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These classic stories, taken directly from the text of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, will delight and inspire children before bedtime or on the go.

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Title: The new juristocracy.
Author: Andrew C. McCarthy
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Date: September 1, 2006
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Volume: 25Issue: 1Page: 65(6)

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With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holders direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.In this eye-popping Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows that the biggest beneficiaries have been jihadists. For the past eight years, a group of lawyers volunteered their services to Americas enemies. Now, the Justice Department is rife with some of those same lawyers as it enhances due process for terrorists and feeds the international Lefts call for war-crimes charges against President Obamas political adversaries. Just consider how the administration has disclosed national defense secrets during wartime or granted the 9/11 mass murderers a civilian trial. The department, moreover, is working to tighten the Democratic Partys grip on power, ignoring the Constitution and green-lighting election fraud and abuse. ... Read more

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Title: Is the nation state threatened?
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Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 25Issue: 5Page: 23(8)

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Title: Making informed decisions.(industrial)
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Title: Review of Magic on the Early English Stage.(Book review)
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This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. The authors, under the sponsorship of the Center for Security Policy, have modeled this work on an earlier "exercise in competitive analysis" which came to be known as the "Team B" Report. The present Team B II report is based entirely on unclassified, readily available sources. As with the original Team B analysis, however, this study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions. ... Read more

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Finally, the truth about Islamism
This work should be considered the starting point for unravelling the double-talk coming out of the alphabet soup American Islamist groups such as CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, MSA and the rest.

This society and the West in general had better recognize the threat posed by the stealth jihadists, who feign moderation but at every opportunity attempt to enforce Shari'a compliance.

The work of Mr. Gaffney and his associates, in putting together this study is such a breath of fresh air that it should be required reading by the incoming Congress, which will hopefully jettison the destructive approach to Islamism that this administration has adopted.

When you hear charges of Islamophobia in the West, it simply means that someone has had the courage to tell the truth.

Mandatory Reading to understand Jihad in America
This is the seminal work that our nation needs. There is finally a single all-encompassing reference that details the modern Jihad threat to the Dar Al Harb (the "house of war"). It outlines the master plan being carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood to impose Shariah Law on the United States, and those people in our own government that are not only ignoring the threat, but in some cases are actually supporting the destruction of the U.S. Consitution by abdicating their professional duty to develop an appropriate national security response.

It clarifies how Islam is NOT just a religion, but an entire way of life that includes its own codified law called Shariah, which is meant to rule over the entire world and be enforced against ALL people, not just Muslims. It identifies how Shariah Law contradicts many of the protections in the Bill of Rights, and especially women's rights (specifically, such behavior as underage and forced marriages, honor killing, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and domestic abuse including marital rape--where's the National Organization for Women (NOW) when you need them?). It clarifies how senior government officials, as well as generals and admirals in the military, are failing their oath to protect and defend the Constitution. It highlights why anyone supporting Shariah in the United States is commiting sedition and treason. It identifies how the Muslim Brotherhood are secretly waging a "stealth Jihad" through scores of front organizations.

The West is led to believe that Jihad is nothing more than an "inner struggle" while there are in fact four types of Jihad: of the heart, the tongue, the pen, and the sword. The Muslim Brotherhood's plan is to settle in the West to conduct a "grand Jihad in eliminating the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house BY THEIR HANDS". Through its front organizations like the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Pulbic Affairs Council (MPAC), as well as dozens of others, the Muslim Brotherhood is twisting the protections of our own Constitution and using them to protect themselves behind the First Amendment while waging a very effective propaganda campaign. Ignorant Americans, and especially high-ranking government officials, are then duped into supporting the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts falsely believeing they are supporting "religious tolerance".

What many Westerners have been falsely led to believe is that "Islam is a religion of peace" when it is much more than just a religion, and it's not peaceful. This is NOT a First Amendment issue. Article 6 of the Constitution states that the Consitution shall be the law of the land. Any efforts to replace the Consitution with Shariah or any other foreign laws is seditious and treasonous. This reference outlines how current laws that were used against other seditous groups like communists during the Cold War can be applied as tools to protect our nation against Shariah.

Don't take my word for it. Read the Koran AFTER applying the Doctrine of Abrogation to its peaceful verses. And read this carefully prepared and heavily annotated analysis. Only then can one understand the true intent of Islam. To speak about Islam without having done the homework only breeds further ignorance. Prepare to become angry. ... Read more

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Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. While most such studies have sought a comprehensive personality profile, this work focuses on one aspect -- Francis' imagination -- and seeks greater insight into the imaginatively inspired spiritual vision of St. Francis. An analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of ORT, or Object Relations Theory. ORT, with its contention that the imaginative creation of an infant's world develops out of the earliest interactions with the maternal caregiver, highlights the way Francis formed his way of visualizing the reality around him. While any study of a person 800 years in the grave is more dependent on what is plausible than on what is determinable, this study finds numerous examples where Francis' writings display an adept use of imagination and even encourages others in that use in a manner that corresponds to an ORT perspective on tutoring the imagination. ... Read more

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Problems with Jihad
The Koran instructs "Seek knowledge, in China, if necessary" (Sura 39:12) and in "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," erudite author Andrew C. McCarthy provides a cargo of interesting and disturbing information concerning Islamic terror and its partner on the Left. The Koran commands: "Slay the idolaters, wherever you find them ... ambush them" (Sura 9).

Remember that it was Muhammad himself, who led or ordered twenty-seven warring attacks against the "infidels." He, as their supreme lawgiver, gave the order to decapitate 900 Jewish men for opposing him and not receiving him as a prophet. The perennial threat to the West is Islamic terrorism along with its advancement and in "The Grand Jihah"McCarthy offers a vexing report regarding the Islamic aims for global conquest while much of the Left encourages such.

The Islamic moral code is an ethical system that sanctions death for verbal crimes and the repression of women. It is worth noting that Allah has 99 attributes ascribed to him in the Koran and not one of those traits is "love." Love is not part of his eternal nature. Moreover, love is the heart and motivation of true morality. The Islamic god cannot account for love since it is not an eternal attribute of Allah's nature. Many ancient and modern Muslims profess that Allah is a god, who has commanded his followers to pursue jihad against Jews, Christians, and all other "infidels" (see Sura 2:193; 8:12, 17, 41, 60; 9:5, 14, 29, 123; and Hadith 1:25; 4:196, etc.).

In Grand Jihad McCarthy exposes:

- The American government's active appeasement of the Islamic goals
- The America-hating closed Islamic societies in our nation as the Left aides their cause
- The Islamic goal of instituting Sharia law on American life
- The Islamic goal to end the West's liberty and freedom.

Millions of Muslims avouch and support jihad. Jihad against Israel, America, and all non-Muslims is an important element in the worldview of large populations of Muslim people. The Koran commands: "Slay the idolaters, wherever you find them ..." (Sura 9). The Arabic dictionary defines jihad: "To fight and kill in the path of Allah, the enemies of Allah, for the cause of Allah.It can also be used to mean to strive in the path of Allah."

Muhammad launched and advanced Islam with the sword. Muhammad himself led numerous invasions on neighboring villages during his lifetime, while his followers engaged in fifty more. Many times the conquered people were given the choice of conversion to Islam or death. Christians, pagans, and Jews were killed by the armies of Muhammad in seventh century Islam. Islam's inception is associated with war. At Islam's birth, there were eighty-three military campaigns involving Muslims.

Muhammad spearheaded or ordered almost eighty attacks. Jesus Christ and all His apostles ordered zero military attacks. Islam is a warring religion, and has been so in every century it has existed. Even George Washington had to deal with Islam's warring and plundering. Muslims were kidnapping Americans and receiving large ransoms for the captured. President Washington wrote a letter in 1786 to Marquis de Lafayette, complaining of Muslim terrorism, and wished that America "had a navy able to reform those enemies of mankind, or crush them into nonexistence."

Endorsed by:

- Hugh Hewitt (lawyer and Radio host)
- Dennis Miller (former liberal; Radio talk show host)
- Rush Limbaugh (number one Radio Show Host)
- Steven Emerson (author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us)
- William J. Bennett (conservative Radio Host)
- Mark R. Levin (author Liberty & Tyranny; Radio Host)
- Michelle Malkin (mega-blogger and author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies).
- World Magazine also lauds this volume.

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Features: A photo-article on Lisa Kudrow, readers' homes, and a female chain gang, plus small features on Andrew McCarthy, Rosie Perez, Spike Jonez, Chamique Holdsclaw, Taye Diggs, and much more! ... Read more

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Talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire! I was pretty sure that my freaky stepsister and that freaky field guide of hers would ruin my life. But now it looks like they're going to ruin all of Florida, too! Okay, maybe that's not fair. Maybe all these stupid giants would be waking up anyway, but if it wasn't for her and that book, I'd be home playing video games and this would be someone else's giant problem! ... Read more

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Not up to par with the original series.
Holly Black and Tony DeTerlizzi, A Giant Problem (Simon and Schuster, 2008)

Black and DeTerlizzi once again attempt to recapture the magic of the Spiderwick Chronicles in this second book of Beyond Spiderwick. And to an extent they succeed, in that these characters are interesting, though not as much as as those in the Spiderwick books. But the plot in this batch seems almost like an afterthought rather than an integral part of the story, which is odd; plot has always been Black's strong point, at least in the books of hers I've read. Still, if you enjoyed the Spiderwick Chronicles, this is not nearly as bad a sequel as, say, Batman and Robin or X-Men Origins: Wolverine. ***

Another enjoyable episode for the many Spiderwick fans to glory in
Nick Vargas has never exactly excelled at athletics, unless you count video games. He is pretty sure that his stepsister, Laurie, is equally poor at sports. All of this gives him a sinking feeling, since it looks like they have no choice but to learn to kill giants, at least according to Noseeum Jack. When Nick protests that they're kids and they should be having fun on their summer vacation, Jack informs him that giant slaying just happens to be their fate.

Laurie's idea is to talk other people into helping them destroy the giants. Nick is skeptical about her ability to actually accomplish this goal, but in the meantime he distracts himself by playing multiple video games in the nice, safe, air-conditioned house while the rain splatters against the windows. As long as he is racking up points on the screen, he can forget about the nixie expecting him to find her sisters. He also can ignore the fact that giants may be waking nearby. Maybe even more important, if he uses headphones, he can actually pretend that his father and his stepmother are not arguing.

When Jack appears on their doorstep, he persuades Nick and Laurie to accompany him into the rainy night. Nick is creeped out as they follow Jack through the swamp, lit by lightning and shaken with thunder. When Nick comments on the storm, Jack laughs. As Nick can soon see, what he's taken for thunder is actually two giants wrestling in the mud, fighting over territory. It's an awesome sight, to say the least.

When one giant triumphs over the other, Jack insists they must kill the victor. However, Nick and Laurie are too tender-hearted to hurt the injured creature. Jack decides to show the youngsters how it's done, but that just leads to the elderly man getting hurt. When Nick and Laurie take him home, Nick is intrigued by a photo he notices of a young, smiling Jack holding a pretty woman.

The next morning doesn't start well for Nick. He steps in the bowl of milk that Laurie left out for the faeries, falling and cutting his hands. Then he meets a hissing, gibbering, trash-eating faerie creature that Laurie is determined to befriend in spite of Nick's better judgment. Next, he gets a message from Taloa reminding him that unless he finds her sisters, he's going to be extremely sorry. Before he knows what's happening, two giants begin knocking down the houses in the development Nick's dad is building, catching everything in their path on fire with their blazing breath. And then things really start to get exciting, complicated by moral quandaries, family relationships and a mentor who must go missing. The big question remains: Can Nick and Laurie save Florida from giants?

A GIANT PROBLEM is yet another enjoyable episode for the many Spiderwick fans to glory in, complete with an ingenious conclusion and an intriguing cliffhanger ending. The illustrations include line drawings and newspaper articles; each is worthy of a long, thoughtful ponder. The characters --- stepsister, stepmom, dad, memories of his mother --- are layered and three-dimensional. Since Nick and his life are not air-brushed to perfection, readers will find much to identify within the midst of a fantastical adventure.

Gigantic Fun
Nicholas Vargas and his step sister Laurie have a giant problem - literally. Giants are on the loose and threatening to destroy Florida. Noseeum Jack is coaching them on how to kill the giants and their brother Jules and his girlfriend Cindy will help them, but it is still a daunting task. On top of that, their newlywed parents (Nick's father and Laurie's Mother) seem to be fighting all the time. Whatever happened to the nice, quiet summer vacation Nick had planned?

"A Giant Problem" is the nicely done second book in the "Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles" series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (the first book is The Nixie's Song (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)). So far DiTerlizzi and Black have managed to capture the same wonder and fantasy of the first Spiderwick Chronicle series. Nick and Laurie are good creations - adjusting to life together as brother and sister while also trying to fight the giants. There aren't too many fantastical creatures in this book - mostly just the giants and mermaids - but the fantasy elements are well done and there are some genuinely thrilling moments in the book, especially toward the end. What is really well done are the "real" elements in the book - a newly blended family trying to adjust to life together. The tension between Nick's father and Laurie's mother is very realistic. It is also nice to see more of Jule's character in this book and he leaves some clues that will no doubt be answered in the third book which is the final book in the series. The book ends on a cliffhanger that will have readers eagerly waiting for the next book to find out what happens to the Vargas children (and some familiar friends).

"A Giant Problem" is a wonderful fantasy book for readers young and old.

What a Delightful Story
What a delightful book this is.This was the first book I've read in the Spiderwick Chronicles and I quickly found myself immersed in the story of Nicholas Vargas and his sister, Laurie.Add to this Noseeum Jack, a humorous character with a huge walking stick, a sharp machete and lots of advice on tracking giants.

I fell in love with the mischievous and voracious hobgoblin Sandspur and allowed myself to drift away on the magical songs sung by the wise, but tricky, Merpeople.Although Nick seemingly outwits the giants and saves the world at last, as I turn the final page, I wonder whether Nick's triumph will see us well into Book Three.I hope so.I hope to read more of the Spiderwick Chronicles in the coming months.

Great for Kids
My 8 year old son & I loved All the Spiderwick books. We were a bit disappointed when the original series ended but this is a nice spin off. Just wish the came faster because we would read a book every 3 days. ... Read more