Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a church that sued Missouri for denying it state taxpayer funds for a playground project in a closely watched religious rights case involving public money going to religious entities.

Conservative and liberal justices on the nine-member court indicated that Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Missouri should be allowed to apply for the state grant program that helps nonprofit groups buy rubber playground surfaces made from recycled tires. The church runs a preschool and daycare center.   Continue reading “U.S. justices sympathize with church in key religious rights case”

Judicial Watch

Weeks after the chief law enforcement official in New York State issued “legal guidance” to help municipalities provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants, nearly a dozen have followed through with the attorney general’s order to skirt federal law. The goal, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is to provide local governments with a tool to “protect their immigrant communities, regardless of new federal enforcement practices.” Those that have followed Schneiderman’s directive range from sleepy towns like Newburgh to larger cities such as Rochester as well as Albany, the state capital.  Continue reading “New York Towns, Cities Follow AG’s Order to Adopt Illegal Alien Sanctuary Laws”

The Federalist Papers – by Robert Gehl

He’s out.

Fox News has decided that Bill O’Reilly’s 21-year run as the face of Fox News will come to an end.

New York Magazine is reporting that network executives are planning to announce O’Reilly’s departure before he returns from his Italian vacation on April 24.   Continue reading “Report: O’Reilly Out At Fox News”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Prior to the U.S. invasion and occupation that sent production and cultivation skyrocketing 35-fold in just the first 13 years, the Taliban had successfully decimated the opium poppy crop in Afghanistan.

Nearly 16 years later, Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trafficking business is still roaring along unhindered, and — with U.S. troops literally guarding the occupied nation’s 90-percent share of the world’s opium supply — potential competitors rightly seemed scarce.   Continue reading “North Korea Is a Large Opium Producer Just Like Afghanistan — But That’s None of Your Business”

The New Observer

America’s continual aggression towards North Korea is not based on any alleged human rights abuses but rather because that nation is an openly declared enemy of the state of Israel, and has long been identified by the Jewish Lobby as a target for destruction along with Iraq, Iran, and Syria, an investigation by the New Observer has shown.   Continue reading “Behind The “Crisis:” Jewish Lobby Vs. North Korea”

Secure Arkansas, January  22, 2017

An Article V Convention of States equals a Constitutional Convention that will put our existing Bill of Rights in jeopardy. An Article V Constitutional Convention is NOT a conservative movement, and we believe it WILL be misused. This movement is supported by both the Left AND the Right. Click_here to see all the different groups who are supporting a Constitutional Convention.

One supporter of a Constitutional Convention is billionaire George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Chairman & Founder of Open Society Foundation. He has VOWED to replace the U.S. Constitution by year 2020 and is in a position to take advantage of a convention to do so. Thus, we have Constitution 2020 movement, as mentioned in our previous article.   Continue reading “Warning: 2nd Amendment in Danger? Part 2: Disturbing Radical Agenda Behind Article V Amendment Convention (Con-Con)”

National Catholic Reporter – by Colman McCarthy

It was in a Tucson barrio in 1991 that Charles Booker, a Presbyterian seminarian, came to know and never forget the “feet people”— strapped and desperate refugees fleeing U.S.-financed death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala. Booker was on an internship from his studies at the San Francisco Theological Seminary from which he would be ordained in 1995.

In Tucson, he joined the ministry of Pastor John Fife, co-founder of the sanctuary movement that, beginning in the 1980s, would grow to over 500 churches. Many would defy federal immigration laws by giving havens to the fleeing. Prosecutions of the safe houses, known as “The Sanctuary Trials,” often followed.   Continue reading “Presbyterian pastor stands with today’s sanctuary movement”

AZ Central – by Robert Anglen

BUNKERVILLE, Nev. — Carol Bundy sits alone in the living room of her family’s home, restlessly awaiting word that a federal jury is ready to render its verdict on the fate of “the custom and culture of the West; the cowboy way of life.”

Outside the front window, a sprinkler splashes water onto a small square of grass. Inside, a washing machine with worn bearings grinds through another load.   Continue reading “As jury weighs Bundy Ranch standoff, Carol Bundy awaits her husband’s fate”

IB Times – by AJ Dellinger

The Donald Trump administration is planning to expand the use of biometric facial recognition systems at airports around the United States.

News of the expansion comes from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Larry Panetta, who spoke about adoption of facial recognition technology at the Border Security Expo.   Continue reading “Facial Recognition Software Fast Tracked For U.S. Airports”

USA Today – by Doyle Rice

California’s smoggy reputation appears to be deserved: Six of the USA’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in the Golden State, according to a new report.

Bakersfield, Calif., again holds the dubious distinction of having the USA’s most days of highly polluted air, based on data from 2013-2015, the American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report released Wednesday found.   Continue reading “California again leads list with 6 of the top 10 most polluted U.S. cities”

Fuel Fix – by Jordan Blum

Gulf Coast refineries in Texas and beyond need new oil pipelines from Canada to cut down on their supply costs, a new report Tuesday from the IHS Markit research firm concludes.

Western Canada is projected to increase its crude oil sands production by nearly 1 million barrels a day by 2020, putting increased pressure on an already constrained pipeline system, and forcing more oil to be transported by rail unless new pipelines come online, the report contends.   Continue reading “Texas refineries need new Canadian oil pipelines, report says”

Wikipedia

A liberty pole is a tall wooden pole, often used as a type of flagstaff, planted in the ground, surmounted by a Phrygian cap. The symbol originated in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar by a group of Rome’s Senators in 44 BC.[1]Immediately after Caesar was killed, the leaders of the assassination plot went to meet a crowd of Romans at the Roman Forum; a pileus (a kind of skullcap that identified a freed slave) was placed atop a pole to symbolize that the Roman people had been freed from the rule of Caesar, which the assassins claimed had become a tyranny because it overstepped the authority of the Senate and thus betrayed the Republic.[2] During the French revolution, the Roman pileus was confused with the Phrygian cap, and this mis-identification then led to the use of the Phrygian cap as a symbol of republicanism.

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The nation named Israel today was founded on May 14th 1948, but the capturing of Jerusalem did not take place until the year 1967. Many believe 1948 to be the point in time that begins the “fig tree” generation that Christ told us of. I certainly believe it is within the realm of possibility that this counter started in “1967”. Regardless, we are closing in on the end of that “generation”.

Continue reading “Israel Celebrates 50 Years As Occupier Of Jerusalem”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: It is one thing to not believe in God due to the false teachings of men. It is quite another to blatantly mock him. “God is not mocked,” (Galatians 6:7). Our Father has a way of keeping the score.

2 Peter 2:6
6 “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;”  

Continue reading “An Atlanta Theater Faces Criticism For Gay Versions Of Bible Stories”