Thursday, October 30, 2025

A Mighty Fortress is Our God...

 
A Mighty Fortress is Our God

1.  A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper He, amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.

2.  Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God's own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.

3.  And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.

4.  That Word above all earthly powers
no thanks to them abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill:
God's truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!
-Martin Luther

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What gives peace to the conscience is, that by faith our sins are no more ours but Christ’s, on whom God hath laid them all; and that, on the other hand, all Christ’s righteousness is ours, to whom God hath given it. Christ lays his hand upon us, and we are healed; he casts his mantle on us, and we are clothed; he is the glorious Saviour, blessed for ever. -Martin Luther Image

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation...

With joy you will draw water 
from the wells of salvation. 
And you will say in that day:
“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the peoples,
    proclaim that his name is exalted.
“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
    let this be made known in all the earth.
 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
    for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
  -Isaiah 12:3-6

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Farms, Fentanyl, and Rare Earths: Trump Says China Trade Deal Is Ready Following Meetings With Xi In a statement, Trump emphasized that the new agreement “puts American farmers first, holds China accountable for fentanyl, and protects our access to rare earth minerals that power the modern economy.” The deal is reportedly set to be a one-year term that will be renegotiated yearly.

Trump’s triumph in Japan began at a steel mill in Pennsylvania  Trump, although he is inaccurately portrayed as an isolationist, has, since his first administration, clearly understood that a strong alliance with Japan is a kind of “force multiplier” in Asia.

Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January? -VD Hanson  While the media fixates on Trump’s tweets, the numbers tell a different story—closed borders, lower inflation, revived energy, and restored U.S. strength at home and abroad...

6 Reasons Congress Should Let The Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Expire Here are some fast facts about open enrollment and the enhanced Exchange subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

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Biden's Jack Smith 'Enemies List' Scandal Widens As 400 Republican Targets Revealed   The Biden administration spied on nearly 20% of Republicans in Congress, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed in a Wednesday bombshell. Screenshot


We should not be surprised.  We have endured Democrats’ abuse of the legal system at least since President Clinton was distracting the nation from his own scandals by pretending that freedom-loving Americans pose the greatest threat to the United States.  Hillary Clinton calls us “deplorables.”  Pritzker and the rest call us “fascists” and “Nazis.”  Democrats must be punished for their crimes before Carville and his Antifa friends have a chance to carry out their threats.



The Scandal Isn’t The Food Stamp Shutdown, It’s The Dependency Society How did we get to this juncture? Very simply, the federal government has bastardized its constitutionally mandated role of “promot(ing) the general Welfare” into “providing welfare” – period.

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Newsom's Prostitution Law Creates Disturbing New Sex Market In LA   California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's pimp shield law, pushed by Democratic legislator Rep. Scott Weiner, has helped foster a disturbing new sex market on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, featuring prostitutes as young as 12 and 13 years old. For far too long, the "kiddie stroll," as it's known, has gone unreported because major media outlets refused to cover it, allowing it to flourish under the watch of Democratic politicians.

Study: Tax Dollars Earmarked for Solving Homeless Crisis Used to Bankroll Far Left Agenda This might explain why the homeless problem seems to get worse each year despite the fact that we throw billions of dollars at efforts to solve it.

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Terror-Linked Pakistan Network Now Runs Mosques, Funding Pipelines, and Indoctrination Hubs in America — in Plain Sight  A Pakistan-based movement accused of enforcing blasphemy laws abroad is rapidly expanding its U.S. network of mosques and charities under tax-exempt status, raising questions about foreign influence, funding, and oversight. Screenshot


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Europe’s choice: Return to Christianity or endure Islam At the time of the most recent census in 2021, there were 3.9million Muslims residing in England and Wales, reflecting a remarkable increase of 42.9 per cent over the decade since 2011. Presently, Muslims constitute just over one in 20 of the electorate. Coupled with the declining birthrate among the indigenous population, this proportion is poised to rise. In contrast, the number of individuals choosing to identify as Christian has diminished by 17.1 per cent. Europe faces a pivotal choice: it can either re-Christianise or undergo Islamisation. There is no stable third choice.

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New Forecast is Frigid for Climate Crisis Narratives, Global Warming Scams  CA state retirement fund loses $468M put into clean energy with no explanation; Americans now unwilling to pay to prevent “climate change”; Billionaire Bill Gates pivots away from carbon emission reduction.

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The Lord is near to all who call on him...

The Lord upholds all who are falling
    and raises up all who are bowed down.
 The eyes of all look to you,
    and you give them their food in due season.
 You open your hand;
    you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
 The Lord is righteous in all his ways
    and kind in all his works.
 The Lord is near to all who call on him,
    to all who call on him in truth.
 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
    he also hears their cry and saves them.
 The Lord preserves all who love him,
    but all the wicked he will destroy.
 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,
    and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
    -Psalm 145:14-21

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New York City Must Be Politically Quarantined After Zohran Mamdani’s Victory  As bad as things are going to get in the Big Apple, we have to turn our focus to the rest of the country. The Islamist-Marxist contagion must be contained. We’ve seen a glimpse of what happens to western society once the contagion spreads. It happened in London and is now spreading throughout the United Kingdom. As bad as Sadiq Khan has been for the Brits, Mamdani represents a far worse potential for America. Image

If New Yorkers want to hand their city to a communist, let them—sometimes the only cure for madness is living through its consequences.


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We’d better start learning from history...Image

The base of the Democratic Party has truly become nightmare to behold  It is now very clear that the base of the Democratic Party is driven entirely by hate, envy, and a lust for power, based on an ignorance of history that is appalling. And my saying this not simply an opinion. It is founded on what that base itself has said repeatedly in the past year. First that base has increasingly thrown its support behind Hamas and its anti-Semitic hate of Israel and Jews. Next, it mourned the failed assassination attempts against Donald Trump, then celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, a man whose primary goal was to foster free debate.

Democrats, having no affirmative platform to run on, are running to dismantle what Donald Trump has built — even a new, majestic ballroom, paid for by private donors.
The Democrat party is destroying America, one brick at a time.

Gavin Newsom erases parental rights with new law handing children to the state Here's what AB 495 does: it rewrites major sections of state law to expand government authority over families. It extends "safe zone" policies in schools and preschools, hands the Attorney General more control over local institutions, broadens the definition of who can act as a "relative" with parental-level decision-making power, forces child-care centers to adopt state-mandated policies, and even allows confidential joint guardianships to activate automatically when a parent becomes "unavailable."
   Together, these changes create a framework that reaches far beyond immigration enforcement. In reality, it establishes a state-sanctioned system for transferring parental power–a system that can be activated by anyone claiming to "care" for the child.
 
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Nigeria's Genocide Against Christians 'Spreading Like a Cancer' "Nigerian Christians," Cruz said, "are being targeted and executed for their faith by Islamist terrorist groups, and are being forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria. It is long past time to impose real costs on the Nigerian officials who facilitate these activities, and my Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act uses new and existing tools to do exactly that. I urge my colleagues to advance this critical legislation expeditiously." Image

Christian Leaders Ignore Muslim Genocide Of Nigerian Christians So why do Christians and other secular leaders refuse to acknowledge the truth about this? Probably because doing so would mean acknowledging a deeper truth that Christianity and Islam are fundamentally different faiths, that the modern ecumenical project of finding common ground has failed, and that importing third-worlders by the millions is civilizational suicide. 

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Whistleblower: Illegal Immigrants Are Destroying U.S. Trucking Industry  The trucking industry faces increased competition from illegal drivers, which is driving small businesses to close and raising safety concerns on American roads.

Calm Down, No One Cares About the White House Renovation It if makes you feel 'almost the same' as 9/11, there's something seriously wrong with you...

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This fight is about more than one company’s patents. It’s about whether American innovators can hold on to their inventions, create jobs, and help our nation compete globally. It also tests whether the United States will adopt an America First patent policy that protects American inventors. Every time a small U.S. innovator is pushed out, a foreign competitor grows stronger.

Don’t Make Nuclear Power Another Failed Government  Program Nuclear energy can and should be a new symbol of American might precisely because it no longer needs Washington’s charity to survive. It’s time for Big Government to step aside so the private sector can lead and unleash the full potential of the industry that will define our nation’s energy future—without risking taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars

Elon Musk‘s xAI Launches AI-Powered ‘Grokipedia‘ to Rival Left-Wing Wikipedia  Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grokipedia on Monday, a long-awaited alternative to Wikipedia that the billionaire tech tycoon hopes will address Wikipedia’s extreme leftist political bias and inaccuracies. The launch marks Musk’s latest attempt to challenge mainstream platforms he deems ideologically skewed, following his acquisition and rebranding of Twitter as X.

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The idiocy of climate alarmists has been obvious to anybody who paid attention for years, and it is infuriating that people like us have to fight against disastrous policies for years or decades before we are proven right. We don't even get thanks or credit for being right, and the idiots don't get punished for being perpetually wrong. As with COVID, it's forgive and forget for the elites.

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United Nations Finally Recognizes Homeschooling-By Demanding Government Ruin It  The dangerous assumptions here are that freedom requires supervision, parents can’t be trusted, and kids are just future workers, or worse, weapons in a war for cultural domination via compelled government indoctrination. However, our Constitution and Declaration of Independence reflect the opposite idea: that rights should limit government power.

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Monday, October 27, 2025

For when I am weak, then I am strong...

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.   -2 Corinthians 12:7-10

“My God, I have never thanked You for my thorn. I have thanked You a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to You by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbows.” –George Matheson

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The last time we saw such brazen state efforts to nullify federal law took place in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas (President Eisenhower versus Governor Orval Faubus); in 1962 at Oxford, Mississippi (President Kennedy versus Governor Ross Barnett); and in 1963 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama (President Kennedy versus George Wallace). Like their current counterparts, all such governors pleaded states’ rights, damned federal intrusion into their own affairs, and counted on their own state residents to protest and intervene for their shared anti-federalist and nullificationist agendas. Image

A Warning to New York: Don’t Let Anti-Western Ideologues Rewrite Our History and Lead Our Cities    New York deserves a leader who believes in its people, its history, and its promise—not an ideologue raised to see it as the villain of the human story.

New Report Gives Democrats Yet Another Warning That Their Far-Left Ideas Stink  Of the voters surveyed, 70 percent said the Democratic Party is "out of touch." Most of the voters surveyed said they believe Democrats over-prioritize issues such as “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change" over issues like “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.”

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Trump-haters’ White House ballroom tantrums get even more ridiculous If Trump is for it, a large segment of this country just has to be against it, and in the most overwrought, over-moralizing way. 
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International Religious Freedom Is Under Attack This Anniversary  Nigeria is the deadliest country for Christians, with over 60,000 killed in more than a decade of genocidal terrorism, fueled by Islam. In fact, Nigerian clerics just appealed to the U.S. government after a series of deadly attacks this month.
   Kenya, Sudan, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are other African nations plagued with anti-Christian jihad. The Chinese Communist Party harshly targets, arrests, and kills Christians, Uyghur Muslims, and other religious minorities, including Falun Gong. Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, South Africa, Thailand, and Indonesia persecute Christians. In Pakistan and India, Christians are oppressed, and India and Bangladesh see regular clashes between Hindus and Muslims.

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Clearly this is a denomination in decline—but that decline is hard to quantify...

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: UK Muslim Tells UK Progressive This Brutal Truth   But I'm far from the only person who looks at Britain's meek and shrinking Christian faith, compares it to the country's growing and increasingly bold Muslim community, and sees a dire future for once-Great Britain.

Genetic risks are based on Mendelian inheritance, something we learned in high school biology. Family members share recessive genes that are much more likely to manifest in consanguineous marriages compared to unions of unrelated individuals.
    These elevated genetic risks manifest in conditions like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, congenital heart defects, hemophilia A, metabolic disorders, and others. The chain of inherited recessive mutations is subtle but real, and each generation of consanguineous pairing increases the likelihood.
   Any policy from a health authority that downplays or ignores those dangers is betraying its ethical duty to “first, do no harm.”

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Public opinion doesn’t shift overnight, but it can pivot sharply when people sense they’ve been manipulated. Climate policy has become a trillion-dollar industry built on exaggerated forecasts and moral panic. When respected scientists and former activists both say the emperor has no clothes, the spell begins to break.

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“You shall be holy, for I am holy”

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” -1 Peter 1:13-15

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Mamdani’s Money Machine Driven by Radical Imams, Marxists, and of Course George Soros  By any honest measure, the political rise of Zohran Mamdani was not an organic grassroots movement. It was a meticulously engineered operation — one fueled by foreign-linked nonprofits, radical Islamic networks, and Marxist organizers who found in the young New York socialist a useful vessel for their shared cause. Behind his smiling campaign posters and populist slogans lies a web of ideological financiers and operatives that traces back to some of the most powerful and subversive figures in modern politics — including George Soros himself.


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The unseen exchange: Abandoning legacy, denying life, and the revival that must come We have become emotionally numb. We do not mourn the unborn. We do not name them. We do not teach our children about them. We simply move on, as if they never existed.
   This numbness is not accidental. It is cultivated. It is reinforced by narratives that frame abortion as liberation, immigration as virtue, and discomfort as oppression. These narratives are not inherently false, but they are dangerously incomplete. They omit the cost. They omit the unborn child who will never speak, never dream, never inherit. They omit the American mother who is told that keeping her child is a burden. They omit the father who is erased from the conversation entirely.

Pennsylvania Is Considering Seven of the Most Horrific Bills Ever on Abortion  But wait, there’s more. This constitutional amendment would actually mandate that Pennsylvania taxpayers fund elective abortions.  
    Worst of all, it allows for a woman's “right” to have an abortion at any point in her pregnancy right up until the moments before the fully formed infant takes his or her first breath.

Wouldn’t you assume that groups promoting breast cancer awareness want women to actually decrease the risk by having women know all the risk factors?
    Yet the biggest promoters of Breast Cancer Awareness month either omit the abortion factor or actually deny it.
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It’s Official: The Democratic Party Is Now Straight Up Socialist   But now the party has nowhere to hide. Either by silence or outright endorsements of Mamdani, Democrats have let the veil drop. The party of John F. Kennedy is now the party of Karl F. Marx.
   And when New York spirals downward in a cesspool of deprivation and hopelessness, as every socialist experiment invariably does, the public should never forget which party caused it to happen. Image


Why do so few Washington politicians or Hollywood actors ever shine a bright light on modern-day slavery?  Presumably because they don’t want Americans to know that there are fifty million slaves around the world today.  They don’t want to expose the inhumane abuses that their Chinese Communist Party friends and financiers commit.  They don’t want to highlight Islam’s historic fondness for kidnapping and slavery.  They don’t want Americans to realize that Mexican and South American cartels abduct women and children, hook them on drugs, and traffic them as sex slaves across the United States.  They don’t want to draw attention to the inconvenient fact that tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa still openly buy and sell slaves today.

...the Marxist leftists, socialists, and communists have control of its leash, actually a choke chain. 
   Will this government shutdown end? Sure, it will, when Americans stop being dummies and listening to chuckleheads and come to the realization that this is the Democrat government shutdown.

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Mind-Boggling: America's statues "weren't desecrated or destroyed" — The Left Is Rewriting Its Mobs Tearing Down of Statues to Only a Desire to Put Them "into museums to commemorate the fallen during the Civil War"  You have just entered the twilight zone! Leftist mobs (dripping with patriotism?) removed the statues (respectfully? in a professional manner?) for the sole reason to… (respectfully?) place them inside (respected?) museums?! And only to honor America, her history, as well as both sides in the Civil War?!?! Image

Reflections on the No Kings Protest from Behind the Lines The woman I met, the No Kings protestors, and most of the Democratic party are all acting like teens who have never been told “No,” and are just now realizing that the world that always said “Yes” to them owes them nothing.

The Fury That Led to Nothing: George Floyd Square  The run-down intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis exposes the empty promises of the revolution of 2020.


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BLM, Antifa, Hezbollah, and More: Inside Maduro’s Global Web  War doesn't always look like tanks, bombs, and military invasions. Sometimes, it's longer, slower, and less obvious.


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From Lifeline to Hammock: How Food Stamps Became a Way of Life  The real tragedy isn’t that people need help; it’s that Washington turned “supplemental” into “sustaining,” and then built political leverage out of it. My grandparents treated their food stamps with humility, stretching every dollar with care. Today, an entire nation is being taught to panic when the pipeline pauses. That’s not stewardship. That’s dependency weaponized.
   If we truly want to preserve both dignity and compassion, we need to rebuild the program’s original purpose: to help people stand, not to make sure they never have to.


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The message has been consistent and clear. The Church of England is not concerned with religion, it’s concerned with politics, and specifically with always advocating for leftist politics and progressive politics.
   The Church of England did not speak loudly and morally on Islamic rape gangs targeting Christian children for sexual abuse. It did not speak loudly and morally on Christian South African farmers being murdered. It did not speak loudly and morally on Islamic attacks on Christians throughout Africa, such as the more than 100,000 black Christians killed by groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and other African nations. It has had nothing to say about Christians being arrested in England for the ‘crime’ of silent prayer. It’s had nothing to say about Christian street preachers being arrested for quoting the Bible, for offending homosexuals, or for offending Muslims.


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Covid response killed more children than covid, UK Covid Inquiry Earlier this month, Professor Steve Turner, a consultant paediatrician, gave evidence at the UK Covid Inquiry.  He testified that paediatricians learnt very early on that covid did not make children sick, the virus “bounced off” even the most severely sick children.
   “Children who had kidney transplants, whose immune system was suppressed – we were really worried about them.  But the virus bounced off them.  So, we knew very, very quickly that this virus, for whatever reason, was not doing harm for the vast majority of children in whom we thought it would,” he said.

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My experience when I have caught university students making unauthorized use of AI is that the cheaters are too ignorant and lazy to know what good output would look like. Sometimes these errors are very obvious, as when two of my students turned in memos that did not summarize the assigned reading but one with a similar title. Knowing what good output looks like requires skills and knowledge that can only be acquired the old-fashioned way, by doing one’s own work. And I am talking about students at a selective university a few years into the AI boom. How much worse must it be at a junior high chosen at random? And how much worse will it be when students who used AI for their entire time in junior high and high school age into first college and then the labor force?

Governments Keep Letting AI Make Decisionsl and It's Already Going Wrong Governments worldwide are rushing to implement AI systems to save time and money. Invariably, pitches are centred around efficiency increases such as smarter policing, faster queues and cleaner fraud detection. But the reality is much messier. Automated systems have wrongly cut benefits, facial recognition is growing faster than its safeguards, and prediction tools keep recycling biases of the past. This global snapshot outlines the most serious failures in recent years and what to look out for next...

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Wind Power: Not the Utopia We Were Sold On More succinctly, it's been shown several times over that those things won't generate enough power over their lifetime to pay for the cost of their installation and upkeep, at least not at current prices.  Part II

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Girl shot in head at Minnesota church massacre leaves hospital — just in time for 13th birthday 

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

 
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross 
Keith and Kristyn Getty, Sandra McCracken

Vs 1
Jesus, keep me near the cross
There a precious fountain
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calv’ry’s mountain

Chorus
In the cross, in the cross
Be my glory ever
Till my ransomed soul shall find
Rest beyond the river

Vs 2
Near the cross my trembling soul
Heard the Savior calling
There He died that I may know
Grace and peace abounding

Vs 3
Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o’er me

Vs 4
Near the cross! My heart will stay
Hoping, trusting ever
Till my eyes shall see the face
Of my blessed Savior

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God has given us two hands...

God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving.  -Billy Graham

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Trump’s Unmatched Diplomacy Frees Historic Numbers of Wrongly Detained Americans In total, the Trump administration has secured the release of at least 73 Americans since January, including some who had been held in foreign prisons for multiple years. Though the corporate media has been reluctant to report on it, freeing American citizens remains one of Trump’s most underappreciated legacies that underscores his expertise as a negotiator – his famous mastery of “the Art of the Deal.”


A Zohran Mamdani Victory Will Spark a Massive Exodus From New York City  Mamdani’s platform promises free healthcare for illegal aliens while everyday New Yorkers scrape by without a safety net. Street vendors crossing the border get a pass to hawk goods unlicensed, but try starting a corner deli as a citizen and drown in red tape and fees. The homeless can turn sidewalks into open-air encampments, yet a single misplaced recycling bin lands you a fine that could cover a month’s rent.

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Genocide in Nigeria: Islamic terror groups are killing en masse and aim to eliminate 112 million Christians and 13 million others by 2075  The Islamic terror groups want to turn Nigeria into “a country where Christianity is banned and brutally crushed, relegated and forced underground,” the Intersociety report says.


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Transgender violence: What is driving this trend? So, as we grapple with the question of trans violence as a society, let us first consider that transgenderism itself is born of violence — violence against one’s own body, mind, and soul.

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Taxpayer-Funded Sharia: Florida’s School Choice Program Is Rapidly Building a Parallel Islamic Power Structure  Florida’s school-choice program has become a taxpayer-funded engine for Islamic expansion — financing Sharia-run schools led by actors embedded in Muslim Brotherhood–linked networks, which enforce a rival legal order, attract and consolidate Muslim migration, and convert public dollars into permanent parallel Islamic infrastructure on American soil.

No Kings=crazy teachers  Teachers retain First Amendment rights, particularly for speech on their own time. However, school administrators have a duty to ensure teachers reflect American values and the values of their communities. Ensuring teachers are minimally sane is also a plus. Teachers encouraging the murder of police officers and celebrating  assassination have no place in the classroom

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Friday, October 24, 2025

Make me to know your ways, O Lord...

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.
 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long.
 Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
    for they have been from of old.
 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
    according to your steadfast love remember me,
    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
-Psalm 25:4-7

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Grassley announces judges' use of AI leading to court order errors, implementing new policies  "Each federal judge, and the judiciary as an institution, has an obligation to ensure the use of generative AI does not violate litigants’ rights or prevent fair treatment under the law," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said...


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Global report warns of sharp decline in religious freedom  The organisation’s biennial Religious Freedom in the World 2025 report paints a grim picture, revealing that 64.7% of the world’s population— about 5.4 billion people — live in countries where this fundamental right is severely restricted or denied.

The main challenges facing Christianity today, according to 1,000 evangelical leaders in 119 countries   Radical politics, AI and the debate on human identity are the issues for which churches are least prepared..

Galloping Islamisation in Britain and America  Britain and America should finally start drawing some lines in the sand. The liberal democratic bargain at the core of Western society holds that minorities are free to form communities of faith and culture, provided they uphold core values such as democracy and the rule of one law for all.
    That means proscribing the subversive Muslim Brotherhood, jailing radical imams or throwing them out of the country, binning “Islamophobia,” banning the burqa and outlawing sharia law, which recognizes no authority above itself.

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The Crashing Failure of the Feminist Movement  The traditional nuclear family was being dismantled by a new generation of women who bought in to the notion that making money is infinitely more satisfying, meaningful, and important than raising children.

They want to destroy normal people: The Left’s war on the Right There are moments when politics ceases to be about policy and becomes something deeper. The public reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination was one of those moments. Some Americans mourned; others reveled in cruelty. What emerged was not simply outrage, but a portrait of a society whose fractures now define its moral compass.

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A Harvard Dean Defended Death Threats Against Trump. The University Has Said Nothing Harvard University won’t say whether it will sanction a dean who defended "rioting and looting" as legitimate "parts of democracy," described "whiteness" as a "self-destructive ideology," and said it was acceptable to wish death on President Donald Trump.

How We Got Mamdani: The Left 'understood that if they can get control of the educational system, they can change the country'  How NYC is on the verge of electing a socialist jihadist: “The left was very savvy and very strategic. They identified the weakness in our society and the weakness in our society is the educational system.”

200 teacher sexual misconduct, grooming cases shielded from public  Best estimates show one in 10 students experiences sexual misconduct from educators during their K-12 schooling, according to that federal report. In Wisconsin, that rate would amount to more than 93,000 school children.

New Georgetown University president: 'I reject the Church's teachings on homosexuality'  “His public support for same-sex unions, in direct contradiction to the Bible and 2,000 years of unbroken Catholic doctrine, undermines the university’s Catholic identity,” Ritchie said. “Faithful Catholic students look to their leaders for moral clarity, not confusion.”

Wyoming Mom Faced Retaliation by School Officials  Her son was gone, and she wanted to understand why. Instead of getting answers from officials who she believed held some responsibility, Kari Cochran found herself standing in a courtroom defending herself against stalking allegations. Her offense? She asked school officials difficult questions and made social media posts critical of their responses.

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