The President And The Constitution

Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants the president of the United States the power to be commander in chief of the armed forces (subject to declarations of war in Congress), to make treaties with other nations (subject to ratification in the Senate), to grant pardons, to appoint ambassadors, judges and other officers, to recommend measures to Congress. The Constitution also bestows a number of other minor powers based on these major components.

Nowhere in our nation’s governing document can one find a presidential power to regulate the minutiae of private business, much less take ownership of those private businesses. Yet that is how Barack Obama is wielding his ever-increasing power, despite taking an oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and … to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Liberal Theology

Quoting R. C. Sproul:

Liberal theology saw its heyday in the nineteenth century and raised its head again with the neo-liberalism that captured the mainline churches of the twentieth century. Yet it is by no means dead. Perhaps the place where liberalism is manifesting itself most dangerously is within the walls of churches that have historically been strongly evangelical. David F. Wells describes the crisis of the twenty-first century church as “vacuous worship.” A vacuous worship is one that is empty of content. It is satisfied with platitudes, pop psychology, and entertainment. Such worship is devoid of the Word of God and of the authentic sacrifice of praise.

Sotomayor’s Competence Questioned By US Supreme Court Decision

Sonia Sotomayor

According to the Supreme Court, white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, were illegally denied promotions because of their race. This completely reverses a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor supported as an appeals court judge.

 

Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to sell Sotomayor as one of the appellate court’s most brilliant minds. This is what happens, however, when a judge makes decisions based on his/her feelings instead of the facts and the law. The self-described “wise Latina woman” may not be so wise after all. Her past words and decisions indicate that she wants to legislate policy and law from the judge’s seat. America does not need another radical, secular progressive judge on its highest court.

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US House Of Representatives Ignores Science To Push Through Cap And Trade/Global Warming Scheme

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a climate-change/cap and trade bill while the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. The reason for this change of direction is the growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens who doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

The Polish Academy of Sciences recently published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, only 11% of the population believes humans play any role in global warming. In France, Claude Allegre may soon lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Mr. Allegre, a geochemist, was once a global warming believer but has since rejected it. The New Zealand government has suspended its country’s cap-and-trade program.

The number of skeptics continues to grow:

“Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)”

The earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001. Scientific research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans.

Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist has published “Heaven and Earth,” a damning critique of the “evidence” underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing.

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