NO MR. PRESIDENT!...a plea to save the lives of unborn children by John Piper

IS THIS WHERE WE'RE HEADED?

Sweden has approved gender-specific abortions, allowing parents to rid themselves of an unwanted daughter in a closely-watched ethics case:

Swedish women will be permitted to abort their children based on the sex of the fetus, according to a ruling by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.

The ruling was spurred by a request from Kai Wedenberg, head of the clinic where a woman twice requested, and received, an abortion based on sex.

Mr. Wedenberg asked for clarification from health officials after a woman, who already had two girls, requested amniocentesis and to be told the sex of her unborn child. She found out she was pregnant with another girl and asked for an abortion six days later.

The woman then became pregnant again, returned to the clinic and asked for another amniocentesis, which was not performed. Later, at her ultrasound, she asked the nurse to reveal the sex of her fetus, which was a girl. After learning this, the mother requested an abortion later that day and received it later that week.

ABORTION IS MURDER...but Notre Dame still to honor President Obama though he is committed to the destruction of unborn children

Yesterday, a group of faithful law abiding citizens, led by Alan Keyes, were arrested on the campus of Notre Dame University for trespassing while peacefully protesting against the murder of abortion fueled by the University's inviting of pro-abortion President Obama as their commencement speaker on May 17th as well as to receive an honorary doctorate. Considering Obama's radical stance on abortion, this has outraged many across the country from both Protestant and Catholic traditions. Twenty-two protesters were arrested in all. 

President Obama is not shy that he is the most aggressive, pro-abortion President and politician in the history of our nation. He is committed to the murder of unborn children and supports abortion legislation at every stage of pregnancy including "live abortions."

Abortion is the Silent American Holocaust. 

So beloved, with a heart heavy for this issue and burdened with the slaughter of millions of unborn children - may I encourage you to please pray fervently for our nation that the Lord would bring her to her knees in heaven sent renewal unto salvation to wash this land of the blood of this holocaust. Pray for revival to poured out upon the church, that in getting in right in our obedience to Christ that one of the manifested fruits would be that we would stand in the gap and not be silent for unborn children. Pray for reformation to sweep across our land so that we would have the biblical courage to herald the gospel and stand faithfully in our cities to see the lives of unborn children spared, rescued, preserved and protected. Pray, as this weekend we honor our mothers, that in getting right with God the womb in which He births new life would become sacred once again in our nation. And lastly, that with hearts overwhelmed with the great love of God in Christ Jesus which has been given to all of His sheep, pray for President Obama - that if he doesn't know the Lord Jesus Christ beyond a Sunday phrase or casual cultural experience, that God would grant him repentance from sin and the grace to believe the gospel and saving faith to know Jesus as Lord of his life. And if he does know the Lord, that God may open his blind eyes to the reality of this issue - that it is not political, but spiritual. That the abortion of millions of unborn children that he so willingly supports is not a matter of choice or convenience, but murder. For then, and only then, will he turn away from this barbaric practice of the death of countless lives of unborn children.

Children are not things to be thrown away; they are blessings and gifts from God.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good,

and what doth the Lord require of thee,

but to do justly, and to love mercy, 

and to walk humbly with thy God?

-Micah 6:8 

PLANE STUPID...President Obama claims he didn't know - found out when we did

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One wonders how much smarts you have to have to authorize this kind of insensitive, frightening, and ridiculous stunt. President Obama is content to spin it, calling it "a mistake." A mistake. Ordering a Diet Coke and getting a Dr. Pepper is a mistake. Listening to Paula rather than to Simon is a mistake. Watching Olbermann instead of Hannity is a big mistake. But this... a mistake? Hardly. I can't figure out if this represents the height of arrogance or the depth of stupidity? 

Just for the record, Air Force One just doesn't take off for a low altitude joy ride over NYC with accompanying fighter jets by accident; and certainly without clearance from several top level officials - needless to say... the President himself. But President Obama claims he found out when we did; that he didn't know about it. Says he's mad and is going to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of this and find out who is responsible for this gross derelict of duty. (Now how long does it take to look into the mirror?)

What was the primary purpose for the flyby? To get a new photo of AF1 with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Maybe the White House Staff should be briefed on an amazing tool called PhotoShop. Government employees... they never studied.

This raises a more pressing and important thought: I wonder who's in charge of national security? Just another reason as to how we should for pray for our beloved Commander in Chief.

HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH AMERICA?...the citizenery finally speaks out

Over 1,000 cities across the fruited plains held anti-tax and spend protest rallies today. They are called T.E.A. Parties - Taxed Enough Already. 

What do you think? Are we over taxed? Have politicians forgot about balancing their own government checkbooks before asking more from ours? Is printing billions of dollars the solution to the economic crisis? Should banks, automakers, big business get TARP funds and bailout monies while average American individuals are losing their jobs at the rate of over 650,000 per month?

As one TP attendee so aptly painted on his sign today: "I'll keep my freedom; you keep the change!" One little girl at the Franklin rally that I attended had a great poster she made with a very clever slogan. It said, "Your pork has broke my piggy bank."

Priceless!

This is an historic day beloved; a real sea-change has occurred in American politics. The citizenery are returning to the fundamental constitutional belief that government should be "by the people, of the people, and for the people." What is impactful about these TP rallies is they are bi-partisan events. A broad base of Americans (Democrats, Republicans, and Independents) alike have had enough and are letting the good elected folk in Washington know their unfettered and unfiltered thoughts.

So don't miss out! Try and get to a TEA Party near you today...

BIG GOVERNMENT; UNBRIDLED SPENDING; NATIONALIZED BANKS; MORE FEDERAL DEBT; AND SOCIALISM...this is the America I have always hoped for

Happy April Fools Day!

THE OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE...I wish someone would have had the conviction to say this

Anyone else notice that President Obama failed to allow not one media commentator or reporter employed by any financial news organization to ask him even one single question?

FROM ANGER TO MADNESS...Obama's new patriotism - class warfare and the socialist agenda

Michael Goodwin brilliantly offers an insightful taxonomy of the first 60 days of the Obama administration and the President's leadership. Needless to say, a bipartisan anger seems to crescendo daily among an increasing chorus of unhappy Americans with Obama's cavalier, reckless, and lately, unconstitutional approach to trying to solve the current financial crisis.

Many Americans have been wanting to know, "where is my share of the TARP (troubled asset relief program) funds? Why are hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost when so much taxpayer money is being thrown into the banking system benefiting so many large businesses? Where's it all going?" I have wondered much of the same thing.

I called the main corporate office of my bank the other day and asked one of the senior vice-presidents when they were depositing my percentage of the TARP monies they received into my account :-)? At first he wondered if I was joking. I assured him I wasn't. I gave him my income; asked how many customers my bank had; how much TARP money they received; and then divided those numbers and came up with what I thought was a fair percentage of TARP funds I was due...  He wasn't amused; but he got the message. I greatly appreciated the sobriety that finally toned his remarks to me.

60 Minutes news correspondent, Steve Kroft, challenged President Obama about his actions and attitudes towards the current financial crisis in last night's interview when saying these razor sharp words to him (about 13:30 in):

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asked at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.

But this should not surprise us. President Obama is becoming increasingly known for his gallows humor (where you and I are hurting; facing the death of our own financial futures, but he remains unfazed and immune.) He is unlike Clinton in that he really doesn't feel your pain nor is bothered by the fact that he is seen as such. He is not "cool" as some liberal pundits still affirm. He is cold; unmoved by the plight of those who are hurting today and left devastated by his own parties political actions (i.e. Frank and Dodd). 

The understatement of the year is: government is out of control. And despite a new administration, no one seems to be driving this run-a-way train and taking responsibility for its destination. 

Example: the AIG bonuses were in the legislation Obama signed and Congress wrote. But yet, Obama and his appointees act as if they never knew of them before last week. So in the aftermath of declining approval ratings and escalating public concern, they successfully struck the match then fanned the flames of public outrage they created against these same AIG executives tapping into that age old emotion within societies underclassmen, "let's get someone in power." However, in the pedestrian world most of us live in everyday that dog just won't hunt. We know exactly what this tactic is: deflect responsibility from the immediate reality to a Rowlingesque fantasy claiming political amnesia all the while. It's the reason the Manchurian President goes on Leno and not Beck, Wallace, Hannity, Dobbs, Ingraham, or Limbaugh to schmooze the hoi palloi.

That is why the following from Daily News contributor, Michael Goodwin, was so inspiring. I would encourage you to read the entire article.

To wet your appetite:

“Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant government he leads…

In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy…

He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself ‘transformative,’ a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited."

"THANK ME, THANK ME VERY MUCH"...the First-Teleprompter blesses President Obama with the luck of the Irish

This is a must see! Could you imagine how the liberal press would have treated former President George Bush if he had made a gaffe of this magnitude?

Byron York also gives some much needed political wisdom on the current state of things.

Lastly, don't forget to watch Leno tonight -

PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID WHAT?...no longer above his pay-grade

Less than two hours ago, Jim Geraghty from NRO reported the following:

President Obama, moments ago, during the National Prayer Breakfast: "We know there is no God who condones the killing of an innocent human being."

So, let me guess, he'll wait another 24 hours before promoting the Freedom of Choice Act?

In response to this astounding and encouraging statement by radical proabortionist, President Obama, Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com wrote these insightful, sobering, and sagely words:

"Perhaps then President Obama would also agree that we know no God who condones the negligent killing of innocent human beings who survive abortions. Of course, Obama would have to acknowledge now that his position has changed since his days in the Illinois state legislature, when he helped protect abortionists by blocking legislation that would have required a second doctor to act on behalf of infants born alive after an abortion. God knows that those children were and are innocents, alive at birth, and left to die in abortion mills.

Perhaps that will also lead Obama to oppose the Freedom of Choice Act, which would remove all existing restrictions on the killing of innocent human beings in the womb. After all, once the sperm and egg combine, the result is a unique being, completely human, and alive. That isn’t a theological determination, but a scientific fact at the moment the cell begins to multiply, within minutes of conception. Certainly that would be the apex of innocence. If no God condones the killing of an innocent human being, the condemnation for that act would begin at life itself.

We will remind Presisdent Obama of his profound words at every opportunity over the next four years, and thank him for making this as clear as possible."

"The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will." (Proverbs 21:1) If President Obama's words were sincere this morning and not mere political accommodational spin to tickle the ears of gathered evangelicals at a prayer breakfast, then I say amen! Could the Lord be turning the heart of our President on this issue towards a culture of life and away from a culture of death?

So keep fervently praying beloved.

In that same chapter of Proverbs 21, Solomon ends as he began - with the Sovereignty of God over human affairs: "The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord."

Oh that we would see the demise of the abortion mill industry at every stage in our lifetime that has been tragically led by those possessing a seared conscience, and whom have delighted ethically, celebrated morally, profited financially, and participated barbarically in the murder of millions of unborn children. May this silent holocaust finally come to an end. Now that is the kind of "change" worth hoping for!

The battle is the Lord's!