Government Growth And The Economy

Quoting Brian M. Riedl: In a throwback to the 1930s and 1970s, Demo­cratic lawmakers are betting that America’s economic ills can be cured by an extraordinary expansion of government. This tired approach has already failed repeatedly in the past year, in which Congress and the President: 1. Increased total federal spending by 11 percent to [...]

Advent Prayer

“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be constantly on the watch! Stay awake!…You do not know when the Master of the house is coming.’” (Mark. 13:33) O Jesus, your voice sounds through the house of my world: Be on your guard! Stay awake! Yet I hardly hear you. Busy with so much, I go about the [...]

Has FOX News Caved To Political Correctness?

The selective stupidity of political correctness seems to have infected the FOX News network. Example: “America’s Pulse” anchor E.D. Hill did a body-language segment on the Obama gesture on June 6th. The tease was how people are interpreting the fist gesture between Obama and his wife – “A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist [...]

Come Out From Among Them

From: The Desk of Charles Spurgeon “Only ye shall not go very far away.” Exodus 8:28 – This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too [...]

Turning The Corner On Race

From: The Desk of Gary Bauer The election of America’s first black president represents many things. It represents a feeling of national atonement after hundreds of years of racial discrimination. It represents a clear benchmark in our nation’s quest to move beyond race in our politics. Barack Obama’s election should also signal something to all [...]

Political Correctness: It Is Wrong To Point Out What Is Wrong

Political correctness is a strategy used by secular progressives to silence opposition to ideas that are intellectually indefensible. Political correctness is only the pretense of tolerance, because it is limited to its own narrow-minded bias. There can be no free exchange of ideas where political correctness dominates the social norm. It is a Machiavellian tactic [...]

Charles Carroll: “The Mercy Of My Redeemer”

“On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits, not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts. “Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, [...]

The Christian Patriot

Our fathers have made one more trial, knowing that past failures were from want of Christian principle, and that they had settled these shores expressly in obedience to Christian principle, and therefore they might hope. In faith and prayer they struggled; for they felt, that with God all things are possible in the cause of [...]

The Commercialization Of Thanksgiving

From: The Desk of Dr. C. Matthew McMahon In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day up one week earlier than had been tradition, to appease merchants who wanted more time to feed the growing pre-Christmas consumer frenzy. Folding to congressional pressure two years later, Roosevelt signed a resolution returning Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday [...]

Is Christianity A Benign Choice?

From: The Desk of Gary DeMar Nearly every social commentator appeals to the conservative Christian community to be tolerant of other religious traditions. After all, we live in a religiously pluralistic society. The assumption is that religion is a benign choice, little different from picking one car model over another. Therefore all religious traditions should [...]

Elias Boudinot: “We Are Christians”

“Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… [L]et us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils. . . . We can only depend on the all powerful influence of the Spirit of [...]

A Thanksgiving Proclamation Of 1791

This is the text of the November 21, 1791 William Paterson Thanksgiving Day proclamation, as he served as governor of New Jersey; as printed in the Gazette of the United States, November 26, 1791. By His Excellency William Paterson, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and territories [...]

A Thanksgiving Thought On Remembering God

11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver [...]

The Pilgrims In America

From: The Desk of Dr. C. Matthew McMahon Upon landing in America, the Pilgrims conducted a prayer service, then quickly turned to building shelters. Starvation and sickness during the ensuing New England winter killed almost half their population, but through prayer and hard work, with the assistance of their Indian friends, the Pilgrims reaped a [...]

There Is No Left Or Right – Only Up Or Down

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this. It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, “We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government.” This idea — that government was beholden [...]

Catholic Cardinal Is No Coward

There are pressures today on Christians to remain silent on the subject of homosexuality. The spread of aberrant sexual ideology is a result of this silence. One Catholic Cardinal, however, is certainly no politically correct coward when it comes to facing this issue head-on. John-Henry Westen writes: Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, the former Archbishop of [...]

Josiah Bartlett: “Confess Before God”

“Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion [...]

George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation Of 1789

This is the text of George Washington’s October 3, 1789 national Thanksgiving Proclamation; as printed in The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, on October 17, 1789. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His [...]

Is The Government Fighting A Fire Or Burning Down The House?

Quoting National Review Editor Jonah Goldberg: “One of the main reasons there’s all of this ‘money on the sidelines’ out there among private investors is that Wall Street doesn’t know what the government will do next. Will it bail out the auto industry? The insurance companies? Which taxes will go up? How far will interest [...]

Who Were The Pilgrims?

From: The Desk of Dr. C. Matthew McMahon The celebration we now popularly regard as the “First Thanksgiving” was the Pilgrims’ three-day feast celebrated in early November of 1621 (although a day of thanks in America was observed in Virginia at Cape Henry in 1607). The first Thanksgiving to God in the Calvinist tradition in [...]

Virginia Orders Police Chaplains Not To Pray In “Jesus’ Name”

WorldNetDaily reports that: State police chaplains in Virginia who have been banned from praying “in Jesus’ name” have gained the support of more than 1,000 people who gathered for a rally outside the mansion of Gov. Timothy Kaine, who has declared he can pray without mentioning Jesus. The issue is a newly imposed rule for [...]

Samuel Adams: The Merits Of Jesus Christ

“I . . . [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. “The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe [Proverbs 18:10]. Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life [...]

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation – Connecticut, 1788

This is the text of the October 13, 1788 Samuel Huntington Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation, as he served as Governor of Connecticut; as printed in The Newhaven Gazette, and the Connecticut Magazine on October 23, 1788. By His Excellency Samuel Huntington, Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Connecticut, in [...]

US Muslim Charity Guilty Of Funding Terrorism

The Holy Land Foundation and five of its former organizers have been found guilty of illegally funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The verdicts by a Dallas federal jury are a significant victory for the Justice Department. According to Patrick Rowan, assistant attorney general for national security, “This prosecution demonstrates [...]

Mike Gallagher’s Hero

Quoting Columnist and Radio Talk Show Host Mike Gallagher: “I want you to meet a priest from Greenville, South Carolina named Rev. Jay Scott Newman. He is the pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Greenville. And he has become my personal hero. In a nutshell, Fr. Newman told his parishioners that if they [...]