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Loving our enemies? By Leslie Hanks   One of the most difficult aspects of this walk we have as followers of Jesus, is the imprecation to love our enemies.   Who wants to do that?    A particularly vivid example in many of our lives at this juncture in history, is the wicked troika who seem to hold the fate of our friend Terri Schindler Schiavo in their hands.   One writer asks the question about Terri’s former spouse, “husband or monster?”   Monster, I say!!  It gives me some measure of comfort to describe him that way, I’m sorry...

There is good news and bad news.* The good news is that the reports of the decline of Jewish and pro-Israel influence, and the rise of Arab/Muslim influence in the American political system are at the moment greatly exaggerated. The bad news is that change is underway, and the relative shift described above is occurring. Daniel Pipes has recently written that the golden age of Jews in America is ending. Today I will explore that thesis, particularly as it relates to American support for Israel. I will address several issues: 1. The changing political dynamics within the two parties -...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Peace activists from around the United States gathered in St. Louis on Sunday, part of a three-day meeting to develop plans to pressure the Bush administration to exit Iraq (news - web sites). The weekend gathering, which brought together representatives from more than 35 states and Canada, comes as the death toll of American soldiers there nears 1,500 and March 19 marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. The meeting was coordinated by United for Peace and Justice, an umbrella coalition of some 1,000 anti-war groups ranging from large organizations like Women for Peace and Black...

Help build the movement to stop the war: 1) Endorse - http://troopsoutnow.org/endorse.html 2) Organize transportation from your area http://troopsoutnow.org/orgcents.html 3) Forward this update to your lists 4) Donate http://troopsoutnow.org/donate.html Plans for the March 19, 2005, March and Rally in Central Park, NYC are drawing support from antiwar groups across the country. Saturday, March 19, the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is a world-wide day of protest. In New York City, a broad coalition of antiwar, community, solidarity, and labor organizations will march from Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to Central Park's East Meadow to demand the immediate,...

Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and author of two books, of which her latest is In Defense of Internment (New York: Regnery Publishing, 2004). In it, she provides a defense of "threat profiling" already taken or contemplated since September 11. Ms. Malkin's earlier book was Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (New York: Regnery Publishing, 2002). Her syndicated column appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. Ms. Malkin addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia, on December 2, 2004. Millions of American schoolchildren have been taught that there was no evidence...

Anti-Semitism may seem to be a static, unchanging phenomenon but in fact the obsessive hatred of Jews has a history that goes back millennia and continues to evolve.Developments since World War II and the Holocaust have been especially fast-paced and portentous. Here are four of the most significant shifts: From right to left: For centuries, anti-Semitism was the hallmark of the right and merely episodic on the left. To take the ultimate examples of these trends, Stalin's Judeophobia was peripheral to his monstrous project, but Hitler's was central to his. Even a decade ago, this pattern still basically held true....

No. 17 in our series as we cite professors who have been exposed for their bias on NoIndoctrination.org. They have gotten away with this for far too long. The bias in the classrooms across this nation is outrageous. Thanks to David Horowitz and others who have been waging this war against such bias. Charles Hunt or Chuck Hunt. Say it fast. =================================================== PREVIOUS ENEMIES -- 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Warning: Postings are only opinions. (See Terms of Service)Record for NoIndoctrination.org entry #209.   University of Oregon (UO) Apr. 17,...

Mitch Goodrich: Christian school teacher, competitive marksman, soldier who recently returned from active duty in Afghanistan, martial artist ... and Libertarian Party member. As attempts to stereotype Libertarians have proven, generalizations are futile. It's no more reasonable to say members of the Libertarian Party are politically far right than it is to say they're far left -- although party members are frequently hit with both labels. And you can't safely say Libertarians are anti-military -- assuming the military is being used properly for national defense. In fact, there are hundreds of military personnel in the party's membership -- many of...

The campaign to oust Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld continues unabated at The Weekly Standard, with the latest salvo being fired by Frederick Kagan in his article Fighting the Wrong War. Mr. Kagan attempts to make a reasoned, thoughtful counter to Rummy’s defenders, but instead discusses key issues in generalities rather than specifics, and fails to place events of the 90s and today within an accurate historical context. Kagan charges Rummy’s defenders with evasion, and an over-reliance on “deflecting all criticism from him [Rumsfeld] onto the Clinton administration.” In a sense, he is right that what has occurred in the past...

The last battle of the Vietnam War was fought on November 2nd, 2004, as John Kerry was defeated in his bid to become President of the United States by John O'Neill and the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. What was the battle about? It was a battle to recapture the honor of the Vietnam veterans who served gallantly and heroically in that war. And who were the adversaries in this battle? It was the dishonest old media culture -- CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, and the LA Times, who backed John Kerry’s version of how Vietnam veterans...

If the left is to have any hope of undermining President Bush’s second term, it must continue its previous efforts to destroy the reputation of every worthwhile conservative in his cabinet. And no one is more likely to remain a target than Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. As the nation prepared for war in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, Rumsfeld’s candor and resolve, expressed almost daily during his press briefings, made him immensely popular among the American people. Among reporters, he was grudgingly tolerated along with the rampant flag-waving and other expressions of an America that was rising to meet its...

Supporting the troops means more than wishing them a safe return. It means believing in their mission. If that grows hard with each day of new attacks by insurgents, that is a call to all of us to show but a fraction of the steel spines our fighting forces muster each day. If they can dodge insurgents' bullets and car bomb shrapnel, the least we can do is refresh our familiarity with what wars are. They are hard, sometimes long and always bloody. This Christmas finds thousands of our military friends and family stationed in barren locales, enduring those hardships...

The long knives have been unsheathed, and Donald Rumsfeld’s back targeted. One of the most capable, energetic, intelligent, determined and articulate public servants in the history of the American Republic is under fire for not being omniscient and infallible, and for using an Auto-Pen to sign letters of condolence to the families of those killed in action. A classic orchestrated PR offensive is underway, bearing all the signs of the customary collaboration among the Usual Suspects in the capital’s media-political universe. Things were getting scary for the opponents of George W. Bush. Not only did he win a smashing electoral...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Have you forgotten September the Eleventh, Two Thousand and One? It's an important question these days. The first, knee-jerk reaction would be, ''Of course not!'' For most people, the images will never go away. The fire-blossom that erupted from the side of the tower when the second plane struck, live on national television. The people in the streets, looking up in tears and in horror as they saw people jump, because they could no longer stand the flames. The almost slow-motion disintegration of the towers, as they collapsed in on themselves. The billowing clouds of dust, smoke, and death. People...

Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington, D.C. He is a specialist on strategic issues and energy policy with a PhD in strategic studies from Johns Hopkins University. A former lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, his writings have appeared in Commentary, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, Middle East Review of International Affairs, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Luft addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on October 27, 2004. Introduction In both World War Two and the Cold War, the side best deploying scientific...

"known as a relaxed, friendly and intelligent young man," a good student, a volunteer social worker, and a serious student of Information Technology. He came from a close family, That's what happens when a culture is relativized to the point of suicide. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan once remarked of an American politician, "he can no longer distinguish between our friends and our enemies, and so he has ended by adopting our enemies' view of the world."

Government guidelines put in place after the Sept. 11 attacks to stop the funding of terrorists are threatening legitimate philanthropic and humanitarian efforts around the world, a group of foundations charges. The Washington-based Council on Foundations, which represents more than 2,000 foundations, charities and corporate grant makers, plans to push the U.S. Treasury Department to reconsider its voluntary Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines.The guidelines took effect in 2002, after President Bush issued an executive order and signed provisions of the Patriot Act that prohibit contributions of funds, goods and services to terrorists or their associates.Among other things, the guidelines recommend that charities...

Frank J. Gaffney is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. He earned his AM in international studies from John's Hopkins University. A former deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, Mr. Gaffney's articles have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Newsday, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He is a contributing editor to National Review Online. Mr. Gaffney addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on September 22, 2004. The threat of terror is the most direct challenge to the stability of...

MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Opinion surveys suggest that most Russians still see their country surrounded by enemies which could unleash a war against it. However, the number of respondents who share this opinion changes depending on the international situation, the Public Opinion Fund reported, having analyzed opinion polls held since 1998. Sixty eight percent of the 1,500 respondents, questioned in early October, said Russia has external enemies and 25% said the U.S. could unleash a war against Russia. Seven percent of those surveyed said the threat is coming from Arab and Islamic countries, but did not name them, and...