“Watch and be ready
“Avoid Entanglements in the World”
Monday
3/29/2010
Businesses React to Rising Cost of ObamaCare: They're Cutting Benefits
Remember the part in the ObamaCare pitch when they said if you like your current healthcare, it won't change?
Turns out it might. Companies are already announcing that their healthcare premium costs are going through the roof. Some are responding by firing people. Some are cutting benefits. And some are presumably eating it. But costs they are a-rising. MORE |
Federal Agents Raid 'Christian' Militia Group In Michigan, Arrest Seven
At least seven people have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said...On Sunday, a source close to the investigation in Washington, D.C. confirmed that FBI agents were conducting activities over the weekend in connection to Hutaree, a Christian militia group. MORE |
Hutaree Militia Was Preparing For 'End-Time' Battles
Federal agents conducted raids over the weekend that reports say may be related to some members of Hutaree, a Christian-militia group in Michigan...The website for Hutaree says that it is "preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive." The group's logo is a cross with the initials CCR, Colonial Christian Republic. In one of its videos, a group of men in military gear take down a burning United Nations flag and replace it with their flag, which has a cross. MORE |
Florida Church to Pay Light Bills for Guests on Easter
A Jacksonville, Fla., church has a message for the community: Come hear the message of hope this Easter and get your light bill paid! In the run-up to Easter, The Bridge Church is reaching out to neighbors through road side signs, billboards, radio and television to communicate to the city that they care. MORE |
Sarah Palin Speaks To Tea Party Rally:
Don't Sit Down, Don't Shut Up!
Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign. The wind whipped U.S. flags behind the former Alaska governor as she stood on a makeshift stage, holding a microphone and her notes and speaking to a cheering crowd. She told them Reid, fighting for re-election, is "gambling away our future." "Someone needs to tell him, this is not a crapshoot," Palin said. At least 9,000 people streamed into tiny Searchlight, a former mining town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, bringing American flags, "Don't Tread on Me" signs and outspoken anger toward Reid, Obama and health care... MORE | 
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Colorado Gets Another Shot at Banning Abortion
Two years after a failed attempt to end abortion in Colorado, a state pro-life group has another shot at the ballot. The secretary of state confirmed on Friday that Colorado-based Personhood USA submitted enough signatures to put an amendment that would protect the preborn to a statewide vote this fall. MORE |
States Consider Legislative Plan to Opt-Out of ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate
Legislators in over a dozen states are considering a pro-life plan that would opt their states out of a major abortion mandate in the health care reform bill passed last Sunday. The legislation, developed by Americans United for Life (AUL), intends to take the abortion-health care fight to the states. MORE |
Mennonites Rely on Faith to Get Them Through Tragic Crash
As members of a close-knit Mennonite community prepared to bury their own, they sliced through wooden planks with electric saws Saturday and wrestled with the loss of a family of nine killed in a central Kentucky crash. MORE |
Top Vatican Cardinal Defends Pope Amid Scandal
The Vatican said Saturday that recent attacks on the church over its handling of clerical sex abuse cases have been harmful, but insisted the pope's authority had not been weakened. Instead, the Vatican spokesman said, Pope Benedict XVI's authority and the commitment of the Vatican doctrinal and disciplinary office "have been confirmed in their support and guidance to bishops to combat and root out the blight of abuse wherever it appears." MORE |
London Times: Britian's Special Relationship With United States Is 'Over'
Btitian's special relationship with the US — forged by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in the second world war — no longer exists, says a committee of influential MPs. Instead, America’s relationship with Britain is no more special than with its other main allies, according to a report by the Commons foreign affairs committee published today. The report also warns that the perception of the UK after the Iraq war as America’s “subservient poodle” has been highly damaging to Britain’s reputation around the world. The MPs conclude that British prime ministers have to learn to be less deferential to US presidents and be “willing to say no” to America. MORE | 
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Dave Welch Commentary: We Don't Fear God
...There are many reasons we are in this condition, but the most important, in my humble opinion, is not that the Democrats have a majority in Congress and control the White House, but that we have a nation filled with people who no longer fear God. MORE |
Judge Rejects Ex-inmate's Religious Suit
A federal judge has rejected the civil rights lawsuit of a former inmate who claimed that federal law on prisoners' religious rights requires prisons to provide things like sweat lodges and raw meat for practicing Wicca. MORE |
Crystal Cathedral Owes Vendors Money
Vendors who provided services for the annual "Glory of Christmas" pageant at the Crystal Cathedral say they're owed tens of thousands of dollars. Church administrators sent an e-mail to vendors saying the Crystal Cathedral can't afford to pay them. The California megachurch is $55 million in debt and announced layoffs this year. MORE |
Judge Intervenes In Divided Congregation's Dispute
A judge has been been asked to settle a Pennsylvania church's dispute over the removal of two elders because one was allegedly quarrelsome and the other didn't speak in tongues. MORE |
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