The California Second District Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 28 that parents who do not hold a “teaching certificate” but continue to educate their children at home can be found guilty of breaking the law. This is an outrageous decision. This court decision also serves as a graphic illustration of the titanic struggle going on…

Barack Obama called us to our better selves yesterday. Never mind that! Here’s the latest new outrage from Obama’s pastor! FOX NEWS, CNN, MSNBC are all about to start playing new secret footage of Rev. Wright screaming: “If you lust after any woman grab a knife and gouge out your right eye and throw it…

As Prepared for Delivery“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled…

When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father–Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer–denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr. Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in…

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