EYES RIGHT
THE TROUBLE WITH MITT
Mitt Romney vexes even former Republican National Committee official John Lofton who is co-host of the syndicated weekly radio show
The American View. Romney and other non-Christian candidates fail to meet scriptural requirements for occupying God-ordained civil
government offices.
"This is ridiculous on its face to say that Christians can vote for non-Christians. It's Christ denial, its something that's very serious."
Source: One News Now at http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/10/radio_host_says_christians_vot.php
SOVEREIGNTY IMPERILED
Howard Phillips, founder of The Conservative Caucus (TCC), a direct mail operation, has mounted a fundraising campaign to motivate
donors who fear One World Government. "In case you haven't heard, high level political figures in the United States,
Canada, and Mexico have been working behind the scenes in recent years to put in place a North American Union (NAU)…that
would erase our borders, dump our dollar, and overturn our Constitution." Phillips, a former staffperson for Sen. Jesse Helms, asks
readers of his well-honed direct mail materials to donate to TCC to prevent the creation of the "Amero," a single currency that will be
merged from the U.S. and Canadian dollars and the Mexican peso.
Source: Direct mail solicitation, "Should the United States be Merged with Mexico and Canada in a North American Union (NAU)?"
received at PRA October 31, 2007.
GOOD NEWS: THE GOSPEL AND PROFIT ARE COMPATIBLE
Christian Capitalism and the Prosperity Gospel have a new twist: Business as Mission (BAM). These marketplace missions are
business ventures located mostly in developing countries where, according to Ken Crowell, owner of Galtronics, "there was little or no Christian
witness, to give employment to believers and non-believers…and to support the building of a local church." Businesses are formed not by
fundraising through a church but by the capitalization of a businessman's idea. Johnny Combs, consultant to BAMs explains, "Christ was a
carpenter for probably fifteen years and then an evangelist for about three. So we businessmen had him for about five times longer."
Source: "The Mission of Business," by Joe Maxwell, Christianity Today, November 2007, 24-28.
PROSE TURNS PURPLE FROM CARBON
The John Birch Society is not only upset about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007; it says that regulating carbon emissions
could result in economic meltdown. "Invariably, it is government intervention in and regulation of the economy that leads, first
to shortages, then to wars, famines, and genocides." If environmentalists' proposals are enacted, they "will deindustrialize the developed nations
and threaten the peace, stability, and prosperity of the world."
Source: "The Economics of Climate Change," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, November 12, 2007, 20-24.
BLAME THE NEWCOMERS
Conservatives don't usually quote Robert Samuelson, Newsweek's business analyst. But conservative publications loved this assessment of
the causes of poverty that appeared in Samuelson's Washington Post column: "The stubborn persistence of poverty, at
least as measured by the government, is increasingly a problem associated with immigration. As more poor Hispanics enter the country, poverty
goes up. This is not complicated, but it is widely ignored." Samuelson's other point, that declining poverty rates in the 1990s among blacks and
whites (while increasing among Latinos) suggests that the government's poverty fighting programs work, did not win their interest.
Source: "Imported Poverty," by Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, September 5, 2007, p. A21.
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