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College is simply a holding pen where we keep kids until they're old enough to mingle with the general population. I can't think of a thing I learned in college that I applied to my career. It's just a huge money-machine for liberal professors.

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If you asked me for change for a dollar and I gave you just 85 cents, you'd be the first person to say it was wrong. You want to know if there's a right or wrong? Ask a three-year-old. They don't overthink subjects.

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I've covered the G8 for 15 years. NOTHING they do is significant.

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Aren't there enough laws? American photogs who do this usually get fired. How would you enforce the law in places like Iraq and Iran? Besides, its a great form of entertainment for sharp-eyed bloggers.

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This country was founded by deeply religious men. They, and some of our greatest leaders, had no problem expressing their faith.

"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature on it." -- George Washington, May 10, 1789

"This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation...these are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people...and these and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." -- Supreme Court in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892.

"While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader...If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." -- Samual Adams

"To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian." -- George Washington to his troops at Valley Forge, May 2 1778

"It is in the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier. God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to be support and establishment of both." -- John Witherspoon

In an even stronger statement, John Witherspooon said this: "Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an enemy to his country."

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists [pluralism], but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." -- Patrick Henry

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -- John Jay

"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe...Religion...[is] the basis and foundation of government." -- James Madison, considered The Chief Architect of the Constitution.

"Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God." -- Gouverneur Morris

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness...Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -- Alexander Hamilton

"Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encourged, not any one sect [denomination]." -- Congress, 1854

The belief in God All Powerful, wise and good, is essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man." James Madison, fourth president of the U.S.

"If we and our posterity neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality.... no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity." statesman Daniel Webster

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil Constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evil which men suffer from vice, crime, ambitions, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster

" We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. From the rising to the setting of the sun, may His Kingdom come." Samuel Adams

"We have all been encouraged to feel the guardianship and guidance of the Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of Nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic, and to whom we are bound to address our devout gratitude for the past, as well as our fervent supplications and best hopes for the future." James Madison, in his first inaugural address

" God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable..... He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion." John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of Continental Congress

Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story (appointed by Pres. James Madison) called America a "Christian country" and slammed deism: " Christianity... is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and blasphemed against. It is unnecessary... for us ...to consider the establishment of a school or college for the propagation of Deism or any other form of infidelity. Such a case is not presumed to exist in a Christian country."

" That book , Sir, is the rock on which our republic stands." Andrew Jackson, 7th President of U.S.

" It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington

" ...a book worth more than all other books that were ever printed." Patrick Henry, on the bible

" I have always said, and always say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens." Thomas Jefferson

" In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered... Have we now forgotten this powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this proof: that God governs the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I therefore beg leave to move that , henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing upon our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed with business." Benjamin Franklin, June 28, 1787

" We shall not fight alone. God presides over the destinies of nations. The battle is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! Give me liberty, of give me death." Patrick Henry

"Let my heart gracious God, be so affected with Your glory and majesty that I may.... discharge those weighty duties which thou requirest of me.... again, I have called on thee for pardon and forgiveness of sins... for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ offered on the cross for me. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me; and has given me assurance of salvation."

George Washington's diary

" God gave us life and gave us liberty. Can the liberty of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that those liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and His justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson, (the Jefferson Memorial)

" It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not to be religionist but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Patrick Henry

" He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity will change the face of the world." Benjamin Franklin, Ambassador to France

" It would be improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplication to that Almighty Being.... No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of man more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seemed to have been distinguished by some providential agency...We ought to be no less persuaded the propitious smiles of Heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." George Washington's first inaugural address

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were...the general principles of Christianity....I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature." John Adams to Thomas Jefferson

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government and the principles of Christianity." John Quincy Adams

" The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is the genuine Christianity, and to this ( Christianity) we owe our free Constitution of government." Noah Webster

" By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing and are equally entitled to protection in their liberty." the Supreme Court of Maryland, Runkle vs. Winemiller 1796

" whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor" U.S. Congress approving a national day of prayer and thanksgiving

" The Congress of the United States approves and recommends to the people, the Holy Bible...for use in schools" U.S. Congress 1782

" Why not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?" U.S. Supreme Court - Vidal vs Girar, 1844

" The right to hold office was to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination." Roger Sherman, the only founding father to sign all four of America's major documents

"We are a Christian people, according to one another, the equal right of religious freedom, and acknowledging with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God," U.S. Supreme Court / U.S. vs. Macintosh, 1931

" We are a religious people, and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 1993

" I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing the Good Book and the good Spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.... Whether we look to the First Charter of Virginia, or to the Charter of New England, or to the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, or to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. The same object is present; a Christian land governed be Christian principles. I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it; freedom of belief, of expression, of assembly, of petition, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the home, equal justice of the law, and the reservation of powers to the people. I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion. I like also to believe that as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country." Chief Justice Earl Warren, to Time magazine, 1954

The NEA's selections for inspiring American students in 1944: the Lord's prayer; the poem," Father in Heaven, We Thank Thee"; another poem that introduced the concept of daily prayers; a Thanksgiving poem that admonished kids to "thank the One who gave all the good things that we have". The "Wall of separation of Church and State" was a myth in 1944.

" But for the Bible, we would not know right from wrong." Abraham Lincoln

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It was not. It left a scar on the American reputation that will never be erased. Two days after the Hiroshima bombing, former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote to a friend that "[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."

2 points

Does anyone REALLY believe that the party of slavery and segregation, the party of the KKK and lynching, the party of black codes and Jim Crow, the party that fought every piece of civil rights legislation from 1865 through 1965 is going to be the first to put a black man in the White House? The Democrats still have a former KKK Exalted Cyclops sitting in the Senate. The highest position a black has ever achieved in a Democrat administration is commerce secretary, and Ron Brown didn't live to tell about it.

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HAH! Yeah, Olbermann beat O'Reilly -- in a week when O'Reilly stayed at home two nights. His show wasn't on during the last primary night on Tuesday and he took Friday off. Laura Ingraham hosted on that night. So, Olbermann beats O'Reilly when O'Reilly isn't on the air. Nope, that doesn't interest me at all.

3 points

Look at all the good atheists have done in the world. Look at the hospitals they've built, the ivy-league universities they've founded, the charities they run, the missions they send overseas to feed, clothe and provide medical assistance for the impoverished. What would this world be without atheists?

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Unfortunately, because the Republican Party is the lesser of two evils.

The Democratic Party has been the party of evil since its inception. It has been the party of slavery, segregation, the KKK, black codes, Jim Crow, lynching, Japanese internment camps, nuking Japan, and abortion. Every single time there has been a moral choice to be made in this country, the Democrats have come down on exactly the wrong side of the fence.

The Republicans successfully fought and smashed most of the Democrats' crimes against humanity. But it has lost its soul. It doesn't even have the backbone to fight against the greatest crime of all -- abortion. But, they're all we've got -- for now.

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Hitler was not necessarily the root of the problem. For instance, it can be argued that if Woodrow Wilson had not dragged us into WWI, the conditions that put Hitler into power would never have arisen. We had no business fighting in that war. Germany was not evil. In fact, the royal family of England was German. It was just a spat between the crowned heads of Europe.

OR, we could go back to Darwin, whose theory of evolution was the basis of eugenics, which Hitler used to justify the slaughter of anyone thought to be inferior to the Master Race. Darwin was a virulent racist. The original title of his book was, "The Origin of the Species By the Preservation of Favored Races." Favored races? The second half of that title was mysteriously dropped in the sixth edition.

Darwin's close friend Professor Adam Sedgwick was one of the people who saw what dangers the theory of evolution would give rise to in the future. He remarked, after reading and digesting The Origin of Species, that, "if this book were to find general public acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the human race such as it had never seen before." And, sonofagun, he was right.

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Two university studies have found Fox News to be the most fair and balanced of ALL the broadcast news outlets, not just cable. The Clinton campaign remarked that Fox News had been fairer to Hillary than any other media outlet. As a journalist of 35 years, I can state that I have seen no other media outlet that tries to be as fair as Fox News. Of course, in the tradition of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong-Il, etc. leftists HATE any message that conflicts with theirs. Their brains are all hard-wired to despise anyone to the right of Che Guevara. And, of course, the proof is in the ratings. Fox News has been the number one cable news channel for about 78 weeks, while its flagship program, The O'Reilly Factor has been number one for over 90 weeks. People are not stupid. They will find the truth, no matter how much smoke you blow their way.



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