By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

In an era where change is touted, it is becoming apparent that most of what is being offered as change is really just taking a chance. Many of the changes offered are being rejected because they seem to be flattening our freedom to make a choice, with one exception.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Over four decades ago I had a dream vision of many of the details of the second coming of Christ. It sent me on a lifetime quest to find out all I could about this great coming event. Today I am far from alone as more people than ever are having visions, dreams and revelations about this wonderful change coming to the world.

One of the side benefits of the call to the prophetic ministry is the ability to discern the dreams, visions and revelations of others. Sometimes it may just be a Freudian thing or that someone ate a sour pickle before retiring for the night that brought on an apparition. At other times God has clearly spoken and even when the recipient of the vision is not sure God has spoken, I am.

I have always treaded cautiously when I hear someone has had a revelation for obvious reasons. Some revelation is false and very misleading. I don’t haphazardly accept everything I hear but I am also reticent to dismiss a matter too quickly. I have often been guided by what the Pharisees concluded when listening to the Apostle Paul’s rendering of the gospel and the vision of Jesus Christ he had as he traveled on the road to the city of Damascus.

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By K. L. KRAEMER

After watching news coverage of the tea parties a while back, I concluded a right-wing extremist is anyone other than John McCain or Colin Powell. You know, someone who firmly comes down on the right in MOST issues — someone who believes in the original intent of the Constitution as framed by our fore-thinking founders and someone who believes in the right to life or good citizen gun rights, that our safety is paramount and trumps the distastefulness of waterboarding in obtaining information, believes in traditional marriage and that sex is not for children, that English should be the official language in America, that the borders should be closed to illegal entry. Right-wingers believe that the right to safety, human nature, and traditional values just don’t change or go out of style.

There aren’t too many people on the right who are so hateful and far out that they could ever compete with the number of left-wing loons. So what does the mainstream media do? As most of you reading this have figured out, they label right-leaning Americans as being way too far to the right while left-leaners are portrayed as middle of the road. So when I heard that George Tiller was gunned down, I was for many reasons dismayed. I didn’t exactly mourn him personally, but I do mourn that he was murdered and knew the event had given the far left some material to show that right-wingers are as hate-filled and crazy as they are.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Blame for Dr. Tiller’s murder is flying around like the sands of a Mojave dust storm most of it is hyper and unreasonable and it is begging for some legitimate balance. Is there any?

In our system of law as it pertains to capital crimes unless there is a conspiracy there is no guilt by association. Conversely there is also no innocence by association. Christian leaders and conservative citizens in general have jumped at the chance to label Mr. Roeder a vigilante a monster and things far worse.

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Special Message from MICHAEL REAGAN

My father Ronald Reagan was touched by God many times, including when he was inspired to write his book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. I want you, and every American, to have a copy of this uplifting book about how precious each human life is and how each of us must act to create and protect a culture of life. Written at the sorrowful tenth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this important book remains a vital keystone in our fight to protect the sacred value of every human life.

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THE EERILY MODERN WORDS OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS

The following is a partial transcript of the words of Stephen A Douglass, a northern moderate, responding to Lincoln’s ambivalence toward slavery.

The Northern industrialist and the Southern slaveowner both love this country with equal passion.  As I considered the controversy of sectionalism, I was reminded of an encounter I had.  I received a letter from a doctor who told me that he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me. He described himself as a Christian who was strongly abolitionist, but that was not what was preventing him potentially from voting for me.

What bothered the doctor was a speech in which said I would fight northern ideologues who want to take away a plantation owner’s to choose. The doctor said he had assumed I was a reasonable person; he supported my policy initiatives on Manifest Destiny, but that if I truly believed that every abolitionist individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on the South, then I was not very reasonable. He wrote, “I do not ask at this point that you support abolition, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.” Fair-minded words.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

The administrators at Notre Dame had it in mind to foster tolerance and diversity with those of differing opinions. Among the graduating class a few students had Obama’s circle logo pasted on their caps leaving no doubt what was in their minds:

Outside in protest chanting, Benedict’s flock

No you can’t, no you can’t

Inside Obama’s friends chant and mock

Yes we can, yes we can

Wisdom’s answer notwithstanding only common sense need answer the mockery that was the appearance, the address and the awarding of an honorary degree to Barack Obama. Under the banner of bringing a new voice of liberalism to university has anyone sat down and done the math?

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