Friday, March 21, 2025

Jesus! Where’er Thy people meet...

Jesus! where’er Thy people meet,
There they behold Thy mercy-seat;
Where’er they seek Thee, Thou art found,
And every place is hallow’d ground.
 
Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few!
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.
-William Cowper

News and Views: March 21, 2025

Burgum Orders Nearly 20 Million Acres In Alaska Opened For Oil, Gas Development  “It’s a very different world, right?” Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said during a March 14 CERAWeek address, noting Trump’s Alaska executive actions don’t just untangle oil, gas, and the state’s LNG project from regulatory straitjackets, but clear away federal rules restricting access to critical minerals, timber, and other resources in the massive state....
...Dunleavy called Burgum’s directive “more great news for Alaska,”

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The Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think   At this point it’s not too much to say that the federal judiciary has plunged us into a constitutional crisis. The fusillade of injunctions and temporary restraining orders issued by district court judges in recent weeks against the Trump administration — on everything from foreign aid to immigration enforcement to Defense Department enlistment policy to climate change grants for Citibank — boggles the mind.


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Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings   Employees of DOGE's latest target spent taxpayer money on exotic vacations, portraits, and more.

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CNN Host Compares Anti-Tesla Terror Attacks to Conservative Boycotts Conservatives boycott. They make their voices heard with their wallets, not with riots and destruction. Meanwhile, the left throws violent tantrums that end in chaos and burning buildings. And Phillip has the nerve to equate the two? This is gaslighting at its finest, and she should be ashamed of herself.

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Every time a church closes, almost one third of its congregation stops going to church entirely. They do not find another church to worship at or stream any online services. So, it should be of huge concern that 3,500 churches have closed in the UK in the last ten years.
   In Wales, around a quarter of historic churches and chapels have closed their doors in recent years, with just as many now at risk. Meanwhile, the Church of Scotland – guardian of many of the country’s most important buildings – is actively planning the closure of as many as 40 per cent of its churches.

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Huge fire shuts down UK’s Heathrow Airport — up to 100,000 impacted, planes turned away  London’s Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest in the world, shut down operations all of Friday — disrupting over 1,000 flights across the globe — after a massive fire at a nearby electrical substation cut off power to the airport. 
Flyers are being advised to avoid the airport for the entire day as planes had already begun being diverted away from the British travel hub in the early hours... 
...More than 1,300 flights are affected by the emergency closure, with potentially over 100,000 people having their travel plans altered, CNN reported.

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 Trump Dismantles Department of Education With New Executive Order   Trump pointed to alarming statistics: “Seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in either reading or in math." Even more troubling, “Forty percent of fourth graders lack even basic reading skills, can’t read.” He noted that public school students today perform worse in reading than when the Department of Education was created.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Holiness comes not of blood...

Holiness comes not of blood—parents cannot give it to their children: nor yet of the will of the flesh—man cannot produce it in himself: nor yet of the will of man—ministers cannot give it you by baptism. Holiness comes from Christ. It is the result of vital union with Him. It is the fruit of being a living branch of the True Vine.  
-J.C. Ryle Image

News and Views: March 20, 2025

It’s no wonder that this culture quickly becomes littered with enormous numbers of broken and now irreparable relationships. Politics itself becomes a new kind of religion, one without any means of acquiring redemption or forgiveness. Rather then seeing some people as right and others as mistaken, they are now regarded as the good and the evil, as true believers or heretics.

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A savage rupturing of our civilisation...A new report leaves no doubt: 7 October was a hyper-violent onslaught against Jews and humanity   Following decades of the cry, ‘Never Again’, humanity once more found itself foraging in the blackened remains of a building for the incinerated remnants of the Jews who lived there. This detail from the new UK parliamentary report on the barbarism of 7 October should chill the blood of everyone who reads it. For it is 7 October’s clearest echo, among thousands of clear echoes, of the Nazi atrocities of the last century. This report leaves no doubt: 7 October was more than terrorism, more than a war crime – it was a savage rupturing of human civilisation itself. Screenshot
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"If the west doesn’t wake up soon and start recognizing how radical Islam is penetrating every pillar of society, if people don’t stop labeling anyone who acknowledges the agenda of radical Islam an Islamophobe, if we don’t reverse the trajectory that we’re on, western civilization will join every other empire that threw morality out the window right before its demise.
   The west is falling, and radical Islam is rising.
   Please, people, wake the hell up. This shouldn’t be a political issue of the left and the right. This is a question of survival and if we don’t open our eyes soon, radical Islam will accomplish its goal and achieve its mission."
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The legacy media permanently ruined its reputation and will likely never be seen as credible again.
   The Biden administration, overseer of many of these lies, will be regarded as the most duplicitous and dishonest presidency in modern history.

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MS-13 gangbanger reveals horrific truth about ‘initiation rites’… this is what liberals support…  But let’s be clear—these aren’t your run-of-the-mill street thugs. No, these are the worst of the worst, operating with a murder mission so twisted, so evil, you’d think it was ripped straight from some Hollywood horror movie. But it’s real. And now, a current MS-13 gangbanger is pulling back the curtain on their initiation rites, and it’s so much worse than you could have ever imagined. The first initiation kill these monsters must make is a relative. That’s what a current MS-13 gangbanger admits to, during an interview at the El Salvador prison.

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“We are coming after you”

'Dogequest' website posts purported Tesla owners' personal information online  The report also says that the doxxing site includes a map that purportedly shows what it claims are the addresses of Tesla dealerships, the approximate locations of Tesla superchargers and the personal information of employees at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by Musk.


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Biden Admin Hid Inconvenient Natural Gas Study in Favor of Climate Change Agenda   The first layer of this stinker is in the deliberately deceptive practice. The administration made a claim to justify the damage the export ban was doing to domestic energy development; that claim was not only false, but the administration knew it was false, they had data in hand showing it was false, and they went ahead and implemented the ban anyway, in the name of "climate change." 
    The second layer of this stinker is that the Biden administration hid the results of a taxpayer-funded study and then lied to the American people about it. Image

Greenpeace Loses Dakota Access Pipeline Trial, Faces Bankruptcy and Extinction  Sorry, terrorists: the First Amendment does not guarantee the right to damage property, physically attack workers, or defame law-abiding companies. 
   The jury found in favor of the plaintiff on almost all counts, ruling that Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The loss is expected to bankrupt the half-century-old environmentalist nuisance organization.

Choked out: How Colorado’s regulatory maze is starving its energy producers  Beyond excessive permitting delays, fines and penalties against operators have skyrocketed. Some industry leaders believe enforcement is no longer just about compliance—it’s about generating revenue.
   If you look at ECMC’s annual reports, they’ve attempted to fine people anywhere from $2 to $6 million a year over the last four or five years. That number skyrocketed exponentially last year.

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Media’s ‘Green’ Pandering Lures Developing World Into Disaster   In many developing countries, natural gas could ease energy prices, but policymakers bowed to “green pressure” and left citizens to shoulder rising costs. The poorest suffer most from higher bills, fewer jobs, and dimmer futures. 
    Popular news reporting no longer empowers with facts but incestuously recounts nonsense that leaves the developing world with the burden of a climate crisis fabricated by self-dealing globalists. 


Solar electricity has big problems. Solar is intermittent. It stops working if clouds obscure the sun. It does not work at night. Solar works much better in the summer than in the winter. Solar is peaky. Electricity delivery peaks in the middle of the day and is weaker in the early morning or late afternoon.
   Solar electricity is very expensive compared to electricity generated by natural gas or coal. Unsubsidized solar electricity costs about $150 per megawatt hour. Using natural gas, one can generate electricity for as little as $20 per megawatt hour -- over seven times less. The high cost of solar is hidden by an extensive system of subsidies.

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CBS Paints Trump As Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs...The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president   The Left touts the "civil liberties" of illegal immigrants as if they were uniformly sympathetic Trump victims. When some of these people commit violent crimes -- and the raped and/or murdered people lose their civil liberties -- networks like CBS ignore or downplay them because that would feel like positive coverage for Trump, and that cannot be allowed.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

He who finds Jesus finds a rare treasure...

He who finds Jesus finds a rare treasure, indeed, a good above every good, whereas he who loses Him loses more than the whole world. The man who lives without Jesus is the poorest of the poor, whereas no one is so rich as the man who lives in His grace.  ...Thomas à Kempis 

News and Views: March 19, 2025

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Canada's Dr. Mark Trozzi & Dr. Regina Watteel Expose the COVID Cover-Up—Weaponized Science, Rigged Data, and Crimes Against Humanity (Video)   The revelations from this interview make one thing clear: the COVID-19 response was not about public health—it was about power, control, and global subjugation. Those who orchestrated this fraud must be exposed, and justice must be served. “The greatest crime of the century has been committed in plain sight,” Trozzi declared. “The only question now is whether we will have the courage to fight back.”

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UK Bible sales surge by 87% as Generation Z rediscovers faith  Surveys suggest that young people are driving this change. A January poll found that 62% of 18 to 24 year olds describe themselves as "very" or "fairly" spiritual, compared to just 35% of those over 65.
   Additionally, only 13% of Generation Z identify as atheists - far lower than the 20% of millennials and 25% of Generation X who do.

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The Homeschool Act, also known as HB 2827, poses a grave danger to all homeschooling families across Illinois  If passed, this bill would stifle the freedoms of homeschooling families through heavy regulations. If these regulations are not followed, families would face hefty fines and possible jail time.

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Trump Releases JFK Files; Tulsi Gabbard Praises ‘Era of Maximum Transparency’   The files can be accessed directly by the public at the National Archives website here.

Here Are Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files Internet sleuths and researchers have been combing through these files, uncovering what they believe are significant revelations.
   Below are some highlights found online (some of which were previously known)

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Deerfield, IL Middle School Administrators Try to Force Girls to Change Clothes in Presence of Male Peer  There’s a story emerging from my hometown, specifically from the middle school I and all my kids attended. It’s a story of idiocy, arrogance, and cowardice.
   A courageous mother of a thirteen-year-old girl who attends Alan B. Shepard Middle School in Deerfield, Illinois spoke at a school board meeting this week about three female administrators who allegedly tried to make her daughter change clothes in the presence of a gender-dysphoric male peer who pretends to be a girl.

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Astronaut Butch Wilmore Praises Jesus After Being Stuck in Space for 9 Months

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Prayer and a holy life are one...

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone... We are in danger of substituting churchly work and a ceaseless round of showy activities for prayer and holy living. A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. If, by any chance, a prayer chamber should be established without a holy life, it would be a chamber without the presence of God in it. ...E.M. Bounds 

News and Views: March 18, 2025

Kansas Catholic church desecrated ahead of satanist 'black mass' outside state capitol During the March 15 attack on the church, vandals broke into the parish, smashing statues, candles, and windows. A decapitated statue of St. Patrick can be seen lying on the floor. They also burned an American flag and spray-painted hate speech in the church. 
   The graffiti revealed the cause behind the attack, referencing a website affiliated with a group of satanists who intend to hold a “black mass” outside the Kansas state capitol in two weeks.

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Illinois School Staff Watched To Ensure Girls Changed In Front Of Trans-Identifying Boy, Mom Says  “A few days later, the male student was present in the girl’s locker room. Feeling violated, the girls made the choice not to change into their PE clothes with the biological male student present,” Georgas said.
The mother said that school administrators then supervised the girls’ locker room to make sure that the girls changed their clothes in front of the transgender-identifying boy without protest. She identified the district’s assistant superintendent for student services, the school’s assistant principal, and the director for student services as the administrators who forced the girls to change in front of the boy, according to the Lake County Gazette. 
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Speaker Mike Johnson reveals why the Autopen scandal is a big deal   Evidence has been emerging for a week that nearly every document Joe Biden allegedly signed after his first few days in office — every executive order, every pardon, every Congressional bill signed into law, every international treaty, every lifetime judicial nomination (including the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) — was signed with not one, but two Autopens.
   The only known exception was Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.

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New York’s Legislature does not care about domestic violence victims  In 2019, prior to the law, only 5% of cases prosecuted in New York City criminal court were dismissed because prosecutors couldn’t meet their compliance burden in time.
   But the new threshold is impossible to meet; by last year, these forced dismissals had risen a simply shocking 455%.
    That’s right: around 50,000 cases — nearly a third of the total — were dismissed because defense attorneys successfully claimed prosecutors hadn’t met the stupid and unattainable new definition of compliance.
     It’s been absolutely disastrous for domestic violence victims, whose cases are particularly vulnerable to these baloney dismissals. Image

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“The status quo entrenches a moral hazard: Illegal aliens are not only endangering Americans by crossing the border illegally, but also themselves,” writes Luma Simms, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a legal immigrant.
   “Open borders are not humane, nor compassionate. They make it easy for violent offenders to enter our country and for bad actors to traffic people, especially children.”
   Neither of these mattered to the maniacal Democrats, though. They wanted an open border to add numbers to their voting bloc and to boost the populations in sanctuary cities and blue states that would give them additional U.S. House seats. Illegals are just pawns in their despicable scheme to hold absolute political power.

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Columbia janitors claim they were illegally forced to scrub swastikas then were attacked, trapped by anti-Israel mob as civil rights probe launched Wilson and Torres, who had worked at the school for over five years, were both left injured as well as traumatized from the scourge of anti-Israel unrest that engulfed the Ivy League school and have since been unable to return to work as a result, according to the complaints they filed last October.
   “Hours after President [Minouche] Shafik issued her statement [that the university had become ‘unsafe for everyone‘], an antisemitic mob assaulted two janitors inside Columbia’s historic Hamilton Hall, calling them ‘Jew-lovers,'” the two complaints for both men recalled of the Hamilton Hall takeover in April last year.
   “Columbia had indeed become unsafe for everyone, including the two janitors who were trapped inside Hamilton Hall. And for these two men, Columbia had for months been a hostile environment in violation of Title VII,” the complaints added.

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The judge’s ruling is part of a wide-ranging legal resistance effort, mostly organized by various left-leaning legal groups that engage in “judge shopping,” to get anti-Trump decisions out of friendly district jurists. 
   But in doing so, they, like the Democrats, may be playing into Trump’s hands.
   As these cases pile up, it’s becoming more likely that the Supreme Court will rein in this judicial overreach. 
   The ability of a single federal judge to block government action nationwide — let alone a president’s exercise of foreign policy — is not well established. It was a rare occurrence before Trump’s first term.

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No Amount Of Crocodile Tears Can Erase Corporate Media’s Complicity In Covid Scandal  Corporate media aren’t sorry that they played a key role in covering up Covid corruption. They are sorry that they were caught in a web of lies that further threaten Americans’ trust in media.

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Japan Issues Alert as Vaccinated Child Deaths Surge  However, it wasn’t only mRNA injections that were linked to the deaths as the study found that multiple children died suddenly after receiving standard childhood schedule vaccines.


Monday, March 17, 2025

Prayer and the Word are inseparably linked...

“Prayer and the Word are inseparably linked; power in the use of either depends upon the presence of the other. The Word gives you a subject for prayer. It shows you the path of prayer, telling you how God would have you come. It gives you the power for prayer—courage in the assurance that you will be heard. And it brings you the answer to prayer as it teaches what God will do for you. On the other hand, prayer prepares your heart to receive the Word from God himself, to receive spiritual understanding from the Spirit, and to build faith that participates in its mighty working.”
-Andrew Murray

News and Views: March 17, 2025

Over 4,000 commit to follow Jesus at ‘Encountering God’ gathering in Ethiopia as Franklin Graham proclaims the 'unchanging Gospel'  Sixty-five years after his father, the late Billy Graham, first preached in Addis Ababa, Franklin Graham returned to the Ethiopian capital for a two-day evangelistic outreach on March 8-9 dubbed "Encountering God," drawing hundreds of thousands and witnessing over 4,000 commitments to Jesus Christ. Image

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THE CURRENT order is disintegrating. You can sense it in the air – whether you are in the United States or the United Kingdom, the systems that once united us are collapsing under their own weight. This is not merely a hunch; it is a reality we can no longer ignore. Overgrown bureaucracies, soaring debt, unchecked immigration, and cultural decay masquerading as progress have driven us to the brink. We can no longer afford this, not financially, socially, or morally. Time is running out.

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Here’s the Brilliance Behind Trump’s Move Declaring Biden’s Pardons ‘Void'  How is this going to play out? Proving that Biden wasn't aware of these pardons might be an uphill battle. But something tells me that's not the point. While I suspect that it will be virtually impossible to prove that Biden didn’t authorize those pardons, I still think this may have been a brilliant move by Trump. 
   Here’s why. Every legal challenge, every court filing, every public statement will keep this scandal front and center. Even if the pardons ultimately stand, the damage to Biden's legacy and the Democratic Party will be done.

Once a cornerstone of American political life, the Democrat party has morphed into something unrecognizable — a force that now threatens the fabric of the nation.  Historically a party of working-class advocacy and progressive reform, it has abandoned its roots in recent years to embrace a radical, anti-American agenda.  This transformation demands scrutiny.

These are the same people who insist a man can become a woman by self-declaration, humans can control the weather, and obesity is not a health issue, as anyone can be “healthy” at any weight. They aren’t stupid, they’re evil. Their followers are stupid, and they need to keep them stupid because their house of cards depends on taking advantage of stupid people.

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Islamic Indoctrination in Texas: EPIC Masjid is Training Muslim Children to Hate America and Justify Violence Against Israel (Video)  EPIC is more than just a mosque. It is the epicenter of a strategic and coordinated effort to Islamize Texas, using its rapidly expanding mega-mosque and Islamic schools to build a network of Islamic enclaves that seek to operate outside the framework of U.S. law. This radical institution is not simply a place of worship; it is a hub of ideological indoctrination and political activism, designed to reshape Texas through Islamic influence.

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Bizarre and unhealthy': Lawmaker goes nuclear on 'furries' in classrooms  A lawmaker in Texas has proposed a plan to rid public schools of the antics of "furries."
   The subculture involves individuals adopting animal identities. They often dress in animal costumes and act like the animal they have chosen.
"I can't believe we have to do this, but we cannot allow these types of role-playing distractions to affect our students who are trying to learn or our teachers and administrators who are trying to teach," explained Rep. Stan Gerdes, R-Smithville, who has introduced the FURRIES Act (Forbidden Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education).

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“Patients critically ill with COVID-19 usually spend several weeks in the ICU before they are discharged or die, weeks of agony separated from families,” D’Couto, the pulmonary physician, wrote. “Before we place patients on a ventilator, we, the ICU staff, often make video calls home. Hands reach out to each other, millimeters apart on the screen but cruelly, never able to touch. Real kisses are replaced with air kisses. I recall innumerable patients gasping for air, tears streaming down their faces, and fear etched in their eyes while calling their families in what were their last conversations.”
    What a cruel and unnecessary way to die. What an awful time in America.

The Covid ‘experts’ chose the unscientific tyranny of lockdowns, mandates, and petty, ineffective, legalistic rules, and they didn’t have to.

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God...

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.   ...Brother Lawrence

Saturday, March 15, 2025

All to Honour Jesus...

 
All to Honour Jesus 
CityAlight

V1
Father, may I serve like my Saviour
Give me eyes to see what you see
Teach my sinful heart to be humble
Help me be your hands and feet

V2
Father, may I love like my Saviour
As He had compassion on me
May I work for justice and mercy
For the ones in greatest need

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

V3
Father, may I tell of my Saviour
How He offers hope for the lost
Help me share the grace and forgiveness
That he showed me at the cross

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

BRIDGE
Praise my Saviour for His mercy
Praise the Servant King
All to Jesus be the glory
All to honour Him

Praise my Saviour for His mercy
Praise the Servant King
All to Jesus be the glory
All to honour Him
All to honour Him

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

News and Views: March 15, 2025

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Syracuse University website promotes 'pagan-curious' student group that practices 'ritual' and meets in university chapel  The University description of the SPIRAL group meeting states that students engaging with the group will “come together in community to discuss ideas, practice ritual, and to expand their knowledge of the many Pagan faith traditions.” Image

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal.
   They did so with impunity.
   Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished.
   By the 1970s, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and non-partisan.

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Islamic law (sharia) mandates punishments that directly violate U.S. constitutional protections, including:
  • Execution for apostasy (violating freedom of religion)
  • Punishment for blasphemy (violating freedom of speech)
  • Legal inferiority for women and non-Muslims (violating equal protection under the law)
  • Supremacy of Islamic law over national law (violating the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause)
The Constitution prohibits the government from restricting legitimate religious practice, but it also does not require it to extend protections to belief systems that subvert constitutional rights and undermine the very freedoms it exists to uphold...

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Federal appeals court allows Trump to reinstate two executive orders regarding DEI  The orders directed federal agencies and government contractors to eliminate diversity programs, and instructed the Justice Department and other agencies to identify businesses, schools and nonprofits that may be discriminating via DEI.

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Secretary Bessent on ‘Reprivatization’ of Economy: ‘We Are Laser-Focused on Getting this Deficit Under Control’   “One of the reasons I came out from behind my desk and asked President Trump if I could join the campaign — and then when he asked me to be in the Cabinet — was because I was so alarmed by this high level of government spending,” Bessent told Breitbart News when asked about this vision. “We’ve never seen anything like this. Highest level ever when we weren’t in a war and a recession. So, the Biden administration relied on this blowout spending. Back to the mainstream media, no one criticized it when they were doing it. It was for the greater good, it was for green programs, it was for this, it was for overseas engagement. Now, what we’re trying to do is do a course correction where we bring down the government, we de-leverage the government, and re-leverage the private sector. We’re going to do that by cutting spending, we’ll get a natural lowering of interest rates, and then on the other side as we relever the private sector, we plan to deregulate the banking system, which is one of the other things I talked about at the Economic Club of New York last week."

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COVID establishment narratives reverse five years later on lockdowns, school closures, origin  The Globe featured their analysis of lockdowns and death rates by state and dominant political party. "What’s become increasingly clear is that a lot of what we did was irrational and based on fear, and we didn’t think through the profound costs," Macedo said.

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