Muslim Population in UK Increased 74% since 911
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimates that there are 2,869,000 Muslims in Britain, an increase of 74 per cent on its previous figure of 1,647,000, which was based on the 2001 census. No demographic statistics are reliable in an era of open borders, but such an expansion is unprecedented.

The Return of Death Panels
On December 3rd, apparently under cover of darkness, the Obama administration issued a new Medicare regulation that implemented what Congress and the American people explicitly rejected. It authorizes Medicare to pay doctors for end-of-life-care counseling during patients annual check-ups. The Administration and its supporters did their level best to keep the regulation quiet. But the New York Times broke the story three weeks later‹on Christmas Day!

Is Muslim Brotherhood Penetrating CPAC
Frank Gaffney, a leader of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law. Gaffney, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and co-author of the new book "Shariah: The Threat to America." He told WND that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union, the host of CPAC, in the person of Washington attorney and political activist Suhail Khan and a group called Muslims for America. Khan is a member of the ACU board and, according to Muslims for America, will assist the group's presence at CPAC during the 2011 meeting Feb. 10-12. Gaffney also accuses another ACU board member, leading conservative political organizer Grover Norquist, of helping the Muslim Brotherhood spread its influence in the nation's capital. Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on November 27, 2004. Norquist and Alrayyes, who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married, are very active in "Muslim outreach."

Obamacare and the Threat to Human Dignity
Human dignity must be defended at the most vulnerable stages, from conception to natural death. Medical providers’ freedom of conscience must be protected. Health care ought to be considered as a scarce resource and allocated with competitive market-oriented reforms rather than further increasing third-party responsibility for medical care. The principle of subsidiarity leads to increasing responsibility for health care at the patient, family, doctor-patient, and local levels of society rather than at distant bureaucratic plateaus. Finally, the principle of solidarity requires us to confirm that our policy initiatives have benefited the most poor and vulnerable. We share a duty in the United States to care for all those within our borders, and improve health-care affordability and quality. Yet “Obamacare” does not fulfill criteria required by fundamental moral principles; millions remain uninsured, and millions more are precariously insured.

Christian cross ruled unconstitutional here
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided a memorial cross on federal land on Mt. Soledad, Calif. violates the U.S. Constitution. In a 3-0 ruling in the Jewish War Veterans v. City of San Diego case, the panel decided that the 29-foot concrete cross, which has stood for 57 years, constitutes a government endorsement of religion and therefore violates the First Amendment's establishment clause.

The Filibuster Protects the Rights of All Senators and the American People
The filibuster in the U.S. Senate protects the rights of Senators to debate and amend legislation, thereby protecting the interest of the American people. The filibuster actually realizes the Founders’ intent that the Senate slow the legislative process “to ensure due deliberation and inquiry” before passing a bill. Current efforts to limit the filibuster to expedite the legislative process are misguided. One of the problems causing the expansion of the use of the filibuster are the actions by Senate Majority Leaders to limit debate and block other Senators from offering any amendments to select bills during Senate floor debates. The Senate would be better served by ending the Senate Majority Leader’s power to limit amendments and debate.

Failure in NY Snow Removal was Union Protest
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles.

Popes, Atheists and Freedom
This being the season of hope, Islamic extremists of course have been engaged in their annual tradition of blowing up Christian churches. An attack by a radical Muslim sect on two churches in northern Nigeria killed six people on Christmas Eve. On the Philippines' Jolo Island, home to al Qaeda-linked terrorists, a chapel bombing during Christmas Mass injured 11. One of the central public events during these days at year's end is the Pope's midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In his homily the pope invariably pleads for peace, but on Friday evening a viewer could not have missed the meaning when Benedict XVI twice mentioned "garments rolled in blood," from Isaiah 9:5. The image, as befits Isaiah, is poetic and disturbing. Benedict surely intended it so: "It is true," he said, "that the 'rod of his oppressor' is not yet broken, the boots of warriors continue to tramp and the 'garment rolled in blood' still remains." He was of course referring to the sustained violence against Christian minorities by Islamic fundamentalists.

President’s Vacation Picks Costly
President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas vacation with friends and family in the chief executive's home state of Hawaii. Nobody questions a president's right or need to take take away from the White House, but an investigation by Hawaii Reporter has turned up some eye-opening information about the costs and other aspects of the Obama get-away.

Famous Marine Blasts Obama at Toys for Tots Event
Actor and retired Marine Gunnery Sgt R. Lee Ermey calls President Obama a Socialist and says our Country on the verge of economic collapse. The remarks occurred at a Toys for Tots event.

The ACLU’s untold Stalinist heritage
Noted author Paul Kengor has unearthed declassified letters and other documents in the Soviet Comintern archives linking early leaders of the ACLU with the Communist Party.

How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes
Congress hasn’t even begun real work on the 2011 budget, even though the fiscal year started in October (the government is currently being funded by short-term continuing resolutions; the next one expires on December 18). If they want to get serious about staving off the uncertainty, tax increases, and unrestrained spending that are sure recovery killers, they could put us on a path to a balanced budget right now. Are our leaders willing and able to identify and cut just $25 billion in waste and excess out of more than $700 billion in non-defense discretionary spending? Is reducing the $714 billion the Department of Defense received in 2010 by a paltry $25 billion impossible? Can Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that are infamous for waste and fraud and cost well over $720 billion in 2010, find $35 billion in efficiences? The specific cuts should be open to negotiation, but the historical record shows that the available level of government revenue is fixed.

General: Muslim’s plot undoing of America
Recently, retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, made an impassioned plea for Americans to learn about the inner workings of stealth jihadists by reading "Muslim Mafia." "There's a recent book that came out called 'Muslim Mafia,'" said Boykin at a major Christian conference. "Have any of you read this? Have any of you ever seen it? I encourage you to get this book – 'Muslim Mafia.' … This book will scare you. This book will open your eyes. This book will shake you. What this book says is frightening."

Gibbs to Leave White House
Among the biggest changes could be the departure of press secretary Robert Gibbs , who is said to be exploring the possibility of leaving the White House altogether, perhaps to set up his own consulting shop and play a leading role in the 2012 campaign, two Democrats said.

The man with the golden voice
The Cleveland Cavaliers have offered a job to a homeless Ohio man with a golden radio voice… Carper said any job could include working at Quicken Loans Arena, the NBA team’s downtown arena. It is not yet known if Williams has accepted the team’s offer. Williams’ compelling tale also has drawn interest from NFL Films, which has chronicled pro football for nearly 50 years and wants to contact Williams. “It’s that voice,” said Kevin McLoughlin, director of post-production films for the NFL told The Associated Press. “When I heard him tell his story, I said, ‘That’s what we do. This guy can tell a story.’ Somehow, some way, I need to get a demo with him.” “The man deserves a second chance,” said McLoughlin, who has not yet been able to contact Williams.

Situational Awareness and Shared Awareness
It's important to grasp the distinction between situational awareness and shared awareness. Situational awareness is observing and understanding the implications of what's going on around you. Street criminals rely on their victim's low situational awareness: for instance, when three young men approach you late at night and one circles around you, they are not preparing to ask you for the time.

Mass Grave of Nazi Euthanasia Victims Uncovered
Although tests must still be done to verify the cause of death, the corpses are believed to be those of mentally and physically disabled individuals whom the Nazis deemed “unworthy of life,” and who were often killed with injections of potassium chloride, the same drug used to kill unborn children in their mother’s wombs in hospitals today.

"Gay Marriage" Debate
Marginalize, privatize, anathematize: These are the successive goals of gay-marriage advocates when it comes to their opponents. First, ignore the arguments of traditional marriage's defenders. Instead, insinuate that those who merely want to defend marriage are "anti-gay thugs" or "theocrats". Second, drive the wedge between faith and reason as private forms of irrationality. Finally, decree a victory of new public morality and pronounce the opponents as the crazed bigots of our day.

Pioneer and Founder of Courage Dies at Age 92
Fr. Harvey founded the Courage apostolate in 1980 at the request of Cardinal Terrence Cooke, then-Archbishop of New York, and served as director until 2008. The ministry offers a spiritual support system to men and women struggling with same-sex attractions, and promotes chastity and the development of an integrated sexuality. They now run over 100 chapters in a dozen countries, and have been endorsed by the Vatican.

Oprah Features Nuns Who Celebrate Their Marriage to Jesus
The Dominican Sisters of Mary, the Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan were everything beautiful and truthful that the Church has to offer: they were Christ to Oprah and to a world in need of its meaning in Him. Their convent is thriving with a home to 100 teaching sisters whose average age is 26.

Abstinence Redefined
Remember Bill Clinton's famous statement, "It depends on what you mean by the word "is". 75 percent of young people in America are receiving explicit contraceptive-centered education that defines "abstinence" subjectively. In these curricula [teens] are given free rein to define abstinence in any way, including whatever doesn't cause a pregnancy or however they want to define it," says Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association.

Prime Time TV 'Objectifies' Underage Girls, Study Says
According to a new study conducted by the Parents Television Council (PTC), Hollywood is shockingly obsessed with sexualizing teen girls, to the point where underage female characters are shown participating in an even higher percentage of sexual situations than their adult counterparts: 47 percent to 29 percent respectively.

Ecumenical Purity Events for Youth, Men and Women, January 28 and 29, Olathe, KS
We are called to a healthy, holy view of sex that is reserved for the covenant of marriage. Media bombards us with images that are anything but holy and anywhere but in the context of marriage. This is taking a spiritual toll, leading to destructive relationships and negative community effects. These conferences help us to stand together against today's highly sexualized culture. Featured speakers are Jason Evert, Eric Boles, Sean McKay, Jon Kitna, Pam Stenzel and Meg Wilson.

Anti-Catholic Ad Dropped From Super Bowl Ad Competition
One ad submitted featured a minister in a Roman collar who is able to bring people back to his empty church by offering Doritos and Pepsi Max in an obvious mockery of the Body and Blood of Jesus.

Long Live Christmas!
We rush to buy our presents, decorate the house, bake and send out our Christmas cards. Then we rush to take down our tree and all of the decorations. But wait a minute! Didn't Christmas just begin on December 25? Traditionally, Christmas isn’t just a day - it’s a season. This isn’t the sort of thing that can be adequately appreciated or celebrated in a single day. It takes a season. It’s the 12 days of Christmas. And it doesn’t end on December 25 - it begins on that day, and ends on January 6, which has been celebrated for centuries as the feast of the Epiphany, or the coming of the Magi. In Rome, the Vatican keeps their nativity scene and tree up in St. Peter’s square until February 2 - following a tradition that extends Christmastide all the way until Candlemas, or the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Help us thank Congressman Dennis Moore!
Dennis Moore has served our community for more than 30 years. He always put our community first, and voters recognized his efforts - sending him to Congress in 6 consecutive elections. Help us thank Congressman Dennis Moore and honor him for his service.

Gospel - Lk 4:14-22

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.

He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.

Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.

At the start of each new Congress, all Members beginning a new term of office (the entire House of Representative and one-third of the Senate) take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. In doing so, the Members of Congress perform an act that harkens back to the country’s founding and its first principles. As it applies to Members of Congress, the “Oaths Clause” plays an important role by obliging them to observe the limits of their authority and act in accordance with the powers delegated to them by the Constitution. The oath also serves as a solemn reminder that the duty to uphold the Constitution is not the exclusive or final responsibility of the Judiciary but is shared by Congress and the President (per Article II, Section 1) as co-equal branches of the United States government. This essay is adapted from The Heritage Guide to the Constitution for a new series providing constitutional guidance for lawmakers.

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