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Until now, I haven’t felt anything particularly bad about Barack Obama, the candidate who’s pretty much locked-up the Democrat nomination for President of the United States. I disagree with him on pretty much everything, and I sure as heck won’t be voting for him. But I’m a guy who knows how to draw a line between not seeing eye to eye with someone, and being able to like him or her as a person. I’m blessed to have friends from many different ideologies and philosophies and even what some would consider “other lifestyles”. Doesn’t mean that I approve of those things, but I’m not gonna stop that from considering someone to be a person that needs to be loved by me just as God loves them. Just one of the ways I’ve realized over the years is how I’m supposed to be a witness for Christ to others, I ...

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Ron Paul has ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Instead of conceding however, Paul has shifted gears and is channeling the resources of his political aspiration into the Campaign for Liberty.

Most readers here know that I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter of Dr. Paul, what with the pictures of him that I did in Photoshop and the video that was posted on YouTube. Heck, I even made a Ron Paul Jack-o’-Lantern for this past Halloween! And last month I finally got to meet him.

So now, he’s winding-down his drive for the Oval Office. What do I make of this?

Personally, I think that in years to come the Ron Paul presidential campaign is going to be one of the most appreciated things to have happened in the era of modern American politics. But that’s not going to happen before some very...

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Barack Obama is suggesting a $15 billion tax on the profits of oil companies. That would allegedly be used to provide $1000 of tax relief for families and other “assistance”.

This is a worse idea than George W. Bush’s “stimulus” package… and that’s already the most irresponsible and foolish bit of enacted legislation that I’ve seen in Lord knows how long.

Does Obama believe that his proposal is going to slash the cost of fuel, which is soaring well past the ability of most people to easily afford? If anything it’s going to make those costs increase even more dramatically. The oil companies will simply pass along the expense to their customers.

Obama’s only motivation in forwarding this idea is that he wants to tap into the seething rage that many people are now feeling toward the oil companies, which are enjoying record profits. It’s just a gimmick he’s ...

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Regarding Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina that a few days ago caused a furor with it’s vile church sign attempting to link presidential candidate Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden: today it’s being reported that Pastor Roger Byrd chickened out and removed the message.

And why did Byrd do this in the first place? In his own words…

“His name is so close to Osama I feeling might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ.”

Ummmm… saywhu…?

So simply because “Obama” sounded “Islamic” (whatever the hell that means) that this meant he automatically had to be assigned a religion? Isn’t that fully counter to everything that Jesus, and then Paul and the other apostles, preached?

Roger Byrd can’t get out of this no matter what he tries. It’s obvious to everyone that this was a petty blow, motivated by worldly politics, that did nothing but inflict damage ...

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Could somebody please tell me where there is a scriptural mandate for what the Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina is doing with their sign?

From the story at WYFF in Greenville’s website…

Small Church’s Obama Sign Causes Big Controversy

POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT April 21, 2008
UPDATED: 10:18 pm EDT April 21, 2008

JONESVILLE, S.C. — The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.

Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.

It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?”

Byrd said that the message wasn’t meant to be racial or political.

“It’s simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in

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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain using WWE Pro Wrestling to pimp themselves.

America really is turning into that movie Idiocracy, isn’t it?

What a contrast. Last night we watched the finale of HBO’s John Adams, which conveyed the virtue and nobility of the Founding Fathers as beautifully as any production that possibly comes to mind. And less than 24 hours later, we see what has become of the fruits of their labors and sacrifice: three of the worst possible candidates for office of President of the United States, using metaphorical bread and circuses to reach out to what is supposed to be an enlightened constituency.

Some smart-alec is probably going to say that this is nothing different than when Richard Nixon appeared on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. But I disagree. Laugh-In was a smart show, and had serious cultural relevance. And that was just a ...

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I’ve a nasty suspicion that this is only a taste of what’s barreling toward us…

So I was headed west down I-40 from a day trip to Raleigh (which I’ll be posting about tomorrow) this afternoon and around Burlington, I started flicking through radio stations.

And as I was going across the AM dial just after 5 p.m. I happened to catch some pastor preaching with all due exuberance and conviction that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is “the Antichrist”. This pastor also added that just as the Antichrist does not have “a single Christian ounce in his body” that Obama is going to Hell.

I checked the frequency. It was 880 AM. Which means it was a broadcast of WPIP, a radio ministry out of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.

Not that this really surprises me.

Apart from sporadic music, from sunrise to sunset WPIP’s broadcasting is pretty ...

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Seriously, I don’t really know what’s going on. I’ve had better things to occupy myself with during the past few days.

But I’m seeing “Obama” and “pastor” come up quite a lot in news headlines lately. So what’s the big deal?

And why should I care?

Why should any of us care, for that matter?...

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Me calling into Star Talk on WGSR Star 39 a few nights ago…

I’ve voted in every election for as long as I’ve ever been able to be a registered voter. And more than that, I’ve gone the extra mile and run for public office. Nobody can ever accuse me of being an apathetic citizen.

But I mean it: as things stand now, I won’t be casting a vote for either the Democrat or Republican nominee for President this year. Because none of these people have demonstrated that they sincerely want to serve the American people.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. There is no excuse for it.

Not once did I vote for Bill Clinton, and not once did I ever vote for George W. Bush. The two worst Presidents in American history can never claim that I cast a ballot for them. ...

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