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Islam Instruction an Opportunity for Conservatives
Wichita, KS elementary school wall display promoting the five pillars of Islam. The study of religions is being reintroduced through “Core Knowledge” curriculum and is now being taught in public...
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Caffeinated Thought of the Day: Islam and the West
Katarina Church and the minaret of the Stockholm Mosque in Stockholm, Sweden (Public Domain) Recent developments in Sweden are rather alarming. After years of embracing Muslim immigrants, Islam has...
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Common Core and Islam
Todd Starnes at Fox News reported before Christmas that a high school in North Carolina used a “Common Core-aligned” lesson to promote Islam. Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their...
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Caffeinated Thoughts Radio 1-10-15
Ron, our fearless producer, with his enormous mug. Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers talk to Joe Stevens, founder of Joppa Outreach, about the work his ministry does with the homeless in Des Moines....
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Caffeinated Thoughts Radio 1-17-15
Shane Vander Hart & Brian Myers at the KTIA 99.3 Studio. Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers talk to Congressman Steve King (R-IA) about his upcoming event, the Iowa Freedom Summit which has sold...
View ArticlePro-Santorum PAC Contrasts Santorum with Opponents in First Ad
The pro-Rick Santorum super PAC, Working Again PAC, released its first ad on Monday contrasting former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) with some of his opponents on foreign policy, Common Core and...
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In Defense of Ben Carson: Individuals Can Apply Litmus Test
Ben Carson at 2015 Iowa Freedom SummitPhoto credit: Dave Davidson – Prezography.com Sunday on Meet the Press Chuck Todd asked Ben Carson whether a president’s faith should matter to voters. The...
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Hillary Clinton Accuses Donald Trump of Giving “Aid and Comfort” to ISIS
I think it’s pretty clear that I am not a Donald Trump fan. That said Hillary Clinton’s remarks in White Plains, New York on Monday in response to terrorist attacks in Minnesota, New York and New...
View ArticleVideos: The 2016 Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing
The 2016 Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing was held on Saturday, October 15 at the Johnston Lions Club in Johnston, IA. The conference addressed the following questions. As the Church intersects with our...
View ArticleBernie Sanders’ Unconstitutional Religious Litmus Test
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the runner-up in the 2016 race for the Democratic presidential nomination, needs to brush off a Constitution. Well, he does for a lot of reasons, but yesterday...
View ArticleFranklin Graham on Afghanistan,Islam, & Palin
This was an interesting interview that Franklin Graham did with CNN’s Campbell Brown that covered Afghanistan (he has a son deployed over there, didn’t know that), Islam, his visit with Sarah Palin (he...
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Geraldo Covers Haiti’s Collapse
As I was watching Geraldo covering the Haitian crisis on the Fox News channel tonight, I welled up with tears of compassion for the people of this destroyed island. The wall to wall babies sleeping on...
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U.S. State Department Funds Muslim Missionary Trip to Middle East
Don’t count on the ACLU to complain about violations of the separation of church and state on this one. Or should I say mosque and state (how about an infamous mosque and Secretary of State Hillary...
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Mosque at Ground Zero: Offering of Peace or Symbol of Conquest?
By Judy Shedlock First we overlooked the travesty of the Shanksville, Pennsylvania “Crescent of Embrace” memorial “honoring” those killed on Flight 93 on 9/11. Surely the god of political correctness...
View ArticleRon Paul on the Mosque Debate: “Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned”
By Ron Paul (via press release) “Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery? “It has been said,...
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Pastor Terry Jones Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize, Just Like Classmate Rush...
Okay, okay it’s a little premature. But President Obama won the award and he hadn’t done a single thing to bring in world peace. Terry Jones went from being the most hated man alive to the one man...
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Interview with Atheist Chris Redford, Part Two.
Chrisyphus: On a Fool's Errand For those of you who have not been following the dialogue Chris Redford and I have been having, this is the 2nd part of a series of answers Chris, an atheist, gave to...
View ArticleIslam, Violence, O’Reilly, and “The View”
For several weeks my friend and fellow CT contributor David Shedlock has been after me to write a piece on the nature of Islam, and with the recent flap between Bill O’Reilly and the ladies of The View...
View ArticleKoran Burning and Islam
You’ve no doubt heard by now that Terry Jones finally made good on his threat to burn the Koran. You’ve probably also heard how reaction in Afghanistan to Jones’ stunt led to the deaths of at least...
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Koran Burning and Islam Revisited
On April 3rd I posted a short opinion piece on Caffeinated Thoughts which dealt with Terry Jones’ burning of the Koran and the subsequent violence in reaction to it. It didn’t surprise me, given what I...
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Rick Perry: Southerner, check. Patriotic, check. Religious, check. Pro-life,...
Rick Perry is the latest politician and presidential candidate to be compared with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. I know Mike Huckabee…pro-abortion Governor Rick Perry is no Mike Huckabee. A...
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Correction Representative Carson: The West Was More Enlightened Than You Think
The past week Indiana Congressman Andre’ Carson, a Muslim Democrat, made the statement to the effect that American Schools needed to be like the Madrasah schools of the Islamic world with the idea that...
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Luther College Professor: “Jesus was a Muslim”
Here is one of those stories that leaves me scratching my head and thinking… well I can’t write what I initially thought. Via CampusReform.org: “‘Was Jesus a Muslim?” asks Prof. Robert F. Shedinger in...
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Muslims Storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Burn Consulate in Benghazi
Photo by Mai Shaheen 2000 Egyptian protestors gathered outside the U.S. Embassy walls in Cairo with approximately 20 scaling the walls in order to remove and burn the U.S. flag inside. Reuters reports:...
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In Light of the Embassy Attacks Don’t Blame Free Speech
Flag-draped caskets carried inside hangar for Presidential transfer of remains ceremony. (Press pool photo by Jamie Nelson/Fox News.) With the embassy attacks happening across the Middle East there is...
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Texas School Lesson Blames America for 9/11
A parent in Corpus Christi, TX was shocked by what her son brought home one afternoon. Kara Sands said that her son and other 5th Graders at Flour Bluff Intermediate School had watch a video entitled...
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Caffeinated Thoughts Radio – 6-21-14
Ron came out of his office (pictured) to join us in the studio in order to produce the show. Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers talk with Faith McDonnell, the the Director of Religious Liberty Programs...
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Barack Obama, Islam’s Apologist-in-Chief
I didn’t watch President Obama’s remarks on “Islamic State” IS/ISIS/ISIL (do we have our bases covered?) until this morning so I know I’m Johnny-come-lately as far as talking heads are concerned. I...
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Islam, Statism, and the West
Writing in his blog, R.C. Sproul tells the story of a conversation he had with the late Francis Schaeffer in a taxicab some thirty years ago in which he asked Schaeffer the following question: “Dr....
View ArticleWe Witnessed Two Collapses In One Week
This past week a nation collapsed: Afghanistan. This past week a political ideology collapsed: Wilsonian global governance. Management of other nations by whatever means does not work. That’s not...
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