Radio talk show host Mark Levin asks the following poll question today:

It appears that the Bush family is backing Chris Christie behind the scenes. Does that make you more or less likely to support Christie if he runs?

As of 9:00 pm eastern time, here are the results (out of 3405 votes cast):

85% of those taking the poll say "Less Likely," and

15% say "More Likely."

Conclusion: The Bush legacy of unconstitutional big government RINOism may be hurting Chris Christie as he considers running for president.

Pamela Geller writes at Human Events:

A years-long battle is over, and Islamic supremacism has suffered a stunning and well-deserved defeat in its ongoing war against free speech and those who dare to tell the truth about Islam.

Omar Tarazi, a lawyer linked to the Hamas front group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has dismissed his frivolous, harassing $10 million libel lawsuit against me with prejudice, which means that it cannot be refiled.

Here's the video. Having a powerful black man speak outside the liberal Democrat box may be what liberals, secularists, and other formerly mainstream elites most fear about the candidacy of Herman Cain.

At FoxNews.com:

The solution to the nation's jobs crisis: Suspend congressional elections?

That was the proposal put forward by North Carolina's governor [Bev Perdue], who was trying to make a point at a Rotary Club event that political considerations are hindering efforts in Washington to tackle unemployment and economic stagnation.

For those concerned that a governor in America would even consider such a freedom-denying move comes this "reassurance" from a Perdue spokewoman: 

Governor Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve.

The problem is that Perdue's statement is quite in line with the spirit of how most politicians in Washington now operate: They couldn't care less about constitutional safeguards for American liberty. 

Even among Republicans running for President in 2012 there is little emphasis on the Constitution, and even less emphasis on how the Constitution is designed to protect the defining principles of freedom set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

This suggests that, although there is outrage today at the governor's statement, in the not distant future, it is entirely possible that a future President could make explicit what already is implicit: Suspend the Constitution to fix the latest, greatest crisis of the moment.

Was the governor's statement hyperbole? Or was it a heads-up on the state-sponsored oppression that might be coming down the pike -- reflecting a callousness regarding the principles of freedom that in many respects, in principle, is already among us?

Newsmax reports:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said a vast majority of Americans believe the federal government spends money “recklessly,” and many politicians who are not in tune with the nation’s needs should be issued “pink slips.”

Palin was responding to a new Gallup poll that shows 81 percent of Americans believe the federal government is doing a bad job.

At the Hollywood Reporter:

The L Word actress Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after kissing her girlfriend.

In a series of tweets Monday, Hailey wrote that she and fashion designer Nina Garduno, who have been together since 2006, "were escorted off the plane for getting upset about the issue."

"I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir," she tweeted. "Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok."

In fact, in a free country, no business, including SouthwestAir, should be forced to accommodate immoral behavior -- including "public displays of affection" between homosexuals. 

The only discrimination on display here is that of Mz. Hailey's discrimination against the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," as the Declaration of Independence puts it.

Bravo to SouthwestAir for defending the wonder of male and female together in family and community with our Creator.

Let's hope, work, and pray that SouthwestAir remains a family airline and refuses to submit to the impositions of small-minded Hollywood actresses in the grip of dehumanzing and divisive ideologies.

Hat tip: Drudge Report

AP reports:

The annual "See You at the Pole" event is scheduled for Wednesday at schools across the nation -- and while students are the main focus, one national organizer says parents should be involved. . . .

The event, which takes place every year on the fourth Wednesday in September, annually draws somewhere between one and two million students, all of them gathering around the school's flagpole to pray for the nation, for each other, and for their school.

Christine Dhanagom reports at LifeSiteNews:

A Catholic University in Pennsylvania has cancelled a scheduled appearance by prominent feminist journalist Ellen Goodman after the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) drew attention to the conflict between Goodman’s work and Catholic Church teaching on key issues.

The Catholic watchdog group reported in a blog entry that Goodman was scheduled to speak October 12th at St. Francis University in Loretto on the topic of civility in public discourse. The lecture was part of the school’s annual Furlong Lecture Series.

The blog entry detailed the history of Goodman’s outspoken support for abortion, including opposing conscience rights for pharmacists who choose not to dispense abortifacient “emergency” birth control.

And at what income point -- with His being incomparably rich, transcendentally successful, and the very quintessence of excellence  -- should we begin hating Him? 

I mean, He does rake in a bit more than $200,000 per year. And it's all tax free.

But is it really only about money?

What about "fairness"? Is that not your real idol and ground of agony?

After all, Mr. Obama and all you true believers in class warfare (RINOs included), is there anything less "fair" than that He is the Creator and we are the creatures?

O, how the idol despises its maker.

Kathleen Gilbert reports at LifeSiteNews:

A Christian high school student was punished by his school this week for saying he believes “being a homosexual is wrong.”

Dakota Ary, 14, says his statement was part of a one-on-one conversation about religions in Germany with a friend sitting behind him during a language class, according to a local Fox News report.

“I guess [the teacher] heard me. He started yelling,” said Ary. “He told me he was going to write me an infraction and send me to the office.”

From Thomson/Reuters:

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address to the United Nations and called NATO's actions in Libya a "monstrous crime" Monday in his first opinion column since early July.

Jamie Weistein writes at The Daily Caller:

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner in Washington Saturday night, President Obama made a verbal boo-boo.

While defending his call for the rich to pay more in taxes, the president said he didn’t mind people calling him a class warrior for merely asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew. Whoops!

The president meant to say “janitor” instead of “Jew,” and he immediately corrected himself. After all, he doesn’t need any more problems keeping Jewish voters enthusiastic about his re-election bid.

And with Cain's first place finish landing 37.1% of the vote to Perry's 2nd place finish at 15.4%, it wasn't even close.

The Big Lesson? Don't let the formerly mainstream media pick the candidates! And ditto for the formerly mainstream political elites!

It's our country, our Constitution, our freedom. We choose, we decide. More at RedState.

The film is titled Alleged ("Some lies just have to be told").

Brian Dennehy plays Clarence Darrow, and former Sen. Fred Thompson plays William Jennings Bryan.

Here's the film's website. Watch the trailer here.

The film is available for pre-order here at Amazon. 

In case you didn't know, there now exists something called The Centre for Unintelligent Design.

Apparently, some 88 seconds ago, or several thousands of seconds ago, or millions or billions of seconds ago, the Centre for Unintelligent Design did not exist. And then, on the 89th second (or other such temporal numerical value), some aspect of time, space, and matter burped, and Lo & Behold, into being came the Centre for Unintelligent Design.

This contingent universe being what it is (or is not), you had better read all about this newish (or is it oldish, or do the words "new" or "old" -- without or without "ish" -- have meaning in a contingent universe?) website as soon as possible.

With each click of the tick-tock the Centre for Unintelligent Design may well uncreate itself back into the meaningless self-caused (or non-self-caused) nonexistence from which it emerged, lived, breathed, and for a while expressed its arbitrary being in a universe that couldn't care less.

One last thing: Did the website for The Centre of Unintelligent Design have a website designer? Just wondering.

Meanwhile, that's it folks. Now go watch some soccer.

I vote for banning the EPA, which I think stands for Enemy of People Administration.

In evidence, Exhibit 291,476 (for more, please see the Weekly Standard report "Obama Administration Bans Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns"). 

John Hayward writes at Human Events:

Rick Perry​ and Mitt Romney​ spent a good deal of time at the Fox News​/Google debate in Orlando arguing about each other’s books. I haven’t seen that many books thrown around since the FBI raided Solyndra.

Jeremy Kryn reports at LifeSiteNews.com:

A new study has found that Google and other major social media sites such as Facebook have “actively” censored Christian and conservative viewpoints.

The report, conducted by National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) and the American Center for Law and Justice, examined the policies and practices of several major Internet-interactive “new media” communications platforms and service providers, including Apple and its iTunes App Store, Facebook, Google, and others.

David Cortman of the Alliance Defense Fund writes:

At different locales around the country, in places as diverse as Detroit, Mich., Lawrenceville, Ga., and Camdenton, Mo., the ACLU is sending letters and filing lawsuits seeking to disallow government school usage of certain Internet filters.

They claim their campaign is designed to end the blocking of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” activist group sites, but in reality it will allow school children to access to pornographic websites.

It's a straightforward principle, Moms and Dads: Don't allow ACLU bullies and their minions to impose inside schools what you would not allow outside of them. 

This is your country, is it not? You -- and not the state -- are the proper God-given stewards of the education of your children are you not?

Therefore: Resist, fight, protect, and overcome. 

Kick these well-heeled merchants of slime out. Get them out of the lives of your kids and keep their dirty paws off our laws. Reclaim your future, your children's future, and your country's future.

Let's make schools safe places for kids. Safe places for learning. And an uncomfortable place to be if you are a kid-targeting ACLU bully.

"White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer has been executed for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas," reports AP.

Maybe NBC's Brian Williams can ask Gov. Rick Perry for his view on the execution of this criminal for such a heinous crime.

Call it a hunch, but my sense is that the more murdering white racists (or murdering racists of any skin color) are sharply introduced to the error of their ways, the more people in Texas and across America will sleep better at night.

Steve McCann writes at American Thinker:

Barack Obama and his minions in the administration as well as many Democrats in the Congress are often described as Socialists, or in the extreme as Marxists. However, their actions and strategy are straight out of the fascist economic playbook. They have become the modern reincarnation of the fascist mindset, without the militarism of Italy and Germany, that dominated Europe in the 1920s and '30s.

Audrey Hudson writes at Human Events:

Congressional Democrats are turning on President Obama and denouncing several of his key policy efforts, effectively distancing themselves from the administration’s faltering approval ratings.

Among the disaffected are members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), and John Conyers (D-Mich.).

"What should the White House do now?" asks Hudson. In a word, from Democrat strategist James Carville: "Panic." 

Emily Miller writes at the Washington Times:

Pesident Obama took to the Rose Garden podium on Monday to unveil the latest in his series of misleading and unpopular plans to fix the stalled economy.

Now he wants another $1.5 trillion in government coffers from higher taxes, and he’s waging class warfare to get it.

Columnist Mona Charen writes:

President Obama and the Democrats are finally happy. Liberated from thoughts of compromise with Republicans, they can fully indulge their most lascivious pleasure -- trashing rich people.

"The vultures are beginning to circle," writes Steve Chapman, a member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board.

"But there is good news for the president. I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election.

"He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls, and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013."

Hat tip: David Martosko, executive editor, The Daily Caller

David Lewis, "the father of a 2-year-old girl, says he plans on running on a single issue -- Boehner's support of a federal budget that provides funding to Planned Parenthood, which he calls 'the largest killer of unborn babies in America.'"

Robert Knight writes at the Washington Times:

The Constitution of the United States, whose adoption we celebrate every Sept. 17, clearly lists the powers of each branch of the national government. Let’s take a look at what Barack Obama, like any president, is empowered to do and see if it squares with his actions.

In Article II, Section 1, he is sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Section 2 names the president as commander in chief of the armed forces, grants him the power to make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate and to appoint ambassadors, federal judges, Cabinet officials and other federal officers.

Section 3 says the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

In his two years and nine months in office, President Obama has compiled a spectacular record of noncompliance with the Constitution. . . . 

The following list of 15 websites is an indication of how The Pearcey Report is performing on the internet, according to ratings provided by Alexa.

Although these results are only a snapshot of "World" and "U.S." rankings from today, and are results that include a mix of different kinds of websites (news, think tank, magazine, ministry, etc.), we thought it might be a kick to see how we're doing when compared with other sites you may come across on the web.

In the top tier of websites (1-5) are Drudge, WorldNetDaily, Rush Limbaugh, Human Events, and World magazine.

In the second tier of websites (6-10), we see Challies, Family Research Council, The Pearcey Report, Philadelphia Biblical University, and Eagle Forum.

In the last tier of websites (11-15), we find BreakPoint, Alliance Defense Fund, Summit Ministries, Rivendell Sanctuary, and Mark Steyn.

Website                                                  World                      U.S.
1. Drudge Report                                       411                         81
2. WorldNetDaily                                    2,689                       603
3. Rush Limbaugh                                   6,287                    1,695
4. Human Events                                  12,637                    2,424
5. World magazine                               65,398                  12,338
6. Challies                                               76,954                  19,244
7. Family Research Council                202,135                 33,746
8. The Pearcey Report                        314,425                  56,993
9. Philadelphia Biblical University    496,330                  82,526
10. Eagle Forum                                   457,296               105,687
11. Breakpoint                                      528,810               111,345
12. Alliance Defense Fund                  671,923               136,418
13. Summit Ministries                         505,484               147,103
14. Rivendell Sanctuary                       796,285               186,484
15. Mark Steyn                                      937,350               261,966

These attacks, compiled by Human Events, are not merely the momentary tactics of a desperate political philosophy or a desperately weakened Barack Hussein Obama.

Instead, these attacks are greased by a liberalism that is relativistic at its core, having rejected the Creator (see the Declaration of Independence) as the basis of liberating and normative ethical and political content.

This relativism opens the door to absolute hate. But not as an abberation. It's a package deal.

The contrast with the founding ideals of the American republic is stark: If there is inhumanity, and there will be in a broken world, there is an adequate intellectual and moral basis upon which to challenge the inhumanity, whether it arises among the people or whether it arises in the state.

Neither the society nor the state is absolute, for neither is the Creator. Neither the society nor the state is liberating, for neither is the Creator.

Yes, the Founders understood wherein lies the center of gravity of human freedom and dignity:

All men are created equal [and] . . . are endowed by their Creator with certian unalienable rights, . . . among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is, therefore, "We the People," under God, in social and political community with the Creator. Not to assert a false absolute but to challenge the false idol of centralized authority.

And what the Founders understood, the Founders acted upon.

Thus the Declaration of Independence. Thus the practice of independence. Thus the unfolding, sometimes very costly, of the principles of freedom over time, throughout the individual states, and among the people.

The lesson of tyranny in history is clear: First demonize, then destroy. First incivility, then inhumanity. First chaos, then control. Even if marketed as hope, change, and transformation. 

It is fortunate that many in America are seeing this, and taking corrective redemptive action, before it is too late.

"Love thy neighbor" always is a challenge to the status quo. 

Martin Gould and Ashley Martella report at Newsmax:

The Republican Party is in a fight to the death with the tea party, and only one of them will be left standing at the end of it, TV host Glenn Beck tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

“Either the tea party will eat the Republicans or vice versa,” he said. “The Republicans make me nervous, quite honestly.”

Beck was speaking as he launches his GBTV, an Internet-based television channel that he has personally funded after parting ways with Fox News earlier this year.

He said that if the typical “John McCain, Lindsey Graham kind of Republican” wins the internal party battle, the GOP will be finished. “It will go the way of the Whigs,” he said.

Lloyd Marcus writes at American Thinker:

The Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin book The Rogue is the left's latest hate letter to God-fearing patriotic Americans. 

Make no mistake about it, folks. The McGinniss attack along with the other numerous attacks on Sarah Palin are really about attacking you -- mainstream Americans with traditional values.

Nancy will be interviewed by Phyllis Schlafly on "Eagle Forum Live" tomorrow morning.

Time: 11-12 am (central standard time)

To find a local station, please go here.

To listen live online, please go here.

Kathleen Gilbert reports at LifeSiteNews:

Discussing her gender-bending role in the new movie Albert Nobbs, American actress Glenn Close has said that gender “doesn’t matter” and all those too outdated to reject natural gender and gender roles will just have to “die off.”

Albert Nobbs, screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, features Close as a cross-dressing woman working as a butler in 19th-century Ireland. The idea behind the film, a pet project of Close’s for fifteen years, is to help scuttle conventional ideas of gender -- or any idea of gender.

On the other hand, the Creator of the Declaration, whom American exceptionalism recognizes is the source of unalienable human rights and freedoms (having been "created equal and endowed by their Creator") also created this little thing called male and female, a wonderful expression of humane and liberating diversity.

Imagine: How boring, small-minded, monodimensional, alienating, and otherworldly is this flat gospel brought to us by yet another secular evangelist pounding the podium of Hollywood.

And did I mention how enslaving is this secular gospel? This superficial "tolerance" of Tinseltown?

Enslaving as in opening wide the door for state totalitarianism -- after all, if there is no permanent human nature, no essence of man, no definition of who and what we are, including "gender," there is then no human nature that a centralized state could possibly ever offend.

Altogether Now: Imagine there were no genders . . .  And la, la, la. As the tanks of tyranny fire up their engines.

But how much better and liberating is "Vive la difference!"  

This is why resistance is not only good for you, but can be a whole lot of fun.

Meanwhile, Mz. Close, please get back to us when the Creator dies off.

A longtime friend of mine asked me the other day, "What's it like to be married to a famous person?"

"You'll have to ask Nancy," I replied.

"The Alliance Defense Fund is helping defend a Missouri school district in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several homosexual activist groups against the district's use of Internet filters," reports Bob Kellogg at OneNewsNow.

"The ACLU and Yale Law School are pushing the 'Don't Filter Me!' campaign to give public school students access to Internet porn," Kellogg continues.

"They claim that because the filters block students from accessing sexually explicit material, including sites operated by homosexual activist groups, they are concerned about censorship and bullying. But David Cortman of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) thinks the groups have a different agenda."

According to Cortman, "It's simply reprehensible that the ACLU and Yale Law School are more concerned about faring their own agenda that exposes children to harm than they are about protecting those children. . . . Certainly, removing porn filters does nothing to end bullying."

In fact, if you want to end bullying in schools, a terrific place to start is by ousting power-hungry homosexualist bullies and power-hungry ACLU bullies, who are the biggest bullies on the block and who are on an unending absolutist crusade to impose their private "values" and perverted practices, under the camouflage of "rights," upon everyone in the land.

Unemployed and losing hope? Well, Barack Obama has just the thing for you: Inform on your neighbors, colleagues. You know, anything suspicious.

Yes, that's right.

Go to "My.BarackObama.com" or "AttackWatch.com" and learn now to "report an attack" ("Get the facts. Fight the smears"). 

All you have to do is supply your email and then provide the Ministry of Love and Community with the "content of attack or link."

Why would you want to go all Secret Police and Stasi on your neighborhood? According the Obama website, to:

Help stop the attacks on the President before they start.

When another unfounded attack surfaces, we'll arm you with the truth so you can share the facts with your friends and family.

If you are new to the game, My.BarackObama.com provides a helpful dropdown menu to help you sort through what kind of "attack" your friends, neighbors, colleagues or other Americans might be up to.

Here are the 9 "Attack types" to be on the lookout for: 1) TV Interview, 2) Public Statement, 3) Forwarded Email, 4) Rumor, 5) TV Ad, 6) Video Ad, 7) Radio Ad, 8) Robo Call, 9) Website/Blog.

You can also attach a photo.

According to My.BarackObama.com, all of this is "paid for by Obama for America."

Hat tip: AM 630, WMAL, Drudge Report

Julie Roys writes:

Eighteen-months after my report exposing Wheaton College’s promotion of social justice in its Education Department, the college has revised the department’s conceptual framework. New Wheaton College President Philip Ryken also has removed the college’s official response to my report that had been posted to Wheaton’s website.

As you may recall, my piece revealed that Wheaton’s earlier conceptual framework relied heavily on far Left radicals like Bill Ayers, Paulo Freire, and Richard Rorty. It also included excerpts from my interview with the chair of Wheaton’s Education Department where she refers to Ayers as “enlightening” and claims Marxism is “not necessarily” unbiblical. The report aired in February 2010 on the former Sandy Rios Show on the Salem Broadcasting Network. 

"Muslim radicalism is more powerful today than when Obama took over," writes James Lewis at American Thinker. "In every country where it was suppressed, Muslim radicals are now in the open and making a serious grab for power."

In his report on last night's debate, John Hayward at Human Events says, "Bachmann generated some much-needed fireworks, climbing back into the ring as a major alternative to Perry and Romney."

LifeSiteNews.com reports:

Texas Governor Rick Perry has come out in support of an Ohio measure to ban abortion from the moment of a detectable fetal heartbeat. The 2012 presidential contender announced his support before a group of 250 pro-life and pro-family leaders meeting in Texas.

“We’re grateful to Governor Perry for his strong support of the Heartbeat Bill,” said Janet Porter, president of Faith2Action. “I don’t think there’s a bill in America with more support.”

Nancy will join talk show host David Wheaton of The Christian Worldview Radio Program to discuss topics related to "Christian Dominionism After 9/11."

Time: 8-9 am, central; phone: 1-888-646-2233 (toll free).

To listen on the internet, go here. To find a local station, go here.

"If you thought that something as innocuous as putting up 3,000 American flags on school grounds to pay tribute to those murdered on September 11 couldn’t be controversial, you haven’t been to Marietta College," writes Jason Mattera at Human Events. 

Don't miss musician, composer, and writer Terry Yount's thoughtful review of Saving Leonardo, published on the website of Ligonier Ministries.

An angry backlash from conservatives is looming against a video game company in Brooklyn, N.Y., that has created a violent first-person shooter game targeting conservatives," reports Newsmax.

"Called 'Tea Party Zombies Must Die,' the game enables users to bludgeon Bill O’Reilly with a crow bar, shoot Glenn Beck with a semi-automatic weapon, or stab former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with a knife."

Are schools now "safe" for homosexualism safe for your kids? Perhaps not.

Consider the following in a report at LifeSiteNews.com:

“We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it. Recruiting children? You bet we are.” 

It seems that guys in cars and raincoats not longer have to offer candy to children to entice them to enter in. Why bother with all of that when you can offer a "safe" "education"?

"Rick Perry is surging," notes Rick Moran at American Thinker. But there's "plenty of room for opinions to shift," says Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the telephone survey. 

Peter Tucci writes at The Daily Caller:

Given the amount of attention the Constitution has been getting in conservative circles lately, it’s a safe bet that it will be on many Republican voters’ minds when they cast their ballots in next year’s GOP primaries.

Which is why I thought it would be interesting to see what the Republican presidential candidates’ campaign websites have to say about the Constitution.

Surprisingly, in many cases the answer is: nothing.

"Two Planned Parenthood abortion clinic workers have left their jobs this week, according to former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson," reports LifeSiteNews.com. "Johnson posted the good news yesterday on her Facebook page."

Having become aware of Nancy Pearcey's response to Ryan Lizza's New Yorker hit piece on Michele Bachmann, Red State editor Erick Erickson asks, "Is Ryan Lizza an Idiot or Willfully Distorting Christian Theology?"

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From Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky:

Since its creation in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency has done more harm than good.

EPA regulations cost more than 5 percent of our annual gross domestic product -- the equivalent of the costs of defense and homeland security combined.

Since EPA regulations have expanded, unemployment in America has increased by 33 percent.

This abuse of power by the implementation of regulations infringes upon our basic constitutional rights.