Saturday, July 05, 2025

News and Views: July 5, 2025

Please pray! 27 confirmed dead in Texas flooding; two dozen girls missing from camp At least 27 people, 18 adults and nine children, were killed by flash flooding after torrential rains rapidly pushed the Guadalupe River over its banks.
   Between 23 and 25 girls from Camp Mystic who had been staying near the river remained missing, he said. The Central Texas waterway took in months’ worth of rainfall in about two hours, which raised its level more than 20 feet overnight.

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ISIS Burned Churches—Today Islam Buys Them and Converts Them to Mosques  Islam doesn’t dwell on how non-Islamic religions are destroyed—only that they must be. While there is a theological preference for violent jihad, particularly because martyrdom in battle is seen as a guaranteed path to Islamic paradise, the method is ultimately irrelevant. The end goal is always the same: Islam must dominate.

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The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts   But the public has caught on that too many Ivy-League presidents were increasingly a mediocre, if not incompetent, bunch. Most university economists could not run a small business. The military academies did not always turn out the best generals and admirals. The most engaging biographers were not professors. And plumbers and electricians were usually more skilled in their trades than most journalist graduates were in their reporting.

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Trump 2.0 is a Wrecking Ball... And he's wrecking the right stuff   With the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump has crushed a lot of Democratic dreams and plans, and — as I predicted right after the election — he’s also starting to lay an institutional foundation for Republicans. Screenshot

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