"Daily Motivations"
Appreciation is a free gift that you can give to anyone you encounter – it is completely your choice. -- Barbara Glanz
"The Patriot Post"
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." -- Thomas Paine
"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God." -- John Adams
"The Web"
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.” -- Robert E. Lee
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. -- Will Kommen
Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops. -- Cary Grant
"Liberty Counsel"
Liberty Counsel
The First Amendment Takes a Hit in New Jersey
www.LC.org
The Civil Rights Division of the New Jersey Attorney General's office has announced a "Finding of Probable Cause" that the United Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated state discrimination laws by refusing to rent a church-owned pavilion to two women for a civil union ceremony.
After the women filed a complaint, the Association stopped allowing public use of the pavilion. The clash between same-sex unions and religious freedom is spreading across America, and even our churches are not insulated from anti-Christian hostility.
Read our News Release for more details.
We must work together to win against the rising tide of rabidly anti-faith, anti-God, anything-goes secularism. This is why we must have the resources to face these challenges, continue to represent our many clients and advance our God-given mission in 2009.
If we weaken because our adversaries' strategies are getting darker and darker, we will lose the right to live by our values and to speak God's truth in public. The result is simply unthinkable.
Liberty Counsel does not charge clients for representation. We depend on individuals, groups and churches who care about advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family.
December is a critical time of the year for the mission of Liberty Counsel. This month will largely determine how much we can accomplish in the upcoming year. We ask that you prayerfully consider joining with other friends of Liberty Counsel by giving your best possible year-end gift.
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Mathew D. Staver - Founder and Chairman
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"ACU"
THE CHALLENGES WE FACE IN 2009
First, thank you for your wonderful help this year by participating in ACU's Action Alerts and Petitions in support or in opposition to liberal legislation. You made the difference on many key issues and all of us here at the American Conservative Union are appreciative of your efforts.
As I have said before, without the support of our grassroots activists like you, what we do would simply not be possible.
You and I can continue to make a difference next year. So, before the year ends, I want to make a personal appeal to you to seriously consider make a year-end contribution to the ACU and/or the tax deductibleACU Foundation, ACUF.
To make a Year-End Contribution to the ACU, Visit This Page here.
To help strengthen the Foundation of Conservatism, make a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contribution to the ACU Foundation here.
The 2008 legislative and political year is over. Well, almost.
ACU's good friend, Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss', double-digit runoff election win was wonderful news not only because he is a solid conservative but his re-election denies liberal Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a 60 vote filibuster-proof Chamber.
There is still one Senate seat to be decided in Minnesota between Senator Norm Coleman and his opponent Al Franken where wrangling is happening over absentee ballots.
The result of 2008: the next Senate will have effectively 58 Dems and 41 Republicans when you include the two independents who caucus with the Democrats. In the House, the Democrats will control 257 seats to the Republicans 178 seats when the new session of Congress sits next year.
A few thoughts on the 2008 political climate...
This has been one of the toughest years ever. Over the last few years many Republicans in whom you and I put our faith and trust seemed to forget why they were here. As a result, rather than fighting big government, higher taxes and runaway spending, they either stood aside or acted more like the liberals we have been fighting for so many years. This combined with the string of ethical lapses we woke up to in our newspapers on multiple mornings, destroyed the credibility of the Republican Party and helped set the stage for the results we saw this year.
The fact that President Bush's poll numbers were in the dumpster also contributed to the results. President Bush spoke at the ACUF Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, again last year. In that speech he took credit for his successes including appointing Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito to the Supreme Court. However I was reminded, as were many conservatives, of the struggles we had with the President to contain spending while we were also fighting with a Congress who spent like drunken sailors.
Now they are paying the price. Republican find themselves in as bad a situation as we faced after the Watergate election of 1974 and the election of Jimmy Carter two years later.
Scandals and the abandonment of principled conservative leadership allowed both Jimmy Carter to run to the right in 1976 and Barack Obama to appear as if he was running to right the ship of state this year. Think about it. Barack Obama, according to the ACU ratings, is one of the most left-wind candidates to ever run for President. But voters heard him promising to cut taxes, support school choice and even claim to support 2nd Amendment gun rights.
Liberal Democrat congressional candidates ran with the same right of center message and we have seen the results.
This has to change if we as conservatives are to turn things around. It can be done, and it can be done in a short period of time if we stick together.
To make a Year-End Contribution to the ACU, Visit This Page here.
To help strengthen the Foundation of Conservatism, make a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contribution to the ACU Foundation here.
"Human Events"
"[I]t requires the willing suspension of disbelief to suggest that Mr. Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Governor Blagojevich have not talked since the election."
"Certainly this is an astonishing indictment. On its face it shows a tremendous degree of illegality and of corruption." - Gary Bauer
"The email Bag"
NAILS IN THE FENCE
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
(Most importantly the last sentence)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, 'You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.'
It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you! If it comes back to you, you will then know you have a circle of friends.
YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!
Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family (they need to know that you love them too).
Please forgive me if I have ever left a 'hole' in your fence.
"Dreams"
http://www.adreamsmovie.com/
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