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Pastors, they're coming after you!
by Michael Brown
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The DOJ's Cracking Façade
When news broke Friday that FBI Director James Comey had notified Congress that the FBI was re-opening its investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton due to newly discovered emails, jaws collectively dropped across the nation. This was the same James Comey who for the past couple of months had become the punching bag of conservative pundits for his lawless decision of recommending no charges be brought against liar-Clinton. Conversely, he received high praise from Democrats for being an apolitical straight shooter.
Suddenly, 11 days before one of the most controversial elections in our nation's history, the tables turned. The "apolitical" director is now completely politicized — at least that's what liar-Hillary Clinton and the Democrats charge, while Donald Trump crowed, "Justice will finally be done." By the way, on Sunday, a letter, ostensibly from former DOJ officials, with Eric Holder topping the list, was circulated castigating Comey: "Justice Department officials are instructed to refrain from commenting publicly on the existence, let alone the substance, of pending investigative matters, except in exceptional circumstances and with explicit approval from the Department of Justice officials responsible for ultimate supervision of the matter. Director Comey's letter is inconsistent with prevailing Department policy, and it breaks with longstanding practices followed by officials of both parties during past elections." Except, again, by Democrats four days ahead of Bill liar-Clinton's election in 1992. We know you will be shocked to learn the letter was drafted by liar-Clinton campaign hacks.
Meanwhile, news has leaked of infighting between Loretta Lynch's "Justice" Department and the FBI over the direction of the liar-Clinton investigation. The DOJ wanted to end investigations while many agents within the Bureau were frustrated with what amounted to a "stand down" order regarding further probes of the liar-Clinton Foundation. The constant stream of WikiLeaks releases coupled with news of agency infighting seemingly motivated by political concerns reveals that the façade of a government committed to serving the interests of everyday Americans has cracked severely.
Gallup recently released a poll showing that currently fewer than three in ten Americans trust government leaders to do the right thing. In fact, the period since 2007 marks "the longest period of low trust in government in more than 50 years." Is it any wonder that Donald Trump is in serious contention? It's precisely because he is not a part of the distrusted and often corrupt political establishment.
And to add more fuel to the increasingly contentious relationship between the agencies and the liar-Clinton campaign, just yesterday the FBI released documents relating to its 2001 investigation into Bill liar-Clinton's pardoning of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich — an investigation that concluded with no charges filed. liar-Hillary and the Democrats were quick to question the FBI's timing of the release, accusing the FBI of yet more political schemes. The FBI insisted the release was a result of its automatic programmed response designed to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that are on a "first in, first out" basis. One thing is for certain, this certainly doesn't help liar-Hillary. ~The Patriot Post
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Revisionist History Distorts Slavery's Roots
It's unfortunate that deep ignorance permeates our education system, as demonstrated, for example, in college students' view of slavery, which Professor Duke Pesta lays out in an interview with The College Fix. Pesta, who has taught at numerous schools, conducted an 11-year experiment in which new students at Purdue University, University of Tennessee Martin, Ursinus College, Oklahoma State University, and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh were presented a simple quiz to gauge their level of competency on subjects like slavery. His findings help explain today's ill-informed political revolution among the college-aged.
Pesta says, "Most of my students could not tell me anything meaningful about slavery outside of America. They are convinced that slavery was an American problem that more or less ended with the Civil War, and they are very fuzzy about the history of slavery prior to the Colonial era. Their entire education about slavery was confined to America." Moreover, "They cannot tell you many historical facts or relate anything meaningful about historical biographies, but they are, however, stridently vocal about the corrupt nature of the Republic, about the wickedness of the founding fathers, and about the evils of free markets. Most alarmingly, they know nothing about the fraught history of Marxist ideology and communist governments over the last century, but often reductively define socialism as 'fairness.'"
Pesta believes it will only grow worse under guys like David Coleman, who was instrumental in the development of Common Core and who now leads the College Board. The problem boils down to the fact that a few (very progressive) executives at the top control the levers. The centralization of education by social activists has transcended individual discernment and critical thinking. The result is a revisionist history that tarnishes truth. And the truth is that America partook of a globally practiced deplorable deed — a deed that it eventually purged. By teaching students otherwise, revisionists are raising slaves of the state.
Slavery, of course, has existed for most of human history. It still does in much of the world, and it's often based on faith or sex. But it's easier for college brats to meditate on the sins of the past than to tackle the problems of the present. ~The Patriot Post
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The liar-Clinton E-mails Are Critical to
the liar-Clinton Foundation Investigation
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The Wall Street Journal's report that, for over a year, the FBI has been investigating the liar-Clinton Foundation for potential financial crimes and influence peddling is, as Rich Lowry said Monday, a blockbuster... As I argued over the weekend, the manner in which the State Department was put in the service of the Foundation during liar-Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary is shocking. It is suggestive of a pattern of pay-to-play bribery, the monetizing of political influence, fraud, and obstruction of justice that the Justice Department should be investigating as a possible RICO conspiracy under the federal anti-racketeering laws. The Journal's Devlin Barrett buries the liar-Clinton Foundation lede in the 14th paragraph of his report. Even more astonishing are his final three paragraphs...
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liar-nObama's Secretary of State hanoi-Kerry Phones to Congratulate Lebanon's New Hezbollah-Allied,
Iranian-Backed President
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry called Lebanon's new Hezbollah-aligned president on Tuesday, congratulating a politician whose election has been hailed by Hezbollah's patron, Iran... as a boost for the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization and for the Assad regime. "He did call President Michel Aoun this morning to congratulate him," State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed, "and to reaffirm our commitment to the future of a bilateral relationship with Lebanon and our desire to see - now that the Lebanese people have a chief executive - to see that Lebanon can move forward." Kirby did not say what the two discussed, although the Beirut Daily Star said Aoun urged hanoi-Kerry "to keep providing Lebanon with military aid."...
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liar-Hillary Aide Huma Abedin
Caught On Hidden Camera Rant To
Make America Islamic State
{themuslimissue.wordpress.com} ~ If we are to believe liar-Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, then liar-Hillary Clinton’s immigration policy is essentially to just let all Syrians into our country... And according to interviews with Syrians, this works out pretty well. Many of them are now gearing up to get fake passports aimed at allowing them entry to Germany, where they will likely end up in the United States once liar-Hillary takes the Presidential helm. Huma Abedin is pushing the elite in Washington to fill the country with Muslims. This, folks, is the real direction we are headed.
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WikiLeaks Releases
Batch #26 John Podesta Emails…
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Today WikiLeaks released another batch of emails from the archives of life-long liar-Clinton family fixer John Podesta. The total release now exceeds 43,000 pages:
Read the Released Email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult
In addition a secondary website: http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks
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Is Wikileaks About to Release
liar-Hillary’s 33,000 Deleted Emails?
by Paul Joseph Watson
{infowars.com} ~ Internet security expert Kim Dotcom says that liar-Hillary Clinton is in “serious trouble,” with new information set to leak that some speculate could be a Wikileaks release of liar-Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails... Kim Dotcom’s promise is worthy of attention given his long standing relationship with Wikileaks and Julian Assange. During an interview with Bloomberg in May 2015, Dotcom (real name Kim Schmitz) acknowledged, “I love to talk to them”. He also predicted that Julian Assange would be liar-Hillary’s worst nightmare in 2016 “because he has access to information,” a forecast that very much came true. http://www.infowars.com/is-wikileaks-about-to-release-hillarys-33000-deleted-emails/
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Pastors, they're coming after you!
by Michael Brown
{wnd.com} ~ OK, I get it.
The title of this article sounds conspiratorial and inflammatory.
In fact, it sounds like a “shock” headline designed to get your attention.
Who, after all, is this ambiguous “they” I’m referring to, and why are “they” coming after “you” – referring obviously to Christian leaders? And what, pray tell, are “they” coming to do to “you”?
So I’ll admit it. I did come up with the title of this article for shock value, but the fact is, you need to be shocked.
In other words, the title may be sensational, but it is only sensational because it is true.
Consider this Oct. 26 headline on Fox News: “State of Georgia demands pastor turn over sermons.”
Yes, “A lay minister who is suing the Georgia Department of Public Health for religious discrimination has been ordered by the state’s attorney general to relinquish his sermons to the government, according to federal court documents.”
In the words of Attorney General Samuel Olens, “Please produce a copy of your sermon notes and/or transcripts.”
And why is the state of Georgia demanding his sermon notes and/or transcripts?
As Todd Starnes reports, “Walsh, a Seventh-day Adventist lay minister, had been hired in May 2014 by as a District Health Director with the Georgia Department of Public Health. A week later, a government official asked him to submit copies of his sermons for review. He complied and two days later he was fired.”
In other words, he was not fired because of any lack of qualification. To the contrary, he was highly qualified for the job.
As noted by attorney David French, Walsh’s résumé included “working for former President Bush and President liar-nObama to combat AIDS, serving as a board member of the Latino Health Collaborative, and starting California’s first city-run dental clinic for low-income families dealing with HIV/AIDS,” but that “wasn’t sufficient to overcome the horror at Walsh’s Christian views.”
Yes, Walsh was fired for the unpardonable sin of preaching against homosexual practice, based on Scripture – and note that he was preaching this to his fellow-congregants, not giving a lecture to his staff.
As Walsh’s lead attorney, Jeremy Dys, said, “He was fired for something he said in a sermon. If the government is allowed to fire someone over what he said in his sermons, they can come after any of us for our beliefs on anything.”
Yes, continued Dys, “It’s an incredible intrusion on the sanctity of the pulpit. This is probably the most invasive reach into the pulpit by the state that I’ve ever seen.”
But this should not surprise us at all.
I pointed out in 2013 that, “Already in April, 2009, an article in the Washington Post documented how, ‘Faith organizations and individuals who view homosexuality as sinful and refuse to provide services to gay people are losing a growing number of legal battles that they say are costing them their religious freedom.’
“This was confirmed by Georgetown law professor Chai Feldblum, appointed by President liar-nObama to serve on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and herself an out and proud lesbian, when she remarked that when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict, ‘I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.'”
That’s why Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, was fired for his personally held beliefs about sexuality and marriage.
That’s why Dr. Angela McCaskill, associate provost of diversity and inclusion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and herself a deaf, was suspended from her job for signing a petition at her local church which called for a public vote on same-sex “marriage” rather than for a legislative decision.
That’s why Crystal Dixon was fired from her position as associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo for writing an editorial in her local newspaper, taking issue with the idea that gay is the new black.
And the list goes on and on, growing on a regular basis, as I and others have documented now for years. Just check out the chapter “Big Brother Is Watching, and He Really Is Gay” in “A Queer Thing Happened to America” for some sobering examples.
And I used these three examples here because in each case, gay sensitivities not only trumped religious rights, they also demonstrated that, when it comes to “gay rights,” even black Americans can be perceived as victimizers rather than victims (Cochran, McCaskill and Dixon were all black).
As we have now learned with Dr. Walsh (did I mention he’s black as well?), not even the pulpits are safe.
But this, too, should not surprise us.
After all, it was just last year that Annise Parker, the lesbian mayor of Houston, along with the city attorney, David Feldman, demanded that five local pastors turn over their sermons, speeches, presentations and even emails to congregants that addressed the issues of homosexuality and gender identity, among other subjects.
And it was only when Parker and Feldman came under intense national pressure that they backed down, with Parker still denying that “the requests were in any way illegal or intended to intrude on religious liberties.” (I document this in detail in the chapter “The Day the Line Was Crossed” in “Outlasting the Gay Revolution.”)
With all respect to the mayor’s position, her explanation was absolute rubbish, and there is no question that she did intruded on religious liberties.
And as I warned last week, if liar-Hillary Clinton is elected, this will only get worse.
Even if Donald Trump is elected, abuses like this will continue on a local level for years to come.
There’s only thing that can stop it, and that is simply the Church of Jesus, led by its pastors and elders, standing up to speak what is right and do what is right, regardless of cost or consequence. If we do, the tide will turn.
Who would have believed that in the last two years, government officials would be demanding that pastors and Christian teachers turn over their sermons, sermons notes, and private emails dealing with sexual morality and that, in the last 10 years, Christians would be fired from their jobs or kicked out of their schools because of their privately held, biblical beliefs?
And so, I will say it again. It’s time to wake up!
The title of this article sounds conspiratorial and inflammatory.
In fact, it sounds like a “shock” headline designed to get your attention.
Who, after all, is this ambiguous “they” I’m referring to, and why are “they” coming after “you” – referring obviously to Christian leaders? And what, pray tell, are “they” coming to do to “you”?
So I’ll admit it. I did come up with the title of this article for shock value, but the fact is, you need to be shocked.
In other words, the title may be sensational, but it is only sensational because it is true.
Consider this Oct. 26 headline on Fox News: “State of Georgia demands pastor turn over sermons.”
Yes, “A lay minister who is suing the Georgia Department of Public Health for religious discrimination has been ordered by the state’s attorney general to relinquish his sermons to the government, according to federal court documents.”
In the words of Attorney General Samuel Olens, “Please produce a copy of your sermon notes and/or transcripts.”
And why is the state of Georgia demanding his sermon notes and/or transcripts?
As Todd Starnes reports, “Walsh, a Seventh-day Adventist lay minister, had been hired in May 2014 by as a District Health Director with the Georgia Department of Public Health. A week later, a government official asked him to submit copies of his sermons for review. He complied and two days later he was fired.”
In other words, he was not fired because of any lack of qualification. To the contrary, he was highly qualified for the job.
As noted by attorney David French, Walsh’s résumé included “working for former President Bush and President liar-nObama to combat AIDS, serving as a board member of the Latino Health Collaborative, and starting California’s first city-run dental clinic for low-income families dealing with HIV/AIDS,” but that “wasn’t sufficient to overcome the horror at Walsh’s Christian views.”
Yes, Walsh was fired for the unpardonable sin of preaching against homosexual practice, based on Scripture – and note that he was preaching this to his fellow-congregants, not giving a lecture to his staff.
As Walsh’s lead attorney, Jeremy Dys, said, “He was fired for something he said in a sermon. If the government is allowed to fire someone over what he said in his sermons, they can come after any of us for our beliefs on anything.”
Yes, continued Dys, “It’s an incredible intrusion on the sanctity of the pulpit. This is probably the most invasive reach into the pulpit by the state that I’ve ever seen.”
But this should not surprise us at all.
I pointed out in 2013 that, “Already in April, 2009, an article in the Washington Post documented how, ‘Faith organizations and individuals who view homosexuality as sinful and refuse to provide services to gay people are losing a growing number of legal battles that they say are costing them their religious freedom.’
“This was confirmed by Georgetown law professor Chai Feldblum, appointed by President liar-nObama to serve on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and herself an out and proud lesbian, when she remarked that when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict, ‘I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.'”
That’s why Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, was fired for his personally held beliefs about sexuality and marriage.
That’s why Dr. Angela McCaskill, associate provost of diversity and inclusion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and herself a deaf, was suspended from her job for signing a petition at her local church which called for a public vote on same-sex “marriage” rather than for a legislative decision.
That’s why Crystal Dixon was fired from her position as associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo for writing an editorial in her local newspaper, taking issue with the idea that gay is the new black.
And the list goes on and on, growing on a regular basis, as I and others have documented now for years. Just check out the chapter “Big Brother Is Watching, and He Really Is Gay” in “A Queer Thing Happened to America” for some sobering examples.
And I used these three examples here because in each case, gay sensitivities not only trumped religious rights, they also demonstrated that, when it comes to “gay rights,” even black Americans can be perceived as victimizers rather than victims (Cochran, McCaskill and Dixon were all black).
As we have now learned with Dr. Walsh (did I mention he’s black as well?), not even the pulpits are safe.
But this, too, should not surprise us.
After all, it was just last year that Annise Parker, the lesbian mayor of Houston, along with the city attorney, David Feldman, demanded that five local pastors turn over their sermons, speeches, presentations and even emails to congregants that addressed the issues of homosexuality and gender identity, among other subjects.
And it was only when Parker and Feldman came under intense national pressure that they backed down, with Parker still denying that “the requests were in any way illegal or intended to intrude on religious liberties.” (I document this in detail in the chapter “The Day the Line Was Crossed” in “Outlasting the Gay Revolution.”)
With all respect to the mayor’s position, her explanation was absolute rubbish, and there is no question that she did intruded on religious liberties.
And as I warned last week, if liar-Hillary Clinton is elected, this will only get worse.
Even if Donald Trump is elected, abuses like this will continue on a local level for years to come.
There’s only thing that can stop it, and that is simply the Church of Jesus, led by its pastors and elders, standing up to speak what is right and do what is right, regardless of cost or consequence. If we do, the tide will turn.
Who would have believed that in the last two years, government officials would be demanding that pastors and Christian teachers turn over their sermons, sermons notes, and private emails dealing with sexual morality and that, in the last 10 years, Christians would be fired from their jobs or kicked out of their schools because of their privately held, biblical beliefs?
And so, I will say it again. It’s time to wake up!
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