Thursday, May 14, 2026

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous...

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
    our God is merciful.
The Lord preserves the simple;
    when I was brought low, he saved me.
Return, O my soul, to your rest;
    for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

For you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    my feet from stumbling;
I will walk before the Lord
    in the land of the living.
      -Psalm 116:5-9

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Yet most of the New Testament actually sees a third movement as an essential part and completion of Jesus’ work: the Ascension. We might miss this because of our theological tradition, but we often miss it because of our failure to read carefully. In Peter’s Pentecost speech, the climax of what God has done in Jesus is not the resurrection, but Jesus being ‘exalted to the right hand of God’ (Acts 2.33). In support of this, he cites Ps 110, the most cited psalm in the NT (just pause to take that in…), with its imagery of ‘the Lord’ (messiah) taking his seat at the right hand of ‘the Lord’ (Yahweh, the God of Israel). Image

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Mamdani boasts of savings in $124.7B NYC budget plan — that’ll nickel-and-dime New Yorkers with hidden fee hikes   Mamdani, who campaigned on an affordability agenda, said that over several months, new “Chief Savings Officers” were able to identify municipal savings — but some of the supposed extra cash would come from soaking residents and businesses for more dough.

It feels like California is the People's Republic of China's (PRC) espionage playground. There's been more than one rogue Chinese bio lab filled with germs, bugs, and diseases busted by law enforcement. Chinese spy balloons lazily hoovered up intelligence over sensitive U.S. installations across America. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's spymaster chauffeur and body man probably heard all manner of secrets from her days chairing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Judiciary Committee, and the defense subcommittee, but no biggie. Nobody was arrested. Eric Swalwell was a dim city councilor until he met PRC honeypot Fang Fang, who propelled him to a congressional post where he dished bad intel to the American public and who knows what to Double Fang. And now we have the continuation of the curious case of the after-school tutor-turned-Arcadia mayor and her personal Double Fang handler. Oh, excuse me: fiancé.



Communist and socialist activists proposed a spate of communist and socialist policies at a recent rally in Minneapolis, including a 20-hour workweek (with 40-hours of pay!), rent caps, massive redistribution of wealth, confiscation of wealth, and even seizure of private property and the means of production.

Illegal Aliens Indicted for Operating Million-Dollar Multi-State Burglary Ring   ...allegedly operating a million-dollar burglary ring in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida.

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The UN’s architecture to annihilate the West...Each and every apparatus working against our sovereignty and greatness  The United Nations functions as a predatory cartel dedicated to the systematic liquidation of national borders. Its agenda demands the total eradication of the nation-state to pave the way for a centralized, unelected global tyranny.

Why Britain’s Elections Portend Trouble For America   Britain is fracturing along ethnic lines, steadily marching toward civil war along with the entire western world — including the United States.

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With President Donald Trump in China this week, an examination of China’s treatment of Chinese Protestant house churches shows no progress since 1998. On the contrary, it reveals a lasting crackdown on religious freedom, the ongoing suffering of leaders who refuse to edit the Bible for promotion of the state and a government that punishes any religious leader with the audacity to place God above the Communist Party. Image

Irish Court Convicts Retired Pastor for Reading Bible Passage Near Abortion Mill  Obviously, the fine is not the issue here. Johnston expressed a deeper concern for religious freedom and free speech in Ireland and throughout the U.K.
"It effectively redefines peaceful Christian witness as a form of unlawful ‘influence’," he said to Fox News. "If simply reading the Bible, praying, and preaching on God’s love can now be considered harmful because someone might overhear it within a certain area, then we have crossed a very serious line."
   Johnston’s conviction is now on appeal.

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Hatred and evil. There it is – the truth about the enemies the West faces today, both internal and external. They are driven by a demonic – and I use that word intentionally and literally – lust for chaos, a hatred for civilizational order, beauty, and truth. Some have deluded themselves into believing that their motives are righteous and well-intentioned, and will lead to utopian equity; some believe fervently that their “god is greater” and that the world must be brought under theocratic rule by any means necessary; some simply want to watch the world burn. The result is the same: wanton, gleeful destruction of the only true civilization the world has known; mass misery and death; and a nightmarish landscape of terror and torment that rivals any hellish vision by Hieronymus Bosch.
The result, in other words, is evil. Image

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Here's Another Woke Judge Putting Criminals Ahead of Public Safety   Now in Milwaukee County, Judge Ana Berrios is refusing to protect law enforcement and a victim, instead choosing to let an inmate keep his communication privileges despite allegations he's abusing those privileges to threaten a woman and children.



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At Princeton, the Honor Code Didn't Survive ChatGPT  The real problem here is that students who do this aren't learning anything because they aren't doing any work. And if that's already widespread at a place like Princeton that literally prides itself on the honor system, you can probably imagine what is happening at your local high school. Image

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'I applied to be pope': Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT  Millar is one of an unknown number of people who have lost their grip on reality while communicating with chatbots, an experience tentatively being called AI-induced delusion or psychosis.
   This is not a clinical diagnosis. Researchers and mental health specialists are racing to catch up to this new, little-understood phenomenon, which so far appears to particularly affect users of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

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The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force...
...Now that a third of working-age men have slipped into a life of lethargy and nihilism, it’s time to sound the alarm. We have to start fixing this.

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America’s Pastor Pipeline is Collapsing, Threatening Local Leadership  A sharp decline in Americans entering the ministry is accelerating a leadership crisis in churches across the United States, hollowing out one of the nation’s oldest civic institutions at a time of shrinking congregations and rising pressures on clergy.

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The Geopolitics of the Lewis & Clark Expedition  The intrepid explorers set out on this date, more than two centuries ago. Few moderns appreciate the magnitude of that endeavor. Image

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