Isaiah 50: 1-2—Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the certificate of divorce by which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.”

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“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen….” (Isaiah 62: 6)

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Isaiah 50: 1-2—Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the certificate of divorce by which I have sent your mother away?  Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?  Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.  Why was there no man when I came?  When I called, why was there none to answer?  Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?  Or have I no power to deliver?  Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.”

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (Anonymous)

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It seems all but certain with the 2010 election only 48 hours away that the Republicans are going to make substantial gains, likely retaking a majority in the House of Representatives, narrowing the Democratic advantage in the Senate to less than a handful of seats, adding many governorships to the red side of the political ledger, and picking up hundreds of state offices and legislative seats previously held by Democrats. In normal times, such an electoral outcome would be hailed as a great victory for the winners and a solid mandate from voters to carry out the successful party’s platform.

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When the 112th Congress convenes in January, top on the agenda will be energy, the environment, and health care, all issues in the purview of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. With polls showing Republicans likely to take the House of Representatives, the chairmanship of this committee is vital.

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Last Sunday, the New York Times described a crude scene that smacked of not exactly petty graft. There was Afghanistan’s presidential plane on the Tehran airport tarmac, waiting for one last passenger before wheels up to Kabul.  The missing passenger was Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan. The ambassador, Feda Hussein Maliki, climbed aboard and took his tardy seat next to Umar Daudzai, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff and closest adviser.

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Why were liberals were so insanely paranoid about the alleged nefarious activities of President George W. Bush? Projection, anyone? They were mortified at Bush’s alleged encroachment on our individual liberties, but now that they’re in control, we see where liberty ranks on their list of priorities.

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Media Matters and Tides Foundation have a tough new recruit in their war against Fox News: People for the American Way. How tough? Behind PFAW’s “ain’t-we-wonderful” public face looms a crushing political force.

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Unable to eliminate private health care coverage in America in one fell swoop with his new socialized medicine law, President Obama has decided to dismantle what’s left of the free market system brick-by-brick via a relentless regulatory barrage.

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We are still learning the details of the terrorist plot to send explosives into the U.S. from Yemen via cargo plane, so it is too early to make a definitive assessment. However, we have enough information to make some preliminary observations and ask some fundamental questions.

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Republicans and conservatives have done a good job, in recent months, of keeping expectations under control for the next two years. The cautionary lessons of 1995 are everpresent in Republican minds. They know, and they say, that after the GOP takes over the House on November 2 (as is very likely), and even if Republicans also win the Senate (which is possible), President Obama will still be president. A congressional majority will mostly be limited to playing defense, to checking any further ill-considered legislative efforts to expand the size and scope of government, as well as presenting to the American people a strong and coherent alternative to the big government liberalism of the Democrats.

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When the Democrats passed their health care reform legislation in March, they assured one another that the law would grow increasingly popular as its contents became better known and its early provisions began to take effect. Seven months later—as those contents have become better known and those provisions have begun to take effect—the law only looks worse, in both substantive and political terms. Its disastrous consequences are already being felt. Voters clearly know it. The case for repealing Obamacare and starting over has never been stronger.

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The United States is at war. The Obama administration has, for better or worse, met its drawdown target in Iraq, but it has also made a far larger commitment to Afghanistan than it forecast in the 2008 campaign. In total, the demands made upon the U.S. military have not diminished. The costs of the wars we’re in are essentially as great as they were when George W. Bush was commander in chief.

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Have you heard about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s “tabletop speech” at the National Bike Summit? Probably not, but it’s legendary in pro-bicycle, anti-car circles. LaHood got a wild standing ovation in March when he climbed on a table in a congressional hearing room, touted his department’s “livable community program,” and talked about getting people “out of their cars.”

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As detailed in my previous column, despite appearances to the contrary, the federal government’s spending on its regular operations is wildly out of control, tax collections are flat, and the fiscal year 2010 out-of-pocket deficit was much higher than it was in fiscal 2009.

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For once, tidings are glorious. Even those with cautious dispositions recognize that the Republican Party has an excellent chance of reclaiming leadership in the House of Representatives in a few days time. While in the Senate, a major GOP advance is likely even if it falls short of making Mitch McConnell majority leader. Democrats cling to isolated polls suggesting otherwise, but their actions speak louder than spin. Pseudo-liberal luminaries now venture into previously “safe” blue states in the hopes of cauterizing the extensive bleeding that November 2 will produce. Should present trends continue, the neo-socialist advance on our personal freedoms and prosperity will come to an abrupt halt in January.

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In 2008, the United States voted overwhelmingly to leave her wicked ways behind and to embark upon the righteous path toward Europeanisation and away from being “irredeemable barbarians and moral inferiors.” We had our first post-racial, post-partisan president and everything got better. Didn’t it? Of course it did. Only racist fools say otherwise. With President Obama at her helm, America has done only good and never evil. She has adopted multicultural reality rejection enlightenment and striven happily and full of hope toward the light.

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Juan Williams’s recent firing from NPR has occasioned yet another in the perennial series of arguments about the public radio network and whether it should or should not continue to be government funded. The debate so far, it must be admitted, has not been an edifying one, consisting mostly of the regurgitation of clichés.

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As the congressional campaign season hits its homestretch, it is readily apparent that there will be more at stake in these mid-term elections than at any time since 1994. They present us not simply with the choice of Republican candidates versus Democrats, but of candidates fighting for small government versus those that support the swollen beast liberalism has created.

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Evidently taking its cues from the folks in charge of the press in bastions of freedom like Iran, the authorities in charge of the Syracuse University College of the Law (SUCOL) decided that a law student-authored parody blog called SUCOLitis (the website is currently inaccessible because of fear of Syracuse’s investigation) was unacceptable and have launched a dragnet investigation to find out who would have the audacity to make fun of law school students, professors, and staff. I’ve been to law school. I know that folks there can be arrogant. But launching an investigation to see what anonymous person on the Internet is mocking you is taking it to a whole new level.

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What do Pennsylvania and Florida have in common, aside from the fact that both are poised to send conservative, Tea-flavored Republicans to the Senate next week? Both states may be crime scenes, with the same suspect at work. And that suspect is none other than Bill Clinton, the former president of the United States. Clinton’s respect for the law is famously weak: the former president bears the distinction of having had his law license suspended for five years in Arkansas, and was later disbarred by the U.S. Supreme Court for perjury and suborning the perjury of others in the Lewinsky case.

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The “deep ideology” of the left, rooted in the triple assumption that the ideal of earthly perfection is realizable, that human nature is a social construct which can be remade or transformed, and that radical change is preferable to gradual amelioration in the evolution of human societies, is the bane of the modern era. This verdict has been proven many times over, from the reverberating failure of the malignant Soviet experiment to the faltering economies of socialist and welfare states across the world. Even Communist China has moved toward a capitalist-oriented market system.

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Like a movie shown out of focus and at a high rate, the election in Massachusetts’s Fourth Congressional District has been exhilarating but difficult to appreciate fully. However, in the last week, the film has slowed and there is a laser-like focus to the race. Massachusetts will do it again. A little-known but young, intelligent, and energetic candidate will transfer a seat thought to be impregnable by the Democrats and the pundits into the Republican camp.

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Suppose you own an older home, and you want to give it a makeover. A major makeover. Maybe even take it into “extreme makeover” territory. Before you can build the new rooms, walls, and so forth, you have to plan. And that plan must include, among other things, destroying at least some of what’s there. Take a look at this time lapse video to see what I’m talking about.

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A recent MEMRI report titled “Arab Columnists: Stop Talking About Offensive Jihad” alludes to the ultimate problem between Islam and the non-Muslim world: offensive jihad — the Islamic imperative to subjugate the world. The report opens by saying: “One dominant theme during Ramadan in the Arab world is the discussion, in the media and in religious circles, of the commandment of jihad and the obligation therein to wage war against the infidels.” It then focuses on two recent op-eds, written by Arab-Muslims, that discuss the need to tone down Muslim talk of offensive jihad.

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From the early 1990s through the 2008 election, Americans grew steadily more liberal. Voters became more supportive of government spending and more sympathetic toward the poor. They were increasingly secular and increasingly likely to favor gay marriage. They were more worried about climate change and more inclined to support universal health care. And not surprisingly, they were more and more likely to identify as Democrats.

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Consumer advocates, the press, investors and homeowners have already compiled a compelling list of transgressions: conflicts of interest that have banks pushing foreclosures, without a good-faith effort to modify troubled loans. Dubious fees that inflate mortgage balances. The hundreds of thousands of flawed foreclosure affidavits that violated homeowners’ legal protections. The misplaced documents. And it goes on.

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Central to the Democrats’ electoral woes was the debate on health-care reform. From the moment in May 2009 when the Congressional Budget Office announced that the president’s plan would cost a trillion dollars, most voters opposed it. Today 53% want to repeal it. Opposition was always more intense than support, and opposition was especially high among senior citizens, who vote in high numbers in midterm elections.

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Quick — What time Tuesday are you voting? Whom will you take with you to your polling place? Whom will you nudge with phone calls?

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Somehow, it’s become fashionable to think that high-speed trains connecting major cities will help “save the planet.” They won’t. They’re a perfect example of wasteful spending masquerading as a respectable social cause. They would further burden already overburdened governments and drain dollars from worthier programs – schools, defense, research.

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It was just four years ago that the Democratic Party began its comeback in what now seems like another country.

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With analysts talking about a Republican “wave” in the midterm elections, you would expect the Democratic candidate to get pounded here, in a district he narrowly won from the GOP in 2008. But Tom Perriello has been running surprisingly close to Republican Robert Hurt in the polls – and his success illustrates several contrarian factors affecting Tuesday’s balloting.

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How desperate is Barney Frank in his battle with Sean Bielat? This desperate.  Not only does Frank now have Michael Dukakis stumping for him in the district, he’s literally doubling down on Bush-blaming.  Dukakis isn’t content to just blame W, he also goes after Poppy in this attempt to fire up the base.  He even gets in a dig at the 2000 election, just to complete the picture of undying resentment, caught by Fleming & Hayes (which seems to be down, probably due to the traffic hit from our earlier headline link).

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Republican Bill Johnson has an uphill battle in the Buckeye State. But if he can pull it off, Republicans everywhere can rest easy on Election Day.

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Millions of Americans still wonder why our current President remains so utterly clueless on economic policy. There is certainly a good argument that his leftist agenda, illustrated by his tiresome class-warfare blather and his continuing scorn for our most productive – and most job-creating – citizens, is the crux of the problem. The actual reason, however, is his complete lack of experience with basic economics and finance.

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Signs of an unmistakable Republican trend are brightening the chances of a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Republican Dino Rossi 1 point ahead of incumbent Sen. Patty Murray in Washington state. The Rossi lead — obviously within the margin of error — came after he had trailed by 3 points in previous polling.

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Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election, the close of the 111th congress punctuates Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as, arguably, the worst Speaker of the House in the history of the United States. No other Speaker has eroded American competitiveness as thoroughly, practiced such a vile and bitter partisanship where friends and allies in Unions and other left-wing causes were rewarded at the expense of others, all while deliberately encouraging Americans to become increasingly dependent upon government.

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For decades the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fought the good fight against racial discrimination. The organization was instrumental in defeating Jim Crow and discrimination in the work-place; it led the charge in establishing voting rights for all and equal access to quality education. Even now the NAACP does some good work in local communities. However, as a national civil-rights organization, it has lost its way.

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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in “a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics.” He’d really like to elect a new people.

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Heading into what appears to be a disastrous midterm election, the Obama Democrats profess to be puzzled. The president’s record, they insist, is moderate, accommodating — if anything, overcautious. So why do most American voters seem to be angrily rejecting it?

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Pretending that Yahweh’s promises concerning the Promised Land don’t matter is a recipe for disaster.

The United States has proposed that Israel lease land from the Palestinians in a future “peace deal”.  (See U.S. proposes Israel lease lands from Palestinians under future deal.)  It may look good on paper and the Palestinians may buy it as a face-saving measure, but I don’t think it will pass muster with Yahweh.  He’s the One who promised the Promised Land to Abraham’s descendants through Isaac and Jacob.  Yahweh said that His promises are good in perpetuity – that means for all time.  He left no wiggle room.

On top of that, the UN has declared that Jewish holy sites belong to the Palestinians. (See Israel slams ‘absurd’ UNESCO decision on Jerusalem, West Bank holy sites and PM slams UNESCO calling Rachel’s Tomb a mosque.)  It looks to me like the world is heading for a direct confrontation with Yahweh as political leaders attempt to carve out a peace treaty that nullifies His Word.  Yahweh will never abrogate His promises.

If the consequences weren’t so horrific, it would be entertaining to watch men try to come to grips with a problem by completely ignoring Yahweh.  In the end, Yahweh’s promises will stand no matter what men do.  I wish they understood, but they don’t.  One day they’ll get it.  Unfortunately, when that day comes it will be too late for many of them.  I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes.

Pretending that Yahweh’s promises concerning the Promised Land don’t matter is a recipe for disaster.  You can see them in every SnyderTalk post in the column on the right in the page titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”.  Take a moment and read them.  We may not be able to avert a catastrophe, but at least we’ll understand why it’s happening.

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