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Thought for the day: You must bring him to a condition in which he can practice self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office (from the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, page 25).
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Posted 9 a.m., Saturday, July 12
Tony Snow, America's greatest press secretary and amazing example of Christianity, dies at 53
Sen. DeMint Vows to Close Down Senate
Until 'Vote on Offshore Exploration'
Sen. Jim DeMint calls Pelosi, Democrats 'hypocrites' for urging Bush to release oil from the strategic reserves and opposing drilling.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
7/9/2008
www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080709213746.aspx
Drastic times may call for drastic actions according to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).
DeMint told participants in a “national Tele Town Hall meeting” on July 9 there was a movement among senators to shut down the Senate floor if an up-or-down vote was not held on the offshore exploration for oil and natural gas. The senator maintained the added energy was an issue of national security to prevent the nation from being held “hostage” by OPEC.
“One of the things that we’re looking at here – a few of us have been meeting about ways that we might just close down the Senate floor until we get a vote on offshore exploration, as well as developing the supplies of oil and natural gas that we have, you know, around the country,” DeMint said. “We’re trying to come up with some way that we can just – we can get the attention and create a sense of urgency that was just expressed because that is very true,” he explained during the call organized by Americans for Prosperity.
Earlier on July 9, Cybercast News Service reported Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President George W. Bush, urging him to release oil held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The move would be “in order to expand available supplies and help reduce the record prices that are helping push the economy toward recession,” she said.
DeMint called Pelosi’s efforts “ironic” and “hypocritical” because of her previous stance on offshore drilling. On June 16, Pelosi said she opposed Bush’s efforts to open up more offshore federal landsfor drilling and called the proposal “another page from the administration's energy policy that was literally written by the oil industry.”
[T]his is supply and demand,” DeMint said. “It’s really ironic and even hypocritical that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats think we ought to pull oil out of the ground from our national reserve but not pull it out of the ground in other places,” DeMint said.
“We’re burning the same oil – there’s no difference in the environment. There’s no difference in the environment if we burn OPEC oil versus burn our own. So, their hypocrisy is starting to catch up with them. But we do need to drill now and we’ll pay less if we drill now.”
However, DeMint didn’t completely rule out Democrat calls for conservation and alternative energy. He remained open to such programs.
“We can still come up with programs to use less and to conserve and come up with alternatives,” DeMint said. “But in the short-term, we’ve got to let the world know that we’re going to have our own energy supplies so that we won’t be held hostage by OPEC.”
Posted 9:10 a.m., Friday, July 11
Upstate Young Republicans July meeting features
Charles Swift with Fair Tax
Monday, July 14, 7 p.m., GOP Headquarters
402 N. Pleasantburg Dr.
Visit their web site at www.theuyr.org or
Contact Chairman Carl Clegg, (864) 221-0056,
chairman@theuyr.org
Posted 11:50 a.m., July 8
Sen. Jim DeMint to be on national Telephone Town Hall Meeting Wednesday evening
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), one of the top conservative leaders in America, will be on a national Telephone Town Hall meeting with Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, Wednesday evening, July 9, beginning at 7:10 p.m. Eastern time.
Phillips said: "As you know, gas prices are out of control, yet some in Congress continue to push legislation like a $1.2 trillion global warming carbon tax hike that will only make matters worse. At the same time, Congress is blocking legislation that would allow us to increase energy production and supplies here at home.
"During Wednesday's Telephone Town Hall meeting, Senator DeMint and I will be discussing with you how Al Gore and his environmental extremist policies are driving up the price of gasoline, increasing home energy costs, and killing jobs.
"We'll be discussing what is at stake, and what we can do to help Senator DeMint fight the good fight in Washington. You will also have the opportunity to ask Senator DeMint a question."
To join the Telephone Town Hall meeting with Sen. DeMint dial in at 7:10 p.m. Eastern time by calling toll-free to 1-877-229-8493 and entering the PIN code 13896.
Posted 5 p.m., Saturday, July 5
Were America's Founders Deists? By Brannon Howse
Grand Jury declines to indict late-term abortion doctor. From the Christian Post.
Jordan's legal jihad. From Frontpage Magazine.
Posted 2:50 p.m., Saturday, June 28
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council asks Sen. Barack Obama when life begins. View video.
10 Minutes from Olympic Village: While tourists praise Olympic heroes in Beijing, a few kilometers away Chinese Christian heroes suffer for the sake of the Gospel.
Why We Left Islam: By Susan Crimp & Joel Richardson, editors
Powerfully written and deeply compelling. The penalty for renouncing Islam is death, which makes these accounts of people of conscience even more poignant by the realization that each of them lives under a death sentence. These brutally honest accounts shine the light of truth on what the media and politicians won't admit—Islam is NOT a “religion of peace” but instead is barbaric, repressive, and a nightmare for those living under it. Should be required reading for human rights activists and all those who value the dignity of the human person. (Hardback, 183 pages) Order now.
Posted 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 7
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Posted 4:45 p.m., Friday, June 6
Sen. Jim DeMint introduces resolution to make June 6 a national day of prayer for our troops.
Posted 9:40 a.m., Monday, June 2
I have been named editor of The Palmetto Patriot (above), the publication of the South Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution. Click here to view my first edition and contact me if you would like for me to produce your publication or design your web site.
Posted 9:50 p.m., Saturday, May 31
President Bush arrives at Greenville-Spartanburg Airport before Furman graduation address
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