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In his latest essay, Chuck Baldwin – pastor and the Constitution Party’s candidate for President – presents a very strong case that in spite of their words, most of today’s Christians… do not truly place their faith in God at all, but rather put their faith in their own understanding and the schemes of this world.

Writes Baldwin…

Most everyone, including Christian people, realize that our country is in a mess. They readily agree that a divine healing is needed. They even use the great stories and examples of the Bible to teach our boys and girls how to obey and trust God. They extol the examples of Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Simon Peter and the Apostles, etc. They use these stories to illustrate the importance of putting obedience to God and God’s principles above the machinations and demands of men.

When it comes to voting for and

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MSNBC has an article about conservative-leaning members of the Republican Party who are trying to de-rail what they see as John McCain’s extreme policies regarding immigration, the environment and several other issues. Lots of the Republican “grassroots” don’t want McCain’s views to be implemented in the party’s official platform when they have their upcoming national convention.

But this quote by a McCain spokesperson says it all…

“We are confident that this process will produce a platform that all Republicans will enthusiastically support,” said Joe Pounder, a McCain spokesman. “Our party is united, and will continue to work together to elect John McCain in November.”

This is by and large the line by the Republican National Committee as well.

Once again, as has happened too many times from “the party of principle”, the Republicans are going to throw out all principle just for sake of getting “an electable candidate”.

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Mark Rich of The New York Times has a good write-up of the new Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E, and how it might serve as a mirror of the times we live in…

The “Wall-E” crowds were primed by the track record of its creator, Pixar Animation Studios, and the ecstatic reviews. But if anything, this movie may exceed its audience’s expectations. It did mine.

As it happened, “Wall-E” opened the same summer weekend as the hot-button movie of the 2004 campaign year, Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Ah, the good old days. Oil was $38 a barrel, our fatalities in Iraq had not hit 900, and only 57 percent of Americans thought their country was on the wrong track. (Now more than 80 percent do.) “Wall-E,” a fictional film playing to a far larger audience, may touch a more universal chord in this far gloomier time.

Indeed, sitting among rapt children

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Just less than a month ago there was lots of excitement about a tribe of people living deep in the Brazilian jungle that had been photographed from the air. It was claimed at the time that these villagers were just now being discovered for the first time.

In the past few days it’s been determined that this was a lie on the part of the photographer.

José Carlos Meirelles has admitted that authorities have known about the tribe since at least 1910! He took the photos and still claimed that these people had been completely undiscovered until his aerial reconnaissance. Why? Because he wanted it to seem like they were a truly lost tribe so that more attention would be given toward the issue of the impact of logging in the Amazon basin.

In other words: it was a lie driven by a political agenda.

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Ross Perot was the first man that I ever voted for President, and almost 16 years later I’m still proud to say that. Heck, I still have the “Ross for Boss in ’92” button that I had made at a crafts fair at our high school, along with some “Perot for President” yard signs and bumper stickers from when I volunteered for his Rockingham County campaign. Yeah I’ve come to disagree with him on some things over the years (so far as I know he still backs abortion “rights”) but other than Ron Paul, I don’t know if we’ve ever had anyone run for President in the past 20 years who had Perot’s grasp of fiscal responsibility. If Perot had any flaws regarding his bid for office, I’ve come to believe that they were that (a) he started as an outsider who tried to play by the rules of the ...

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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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Sue Everhart, chairlady of the Georgia Republican Party, has said that John McCain is comparable to Jesus Christ…

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.”

Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.

What’s worse in my mind is that Everhart is ascribing divinity to the United States: basically saying that America is like God.

So between a South Carolina church trying to connect Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden and ...

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Lisa and I had an unusual perspective from which to watch the returns of yesterday’s North Carolina primary election: since I’ve been treasurer for Eric H. Smith’s campaign for statewide Superintendent of Public Instruction, we spent the evening at “campaign headquarters”. That being Eric’s house.

We had a very fun time! In addition to getting to play with Eric’s eighteen-month old son there was also good food courtesy of Eric’s wonderful wife Kelly. We had their high-def television tuned to one of the regional stations while Eric’s computer fed us constant returns from the North Carolina Board of Elections website.

When all was said and done, Eric came in 2nd in the Republican primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction, with 25% of the votes cast. Richard Morgan will go on to the general election in November with 51% of the votes.

So are we disappointed? If we were, I didn’t ...

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My precinct is at Reidsville Middle School. I just returned from there. Here is a photograph that I took of my ballot in today’s North Carolina primary election. As you can see I cast my vote for Ron Paul for President… and it’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed having so clean a conscience in voting for a presidential candidate! None of that “hold my nose and pull the lever” here.

How many other people will be able to say that? Not nearly enough, probably.

I also voted for Eric H. Smith for statewide Superintendent of Public Instruction. But since I’m his campaign treasurer, y’all probably knew that was a given, too.

There may or may not have been other candidates and/or measures that I gave consideration toward. Parse that however you will.

On an ironic note, someone has told me that over at Free Republic there are many ...

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