Monitor The Strategic Trends
Introduction:
“It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.”
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
The Best of Times?
By many reckonings, it appears to be the best of times in America: We enjoy a robust economy, reinforced by continually advancing technologies. At least one computer in every home, and a personal telephone on almost everyone’s belt. People are buying their 3rd and 4th cars. Our military is the most feared throughout the world. Indeed, in many ways, it seems like the best of times.
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Conservatives Pulling Out The Megaphones January 26, 2010
The Occult And Holiday Eye Candy December 22, 2009
Supreme Court To Hear Christian Legal Students' Case December 08, 2009
There's An Alternative To The Expensive Health Care Monster Bill November 10, 2009
Life Triumphs Over Abortion November 03, 2009
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Issachar Report: The Middle East in the Crosshairs: Part 2 by Steve Elwart, IDB Folio Specialist
2010 and Beyond: The Middle East in the Crosshairs by Steve Elwart, IDB Folio Specialist
Issachar Report: "Cap & Trade is a Tax...a Big One" by Steven Elwart, Koinonia Institute
Hosea, Can You See? The Slippery Slope of Deception by Mary Miller, Koinonia Institute
Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Update: The Fleecing of America by Mary Miller, Koinonia Institute
**ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS AND LINKS**
Note: These links are provided for your further research and education. Koinonia House does not necessarily agree with the information on these sites or support the specific organizations.
Documents
The Many Benefits of Traditional Marriage - The benefits of marriage are most observable within the measurable realms of health, wealth, and (self-reported) sexual fulfillment. In each of these categories, married couples experience immense advantages that cohabitating couples, or individuals who remain single, do not.
Is Homosexuality Genetic? - This site contains a variety of resources on the health dangers of the homosexual lifestyle and evidence that homosexuality is not innate and unchangeable.
The Declaration of Independence -
The Federalist Papers - A definitive review of the Constitution written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
NAFTA -
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The American Center for Law and Justice -
Same-Sex Marriage & Domestic Partnerships - Yahoo! Full Coverage
Abortion Rights Debate - Yahoo! Full Coverage
Elian: Sign of America's Decline? -
America's Criminal Class: The Congress of the United States - Capitol Hill Blue
News Sources
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Bible Battles Taking Place in Three States - Three-in-one-month legal developments in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee add fuel to the fiery rhetoric from all sides about when the Bible should come through the schoolhouse door. To get beyond the fight, schools need to protect the right of students to bring their Scriptures to school and share their faith with others (as long as they aren't disruptive) while making sure that educators teach about the Bible in literature and history in ways that are academically and constitutionally sound.
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Abortion Workers Who Turn Pro-Life - Advances in ultrasound imaging and abortion procedures have forced providers ever closer to the nub of their work. This intimacy exacts an emotional toll, stirring sentiments for which doctors, nurses, and aides are sometimes unprepared. Most apparently have managed to reconcile their belief in the right to abortion with their revulsion at dying and dead fetuses, but a noteworthy number have found the conflict unbearable and have defected to the pro-life cause.
Ten Commandments Win Another Battle - The head of Liberty Counsel, a firm that litigates on civil and religious rights issues, says a decision from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals has extended a winning streak for the Ten Commandments that dates back to 2005.
The organization successfully argued on behalf of the legality of a display in a public building in Kentucky that included the Ten Commandments among other historical references.
History Professors Testify Against Prop 8 - The trial of a legal challenge to Proposition 8 may decide whether same-sex couples get the chance to marry in California in the future, but on Tuesday it was all about Ivy League history professors. Prop. 8 lawyers depicted both witnesses as unabashed proponents of gay marriage. In fact, within minutes of Cott leaving the stand, Prop. 8 counsel Andrew Pugno told a news conference her testimony was "a disaster for the plaintiffs" and that many of her views actually supported the arguments for Prop. 8.
Denzel's Eli Depends on Bible - Denzel Washington's latest role in "The Book of Eli" has him playing a wanderer in a nuclear war-ravaged America who leans on his Bible for guidance, and the actor says if he was in that situation, he'd do exactly the same. The movie, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, blends elements of old-style Hollywood westerns, in the form of desolate landscapes and frontier towns, and Old Testament spirituality -- a change for Hollywood studios which tend to avoid religious themes in modern, big-budget action flicks.
**FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH STUDY**
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Hosea, Can You See? - Chuck Missler
Chuck Missler sheds some light on the startling and humbling parallels between our society and that of the prophet Hosea. These are warning we would be wise not to ignore.
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