Friday, June 12, 2026

Living stones...

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 
-1 Peter 2:4-5 Image

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Feds Take First Step in Dismantling Los Angeles' Homeless Industrial Complex, Cutting Funds to LAHSA   The White House fraud task force, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has cut off funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) effective immediately pending an investigation by HUD's inspector general, accusing the agency of "obvious fraud" and "wanton mismanagement."

ICE Touts Conviction of Criminal Aliens in Deadly Pharmaceutical Scheme  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is celebrating the conviction of two criminal aliens who were engaged in a massive scam to manufacture and distribute fake pharmaceuticals. The scheme killed at least one American.
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The Truth Is Simple: Democrats Don’t Care About Anything but Gaining Power  The only conclusion that can be drawn about the way Democrat voters operate is that they will hitch their wagon to anyone, no matter how vile, creepy, scuzzy, or disgusting, if they think they can win. And any party that will try to win with people like that is, well, a party you have to do anything necessary to make sure they don’t get within a Rory McIlroy tee shot of power. Image

Black Activism in America Has Become Cultural Poison  The interesting thing about the political left and minority movements in general is that they reveal their hand every time they suffer a loss, as much as when they celebrate a win.  These are frothing and rabidly emotional groups and they cannot control themselves in the slightest.  With the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, the “champions” of civil rights are out in force threatening mob violence, attacks on innocent white bystanders and they are calling for more murders.


CAIR Threatens Chicago-Area University For Allowing Conservative Event On Campus  A Lutheran university in the suburbs of Chicago should rescind its decision to let a Christian group use its facilities for a political event, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Chicago chapter.
   Specifically, CAIR wants to see Concordia University cancel the event because of the presence of Megan Basham, a Daily Wire reporter, and Robert Spencer, an Islam critic who runs Jihad Watch.

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Belfast Faces Brutal Awakening as Multicultural Dreams Collide With Harsh Reality  For years, officials and media outlets promoted the notion that importing large numbers from culturally distant regions would enrich society without friction. The events in Belfast suggest that illusion is cracking.
   Working-class neighborhoods, often the first to absorb the impacts of rapid demographic change, bore the brunt once again. Asylum hostels placed in these areas—far from the insulated enclaves of policymakers—have become flashpoints. Image

After Beheading Attempt In Ireland, New York Times Says The Real ‘Violence’ Is From Right-Wingers  Rather than show concern for the victims and bystanders of such violent crimes, the Times focuses more on the worries of immigrants: “Immigrant communities in Northern Ireland said they were living in fear.” Never mind the fear of native citizens who don’t recognize their own country anymore and are banned from noticing that it’s not the native-born who are most likely to commit these kinds of barbaric crimes.

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C.S. Lewis Warned Us That Dark Forces Would Distort the Meaning of 'Democracy' and 'Equality'   C.S. Lewis is the most effective Christian apologist in the modern era, and by that I mean the last 200 years or so. Perhaps his most effective work is The Screwtape Letters, which was written from the perspective of an imaginary demon (Screwtape) instructing his nephew (Wormwood) on how to seal the eternal fate of his “patient.” Lewis found no joy in writing it. He confessed, “The world into which I had to project myself while I spoke through Screwtape was all dust, grit, thirst, and itch. Every trace of beauty, freshness, and geniality had to be excluded. It almost smothered me before it was done.” Image

The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be  After all, if Christianity is true, in all its awesomeness and wonder, then what is the more likely explanation for UAPs? That they are the alien spacecraft of Spielberg’s science fiction, or that they are manifestations of spiritual beings created by God, who have rebelled against heaven? If the latter, then any such beings who come promising salvation, or a new era for humanity, or anything at all, should be understood for what they are: not benign creatures from an enlightened star, but the ancient enemies of mankind, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

As the aphorism goes: “Man plans; God laughs.” Steve Spielberg is but a man, like the rest of us.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Silence, the Horror, and the Duty to Remember Don’t forget you are walking on the same ground as the millions murdered by the Germans.

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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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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits...

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.
-Psalm 130:5-6 Image

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The Bible, Science, and Other Sources of Uncomfortable Truth Are Now Crimes in Canada and the UK   Canada’s new bill to restrict hate speech would remove protections for the Bible, meaning that posting or carrying a placard quoting Leviticus or other scriptures condemning LGBTQ behavior, or possibly even claiming there are only two genders, could be considered hate speech, a jailable offense. Since the existence of only two genders and the fact that a baby is a living, breathing human life inside its mother’s womb are scientific facts, ostensibly citing scientific textbooks could also be jailable if those facts hurt someone’s feelings.
   Over the past decade, the UK and Canada, previously two of the freest countries on earth, have shifted so far left that they have become some of the most restrictive in terms of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

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Socialist ‘Red Rabbits’ are training for national uprising against cops  As its national influence has risen, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group’s “Red Rabbits” initiative.
   The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on “community defense” efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.”
   In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting “fascists” with umbrellas. Image

The Left’s favorite moral crusades always end the same way: manufactured hysteria, institutional damage, and a quiet retreat from the wreckage.

The Same Bad Data Feeds the Climate Cult and the Prophecy Hucksters  Bible prophecy is real. Science is real. Both can be telling of the world around us. Both can also be used to mislead the masses.

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Even ‘Trust the Election’ Pundits Are Suspicious   In many Democrat-controlled jurisdictions, multiple ballots arrive at every home, apartment, post office box, chicken coop, doghouse, street corner, vacant field, Walmart, convenience store, parking lot, and homeless encampment.  American citizens don’t control election outcomes through their votes.  Campaign operatives control election outcomes through ballot “harvesting” — whereby blank ballots are mailed out, filled out, and collected without ever involving the “voters” whose “votes” are cast in their names.
   Once the vote counts are officially posted, most jurisdictions are incapable of verifying the legality of each vote cast or replicating the results with matched ballots and voter records.  The local and state election commissions instead defer to the “Trust us, bro” standard of government accountability.

Skid Row Vagrants Reveal How They Were Paid for Their Votes by LA Democrats   In the shadows of downtown Los Angeles, where human suffering piles up in tents and despair, a disturbing pattern has emerged. Homeless residents on Skid Row are coming forward with claims that they were paid small sums of cash to cast ballots for Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman. These allegations, captured in videos and shared with federal authorities, strike at the heart of election integrity in a city already reeling from policy failures that have turned streets into open-air encampments.


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Witnesses Horrified as Sudanese Migrant Allegedly Attempts Beheading on Belfast Street  A Sudanese migrant was arrested in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday night after allegedly attempting to behead a local man during a brutal knife attack. Disturbing video footage circulating online appears to show the suspect pinning the victim to the ground and repeatedly stabbing him in the head and neck as horrified bystanders pleaded for him to stop.

City Erupts After Migrant Charged With Attempted Beheading  Protests in Belfast, Northern Ireland, escalated into violence on Tuesday as demonstrators set a bus on fire and blocked roads following an attempted beheading. The unrest was part of an anti-immigration demonstration sparked by the attack, which involved a Sudanese refugee who has now been charged with attempted murder.

There lurks in the background of this abomination a whole regime of complicity. The wilfully oblivious technocrats who have overseen the withering of our borders. The spineless legal system that refuses to remove people who should not be here. The virtue-hoarding activist class that agitates for the right of every ‘asylum seeker’ to stay, because they cherish the spotlight of self-righteousness far more than they do the safety of working-class men and women. None of them wielded the knife, no; but all helped to pave the way for that reprobate’s presence in Belfast.
   Isn’t there now a case against officialdom of reckless endangerment?


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Unfortunately, the monstrosity that is the Obama Presidential Library is akin to an alien concrete cyborg spaceship that has crash landed into Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. An eyesore that speaks volumes about America’s rejection of beauty and of our great cultural past. For a former President to approve such a brutalist style of “art” is a national embarrassment. But that isn’t the worst outcome of this ugly disaster. Image

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Ron Johnson’s COVID Report Reopens the Question They Buried: Healthy Athletes Dying on the Field  The people who asked hard questions about COVID vaccine safety were mocked, censored, and treated like cranks. Now Sen. Ron Johnson’s interim report says federal officials knew safety signals were being missed while the public was told to stop asking.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2026

How precious is your steadfast love, O God!

How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
    The children of mankind take refuge 
in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house,
    and you give them drink
 from the river of your delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
    in your light do we see light.
   -Psalm 36:7-9

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The Last Straw: They’re Stealing Elections in Real Time and Pretending It’s Normal  It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat.  Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one.


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New Jersey church under Cardinal Tobin celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ for eighth straight year  This is the eighth year that the parish, under the jurisdiction of Cardinal Joseph Tobin, has hosted the blasphemous event. In other years, the “Pride Mass” included rainbow flags hung in the church, women sitting in the sanctuary wearing pro-LGBT “love is love” shirts, and a gender-confused woman sharing her reflections from the pulpit. Image

Mass migration is making Europe more Islamic, and otherwise secular left-wing parties are encouraging this transformation.
   Does the pope really want to side with atheism and Islam against populism?
   What do conscientious Catholics do when the Holy Father signals they're wrong if they vote for socially conservative parties that also favor reducing immigration?

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The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents  Even as California-based tech companies have reached market capitalization of $1 trillion, its state and local governments have sunk to levels of incompetence associated with underdeveloped countries.
   California today “has the nation’s highest cost-of-living adjusted poverty rate, the highest levels of functioning illiteracy, and the worst housing affordability in the continental US,” writes Joel Kotkin, who has been chronicling California’s highs and lows for more than 40 years. “California increasingly resembles a neo-feudal state, where a handful of large companies drive the economy while the vast majority of workers endure high energy and housing costs, high taxes, and diminishing opportunity.” Image


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Low birth rates, chronic absenteeism, parental choice, homeschooling, and microschooling are driving rapid student losses in public schools.

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Supreme Court Tosses Biden-Era ‘Energy Efficiency’ Standards For Gas Appliances  The U.S. Supreme Court vacated and remanded a standing lower court ruling Monday regarding energy efficiency regulations on gas furnaces and water heaters from former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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The deeper agenda behind Trump’s Reflecting Pool glow-up   And that’s just one part of Trump’s ongoing “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” program, which has been methodically cleaning and repairing ornamental fountains throughout DC, some of which had been inoperative for decades.

   The formerly graffiti-covered and trash-filled Columbus Plaza fountain outside Union Station is now gleaming and functioning, as are fountains in Lafayette Park, Meridian Hill Park and more.  

   Well, Trump is a developer, and he likes things pretty — but there’s more to it than that. 
   By beautifying America’s capital city, Trump wants to encourage us to be proud of America itself.

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Monday, June 08, 2026

You who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ...

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.  -Ephesians 2:13-17

As Christians, we must maintain day in and day out that peace is not something to be achieved by our power. Rather peace is a gift of God that comes only by our being a community formed around a crucified savior—a savior who teaches us how to be peaceful in a world in rebellion against its true Lord.  -Stanley Hauerwas

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alifornia is notoriously slow at counting its ballots. In 2024, it took California until November 8 (three days after Election Day) to get just 70 percent of its ballots counted. Across all 50 states, the average share of the vote counted by that date was more than 95 percent, putting California squarely in last place. Rest assured, The Golden State did eventually hit that 95 percent mark … a full 10 days later. Image

All the craziness in the California election is drawing the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice. Multiple investigations have been launched. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said: “We will follow the evidence wherever it leads.” He promised to prosecute “any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.”


How does the third place candidate win the majority of late arriving ballots?


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O Brave New World...How Aldous Huxley anticipated Governor Kathy Hochul   A bill passed by the New York House and Senate just made it to the governor’s desk. She has ten days to sign it into law. The bill would require proceedings in state family court, child custody cases, and other domestic concerns scrap the words “mother” with the phrase “gestating parent” and “father” with “non-gestating parent.”
   This little piece of linguistic insanity is a sop to the pathetic coven of woke sexual exotics who place biology high up on their list of impermissible intrusions into their narcissistic claims of unfettered autonomy. The whole machinery of reproduction, with its tiresome “binaries” and static gender roles, is something they regard with a mixture of resentment and horror. Image

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The Needless Death of Henry Nowak – and Britain’s Shame  Examples of “two-tier policing” have been innumerable in recent years: the mass rape of English children by gangs of Muslim men over a period of decades has been ignored while decent citizens who have dared to discuss those monstrous offenses have been prosecuted for hate crimes; mobs of aggressive Muslims waving seas of Palestinian flags have been left alone by police even as individuals bearing a single Union Jack have been arrested; armies of Muslims have been allowed to block major thoroughfares with prayer rugs – an act of sheer aggression, not faith – while a single woman praying silently near an abortion clinic is taken into custody. And perhaps the most egregious instance of Britain’s two-tier policing has been the endless persecution of Tommy Robinson for daring to expose the long-term failure of authorities to properly deal with the so-called “grooming gangs.”

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US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists  The latest embarrassment for the UN group will likely lead to more calls for UNRWA to be formally classified as a terrorist organization

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Nigeria: Christians Are Being Hunted Like Sport   There is nothing covert about what is happening to Christians in Nigeria. The men carrying out these attacks are not hiding their intentions. They are broadcasting them.
   Survivors report that Islamist Fulani militants tell them directly, as they burn their homes and cut down their neighbors: “We will destroy all Christians.”
   That is not the language of a land dispute or a tribal conflict, no matter how many times the Nigerian government has tried to frame it that way. That is a religious extermination campaign, and it is being carried out in the open, with near-total impunity, while most of the Western world looks the other way.

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As the Largest Supply of Groundwater in the United States Vanishes, Farmers Are Deeply Concerned About What Is Next   Gigantic underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted all over the world, and once that water is gone it will take a very long time for it to come back. In fact, in some areas of the United States the recharge rate is less than an inch per year. That is a major problem, because more than half of the water that U.S. farmers use for irrigation comes from underground aquifers. What in the world are our farmers going to do once that water is gone?

The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs are heading toward a ‘system crash,’ experts warn The warning comes as seven Western states and the federal government struggle to agree on new rules for managing the shrinking river.

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Parents, Not Silicon Valley, Must Control What Enters Our Children’s Phones  Somewhere in America tonight, another parent will stumble upon something disturbing on their child’s smartphone—an unauthorized app, a questionable chat, or content no family would invite into their home. This scene plays out millions of times daily because Big Tech designed it that way: seamless access, endless engagement, and minimal friction for the youngest users.

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A COVID memoir... Americans are older, wiser, and still very, very angry   I was recently reminiscing about the COVID hoax. Not the virus; that was real. The hysteria surrounding it, which we now know to have been lies, and a power grab. Public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and politicians got to see how many Americans would put up with near-total infringement on their rights, and really, really didn’t want to give up their power. What they eventually discovered was: Americans hate them, won’t ever be fooled like that again, and absolutely distrust public health bureaucrats. They’ve always distrusted government.

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Saturday, June 06, 2026

If Our God Is for Us

 
If Our God Is for Us 
 Jordan Kauflin and Laura Story

Verse 1
If our God is for us, who can be against us?
His mighty power holds us firm
There is no one like Him, there is none before Him
If we are His, our way is sure

Verse 2
If our God is for us, He will always lead us
To paths of righteousness and hope
If it brings us goodness, He will not withhold it
For from His hand all blessings flow

Chorus
What shall we say, but “Hallelujah!”
For none can take us from His love
He won’t forsake the ones He died to save
Yes, our God is for us

Verse 3
If our God is for us, will He not defend us?
When Satan’s accusations roar
For the blood of Jesus has brought us freedom
He is our confidence alone

Bridge
No tribulation, trial or pain
Persecution, loss or gain
Struggle, battle, lie or shame
Can take us from His love

We know that neither death nor life
Nor angels, rulers, place or time
No pow’r of hell, no depth nor height
Can take us from His love

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It is the Lord who goes before you...

It is the Lord who goes before you.
He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. 
Do not fear or be dismayed.”   
-Deuteronomy 31:8

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Henry Nowak’s death is a sign of civilisational collapse   A dying teenager lay on the ground telling officers he had been stabbed and could not breathe. Yet according to the subsequent reports and bodycam footage, police initially treated him not as the victim but as the likely aggressor because his killer alleged that he had uttered a racial slur. The accusation itself appeared sufficient to shape the officers’ assumptions before they had established the most elementary facts of the scene.
   The horror of the case lies not only in the murder but in the sequence of priorities it revealed. In that moment, the possibility of verbal impropriety seemed to carry greater institutional weight than the visible collapse of a human being.


UK: Christian PCSO barred for questioning Islam wins legal settlement  A Christian former police community support officer has won a legal settlement from North Yorkshire Police after taking legal action when he was forced out of his role and permanently barred from policing for asking questions about Islam during mandatory diversity training.

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Turkey's hidden Christian past: Extraordinary discoveries are rewriting the story of early Christianity A series of remarkable archaeological discoveries across Turkey is reshaping our understanding of how Christianity evolved from a small persecuted movement into one of the world's most influential religions.
    From exceptionally preserved images of Christ to ancient churches, coded Christian messages and evidence of fierce resistance to Roman emperor worship, researchers are uncovering new clues about the faith's earliest centuries in the very region where Christianity first took root beyond the Holy Land. Image

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California Dethroned: Fortune 500 Crown Goes to Texas Billionaire Tax threat looms large as California businesses still fleeing the once Golden State.

AI Can Learn Violent Tendencies From Each Other  Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say.

Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread  In the wake of these developments, it’s important to note that the House Energy and Commerce Committee asserts there is evidence that “strongly suggests” China and other foreign adversaries are fueling campaigns opposing data centers to undermine the U.S. in the artificial intelligence race.

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Friday, June 05, 2026

God is love...

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.   -1 John 4:16-18

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Talarico has made a name for himself with his brand of progressive Christianity, a belief system that says God is non-binary, that the Bible permits abortion, and that the Ten Commandments are an act of violence, especially when displayed publicly.
   That whole 'Thou shalt not kill' thing must strike a nerve, given how radical Talarico is on abortion — he wants federally funded abortion clinics on public land — and that his church pays to take women out of state to obtain abortions.
   This is also why Talarico has to dehumanize the unborn, comparing them to tapeworms instead of human beings made in the image and likeness of God.


I used to be very careful to differentiate between the corrupt Democrat pols who lied their way into office, and the merely gullible and/or greedy Democrat voters who put them there.
   But in one election cycle, Democrat primary voters have (or likely soon will) choose a Nazi, a heretic, a sex freak, and yet another Islamist, over much more palatable candidates.
   That's on you, Dems — and I don't know who the hell you even are anymore.

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Pure, Cold Rage: What Henry Nowak’s Murder Says about the State of Britain in 2026...Britain’s elites built a system obsessed with policing bias; Henry Nowak’s death shows what happens when that obsession eclipses justice   Instead of taking the victim’s anguished cries seriously as he lay bleeding to death—“I’ve been stabbed”: “I don’t think you have, mate” (an actual exchange)—the police dragged him across the ground like a sack of garbage, handcuffed him, and paid more attention to a mark on the killer’s face and a dislodged turban.
   And then it was too late.

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When Apostate Pastors Make Disciples: The Dangerous Legacy of Progressives  During a Sunday service at Rigby's church, congregants were asked what came to mind when they heard the name of the Apostle Paul. The responses included "villain," "homophobic," and "he's a jerk."
   Imagine that for a moment.
   The Apostle Paul was not merely an influential Christian thinker. He was chosen by Christ, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and responsible for much of the New Testament. Through his writings, God gave the church foundational doctrines concerning salvation, grace, sanctification, marriage, church leadership, and Christian living.
   Yet in this congregation, one of Christianity's greatest apostles is openly ridiculed. Image

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The Media Wants To Know Why Men Are Walking Away From Liberal Society?    The idea of "toxic masculinity" is a woke feminist fallacy; a creation meant to shame men for their natural behaviors, their normal biological roles and the inherent ways they deal with the world.  The important thing to remember is that feminism has not been about equality for decades.  Women have had social equality and legal superiority over men in the west for some time now. 
   Rather, feminism is about keeping men in line and under control to prevent any rebellion against the liberal epoch.  After all, women have no inherent power.  They gain power by convincing men to give their power away through government.  By convincing men to behave in the name of modern civility.

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Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds A silent war is playing out across rural America.
   Residents are packing themselves into local county meetings in incredible numbers and calling on their representatives to oppose gargantuan data center projects, developments that could cause electricity prices to spike, drain water supplies, and generate copious amounts of noise.

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