and mandated gun free zone) in Chattanooga killing four Marines to further the cause of islam. obama says nothing. No singing “We shall overcome,” no talking about symbols of hate (koran and mosque), no shaming of muslims, no talking about islam's evil past and evil present… The MSM is still talking about Bruce Jenner. This mulsim killing story (just one of many) barely makes a blip. No 24/7 coverage. No editorials. No soul searching. The government is not rushing millions of dollars to help the families. In fact,...

The Ukraine as seen by 2banana. The Ukraine had a free and fairly elected government (Yanukovych). It was a corrupt government that wanted closer ties to Russia. But we all don't get the governments we want. That is why there are elections. And elections have consequences. But in the Ukraine - There were massive demonstrations in the capitol and a new unelected government was installed. They did not win any elections and went about changing Ukraine's foreign policy in a major way. All this was supported by obama as legitimate because the people supported it. Crimea didn't like all this...

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.” -- 3/16/2006 Floor speech in the Senate First, we learned that the federal budget deficit could reach nearly half a trillion dollars next year. Eight years after we had a record surplus, we’re now faced with record deficits. This mortgaging of our children’s future is a direct result of the Bush Administration’s dangerously failed fiscal...

9/11 thoughts… Bashar Hafez al-Assad of Syria had nothing to do with 9/11. The people that want to replace him celebrate as a great day. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya had nothing to do with 9/11. The people who replaced him celebrate it as a great day. Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had nothing to do with 9/11. The people who replaced him (until booted) celebrate it as a great day.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Green Party has succeeded in getting its national ticket on the Pennsylvania ballot. State elections officials on Thursday approved the substitution of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala as the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates. Stein is a Harvard-educated physician who ran against Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor in 2002 and Honkala is a longtime citizen activist in Philadelphia. Officials approved the party's nomination petitions earlier this month, but paperwork confirming that Stein and Honkala are the candidates was not finalized until Thursday.

235 years ago a today. Christmas Eve. A rag tag bunch of citizen soldiers/militia were given the order to march. In a raging snowstorm. To cross a swollen ice choked river. Most of their enlistments were ending in a few days. They were freezing, tired, hungry, frost-bitten and had lost every battle they had fought in for the last year. They were about to attack some of the finest and well supplied soldiers on the continent. Outnumbered. And yet they marched. Merry Christmas.

A British doctor shot dead by the Taliban was part of a humanitarian mission that had helped 2,000 Afghans, an inquest heard yesterday. Dr Karen Woo was executed alongside nine other aid workers after they tried to cross a mountain river in August last year. The 36-year-old, who was due to get married a fortnight later, suffered ‘catastrophic’ injuries from two gunshot wounds in the attack. Shortly before her death she had helped to save the life of a baby boy who was struggling to breathe. Her team had been halfway through a 120-mile, three-week

Reason.tv: Sandy Springs, Georgia - The City that Outsourced Everything April 12, 2011 While cities across the country are cutting services, raising taxes and contemplating bankruptcy, something extraordinary is happening in a suburban community just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Since incorporating in 2005, Sandy Springs has improved its services, invested tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure and kept taxes flat. And get this: Sandy Springs has no long-term liabilities. This is the story of Sandy Springs, Georgia—the city that outsourced everything. Approximately 8 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

HARRISBURG - A Teamsters rally today drew almost 400 laborers to the Capitol, where union leaders promised to bring thousands next time if lawmakers push through anti-worker legislation. Last week Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry) introduced a package of bills that would end mandatory union membership for employees of the state's schools, government and businesses. "There is a war on workers going on in Pennsylvania, sadly," said Pennsylvania AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Frank Snyder, also of Cranberry. "We need more jobs. We don't need legislation like this." Others at the rally said Metcalfe's legislation would take resources away from unions and would dilute...

BETHLEHEM (SEP 9) – State Senator Lisa M. Boscola today announced that she is drafting legislation to prohibit the use of unemployment benefit debit cards at Pennsylvania casinos. Additionally, Boscola has sent a letter to PGCB Chairman Gregory Fajt asking for the Board to take action. “It has come to my attention that the debit cards provided to out of work Pennsylvanians work at the ATM machines located in Pennsylvania casinos,” Boscola stated. “Unemployment benefits are meant to provide individuals with the necessities of life and to pay their bills while seeking new employment. Unemployment benefits should not be easily...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gov. Ed Rendell says there is no truth to gossip that he is involved in an extramarital affair with a state employee. In an advance copy of a Philadelphia magazine article obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, the governor and Kirstin Snow, the former beauty queen who works for him, say in separate interviews that they are not romantically involved. “Do I have some flaws? Absolutely!” Rendell tells the magazine. “For all of the rumors, has any woman ever said that I have had sex with her? Other than my wife?” Statehouse rumors of an affair gained...

Some interesting bond downgrades in the last 24 hours… BP from AA to BBB (Fitch) Illinois from A+ to A (Fitch) Greece from A3 to Ba1 (Junk) (Moody’s) And usually the rating agencies are WELL behind the power curve. All is well.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A faulty elevator was behind the shutdown of the observation deck on the world's tallest tower that effectively closed the half-mile-high Burj Khalifa to the public, witnesses and a Dubai rescue official said Tuesday. Visitors who were on the viewing floor at the time of Saturday's incident told The Associated Press they heard a loud noise, then saw what looked like smoke but turned out to be dust seeping out of the crack in one of the elevator doors. ... "What just kind of shocks me is that they were going to brush this under...