Ford endorses voter guide urging defeat of state constitutional amendments banning homosexual marriage

In March, AFA called for a boycott of Ford Motor Company because of their support for the homosexual agenda and homosexual marriage. We asked Ford to remain neutral in the culture war over homosexual marriage, as Wal-Mart has decided to do. Ford refused and elected to throw their company resources behind the promotion of homosexual marriage.

Prior to the recent elections, Ford Motor Company sent an e-mail to their salaried employees pointing them to one of the most liberal, anti-family Web sites on the Internet. Ford urged their employees to go to Ballot.org for information on how to vote on issues including homosexual marriage. (Go to 4th paragraph where it says “check out the 2006 BISC Picks [our yes and no votes].” The Ford-recommended Web site urged voters to vote against constitutional amendments which defined marriage as being between one man and one woman in Arizona, Colorado, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Of the hundreds of voters guides Ford could have endorsed, Ford chose Ballot.org. Ford’s endorsement of this site clearly indicates that Ford favored the positions promoted on Ballot.org. The Web site accused those who favored the marriage amendments of “extreme bigotry” and said the amendments were an “attack on marriage equality, civil unions and all domestic partnerships.” This is the Web site Ford sent its employees to for information on how to vote.

Your efforts helped convince Wal-Mart to remain neutral in the homosexual marriage battle. AFA is asking that you do the same with Ford.

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1. Sign the Boycott pledge letting Ford Motor Company know you are joining the Ford boycott. 2. Very Important! Forward this e-mail to Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar, and/or Land Rover dealers in your area. (All these are owned by Ford Motor Company.) Find their e-mail address here (click on the auto icon). Ask the dealer to forward this e-mail to Ford CEO Mulally. 3. Forward this e-mail to all your family and friends who may not be aware of Ford’s promotion of homosexual marriage.

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Dr. Dobson Helps Larry King Understand ‘Separation of Church and State’

by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor

Focus founder correctly points out it’s not anywhere in a foundational document.

In an interview turned history lesson, Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, helped talk-show host Larry King understand — over his protests — that “separation of church and state” is not found in the U.S. Constitution.

During last week’s hour-long conversation on Larry King Live, King quizzed Dr. Dobson on myriad topics including O.J. Simpson’s rejected book, the fall of evangelical leader Ted Haggard and Michael J. Fox’s TV ad for embryonic stem-cell research. But when the discussion turned to attempts to redefine marriage — the TV host made it an issue of separation of church and state.

KING: Why is it a state institution rather than a religious institution? Why is the state involved?

DOBSON: Well, it’s both. It is both.

KING: But we have a separation of church and state.

DOBSON: Beg your pardon?

KING: We have a separation of church and state.

DOBSON: Who says?

KING: You don’t believe in separation of church and state?

DOBSON: Not the way you mean it. The separation of church and state is not in the Constitution. No, it’s not. That is not in the Constitution.

KING: It’s in the Bill of Rights.

DOBSON: It’s not in the Bill of Rights. It’s not anywhere in a foundational document. The only place where the so-called “wall of separation” was mentioned was in a letter written by (Thomas) Jefferson to a friend. That’s the only place. It has been picked up and made to be something it was never intended to be.

What it has become is that the government is protected from the church, instead of the other way around, which is that church was designed to be protected from the government.

KING: I’m going to check my history.

And well he should, according to Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action. He said King bought into a misconception that is far too common. Many Americans continue to believe the phrase “separation of church and state” is found in the U.S. Constitution, illustrating the need for a better civics education.

“Dr. Dobson’s statement regarding separation of church and state was entirely accurate,” he said. “Most Americans do not realize that it wasn’t until 1947 that the U.S. Supreme Court imposed that metaphor — ’separation of church and state’ — upon the country as law.”

The court actually lifted the phrase from an 1802 letter President Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut. They had asked him to help protect the rights of religious minorities.

“Jefferson politely declined in his letter to use his office for such influence,” Hausknecht said, “explaining that the First Amendment prohibited him from doing so because it had created a ‘wall of separation of church and state.’ Although it’s not completely clear among historians as to the complete scope of Jefferson’s meaning, because of the letter’s specific historical context it’s accurate to say, as Dr. Dobson did, that Jefferson felt the First Amendment protected the church from government interference — not the opposite.”

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore told CitizenLink that he shares Jefferson’s perspective.

“The words ’separation of church and state’ are not found in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence or the Articles of Confederation or any document of our history,” he said. “The First Amendment to our Constitution basically embodies a concept of separation — meaning that the state should stay out of the affairs of the church and of the relationship that men have with their God.”

In modern law, he said, many use “separation of church and state” with the intent to separate God, moral values and Christian principles from the state.

“It means none of that,” Moore said. “The way people use ’separation of church and state’ is not historically or legally accurate. What it does mean is that the state can’t interfere with the church and can’t interfere with our mode of worship and our articles of faith. And that’s what ’separation of church and state’ means.”

Jefferson and the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration and the Constitution gave recognition to God, he said. It’s only been in the last few decades that God has been removed from the public square.

“Even the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist,” Hausknecht said, “called ’separation’ a ‘metaphor based on bad history’ as he urged his fellow justices to abandon its use in First Amendment Establishment Clause cases.”

Instead of being reviled by the secular Left, he said, conservatives should be understood and appreciated as trying to restore the original understanding of the Constitution.

“We have let judges rewrite the First Amendment,” Moore said, “to actually forbid that which it was meant to allow.”

Such has become clear legally, historically and logically, he said.

“To let judges rewrite the First Amendment,” Hausknecht said, “is simply to abdicate our own responsibility as citizens to ensure that the Constitution continues to say and mean what it has always said.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For a transcript of Dr. James Dobson’s appearance on Larry King, click here.

CNN has posted a few highlights of the program.

Click here to read Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists.

(NOTE: Referral to Web sites not produced by Focus on the Family is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the sites’ content.)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Proclamation 2571 on Thanksgiving Day.

November 26th, 1942

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.” Across the uncertain ways of space and time our hearts echo those words, for the days are with us again when, at the gathering of the harvest, we solemnly express our dependence upon Almighty God. The final months of this year, now almost spent, find our Republic and the Nations joined with it waging a battle on many fronts for the preservation of liberty. In giving thanks for the greatest harvest in the history of our Nation, we who plant and reap can well resolve that in the year to come we will do all in our power to pass that milestone; for by our labors in the fields we can share some part of the sacrifice with our brothers and sons who wear the uniform of the United States. It is fitting that we recall now the reverent words of George Washington, “Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy Protection,” and that every American in his own way lift his voice to heaven. I recommend that all of us bear in mind this great Psalm:”The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. “He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” Inspired with faith and courage by these words, let us turn again to the work that confronts us in this time of national emergency: in the armed services and the merchant marine; in factories and offices; on farms and in the mines; on highways, railways, and airways; in other places of public service to the Nation; and in our homes. Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the attention of the people to the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941, which designates the fourth Thursday in November of each year as Thanksgiving Day; and I request that both Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1942, and New Year’s Day, January 1, 1943, be observed in prayer, publicly and privately. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Citation: John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). Available from World Wide Web: (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16208).

Anti-Gun Mayor Pleads Guilty to Firearms Charges

By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
November 22, 2006

(CNSNews.com) – A Mississippi mayor has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor weapons charges after carrying a handgun on church and school property, and a gun rights group thinks now would be a good time for him to step down from Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).

Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, a Democrat, pleaded guilty Nov. 15 to the misdemeanors to avoid felony charges that would have cost him his job. Instead of jail time, he was fined $1,500 and put on a year’s probation.

Lawrence Keane, director of the gun rights lobbying group National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), on Tuesday called Melton a “hypocrite” for violating gun laws while maintaining membership in MAIG.

MAIG is a coalition of American mayors headed by New York Republican Michael Bloomberg. On its website, the group says it “respect[s] the rights of law-abiding citizens to own guns” and that their “only interest is in fighting crime.”

The organization supports harsher penalties for criminals who use firearms and seeks to punish gun dealers who knowingly sell guns to so-called “straw purchasers.”

In a letter to Bloomberg obtained by Cybercast News Service, Keane called for Melton’s “immediate resignation” as mayor and urged Bloomberg to “follow the lead of the firearms industry and demand Mayor Melton resign from public office.”

Keane also urged Bloomberg to bar Melton from participation in MAIG activities, saying that “his criminal conduct stands in stark contrast to the MAIG’s purported goal of reducing gun crime in America.”

In an e-mail statement, Bloomberg spokeswoman Virginia Lam said that “instead of mounting a public relations campaign to take down a tough opponent of illegal guns” — a reference to Melton — “the NSSF should be working with us to help keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals.”

Lam told Cybercast News Service that “no one is above the law” but did not comment specifically on Melton’s plea or on what, if any, action MAIG will take against him.

A spokesman for Melton did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Jackson City Council leaders contacted Tuesday were unwilling to talk about Melton’s guilty plea. Last week, council President Ben Allen was quoted by Jackson’s Clarion-Ledger as saying the city government “will not miss a beat” regardless of the outcome of the case.

The illegal gun issue is not Melton’s first brush with controversy.

In July 2006, the American Civil Liberties Union called for an investigation into claims that he had “violated the civil rights of Jacksonians through warrantless searches of homes, vehicles and persons and by violating the due process rights of persons detained and/or accused of crimes.”

The ACLU alleged that Melton, who is black, has “created an environment where racial profiling is accepted, due process is ignored, searches are conducted illegally, and police brutality is commonplace.”

According to The Hill newspaper, Melton created a stir in the U.S. Capitol in July when he received credentials that would have allowed him to carry a firearm in the building, a privilege normally reserved only for active-duty police officers.

The Hill reported that Melton is known for carrying a firearm with him at all times, including on commercial airline flights and in accompanying Jackson police during crime-fighting efforts.

Pro-Homosexual Democrats To Push Anti-Christian ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation

Our Website Pro-Homosexual Democrats To Push Anti-Christian ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition November 14, 2006 – With the Democrats taking control of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives this January, we can expect the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and its pro-homosexual surrogates newly elected to Congress, to begin an aggressive push for passage of a “hate crimes” bill designed to provide federally protected status to the behavior of homosexuality. This hate crimes bill is likely to be a re-engineered version of the old Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act (LLEEA). The pro-homosexual, anti-Christian Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is another bill that will be revived as part of the homosexual agenda. Call to Conservatives… For 40 years, the anti-God Left has been using America’s courts to impose an anti-religion, anti-family agenda on America -– an extremist agenda that politicians (even most liberals) would never dare vote for. And, ultra-liberal Democrats and leftist special interest groups like the ACLU and People for the American Way have led a campaign of vilification against President Bush’s judicial nominees. Liberals want to impose their political agendas on us through the Courts. Please Pledge your support to help TVC protect our traditional values. The Traditional Values Coalition has taken a key leadership role in fighting for a restoration of our systems of checks and balances in government. We have lobbied for passage of numerous bills in Congress that will restrict the power of judges to legislate from the bench or to ignore the clear intent of laws and the original meaning of the Constitution. Traditional Values Coalition addresses 5 moral issues: right to life issues, oppose pornography, religious issues, oppose the homosexuality agenda, and support of the family. Our right to religious freedom, free speech, and freedom of association are under attack in America! Organized anti-religious groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and radical homosexual groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, are determined to silence Christians and to strip us of our God-given rights to freely express our religious beliefs and to condemn sexual behaviors that we consider to be immoral and perverted. If you’re sick and tired of having your freedom of religion attacked by the ACLU and by homosexual militants, then we invite you to become part of the Traditional Values Coalition. Please go here and sign up! Americans voted for a change in Congress. They obviously have not seriously considered the kind of changes they may have to cope with once the homosexual agenda goes into full swing in the Senate and House. The homosexual goal is to create protected minority status for homosexuality as though it were equal to such immutable characteristics as race. The side-effect of this effort will be to criminalize criticism of homosexual conduct and to violate religious freedom and freedom of conscience. It is also likely that all attempts to pass a constitutional marriage amendment will be dead on arrival in the Senate. Newly-elected Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey (D) who defeated pro-family Senator Rick Santorum (R) has already indicated his plans to push for a hate crimes bill that includes “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Casey’s announcement is payback to HRC for its strong support of his race for the Senate. Gender identity, for those unfamiliar with the term, is code for an individual who thinks he is the opposite sex. (This includes cross-dressers, transvestites and transsexuals.) Sexually confused individuals will be a protected minority if Casey and his minions in the Senate have their way. HRC is encouraged by the election of Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota to the U.S. Senate. She defeated rival Mark Kennedy. Klobuchar is a proponent of pro-homosexual hate crime legislation; HRC raised thousands of dollars for her campaign. In the House, HRC has applauded the election of such pro-homosexual and pro-abortion individuals as Gabby Giffords of Arizona who defeated Randy Graf for homosexual Jim Kolbe’s (R) seat. Kolbe is under investigation by a U.S. Attorney in Arizona for his role in taking two House pages on a camping trip in 1996. Kolbe has admitted he was aware of Mark Foley’s inappropriate emails with House pages as far back as 2000. In Florida, an HRC-endorsed Democrat Ron Klein defeated 13-term Republican Claw Shaw in the 22nd District. Klein can be expected to payback HRC with homosexual-affirming legislation when he takes office in January. With both the Senate and House now under control of Democrats and dozens of pro-homosexual lawmakers, all Americans must be prepared to endure serious threats to their freedom of speech, their right to make employment decisions as business owners, and their religious freedom in the business world. TVC did everything in its power to educate and inspire our supporters to vote for candidates who uphold traditional morality. We tried to warn voters what would happen should liberals gain control of Congress in January. We fear our predictions will be correct—and religious freedom and free speech will die by a thousand cuts—beginning in 2007. Fortunately, the people can change course in 2008, after they’ve seen the horrors to be offered them by the sick ideology of homosexual activists and liberals. My hope is that the damage done to our cultural foundations will be minimal during these next two years of liberal occupation. With Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate Majority leader, God help us. Traditional Values Coalition is an inter-denominational public policy organization speaking on behalf of over 43,000 churches. For more information or to arrange an interview, please call (202) 547-8570. Rev. Sheldon is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, an ordained minister, and the founder of the Traditional Values Coalition in Washington, DC. His new book, The Agenda — The Homosexual Plan to Change America, was recently released by FrontLine Publishers, a Strang Communications company. Traditional Values Coalition 139 “C” Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Web site address: http://www.traditionalvalues.org

California Supreme Court Urged to Overturn Marriage Decision

		California Supreme Court Urged to Overturn Marriage Decision Flush with Victory from Elections, Radical Activists Even More Emboldened to Strike at Marriage in the Courts WASHINGTON, DC – Matt Daniels, president and founder of the Alliance for Marriage, called upon the House and Senate today to reintroduce AFM’s Marriage Protection Amendment in the new Congress in response to the appeal of a lower court ruling in California upholding marriage as a man and woman. “Radical Activists, flush from mid-term elections and their recent victory before the New Jersey Supreme Court, are now more emboldened than ever to strike at marriage in the courts,” said Matt Daniels, president and founder of the Alliance for Marriage. “Given the ongoing attack on marriage in courts across the country including California — AFM’s Marriage Protection Amendment is clearly the only hope for the American people to determine the future of marriage under our laws.” “On Election Day, Americans overwhelmingly demonstrated once again at the ballot box that the future of marriage transcends political party and partisan politics,” said Daniels. “Radical activists know this truth too well and will continue sue in court to destroy the common sense definition of marriage in America.” Voters in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin, overwhelmingly approved state marriage amendments on the ballot. Twenty seven states have now approved marriage amendments to their constitution protecting marriage as a man and woman. This brings to forty-five the total number of states with either statutory or constitutional protections for marriage. “Most Americans believe that gays and lesbians have a right to live as they choose. But they don’t believe they have a right to redefine marriage for our entire society,” said Daniels. “Americans want our laws to send a positive message to children about marriage, family and their future.” “The constitutional problem created by almost a decade of activist lawsuits to destroy our marriage laws demands a constitutional fix,” Daniels added. The Alliance for Marriage is a non-partisan, multicultural coalition whose Board of Advisors includes Rev. Walter Fauntroy — the former DC Delegate who organized the March on Washington for Martin Luther King Jr. — as well as other civil rights and religious leaders, and national legal experts. The Alliance for Marriage is a research and education organization dedicated to ensuring that more children in America are raised in a home with a mother and a father.

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Is Liberal Christianity Really Gaining Strength?

November 14, 2006

Is Liberal Christianity Really Gaining Strength?
—Michael Medved

A recent headline in USA TODAY proudly proclaimed: “Mainline Pulls in Protestants? with a subhead stating, “Pews are Filling Up in Some Churches.” It wasn’t until the sixth paragraph of the article that the reporter acknowledged that the leading liberal or “mainline” denominations–United Methodists, Presbyterian Church USA, Episcopal Church and others–have all been losing membership. They averaged declines of 7.4 percent in the last ten years! Meanwhile, more conservative denominations–like the Southern Baptists and Assemblies of God–have been growing rapidly: increasing membership by 11.4 percent in that same period.

“Just because a denomination looks like it’s dying doesn’t mean there actually is less mainline religion out there,” says one enigmatic professor quoted in the article. Actually, the USA Today piece represents an exercise in denial behavior from observers unwilling to face the obviously conservative direction of American religiosity.

Israel finds advanced equipment in Gaza

Friday, November 3, 2006
TEL AVIV — Israel has found advanced military equipment in Hamas strongholds in the Gaza Strip.

Officials said Israeli military units in the northern Gaza Strip have found advanced infrared rifle sights and night-vision goggles in the homes of Hamas operatives. They said the night-vision equipment were similar to those used by Hizbullah during the war with Israel in July and August 2006.

“Forces uncovered large amounts of weaponry in one of the buildings, including rifles, ammunition and night-vision equipment,” an Israeli military statement said on Thursday. “The three Palestinians hiding the weaponry in their house were arrested and taken for questioning.”
Officials did not identify the infrared sights. Those used by Hizbullah in Lebanon were said to have been manufactured in Britain and exported to Iran in 2004 and 2005.

“It’s clear that Iran and Hizbullah plan on giving the Palestinians advanced equipment used in the war [in Lebanon],” an official said.

Maj. Gen. Yoav Gallant, the head of the military’s Southern Command, said Hamas plans to establish missile and anti-tank units in wake of the Hizbullah war with Israel. Gallant told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hamas would soon be capable of organizing a division-sized military force.

“Hamas is establishing an organized division with anti-tank capabilities and with missiles that could reach threatening distances,” Galant said on Oct. 31. “It is reasonable to assume that, in the future, Hamas will deploy a force of thousands of terrorists, organized and well armed with weapons systems and night-vision systems, which will form a division.”

On Wednesday, Israeli troops, backed by main battle tanks and attack helicopters, operated around the northern Gaza town of Bet Hanoun. At least 13 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in house-to-house fighting amid an Israeli government decision to limit the operation. Hamas responded by firing three Kassam-class, short-range missiles into Israel on Thursday.

In a related development, Defense Minister Amir Peretz approved a U.S. proposal for the transfer of 5,000 assault rifles to the Presidential Guard. The 3,500-member force was said to be loyal to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The proposal, promoted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, envisioned a reinforced Presidential Guard as battling Hamas troops in the Gaza Strip. Ms. Rice also wants Israel to allow the transfer of at least 2,000 Fatah-aligned troops from neighboring Jordan to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to counter the rise of Hamas’s military.

Ric’s Gator Palyer of the Week!

My Gator Player of the week is Number 94 Jarvis Moss for the block of the 48 yard Field Goal attempt against Florida with 0:08 seconds left in the game.
Awesome job Jarvis Moss! You kept South Carolina from winning in the final moments in the game.
I recognize that the team is as much as responsible for the UF win, and my thanks goes to you all – the coaches, players, trainers, and with the UF Fans, whoever I am also leaving out – THANKS!

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	94 Jarvis Moss DE 6-6, 251 RJR 1L Denton, Texas/Ryan

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A redshirt junior defensive end…

2005: Saw action in the final 11 contests on the season at defensive end, playing mainly on third-down situations…Led the team and finished fifth in the SEC with 7.5 sacks on the season for a net loss of 54 yards…Was also one of 15 Gator defenders with a pass break-up…One of nine to recover a fumble for Florida, and one of 11 with a forced fumble last season…Added four to his tackle total with four solo efforts against Louisiana State, as well as three quarterback sacks for a net loss of 28 yards…Became the first Gator since Bobby McCray on Oct. 11, 2003, to record three sacks in a game…Recorded the first forced fumble and fumble recovery of his career against the Tigers…Tied his career-high tackle total with five in Florida’s home win over Florida State, including three tackles for a net loss of 16 yards and 1.5 sacks for a loss of 11… Posted first quarterback sack and first pass break-up of his career versus Kentucky…Added four solo tackles to his total, including two for a net loss of five yards, against South Carolina…

2004: Played in the season opener against Eastern Michigan for seven plays…Saw action at linebacker in preseason drills…

2003: Suffered a hernia in preseason drills…Saw action at defensive end in one game (FAMU)…Re-injured a muscle in his pelvic area, after battling through preseason pain, and did not return…Saw first career action vs. FAMU, tying for the line-lead with five tackles on the night, including four solo hits on 40 plays…Second true freshman to see action on the defensive line since 2000, when Kenny Parker, Darrell Lee and Ian Scott played…Named Scout Team Player of the Week on defense the week of the Miami game…Dressed for the Miami and Tennessee games but did not see action…

PREP: A Parade All-America selection…Named a USA Today First-Team All-American…Ranked as the No. 1 strong side defensive end in the nation and the overall No. 25 national prospect by Rivals…Also considered the No. 1 defensive player in Texas and the state’s No. 4 prospect overall by Rivals…A SuperPrep All-America who was also listed to the Elite 50 team…Led his team to three-consecutive Class 4A state championship games, winning titles in his junior and senior seasons…A two-year starter who helped his team to a 30-1 record over his final two seasons…Despite missing seven games due to injury, Moss recorded 81 tackles (29 for loss), 12 sacks, four forced fumbles and four recovered fumbles… Totaled 122 tackles, including 52 for a loss and 28 sacks, seven pass deflections, three forced fumbles and five fumble recovers as a junior…Had 61 tackles and nine sacks as a sophomore…Was invited to play in the U.S. Army All-Star Game in Texas…Also considered Miami, Texas and Florida State…

MAJOR: Sociology.

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CAREER DEFENSIVE STATISTICS
Year	UT-AT	TT	TBL	QBS	FF	FR	PD	INT
2003	4-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005	17-8	25	9	7.5	1	1	2	0
Totals:	21-9	30	9	7.5	1	1	2	0

MOSS’ CAREER HIGHS
Tackles: 5 (twice, last vs. Florida State, 2005)
QB Sacks: 3 (LSU, 2005)
Forced Fumbles: 1 (LSU, 2005)
Interceptions: None

Go Gators!

Week 11 Collage Football Polls:

AP Top 25……………………….USA Today…………………..Bowl Champ. Series

1. Ohio State (65)………………..1. Ohio State (63)…………….1. Ohio State

2. Michigan………………………..2. Michigan……………………2. Michigan

3. Louisville……………………….3. Texas…………………………3. Louisville

4. Texas…………………………….4. Louisville……………………4. Florida

5. Auburn…………………………..5. Auburn……………………..5. Texas

6. Florida………………………….6. Florida…………………….6. Auburn

The teams in red above lost!

Now where does that place Florida?

An Important Battle is Won in the War on Christmas Wal-Mart Will Stop Censorship of Ads and Greetings

November 9, 2006

An Important Battle is Won in the War on Christmas
Wal-Mart Will Stop Censorship of Ads and Greetings

Orlando, FL – Wal-Mart has finally admitted that censoring Christmas is not a good idea. After experiencing a backlash last Christmas season from unhappy customers and facing frustrated employees, some of whom turned to Liberty Counsel for help, Wal-Mart retreated from its use of “Happy Holidays” and will let employees greet shoppers with “Merry Christmas.”

Read the complete story in our News Release.

Learn how you can help save Christmas or our web site — www.LC.org/helpsavechristmas.

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And the winner is…

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Ric,

The highly anticipated mid-term elections of 2006 are behind us.

As you survey the national results and the results for votes and races that hit closer to home, I ask you to do one thing: ignore the spin. It is easy to be overwhelmed, but remember, this election’s results are mixed, just like every other election.

Don’t let the talking heads tell you what to think. Focus on what we know is true. Regardless of the results of our human action, or inaction, God remains on His throne and is in control.

+ + Marriage defense continues across the nation

On many morally-based ballot initiatives, the voice of America was clear. Marriage is now protected in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Efforts to legalize marijuana in three states were soundly defeated. So, too, was a pro-gambling initiative in Ohio.

For complete, in-depth election coverage, click here. or visit http://www.reclaimamerica.org/Pages/News/news.aspx?story=3152

+ + A Revised Congress

It remains to be seen what the new make-up of Congress will mean for social conservatives. The revised margins call us to be consistently vigilant as citizens, contacting our legislators as pro-life, pro-family legislation moves through the lawmaking process and calling them to make honorable decisions. There are no guarantees here.

This also means that we must step up our prayers for our President, particularly that he would have the principle and courage to use his veto power, should the need arise.

Above all, we must keep in mind: When preachers and politicians fail us, Jesus remains constant.

Thank you to each and every one of you who took the time to cast an informed vote. Please be in prayer as we enter this new season. Be prepared to further the cause of the right to life, marriage, and religious liberty in 2008.

Dr. Gary Cass Executive Director Center for Reclaiming America for Christ

P.S. I am in Washington, D.C., delivering more than 170,000 petitions to the Supreme Court, asking that the Justices affirm our national ban on partial-birth abortion. Please pray for their decision as these momentous proceedings begin.

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The Meaning of the Midterms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.conservative.org CONTACT: Jonathan Rick (703) 836-8602 The Meaning of the Midterms NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC— David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization, today issued the following statement. Yesterday Republicans paid a heavy price for their failure over the last few years to live up to the principles and standards that the American people believed they represented when they took the House of Representatives from the Democrats a decade ago. This year’s election turned out to be just what many in the GOP leadership and those of us outside Congress had feared: a referendum on the performance of Republicans in the White House and the Congress, rather than a contest between competing ideological visions. Indeed, this may have been the least ideological election in modern memory, with voters rejecting Republicans across the board not because they rejected where Republicans want to take the country so much as Republicans’ performance in taking us there. In recent years we have seen Republicans who have spent a lifetime professing a belief in a smaller, limited national government band together to spend more money on Washington solutions to state and local problems than their Democratic predecessors. We have watched Republicans, who were elected by promising the highest standards of integrity, come to Washington to do good and stay to do well—for themselves, their families and their friends—and thus demean the offices to which they were elected in the process. We have witnessed the hypocrisy of Republicans leaders who came to Washington swearing an allegiance to upholding traditional values work to protect those among their number who have flaunted those values, morals and standards. We have stood by as Republicans have flaunted, twisted and ignored rules to achieve their own partisan rather than principled ends; leaders who have used earmarks to seduce reluctant members to vote for legislation they knew was wrong and kept votes open for hours while they and their White House allies bludgeoned their colleagues into line in support of such legislation. With yesterday’s results in, it is time for conservatives, Republicans and those who made them pay for their performance to demand better. First, House Republicans should heed the advice of Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor who has called for postponing the leadership elections, which are now scheduled to take place on November 15th, which is but two days after Congress returns. Those who survived yesterday haven’t even had a chance to discuss what happened, let alone chart out a strategy for the next Congress. They should do so before electing new leaders and they should reject those who would simply rubberstamp the leadership that contributed to the defeat of so many of their colleagues last night. It is our hope that the new leadership that emerges from will be made up of principled conservatives who will work with the White House when the President is right and even with the new Democratic congressional leadership when good ideas come from that quarter. They should remember that many of those Democrats who were elected yesterday ran as moderate conservatives in districts that are traditionally conservative. Democratic candidates didn’t articulate much in the way of a concrete agenda, but they did make promises to those whose votes they sought. Many of them promised they won’t raise our taxes, demanded fiscal responsibility and attacked their GOP opponents for their participation in the spending binge that has characterized Washington in recent years. Many also disclaimed any intention to abridge traditional second amendment rights and declared themselves pro-life. If these candidates were sincere—and we have to believe that they were—then Republicans should be able to work with them on substantive issues where there is agreement—and they should be prepared to do so. At the same time, Republicans should go back to the principled stands that made America’s voters proud to vote for them and that brought millions of traditionally Democratic voters into the Republican fold—voters who deserted them yesterday simply because they believed they’d been had. Nancy Pelosi has said that she wants to reform the way Congress does business and has in the past supported many of the same reforms that have been suggested by the Republican Study Committee and other conservative members. In fact, she and 162 of her colleagues signed onto a package of procedural reforms before the election that included earmark reform, limits on the leadership’s power through the Rules Committee to alter legislation before it reaches the floor, a requirement that members have an actual day to read the legislation on which they are being asked to vote before the vote is called, and a limit on the amount of time a vote can be kept open. These are needed reforms and if she and her colleagues were serious when they endorsed them, they should enact them as their first order of business in the next Congress. Most conservatives in and out of Congress think of themselves as conservatives first and Republicans second, but most of us are Republicans because we believe most Republicans share the principles and values we wish to see reflected in public policy. At the same time, however, we are and have always been willing to cross party and ideological lines to accomplish those goals and continue to be willing to do so. We hope that the party in which most of us have invested our trust will learn the right lessons from what happened yesterday and work to redeem that trust, lest it be lost forever. The above press release is also available at http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2006/061108pr.asp. An audio recording of the press conference at which David Keene delivered the above statement is available at http://www.conservative.org/documents/keene002.wma

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WHEN CONSERVATIVES VOTE, LIBERALS LOSE!!!!

WHEN CONSERVATIVES VOTE, LIBERALS LOSE!!!!

Tomorrow Americans will cast votes in perhaps the most important mid-term election of their lifetimes. The stakes are enormous:

• Take the fight to the enemy or retreat and declare surrender in the war against radical Islamic jihadists.
• Continue to confirm conservative judges like John Roberts and Samuel Alito, or have all Bush nominees blocked in the Senate.
• Continue the current economic expansion, or stifle it by raising federal taxes.
• Secure our nation’s borders, or provide amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens.
• Fix Social Security by providing market oriented solutions, or drastically increase Social Security taxes to fund a soon to be bankrupt system.
• Reform Medicare and Medicaid, or ignore the programs’ fundamental financial problems until they both consume the revenues of the entire federal government.
• Continue the progress of the last year to dramatically reduce the growth of discretionary spending, or witness an explosion in federal spending on new LBJ style “Great Society” social programs.
• Increase domestic energy production by opening our nation’s vast oil and gas resources, or remain dependent on the Persian Gulf for oil while wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on liberal “alternative energy” pipedreams.
• Address the real issues facing America, or spend the next two years in endless committee hearings and trumped-up “congressional investigations” designed to impeach the President and remove him from office.

Liberals and their political pundit allies in the media have declared that “this election is already over — liberalism has triumphed!” in a relentless campaign to discourage conservative voters from going to the polls. They have told you repeatedly that “conservatives will stay home,” and that “there’s no reason for conservatives to go to the polls.” Don’t let the media elite and liberal extremists declare victory when the votes are not yet cast. The stakes are too high for conservatives to stay home.

Don’t buy the spin!! Liberals do no not want us conservatives to vote because they know: When conservatives vote, liberals lose!!

Yes, like you, I am not satisfied with the current congress’ lack of adherence to core conservative principles of limited government, free markets, and individual freedom coupled with individual responsibility.

But if liberals take control, conservative ideas will be stifled — the size of government will explode, taxes will be substantially increased, our economy will retract, and our ability to defend America from terrorism will be severely weakened.

As conservatives we cannot, and we must not stay home on Election Day. If you have already voted early or absentee, thank you.

If you have not yet voted, nothing, Nothing, NOTHING is more important than exercising you constitutional right and your patriotic duty than to

VOTE ON NOVEMBER 7^th!!!

Sincerely

Bill Lauderback
The American Conservative Union Foundation

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION

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