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Friday, November 14, 2008

"World President"

Caption under a photo of Obama in a German magazine:  "Can the World President Live Up to Expectations?"
 
 

Thursday, November 13, 2008

End of Day -- 11/12/08


Greetings from Romania.  Be sure to check the devotional and news blogs.

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From: Gary L. Bauer <garybauer@cwfpac.com>
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Subject: End of Day -- 11/12/08



Wednesday, November 12, 2008

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer



Stealing The Senate?

The results in the Minnesota Senate race are changing by the day. Incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman faced a stiff challenge from comedian Al Franken but pulled out an extraordinarily close win on Election Night by just 725 votes. But in the days since November 4th, Senator Coleman has watched his lead steadily evaporate. Now he is ahead by just 206 votes, and the recount will not officially get underway until next week.

How is this happening? Well, 32 absentee ballots just happened to be discovered in the trunk of one election official's car. In other cases, election officials are "correcting reporting errors" on Election Day. One statistician has reviewed these "corrections" in the Senate race and found that Al Franken is gaining votes at 2.5 times the rate of corrections for Barack Obama in the presidential contest and three times the gains for Democrats in Minnesota House races.

Needless to say, there is a lot of scrutiny on Minnesota's elections officials, including its top officer, Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. Press reports indicate that Ritchie was supported in 2006 by a shadowy 527 organization called the "Secretary of State Project" or the "SOS Project." According to the Wall Street Journal, the group was founded by an operative from MoveOn.org and is reportedly affiliated with the Democracy Alliance, which is funded by George Soros. The group takes credit for Ritchie's election and four other Secretaries of State. The Wall Street Journal also describes Ritchie as "an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN." It looks like the Left is stealing another election.


It Begins

Keep an eye on Henry Rivera, the man tapped to lead the Obama transition team for the Federal Communications Commission. Rivera is a leading advocate of the Fairness Doctrine, which many conservatives refer to as the "Censorship Doctrine." Rivera is well-known for pushing a left-wing agenda, including the notion that "communications policy is a civil rights issue," and supporting affirmative action-style programs that would essentially mandate racial quotas in media ownership.

An appointment to the FCC will open up next summer, allowing soon-to-be President Obama to create a 3-to-2 Democrat majority on the FCC, which many believe would attempt to reinstate the "Censorship Doctrine." Naturally, Big Media, which has an interest in the demise of conservative talk radio, isn't covering this disturbing development. But we will!


Speaking Up

As most of you know, I am an evangelical Christian who has been frustrated that so many churches are wimping out of the values debate over fear that they may "offend" someone. Even if some evangelicals may be hesitant to speak up, other religious Americans are not. The Mormon Church, for example, played a tremendous role in supporting Proposition 8 in California, and they are suffering for it as a result, with mobs gathering in front of Mormon temples. Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church is also coming under attack. And this Sunday, a radical homosexual rights group disrupted the service at Mount Hope Church in Lansing, Michigan, setting off the fire alarm, throwing condoms, shouting at worshippers and unfurling offensive banners.

On the issue of life, Catholic leaders are also stepping up to the plate, concerned about the assault on the sanctity of life. The Washington Times reported that the nation's Catholic bishops "served notice to the future Obama administration that they will oppose 'a culture of coercion' on abortion," with several bishops warning that the church must be prepared to suffer for its beliefs. Bishop Robert Hermann of St. Louis said:

"We have lost 50 times as many children in the last 35 years as we have lost soldiers in all the wars since the Revolution. I think any bishop here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion. If we are willing to die tomorrow, we should be willing, until the end of our lives, to take all kinds of criticism for opposing this horrible infanticide."
In much the same way that same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts forced Catholic Charities to stop providing adoption services, one bishop warned that passage of the Freedom of Choice Act will force the Church to consider "the drastic step of closing our Catholic hospitals completely."

I can only hope that more conservative evangelical, Southern Baptist and Orthodox Jewish leaders will speak up just as forcefully in defense of our Judeo-Christian values and become more engaged in the great moral debates of our day. Elections have consequences, and the authoritarian impulse of the Left is a real threat to free speech and religious liberty.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Which Commandments Do I Keep

"Which Ones?"  (Matthew 19:18)

I head out for Romania tomorrow.  May not have access to a computer until I get back, but I thought I would comment on this text.  The rich man came to Jesus asking for eternal life.  Jesus said, "Keep the commandments."  The man's response was interesting.  "Which ones?"  What made him think that commands were optional, some to keep, some to break, some to ignore?  When you or I choose which commands to obey and which to not obey, we start our own religion.   That ends in death.

I know the teaching that there are ritual commands, dietary commands, commands fulfilled in Jesus Christ.  But here is my approach to the whole commandment thing.  Think of every possible way to keep them rather than every possible way to break them.  Anyway, "His commandments are not grievous"------------------------------ though many have acted otherwise.

"Brethren, pray for us."

Father, in Jesus' Name, You see how many of my fellow countrymen have exercised their choosing which commands to obey.  Holy Spirit, convict Your Church in America of such.  Amen.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

APF Update From Berlin

I thought you might like to know that I made Berlin Television yesterday.  The  reporter and crew came up to me while I was listening to the names read of the victims of Kristallnacht-------- in the rain!  They took quite a lengthy shoot.  Probably thoutht, "Who is this nut standing here so long in the rain."  You are not allowed to answer that.  Too bad you can't get German TV.

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