By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Long ago a dear and wise friend warned me that in life you do not draw to yourself the kind of people you like and admire; rather you draw only those who are exactly what you are. In my lifetime I have never been able to prove that my old friends’ advice was wrong.

In politics we see a President who was weaned and tutored in the socialism of Alinsky, Ayers and Wright who now surrounds himself with Czars, cabinet members and appointees who are exactly like his mentors.

In religion Americans are about one hundred times more likely to listen to a preacher or prophet whose message is more akin to Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry be Happy” than the “repent and be saved” of a Billy Graham or Jerry Falwell. No surprise, since the Apostle Paul did warn that in the last days men and women of the faith would apostate and “heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.” (2Tim 4:3b)

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By LARRY WILKE

In case you haven’t heard, the country of Greece is undergoing a bit of an “economic crisis.” “Greece has lived for years beyond its means, borrowing money and spilling red ink to finance excessive government spending, offer socialized health care and provide lavish wages to federal workers.” (“Greece Debt Crisis Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?” Fox News) Are we sure that we are talking about Greece here and NOT the United Statists of Obama? The Obama imitation of Greece’s economic death spiral just happens to be the sincerest form of flattery.

Here are just a few of the hard numbers. Greece’s public debt is 113 percent of its GDP. Their debt is $388 billion, which is bigger than its $356 billion economy. Even without the amazing cerebral capacity of your average liberal, anyone can see that this is a recipe for an economic disaster. Scratch that, the average liberal doesn’t seem to understand this equation and the average liberal in the Slight House certainly doesn’t seem to get it either.

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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 Dr. ROBERT OWENS

The Framers moved beyond a loose Confederation of States creating the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known.  They birthed a nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal unleashing the creative power and energy of humanity in a way never before known and never since equaled. They launched a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the Constitution should feel very flattered.  Our founding document has been copied by almost as many countries as radio talking-heads trying to imitate Rush Limbaugh.  Though it was the best set of compromises the Framers could hammer-out they knew as time passed it might need to be changed.  They made provisions for gradual evolution to occur without the Revolution they used to obtain change that they could believe in or the Civil War their grandchildren fought to change that change.

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By NANCY MORGAN

With Obama’s ascension to the highest office in the land, America is quickly turning into two separate and unequal factions – the elites who decide the rules and the peons who are obliged to follow them.

Our political elites are currently crafting a drastic overhaul of a health care system 77% of Americans say they are happy with. They have decreed that all Americans will now be subject to the new health care rules. Those that don’t will be subject to $1,000 fines.  Congress itself, however, will be exempt from the rules they are demanding the rest of us follow. Congressional members have their own health care plan, one that is not available to the rest of us peons.

Oh, and the unions, who have attained temporary elite status by virtue of their campaign contributions, will be granted special rules allowing them to be exempt from the proposed taxes on health care that will be paid by the peons in flyover country. (That’s you and me.)

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

June 6 is D-Day, June 14 is Flag Day and this year we will celebrate Father’s Day on June 21. These observances have long been a deep and revered part of American culture. Look out, here comes change.

June has traditionally been a month of honoring fathers, soldiers and patriots; now thanks to the social engineering of Barack Obama we have a whole month to celebrate lesbians, bi-sexuals, gays and transgenders. In America there will be about 290 million people who will likely not be rushing out to observe this month long celebration.

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By PAUL SCHNEE

If a man continually shouted “Fire!” in a crowded theatre, panicking its occupants, causing a stampede for the exits resulting in many injuries and deaths, he would be arrested and prosecuted, but this is exactly what our mortician-in-chief, Barack Obama, has been doing with impunity ever since he took office. So far, he and his administration have proven to be fundamentally dishonest not only in their shrill and exaggerated description of our national condition but also in how they have described and characterized the remedies they intend to apply in order to save us.

The salient fact is that the “stimulus” bill and the “omnibus” bill and almost everything else coming out of the White House is a cover for the massive expansion of government moving us closer and much faster to the model of a European socialist country, and he is using fear, exaggeration, and the ensuing panic to accomplish it. His extreme socialist agenda is much more dear to his heart than rescuing our economy. Understand that and you will be able to grasp why the thugocracy at ACORN, an organization that is currently under 14 federal indictments for voter fraud in the last election, has been rewarded with around $4 billion in earmarks and why our airports have only been awarded $1 billion for improvements. Understand that and you will be able to grasp that his policies defy common sense and attempt to contradict the laws of economics let alone past fiscal experience and practice.

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By ROB LEWIS

I was recently listening to a jazz radio station and the song “Waiting On The World To Change” by John Mayer came on. Yeah, I know, I don’t get the connection between Mayer and jazz either, but that’s a different story.

John Mayer is a terrific songwriter, but he’s a terrible philosopher. If you are not familiar with the song, the lyrics point out some issues that Mayer and all his friends have with the current state of the world. The song continues with acquiescence as he complains, “It’s hard to beat the system.” The appropriate plan of action according to Mayer is then, “waiting for the world to change.”

Catchy tune aside, this song is a perfect example of what is wrong with the system. So many of us are sitting around waiting for the world to change that control has been taken by people who take action. Change never just happens. It is effected.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

That America has changed is without question. No one gets to live in the world they were raised to live in. My father grew up in a house with a dirt floor and no running water. He plowed a field with mules just as his father did and his father and so on. My grandmother never heard of telephones, or airplanes or electricity until after she was 21 and had several children yet I sat next to her in 1969 watching men walk on the moon. My grandfather’s generation was the first in my family that learned to read, my father’s generation was the first to grow up with shoes on, mine was the first that grew up in a city, my son’s was the first to have a computer before they had a car and my grandchildren are the first to grow up in an America that’s the largest debtor on Earth, like Blanche DuBois depending on the kindness of strangers.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

The strongest conservative may have had a moment when they actually wanted to chant the change mantra. Guided by conscience, reason, historical precedent or just good old fashioned caution; in our heart of hearts we knew it was made to sound all too easy.

When a slogan becomes the battle cry in a political campaign and is accepted in place of a clear and defining policy the excited soon become the exasperated. The call to follow without clear parameters is just another way of saying “trust me.” Those who did may have slightly outnumbered those who didn’t but the missing definition was soon to follow.

Part of that definition can be seen in the report issued by the head of Homeland Security. The report warns against returning veterans people who disdain abortion, listening to prophecy preachers and those who can’t settle in on the “all religions are good” claptrap. No one could have said it better than author and Fox News’ strategist Ralph Peters in the article “The Vet Threat” posted on the famed internet blog ‘Exile Street.’ Peters said “Thank God, DHS has a fearless leader, Janet-from-another-planet Napolitano, who isn’t afraid to call white trash “white trash…your tax dollars at work.”

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