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  • Steve’s Devotional - Street-Smart Christians

    03/29/2016 3:29:38 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 3 replies
    Key Life ^ | March 28 2016 | Steve Brown
    We’re called to be street-smart Christians. Jesus said, “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Jesus wants us to be the smartest, the sharpest, and the most street-smart people in the world. If we aren’t, it’s simply because we haven’t been instructed or we haven’t listened well enough. So here’s a lesson in becoming street-smart. It comes from Jesus. And it centers on a question with which the religious establishment (the Pharisees) and the political leaders (the Herodians) tried to trap Jesus. The question? “Is...
  • Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death 241st Anniversary [Semi-Vanity]

    03/23/2016 2:34:00 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 7 replies
    Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty ^ | March 23, 1775 | Patrick Henry
    NO man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if entertaining, as I do, opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely, and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it...
  • Evangelicals Are Not the Boogeyman

    02/16/2016 10:38:42 AM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 38 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | February 16, 2016 | David Limbaugh
    I realize that as an evangelical Christian I have a dog in this fight, but I want to say a few words about evangelicals and the unfortunate effort afoot to make them the political boogeyman. There are so many misconceptions about "evangelicals" - from the definition of the word to the intentions of the people themselves - but the most damaging myth is that we evangelicals seek a theocracy for the United States of America, which couldn't be further from the truth. I'll get back to that, but first a little background. Recently I've had several people ask me what...
  • VANITY: Can Donald Trump state he is Pro-life and still support Planned Parenthood?

    02/15/2016 3:40:08 PM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 104 replies
    The space between my ears. | February 15,2016 | Idaho Cowboy
    Donald Trump has "flatly stated" (as some have said) that he is Pro Life. Donald Trump has also come out in support of Planned Parenthood (just not for aborition) stating they do wonderful things. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/14/trump-planned-parenthood-does-do-wonderful-things-but-not-as-it-relates-to-abortion/ I need not remind my fellow Freepers that Planned Parenthood's bread and butter is taking tax-payer money, dismembering babies, and selling those babies as parts. To be fair to Donald he did go on record as saying Planned Parenthood defunded. This was back when Ted Cruz was fighting in the senate to defund the institution and Mitch, Boehner and company caved in again. Trump has...
  • Why Economic Growth Lags

    01/18/2016 10:47:05 AM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 27 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | January 18, 2016 | Robert J. Samuelson
    WASHINGTON -- It's only January, but what may be the year's most important book on economics has already been published. Called "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War," it argues that we can't expect new technologies to rekindle rapid economic growth. Despite all the Internet hoopla, advances in living standards will be modest and grudging. This somber message goes to the heart of the debate about America's future. It's not that the author, economist Robert J. Gordon of Northwestern University, dislikes technology. Just the opposite: He's fascinated by it, and almost...
  • On this “Natural Born Citizen” Issue, Part I: From Alexander Hamilton to Lynch v. Clarke

    01/12/2016 3:53:27 PM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 42 replies
    Red State ^ | May 21, 2012 | Jake Walke
    No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President... -Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution This is a passage that has weighed heavily upon us in recent years. There are those among us, known commonly as "Birthers" who dispute the eligibility of various politicians to be President or Vice-President of the United States. The most popular target of the Birthers is Barack Obama, of course, but of late, Birthers have been training their sights on...
  • Everything you need to know about the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates

    12/17/2015 10:38:11 AM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 8 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | December 17, 2015 | Ylan Q. Mui
    WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it was raising rates for the first time in nearly 10 years: raise interest rates. The decision sounds wonky, but it is momentous for the nation's economy. Hiking rates mark the end of a historic effort to lift growth and create jobs -- an effort that has had decidedly mixed results. Unemployment is down, but workers aren't getting meaningful raises, and there's still a general sense that the economy isn't as strong as it could be. When the Fed raises interest rates, the cost of all sorts of other loans, from mortgages to...
  • Vanity- Goals and Values: Fundamental Muslims and Radical Liberals

    11/22/2015 10:25:32 PM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 4 replies
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  • Jeb Bush offers warm kiss --- and is left as toast in GOP race

    11/04/2015 1:17:04 PM PST · by Idaho_Cowboy · 8 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | November 4, 2015 | John Kass
    I feel a deep regret in missing even one game of the World Series to watch the Republican presidential candidates' debate. It's painful, like being ambushed by Tolkien's dwarfs and pummeled in the nether regions, and now it really, really hurts. Because the last thing I needed in all the world was to see a guy named Bush talk about tax cuts while referencing his own wet lips. "Look, the -- the deal is already done," Jeb Bush, once the bright star of the establishment GOP, now fading badly, said in the Republican debate the other night. "The biggest tax...
  • How to get away with murder in America

    10/30/2015 1:30:34 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 15 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | October 30, 2015 | Dave Weinbaum
    Got a real hatred for someone? A little greedy? Covet someone else's booty? Been slighted by your boss, bank, butcher, baron, boyfriend, babe? Tired of the daily slog of honest work? Is your Uncle Vinnie unavailable to help because he's confined to a gated community? Wanna live the life of a rich slave and get hundreds of thousands in welfare via housing, disability, medical, food stamps you can party with, sell drugs with the thugs AND get away with murder? Yes, there is a price. You have to sell your soul to the Democratic Crime Party. Will the FBI create...
  • Most Ruthless leaders of all time

    10/16/2015 3:29:36 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 80 replies
    Business Insider ^ | October 7, 2015 | Elena Holodny and Amanda Macias
    One man's hero is another man's tyrant, a popular aphorism goes. But while we can argue the validity and virtue of certain political agendas, the callous methods by which some leaders attain their goals are less up to interpretation. After all, no matter how a historian tries to spin it, ordering a tower to be constructed out of live men stacked and cemented together with bricks and mortar is pretty brutal. Business Insider put together a list of the most ruthless leaders of all time featuring men and women who employed merciless tactics to achieve their political and military agendas....
  • Wine Ice Cream Exists, and Hillary is a fan

    10/16/2015 11:18:29 AM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 22 replies
    Yahoo ^ | October 16, 2015 | Yahoo Food Contributors
    In what may be a first on the presidential campaign trail, Hillary Clinton endorsed an unknown, but amazing sounding treat: wine ice cream. During a campaign stop in San Antonio on Thursday, Clinton wove a story about the heavenly pairing into her response on a question about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
  • Realistic Advice for My Daughter

    10/15/2015 3:28:06 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 12 replies
    The Blaze ^ | October 15, 2015 | John LeFevre
    So now that I have a daughter, here’s my advice for her: 1.Stand up straight. 2.Know how to change a tire, but whenever possible, let a man to do it for you. 3.Your physical appearance matters. That’s the world we live in, and it’s also how we’re wired. 4.Inner beauty — intelligence, personality, confidence and a sense of humor — becomes more important as you get older. Wits never sag. 5.You are more beautiful than you will ever give yourself credit for. 6.It’s my job to keep you safe. That’s why it’s also my job to teach you how to...
  • Steve’s Devotional - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    08/31/2015 3:57:13 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 21 replies
    Key Life ^ | August 31, 2015 | Steve Brown
    Are you worried? I am. On Steve Brown Etc. we have interviewed a whole lot of people about the economy, the war, the environment, world poverty, politics (and the list goes on) and the general impression is that we’re all going to die! It’s bad and it’s going to get a lot worse. There is a wonderful story in 2 Kings 6. The king of Syria was at war with Israel. Israel, though, had a powerful “secret weapon” in Elisha the prophet who kept warning Israel of the troop movements of Syria. The king of Syria was ticked and sent...
  • Donald Trump Debates Donald Trump

    08/13/2015 11:13:56 AM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 25 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | August 13, 2015 | Rick Robinson
    Rick Robinson: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Ludlow-Bromley Yacht Club somewhere near Ohio for the match up everyone has been waiting for — Donald Trump versus Donald Trump. Since Mr. Trump has now declared that if he wins the GOP Presidential nomination, he won't run against himself as an independent, tonight The Donald will — in his own words — attempt to explain his position on the issues important to American voters. Now let's meet the contestants. First, a successful businessman and reality game show host who hates Rosie O'Donnell, please welcome Donald Trump. His opponent...
  • The 3 percent dodge

    08/05/2015 11:14:32 AM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 4 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | August 4, 2015 | Rich Lowry
    The nation's premier provider of abortions doesn't want to be known for providing abortions. Planned Parenthood, embroiled in a scandal over secret videos capturing its cavalier dismemberment of unborn babies and sale of their body parts, insists that abortion is only 3 percent of what it does. Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to preserve its federal funding, reverts to the 3 percent figure. How could you possibly, they ask, defund a group that devotes itself overwhelmingly to uncontroversial procedures and services for women? The 3 percent figure is an artifice and a dodge, but even taking it on...
  • Is Donald Trump a Democratic Plant?

    07/08/2015 3:33:47 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 55 replies
    Jewish World Review ^ | July 8, 2015 | Joseph Curl
    "Look, I don't know what his intent is, but he's infuriating Hispanics, the very group of voters the GOP is looking to make gains with in 2016," said one party official who asked not to be named. "You could just be an egomaniac running his mouth, but he's starting to look like a guy hand-delivered by the Democrats." Since the 1980s, Trump has contributed $490,000 to Republicans, according to OpenSecrets.org. But he's donated at least $330,000 to Democrats -- including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Anthony Wiener, the husband of Hillary's top aide, Huma...
  • Republicans Are Going to Leave the Country and Set Themselves on Fire Due to SCOTUS

    06/26/2015 11:02:57 AM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 60 replies
    Huffington Post ^ | June 26, 2015 | Richard Zombeck
    Things are about to get weird. After months of hearing from conservatives and fundamentalists about how they were going to secede, leave the country, or burn themselves in effigy over same-sex marriage, the day has arrived. The Supreme Court has rendered their decision in a 5-4 ruling that same-sex marriage is to be law of the land. As a result of this ruling, same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry, and states cannot take that right away from them. The decision requires all 50 states to recognize all legally performed marriages from all jurisdictions, and to extend marriage to...
  • Steve’s Devotional - Attracted to Self-Righteousness

    06/08/2015 3:35:12 PM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 2 replies
    Key Life ^ | June 8, 2015 | Steve Brown
    There is a forgetfulness that is common and intrinsic to every Christian. It is a part of the fall and Christians must fight it all the time. We forget how good the good news really is. Paul was surprised when the Galatians forgot: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?…Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:1, 3). In other words: What were you thinking? Have you already forgotten? Paul should not have been surprised. We can’t help it. There is something in us that causes us to become...
  • First Self-Driving Semi Hits American Roads

    05/06/2015 9:39:00 AM PDT · by Idaho_Cowboy · 55 replies
    Yahoo Auto ^ | May 6, 2015 | Justin Hyde
    Self-driving cars seem likely enough; there’s still several tech and legal hurdles to clear, not to mention the question of how much they’ll cost, but most experts inside and out of the auto industry see them as inevitable given enough time. Now, Daimler’s Freightliner unit wants to push long-haul trucking in the same direction. Unveiled atop the Hoover Dam, the Freightliner Inspiration Truck is the first semi granted a license in the United States for autonomous driving, for tests on Nevada highways (note the special license plate in the photos below.) Equipped with arrays of cameras and radars, along with...