Obama Bow Wen Jiabao

School Study Surprising Results: parochial, private, home education

Are kids in Christian classes coming out less Christian?

For example, the study found, the adjusted net effect on students of private, Catholic schooling versus public schooling was to produce graduates even less likely to believe in moral absolutes, to respect the authority of the Catholic Church, to believe in the infallibily of Scripture or to condemn premarital sex.

The study also discovered, for example, that "the stereotypical picture of the highly political right-wing Protestant Christian is false," finding that graduates of Christian schools are less engaged in politics than their peers, as measured by talking less about politics, participating less in campaigns and donating less to political causes.

"In contrast to the popular stereotypes portraying Christian schools as promoting a socially fragmented, anti-intellectual, politically radical and militantly right-winged lifestyle," claims the survey from Cardus, a think tank focusing on North American society, "this comprehensive study reveals a very different picture of the Christian school graduate."

"Compared to their public school, Catholic school and non-religious private school peers," the study determined, "Protestant Christian school graduates are uniquely compliant, generous, outwardly-focused individuals who stabilize their communities by their uncommon commitment to their families, their churches and larger society. … Graduates of Christian schools donate money [to charity] significantly more than graduates of other schools, despite having lower household income. Similarly, graduates of Protestant Christian schools are more generous with their time, participating far more than their peers both in service trips for relief and development and in mission trips for evangelization."

"In many cases, the difference in outcomes between Catholic and Protestant Christian schools is striking," the study states. "Catholic schools provide superior academic outcomes, an experience that translates into graduates' enrollment in more prestigious colleges and universities, more advanced degrees and higher household income.

The authors of the study concluded, "Protestant Christian schools play a vital role in the long-term faith of their students, while Catholic schools seem to be largely irrelevant, sometimes even counterproductive to the development of their students' faith."

Religious home education produced the greatest effect on increasing graduates' belief that morality should be based on an absolute, unchanging standard (see graph at right), while Catholic schooling actually decreased this belief.

The Cardus team again summarized their findings: "This research finds that Catholic schools are providing higher quality intellectual development, at the expense of developing students' faith and commitment to religious practices. Protestant Christian schools, conversely, are providing a place where students become distinct in their commitment to faith, but are not advancing to higher education any more than their public school peers. Graduates of Catholic schools and non-religious private schools show a significant advantage in years of education, while Protestant Christian school graduates have statistically identical attainment levels as their public school peers. Additionally, graduates of Protestant Christian schools attend less competitive colleges than both their Catholic and non-religious private school peers."

15. Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise (1-5)

Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)

John Locke had such a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson that he may be deemed an honorary founding father of the United States. He advocated the natural equality of human beings, their natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and defined legitimate government in terms that Jefferson would later use in the Declaration of Independence. Locke's life and works are discussed, and the lecture shows how he transformed ideas previously formulated by Machiavelli and Hobbes into a more liberal constitutional theory of the state.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Who Is John Locke?
13:11 - Chapter 2. John Locke's Theory of Natural Law
31:27 - Chapter 3. Property, Labor and the Theory of Natural Law

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2006.

CALLING ALL GEORGIA PATRIOTS & TEA PARTIERS ~ YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU ON JAN, 26TH

Please come watch the trial on January 26, 2012 and watch us PROVE that Obama is not eligible for the presidency!
Thanks to Toonafish for the animated Obama...

Liberty and Revolution at the Princeton University Library

Sid Lapidus Collection

Obama Lets Civil Rights Languish Post 9/11

A national privacy oversight board recommended by the 9/11 Commission remains dormant

An independent oversight board recommended by the 9/11 Commission to ensure that national security policies do not infringe on Americans’ civil liberties has remained dormant for years, raising concerns among watchdogs that a crucial Constitution safeguard does not exist.

The hypocrisy and atrocities of the ‘Obama Doctrine,’ 29 August 2011

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Where Is the Tea Party?

MAN CHARGED WITH FEDERAL RESERVE SOURCE CODE THEFT

His lawyer had no comment over whether Zhang was a naturalized U.S. citizen or still a citizen of China.

Hmm, guy at the Federal Reserve of New York steals source code and the U.S. owes China lots and lots of moolah. No, can't be any story here folks, just move along.

Debbie Does Fox

EYE-ROLLING INTERVIEW WITH DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ

China gets jump on U.S. for Brazil’s oil

Less than a month after Obama visited Brazil in March to make a pitch for oil, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was off to Beijing to sign oil contracts with two huge state-owned Chinese companies.

Obama Orders Catholic Church to Offer Birth Control

OBAMA ORDERS FREE BIRTH CONTROL FOR ALL...

“This is nothing less than a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights,” said Franciscan Sister Jane Marie Klein, chairperson of the board at Franciscan Alliance, Inc., a system of 13 Catholic hospitals.

Etta James RIP, Dead at 73

James is best known for her 1961 hit “At Last,” along with “Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry),” jazz standards, “Stormy Weather” and “Sunday Kind of Love” as well as Willie Dixon’s “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” popularized by fellow Chess artist Muddy Waters. In ’68, she had a memorable hit with “I’d Rather Go Blind.”

At Last-Etta James

Etta James - Wallflower (Roll with me Henry)

The legendary James contributed this precious incident in 2009:

At a concert Etta unleashed her inner James saying:

"You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't MY President-had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her a** whooped."

"How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all."

Etta James, I'd Rather Go Blind

Something's Got A Hold On Me - Etta James - Live 1962

-Etta James ((born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 -- January 20, 2012) is an American blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer. She is best known for performing "At Last", which has been featured in movies, television shows, commercials, and web-streaming services. James has a contralto vocal range.

MUSLIM AMERICANS AND ANTI-TERROR POLICIES

The survey by the Pew Research Center is one of the most exhaustive ever of the country’s Muslims.

21 per cent of respondents told a study they had detected "a great deal" or "a fair deal" of support for Islamic extremism.

Muslim Americans: Islamism on the Rise

The most dangerous Muslims in America may be black converts to Islam.

Fully 28 percent of U.S.-born black Muslim respondents said "suicide bombings and other violence against civilians" can be justified sometimes or at least in rare cases. That compares with 9 percent of foreign-born Muslims who hold the same view.

Pew also found that 11 percent of black Muslims living in the U.S. have a favorable opinion of al-Qaida – more than double the share of U.S. Muslims overall who hold that view. Another 21 percent of black Muslims hold only mildly unfavorable views of the terrorist organization responsible for attacking America 10 years ago; while 56 percent of that segment of the Muslim population hold very unfavorable views.

As former head of the New York State prisons' Muslim chaplains program, Warith Deen Umar preached that Muslims should "be prepared to fight, be prepared to die, be prepared to kill." The black convert to Islam also called the 9/11 hijackers martyrs and heroes.

Umar reportedly inspired at least two of the four Muslim men who recently plotted to bomb a New York synagogue and fire missiles at U.S. military aircraft. The pair converted to Islam while in prison. After their release, they met each other in a mosque tied to Umar. All four men were convicted last year on charges related to the terror plot.

Carlos Bledsoe
In July, black convert Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, was sentenced to life in prison for gunning down two U.S. Army soldiers outside a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting station.

Bledsoe said he didn't commit any crime when he shot Army Pvt. William Long to death and wounded Army Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula as they took a smoke break on the morning of June 1, 2009.

During an interrogation session, Bledsoe told Little Rock police and the FBI that the shooting was a holy war and that he was not guilty of murder.

"It's an act of retaliation," he said. "There's a war going on."

In 2007, Bledsoe traveled to Yemen, ostensibly to teach English. Yemen is a hotbed of al-Qaida activity and the hideout for one of al-Qaida's top American recruiters, Anwar Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who aided the 9/11 hijackers.

Court records reveal that while in Yemen, Bledsoe planned to carry out jihad on American soil.

U.S. officials believe at least three dozen black American converts have traveled to Yemen in recent years and may have fallen under the spell of Awlaki.

Evidence on Bledsoe's computer showed that he scouted other possible U.S. targets, including a child-care center, a Baptist church and Jewish organizations before attacking the recruiting center. He told police that he would have killed more soldiers had he seen them outside the recruiting station.

A popular African-American imam has preached that Islamic law permits Muslims to attack U.S. military targets – including C-130 military transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, N.C., according to the best-selling book, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."

The Muslim cleric, Zaid Shakir, a frequent guest speaker at Council on American-Islamic Relations events, tells his Muslim audiences: "Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad."

Acceptable targets of jihad, he says, include U.S. military aircraft.

"Islam doesn't permit us to hijack airplanes filled with civilian people," Shakir once told a Muslim audience. However, "If you hijack an airplane filled with the 82nd Airborne, that's something else."

The recording of the lecture, which Shakir gave last decade to a Muslim audience in the San Francisco Bay area, was obtained by the authors of "Muslim Mafia."

Imam Shakir also gives his blessing to the use of bombs as a weapon of jihad, as long as the explosives hit "select" targets and are not indiscriminate in their destruction. Civilians can be a legitimate target, he says, if "there's a benefit in that."

Even "old elderly men" and "women who are conscripted" – including Israeli and American women in uniform – are eligible enemy combatants in jihad.

"This is Shariah," or acts sanctioned by Quranic law, Shakir asserts in a CD recording of one of his lectures delivered in 2001, which the authors obtained from a mosque bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Shakir, a black convert, has been portrayed as a moderate in the mainstream media, including the New York Times, which recently ran a positive profile of him. His pro-jihad statements revealed in "Muslim Mafia" have not been previously reported.

Another popular black Muslim cleric, Siraj Wahhaj, echoes his friend Shakir's interpretation of jihad.

"If we go to war, brothers and sisters – and one day we will, believe me – that's why you're commanded [to fight in] jihad," the imam has told his flock in Brooklyn, according to a videotape also obtained by the "Muslim Mafia" authors. "When Allah demands us to fight, we're not stopping and nobody's stopping us."

Wahhaj is a top CAIR fundraiser and longtime advisory board member.

CAIR has invited Shakir back to speak at its events even after the FBI questioned him about a copy of one of his incendiary pamphlets found in the apartment of a suspect in the first World Trade Center bombing. The pro-jihad pamphlet lauded the "armed struggle" that brought about the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Shakir, who recently confided to the New York Times that he would like to see the U.S. "become a Muslim country" ruled by Islamic law, is a regular speaker at CAIR as well as Islamic Society of North America events.

Federal prosecutors say CAIR and ISNA are fronts for the terrorist group Hamas and its parent the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Both these sister organizations were recently listed by the U.S. Justice Department as unindicted terrorist co-conspirators in the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history.

Recently, Shakir helped host workshops and delivered keynote speeches at banquets held at CAIR chapters in Chicago, Orlando and San Diego, among others.

"Imam Zaid's speeches are very practical and bring the best out of his listeners," said former CAIR official Ibrahim Moiz, a close personal friend who invited Shakir to speak to Muslims in Maryland, according to "Muslim Mafia."

The cleric has not tempered his jihadist views.

"I don't regret anything I've done or said," Shakir has insisted.

Shakir holds little, if any, respect for law enforcement, particularly the FBI, according to "Muslim Mafia." He constantly belittles the bureau in speeches to Muslims, even warning them that the FBI frames Muslims for terrorism – terrorist acts that he contends the FBI secretly commits.

"The World Trade Center bombing of course was aided and abetted by our good friends at the FBI," the imam has claimed, in one of many conspiracy theories he peddles.

The American Muslim cleric also preaches treason against the United States, according to the book, which hit No. 5 on Amazon.com's non-fiction best-seller list the day after it was released last fall.

Shakir advises the Muslim community in America to wage a cultural jihad now and a violent jihad later – once the proper "infrastructure" is in place.

He says Muslims should respect American democracy insofar as it can be exploited to help the Muslim Brotherhood one day assume power here.

And the only thing that could stop the Islamization of America, he notes, is if its people rose up and denied the subversive movement the unbridled freedom it's heretofore enjoyed.

However, if Americans were to do that, Muslims would then be obligated, he says, to exercise their supposedly "divine legal right" to rise up and wage violent jihad.

"What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Muslims," sermonized Shakir, who continues to be a marquee speaker at CAIR functions.

For now, he said, following the radical Muslim Brotherhood playbook, Muslims must continue to "create a state within a state."

Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts

Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/bankrupt-solyndra-caught-destroying-brand-new-parts/Video

Canada Pledges to Sell Oil to Asia After Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline

“decision by the Obama administration underlines the importance of diversifying and expanding our markets, including the growing Asian market.”

‘SHARIAH LAW & ORDER’

Gingrich Gets Standing Ovation at First Question

Gingrich Gets Standing Ovation at First Question

Mitt's Tax Returns for Obama's College Transcripts (or, heck, for that matter Selective Service Registration, Social Security application, et. al.)

THE PERFECT POLITICAL TRADE: OBAMA’S COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS FOR MITT’S TAX RETURN

ECONOMIC TERRORISM: THE INTENTIONAL 2008 COLLAPSET

There were hints at the time but much more needs to be revealed and who knew what when.