Ahead of the National Day of Prayer, Franklin Graham expressed dismay at how Islam is receiving preferential treatment by the Obama administration. “[Islam] is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.”

Millions of Americans will be uniting in prayer today in observance of the 59th Annual National Day of Prayer. Since 1952, when both houses of Congress passed legislation establishing an official Day of Prayer, Americans from various religious groups have used the observance to pray for their nation despite claims by a minority that such a day is an unconstitutional “establishment of religion.”

If you were awake during the 2008 presidential election, or have even had brief periods of consciousness since then, you probably have a pretty good idea of the radicals, dirtbags, terrorists and others with whom Barack Obama has associated for most of his life. But in case you missed some or all the first time around, or simply forgot some of the many shady characters in Obama’s life, Aaron Klein has a new book out called “The Manchurian President,” titled after the movie(s) “The Manchurian Candidate” about a man kidnapped by the enemy and brainwashed to act as a sleeper agent against America.

Have you ever heard of Joel Rogers? Odds are you haven’t…and I’m sure President Barack Obama would just as soon you knew as little about him as possible. Rogers is an ally and associate of Obama’s. Rogers helped found the New Party, a Marxist coalition working to elect Leftists of all stripes and flavors, including Democrats.

A Florida school district is being sued for “persistent and widespread” restrictions on religious expression. Liberty Counsel, a legal group often representing Christians in religious freedom and family cases, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of two dozen individuals against the Santa Rosa County School District and its Superintendent, Timothy Wyrosdick, for violations of First Amendment rights.

You probably had no idea the federal government was so involved in your daily life, did you?

Opponents of Washington, D.C.’s new same-sex marriage law took the battle to the court of appeals Tuesday, demanding that the issue be decided by the people, not by legislators. Led by Maryland megachurch pastor Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. – who filed the lawsuit against the city on behalf of Stand 4 Marriage D.C. – traditional marriage proponents are asking that residents be given their right to vote on the same-sex marriage law.

The arrest of a street preacher has renewed concern over religious freedom for Christians in the United Kingdom. Dale McAlpine, 42, was arrested in his home town of Workington, in Cumbria, last month after he mentioned homosexuality as one of a number of sins listed in the Bible, alongside idolatry, blasphemy, fornication, and drunkenness.

What kind of barbarous people have we become? What kind of barbarous people now infest the “medical” profession? Why is one human life worthwhile, while another human life is considered garbage for committing the “crime” of being unwanted by the parents who created him?

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised members of Congress to wait until the Pentagon completes its review of the effects of repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy before changing the rule. In a letter to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) on Friday, Gates said he “strongly opposed any legislation that seeks to change this policy prior to the completion of this vital assessment process.”

Evangelist Franklin Graham was recently disinvited from speaking at the Pentagon on the National Day of Prayer, and though Graham had a chance to discuss this matter with President Barack Obama, he came away from the meeting less than satisfied.

A Christian preacher in the UK was arrested recently for stating that homosexual behavior is a sin. This preacher must have failed to receive the memo that immoral behaviors are protected behaviors, and that he is not entitled to criticize them in any way. And while things aren’t that bad in the U.S. yet, many in our government want it that way.

Part of me wants to give Harrison Ford some points here for telling the environmental wacko hypocrites to take a flying leap (literally), but I just don’t think I can. He tells critics who don’t like his seven airplanes that he’ll start walking everywhere when they start walking everywhere.

America’s political tradition rests squarely upon this conception of human nature: We are fallen, yet still bear the mark of our divine inheritance. A government seeking absolute authority over its citizens is not well served by competition with God. When we refuse to embrace both the blessings and the responsibilities of our divine inheritance, the power-hungry politicians and entrenched bureaucrats are more than happy to step in and do it for us – for a price.

I believe Gordon Howie is the BEST choice we have simply because his voting record speaks for itself. I think you’ll agree we need now more than ever a governor who will stand behind what he says.

While the American Psychological Association (APA) continues its head-in-the-sand propaganda campaign to promote everything politically correct, yet another study is out which finds problems for women who have abortions.

President Obama has issued a proclamation declaring this Thursday as National Day of Prayer. In his proclamation, he states that prayer has long been an important part of U.S. history. The nation upholds as fundamental principles the exercise of religion and freedom of conscience, he said. Thus Americans have long considered it “fitting and proper” to publicly observe the importance of prayer on May 6.

Even the Founders, a grouping singular in the history of men concerning the brilliance of their intellects and the purity of their motives knew they couldn’t trust themselves to form or maintain a government of fallible men to rule over fallible men.

The Brothers McWhite perform a very credible rendition of Kenny Rogers’ “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,” but with topical lyrics sure to amuse many and infuriate a few.

You know it’s bad when criticism of a liberal comes from CNN. From Jack Cafferty: “What’s misguided, Mr. Obama, is the federal government’s ongoing refusal to enforce the laws that are already on the books…parts of it are word for word the same as the federal statutes, which continue to be all but ignored.”

With America increasingly losing touch with its Christian heritage and becoming more secularized, I am, for all intents and purposes, a missionary to America. However, unlike the conventional foreign missionary whose work is largely evangelical mine is prophetic in the contemporary sense. In this role, I bear the unenviable task of critic, pointing out where the tension between Christ and culture has given way to capitulation and compromise. At times, this is an unpleasant task.

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including:Was the Gulf Oil Rig Explosion a Deliberate Attack on America?; Pics, Video from Alleged Noah’s Ark Find; Secret Fast-Tracked Vote to Make Puerto Rico 51st State; Grandmother and Grandson Having Baby Together; America, Stop Bending to Muslim Pressure Groups!; Shad Olson More Professional Than Many ‘Journalists’; Poll: Support for Repeal of Govt Health Care Bill Increasing; and more!

Today the people of Lemmon, South Dakota held their first Tea Party event. A community center full of rural ranch people got to hear candidates from North and South Dakota, along with patriotic music and an accomplished speaker on the U.S. Constitution.

I would like to know who or what caused the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico last week. There are a number of unanswered questions right now regarding why it blew up, why so many safety protocols failed, and why the oil spill was so extensive. Meanwhile, the oil spill is nearing the U.S. southern coastline.

One of the most common and strongest arguments against the existence of God is the question of so much evil and suffering in this world. Christian thinker Ravi Zacharias uses logic to examine the issue.