Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

U.S. Drone Strikes Kill Five Al Qaeda Terrorists in Yemen
Aug 11th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

According to an official in Sanaa, five al Qaeda terrorists were killed by two air strikes which destroyed two pick-up trucks in the eastern Yemeni province of Lahi. Some of the dead were believed to be foreign nationals. About 34 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by US drone attacks in less than two weeks in various regions of the country, according to Yemeni government officials.

Let the Headlines Speak
Aug 11th, 2013
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Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

‘Just Go Ahead and Defy the IRS’: Rep. King Fires Up Conservative Conference, Stands with Non-Profits
In a stirring address, King told the audience that “when we lean across our backyard fence, or when you step up to the pulpit or when you sit in the pew, when you profess the things that we believe in, and you’re a 501(c)3 and you’re afraid of the IRS, just go ahead and defy the IRS on that. “I’ll stand there with you. If we can’t preach the word in America, where can we preach it?”  

Putin's antics prompt US to take stock of Russia policy
Vladimir Putin might lead the world’s biggest country and command more nuclear warheads than any other man on the planet, but the Russian leader’s “slouch” makes him look to Mr Obama like a “bored kid in the back of the classroom”. The president’s bluntness carried a straightforward message: the “reset” of US-Russia relations that was a theme of foreign policy in his first term is now itself being reset.  

GOP Rep. Schock Claims Majority of House GOP support Cantor's DREAM Act
...Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) suggested that a majority of House Republicans support granting amnesty through a GOP version of the DREAM Act to young illegal aliens who were brought to America as minors by their parents. Schock, a member of the whip team led by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, was laying out for constituents his stances on immigration and the House GOP leadership’s plan to deal with the issue later this year.  

Mugabe signs secret deal to sell uranium to Tehran
Zimbabwe’s Government has signed an agreement with Iran to sell raw materials for a nuclear weapon in direct breach of international sanctions, a senior government official has told The Times. The move by Harare and Tehran is expected to provoke international outrage because of the attempt to circumvent punitive Western sanctions imposed on the two regimes.  

Critics question IRS initiative targeting small businesses
Small business owners across the country are receiving letters from the IRS questioning if they are reporting all of their cash income, in a new push by the agency some are saying could unnecessarily create fear in the small business community. The Wall Street Journal reports the initiative is an attempt to respond to what the agency feels is a widespread failure by small businesses to report all their cash sales.  

Obama warns disabled veterans prolonged sequester could put their benefits in jeopardy
President Obama took his case for ending the sequester to hundreds of disabled veterans Saturday, saying he protected their benefits from the “reckless” cuts to the federal budget but suggesting next year might be different. ...“But I want to tell you going forward the best way to protect the VA care you have earned is to get rid of this sequester altogether.”  

Egypt crisis: Al-Azhar proposes reconciliation talks
The Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Egypt's top Islamic institution, has begun inviting different political forces to talks on ending the country's political crisis. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyib hopes to oversee a national reconciliation meeting. Over the past three days, numbers have swelled at two protest camps where people are demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. 

It is modern man himself who is the dreamer
Aug 11th, 2013
Thought For The WeekA. W. Tozer
Categories: Commentary;Exhortation

We of the Christian faith need not go on the defensive, for it is the modern man of the world who is the dreamer, not the Christian believer.

The sinner can never be quite himself. All his life he must pretend. He must act as if he were never going to die, and yet he knows too well that he is. He must act as if he had not sinned, when in his deep heart he knows very well that he has. He must act unconcerned about God and judgment and the future life, and all the time his heart is deeply disturbed about his precarious condition. He must keep a front of nonchalance while shrinking from facts and wincing under the lash of conscience. All his adult life he must dodge and hide and conceal. When he finally drops the act he either loses his mind or tries suicide.

If realism is the recognition of things as they actually are, the Christian is of all persons the most realistic. He of all intelligent thinkers is the one most concerned with reality. He pares things down to their stark essentials and squeezes out of his mind everything that inflates his thinking. He demands to know the whole truth about God, sin, life, death, moral accountablility and the world to come. He wants to know the worst about himself in order that he may do something about it. He takes into account the undeniable fact that he has sinned. He recognizes the shortness of time and the certainty of death. These he does not try to avoid or alter to his own liking. They are facts and he faces them full on.

The believer is a realist -- his expectations are valid and his faith well grounded! A.W.Tozer

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. . . let us watch and be sober. (1 Thessalonians 5:5,6)

Israel Fears Next War With Hezbollah will Hit Civilians Harder
Aug 11th, 2013
Daily Newslatimes.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

As tensions escalate along Israel’s northern border, a senior military official warned that the next war with Hezbollah would be far more painful for Israeli citizens than any previous experience.

“What we witnessed in 2006 is the very tip of the iceberg,” said the official, referring to the 33-day war between Israel and the Lebanese-based Shiite militia Hezbollah. In that case, a third of the country was forced into bomb shelters for a month while rockets rained down on northern Israel.

The official spoke to reporters Wednesday on the condition that his name not be used, in keeping with Israeli military practice.

In the 2006 Second Lebanon War, nearly 4,000 rockets were fired into Israel, killing more than 40 civilians and causing widespread devastation to property and the economy.

Hezbollah is now believed to have 60,000 to 100,000 rockets that boast longer ranges, improved accuracy and larger warheads.

“This will be a whole new ballgame,” the official said.

Israeli officials fear that as many as 2,000 rockets a day could be released against all parts of Israel. Most of the launching sites are in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah militants use private homes and farms in about 100 villages.

Hezbollah’s rocket capacity has turned Israeli civilians into the preferred front in the next conflict so public fear will put pressure on the Israeli military, the official said.

Though Israel does not have enough Iron Dome missile-interception systems to prevent a barrage of rockets from Hezbollah or others, it has focused on improving civilian defense through mock drills and emergency planning.

Nevertheless, only 60% of Israelis have chemical-weapons protection kits, in part due an inter-governmental squabble over funding. Nearly one-third of Israelis don’t have quick access to bomb shelters.
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Bozell: Press are ‘Enablers’ of ‘Outright Bigotry Against Christians’
Aug 11th, 2013
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Categories: Today's Headlines;Persecution

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday, ForAmerica Chairman and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell said that “hostility to Christians is profound in the news media,” and that the press are “enablers” of “outright bigotry against Christians.”

Bozell was asked “Focusing on the affects of the 2012 election and your findings in your book about media bias, how would you connect that to the Christian community specifically and how has the media really damaged their standing in America?”

Bozell responded by first giving the example of the Family Research Council and the lack of coverage of the shooting in the lobby last August:

“Is that a news story? You think? Wasn’t covered. How was it not news?”

He then compared this to the Southern Poverty Law Center and how they “have instant credibility in what they do and whatever they say,” despite labeling the Family Research Council a “hate group.”

Bozell continued “the antagonism toward the Christian community transcends really antagonism, it is outright bigotry against Christians, and the press are enablers of it. There are no two ways of putting it. You are not allowed to have a thought – never mind speak it – that you believe that traditional marriage is between a man and a woman.