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The Pro-Islamic Policies of Barack Obama

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Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, Jr. (Ret.), the former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, noted the following in regards to President Obama’s pro-Islamic policies during the Defeat Jihad Summit sponsored by the Center for Security Policy. The Admiral stated that Obama’s policies are “very simple, and any thinking American should be able to grasp it. It’s anti-American, anti-Western, pro-Islamic, pro-Iranian, and pro-Muslim Brotherhood.” Bold as these comments may seem today, one only needs to look at Obama’s underlying belief that America has played a malign role in the world as our sins have been both of omission and commission.

Thomas Sowell writes “Obama, in his citizen-of-the world conception of himself, thinks that the United States already has too much power and needs to be deflated.” In viewing Obama’s repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate, one can begin to understand the administrations’ anti-American foreign policy. No one defined…

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America to Take in 100,000 Muslims. Be Prepared For ISIS Massacres to Happen In the US Soon

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BY THEODORE SHOEBAT FOR FREEDOMOUTPOST.COM

Obama has ordered that America take in 70,000 Islamic refugees. Just today, press secretary Josh Earnest said that the United States would “accept at least 10,000 refugees in the next fiscal year,” which begins October 1st; however, the whole number that has been authorized is 70,000. But John Kerry, in a closed-door meeting, said that the number could be raised even higher—to 100,000. According to one report:

Earlier, Secretary of State John Kerry said, at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, that the total number of refugees taken in by the United States could rise to more than 100,000, from the current figure of 70,000.

When these “refugees” come, what do you think will happen? The French police are already looking for an ISIS agent amongst the refugees who are heading for England.

La Voix du Nord newspaper reported:

An Islamic State combatant believed to be in Calais is being actively hunted by the authorities. … He left Syria at the end of August and hopes to reach Britain where he intends to commit terrorist acts. …He is the subject of most wanted person notice and is considered a threat to state security.

Hungary’s most popular national TV channel, M1, reported Tuesday thst Islamic terrorists are amongst the refugees and are disguising themselves as refugees:

Islamist terrorists, disguised as refugees, have showed up in Europe. [The] pictures were uploaded on various social networks to show that terrorists are now present in most European cities. Many, who are now illegal immigrants, fought alongside Islamic State before

Here is a photo of one of the terrorists, who is said by Hungarian media to be disguising himself as a refugee:

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One of the terrorists, Laith Al Saleh, 30, was reported by the AP to have “led a 700-strong rebel unit in Syria’s civil war.” No doubt this is a terrorist, and there is no doubt that the US will be getting these types in its land. Reg. Whitaker, a national security specialist, said:

It is possible that among the stream of wretched refugees desperately looking for a way, that there might be some who aren’t exactly the people we want to bring in

Stephen Harper, Canada’s Prime Minister, is also expressing concerns that amongst the refugees there are terrorists, saying:

When we are dealing with people that are from, in many cases, a terrorist war zone, we are going to make sure that we screen people appropriately and the security of this country is fully protected.

And don’t think for a second that the officials in Washington know the danger and the threat. The American Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in Washington:

We don’t put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees… That is a huge concern of ours. … I’m not as uniformly confident about each European country that is going to be faced with welcoming and allowing refugees into their country… This is a huge issue for all kinds of reasons.

America will not just be receiving Syrians, but other people from the Muslim world, as well—quite possibly Pakistanis and Afghans who have inundated the refugee multitudes. America is going to be taking in people who have seen beheadings, conducted beheadings, and who are desensitized to this violence. So don’t be surprised the next time you see Islamic violence.

 

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Diabetes turns your brain to mush! Here’s how to stop it

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Daily Dose with Jack Harrison - 9/14/15

Funny thing about time is that it’s always running out — and yet we’ve all got something we’re putting off.

But if you’ve got diabetes there’s simply no time left. You’re going to have to stop putting things off, roll up your sleeves and get to work gaining control over this disease, starting right now.

Even if you’re only in the early stages… even if you think you’ve still got time and can worry about it tomorrow… the truth is, time is rapidly running out.

Because right now, at this very moment, diabetes is laying waste to your insides. The disease is wrecking your health from head to toe, setting the stage for everything from painful neuropathy in your feet to brain-eating damage in your skull.

Now, new research has revealed what’s going on inside the head of a typical diabetic. And trust me when I tell you it’s not a pretty picture.

Diabetes can put you on the fast track to memory loss and cognitive decline. Folks who have the disease are 80 percent more likely to get dementia.

And, as the new study reveals, even the brains of diabetics who don’t yet have any outward signs of dementia can have the telltale damage linked to the disease, including brain tangles and thinning in the cortex, which holds many of your most vital nerve cells.

This means while they might not be slipping into cognitive decline just yet, they’re running out of time fast.

But it’s not all bad news, because this damage isn’t a given. It’s not something that automatically comes with the disease like the crummy prize at the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks.

Left unchecked diabetes can unleash this kind of damage. Lack of blood sugar control allows excess sugar to rush through your brain causing neurological carnage. But rein in the disease — bring your blood sugar back under control — and you’ll prevent the damage and slash your risk of dementia.

Benfotiamine, a fat-soluble form of thiamine, can help put that sugar to work so it doesn’t continue to run wild in your bloodstream. Then, get to work reversing any damage that’s already taken place, because it’s not too late to turn it around.

Start with a quality vitamin B complex. B vitamins have been proven to slow brain shrink, and seniors given a B blend performed 70 percent better on memory tests than their unlucky peers who were given a placebo.

Next boost your omega-3 fatty acids by eating more fish and taking a fish oil supplement. A good portion of your brain is made up of DHA the primary fatty acid found in fish oil — so make sure you’re giving your noodle a steady supply of building materials.

Keeping your brain away from the drain,

Jack Harrison

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Migrant Crisis: The Footage the Media Refuses to Broadcast

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Why are mainstream media outlets like CNN and BBC only broadcasting footage which shows the migrants in a positive light? Because they’re part of the agenda to destroy America and Europe with the influx of Muslims. This video is less than 6 minutes and shows the truth.

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SPLC Unveils LGBT Propaganda for U.S. Schools

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BY ALEX NEWMAN FOR THENEWAMERICAN.COM

SPLC Unveils LGBT Propaganda for U.S. Schools

The ultra-leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, described by critics as a radical anti-Christian hate group, was recently implicated in a federal terrorism case after a deranged homosexual activist, citing SPLC hate propaganda, tried to massacre employees at a pro-family group’s headquarters. Now, the self-styled “civil rights” outfit is stepping up its campaign to indoctrinate your children. The controversial Alabama-based group, widely ridiculed and criticized even by left-wing leaders for shady practices and deception, recently unveiled a new Common Core-aligned “educational” campaign. It is designed to inject even more pro-homosexual, pro-transgender propaganda into school classrooms across America, along with identity politics, collectivism, “white privilege,” “social justice,” and more.

However, the “Teaching Tolerance” materials, which the SPLC claims are used by schools and educators reaching “millions of students,” are attracting scrutiny and outrage. Indeed, the propaganda would likely upset just about any parent, regardless of their political views. Under the guise of promoting what the intolerant SPLC calls “tolerance,” for example, students in kindergarten through second grade subjected to the SPLC “anti-bias” propaganda will learn, among other things, to ignore their parents and become cross-dressers if they feel like they were born in the wrong body. That lesson comes from the book 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert, one of several SPLC-recommended texts for K-2 “teaching tolerance” lessons on “gender” highlighted by activists and media reports.

The book’s description on retailer Amazon’s website reads: “Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows.… Unfortunately, when Bailey’s awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. ‘You’re a BOY!’ Mother and Father tell Bailey. ‘You shouldn’t be thinking about dresses at all.’ Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey’s imagination and courage. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses together. And Bailey’s dreams come true! This gorgeous picture book — a modern fairy tale about becoming the person you feel you are inside — will delight people of all ages.”

Not everybody is delighted, however. Theresa Lucas-Hubbard, a board member of both Alabamians United for Excellence in Education (AUEE) and the Alabama Eagle Forum, commenting in Breitbart, noted that to find the book, she simply chose the most popular reading as listed on the SPLC project’s website. “Once a teacher asks a question and finds a relevant book or story, she can build a learning plan based on what she wants to get across to the class,” Lucas-Hubbard said. “It can be anything from a classroom discussion asking questions such as: ‘How did it make Bailey feel when his family did not support his wish to wear a dress? What could you do to help support Bailey?’” Classroom activities might include a game of “dress up” where students would choose what kind of dress they would like to wear, she added after reviewing the materials.

Such extreme indoctrination tactics deployed against young children’s minds, of course, could come with devastating consequences. Especially troubling is the long-term mental and spiritual damage that could be unleashed on children. A recent study tracking children who imagined themselves to be the wrong gender, for instance, found that, absent medical or surgical intervention, between 70 percent and 80 percent of those confused children stopped being confused all on their own. Subjecting them to SPLC propaganda designed to convince children that they really are the wrong gender, though, and that their parents just do not understand, could push many over the edge. And the effects can be deadly: Another study on transgender people who had “sex reassignment surgery” found their suicide levels were 20 times higher than for non-transgenders.

Experts have long warned of such dangers. “Policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention,” explained Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in a piece for the Wall Street Journal. “This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken — it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”

He pointed to individuals suffering from anorexia and bulimia as other examples of disorders in which assumptions by the individual about themselves do not correspond to physical reality. Neither of those is something to be encouraged. Would you tell a skin-and-bones-thin anorexic that they looked fat just to validate their false beliefs? Of course not. Why the SPLC believes schools should encourage confused students to believe something that is objectively and demonstrably false, and something that could raise their risk of suicide 20 fold, was not immediately clear. What is clear, though, is that under the SPLC’s vision outlined in its propaganda materials, there is no objective truth, objective morality, objective gender, or anything else.

In its “K-2 Grade Level Outcomes and Scenarios,” one “anti-bias” scenario involves a girl with “two moms.” “I call them Mamma Kendra and Mamma Sam,” the girl says. Another scenario features a boy playing with dolls, and another student intervening when the boy’s friend informs him that dolls are actually for girls. “It’s OK that he likes different things than you or the other boys,” the other student says. The teacher then comes along and agrees. Plenty of other scenarios involving illegal immigrants, homosexuality, Islam, and more are covered.

There are also “outcomes” which students are expected to meet. In grades 6 through 8, for example, we read: “I will work with friends, family and community members to make our world fairer for everyone, and we will plan and coordinate our actions in order to achieve our goals.” By 9th grade, students should be able to “describe how my own identity is informed and shaped by my membership in multiple identity groups.” They also need to “understand that diversity includes the impact of unequal power relations on the development of group identities and cultures.” Plenty of white, male, heterosexual “privilege” propaganda is also included, with students expected to be made “aware of the advantages and disadvantages I have in society because of my membership in different identity groups, and I know how this has affected my life.” Identifying “strategies and philosophies relevant to the history of social justice around the world” is also key.

In its “anchor standards,” the framework says children should learn to think of themselves as typical collectivists, based on their “identity” in various “groups” — race, class, gender, sexuality, and so on. “Students will develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society,” says the first anchor standard in the “identity” section. In the “action” section it adds: “Students will plan and carry out collective action against bias and injustice in the world and will evaluate what strategies are most effective.” In other words, schools should produce legions of radical leftist social justice warriors to go out and demand wealth redistribution, Big Government, “tolerance” at gunpoint, and more.

Indeed, the “teaching tolerance” project makes absolutely clear that it is about more than just indoctrinating students — it is also about spawning little activists who will go out into the world and spread the SPLC’s radical views in their schools, communities, and beyond. The program, founded in 1991, is described by the SPLC as an “online K-12 literacy-based anti-bias curriculum designed to help teachers deliver culturally responsive instruction while meeting the requirements of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy.” It also has a magazine that it sends out to half-a-million “educators” across America. But it is much more than that.

“This Framework is the first road map for anti-bias education at every grade level and is organized into four domains: Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action,” says the latest “teaching tolerance” scheme, dubbed “Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education.” “Together, these domains represent a continuum of engagement in anti-bias, multicultural and social justice education.” And the document does not disappoint.

One section of that framework, for instance, is entitled “Values-Based Assessment, Evaluation and Grading.” As the title suggests, it is about how a system of “classroom evaluation, assessment and grading” can be used to “instill values such as equity, collaboration, justice and respect for diversity.” Under its “grading” strategies, the document makes clear that students must not be permitted to hold fast to any one view — say, Christianity and biblical values, for example — but must be coerced into treating all opinions as equally valid. Again, there is no truth, only “feelings,” which are correct and must be respected even if they are flatly and objectively incorrect.

Another section of the framework tells teachers how to set up their classrooms. First, it compares two classroom arrangements. The first one, implicitly identified as the bad one, features desks facing the teacher, a copy of the Declaration of Independence on the wall, posters of U.S. presidents, quotes from leading Western figures, and students working independently on an assignment. The second features desks arranged “in clusters of four with students facing one another,” along with wall displays featuring the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, anti-Semitic pro-Castro apparatchik Maya Angelou, the socialist daughter of the founder of the Communist Party of Burma, and radical union organizer Cesar Chávez. In the second class setup, students are “working with their table-mates on a group project.”

The “gender” lunacy features prominently in the same section on classroom setup. “Many teachers, especially at the elementary level, seat or group students along gender lines,” the framework explains. “However, not everyone fits traditional gender categories. Some students may feel they are truly a different gender than their physical bodies suggest; others might not fit neatly into either the male or female identity category. Using gender-neutral categories or allowing students to choose the group with which they identify affirms the experiences of all students.”

The document also calls on teachers to serve as “a social justice leader” in the classroom and beyond. And if parents disagree with all the propaganda and values-shaping, the school and the teacher must fight back. “In the context of school-family relationships, addressing bias may involve (gently) challenging the negative assumptions or comments made by parents, guardians and other family members,” it says. “It also requires finding respectful ways of standing strong if families resist curriculum topics such as race, immigration, economic disparities, LGBT experience and religion.”

The framework goes on to push building “alliances” with others to “forward the agenda” and face down “resistance” to “diversity and social justice topics such as race, immigration and LGBT issues” in the classroom. Teachers are also instructed to attend conferences put on by outfits such as the National Association for Multicultural Education, Teachers 4 Social Justice, White Privilege Conference, Creating Change, Facing Race, and others. The purpose is to “learn new strategies” and “build allies outside their immediate school community.”

Aside from the latest LGBT campaign, the SPLC’s “Teaching Tolerance” campaign offers a wide variety of other resources to indoctrinate students into the group’s radical views. Among them is a lesson dubbed “Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Confronting Unjust Laws.” In the lesson, “students will analyze a photograph of people protesting what they see as an unjust law: A law prohibiting marriage equality in California.” In other words, children will learn that their Christian parents and the majority of California voters who voted to preserve traditional marriage are bigots and that “social justice” demands purporting to redefine marriage. Similar examples are almost endless.

Rather than allowing the SPLC, the UN, and the creators of Common Core to brazenly indoctrinate American children, parents, teachers, lawmakers, and taxpayers should put their foot down. Schools are supposed to be for teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, and other academic essentials — not for trying to reshape children’s values to conform with the increasingly unhinged radical Left. Yet, the government education system is failing miserably at teaching the basics (by design) as it focuses incessantly on indoctrination and extremist activism. If liberty and common sense are going to survive in the United States over the long term, Americans need to take a long, hard look at what is happening in government schools — and put a stop to it.

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Nigel Farage on the Syrian refugee crisis flooding Europe

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By Show Me The Truth for POPULARLIBERTY.COM

With all the news about the amount of refugees coming from Syria to claim asylum and most of the European countries giving amnesty to all the refugees I thought I wonder what Nigel Farage thinks about this whole thing. Well I found one. (Seven minutes of total truth)

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An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg – RE: The GOP and Donald Trump

Posted on September 14, 2026 by | 6 comments

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A few days ago I took the time to read your expressed concerns about the support you see for Donald Trump and the state of current conservative opinion. Toward that end I have also noted additional media present a similar argument, and I took the time to consider.

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While we are of far lesser significance and influence, I hope you will consider this retort with the same level of consideration afforded toward your position.

The challenging aspect to your expressed opinion, and perhaps why there is a chasm between us, is you appear to stand in defense of a Washington DC conservatism that no longer exists.

I hope you will indulge these considerations and correct me where I’m wrong.

On December 23rd 2009 Harry Reid passed a version of Obamacare through forced vote at 1:30am. The Senators could not leave, and for the two weeks previous were kept in a prolonged legislative session barred returning to their home-state constituencies. It was, by all measures and reality, a vicious display of forced ideological manipulation of the upper chamber. I share this reminder only to set the stage for what was to follow.

Riddled with anxiety we watched the Machiavellian manipulations unfold, seemingly unable to stop the visible usurpation. Desperate for a tool to stop the construct we found Scott Brown and rallied to deliver $7 million in funding, and a “Kennedy Seat” victory on January 19th 2010.

Unfortunately, the trickery of Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be deterred. Upon legislative return he stripped a House Budgetary bill, and replaced it with the Democrat Senate version of Obamacare through a process of “reconciliation”. Thereby avoiding the 3/5ths vote rule (60) and instead using only a simple majority, 51 votes.

Angered, we rallied to the next election (November 2010) and handed the usurping Democrats the single largest electoral defeat in the prior 100 years. The House returned to Republican control, and one-half of the needed Senate seats reversed. Within the next two election cycles (’12 and ’14) we again removed the Democrats from control of the Senate.

Within each of those three elections we were told Repealing Obamacare would be job #1. It was not an optional part of our representative agreement to do otherwise.

From your own writing:

[…] If you want a really good sense of the damage Donald Trump is doing to conservatism, consider the fact that for the last five years no issue has united the Right more than opposition to Obamacare. Opposition to socialized medicine in general has been a core tenet of American conservatism from Day One. Yet, when Republicans were told that Donald Trump favors single-payer health care, support for single-payer health care jumped from 16 percent to 44 percent. (link)

With control of the House and Senate did Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner use the same level of severity expressed by Harry Reid to put a repeal bill on the desk of Obama for veto? Simply, NO.

Why not? According to you it’s the “core tenet of American conservatism”.

If for nothing but to accept and follow the will of the people. Despite the probability of an Obama veto, this was not a matter of option. While the method might have been “symbolic”, due to the almost guaranteed veto, it would have stood as a promise fulfilled.

Yet you speak of “core tenets” and question our “trust” of Donald Trump?

We are not blind to the maneuverings of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and President Tom Donohue. We are fully aware the repeal vote did not take place because the U.S. CoC demanded the retention of Obamacare.

Leader McConnell followed the legislative priority of Tom Donohue as opposed to the will of the people. This was again exemplified with the passage of TPPA, another Republican construct which insured the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal could pass the Senate with 51 votes instead of 3/5ths.

We are not blind to the reality that when McConnell chooses to change the required voting threshold he is apt to do so. Not coincidentally, the TPP trade deal is another legislative priority of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Yet you question the “trustworthiness” of Donald Trump’s conservatism?

Another bill, the Iran “agreement”, reportedly and conveniently not considered a “treaty”, again we are not blind. Nor are we blind to Republican Bob Corker’s amendment (Corker/Cardin Amendment) changing ratification to a 67-vote-threshold for denial, as opposed to a customary 67 vote threshold for passage. A profound difference.

Yet you question the “ideological conservative principle” of Donald Trump?

Perhaps your emphasis is on the wrong syllable. Perhaps you should be questioning the “ideological conservative principle” of Mitch McConnell, or Bob Corker; both of whom apparently working to deny the will of the electorate within the party they are supposed to represent. Of course, this would force you to face some uncomfortable empirical realities. I digress.

Another example – How “conservative” is Lisa Murkowski? A senator who can lose her Republican primary bid, yet run as a write-in candidate, and return to the Senate with full seniority and committee responsibilities?

Did Reince Preibus, or a republican member of leadership meet the returning Murkowski and demand a Pledge of Allegiance to the principles within the Republican party?

Yet you question the “allegiances” of Donald Trump?

Perhaps within your purity testing you need to forget minority leader Mitch McConnell working to re-elect Senator Thad Cochran, fundraising on his behalf in the spring/summer of 2014, even after Cochran lost the first Mississippi primary?

Perhaps you forget the NRSC spending money on racist attack ads? Perhaps you forget the GOP paying Democrats to vote in the second primary to defeat Republican Chris McDaniel. The “R” in NRSC is “Republican”.

Perhaps you forget. We do not.

Yet you question the “principle” of those who have had enough, and are willing to support candidate Donald Trump.

You describe yourself as filled with anxiety because such supporters do not pass some qualified “principle” test? Tell that to the majority of Republicans who supported Chris McDaniel and found their own party actively working against them.

Principle? You claim “character matters” as part of this consideration. Where is the “character” in the fact-based exhibitions outlined above?

Remember Virginia 2012, 2013? When the conservative principle-driven electorate changed the method of candidate selection to a convention and removed the party stranglehold on their “chosen candidates”. Remember that? We do.

What did McConnell, the RNC and the GOP do in response with Ken Cuccinelli, they actively spited him and removed funding from his campaign. To teach us a lesson? Well it worked, we learned that lesson.

Representative David Brat was part of that lesson learned and answer delivered. Donald Trump is part of that lesson learned and answer forthcoming – yet you speak of “character”.

You speak of being concerned about Donald Trump’s hinted tax proposals. Well, who cut the tax rates on lower margins by 50% thereby removing any tax liability from the bottom 20% wage earners? While simultaneously expanding the role of government dependency programs?

That would be the GOP (“Bush Tax Cuts”)

What? How dare you argue against tax cuts, you say. The “Bush Tax Cuts” removed tax liability from the bottom 20 to 40% of income earners completely. Leaving the entirety of tax burden on the upper 60% wage earners. Currently, thanks to those cuts, 49% of tax filers pay ZERO federal income tax.

But long term it’s much worse. The “Bush Tax Cuts” were, in essence, created to stop the post 9/11/01 recession – and they contained a “sunset provision” which ended ten years later specifically because the tax cuts were unsustainable.

The expiration of the lower margin tax cuts then became an argument in the election cycle of 2012. And as usual, the GOP, McConnell and Boehner were insufferably inept during this process.

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The GOP (2002) removed tax liability from the lower income levels, and President Obama then (2009) lowered the income threshold for economic subsidy (welfare, food stamps, ebt, medicaid, etc) this was brutally predictable.

This lower revenue higher spending approach means – lower tax revenues and increased pressure on the top tax rates (wage earners) with the increased demand for tax spending created within the welfare programs. Republicans focus on the “spending” without ever admitting they, not the Democrats, lowered rates and set themselves up to be played with the increased need for social program spending, simultaneously.

Is this reality/outcome not ultimately a “tax the rich” program?

As a consequence what’s the difference between the Republicans and Democrats on taxes? All of a sudden Republicans are arguing to “broaden the tax base”. Meaning, reverse the tax cuts they created on the lower income filers? This is a conservative position now? A need to “tax the poor”? Nice of the Republicans to insure the Democrats have an atomic sledgehammer to use against them.

This is a winning strategy? This is the “conservatism” you are defending because you are worried about Donald Trump’s principles, character or trustworthiness.

Here’s a list of those modern conservative “small(er) government” principles:

  • Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO. • Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
  • Who gave us the TSA? The GOP • Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP • Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP • Who created the precursor of “Common Core” in “Race To the Top”? The GOP
  • Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP • Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP • Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP
  • Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP • Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP • Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP
  • Who worked against Marco Rubio? The GOP • Who worked against Rand Paul? The GOP • Who worked against Ted Cruz? The GOP • Who worked against Mike Lee? The GOP • Who worked against Jim DeMint? The GOP • Who worked against Ronald Reagan? The GOP
  • Who said “I think we are going to crush [the Tea Party] everywhere.”?The GOP (McConnell)

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And, you wonder why we’re frustrated, desperate for a person who can actually articulate some kind of push-back? Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are what the GOP give us? SERIOUSLY?

Which leads to the next of your GOP talking points. Where you opine on Fox:

“Politics is a game where you don’t get everything you want”

Fair enough. But considering we of questionable judgment have simply been demanding common sense, ie. fiscal discipline, a BUDGET would be nice.

The last federal budget was passed in September of 2007, and EVERY FLIPPING INSUFFERABLE YEAR we have to go through the predictable fiasco of a Government Shutdown Standoff and/or a Debt Ceiling increase specifically because there is NO BUDGET!

That’s a strategy?

That’s the GOP strategy? Essentially: Lets plan for an annual battle against articulate Democrats and Presidential charm, using a creepy guy who cries and another old mumbling fool who dodders, knowing full well the MSM is on the side of the other guy to begin with?

THAT’S YOUR GOP STRATEGY?

Don’t tell me it’s not, because if it wasn’t there’d be something else being done – there isn’t.

And don’t think we don’t know the 2009 “stimulus” became embedded in the baseline of the federal spending, and absent of an actual budget it just gets spent and added to the deficit each year, every year. Yet this is somehow smaller fiscal government?

….And you’re worried about what Donald Trump might do?

 

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I Have An Answer To The Syrian Refugee Crisis.

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Why don’t they just go to Saudi Arabia? The Saudi’s have 100,000 Air conditioned tents sitting empty for 361 days of the year, and are capable of holding around 3 Million people. Problem solved. Oh wait I forgot they don’t want them along with every other Gulf Nation. So why is it our problem again?

SAUDI ARABIA HAS 100,000 AIR CONDITIONED TENTS THAT CAN HOUSE 3 MILLION PEOPLE SITTING EMPTY YET HAS TAKEN ZERO REFUGEES

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by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | SEPTEMBER 10, 2026

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While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.

The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20 square km valley, and are only used for 5 days of the year by Hajj pilgrims. As the website Amusing Planet reports, “For the rest of the year, Mina remains pretty much deserted.

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The tents, which measure 8 meters by 8 meters, were permanently constructed by the Saudi government in the 1990’s and were upgraded in 1997 to be fire proof. They are divided into camps which include kitchen and bathroom facilities.

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The tents could provide shelter for almost all of the 4 million Syrian refugees that have been displaced by the country’s civil war, which was partly exacerbated by Saudi Arabia’s role in funding and arming jihadist groups.

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However, as the Washington Post reports, wealthy Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and others have taken in precisely zero Syrian refugees. Although Saudi Arabia claims it has taken in 500,000 Syrians since 2011, rights groups point out that these people are not allowed to register as migrants. Many of them are also legal immigrants who moved there for work. In comparison, Lebanon has accepted 1.3 million refugees – more than a quarter of its population.

While it refuses to take in any more refugees, Saudi Arabia has offered to build 200 mosques for the 500,000 migrants a year expected to pour into Germany.

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Saudis argue that the tents in Mina are needed to host the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but given that the Arabic concept of Ummah is supposed to offer protection to all Muslims under one brotherhood, surely an alternative location could be found so that Mina can be repurposed to house desperate families fleeing war and ISIS persecution?

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While Europe is being burdened by potentially millions of people who don’t share the same culture or religion as the host population, Gulf Arab states refuse to pull their weight, resolving only to throw money at the problem.

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The likelihood of the Saudis inviting Syrian refugees to stay in Mina is virtually zero, but the thousands of empty tents serve as a physical representation of the hypocrisy shared by wealthy Gulf Arab states when it comes to helping with the crisis.

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Photos credit: Akram Abahre.

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Watch: Trump Responds To Carson’s Criticism With Massive Attack- Look On Host’s Face Says It All

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“I happen to be a great believer in God and a great believer in the Bible.”

Randy DeSoto for WESTERNJOURNALISMCENTER.COM

GOP candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump got into a dust-up this week following comments the doctor made regarding The Donald’s faith.

At a campaign event on Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif., Carson responded to a reporter’s question asking him to differentiate himself from his fellow non-establishment candidate.

“I’ve realized where my success has come from and I don’t in any way deny my faith in God,” Carson said. “And I think that is the big difference.”

Carson also said he does not get the sense that faith is a major part of Trump’s life. “I haven’t seen it,” he said. The former neurosurgeon quoted one of his favorite Bible passages – Proverbs 22:4: “By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life,” adding, “that’s a very big part of who I am. I don’t get that impression [from Trump], maybe I’m wrong but I don’t get that,” said Carson.

Trump responded by tweeting:

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Earlier this month, Trump said of Carson, “I like Ben a lot. He’s a good guy,” but Carson’s remarks clearly stirred anger in the billionaire candidate. Appearing on CNN’s New Day on Thursday, Trump hit Carson for his low-key style. “He makes [Jeb] Bush look like the Energizer Bunny,” Trump said of his GOP rival.

He insisted he was only discussing Carson because “[h]e is questioning my faith. I happen to be a great believer in God and a great believer in the Bible.”

Trump continued: “But Ben Carson, you look at his faith and I think you’re not going to find so much. And you look at his views on abortion, which were horrendous.”

Trump next attacked Carson’s medical career, saying he was only an “okay doctor,” though Carson served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and was the first man to surgically separate conjoined twins at the head.

“He was a doctor, perhaps an okay doctor, by the way,” Trump said. “You can check that out too… He was an okay doctor… and now because he’s a doctor and he hired one nurse he’s going to end up being the president of the United States?”

New Day host Chris Cuomo appeared stunned by Trump’s line of attack.

“I don’t know about ‘okay doctor.’ You know, he was the first man to separate conjoined twins,” he responded.

Carson told The Washington Post on Thursday he is not interested in continuing the back and forth with Trump. “The media frequently wants to goad people into wars, into gladiator fights, you know,” he said. “And I’m certainly not going to get into that.”

“Everyone is going to be saying, ‘Oh there’s a big fight, everyone come watch the fight,’” he added. “But it’s just not going to be as great as they think, because I’m not going to participate.”

Carson also appeared to seek reconciliation, saying he was not trying to personally go after Trump. “I would like to say to him that the intention was not to talk to him but about what motivates me,” he said regarding his religion comment. “If he took that as a personal attack on him, I apologize, it was certainly not the intent.”

Trump has not been shy about expressing how he feels about other GOP candidates, including Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina and Scott Walker.

A CNN/ORC poll released Thursday finds Trump at 32 percent support among voters, followed by Carson at 19 percent and Bush at 9 percent.

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Understanding The Dominion Theology of Christian Reconstructionists and The New Apostolic Reformation

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by Dr. Tommy Ice
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May 15, 2026

~~NOTE: This is an article I wrote about Dominion Theology in May 1988. It is interesting to see how things have progressed twenty-five years later. Back then these movements were just beginning to influence each other. Now we see these ideas continuing to gain strength in our own day.

But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest.
That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish.
Dominionist—Reconstructionist
George Grant

Some of the strongest fundamental churches still preach that Christ will return to gather national Israel unto Himself, and I say that is deception and will keep the Kingdom of God from coming to pass! Likewise, those who are waiting for Christ to catch a few people away so God can judge the world are waiting in vain!
Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of His Father, until you and I as sons of god, become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, “Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and we are ruling and reigning in Your world. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Dominionist-Charismatic
Earl Paulk

The 1980’s have witnessed the rise to prominence of a unique blend of theology often called Dominion Theology (DT). DT is the product of two major streams of thought. One from the Reformed, Calvinist camp, the other from the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition. Before the development of DT, it would have been hard to imagine two more diverse expressions of Christianity. Even though each group has traveled a different path, they have arrived at similar conclusions, at least concerning two major issues. First, their handling of the Old Testament (OT). Second, the common belief that the current age is the full expression of the Kingdom of God, and that Christ cannot return to earth until a certain level of maturity and development is reached by the Church.

DEFINING DOMINION
DT advocates believe that dominion over every area of life has been restored by the first coming of Christ. Since we are now in the Kingdom (this is where the synonym for DT “Kingdom Now” arose), they believe the present task of the Church is to call believers to reclaim the rule of Christ on planet earth by whatever means their particular brand of DT advocates. For Reconstructionists, this is accomplished through the ethical means of obeying the Word (Biblical law). Charismatics often teach that it is achieved through the metaphysical means of confessing the Word. Both believe that dominion is to be taken by Christians (not immediately by Christ, but mediately through believers) over all mankind, before Christ physically returns to planet earth.
The major passage which Dominionists believe teach their view is Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” This verse clearly teaches that dominion has been given over the animals and the earth, which mankind has clearly fulfilled and continues to fulfill (Ps. 8:6-8). However, it does not give justification, as DT teaches, that we are to take dominion over other human beings. The Scriptures do teach that Christ has dominion over all mankind (Jude 25), and that believers will reign and rule with Him (Rev. 5:10), but the question is when. Rule with Christ will take place in the future Kingdom. This is why it is important to understand that the current age is not yet Christ’s Kingdom, but the Church Age.

THE DOMINIONIST ERROR
The Scripture teaches that this current age is not Christ’s Kingdom. Believers are not yet reigning and ruling with Christ, although it is their future destiny; similar to the way a Crown Prince is born to rule, but does not exercise that rule until a future stage in his life. In fact, Paul rebuked the errant Corinthian Dominionists saying that “you have become kings without us; and I would indeed that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you” (1 Cor. 4:8). Instead he went on to speak of the suffering, humiliation, and persecutions he endured for Christ (4:9-13) as he preached the gospel. Humiliation is the calling of all believers during this present age before the return of Chirst. This is seen in Paul’s admonition to “be imitators of me” (4:16).

The current Church Age is a time of humiliation for believers as we call people to Christ. This current destiny is similar to the career of Christ. At His first advent, Christ came into a hostile world in order to die, as well as to call out of the world a band of disciples to continue His ministry after He went victoriously into heaven following the resurrection. Christ’s humiliation and abasement to the Father’s will serves as a stark contrast to Adam’s pride and grasping after dominion (Phil. 2:5-11). Since the Church-the Body of Christ-is being prepared as Christ’s bride, she too experiences a time of humiliation during the present age as Christ is calling out from among the Gentiles a people for God’s name (Acts 15:14) through the Church. Since Christ suffered rejection and was hatred in this world, so also His body experiences the same (John 15:18-27). Just as Christ endured to the end and was then glorified (John 17), so rulership will be given to all believers in the future Kingdom as they overcome (Rev. 2:25-27; 3:21).
Modern Dominionists make a mistake similar to those to whom Christ spoke in Luke 24:26: “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” So it is true of His Church. She must first suffer humiliation, during this age, and then she will be exalted and exercise dominion after the return of Christ in His Kingdom.
A major disagreement exists between Dominionists and non-Dominionists over whether or not the Church will be able to achieve millennial conditions during this age before Christ returns. Here we see the error of trying to impatiently reach ahead and prematurely introduce paradise upon earth in a way that is out of sync with God’s plan. Even though Dominionists say that they are accomplishing their Kingdom building, not through human efforts, but by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, the simple fact is that if the Bible does not teach their view (which it does not) then they are in fact striving in vain by the arm of the flesh. This misguided effort will only lead to a waste of resources and wrong participation with the goals and directives from the world. The question of the timing of the Millennium affects the goals and objectives of believers today. Therefore it is extremely important that we correctly understand Scripture on this important subject.

DOMINIONIST BELIEFS
Like many issues, no two Dominionists believe exactly the same on every point. However, there are specific things which most Dominionists do believe. If I were to say that there were twenty items which characterize DT (I am not saying there are), I would not expect every advocate to hold them all. One might believe five items, another ten, while yet another sixteen. Only a few people attempt to be consistent in what they believe. Most tend to pick up bits and pieces of different beliefs and blend them together. Therefore, we will attempt to inform the reader of overall characteristics so that they will be able to spot even minor influences of DT. First the Christian Reconstruction movement (CRM) will be outlined, followed by the Positive Confession/Manifest Sons of God Charismatics (PC).

RECONSTRUCTIONISM
Reconstructionists believe that Adam lost his God-given dominion over the earth to Satan when he sinned. The God-Man, Jesus Christ, gained this authority back at His first coming and established the Kingdom. Jesus Christ is now at the right hand of the Father mediating this regained dominion through the Church. As the Church evangelizes the world it will gradually expand to cover the whole earth before Christ’s return. Gary North has summarized the distinctives of the CRM as follows:

1) The sovereignty of God; 2) Cornelius Van Til’s Biblical presuppositionalism as a framework for defending the faith; 3) Biblical law or theonomy (lit. Greek: theos means “God” & nomos means “law,” thus “God’s law”); 4) Covenant Theology; and 5) an optimistic view of prophecy called Postmillennialism.

I have no problem with the way the CRM teaches the first two items, however, the last three points lead Christians away from God’s Word.

THEONOMY
Reconstructionist, Greg Bahnsen describes theonomy as follows: “The Christian is obligated to keep the whole law of God as a pattern for sanctification and that this law is to be enforced by the civil magistrate where and how the stipulations of God so designate.” This would mean that Christians should seek to directly apply the whole Mosaic Law, except in those instances where the New Testament (NT) explicitly does away with a command. For example, Israel’s sacrifices would no longer be required since Hebrews 8 says they are fulfilled in Christ. Or, the Sabbath has been changed from Saturday to Sunday because of the Resurrection. Theonomists insist that Christians should use their influence to restore the death penalty for such OT sins as blasphemy, rebellion to parents, homosexuality, kidnaping, incest, unchastity (adultery), witchcraft, sacrifice to a false god, and propagation of false doctrine.
Reconstructionists believe that:

(1) God is changeless.
(2) God’s law is a reflection of His perfect character.
(3) God’s laws are, therefore, changeless and binding on all human endeavor from the time the laws were given to the present.

Further, they believe that this is supported by Matthew 5:17-19, which reads in part, “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law . . . but to fulfill.” Bahnsen concludes that “fulfill” means “confirm,” therefore, the OT law is still in force and binding upon all men today.
While all Scripture is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16), and the law is good if used lawfully (1 Tim. 1:8); it does not follow that Theonomy squares with the teachings of the Bible for the following reasons: First, the law was given to Israel and Israel alone. “He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel. He has not dealt thus with any nation” (Ps. 147:19-20a). It is true that Christians are wise to gain insight and wisdom from God’s revelation of Himself to Israel, but the Church is not obligated to keep the Mosaic Law. The Church is obligated to keep Christ’s commandments (John 14:15) and the Law of Christ (Gal. 6:2).
Second, the nations are under the obligation of the Adamic Covenant (Gen. 1:15-17) and its post-flood renewal, the Noahic Covenant (Gen. 8:20-9:17). Paul appeals to this relationship in the NT (Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:21-22) as the legal basis for Gentile judgment for their sin. Theonomists are correct to note God’s changeless character. However, this does not mean that the details concerning the stipulations of all of His covenants apply to all people. Only those who are party to a covenant are obligated to obey the laws of that covenant. Since all men are party to the Noahic Covenant, then all are obligated to obey rulers (Rom. 13). Those who are believers in Christ are party to the New Covenant and are obligated to obey the Law of Christ.
Third, “fulfill” in Matthew 5:17 does not mean “confirm.” Jesus was unlike the Pharisees who made void God’s law by their traditions, rather He fulfilled or kept the law. Matthew stresses the fact that Christ fulfilled OT prophecies as can be seen in 4:14-16. Christ fulfilled, not confirmed, the prophecy of Isaiah 9:1–2 by accomplishing what the OT passage predicted.

COVENANT THEOLOGY
Covenant is the instrument by which God carries on a relationship with man. All Christians believe that the Biblical Covenants are central to understanding the Bible. However, that branch of theology known as “Covenant Theology (CT),” which the CRM is built upon, believes that the Church replaces Israel within God’s plan. It is this feature of CT, often called “Replacement Theology” (RT), which I believe is in error. RT teaches that God is finished with Israel as a special nation and will not one day in the future restore Israel, convert Israel to Jesus as their Messiah, and fulfill the promises made to Israel. They believe that the Church is the “New Israel” or the “Israel of God.”
This errant view ignores or mishandles the scores of OT passages teaching future & final blessing for God’s elect nation, as well as Paul’s teaching in Romans 9-11. Paul brings his argument to a climax as he demonstrates in Chapter 11 that even Israel’s current state of partial rejection is not final, but only temporary. In answering the question he raised in 11:1 as to why God has not rejected His people (Israel), Paul gives the following response:

(1) There is a present election, which proves that God has not cast off Israel (1-10).
(2) There will be a future reception (11-24).
(3) There will be a future & final salvation of Israel (25-32).

The best way to understand the teaching of Scripture concerning the relationship of Israel and the Church is that both have a special place within God’s master plan. CT is correct to note that Israel is under God’s discipline for rejecting Jesus as Messiah and that God has established a new work with the Church. However, I believe that God has given a special place to both the Church and in the future, His restored people-Israel-during the Millennium. The CRM believes that almost all prophecies have already taken place, in contrast to most Christians who have for 2,000 years understood these events to await future fulfillment. Now lets look at the Postmillennialism of the CRM.

POSTMILLENNIALISM
Postmillennialism believes that Christ established His Kingdom at His first coming. However, the glory of the Kingdom has yet to reach its climax. Therefore, as the Church preaches the gospel and is faithful in applying Biblical law, then the Kingdom expands to gradually fill the whole earth. The CRM believes that Deuteronomy 28-the blessings and cursings given to Israel-explains both personal and institutional success and failure in terms of how well the people of the world obey its commands. This is the means by which disease and death will be all but eliminated before Christ returns to earth at the end of His rule, which the CRM says will have been mediated through the Church.
Before I look at other features of the CRM’s Postmillennialism, let’s look at their misuse of Deuteronomy 28. First, the text clearly says that it is given to Israel (29:1). How could God scatter the “Church” among the nations (28:64), since the Church has always existed among the nations? This is but one example of how the language of the passage does not fit into the role and calling of the Church.
Second, Israel was given this blessing and cursing scheme following their redemption from Egypt as a “cause/effect” mechanism for blessing the nation.

This “obey in order to be blessed” approach is not the one given to the Church in the NT. Ephesians 1:3 says that NT believers have already been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. This approach is not a “cause/effect” basis for motivation, rather it is a “caused/effect” appeal. Throughout the NT we are told to “walk in a manner worthy of our calling in Christ” (Rom. 12: 1-2; Eph. 4:1; Col. 3:1-5; 1 Thess. 4:1). The New Covenant (NC) approach appeals to our love and gratitude for the blessings Christ has already given as the motive to obey His commandments. The Old Covenant (OC) functioned differently; “you will be blessed if you obey.” Reconstructionists are motivating believers with an OC imperative, ignoring the gracious advancements of the NC.

Third, the NC speaks only of changing individuals during the current age, while the OC dealt with both individuals and institutions. Institutional change will occur in the future Millennium, building upon the foundation of individual change of the present age. Since the CRM understands the present age to include the Millennium, therefore they misplace the timing of God’s plan for changing institutions.

PRETERIST INTERPRETATION
The preterist (Latin for “past”) approach to interpreting prophecy believes that about 95% of the events which most Christians understand to be future, were fulfilled in the past, between A.D. 30 and A.D. 70. This is the viewpoint of the CRM. Reconstructionist, David Chilton, has said concerning the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24-25; Mk. 13; Lk. 17 and 21) and the Book of Revelation the following:

. . . is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is about the destruction of Israel and Christ’s victory over His enemies . . . the word coming as used in the Book of Revelation never refers to the Second Coming. Revelation prophesies the judgment of God on apostate Israel; and while it does briefly point to events beyond its immediate concerns, that is done merely as a “wrap-up,” to show that the ungodly will never prevail against Christ’s Kingdom.

If the above statement is true, then the CRM has taken away all of the passages in the NT which teach the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They would have no passages from the Bible which teaches the Second Coming. The CRM does believe in the Second Coming, however, they cannot support their belief from specific passages in the Bible. Reconstructionists are eager to place all of the “coming passages” into the past, so that they can hopefully cast a different light upon Scripture which would teach views different from their Postmillennialism.

One Reconstructionist observed that the Preterist approach places an emphasis on the middle of history, rather than the end of history. Theologians have labeled the study of prophecy “eschatology” (from the Greek word eschatos meaning “last”), since most have traditionally believed that the Bible places these events at the end of history. Perhaps Reconstructionists should label their view of prophecy middleology, to give a more accurate impression of their position. The following explanations of specific items demonstrate how the CRM’s middleology differs from eschatology.

•The Great Tribulation took place in the Fall of Israel in A.D. 70.
•The Great Apostasy happened in the first century. Therefore, we should expect increasing Christianization of the world, not increasing apostasy.
•The Last Days are a term which apply to Israel only. They occurred between Christ’s first coming and the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem.
•The Antichrist is a term to describe the widespread apostasy of the Church prior to the Fall of Jerusalem. The word does not refer to a future person.
•The Rapture is the same as the Second Coming. There is no distinction between the two events.
•The Second Coming will take place at the end of the Millennium or Kingdom. It may not occur for thousands of years or even a million years.
•The Beast of Revelation was a symbol of both Nero and the Roman Empire.
•The False Prophet of Revelation was the leadership of apostate Israel.
•The Great Harlot of Revelation was apostate Jerusalem.
•The Millennium is the present reign of Christians as kings on earth in the Kingdom established by Christ at His First Coming.
•The Thousand Years of Revelation 20 is a large, rounded-off number containing the idea of a fullness of quantity, standing for manyness. Amazingly, the thousand years may require a million years.
•The First Resurrection of Revelation 20:5 is a spiritual resurrection: our justification & regeneration in Christ.
•The New Heaven and Earth has already begun as our salvation in Christ, both now and in eternity.
•The New Jerusalem is the Church, now and forever.
Armageddon will never be a literal battle, since the CRM says there is no such place. It signifies the defeat of those who set themselves against God.
These snapshots should help the reader get an idea of what it means to view prophecy from a preterist perspective. It should be clear that this approach produces numbers that don’t count, people who will not exist, places that do not exist, and events that will not occur. If this allegorical method was applied to all of Scripture, we would have a creation that did not occur, a sinless fall, and a Christ who never came. It is a blessing that the CRM is inconsistent in their application of this approach to interpreting the Bible since they tend to apply this method mainly to future prophetic events.

PEOPLE AND PLACES
The founder and leading patriarch of the CRM is Rousas John Rushdoony. Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North, is probably the most well-known next to “Rush.” It should be noted that these two men, who claim to have the answers to the church’s and the world’s problems, have not spoken to one another for almost a decade, because of a theological dispute. Greg Bahnsen coined the term “theonomy” for the movement. Other leaders and spokesmen include: David Chilton, Joe Morecraft, Ray Sutton, Jim Jordan, Otto Scott, Gary DeMar, Peter Leithart, Ken Gentry, Michael Gilstrap, John Lofton, Samuel Blumenfeld, George Grant, R. E. McMaster, Joe Kickasola, Francis Nigel Lee, and Jay Grimstead. Others who have been influenced by the movement include: Pat Robertson, John Whitehead, Francis and Franky Schaeffer, Jerry Falwell, Everett Sileven, Ron Jenson, D. James Kennedy.
The places where the CRM has had its greatest impact would be politics and education. The New Religious Right and Republican politics have had a significant input by the CRM. Christian Day Schools and even more the Home Schooling movement tend to have many who advocate views of the CRM. I will now turn my attention to the Charismatic wing of DT.

THE CHARISMATIC CONNECTION
CRM pastor, Joesph Morecraft, has noted that Calvinists and Charismatics are uniting around the issue of DT. Morecraft said,

God is mixing the light of the Reformed Faith with the heat of the Charismatic Movement. A person can be in the light, & freeze to death. He can also be warm but be in total darkness. It is the mixture of light and heat that bring forth life and growth.

The Dominionist heat being generated by Charismatics is often called “Kingdom Now” (KN), because they believe that we are now in the Kingdom. The language of KN often begins with a complaint about how damaging belief in the Rapture is. KN often charges Christians who believe in the Rapture with just sitting around, doing nothing, waiting for the escape of the Rapture. Instead, the Church should be involved in expanding God’s Kingdom now, they claim. Now we will look at some of the specific KN teachings which many Charismatics are adopting in part and in whole.

KINGDOM NOW BELIEFS
Basic to KN teaching is the understanding that Christians are now gaining back lost territory forfeited to Satan when Adam fell. In order to be victorious in this spiritual warfare, the Church needs unity and great spiritual power. Those who submit to the special teachings (often received by direct revelation from God) of their leaders (Apostles) will be some of the special Christians called “overcomers.” More extreme elements teach that these overcomers will actually be gods or the “Manifest Sons of God” before the resurrection. The following are some of the key teachings of the KN movement.

Anti-Rapture
KN often explain the Rapture (1 Thess. 4:17) not as a physical catching up to be with the Lord, but rather a feeling of excitement or rapture when the Lord returns to an earth which has been conquered by Christians. KN teaches that the Church is spiritual Israel, and therefore God is finished with Israel as a covenant nation. The prophecies in both the OT and NT regarding Israel now apply to the Church. This “Replacement” approach applies the restoration passages, which the Bible intends to refer to Israel, as being fulfilled by the Church.

The Church has Failed
There is much talk about how the Church has failed to really be the Church. Therefore, if Christians would adopt the KN agenda it would revitalize Christianity and bring a great revival which would sweep the world. This would mean that as true overcomers are faithful in their witness, the sooner the blessings of the Kingdom will flow. “To be a witness means to demonstrate the Kingdom on earth: to take dominion, bringing all things into obedience to Christ”. As the Church increasingly turns failure into success it will see more people walking in divine health and prosperity. Some believe that even death will be eliminated. A dangerous sign is that some within KN believe the Church will have to be purged of those who do not follow their leadership.

Restoration
Since the Church has failed, the true Church is being restored in these last days. Restoration occurs in two ways: personal and cooperate. Personal restoration occurs when one receives the fullness and cleansing of God by being open to “all that the Lord has for His children.” Corporate restoration refers to the time when the Church demonstrates the power and unity which God has planned for her.

Restorationists make at least two major errors in their mishandling of the BIble. First, they make positional terms experiential. Christ’s sanctification of the Church (Eph. 5:25-27) is accomplished by His righteousness being credited to Believers. This act gives the Believer a right standing or position because of Christ’s substitutionary work. Believers are then to live in terms of their standing, but will never experientially achieve full holiness until the resurrection. KN teaches that the Church will experientially achieve this status of holiness. They wrongly believe that a righteousness of our own is spoken of, rather than Christ’s righteousness given to His own.

Second, the KN movement has a habit of taking Scriptures relating to Israel and misapplying them to the Church. The Bible does teach that Israel will be restored one day in the future. This promise is seen in Acts 3:19-21 where Peter is telling Israel that if they will believe in Jesus as the Messiah, then the “times of refreshing” and “the period of restoration of all things” will arrive. This is a reference to a blessing for Israel, not the Church. In a similar way, KN often wants to apply aspects from different time periods to the present. They will take the past, like the blessing and cursing section of Deuteronomy 28, and make it a standard for today. Or, they will reach ahead to the Millennium & say that health and prosperity is a right of a faithful Believer today. While the Bible does speak of restoration, it does not teach about it in the way that KN advocates say.

Five-Fold Ministry
KN teaches that the maturity of the Church will be accomplished through the restoration of the gifted men mentioned in Ephesians 4:11. This viewpoint, received as a new revelation, believes that the 1950’s saw the restoration of evangelists; the 1960’s the pastor; the 1970’s the teacher; the 1980’s the prophet; and the 1990’s will see a revived office of apostles. The result of this supposed return to first century Christianity will reap the following result:

The restoration of the apostle to full recognition and authority will bring the Church to maturity, unity, and proper Church structure. Signs and wonders will be wrought which will cause the world to look to the Church for answers and miracles needed. Whole nations will turn to God. The Church will become glorious and victorious and cause the glory of the Lord to fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. When all five-fold ministries are fully restored, all the saints are moving in their membership ministry, and the Church is unified and perfected, when Jesus can return and set up His Kingdom and establish His eternal reign with His Bride/Church. Planet Earth will be purified to become the headquarters for Jesus and His Church to rule and reign over His vast domain forever and ever and ever forevermore. Amen!

The problem with this application of Ephesians 4:11 is that it is based upon a supposed “new” revelation from God, rather than a proper interpretation of the passage. So many of the important points of KN are based not upon interpreting passages from the Bible which we know are God’s Word, instead they require us to trust that these self-proclaimed prophets and apostles speak for God. I am not going to be moved from the stability of God’s clear word, to the shaky ground of a human offering by following after these “new revelations.” In addition, this view would require those ministries to have been absent from the Church during the past, so that they can now be restored. This is a slap in the face of God who has promised that He will be with us always, even to the end of the age (Matt. 28:20).

Latter Rain
Still another KN teaching proclaims that there will be a great spiritual awakening at the end of the Church Age, right before Christ’s return. This revival is often called the “Latter Rain.” Once again KN teachers misused Scripture (Joel 2:23 and Jam. 5:7) which applies to Israel and will occur at a future time with this doctrine. The current Church Age is a period described in Scripture as having general characteristics concerning its development and progress (Matt. 13; 24:4-8; Rev. 2-3). It does not have specific prophecy being fulfilled, like a time of great spiritual revival at the end of the Age. On the other hand, Israel does have a great deal of specific prophecy outlining God’s program for her. Therefore, it is wrong to misapply Israel’s blessing to the Church, as the KN advocates have done with the latter rain teaching.

Some Other Issues
There are many other doctrines related to KN. Many of them are designated by Biblical terms. The context and way in which these terms are used will help Christians discern if they are used with a KN intent. James Dager lists some of the other phrases used to convey KN. They include:

-Word-Faith
-Spoken Word
-Tabernacle of David
-Feast of Tabernacles
-Many-membered man child
-Manifestation of the Kingdom
-Ongoing Incarnation
-Birthing in the Spirit
-Get this into your spirit
-Serpent’s Seed or Seed of the Serpent
-God’s faith
-Faith in faith
-Kingdom principles
-Elijah Company
-Bride Company
-Perfection of the Body

Kingdom Now Leaders
It would be impossible to name most of the leaders of KN, but some of the more visible ones seem to be: Earl and Don Paulk, Robert Tilton, Larry Lea, James Robison, Rick Godwin, Clark Whitten, Bob Weiner, Dennis Peacocke, Bob Mumford, Richard Hogue, John Mears, John and Anne Gimenez, Bill Hamon, Tommy Reid, Marilyn Hickey, and others.

WHOSE KINGDOM NOW?
Since the Bible does not teach KN, then we need to question whose Kingdom are they really trying to establish? I believe that the KN agenda has more in common with the enemies of Christ, than with Jesus Christ’s Kingdom. The power of their Kingdom is not from the Holy Spirit, but very likely from the occult. The coming together in unity is a unity in apostasy, rather than the true unity of Christ. Their doctrine is false, rather than that which reflects the faith once for all delivered to the saints. We are seeing another attempt in history to establish a man-made Kingdom, all in the name of God.

The Insufficiency of God’s Provision
The KN doctrine denies the sufficiency of God’s provision for mankind in two ways. First, the insufficiency of the work of Christ. KN teachers view some believers as “overcomers” while others are not. This denies that salvation, from start to finish is a work of God. It is true that Christian are to respond to God’s work, but it is His work. KN teaches that a believer needs a second work of grace in their life to really live the Christian life. Christ’s work on the cross was not sufficient, believers need a “power boost” along the way to really handle the problems of life as overcomers. Unfortunately, the “power boost” is often the false doctrine of KN.

The Biblical view of the Christian life is that Christ gave us all at the moment of salvation. Sanctification is the outworking of justification. When one is born physically, they are fully human, so are believers who are born again in Christ. We have to grow and develop by learning the Word (eating) and obeying the Word (exercise), and as we mature we are better able to handle life and serve God. However, KN tells believers that they cannot handle life not because they need to mature or have disobeyed God, but rather they are not a full Christian and need to get all that God has for them. So in this way they teach that Christ’s work is lacking.

Second, they imply that the Word of God is insufficient as given in the Bible and needs their new revelations to either understand it correctly or to receive new information. Somehow these modern times need the new revelation of the apostles and prophets within the KN movement. These leaders ignore the clear Biblical teaching that the Scriptures are sufficient for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Jude tells us that we have in the Bible a faith which was once and for all delivered to the saints—a fixed faith—for which we are to contend (3). Paul calls this “fixed faith” a deposit which is to be passed down through succeeding generations of believers through faithful men (2 Tim. 1:13; 2:2). Paul gives us a double warning: (1) do not follow after men who base their teaching on extra-biblical revelation like visions (Col. 2:18), and (2) that believers learn to not exceed what is written (1 Cor. 4:6). Instead, the true Apostle, Paul, instructed Christians to bring our thoughts under the obedience of Christ (2 Cor. 10:3-4), rather than call our speculations about God’s Word “revelation knowledge” which overcomers are to follow. God’s Word is sufficient for the believer. Those who trust in and delight in Christ and His Word have found that He meets all of our needs as well as many of our wants.

CONCLUSION
Dominion Theology, with its two elements, the Christian Reconstruction Calvinists and the Kingdom Now Charismatics, are coming together to create what Christian authors Hal Lindsey and Dave Hunt are calling the most dangerous trend within Evangelical Christianity. This appears to be true since the call for Believers to exercise a premature dominion is at the heart of Satan’s promise to Eve in the Garden. Since Dominionists are wrong about the timing of the Kingdom (Kingdom NOW), and about the means of establishing the Kingdom (DT believes the Kingdom is established by means of the work of the Church, rather than Christ’s through Christ personal return.), therefore they cannot help but be involved, either knowingly or unknowingly, in furthering Satan’s Kingdom, to the extent that they apply their deviant theology.

Christians are instructed to seek after the things above, to set our minds on the things above (Col. 3:1-2), while we eagerly wait for our Savior’s return (Phil. 3:20). Our calling in the present is not to take dominion, but rather to preach the Gospel to the world and to wait for God’s Son—Christ—from heaven who will deliver us from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10). Then, and only after our Lord’s return to earth, will we reign and rule (have dominion) with Christ as overcomers (Rev. 2:26-27; 3:21). Maranatha!

 

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