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“The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero’s deeds, but never looking down on his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in him lies, so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he has lived.” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

In a recent broadcast of Fox News’ newly-launched panel show, Outnumbered, the five panelists discussed recent opin-ion polls measuring congres-sional job approval. A n d a l -though the f o u r f e -male pan-e l i s t s … S a n d r a S m i t h , H a r r i s Faulkner, Kirsten Powers, and Kimberly Guilfoyle… are not only much easier to look at than the dowdy and tiresome Obama cheerleaders on ABC’s The View, they are, individu-ally and collectively, light-years brighter.

It is even fair to say that the token liberal on the panel, Kirsten Powers, is a rarity among liberals and Democrats… she is thoughtful and almost always fair-minded. Unlike the ladies of The View, she is not an ideologi-cal lapdog for Democrats and the far left. However, having tossed out that paean to the ladies of Outnumbered, it is also fair to say that they did no better at dealing with the subject of congressional job approval than any other group of talking heads.

In the course of their dis-cussion they cited several recent polls. Among the congressional job approval polls cited were CNS News at 12%, Fox News at 16%, The Economist at 10%, and Gallup at 15%. They also cited a Field Poll which showed that some 44% of voters approve of the job their own congressman is doing, while 33% disapprove. But in the unkindest cut of all, demonstrating how poorly con-gressional Republicans advocate for Republican principles, one poll showed that 46% said it made no difference which party controlled Congress.

But these results take on real meaning only when we look inside the numbers. Taking a closer look at voter attitudes toward their own congressman, 57% of registered Democrats said they were likely to vote to reelect their current member of Congress, while only 33% of Republicans would vote to reelect their current member. What this seems to indicate is that Repub-licans, in general, are far more thoughtful, far more discriminat-ing, and far less likely to be in-fluenced by “cult of personality” than Democrats.

These numbers also tell us is that people generally have a low opinion of Congress as a whole… always willing to speak ill of those who represent others… but a generally favor-able attitude toward their own member, whoever he or she might be and regardless of his or her ideological stance. Why? Ap-parently because they are anxious to reconfirm what they consider to be their own perceptiveness in their voting booth decisions, while those who elected all those other dolts are dumber than bricks. The only fair way to rate the Congress would be to add up the winning margins of every member and divide the total by 435 for House members and 100 for Senators.

By Erick Erickson

Maliciousness. Not

Incompetence.

For the longest time I have chosen to chalk our President’s stumbles, bumbles, and disasters up to in-competence. He is in over his head. He is inexperienced. He is out of his league. It is hard to accept otherwise. But it is clearer and clearer that is not true. It is clear that President Obama’s disastrous policies are premised not in incompetence, but in maliciousness. Our President — and he is our President — is not a stumbler and a bumbler, but a Nero who when not persecuting Christians, plays golf while the world burns.

President Obama has surrounded himself with a group of people who comport to his own world view. That world view is very simple to explain: Barack Obama and his advisors belief that in order for the world to be safer, they must make the United States less safe. In order for the world to be stable, the United States must be less stable. In short, Barack Obama blames America first. The swarms of illegal immigrants across the border is all part of the plan. Letting tensions between Israel and Hamas flare into a hot war is all part of the plan. Sending mixed signals to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others is all part of the plan. Barack Obama is setting out to re-make the world order. That remake is premised on the United States needing to take a back seat or, to put it another way, lead from behind. How many people in this world will die because Barack Obama played golf while the world burned? How many Americans will eventu-ally lose their lives because Barack Obama chose the rest of the world over his own national interests? There is grave incompetence in the White House. But there is also a maliciousness that views the very image of the shining city on the hill a jingoist insult to the rest of the world. Al Qaeda once sensed weakness when, during the Clinton admin-istration, we prosecuted instead of fought. How much more weakness does ISIS sense as we retreat from the globe, dither on the world stage, and watch our President play the back nine. It is malicious hostility toward the world order those American leaders who lived through World War II sought to create to foster stability, peace, security. Because Barack Obama and the left have no sense of history and no respect for their predecessors on the world stage, they will seek to undo without ever appreciating why it was that order came to be.

Rush: Obama trying ‘very hard’ to be impeached

‘It’s so obvious, he’s not fooling anybody’By Joe Kovacs

President Obama is trying “very hard” to coax Republicans into impeaching him. That according to talk-radio giant Rush Lim-baugh, who says Obama’s ac-tions letting illegal aliens into the U.S. is part of that strategy. “He is re-ally trying to goad the House Re-p u b l i c a n s i n t o i m -p e a c h i n g h i m . R e -ally trying, I mean, very hard,” Lim-baugh said on his national broadcast Mon-day. “It’s become obvious. It’s so obvious, he’s not fooling anybody.” Limbaugh noted he happened to see a headline Monday on CNN which stated on screen: “GOP

wants to impeach Obama.” “I looked at that and I said, ‘No, that headline is a lie,’” the talk host explained.

“And so I turned on the sound, and that headline went with a story about Obama trying to goad the GOP into impeaching him. The graphic, the headline on screen said nothing about Obama. It just said GOP wants to impeach Obama. So even

without them doing it, they’re gonna get blamed for it. “CNN and other Drive-By Media are going to report this – not as

something O b a m a i s t r y i n g t o make hap-pen – they’re going to re-port this as something the Repub-licans want to happen so that they get creamed by it even if they do nothing. Remember, there is no journalism

anymore. There is only advocacy disguised as the news.” Limbaugh’s comments echo the sentiments of U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, who told

See impeached, pg. 8

Obama quietly expands government’s ‘watchlist’

You don’t have to be terror suspect to be chosenThe Obama administration has quietly rewritten the rules on how it goes about designating Ameri-cans as terrorists, according to a new report by Glenn Greenwald’s Intercept online investigations project. The report details how Obama has expanded the terrorist watchlist system, “authorizing a secret process that requires neither ‘concrete facts’ nor ‘irrefutable evidence’ to desig-nate an American or foreigner as a terrorist,” according to a key government document obtained by the Intercept. Instead of actual evidence, all the government needs is the nebulous “reasonable suspi-cion,” which is considered one of the lowest standards of proof in the American legal system. It’s less than “probable cause,” which is required to make an arrest. Greenwald, a former investiga-tive reporter for the U.K.-based Guardian who broke the Edward Snowden story about NSA spying on Americans, left the newspaper late last year to start the Inter-cept. A 166-page document obtained by Intercept titled “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance” was is-sued last year by the Nation-al Counterterrorism Center. It identifies for the first time the government’s secret rules for placing people on its main terrorist database, as well as the no-fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. The federal government shares its watchlist data with local law enforcement, foreign governments and “private entities,” Intercept reported.

WND reported in 2011 that the Department of Homeland Security issued a new public service an-nouncement encouraging Ameri-cans to look at their neighbors with a wary eye and report them

to authorities if they see any suspi-cious behaviors. The DHS suggests a typical wom-an terrorist would be a Caucasian in her late 20s or early 30s, with brunette hair, stylish clothing, high heels and a shoulder bag. A man? About the same age, short hair, wearing a shirt and slacks and familiar with technology, as he’s wearing an earpiece cellphone. Also Caucasian. This despite the fact that nearly every major act of terrorism in the United States has been carried out by non-Christians from the Middle East or North Africa. “If you see something silly, say something: Homeland Security video portrays all ‘terrorists’ as white, middle class males,” said a headline on the counter-terrorist website Jihad Watch recently. But the new rules, exposed by the Intercept report, allow people to

be designated as representatives of terror organizations “without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations.” At the same time giving a single White House official the unilat-

eral authority to place entire “categories” of people the government is tracking onto the no-fly and selectee lists. The report also broadens the authority of government of-ficials to “nominate” people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as “fragmentary information.” Both the Obama administra-tion, and the Bush administra-tion before it, have resisted disclosing the criteria for placing names into the data-bases, even though the guide-lines are unclassified. In May, Attorney General

Eric Holder even invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent watchlisting guidelines from being disclosed in litigation launched by an American who was put on the no-fly list. In an affidavit, In-tercept reports that Holder called

See Watchlist, pg. 10

Sheriff Joe: Something fishy with this

administration

Congresswoman sees ‘threat’ in Constitution

But House sergeant-at-arms says gun expert’scomment presented ‘no specific danger’

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By Neil Carson (CKA Bob McDowell) THE VIEW FROM HERE

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Governor Mary Fallin

How We Have Degraded

Governor Mary Fallin’s “Oklahoma Now”

Time To Get The Tar and Feathers

Friends and acquaintances seem to be somewhat puzzled about how the USA has been so subverted from its original construction to the precarious position we find it in today. Some things have recently occurred that, to me at least, seem to shed some light on the subject. Having lived through much of the downward spiral, and received an education that touched on some of the beginnings in the second decade of the past century, it is not that much of a surprise to me.

What is surprising is the rapidity of how the C/S support-ers have been able to speed up the “radical change” in the type of government and society we have. It has been said before that the beginning was with the implementation of Constitutional Amendments XVI and XVII. The Sixteenth Amendment authorized the Government to establish a tax on income (one of the main points of the Communist Manifesto) and thus the setting up of the IRS. The Seventeenth Amendment changed the election of US Senators from being done by the respective State Legislatures to by general elec-tions. The Constitutional provision for selection by the Legislature was so that the State governments would have representation, since ALL the rights given to the Federal Government came from the States, considered to be ‘Sovereign’.

These amendments were written, passed to vote, and ratified by two-thirds of the Legislatures in 1913, during the Wilson Adminis-tration. Not well published since 1930 was that President Wilson had suffered a stroke, and the Executive Department was being run by his chief administrator, a Col. House, who was known to be a Socialist, or even Communist. Wilson came to the Presidency from being a college president, and thus an educator?

That may have been the in-fancy beginning of the decline in the public school education system in the nation. It is my opinion, shared by my contemporaries, that we receive a very good and com-plete education in the Tulsa Public Schools during the period begin-

ning in 1931 up through 1945, at least. The colleges and universities of that time did not report having to do remedial education for new students, as they do now. In other words, the high school graduates could read, and u n d e r s t a n d , their diplomas. We could also u n d e r s t a n d what was going on politically, at least those of us who were interested and there were, admittedly, some who weren’t.

This was brought home to me recently at one of our World War II Vets meetings when one of the members stated that he taught classes at a local college. The sub-jects he teaches, except one which is accounting, has slipped my mind as having only been heard once. He stated that most of the students in those classes could not do simple math and therefor could not begin to understand accounting. He fur-ther stated, if memory is correct, that the high school teachers were starting to assign NO homework, ‘since they wouldn’t do it anyway, but were giving passing grades.

The founders of this nation believed, rightfully so, that for a people to remain free, they had to be literate, interested enough to become informed, and have honest and truthful sources of informa-tion so as to arrive at intelligent decisions. It seems that now far too many who vote will cast theirs for the candidate who promises the most, or pays the most, for their vote. They further had de-cided that only educated, working and producing, property owners could vote. The original require-ment also included be male. The inference there was that women were not working and therefor not included.

We have descended a long way down since then, and it cannot be changed over-night, but we can begin the process of reversal by work and proper vote casting.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin said today Oklahoma’s pro-growth policies are working as Oklahoma enjoyed one of the larg-est increases in employment in the nation in June.

The state’s jobless rate last month dropped to 4.5 percent – the low-est it’s been in nearly six years. Oklahoma’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate improved a whole percentage point since June 2013.

“Creating jobs has been my num-ber one priority,” said Fallin. “By embracing pro-growth policies like tax cuts, reining in the size of government, and reducing the regulatory burden on job creators, Oklahoma’s economy has gotten back on the right track.”

Oklahoma added 9,600 employed persons last month, according to seasonally adjusted data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. June’s rate was down from 4.6 percent in May and April.

About 102,300 jobs have been added in Oklahoma since Fallin took office in January 2011. Okla-homa’s unemployment rate, which reached highs of over 7 percent in 2010, is the lowest it’s been since

Oklahoma’s Jobless Rate Dips to Lowest Level in Nearly Six Years

Pro-Growth policies are working as Oklahoma creates almost 10,000 new jobs in June

November 2008 when the rate was 4.3 percent.Oklahoma had one of the largest ris-es in employment in the nation for June, a 0.6 percent in-crease over the month. Oklahoma t ied Indi-ana, North Dakota and Wash ing -ton, D.C., for the larg-est increase in employment over the month.

Oklahoma’s monthly gain in new jobs is the third-highest in the past 10 years; the highest monthly em-ployment gain during that period also occurred during Fallin’s tenure as governor, between February and March 2011.

The state in June added jobs in all sectors, with the largest increase in the trade, transportation and utili-ties sector with 3,100 new jobs.

Oklahoma’s total of 1,665,800 nonfarm jobs represented 33,900 more jobs, or a 2.1 percent gain, from June 2013.

The national unemployment rate was 6.1 percent in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

t has been my experience that we Americans can be very naïve at times, especially when it comes to the way our government is operated. Most of the citizens of our country alive today have enjoyed, up to now, a stable and secure government and economy. I have noticed that many people like to ridicule and make fun of those of us who take politics seriously and are not afraid to express our opinions. I have heard many people say that “they” will take care of our problems and these same people simply don’t want to be bothered with dealing with those problems. Problems, if not dealt with, have a bad habit of coming back to haunt us if they are ignored. It has taken a long time, but America’s naiveté is starting to wear thin.

Over the past couple of years our country seems to be rocked by one scandal after another. The sad fact is, a new scandal seems to di-vert the American public attention from the previous scandal. The ef-fects of Bengazi, the IRS scandal along with Lois Lerner, the NSA surveillance abuses, the Veterans Administration, and last but not least the continued Deficit spend-ing are destroying our reputation and credibility as a great nation. We Americans have developed a bad habit of thinking if we don’t

hear about it every day on the 6 o’clock news the problem has been dealt with. The most recent scandal about the flood of il-legal aliens c r o s s i n g our south-ern border may be the straw that will break the cam-el’s back.

O u r e l e c t e d leaders know that we Americans can be naïve, but some of them evidently think we are stupid as well. I read of a recent comment by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who claims that “the borders are secure” or House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi makes some equally absurd and moronic claim. Border states such as Texas and Arizona have been bearing the brunt of this invasion for many years, and basically all they have got from the federal government is a bunch of clichés and words with no mean-ing. When the state of Arizona did pass some legislation to control the illegal flow the federal government used its power to stop the state from implementing their legislation. It would be good if the federal gov-ernment was as fast securing the border and doing its job to protect our nation.

Far too many of our elected officials such as Harry Reid have become nothing short of con artists. I have heard stories from the past when some con artist would come into a town and start practicing his illicit trade; he would be fitted with a tar and feather suit on his way out of town. Mr. Reid has proven him-self to be unworthy of the office he holds, the American people my not have any tar and feathers but they do have a vote, and I believe it is time to use our votes and send him and his kind down the road.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) announced today he will hold a final series of town hall meetings in the state before resigning from t h e U . S . Senate a t the end of the current Congress. “One of the highlights of serving as a U.S. Senator for Oklahoma is the ability to travel the state to talk to fellow Oklahomans and hear what they think about the is-sues we face as a nation,” Coburn said. “It is always encouraging and inspiring to me to talk with friends and neighbors across the state. Our people make this such a special place to live. So many good ideas and initiatives that my office has worked on over the years have resulted from conversations at these town hall meetings.” The town hall meetings will take place the first two full weeks in August. Coburn concluded, “As I prepare to hold my final series of town hall meetings, I am reminded how grateful I am to the people of Oklahoma who entrusted me to serve them in Washington. I am proud and honored to be from Oklahoma, and my hope is this series of meetings will be an op-portunity to reflect on what we have accomplished together over the last decade and a chance look to the future to continue working to make sure America remains the greatest nation in the world.” Monday, August 4, 2014Oklahoma City Town Hall MeetingMonday, August 4, 20146:00 p.m.Oklahoma City Community Col-legeVisual and Performing Arts Center Theater7777 S. May AvenueOklahoma City, OK 73159 Tuesday, August 5, 2014Altus Town Hall MeetingTuesday, August 5, 201410:00 a.m.Western Oklahoma State College Herschal H. Crow Fine Arts Audi-torium 2801 N. Main Street Altus, OK 73521 Lawton Town Hall MeetingTuesday, August 5, 20141:00 p.m.Cameron UniversityCETES Conference Center, Build-ing 202800 W. Gore Blvd.Lawton, OK 73505 Monday, August 11, 2014Enid Town Hall MeetingMonday, August 11, 20143:00 p.m.Enid Convention Hall301 S. IndependenceEnid, OK 73701 Wednesday, August 13, 2014Tulsa Town Hall MeetingWednesday, August 13, 20146:00 p.m.Tulsa Community College - South-east CampusVanTrease PACE10300 E. 81st StreetTulsa, OK 74133 Permalink: http://www.coburn.sen-ate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/7/dr-coburn-to-hold-final-u-s-senate-town-hall-meetings-in-oklahoma

Sen. Tom Coburn

Dr. Coburn to Hold Final U.S.

Senate Town Hall Meetings in

Oklahoma

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation, “Security Clearances: Tax Debts Owed by DOD Employees and Contractors,” has discovered that 83,000 DOD employees and contractors eligible for a security clearance owed $730 million in unpaid federal taxes.

“It is vital that the Administration and Congress work diligently to eliminate potential threats that compromise the integrity of the federal workforce and the privi-leged information they safeguard,” Dr. Coburn said. “Giving security clearances to individuals who fail to follow the law is unwise and risky. Federal tax cheats with security clearances jeopardize both our national and economic security, and could unnecessarily put our nation’s classified informa-tion at risk. We must take prudent precautions not only to enhance our security, but also to encour-age federal employees to pay their share of taxes and live by the same rules that so many hard working Americans do.”

According to the report, approxi-mately 5.1 million employees and contractors have a security clearance. GAO conducted its

analysis between January 2006 and December 31, 2011. During that time, GAO found that ap-proximately 83,000 Department of Defense military and civilians employees and contractors that held or were approved for security clearances, owed $730 million in unpaid federal taxes. According to the IRS, the tax debt of individuals and businesses owed to the U.S. government was about $374 billion as of September 30, 2013.

Key findings include: Of the 83,000 individuals found to owe backed taxes, 40% (34,000) had a repayment plan with the IRS to pay back their debt. These individuals with repayment plans owed approximately $262 million (meaning that 60% did not have a repayment plan owed $468 mil-lion).

Of the 83,000 individuals, 44,500 were federal employees and owed $363 million.

Of the 83,000 individuals, 20,400 were given a top-secret clearance owed $249 million.

Approximately 76 percent (63,000

GAO: 83,000 DOD Employees and Contractors with Security

Clearances Owe $730 million in Federal Taxes

See Coburn, pg. 3

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Does This Sound Familiar?Thank God for Rick Perry

As the rest of the world sizes Barack Obama up as a man who pees sitting down, the Texas Governor, not prone to wear mom jeans, has ordered his National Guard down to the border.

It seems a rather simple thing — secure the American border. But Wash-ington would rather hold our border hostage to politics than secure it. It’s a bipartisan problem. It should be an easy situation. Just secure the border. Stop people from crossing over. Nothing is easy with Washington, however. Neither side seems to have the will to do the easy thing. The President would rather fundraise and demagogue. The Republicans would rather cower in fear of their shadows. Secure the border is common sense. Rick Perry gets it. Too bad too few in Washington do. The sad thing is that Texans are going to pay for it when Washington should be footing the bill to do its most basic function — keep the United States a sovereign nation with secure borders. That Washington fails at its basic task is just another reason so many are fed up with that place.

By: Erick Erickson

Sheriff Joe: Something fishy with this administration

Blasts Obama for being ‘in bed with Mexico’ in border crisis

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s planned deployment of 1,000 National Guard troops to the border has earned him criticism from Demo-crats and Mexican officials, the latter who are “seething,” Fox’s Neil Cavuto told Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio today during an interview on the “Your World” program. Arpaio, recalling his tenure as head of the DEA in Mexico City, said, “We should be across the bor-der,” noting that at one time, U.S. agents worked hand-in-hand with Mexico’s federal police and mili-tary on arrests, drug seizures and even gun battles. The two countries “were always operational,” the sheriff said.

“The National Guard, they’re not going there with machine guns. … So, why can’t we send the Border Patrol or the military across the border to work in a bilateral situa-tion? I can’t understand why they are afraid of the National Guard in the United States at the border. It doesn’t make sense.” “But it does make sense. They don’t like anything we’re doing here.” Noting President Obama’s planned White House meeting Friday with the presidents of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, Arpaio asked why the focus was not on Mexico. “Why doesn’t he have a summit meeting in Mexico City where Mexico is the most critical country regarding all this?” asked Arpaio. “Why do we always leave Mexico out? Why isn’t the Mexican presi-dent invited to the White House also?” Reading a statement from Mexico’s foreign affairs agency calling for the immigration problem to be addressed “from a long-term regional perspective and based on principals of good neighborliness and shared responsibility,” Cavuto suggested Mexico didn’t see the deployment of the National Guard as neighborly. Arpaio fired back. “If they were neighborly they would do something in Mexico and crack down on the illegal drug traffic and the illegal immigration

instead of criticizing our country all the time. If you want to be a good neighbor that’s what you do. “I’m not criticizing Mexico in a sense, but there’s something fishy going on with this administration in bed with Mexico.” Arpaio conceded Mexico’s eco-nomic importance, but argued the U.S. should take some of the foreign aid given to its southern neighbors to meet the $3.7 billion Obama has requested to address the border crisis. “Help pay for our operation – that’s good neighbors,” said Arpaio. Arpaio dismissed concerns putting the National Guard on the border would complicate an already vola-tile situation. “What complications?” asked Ar-paio. “I have thousands of posse members – in fact, I’m 30 miles from the border. If I was at the bor-der you’d see my posse out there. “They’re not going to be going around there locking people up. First of all, they don’t have the authority to do that. They’re just assisting, just like my posse assists my people. Arpaio continued. “Why is Mexico concerned about the National Guard? They ought to be happy. … they should say, ‘Come on National Guard or mili-tary. Come on across the border and help us out,’ instead of criticizing our operations.” Mexico is not the only one con-cerned about Perry’s National Guard deployment. The White House announced today it had sent a team to Texas Tuesday to assess whether a U.S. National Guard de-ployment would help to handle the immigration crisis at the Mexican border. The team, made up of officials from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, is scheduled to be on the ground Thursday. To date, the White House has resisted calls from Republicans to deploy the National Guard to fight the onslaught of migrants from Central America.

It is a sunny Sunday af-ternoon. Here we are again, in the yellow house, on the IBLAC Bible Institute campus in Al-tamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Sweat is running down my back although we have three fans on here in the living-dining-kitchen area. Everything looks familiar, but, I am having a hard time get-ting adjusted.

Hubby has been here sev-eral times since I came last in February. I have been gone so long that I had forgotten which drawer the silverware was in. I keep making a right turn to pick up something when it is on my left. Nothing that I needed was in the fridge, and the things that were there had celebrated anniversaries. Friday evening Hubby made a quick run to the grocery store to get milk and bread. Brother Mark Riggs, our guest from Alabama, ran over to the chicken house and brought us a bowl full of brown eggs. So, we were in business, on a limited basis.

We three came down on Friday. Brother Mark is sched-uled to speak this coming week. Then, other visitors will be flying in on Thursday for more meetings. Our Mexican Free Will Baptist National Youth Camp begins this evening. The day after it ends our national convention will begin and last from August 1-3rd. The next day all of our guests will be flying home, and we will probably be here until at least the 12th. So, I need to get things figured out.

We had a rather difficult time getting here. I bought Hub-by’s and Brother Mark’s plane tickets back on June 27th. I had expected to travel down with our son John. He and Paulina wanted to bring their kiddos here for vacation and let the older ones attend the youth camp. But, with all of the news about violence in the area, they decided it would not be wise to head this direction with such a large load of precious cargo. So, a few days later, I bought me a ticket to fly down on the same flight as Hubby and Mark.

Mark flew in to McAllen on Thursday then he and Hubby spent the day visiting with

pastors in Reynosa. Brother Macario Sanchez, a pastor from Reynosa, came over to Pharr to pick us up and dropped us off at the Reynosa airport early Friday morning.

I already had my visa so I just picked up my boarding passes and went right through the security check and on back to the gate. Hubby and Mark both needed to get their visas, so I was not alarmed when they did not follow me immediately. But, after a while I thought it was time they came on to the gate.

I sent Hubby a text and asked where they were. He sent me a text back

“U didn’t pay our tickets see u sometime”

I answered him back. “I would swear that I paid with rain-bow card. I have it if u need it”

His answer “Tell it to the marines!”

I leaped up and went back out front. There they both were, sitting in chairs with their lug-gage scattered around their feet, looking pretty defeated. They had called a taxi to take them to the bus station. So, I went back to my flight and they went downtown to the bus depot in Reynosa. Our whole purpose in flying Brother Mark down was to avoid the risk for him of having to travel on the bus. And, Hubby did not have on his usual travel disguise either. He shaved his beard the last time he came out in May and only recently let it start growing again, to get ready for his return trip after the convention. It looks a little wooly, but not Santa-like at all.

I sent out an urgent prayer request to our best prayer war-riors, 20 dear friends that I count on when we have a need.

“N Reynosa airport. Some foul up with tickets. Bud and Brother Mark will be going by bus. Prayer needed.”

They prayed, some even sent prayers by text. And, we all arrived, safe and sound. My flight was late leaving Mexico City so they even got to IBLAC before I did. Now, I am anx-ious to get my hands o n t h a t credit card bill and see if we were c h a r g e d for those f l i g h t s , because I know I clicked the right buttons to pay for them.

So, here we are. Saturday was just a day to catch up on sleep. This morning I could have done more of the same, but Brother Mark had promised Pastor Ruben Munoz that he would preach at his church. So, we hauled out early, Hubby made pan cakes, and Brother Ruben picked us up at 9:30.

After a stirring Sunday School class and an excellent sermon by Brother Mark, the Munoz took us out to one of our favorite places to eat. It is a Chinese Buffet. Does that sound crazy in a Mexican city? It is not at all unusual. There are Chinese Buffets everywhere we go.

I am just getting over hav-ing a wisdom tooth pulled, so, I am just beginning to try to eat a few tasty things. Fortunately they had a nice cream soup, and some good tender meat. Then, the dessert table is always loaded to creaking. Of course, their des-serts are not as good as mine, but, when I don’t have to make them I seem to even enjoy them more.

Here at the house I am get-ting re-acquainted with several sizes of ants, from tiny to huge. Then, the Gecko population is still here. When I sat down to write I saw a grandfather Gecko run across the wall. By the time I got a fly swat he was well hid-den. I sprayed behind all of the pictures with Raid Roach Killer, just trying to discourage him a bit. The window ledges and tops of picture frames look like chick-en roosts. The care taker’s wife Juana came over and cleaned down stairs, but, she is pretty short. She apparently did not see all of the poop up above her head. So, tomorrow I will have to start cleaning that up. Then, she did not go upstairs at all. Our room upstairs looks like a chicken roost for sure, all around the base of all of the walls. YUKKK!!! If the dopey things would just eat ants or spiders I would not hate them as much. Believe me, around here they don’t sell much insurance. They just cause problems.

So, my work is cut out for me tomorrow. And, I would like to get out and pull some weeds out of what flowers are left-pro-viding I have the energy to get out of bed.

Hubby is going to try to get a small air-conditioner installed in our guest bedroom tomorrow. The director of our FWB WNAC (Women Nationally Active for Christ) will be arriving on Thurs-day to speak to our Mexican ladies on Saturday. She asked to stay with us, and we hate for her to swelter in that room, while we have a nice little air-conditioner upstairs, thanks to some dear brothers in Alabama.

So, here we are again. In a familiar place. I just received a text from one of our former stu-dents. He may get to come to the convention. Several old friends have come by this evening for a hug. I truly miss them, terribly, when I don’t get to come down. But, the Lord has it all figured out. And, one day we will have all the time we need to sit down and catch up. And, I have a feel-ing that we won’t be bothered with ants, mosquitos, spiders nor Geckos there.

individuals) accrued tax debts only after the issuance of the security clearance. Of the 83,000 individuals, 26,000 (31%) with unpaid federal tax debts were granted access to secret, top secret, or SCI information and owed $229 million. Because OPM’s systems do not maintain information on the denial of security clearances on the basis of an individual’s nonpayment of federal taxes, it is unknown how many individuals were denied a clearance for having unpaid federal taxes.

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Incomes rise when Right to Work laws are implemented, according to a study from the Competitive Enterprise Institute by Richard Vedder and Jonathan Robe. Cur-rently, 26 states allow unions to force new employees to join unions or, at least, pay union dues. But 24 states have Right to Work (RTW) laws, which grant workers the right not to join unions and pay dues as a condition of their employment.

Vedder and Robe analyzed the impact of RTW laws on state economies, as RTW laws reduce union presence. Unionization in-creases labor costs, which makes capital investment less attractive. Right to Work laws, on the other hand, have a positive impact on economic growth:

•• Total employment growth in the United States from 1977 to 2012 was 71 percent. In RTW states, employment growth was 105.3 percent, while non-RTW states saw growth of only 50 percent. •• Americans in non-RTW states have been moving to states with the laws. From 2000 to 2009, 4.9 million Americans moved from non-RTW states to RTW states. •• According to economist Robert Reed, controlling for economic conditions in a state prior to the adoption of a RTW law, wages in-crease when RTW laws are imple-mented. In 2000, average wages were 6.68 percent higher in RTW states than in non-RTW states. •• Real personal income from 1977 to 2012 grew by 123 percent in the United States, but RTW states saw a growth rate of 165 percent.

The authors also calculated the per capita income loss from not having an RTW law:

•• According to the report, the 10 states most negatively affected by their lack of an RTW law are Alaska, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, Wisconsin, New York and Michigan. •• According to Vedder and Robe’s calculations, Alaskans suffered a per capita income loss of $5,238 due to the state’s lack of an RTW law.

The authors note that Michigan provides an especially stark ex-ample of the impact of Right to Work laws on wages. In 1977, the state’s per capita income was 7.4 percent above the U.S. average -- a figure that had dropped to 12.2 per-cent below the national average by 2012. If the state had a RTW law, two-thirds of Michigan’s current per capita income deficiency would be eliminated.

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(Oklahoma City) – Voters have until Friday Aug. 1 to register to vote in the Aug. 26 Runoff Primary Election, Oklahoma State Election Board Secre-tary Paul Ziriax said. Voter registration forms can be downloaded from the Oklahoma State Election Board’s website at http://elec-tions.ok.gov. They are also available at county election boards, post offices, tag agencies, libraries and some other public locations. Voters must either register in person or mail their registration forms in and have them postmarked by the deadline. Democratic voters have two statewide races on the ballot, U.S. Senate and Superintendent of Public Instruction. There are no statewide Republican races on the ballot, however Tulsa County Republicans will choose a District Attorney, and both parties will vote in U.S. House District 5. There are also several State House and Senate races across the state. Some counties have runoffs for county of-fices, and there are non-partisan local races on the ballot in some counties. Oklahoma has a closed primary system, meaning Democrats vote in Democratic primaries, Republicans vote in Republican primaries, and Inde-pendent voters can vote in non-partisan races on primary ballots.

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From Mexican PrisonWithout a response from Presi-dent Barack Obama, Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has been locked away in a Mexican prison for more than three months. Andrew’s mother has repeatedly tried to reach Obama to discuss the shameful imprisonment of her son, but has had no success. And bikers rallied to this cause and rode to Mexico together, trying to do what they can to

demand his release and raise awareness. This cause is important, but Obama is apparently too busy promoting amnesty for illegal immigrants and releasing dan-

gerous terrorists from Gitmo to concern himself with this shame-ful situation.

Col. Oliver North, a conservative icon and outspoken patriot, ap-peared Fox News with Greta Van Susteren (above) to announce his new effort to demand the release of Tahmooressi. Apparently breaking the law is no problem for the Obama administration. He has often bragged, “If Congress won’t act, I will. I have a pen and a phone.” In other words, he is willing to issue Executive Orders to dictate what he wants done. And now, we have yet another example of presidential law-breaking. This one doesn’t re-quire the courts to intervene – just “We The People” need to act. Here’s the law:

Whenever it is made known to

the President that any citizen of the United States has been un-justly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any for-eign government, it shall be the duty of the President forthwith to demand of that government the reasons of such imprisonment; and if it appears to be wrongful and in violation of the rights of American citizenship, the Presi-dent shall forthwith demand the release of such citizen, and if

the release so demanded is unreasonably delayed or refused, the President shall use such means, not amounting to acts of war and not otherwise pro-hibited by law, as he may think necessary and proper to obtain or effectuate the release; and all the facts and proceedings relative

thereto shall as soon as practicable be communicated by the President to Congress. One need not be a vaunted “Constitutional lawyer” or even a “Nobel Laureate” like our cur-

rent head of state to see how this law relates directly to the case of U.S. Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi – now enduring his fourth month in a Mexican prison. Members of Congress from Florida, California and else-where have written nearly a dozen letters to the president about Sgt. Tahmooressi. More than 100,000 Americans have

responded to online petitions at WhiteHouse.gov; FoxNews.com, FreedomAlliance.org and AndrewFreedomFund.com, among others have written about his plight. Our president has ignored them all. Apparently he’s been too busy with political fundraisers and vacuous speeches about the “Republican war on women,” economic injustice, and Con-gressional ineptness. There just hasn’t been time to pick up that famous phone and call Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. If Congress can’t get Obama’s attention on freeing an unjustly imprisoned Marine, We The People must. Join the effort to demand that our president obey the law. Otherwise the phrase “Leave no one behind,” is mean-ingless. Via Oliver North’s op-ed on FoxNews.com

Congresswoman sees ‘threat’ in Constitution

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The head of a gun-rights orga-nization is delivering a lesson on the Constitution to a mem-ber of Congress who claimed his statements on the Second Amendment constituted a threat against her. “Allow me to explain the ob-vious,” Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, wrote in an open let-

ter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.

“I have never encouraged, or even suggested, that anyone harm anyone. Rather, my speech was designed to educate citizens, and politicians, that it is the fact that Americans are armed that allows them to resist efforts to be dominated, intimidated, or controlled by politicians.” His letter came after Maloney reported him to Capitol Police and the House Sergeant-at-Arms because of his statements in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. In the interview, she alleged, “Mr. Pratt is actively encour-aging his members to threaten violent action against members of Congress.” Roll Call reported Maloney claimed Pratt’s statements were evidence of “just how outra-geous the extreme pro-gun movement has become.” The report said: “Maloney’s staff notified Capitol Police and House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving of the recent article which declared Pratt the ‘Gun Lobby’s Secret Weapon,’ the congress-woman said, but they were told there was ‘no specific danger and nothing to be done.’” Pratt told the congresswoman: “Lest you believe that I stand on the fringes of civilized so-ciety, let me provide you with some other sources for the same principle which I was enunciat-ing.” He cited the Declaration of Inde-pendence, which states “when-ever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” He quoted Frederick Douglass: “A man’s rights rest in three

boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” Get Larry Pratt’s collection of columns and articles on gun control, in “On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Lib-erty.” And he called on the wisdom of John Basil Barnhill: “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” Finally, he quoted Justice An-tonin Scalia: “[W]hen the able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny.” “These various statements span four centuries. They come from people of differing ethnicities, of various stations, and hold-ing differing political beliefs,” Pratt wrote. “What they all agree on is that you should go to work every day with a healthy amount of fear and respect for the American people who you are supposed to represent.” In Rolling Stone, Pratt had said, “The Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not even for self-defense.” Instead, it is “for restraining tyrannical tendencies in government. … Especially those in the liberal, tyrannical end of the spectrum. There is some restraint, and even if the voters of Brooklyn don’t hold them back, it may be there are other ways that their impulses are somewhat restrained. That’s the whole idea of the Second Amendment.” The New York Daily News interpreted the statement to mean Pratt believes “the Second Amendment exists to ensure government officials face a permanent threat of gun vio-lence.” Not so, Pratt insisted. Congress should do its job, he said, “in constant trepidation” over concern the members’ job performance would be “publicly criticized from the soap box … you will be voted out via the ballot box” or there would be a verdict in the jury box. And, he wrote, “Should you at-tempt to disarm Americans the way the British crown tried 240 years ago, the same sovereign people who constituted this government using the cartridge box someday may need to recon-stitute it, as clearly anticipated by the Declaration of Indepen-dence.” A WND call requesting com-ment from Maloney’s office was not returned. But thousands of

other Americans did jump into the conversation. Examiner author David Codrea wrote that, like the famous “I’m Spartacus” scene from the Kubrick movie, on this issue he would say, “I’m Larry Pratt.”

“If the Capitol Police are going to investigate him, they’re go-ing to have to investigate me, too, because I agree with every-thing he said about the Second Amendment being a last-resort protection against tyranny,” he wrote. Thousands of Americans joined in with his statement on GOA’s Facebook page. The basic constitutional concept also got an endorsement from GOP superstar Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and author of multiple bestsellers. According to CNSNews.com, at a recent Western Conservative Summit in Colorado, Carson said the Second Amendment was installed in the Constitution so Americans could support the military if needed, but “more importantly, so that people could protect themselves from an overly aggressive government, if that ever happened.” He said he “would never com-promise the Second Amendment in any way.” “All we have to do is look back through history and see what happened when various dictators rose to power,” he said. “One of the first things they always did was confiscate the weapons. So we don’t ever want to allow that situation to occur. “We don’t even necessarily want them to know who has weap-ons.” he said. Pratt told the congresswoman: “The Second Amendment was written to preserve ‘a free state’ against the ever present tempta-tion faced by government of-ficials to steal liberty from the people.”

And he re-told the story of Ath-ens, Tennessee, in post-World War II 1946, when returning veterans “found their hometown …. had been taken over by cor-rupt local politicians.”

“It was those veterans’ access to and experience with firearms that made possible the pres-ervation of ballot boxes that were about to be fraudulently counted, in what has come to be known as the Battle of Athens. A 1992 movie entitled ‘An Ameri-can Story’ commemorates the actions of these brave veterans,” he wrote.

“Private ownership and skilled use of firearms is what enabled our country to gain its indepen-dence, and it is what continues to preserve our liberty. Someday, I hope that you study this aspect of the history of our great na-tion, that currently allows you to serve in the People’s House, and come to understand the great principles on which it was founded and continues to oper-ate,” Pratt wrote.

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The Hebrew word for ‘darkness’ as used in the pres-ent context is choshekh which means figuratively blindness or to be obscure. For example:

“In that day…the eyes of the blind shall see out of ob-scurity and out of darkness.” Isaiah 29:18

In God’s perfect ageless plan, for those whom He was soon to create in His own im-age, He was preparing to imple-ment that matchless plan.

“…And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2b

The Hebrew for ‘Spirit’ is wind and the same Hebrew word is used in the following:

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And so it was, God visited the desolate earth.

“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.” Genesis 1:3

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The Hebrew base for ‘light’ in the above verse is maor meaning a luminous body or a lamp.

One’s first thought when noting the word ‘seasons’ in the above might be the four seasons experienced by the earth being tilted on its axis 23.5 degrees as it makes its annual journey around the sun.

However, a more specific meaning is revealed from the Hebrew moedh which means festive gathering, appointment, or signal. It was to signal the timing of the subsequent Jewish feast days.

The Hebrew for ‘days’ in Genesis 1:14 means time, either between two points on the linear

time span or a specific point of time on that span. The Hebrew word for ‘years’ means a revo-lution of time, or to return, and/or repeat. Such describes the earth’s annual journey around the sun which defines a year.

It will be illustrated in future col-umns that the concept of time would be necessary to appreciate the grandeur of God’s word as He lays out history in advance and ascribes specific measures of time to future events.

After God prepared the earth to sustain life, i.e. land, sea, and sky, He created Adam.

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After God created man and every provision to sustain him, He was very satisfied and approved all He had done.

“Then God saw every-thing that He had made, and indeed it was very good.” Gen-esis 1:31a

Man created in the image of God is the highest of God’s creations. God’s plan for man, which He devised countless years before He brought it into being, had now begun.

The subsequent journey would be endless and the result will be as originally intended, i.e. to fulfill God’s purpose. The journey will prove man’s inept-ness without his Creator and simultaneously reveal God’s holiness, righteousness, justice, longsuffering, and love.

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I often travel on I-75 near where I live. If I was caught going 85 MPH and a State trooper pulled me over because the posted speed is 70 MPH, I don’t think the trooper would be too recep-tive to my argument that the legislature’s “intent” could be something more than the explicit signs saying 70 MPH. I suspect the trooper would say something like “here’s your ticket, pay the fine and slow down.”

Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act, including the president’s unlawful changes to it, contin-ues as the Democrats’ debacle. Now, two recent Federal U.S. District Courts of Appeal have disagreed on who are to get in-surance subsidies under the law. The White House says Congress (Democrats only passed the law) “intended” for all to get the subsidies. The law says the subsidies would be available to

those “enrolled through an Ex-change established by the State.” Democrats are now exercised because adherence to the letter of the law could effectively derail this abhorrent legislation once and for all because the millions who signed up under Federal exchanges would no longer be eligible for subsidies; and, the cost of their health insurance would skyrocket out of reach.

So, the Administration is in an expanding judge shopping mode for judges who will interpret subsidies for all regardless of the language of Obamacare. In other words, Democrats again want their courts to clean up their messes. Ultimately, I expect the issue to end up in the Supreme Court where I hope the justices simply rely on the meaning of written words only in a law signed by President Obama.

There is no ambiguity in Obam-acare on this, but White House spin doctors will nevertheless try to convince otherwise. Yet, it should have been obvious from the beginning that any law of over 2,000 pages and not read would be fraught with problems. Administration lies are becoming more and more apparent, but that doesn’t help taxpayers stuck with the bill for all the broken promises.

It appears that in Obama’s warped views, if I am caught going 85 in a 70 MPH zone, I can just arbitrarily change the speed limit and move on.

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Governments tell their people they don’t need guns for protection, they have a police force for that. Wouldn’t that be the same thing as not need-ing fire extinguishers in homes and businesses, we’ve got fire departments. Or about a single father having no need for a wet nurse, he’s got breasts.

It’s a crazy world when our politicians disarm the pub-lic to make them safe. They forget when the police get on the scene, it’s clean up the mess time. John Lott of the University of Chicago Law School says people use guns defensively 2.5 million times each year, some-times without a shot being fired. This fact is never publicized by the anti-gun crowd. The main reason government wants to do away with guns in America, is the gun toting hunters of America could be perceived as a large standing army. George Washington said, “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”

After a school teacher in the audience asked Hillary Clin-ton about high capacity maga-zines and assault weapons, the presumptive 2016 presidential candidate took the opportunity to go on an extraordinary anti-gun rant.

“I’m well aware that this is a hot political subject. And again, I will speak out no matter what role I find myself in. But I believe that we need a more thoughtful conversation. We cannot let a minority of people – and it’s, that’s what it is, it is a minority of people – hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the ma-jority of people,” said Clinton.

Clinton’s claim that only a “minority” of Americans oppose gun control is contra-dicted by a recent Rasmussen poll which found that 53% of Americans oppose stricter gun control laws and only 40% of likely voters back tighter fire-arms restrictions.

On January 16, 2013 an ex-prosecutor for the District of Columbia from 2007-09 by the name of Jeffrey Scott Sha-piro penned an article for the Economic Policy Journal; con-cerning the recent shootings and rumblings of more legislation on guns. “As a former prosecu-tor in Washington, D.C., who enforced firearms and ammuni-tion cases while a severe local gun ban was still in effect, I am skeptical of the benefits that many imagine will result from additional gun-control efforts. I dislike guns, but I believe that a nationwide firearms crackdown would place an undue burden on law enforcement and endanger civil liberties while potentially increasing crime. The D.C. gun ban, enacted in 1976, prohibited anyone other than law-enforce-ment officers from carrying a firearm in the city. Residents were even barred from keeping guns in their homes for self-defense. The gun ban had an unintended effect: It embold-

ened criminals because they knew that law-abiding District residents were unarmed and powerless to defend themselves. Violent crime increased after the law was enacted, with ho-micides ris-ing to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual h o m i c i d e s had reached 454.”

“Civil liberties were en-dangered. Legislative changes empowered judges to hold gun suspects in pretrial detention without bond for up to 100 days, and efforts were made to enact curfews and seize auto-mobiles found to contain fire-arms.” Taken from a book on Amazon’s Kindle, A Country’s Boy’s Views on Government.

Commodities are the sta-ples of the world. They range from metals, grains, rubber and leather, etc. The most important commodity in the world is trust, it is hard to gain and can be lost in an instant. Whether it is trust in leadership or a country’s currency.

Attorney General Eric Holder speaking about banks in a congressional hearing said: “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to pros-ecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”

Here is a thought recently published by the US Treasury Department stating a loss of confidence in our currency would have severe consequenc-es for our nation: “[It] has the potential to be catastrophic: credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plum-met, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spill-overs could reverberate around the world, and there might be a financial crisis that could echo the events of 2008 or worse.”

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the lead-ers of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no moth-erland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.” - Na-poleon Bonaparte

Therein lies a truism lost on many Americans, as our nation’s debt continues onward and upward.

Those benefiting the most from this wagon being turned upside down is the military complexes as the whole fiat money system is rigged to finance deficits resulting from the cost of continually going to war.

Burning the candle at both ends is a description of a person who gets up early and stays up late. It could be talking about a farmer during harvest, a custom cutter combining or a custom hay operator. It could also mean a farm equipment dealer who takes calls on his cell phone!

Being the second genera-tion in a 64 year old implement company, I think I must be miss-

ing some-t h i n g . Mode rn f a r m e q u i p -ment has been de-veloped to speed up pro-duction,

which allows for more “free time”. Well, technology has outpaced the twenty-four hour day and created a culture that deals in seconds, minutes and hours, instead of days, weeks and months.

Several customers show their lack of patience as they line up at the checkout counter or switch lanes at stop lights to vie for position on the road. Doctors are prescribing pills for high blood pressure and various other maladies caused by the modern lifestyles on the fast track.

But wait, there are ways of getting slowed down. Maybe we did not watch the speed limit signs until an officer pulled us over to inquire what the rush is all about. Or a farmer rushes out to farm too soon after the rain and buries his tractor or combine in the mud. Yes, when that happens, things slow down and actually stop.

We have a tendency to worry about the most trivial things. We may be placing too much importance on something that gets more attention than it deserves, whether it is what

brand of toothpaste or other personal preferences.

Last week I weaned some calves. I like to separate them in the corral and feed them for a week or so before they are shipped to the sale barn or feedlot. Most of the time, they settle down to the routine and expect to be fed when they hear the engine of the four wheeler heading in their direction.

The first calves came from the pasture across the road. A couple of them were several months older and came from cows falling off on milk produc-tion, so they had been grazing. The youngest ones had a more difficult time adjusting to eating on their own.

After a week, this bunch was fairly well “bawled out”. Then my cattle from the big pasture came up near the corral, so I was able to entice them into a small trap and separate some of their calves. It was getting dark when I caught the last one in an alley of the corral. When I closed the gate, he became quite agitated and crashed into the fence to try and escape the close confinement. I turned him in with the rest of the calves in the large pen, fed some feed in the trough and let them settle down.

This calf has finally re-signed himself to the fact that he will not be reunited with his family in the pasture and started to come up to the trough to eat after I leave. I don’t think he will ever be as calm as the other calves and will always be suspi-cious of new surroundings.

With the rains slowing down the hay baling, Saturdays are still busy at the store. My employees have started working on alternate Saturdays, so we have a smaller workforce than during the week. This works out great most of the time, except during June and July.

I attended the Gideon’s

prayer breakfast at Maggie’s restaurant in Pryor on Saturday morning, then went on to the store. We have been closing at noon on Saturdays for several years, but I usually stay to take calls until mid-afternoon. Last Saturday a customer north of Chelsea called about trouble with his tractor after everyone had left. His PTO had stopped working. I chased down Eli Detweiler, who was trying out a square baler he had just worked on, in a field a couple of miles away. With information of the codes on the dash, a local me-chanic found that the problem was a loose connection in the wiring and saved us from going on a service call.

At 4:00 p.m., just as Eli and I were getting ready to leave, a customer baling hay south of Wagoner called with a breakdown and lots of hay on the ground. When he described the problem, Eli suggested that it would take a couple hours to repair, so it would be quicker to take a used baler down and bring his in to the shop for Mon-day morning repair.

I made it home at 7:00, in time for supper, then went out to feed the calves in the corral before dark. I prepared for a Gideon presentation on Sunday morning at the Oak Grove Men-nonite Church west of Adair. Maybe I did burn a little of the candle on both ends.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty…Proverbs 20:13

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This article will be the sixteenth in a series about the current “SPY” Smart Meters being rolled out in Oklahoma by the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) and Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative (REC) and other electric utilities including the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (ONG) a division of ONE Gas

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On Monday, July 21, 2014 PSO began their last hearing before the Oklahoma Corporation Com-mission Administrative Law Judge to get approval for PSOʼs rate increase and deployment of 522,000 “SPY” SMART ME-TER ROLL OUT COVERING 30,000 sq. miles of their service area in Oklahoma. I attended the entire hearing Monday all day and Tuesday morning. I did not here one word during this hearing about HEALTH ISSUES from any of the lawyers in this CAUSE NO. 201300217. During Public Comment was the only time a few people from the public ad-dressed the health issues and dur-ing this time a few citizens were STOPPED from giving Public Comment that day. I believe this CAUSE now will go to the Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners for their decision to allow the FORCED INSTAL-LATION of PSOʼs 522,000 “SPY” SMART METERS upon their CUSTOMERS. So PSO can now radiate these 522,000 cus-tomers with man made NON-Ion-izing NON-THERMAL pulsed Microwave radiation. At this time no utility has a single scien-tific study proving that this type of radiation is safe.-----------------------------------------Following is Tulsaʼs 9.12 Proj-ect and OK-SAFE, Inc., Amanda Teegarden, executive director of OK-SAFE press release:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2014TULSA 9.12 PROJECT OP-POSES PSO RATE HIKETulsa, OK, July 21, 2014– Public Service Company of Oklahoma isasking the Oklahoma Corpora-tion Commission to approve a $24 million dollar rate increase for the deployment of 522,000 wireless “Smart Meters” to re-place our current analog meters. Smart Metersare wireless devices with a two-way transmission, relaying the information to Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), for billing and monitoring pur-poses. What PSO and The Okla-homa Corporation Commission is not making public at this time, is the total cost will be $130 mil-lion dollars. Once all the meters are in place, they will be back for the approval of the $107 mil-lion balance. Tulsa 9.12 Project stands in opposition to the PSO request for a rate hike and the deployment of Smart Meters.

“There are numerous issues asso-ciated with Smart Meters,” states

Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, presi-dent of Tulsa 9.12 Project, “such as the added cost to the consumer for the purchase and installation of the meters, privacy issues of data collection shared with the laboratory for the Department of Energy and Homeland Security and sale to third parties, as well as health issues.” If approved, “Smart Meters” will blanket 30,000 square miles of Oklahoma with puls-ing non-ionizing radia-tion (a class 2B Carcinogen). The unsuspecting public will be radi-ated 24 hours a day by a wireless technology that can neither be seen nor heard. There are 3 cases currently before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission due to severe health effects associated with AMI (Smart Meters). The Utilities have refused to remove the meters from the residences although evidence and science support the plaintiffsʼ cases, that the meters are causing serious health issues.“As more people associate their failing health to Smart Meters there will be more lawsuits resulting in greater costs to the citizens and businesses of Okla-homa,” adds Vuillemont-Smith.

OK-SAFE, Inc., another local grassroots organization, joins Tulsa 9.12 Project in their op-position to the PSO rate hike. Amanda Teegarden, execu-tive director of OK-SAFE, Inc. comments “OK-SAFE opposes PSOʼs proposed rate increase, and the related rollout of AMI (smart meters) in their service area. Having followed this issue for a while now, we have come to believe that PSO is willfully and intentionally disregarding the publicʼs legitimate privacy, health and cost concernsassociated with the installation of these types of meters. We strenu-ously oppose this rollout.Further, we ask the legislature to issue a moratorium on the installation of any more AMI meters until expert testimony on the risks and costs has been made public.”

Tulsa 9.12 further believes Cor-poration Commissioner Patrice Douglas, candidate for U.S. Congress, should recuse herself from voting on the PSO rate case. Douglas has accepted campaign contributions from several utility companies, including PSO, lead-

ing to possible conflict of interest and bias in the PSO rate case.

Tulsa 9.12 Project and OK-SAFE, Inc., believe our elected

officials of the Oklahoma Corpo-ration Co mission and the Attor-ney Generalʼs Office have a duty to protect the Health and Privacy of the citizens of Oklahoma. The next public hearing on the PSO rate hike is scheduled for Mon-day, July, 21, 2014, at 8:30 am in Court Rm 3 at the OK Corp.Commission offices in OKC.If you cannot attend in person, please call the Oklahoma Corpo-ration Commission at 405-521-4114 and state your opposition to rate increase, and the smart meters. They are counting the calls.------------------------------------Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative (REC) also has been rolling out “SPY” SMART METERS to their customers in Northeast Oklahoma. I do not be-lieve their customers (members) are aware of the HEALTH DAM-AGE caused by these meters. Several months ago in Salina, OK in a member of the coopʼs home, I met with three represen-tatives from Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative. (REC) I informed these representatives at this time about the HEALTH DAMAGES from these meters.

Recently I have been contacted by five families concerned about the “SPY” Smart Meter health issues. Two of the families have already received a “SPY” Smart Meter one in Miami, OK and the other in Jay, OK and three families one in Rose, OK one in Salina, OK and one in Adair, OK stated they do not want a “SPY” Smart Meter due to health issues.

The two families that already have the ”Spy” Smart Meters are experiencing serious HEALTH ISSUES. They both have man made NON-Ionizing NON-THERMAL pulsed Microwave radiation coming in their bed-rooms through the exterior wall from Northeast Oklahoma Elec-

tric Cooperative “SPY SMART METERS.

Reviewing the scientific docu-ments that I have mentioned in my previous articles in the BANNER it should be very ap-parent that these “SPY” SMART METERS are HEALTH DAM-AGING. Remember Jerry Flynn? The retired Canadian military Captain, who served 22 years of his 26 year military career as an “Electronic Warfare expert”, and developed a 422 slide Power Point Presentation in which he walked people through the birth, development and present status of microwave radiation. In a recent letter to an EditorMr. Flynn made 7 points cov-ering the truth about SMART METERS with the 5th point being --“non industry-funded scientists say that there is no such thing as a SAFE level of radiation, no matter how weak the signal!”

After the above statement how is it that the utilities can tell us that there isno health issues from this radia-tion? This technology being used by the wireless industry and the utilities is not safe! That is why it has been classified as a Class 2B Carcinogen.

I have a GIGAHERTZ SOLU-TIONS HFE 35C HF Analyser from Germany (that can read the radiation from this “SPY” SMART METER) the cost is about $1,000.00. The normal reading on this meter is 0 - 0.1 uw/m2 out in the country.As I came into Miami from the south over the Neosho River the reading was 0.2 uw/m2. My PSO “SPY” SMART METER spec sheet for my meter that was on my bedroom wall was 500,000 to 1,000,000 uw/m2 output. I have yet to review the spec sheet for Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperativeʼs (REC) “SPY” SMART METER.

I visited a home in Miami on Saturday, July 26th that had a“SPY” SMART METER on a pole about eight inches from the exterior wall, with the “SPY” SMART METERʼS face aimed at the bedroom wall. On the other side of the wall is the head of the bed where this person sleeps. The distance between the meter

and this personʼs head is about 2-3 feet. I read the inside of the house which had no other wire-less transmitting devices and as I sat next to this personʼs bed my meter showed that the per-son was getting pulsed from the Wireless transmitting SMART METER on the outside wall. My first readings were over 2,000 uw/m2 pulsing several times a minute (IN A COURT OF LAW IT WAS ESTABLISHED THAT SMART METERS PULSE BE-TWEEN 14,000 TO 190,000 TIMES A DAY).

This situation was not safe, so I covered the inside section of wall between the Smart Meter and the bed with metal mill grade alum num window screen wire from the ceiling to the floor approxi-mately 12 ft. width. The next reading was 120 uw/m2 making it much better, but still not safe. So I drove to Joplin, Missouri to purchase sheets of corrugated metal 2.5 ft. wide and 8 ft. high which would cover 12 ft. on the outside between the meter and the house, which I installed and grounded. The new reading was 8-9 uw/m2. Better than the first two readings however, remember Mr. Flynn said there is “no safe level”.

I spent around $100.00 just for material and it didnʼt include time and gas. Why does a per-son have to go through this to protect their HEALTH FROM BEING DAMAGED BY THESE METERS? Not to mention the “DIRTY ELECTRICITY”caused by these SMART ME-TERS. They are a switching mode power supply picking DC off an AC line which causes more HEALTH ISSUES.

Maybe what the MEMBERS of the Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative need to do is get some NEW MAN-AGEMENT, get rid of the HEALTH DAMAGING NEW SMART METERS AND KEEP THEIR ANALOGY, that is paid for, SAFE METERS that never caused any HEALTH ISSUES.

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President: ‘I’ve met that guy before. He needs to update his material’

A heckler blasted Barack Obama during the president’s speech in Los Angeles this week, calling him the “anti-Christ” and warning him that he would be “destroyed,” before being ushered out by a po-lice officer. When Obama got up to speak, the man, wearing a blue shirt and standing at the front of an otherwise Obama-adoring crowd, shouted: “Jesus Christ created the heaven and the earth. … You are the anti-Christ. You are the anti-Christ. … You will be destroyed. You will be destroyed.’

Amid a mixture of cheers and boos from the crowd, with several people shaking their heads, the man continued shouting as an officer came and took his arm and led him away. Obama waited until the interruption was over then told the crowd at Los

Heckler calls Obama ‘anti-Christ’

President Obama understands all this, I don’t know. His policies have been alternatively passive (Libya, Egypt), incoherent (Rus-sian reset) and feckless (Syria). But the fact that the current U.S. economic recovery is the slow-est in post-World War II history — spanning 70 years — is surely a key factor in Vladimir Putin’s adventurism.

This brings us back to Reagan’s link. Putin may recognize that Russia’s economy is a thin deck of cards. But he surely doesn’t fear the weak American economic posi-tion. Ditto for the broken economic dictatorships in North Korea, Iran and Venezuela and the rising eco-nomic dictatorship in China. They don’t fear us. In fact, America’s economic weakness is so worry-ing, one suspects our friends are losing respect for us too. Whether in Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Israel, our allies know that America has been the backstop for freedom. If not us, who?...

The massive federal spending stimulus of 2009-2010 did not work. There were no so-called fis-cal multipliers. The Fed’s near-$3.5 trillion of balance-sheet creation also failed, with money multipli-ers and velocity rates collapsing. Overregulation has stifled Main Street businesses and start-ups. The highest corporate tax rate among developed countries is forcing American businesses to flee to lower-tax nations, taking their cash and jobs with them. Tax hikes on personal income, capital gains, dividends and payrolls are reducing growth incentives.

Reagan’s free-enterprise growth model of easier taxes, limited government, lighter regulation and sound money strengthened America both at home and abroad. Obama’s model of heavy-handed government, income redistribu-tion, punishing success and cheap money has diminished us at home and weakened us around the world. Caveat emptor, voters. It’s truly time for change.

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Angeles Trade-Technical College: “I’ve actually met that guy before. … A couple years ago, and he had the same line. He needs to update his material.” The heckler appeared to make no move toward the president, satis-fied simply to shout, and Secret Service agents did not take any action. The fact that the Secret Service, who are conspicuous wherever the president goes, did not immedi-ately try to silence the man is not unusual. According to Dan Bongino, a 12-year veteran of the Secret Service and the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Se-cret Service Agent Walked Away from It All,” agents are trained to be careful not to impede a protest-er’s right to free speech.

See anti-Christ, pg. 11

Nancy Pelosi Gets Upset After CNN Doesn’t Provide Chance For

Any Partisan Shots On Republicans

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was grilled by CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday about President Obama’s response to an aggres-sive Russia and the Israeli gov-ernment’s be-havior in Gaza — but all she really wanted to do was talk about Republi-cans. Crowley had just finished interviewing the California congresswoman on the crisis in Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict. ”I have to leave it there,” the “State of the Union” host said. “I hope you’ll come back and we will talk politics and midterms, and all kinds of

things that are going around –”But Pelosi cut her off before she could finish. “Right, well that just — I think it’s important to note, though, that through all of this, the Republicans are

trying to sue the president — on a path t o i m p e a c h the president — while we’re trying to create jobs and have stability in our country and in

the world,” she blurted out. “And I’m sorry that we didn’t get a chance to talk more about that.” “We will do that the next time, I promise,” Crowley told the congresswoman reassuringly.

The DC

WND on Saturday, “President Obama is begging to be im-peached.” Stockman’s comments became the lead story over the weekend on the popular Drudge Report. “For all I know, Obama is prepar-ing to process 5 million illegal immigrant kids and teenagers into the United States,” Stockman said upon observing border operations near McAllen, Texas. “He wants us to impeach him now,” Stockman theorized, “be-fore the midterm election because his senior advisers believe that is the only chance the Democratic Party has to avoid a major elec-toral defeat. Evidently Obama believes impeachment could motivate the Democratic Party base to come out and vote.”

Impeached, from pg. 1___

If just seeing the name “Sarah Palin” drives you into an uncon-trollable rage, if the sight of her face and the sound of her voice send you into a paroxysm of righteous invective, here’s some great news. Pretty soon, anytime you want, you can see her from your house! It worked for Glenn Beck and Oprah. Will it work for Palin? Most people who hope not will just ignore her. The rest you can find in the comments of every single story about this. (See below!) If you want my opinion — and you do, or else you wouldn’t be reading this — more voices are always better. I don’t agree with everything Palin says or the way she says it, but I’m glad she’s doing this. The media made an enemy of her the moment she stepped on the national stage. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

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Reaction to the horrors of the mas-sacres at the Aurora, Colorado, theater and the Newtown, Con-necticut, elementary school has led to new restrictions on guns in some states. Consequently, some weapon manu-facturers have moved out of states

with the strictest regulations, and the rhetoric against firearms has reached new heights.

In one instance, a member of Con-gress complained to the House ser-geant-at-arms that she felt threat-ened by a gun advocate’s assertion that the Second Amendment was not about hunting or even self-de-fense, but “restraining tyrannical tendencies in government.” But, on the 21st anniversary of an attack on innocent church-goers by terrorists armed with automatic guns, the man who is credited with scaring them off by returning fire is warning against gun control. In a recent video message, Charl Van Wyk, whose experience has been chronicled in book and docu-mentary versions of “Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defense,” pointed out all of the worst massacres in his home continent of Africa have happened in so-called “gun-free zones.” He ticked off the atrocities in Rwanda, Uganda and other na-tions. He recalls asking congregants of a church whose pastor was abducted why members didn’t protect their own. He was told they were un-armed. “Massacres happen when one group is armed, normally the gov-ernment. That’s when genocide takes place,” he said. He encouraged Americans to strive to keep their Second Amendment rights. “Once taken away, it’s almost impossible to get it back again,” he said. He told WND gun-control laws “often make it illegal or impossible to defend ourselves.” “Such laws, which subject the law-abiding to the whims of criminals (criminals in government and street

Starting To Sound Like We Are There! “Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be liter-ally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.”Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

West Fails To Answer Threats To Its Very Exis-tenceThe downing of Malaysia Flight 17 casts new light on just how inept and decadent the United States and Europe have become. Faced with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and attempts to repeat in eastern Ukraine, the best Western Europe and the U.S. have mustered are strong words and token sanctions on top Russian officials and several companies. That’s hardly enough to deter Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to make Russia the dominant power in Eurasia.

Now, public outrage at the down-ing of the Malaysian airliner will force Western governments to offer Russia restraint from impos-ing truly effective sanctions on its subversive activities in Ukraine in exchange for an international investigation. That likely will yield little more than already inferred. Russia supplied the missiles and is culpable for enabling separatists who shot down the plane. Not much else will happen. Six months from now Russian agents will still be operating in Ukraine and planning similar uprisings in other former Soviet states.

The U.S. lacks sufficient military assets in Europe to deter Russian aggression, and Europe’s most powerful state, Germany, lacks the will to stand up to Russia. President Obama has been too successful at paying for entitlements by cutting the defense budget, and German businesses are profiting too much from commerce with Russia...

Eventually, the West will be eclipsed, isolated and unable to defend itself and its liberties. Most Americans and Europeans, for now, are reasonably prosperous, and believe they can accept slower growth as the price for maintaining massive welfare states, whose taxes and benefits discourage investment and hard work. What they are unwilling to recognize is that their welfare states and consequent slow growth will ultimately undermine their security and survival. Peter Morici, Investor’s Business DailyJuly 21, 2014

Obama’s TranquilityBarack Obama’s team recently took credit for improving the “tran-quility of the global community,” and the president made it clear just what a calm place the world has become during his tenure. But this summer Obama’s tranquil world has descended into medieval bar-barism in a way scarcely seen in decades. In Gaza, Hamas is bank-ing its missile arsenal in mosques, schools and private homes; even Hitler did not do that with his V2s. Hamas terrorists resort to trying to wire up animals to serve as suicide bombers. Aztec-style, they seek to capture Israeli soldiers to torture or trade — a sort of updated version of parading captive soldiers up the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan.

Hamas cannot build a hotel, but instead applies its premodern cun-ning to tunneling and killing in ever more insidious ways. Yet it proves incompetent in doing what it wishes to do best — kill Jewish ci-vilians. Its efforts to kill Jews while getting killed in the process earn it sympathy from the morally obtuse of the contemporary world who would have applauded Hitler in

1945 as an underdog who suffered greatly as he was overwhelmed by the Allies that he once tried to destroy.

In Paris, just seventy years after the Holocaust, sympathetic rioters hit the streets to cheer on Hamas’s efforts to kill more Jews with their crude versions of Vergel-tungswaffen. The passive French solution apparently is once again to encourage Jews to leave the coun-try, given the growing number of new Nazis in their midst. Whether Hamas or Putin, the European response is always the same: why cannot they just go away to bother to some Jews or Americans, and leave us alone?...

In short, outside the rather limited Western world of democracy and free market capitalism, the world — Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East — is a very untranquil place, where the strong dictate to the weak and the weak suffer as they must.

The West is not perfect. It is aging and tired. But right now Obama’s mythical vision of global tranquil-ity exists only in the Westernized world, the result of an aberrant 2,500-year tradition that most of the world despises even as it in-competently seeks to emulate it or travel to it — or just destroy what it cannot have. Some tranquility.Victor Davis Hanson, PJMediaJuly 20, 2014

ISIS To Christians In Mosul: Leave, Convert To Islam Or DieISIS is reportedly forcing Chris-tians out of Iraq’s second largest city and has torched an 1,800-year-old church. Megyn Kelly tonight reported that the terrorist organization gave Christians a Saturday deadline: Leave, convert to Islam or die. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was on “The Kelly File” tonight to discuss this. “I’m not sure what’s more shocking, the atrocities of ISIS or the silence of the Obama administration,” he said. Perkins explained that Iraq is home to some of the longest surviving Christian communities. FOX News InsiderJuly 21, 2014

Breitbart’s Sonnie John-son: Obama Is A Coward On Fox News’ “Red Eye,” Breit-bart’s Sonnie Johnson said Presi-dent Obama is ignoring the mul-tiple current worldwide emergency situations because he “would rather golf than do something produc-tive,” which is “painting him in a corner” that proves he is a coward. Johnson said, “When he actually has to put his fist up and fight the coward comes out.” Breitbart TVJuly 22, 2014She’s right you know! She could have rightfully included most of those around him. Don O’Nesky

Obamacare’s Fraudulent IncentivesThe Government Accountability Office confirmed yesterday what conservatives have been warning for years: Obamacare is an open invitation to fraud. Specifically, GAO Forensic Audits and Inves-tigative Service Acting Director Seto Bagdoyan testified before the House Ways and Means Com-mittee about a GAO investigation that tested Obama administration claims about the internal controls the federal government has set up to prevent fraudulent Obamacare coverage and subsidies.

GAO investigators used fictitious identities and documents to apply for Obamacare coverage on 12 separate occasions. The Obama administration granted coverage and subsidies to 11 of 12 fraudu-lent applicants. Additionally, as of July 2014, the GAO reported that fake documentation sent for two enrollees had been “verified”. “The total amount of these cred-its for the 11 approved applica-tions is about $2,500 monthly or about $30,000 annually. We also

obtained cost-sharing reduction subsidies, according to marketplace representatives, in at least nine of the 11 cases,” Bagdoyan said.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare is set to spend $1.4 trillion on Obam-acare subsidies over the next ten years. Obama’s complete failure to prevent fraud in his signature domestic accomplishment even had some liberals questioning the administration. “This lack of over-sight just isn’t acceptable,” Indiana University School of Medicine professor Aaron Carroll (no rela-tion) blogged, “The GAO should be checking this stuff, and the ad-ministration should be responding to it. Let’s see what happens.”

Carroll should not hold his breath. Obama has every incentive to get as many “beneficiaries” signed up for Obamacare no matter how fraudu-lent they are. Democrats have made the number of “Americans” enrolled in Obamacare the defining metric for the law’s success. There simply is no penalty for signing up fake people. True, the IRS will supposedly fine people who “knowingly and willfully” provide false information $250,000. But no one believes the IRS will ever enforce those penalties. Carroll’s co-blogger Nicholas Bagley, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan, explained to Vox, “The money at stake in any given case is too small, and the process for imposing civil money penalties too cumbersome, to justify much in the way of gov-ernmental enforcement.”

“I would be surprised if the gov-ernment decides to spend a lot of government resources on this,” added Washington and Lee Uni-versity law professor Timothy Jost. In fact, the federal government has a long history of ignoring fraud in welfare programs. Just look at the Earned Income Tax Credit. Ac-cording to the Inspector General of the Treasury Department, the IRS mails out somewhere between $13.3 billion and $15.6 billion in fraudulent EITC payments every year. That comes out to about 22 to 26 percent of the entire EITC program.

As long as a program’s success is defined solely by how many people are benefiting, the federal govern-ment will continue to shell out bil-lions in fraudulent payments every year. Obamacare only made that situation much, much worse. Conn Carroll, Editor, TownHall MagazineJuly 23, 2014

Obama Refused ‘Repeated Requests’ Since August 2013 For Drone Strikes Against ISISBreaking on Capitol Hill is the news that Iraqi officials began requesting almost a year ago for the US to carry out drone strikes against ISIS – but the requests were shot down by the White House. That stunning revelation came dur-ing a hearing on the situation in Iraq this morning. The Hill reports:

“During a hearing on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, House For-eign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said the administration knew six months ago that the Is-lamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) had established armed camps, staging areas and training grounds in Iraq’s western desert and its leader Abu Bakr al-Bagh-dadi was threatening to attack the U.S. However, what the Admin-istration did not say was that the Iraqi government had been urgently requesting drone strikes against ISIS camps since August 2013,” Royce continued.

“These repeated requests, unfortu-nately, were turned down,” he said. “I added my voice for drone strikes as ISIS convoys raced across the desert.”

The New York Times previously reported that in May 2014 Prime Minister Maliki had “secretly asked

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thugs), are illegitimate laws,” he said. “Government officials who play political games with our right to de-fend ourselves need to be removed by the electorate.” It was at the St. James Church in

Cape Town, South Africa, on July 25, 1993, when Van Wyk suddenly realized something was wrong. His first-hand account: “All of a sudden there was a noise at a front door of the church leading into the sanctuary, where young people were singing in front of the congre-gation. The attackers stepped into the doorway and lobbed grenades. Regular grenades weren’t destruc-tive enough, apparently, so they affixed nails to the outside of these. Then they opened fire with their assault rifles.“It took a few seconds to grasp what was happening. I first thought it might be a play. Boy, was I wrong! “I dropped to my knees and drew my .38 special revolver from my ankle holster. Taking aim, I fired two rounds at the attackers. Being in the fourth row from the back of the large sanctuary made accu-racy difficult, especially with the revolver’s 2-inch barrel, designed for close combat.” He continued, “I crawled to the aisle and ran for a back door, plan-ning to get behind the attackers and shoot them at close range to stop the slaughter. “As I rounded the corner outside of the building I saw the attack-ers already at their getaway car. Ducking back behind the corner, I readied for the final showdown, then stepped out and fired my last three rounds. They jumped into their vehicle and raced off.” He reported that it was later found that the terrorists, members of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, also planned to lob petrol bombs into the sanctuary, where there were an estimated 1,000 people. Van Wyk said the return fire sur-prised the terrorists, so that they abandoned the second phase of the attack.

the Obama administration to con-sider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas” and that “Iraq’s appeals for a military re-sponse have so far been rebuffed by the White House, which has been reluctant to open a new chapter in a conflict that President Obama has insisted was over when the United States withdrew the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011.”

But the fact that Iraqis have been begging for nearly a year for the US to strike ISIS with drones – and that those requests were repeatedly denied by Obama – was not previ-ously known. Obama regularly authorizes drone strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan, Ye-men and the Horn of Africa. The White House even boasted that the president personally approves the

“kill lists” himself. Why on earth would he refuse to do the same in Iraq? Was he hoping the problem would just go away?

This places culpability for the current fiasco in Iraq squarely on Obama’s shoulders. We already knew that the rise of ISIS was made possible by Obama’s decision to withdraw all American forces from Iraq, against the advice of his military commanders. But now we know that as ISIS was preparing its current offensive, Obama was warned of the coming danger–and refused Iraqi requests to strike ISIS before they recaptured American-liberated cities across Iraq.

The incompetence of this adminis-tration is simply mind-boggling.

See Limits, pg. 11

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Now is a great time to research a poten-tial career change, Aries. You’re feeling motivated and ready to try something new, so now might be the time to take that leap.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Technology plays a big role in your life this week, Taurus. Your office may be upgrading new equipment, or you have decided to rewire your home.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, take a deep breath and go with the flow when you find yourself unusually busy this week. A change of plans may find you spending more time at the office.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22You’re in for a nice financial surprise this week, Cancer. Whether it’s a raise at work or some other financial windfall, money is coming your way shortly.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, expect some unexpected visitors this week. Straighten up around the house and make the most of this un-planned time with a few old friends.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Friends or colleagues at work may in-troduce you to something that captures your interest, Virgo. You are ready for something new in your life, and this will tickle your fancy.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Travel is in your immediate future, Libra. Enjoy this escape from the daily grind and invite a few friends or family members along to make the trip that much more memorable.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Good news is on the horizon, Scorpio. It may be a pending promotion at the office or a chance to go out with friends, but either way it will put a smile on your face.

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2. Far East housemaid3. Indigenous of California4. __ lang syne, good old days5. Unmarried6. Gandhi epithet7. Not the same as him8. Show of respect9. Soft palate flaps10. Dried orchid tubers11. “Fish Magic” painter Paul13. Coming out of again17. Banteng24. Born of25. Cloisonne26. 3 to 30 gigahertz (abbr.)27. Gap in a ridge28. Tennis player Ivanovic29. Felled tree trunk35. Suits & Psych network36. Steadying rope37. Anger38. A male child40. Marred the surface of41. Marjoram42. UC Berkeley43. Hawaiian greeting44. Saturated45. Historic Anjou capital47. ___ Apso: tibetan dog48. Attach a brand tag49. Run before a gale52. Nemesis53. Wild goat54. A clock tells it55. States

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Expect your life to change dramatically this week, Sagittarius. An intriguing bit of news could have you imagining all sorts of interesting things for the months to come.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, if you’re itching for change, look no further than your own family members for inspiration. Good advice is always available if you care to ask.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, a busy week ahead will also be a happy week. That’s because you will be busy doing something that you enjoy and the time will fly by. Enjoy the ride.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, jump at the chance to get away and enjoy an unplanned adventure. The next few days may provide the experi-ence of a lifetime.

NORTHEASTCarl Blackwell: Elevation rising, water 74 and stained. Largemouth and spotted bass slow on crankbaits, Alabama rigs and topwater lures at 2-7 ft. in coves, points and weed beds; largemouth bass being caught early morning while spotted being caught all day. White bass, striped bass and saugeye good on crankbaits, lipless baits, in-line spinnerbaits, slabs, minnows and goldfish at 3-8 ft. in the main lake, flats, creek channels and ski point banks. Channel catfish good on chicken liver, dough bait, cut bait, minnows and shad at 1-5 ft. in channels, points, riprap and Fox Run Bridge. Flathead catfish good on goldfish, minnows, crawfish and sunfish at 1-4 ft. along rocks, shal-lows and shorelines. Jugline and trotline fishing is restricted to west of the ski line. Sunfish excellent on worms, nymphs, small lures and Power Bait at 1/2-2 ft. around docks, shallows and shorelines. Copan: Elevation normal, water 80. Channel, blue and flathead catfish good on chicken liver, shad and worms at 4-8 ft. in channels and riprap.

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Ft. Gibson: Elevation above normal, water 79 and clear. Blue, channel and flathead catfish good on live shad and sunfish at 15-25 ft. in the main lake, flats and channels and on juglines baited with one hook on bot-tom and two suspended. White bass good on white or silver crankbaits, in-line spinnerbaits and slabs at 8-10 ft. around points and the main lake and trolling spoons over the side of a boat to the bottom. Crappie good on Carolina-rigged minnows and tube jigs at 6-15 ft. in the main lake and brush structure. Largemouth bass fair on buzz baits, spinnerbaits and crankbaits at 8-15 ft. along shore-lines, brush structure and points. Grand: Elevation above normal, water 80s. Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits, spinnerbaits and worms around points and the main lake. Blue and channel catfish good on shad and cut bait in the main lake. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around brush structure. Paddlefish slow in the river channel.Greenleaf: Elevation normal, water 74 and clear. Largemouth bass good on spinnerbaits, worms and crankbaits along moss beds, creek

channels, rocky points and brush structure. Catfish good on fresh cut bait and stinkbait on bottom. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 8-12 ft. around brush structure.Keystone: Elevation above normal, water 78. Largemouth bass good on plastic baits around points and rocks. White bass good on crankbaits along flats. Skiatook: Elevation below normal, normal, water mid 80s and clear. White bass and striped bass hybrids fair on live bait and cut shad at 20-30 ft. in the main lake. Sooner: Elevation normal. Large-mouth bass fair on buzz baits and frogs along weed beds. Striped bass hybrids fair on live shad and slabs in the main lake and riprap. Sau-geye slow on crankbaits, tube jigs and bottom bouncers around points and rocks. Blue and channel catfish good on chicken liver and cut bait in channels and tail waters. Webbers Falls: Elevation normal, water 76 and murky. Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits and bill baits along riprap, creek channels and brush structure. Catfish good on cut bait, stinkbait and sunfish on bottom.

them a “clear roadmap” to the government’s terrorist-tracking ap-paratus, adding: “The Watchlisting Guidance, although unclassified, contains national security infor-mation that, if disclosed … could cause significant harm to national security.” The document’s definition of “ter-rorist” activity includes actions that fall far short of bombing or hijacking. The guidelines include destruction of government property and damaging computers used by financial institutions as activities meriting placement on a list. They also define as terrorism any act that is considered “dangerous” to property and intended to influence government policy through intimi-dation. Whether such a broad defi-nition could include, for example, a person taking a picture of a govern-ment building, is unclear. Increasing the scope of what the government considers a “terrorist” can also be counterproductive, as the Intercept report pointed out. “When resources are devoted to tracking people who are not genu-ine risks to national security, the

actual threats get fewer resourc-es—and might go unnoticed,” the report stated. “If reasonable suspicion is the only standard you need to label somebody, then it’s a slippery slope we’re sliding down here, because then you can label any-body anything,” David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent with experience running high-pro-file terrorism investigations, told Intercept. “Because you appear on a telephone list of somebody doesn’t make you a terrorist. That’s the kind of information that gets put in there.” The consequences for people who end up on the U.S. government watchlist can be severe. “Once the government secretly labels you a terrorist or terrorist suspect, other institutions tend to treat you as one,” Intercept reports. “It can become difficult to get a job (or simply to stay out of jail). It can become burdensome — or im-possible — to travel. And routine encounters with law enforcement can turn into ordeals.”

Watchlist, from pg. 1__________________________________

Apply By Aug. 15 For Youth Bonus Antlerless Deer Hunts

Beginning young hunters will have a chance this fall to participate in bonus antlerless deer hunts that will take place on private lands in four Oklahoma counties.

Youths may submit applications for the hunts that will be held Oct 3-5 in Osage County; Nov. 7-8 in Ellis County; Oct 17 (with orientation Oct. 16) in Love County; and Nov. 21-22 in Carter County.

This year, 53 youths will be selected in a random drawing to receive one of the bonus private lands antlerless deer gun licenses. To be eligible, youths must have completed their hunter education require-ments prior to applying, and they must be 12 to 17 years old at the time of their scheduled hunt.

Eligible youths may apply by going online to wildlifedepartment.wufoo.com/forms/youth-bonus-antlerless-deer-hunt and submitting the required information. Or applicants can submit a 3-by-5-inch index card by mail or in person with this information:• Hunter’s first and last name. • Date of birth. • Mailing address. • Tele-phone number. • Hunter education certification number. • Social Security or driver’s license number. • Lifetime hunting or combination license number, if applicable. • Accompanying adult’s* first and last name. • List of hunts in order of preference.***Each youth participating in these hunts must have an adult (licensed or unlicensed) at least 21 years old accompany him or her on the hunt.**List the hunts in the order you would prefer to attend. Do not list any hunts you are not interested in attending or those you know in advance you could not attend.

Mail application cards to Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Con-servation, Attn: Wildlife Division “Private Lands Youth Deer Hunts,” P.O. Box 53465, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. All applications must be received by Friday, Aug 15.

Antlerless deer taken by selected applicants during these hunts are considered bonus deer and will not count toward the hunter’s statewide season limit.

Applicants whose names are selected will receive a notification letter that includes specific information about their hunt and the deadline for buying the required license(s) as listed:

• For residents ages 12-15: Lifetime Hunting or Lifetime Com-bination License OR $10 Controlled Hunts Private Lands Youth Deer License**

• For residents ages 16-17: Lifetime Hunting or Lifetime Com-bination License OR Resident Annual Youth Hunting plus $10 Con-trolled Hunts Private Lands Youth Deer License** OR Resident Fiscal Year Hunting plus $10 Controlled Hunts Private Lands Youth Deer License**

• For nonresidents ages 12-17: $201 Controlled Hunts Nonresident Private Lands Youth Deer License**

**NOTE: The $10 resident or the $201 nonresident Controlled Hunts Private Lands Youth Deer License will be issued in lieu of the open season license and must be purchased through Wildlife Department headquarters. Apprentice-designated licenses are not allowed because of the hunter education requirement.

For more information, call Doug Schoeling at (405) 590-2584.

The Board of Directors of the Humane Society of Grove and Grand Lake, now doing business as Second Chance Pet Rescue of Grand Lake, wishes to thank every-one who participated in the Cars for Critters car show on Saturday, July 26th, at the Grove Civic Center. The event was enjoyed by everyone who attended.

Many people reminisced about days gone by while enjoying all the classic cars wishing they could have one of their own. A special thank you goes to the car show participants who entered their cars in the Cars for Critters car show and helped raise funds for Second Chance Pet Rescue. And all enjoyed the casual Cars for Crit-ters cruise down Main Street which showed off their special ride.

We especially wish to thank all the sponsors who helped make this car show happen.

O’Reilly Auto Parts (Tro-phies and goody bags!), Down-stream Casino, Arvest Bank, Bank of Grove (Monetary donations), Ar-rowhead Boat Sales Silent Auction - Aqua Treadmill, Buffalo Ranch & Lowe’s (Beverages), Steve Wil-liams - Williams Homes (Posters), (Raffle Items)-

Susan & Rudy Moritz, The Dog House & ZZ Doggie Treats, Grand Panache, Weathered Charm, Redemption Implements, Associ-ated Mortgage Corporation, Trinity Jewels and More - Sabra Stough, AOK Properties - Ruzicka’s, Sec-ond Chance Thrift Shop, Walmart (gift card).

We sincerely appreciate the financial contributions from our sponsors; Ivan Devitt, Car Show Chairman; John Walter, Master of Ceremonies; Mayor Marty Follis for his grilling skills for a

Thank You from Second Chance Pet Rescue for a Successful Cars for Critters Car Show

tasty lunch; and a grateful thank you goes to the many volunteers that donated their time to plan, organization, and bring this event together. Fundraisers such as this help our nonprofit, life-saving animal rescue organization keep its shelter doors open to help the many homeless dogs and cats. We plan for a bigger and better Cars for Critters car show in July of next year.

Please visit our shelter lo-cated two miles east of downtown

Grove and watch how we grow with our Shelter Expansion Project. Visit our webpage at www.doitfor-thepets.com or our Facebook page to see pictures of latest events and read stories about some of the most wonderful dogs and cats, puppies and kittens that are waiting for their forever homes. Won’t you consider rescuing a pet today?

Board of Directors, Second Chance Pet Rescue of Grand Lake

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Yes, it is fair to say that Congress does a very poor job of writing the laws and looking after the interests of the people, but that’s not due to any serious flaw in the way Congress is constituted. The principle shortcoming of the Congress is to be found in the quality of its leadership. To prove the point, I might mention just four names: Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Nancy Pe-losi. Need I say more?

In Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi we have leaders who are truly evil and who care about noth-ing beyond what is good for the Democratic Party and its candidates. Their only real concern is that, if the ship of state is to sink beneath the waves, they insist on being at the helm when it happens. In John Boehner and Mitch Mc-Connell we have two well intentioned men, neither of whom have the foggiest notion of how to deal with the truly evil people on the Democrat side of the aisle. Taken together, these mu-tually incompatible char-acterizations spell nothing but total gridlock.

Can it be fixed? Yes, Congress can be fixed, but only in the event of a po-litically astute and well-informed electorate. So long as 57% of Democrats believe that their own representatives are acting in the best interests of the country and deserve to be reelected, the problems of governance that we now experience can never be fixed. If Democrats con-tinue to believe that a man the caliber of Hank John-son (D-GA) deserves to be in Congress, then there is little hope for us. (It was Johnson who worried openly in a public hearing that the Pacific island of Guam might capsize if the U.S. Navy stationed an ad-ditional 8,000 Marines on one side of the island.)

But time is of the essence because reform is possible only so long as we still have a majority of voters who are property owners and/or wage earn-ers, but it won’t be easy because a major portion of the Democrat Party base is comprised of un-informed non-producers, under-achievers, and the disinterested… those who are not property owners or who live off the labors of others.

Three significant re-forms are sorely needed: First, we must amend our criminal laws to require mandatory prison time for those who engage in vote fraud. Second, the right to vote should be limited only to those who are property owners and taxpayers. And finally, before they are handed a ballot, voters should be required to score at least 60% on a simple ten-question exam, with topics chosen at random from current affairs and from the list of 100 ques-tions used in examining immigrants who apply for

American citizenship. But can we expect

Democrats to ever agree to stricter penalties for vote fraud? Not likely. Vote fraud is, and always has been, the “bread and butter” of Democratic politics. In fact, Demo-crats are so wedded to the notion of vote fraud, so opposed to requiring photo IDs at polling plac-es, so addicted to double and triple voting, that they would be unwill-ing to adopt a system in which voters would be required to dip a “pinkie” into a vial of indelible ink after voting, much like the proud first-time voters in emerging democracies of the Third World. So what does that tell us?

Next, we need to take a serious look at who is allowed to vote and who is not. It makes no sense at all to have those who live off the public dole to participate in the election of the politicians who then vote to cre-ate bigger and better free lunches. And while some may believe that voting is and always has been a universal right, such is not the case. During the early years of the republic, only white males who owned at least 50 acres of land or had taxable income were allowed to vote. Un-prop-ertied men and women, slaves, and ex-slaves were prohibited from voting. However, by the mid-19th century, most white males were allowed to vote, regardless of income or property ownership, and in the ensuing years the right to vote was further expanded.

The 15th Amend-ment (1870), extended voting rights to all citi-zens regardless of “race, color, or previous condi-tion of servitude;” the 19th Amendment (1920) extended voting rights to all female citizens; the 23rd Amendment (1961) extended the right to vote in presidential elections to residents of Washington, DC; the 24th Amendment (1964) struck down poll taxes and other taxes as barriers to voting; and the 26th Amendment (1971) extended voting rights to 18-year-olds.

Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” Instead, it leaves the ques-tion of voter qualifications to the states to decide. In short, the right to vote is not an explicit right under the Constitution. States may deny the right to vote for reasons other than those explicitly addressed in the Constitution and subsequent amendments. In addition to barring non-taxpayers and non-prop-erty owners, the Congress should also deny voting rights forever to those who obtain citizenship after illegally sneaking across our borders or by overstaying a visa.

Finally, it stretches credulity to suggest that the vote of an individual who cannot demonstrate the most rudimentary knowledge of current af-fairs or of the U.S. Con-stitution, should be valued as highly as the vote of the best-informed and most knowledgeable citizens.

The “man in the street” interviews popu-larized by late-night co-median Jay Leno and Fox News producer Jesse Wat-ters tell us everything we need to know about the quality of the American electorate. If we were fortunate enough to have a better educated and more informed electorate we would have a far more effective Congress and, once again, a president who would merit the re-spect and the admiration of the American people.

The U.S. Immigra-tion & Naturalization Ser-vice administers a test to all those who wish to become U.S. citizens. The test contains 100 questions from which questions are chosen at random and 60% is a passing grade. A typical multiple choice test might appear as fol-lows:

1. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

2. What are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution that define self-governance?

3. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

4. How many jus-tices serve on the United States Supreme Court?

5. Who served as President of the U.S. dur-ing the Great Depression and World War II?

6. What nation is the only functioning de-mocracy in the Middle East?

7. The Taliban is a radical Islamist group operating largely in which country?

8. Who currently serves as Attorney Gen-eral of the United States?

9. How many time zones cover the U.S. from New York to California?

10. Which major river is the longest river in the United States?

Ten questions of

this caliber, chosen at random and posed in a multiple choice format on a touch-screen monitor, could be used to screen out those with an insufficient knowledge of current af-fairs and our system of government to merit the privilege of voting. Tak-ing such a test would take less than two minutes per voter and would not in any way impede the voting process.

If we’re going to get serious about “throwing the bums out,” maybe we should begin with voters who cannot demonstrate that they deserve to be seen as members of an “informed” electorate.

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“(Agents) are not allowed to remove even the most vocal protesters unless they either vocalize a threat, or make a furtive move in the direction of the president. If they do otherwise, they run the risk of being sued on First Amendment grounds,” he said. Bongino said agents assigned to the president surely were

watching the man closely, but protocol is for the event host to permit local police to remove any hecklers for trespassing. According to a Sept. 26, 2011, report by the Gateway Pundit blog, a heckler was shouting about Jesus Christ at Obama’s appearance at the House of Blues in Los Angeles at that time.

“The heckler proclaimed that Jesus Christ is God,” the report said. Obama’s fans responded with a “Four more years” chant, the report said. The heckler, according to the report, also called Obama the anti-Christ then

anti-Christ, from pg. 8_______________________________________________

He said he pounded on a neighbor’s door and shouted for them to call police and then rushed back to the sanc-tuary, “firearm still in my hand.” “Some later said they mis-took me for one of the attack-ers,” he said. “But back in the church there was a calmness that could only have come from a divine source.” Van Wyk recalled some of the victims. “Lisa, 16, and Bonnie, 15, were best friends; they were seated with their friend, Richard O’Kill, 17, who risked his life to pull them onto the floor. In protecting them from the rain of bullets, he was shot in the head and died instantly,” he said. “On her Facebook page this week, Lisa posted her thanks to Richard: ‘I am so thankful every day for the rest of my life that my wonderful friend Richard gave up his life to save our lives. Love you forever, Richard.’ “Gerard Harker, 21, selfless-ly hurled his body onto one of the grenades, giving his life and saving many others

from death and injury. His younger brother, Wesley, 14, also died.” And Van Wyk recalled his realization that he needed to forgive: “I tried to contact Khaya Ma-koma, whom I had hit on the hand with my return fire. My idea was to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him. The Christian Gospel teaches that all people, even murderers, can be saved by the Grace of God through faith, not by works. Khaya had been ar-rested and was in custody. I was told that I could not meet with a suspect until after the court proceedings. I later phoned Victor Verster prison to set a meeting with him. After explaining to an of-ficer who I was – the person who shot the prisoner during the St James church mas-sacre – the officer offered to pass on the message; we could only meet at Khaya’s request. Letlapa Mphahlele, the commander of the at-tackers, left a message on my answering machine soon thereafter, offering to help make introductions. We met at the Parliamentary admin-istration offices. Reporters asked to film our meeting,

promising not to interfere. We both agreed. I reached out to the perpetrators with the attitude of forgiveness. But this had not come easily for me. Van Wyk recalled that later, Peter Hammond, the founder and director of his mission, Frontline Fellowship, spoke on forgiveness. “Although in a group, I felt like the teaching was just for me. He made clear that I could no longer continue hating the attackers. I had to forgive them. After all, Jesus Christ had so freely forgiven my transgressions.” Van Wyk said that in his book, “Shooting Back,” he provides a thorough biblical exploration of the matter of armed self-defense. “Many Christians struggle with this issue, as I did before making the decision to carry a firearm,” he said. “Still, I’m grateful I did that fate-ful day, such as I’m grateful for the courage of my fellow Christians, and for God’s un-ending power of forgiveness to heal the ‘internal wounds’ that medicine has no answers for.”

Limits, from pg. 9_____________________________________________________

Hollrah, from pg. 1___________________________________________________

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As Israel continues to deal with the threat of terrorist rockets flying through its skies, a recent newspaper headline trumpeted the possibility of supernatural protection.

“Their God changes the path of our rockets in mid-air, said a terrorist,” was the headline

in the July 18 edition of the Jewish Telegraph. It was a partial quote from Barbara Ordman, who lives in Ma’ale Adumim on the West

Bank. Her exact quotation was: “As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when

asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: “We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.”

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Hamas rockets have kept Israel under siege in recent days. She opened her piece by noting: “In October 1956, [Israel’s first Prime Minister] David

Ben Gurion was interviewed by CBS. He stated: ‘In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.’”

Ordman also noted religious texts, specifically the Jerusalem Talmud, teaches Israelis not to depend on miracles for survival.

“It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural,” she writes.

After her mention of the divine diversion of enemy rockets, she said, “When our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our ‘start-up nation’ is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.”

The headline is now being shared worldwide on Facebook by “Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatu-ral” page, with thousands of likes and a variety of comments including:

•“Shalom to Israel and supernatural protection, thank you Jesus for releasing your warring angels to supernaturally protect and defend Israel in Jesus’ name … ” (Juliet M. Maeck)

•“Indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:4″ (Danette Mallard)

•“The Muslims should also read about their future … in Psalm 83. (Jimmie Vestal) •“Anyone against Israel should just run the other way!” (Trace Remington) Congress and the Federal Reserve are sick co-dependents choking the life and liberty out

of the civil liberties of U.S. citizens.

Joe Kovacs is an award-winning journalist and, since 1999, executive news editor of WND. He is the author of two best-selling books: “Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You’ve Never Been Told” and its 2012 sequel, “The Divine Secret: The Awesome and Untold Truth About Your Phenomenal Destiny.

‘Their God changes path of rockets in mid-air’

Terrorist said to marvel at Israel’s supernatural protection

By Joe Kovacs

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To-day, the Senate and House Vet-erans Affairs (VA) Committee Chairmen, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jeff Miller, announced a breakthrough on comprehen-sive VA reform legislation. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Rep. Jim Bridenstine (OK-1), and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) praised the inclusion of a provision that will allow the Tulsa Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) to pursue a new facility to better serve local veterans’ growing health care needs.

Should the legislation pass Congress, the provision would allow the Tulsa CBOC to lease a new cost-effecient facility up to 140,000 gross square feet, for up to a 30-year lifecycle, and with an annual cost per square foot to reflect the market rate in Tulsa for equivalent medical facilities. The provision would also require the VA Secretary to submit a detailed cost benefit analysis to Congress within 90 days should it be determined that a new construction or pur-chase is the more cost effective option.

“I appreciate Congressman Jeff Miller and Senator Bernie Sand-ers for including the Tulsa clinic in the new VA reform legisla-tion,” said Sen. Inhofe. “The provision is a significant victory for Oklahoma’s veterans who would otherwise be without a Tulsa facility by 2020. With this provision the Tulsa VA clinic will have the needed resources

Inhofe, Bridenstine, Mullin praise Tulsa VA Clinic Provision in VA Reform Bill

to pursue a new facility that can meet the growing health care needs of Oklahoma’s veterans. I will continue to work with the delegation and my Senate colleagues to ensure veterans across the state have access to the quality health care they have earned and deserve.”

Rep. Bridenstine said, “The Tulsa CBOC will increase the medical space, consolidate and expand services, and improve parking. I know that this facil-ity will improve the quality of care for veterans in the First District.”

Rep. Mullin said, “Many veter-ans in Oklahoma’s 2nd District travel to Tulsa for care. Im-proving access to care for local veterans has been an issue my team and I have been working on extensively. Without ques-tion, veterans care remains a top priority of mine, and I will continue be a voice for Okla-homa veterans as this legislation moves forward.”

“We are pleased that funding for the Tulsa clinic has been included in the latest VA reform bill,” said James Floyd, medi-cal center director of the Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic and the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center. “Should the legislation pass, the provi-sion will give us the ability to consolidate into one location and expand the care the clinic provides to veterans.”