2012 California Election Forum

Media mostly silent on murder perpetrated by Muslims

Across the Islamic world, bloody violence, murder and slaughter against Christians are on the rise.

The liberal media is largely silent. So is our federal government.

Some call it “Religicide.” Some call it “Christian cleansing.” Whatever they want to call it, it’s genocide against Christians.

Attacks against Christians are taking place in many nations:

Iraq—the bloodshed against Christians in Iraq has escalated dramatically. Iraq jumped to the eighth worst country for Christians’ safety.

In the past 90 days, multiple churches in this turbulent nation have been bombed. The worst was in Baghdad where 58 attendees were brutally massacred by Islamic suicide bombers; about 100 were wounded.

Then on New Year’s Eve, multiple bombings and killings took place.

Attacks on individual Christians have escalated as well. Homes and businesses have been bombed, people have been tortured and kidnapped and outright killings are on the increase.

This week a baby was kidnapped and returned wrapped in a package, dead—to the Christian parents. Christians are afraid to go out—including to church. Homes are broken into, killing the Christian families in their living rooms, dining rooms and in their beds.

We are talking over a thousand attacks last year.

Before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, 1.4 million Christians lived in Iraq. Less than 400,000 remain. Christians are fleeing to Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

Some pastors are begging the Christians to stay, to be salt and light—in the face of death.

Others are saying “flee.” Matthew 10:23 says to flee. “When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next…,” it says. The word “flee” in Greek is “pheugo”—to conquer by running away.

Some groups are praying and pushing for the near impossible—a separate Assyrian church state. If it doesn’t happen, no Christian church or influence will exist in Iraq by next year.

Iran—authorities have arrested pastors, church house leaders and lay people. It’s hard to tell how many…over 100 reports of arrest. This means brutal interrogation, and often solitary confinement to get names of other Christians.

Forced denial of the faith and threats of family members’ deaths are facing these brothers and sisters in Christ.

Bibles are banned, pastors are prohibited from delivering sermons in Persian and conversion to Christ is illegal.

The Iranian Christian population is less than 1%.

Egypt—in Alexandra, Egypt, at the New Year’s services, the Coptic Church also had a suicide bombing, killing 21 churchgoers and wounding around 96.

Last year, hundreds of Christians were killed, beaten and discriminated against. The intensity is growing and becoming more common.

Christians make up about 12% of the 82 million in Egypt—the largest Christian community in the Arab world.

Nigeria—on Christmas Eve, five people including the pastor were killed at Victory Baptist Church in Maiduguri. They were shot to death and the church was set on fire, along with the pastor's house.

That same night another church, the Church of Christ, was attacked. Their security guard was killed.

The growing attacks on Christians are expected to continue in 2011.

Pakistan—#11 on the list of greatest oppression against Christians is Pakistan, where Christians are persecuted with increasing violence and zeal.

We reported on Asia Bibi in our December 9 issue (click here to read the article) who is to be hung for violating Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law. Her crime: being a Christian.

Last week, one Pakistan general was killed by his body guard because he opposed the hanging!

Last year, 110 people were accused of blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed.

Part of the problem is because Christians lack a voice in Washington to protect them. The Obama Administration's response has been pathetic.

The right to full religious freedom and expression, including the liberty to choose one’s faith and share it, is being undermined by the Obama Administration.

The phrase “freedom of worship” now rolls off the tongues of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in their public comments—rather than “freedom of religion” like we have always used here in America.

This unsettling language change gives cause for reflection. Why does it disquiet us? We know instinctively…

…full religious freedom goes far beyond simply worshipping…to having the right to speak our beliefs openly in the community and sharing our faith with others.

(To learn about this Obama shift in policy, click here to read our article from the April 29 issue.)

Where are the liberal media and the politicians, speaking out against the genocide?

Where are our pastors, praying for our brothers and sisters being persecuted for their faith?

Where are our prayers, individually, that are so vitally needed now?

I've found two interesting videos related to the unrest in the Middle East. Click here to watch a short video on the Iraq situation. To watch a short video on the Egypt attack, click here.

If you’d like to financially help the Iraq Christians, click here.

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Trial court assumes parenting role

Fourth-grader Amanda has been homeschooled by her Christian mother since the first grade.

But her divorced father Martin, and her mother Brenda, don’t see eye-to-eye on homeschooling. The disagreement eventually went before the court, where Martin’s case prevailed.

Amanda will be required to go to public school. Weighing in like the parent, the court said Amanda needs exposure to the views of others and training in groups.

This court directive to have Amanda attend public school went well beyond a divorce agreement and focused on the religious views of the mother—basically saying she was too religious.

This court case has the potential to be the model for other courts in the state. In turn, that would have a detrimental effect on homeschoolers everywhere.

Click here to see a short 60-second video report on this topic.

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Make your voice heard

In the media and in letters and petitions to Congress, liberal Christian authors, leaders and pastors are saying that Christians support the broken and flawed Obamacare.

Unfortunately, this is just a small minority with a big, organized voice.

To counter this, last week, I initiated the circulation of a petition now signed by thousands of Christians opposed to Obamacare.

If you signed it, thank you. If not, would you please consider it? And send this request to your church friends.

Please help me accomplish 2 things:

1. Show the liberal Christian groups and spokesmen they CAN’T speak for you
2. Show the President and Congress that as a Christian, you oppose Obamacare

A vote will come up soon before the House and the U.S. Senate.

I’ll be sending your signed petitions demanding the repeal of this rushed, poorly crafted, faulty legislation to all elected Congress.

I’m also publicizing this in the Christian and secular press, radio and TV.

It’s time to start over on healthcare legislation….

• Without wasteful backroom deals
• Without taxpayer support of abortion
• Without the potential of “death panels”
• Without adding $2 trillion to our national debt
• Without 114 million Americans losing their current health plan
• Without the increased costs and taxes that are estimated to lose 5.5 million jobs
• Without the destruction of our medical technology
• Without 16,000 new IRS agents
• Without the unconstitutional “mandate” to force everyone to buy insurance

Let the politicians know you want a doctor, not a bureaucrat, to make healthcare decisions for you or a loved one.

Click here to sign the Repeal Obamacare Petition to stop this moral, ethical and financial nightmare from moving forward. I need to hear from you today.

And please share this link on Facebook and Twitter, and click the “Forward to a friend” button below to send to your email list.

Hijacking victims for political manipulation

The tragic and senseless killing in Tucson by a 22-year-old at a citizen forum stunned us all.

But that is exactly what happened.

Six people were murdered including a federal judge, and 14 more wounded. One 9-year-old who died in the shooting was Christina Green, a 9/11 child born in 2001.

And today, Representative Gifford is recovering from a bullet through her brain.

Our prayers go out to all.

But please, don’t be fooled by the liberal media—ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, National Public Radio and the majority of daily newspapers. They have taken the killer and turned the tragedy into a political killing.

Who is Jared Loughner? Evidence in his backyard suggests occult involvement, and his Facebook heralds his favorite authors: Marx's Communist Manifesto and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

He had a fixation on the Mayan Prophecy of 2012—the destruction of the world.

His actions on his college campus over a 7-month period in 2010 prompted five separate calls for campus police. The authorities arrived on scene to restrain him for disturbances he caused.

The shooter was seriously mentally disturbed.

Others sidestepped research into the killer and the situation, and instead jumped to immediate conclusions upon hearing reports of the shootings.

The mass media in the U.S. began circulating news associating the shooter with the Tea Party movement, with Rush Limbaugh, with Bill O’Reilly and anyone who seemed on the opposite side of Obama.

Sarah Palin was especially targeted, because one of her targeted candidates for defeat last election was Gifford.

Franklin Graham, son of the world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, was outraged by the media's linking of Sarah Palin to the killings.

He said, “I have been shocked at the reports from those suggesting that former Governor Sarah Palin has some level of responsibility for the horrific shooting in Arizona.”

Graham called for Americans to be “measured and cautious before they place blame.”

The tactics by those who claim to hold the mantle of “unbiased” reporting is beyond disgusting.

The tragedy of this loss of life and loss of innocence is rivaled by the tragedy of a national political shootout, where the victim is truth, integrity and the conscience of a nation.

Let’s pray for the wounded. Let’s pray for the families. Let’s pray God would turn many to salvation from this tragedy.

And let’s pray the truth—not distorted media bias—will previal.

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Building continues in the Holy Land

The United States has abandoned its dangerous and reckless attempt to force Israel to freeze construction of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem.

Palestinian leadership has stated they will not be involved in direct talks with Israel as long as Israelis are building on land seized in the Middle East War in 1967.

This landmark moment in Israeli-Palestinian history is a considerable deflation of Obama's foreign policy goals.

And it’s a significant victory for Israel, America and the peace of Jerusalem.

“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”—Genesis 12:3.

Uncle Sam’s newest joyride at your expense

On January 1, one of the most immoral taxes ever went into effect.

After taxes, those with a net worth of $5 million or more (predominately small business owners) will be double-taxed when they die.

Congress has just reestablished the deplorable estate tax. It went from 0 in 2010 to 35% in 2011 when someone becomes deceased.

Add the income tax with the estate tax, and Uncle Sam enjoys well over half of your estate…almost a whopping 60%!

Consider it in this light: If your retirement portfolio is worth $1 million, only a mere $422,000 will ever reach your beneficiaries you’ve worked so hard for, once the taxes come out.

By 2013, it’s even uglier. It will be like the days before President Bush, when the death tax soared at 55%.

Not only that, exemptions will only reach $1 million, instead of the current $5 million level.

So now, your $1 million portfolio illustration is handing off another $380,000 in taxes.

You then discover that your million dollar estate has left all of $270,000 to your heirs.

This scenario has forced many small businesses to face either closure or sellout to pay the taxes upon the death of the owner.

As informed Christians, we must ensure that any candidate we vote for will repeal this immoral tax.

Who’s on what side?

With the massive unemployment, job creation is critical.

But are the new government policies a battle for job creation, or a war against job creation?

Consider this: In the oil market, Obama’s Interior Department has restrained domestic drilling. Federal regulators have dramatically reined in the new oil and natural gas leases in federal jurisdictions, on land and offshore.

The number of leases (important to our domestic oil use and affordable gas prices) dropped, so that in 2009, they would not allow even $1 billion in new leases. That’s down from $10 billion only months before…and it’s still shrinking.

Where is our American independent sustainability?

Regulators stall the drilling permits with bureaucratic tactics. Meanwhile, workers are standing by unproductive.

And now, Obama operatives have indirectly banned drilling by regulation on any coast—Atlantic or Pacific.

But that's not all.

As the new year rolls in, a tsunami of unprecedented regulations is shocking the manufacturing industry, resulting in loss of jobs, not creating jobs.

Further, oppressive fishing restrictions are now imposed by Obama’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Administration’s catch-shares approach to the fishing challenges is not only sparking great controversy, it’s withering away desperately needed jobs.

And the White House’s new and extremely ambitious bureaucratic Ocean Policy Initiative will create unprecedented structures of government oversight, putting even more burdens on a U.S. fishing industry that is already heavily regulated, killing more jobs.

I could go on—it’s one bureaucratic regulation after another the public never sees. We need to reverse this trend.

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Numbers leaving exceed those coming in

Usually we hear about businesses leaving California because of high taxes and oppressive regulations.

Now, individuals and families are also joining the revolt. In 2008, the number of people who made the ultimate statement and beelined out of California exceeded those who came trekking in—112,500 more left.

This also means we lost over $2.5 billion in net income. This doesn't help the state financial crisis, as fewer citizens remain to bear the crunch while people keep looking for the nearest exit.

What do your city officials make?

In past issues, I’ve talked about irresponsible city salaries. Let’s look at a few more closely.

Los Angeles and San Francisco are two of California’s biggest offenders. San Francisco’s head of the Municipal Transportation Agency takes home a salary of $336,000.

And San Francisco City also paid out fringe benefits of $41.3 million for its bus drivers. This was for Social Security, dental and healthcare.

Yet, keeping in mind the city’s deficit is nearly $1 billion, consider that 622 bus drivers made $80,000; 82 made more than $100,000; 400 made more than $20,000 in overtime alone and one driver actually made $78,722 in overtime.

In Los Angeles, ranking county officials have seen a hefty pay raise in only 3 years—up anywhere from 11% to 45% compared to what it was previously.

And some government bureaucrats are now raking in over $400,000 in compensation for the year.

Los Angeles county has more than 100,000 employees. And every year 17,686 of them bankroll over $100,000 in total compensation.

One of them is an executive secretary for the Coroner, pocketing over $113,000. Another works for the fire department as a fireman. His paycheck was more than $271,000 annually.

Another 70 L.A. county employees deposit a tidy $300,000 or more. And of those, six gross over $400,000.

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What does he say that the media isn't telling?

Around the world the media last week focused on an amazing story of a homeless man.

This Ohioan tells how a video posted on YouTube revolutionized his life. Immediately after it went up, he received a large number of requests for work doing announcing.

Now, the man after decades of drug and alcohol abuse isn’t perfect, but he is changed.

What was withheld in the major media’s portrayal? The power of God in changing lives.

Click here to watch a short 2-minute video about this story that will really bless you.

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