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• PFAW: On Recess Appointments, President Obama Can Fight and Win .
• Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion: Robert Spencer Attacks Critic of Claim that Texas Shootings were “Honour Killing.”
• Truth Wins Out: TWO Steps Up Campaign Calling on Chicago Archbishop Francis George to Resign with Full-Page Chicago Tribune Ad on Sunday.
• Charles Johnson @ LGF: Stormfront Founder Says White Supremacists Thought Ron Paul Was ‘One of Us.’
• Pema Levy @TPM: Rick Perry Appears To Forget Landmark Civil Rights Case He Long-Opposed.
• Warren Throckmorton: Phil Kayser’s endorsement of Ron Paul is the tip of the iceberg.

• Chaos in the Bachmnann campaign as her Iowa chairman defects to Ron Paul.
• Mitt Romney is a "dangerous homosexualist."
• Robert Knight calls Barack Obama a "Trojan Horse president [who] hates America and wants to bring it down."
• I fully expect that Teresa Wagner, who is claiming that she was denied at the University of Iowa because of her conservative beliefs and past working for the Family Research Council, to become the next Religious Right cause célèbre.
• "Don't let Satan win" ... so give Rod Parsley money today!
• Finally, the next Call rally will focus on abortion's "trail of tears":

For the last several years, Ron Paul has regularly won the straw polls at conservative events like CPAC and the Values Voter Summit but Religious Right organizers and activists have always been quick to dismiss these wins as flukes and assert that Paul does not actually represent the views of the movement.

Now that Paul's presidential campaign appears to be picking up steam, Religious Right activists are no longer simply dismissing Paul but are actively attacking him, with people like Bryan Fischer saying Paul is a renegade who should not be allowed to participate in GOP debates and Matt Barber writing columns about how "Ron Paul is dangerous."

But it is a sign that the Religious Right is really getting worried about Paul and his campaign when they start spinning elaborate conspiracy theories about how Paul and his supporters are really Democrats who are out to take over the Republican Party, as Gordon Klingenschmitt did while appearing on City On A Hill Radio yesterday:

Ron Paul is to the left of President Obama on social issues: he wants to legalize marijuana, he wants to support homosexualizing the military and repeal DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, he is all about homosexual marriage. This is a man who claims to be a Republican but he’s a RINO, he’s a Republican In Name Only, because Ron Paul is openly a libertarian. He’s not part of the Republican Party, he’s wrong on all the issues that we care about as the church. So, because he’s so far left of even President Obama, he’s gathering support from Democrats.

In Iowa, the only reason Ron Paul is polling so high is because he’s getting crossover votes from the left-wing.  And there are people who are trying to sabotage the Republican primary, they want to elect a Democrat, at least in his social conservative policies, Ron Paul is a Democrat, or is a libertarian.  He’s anti-church, anti-Christian, anti-Israel, pro-homosexual, pro-marijuana, everything that we don’t believe in, the Democrats do believe in; everything that Ron Paul believes in, the Democrats do believe in.

I think that’s why they’re lining up and they’re trying to make it appear as if in the Republican caucuses in Iowa and in the different places around the country, that Ron Paul actually has some Republican support.  I think he doesn’t. Ron Paul does not have any Republican support. Everyone who is a Ron Paul supporter is not a Republican, they are either a Democrat or a libertarian trying to take over the Republican Party.

With the end of the year approaching, we decided to take a look back through the hundreds of videos we had posted this year and highlight twelve of our favorites from the past twelve months. 

Here are our choices, in chronological order:

• Cindy Jacobs claiming that birds were dying in Arkansas because of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

• Alan Keyes calling for the impeachment of President Obama grounds that the international interventions in Libya and the Ivory Coast were done to establish a "precedent" in case Obama were to lose his reelection bid, allowing the international community to intervene militarily in the US to keep him in office.

• Jerry Boykin explaining that the 2008 economic collapse was part of a plot by George Soros and the Council on Foreign Relations order to help Barack Obama win the election and install a Marxist, one-world government.

• Rep. Vicky Hartzler declaring that letting gays get married was just like giving a three-year old child a driver's license.

• Rod Parsley pretending to drink shots, smoke a bong, and dancing around in a fat suit.

• Lou Engle proclaiming that the massive tornado in Joplin, Missouri was God's punishment for the sin of abortion.

• Mike Bickle warning that Oprah Winfrey is a harbinger of the Antichrist.

• John Benefiel warning that the Statue of Liberty is actually a demonic idol.

• Pat Robertson suggesting that the East Coast earthquake which cracked the Washington Monument was a sign from God.

• Bryan Fischer calling for the criminalization of homosexuality.

• Kirk Cameron failing his own history lesson.

• David Barton asserting that politics is actually a spiritual battle against demonic forces.

• Good As You: NOM's star rabbi: Romney candidacy 'increases homosexualization of society,' 'increases likelihood of Sandusky-like child abuse.'
• HuffPost Gay Voices: Gay And Lesbian Couples Pay Thousands More In Taxes, Study Says.
• Charles Johnson @ LGF: Ron Paul’s 1998 John Birch Society Documentary on the UN Plot To Take Over the USA.
• Faiz Shakir @ Think Progress: Newt Gingrich Compares His Failure To Make The Virginia Ballot To The Pearl Harbor Attack.
• Pema Levy @ TPM: Ron Paul Courts The Religious Fringe In Iowa.
• Warren Throckmorton: Ron Paul touts endorsement of pastor who defends death penalty for gays, delinquent children & adultery.

• The National Organization for Marriage targets Ron Paul.
• It seems like just the other day that Newt Gingrich was calling on the other candidates to avoid negative attacks.
• Bryan Fischer says that "when we pick a president, we are in fact choosing a minister of God."
• Things continue to get worse for Bishop Eddie Long.
• Finally, considering that Randall Terry is constantly begging for money, once has to wonder where exactly did he get his full-length fur coat?

It is remarkable to realize how, in just a few years and despite repeated losses, the "personhood" movement has gone from a fringe effort that had no support to a central part of the Republican presidential primary.

When the first personhood effort in Colorado got trounced at the polls in 2008, anti-choice groups ranging from National Right to Life and Americans United for Life to the Eagle Forum all refused to support these sorts of amendments.

But this year nearly the entire Religious Right movement got behind the personhood effort in Mississippi ... which likewise failed miserably.  Nonetheless, the movement vows to press forward and has even managed to get nearly all of the leading Republican presidential candidates to sign a pledge promising to support both state and federal personhood amendments.

Last night, Personhood USA and a gaggle of Religious Right anti-choice groups hosted a "Pro-life Tele-Town Hall and Radio Simulcast" that featured Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Perry being interviewed by Iowa radio show host Steve Deace and Personhood USA's Keith Mason.

Each candidate received roughly ten minutes to proclaim their anti-choice bona fides and assure those listening that, if elected, they would do everything in their power to outlaw abortion. Rick Santorum even went so far as to declare that presidential candidates should not even be saying they "believe" life begins at conception because it is not a belief, it is a scientific fact:

I want to make sure that everybody understands that when politicians say "I believe life begins at conception," that is conceding ground. And the ground that we concede is by using the term "believe." Life beginning at conception is not a belief, it is not an article of faith, it is an article of fact. It's a biological fact that life, in fact, begins as conception and we need to begin to understand that we have to use language that is consistent with what the truth is. 

While each of the candidates used the call as an opportunity to highlight their anti-abortion views and agenda, none of the candidates could hold a candle to Michele Bachmann, who made it quite clear that outlawing abortion has been her life's work ... one she is willing to die to see happen:

I want everyone to know that I recognize and respect the dignity of every human life from conception until natural death. This is not a check the box thing for me; this is the core of my conviction, this is what I would literally die for. We have a moral obligation to defend other people and the reason for that is because each human being is made in the image of likeness of a holy God.

Some of the most elegant words about life came to us from the Declaration of Independence and ti says that God has given us our right to life, and we know that President Obama has a war on the family.

What we need to do to end Roe v. Wade and end that horrible holocaust in the United States of life is to pass the Personhood Amendment. I am the first person to sign Personhood USA's pledge, and I am proud to say that, to define life from the moment of conception. We don't have to wait for the Supreme Court; we can be involved in this ourselves and I am thrilled to have signed the Personhood Amendment.

As President of the United States, I won't just talk this talk, I won't relegate pro-lifers to the corner and pat them on the head, I will actually do something about it and I will veto any congressional attempt to provide federal funding of abortion. That's why I led 40,000 Americans to the United States capitol to block Obamacare.

I'm 55, since I've been 19 I've been very active in the pro-life movement. I get it. This isn't a check the box issue for me; this is life itself. The one thing we can't get wrong in this election is the life issue. Too many times we have been relegated to the corner - I will not, as president I will actively pursue the personhood legislation.

• Zack Ford and Igor Volsky @ Think Progress LGBT: Bob Vander Plaats’ Pay-For-Play Scandal: Charged A Million Bucks For Endorsement, Asked Candidates To Drop Out.
• Joe.My.God: Michigan Bans Partner Benefits.
• Tim Murphy @ Mother Jones: Letter Reveals How Ron Paul Cashed in on Paranoia.
• Andy Kopsa @ Ms. Blog: Abstinence-Only: It’s Baaack.
• Andrew Harmon @ The Advocate: An Antigay Website’s Curious Mention in Lisa Miller Case.
• Finally, we will return on Wednesday, Dec. 28.  Happy Holidays.

• Ron Paul has signed the Personhood USA pledge.
• But that is not enough for Matt Barber, who writes that "Ron Paul is dangerous."
• Richard Land explains why it is "hard to be a Christian at Christmas."
• Liberty Counsel wants to know which issues are important to you. Why not let them know?
• What if Jesus had been aborted?
• Finally, Phyllis Schlafly recommends the book "How to Raise an American Patriot " because it will teach kids "that James Madison was an ambassador to Russia when he was only 14 years old." That happens to be false.

The November 21 episode of Cindy and Mike Jacobs' "God Knows" program was called "Filled With Power" and dedicated to discussing what it is like to be "filled with the Holy Spirit's power."

Much of the program was dedicated to Cindy talking about her own electrifying experiences being filled with the Holy Spirit and how, the first time she sought to channel the power, it knocked her off her feet and into her bathtub. 

The discussion then moved on to how she has been able to use this healing power to cure all sorts of maladies, particularly barrenness, including one time when her prayers "completely replaced everything" for a woman who had had a full hysterectomy, resulting in her pregnancy: