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Evolving Standards of Indecency--Limbaugh
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The Supreme Court's barring of the death penalty for child rapists in Kennedy v. Louisiana underscores the hazards in the court's abandonment of moral absolutes in favor of "evolving standards of decency" and the court's unbridled arrogance in substituting its subjective judgment for the legislatively enacted will of the people.

In Kennedy, the court reversed the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court to uphold the capital punishment of a convicted child rapist, holding that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause prohibits executing such offenders "where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death."
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Homosexuality Takes Congress by Storm
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The two openly homosexual members of the U.S. House of Representatives have recruited 50 of their colleagues to officially join them in promoting the homosexual agenda in Congress.

Democrats Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are the only open homosexuals serving in Congress. They have joined with Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Christopher Shays of Connecticut, and 50 other Democrats to create the House Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says it is a sad day when Congress enshrines official promotion of sexual immorality.

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Colorado Governor oks Open Bathrooms
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Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed a bill that has shocked many of the state's residents.

The bill adds transgendered people to the list included in the state's non-discrimination law. That means businesses will be required to hire transgendered people, even if they are owned and operated by Christians who oppose the lifestyle on moral grounds. Focus on the Family spokesman Bruce Hausknecht was asked what impact that will have on churches and ministries such as his.

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The Aftershocks of Gay Marriage--Gary Bauer
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The Aftershocks of Gay Marriage

by Gary Bauer (more by this author)
Posted 05/30/2008 ET

Journalists often talk about whether a story has “legs.” Whether it has the ability to walk forward and affect events weeks or months into the future.

Astonishingly, there’s been little talk about the long-term effects of the California Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. But, looking beyond the ruling’s most obvious implication, the redefinition of marriage, the decision foreshadows a nation in which all citizens will not only be asked to tolerate same-sex marriage, but be required to promote it. View Full Article

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Post Christian America--Human Events
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Post-Christian America

by Patrick J. Buchanan (more by this author)
Posted 05/23/2008 ET

"A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense."

This was the ecstatic reaction of The New York Times to the California Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a right to marry and have their unions recognized as marriages.
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Senator Proposes Additional $300,000 for Pro-Homosexual Programs in Schools
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Massachusetts Senator Proposes Additional $300,000 for Pro-Homosexual Programs in Schools

Group calls for strong public response against taxpayer funding of homosexual activism in schools

By Mark Westen

BOSTON, May 20, 2008 (lifesitenews) - In what many consider a victory for the children of Massachusetts, a budget measure passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to increase its previous $500,000 funding of ‘gay friendly’ programs targeting school children to $750,000, was cut back by $200,000 by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. This partial cutback was the government's response to a wave of public outrage which flooded the Committee from all over North America. MassResistance.org, the pro-family action centre for Massachusetts, was responsible for uncovering this story and making the public aware of the homosexual lobby’s attempt to acquire further state funding for their school based indoctrination programs. See full MassResistance coverage:
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California Decision will Radically Change Society
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Americans seem mesmerized by the word "change." And, by golly, they sure got it last week from the California Supreme Court. It is difficult to imagine a single social change greater than redefining marriage from opposite sex to include members of the same sex.

Nothing imaginable -- leftward or rightward -- would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history: Not another Prohibition, not government taking over all health care, not changing all public education to private schools, not America leaving the United Nations, not rescinding the income tax and replacing it with a consumption tax. Nothing.

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ABC's Mother Day Gift: Same-Sex Marriage
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ABC's Mother's Day gift - Same-sex 'wedding'

Kristen Fyfe - Guest Columnist - 5/12/2008

Kevin and Scotty exchanged vows on the season finale of ABC's Brothers and Sisters Sunday night. And the actor who plays "Kevin," Matthew Rhys, told USA Today, "It's all very progressive, evolved and about time."

In a story about the atypical TV wedding, USA Today's reporter William Kleck mentioned that the show is "liberal leaning" but "does attempt to recognize those who oppose gay marriage by introducing Scotty's parents, who skip the ceremony. That volatile relationship is expected to be explored in Season 3."

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E-Harmony Promoting One Night Stands
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eHarmony promoting '1-night stands'?

Exclusive: J.P. and Amanda Duffy expose dating service's encouragement of casual sex

Posted: April 19, 2008

This month is the two year anniversary of our matching on eHarmony. On our wedding day last November, we eagerly shared our eHarmony story with all of our family and guests. At every opportunity, we praised the matching service for promoting healthy life-long marriage relationships.

To the skeptics of online dating, we explained that eHarmony is unique in that the matching service doesn't promote the "hook-up" culture. According to the company's mission statement, their goal is to "help couples achieve stronger, healthier and happier marriages." We were impressed with eHarmony's online questionnaire and its ability to identify the character and compatibility traits we were looking for in a spouse.

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Going the Way of Rome--Farah
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They say those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I believe the U.S. is slouching toward Rome – and a Cicero is nowhere to be found.

Where are we today compared to the empire that lasted 500 years?

* National debt: $10 trillion

* U.S. federal budget over $3 trillion. That's 50 percent higher than it was in 2000.

* Trade deficit: $58 billion

* No meaningful borders, with record immigration levels and no chance for assimilation

* Total breakdown of education system

* No common faith or unifying moral principles that bind the nation together

* Even age-old institutions like marriage and parenthood are being redefined

* In a time of relative peace, our military forces are stationed in more than 100 foreign nations
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Why So Many Americans are Embracing Witchcraft--Feb. 27
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Why so many Americans are embracing witchcraft

Exclusive: David Kupelian explains the growing fascination with all things 'magick'

Posted: February 27, 2008

By David Kupelian

Editor's note: This column is the cover story from Whistleblower magazine's January 2008 issue, "Witchcraft in America."

So there I was, listening intently to local radio talker Bob White interviewing a witch.

Yes, a real witch – and a male one at that. The guest sounded New Agey and effeminate, but harmless enough, and painted a colorful picture of what modern-day witches, or "Wiccans," believe and do. You know, god-and-goddess worship, preparing herbal remedies, casting spells, caring for the Earth and so on – all couched in terms that sounded almost reasonable, or at least tolerable in a diverse society like ours.

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The Ugly Results of Banning God from the Culture
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The ugly results of banning God from the culture

Exclusive: Greg Laurie compares famine-struck Israelites to today's modern society

Posted: February 23, 2008

It seems like every time we read what is happening in our world today, there is a lot of bad news. I think we all could use some good news in a bad world, don't you?

The Old Testament talks about a dark time in Israel's history when good news was in short supply as well. They had fallen on hard times because of their disobedience to God. A famine had swept the land. Things were so bad and food was so scarce that people had resorted to eating things like donkeys' heads and bird dung. Some had even turned to cannibalism.

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How to Drag
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“How to Do Drag”

Mock weddings, drag shows and workshops on transsexuality among events planned for students as young as 14 in same-sex marriage campaign

The San Francisco-based Gay-Straight Alliance Network is urging its clubs on high school and middle school campuses across California to “get active and get engaged” in the 11th annual Freedom to Marry Week.

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Is the Decline of Marriage Inevitable?
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A majority of high school seniors — 82 percent of girls and 70 percent of boys — say a good marriage is extremely important to them. Yet the number of marriages in America is down, while the number of cohabiting couples is skyrocketing. What's happening here?

Glenn Stanton, director of global family formation studies at Focus on the Family, explains that, in an odd way, this all makes sense.

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Devolving Standards of Decency
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TOWNHALL

Recently, a young woman came by my office to discuss my opposition to abortion. Two of her friends had already had abortions though she had not. She was motivated to visit me by a discussion in her Women’s Studies class – one that broached the controversial topic of abortion and rape.

The feminist teaching the class was one affiliated with our Women’s Resource Center – an office that seeks to win the abortion debate by ensuring that it never actually takes place. The feminists figure that simply maintaining the status quo will look a lot like winning a “debate” to those unaware of the extent of feminist opposition to the First Amendment. They also seek to win the abortion “debate” by using the most extreme cases to justify abortion for the sake of convenience.

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Hotels Replace Gideons with "Sex Kits"
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Now is the time to let the motel chains know that you want them to keep the Gideon Bibles

The latest fad with some hotels is to replace their Bibles with "intimancy kits." For instance, at New York City's trendy Soho Grand Hotel guests can enjoy a gourmet mini-bar, an iPod, a flat-screen TV and even the company of a complimentary pet goldfish. But no Bible.

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A Virtual Pedophile Playground--Fox
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Every lifestyle group has its own place in the virtual world "Second Life" — including, apparently, pedophiles.

Britain's Sky News TV channel on Tuesday uncovered a virtual playground hidden away behind a strip mall in "Second Life" — a playground where little girls who looked about 10 years old offered the Sky reporter's avatar, or virtual representative, a variety of sex acts.
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The Unspeakable American Culture
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States." From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, "Who isn't 'we,' Kemo Sabe?"

I don't want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it's worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite — whose anchor job Couric now holds — gladly wore a uniform, not just a pin, and subjected himself to military censors. He also used, I'm sure, the word "we" when referring to Americans.

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Folsom Street Fair Reminds Us What "Gay Pride" Means
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TOWN HALL

Quick! What’s the first image that jumps to mind when you hear the phrase “gay pride?”

For millions of Americans it might be a rainbow sticker on a rear window, or perhaps an image of a smartly-dressed gay couple at a social event, or maybe the snapshot of a polite and funny gay character from a comedy show.

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ENDA Could Force ALL to Accept Homosexuality
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“Gay” Conquest Spells the ENDA Reason
By J. Matt Barber

“They feel kind for a season, but remain blind to all reason.”
— Matt Barber

Such is the nature of political correctness. And in that spirit, lawmakers — who are purportedly sane — plan to take us all on a “long strange trip” through a mystical fantasyland where the impossible is possible and the objectionable is obligatory.

A vote is expected soon on the pro-homosexual “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” (ENDA). This dangerous bill threatens to codify the very thing it purports to prevent —workplace discrimination.

But, more on that later…

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California Governor Moves to Eliminate Marriage
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown file legal briefs saying the California Legislature can eliminate marriage rights and get rid of marriage

Contact: VoteYesMarriage.com, 916-265-5643

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- In legal briefs submitted to the California Supreme Court, which is considering whether to license "same-sex marriages" next year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown both stated that a future Legislature could abolish marriage and yank marriage rights from a married husband and wife.

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Watching America Slip Away
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Watching America Slip Away

Why are life-long residents of a once close-knit, thriving Arkansas community now afraid to drop by the local convenience store after sunset? FSM Contributing Editor Renee Taylor explains how illegal immigration is destroying this town and many others just like it.

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America's Moral Infrastructure is Heaving
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America's Moral Infrastructure is Heaving

The terrible news out of Minneapolis about the collapse of a crowded bridge was only the latest news story to document the seriously decaying state of America’s infrastructure. Underneath the ground we live on and drive on is the structure that enables all Americans to go about their business with the assurance of clean water, safe highways, sanitation and so forth. A recent story from USA Today detailed the struggle in American cities to pay for the overhauls necessary for things like new highways, bridges, and steam pipes that are quickly failing.

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Five Decades of Decline
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Old America’s knowledge of the Bible remained fairly strong for the first 170 or so years from the Continental Congress. Abraham Lincoln was perhaps America's most "biblical" president." Historian William Wolf noted that no president has ever had the detailed knowledge of the Bible that Lincoln had. Woodrow Wilson, another intensely biblical president, spoke in biblical terms when he took America into the First World War--on behalf of freedom. Even after the end of World War II knowledge of the Bible, and dependence on it as a shaper and molder of American destiny was strong.

The 1950s:

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When Vulgarians Seize a Culture
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CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW

When Vulgarians Seize a Culture

When unwashed, obscenity-spewing comedian George Carlin was arrested at Summerfest in Milwaukee back in 1972, it was because of the moral outrage of a police officer named Elmer Lenz. His wife and his little boy were in the audience, and he had the temerity to resent the filthy language hitting them in the face. Being a decent man, he got up to do something about it and reported it to a senior officer who arrested the comedian. Now, all these years later, he's gotten over it. The whole episode doesn't matter anymore. How very sad that it doesn't.

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Of Sodomites and Pagans
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It takes a dangerous dose of hutzpah to stick the finger in God's eye and defiantly hold a "gay pride" parade in God's city, Jerusalem. I found it interesting that this event was held on the same day as pagans worldwide celebrated the summer solstice. See reports below.
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Disney's Decadant Decline
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HUMAN EVENTS

About twelve years ago, Disney World’s first “Gay Day” caught some unsuspecting families off guard while vacationing in the famed theme park. When the Southern Baptist Convention called for a boycott of Disney World, gay rights groups rallied to support the theme park while social conservatives hoped for a lasting impact as a result of their movement.

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How a Civilization Collapses--Glick
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In Israel, as in the rest of the free world, we are witnessing the death by a thousand cuts of free thought.

Last month, two students at Cambridge University's Clare College became victims of this state of affairs.
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The Numbers on Moral Decline---March 10
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Most American parents display an optimism about their children living in a richer, more technologically advanced world and as they grow, that they'll be healthier with a longer life expectancy. All that said, there's also a remarkable pessimism about the moral decline they are bequeathing to the next generation.

A new cultural-values survey of 2,000 American adults performed by the polling firm of Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates for the Culture and Media Institute reveals a strong majority, 74 percent, believes moral values in America are weaker than they were 20 years ago. Almost half, 48 percent, agree that values are (SET ITAL) much (END ITAL) weaker than they were 20 years ago.

Why the pessimism?
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Novel Presents Queer Christ
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Recently released Jesus in Love is said to be the first novel ever published about a queer Christ.

The controversial novel, published by AndroGyne Press, a new queer studies press in Berkeley, Calif., was written by a lesbian Christian who said she met the queer Christ in the depths of her own heart.

Kittredge Cherry turned to Christianity during a journalism scholarship to Japan. There, she "felt God reach out to me, just as I am, lesbian and all."

"As soon as I knew there was a God, I knew that God accepted homosexuality because otherwise God would not have bothered with me," Cherry says in her new book.
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Wrecking America: A Bi-Partison Pursuit---Dec. 26
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Wrecking America: A Bipartisan Pursuit
By Alan Nathan
FrontPageMagazine.com

The vile and disgusting truth about both political parties is that they marginalize all of us by empowering the government to bully individuals with intrusive legislation. If their druthers were any more unchecked, Republicans would harm the collective good in the name of individual freedom while Democrats would assault individual freedom in the name of the collective good. Consequently, the only existing check against each is their perpetual tug of war with one another, and that leaves us with nothing but the pathetic lesser of two evils. View Full Article

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Pedophile Nation
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Pedophile Nation
By Ben Stein

Obviously, it's not easy to have a lot of sympathy for Mark Foley. He did some extremely questionable things, and he's being heartily punished for it, with more to come, most likely.

But he has raised an interesting issue long overdue for national discussion. The media and the pundits are acting as if something brand new happened when a grown up discovered the sexuality of teenagers. They're acting as if teenagers are innocent little children who never heard of sex until they got e-mails from a Member of Congress.

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Our Foundations Are Rotting--WND
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Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

Yes, indeed, the United States is in trouble and it's coming at us from all sides, external and internal.

This country is not only facing divisive criticism on the international scene, but we're also facing internal divisions that in the long run, and possibly sooner than that, will change this country forever.

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Protecting Your Kids from "My Space" Porn
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2006 WorldNetDaily.com

MySpace.com has quickly become the malt shop for today's teens – but, unlike Al's place in "Happy Days," this virtual "hangout" is also frequented by unsavory characters who are after our kids. What most teens see as just a fun place to connect with friends has become a sexual predator's and pornographer's playground.

As the New York Times reported May 27, the site's content has become so skanky that even some corporate advertisers, including Weight Watchers and T-Mobile, are either pulling their ads from MySpace or threatening to do so.

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Babies Aborted for Minor Defects
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The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects.

Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show.

Babies are being aborted with only minor defects.
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If Christians Fail, America Will Fail--Feder, C.T.
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'If Christians Fail, America Will Fail'

An interview with the outspoken president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation.

Don Feder, a former Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist, is president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, an advocacy group that started in April. Stan Guthrie, CT's senior associate news editor, interviewed him.

The Jewish people have the Anti-Defamation League, and you have started an "anti-defamation league" for Christians. Why?

The Anti-Defamation League has come up before. It was started more than a hundred years ago to respond to anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, it's changed over time. It's one of many "mainline" organizations that basically have been taken over by liberals. And today, rather than fighting anti-Semitism, per se, a lot of what it does has nothing to do with combating anti-Semitism, but rather promoting the Left's agenda.

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The Real Culture of Corruption--Michael Reagan
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The Real Culture of Corruption
By Michael Reagan

John Gibson asked me the other day on Fox TV why hordes of Mexicans flee their homeland and enter the U.S. illegally. My answer: the cancer of corruption that afflicts every level of Mexican society and restricts even the smallest forms of economic opportunity for the poorest Mexicans.

I said that Mexico has everything to make it a prosperous First World country. They have minerals, they have agriculture, oil, tourism - everything they need to rank high among First World countries. All that stands in their way is corruption.

Mexico is a corrupt nation with a corrupt government from top to bottom, and until the U.S. and President Bush stand up and point a finger - as my dad did at the evil empire - and say you have to eliminate corruption if you want to keep your people home, the corruption will continue and so will the flow of illegal aliens fleeing it.

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The Assault on American Youth--Oliver North
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The last Global Geographic Literacy Survey, assessing the geographic knowledge of 18-24-year-olds in nine different countries -- Canada, France, Mexico, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Germany and the United States -- was, at best, a disappointment.
It found, for example, that only 17 percent of young Americans could locate Afghanistan on a map; 29 percent could not correctly identify the Pacific Ocean; and 11 percent were unable to find the continental United States.

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Glorifying Sodomy
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(NOTE: Hear Stephen Bennett's comments about this film on our 12/17/05 radio show.--jm)

In one of the most deadly phenomena of our time – or any time – Hollywood has produced a film called "Brokeback Mountain," which glorifies and glamorizes that male sodomy which remains the cause of so many thousands of deaths by AIDS – and now by syphilis.

The Washington Post's Style section reports (with more than apparent approval) that this latest sodomy-acceptance propaganda has lead the year's films with seven Golden Globe nominations. And in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco (those three leading AIDS-distribution points) this new movie "opened in five sold-out theaters."

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Violent Video Up 10,000%
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Violent, sexual video games up '10,000 percent,' Minnesota advocate says

WASHINGTON — Violent, sexual content is exploding in video games.

The Minnesota-based National Institute on Media and the Family's tenth annual Video Game Report Card gives poor grades to game makers and retailers alike.

It found kids as young as eight or nine were able to buy M-rated, or mature, video games in most stores. A notable exception was Best Buy, which got an A-plus for 100 percent enforcement of ratings restrictions.

Institute president and founder David Walsh says profanity in video games has skyrocketed 10,000 percent since the late 1990s, while sexual content has surged by 800 percent.

Walsh says the rating system for video games doesn't accurately represent game content and parents don't understand it anyway. He's pushing for a universal rating system like the one used for films.

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The Broken American Family--WND
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The American family is broken. It consists of constituent parts that do not cohere. It comprises husbands and wives who are not intimate. And it is producing children who are not secure.

In hosting the upcoming TLC Television series, "Shalom in the Home," and taping the episodes that will begin to air in 2006, I have come to understand the problems that are tearing the modern family asunder
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Our Culture: What's Left of it
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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, a contributing editor to City Journal and the author of his new collection of essays Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses.

FP: Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, welcome to Frontpage Magazine. It is a pleasure to have you with us.

Dalrymple: Thank you very much for having invited me.

FP: It's hard to know where to start Dr. Dalrymple, as your essays evoke so many profound themes.

I guess we can begin with your observations on the root causes of many of our social ills. You discuss how in your practise as a doctor you have confronted a growing pathology in our culture within which there is an assumption that “one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way one lives one’s life.” You connect this to people confusing unhappiness with depression. Can you talk a bit about this?

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Pagan Pride Day
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Following the cues of homosexual activists, pagans in Florida are coming out of the closet to hold Pagan Pride Day.

Pagans in New Port Richey, Fla., say they told the Tampa Tribune they're tired of being labeled as devil worshippers who sacrifice animals under a full moon.

"People think paganism is evil," said Robert Crom, 25, regional coordinator for Pasco Pagans. "Some people, especially among mainstream religions, feel threatened by us."

Crom's group of 50 members, formed a couple of years ago, was issued a permit Thursday to hold the event at New Port Richey's popular Sims Park next month.

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Same Sex Marriage Law Passes in Canada
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Supported by most members of the Liberals, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, the legislation passed easily, making Canada only the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to officially recognize same-sex marriage.

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The Age of Immorality--Hal Lindsey
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The Age of Immorality
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

It is no longer politically correct to call AIDS a "gay" disease. In fact, to do so is to risk the wrath of human-rights groups crying "hate speech" – as if it were a slur, rather than an historical fact.

Now that AIDS has spread across the whole culture, including heterosexuals of both sexes, the politically correct response is to ignore its principle method of transmission.

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The Death Of The Family--Farah
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Death of the family

Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, had some surprising news on a recent visit to the nation's capital.

The move for a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution to define the institution as one between one man and one woman is faltering in Congress.

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