"The war on Christmas is a war against Christ and His followers. It's the hatred of our culture for the exclusive claims that Christ made."

Meanwhile the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) sent memos to 13,000 school district administrators reminding them that freedom of Christmas expression is constitutional.

“A day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God.”

A grand jury reached a decision Monday in the case against the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in August, touching off nationwide protests and cries of police brutality.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will officially resign amid growing pressure from the Obama administration over his handling of several international crises, Fox News has confirmed. Hagel, 68, is expected to meet with President Obama at the White House at 11 a.m.

Republicans also are projected to retain control of the House -- and gain at least 12 seats, expanding their majority beyond their post-World War II record of 246 seats set in 1946.

In New York, the traditional roll call of the victims began at the World Trade Center site shortly after 8:46 a.m., the same time 13 years ago when the first plane hit the north tower. The event was closed to the public except for families of the victims.

In the judgment scenario, it is possible that the U.S. will have been crippled by a nuclear attack before the final End Times conflicts begin. It is also possible that the nation will have just lost its importance on the world scene, and will have declined like all the former empires in history.

Laurie's preferred theory is that there could be another great revival. He says,

In some ways, things have never been worse morally. Yet there is great opportunity for the gospel. There is an open door for believers to go through to reach out to other people.

For example, there are no themes on federalism, separation of powers, the Federalist Papers, or the Gettysburg Address. The curriculum doesn’t ask teachers to teach about Benjamin Franklin and contains no mention of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison.

“Abundant research bears out the sad reality that fewer and fewer young people, particularly students of color and students in poverty, are receiving a high quality social studies education, despite the central role of social studies in preparing students for the responsibilities of citizenship.”

The Slippery Slope -Public education was infiltrated by agnostic and evolutionary influences
Moral Relativism and the Sexual Revolution - The schools, which had already been greatly influenced by progressive education, were then faced with the dilemma of how to teach good behavior when the ...
The Plot Thickens - The progressive element in education and government endorses or allows a catalog of behaviors that have always been considered sinful by Bible-believing ...

Rush Limbaugh made a rare plea to his audience to see Dinesh D'Souza's America, a film that opened in 1,105 theaters on Wednesday and that the nation's top radio talk-show host likened to Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

156,000 Allied soldiers, supported by many more sailors, airmen and marines, embarked on the long-awaited invasion of occupied Europe. This was an Allied effort, but American fighting men bore the brunt of the combat and the resulting sacrifice.

In April 2013, a group of New York atheists filed suit challenging the national motto inscribed on U.S. currency,. . . They argued it violates the separation of church and state and their free exercise rights.

Thousands of pieces of memorabilia, large and small, are on display in the museum. Among them there is a 17-foot-high cross-section of steel I-beams from the North Tower, shaped like a cross. It had plummeted into an adjacent office building. Two days after the attack one of the rescue workers spotted the cross:

He spray-painted arrows around the site pointing to "Gods House'' (sic). Recovery and rescue workers came by on their breaks; some wrote the names of the dead or their units on the cross.

President George Washington, accompanied by Congress, proceeded to St. Paul’s Chapel where, as one of his first official acts, he offered a prayer of dedication to God on America’s behalf.

"...thus involving government in religious matters to a far greater degree than is the case under the town's current practice of neither editing nor approving prayers in advance nor criticizing their content after the fact."

His latest film, "America," is to be released July 4 and challenges the left's view that the United States has too much power in the world. . . D'Souza said his film explores why America is a great nation.