News and Views: April 30, 2025

Christianity Is The Real Target Of All The Hysteria Over ‘Christian Nationalism’  Over the last few years, a frenetic buzz around “Christian nationalism” has spread across America. Is Christian nationalism, according to its most offensive definition, even a real threat in America? Are there any real and credible statistics supporting a menacing movement by extremist Christians seeking to theocratize America with white-supremacist neo-Naziism?

   Prior to lockdowns, most of us had never heard of “Christian nationalism.” Rather, it appears that the powerful gaslighting term created by neo-Marxists is another attempt to terrify Christians out of sharing God’s perspective on moral issues in the public sphere. It attempts to dissuade Christians from fulfilling their vocational duties in the civil sphere.

Decline Of Christianity Sparks Rise In Claims For Religious Protections Of Psychedelics  Well-funded and led by scholars, lawyers, religious leaders, and entrepreneurs, the goal is to obtain U.S. legalization of psychedelics.

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Scathing Harvard Report Details Pervasive Anti-Semitism Driven By 'Politicized Instruction' Harvard University, in the midst of its funding fight with the Trump administration, released its long-awaited anti-Semitism report on Tuesday. It provides a scathing account of life at the Ivy League institution in the wake of Oct. 7, finding that "politicized instruction" in four Harvard schools "mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism."

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Buffalo School Story Not Getting Any Better 

As it stands, we're looking at possibly hundreds of cases of sexual assault being covered up by the schools, most likely student-on-student assaults, but parent-on-student cases also being hidden. All of these are incidents that schools are required to report under mandatory reporting laws, only Buffalo schools aren't doing it.

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Spain’s Renewable Energy Nightmare 

Whatever the cause, this blackout could have a salutary impact on European energy policy if it dissuades countries from pursuing aggressive renewable energy policies that make power less reliable. If the grid slides into mismanagement, the results hurt everyone. As one energy executive put it to me: “The grid is a synchronous system with no graceful failure mode.” It is the industrial commons of modern society.

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Cellphone Radiation Causes Abnormal Blood Clumping in Just 5 Minutes, Study Finds  A healthy woman’s blood cells formed abnormal clumps after just five minutes of having an idle cellphone placed on her leg. The same thing happened when researchers held the cellphone an inch away from the woman’s body, according to a peer-reviewed study published April 23 in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development.

   Using ultrasound, the researchers showed that the woman’s blood cells developed a rouleaux formation, an abnormal red blood cell pattern in which the cells stack together in long rows like piles of coins...

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Mark Zuckerberg Warns A 'Reckoning' Is Coming For One Of The Biggest Scams In America    As the interview went on, Zuckerberg shifted gears and dropped a much bigger bomb.

   He admitted what millions of Americans are starting to feel: college isn’t preparing young people for the real world anymore, and the student debt crisis is heading straight for a reckoning.

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News and Views: April 29, 2025

SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones 

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Archetypal stories about a pride parade, a marriage between two men, a prince falling in love with a man, and a cross-dressing boy telling his parents that he believes he’s a girl—stories to which leftists believe young children must be exposed if they’re ever going to treat homosexuals and drag queens civilly.

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New York Must Reject Euthanasia...“Patients will almost certainly die under this bill who would have otherwise survived.”    When euthanasia is permitted, all sorts of institutions—nursing homes, hospitals, sometimes even families—will pressure patients in subtle and explicit ways to end their lives. Expensive patients. Inconvenient patients. Vulnerable patients. The availability of euthanasia lets institutions wash their hands of their duties to the impoverished and uncared for.

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Spanish power BLACKOUT: 

Why Net Zero and RENEWABLES were to blame

Power Restored In Spain, Portugal But The Situation Reveals A Very Serious Underlying Problem...Net Zero=Zero Electricity   

-Coal plants closed. Nuclear units retired. 

-On many spring days by 2025, Spain's midday solar generation exceeded its total afternoon demand,   leading to frequent negative electricity prices.

-The system was being pushed to the limit.

-And today, at 12:35 pm, it broke.

-Spain's blackout wasn't just a technical failure. It was a political and strategic failure...

Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity   Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cavepeople times with no electricity.

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Report: Thanks To DEI, Most Medical Schools Now Teach Doctors To Damage Patients I fear we are approaching an environment — if we’re not already there — where malpractice masquerades as virtuous health care. Picture a physician so bound by ideology he cannot explore the roots of gender dysphoria, instead pushing a child toward irreversible surgery to affirm gender; too fearful of being labeled “fatphobic” to warn an obese patient about heart failure; or so steeped in anti-racist dogma that a critically ill white male is deprioritized to favor a less urgent case for a black female patient.

   These medical schools aren’t graduating healers — they’re graduating ideologues.

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L.A. Drops Charges for Hamas Rioters, Charges 2 Jews Instead In Los Angeles, apparently, there’s absolutely no issue with calling for the genocide of Jews, attacking Jews, or enthusiastically cheering on murderous Islamic terrorists. But it is a problem if you as a Jew try to defend yourself and give the jihad-lovers a taste of their own medicine. It is deeply disturbing that such a situation could be happening in America and that Democrat politicians, leftist universities, and woke media are normalizing and even praising violent Jew-hatred.

Media Blames Jews After Muslim Mobs Attack 2 New York Synagogues   The Hamas supporters tried to assail the main synagogue in Crown Heights which is the home of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish movement.

   Then the terrorist supporters assailed a Brooklyn synagogue used by Syrian Jewish refugees from Muslim terror.

News and Views: April 28, 2025

Tranny Bathrooms And The Counterrevolution 

The Gramscian contingent who have wormed their way into the heart of the Democrat Party are at war with any structure that would thwart their will to power. The biological reality of the male and female binary, the nuclear family, Christianity in general, and Catholics and evangelicals in particular, all provide competing wells of moral authority with which to resist the encroachment of an all-powerful revolutionary state. They want to force their opponents to parrot obvious lies as tokens of surrender to the ideology of social justice, hence the absurd pantomimes of tranny bathrooms and mandatory pronouns. Every act of resistance is a blow to their schemes of control, hence their incessant attacks against anyone, be it J. K. Rowling or a random Colorado baker, who defies their will.

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Study: Rate Of Serious Or Life-Threatening Complications After Abortion Pill Is 22 Times Higher Than FDA Claims   That rate, which researchers adjusted to reflect “that some women suffer from adverse events in multiple categories,” is 22 times the FDA’s <0.5 percent estimation printed on the Mifeprex label. The researchers also suggest that the 45-day timeframe they used is “conservative, as some adverse events may present later (and studies relied on by the FDA used a timeframe as long as 72 days).”

   “This study is the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing

narrative of the abortion industry,” Anderson said in a statement to The Federalist. “It reveals, based on real-world data, the shocking number of women who suffer serious medical consequences because of the abortion pill.” Screenshot

Judge Strikes Down Illinois Law Requiring Pro-Life Doctors To Promote Abortion Judge Johnston’s decision in Thomas More Society’s legal challenge to SB 1564, Schroeder v. Treto, Jr., struck down the state’s abortion promotion mandate as a violation of the First Amendment in a resounding victory for free speech. It makes clear that forcing pro-life ministries to voice ideological talking points they reject as false is not only unconscionable, but also unconstitutional. As Johnston wrote, “The First Amendment protects both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.”

   Government-compelled speech, like the discussion of supposed “benefits of abortion” the state had sought to require, runs roughshod over the constitutional rights we all hold dear.

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On “Assassination Culture”: It’s Not You, It’s the Left  

"Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest."

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Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7 

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel.

Roman Catholic Liberals and Anglican Revisionists Have Much in Common 

Will the Next Pope Be Another ‘Pope of Islam’? 

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The Brilliant Illusion of AI Cognitive Theater...So, do yourself and humanity a favor and pick up that sharpened pencil 

-Writing is being replaced by performance that only sounds intelligent.

-We confuse sounding smart with being right as real thinking fades from the stage.

-AI writes with style but often without substance, and thinking still starts with a pencil.

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University suspects big tech Google and Meta censoring ads just because it’s Catholic  The University of Dallas, a Catholic university, is facing repeated ad censorship from tech giants Google and Meta, sparking growing concerns over bias against faith-based institutions.

   Despite the Texas university’s efforts to comply with advertising policies, Google has persistently blocked ads for its graduate program, while Meta – the parent company of Facebook and Instagram...

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A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud   A scheme this complicated must operate through a computer algorithm that creates “doubles” for every voter ID record ending in zero in a WEC database of over 7 million voters. That is, whatever rule is applied to pick the two voters who constitute the “doubles” in a database with over 7 million voters needs an algorithm if the scheme is to be applied, monitored, and updated on an ongoing basis.

   Put another way, this cannot be random.

Wisconsin Gov Orders State Employees to Obstruct ICE  State governors do not get to pick and choose which laws they comply with. Neither do state employees. Obstructing immigration enforcement in order to keep flooding America with illegal aliens is an insurrection and can be put down.

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Holy Forever

Holy Forever 

Chris Tomlin

Verse 1

A thousand generations falling down in worship

To sing the song of ages to the Lamb

And all who've gone before us, and all who will believe

Will sing the song of ages to the Lamb

Pre-Chorus

Your name is the highest

Your name is the greatest

Your name stands above them all

All thrones and dominions

All powers and positions

Your name stands above them all

Chorus

And the angels cry, Holy

All creations cries, Holy

You are lifted high, Holy

Holy forever

Verse 2

If you've been forgiven, if you've been redeemed

Sing the song forever to the Lamb

If you walk in freedom, if you bear His name

Sing the song forever to the Lamb

We'll sing the song forever and amen

Chorus

And the angels cry, Holy

All creations cries, Holy

You are lifted high, Holy

Holy forever

Hear Your people sing, Holy

To the King of kings, Holy

You will always be, Holy

Holy forever

Pre-Chorus (x2)

Your name is the highest

Your name is the greatest

Your name stands above them all

All thrones and dominions

All powers and positions

Your name stands above them all

Chorus

And the angels cry, Holy

All creations cries, Holy

You are lifted high, Holy

Holy forever

Hear Your people sing, Holy

To the King of kings, Holy

You will always be, Holy

Holy forever

You will always be, Holy

Holy forever

News and Views: April 26, 2025

The extraordinary scale of the crisis facing the next pope   

Francis was a charismatic pope loved by most of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, who make up 18 per cent of the global population. He was particularly beloved by the poor for his rhetoric about the marginalised. But few of them grasp the scale of the crisis in the Church – and even fewer are aware that it was made worse by a pontiff whom the media insist on calling the ‘people’s pope’. His leadership was marked by favouritism and poor judgment.

   The next Vicar of Christ will face challenges that dwarf those that confronted any incoming pope in living memory. The Church is mired in doctrinal confusion; its structures of government are fragmented; sexual scandals have been hushed up at the highest level; and it is staring into a financial abyss.

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UK: Teenage boys allowed on girls’ hospital wards under NHS gender rules   Teenage boys are able to use girls’ facilities in NHS hospitals across England if they identify as female, even if their parents disagree.

   Under existing NHS guidance, which is now under urgent review, staff are told to place children in wards – and let them use the facilities – of the gender they identify as.

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Hindus Stripped and Executed in Kashmir — Because They Weren’t Muslim   This is not an isolated tactic. In Kenya, Islamic terrorists asked bus passengers to recite the Shahada—those who failed were murdered. In Minnesota, a Somali jihadi stabbed victims who couldn’t confirm they were Muslim. In Belgium, a terrorist spared a hostage only after she said she was observing Ramadan. This is a global pattern—question, verify, kill.

   For the West—especially Americans—this must be a wake-up call. If you think this can’t happen here, you’re dangerously mistaken.

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Illegal Alien 'Maryland Man' Charged with Murder After a Young Mother's Body Is Found in the Woods “This heinous crime not only devastated a community but also reinforced the urgent need to prioritize public safety by identifying, arresting, and removing egregious illegal aliens who threaten our neighborhoods,” Liggins said. “ICE will continue to work tirelessly, side by side with our law enforcement partners, to safeguard our communities and uphold the rule of law.”

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Christian Student Blocked From Graduating for Refusing ‘LGBTQ+ Affirming’ Course  Funny how no one in Montgomery County seems to recognize the irony. Jane, “privileged” due to her Christian beliefs, apparently cannot graduate due to her Christian beliefs. All efforts to resolve the dispute through alternative courses have failed. Moreover, Jane’s parents did not object to the LGBT content in the Family Life and Sexuality unit. They objected to its inclusion throughout the year-long course.

Also here...

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Europe Sees Surge in Church Attendance and Baptisms as Globalist Leaders Continue to Fail the People Western nations are experiencing a spiritual awakening as church pews fill up and baptismal fonts overflow. From France to Belgium, from the United Kingdom to the United States, a dramatic surge in Christian faith is sweeping across the West—a revival many are calling a “silent revolution” against the failures of globalism, mass migration, and leftist cultural engineering.

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The Ivy League Is Being Hoisted on It's Own Petard 

It's not even an open secret--it is often said loudly and proudly--that race, gender, and sexuality are primary factors for who gets hired, who gets fired, and who gets admitted or funded as students at places like Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. 

   This is uncontroversially illegal--there is no gray area, and if the goal was to hire more white, heterosexual males, the federal government would apply all its existing civil rights laws to hammer these schools into compliance. All of them are required to certify compliance with the existing laws, and not a one of them is compliant in the least. 

   In other words, they knowingly break the law, lie to the government in documents that make them eligible for federal funding, and are subject to fines equivalent to 3x the amount they receive under false pretenses.

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The Week In Pictures: FD&C Red No. 40 Edition 

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But for the Cross of Christ

 

But for the Cross of Christ 

 Bryan Fowler

Vs 1

What is the truth

That ever anchors me

Amidst the waves of all my guilt

That Christ has shed

His blood and pardoned me

At the cross, at the cross

Vs 2

He bore my sin

I bear His righteousness

Oh what a glorious exchange

The wrath of God

Laid on the spotless Lamb

Oh what grace, oh what grace

Chorus

Behold the cross

There is no greater love

Heaven’s Son

Laid down His life for us

Oh my soul would be lost

With no hope to find

But for the cross of Christ

Vs 3

How do I walk

With humble confidence

I look to Christ Who is my peace

He sealed my hope

And my inheritance

At the cross, at the cross

Vs 4

When I am weak

And stumble into sin

There is an ever-flowing stream

His cleansing blood revives my soul again

Oh what grace, oh what grace

Vs 5

One day I’ll stand

Before the King of Kings

One day I’ll see him face to face

For Jesus rose

Death lost its bitter sting

Christ has won! Christ has won!

News and Views: April 25, 2025

Cardinal Müller: Church risks split if it elects a liberal pope   The Catholic Church risks a schism if it elects another liberal leader like Pope Francis, a leading conservative cardinal has warned ahead of next month’s conclave.

    Gerhard Müller also cautioned cardinals arriving for the papal vote to avoid the backroom manoeuvres depicted in the Oscar-winning film Conclave.   

    “It’s not a power game played by stupid people looking to manipulate, like in this film, which has nothing to do with reality,” the German cardinal said.

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German bishops publish ‘blessing’ guidelines for ‘couples of all gender identities,’ citing Pope Francis  The “blessings” are meant to be an offer for “divorced and remarried couples, couples of all gender identities and sexual orientations, as well as couples who do not want to or cannot receive the sacrament of marriage for other reasons.”

 

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170 Nigerian Christians killed during Lent and Easter 

Many who fled from the violence are unaccounted for. It is unclear how many of the missing are now internally displaced persons and how many were caught and killed in remote areas of the countryside.

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New investigation to review fundraising giant that has delivered billions to Dems  It cites congressional investigations that documented "significant fraud schemes" involving ActBlue and donations made through the organization just ahead of the 2024 election that came "from foreign internet protocol addresses using prepaid cards" that could involve illegal behavior.

    The payment processor is used by Democrats at multiple ranks and is credited with having processed more than $16 billion in donations to leftists.

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Minnesota Heads Off ‘Mass Casualty Attack’ Planned for ‘the Next 24 Hours’   No one has faced the implications of the fact that America is now home to large numbers of people who wish death to it, but they’ll have to be faced sooner or later. In the meantime, it appears that Mohamed was stopped from carrying out an imminent jihad attack, and for that, we can all be grateful. He has since been charged with “one count of felony theft and one count of felony threats of violence,” and his bail has been set at a million bucks “with no conditions, or $500,000 with conditions.”

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USDA Ensures Illegal Aliens Do Not Receive Federal Benefits  “President Trump has made it clear that American taxpayers will no longer subsidize illegal aliens,” said Secretary Rollins. “We are stewards of taxpayer dollars, and it is our duty to ensure states confirm the identity and verify the immigration status of SNAP applicants. USDA’s nutrition programs are intended to support the most vulnerable Americans. To allow those who broke our laws by entering the United States illegally to receive these benefits is outrageous.”

FBI bombshell: Venezuelan officials are using gangbangers as ‘soldiers’ inside US  The FBI found that Venezuelan government officials likely facilitated the migration of Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela to the United States to advance the Maduro regime’s objective of undermining public safety in the U.S.

Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest' 

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Mexico's Sending More Sewage Across the Border, and It's Becoming a Big U.S. National Security Issue    In 2024, after the complaints by Navy personnel rolled in, the San Diego congressional delegation warned, "We have a real crisis on our hands."

  Rep. Scott Peters said, "We send them out to water that is contaminated... The leadership has been shy to say anything about the water but every SEAL you talk to who has actually trained there will tell you stories about swimming up on human feces.”

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Liberal Media Ditching "Food Deserts" Term For Far More Inflammatory-Sounding "Food Apartheid"   Naomi Ishisaka blames “policies such as redlining and urban renewal” for underinvestment in Black neighborhoods—but sidesteps the more obvious factor: crime.

   She even concedes that near her Rainier Beach home, “we have two Safeways, the closest of which has been the site of numerous incidents of gun violence,” unwittingly highlighting the real deterrent.

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More covid jabs mean more cancer deaths, scientists agree 

Initially government advisers uncritically accepted the advice from the pharmaceutical and biotech industry that mass vaccination would be safe and effective. Then they made a fatal error; they deliberately ignored or discounted the millions of reports of adverse effects. This meant they had rejected one of the foundational principles of knowledge – personal experience. Nor had long-term safety been established, especially as gene therapy was known to have long-term consequences. This was glossed over. Again, with fatal consequences which are still unfolding.

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Man saves a baby swan while its mom is being a mama. pic.twitter.com/hXoJofDGLl

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 24, 2025

News and Views: April 23, 2025

Supreme Court will decide: Can schools mandate LGBT books?   

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether parents have the right to opt out of lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs, reports Ann E. Marimow in the Washington Post. 

   "The parents behind the storybooks lawsuit say they are not trying to change the lesson plans or remove any books from classroom shelves," she writes. They just want participation to be voluntary. The coalition includes Muslim, Christian (many of them Ethiopian), Mormon, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents.

   “Parents should have the right to decide when to introduce these topics to their kids," says Billy Moges, who pulled her three daughters from public school. "We’re not telling other parents how to raise their kids.”

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Here’s How Much The Federal Government Is Spending To Make Nurses Less White The program “is a clear example of the federal government using its vast funding capabilities to encourage and incentivize racial discrimination,” Do No Harm wrote in its report. “The nursing workforce is best served when nursing education programs select the best and the brightest, when excellence and merit are prioritized rather than race.”

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Militants kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir  On Tuesday, a lethal attack was carried out by suspected militants targeting tourists in the Pahalgam region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Between 20 and 24 people were killed, with several others sustaining injuries, according to various reports, although an official death toll had not been released as of the time of publication. Pahalgam, known for its scenic meadows and glaciers, attracts substantial tourist numbers yearly.

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NEW STUDY – Ivermectin Shows Striking Anticancer Potential and Remarkable Safety  Largest review to date of ivermectin use in cancer patients finds no safety concerns, promising anecdotal reports, and strong preclinical evidence of tumor suppression. Image

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Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government? -VD Hanson  The best-kept secret of our marquee universities is a radical fall-off in standards as once defined by their own, once much ballyhooed, tough requirements. Our best universities customarily now ensure that 70-80 percent of students in their classes receive A’s.

   Prestigious campuses, like Harvard and Stanford, have recently introduced remedial math classes. Privately, the supposedly most demanding campuses know that their prior non-meritocratic admissions have resulted in thousands of students who enter college without the high-school preparation necessary to meet their own past traditional university requirements.

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Is The Economist Smoking Crack?    

I thought crack-smoking had lost its appeal, but perhaps it is still a regular pastime among journalists determined to take down Trump’s America. The Economist, for example, has suggested that “the land of the free” has moved across the Atlantic, from America to Europe. The continent, the magazine claims, is now the best place to enjoy the “pursuit of happiness”, while embracing “moral norms” on following climate edicts, fostering free trade and preventing oligarchal overreach.

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US Birthrate Falls Through the Floor 

Fertility rates have plunged everywhere, and while some decline in fertility is to be expected as economies modernize and modern medicine increases lifespan and reduces infant deaths, the falloff is so great that it is civilization threatening.

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The Last Revelation of Saint Al Gore and His Final Prophecy for America Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany and issued a dire warning about Trump’s use of power in a speech devoted to climate change...

    ...So says the man who predicted all the polar bears would drown, Florida would vanish, Kilimanjaro would bake, the hurricanes would grow, and the Earth would go BOOM like an overcooked burrito in the microwave.

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News and Views: April 22, 2025

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Have You Heard of This 'Dark Woke' Phenomenon?  Instead of looking inward and figuring out where they went wrong, the left is jumping headfirst into the definition of insanity, thinking things might just be different next time.

   And this, ladies and germs, is where the “dark woke” phenomenon has emerged. The New York Times, as well as other media outlets, have touted this supposed change as a way for the left to “get their groove back.”

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Paging Chris Van Hollen: Two More 'Maryland Men' Arrested Over Murder of 23-Year-Old Mother While the Democratic Party continues to fight for 'Maryland Man' Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another Maryland woman -- this time a 23-year-old mother -- has been murdered by illegal immigrants

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Progressive Minnesota Prosecutor Lets State Employee Off with No Charges for Alleged Tesla Vandalism   Progressive County Attorney Mary Moriarty took office in 2023 and has faced strong criticism for her soft-on-crime approach. On several occasions, Moriarty has shown leniency to violent criminals, including suspects charged with murder and sexual assault, leading to disputes with prosecutors and outrage among victims’s families.

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CCP-Tied Entity Bankrolled Anti-Trump Boston Mayor Michelle Wu The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) says that the Gary Yu who founded Boston International Media Consulting and raised $300,000 for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is the same Gary Yu — or rather, Yu Guoliang — who is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intel United Front Work Department (UFWD). Yu is also apparently a recruiter for the CCP. Is Wu one of his recruits doing pro-CCP work, perhaps?

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Betting on the Next Pope? You Might Have a Gambling Problem  But nowadays people can (and will) bet on anything, and now we’re seeing odds on who will become the next pope. Would-be bettors are taking to search engines to find out how to plunk their money down.

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Alarming reversal: UCSF study reveals vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated   The study’s authors analyzed data from nearly 30,000 participants, comparing hospitalization rates among two groups: vaccinated individuals with no prior infection and unvaccinated individuals who had recovered from COVID-19. The results were stark: Vaccinated people had a 5.89 risk ratio (RR) for hospitalization, with a 95% confidence interval of 4.80 to 7.22, meaning those in the vaccinated group were 5.8 to 7.2 times more likely to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated group.

   “This didn’t happen by chance,” emphasized Steve Kirsch, an early pandemic advocate and critic of vaccine policies, who reviewed the study. “The odds [p-value of 4e-15] are astronomical, and the effect size is monstrous. The medical community needs to explain why a signal this huge didn’t surface in clinical trials.”

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News and Views: April 21, 2025

Pope Francis Dies at Age 88 

The Vatican announced early Monday that Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, died at his residence at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta after a long battle with respiratory illnesses. Image

Vatican confirm Pope's cause of death in new statement - as late Holy Father's will is released revealing his final wishes and funeral plans  Pope Francis's final testament has tonight been revealed just hours after his death by a stroke and heart failure at the age of 88. 

   The pontiff 'passed away peacefully' at the Saint Martha residence in the Vatican, according to his doctors.

   He reportedly woke up when his alarm went off at 6am, fell ill at 7am and died from a stroke at 7.35am

Charles J. Chaput: The Church After Francis 

What the Church needs going forward is a leader who can marry personal simplicity with a passion for converting the world to Jesus Christ, a leader who has a heart of courage and a keen intellect to match it. Anything less won’t work.

The Legacy Of Pope Francis Is Chaos, Confusion, And Division In The Catholic Church  His legacy isn’t clear, bold changes to Catholic teaching on issues so beloved by the cultural and political left. Rather, it’s the way Francis pushed the church toward a more Anglican model of communion, one in which theology and doctrine are negotiable and dependent on context. It amounts to a wholesale reimagining of Catholic moral teaching, in which each believer is “on a faith journey,” and the job of the Church and its leaders is to “journey with” each believer as they navigate life as best they can.

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France’s Fatal Delusion: Inside the Islamic State Cell That Plotted to Annihilate a French Village (Video)  What emerged in testimony, wiretaps, and investigations was a chilling revelation: a military operation, organized by an Islamic State fighter masquerading as a refugee, allowed to live and plot jihad in France under the protection of its broken immigration system and politically paralyzed security apparatus.

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Mexican Nationals Busted in Colorado Carrying 180,000 Rounds of Rifle Ammo Now, Homeland Security is involved, along with the Denver Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. It's a safe bet there will be more charges, and this whole thing will be unraveled. There's just too much smoke here for there not to be a fire somewhere.

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 'As He Said'  

Jesus did foretell His death and resurrection to the disciples...

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

 

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

Easter Sunday 2025

But the angel said to the women, 

“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. -Matthew 28:5-6