Showing posts with label david ogden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david ogden. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 May 2009

READ THE AMAZING HISTORY OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS MEN IN THE ADMINISTRATION LEVEL: PRAY & MAKE A DIFFERENCE....

Love it or hate it, America is getting a makeover. In a lightning-quick first 100 days, President Obama has arrested attention with his transformative responses to the economic crisis, as well as his brash foreign-policy moves and trips abroad.
Far less press, however, has been devoted to how the new administration is laying the groundwork for massive cultural shifts here at home.
Aided by a sympathetic Congress, the president is filling the executive and judicial branches with liberal activists whose effect on the nation could be incalculable. Consider a few of these individuals.

David Ogden, a lawyer, is a strong abortion-rights advocate. He has fought to give young teenage girls the right to abort without parental consent. He once argued for Planned Parenthood that “Abortion rarely causes or exacerbates psychological or emotional problems,” and that the few women who do have trouble “appear to be those with preexisting emotional problems.” He also defends homosexual rights and pornography. He worked to remove porn filters from the Internet in public libraries and infamously defended a child pornographer. And now, courtesy of the Obama administration, Ogden is America’s new deputy attorney general. The porn industry called his nomination “refreshing.”

The Washington Times calls Dawn Johnsen “one of the country’s most radical abortion proponents.” She opposes all limits on abortion, including parental notification for teenagers and bans on partial-birth abortion. In a brief she submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of an abortion-rights organization in 1989, she called limits on abortions “disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment”—which forbids slavery—“in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state’s asserted interest.” By forbidding any type of abortion, she wrote, “the state has conscripted her body for its own ends.” She wrote a bill, the Freedom of Choice Act, that could force hospitals to perform abortions or risk losing federal funding—an act the new president has said he will sign. The Obama administration has nominated this woman to head the Office of Legal Counsel, chief adviser to its legal team. Hers is the voice that, if she is confirmed, will have the ear of the attorney general and the president on constitutional questions.

Former aclu leader and acorn fundraiser David Hamilton is a U.S. district judge well known for his judicial activism. He fought against the Children’s Internet Protection Act. He invalidated a law requiring that sex offenders be registered. He prevented enforcement of an Indiana law requiring a waiting period for abortions. He ordered the Indiana legislature to stop opening its sessions with a “sectarian prayer” because the references to Jesus offended him. Though the American Bar Association rates him as “not qualified” for his current post, Hamilton is the president’s nominee for a vacancy on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Harold Koh believes American courts should consult international law for help in interpreting the U.S. Constitution and making their decisions. Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas say this practice undermines U.S. sovereignty. Their concerns may grow if Koh’s nomination as the legal adviser of the Department of State is confirmed.

Elena Kagan booted military recruiters from the campus of Harvard Law and sought to do the same for all colleges that receive federal funds. She calls the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “a moral injustice of the first order” because it discriminates against soldiers who want to be openly homosexual. Kagan is now America’s new solicitor general—the executive branch’s chief courtroom lawyer and adviser to the Supreme Court.

Morrell John Berry, during his tenure as director of the National Zoo, implemented several pro-homosexual employee policies. He wants the Defense of Marriage Act repealed and supports benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees. This month, Berry became director of the Office of Personnel Management, which puts him in charge of 1.9 million federal employees—and their benefits. He is the highest-ranking openly homosexual official ever to serve in the executive branch.

Harry Knox is a homosexual activist. Last month he called certain Catholic leaders “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” for supporting California’s Proposition 8, which legally defines marriage as male-female. He criticized the Apostle Paul for being an “educated, rich heterosexual man” who “didn’t think [homosexuality] was natural because for him it must not have been.” The president apparently appreciates Knox’s view of Scripture, because he just appointed him to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

John Holdren has written extensively on global environmental change. He has advocated population control measures such as mandatory abortions and encouraged declines in fertility to reduce stresses on the environment. He has warned of imminent catastrophe caused by global warming. He is now assistant to the president and director of the Office of Science and Technology.
These are only a few of the more notable of the alarming nominations and appointments of the past hundred days. Never has such an unruly cast of characters been so prominent in the affairs of state

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE PROVE THAT KINGDOM OF EDOM EXISTED WHICH PROVES THAT BIBLE IS TRUE


“So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt. And he put garrisons in Edom. In all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD helped David wherever he went.” 2 Samuel 8:13-14 (NASB)
The Bible contains records of the checkered history of Edom–the land where the descendants of Esau lived (now southern Jordan). During the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, the king of Edom refused passage to Moses and his people on their journey to the promise land (Numbers 20:14-22). Later, David conquered Edom (see map below), as described in 2 Samuel, but the inhabitants of that region remained a thorn in Israel’s side until the Assyrians conquered Israel.

Extrabiblical evidence shows that the kingdom of Edom existed during the 8th and 9th centuries B.C., yet David’s reign started in the 11th century B.C. Some have argued that the lack of extrabiblical evidence for the existence of Edom during David’s time means that the Bible is not a reliable historical document. Recent excavations in the relevant region now provide the support needed to refute such an argument.
According to an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, parts of an extensive copper mine in the Edom region date to the 10th century B.C. In fact, the authors argue that most of the mining activity occurred during the reigns of David and Solomon. This fits well with the biblical account where Solomon undertook many construction projects that required a wealth of mined metals.
While this evidence does not prove explicitly that the biblical account is correct, it does supply support for the thesis that the kingdom of Edom existed three centuries earlier than the current scholarly consensus allows. It also provides a reminder (when seeking extrabiblical evidence in support of the Bible) that the absence of evidence does not give evidence of absence.

Thursday, 5 February 2009

CHRISTIAN RIGHT CHALLENGES OBAMA'S JUSTICE PICKS ; PRAY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE OBAMA'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT POSITIONS


WASHINGTON — Christian conservatives are challenging President Barack Obama's picks for top Justice Department positions, charging that past clients like Playboy taint their resumes.
The criticism comes ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Thursday for David Ogden, Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department.
Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, was confirmed by the Senate on Monday and started work the next day. As he waits for confirmation of his top aides, many on the religious right are questioning the nominee's backgrounds, saying they have promoted far left, pro-abortion, pro-gay policies.
"Ogden has been an activist in the support of a right to pornography, a right of abortion and the rights of homosexuals," said Patrick Trueman, a former Justice Department official during the first Bush presidency who is now in private practice.
"It isn't so much that he's represented pornographers or that he's been a porn attorney, but it's his world view, and his world view reflects President Obama's world view," said Trueman, echoing criticism from conservative activist groups like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family.
While a private attorney, Ogden argued on behalf of Playboy and librarians fighting congressionally mandated Internet filtering software. His clients also include corporate giants such as an oil company and the pharmaceutical industry.
The challenge to Obama's Justice picks come as conservative evangelicals seek to limit the power of the new Democratic administration and maintain their own within the Republican Party.
Some Republicans believe a tight embrace of social conservative values turns off independents and moderates, but many Christian right leaders resist compromise and contend that, if anything, the GOP has strayed too far from its principles.
Besides Ogden, conservatives also have taken aim at two other Justice picks — Indiana University professor Dawn Johnsen for her association with an abortion rights group, and Thomas Perrelli, who represented the husband of Terry Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case that energized evangelical groups across the country.
Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and a past colleague of the three during the Clinton administration, said the conservatives' criticism of the trio is unusual and unwarranted.
"Usually, you may have a fight over who the attorney general is, but this is not par for the course, picking off next to the attorney general three of his top appointments," Greenberger said. "This is harassment and it is an attempt to reverse the election."
Accusations of political manipulation at the Justice Department are not new. Over the past two years, the Bush administration has been investigated and excoriated by Democrats for making firing and hiring decisions based on political considerations.
Tom Minnery, a vice president at Focus on the Family, charges that through the nominations, the new Democratic administration is not depoliticizing, but re-politicizing the Justice Department.
"They take our breath away the more we learn about these people," said Minnery. "This is left-wing politicization of the Justice Department. This is not a Justice Department that looks like America."