Many of the terrorists kept at Club Gitmo are believed to be salvageable, and are sent through rehabilitation programs to make them decent people.    However, as numerous returns to terrorism show, the rehabilitation program isn’t working well. This video (below) examines the success and failures of “rehabilitating” terrorists from Club Gitmo.    Jed Babbin, [...]

Rush Limbaugh responds to President Barack Obama’s plea for people to not listen to Rush Limbaugh: “He’s obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell,” Limbaugh told listeners. “He’s more frightened of me, then he is of say, John Boehner, which doesn’t say much about our party.”  

George Orwell has come to South Dakota with the “mandatory volunteerism” bill HB 1105.  According to the language of HB 1105, the bill would “require students attending public high schools to perform acts of volunteerism in order to receive a high school diploma.” Students would be required to volunteer?  According to the dictionary, “required” means [...]

S. Michael Craven Center for Christ & Culture Today, when we speak of recovering the missional purpose and nature of the church, we naturally draw upon the Bible’s account of the first-century church. However, recovering the church’s missiological purpose should not be understood as an attempt to replicate first-century Christianity in our time. Our times [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer Ferdinand and Isabella sent Columbus on his voyage in 1492 after they liberated Spain from occupying Muslim forces. Spain’s policies then forced Jews to flee, first to Portugal, then to Amsterdam, where some sailed with Dutch merchants to South America. When Spain attacked there, they fled again and 23 [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Ethan Cole Christian Post Reporter Mon, Jan. 26 2009 06:59 PM EST Christian conservative leaders and pro-life activists strongly denounced President Barack Obama’s repeal of the U.S. policy banning the federal funding of international organizations that provide or promote abortions. “President Barack Obama promised that he would govern [...]

  Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute explains why the Obama stimulus is bad for the overall economy. This is just a bigger dose of the poison that’s making the country sick.  In this big-government stimulus package,  that’s who benefits the most: government.   Our country became the greatest nation on earth through policies of [...]

Liberal politicians are fond of claiming they care more about people in need, because of whatever legislation they’re pushing. But in his Stoplight® commentary, Stuart Shepard compares the two ways people can “give.” – Bold New Plan, n. 1) Loosely translates to “Liberals care more about people than conservatives do.” (Wild-Eyed Liberal Mainstream Media Dictionary); [...]

In the wake of President Barack Obama’s decision to close Club Gitmo, we continue to hear more and more about former guests going back to terrorism (the question is begged among rational people: why were they let go in the first place???). A couple of weeks ago we learned that an increasing number of former [...]

Looks like the fantasy of anthropogenic global warming is finally getting the attention it deserves. According to CNS News,  it came in dead last in a list of 20 concerns proposed to the American people in a recent survey: Americans are concerned about the economy first of all, and they are tired of the “hype” [...]

STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION In these uncertain times, some things remain constant. One is the arrival each Jan. 22 of tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to Washington, D.C., to note the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and to mourn. Forty-eight million American children, [...]

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post By Katherine T. Phan Christian Post Reporter Mon, Jan. 26 2009 09:05 AM EST Thousands of traditional marriage supporters have contacted President Obama to voice opposition to his plan to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Almost immediately after the inaugural ceremony, the new administration updated the Whitehouse.gov [...]

In Part 4 of Sean Hannity’s interview with Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh tells how expects President Barack Obama will overreach, how there is an ethical double-standard for Democrats and Republicans, liberal myths, how conservatives have lost the culture, and talks about President Bush. Excerpt: HANNITY: Let me, let me ask you this because we have Geithner, [...]

Until 60 or 70 years ago, when Americans hit hard times and needed help, they helped each other.  There were no government programs, there were no handouts, there were no welfare checks, just private individuals, family, charities and churches helping people in need. This system Marvin Olasky, author of The Tragedy of American Compassion, writes about [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer Douglas MacArthur was born JANUARY 26, 1880. He commanded in World War I, was superintendent of West Point, and the youngest Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. A four-star general, he retired in 1939, but returned in 1941 to defend the Philippines. When Japan invaded, President Roosevelt ordered [...]

Fifteen-year-old McKay Hatch started a “No Cussing Club.”  Even if you’re not a moral crusader, you’d agree it would be a good thing to clean up language, make our communication more uplifting and dignified, right? Apparently many people disagree.  According to this report from Fox News, the young man and his family have been the recipient [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer In his State of the Union Address, JANUARY 25, 1984, President Reagan stated: “Each day your members observe a 200-year-old tradition meant to signify America is one nation under God. I must ask: If you can begin your day with a member of the clergy standing right here leading [...]

President Barack Obama is making it clear what it takes to get anywhere in his town. From the New York Post: President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration. “You can’t just [...]

  Here is Part 3 of Sean Hannity’s interview with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. An excerpt: LIMBAUGH: The Republican Party is making a big, big — the conservative movement, too — making a big, big mistake in planning for the future. You hear things like well, Republican Party needs to identify the middle [...]

American Minute from William J. Federer James Madison’s defense of religious freedom began when he stood with his father outside a jail in the village of Orange and heard Baptists preach from their cell windows. He wrote of another incident to William Bradford, JANUARY 24, 1774: “There are at this time in the adjacent Culpepper [...]

In this week’s Focus Action Update™, Stuart Shepard and Tom Minnery examine what was said at the inaugural and dig into the new president’s left-leaning agenda as posted on the White House Web site. Discussed: – Pastor Rick Warren’s inaugural prayer –  President Obama’s inaugural speech – Changes in tone on America’s enemies – The [...]

I think somebody in the “mainstream” media was just a little too happy about President Barack Obama’s inauguration, and maybe had a little too much inauguration night cheer. Check out Diane Sawyer’s rather tipsy performance the morning after Inauguration Day.

This is Part 2 of Sean Hannity’s interview with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. In this part, Rush discusses failed experiments with socialism, the worship from the “mainstream” media of the Obamessiah, the meaning of his term “Drive By Media,” the media’s efforts to keep Barack Obama’s image clean,  failure of Obama, success for [...]

It seems jihadist Said Ali al-Shihri’s vacation at Club Gitmo is over, and he’s now back to the tough job of killing innocent people. According to NewsMax, al-Shihri left Club Gitmo behind in 2007 where he went to a resort in Saudi Arabia before re-entering the terrorist workforce as the deputy leader of al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen. Says NewsMax:  [...]

Though President Barack Obama and his minions regularly pander to environmental extremists–and actually believe a lot of that drivel themselves–he may be having some (gulp) second thoughts about rushing ahead with strangling America. Obama’s  Interior Secretary nominee Senator Ken Salazar said recently that the administration wanted to re-institute the recently lifted ban on offshore drilling, but today [...]