Tuesday, December 30, 2025

So then you are no longer strangers...

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. -Ephesians 2:19-22

... stooping very low, He engraves with care
His Name, indelible, upon our dust,
And, from the ashes of our self-despair,
Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.
He seeks no second site on which to build,
But on the old foundation, stone by stone,
Cementing sad experience with grace,
Fashions a stronger temple of His own.
-Patricia St. John

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here are few places on earth more symbolically American -- or more globally recognizable -- than New York City’s Times Square. It is a commercial crossroads, a cultural billboard, and increasingly, a battleground for ideological messaging.
   That’s why many New Yorkers and visitors were understandably bewildered -- if not outright angered -- by a massive green digital display dominating Times Square just before Christmas proclaiming: JESUS WAS PALESTINIAN. The color choice was no accident. Green is the traditional color of Islam, and the message itself was plainly political. Online reactions quickly labeled the display “divisive,” “inflammatory,” and “inappropriate.”

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In France, a nation in which glorious architecture, literature, and art once celebrated the Prince of Peace, citizens recently beheld a parade celebrating the Herodian malice revealed in the Massacre of the Innocents.
   Leading the parade were monstrous automata representing the human flesh–eating Minotaur and Lilith, the infant-killing mythological first wife of Adam. 
   Writer Baxter Dmitry, reporting for The People’s Voice, reveals the Macron government–sponsored parade included a “Minotaur float, complete with a sacrificial labyrinth stage where performers in goat masks symbolically offered a child mannequin to the bull-headed god, [which] was a direct nod to Ba’al and Moloch worship, the very deities the ancient Israelites were warned never to tolerate.”  The theater company behind these giant monsters has been featuring them in events, mainly in Toulouse, for the last few years.
   A formerly Christian nation that once anathematized the massacre of innocents by King Herod of Judea now celebrates and parades deities devoted to child sacrifice.  The spirit of Herod, who ordered the murders of infants in hope of exterminating the rival king Jesus, lives on. Image

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Tallied all up, California taxpayers lost $70 billion to fraud...
...Now get this. Right in the middle of the fraud apocalypse, a new ballot initiative seeks to impose a one-time 10% wealth tax on billionaires' assets.




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Trump Admin Slashes Funding for Jihad-Hiring UN   For years, the UN has survived off American taxpayer money while simultaneously pandering to and promoting America’s worst enemies, including literal terror entities. Why should we help the UN employ Hamas terrorists, spread Chinese Communism, or play-act at saving lives with the worst dictators on the planet.

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The ‘Zombie’ Caliphate: While the World Celebrates the Muslim Brotherhood’s Demise, Its Billion-Dollar Empire Thrives in Plain Sight  The Muslim Brotherhood is not dead. It is alive, well, and trading on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Until the US and its allies target the enablers — the Turkish banks clearing Trend GYO transactions, the Qatari transfers to Mulhouse, and the shell companies in London — we are merely cutting the grass while the roots grow deeper.

Florida Exposed: ‘70% of the Population Are Arabs’—Inside Tampa’s Mosque-School Pipeline and Taxpayer-Funded Expansion   Arabic-language recruitment videos reveal Tampa is being deliberately built into a mosque-school-market pipeline—subsidized by taxpayer funds and designed to establish a parallel Islamic infrastructure inside a red state.

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DOJ Sues to Stop Virginia From Giving Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition and Financial Aid   Serious question: Why do we need to sue so that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for in-state tuition and financial assistance for illegal immigrants?

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NY Gov Hates Trump So Much That She Will Make NY Working Americans Suffer to Stroke Her Ego    Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York lawmakers haven’t extended President Trump’s “no tax on tips” policy to state income taxes — hitting bartenders and restaurant workers in the pocketbook all while preaching affordability.  Image


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And this is eternal life...

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. -John 17:3

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.  -JI Packer

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THE Prime Minister of Australia has described the latest rabbi-targeted firebomb attack in Victoria as ‘beyond comprehension’.
   Beyond comprehension? Really?
   Islam is the greatest killing machine in history. Islamist attacks between 1979 and 2024 numbered 66,872, with 249,941 dead. The rival killing machines – the Nazis, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot – all came and went. The globalist eugenicists are still at it, of course. But daylight is second to Allah’s men. They play a long game. They are driven, and each generation replaces the previous one which believed the same thing. Kill. Kill. Kill.

Exposed: Internal Hamas Writings Reveal Strategy to Hide True Agenda While Appealing to Western Media The new report shows that such rhetoric is part of a deeper ideological framework deliberately concealed from Western audiences. In Arabic-language writings circulated inside Gaza — but never intended for foreign consumption — al-Zahar openly promotes classic antisemitic conspiracy theories, blood libels, and even justifications for the Holocaust, according to the study.

Christians are Disappearing fr  om the Middle East – And the West Is Doing Nothing About It  In country after country, populations of Christians have collapsed catastrophically thanks to war, Islamist extremism, economic pressure, and quiet discrimination emptying lands where Christianity was once native. The result is the erasure of a moderating, pluralistic presence from one of the world’s most volatile regions. And, what’s even more concerning is the West’s seemingly total indifference to it.

Indian Christians Suffer Wave of Attacks Over Christmas  Severe violent attacks against Christians were reported across India during the 2025 Christmas season, with arson attacks in Chhattisgarh emerging as the most serious episodes in a broader pattern of intimidation and disruption linked to the festive period.In Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, a Christian family said that a mob set fire to their home and attacked local churches following a dispute over the burial of a man. Rajman Salam, a convert to Christianity, wanted to cremate his father according to Hindu custom but was denied. “I was told that I can’t have the rituals because of my Christian faith,” he said. He later tried to bury his father according to Christian ritual, which led to conflict with a Hindu mob.

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Minnesota Fraud Scandal Exposes the Real Crisis Facing the West   The government is no longer there to give all Americans a leg up. It’s there to enact an identitarian form of social justice, to sort out the winners and losers of its largesse based on a mystical hierarchy of oppression only fully understood in the inner sanctums of the federally funded ivory tower.
   That money was siphoned away by illegal means wasn’t really so terrible according to this thinking. It was just the product of a mandated secular tithe to soothe the modern liberal conscience made no less noble by its seedy application. What the oppressed groups do with the money justly given isn’t the biggest problem, after all.

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Or look at the entry on the Judeo-Christian account of creation, “Genesis creation narrative”. It describes the first lines of the Bible as a “creation myth”, which Wikipedia defines as “a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it”. For billions of monotheists, Genesis isn’t a metaphorical tale in a comparative-mythology anthology: it is the authoritative account of the world’s origins. To see it presented as “myth” is fundamentally at odds with how believers understand their own faith.

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Monday, December 29, 2025

Show me your ways, Lord...

Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.
 Guide me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,
    and my hope is in you all day long.
-Psalm 25:4-5

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The Global Persecution Of Christians Has Greatly Intensified In 2025   While Christians in the western world peacefully celebrate Christmas, most of them have absolutely no idea what is happening to their brothers and sisters on the other side of the globe.  As I detailed a couple of months ago, most of the population of the world lives in a country where Christians are being violently persecuted.  Believers are being rounded up for de-programming in China, churches are being burned to the ground by Hindu extremists in India, Christians are literally being cut into pieces by Islamic radicals in some parts of Africa, practicing your faith can be a death sentence in certain areas of the Middle East, and North Korean concentration camps are teeming with people that are suspected of worshipping Christ.  Perhaps if we were facing similar levels of persecution, believers in the western world would start becoming a lot more serious about their faith.

When well-meaning Westerners differentiate between “Islamism” and “Islam,” they delude themselves with a verbal narcotic.  By this rhetorical device, they convince themselves that somehow we can accept some gelatinous type of nice Islam (in the form of people who are polite, sociable, non-ideological, mildly religious, and generally modern) into the West without concern because they aren’t involved in “Islamism.”  But even those who practice only the spiritual elements of Islam are at odds with the West.

France: Muslim Nanny Poisons Jewish Family...French courts insist: Islam had nothing to do with it   She was entrusted with looking after three small children. Raised to hate Jews, the nanny tried to poison the entire family but they survived, and provided the forensic experts of the French police with samples of the food that they had been given, in which the evidence of her attempt to poison them was quickly revealed. Now that nanny has been sentenced to a preposterously mild sentence of two-and-a-half years in prison, because the court in Nanterre concluded that there was “no evidence of antisemitism.”

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California kills gasoline...The “environmentalists” have won, but they’ve also made life unaffordable and almost impossible for normal people  Not only are gas stations closing, but refineries are shutting down, too. One up north and one down south, two of the biggest in the state, are simply ending operations rather than trying to comply with new, onerous regulations that dictate how they can do business, how much fuel they must store, and more.

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Viral video on alleged daycare fraud in Minnesota catches attention of members of Congress, Vance  One of the standout scenes in the viral video is at a facility on Nicollet Avenue whose sign famously misspells “learning” as “Learing.”

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Saturday, December 27, 2025

The Wexford Carol

 
The Wexford Carol-12th Century Irish Christmas Carol 
Patrick Dexter/Cello

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Friday, December 26, 2025

Angels From Realms Of Glory...

 
Angels From Realms Of Glory 
We Are Messengers

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I’ve often said that if there were just one message I could share with fellow believers, it would be the importance of getting into God’s word and getting God’s word into us. The practice of Bible journaling is one meaningful way to steep ourselves in Scripture, resulting in greater love for and friendship with its Author, and ultimately making us more like the Savior who is its central figure from cover to cover.

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Hey Churches: Make Sure You Have Christmas Songs For All Year Round But whatever you do, pore over your Christmas carols before you pack them away, and ask yourselves “How can I allow their biblical depth, theological astuteness, and gospel longing to inform our church worship songs for the rest of the year?”

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When the song of the angels is stilled...

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among people,
To make music in the heart.
-Howard Thurman

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The most important thing to remember is that Trump’s work is intended to make life better for the people living legally in the U.S. “The benefit to the United States is that certain illegal aliens who are committing crimes and causing problems in American communities will no longer be living here,” says Vaughan. “American taxpayers will have less of a burden funding welfare, health care, and schooling for recent arrivals, and employers who were previously hiring illegal workers will have to start hiring U.S. workers. All of this is helpful to the quality of life and wage growth for struggling Americans.”



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Leaving Islam for Christianity: One man’s message for Minnesotans about Democrats, Muslims  Christians face persecution in Iran, but Faridi soon became a part of an “underground” Christian church.
   “I distributed Bibles, CDs, and other things and I was threatened many times,” he recalled.
   However, Faridi had to make a life-altering decision: “go to the prison” or “get out of the prison of the Islamic regime of Iran, which is the whole country,” he said.
   “So I left Iran, and miraculously, I ended up in America,” Faridi said.

MERRY CHRISTMAS: Holiday ‘Tips’ from the Religion of Peace While Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, here’s what top Islamic clerics really think:
“Saying Merry Christmas is Worse than Murder”
“…it is saying congratulations on your false religion. Congratulations on your false understanding of life. This is worse than fornication, drinking alcohol, and killing someone.”
“Christmas is offensive to Muslims, and anyone who celebrates it is Islamophobic.”

Islam is a brutally misogynistic, brutally homophobic, brutally xenophobic, supremacist political ideology, pretending to be a religion. And it needs to be viewed that way by Western civilization. No matter how peaceful most Muslims seem, eventually a charismatic leader will come along who will radicalize them, for his own aggrandizement. That’s what’s going on right now in Iran.

India: Christians beaten, held hostage and Bibles set on fire in brutal attack by Hindu extremists  “They were slapping the Christian women, pulling their hair, punching them. The scene was terrible,” said Arya. “The Hindu men were assaulting the Christian men likewise.”

Muslims Block Christians from Celebrating Christmas in Indonesia  Consequently, the Muslims who were blocking the door to the church likely thought of themselves as committing a righteous act, allowing Allah to use them to punish the wayward Christians. And punish they did: “The Muslims held back and pushed members of the church as they struggled to make their way to prayer post for Christmas services.”

Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens What’s interesting about the international prayers in the pope’s message is that the nations and territories that he mentions, “Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria”, “Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo”, Haiti, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Yemen, Gaza, are mostly non-Christian. Apart from Haiti and Congo, they’re non-Christians areas.

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New York Won’t Give Up Its Efforts to House Men in Women’s Prisons  Other egregious elements remain in the bill, including that denials cannot be based on the realities of biological sex (including “past or current … chromosomes, genitals, gonads … or hormone function”), or based on sexual orientation, or the “complaints of other incarcerated individuals” (a/k/a women). Additionally, it is prohibited to transfer an inmate out of a “gender-aligned placement as a form of discipline.” This means that a male inmate who verbally harasses female inmates, or engages in voyeurism or exhibitionism directed towards them, cannot be transferred out of the women’s facility in response to this conduct, unless the conduct rises to the level of “current danger of … violence” as described below.

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In 2025, merit-based policies made notable gains across higher education.
After years of test-optional admissions and expansive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates, colleges and universities began reversing course in response to pushback from lawmakers and students who argued that academic standards had been weakened.

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I never thought much about the religious aspect of this film when I turned to it again and again throughout my life to ground me in what really matters. That is the struggle of George Bailey, who wants greatness for himself. He wants to leave Bedford Falls and see the world. One by one, his dreams are dashed as he must give them up for whatever reason - the war, the stock market crash, and finally, marriage and family.

A Very Merry Tradition- The Fascinating Story of A Charlie Brown Christmas  This rush to duplicate the success of A Charlie Brown Christmas ushered in the tradition of the annual broadcasting of half-hour Christmas specials that would last for decades. For those Gen Xers and Millennials who grew up with broadcast television, these shows became unofficial markers of the start of the Christmas season. 

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Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Destroys Actual Intelligence In Students  A recent MIT study shows that AI usage decreases cognitive function like critical thinking. Seems rather odd to insist that something proven to weaken our brains should be introduced to places where institutions of learning, isn’t it?

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Drag Churches and the Forced Redefinition of the Sacred Drag churches are presented by their defenders as examples of “evolution” and “openness.” However, from a critical perspective, they reflect a broader trend of cultural progressivism: redefining millennia-old institutions to fit a contemporary ideological agenda, even when that means exposing minors to messages for which they are not prepared. This is not dialogue; it is replacement. It is not coexistence; it is disguised indoctrination.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Christmas Day

 
Christmas Day 
Chris Tomlin & We The Kingdom

Joy to the world
On a night like no other
Emmanuel 
God is with us
Beggars and kings
Let us come and adore Him
Rest in His peace
And bow before Him

Sing all you people
The Lord almighty reigns
Sing every creature of God
Come bless His name
For He is good, for He is good
He was born to conquer the grave
Light of the world
The reason for Christmas Day

Stars we have seen
Over deserts and oceans
The darkness was deep
But never hopeless
Redemption came
And His name is Jesus

From the mountains
We will shout it out
For the Lord our God 
Almighty reigns
He is with us
He is with us now
For the Lord our God
Almighty reigns

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Welcome! All wonders in one sight!

 For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
 Of the increase of his government and of peace
    there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Isaiah 9:6-7

Welcome! all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span!
Summer in winter, day in night!
Heaven in earth, and God in man!
Great little One, whose all-embracing birth
Lifts earth to heaven, stoops Heaven to earth!
-Richard Crashaw

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body...

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.  -JC Ryle

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DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise  The wholesale adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in almost all our major institutions has done untold damage to American society.  
   It was advertised as something noble — a way to open opportunities for women and minorities who had been unfairly denied them.
   But through a combination of bureaucratic laziness and political malice, DEI soon became something approaching a ban on hiring millennial white males at the beginning of their careers. 
   The harm goes far beyond the wreckage it imposed on those young men.

The death of multiculturalism will save America   Americans realize there has been an economic and criminal price to pay for mass immigration. But they are also realizing that probably the highest price is that of cultural suicide. If America is a location between two oceans and two countries, and not a distinct culture of its own, then it is not America. It is a location, and the American Dream eventually becomes a violent, dystopian clash of Third World cultures.


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Unaccompanied minors entered federal custody, received sponsor placements, and then disappeared. It was a perfect storm of incompetance: oversight broke down, follow-ups failed, and agencies were too busy checking boxes instead of closed doors.

   But progressives want you dead in any event, so frozen, starving - they don't care how they accomplish reducing the population, as long as it happens

Parents Win, California Loses Over Secretive Transing of Kids: Court Ruling  The California law mandating that teachers hide gender transitions from parents if the parents do not support radical LGBTQ ideology is unconstitutional, as a new U.S. District Court ruling from Judge Roger Benitez found.

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“Stupid in America” Turns 20...Many American public schools have become perverse, left-wing failure factories, putting the nation at risk    For real change to happen, parents need to step up. In states without a private choice program, the best option for parents is to educate their children at home, just as they provide food, clothing, and shelter. In fact, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States during the 2024-2025 school year, with an average increase of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic growth rate of about 2%.

Students deserve orderly and safe classrooms, and that means educators shouldn’t treat discipline as a necessary evil of last resort. If we want academic recovery to endure, we need to build the behavioral foundations that make learning possible. Education decision-makers who truly care about student outcomes would be wise to review their discipline policies.

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Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement’  “You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up. We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society,” Wu said.


Serial Criminal Who Blinded Woman Is ‘Transgender’  A violent serial offender who drove a screw into a stranger’s eye is now confirmed as “transgender.”

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Holy Awakening Gains Momentum As Biblical 'David' Film Soars At Box Office  The country has seen Democrats and their soulless globalist cult crucify Christianity, demonize white men, and inject nation-killing policies, such as open borders, defund the police, DEI, social and criminal justice reforms, that have done nothing but backfire spectacularly. Now, citizens are standing up to globalists, more or less, their pocketbooks are - boycotting their retail shops and far-left media outlets they perceive as being filled with hate, woke propaganda, and endless streams of misinformation. Amid all of this, Angel Studios rises to the top. Screenshot

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Monday, December 22, 2025

The most significant event in the whole course of human history...

By far the most significant event in the whole course of human history will be celebrated, with or without understanding, at the end of this season of Advent... What we are in fact celebrating is the awe-inspiring humility of God, and no amount of familiarity with the trappings of Christmas should ever blind us to its quiet but explosive significance... God’s insertion of himself into human history came about with an almost frightening quietness and humility... As millions will testify, he will come once again with the same silence and the same devastating humility into any heart which is ready to receive him.    -J.B. Phillips

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U.S. House leader questions Chicago Public Schools’ exclusion of Christian student teachers   “Specifically, the governing board of CPS – the Board of Education of the City of Chicago – appears to be excluding Moody and its students from participating in CPS’s student teaching program unless Moody agrees to change its faith-based hiring policies and practices,” the Michigan congressman wrote Friday.


Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews...VD Hanson    As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.


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The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Is So Much Worse When You Put It This Way  Minnesota has already become synonymous with massive pandemic-era fraud, particularly the Feeding Our Future scandal, which siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars meant to feed low-income children.

Somali 'Medicaid Mogul' Accused Of Looting Maine Taxpayers, Family Allegedly Put Bounty On Reporter A Somali politician in Maine has placed a BOUNTY on the head of a journalist for reporting fraud in Maine’s Mainecare (medical).

In light of the mounting evidence of rampant benefits fraud, Congress should institute a comprehensive audit of all means-tested programs. But it should start with removing the largest fraud in welfare—the government’s gross overstatement of poverty. President Trump should issue an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to count all welfare benefits received from the government as income to the recipients. Then Congress should codify the executive order and require that all means-tested programs use the corrected Census income definition to determine eligibility for welfare payments.

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Puberty blocking is an act of neurological vandalism  In other words, block puberty, and you block the core developmental process that creates an adult mind. It is not a ‘pause’ button. Developmental windows do not reopen.
   The claim that children can meaningfully ‘consent’ to halting their own neurodevelopment is not only scientifically illiterate, it is ethically grotesque.

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Saturday, December 20, 2025

Manger Throne

 
Manger Throne 
 Phil Wickham

You could have stepped into creation
With fire for all to see
Brought every tribe and nation to their knees 
Arriving with the host of heaven
In royal robe and crown
The rulers of the earth all bowing down 
But You chose meekness over majesty 
Wrapped Your power in humanity 

Glory be to You alone
King who reigns from a manger throne 
My life, my praise, everything I own
To Jesus the King on a manger throne 

You could have marched in all Your glory
Into the heart of Rome
Showed them splendor like they’d never known 
But You wrote a better story
In humble Bethlehem
Creator in the arms of common men 
You will die for our redemption 
And You’ll rise so we can live 

Glory be to You alone
King who reigns from a manger throne 
My life, my praise, everything I own
To Jesus the King on a manger throne 

From heaven to the cradle 
From cradle to the cross
Let heaven and nature sing 
This is our King
But the grave couldn’t hold Him 
Our God has overcome
Let Heaven and nature sing 
This is our King 

All hail the King 
All hail the King 
All hail the King 

Glory be to You alone
King who reigns from a manger throne 
My life, my praise, everything I own
To Jesus the King on a manger throne 

My life, my praise, everything I own
To Jesus the King on a manger throne 
To Jesus the King on a manger throne

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Christmas hope...

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. 
-James I. Packer

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Scripture does not command limitless compassion. It commands ordered love.
   A man who refuses to provide for his household is not generous. He is condemned. A shepherd who abandons his flock to chase every wandering animal is not noble. He is negligent. Love begins with responsibility, and responsibility has boundaries.
   The Bible assumes this order everywhere it speaks. Care begins at home. Obligation flows outward from proximity. Authority is tied to jurisdiction. These are not political inventions. They are moral realities woven into creation.
   A nation is no different. Excellent read...

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The article is about the incredible damage DEI policies have had on the employment prospects, and the resulting psychological impact, on Millennial white males trying to make their mark writing in the world of media. It's obviously a niche industry, but it's a microcosm of the ongoing devastation of DEI policies that took root during the Obama presidency and crescendoed after the death of George Floyd in 2020.


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Gov. Hochul concludes her contorted rationale by invoking gauzy language of spending one’s final days “with sunlight streaming through their bedroom window” and hearing “the laughter of their grandkids echoing in the next room.” That is, until the plug is pulled. No, there is no sunlight or laughter in this bill, but only darkness and sorrow. The governor now heads into a re-election campaign having burnished her credentials as a champion of the culture of death, leaving those most vulnerable, at life’s beginning and end, without the legal protections that their God-given dignity demands. Regardless of the outcome in November, Gov. Hochul has made New York a colder, crueler, and more callous state. Image

IMPEACHMENT MADNESS: Democrats Prove They Have No Real Interest in Governing  In total, that’s five separate impeachment resolutions introduced during the first 11 months of the second Trump administration.
   We are told that Democrats’ congressional leadership is not enthusiastic about impeaching the President or members of his Cabinet, but if you listen carefully to them, what they are really saying is that everyone should be patient until they win back the House.

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NY Times Declares War on Homeschooling    The NY Times attack, republished by other major newspapers across the country, is part of a coordinated assault. From the UNESCO report demanding government control over home education and the efforts of Harvard law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet to ban it, to European media anti-homeschooling propaganda and government attacks, this is just the start.
    Ultimately, home education appears to be emerging as a major threat not just to government indoctrination programs, but to totalitarian agendas everywhere. The more children receive an amazing education from their parents, the more obvious it becomes that the “public education” system is dumbing down and brainwashing the population.

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