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Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…riot Tim Taylor is an Apostle of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). A seldom reported-on movement of Pentecostal and charismatic evangelicalism that’s playing a growing role in American politics. NAR holds to a comprehensive theonomic vision, popularly described as Seven Mountains Dominionism, which calls for believers to take control over seven leading aspects of society: family, government, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, a…

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Unemployed from being a Burden to
the Rich

By Lauri Lebo

…rich. Actually, Argento credits a Pennsylvania state lawmaker, Republican Rep. Scott Perry, with coming up with the idea, even though Perry doesn’t know it. Perry recently sponsored a bill to cut unemployment benefits, because, as he told reporters, it’s unfair that laid-off people are basically getting a paid vacation. “It’s a fairness thing,” he has said. Perry also sponsored another bill, which was recently signed into law. As Argento explains…

Catholics Coming Around On Senate Health Care Bill

By Sarah Posner

…version of the health care bill, anti-abortion activists continue to buoy Rep. Bart Stupak to hold out for nothing less than the language he secured in the version passed by the House last year. But despite Stupak’s intransigence, pro-life Catholic organizations and members of Congress are beginning to see that the Senate bill does not, as the anti-choice holdouts baselessly claim, fund abortions. His claim to have a dozen or so members on his si…

Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion

By Warren Throckmorton

…ter examining the views of The Response organizers, John Adams’ words bear repeating: “Nothing is more dreaded than the National Government meddling with Religion.” Indeed, the sitting governor of Texas and his prayer partners appear to be meddling and have declared that the nation needs their god above all others; naturally, this offends. Like other critics Rep. Naishtat objects to the involvement of the AFA saying, “Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and H…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n.” After the pleasantries, Watkinson moved to fearmongering, “What if our Republic were now shattered beyond reconstruction?” Posterity would look to our coinage and think “that we were a heathen nation.” Watkinson proposed removing that heathen, “the Goddess of Liberty,” and adding a new, godly motto, something like, “God, liberty, law.” With the sense of entitlement typical of a religious majoritarian, Watkinson claimed that “no possible citize…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…GBT Refugees Flock to ‘Tehranto’ A website devoted to human rights in Iran reported that two men charged with sodomy were among six executions carried out on August 6. Four prisoners were hanged publicly in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran) today August 6. According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Fars province two of the prisoners were sentenced to death charged with sodomy. These prisoners were identified as “Abdollah Gh. Ch…

Can Shari’ah Be Imposed Through the ‘Homosexual Agenda’?

By Hussein Rashid

…ton wedge issue, as radicalizing as abortion or gay marriage, seized on by Republicans to mobilize conservative Americans against the supposed ‘stealth jihad’ of Muslims in the United States and against a Democratic president portrayed as oblivious to—or complicit with—the threat.” The creation of this wedge issue divorces shari’ah from any semblance of reality. The latest entry in the category of Stupid Shari’ah Tricks is a minister in Oklahoma w…

King Politicizes “Unindicted Co-Conspirator” Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory

By Sarah Posner

Rep. Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and convener of the hearings on American Muslim “radicalization,” has “demanded an explanation” from Attorney General Eric Holder why he isn’t prosecuting the unindicted co-conspirators from the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. (Could it be because they were unindicted?) From the Committee’s press release: In a letter to Holder, King wrote: “I have been reliably inform…

Reclaiming My Time: Maxine Waters, the Sabbath and the High Holy Days

By J. Dana Trent

…fact of life; they direct and shape how we consume information. Yet we seldom ask why they become ubiquitous. Some are so sensational they require no explanation for their virality. Others, like Waters’ mantra, invite us to consider a deeper message beyond click bait. While Waters would almost certainly claim that she was simply employing a House procedural rule in disapproval of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s vague testimony, “reclaiming my…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…humanism, Marxism-Leninism, cosmic humanism, and post-modernism—vying for domination in the world. By his own estimate he has educated 30,000 teenagers at his one and two-week conferences at Summit in Colorado and its outposts around the world (including at Oxford) about the evils of atheism, communism, socialism, and other anti-God “statist” worldviews that threaten to destroy America—unless Christians step in to save every soul. Noebel’s confer…