The solution is just too simple. The American people need to start requiring the government, that works for us, when using our money to purchase all goods and services bought on our behalf, to be only from United States sources. That is what our founding fathers wanted.
The concept that they are saving us money by buying off-shore is bogus, as the jobs lost and subsequent lost income will eliminate the ability for us to buy any products at all. This can only exacerbate the increased unemployment, and cause company bankruptcy. Don’t be fooled, their intention is to grab more power by making us all poor, and by controlling more big business.
If Obama won’t help, the people can do it themselves. Let’s say 300,000,000 Americans each simply reallocated 1 dollar per day, spending 1 dollar less on foreign-made goods, 1 dollar more on American-made goods. (That’s $30 per month, per person, and it is not an extra $30 per month, but just where you spend it!) After a year, this would add up to $109,500,000,000. What could the real, productive American economy do with an extra $109.5 billion? How about 2,737,500 new jobs paying $40,000 per year?
The greed of us all wanting lower prices is also cutting our own throats in the process. The government and businesses, as well as the consumer has forgotten what made this country the greatest in history. To just flush it all away, and end up just another poor socialist country is a tremendous waste of our divinely inspired founding fathers vision, and the lives of all those that fought and died to keep us a free nation and a great Republic. – Read more… –JB
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Prior to the founding of America, the only other kinds of governments that existed in the world were monarchies, military governments or dictatorships. Then, in the late 18th Century, on American soil, a few notable men gathered to create a nation of free men. A Republic – something untried ever before in human history, where men consented to those who governed over them. These men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and many other formed our Constitution for the sake of a free people in the summer of 1787. Yes, the Colonists had declared their independence against the strongest nation of earth in 1776, but after winning that war, these loosely tied-together states were on the verge of self-destruction themselves. These men, with their vast knowledge of history, in-depth studies of prior governments and an understanding of human nature forged one of the greatest documents of all time – our American Constitution. Today, we are familiar with the terms in the Declaration of Independence such as “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” ”Unalienable Rights” ”Consent of the Governed” “Equal Rights” but how were those terms arrived at, why were they chosen, how did they impact the Constitution, and are they still valid? If you have an interest in the founder’s thinking as they wrote the Constitution and how that relates to you as an American 223 years later, please join this 10 week class. Using the book The 5000 Year Leap, study questions and DVD presentations, we will learn the 28 principles of our Constitution and how they are as applicable today as they were in 1787. There will be a 10 seesion class on Tuesdays, beginning September 21 and ending November 23 at NCC in Sheldon.
by William J. Federer
Muslim groups are proposing a 13-story $100 million mosque in the most prominent spot in America â?” the heart of downtown New York City
near the World Trade Center site.
Is this mosque a sign of America’s tolerance, or is it a sign of Muslim conquest?
The past may hold answers:
In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the pagans’ most prominent spot, the Ka’aba, into the Masjid al-Haram
Mosque.
In 634, Rightly Guided Caliph Umar conquered Syria and turned the Christians’ most prominent spot, the Church of Job, famous for being
visited by Saint Silva in the fourth century, into the Mosque of Job.
In 637, Caliph Umar conquered Hebron and turned the second-most prominent spot in Judaism, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the
Ibrahimi Mosque. (This was repeated by Saladin in 1188.)
In 638, Muslim generals Amr ibn al-As and Khalid ibn al-Walid conquered Gaza and turned the prominent fifth-century Byzantine church
into the Great Mosque of Gaza.
In 638, Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem. In 691, Caliph Al-Malik ordered the Dome of the Rock built on the most prominent spot in
Judaism, the Temple Mount, followed by Caliph Al-Walid building the Al-Aqsa Mosque there in 705.
In 651, Muslims conquered Persia and turned Zoroastrian temples in Bukhara and Istakhr into mosques.
In 706, after Muslims took Damascus from the Byzantine Empire, Caliph Al-Walid turned the prominent Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist
into the Umayyad Mosque.
In 710, Gen. Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Pakistan, defiled the prominent Sun Temple in Multan, which house the great idol “sanam,”
and erected a mosque.
In 784, after the conquest of Spain, Emir Abd ar-Rahman turned the prominent Visigothic Christian Church of Saint Vincent into the Great
Aljama Mosque of Cordoba.
After the conquest of Egypt, Caliphs al-Mamun (813-833) and al-Hakim (996â?”1021) turned prominent Coptic Christian churches and Jewish
synagogues in Cairo into mosques.
In 831, Muslims conquered Palermo, Sicily, and Asad ibn al-Furat turned the prominent Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption into the
Great Mosque of Bal’harm.
In 1193, Muslims conquered Delhi, India, and Qutbuddin Aibak turned the Red Citadel in Dhillika, the most prominent spot of the last Hindu
rulers, into the Qutb Minar Mosque.
>From 1250-1517, Mamluk Muslims controlled the Golan Heights and used the ancient Synagogue of Katzrin as a mosque.
In 1387, Turkish Muslims conquered Thessaloniki and turned the Katholikon Monastery and the Church of Aghia Sophia, which housed the
relics of Saint Gregorios Palamas, into mosques, as Symeon of Thessaloniki recorded:
“The greatest number of the buildings of the churches fell to them, of which the first was the Holy Church of the Savior. â?¦ These were
trampled underfoot and the infidels rejoiced in them. â?¦ Most of the religious buildings in the city were despoiled, while altars were
demolished and sacred things profaned.”
On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople and turned the great Byzantine church, Hagia Sophia, into the Ayasofya Mosque.
The largest church in Christendom for a thousand years, the church’s four acres of gold mosaics were covered with whitewash and Quran
verses.
In 1458, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Athens and turned the Greeks’ most prominent spot, the Parthenon on Acropolis hill, into a mosque.
When Venetian Gen. Francesco Morosini drove the Muslims out in 1687, a cannonball hit the gunpowder stored in the mosque, blowing it up.
In the 15th century, Ottoman invaders turned Saint Clement’s Macedonian Orthodox Monastery in Plaosnik, Balkans, into the Imater
Mosque.
>From 1519-1858, Muslim Mughal rulers gained control of India and turned over 2,000 Hindu temples into mosques, including demolishing
the Temple of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, the birthplace of Rama, and replacing it with the Babri Mosque.
India’s Mughal Muslim ruler, Jahangir (1605-1627), wrote in Tujuk-i-Jahangiri:
“At the city of Banaras a temple. â?¦ I made it my plea for throwing down the temple â?¦ and on the spot, with the very same materials, I erected the great mosque.”
In 1543, Hayreddin Barbarossa’s 30,000 Muslim troops wintered in Toulon, France, and turned the prominent Toulon Cathedral into a mosque.
In 1570, under Sultan Selim II Khan, Muslims conquered Paphos, Cyprus, and Gov. Mehmet Bey Ebubkir turned the prominent Christian
church into the Great Mosque of Paphos.
In 1571, Muslims invaded Famagusta, Cyprus, and turned Saint Nicolas Cathedral, a rare Gothic church, into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque,
and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia, constructed in 1228, into the Selimiye Mosque.
In 1588, Sultan Murat III turned the Eastern Orthodox Church of Saint John the Forerunner in Constantinople into the Hirami Ahmet Pasha
Mosque.
In 1781, after having conquered the Old City of Acre, Ottoman Muslims turned the Roman Catholic church built by Crusaders into the Jezzar
Ahmet Pasha Mosque, where a hair from Muhammad’s beard is preserved.
In 1923, Muslims expelled Greeks from Turkey and turned Orthodox churches into mosques.
In World War II, Nazis allied with Bosnians and turned the prominent Artists’ Gallery Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, into a mosque.
In the 1950s, Muslims expelled Jews from Arab lands and turned synagogues into mosques.
Algerian Muslims warred against French colonial rule till France pulled out in 1962, after which the Cathedral of St. Philippe was turned into the Ketchaoua Mosque. Violence against Jews caused 30,000 to flee and the Great Synagogue of Oran was turned into the Mosque
Abdellah Ben Salem.
In 1974, Turkish Muslims invaded northern Cyprus, and prominent Greek Orthodox churches were turned into mosques.
In 1981, Muslim immigrants to the Netherlands converted Amsterdam’s historic Catholic Sint-Ignatiuskerk into the Fatih Mosque, and a
synagogue in The Hague into the Aksa Mosque.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim terrorists attacked the most prominent spot in America, the World Trade Center. In less than 10 years, the number
of mosques in New York City has skyrocketed to over 140.
In light of history, reasonable citizens have a right to question if the mosque proposed at Ground Zero is a sign of America’s tolerance,
or a sign of Muslim conquest?
William J. Federer is the author of “What Every American Needs to Know About the Quran: A History of Islam and the United States.”
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody but the State. – an Admonition from Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States
In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court declared that denying a marriage license to “couples” of the same sex violated the equal protection clause of the state Constitution. The Hawaii legislature acted quickly to correct the error of the court, and in 1994, passed a statute to specifically define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Subsequently, Hawaii also approved a constitutional amendment affirming the same definition. Representative Terrance W.H. Tom, the Democrat who chaired the House Judiciary Committee, said at the time, ”The judicial branch of government has at this point refused to recognize this legislative policy and continues to act on a path which if left unchecked will represent a very dangerous departure in our democratic tradition.”
By tipping their hand in Hawaii, homosexual activists sent a signal to the entire country that they intended to force homosexual “marriage” on the country one state at a time, not through the legislative process, but through their willing partners in the judicial branch. This course of action would both create a so-called civil right to homosexual marriage, and solidify the unconstitutional idea of judicial supremacy. Across the country, legislative bodies began to take proactive measures to defend marriage and to preserve the constitutional separation of powers.
In 1998, the Iowa Legislature passed the Defense of Marriage Act. Since that time, Iowa Code section 595.2 has read, “Only a marriage between a male and female is valid.” To this date, the language defining marriage has not been revoked or amended by the Legislature.
In 2003, District Court Judge Jeffrey Neary granted a divorce to a lesbian couple in Sioux City. Even though this decision recognized a “marriage” that did not exist, and was a clear violation of Iowa law, in 2005 the Iowa Supreme Court upheld Judge Neary’s opinion. That sent a signal to homosexual activists and lawyers that the time was right to begin a frontal assault on marriage in Iowa.
In March 2005, the Iowa House of Representatives voted in support of a constitutional amendment confirming marriage as only between a male and a female. The House vote provided an indication of the legislative support for the people of Iowa to have a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment.
Later, in 2005, six carefully selected homosexual couples representing several geographic regions of Iowa came to Polk County to apply for a marriage license. Because the law in Iowa is clear, their request was denied.
In December 2005, having carefully selected the plaintiffs, and then having carefully selected a county where the case was most likely to go before a homosexual friendly judge, the New York-based homosexual activist law firm, Lambda Legal, filed a case in Polk County challenging Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act.
In August 2007, Polk County District Judge Robert Hanson granted the request of Lambda Legal and ruled that Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. Even though he stayed his decision pending an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court, one homosexual “marriage” was performed immediately following the pronouncement of the opinion.
On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld Judge Hanson’s opinion, and demanded that the 99 Iowa County Recorders begin issuing homosexual “marriage” licenses.
On April 15, 2009, commenting in the Washington Post, Camilla Taylor, a Chicago-based lawyer for Lambda Legal, admitted that she had been active in Iowa for seven years laying the groundwork to manipulate the system in Iowa to force homosexual marriage on the state. This was the first public admission by a homosexual activist that they had been systematically using the system in Iowa since before the lesbian “divorce” case came to District Court Judge, Neary.
300,000 miles on horseback, from the Atlantic to the Appalachians, from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, for 45 years, he spread the gospel.
This was Francis Asbury, Methodist Circuit riding preacher who was born AUGUST 20, 1745.
When the Revolution started, he refused to return to England: “I can by no means agree to leave such a field for gathering souls to
Christ as we have in America.”
He befriended Richard Bassett, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, who converted, freed his slaves and paid them as hired labor.
Francis Asbury dedicated the first African Methodist Episcopal Church and met personally with George Washington, congratulating him on his
election.
By the time he died, the Methodist Church in America had grown from 300 members to over 200,000.
Unveiling the Equestrian Statue of Francis Asbury in Washington, D.C., 1924, President Calvin Coolidge stated:
“Our government rests upon religion It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberty…
This circuit rider spent his life making stronger the foundation on which our government rests.”
Coolidge concluded:
“Francis Asbury is entitled to rank as one of the builders of our nation.”
(American Minute with Bill Federer)
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “subsidy” as “a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public.”
In other words, when government wants more of something, it often looks for excuses to spend your money to get it.
This is why it is alarming to see the conclusions of a recent study on federal spending conducted by the Government Accountability Office. The study showed that over the past seven years, organizations which are in the abortion business have spent nearly one billion dollars in federal subsidies on a common goal: increasing the number of babies aborted.
To clarify, over the past seven years, Washington D.C. has been subsidizing abortion providers like the “Planned Parenthood Federation of America” to the tune of one billion dollars. Washington’s policymakers have decided that the immoral act of abortion is worth funding as “an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public.”
The flow of federal funding to these organizations must be stopped.
Rather than furthering a public good, abortion sends the message that life is cheap and expendable. The sanctity of life must be protected. We cannot cheapen it by allowing it to be disposed of because it is viewed as an inconvenience.
Sadly, our taxes are being used to ensure that this perverse “pro-choice” message is not falling on deaf ears. Planned Parenthood, the recipient of $657.1 million over the past seven years, reported performing over 305,000 abortions in 2007 alone. For comparison purposes, I checked to see how many adoptions this so-called “reproductive health care” organization sponsored in the same period.
The answer: a mere 4,912.
Planned Parenthood’s grisly priorities are clear. The numbers tell the tragic tale.
Like many Americans, I believe that each human life is a sacred gift from a benevolent God who shaped each of us in His image. Not only does the violent act of abortion serve as an affront to He who gave us this gift, but it also serves to diminish our common humanity. Abortion is not an enterprise which is advantageous to the public. Rather, it is an immoral act that harms us all, and it should not be subsidized by the American people.
This is why I am joining with my colleague, Rep. Mike Pence, in an attempt to prohibit taxpayer funding of organizations, like Planned Parenthood, that are actively engaged in the business of abortion. We have introduced legislation, HR 614- The Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, that would ensure that the funding streams that have provided nearly one billion dollars to these groups over the past seven years would be cut off.
America is being consumed by increasing levels of public debt, and tough spending decisions will need to be made to get it under control. One item we should certainly eliminate is the billion dollar subsidy for organizations that are engaged in snuffing out the very lives of the most innocent.
(Representative Steve King newsletter 8/5/2010)
“Justice Baker, Cedar Rapids, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2008.
Justice Baker attended undergraduate and law school at the University of Iowa, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1975 and law degree in 1979 with high honors, Order of the Coif. Following graduation from law school, Justice Baker worked in the private practice of law for 25 years. In 2005 he was appointed as a district court judge for the Sixth Judicial District. Justice Baker was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2006 where he served until his appointment to the supreme court.
Justice Baker is married and has two children. His current term expires December 31, 2010.”
Source: http://www.judicial.state.ia.us/Supreme_Court/Justices/David_L_Baker/
Judges stand for retention election near the end of their term in office. In a retention election, judges do not have opponents. Instead, voters decide whether or not to retain a judge in office. If a judge receives a simple majority of “yes” votes, the judge may serve another full term. Do not overlook this on your November ballot.
April 3, 2009, Justice Baker voted to change the law from defining marriage as being between one man and one woman to include other unions.
November 2, 2010 when you place your vote for Godly people to rule this land, be sure to fill out your ballot all the way to the end. Vote “NO” for retaining Justice David Baker.
Does Congress really have the Constitutional Power to vote a nationalized health care system in? How about the upcoming Cap and Trade legislation they are so fervently wanting to pass? Does our Constitution really allow this? They talk a lot about the “Commerce Clause” and the “General Welfare.” Is National Health Care and more, what the Founding Fathers expected our elected officials to “do for us?” Come to the next Tea Party Meeting, Aug. 5th at Sheldon’s Iowa state Bank 7:00 pm and learn about what Mr. Madison and other Founding Fathers had to say about these clauses as well as the rest of the Enumerated Powers that are actually in the Constitution. Nancy Pelosi’s response to the reporter when asked “Where in the Constitution do you find the power to pass this legislation (Health Care), she said “Are you serious? Are you serious?!” Yes, Nancy, we are serious and we will continue to ask that legislation follow the parameters of our Constitution.