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Calling Christians to leave Democratic Party

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One News Now is reporting a prominent black pastor, upset over the direction the Democrat Party has taken, is asking Christians to change political affiliations.

Bishop E.W. Jackson of S.T.A.N.D. (Staying True To America’s National
Destiny) has launched a project called "Exodus Now," which calls for a
"mass exodus of Christians from the Democrat Part."

"We believe that the Democrat Party has shown itself to be anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life and anti-God, and it’s time for Christians to come out," Jackson explains. "We are focusing particularly — not exclusively, but particularly — on black Christians who in our view have been held captive by the Democrat Party with a tissue of lies."

While S.T.A.N.D. is encouraging people to vote their conscience, the group’s founder asserts, "We have stayed away from either endorsing Mitt Romney or saying that this is a call to vote against President Obama and make it personal. But I will say this," Jackson adds. "We’re calling people to come out of the Democrat Party and not support candidates who represent its values and the rebellion that it represents against God. That certainly would include President Barack Obama."

Bishop Jackson notes that the Democrat Party has "manipulated, deceived and misled the black community" for a long time, and it’s time "to awaken them that they are being used in a power game by Democrats who could care less about the black community, only care about staying in power, and they will use the black community for as long as they will allow them to use them."

Click here for One News Now.

Click here for S.T.A.N.D.

 

Romney: Obama threw ‘white flag Of surrender’

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Mitt Romney, at a campaign event in Florida on Thursday, said President Barack Obama had “thrown the white flag of surrender” and had changed his slogan from “Yes, we can” to “No, I can’t.” 

Romney’s comments were in response to Obama’s interview with the Spanish-language station Univision earlier in the day.

Romney said he “couldn’t believe it when the president of the United States said he couldn’t get change from the inside."
 
"His slogan was ‘Yes, we can.’ His slogan now is, ‘No, I can’t,’" Romney said. “He went from the president of change to the president who can’t get change."
 
Romney said Obama had "no plan to get our economy working again."
 
"Well, I do," Romney said.
 
At a Univision forum, Obama said  that the most important lesson he has learned during his first term was that “you can’t change Washington from inside, only from the outside.”
 
Obama said if he were to get a second term he wanted to convince Americans to put more “pressure on Congress to move issues forward.”
 
Obama’s comments amounted to a concession: the candidate who campaigned in 2008 on changing Washington and bringing about bipartisan consensus has not been able to accomplish what he promised. The president and many in his administration have become creatures of Washington, encouraging crony capitalistic boondoggles like Solyndra.

Click here for more from Breitbart.com.

 

Pakistani protesters riot

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Reuters is reporting that demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday as anger over insults to the Prophet Mohammad boiled over despite calls from [some few] political and religious leaders across the Muslim world for peaceful protest.

Western diplomatic missions throughout the Muslim world tightened security, with some closing down on expectation of big protests after Friday prayers.

An anti-Islam film made in America has enraged Muslims and led to days of protests across the Muslim world while cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad published in a French magazine on Wednesday were expected to compound the anger.

Egypt’s highest Islamic legal official said on Thursday Muslims should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating.  But the call looked unlikely to calm the outrage.

"An attack upon the Holy Prophet is an attack on the whole 1.5 billion Muslims. Therefore, this is something unacceptable," Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said in a speech to politicians, religious leaders and others.

Click here for more from Reuters.

President Obama to date has both lied about terror attacks under cover of protests and failed to address what appears to be a coordinated and planned worldwide drive by Muslims to destabilize western civilization.

In a related story,  French embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools in around 20 Muslim countries shut up shop on Friday – the Muslim holy day – for fear of retaliatory violence following weekly prayers. The order came from the foreign ministry, which anticipates violent demonstrations over the publishing Wednesday of Prophet Mohammed cartoons by satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo. The obscene cartoons exacerbated anger among Muslim communities after more than a week of deadly protests sparked by the US-made amateurish video “Innocence of Muslims”.
 
Security had been beefed up on security arrangements at institutions abroad and in France, with reinforcements and armed guards on standby. The French Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning urging French citizens in the Muslim world to exercise “the greatest vigilance”, avoiding public gatherings and “sensitive buildings”. Tens of thousands of French expatriates live in Muslim countries.

Protests over the cartoons – which showed the Prophet Mohammed naked – had already begun Thursday in Tehran and Kabul. Demonstrators chanted “death to France” outside the French embassies in the two capitals. One student told TV reporters that the “doomed, nasty French” had committed an offence that the activists were willing to “sacrifice” themselves for. “What were they thinking?” he asked.
 
In Tunisia, French schools were shut down from Wednesday until next Monday after the ruling Islamists branded the cartoons a "new attack" on their religion. One parent outside a school in Tunis told FRANCE 24 that she was reassured by the decision. “It’s better not to take any chances, given that we don’t really have faith in the security system,” she said. But another thought officials were overreacting. "I don’t understand the need to close for several days," he said, adding that one or two key days would be enough.

Click here for more from France 24.

 

Sen. Inhofe introduces Food Stamp Restoration Act

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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading Senate conservative, Thursday introduced the Food Stamp Restoration Act to reform the current food stamp program to be a discretionary block grant for states to design individualized nutrition assistance programs. It is estimated this bill will save more than $300 billion over the next ten years.

“My bill will take the food stamp program out from under federal government control, placing the responsibility of future food stamp programs at the state level – where it belongs,” said Inhofe. “Today over 46 million Americans claim Food Stamp benefits, which cost taxpayers over $80 billion per year. This cost has more than doubled under the President’s leadership in just the past four years. Because of the President’s failed economic policies and welfare provisions in his stimulus package, millions more Americans are reliant on federal assistance than ever before.”
 
“My bill gives states nearly limitless flexibility to design and implement their food stamp programs in the way that best serves their people. I’ve never thought that bureaucrats in Washington understood Oklahomans, but the elected officials in Oklahoma City do. By giving increased powers to each state, my bill would provide an opportunity for more people in need to receive adequate care.”
 
The Food Stamp Restoration Act converts the program from a mandatory program into a discretionary one, and it gives power to the states to run and design it. Under the bill, states will be required to meet the following requirements to qualify for the block grant:
     •  A state’s program must only allow benefit spending on real food, and not be allowed to authorize spending on items such as alcohol and tobacco;
     •  All beneficiaries must submit themselves to drug testing;
     •  States must implement work requirements for the beneficiaries; and
     •  Recipients must be legal residents of the United States.

A copy of the bill can be read by clicking here. 

AG’s Federalism Unit files against Affordable Care Act

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Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed an amended complaint Wednesday in Oklahoma federal court, challenging the implementation of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

“Oklahoma is in a unique position with the only active lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act to hold the federal government accountable in how it implements the law,” Pruitt said. “Now that the Supreme Court has deemed the ACA a tax, and therefore constitutional, the federal government must follow the law and proper procedures, and that is not being done.”   

The original lawsuit, filed in January 2011 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, challenged the health care act’s constitutionality under the Commerce Clause, specifically whether the federal government had the power to mandate individuals to buy health insurance as simply a condition of being a citizen. Oklahoma’s lawsuit was stayed by Judge Ronald White until the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the Florida case.   

In June, the Supreme Court sided with the states, agreeing that the health care law had exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause, but the Court gave authority to implement the individual mandate as a tax under Congress’ Taxing Power.

Following the decision, General Pruitt filed a request with Judge White to lift the stay on the Oklahoma case, so new issues related to implementation of the act could be addressed. The judge granted the request last week, lifting the stay.   

With Oklahoma’s lawsuit still at the district level, the state can amend the complaint, which would not be allowed with cases on appeal.

Among the issues raised in the complaint is a new IRS rule that violates the Administrative Procedures Act and conflicts with the ACA. Oklahoma also is asking the Court to recognize that because the Supreme Court deemed the health care act’s individual mandate a tax that it no longer conflicts with Oklahoma’s constitutional provision that no law or rule can “compel any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system.”

For a copy of the original and amended complaints or the state’s motion to lift the stay, go online to www.oag.ok.gov.