If you are not familiar with what Watch Night Service is, you need to read all about it here.

This is something that should become a regular moment of celebration and praise for all Americans. We all should celebrate and praise the Lord for allowing us to see another year. We all should celebrate, that the evils of slavery are in America’s past and we are spreading freedom in America’s present and future.

Let Freedom Ring! Give Praise and Glory to God!

These are the kinds of things that happen when it is “illegal” for a receiving state to screen evacuees that they accept!

And here is an example of how the search has been going in one state that is actively working to find them.

So only about 4%-5% of offenders that went to Texas registered. Not to mention the near 200 people wanted for other crimes.

It is not known if all states are putting forth much effort to find these offenders and other wanted individuals.

Hat tip to Drudge.

Related post: Criminal Katrina evacuees take their crime to other cities!

Conservative Republican Homeless Activist Ted Hayes runs a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, California. He has been running it for over 12 years at the same location on property owned by a retired lawyer. His rent was $2,500 a month and was just raised to $18,330. An over 700% increase from one month’s price to the next!

Given the high increase, Mr. Hayes inquired as to why the price went up so high so quickly. He says that he had just attended a Republican event that he was invited to, that was covered by the local press. He says the property owner read the news report and informed him that the increase was due to Mr. Hayes being a Republican. Mr. Hayes says the property owner claimed to be a Democrat, that did not wish to help any longer via cheap rent. So Mr. Hayes has to find a new location for his homeless shelter or shut it down.

This says a lot about Liberals’ (at least one Liberal’s) desire to help the poor. I doubt the property owner is planning to use that area for another homeless shelter run by someone he feels he might agree with on a political level. It’s clear the property owner was helping Mr. Hayes in order to build his own self esteem and not because of any concern for the homeless. The property owner wanted himself to feel good. So he could say to himself that he was doing something nice. Pat himself on the back and boost his own ego. Once he found the situation involved someone that he does not agree with it was time to give Mr. Hayes the boot, because the property owner’s ego and image might otherwise get hurt.

Mr. Hayes was on FoxNews last night and has written this Wall Street Journal commentary, titled “Prejudice”. (Subscription required to view the article.) He feels that this action was taken because he is a “Black Republican”. He has equated his situation with the race based attacks against Black Republicans like Michael Steele and others.

People like Liberal Alan Colmes mentioned that Ted Hayes was known to be a Republican for some time. Mr. Hayes mentions in his commentary, the property owner in this matter noticed this when reading an article. (Mr. Hayes also mentioned on FoxNews that one of his associates also heard similar statements about party affiliation from the property owner. The property owner denies any such conversations took place, but has not mention he will sue for slander.) So maybe the property owner knew earlier and maybe he did not. Either way, here is my take. If the owner knew Ted Hayes was a Republican, he became angry because Mr. Hayes was gaining much more popularity. I personally did not know of him until recently and things like his proposal regarding the Tookie Williams execution caused many people to learn about him, that never knew him before. So if the property owner knew, he obviously became angry that Mr. Hayes was becoming more popular. It probably would make a Liberal Lawyer feel pretty embarrassed if his friends asked him “you are helping out that Republican guy that was in the newspaper?”… Of course in that question they might play on race, but that’s another matter I want to mention. Mr. Hayes feels that his race had a role in this. That because he is a Black Republican he is being persecuted by a Liberal Democrat, that wants Blacks to be Democrats. I must disagree. Mr. Hayes has not provided any statements from the property owner that mention race at all. So any statements about his race being a factor are pure speculation. People like Michael Steele, Condi Rice and others have faced attacks that specifically played on race and old racial games. Mr. Hayes has not shown any such attack. There have been plenty of non-Blacks that were treated dis-favorable by Liberals, once the Liberal with some power discovered they were in the presence of an outspoken Conservative. I think the best recent example is Swift Boat Vet Steve Gardner, who lost his job, probably as a result of standing up to John Kerry.

Just the same it is sad that a homeless shelter may have been given the boot by a property owner simply because of party affiliation. But the property owner has the right to do it. Mr. Hayes does not dispute that right and he has no intentions of taking any legal action. He simply wanted to let his story be known.

Mr. Haye’s commentary also mentions that because of feared attacks many Blacks are closet Republicans. While I have no problem letting everyone I meet know about my Conservative views, I do know of some Blacks that told me things like “I’m voting for Bush, but I told *** I’m voting for Kerry” during the last Presidential election. They feared the backlash they would face if they said that they are not a Liberal. And some folks who might be attacked by powerful Unions and such have good reason to be discreet and exercise their right to a “private” vote. While it would be nice for people to be able to all be open about their political views, there is no protection from discrimination based on political views and there should not be any such protection. It is simply a weight that we each must carry and decide for ourselves if we wish to keep our politics private from our associates or speak freely. With the understanding that some might respond unfavorably.

I pray that Mr. Hayes is able to find another location for his shelter.

Larry Elder has explained what many Black Conservatives experience every week or 2. On their visit to the barbershop!

And I enjoy every single visit. Because somebody has to tell it like it is.

John Lott has a post today, where he list a number of instances where private citizens (and one off duty police officer at his home) used their guns to defend themselves from people with bad intentions.

Do you think someone would ever try to rob a store if they knew everybody in the store had a gun?

As I’ve mentioned before, gun ownership is part of my recommended crime solution for people living in high crime areas. Don’t let the thugs be the ones with all the guns taking over your community. If you feel the police in your area have failed you, laws to take guns from “everyone” will fail you too. Because then only the thugs will have guns. When more good people in high crime areas own guns, crime suddenly goes down!

Some Christians feel that members of the faith should be pacifists, but they neglect the fact that Jesus asked his own disciples to arm themselves!

He was not asking them to prepare in that instance for “spiritual warfare”. Nope, he was asking them to arm themselves with the weapons of that time. He knew it was getting close to the time where he would be arrested, because of course God’s son would know such things in advance. So he wanted to ensure that his arrest took place as it should. Without any attempts to actually kill him before the crucifixion and without the disciples being killed before they themselves should die.

So when a sword was used inappropriately, Jesus informed them to put the swords away and it was OK for him to be arrested.

Jesus knew his disciples having swords would temper any additional aggression beyond his own arrest.

Given Christ himself requested that his own disciples arm themselves, it is foolish to claim that Christians should never own a gun. To the contrary, Christians should own a weapon for their own personal defense. To be taken by authorities for the sake of the Gospel is one thing, but to die at the hands of a greedy thug is another and not the way to go!

Since I did not catch this when it first came out, I’ve got to give my 2 cents now. Because I think most people like me were not aware of this and the way it shook up things in the music world some months back.

First check out Nick Cannon’s web site. Where he is still promoting the track “Can I Live”. Watch the video of the track there.

Basically this is a fantastic pro-life message. Apparently this song came out about 6 months ago or so and was praised by some Pro-Life blogs then. Of course this caused a stir in the mostly Liberal entertainment business and Liberal blogs were in disbelief that a fairly well known Hip Hop/R&B artist would actually show his mother appreciation for not aborting him killing him in the womb. As a result of the Liberal backlash and efforts by pro-lifers to embrace the effort, Nick took a bit of an “on the fence” stance. He mentioned afterwards that the issue of abortion (baby killing) is a personal decision and he was just speaking for his own situation. He did not want to be labeled as a pro-lifer. Regardless I say well done Nick. I can’t say I’m a fan of every one of his efforts. Like when he worked with “accused” child molester R. Kelly on this piece of trash. But it seems he got one right and I pray he does more similar efforts like “Can I Live”. You usually know you’re making a song that is “good” when you can put your own mother in the video!

On his other web site, he’s selling “Can I Live” T-Shirts. His video is full of kids wearing them. I think the message is clear that Nick is Pro-Life, but fears what it could do to his career. I feel his “Can I Live” efforts should be supported.

If you don’t know who Nick Cannon is, do you remember the movie Drumline? He’s the guy who was the star of that movie.

Fred Barnes was able to get Conservative Thinker Thomas Sowell to do a one on one interview on FoxNews recently. Like Mr. Barnes and other Conservatives, I really enjoy Mr. Sowell’s work. So I’ve made notes from the interview. In my notes I attempt to cover the major topics covered during the interview and Mr. Sowell’s general view on them. There was so much covered that it would be difficult to capture every word. Mr. Sowell brings up so many facts, figures and perfect analogies on the fly that it’s hard to keep up if you’re actually trying to document everything. So I’m hoping I’ve just captured the general points and my notes are in no way a fully detailed report of every single thing covered. But I’ve captured enough that I feel satisfied with sharing my notes here on the blog.
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The facts show the FISA Court that Liberals claim is so easy to get permission from has not been that way with requests from the Bush Administration.

While the Justice Department was trying to gain valuable intelligence information, the FISA court was playing games of delay, modify and deny! Bush did the right thing to by-pass them.

Hat tip to Drudge.

Related post: Presidents are required to use executive power to protect American lives

While listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning he mentioned a Washington Post Op-ed by Liberal Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback.

The entire Op-Ed should be read, but here is an excerpt.

The piece offers details of how things are going adrift and suggest solutions. The most critical suggested solution will be:

The bottom line is this, if the USA does not start sending troops and initiate a full scale military effort things will fall apart. Despite the rest of the world’s lip service, they will watch as the people die. If the so-called “great Satan” of the world does not make a greater move to save lives things will only get worse. Mr. Bennett raised this point about the need for US troops. Take note, today Bill Bennett said something about helping Blacks who are in the most urgent of need. I wonder how many news shows will cover it?

I’ve written about the issues in the Sudan in this piece and pointed out how President Bush has mentioned it in this other piece.

I know for many Conservatives this proposed use of US Troops might not be acceptable. But consider that the Sudan was a haven for Bin Laden and China is now making strong overtures to the Sudanese government. The Op-Ed even mentions:

If noting is done about this situation, the area’s resources will become the tools of America’s enemies. Given the current government there that is already the case and getting worse. This is why China is working to do so much new trade with the government of Sudan. The Sudan has mass killings, a history of supporting terrorists and now is getting cozy with China. So I have no choice but to support the USA taking a stronger stand. We can either start stepping up efforts now or suffer the consequences of inaction.

Because if no more is done, the resulting death toll will look bad, but the support given to our enemies will make matters even worse for the USA and our allies.

update (12/27/2005 9:56AM ET): The Political Pit Bull also sees this op-ed as a positive act, while blog Narcissistic views on News/Politics has a different perspective on the motivations behind this op-ed being written.

One day after celebrating the birth of Christ it is sad that some people run to embrace a racially segregated “holiday”, daily straight into the New Year.

I must say, when growing up my mother and I looked into this “holiday” a bit and after attending a Kwanzaa celebration it was the last time we had much to do with it. My father never cared for it at all. After that I felt it was a good thing for some years. Just because it involved Blacks trying to help themselves. Then after learning more about the “holiday”, it’s true roots, it’s founder, my own faith, and history I realized it is a bad thing.
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