Joshua 2:9-11 KJV And she said unto the men,
I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen
upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. (10)
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for
you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the
Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly
destroyed. (11) And as soon as we had heard these things, our
hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because
of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Who's afraid of O?
"New birth of freedom" overdue
In the years following World War II our Nation was both respected and
feared. But the centralization of authority necessary in war time ought to be
properly reversed thereafter. Freedom, and necessary authority on the basis of
subsidiarity ought to be given a new birth. Actually, if authority is properly
redistributed, the proper redistribution of wealth, balancing justice with
freedom of opportunity, will follow.
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work […] that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom—and that, government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863, at
Gettysburg, Penna.
Who’s afraid of Barack Obama?
By [New York Post] Editorial Board February
12, 2014 | 10:02pm http://bit.ly/1kEzAzR
[Photo caption:] A poster depicting President Obama as an
"American clown" hangs over a mass rally of Iranians marking the 1979
Islamic revolution this week. Photo:
Getty Images
We cheered a week ago, when President Obama used the National Prayer
Breakfast to call for release of two Americans.
The first is Kenneth Bae, a prisoner of North Korea. The other is Saeed
Abedini, a prisoner of Iran. Each has been sentenced to long prison terms for
“crimes” that only a criminal regime would deem criminal: Bae for ministering
to Christians and Abedini for work on behalf of house churches.
Alas, the week since Obama’s call confirms a depressing fact about
America’s diminished standing in the world these days.
Pyongyang packed Bae off to one of its labor camps in the vast North
Korean gulag and cancelled an invitation for an American envoy to visit to
discuss Bae’s fate. Meanwhile, Tehran announced it was dispatching several
warships to the edge of US waters. Tells you what they think of President
Obama’s appeals for release, and his claim that respect for religious liberty
is a tenet of his foreign policy.
The hard men in Pyongyang look at the red line Obama drew in Syria and
understand he won’t take them on. Ditto for the Iranians, who are using
negotiations to buy time before they simply announce they’ve developed their
own nukes.
It’s a long way from President Theodore Roosevelt. When a Moroccan
bandit named Raisuli kidnapped an American named Ion Perdicaris, Teddy sent a
telegram to the sultan: Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead. Even though
Perdicaris’ US citizenship was doubtful, the principle was served.
The world would be a safer place if, instead of feeling free to taunt
President Obama, Iran and North Korea had to fear the consequences of defying
him.
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