Janet and I want to affirm our support for the Duggar family. Josh’s actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable,' but that doesn’t mean 'unforgivable.' He and his family dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities. No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story. Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things. The reason that the law protects disclosure of many actions on the part of a minor is that the society has traditionally understood something that today’s blood-thirsty media does not understand—that being a minor means that one's judgement is not mature. No one needs to defend Josh’s actions as a teenager, but the fact that he confessed his sins to those he harmed, sought help, and has gone forward to live a responsible and circumspect life as an adult is testament to his family’s authenticity and humility. Those who have enjoyed revealing this long ago sins in order to discredit the Duggar family have actually revealed their own insensitive bloodthirst, for there was no consideration of the fact that the victims wanted this to be left in the past and ultimately a judge had the information on file destroyed—not to protect Josh, but the innocent victims. Janet and I love Jim Bob and Michelle and their entire family. They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection. It is precisely because we are all sinners that we need His grace and His forgiveness. We have been blessed to receive God’s love and we would do no less than to extend our love and support for our friends. In fact, it is such times as this, when real friends show up and stand up. Today, Janet and I want to show up and stand up for our friends. Let others run from them. We will run to them with our support.
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When it comes to starting an After-School Satan Club, the devil is in the details.
That’s what the Satanic Temple is finding out as it attempts to start such a club at Vista Elementary School in Taylorsville, Utah. When the Satanists demanded to be treated in the same manner as The Good News Club, the school responded by advising them that the Good News Club is not a school-sponsored club and pays rental fees --- $20 per monthly meeting --- on the facilities it uses. Appare...ntly, the Satanic Temple folks had assumed the Good News Club had been getting free access. So the news about Good News was bad news for the Satanists.
They were not discriminated against by school officials but instead were offered the standard rental agreement. The Satanists have yet to respond, the officials say. But Satanists claim they’re still working on forming clubs at several school districts and will pay the rental if necessary.
They’re running into a different problem at the Tucson Unified School District, where they were rejected due to lack of a faculty sponsor. Perhaps one could be appointed. If that happens, it will be time for parents to march on the school with, um, pitchforks.
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God knows, Hillary Clinton’s recent rise in the polls is not based on any improvement in her own image. It’s largely been based on the success of the all-out assault by the media on Donald Trump, to advance the Clinton campaign theme that he is just too scary to trust with presidential power. But I wonder how long that will continue to be effective with Hillary now giving us regular glimpses of just how scary it would be for someone of her character and ethics to have that ...massive level of power?
Over the past few days, even liberal media outlets like the Huffington Post have started calling for the Clinton Foundation to shut down amid allegations of influence peddling. Hillary’s response is that the Foundation would shut down – but only if she’s elected (influence peddling apparently being okay for Secretaries of State and ex-Presidents, but not Presidents). She also startled many observers with her angry-sounding attack on rich people (not like her – she means REALLY rich people), saying she would “go after them” to make them pay their “fair share” to cover her promised new government giveaways. For the record, the Tax Foundation reports that the top 1% of earners already pay 38% of all taxes, and the top 10% pay 70.2% of all taxes. To paraphrase Thomas Sowell, “What is her ‘fair share’ of the money someone else earned?” But she didn't just promise to tax them more, she vowed to go after them personally, as if people deserve to be targeted for retribution for doing too well.
And now we have this: her response to Trump appointing a campaign official who used to run the conservative news site Breitbart.com was to send out a campaign email in which her deputy communications director Christina Reynolds railed that while she magnanimously respects most of the conservative media’s “right to exist,” Breitbart (and presumably, its readers) are “radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy peddlers” who must be beaten “so decisively that their kind never rises again.”
This may come as a shock to Hillary and her campaign operatives, but the President of the United States swears an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution, not to decide which media outlets don’t qualify for the First Amendment and have no "right to exist." The election is still 2-1/2 months away, and Hillary is already putting conditions on how ethical she'll be and making an enemies list of those who will feel her wrath and be driven out of existence once she assumes power.
And we’re supposed to be quaking in fear at the idea of Donald Trump assuming presidential power?
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Donald Trump’s visit to Louisiana to show support for flood victims and bring media attention to their plight has finally shamed President Obama into going there himself, at least now that his final Martha’s Vineyard vacation as President is over. I can’t help wondering if he’ll receive as warm a welcome as Trump, though, considering that his Administration’s response to the crisis was to issue a 16-page directive, warning the state not to engage in racial discrimination in ...distributing aid to flood victims.
At a time when Louisianans of every race, color and background were coming together and working tirelessly to help their neighbors, the Obama Administration was assuming they were a bunch of hate-filled bigots and lecturing them accordingly. Louisianans now know what he thinks of them, but he needn’t worry. When he visits, they’ll probably have far too much Southern hospitality to tell him what they think of him.
Just released:
All The News That’s Fit To Ignore: Some political historians have called the White House’s denial (then later forced admission) that the $400 million cash shipment to Iran was tied to releasing hostages the “lie of the year” and one of the biggest political scandals of all time. But you can be forgiven for not knowing that, since the Media Research Center found that the Big 3 TV Networks’ newscasts gave it a grand total of four whole minutes of coverage last Thursday and Fr...iday. Some of that time on “CBS This Morning” was spent on exonerating Hillary Clinton from any blame for it. By contrast, the networks devoted over six times more airtime to the vital topic of whether Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte was lying about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio.
Complain all you like about how much money Obama has spent, but as long as he has the mainstream media, at least he’ll never have to pay a penny for PR agents.
Mike Huckabee shared a link.
Mike Huckabee shared a link.
Mike Huckabee shared a link.
Take this any way you want, but a major lobbyist group, the Secular Coalition for America, has given Hillary Clinton an “A” rating and Donald Trump an “F” on issues of importance to atheists. I assume that one of those issues is the hope that you don’t really go to Hell for lying.
Also, to get you into the mood for watching “Ben Hur,” here are 10 fascinating and little-known facts about the history of this classic story:
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