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Earlier this week Gene Simmons, star of the punk rock group Kiss and known as “The Demon” came out with an unlikely statement supporting buttoned-down Republican Mitt Romney for the Primary nomination for President of the United States. There could hardly be a greater contrast between two celebrity personalities. Yet both agree on one thing: [...]
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When President Obama became President of the United States in 2008, he carried 53% of the electorate. It was impossible at that time to say who he was exactly or what he believed. He promised to “fundamentally change” America without really explaining what those changes would entail. His personal details were hidden deep within the [...]
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- December 31, 2011
- Posted by Lon Gibson at 10:23 am
Has anyone noticed it has been a bad year for “mainstream”? The so-called mainstream media is attracting fewer viewers than Fox News–even less than Glenn Beck all by himself, for crying out loud. Mainstream medicine is on a severe decline with the emergent burden of Obamacare and a cavalcade of natural medical solutions. Speaking of [...]
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The recent controversies of candidate Herman Cain, have highlighted the morality issue in running for President. We often look back at the founders lives and scrutinize their behavior, but how many of them cheated on their wives? Wasn’t Adams immaculately faithful to his wife? How many actually had these kinds of issues? Today, it is [...]
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After studying the Biblical account of the fall of Lucifer and supplementing that understanding with Latter-day scripture, I began to recognize the methodology of Satan repeated within today’s political context. Satan desired to have honor and power (DC 29) bestowed upon him illegitimately offering to “save” mankind from sin by taking away free-agency, thus forcing [...]
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The OWS movement is a caricature of the Obama presidency. Starting with ecstatic fanfare and blind idealism, both have exposed an unseemly underbelly. Obama was swept into office amid avid praise and high expectation. Promises abounded to rid the nation of Bush festered corruption. As each Obama initiative proved to be fools gold, the polls [...]
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has been compared to the Tea Party movement by the media and Liberal politicians. While the likes of Cornel West, Talib Kweli, Michael Moore, and Mark Ruffalo have come down to Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhatten in support of the protest, Vice President Biden proclaimed, “there’s a lot in common [...]
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It takes faith to have freedom. As the popular Ben Franklin quote goes, “those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for a little security deserve neither freedom nor security.”
Faith, as defined by the Apostle Paul, is a belief in that which is unseen. Until we each see God face to face, as did Moses, every [...]
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I was privileged last weekend to perform my show for an AME Church in Philadelphia. The event was a luncheon/fashion show and they hired me for preliminary music. My show consists of classical and semi-classical cello and piano solo work. After performing I was offered a seat at the Pastors table where I got to [...]
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- September 22, 2011
- Posted by Lon Gibson at 2:35 pm
I just came back from seeing the new movie “I Am Number Four”, a fantasy suspense thriller on Imax. Since I’m a bit of an animal lover, I was touched by several scenes in which the tri-colored Beagle—similar to the one that saved Jim Carrey in “The Mask,” persistently followed the pursued protagonist and finally, [...]
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- September 5, 2011
- Posted by Lon Gibson at 11:21 am
The economy is like a huge Boeing transport jet that has lost its ability to fly. It still has all the parts and structure of a successful plane, but it needs new jet engines, experienced engineers and a skilled pilot. The engine our economy needs is a burgeoning private sector complete with major real estate [...]
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A new anti-Obama billboard in Athens, Alabama has been getting a lot of attention. Share this:FacebookEmailPrint
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