The Myth Of Neutrality (Center For Reclaiming America)
While the ACLU claims that the state is to remain “neutral” with regard to religion, the group continually breaks its own cardinal rule. The ACLU is far from neutral in these matters, clearly wanting all mention of Christianity stricken from the public square, and thus forcing the state to not become neutral, but rather shift to the opposite side of the issue. That is not neutral in any sense of the term.
QUOTEWORTHY: ------------------------ "Every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." -- President George Washington
Jimmy Carter Linked To Oil-For-Food Scam (© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com) Ex-president worked with key figure in scandal combating Iraqi sanctions. Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N. http://www.moveamericaforward.org will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.
International Victory For Life
(Family Research Council) After three years of negotiation, the United Nations voted for a total ban on human cloning by 71-35 with 43 abstaining. The United States joined with Costa Rica, Uganda, and more than 60 other nations to ban human cloning. These countries stood up against the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Singapore, who led the fight against this moral initiative. The UN has called on member states to adopt urgent legislation outlawing all cloning practices "as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."Father Knows Best
(Family Research Council) As we celebrated the birthday of George Washington, the father of our country. In his Farewell Address, as a father lovingly giving direction to the newborn nation, Washington said, "And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Forecast Calls For US Dominance, European Disintegration (SusanJonesCNSNews.com)Stratfor, a private intelligence and security consulting organization, has released a 10-year geopolitical forecast predicting the decline of China and Russia, the rise of Japan, the disintegration of the European Union and the continued dominance of the United States.
Stratfor said its forecast is based on its ongoing analysis of security, political, demographic, and other major trends in all key regions of the world. According to the 2005-2015 forecast, the United States will continue to dominate the next decade both economically and militarily; and the U.S. is "positioned to replicate the investment boom of the 1995- 2005 decade."
Stratfor predict the U.S. will triumph over the "Jihadist" insurgents; and it predicts "major leadership transitions" in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
The forecast also says Europe's political union will collapse but its economic union will endure. Tensions will increase over Muslim immigration to European nations. Russian attempts to expand could present new problems. Japan will succeed China as the principal Asian power, and Taiwan will align itself with Japan, the forecast said. Stratfor, based in Austin, Texas, said it draws on a global network of intelligence sources in formulated its global analyses.
British Christians Protest Religious "Hate" Law (Christian World News-CBN)
In the United Kingdom, Christians are speaking out against a proposed law that they say threatens their free speech. It's happening in London, where the House of Commons recently approved a 'religious hate law'. That law makes it a crime to use 'insulting words' that might stir up religious hatred. But Christians say the law could be used against them, simply for teaching the Bible's truth.
Please pray fervently (Free Market Foundation) Please pray for both the Texas Ten Commandments case and the Kentucky Ten Commandments case to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2. Pray specifically for the attorneys arguing the cases, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (Texas case) and Liberty Counsel President Matt Staver (Kentucky Case) and also the justices who will hear the arguments.
Summer Vacancy?
(American Values By Gary Bauer) There were several reports that Chief Justice William Rehnquist plans to serve out the remainder of the Supreme Court's current term and then step down in June. While there is no official confirmation of these reports yet, the New York Times today quotes unnamed White House and congressional officials as saying that both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are gearing up for a summer vacancy. So, too, are a myriad of liberal special interest groups. The radical Left sees a Rehnquist vacancy as a potential "knock-out bid," and they are rapidly building up their war chests for a brutal battle. The reason is obvious:The president must nominate and the Senate must confirm a strong conservative just to maintain the status quo. If Bush appoints another Scalia or Thomas to the high court, nothing changes; there is no net gain because they are replacing a solid conservative in Rehnquist. But, if we get another Souter or O'Connor, the Supreme Court would shift dramatically to the left. Needless to say, whenever the first vacancy arises. we will be in a battle.
Beware Of 'Hudnas' (Commentary by Hal lindsey)
I am appalled at how quickly the United States is leaping at the same old bait offered by the Palestinians. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, following the orders of our dear but naive president, is shoving Israel toward a disastrous agreement to grant a Palestinian state. In exchange for a "tenuous ... un-enforceable ceasefire," we are asking Israel to give the Palestinians an irreversible military advantage. The "Quraysh-hudna" tactic is something that fits perfectly into the plans of terrorists who have already sworn they will never make a permanent peace with Israel. Once Palestinians have a state, they can bring all manner of weapons and trained militants into the heart of Israel. Israel will be forced into indefensible borders and have only one ultimate military option – nuclear weapons. Daniel the prophet predicts that Israel will be driven into just this kind of a desperate situation.According to Daniel chapter 9, verse 27, this will force Israel to make a covenant with a soon-to-arise Roman antichrist. He will guarantee their security. Judging by the rapid fulfillment of the entire prophetic scenario for the last days, we could well be within the prophetic timetable for this to take place.
Congressman Asks President To Ignore Ruling On Ten Commandments (Citizen-Link) U.S. Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., sent a letter to the president Thursday, asking him not to enforce a federal district court ruling requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the Gibson County Courthouse in Princeton, Ind. In the letter, the congressman argued that the lower court's ruling is inconsistent with the intent of the framers of the Constitution. "I ask that you exercise your prerogative as Executive," Hostettler wrote, "not to enforce an order that is not only inconsistent with the values of the vast majority of Americans but also has no basis in either the Constitution or statutes of the United States of America."
Ex-Aide Questions Bush Vow To Back Faith-Based Efforts (Alan Cooperman and Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writers) A former White House official said yesterday that President Bush has failed to deliver on his promise to help religious groups serve the poor, the homeless and drug addicts because the administration lacks a genuine commitment to its "compassionate conservative" agenda. David Kuo, who was deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for much of Bush's first term, said in published remarks that the White House reaped political benefits from the president's promise to help religious organizations win taxpayer funding to care for "the least, the last and the lost" in the United States. But he wrote: "There was minimal senior White House commitment to the faith-based agenda." Analyzing Bush's failure to secure $8 billion in promised funding for the faith-based initiative during his first term, Kuo said there was "snoring indifference" among Republicans and "knee-jerk opposition" among Democrats in Congress.
Satan To Save Saddam? (© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com) Saddam is reportedly relying on the devil to pull him through his trial. Canada Free Press reports the long-time follower of the occult; studies tealeaves to divine the outcome of his crimes-against-humanity case, while adding a prominent international attorney nicknamed "the Devil's Advocate" to his legal team. Satan may not disappoint Saddam, according to his former comrade, Lt. Col. Ali Mazhar. (after defecting to Kuwait,) said he believes Saddam signed a "sinister pact" with the devil. In connecting the dots of Hussein's devil-worshipping past, Canada Free Press highlighted a hidden Swiss bank account Saddam kept for a decade named "Satan.
Howard Wilson
hwilson@texasmoralaction.org