Thursday, June 11, 2026

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more...

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 
-Philippians 1:9-11

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  -St. Augustine

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Terrorists & Nazis & Satanists, Oh My! Democrats’ Gallery of Rogues Shocks the Conscience  What do a plastic surgeon with links to Al Qaeda, an oyster fisherman with a Nazi tattoo, a former bandmate of a child sex offender, and a Lutheran minister who took part in a satanic wedding have in common? They’re all Democrat candidates for Congress in this November’s midterm elections.

Jasmine Crockett’s Vile Comments About Austin Metcalf   Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), one of the most morally despicable stooges in Congress, claimed murdered teen Austin Metcalf’s family have never suffered as she suffers for being black, and that killer Karmelo Anthony was justified in randomly stabbing Metcalf to death.

Democrats Defend Giving SPLC Police Power To Target Conservatives With Impunity  The SPLC was able to ‘de-platform, de-bank, and deny services to every single organization on that hate map.’

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In George Orwell's 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named "Airstrip One" as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.'s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II.
    Four decades past the real 1984, and there's still no Oceania. But Britain looks more and more like Airstrip One as Parliament considers a bill opening up everyone's smartphone to government supervision — and jail time for tech execs who don't submit.

The murder of Henry Nowak and cultural Marxism   For decades, cultural Marxism has run rampant through our institutions.
   This week, the world watched an officer dragging Henry Nowak across the floor as he died. The police officer, in the moment, failed to take seriously Henry’s claim to have been stabbed. He was needlessly handcuffed. His murderer stood over him, complaining of a swollen eye. He died on the floor.
   It was the moment that the world woke up to the danger of cultural Marxism.

How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for “inappropriate dress?” A culture where one woman suffered 40 lashes from a leather whip for the crime of wearing trousers and a T-shirt? A culture where a man who lies with a man risks being whipped a hundred times before being put in a dank cell for five years? A culture where apostasy is considered such an abominable sin that even a heavily pregnant woman could be sentenced to death for supposedly committing it?
The good people of Belfast are well within their rights to ask whether men from such a culture should be living on their streets.
   Personally, I would call such a culture “alien.” In fact, I would call it backward, regressive, inhuman and morally inferior to the freer, more forgiving culture we Brits are lucky to live in. Why, then, was the unionist MP Jim Allister rebuked in the UK House of Commons yesterday for suggesting that the bloodletting maniac in Belfast heralded from an “alien culture?” For all of the primitive punishments listed above, all that state barbarism, took place in the nation where he was reportedly born: Sudan.

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‘It's only a matter of national security.’ America Workforce Academy’s mission to fill the workforce gap  In April, the property services firm JLL issued a report showing that by 2030, 2.1 million skilled trades positions for electricians, HVAC technicians, plumbers, welders, pipe fitters, and equipment operators were at a high risk of going unfilled. These are the key jobs needed to build homes, offices, buildings, energy infrastructure, and artificial intelligence data power centers.
   Some raw facts from the American Builders and Contractors Association are even more chilling: 39% of electricians in this country were 45 years old or older. Another disturbing stat: for every five plumbers leaving the workforce, only two apprentices are entering. As Baby Boomers age out, the industry faces an estimated shortage of up to 550,000 plumbers, according to the Merrow Report.

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read   “What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch,” Jagt writes. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.”
   Pupils arriving unable to read is an increasingly common complaint from college-level educators amid the explosion of generative AI.

We knew students were unprepared, and we sent them on to fail   More than a thousand University of California faculty, led by Berkeley mathematicians, signed an open letter calling for a return to SAT/ACT testing for applicants to STEM majors. They say they're reteaching middle-school math to Calculus 1 students.
   It's no surprise to Elizabeth Statmore, who teaches at San Francisco's Lowell High, the largest single feeder to the UC system.  Every year, she finds herself teaching very basic math -- fractions, the distributive property, exponents and roots -- to her high-achieving students, she writes in Voice of San Francisco. These holes in their knowledge will sink them in college STEM classes.

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