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Newt’s supporters love him for the exact same reason his detractors hate him: because he is such a fighter. It drives them nuts that he doesn’t throw in the towel, doesn’t slither away from difficult situations and, like a bulldog with a bone, just chomps down harder when the going gets tough. Like a bulldog, he continues to hang on against a much better-financed rival, because he thinks content is more important than suavité, what you are today is more important than mistakes you made 20 years ago and being right is even more important than being president.

The Girl Scouts’ sleazy tango with baby-killer Planned Parenthood and its ilk has been going on for years, but its outreach to the gender-confused reached a new low with the admission of 7-year-old Coloradan Bobby Montoya, whose mother forced his acceptance by claiming he was a girl born in the wrong body. Fifty years ago he would have been placed with relatives while she was in the hospital for observation.

Life goes on, and so does the pillaging of the dictionary by the enemies of free speech. If you can't shut people up, the logic seems to go, the next best thing is not to let what they say signify anything. "Tolerance" has come to mean forced acceptance, "rights" to mean special privileges for those with highly paid lobbyists, and "freedom" to mean the freedom to oppress others. The Constitution upon which our government is based has come to mean just about nothing at all. Read more: Pillaging the dictionary http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=335621#ixzz1VY06EXge

"Judgment Day, May 21, 2011. The Bible guarantees it!" proclaims the homepage of evangelist Harold Camping's website FamilyRadio.com. Is he serious? Yes, according to the website, but that's only half the story, because now: "Janice Wisner from State College, Pennsylvania, is challenging founder Harold Camping to put his money where his mouth is and deed his home (or homes as may be the case) to her. She promises not to move in until May 22nd this year."

Although no text of the "treaty between nations" is findable online as of this writing, the few sources currently available indicate the treaty mainly concerns cooperation in the film industry (I thought movies were haram). That doesn't matter, though, because the point is not the harmlessness of the subject matter but the identity of the signers.

Because I'm not a member of his church, perhaps I shouldn't let it bother me that the archbishop has taken it upon himself to proclaim that the Bible is wrong and the Jewish people are no longer chosen by God, especially since my Bible doesn't say anything of the kind. But it does bother me. It bothers me because it is a blatant contradiction of at least a dozen perfectly clear verses in the Holy Scripture, which the Catholic Church - both Greek and Roman - claims to uphold as the Word of God. It bothers me because it's impossible...

A chill ran through me this month when I realized that September 2010 might be more than just another anniversary of the 2001 savagery. According to Islamic law, 2010 could be the start of the ninth year of a ten-year hudna. So what is a "hudna," and what is so special about the ninth year of an Islamic terror standoff? A "hudna" is a temporary peace entered into by an Islamic force when it is weaker than its enemy. Its purpose is to buy the Islamic side time to rearm and regroup. But don't think of it as a ceasefire...

On August 28, a CBN News article linked to a letter signed by 70 “Christian pastors,” including liberal “emergent church” speakers Brian McLaren and Jim Wallis, and TBN televangelist T.D. Jakes. Since then the list of online signatories has escalated into the hundreds. The function of the simple, four-paragraph mini-manifesto is to criticize those who dare voice uncertainty about Barack Obama’s religious beliefs. Its goal is to urge government-sanctioned media – and anyone else who might be listening – to deny skeptics equal opportunity to express their views in public.

Quick! Run! Here comes the new fat czar with a tape measure! In case you spent last week under a rock there are a couple of news stories you need to know about, so sit down and take a deep breath.

Dear Potential Immigrant: Now that you've decided to make your way to these treasured shores, ostensibly in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life, there are some things you need to know. I'd like to assume that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services filled you in on them, but I'm going to tell you myself anyway just to be sure.

What if, in response to intense diplomatic pressure from the world community, the United States government one day issued the following statement? “We have determined that it is in the national best interest of the United States to disengage from the state of Indiana.” WHAT?

Unless I misunderstand, the socialized medicine plan from hell would not only bilk other patients to provide elective abortions for those who want them, but require all enrollees – even those who view those abortions as murder – to finance them! Sure, this may be in the Constitution, but … on what planet?

The world finally has a definitive answer to the age-old question about whether intelligence is the same thing as common sense. That answer, in case you've ever wondered, is a conclusive "no."

"Words mean things," Rush Limbaugh likes to say. Well, if the word manslaughter means anything at all, why would a court in the state of New York – where English presumably is still spoken and understood – accept a plea of manslaughter from Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan? Hassan, if you remember, is the Bridges TV founder charged with the decapitation death of his wife, Aasiya Zabair Hassan, in his upscale suburban Buffalo office last February, where she was found with three dozen stab wounds to her body and her head sawed off with a steak knife.

Recent revelations make it increasingly likely that the Democratic National Committee was aware of Barack Obama's eligibility problems before certifying his nomination for president. But has anyone considered that perhaps the choice of a compromised candidate for that office was not accidental but deliberate?

What do Muslim men's parents tell them when they are little? If you look around, it doesn't seem like they have been getting the same message as other kids.

By Marylou Barry “My fear is that in a few months from now, no one will remember what Netanyahu said about demilitarization. They will only register the fact that the head of the national camp in Israel supports the formation of a Palestinian state.” – Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau June 14, 2009 was a sad day for Israel and her true friends the world over, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caved in to the demands of the U.S. Imposter-in-Chief and whoever it is that is yanking his strings. Israel's Last Great (human) Hope, who has been telling us for...

by Marylou Barry The First PrinceOnce upon a time, a very long time ago, there lived a prince in a faraway Southern kingdom. The prince was very sad because, although he had always wanted to rule the world, the people of the world had other ideas. So, the prince thought to himself, what would make the people listen to me? The people of the world at that time all believed in a god, either the Creator-God of the Universe or a false god of one description or another, although they could not agree on exactly who or what he was....

THE THIRD PRINCE: THE FIRST 100 DAYS IN ALLEGORY by Marylou Barry The First PrinceOnce upon a time, a very long time ago, there lived a prince in a faraway Southern kingdom. The prince was very sad because, although he had always wanted to rule the world, the people of the world had other ideas. So, the prince thought to himself, what would make the people listen to me? The people of the world at that time all believed in a god, either the Creator-God of the Universe or a false god of one description or another, although they could...