RenewAmerica columns http://www.renewamerica.com/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:30:49 -0600 (Laurie Roth) - Drones are coming to watch you. The latest ship of horrors designed to seize control of the people is the FAA Reauthorization Act. Obama will sign this one, and it will allow all kinds of drones to fly all over the US, utilized by police departments all across the country. Some are small and some are big, some hold weapons and some are just used for surveillance. If this legislation passes, by the end of this year drones will be used in our country by local, state, and federal police and related agencies... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roth/120211 Laurie Roth Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:30:49 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roth/120211 (A.J. DiCintio) - Our rash faults make trivial price of serious things we have/Not knowing them until we know their grave. . . Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well. How true it is that the frailties of human nature often cause us not just to ignore the most important gifts we have been given but to do so with such stubborn persistence that we recognize our deadly foolishness only when it is too late... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dicintio/120211 A.J. DiCintio Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:51:33 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dicintio/120211 (Sher Zieve) - With regards to government intervention into religion, the First Amendment to the US Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." First, Congress is the Constitutional body that has the authority to make laws for the United States of America. Second, it is to steer clear of anything pertaining to freedom of religion... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/120211 Sher Zieve Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:51:19 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/120211 (Louie Verrecchio) - With so many items of Catholic interest in the news these days, why focus on just one? Here are three that caught my eye. Hope and Changing Scripture When Barack Obama ran his presidential campaign on "Hope and Change," most thinking Americans saw it for what it was a bumper sticker slogan purposely devoid of all substance. The rest voted for him... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/verrecchio/120211 Louie Verrecchio Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:51:09 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/verrecchio/120211 (Michael Bresciani) - The new catchphrase of the campaign analysts and pundits which seems to be rising above the ordinarily heard terms like democrat, republican, liberal or conservative is the word, 'establishment.' It seems to find definition only when voters pick candidates that regardless of campaign rhetoric, declared platform or past record, look and feel like someone that will lead America out of its sinking fiscal problems... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/bresciani/120211 Michael Bresciani Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:50:07 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/bresciani/120211 (Frank Louis) - The program, we are told, will help those "hardest hit "in the mortgage crisis. Tell me, just who is that and how was the "hardest hit list" developed? Someone who took out a $500,000 mortgage with $50,000 cash back at closing whose property is now worth only $350,000 or someone who had saved $150,000 for a down payment on that $500,000 property that is now only worth $350,000?... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/louis/120211 Frank Louis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:50:00 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/louis/120211 (Selwyn Duke) - The big news on the culture-war front is a federal court's striking down of Proposition 8, California's constitutional amendment protecting marriage. In a two-to-one ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote, "The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry."... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/120210 Selwyn Duke Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:44 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/120210 (Robert Meyer) - A local writer wrote a recent column praising the late journalist Christopher Hitchens, who passed away last December 15th. In reading a number of the writer's columns over the past few years, it's apparent that Hitchens has greatly influenced her worldview, and they were of a kindred spirit... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/meyer/120210 Robert Meyer Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:37 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/meyer/120210 (David R. Usher) - Forty-five years ago Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned us about what would happen if Johnson's Great Society was established. Today, America is drowning in social expenditures and medical expenses most often incurred for lower-income unmarried individuals, their children, and unmarried retirees... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/usher/120210 David R. Usher Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:28 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/usher/120210 (Marsha West) - Is it true that Jesus never mentioned anything about homosexuality? That He never brought it up, even once? Most of us have heard the line that in the Gospels there's no record of Jesus condemning homosexuality. There are individuals, especially from the militant homosexual rights movement, who utter this fabrication with all the raw hostility of liberals who think abortion is their God given right... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mwest/120210 Marsha West Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:12 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mwest/120210 (Bryan Fischer) - Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point" You'd think President Obama, who professes, as all lefties do, to idolize Thomas Jefferson, would know better... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/120210 Bryan Fischer Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:05:55 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/120210 (Chuck Baldwin) - Writing for World Net Daily, Bob Unruh reports a refreshing story of how individual sovereign states are beginning to push back against federal overreach. Unruh writes, "State and local officials in surging numbers are telling Washington they simply won't cooperate with any plans to detain Americans the federal government may choose to describe as 'belligerents.'... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/baldwin/120210 Chuck Baldwin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:05:41 -0600 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/baldwin/120210