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 2016              The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Purging Christ
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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 The IRS: Still Weaponized Against Conservatives 
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Arnold Ahlert: While Americans remained distracted by the presidential election, the rioting in Charlotte and the terror attacks in New York and New Jersey, some equally important news remained below the radar: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Important because while elections, riots and terror are transient events, IRS power — and the agency's apparent willingness to abuse it — remains a constant threat to the republic.
          During his testimony last Wednesday, Koskinen's demeanor was in sharp contrast to the arrogance he demonstrated when he appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2014. Perhaps that's because he was forced to admit he made false statements two years ago. "Some of my testimony later proved mistaken," he stated.
          Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) wasn't buying it and questioned the Commissioner's earlier assertion that "every email" of former Exempt Organizations Division director Lois Lerner had been preserved. "What did you mean by every email?" Gowdy asked.
          "I meant that every email that the IRS had that I knew of had been preserved," Koskinen stated. "That was my honest belief." "Well why didn't you say that?" Gowdy asked.
          "Well, if I knew then what I know now, I would have testified differently," Koskinen answered. "But at the time, I testified honestly about what I knew and what I'd been told. Nobody regrets more than I do that in some ways this case has been the case that keeps on giving with more information coming out. I wish that all the information had been put out to begin with."
          Such a statement strains credulity. In June 2014, Koskinen asserted that no emails had been destroyed since congressional investigations began. Yet IRS workers erased backup tapes containing many of Lerner's emails in March 2014. Moreover, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) explained that a top senior management official at the agency had learned about missing emails in early 2014, before the backup tapes were destroyed. "We're supposed to believe that's just a coincidence?" Jordan asked.
          Among a rather amazing number of coincidences, apparently. First Americans were told Lerner's records were "accidentally" lost when her desktop computer crashed, as if that were the only device that contained them, despite networked and cloud computing, and redundant email backup systems required by government. Then we learned Lerner's hard drive crashed during a time frame critical to the investigation, and that six additional IRS employees could not produce investigation-related records, with one also citing computer failure as the reason. After that, IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane, in charge of producing documents for congressional investigators, revealed even more IRS officials "have had computer problems over the course of the period covered by the investigations and the chairman's subpoena."
          This coincidental destruction of evidence was so thorough, the House Armed Services Committee asked the NSA and the Defense Department to see if they could find anything. Then it became a question of accessing a secretive government database established for continuity of operations in case of national disaster. At that point the DOJ told Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton it would be "too hard" to retrieve Lerner's emails from that system.
          All of these "coincidences" occurred even as Koskinen told Congress he had "moved heaven and earth" trying to find them — yet that somehow precluded him from notifying Congress immediately after he discovered what had occurred. His excuse? He wanted to produce as many emails as he could before revealing some of them had been destroyed.
          That assertion infuriated Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH). "You circled the wagons, you clammed up, you took the Fifth [Amendment], you destroyed evidence and you betrayed the country," he said, blasting Koskinen. "And most sadly, you got away with it."
          With plenty of help from an equally corrupt DOJ. Despite its own involvement in the scandal, revealed in a series of documents released by Judicial Watch in July 2015, DOJ closed its investigation of IRS corruption in October of that year, with Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik stating in a letter to Congress that the DOJ found "substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints. But poor management is not a crime."
          That "poor management" continues to this day. Despite Koskinen's insistence the IRS is "absolutely not" still targeting Tea Party and other non-profit conservative groups, Jordan revealed otherwise. "You can't sit there and say you're not still targeting," he stated. "These organizations still don't have their tax-exempt status."
          "We would do well to remember just how outrageous the IRS's actions in this matter were," states National Review's editorial board. "Conservative organizations, particularly those with tea-party leanings, were singled out by the IRS and subjected to an extraordinary degree of scrutiny on everything from the political ambitions of their donors (and their donors' family members) to — hard as it is to believe — the contents of their prayers. IRS officials misled and stonewalled Congress and federal investigators. This harassment happened after Democratic grandees including Chuck Schumer and Max Baucus demanded that the IRS investigate tea-party organizations and other entities on the Democrats' enemies list. It was a pure political witch hunt and a gross, criminal misuse of one of the federal government's most fearsome agencies."
          More important, it may have tipped the scales in the 2012 presidential election.
          Nonetheless, Republicans seem determined to maintain their spinelessness in the face of overt corruption. Before last week's hearing, House Republicans agreed to avoid a floor vote on Koskinen's impeachment. Why? GOP leaders surmised the effort could "irritate" voters.
          In other words, GOP leaders would have one believe that so many Americans stand behind the most powerful and misery-inducing agency in the nation that pursuing justice could hurt their election prospects.
          "We will not survive as a free society operating under something roughly resembling the rule of law if federal law-enforcement agencies — which is what the IRS really is — are permitted to run amok," writes columnist Kevin Williams.
          But they are running amok. And liar-Hillary Clinton, who promised to "build on the successes" of the nObama administration, will allow it to continue.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Grading the First Debate 
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As we have said before, voters are tasked this year with electing a candidate who is less unfit than the other. That was abundantly clear in last night's first, generally awful presidential debate between liar-Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the two most unpopular candidates in American history.
          Trump began well enough, with measured temperament, hitting a number of the themes that won him the nomination. He landed good punches on several things — liar-Clinton has experience but it's bad experience, her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal came only after his, and especially how she and Barack nObama created the vacuum that allowed for the rise of the Islamic State.
          Unfortunately, Trump was also his usual pinball self, giving wandering, sometimes downright incoherent answers. That meant he failed to land a couple of key blows against liar-Clinton. For example, even though he slammed her email as "not a mistake," he didn't get to the core issue of her illegal and obfuscating behavior, or the systemic corruption that allowed her to get away with it. And though it was a brilliant stroke to demand liar-Clinton release her 33,000 deleted emails in exchange for his tax returns, he also babbled on and on about being "extremely underleveraged" and so forth, sounding like an out-of-touch rich guy. Why not attack the liar-Clinton Foundation instead? Worse, when liar-Clinton accused him of not paying federal income taxes, he said, "That makes me smart." He practically confirmed liar-Clinton's charge — she couldn't have asked for more.
          In general, Trump took way too much of the bait liar-Clinton (and moderator Lester Holt) threw his way. In too many answers, instead of digging into the issues that resonate with Americans — the disastrous nObama/liar-Clinton record of a lackluster economy and foreign policy disasters around the world — he ended up trying to explain the "small loan" ($14 million!) from his father, or why his insults of Rosie O'Donnell were exactly what she deserved. That only served to make him look like the rich snob and misogynist bully liar-Clinton said he is.
          All that said, the "vibe" he communicated was quintessential Trump, and it has served him well. The overall takeaway is that America is headed in the wrong direction and liar-Clinton will only continue that path. Trump, on the other hand, can fix it.
          As for liar-Clinton, she clearly prepared well. She was so proud of her own preparation, in fact, that she openly boasted about it. liar-Hillary rattled off a State of the Union-worthy list of federal programs and leftist grab-bag items she'd implement or grow. She harped on inequality and how Trump wasn't for the middle class. She sounded like she knew what she was talking about. But for those of us who actually remember the details of her career, it was nothing but lies, sprinkled with divisive race-, class- and sex-bait. Trump "has a long record of engaging in racist behavior," she charged. She might as well have called him deplorable.
          Arguably, liar-Clinton prepared too well, because her vibe was one of robotic rehearsal. You could almost see her thinking, "This is the part where I smile and wait." She awkwardly delivered insults ("Trumped-up trickle-down economics") and was oddly impersonal in recounting her personal story of her father's small business record. liar-Hillary is a lying phony, and that came through loud and clear.
          Finally, Lester Holt was both obviously and discreetly on liar-Clinton's side throughout the night. (What else would we expect from Leftmedia moderators? He ran interference for liar-Clinton several times — twice with overt "fact checks" on Donald Trump, and once by admonishing the audience after many cheered for Trump's attack on liar-Clinton's email. Holt did not similarly admonish the audience for cheering for liar-Hillary. In one confrontation on "stop and frisk" policing, Holt was visibly angry with Trump as he challenged the candidate — and Holt misrepresented the facts, to boot.
          Holt's influence was also blatantly obvious in the topics he chose (and didn't choose). He asked Trump about nObama's birth certificate, Trump's questionable position on the Iraq war (but not liar-Hillary's), and his tax returns. Holt did not ask either candidate about nObamaCare, immigration, the liar-Clinton Foundation, Benghazi, liar-Clinton's email (except to invite her to respond to Trump) or her "basket of deplorables" slander of a quarter of the American population. Holt steered clear of anything that would be inconvenient for liar-Clinton. More than that, one of his questions essentially boiled down to this: "Secretary liar-Clinton is historically awesome. Why don't you think so?"
          Holt clearly got the liar-Clinton memo appealing for such help, and he heard loud and clear the message behind the Left's eviscerating of Matt Lauer after the NBC forum.
          All told, the debate was a complete disservice to the American people. A blatantly biased moderator faced off against one of two unfit candidates, neither of whom successfully made the case that they should be trusted as the leader of the free world. And we're asked to sort it out. Welcome to 2016.  ~The Patriot Post
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Looking for Moderates in All the Wrong Places
by Aaron Kliegman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ In the summer of 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the secret execution of thousands of political prisoners over a two-month period. About 4,500 people were murdered, and the massacre was covered up by a media blackout inside Iran... Twenty-eight years later, the official website of Khomeini’s heir, the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, released an audiotape of an August 15, 1988, meeting on the purges. Montazeri can be heard lashing out at the clergymen present for facilitating the mass killings, declaring, “You all will be judged as the biggest criminals in history.” The audiotape reveals the ruthlessness of the clergymen, some of whom—like Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi and senior judiciary official Hossein Ali Nayeri—hold senior positions today in the Iranian regime...
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Legislation Without Representation –
A 2016 Perspective…
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ There are various comments/questions being raised about the current state of our national political condition, and the potential for failure toward the goal of MAGA in 2016... To those voices specifically; to the members of the Rebel Alliance who hold trepidation about the possibility of losing; to people holding these concerns, I would like to take a moment and present an alternate perspective. If you were to ask a general question about the beginning of the American Revolution to a thousand average educated Americans, the customary reference point would be the Boston Tea Party. Ask what was the issue and you’ll hear the phrase: “taxation without representation“.  England, and specifically King George, being the essential tax benefactor...
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Here’s Evidence that Liberals are
the Ones who Shame Women
by Gary DeMar
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{constitution.com} ~ Liberals have selective memories when it comes to their political crimes. Donald Trump is being criticized for supposedly “fat shaming” former 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado... If you check out Trump’s 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, you will see that the story has been misreported, but it doesn’t matter to the liar-Clintons and the liberal media. Here’s the page from Trump’s book where he discusses Machado and her weight and says that even though she gained fifty pounds, he urged “the committee not to fire her” and showed support for her as she worked to take off the weight. Trump was actually praised by the society columnist for the Palm Beach Daily News for his actions. At a press conference, Trump said the following to the pool of reporters in defense of Machado: “A lot of you folks have weight problems. I hate to tell you.”...
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Calif. governor signs Planned Parenthood-sponsored
bill targeting pro-life group
by Kate Scanlon
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Governor Brown you're worse than your father
{theblaze.com} ~ The bill was written in response to videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that showed Planned Parenthood employees describing the sale of aborted fetal body parts... It criminalizes the recording or distribution of a private conversation with a health care provider. In a statement, David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, said his organization “never recorded ‘confidential’ communications, so California’s existing recording law and the new distribution provision are simply inapplicable to our work.” “However, it is clear that Planned Parenthood does not want to be held accountable to the public whose taxpayer money it gladly takes by the hundreds of millions, and will even attack freedom of speech and the freedom of the press in order to maintain its own arbitrary levels of secrecy,” Daleiden said...People of California need to wake up.  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/09/30/calif-governor-signs-planned-parenthood-sponsored-bill-targeting-pro-life-group-2/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%2010-1-16%20FINAL&utm_term=Firewire
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DHS rushing to 'steal' Americans'
sovereignty ahead of election
by Paul Bremmer
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{wnd.com} ~ With the November elections fewer than 40 days away, the Department of Homeland Security is approving as many citizenship applications as it can to try to increase the number of voters... So says an internal memo obtained recently by Senate Republicans. It comes amid a DHS inspector general report that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) erroneously granted citizenship to at least 858 illegal immigrants from “special interest countries,” meaning countries with connections to terrorism, who had previously been ordered deported. It was later revealed the number was actually more than 1,800 aliens. The mistake was made because of incomplete fingerprint records: Neither the digital fingerprint repository at DHS nor the one at the FBI contains all of the old fingerprint records of people previously deported...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/dhs-rushing-to-steal-americans-sovereignty-ahead-of-election/
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Watchdog: nObamaCare program
made illegal payments
by Peter Sullivan
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{thehill.com} ~ A nonpartisan government watchdog said Thursday that the nObama administration is violating the law by directing funds in an nObamaCare program to insurers instead of to the U.S. Treasury... Republicans, who had argued that the payments were illegal, hailed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion. At issue is nObamaCare’s so-called reinsurance program, which is designed to stabilize the market and protect against premium hikes in the early years of the healthcare law. Under the program, the government collects money from insurers and then gives it to plans with high-cost enrollees...Where in-heck is Congress on this? Why aren't they stopping nObama illegal act.
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Pentagon in Internal Struggle Over
Calling out Salafi Jihadism
by Elliot Friedland
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{clarionproject.org} ~ From time to time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the country’s most senior military officer below the commander-in-chief himself, puts out a National Military Strategy... This document is intended for senior American military commanders around the world and sets out big picture strategy guidance for how the U.S. military ought to cope with the myriad threats it may face in the line of duty. New Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine General Joseph Dunford is compiling a new National Military Strategy. Special Operations Command (SoCom), the branch of the military charged with hunting down and killing terrorists, is providing input and expertise to the report. SoCom is pushing for Salafi jihadism to be discussed in the report as the branch of Sunni Islam responsible for most global terrorism in the world today. It is the ideology shared by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda...  https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/pentagon-internal-struggle-over-calling-out-salafi-jihadism#
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Judge Jeanine – Words Or Action,
Lies or Truth, liar-Clinton or Trump
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine points out that now that there are a mere 38 days left until the election. Things are down to a “battle of political corruption versus truth... where one candidate chooses political correctness, the other brave enough to state the obvious.” She notes that the perfectly filtered words of liar-Hillary Clinton are just sweet-sounding lies. Pirro points to the current social unrest fomented by nObama, including a death toll in Chicago that rivals the American casualties in the Iraq war. Now there is the added consideration of terrorism added into the mix, thanks to open borders Jeh Johnson. Judge Jeanine notes that one candidate sees the turmoil while the other prefers to pretend “everything is great and life is beautiful, and prefers to talk about name-calling and the implicit bias that we have.” Judge Jeanine points to the liar-Clinton name calling of Trump supporters as deplorable along with five or six other uncomplimentary labels and her determination that “we are not America. Who then is America, liar-Hillary?,” Judge Jeanine asks. “The people you’re bringing in from other parts of the world? But no, you’re worried about Donald Trump’s name calling twenty years ago.”...  http://rickwells.us/jeanine-words-action-lies-truth-clinton-trump/
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nObama Does Not Have Constitutional Authority to Turn Over Control of Internet to UN
by Bethany Blankley
{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ nObama has denied that the U.N. will have authority over ICANN, but the Wall Street Journal’s L. Gordon Crovitz points out that ICANN, in order to keep its antitrust exemption, will need to be overseen by a state agency, which in essence means, the United Nations... “It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government. Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much for the nObama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”...  http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/obama-not-constitutional-authority-turn-control-internet-un-tell-congress-act/
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liar-Hillary Mocks the Poor People
She Pretends to Help- Secret
Recording Made Public
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ When a political candidate like liar-Hillary Clinton has made political reputation by “supposedly” representing the issues of the poor and downtrodden, she should not throw stones out a glass house. liar-Hillary Clinton is openly mocking poor people, the very people she pretends to be helping. The following video provides the details.  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/10/02/hillary-mocks-the-poor-people-she-pretends-to-help-secret-recording-made-public/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hillary-mocks-the-poor-people-she-pretends-to-help-secret-recording-made-public
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Purging Christ
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ I think it was in the 1980s sometime that I first encountered the designation “BCE.” The period I was studying was 3000 years ago and it was designated 1000 BCE. Clearly the new acronym was related to the familiar “BC” meaning “Before Christ,” but I wondered about when and why it had changed. Most people are now familiar with “Before Common Era” but it was brand new to most of us back then. I suspected it was part of an increasing purge of Christianity from the public square.
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Also substituted was the designation “CE” (Common Era) for “AD” which my students always guessed meant “After Death” of Jesus Christ, but it’s actually an acronym for the Latin “Anno Domini” meaning “Year of our Lord.” Academics denied anti-Christian bias had anything to do with the new dating nomenclature. They cited its use in the century-old Anarchist journal Lucifer The Light Bearer. They didn’t really think that would pacify Christians, did they? Jewish scholars used it too, they pointed out.
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The textbook I used for the last decade of my teaching career used them and I suspect nearly all do now. Astute students would ask how the acronyms originated and I’d explain that there was a time when western culture held the most important event in all of history to be the life of Jesus Christ, so historians measured all of time by what happened before Christ and what happened after Him.
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But that’s changing, or perhaps it would be more accurate to use past tense and say “that changed.” Is the change complete? Do we live in a post-Christian America? Is that particular battle in the wider culture war over now? Maybe we’re in a mopping-up operation as they say in military parlance. When the mopping up is finished, perhaps we’ll go back to using “AD” in the way my students understood it: “After Death of Christ.”
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We Christians believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God, part of a triune deity and therefore God Himself. Philosopher Frederich Neitzche first declared “God is Dead” not in 1891’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” but in his 1882 collection: The Gay Science. That was back when “gay” still meant “happy.” In it, Neitzche wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
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There’s so much in there: “Who will wipe his blood off us” evokes Hamlet. “What water is there to clean ourselves?” evokes Pontius Pilate and is ritualized in every Catholic mass said thousands of times every day for thousands of years. His question, “Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” evokes President nObama’s declaration: "I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when...the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Is nObama pretending godlike powers? How about environmentalists who believe themselves capable of halting the extinction of any more species even after 99% of all species that ever existed have become so?

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-n3ZesNP8

Simultaneous with the purging Christ from our calendar were related efforts to separate Christ from Christmas. They’ve continued to the point where few public schools call the cancellation of classes at the end of our calendar year “Christmas Vacation” anymore. Now it’s “winter break” or some such thing. Those who would purge the life of Christ from history would also purge Christ from everything. They’re careful to say “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas,” but the English word “holiday” derives from “holy day.” When that fact achieves critical mass in Progressive consciousness, will there be a movement to stop saying Happy Holidays and substitute “Happy Winter Solstice”? Might that be one of the “festivals of atonement” Neitzche predicted we would have to reinvent to assuage our conscience for killing God?
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Getting back to measuring time, how long until we throw out the seven-day week? That comes from Jewish Scripture and the first book of the Christian bible after all. Then on to place names? Will Progressives force the city of Corpus Christi to change its name? It’s Latin for “Body of Christ” you know. How about San Francisco (St. Francis) and Los Angeles (City of Angels)?
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Then what? Ban crosses from public cemeteries? How far will they go?

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