Jan Morgan, gun range owner: Business 'quadrupled' since I banned Muslim

Jan Morgan, the owner and operator of the Arkansas-based Gun Cave Indoor Firing Range, said business has been booming since September, when she first announced that she would no longer allow Muslims to utilize her services, as a matter of public safety.

She also said that the threats of lawsuits that have loomed since she announced the ban on Muslims have drifted away, the Daily Mail reports.

The American-Islamic Relations, for instance, recently called on Attorney General Eric Holder to look into her ban as a case of racial and religious discrimination, accusing Ms. Morgan of fueling "a hostile environment for ordinary Muslims in Arkansas," the Daily Mail reported. But Ms. Morgan said she's not backing down -- that such lawsuit threats have no teeth because Islam is not a genuine religion, worthy of constitutional protections, and that many Muslims want to kill people like her, she said, the news outlet reported.

In that sense, her ban is a "public safety" issue, she's said, in past interviews. And some attorneys agree that she stands on firm legal ground, particularly if she maintains her range is private -- which could therefore exempt it from certain federal civil rights regulations, the Daily Mail reported.

"We are dealing in lethal firearms," Ms. Morgan said to FoxNews.com. "I'm not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Ku Klux Klan member in here, either."

Her message -- and ban -- has apparently been resonating with area gun enthusiasts.

Ms. Morgan said her range business has "quadrupled" since she first announced the ban on Muslims, in September 2014.

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Obama’s hug of Iran is a rebellion against God

If rebelling against tyranny is obeying God’s will – as both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson stated – what exactly is President Obama doing when he reaches out to Iran with the equivalent of a White House hug? Answer: Leading America farther away from the safety and security of God’s grace.

Think about it.

In a speech before the Heritage Foundation, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said the United States ought to enact “immediate and crippling sanctions” on Iran and quit the “sham nuclear negotiations,” the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported. Why?

“Iran is a radical, Islamist tyrannical regime … that has been killing Americans for 35 years,” said, the NCRI continued.

Cotton then cited Iran’s many offenses, including its repressive totalitarian government, its sponsorship of terrorism and terror groups the world over and its continued quest for nuclear weaponry. But Team Obama’s response to all these travesties has been conciliatory at best – an outright affiliation with evil at worst.

“U.S. negotiators have surrendered repeatedly to Iran’s demands, conceding a right to enrich uranium, allowing Iran to keep its plutonium-producing reactor, asking only that its centrifuges be disconnected instead of dismantled,” Cotton said. “In return for these concessions to Iran, the U.S. has given and will give Iran billions of dollars more in sanctions relief.”

Obama’s cave to Iran is so great that even his own political party is outraged.

Look at the exchange between Tony Blinken, deputy secretary of state, and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) during a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blinken admitted that the Obama administration wasn’t so concerned about shuttering Iran’s nuclear program as with striking an agreement that delays its development of nuclear weaponry – a stance that defies both logic and sanity. Or, as Menendez said: The Obama administration has “talking points that come straight out of Tehran.”

And after learning that it’s true, that Obama’s deal lets Iran enrich uranium and build as many plutonium light water reactors as desired, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) weighed in with concern, saying such activities are “not consistent with a purely civilian program.”

No kidding.

There is not an eye in the international community that doesn’t blink in incredulity over the claim that Iran’s nuclear program is solely for peaceful, civilian purposes – except, it would seem, Obama’s. But his blinders are stubborn accouterments of his own doing. To the president, talk and diplomacy is the be-all of all foreign affairs – and the notion of labeling evil as evil, a queasy verbalization to be avoided at all costs.

But this is not the way to protect America from its enemies. You can’t cut a deal with the devil and expect good to come.

The matter of Iran strikes at the very core of nation’s founding: Either we are a country built on Judeo-Christian principles, emboldened by the very God who drove and inspired our founders to successfully fight for freedom against all odds – or we’re not. Either we’re a country that stands for righteousness, seizing the high moral ground that comes from knowledge and obedience to the very biblical principles that God bestowed on the leaders of His established nations – or we’re defeated, in all but admission.

Our leaders need to confront Iran with truth, first and foremost. The nation is evil, run by evil-doers, who seek to spread their evil into the West. The price for political correctness and falsehood is too great.

As William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, said: “Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

Colorado bakery under fire for refusing cake order with words, "God hates gays'

A Colorado bakery is facing fire for refusing a customer who wanted a cake that contained the words, "God hates gays."

Azucar Bakery's owner Marjorie Silva, told USA Today she received the order from Bill Jack -- who's the founder of the Christian group, Worldview -- back in March 2014. She said Mr. Jack also wanted the cake to include an image of two hand-holding men, with an 'X' drawn through them.

"After I read [the requested text], I was like, 'No way,'" Ms. Silva said to USA Today. "We're not doing this. This is just very discriminatory and hateful."

Mr. Jack, however filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Divison, alleging discrimination on the part of the bakery.

He said, KUSA-TV reported: "I believe I was discriminated against by the bakery based on my creed. As a result, I filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division. Out of respect for the process, I will wait for the director to release his findings before making further comments."

Jeff Johnston, an issues analyst at Focus on the Family, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has said that his group supports the bakery and the right of the owner to exercise her First Amendment principles.

"This is a free speech issue and we support freedom of speech," he said, The Blaze reported. "It's also a religious or conscience issue -- the government should not force people to violate their core beliefs. Just as a Christian baker should not be required to create a cake for a same-sex ceremony, this baker should not be required to create a cake with a message that goes against her conscience."

Meanwhile, Ms. Silva claims that it's Mr. Jack who was "discriminating," she said, USA Today reported.

The Department of Regulatory Agencies has asked for an extension in the case, so it won't be resolved for at least a couple more months, USA Today said.

Ted Cruz to oversee NASA – and the useful idiots are howling

Okay, so Sen. Ted Cruz has a new gig as chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space and Competitiveness, and as such, will be the main politico in charge of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

To hear Democrats and liberals talk, you’d think the sky was falling. But why?

As Cruz pointed out in his statement about his appointment – entitled “Focus NASA on Its Core Mission: Exploring Space, and More of It” – his main goal is simply to return the U.S. space program to its once undisputed greatness.

“We have lost sight of that clarion call,” he said, referring to America’s past regard for space exploration as a “crucial front in the battle between freedom and tyranny.” And now? We hitch rides with the Russians to the International Space Station.

“The United States should work alongside our international partners, but not be dependent on them,” Cruz said. “We should once again lead the way for the world in space exploration.”

Agreed.

Really, all Cruz wants to do is turn back the clock to a time when America’s space exploration put exploration at the top of its mission list – above, say, special agendas. And it’s not as if his concerns about the agency are new. As far back as 2011, Rep. Lamar Smith called for federal investigations into the “politicization” of NASA and whether the space agency had been compromised by Democratic-fueled demands and its mission, usurped by President Obama’s utopian-style vision. Remember this?

NASA chief Charles Bolden told an Al-Jazeera crowd in mid-2010 that Obama charged him with three things – to inspire children to learn science and math; to expand the agency’s relations with other countries; and “perhaps foremost … to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and … help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering,” he said.

Fast-forward a bit to Obama’s 2013 full-court press for climate change regulations, and who emerges as one of his biggest fans? NASA.

“I have seen just how fragile our home planet it – and I’m committed to doing everything I can to help protect it,” said Boden, in a blog post that vowed NASA’s help in tracking Earth’s environmental degradations.

Wait a minute – isn’t NASA first and foremost a space exploration agency?

Cruz thinks so. But here’s where the fight gets really interesting – and the useful idiots of the left make their big splash.

The “We the People” section of the White House website touts not one, but two petitions aimed at removing Cruz from his oversight position of NASA. The first, with under 1,000 signatures, faults the Texas senator for proposed funding cuts for NASA, as well as for his “complete … disregard” of the EPA. The second, with nearly 35,000 signatures, calls for Cruz to be booted from his current NASA-oversight role, and to ban him serving on “any other science based committee.” The petition also labels Cruz as “scientifically illiterate,” and demands the White House sub in “a person worthy of the position.”

But how about a little political literacy – and awareness that the president of the United States is not a king who appoints members of Congress and committees to do executive bidding? Still, to the left, agenda trumps law, and hatred for Cruz apparently drowns out reason. What’s notable, though, is that tens of thousands of people would sign on to the petition in just a few short days – a sad commentary when a presidential election’s looming. Do these people actually vote?

Mike Huckabee’s right: Beyonce’s bad news for kids

Mike Huckabee has sparked a bit of backlash for his assessment of Beyonce as a pretty vulgar performer who nonetheless seems to sneak a PG-rating with the First Family, earning first-class status as an invited White House guest.

As he pointed out in a recent People interview about his new book, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” Beyonce’s sexually graphic in both musical lyrics and moves, oftentimes putting on shows more befitting for the bedroom than the stage. So why would Mom and Dad Obama, who otherwise chide their minor-aged daughters – not to mention, the nation’s school children – into eating broccoli and exercising, nonetheless fall flat in the parenting department when it comes to monitoring the level of hyper-sexual content their kids see?

It’s a valid point – and the fact that it’s generating such controversy only shows how far down the path of cultural degradation this country’s come. Heck, even former president Jimmy Carter was asked to opine on Huckabee’s views, telling TMZ, predictably perhaps, that he doesn’t “agree with much that Mike Huckabee says and I think that President Obama’s doing a good job.”

The Washington Post chimed in with a list of 10 things that Sasha and Malia, and ostensibly, the rest of the female gender, can learn from Beyonce and her half-dressed stage antics – among, that having a “well-established professional life” and “your own money” is a terrific confidence booster. Well, that’s true, but the real point is: Would a parent rather her daughter secure a profession and decent-sized paycheck fully clothed, or not-so-clothed?

And that, right there, is the problem: Many in America really don’t care any longer.

Today’s culture is that Kim Kardashian can make a sex tape – and then appear on the supposed family-friendly Fox and Friends with her sisters to speak about the hard road to success and learned entrepreneurial skills. As Hollywood Life wrote, of the $65 million the Kardashian family pulled in 2010, “the family first gained notoriety through middle sister Kim’s sex tape with Ray J in 2006 and seems to have almost thrived off it.”

But the Kardashians aren’t alone. Think Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson. The sex tape-turned-business savvy crowd has really spawned a whole new generation of minor-aged girls who turn their teen years into seductive money-making ventures, oftentimes gaining fame before they’ve even reached the age of consent – Miley Cyrus, for one, or Brittany Spears, for another.

The lure of easy money doesn’t fade with age, either. Jennifer Lopez, in her 40s, just made a splash with Iggy Azalea in the grossly graphic shake and rub “Booty” video. Nicki Minaj, now in her 30s, continues to release sexually graphic videos and sing sexually graphic songs – laughably, all the while claiming that she’s not.

“[Sex is] not what I’m about at all,” she protested, PopCrush reported.

And one Business Insider headline from 2011 summed the latest about pop star Rihanna this way: “How Long Can Rihanna Rely on Sex Alone to Sell Albums?”

Here’s the thing: Huckabee’s a former Baptist preacher, so it really shouldn’t be any surprise that his moral compass stands firmly on the side of decorum, in the most classical sense of the word.

But the fact that someone in America might be more outraged by Huckabee’s remarks than by the image of a pre-teen girl watching with adoring eyes, alongside her clapping, cheering mother, as a half-dressed woman bumps and grinds, is the greater shock. Huckabee is no doubt only wondering What Would Jesus Do – not really a bad question to pose in these morally bankrupt times.