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Here is a short teaser from the feature documentary, "Seventh-Gay Adventists."



This film, which is still in production, explores the complex intersection of faith, identity, and sexuality through the stories of LGBT Adventists who are struggling with their desire to belong to the church they know and love and their need to be fully accepted for who they are.



As part of the research process, filmmakers set up a story booth in several locations throughout the U.S. with the sole purpose of listening to stories. Here are a few of them.



Producers: Stephen Eyer and Daneen Akers

Music: "Liviu Emo" by Luke Atencio



More information at: sgamovie.com



Read an exclusive interview with the filmmakers.


The Transcript

When human beings became divorced from their Father, they departed the realm of intuitive holiness and entered the bisected, fragmented realm of performance. Here was a realm in which there was always a gulf between what they were and what they aspired to be. In this realm people constantly mistake parts for the whole, having a pathological attraction for living in parts and making religions out of them. Separated from God, humans would now have to perform in order to justify their acceptance with God and themselves. In this state of separation they would attempt to establish their own morality in order to be like God.

Many of them would become so introverted that they would presume to infer that God was like them. Because the remnants of their origins as sons of God lay buried in their slavery, they were sometimes successful in their efforts to achieve the good and eschew the evil. But often they were not and they habitually called good evil and evil good, even as the ways of God receded from their knowledge.

The summit of their folly was seen in the crucifixion of the One who had come to save them from their desiccation. Here among them lived the only One who did good because rather than live in parts, He lived in His Father as an obedient Son. But God is not mocked and their folly exposed the Wisdom of God and saved the people from their sin. Or should I say, it saves those who are careful to believe God’s Son and do what He commands. This means they shift their lives from the unstable sand banks of  performance and establish their lives deep rooted in Christ and on Christ the Rock. All because of the love and grace of the Father has made them one with Himself.

There is a definition of the righteousness of God: Jesus.

There never was a transcript of God’s character until the appearance of Jesus – the exact expression of His being. Moses laws were a check box that made all accountable to God. But these laws were not a transcript of His character, unless we would argue that God too must avoid idolatry, adultery, covetousness and theft. God lives from Himself. His purity is absolute and He is entirely untainted by evil. He never was an expression of the knowledge of good and evil. He expresses Himself in spirit and in truth.

God is not dichotomized, compartmentalized, and separated from Himself in the dualisms that afflict man. God is. He is made in His image, not in ours. He simply is I AM. The good of God is not the opposite of some evil. God’s good is good because I AM is good. God is underived, self-contained righteousness that knows no darkness ( 1 John 1.5) and is distinct from shadows (James 1.17), which is why the righteousness that comes from God Has to be Jesus the son of God. All this so that Jesus becomes the righteousness of God in us.

Humans, on the other hand live a split life. The good that they want to do they cannot do. They live a life bisected between hope and despair, the real and the ideal, wholeness and fragmentation until Jesus comes and opens a door – the door to union with God; the door that makes the two one; the open door that when entered makes man one with God, one with Himself and one with others. So God, man and the creation become one by the One Spirit.

Jesus is the new and living way, quite distinct from the old and dead way of the law of sin and death that grates among our members. This new way is a river of life unto life. The Father has created the opportunity for man to live in Him who is both the ideal and the real, the part and the whole and the resurrection and the life. Thus to live in Him is to become one new and partner with Jesus to multiply the new creation which is the Kingdom of God. To live is Christ. To live is to have Christ live in you and through you. To be alive is to die daily so as to live daily in Jesus.

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” 2 Cor 5.21 NIV.

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Kentucky to Build Greatest Religious Amusement Park Ever

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Kentucky to Build Greatest Religious Amusement Park EverKentucky's Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear breathlessly announced today that he has secured a deal with Ark Encounter LLC to build an awesome creationism-themed amusement park in his state. What, along with a "full-scale Noah's Ark," will it contain?

The $150-million Ark Encounter park is expected to bring 900 jobs and $250 million in revenue to the state, according to a comical press release from the governor's office titled, "Governor Beshear, Ark Encounter Announce Plans to Build a Full-Scale Noah's Ark." While it's privately funded, those $37.5 million in tax breaks won't hurt either.

Aside from the full-scale Noah's Ark — and btw, how exactly did they determine the precise dimensions of this mythical ark? — the park will contain other remnants of the hallucinatory, impoverished desert hellscape that was early Judeo-Christian civilization.


In addition to the full-size Ark, the complex will include a Walled City much like was found in ancient times, live animal shows, a children's interactive play area, a replica of the Tower of Babel with exhibits, a 500-seat 5-D special effects theater, an aviary, and a first-century Middle Eastern village.


"5-D special effects" are when Jesus jumps out of the picture and pours scalding hot wine on you, for changing money in a temple.

The parent company behind this project is also responsible for the Kentucky's Creation Museum, so now you can visit both in the same trip.

The governor's office also notes, however, that many of the Ark Encounter's constructions are expected to be LEED-certified. Bad idea. Haven't these people never heard about the Green Dragon?

Hey, jobs are jobs.

Graphic via ArkEncounter.com


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Iran hangs former soccer player's mistress

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Iran hangs former soccer player's mistress

Shahla Jahed was hanged at dawn, after spending more than eight years in jail for the slaying of the player's wife
TEHERAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday hanged a former soccer player's mistress  — known as a "temporary wife — who was convicted of murdering her love rival in a case that captivated the Iranian public for several years.

Shahla Jahed was hanged at dawn, after spending more than eight years in jail for the slaying of the player's wife, the official IRNA news agency reported.

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Jahed had become what is known as a "temporary wife" of former soccer star Nasser Mohammad Khani. She was charged in 2002 with stabbing his wife, Laleh Saharkhizan, to death and convicted of murder in 2004 and again in 2009, after her appeal was denied.

Contracts with "temporary wives" are a legal way for Iranian men to have mistresses outside marriage, with the agreements lasting from between several hours to a few years.

Wednesday's death sentence was based on the Islamic law of "qisas" — or eye for an eye retribution.

International human rights groups, including Amnesty International, had campaigned for Jahed's punishment to be halted.

The IRNA report said that just before the hanging at Teheran's Evin prison, the 40-year-old Jahed prayed peacefully, then burst into tears and cries, shouting for her life to be spared.

The victim's son pulled the chair from under her feet as Jahed gasped for breath in the remaining moments of her life, the khabaronline.ir news website said. The former soccer striker, Khani, also attended the hanging.

The reports also said that judiciary officials spent almost an hour in talks with Saharkhizan's family before the hanging, trying to convince them to spare Jahed's life but were unsuccessful.

Prominent artists and respected cultural figures in Iran have also for years appealed to the victim's family to show mercy.

Under Iranian law, men and women can commit to a "temporary marriage" for an agreed period of time after a certain amount of money is paid to the woman.

In Iran, men are allowed up to four legal wives under Islam and any
number of temporary wives. Women can only be married to one man at a
time.



Jahed initially denied any involvement in Saharkhizan's killing but
later confessed to the stabbing, only to subsequently withdraw the
confession. Several Iranian experts have said she may have been
wrongfully convicted.
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Murder Inmate Posts Shocking Facebook Pics

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Murder Inmate Posts Shocking Facebook Pics


UPDATE--The spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Jerry Massie, says Justin Walker has been moved to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and placed in Administrative Segregation in the H-unit in McAlester. A cell phone was recovered along with some marijuana. Massie says DOC will be asking for charges to be filed in Greer County as well as proceeding with its own internal misconduct process. This happened less than 24 hours after FOX23 News reported Walker's Facebook to DOC.

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Tulsa man serving a 30-year-prison sentence for murdering an Oklahoma Sheriff finds a way to post some surprising photos on Facebook.

FOX23 News found pictures of Justin L. Walker, 32 posing in his prison cell.

Walker was convicted of killing Pawnee County Sheriff Dwight Woodrell, Jr. in 2001.

FOX23’s Abbie Alford looked into the Facebook postings that fly in the face of law.

He’s known as “Jus N Walk” and he’s a known member of the Aryan Brotherhood Gang. He’s not shy about posing with his cellmates.

Folks we talked to on the street are shocked.

“They are living it up in there," says a Tulsa man on the street.

Convicted murderer, Justin walker shows himself smoking what appears to be a homemade bong inside his cell at the Granite Reformatory, a medium security facility in southwest Oklahoma.

“He's smoking a bong in jail? In prison?" asks another man on the street.

Walker posts more photos from his bunk apparently smoking a joint, holding a bottle of booze and a bag of weed with another man.

"A pound of weed? Wow, bag of it. In prison?" says another man on the street.

As FOX23 News continues to show folks on the street the pictures cause a lot of concern.

"He has something in his hand, it looks like a knife," says one of the men on the street.

It’s a shank and he’s licking it.

Facebook shows Walker started posting pictures and comments earlier this month. He even added pictures of a girl he calls his daughter. She is posing with guns.

"What kind of image is he setting for kids? These kids that are on Facebook and you got someone that is inside the institution that is loose like that?" says a mother on the street.

Facebook shows the pictures are uploaded from a cell phone and on his Facebook page is a picture of Walker holding one.

"That's an i-Phone. It's a Blackberry," says two friends on the street.

The spokesperson for the Department of Corrections says it’s a felony to have a cell phone in a correctional facility and officers aggressively investigate cases where inmates have smuggled in contraband.

"I've heard they throw that stuff over the fence to them," says man on the street.

Or smuggle phones and drugs hidden and in their body.

He’s even told friends on Facehook how to send money so correctional officers can’t track it.

“Walmart or walgreens sell green dot cards its called greendot" money pack reload card " it will hav 14 numbers on it then text me the numbers . Then I give em to my boy that got the store.cause they take all my money that's sent in I got big azz fines and medical bills for smashin fools out. Westsidin m/fers. You aint got ta send me any thing girl I know its hard on ya'll out there.”

Since FOX23 News first reported the story Walker has deleted some of his status updates and photos.

FOX23 News was the first to tell the Department of Corrections about Walkers’ Facebook page.

The Granite Reformatory would only tell FOX23 News that action will be taken.

Although, around 4:37 p.m. Walker did post on his Facebbok  “Just chillin its count time smoking a cig thinking about today’s events.”

The Department of Corrections says it’s up to the District Attorney in Greer County, location of the Granite City prison, to file charges against Walker.

Walker could spend more time in prison.

Federal officials are working on a law that would allow them to install a jamming system to ban inmates from using cell phones.

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Convicted Murderer Posts Prison Party Pics on Facebook

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Convicted Murderer Posts Prison Party Pics on Facebook Justin Walker is serving a 30-year sentence for the killing of an Oklahoma Sheriff. "Jus N" has a Facebook page. Also, apparently, a Blackberry, a bong, a stash of weed, knives, some booze and other goodies inside his jail cell.

Oklahoma's FOX 23 News found out about "Jus N Walk" and his Facebook page, which, sadly, no longer contains the photographs of Walker taking bong rips, drinking hooch and licking shanks. He likes fantasy novels, the movie Natural Born Killers, and, according to FOX 23, adheres to white power ideology. Watch the news report above.

After this report aired, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections moved Jus N Walk from the medium security Granite Reformatory to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Officers found his phone and weed. It was just too good to be true, wasn't it, Jus N? [via Mediaite]


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'Does your organization support existence of Israel?' Obama's IRS accused of targeting Jews

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Obama's IRS accused of targeting Jews

'Special Policy' demands: 'Does your organization support existence of Israel?'

By Eugene J. Koprowski




© 2010 WorldNetDaily


An attorney for an educational organization called Z Street says there's now evidence Internal Revenue Service agents under the direction of the Obama administration intentionally are targeting the free speech and religious rights of American Jews.

WND reported only weeks ago when the IRS delayed approval of a tax-exempt status for a private organization and was reviewing its educational work after explaining it must be examined by Washington because its activities may "contradict the administration's public policies."

That allegation was contained in a federal lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by Z Street, a Merion Station, Pa., group that educates on the statehood and status of Israel.

Now Jerome M. Marcus, an attorney for Z Street, has revealed to WND that additional documents have been found demonstrating how the IRS has moved "beyond the pale" by cracking down on education groups that focus on Israel.

Marcus, of the firm Marcus & Auerbach in suburban Philadelphia, said such "viewpoint discrimination" is a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

He said the government isn't allowed to weigh the religious viewpoints of educational organizations when deciding whether to grant them tax exempt status under federal charity laws.

Marcus has filed a memorandum opposing the government's motion to dismiss the case and it includes new evidence: a letter sent to another Jewish organization which raised questions about political beliefs similar to those that were asked of Z Street.

The brief, which has been posted online, challenges the IRS' motives and methods.

"This shows that what happened to my client was not anomalous, not just an agent [IRS agent Diane Gentry] who didn't understand that Z Street was an educational organization," Marcus told WND. "This information indicates that this is a policy that the IRS is pursuing. It is not an appropriate inquiry asking about someone's religious beliefs or political beliefs."

A hearing may be held in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to probe the questions raised by the evidence, Marcus said.

"That should be interesting," he said.

The IRS did not comment on the matter. A spokeswoman in the Washington, D.C., office referred a journalist to the agency's Philadelphia contact and the contact there told WND he could not comment.

Marcus said the IRS had an initial deadline this week to respond to last week's filing for Z Street, but asked for an extension of the deadline due to the Thanksgiving holiday and Z Street agreed.

'Wildly Improper'

In his brief, Marcus details the "wildly improper" questioning by the IRS of yet another Jewish organization.

Marcus wrote: "As detailed in the Declaration of Jerome M. Marcus, Z STREET's counsel in this case, after the instant Complaint was filed, Plaintiff learned that another organization – this one simply Jewish and without any publicly stated positions on political issues affecting the State of Israel – applied for a charitable exemption. While the application was pending, its representative received a letter from the IRS, all but the first page of which appears as Exhibit 1 to Mr. Marcus's declaration. The letter, sent not by Agent Gentry, who was handling Plaintiff's application, but by a different IRS agent, inquires of the applicant: 'Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?
Describe your organization's religious belief system towards the land of Israel.'"

Marcus continued, "Can one imagine that an application for tax exemption could – constitutionally – be affected in any conceivable way by the answer to these questions?"

In his brief last week, Marcus also noted that the fact the answers are being demanded makes it clear beyond doubt that IRS officials have taken the time to determine that this is a useful line of inquiry; have obtained approval for this conclusion; disseminated this conclusion to agents processing applications for 501(c)(3) exemption; drafted questions designed to ferret out the answers the government needs to apply this policy; and then spent more time posing the questions, and then weighing their significance to determine the answers' impact on whether exemptions from tax should be granted.

'Israel Special Policy'

The IRS is executing its "Israel Special Policy" which agent Gentry informed Marcus about orally during talks about the non-profit application before the case was filed, Marcus said, noting that IRS has also established a "special unit" in its offices in Washington, D.C., to examine Jewish groups that may advocate policies contrary to those espoused by Barack Hussein Obama.

"This is not an appropriate inquiry – what are your religious beliefs," Marcus told WND. "As long as one's beliefs are factually based, IRS has no business questioning them. Inquiring into the substance of one's political beliefs is beyond the pale. It's pure viewpoint discrimination and a violation of the First Amendment."

Lori Lowenthal-Marcus, founder of Z Street, said in an interview that the group was formally organized during the summer of 2009, and applied for charitable tax exempt status from IRS last fall. The IRS' delay in granting 501c3 status has "damaged" the fundraising of the group, as large donors usually want to have their donations be tax deductible.

"We have no problem getting membership fees, which are $18," Lowenthal-Marcus told WND. "But those are small donations. People don't worry about tax deductions for small donations."

Lowenthal-Marcus said that other Jewish groups are starting to acknowledge viewpoint discrimination as well in postings online, including a posting by a man identifying himself as a "CPA" on the blog Isra-Pundit on Nov. 28, 2010.

Even tax law professors are outraged, according to a posting on the blog for tax lawyer and professors which asks the question, "is failure to support Obama administration's foreign policy grounds to deny tax exempt status?"

Said Lowenthal-Marcus: "Other people are starting to come out of the woodwork. The same thing is happening to them."

She told WND earlier the organization has met all of the requirements to be granted tax-exempt status. But the approval was delayed because of a "Special Israel Policy that requires greater scrutiny of organizations which have to do with Israel, in part to determine whether they espouse positions on Israel contrary to those of the current administration."






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Democrat abandons Obama on gate rape congressman goes for financial jugular

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Democrat abandons Obama on gate rape

Fed-up with nude pics, health dangers, congressman goes for financial jugular

By Jerome R. Corsi




© 2010 WorldNetDaily


A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives is now urging Congress to freeze funding for the controversial nude-image scanners being installed in airports around the nation by the Transportation Security Administration.

U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., a Ph.D. physicist and current chair of the House Select Oversight Panel, also has written to ask for a meeting with TSA Administrator John Pistole to discuss his concerns regarding TSA's implementation of X-ray backscatter full-body scanning machines at airports throughout the nation.

On his website, Holt said, "Like many of you, I have serious questions about the Transportation Security Administration's new body imaging technology and pat-down procedures. I have written to the TSA administrator and called for congressional hearings about the need to look more closely at the privacy issues and effectiveness of the screenings, and especially the potential long-term health effects of the new technology."

He said, "We shouldn't be using, much less expanding the use of, technology unless we are sure of the health impact. The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, is conducting an examination of backscatter technology. As I've urged, Congress should freeze funding for any further full-body scanning devices employing this technology until GAO completes its study and the government establishes a more rational and selective use of these procedures and technology based on sound science."

His letter to the TSA included a long list of other issues with which he was concerned, including the machines' capabilities of storing images and transmitting them.

The statements indicate a clear break by Holt from the Obama policy line that the backscatter machines and invasive pat-downs are necessary for airline security.

Zach Goldberg, spokesman for Holt, confirmed to WND that the congressman wants to make sure the TSA has reviewed the science and studied thoroughly the new screening procedures before expanding those X-ray scanning procedures into airports throughout the nation.

The TSA did not immediately return a WND phone call inquiring whether Pistole had received Holt's letter and if a meeting with Holt had been scheduled.

But the letter, dated Nov. 19, supports a request Holt made in August urging congressional leaders to freeze funding for the TSA advanced imaging scanners until questions regarding the X-ray machines had been answered.

"As a scientist and chairman of the Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, I appreciate the challenges we face in trying to prevent terrorists from boarding American airliners," Holt wrote Pistole. "That same background also gives me an understanding of why TSA's current obsession with fielding body imaging technology is misguided, counterproductive, and potentially dangerous."

Holt mentioned that at a March meeting of the Congressional Biomedical Caucus, of which he is the co-chair, Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research gave a presentation on the potential health effects of the TSA backscatter X-ray devices and he stressed:


  • The TSA advanced imaging devices in use deliver to the scalp 20 times the average dose that is typically quoted by TSA and throughout the industry;


  • The majority of the radiation from X-ray backscatter machines strikes the top of the head, which is where 85 percent of basal cell carcinoma diagnosed each year in the United States, develops;



  • Excessive X-ray exposure can act as a cancer rate multiplier.

WND previously reported Brenner's concerns that it is quite "likely" that radiation from screening machines being installed nationwide by the TSA to use on airline passengers will cause cancer. Especially at risk, Brenner stressed, are frequent fliers and children.

Brenner also told WND that TSA is relying on "bought and paid for" industry studies and manufacturers' specifications, not scientific research examining the TSA X-ray machines independently, with results being published in peer-reviewed journals.

Holt's letter to Pistole also referenced a Government Accountability Study, published on March 17, 2010, in which the GAO concluded, "it remains unclear whether the AIT [Advanced Imaging Technology] would have been able to detect the weapon Mr. Abdulmutallab [also known as the 'Christmas bomber'] used in his attempted attack based on the preliminary TSA information we have reviewed."

"A headlong rush to embrace fallible technology will only give the public the illusion of increased security at the expense of their privacy and dignity, with no assurance that the use of these machines will actually deter or detect terrorists before they act," Holt said in his letter to Pistole.

WND previously reported that an advanced copy of a peer-reviewed scientific paper accepted for publication and authored by University of California scientists Leon Kaufman and Joseph Carlson demonstrates packages of explosives contoured to the body or worn along the sides likely would not be detected by TSA X-ray units built to "see" hard edges and anatomical features, and used primarily to image the front and back of the body.

Holt also expressed concern that the TSA had not yet implemented directives prohibiting TSA personnel who are operating AIT units from transmitting or saving the images of individual passengers, or from having video-recording devices such as smart-phones on their persons while operating the machines.

"Absent such a prohibition and independent confirmation that the AIT’s ability to store and transmit images are disabled, I fail to see how the Congress and the flying public can have confidence that the very legitimate civil concerns of passengers have been addressed," Holt wrote.

Holt reserved some of the strongest language in his letter to a discussion of a little girl who was frisked by TSA airport employees.

"What behavioral indicator led the screener in question to believe that the little girl needed such an invasive pat-down? If no valid behavioral or other threat indicator was present, why did the screener conduct the aggressive frisking? If the girl's mother or father were deemed a threat, why were they not segregated for further questioning, in private?" Holt asked Pistole.

"The entire episode has served as a symbol of an invasive, technology-driven passenger screening process that is not making us safer, even as it humiliates, degrades, and engages a public that deserves far better from those ostensibly seeking to protect them."

In pointing to how Israel protects airline passengers with a "layered, common sense-based system," Holt demanded to know, "How can Americans be treated this way?"

In requesting an in-person meeting with Pistole, Holt posed six pointed items for discussion:


  1. Any reports from independent entities that have validated the effectiveness of the AIT systems currently being fielded to detect the full range of explosive threats known or anticipated to be employed by potential terrorists;


  1. Whether any independent entity has verified that the AIT machines have been modified so as to ensure that no permanent record of a passenger scan is retained, retransmitted, or otherwise copied either directly from the AIT machine itself or by TSA or other personnel utilizing any form of video recording technology;


  1. The measures TSA has taken to address GAO's concerns and recommendations regarding the employment, cost-benefit analysis, and expected overall costs of fielding these AIT systems;



  1. The measures TSA has taken to improve and validate its Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, as discussed in GAO's May 2010 report on the program;



  1. Why TSA does not systematically use watch list-derived intelligence information to screen passengers more selectively via AIT systems and the SPOT program; and


  1. Whether or not TSA has sought or received recommendations from the government of Israel about how TSA could improve its screening programs without invading the privacy of passengers.

Officials already have admitted that the system wouldn't do what they want – stop a terrorist like the Christmas bomber:


And they've already conceded the plan's constitutionality is doubtful at best.

Even Mo McGowan, a former director of TSA security operations, was uncertain.

"We're not dictating these events that are occurring. Events are happening across the world … driving us as a society to have to go to these measures," he said.

"I mean, nobody likes having their 4th Amendment violated going through a security line," he said. "But the truth of the matter is we're going to have to do it."

Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Along with serving as WND's senior staff reporter, Corsi is a senior managing director at Gilford Securities.

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