Alabama city informing lawmakers of efforts to revive Cold War system 
An Alabama city is briefing members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers today on its plan to prepare citizens to survive a nuclear attack, including revitalization of fallout shelters.
Two Huntsville emergency management officials will meet with Rep. Charles Dent, R-Pa, the Huntsville Times reported.
WND also has learned the briefing will include Sen. Arlen Specter R-Pa., and Homeland Security staffers for Rep. Dave Reichert R-Wash., Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and possibly others.
Dent, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, requested the meeting with John Russell, director of Huntsville/Madison County Emergency Management Agency, and Kirk Paradise, the agency's emergency plans coordinator.
The Huntsville paper said the briefing will highlight the city's revitalization of its fallout shelter system, the training of responders on radiological safety and its use of radiological monitoring and detection equipment, including government vehicles equipped with detection devices.
Paradise recently presented Huntsville's community shelter plans at a national symposium. He also published articles on the subject in several trade journals.
The Wall Street Journal republished an article Friday from the Washington Monthly titled "U.S. Unprepared for an Urban Nuclear Attack."
The article cited former ...   more »

Why almost half of voters polled say
they'd support a God-denier for president
The signs are everywhere. Many of America's top-selling books right now are angry, in-your-face, atheist manifestos. Judges try to outdo each other in banning references to God like the Ten Commandments and the "Under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance. And nearly half of Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll, would be willing to vote for an atheist for president of the United States of America – a nation founded by devout Christians.
In its groundbreaking September edition, titled "THE RISE OF ATHEIST AMERICA," WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine provides a powerfully eye-opening analysis of what's really behind the current atheist phenomenon.  
"This is atheism's moment," brags David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus Books, celebrating the tremendous success of anti-God bestsellers like "God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything" by journalist Christopher Hitchens and "The God Delusion" by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. "Mr. Hitchens has written the category killer," he says, "and we're excited about having the next book." That's right – this fall the publishing world will further cash in on the anti-God juggernaut with the release of "The Pocket Atheist," featuring the ...   more »

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday lashed out at his Western foes which demand Iran halt its sensitive nuclear activities, saying they were "racing to hell".
"The Iranian people have climbed over difficult mountain passes on their path of progress. The enemies need to step aside from our path and give up their satanic ideas," he said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
"One or two countries are refusing to accept that Iran is now mastering nuclear technology ... Some countries are racing towards hell. But this makes us sad and, for the good of their people, we will resist."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, reiterated on Sunday that Tehran was not seeking to manufacture atomic weapons.
"While the Iranian people do not have nuclear weapons and do not wish to acquire these deadly arms, the people are respected because their grandeur is based on their beliefs and their will," he told a group of Revolutionary Guards chiefs.
The UN Security Council has issued two sanctions resolutions against Tehran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, a key part of an atomic programme that the United States alleges is aimed at making nuclear weapons.
The United States and European ...   more »

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
First, I need to correct something I said in my last column. In the column, I referred to Alan Stang's book "Not Holier Than Thou," in which he points out that President Bush has appointed numerous known homosexuals to high public office, just as did his predecessor, Bill Clinton. I included in that list former Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci, who was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Canada. I misquoted Alan Stang in that statement. Cellucci is not homosexual. However, his record as governor is extremely "pro-homosexual," which is the way I should have worded it. I apologize for the error.
Now, to the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon building.
Contrary to the claims of President Bush, the United States is not only just as vulnerable to terrorist attacks as it was in 2001, it is more vulnerable. This is due directly to the blunders and negligence of the Bush administration.
For one thing, the U.S. borders and ports remain wide open. There has been no serious effort on behalf of the federal government to thwart the invasion (and that is exactly what it is) of illegal aliens across our southern ...   more »