I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader.   Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is... It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000...
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In 1939, the transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Germany with 937 Jewish refugees on board. They hoped their desperate circumstances would allow them to be approved for entry into the U.S. Expedited entry was refused. A State Department telegram informed them they must “await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States.” The waiting list was already several years...
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Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word.  Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go  through verse 27. Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?...
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The controversial private contractor Blackwater was enlisted by the CIA during the Bush administration for a secret plan to form anti-Al Qaeda hit squads, the New York Times reported Wednesday night, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plan. The hit squad proposal, when revealed this summer, caused an uproar because congressional leaders hadn't yet been briefed. The program apparently never got off the ground, and President Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta,...
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The Islamic Saudi Academy, located on Pope's Head Road in the heart of Fairfax County, is planning to expand their Shariah-ruled campus in Fairfax to teach even more students their apartheid doctrines?...
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President Obama will “make a major speech on ties with Muslims” on June 4th,[1] as part of a “continuing effort of the president to engage the Muslim world.”[2] The text has not yet been released, but the content of that speech has been being written throughout our president’s life. He was born in Hawaii to Barrack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Kenyan of the Luo ethnic group[3], and Ann...
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On behalf of Laura Lederer and Steve Wagner, I would like to invite you to join the Triple S Network (Triple S for “Stop Sex Slavery"), a new informal network of abolitionist organizations, survivor-centered service providers, and others who share a goal of eliminating sex slavery in the United States and around the world.
Our mission is four fold:
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As my elected representatives, I would appreciate it if you could use your resources to find out the answer to a question for me as a U.S. taxpayer: Did American International Group, Inc. give $ 70  billion of its bailout money to China? The New York Times says AIG has only named the recipients for  $ 50 billion of the $ 120 billion it has paid out to “trading partners” on its failed “credit default swaps”[1] and refuses to disclose all the other...
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by Charlene E. Cothran, Venus Magazine Publisher -Over the past 29 years of my life I have been an aggressive, creative and strategic supporter of gay and lesbian issues. I’ve organized and participated in countless marches and various lobbying efforts in the fight for equal treatment of gay men and lesbians. I have kept current on the issues and made financial contributions to those organizations doing work about which I was most passionate. As the...
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MANASSAS, Virginia, Feb. 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Stimulus Bill contains a dire threat of which most Americans are unaware, Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. "The bill could destroy the independence of America's nonprofit sector." Under the legislation, Viguerie said, "Our country's vast network of nonprofit organizations - groups that serve our...
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We live in a world that can provoke deep anxiety, even for the stout-hearted.  The pace of life, difficulties in the economy, the unsettled global balance of power, and our spiritually antagonistic culture can wear us down. Over the years, I’ve not been prone to anxiety.  In fact, as an entrepreneurial leader, I have tended to ignore caution and safety in order to take on the next great challenge with little regard for risk. (This creates anxiety for those around me!) ...
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Two and a half months after the colonists had exchanged gunfire with British troops in the village at Lexington, Massachusetts, and one year before the Declaration of Independence set off the first Fourth of July, the Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms” for General Washington to read to his troops at Boston explaining to the colonists their moral authority to forcibly resist the King. ...
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Cal Thomas: Progress? So What There is a reason progress in Iraq is...
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It appears that Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for president. Let’s let him close out the 2008 primary season in his own words:

  IN THIS ISSUE: Four Prayer Summits in One Month Yield Great Fruit  Dynamic, Multi-ethnic Church Experiences the Presence of Christ First-ever Prayer Class Slated for Largest Evangelical University in the United States  November 2008 Holy Land Trip Registrations Begin  Release of Classic 29:59 Prayer Guide Already Having a Positive Impact  Upcoming Ministry...
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Building Nations: The Providence Foundation is a nonprofit Christian educational organization whose mission is to spread liberty, justice, and prosperity among the nations by instructing individuals in a Biblical worldview. Emphasis is upon educating in principles, rather than issues, drawing upon examples in history for illustration. The founding era of America's history is especially emphasized since ideas of Divine Providence and similar terminology expressed a basic link in the Founder's...
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Former 2nd Vice President of the 15 million strong Southern Baptist Convention, says he will call for the Boycott until Robertson "repents and returns to his first love"   After hearing of Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, Evangelicals all around America agreed to the Boycott and many plan a Saturday Nov. 10 Protest and News conference at the main entrance of CBN Headquarters in Virginia Beach VA....
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Virginia, died Saturday after battling breast cancer, her office said. She was 57. 

Davis died at her home in Gloucester, Virginia.

She was first diagnosed with cancer in 2005, according to a statement from her office, and had a recurrence earlier this year.

After the House takes up its two final appropriations bills this week, it plans to take up its version of the SCHIP reauthorization, H.R. 3162, the Children's Health And Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act....
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