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The well-publicized story of Joseph Smith's First Vision is not a true account of the origin of the Latter-day Saint movement. The facts are decided against it! First, the historical evidence shows that Joseph Smith, Jr. could not have been stirred by an 1820 revival, to ask which church was true. Second, early Mormon statements do not support his claim that in 1820 he learned through a visitation of the Father and the Son that all existing churches were wrong. Third, the details known about Joseph's early life contradict his assertion that in 1820 he had such a divine visitation...

Should Christians mourn on July 4, given what a disaster the United States has been for the world? Much of the Religious Left thinks so! Undoubtedly speaking for many left-wing seminary faculty and clergy, Ted Smith of Vanderbilt University penned an editorial for this month’s Christian Century magazine called: “The Fourth of July: How Does a Christian Celebrate?”

There’s some idea out there in the world that Will Smith "owns" the July 4 holiday weekend in terms of box office. I guess this is because of "Independence Day," one of my favorite movies, and "Men in Black," also quite good, released, respectively, in 1996 and 1997 on that weekend. Alas, all good hype must come to an end. "Hancock," with which Sony is hoping to have a merry July 4, 2008, may not duplicate Smith’s previous successes. It is one of the worst family holiday weekend releases of recent memory — and jaw-droppingly so. And that’s hard to...

Smith Act of 1940 The Alien Registration Act of 1940, usually called the Smith Act because the antisedition section was authored by Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, was adopted at 54 Statutes at Large 670-671 (1940). The Act has been amended several times and can now be found at 18 U.S. Code § 2385 (2000). § 2385. Advocating Overthrow of Government. Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the...

I came into this world in July of 1926, the 150th birthday of America. It was fitting. My maker, Smith & Wesson in Massachusetts, created me to be a comfort to the law abiding citizen and a tool in the hands of those who would protect America. I weighed - but I see it in your eyes. You really don't want to know my specs, do you. How much I weighed, how long my barrel was, the fact that I was chambered for a .38 special. No, you're like most of the other people who aren't sure about guns. Who...

I didn't think anyone could irritate me more than Shepard Smith, the guy who hits people standing in his parking space. Now I tune in to the "Happy Hour" show on Fox Business Channel. And I see some guy named Cody Willard. What's up with that?

Feds Launch Criminal Probe Into Aluminum Maker Alcoa Over Alleged Bribery in Bahrain PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into whether aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. participated in bribery in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain. In documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a federal civil lawsuit that accused Pittsburgh-based Alcoa of bribing officials through overseas shell companies to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments. "The United States has a direct and substantial interest in this case, as the subject matter giving rise to this...

Will Smith gets apology, undisclosed damages from WENN Hollywood actor Will Smith today received an apology and undisclosed damages from a London based news agency after they distributed a story alleging the actor had called Adolf Hitler a “good person”. The article was distributed in December last year by The World Entertainment News Network (WENN) with the accompanying headline “Smith: Hitler was a good person”. After Smith complained, WENN retracted the article and circulated a correction and apology. Smith’s lawyer said the allegation was “false and without any foundation” and had wholly misrepresented the actor’s words. “The claimant believes that...

This was presented just before the beginning of the Super Bowl yesterday, a Fox Sports Super Bowl tradition. Speakers include: Jim Brown, Don Shula, Roger Staubach, Marie Tillman (widow of Pat), Ronnie Lott, Ozzie Newsome, Teddy Bruschi, Paul Tagliabue, Lovie Smith, Steve Largent, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy and more. Well done and moving.

Dear xxxxxx, I wanted to remind you that there is an important primary election coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, June 12 in the 22nd Senate district -- where you live. There, due to the way the district is drawn, voters have the opportunity to decide on the representative for this district the Republican Primary. Since Virginia has open primaries, you are allowed to vote in this primary regardless of your political affiliation. Equality Virginia's bi-partisan PAC is supporting Senator Brandon Bell for re-election to the Virginia Senate. A key moderate in the Senate, in the 2007 General Assembly session Senator Bell...

NEW DOCUMENTARY TO EXPLORE JOSEPH SMITH, MITT ROMNEY & THE MORMON QUEST FOR THE WHITE HOUSE Los Angeles, CA -- May 14, 2007--A Mormon President, the first documentary film to explore the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith's campaign for the US Presidency and its implications for the candidacy of another Mormon, Mitt Romney, has begun production and is slated for a fall 2007 release. Produced and directed by filmmaker Adam Christing, the film will be released in the heat of a presidential campaign that includes Romney and is part of a movie-making trend of examining the history of the Mormon religion,...

It Is False If It Contradicts The Bible It is a well-known fact that Truth does not contradict Truth. That the Bible is Truth, is a fact to which our Mormon friends agree-up to a point. If all of the writings held to be inspired by Mormons are consistent with the Bible, this a point in their favor. On the other hand, if it can be shown that the writings of Mormonism contradict the Bible, this will lead irresistibly to the conclusion that their religious system is false. Let us notice a few instances of how the Mormon writings compare...

Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com. Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production on a horror movie based on a "Fred Phelps" styled character. UK audiences recently saw documentary journalist Louis Theroux spend time with members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a controversial church group made largely of members of the Phelps family and run...

"Rotten Tomatoes UK can exclusively reveal that Kevin Smith's next project - a horror movie - is called "Red State". Up until now Smith has revealed little about the film other than the fact it's a horror movie and it'll be decidedly less joke-y than his back-catalogue. But, in addition to the title, Smith was keen to give us a head's up on the plot of the film. If you've seen any of his "An Evening With..." DVDs, you'll know how much fun it can be to sit down in an audience and listen to "Clerks II" director Kevin Smith...

The father of modern economics, Adam Smith, wrote more than 200 years ago about the all-powerful "invisible hand" of the market. It was tough, he said, but good for all. The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman was the great champion of the invisible hand and free markets. Governments, he said, should just let markets do their work. Economist Duncan Foley, in his new book "Adam's Fallacy," says wait a minute. This is free market theology, he says, and it's producing a value-free society, an unequal society, an immoral society. This hour On Point: the author of "Adam's Fallacy"...

Disgruntled soldiers were “cherry picked” By W. Thomas Smith, Jr Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Sean Hannity has – pardon the cliché – hit the nail on the head. This past Sunday on his new program, Hannity’s America (9:00 pm Eastern on FOX News), he took to task CBS’s recent 60 Minutes piece that featured a handful of active-duty soldiers speaking out against the Iraq War. “CBS left out several important parts of the story,” said Hannity. “The most glaring omission is that of context.” He went on to describe how the 60 Minutes segment was introduced by correspondent Steve Kroft,...

I couldn't find a discussion thread on these hearings but this case has everything--money, paternity, sex, validity of wills, international law, jurisdiction between three different states, rights of families, intent of a grieving mother, drugs, attorney/client privilege. I followed the OJ case, the William Smith rape case, Clinton's testimony--but this has the potential to make precedent-setting history. It may be that between the Supreme Court case and these actions, Anna Nicole may have more of an impact on the legal system than on pop culture, even if this judge is ITO II.

The bizzare saga of Anna Nicole Smith just got stranger. Two of Smith's lawyers are on TV now answering press questions. Birkhead's request for an emergency DNA test of the baby has been denied. When one of Smith's lawyers was asked about the ruling, he said that 'DNA is not necessarily conclusive,' which is news to me. Both Birkhead and Smith contend that they are the baby's father, and the two most likely executors of a fortune worth $1.6 billion. The judge ruled he cannot rule on any emergency petition because he believes the case is under Bahamian jurisdiction. One...

Anna Nicole Smith spent her final hours in a suite in a hotel as flashy as the pinup herself, with a similar $1,600-a-night room featuring an orange corduroy couch, a mini-bar stocked with lubricant and glow-in-the-dark condoms, and a leopard-print ironing board. The voluptuous centerfold arrived at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Feb. 5. She died suddenly three days later. Smith stayed several times at the hotel, which is in an area dotted with pawn shops, car lots and apartment buildings yearning for a fresh coat of paint. A concierge said her rooms were often free. Room...

Two weeks before Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 in a Florida hotel room, Dave Fitte removed a photograph of her from the back wall of his laundry here and threw it unceremoniously into the trash. "I said, 'I'm done with that,'" he recalled. Smith had given him the signed photograph in 1993, nearly a decade after she fled this small town of her youth. Freshly minted as Playboy's Playmate of the Year and model for Guess? jeans, the buxom faux-blonde on her return had paraded with a camera crew through downtown Mexia in a flesh-baring dress. Smith twirled....

Last October, Arthur told Britain's Sun newspaper that Daniel "didn't take an overdose. It was murder. The levels of drugs in his body are way too high. Someone has to pay." That same month, she told CNN's Nancy Grace she was "suspicious" of Howard K. Stern, Smith's eventual husband who claims to be the father of Dannielynn. "I know that Daniel had a trust fund," Arthur told Grace. "If Howard marries [Smith] and Daniel's gone, that leaves Howard and the baby to inherit whatever money she has. ... If Howard Stern marries her and she ends up dead, then who...

Gabor husband may be Smith's baby's dad LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told...

MIAMI (BP)--Super Bowl XLI will feature two teams making their first super game appearance in two-plus decades, two Midwestern teams separated by only a couple hundred miles, but most importantly two coaches who are strong believers in Jesus Christ. Head coaches Tony Dungy of Indianapolis and close friend and fellow Christian Lovie Smith of Chicago gave credit to God following their respective teams' victories in the conference championships Jan. 21. “The Lord set this up in a way that no one would believe it,” Dungy said following the Colts' win over New England. “The Lord tested us a lot this...

The United States military on Thursday (Friday in Manila) said it has canceled joint war games with the Philippine military after a dispute with Philippine authorities over custody of a US serviceman convicted of raping a Filipina. A report on the New York Times said Admiral William J. Fallon, commander of US forces in the Pacific, said he also will halt aid and reconstruction programs carried out by the American military in the Philippines until he is confident the troops’ legal rights will be protected under the Visiting Forces Agreement. Under the VFA, US authorities would retain custody of American...

GENEVA - The Muslim world and the West have a big communication problem. While most Americans tune into the news and scratch their heads over Muslims rioting in the streets about cartoons, Muslims across the globe learn much of what they know about our culture from one of the most popular shows in the world - "Jerry Springer." American students can come to an understanding of the faith if they know the similarities between Islam, Christianity and Judaism and can distinguish between historic Islam and the relatively recent rise of violent fundamentalism, said Audrey Shabbas, an Islamic scholar and director...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest from Pennsylvania died in a car accident while vacationing in Italy with another priest and the archbishop of Baltimore, both of whom were injured, church officials said Monday. The men were driving Saturday through the city of Terni, about 60 miles outside of Rome, when a car struck the passenger side of their vehicle, Baltimore archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said. Father Bernard Quinn, 78, a retired priest from the Diocese of Harrisburg, was riding in the back seat and was killed, Caine said. Monsignor Thomas Smith, 75, a pastor of St. Joseph parish...

PHOTOGRAPHER Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, says he is the real father of the former Playboy model's newborn girl — and he is seeking a DNA test to prove it. Smith's lawyer, Howard Stern, told CNN's Larry King Live that he is the "proud father" of the girl, Dannie Ray Hope, born September 7, and he plans to marry Smith "at some point". "Right now we have to somehow get through what we're going through," said Mr Stern, referring to the September 10 death of Smith's son, Daniel Smith. "And I'll tell you, our baby is...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of a drug that treats heroin addiction -- methadone -- and two antidepressants: Zoloft and Lexapro. That's what the pathologist Smith hired is saying. Cyril Wecht says the level of the drugs taken "point to this being a tragic, accidental, drug-related death." Daniel Smith died in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas on Sept. 10. He was visiting a few days after she gave birth to his half-sister.

Pathologist Says Meds Killed Smith's Son LOS ANGELES (Sept. 27) - Actress and model Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died of a lethal combination of drugs that caused an irregular heart beat, People Magazine reported on its Web site on Wednesday. The report quoted pathologist Cyril Wecht, who was hired by Smith to look into her son's September 10 death, as saying Daniel Smith died from a combination of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro that led to cardiac dysrhythmia. People Magazine said Wecht got the results of toxicology tests from National Medical Services in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Daniel Smith, 20,...

NASSAU, Bahamas — Medical personnel applied CPR and other lifesaving measures on Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel for 22 minutes before he was pronounced dead, the head of the hospital said Tuesday. But there was no official word on what caused the death. Police say the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate found Daniel Smith, 20, unresponsive Sunday morning in a chair in her hospital room, where she was recuperating from giving birth to a baby girl three days earlier, and called for help. Police said they had no evidence that Daniel Smith had suffered a heart attack or...

ALBANY, Aug. 18 — Gov. George E. Pataki nominated an upstate Republican on Friday to be his fifth appointee on the seven-member Court of Appeals, moving to assure that his imprint on the state’s highest court will last long into the next governor’s term. The governor appointed Eugene F. Pigott Jr., the presiding justice of the appellate division in Buffalo, to fill the seat that is being vacated by Judge George Bundy Smith, whose 14-year term ends next month. Judge Smith had applied to be reappointed to a second term, but several legal experts said that his prospects were harmed...

The revelation that Fox News aired a one-sided global warming program featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has alienated the channel's conservative base. In response to our column on the controversy, we received a number of emails, some of them threatening to leave the channel in disgust. We speculated in our column on the matter that Fox was trying to curry favor with Kennedy, who may be running for high office in New York, home of Fox News parent News Corporation. If Kennedy, for instance, becomes New York state Attorney General, he could be in a position to help or hurt...

So maybe I'm a masochist. Today I'm home, cleaning the house, and have Fox News Channel on as background noise (when the vacuum isn't drowning it out!) Shepard Smith has gone on a litany this past hour that sounds like some high school know-it-all kid who wants to impress the teacher. Some of it doesn't make sense...he says a military solution isn't possible (has he heard of World War II? Gulf War? Iraq?)...he says there is 'no way' Al Qaeda and Hezbollah would work together...and he seems to think Israel ought to give up more land for "peace"--he just spent...

TAMPA - Attorney General Charlie Crist may be running away with the Republican nomination in the governor's race, a new poll for The Tampa Tribune and WFLA, News Channel 8, shows. Crist leads Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher 55 percent to 24 percent among likely Republican voters surveyed last week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. The race for the Democratic nomination remains wide open, however,with a majority of the Democrats surveyed undecided on whether to support U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, of Tampa, or state Sen. Rod Smith, of Alachua. Of those who chose a candidate, Davis led 29 percent to...

On CBS’s "The Early Show" this morning, co-host Harry Smith reported from Baghdad. However, unlike Dave Price, the "Early Show weatherman who reported on high morale and security progress in Iraq-- Smith focused on the negative, and even complained that the security situation is so bad that he couldn’t go out and get ice cream. Harry Smith: "Now the one other example I can give you of what the security situation is like here, just around our hotel, it's very, very secure. But when I asked our folks if I could go down to the corner and out of the...

After remaining undetected for three weeks - admittedly not much to rival the two millennia of the cover-up at the heart of Brown's book - it has emerged that Mr Justice Peter Smith could not resist slipping a code of his own into his judgment on the case. For the past three weeks, lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic have been puzzling over a series of strange italicisations in Mr Justice Smith's 71-page judgment, which was handed down on April 7. The odd letters appeared to crop up randomly throughout the text and most people assumed they were typographical...

ALBANY - Abusive state Sen. Ada Smith - who faces criminal charges for allegedly throwing hot coffee in an aide's face - was booted off a United Express flight last month after an angry confrontation with a flight attendant, The Post has learned. Smith, a Queens Democrat who pleaded guilty two years ago to running a State Police security checkpoint and who has been accused of biting a cop and assaulting another aide with a butcher knife, was kicked off Flight 7990 from Albany to Washington/Dulles International Airport on March 11, after refusing to remove a carry-on bag from her...

A memorial illustration for Trooper Steven R. Smith of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Government- Without - the Consent of the Governed by Bob Haran Arizona State Representative David Burnell Smith has made history by becoming the first legislator in America to be removed from office for violating a campaign finance law. Smith has finally paid a price for overspending on his 2004 taxpayer funded campaign for the Arizona House of Representatives. The people that elected Smith to represent them have also paid a price. Smith has been forced from the office the people of his legislative district had elected him to serve in. It seems that the American principle of, government by the...

Notes from the Pentagon Pentagon flak The White House is set to name J. Dorrance Smith as a recess appointment to fill the post of assistant defense secretary for public affairs. The appointment is expected in the next two weeks under the president's power to make appointments when the Senate is out of session. The Senate meets Tuesday for a brief session and then adjourns until Jan. 18. Senior Pentagon officials tell us the recess appointment is needed because of political roadblocks imposed mainly by Senate Democrats. The position was left formally open after chief Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita...

GOVERNMENT BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED In 1998, the people of Arizona approved public funding of state political campaigns as a means to reduce the influence of special interest money in our electoral process. A Citizens Clean Elections Commission was created to regulate this public funding program with the power to levy fines and in certain circumstances to require participating candidates to forfeit office for violating commission rules. The Citizens Clean Elections Commission has determined that David Burnell Smith, a participating candidate elected by the voters of his district to the Arizona House of Representatives, has violated commission rules...

<p>Shep Smith was on his 3PM EST segment and talking with Wayne Simmons about paying for news in Iraq. Somehow the talk changed to Murtha and when Simmons said Murtha had bad-mouthed (or words to that effect) our troops, Shep went ballistic.</p>

GENEVA, NY—A group of anti-war protesters who threw blood on a soldier, a recruiting station and the U.S. flag will deliver a lecture at Hobart and William Smith campuses today.According to a campus press release, the four Ithaca residents-- Daniel Burns, Peter DeMott, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady--are expected to address students on “the use of unconventional politics as a means for political organizing and resistance in a time of war and in a time of the Patriot Act.”In addition, the group’s sponsor, Professor Craig Rimmerman of the HWS political science department, hopes to ask the group "what they were...

One week after the RCMP sent shockwaves through CFL locker-rooms by announcing Saskatchewan linebacker Trevis Smith is HIV-positive, a handful of Edmonton Eskimos have revealed they plan to have a blood test. Since the RCMP announced Smith has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, plenty has been said and written about the low possibility of contracting the disease on the football field - but the high possibility of receiving the disease through unprotected sex.

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"Old Europe" is slowly dying. The process is slow--it is felt, not as a catastrophe, but as an inexorable creeping malaise. "Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security." Having systematically chosen economic security over economic freedom for decades, the Europeans are beginning to see their economic security slipping away for lack of economic liberty. A leading indicator of this death is the decline in business profits. European businessmen have historically reacted to increasingly onerous regulations by meekly trying to figure out how best to survive under them, and American multinational companies have not been any different--until...

A suspended Minnesota Vikings player is the defendant in a civil suit filed today in Hennepin County District Court. A 21 year old Richfield woman is accusing Onterrio Smith of sexual assault in another Viking’s apartment on June 12, 2004. In an exclusive interview with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, the woman’s attorney spoke about the case and the victim. “I think she’s a credible person. I’ve talked to her family members who saw her the night that it happened. I’ve seen the medical records. I think she’s believable,” said attorney Lori Peterson. The victim alleges that she was drinking with Smith...

Has the tone of FNC reporting changed?   A couple of days ago, Shep Smith and all the other Fox reporters  in N.O., when they  were talking about conditons there, were factual, and somewhat upbeat.  they would say things like "help is coming", and " it has to get better"..   The last few hours, Greta Van Sustern and Steve Harrington have become doom and gloom, even when reporting about good things.   A couple of examples:   Greta has continuously said "Things are good in the Astro Dome, BUT, how long can it remain good".   Harrington: "It is like...