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Excellent interview of Terence Jeffrey on CBN news concerning the rising anti-Christian tyranny in the U.S.

The percentage of American men saying they approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president hit an all-time low of 36 percent in the Gallup poll last week. That is down from a peak of 64 percent approval among men that Obama received in the seven-day period that ended on Jan. 25, 2009, the week he was inaugurated. After his first week in office, Obama’s approval among men as measured by the Gallup poll never again matched that 64-percent peak. Obama’s approval among men first dropped below 50 percent in the last week of August 2009....

In Elkhart, Ind., on Monday, President Obama spoke as if America were approaching a doomsday that only a massive increase in government could avert. "The situation we face could not be more serious," he said. "We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression. Economists from across the spectrum have warned that if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost, and national unemployment rates will approach double digits. More people will lose their homes and their health care. And our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some...

Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions By Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com Editor in Chief March 03, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian." "I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,"...

One thing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud. Indeed, McCain voted for it before he was against it. On May 18, 2006, when the immigration reform proposal advocated by McCain was on the Senate floor, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada offered an amendment. As written, the bill immunized illegal aliens from being prosecuted for document fraud, including using a stolen, or a fake, Social Security number. Additionally, the bill did not stop the current practice of allowing aliens...

When Jimmy Carter pulled the Persian rug out from under the Shah, we wound up with the Ayatollah Khomenei and a line of spiritual/political descendants culminating in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Terence Jeffrey has now pointed out that by her highly-critical statements undermining Pervez Musharraf, Hillary Clinton could be precipitating an even worse disaster in Pakistan. The editor-in-chief of CNS News.com, NB's sister organization, has thus described Clinton as "Jimmy Carter on steroids." At about 4:15 PM ET today, CNN aired a Wolf Blitzer interview of Clinton notable for these two statements by her. View video here.

As odd is it might seem, the next to last day of 2003 may someday be seen as a fateful moment for the traditional family. That is the when the United States Drug Enforcement Agency busted a pair of methamphetamine dealers in Philadelphia. In a remarkable example of the corrosive force liberalism exerts on our society, the arrest of these drug dealers led to an opinion issued July 31 by U.S. District Judge Marvin Katz that -- if sustained by the Supreme Court -- could erase the special status marriage and the traditional family enjoy in American law. (snip) The...

Stop this corporate scandal now Terence Jeffrey April 13, 2005 There is a scandal unfolding in corporate America that President Bush needs to stop, given that fixing Social Security is his top domestic goal and securing the nation against terrorism is his greatest duty. The scandal is happening precisely where Social Security and national security intersect. The question it raises: Is the administration tolerating an increased risk of terrorism because it doesn't want to stop big businesses from hiring illegal aliens? Key facts of this scandal were revealed in an October report from the Inspector General of the Social Security...

One wall . . . and one truth By Terence P. Jeffrey Western liberals who believe God must be expelled from public life and law to preserve liberty should examine how a Protestant U.S. president and Polish pope explained the final days of an Evil Empire. Both Ronald Reagan and John Paul II said it was religious faith that triumphed over Soviet communism. If there was one prophetic moment pointing to that triumph, it came June 12, 1987. Reagan was in Berlin and John Paul II was in Gdansk, Poland. But their message was the same. On his way to...

According to the new interpretation of the Bill of Rights approved by five Supreme Court justices this week, if an al Qaeda terrorist who was 17-years-and-364-days old detonated a dirty bomb in a U.S. city, murdering hundreds of thousands of Americans, no state could execute him. That is because executing any killer under 18--no matter how cold-blooded his crime--would violate America's "evolving standards of decency" and thus is prohibited by the 8th Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishment." So said Justice Anthony Kennedy in Roper v. Simmons, an opinion that Justices John Paul Stevens and David Souter joined, and...

President Bush's speech Monday at the Army War College was steeped in the realistic perspective that America will need to stay the course in Iraq over the next 18 months as we work to implant a stable government in Baghdad. "There are difficult days ahead, and the way forward may sometimes appear chaotic," Bush warned. "Yet our coalition is strong, our efforts are focused and unrelenting, and no power of the enemy will stop Iraq's progress." But as we struggle to transform this conflict from an international military confrontation into a peaceful Iraqi political contest, we need to be as...

No inspiration in space-based socialism Terence Jeffrey December 15, 2004 When NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, the father of three nearly college-age children, announced his resignation last week, he gave a reason many parents could understand: He wants to make more money to pay college tuition. "I owe (my children) the opportunity my parents provided for me to pursue higher education without the crushing burden of debt thereafter," O'Keefe wrote President Bush. Someone ought to apply this logic to the internationalist agency our space program has become. NASA will cost taxpayers $16.2 billion in fiscal 2005, up $822 million from 2004....

There's an ironic barricade on the road to a free Iraq: the nation's top ayatollah won't rescind a fatwa demanding free elections for those who'll write Iraq's constitution. If all you knew about Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was gleaned from reading back issues of the New York Times, you might not see this as a problem. The day after Sistani issued his fatwa last summer, the Times reported he "adheres to a moderate strain of Shiite Islam that traditionally separates religion and politics." Curious about this "moderate strain," I looked at Sistani's English-language Web site (www.sistani.org). I was particularly interested...

In the midst of a recent Cher concert at a packed arena in Washington, D.C., massive TV screens flashed a clip of the star declaring that if she wanted to take a certain pair of body parts from her chest and implant them in her back it would be nobody's business but her own. Cher's anatomy, of course, sports no such anomalies. Quite the contrary: The star on stage that night had everything in the right place. If anything, she resembled one of those cookie-cutter female characters in a contemporary Disney animation. Slap a red wig and fish tail on...

In the war against HIV, the deadly virus that causes AIDS, we are fast approaching Appomattox. Only this time, it isn't the rebels waving the white flag, it's the federal government; and this time the surrender won't be sealed with a signature in a courthouse, it will be sealed with a federally funded 20-minute HIV test administered in a sex club or bathhouse."Since the early 1990s, an estimated 40,000 new HIV infections have occurred annually in the United States," the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this April in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).The high...

In all the years that liberal politicians have been using Locke High School in South Central Los Angeles as a photo opportunity to show Americans they really care about poor kids in public schools, one key indicator has remained sky-high. It's the school crime rate. When Vice President Al Gore visited Locke before the 1996 election, he told the students: "This election is about you. Your future. Your prospects." That school year, according to data published by the Los Angeles Unified School District Police, crimes connected to Locke (meaning they were committed against faculty or students at the school, adjacent...

In their zeal to retroactively rebut the argument for the Iraq war, critics of President Bush have tried to discredit a British intelligence report -- cited by the president in his State of the Union address -- that concluded Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa. The most important evidence against the British report is the undisputed conclusion by Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that documents purporting to show an Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries.What Bush's critics have ignored is that ElBaradei and the IAEA also presented evidence that tends to...

Henry VIII would well understand some recent rulings by Canadian courts. But the rulings may point to America's future as much as England's past.The Canadian judgments are not as drastic as Henry's. Heads are not rolling in Ontario. But the issue is the same one the English tyrant raised in the 16th century and U.S. courts may face again soon: Can government compel people to act against their conscience?Thomas More, Henry's one-time chancellor, bared his neck to an executioner rather than take an oath demanded by Henry.More would not risk his eternal life on what he deemed incorrect theology. While...

It ought to be a maxim of Democratic strategy: Never send your presidential candidate to San Francisco. Walter Mondale floundered there in 1984. Now it might be Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's turn.Nineteen years ago, San Francisco hosted the Democratic convention that nominated Mondale. His acceptance speech included a whining plea to replace President Reagan's policy of countering Soviet aggression with a renewed policy of appeasement."Every other president talked with the Soviets and negotiated arms control," Mondale told a crowd led by Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson. "Why has this administration failed? Why haven't they tried? Why can't they understand the...

Not infrequently Antonin Scalia lights up the Supreme Court with a lightning bolt of common sense. He did it again last week during oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas.This is the case that in determining whether homosexual behavior is a "right" may explode the foundation of law.Famed Harvard lawyer Laurence Tribe wrote the brief submitted in the case by the American Civil Liberties Union. "Americans," he said, "have a fundamental right to be free from government regulation of consensual sexual conduct in the home."Paul Smith, attorney for petitioners John Lawrence and Tyron Garner -- who were fined $200 in...