"Daily Motivations"
The number one, and probably most important, key to consistently doing what's right is actually quite simple: think before you act. -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
Obama's "birth certificate" (Click here for a larger version)
Monday Brief
Vol. 08 No. 51
15 December 2008
THE FOUNDATION
"In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend." --Alexander Hamilton
POLITICAL FUTURES
"Anyone who relies solely on MSM outlets ... may not even know that Obama has, to this day, not authorized the state of Hawaii to release his Certificate of Live Birth -- the 'long form' -- to prove that he is a 'natural born citizen' (NBC), a Constitutional requirement of all presidents. Instead, We, the People, have online access to an Obama document known as a Certification of Live Birth, which, as Randall Hoven explains at American Thinker blog, is a computer-generated short form that is not even accepted by the Hawaii Department of Home Lands as adequate verification of Hawaiian identity. ... Further dimming the online document's Holy Grail aspects, it has been altered -- the certificate's number has been redacted -- which, according to a statement printed on the document, actually invalidates it. But that's not all. Back on Oct. 31, Hawaii's director of health, along with the registrar of Vital Statistics, released a statement verifying that the Hawaii's Department of Health has Obama's 'original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.' Well, that's just great. But no matter how many times this statement from 'Hawaiian authorities' is cited as the NBC clincher, it doesn't prove a thing. It turns out, as Hoven reports, that Hawaii issues birth certificates even for babies born elsewhere, so simply having an original Hawaiian birth certificate 'on record' doesn't answer the key questions. Namely: What exactly does this original birth certificate say? And why doesn't Obama simply authorize the document's release and be done with the question? ... I think it is nothing less than good citizenship to seek to verify that Obama is a 'natural born citizen' since our elites, which include the major political parties and the MSM, failed to bring the matter to its extremely simple resolution long ago. But while important, this isn't just a story about whether we as Americans are right or wrong to ask our president-elect the question about his original birth certificate. It is about whether our president-elect is right or wrong not to answer it." --columnist Diana West
"The Web"
“Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.” -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, French skeptic
"Glass, china, and reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." -- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." -- Ronald Reagan
"Liberty Counsel"
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December 26, 2008
Advancing Liberty and Restoring the Foundations
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Throughout this year, we won numerous victories, esatblished strategic foundations to further advance liberty, life and family in 2009, and forged new alliances to restore the values on which America was founded.
The victories this year are too numerous to list, but here are a few highlights from our Special Year-End Report, (which you can receive for free by calling Liberty Counsel at 800-671-1776.)
*Won three state-wide marriage amendments in Florida, California and Arizona. For the past 4-1/2 years we have defended marriage in California and in Florida, where we wrote the marriage amendment;
*Won a federal lawsuit for Child Evangelism Fellowship when a federal court ordered this historic district in Williamsburg, Virginia to provide equal access for Good News Clubs, and opened the doors for elementary school students to learn the Bible after school in scores of schools throughout the Nation;
* Defeated the ACLU in a major case in Alaska when a court upheld a statewide law providing property tax exemption to church parsonages for school teachers;
* Conducted numerous national briefings for pastors and community leaders, to encourage and inform them about their rights to preach on moral and political issues to confront the culture and shape the Nation’s future;
* Won a case in Wisconsin at the federal court of appeals, in which the court ruled a social worker violated the constitutional rights of two children when she strip-searched them at school without notifying the parents or fully informing the principal of her intentions;
*Conducted training programs for high school and college students to be future political and judicial leaders;
*Gained more victories through our Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign, including our unique "Naughty and Nice" list of retailers;
*Assisted attorneys preparing to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court by hosting practice arguments in Liberty University School of Law's one-of-a-kind Supreme Courtroom -- the the Nation's only replica of the central portion of the U.S. Supreme Court;
*Through the Liberty Center for Law and Policy in Washington, D.C., we provided opportunities for students to work with state and national leaders in all three branches of government.
Join us in grateful reflection on the victories of 2008 as we prepare for the opportunities of 2009. Please take an even stronger stand with Liberty Counsel in the New Year!
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"The email Bag"
PROTECT OUR ORIGINAL "WALL OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE"
I have done a lot of research into Jefferson's intended meaning of the "wall of separation of church and state" that he wrote to the Danbury Baptists, and it's relation to our 1st Amendment rights. It agrees with what Thomas Paine wrote to the Quakers in "Common Sense." Both said that religious organizations in America should not be political organizations like the Catholics were in Europe. That "wall of separation" was supposed to:
(1) Separate the administration of government and religion;
(2) Protect American citizens from tyrannical government-controlled religion and from religion-controlled government;
(3) Allow all American citizens freedom to express their Bible-based religious convictions (whether public employees, in uniform, or private citizens, regardless of Protestant sect) while on government property as well as their own private property.
There are no exception clauses in the 1st Amendment that state or imply freedom of expression, except if it: (a) offends non-believers, or (b) disagrees with beliefs of personnel in higher positions.
Also, that wall has a door that:
(4) Allows God's righteous influence (honesty, unselfishness, morality) into our Government legislation-writing, decision-making and money-spending process; and
(5) Allows outward expressions of their faith in God, not just as their religion, but as principles of the highest quality of life.
In fact, this “Wall” actually protects us from the very things subversive groups like ACLU are trying to do - separate our Government leaders and Public School students from God’s good influences. As long as we have a 1st Amendment to protect our freedoms, who needs the ACLU? (They haven’t a-clue).
No one in America has a Constitutional Right to be offended by respectful expression of our faith, nor to get Government involved (turning their feelings into political and legal issues) to restrict our freedom of expression, nor to justify their lying. Any legal “wall of separation,” should divide expressions that are respectful, true, important and beneficial from those that are selfish, dishonest, profane or immoral.
When taken correctly, in its original context, that “Wall of Separation” actually prevents anyone, whether Government official, Corporate Leader, or private citizen or group, from limiting our freedom to respectfully express religious beliefs. In America, this is how people can learn from each other about the good concepts in each other’s religions, and overcome the false concepts.
Freedom for religious and non-religious Americans is enhanced by Government staying uninvolved, without positive or negative regulations; and allowing God’s influence into our schools through the voluntary efforts of students groups, parents, teachers and “qualified” preachers.
As long as Congress does not make laws to support a particular religion (in violation of the 1st Amendment Establishment clause), and does not prohibit prayer, singing hymns of praise and devotion, and Bible study in public schools (in violation of the Free Exercise clause), these should not be considered as Government (or Corporate) endorsement of a particular religion. HRC, ACLU and atheists welcome to our Bible studies, if you are willing to learn more about God’s love, joy, peace and holiness. -- Chuck Sproull
Message to so-called "atheists" regarding belief in God: No one is born atheist. Everyone believes in God, but some aren't honest enough to admit it. Can light exist for those who choose to open their eyes and who see, and at the same time not exist for those choose to close their eyes? The greatest darkness in this world is behind closed eyelids. Can God exist for believers (who have received objective evidence of His spiritual reality by trusting His word and actually receiving miraculous healings and deliverances) and at the same time not exist for nonbelievers? What advantages do non-believers have? What long-term advantage is there in not believing God's promises? -- Chuck Sproull, Springville IN
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