Tuesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
History's Proven Solution to Barbarism
Dr. Marshall Foster
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Heh -   “Our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret wiretaps, we know about the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email accounts…It is a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent.” – Hilly Clinton in a 2007 jeremiad against the Bush administration.
          [Former Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., led
a years-long effort against Karl Rove and others in the Bush administration over private emails. He sees things differently this time, though, telling Buzzfeed that while “he believed that she should turn all those records over there was a ‘distinction, though, between the presidency of the United States and other people in government.’”]  -Fox News 
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 Glass ceiling high, hard -   Weekly Standard: “In late February, Hilly Clinton, a self-proclaimed champion of women’s rights and gender equity, came under fire for a Washington Free Beacon analysis that showed women on Mrs. Clinton’s staff during her tenure in the Senate were paid an average of 72 cents on the dollar compared to male staff. Now, an analysis of the latest IRS filing for the foundation that bears her name, the Bill, Hilly, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, shows a similar compensation disparity between men and women employees. Although compensation figures are available for only a limited number of Foundation personnel, the 2013 Form 990 filed with the IRS shows that out of eleven highly compensated individuals listed, the top eight are all men.”  -Fox News 
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 LET’S PLAY HARDBALL 
Kathleen Matthews
, chief global communications and public affairs officer for Marriot International and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Politico reports. Van Hollen announced Wednesday that he will vie for the seat being vacated by Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski-Fox News 
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 THE JUDGE’S RULING: nOBAMA GONE ROGUE 
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano examines the constitutionality of separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. “What’s going on is the exercise of authoritarian impulses by a desperate president terrified of powerlessness and irrelevance, the Constitution be damned. I say ‘damned’ because when the president writes laws, whether under the guise of administrative regulations or executive orders, he is effectively damning the Constitution by usurping the powers of Congress.”   -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE... 
  Just a reminder that you live on a truly remarkable planet. The Telegraph: “Huge dust clouds swirling across the Atlantic from northern Africa to South America are pictured in stunning new images released by the US space agency [NASA] that illustrate how Earth’s largest tropical rainforest relies on its biggest, hottest desert to flourish. Scientists have now for the first time calculated how much dust makes this transatlantic journey from the Sahara to the Amazon basin where it fertilises depleted soils with life-sustaining nutrients. Some 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust reaches the Amazon basin each year, according to analysis of three-dimensional imagery supplied by a [NASA] satellite of the massive tan brown plumes that can be seen from space.”   -Fox News 
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Chris Skates is a Paducah resident, columnist and novelist who won the best historical fiction award from the Christian Writers Association for his first novel entitled The Rain. His second novel Going Green was compared by one critic to Grisham and Clancy. Chris has worked and traveled in an Al Quieda dominated region and was greatly enlightened during a private meeting with the son of the founder of Hamas Mossab Hassan Yousef. Chris is available to speak and can be reached at chris@chrisskates.com. <br>PHOTO:Chris Skates
Chris Skates
 Opinion: On Leadership and Courage  
(Chris Skates) - By now, most of you have heard Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech from Tuesday before the House. Words are cheap these days and our society is all too loose, free and easy with exaggerated praise...No exaggeration here, the Prime Minister’s speech was epic. It was powerful, historic even, considering the march of militant Islam around the world. It was also a speech by a leader desperate to find a kindred spirit and an intellectual equal among a body that is supposed to consist of other leaders. I do not consider myself a Zionist. I do not believe that Israel is always right in everything it does. Yet it is right on this and the issue is not debatable. Iran is a rogue state that endangers the West as well as Israel if it possesses a nuclear bomb. What’s more, negotiations with the granddaddy of all terror states can only be engaged in by the breathtakingly naïve, or perhaps those too cowardly to face the daunting reality of Islamic terror as we now know it. (Even as I write this, the intelligence community has disclosed that Iranian General Suleimani and the elite Iranian Quds Force are suddenly fighting alongside our supposed ally, Iraq. That self-same ally into which the US has poured billions of dollars and unspeakable gallons of blood from our valiant military.) What in our past three decades of painful interaction with this country leads anyone to believe that they will do what they say? Besides, thus far the White House and State Department haven’t even gotten Iran to say they will do anything of substance.       http://www.westkentuckystar.com/Opinion/Commentary/Opinion-On-Leadership-and-Courage.aspx
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 Climate scientists accuse Democrat of McCarthyism  
(Rob Nikolewski) - Judith Curry, a decorated climate scientist at Georgia Tech, says research tells her the earth is warming. But she’s isn’t sure how much of a role humans have played...For that, Curry says, she has been targeted by members of Congress in a new version of McCarthyism. Curry is one of seven climate scientists whose universities received a letter from U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources. The letter last week questions their impartiality and demands the schools provide Grijalva financial information about the scientists.       http://watchdog.org/203008/climate-scientists-mccarthyism/
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 Islamic Tribunal Using Sharia Law In Texas Has Been Confirmed  
(Dylan) - Texas has confirmed the existence of an Islamic tribunal in Texas that will make judgments in accordance with Sharia law. The website for the Islamic tribunal states... “It is with this issue that Muslims here in America are obligated to find a way to solve conflicts and disputes according to the principles of Islamic Law and its legal heritage of fairness and justice in a manner that is reasonable and cost effective.” Islamic Tribunal Using Sharia Law In Texas Has Been Confirmed. The website states that Sharia’s well known criminal law, which includes things like cutting off hands of offenders, is only a portion of Sharia law. This tribunal would not do such things, but will focus on civil Sharia law rather than criminal Sharia law. They still have not be given the authority to do so in the state of Texas.     http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/03/08/bombshell-video-islamic-tribunal-using-sharia-law-in-texas-has-been-confirmed/#
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 There are months, and months, and months of gaps In Clinton email  
(Andrew C. McCarthy) - Time Magazine and titled “Clinton checks her PDA in sunglasses upon departure in a military plane from Malta, bound for Tripoli, on October 18, 2011.”...She claims the removal as part of a campaign to raise awareness of women’s rights. However, given the nature of this Gowdy revelation it’s easy to see the real motivation. During an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” today, Rep. Trey Gowdy said there are “huge gaps” in the emails he has received from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3XIsKDZ_k
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Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge.
 Man spotted at Harvard seeking aid for ISIS-connected charity  
(Rebecca Fiore) - Harvard officials say they have notified members of the university community that an unidentified man came to the Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday who said he was soliciting donations for a charity connected to the Islamic State militant group... “At this time there does not appear to be a threat to the community, but we felt that it was important to notify members of our community. We have also notified the Harvard University Police Department,” the university said Friday in an e-mailed statement. “He has not been seen on the campus since that time,” the statement said.       http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/06/harvard-officials-notify-community-after-report-man-seeking-contributions-for-isis-connected-charity/DV3DQVG0xoMuNbegrNtx5K/story.html
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 Sharia USA: Delaware Radio Host Fired for Islamic Comments  
(pamelageller.com) - The norming of sharia. What this radio host said is not unreasonable, and even less grounds for firing, but that is where we are in the US. Perhaps he could have packaged it better, but is that where we are?...Yes. Every thought has to be pre-screened and edited for consumption? It’s like we are living in an Islamic country. Shredding the first amendment. Muslim armies across the world are waging holy war in the cause of Islam. The human toll is unfathomable, the body count daily. American Muslims are flocking to join the jihad and we are not allowed to talk about the threat here at home. If I lived in Delaware, I would be protesting this radio station. Adding insult to injury or should I say terror to sharia, USA Today asks a terror-linked group, CAIR, for comment. That’s rich, but it illustrates just how twisted this whole conflict has become.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/sharia-usa-delaware-radio-host-fired-for-islamic-comments.html/
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 How Easily Lies About Gaza Are Swallowed  
(Ryan Jones) - Gaza is a difficult place to live, to say the least. And in its current condition, the terrorist-ruled coastal enclave provides a tantalizingly easy propaganda tool with which to smear Israel...Even mundane news about annual weather cycles can be used to feed the anti-Israel machine. Such was the case late last month when media outlets around the world (not only the Arab Press) frantically reported that Israel was deliberately flooding residential areas in Gaza by opening dams in the southern Negev region. Not only did these professional journalists fail to fact-check the story, they didn’t even bother to notice that the same false rumor has been propagated every winter for the past several years.       http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26188/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=No-sidebar-news-1&utm_content=1645
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 nObama's Assault on the Constitution  
(David Limbaugh) - One of the many reasons constitutional conservatives consider President nObama a threat to the Constitution is his disdain for the separation of powers, illustrated most recently in his plan to bypass the Senate in making an arms deal with Iran...The Framers understood that throughout history, the real threat to God-given liberty had been centralized, unchecked governmental power. As such, they crafted our system in a way to limit the consolidation of that power, especially in the federal government. If he goes ahead and by-pass congress on this issue, he definitely needs to be impeach and congress needs to get off their butts and act.        http://americanactionnews.com/articles/obama-s-assault-on-the-constitution
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 Another Illegal nObamaCare Action - This Time Bailing Out Insurers  
(Josh Withrow) - While the Supreme Court is considering the King v. Burwell case about the IRS illegally funding a part of nObamaCare (the subsidies), last week it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has…illegally funded another part of nObamaCare...At issue is nearly $3 billion in payments made to insurers to help cover losses caused by nObamaCare’s various regulations and insurance mandates – effectively a bailout to prevent insurers from raising prices as much next year. The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein writes:       http://www.freedomworks.org/content/another-illegal-obamacare-action-time-bailing-out-insurers
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                 Arabs Stand With Israel

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 Arabs stand with Israel against nObama  
(James Simpson) - President nObama has ushered in a world that defines the statement “truth is stranger than fiction.” Defying his oath to “support and defend the U.S. Constitution…” nObama has in a few short years turned the world upside down...He has sided with our enemies against our friends in the Middle East, and has worked assiduously to “negotiate” a deal allowing Iran to obtain the bomb. He supported the successful effort to depose Hosni Mubarak, one of our most loyal Arab allies, and more importantly, promoted his replacement with the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization responsible for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the rise of al Qaeda and practically every other Islamic terrorist organization in the world. In Libya nObama forced America to side with al Qaeda linked groups to overthrow Qaddafi – an action which eventuated in the murder of an ambassador, two US Navy SEALS and one other American. Now one of those Islamist “friends” has become ISIS’s representative in Libya.      http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/03/08/arabs-stand-with-israel-against-obama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
History's Proven Solution to Barbarism
Dr. Marshall Foster
 
     (worldhistoryinstitute.com) - The “civilized” world is in shock as it is bombarded daily with scenes of kidnaping, burning or beheading of Christians, journalists, aid workers and soldiers.

      What hope is there of ever ending such barbarity by Islamic radicals like ISIS? The story of one man who confronted a nation filled with human sacrifice, genocide and sex slavery, can give us lasting encouragement. This man’s name was Patrick. We know him today as St. Patrick, the founder of Ireland. There once was a land so barbaric and backward that even the Roman Empire refused to go there. Early medieval maps designated the unmapped territory of Ireland with the title “Here do be monsters.”

     Over 1,000 Irish slave traders attacked a small town on the northwest coast of Britain in 405 A.D. Their goal? - To capture hundreds of Christian youth and sell them into slavery back in Ireland. Sixteen year old Patrick was beaten, bound and thrown into the raider’s ship and quickly transported back to Ireland along with hundreds of other youth. There this Celtic boy, the son of a Christian elder and nobleman, was sold as a slave to a pagan, druid warlord named Miliucc in the frozen north of the Island.

      Approaching Miliucc’s fort, Patrick would have seen human skulls hanging from the pointed stakes which formed the palisade, the defensive wall. Druids believed that the human head was the seat of the soul of their enemies. They drank from their skulls and they hung the shrunken heads of rivals on their belts. It was a culture of death, similar to the modern ISIL. They even used the same techniques of sacrifice to their pagan gods as the Islamic radicals of today, such as burning their captives alive in cages.

      During Patrick’s ordeal he would have witnessed the Celtic pagan ritual of Beltaine during which a colossal wicker cage in the form of a man was  assembled – the Wicker Man. Many rival clansmen, runaway slaves and even innocent children were crammed inside this cage.

      Then the Wicker Man was set aflame. In the fiery inferno the screams of the victims could be heard for miles delighting the chief and terrorizing the people. During his captivity, as he barely survived in the open fields tending sheep, Patrick prayed over a hundred times a day. According to his own writings he was radically converted to a sincere faith in Christ.

      After six years in captivity Patrick writes that God spoke to him saying, “Your ship is ready” and directed him to escape to the eastern coastline. He boarded the ship and eventually came home to Britain and his family. But not long after, God spoke to Patrick in a dream and he heard Irish voices saying, “Please, holy boy, come and walk among us again.”

     Patrick heard the call and after years of preparation he sold his noble title, bought three small sail boats and took twelve friends with him to go back to serve the people that had enslaved him as a boy. Over the next 30 years, beginning in 435, Patrick preached the loving gospel of forgiveness to the Stone Age culture of Ireland, whose people were still enslaved to druid gods of death and human sacrifice.

      With no army, facing almost certain death, Patrick proclaimed the true God of loving kindness and forgiveness with such power that the youth, especially, were challenged to abandon their gods of fear and violence and give themselves to the great cause of liberating the hearts of people all over the world.

      Author Thomas Cahill explains how he envisioned the Irish pagans of the 5th century responding to Patrick’s message. The Irish must have thought “We can put away our knives and abandon our altars. These are no longer required…He has given us His own Son, and we are washed clean in the blood of this lamb. God does not hate us; He loves us.”

     Without an army or support from the Roman church, Patrick went from town to town setting up over 300 churches, schools and monasteries. He trained thousands of ministers who began to translate and preserve the great documents of antiquity in desolate, cold monastic outposts on the edge of civilization. Cahill says, “as the Roman Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish … took up the great labor of copying all of  Western literature….Without the Mission of the Irish Monks, who single-handedly re-founded European Civilization throughout the continent… the world that came after them would have been an entirely different one – a world without books. And our own world would have never come to be.” Patrick and his disciples also were the first nation to end sex trafficking and slavery.

     But how is this “early history” relevant to us today in our current struggle with radical Islam and atheistic Communism? Patrick illustrates history’s only proven strategy that has subdued the blood-lust of lost souls from any pagan ideology to give up their beheading ways. Ireland was no aberration. Its peaceful transformation became an example which has been repeated in nations worldwide. Let us proclaim, with sincere humility, the God-honoring fact that the tyrannical pagan nations of Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France, England, America, Australia, New Zealand and dozens of other nations have been peacefully liberated by Jesus, the true Liberator. Civilization, based on the rule of law, however, stands on the brink of collapse because we have forgotten the source of our civility – the God of the Bible.

      The biblical strategy of liberty, although primarily based upon the voluntary conversion and transformation of individuals, does not preclude the necessity in this fallen world of restraining evil by force. It is a self-evident truth, confirmed throughout the Scriptures, that all people have a right and a duty of self-defense against lawless rogues. While rebuilding pagan nations can never be accomplished by force, the military, led by civil magistrates (Romans 13, Gen. 9) has the right and responsibility, as do the people, to defend themselves and their land from attack. See the “Christian Just War Theory” for details.

      John Calvin was faced with the extinction of Christianity five centuries ago in Europe at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. The great Biblicist put the major responsibility for the future of Christendom in the right place – right at the steps of the church. Calvin said “Until the Church finds the will and heart to reach the Muslims with the Gospel we shall always be at peril.” So it is today.

      The church has the major responsibility, as God’s Ambassadors of reconciliation, to reach the unreachable and disciple the nations, remembering that Christians also were all at one time “dead in our trespasses and sins.”

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