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As a six-time undefeated middleweight world karate champion, I have a pretty good idea what makes a warrior. And there’s presently one particular presidential candidate in the political ring who wears those gloves better than the others. Even when he’s knocked down, he has astounding agility and rebound.

It’s one thing to enter a ring with a single opponent, but what if you had to enter with three: one candidate with unlimited reservoirs of wealth and two titans of political swing to back him? That is exactly what former Speaker Newt Gingrich is facing right now.

Judicial appointments are a huge issue in the next presidential election. Three Supreme Court justices will be in their 80s during the next four years, and there is a good chance the next president will nominate replacements for all three. 

In addition, President Obama has already changed the makeup of four of the 13 district courts of appeal, replacing Republican appointed judges with his own constitutionally-impaired choices. The next president likely will have enough vacancies to fill that, if Obama were to be re-elected, he could change the philosophical composition of a majority of the federal bench in his disastrously activist direction. 

“Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good” (I Peter 2:1-3).

This is a passage with huge implications for our church at this particular moment in our history. Peter’s words are rich with insight and deep with meaning. If you have any interest in growing spiritually, pay attention to what Peter says because he is speaking to you. And if you haven’t been growing as you would like, pay even closer attention because Peter connects two things that we often keep separate.

Obama's latest homeowner mortgage relief plan is perfect for him: It both is consistent with his ideology -- duh -- and allows him to buy more votes with someone else's money, all the while pretending there is in fact such a thing as a free lunch.

The painfully superficial liberal approach to poverty gets old, as does its corollary tenet that conservatives who reject liberals' failed ideas lack compassion. Indeed, Obama seemed to devote half the words in his prayer breakfast speech to proving that Scripture compels liberal policies.

Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement?  Well, that is what China is doing to the United States.  China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage.  Once upon a time, the Chinese economy was a joke and the U.S. economy was the most powerful the world had ever seen.  But over the past couple of decades the U.S. economy has decayed and declined while the Chinese economy has skyrocketed.  Today, China makes more steel, more automobiles, more beer, more cotton, more coal and more solar panels than we do.  China has the fastest train in the world, the fastest computer in the world and they export twice as much high-tech equipment as we do.

President Obama shamelessly used his platform at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning to argue that his taxing the rich scheme to give their money to the poor "coincides with Jesus' teaching." 

Wrong, wrong, wrong. It most emphatically does not. Jesus himself repeated the commandment, "Do not steal" (Mark 10:19). This means, according to Jesus, that the involuntary transfer of wealth is profoundly immoral. Just because government does it under color of law does not make it right. 

Written by Dr. Lawrence Terlizzese

Authorized Dreams Only Please!

Have you ever wondered if scientists could build a giant machine to solve all the world's problems? Or better yet, why not just become machines and get rid of people all together? Imagine it: no more worries, sickness, war, drug addiction, or poverty. We can solve the world's problems by simply getting rid of people. This sounds fantastic but is actually the goal of the new religion of Transhumanism, which wants to replace the human race with machines.

Are you a moderate?
Not many people would answer yes to that question.

When it comes to politics, the moderate has almost become an extinct species. You are either conservative or liberal or maybe libertarian, but you are probably not a moderate. Few politicians advertise by saying, “Vote for me. I’m a moderate.”

Mitt Romney's gaffe - "I am not concerned about the very poor" - has taken on a life of its own. Google "Mitt Romney, the very poor" and you will get 368,000,000 results already.   

Mitt has been rightly criticized for having a tin ear in this case, but the comment may reveal something more fundamental about him: as hard as he tries, he does not understand conservatism. This is not how someone who has conservatism in his DNA speaks.  

The irony has to be painful.

Eastman Kodak, a historic blue-chip American company, filed for bankruptcy because it didn’t adapt to the digital age.  The irony is that it was Kodak who developed digital photography.

How can that be?  It’s simple.

They didn’t know what business they were in.

TBL SUSAN G KOMEN AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD First of all I would just like to congratulate the Susan G Komen for finally making the decision to cut ties with Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider. I might actually participate

An interesting story on Politico this morning, explaining the success of Fox News, which has double the audience of CNN and MSNBC. The brainchild of Fox is Roger Ailes, and the Politico piece quotes Shepard Smith about his leadership style:

In the intense heat of the present, it is easy to forget even the relatively recent past, but it seems to me that this GOP primary season is more acrimonious than the past few, probably because the stakes are so high.

When I've noted that this is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes, a few excitability-resistant conservative friends have said, "They have been saying that about every election for more than a generation." My response to that is:

Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (Ret.) has been bounced from a West Point prayer breakfast because he has spoken the truth about Islam. He was blacklisted after CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) complained about the general's Islamorealism.

 I submit that we will never get health care costs under control until the federal law is repealed that mandates - there's that word again - that emergency rooms treat everybody who shows up regardless of ability to pay. 

How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up?  Unfortunately, this is something that is actually true.  In the United States today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps.  In fact, the number of Americans on food stamps has increased by a whopping 14 million since Barack Obama entered the White House. 

All of this makes JP Morgan very happy, because JP Morgan has been making money by the boatload on food stamps.  Right now, JP Morgan Chase issues food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  The division of JP Morgan Chase that issues these debit cards made an eye-popping 5.47 billion dollars in net revenue during 2010.  JP Morgan is paid per customer, so when the number of Americans on food stamps goes up, they make more money.  But doesn't this give JP Morgan an incentive to try to keep the number of Americans on food stamps as high as possible?  Of course it does.  JP Morgan is interested in making money as rapidly as possible. If JP Morgan can get more Americans enrolled in the food stamp program and keep them enrolled in it for as long as possible, that is good for business.