When I saw this on the local news last night I to a point.  But this kind of *treatment* for those with it has been going on for a long long time.   I have watched how the teens of those with money get away with the wildest of things and never get punished.  If the poor kid did these things […]

County postpones shelter match decision By Karen Sells Assistant Editor A decision on whether Washington County will match Johnson City’s increased support of the animal control center will likely be postponed until the first of 2014, though an approval may not be in the best long-term interest of the organization. During a review of the annual audit, Mike Eddy of […]

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial renewable fuel mandate, which determines the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that refineries must blend into the nation’s fuel supply. The EPA and Energy Department officials are among those set to testify at the Wednesday hearing. The debate over renewable fuels […]

Changing the rules of the game by government & corporate America has left Middleclass America devoid of any state and national representation(helpless). Government & corporate America’s energies are directed solely for the benefit of the elite & 3rd World minorities, legal & illegal—votes, political power, & wealth. The following is a microcosm of the constitutional, political, & economic dismantling taking […]

The Judge speaking the TRUTH! Thanks to Andy for sending this….

By: Michael Hammond / The RedState Greta Van Susteren claims not to like ObamaCare.  Last night alone, she talked about how ObamaCare was destroying the insurance industry, destroying medical practice, compromising your privacy, and insuring that (unlike the “1%”) you would not have access to the top doctors treating your serious medical condition (and would be forced to die). Minutes later, […]

By: Erick Erickson I am old enough to remember when the GOP said not to worry about it caving on Obamacare funding because, by God, it would hold the line on sequestration. Hell, that was a month ago. Amazing how much can change in a month.  Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray have decided to give up the last […]

By Russell Berman and Erik Wasson / The Hill Editor’s Note: A sad day for conservatives. How do we know…. Obama praises Ryan-Murray budget pact Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a budget deal Tuesday evening that would call for about $1 trillion in federal spending in 2014 while replacing some sequestration cuts. The deal replaces […]

1. Congressional   negotiators reach a budget deal House and Senate budget negotiators agreed   Tuesday to raise military and domestic spending over two years and shift the   burden of across-the-board cuts to other programs. The two-year deal   eliminates $65 billion in spending cuts under the sequester, while saving $25   billion by extending two-percent cuts in Medicare […]

Written by Bill Donohue with staff edits “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” opened December 6th at the Oklahoma City Civic Center; it lasts until Dec. 22. When it opened in the East Village in New York in 1998, I said, “it sounds like a routine homosexual play: full-frontal male nudity, filthy language, discussions of body parts, butch lesbians, effeminate […]

By William A. Donohue Even though roughly 80 percent of Americans are Christian, 96 percent celebrate Christmas. Can non-Christians and non-believers really celebrate Christmas? To some extent they can, just the same way those who are not Irish can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: they can partake in the fun aspects of it, but that’s it. At bottom, it’s a hollow […]

December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year. There are 14 days till Christmas. Holidays Christian Feast Day: Daniel the Stylite Pope Damasus I Victoricus, Fuscian, and Gentian Human Rights and Peace Day (Kiribati) Indiana Day (United States) International Mountain […]

 ”Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis. Schulz’s first regular cartoons, Li’l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the […]

 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. —Romans 12:2 A friend was looking for a church to join and told me she had found just what she was looking for: “I like this church because I don’t have to change my lifestyle of partying. It doesn’t make me feel guilty or […]

By Joe Kovacs WND Original Article She’s the intelligent, gorgeous, Democratic commentator at Fox News who has been an atheist for much of her life until she says she had a personal encounter with Jesus. It was in 2006 during an overseas trip that Kirsten Powers says, “I woke up in what felt like a strange cross between a dream […]

Original Post WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice to respond to a petition to appeal from a Christian homeschooling family that is fighting deportation to their homeland of Germany. As previously reported, Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several years while […]

1. Obama   eulogizes Mandela at memorial service President Obama joined 100 other world   leaders at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in a Johannesburg soccer   stadium on Tuesday. Obama said the late South African leader was an inspiration to him, personally, and an example of the power of   reconciliation. Former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and […]

by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Original Post Remember when Pope Francis gave that interview? And he said something heretical-sounding? And all orthodox Christians blew a fuse? And it turned out the interview wasn’t proofread and Francis never said that? Good times. One of the people who blew a gasket was the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, calling the Pope’s interview a “theological […]

Todd Starnes is reporting that Mikey Weinstein and his Freedom From Religion group got a call from some ‘emotionally troubled’ military soldiers because they saw a nativity scene at Shaw Air Force Base. Weinstein immediately went into action, calling the Pentagon and they had it removed in 2 hours. I’m sure these military soldiers will need years of counseling to […]