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Federalist Patriot: the Internet's leading journal on Federalism and the Founders. Read this if nothing else. Check out the historical documents on the Federalist Patriot site.
Don Feder's web site : any attempt to separate America from God is a betrayal of our Republic
Dr. Paul Jehle, Plymouth Rock Foundation: to seek a greater public awareness and understanding of American history."
Marshall Foster, the Mayflower Institute: proclaiming the untold story of America's history, to prepare individuals and families to defend their Judeo-Christian heritage.
McKenzie Study Center, an institute of Gutenberg College, is dedicated to
exploring biblical Christianity and its implications for our world. MSC offers lots of articles and audio recordings regarding all things biblical.
Truth Publishers was founded by Gene Gurganus. Gene was a longtime missionary in Bangladesh and wrote a great book: The Peril of Islam. You can purchase this book on his website and check out other items he offers.
Christians for Life, a ministry in Topeka, Kansas, that helps churches and individuals to become the Hands of Jesus by becoming involved in the pro-life cause.
Healing Hearts: confidential one to one e-mail and support group counseling to anyone suffering from the affects of an abortion, or any type of abuse
Memorial for the Unborn: dedicated to healing generations of pain assoicated with the loss of aborted children
Youth Talk: a place where Christian teens can learn about issues and their faith
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Scripture of the Week: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me" (John 14:1).
I attended a debate with candidates for South Carolina superintendent of education. Participants were Dr. Brent Nelsen, a political science professor at Furman University, Kelly Payne, a social studies teacher at Dutch Fork High School, and Dr. Mick Zais, president of Newberry College. I am impressed that each is first and foremost a dedicated Christian. I admire Kelly Payne being on the front lines teaching in the public schools.
Public schools are not like they used to be. I entered kindergarten in 1960 and graduated from high school in 1973. The worst problems in school were talking or chewing gum in class, and "gang" was a good word that meant your friends.
The Supreme Court kicked God out in 1962, and the schools and our society are in a real mess. The only real lasting solution is to bring God back into the schools and for churches to change society, not for society to change churches. Historian Paul Johnson said that American public schools in the 1800s and later taught "a kind of lowest common denominator Protestantism, based upon the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and such useful tracts as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress."
We need to return to these days.
From the American Minute with Bill Federer www.americanminute.com
Feb. 7
Frederick Baily was born Feb. 7, 1817. Though against the law for a slave, he learned to read. At age 20, he escaped to Massachusetts and changed his name to Frederick Douglass to hide from slave catchers. He began debating, developing oratory skills and exposing the injustices of slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison hired him to sell subscriptions to the Liberator Newspaper.
Frederick Douglass published his best-selling autobiography, but with his identity now known and to avoid slave-catchers, he fled to England. He was enthusiastically received and English friends raised money to buy his freedom. He returned to New York, founding the North Star newspaper.
Writing for abolition and women's suffrage, his motto was "Right is of no sex. Truth is of no color. God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
An adviser to President Lincoln, Frederick Douglass told the story of his conversion: "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that...I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."
American Minute with Bill Federer Feb. 6
Ronald Reagan was born Feb. 6, 1911, and died June 5, 2004. At age 69, he was the oldest person elected U.S. President, and 69 days after his inauguration, he survived an assassination attempt.
At the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series, 1982, Ronald Reagan said: "We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience."
At Reunion Arena in Dallas, 1984, President Reagan said: "America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."
First Court Challenge to Federal Hate Crimes Act Filed by Three Pastors and a Pro-Family Advocate
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor Michigan, this morning filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., challenging the constitutionality of the recently-enacted federal Hate Crimes Act. The Act criminalizes so-called “bias” crimes motivated by a person’s “actual or perceived” “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” and thus elevates those engaged in certain deviant sexual behaviors to a special, protected class of persons under federal law. Read more.
FEBRUARY 2, 1848, the U.S. Congress ratified the peace treaty that ended the Mexican War.
In exchange for $15 million, the territories of California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, were brought into the Union.
The treaty stated:
"In the Name of Almighty God-
the United States and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war . . . . have, under the protection of Almighty God, the Author of Peace, arranged, agreed upon, and signed the following Treaty of Peace."
The Treaty continued:
"If (which is not to be expected, and which God forbid) war should unhappily break out between the two republics, they do now . . . solemnly pledge themselves to each other and to the world to observe the following rules . . .
"All churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, libraries, and other establishments for charitable and beneficent purposes, shall be respected, and all persons connected with the same protected in the discharge of their duties, and the pursuit of their vocations."
The Treaty concluded:
"Done at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the 2nd day of February, in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight."
Posted 12:10 p.m., Jan. 31
Leighton Lord, Christina Jeffrey speak to GCRWC Jan. 28
By Thomas C. Hanson
Christina Jeffrey, a candidate for the fourth district U.S. congressional seat, and Leighton Lord, a candidate for South Carolina attorney general, spoke to the Greenville County Republican Women (GCRW) meeting at the Poinsett Club Jan. 28.
Dr. Jeffrey, a lecturer at Wofford College, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the seat held by incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis, said, “I am first and foremost a Christian,” and “I believe that a great country is an important asset” for Christians.
Dr. Jeffrey said she hates tyranny in all its forms and that it is the natural condition of human beings. Tyranny flourishes, she said, when people are ignorant and complacent, when you don’t have the kind of freedoms we have. Our founders gave us incredible tools to keep our freedoms, and if we lose some of them, to get them back.
Leighton Lord said he is an Army brat born in Hawaii and joked that “unlike someone we know, I have a birth certificate.”
Lord referred to an essay written by evangelist Billy Graham, “The Moral Weight of Leadership,” in which Graham wrote, “We must not be tempted . . . to divorce character from leadership.”
Lord worked the Ronald Reagan campaigns in the 1980s. After graduating from the Vanderbilt Law School in 1989, he went to Washington to work for four years as the Republican staff council for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington. In this position, Leighton investigated organized crime, gang violence, child pornography and immigration fraud.
Lord spent two weeks on the Mexican border with border patrol agents, and visited the San Diego district attorney’s office to watch the prosecution of criminal aliens. To learn about organized crime, Lord spent days with mobsters and traveled the country with FBI agents. He learned about gang violence by driving the streets of Los Angeles with law enforcement officers.
He took the knowledge back to Washington to contribute to hearings and help draft legislation to make our country safer.
In 1994, Leighton went to work for Nexsen Pruet, the second largest law firm in South Carolina. Four years ago, Leighton was elected managing partner, which has given him executive experience.
Lord said the attorney general should be the chief legal officer in the state and as such should coordinate solicitors, sheriffs and law enforcement officers and help them do their jobs better. He called for a comprehensive crime bill in South Carolina because the state is No. 1 in violent crime and is in the top five in domestic violence deaths and in the top five in DUI deaths, yet South Carolina imprisons more people per capita than any other state.
The meeting was the first conducted by Kathy Davis, new president of the GCRW.
James Madison's defense of religious freedom began when he stood with his father outside a jail in the village of Orange and heard Baptists preach from their cell windows.
He wrote of another incident to William Bradford, JANUARY 24, 1774:
"There are at this time in the adjacent Culpepper County not less than 5 or 6 well meaning men in jail for publishing their religious sentiments which in the main are very orthodox."
Madison helped pass the Virginia Bill of Rights, which stated:
"Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by Reason and Convictions, not by Force or Violence; and therefore all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience; and that it is the mutual Duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love, and Charity towards each other."
As President, Madison wrote July 23, 1813:
"If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to whom it is addressed, it must be...guided only by their free choice . . . as proving that religion, that gift of Heaven for the good of man, is freed from all coercive edicts."
He produced epic films in Hollywood for almost five decades and started Paramount Pictures.
His name was Cecil B. DeMille and he died JANUARY 21, 1959.
His best-known films include: Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth, for which he won an Academy Award.
At the opening of The Ten Commandments, 1956, Cecil B. DeMille stated:
"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai ... but he has never improved on God's law...
"They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law."
President Harry S Truman stated in his address to the Attorney General's Conference, February 1950:
"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount.
"The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
"I don't think we emphasize that enough these days."
Truman concluded:
"If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except for the State."
Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010
“Just hold up your heads, boys, three fires, and you are free. Then when you return to your homes, how the old folks will bless you and the girls kiss you for your gallant conduct,” Birg. Gen. Daniel Morgan’s instructions to frontline militia the night before the battle at Hannah’s Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781.
Reps. Nikki Haley and Tim Scott speak
to Upstate Republican Women Dec. 15.
Suzette Jordan and Tim Scott
Nikki Haley
and Brenda Schoolfield
Rep. Nikki Haley, candidate for governor, and Rep. Tim Scott, candidate for lieutenant governor, spoke to the Upstate Republican Women Dec. 15. Betty Poe, incoming president of the South Carolina Federation of Repubican Women, installed new officers for 2010-2011. Click here for photo gallery.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (left) and Rep. Gresham Barrett, candidate for South Carolina governor, make joint appearance at the home of Jerry and Harriet Dempsey in Greenville Dec. 9. Click here for photo gallery.
I am the editor and layout artist for The Palmetto Patriot, the quarterly publication of the South Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution. We have just gone to press with our Winter 2009 editon. You can read it here.
Posted 6:55 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 5
Lt. Col. Bill Connor, candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor, speaks at Dec. 5 ceremony commemorating Revolutionary War Battle of Canebrake near Simpsonville. Click here for photo gallery.
Kelly Payne, a social studies teacher at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo and a candidate for South Carolina superintendent, met with voters in Greenville Dec. 20.
The meet and greet, hosted by Rick and Mandy Stroud and Dan and Nicole Bracken, took place at the Pleasant Valley Connections.
Kelly created a group at Dutch Fork called It Kids, an organization of students committed to greater community service. They have attracted the attention of elected and appointed officials including the governor, speaker of the house, attorney general, comptroller general, and senators and house members.
Kelly also teamed with the National Safety Council to organize Alive at 25, a teen driver safety program designed to reduce teenage highway fatalities.
More information about Kelly Payne is available on her campaign website at www.votekellypayne.com.
Larry Grooms, Bill Connor, Jim Lee campaign at Patriot Resistance meeting in Greenville Nov. 20. Click here for photo gallery.
Posted 12:05 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18
Meet and greet for state Rep. Tim Scott, candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor, at the home of Tex Small in Greenville, Nov. 17. Photo gallery.
Bill Connor, candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor, on his many trips to the Upstate. Click here for photo gallery.
Bill Connor comments on Islam
By the Laws of Sharia (Islamic law) anyone who converts outside Islam or anyone who invites a Muslim to join another faith is to be put to death. This law is in force in multiple Islam countries. Islam, as the final “truth”, is not up for discussion or debate in the Islamic world. To read the rest or to read more of Bill's commentaries go to www.billconnoronline.com.
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