Sunday, February 01, 2026

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake...

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.  -1 Peter 3:14-17

The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it... All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.  -François Fénelon

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Trump Launches $12 Billion Strategic Mineral Stockpile To Counter China; Rare Earth Stocks Jump    The project, known as Project Vault, is designed to reduce America’s dependence on China for rare earths and other strategically important metals. By creating a centralized reserve for civilian industries, officials hope to cushion companies against sudden shortages and sharp price swings that can disrupt production and strain finances. Image

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UN on Brink of Financial Collapse, Says UN Chief   The major reason for the UN’s woes is that member states haven’t paid their dues. At the top of the list is the United States, which reportedly owes $2.2 billion in overdue and current assessments for the UN’s regular operating budget and another $1.8 billion for the UN “peacekeeping” operations budget. While refusing to exit the globalist entity completely, President Donald Trump’s administration has caused it significant harm, not only by withholding dues but by pulling out of several UN-tied organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNESCO, and many others.

WHO Just Ran A Simulation For The “Next Pandemic.” 31 Governments Took Part  The framing is notable. WHO did not describe the drill as preparation for a hypothetical scenario. It repeatedly referred to readiness for “the next pandemic.”

The analysis, published by Jason Richwine at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), reviews Census Bureau data on Afghan immigrants in the U.S. — an immigrant group that has exploded from just 22,000 in 1990 to almost a quarter of a million as of 2024.
  Most significantly, the Census data shows that almost all Afghan households with children are on publicly funded welfare — similar to that of Somali immigrant households with children in Minnesota, where 81 percent of such households are on at least one form of welfare.

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Mamdani Is Already Trashing New York to Third-World Status...Almost a week after New York City got hit with over a foot of snow, the town of 8 million residents is still a mess  Homeless people are dying in the streets. And not only is the unplowed snow making basic transportation a challenge for city residents and visitors, but massive mountains of uncollected garbage are piling up, and Mamdani himself is a big part of the cause of the problem. 
   You still can’t walk on most sidewalks. Buses and taxis can’t navigate major streets and avenues. Residents describe a city that’s “paralyzed,” not by the weather, but by local government’s incompetence under Mamdani.

Boston Mayor Wu Claims ‘Every Single Human‘ on Earth Has ‘Legal Right‘ to Come to the U.S.  Texas Republican Rep. Brandon Gill, for one, ripped Democrats, saying, “Dems demand infinity immigration, then infinity welfare — all at Americans’ expense.”

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It’s a tale of two First Ladies—and one revealing weekend.
    On one side stood Hillary Clinton, re-emerging from political exile to lecture Americans via The Atlantic—a publication whose readership now struggles to justify its own existence—about immigration and Christianity. In her essay, Clinton scolded the United States for enforcing immigration law, accusing the Trump administration of violating what she called Christianity’s “core teachings of dignity, mercy, and compassion.”

Saint Hillary Clinton Has a Moral Message for the MAGA Movement...believes that the “savage” MAGA movement must be destroyed root and branch   Most importantly, for all of Hillary’s talk about mercy and compassion, she never has any to spare for the victims of illegal migrant criminals, or any acknowledgment of the fact that pro-mass migration agitators, rather than being the Christlike apostles of love that she portrays them to be, are courting confrontations, often violent ones, with ICE agents, hoping to get a result they can use for propaganda purposes.

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Nurses, Heal Thyself: Trump Derangement Syndrome Enters the Hospital   Yet Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached pandemic levels among a militant and increasingly visible cadre of health care professionals, infecting even those entrusted with others’ lives. Increasingly, a vocal minority of nurses and other health care workers - individuals granted extraordinary access and authority -- openly fantasize about harming political opponents. This is not merely unprofessional behavior. It is a profound ethical failure.

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Detransitioner Wins $2M in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit    A growing group of young people who found out too late that "gender transitions" are anti-biological, unscientific, and excessively unhealthy are trying to hold the woke medical and political liars to account. Leftists try to ignore or sometimes openly attack these "detransitioners" because they expose the heartbreak and horror attendant on vain interventions to alter biological reality. One detransitioner just achieved a landmark victory in New York, however, according to multiple online reports.

Let’s be honest, there shouldn’t be any women’s or gender studies degrees at all in higher education. Such degrees are merely a product of neo-Marxist ideology, studying people as “classes” and adding in a huge dose of pure fantasy.

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