Monday, March 02, 2026

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you...

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
    my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
    beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
    in your name I will lift up my hands.
   -Psalm 63:1-4

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Trump’s tactics typically have two characteristics: He goes after his opponents’ source of sustenance (usually that means money, but not always) and he accomplishes more than one thing at a time. In neutralizing Iran, Trump accomplishes a lot of things. First, of course, he neutralizes a major hostile regional threat.
   But second, he cuts the ground out from under what’s left of Hamas and Hezbollah. He also shuts off the pipeline of cash that was being used to bribe politicians and journalists in Europe (the Iranians have basically admitted that they do that) and support various NGOs and the like that serve anti-American and anti-Israeli ends. Iran has been a major sponsor of terrorism around the world; that will end.

Here's the Geopolitical Mistake Iran Made That Only Led to More Nations Lining Up Against Them  So far, this calculus seems to have backfired. Gulf states, rattled by volleys of Iranian drones and missiles targeting their hotels, ports and airports, are concluding the Iranian peril must be confronted. Rather than seeking an offramp, the prevailing mood in the Gulf—at least for now—is that the Iranian regime can’t be allowed to get away with this unprecedented onslaught on its neighbors.

New York Times Slammed for ‘Soft Touch‘ Obituary of Iranian Supreme Leader  Social media blasted the newspaper for failing to call the cleric a terrorist in the headline or first paragraph, where the paper wrote the cleric was known for “brutally crushing dissent at home, and maintaining unswerving hostility to the United States and Israel.”

What happened yesterday is not the end of the story.  The fury unleashed by Israel and America is just in its opening phase. It is unclear how many casualties lie ahead. But so far, Trump’s actions in this crisis confirm something I have been saying for some time: that Trump is a great man of history. I am pleased that the red-pilled activist Bill Ackman agrees.  “President Donald Trump,” he wrote on X, “will go down in history as one of the greatest and most consequential presidents we have ever had.” Does that sound odd? Donald Trump? The real-estate mogul and reality TV host?  It may sound odd.  It doubtless bothers the well-coiffed in Harvard Yard, CNN, and the Bulwark.  But it is the truth. The New York Times will not like it, but Trump will occupy a spot alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan as one of our greatest presidents.

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Austin Shooter Naturalized Under Obama in 2013, Wore “Property of Allah” Sweatshirt  An FBI official confirmed in a news conference that the shooter in Austin’s mass shooting had materials that “were indications of a potential nexus to terrorism.”

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Something could always happen to reverse the ongoing precipitous decline in fertility rates, although it is unclear what that might be. Certainly the decline appears to be resistant to government supplied financial incentives and child care assistance. However, a potential alternative does present itself in current real-world data. Certain religious groups are still having babies. Image

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Saturday, February 28, 2026

Christ Our Wisdom

 
Christ Our Wisdom 
Sovereign Grace Music

Christ our wisdom, we are humbled
When You hide Your ways from us
You have purposes unnumbered
Each one good and glorious 
Help us trust when we grow weary 
Free us from our anxious thoughts 
Give us grace to see more clearly  
You are God and we are not    

Christ our wisdom, be our gladness
When we fail to understand
You ordain all joy and sadness
To fulfill Your perfect plan
Help us know You rule with power
Over every raging flood
In our most uncertain hour 
You are God and we are loved
 
Christ our wisdom, we will follow
Though the way ahead is veiled
As we journey through the shadows 
Grant us faith where sight has failed 
Help us cling to Your commandments 
Strengthened by Your faithful Word 
We will never be abandoned 
You are God and we are Yours  

Christ our wisdom we adore You
For the beauty of the cross
Once in foolishness we scorned You
But Your blood has ransomed us
Help us sing the endless mercies
Of Your humble heart to save 
Christ our wisdom, Christ our glory
You are God forever praised

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Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?
  The kings of the earth set themselves,
      and the rulers take counsel together,
      against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
  “Let us burst their bonds apart
     and cast away their cords from us.”

  He who sits in the heavens laughs;
      the Lord holds them in derision.
  Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
      and terrify them in his fury, saying,
  “As for me, I have set my King
      on Zion, my holy hill.”

  I will tell of the decree:
    The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
     today I have begotten you.
  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
       and the ends of the earth your possession.
  You shall break them with a rod of iron
      and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

  Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
       be warned, O rulers of the earth.
  Serve the Lord with fear,
       and rejoice with trembling.
  Kiss the Son,
       lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
       for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
 -Psalm 2

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during military strikes carried out Saturday by the United States and Israel, Reuters reported, citing Israeli officials.l Image

Here's the Reason Why President Trump Authorized Operation Epic Fury  A senior administration official said today that they believed Iran was preparing to potentially launch preemptive missile strikes, a factor that influenced President Donald Trump’s decision to initiate military action.
   “We had indicators that they intended to use it potentially, preemptively, but if not, if not simultaneous, against with any actions against them, immediately against us,” the senior administration official added. “And the president decided he was not going to sit back and allow America’s forces in the region to absorb attacks from conventional missiles.”

“Trump’s international strategy is becoming clearer”   Action by the US President is methodically stripping China and Russia of their partners.

FBI Raises Alert Nationwide After Strikes on Iran  The FBI’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams are on elevated alert nationwide, a bureau official told Fox News’ Peter Doocy Saturday.
   The bureau did not immediately elaborate on how long it will remain in effect.

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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Blessings in disguise...

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. -Hebrews 12:11

Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when He denies:
Afflictions, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.
   -Brother Lawrence Image

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JD Vance Reveals What He Saw From Democrats During the State of the Union Speech That Most Viewers Didn't   While many viewers saw Democrats refusing to stand or applaud the president’s list of first-year accomplishments, Vance said something else was unfolding in the chamber: Democratic members were glancing at one another, seemingly looking for cues, or permission, before reacting to the presidents words.


SOTU Poll Stunner: A 27-Point Gain in Voters Who Think We’re Moving in the Right Direction  For voters, that’s the long-term takeaway: Republicans stood for American citizens, whereas Democrats stood for illegal immigrants — and absolutely nothing else. They didn’t stand for Olympic champions, war heroes, voter ID laws, lowering the crime rate, grieving mothers, or even vulnerable children. It was a helluva contrast.
   In the long-term takeaway battle, Trump won in a landslide.

How the Left Is Brainwashing America, Featuring Buck Sexton  Today’s instantaneous communications, he argues, make mass hysterias of history like the Salem witch trials seem trivial. “Those were mass hysterias, but they weren’t able to be broadcast over radio and shared with pamphlets to millions of people at once,” Sexton notes.
   The scares and forced masking during COVID inspired him to look into this phenomenon. “COVID was a mass rape of the American mind. We were lied to. We were forced to do absurd, insane things,” he tells Schweizer and Eggers. “And I wanted to get to how do they do this to you? The two core pillars of menticide are confusion and degradation.”

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Cowardice Masquerading as Virtue: Cleveland 1971 and Europe 2026 -Dreher Today in America, in the aftermath of the Great Awokening, we have a new problem. The Great Awokening, which began around 2010 and lasted until Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, the media, universities, and all the institutions of American life taught young whites, especially white males, that they are uniquely evil. That they are what’s wrong with America. That their purpose in life is to be scapegoats for the failures of black America.

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Transitioning Away from Transgenderism...The transgender cultists are still with us, but there is mounting resistance  This perverse progressive craze has been with us for about 10 years and has caused irreparable harm to many young people. Lawmakers, primarily in blue states, have been prime enablers. For example, Washington passed SB 5599 in 2023, allowing the state to legally hide runaway children from their parents if the parents don’t consent to their child’s “gender transition.” The law also applies to children from other states who may come to the state for such procedures not available to them at home, cementing Washington as a “sanctuary state” for runaway teens.


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The Smear, The Silence, and The Sword...How the Church and the Media Declared War on Faithful Christians  And in this strange new age, the faithful Christian — the man or woman who simply believes what the Church has always believed — is treated not as a citizen, not even as a misguided relic, but as a threat.
   Let us dispense with the euphemisms.

This is not misunderstanding.
This is not nuance.
This is not complex social evolution.

It is a coordinated cultural assault — carried out through language, through shame, through institutional intimidation — against those who refuse to bow to the gods of the age. Image

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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

He made you for an end...

"There is not a spider hanging on the king's wall but hath its errand; there is not a nettle that groweth in the corner of the churchyard but hath its purpose; there is not a single insect fluttering in the breeze but accomplisheth some Divine decree; and I will never have it that God created any man, especially any Christian man, to be a blank, and to be a nothing. He made you for an end. Find out what that end is; find out your niche and fill it. If it be ever so little, if it is only to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, do something in the great battle for God and truth." -C.H. Spurgeon

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Pride and Petulance: Trump Touts American Triumph as Democrats Seethe  Trump was relatively disciplined throughout. He mostly stuck to the script rather than engage the hecklers, depriving them of the attention they craved. He took a long pause and milked the moment after inviting lawmakers to stand if they agreed that "the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens." Democrats stayed in their seats, obviously. "You should be ashamed of yourself," he scolded.

This Moment of the State of the Union Just Lost the Democrats the Midterms  Republicans have been accusing Democrats of prioritizing illegals over American citizens for years, and Trump handed them an opportunity to prove them wrong, and they didn’t take it.
   They couldn't do it, so they handed Republicans a huge gift for the upcoming midterm elections. Trump baited them, and they took the bait. He knew they wouldn’t stand, and now the whole country knows that the only people Democrats stand for are illegal immigrants.

Omar and Tlaib: The un-American representatives for Somalia and the Palestinians Both have repeatedly proven, but never so vividly as last night, that they were practicing a bit of taqiyya (Islamic deception) when they took this oath. Their loyalty is not to the Constitution and the laws of the United States. By extension, this means that they have no loyalty to America or Americans. They are the face of jihad, sitting in the U.S. Congress.

There is something terribly, horribly wrong with the current crop of Democrats  Who are these people, heckling Trump, and refusing to stand for America's heroes


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Top AI Firm Says Chinese Labs Stole U.S. Tech Using 24,000 Fake Accounts   The incident highlights vulnerabilities in U.S. AI export controls and raises concerns over China leveraging stolen AI capabilities for military and surveillance purposes.

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Trans kindergarten teacher identifying as ‘wolf’ fired after parents raise complaints...Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirms dismissal of substitute teacher who allegedly wore collar and animal tail at Fort Bragg elementary school Parents first raised concerns about the teacher's inappropriate attire to administrators in early 2025, according to Liberty Counsel. Mothers of pre-K and kindergarten students reported that the teacher was allowed to identify as a female, ask students to address the teacher by female pronouns in the classroom and dress in "tight shirts and tank tops, above-the-knee skirts and combat boots while wearing a BDSM dog collar with dog tags representing sexual fetishes."

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Canada is facing a tough week. Their men’s and women’s hockey teams both lost to the USA in overtime and didn't secure gold medals. Additionally, many Canadians are now stranded in Mexico following a violent attack by drug cartels. Their situation is worsened by media campaigns discouraging Canadians from visiting Florida, citing issues with ‘Trump, bad.’

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Chromebooks are expensive and destructive: Get them out of schools  Author and former teacher Auron MacIntyre said the Chromebooks facilitate cheating, copy pasting, watching pornography on school time, playing video games, and watching movies when they should be working. Cyber bullying was also a bigger issue once Chromebooks came into it, meaning that kids could be getting bullied while an entire class sat silently and teachers wouldn't even know it

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'Snow Hurricane' Energy Reality Check: You Can’t Heat Homes With NetZero Promises  So as the “snow hurricane” buries airports, freezes lakes, and turns highways into luge tracks, all the evidence suggests that when temperatures crash, people do not crave “NetZero utopia,” they crave heat.

After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms. Wisconsin Can’t  While CO2 has not endangered residents of Wisconsin, the climate-based policies have. Residential electricity prices continue climbing even as household consumption falls. In fact, Xcel Energy and Alliant Energy have requested cumulative rate hikes approaching 19% over the next two years. Some in Waukesha County are already facing “dramatically higher” energy bills, double from just months earlier. Under Wisconsin’s current policies, this is sure to continue. In fact, Wisconsin is hurtling toward an energy crisis. The latest long term reliability assessment projects the state will enter “high-risk” territory for blackouts by 2028.

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What is a starling murmuration and why do they form? 

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Monday, February 23, 2026

Charity is a paradox, like modesty and courage...

“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. -Luke 6:32-35

Charity is a paradox, like modesty and courage. Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things—pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.  -GK Chesterton

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Netherlands Allows Euthanizing Newborn Babies, Canada Could be Next  Yet the Netherlands already permits euthanasia for newborns under the Groningen Protocol. In such cases, doctors may authorize euthanasia if the infant is deemed to be experiencing unbearable suffering with no hope of improvement, and with parental consent. However, such assessments are inherently subjective.
   Notably, the nature of this debate is not limited to Canada and the Netherlands. Globally, an increasing number of national policies are permitting the intentional ending of lives for the medically vulnerable – those who cannot advocate for themselves. The underlying justification is often malleable, serving as a standard used to permit the termination of life both before and after birth.


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Not so toxic: Masculinity’s comeback makes America thrive  Now, with Trump’s administration working to turn all that around, no surprise they’re accused of running a cult of masculinity.
   Well, it’s certainly a sharp contrast to Biden administration figures like “Rachel” Levine, the distinctly unhealthy-looking transwoman who headed the Public Health Service.
   Or such clearly non-combat-ready figures as former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who looked as if the greatest threat they’d pose to our enemies would have been sitting on them. Image

How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed?
   There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity.
   The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (i.e., the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample funding, and public awareness of the impending danger.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, like other California politicians, including Rep. Ro Khanna, have tried to exploit the Epstein case, but California Democrats have paved the way for the release of abusers who make Epstein look like Mother Teresa, monsters who abused little girls and boys, who used knives and weapons, who made them bleed and locked up victims for years

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 Dog reunites with N.J. owner after 43 days lost in Colorado

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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life...

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. -Ephesians 2:8-10

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee. -Thomas à Kempis

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NYC Mayor Mamdani Breaks 86-Year Tradition, Freezes Out Catholic Clergy — Dolan Is ‘Ticked Off’  Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the new mayor excluded Catholic clergy from his Jan. 1 inauguration and then skipped the installation of Archbishop Ronald Hicks, Dolan’s successor. Dolan did not downplay what that meant.

Mamdani blasted for requiring 5 forms of ID to shovel snow while DSA opposes voter ID  Lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani opposes requiring ID’s to vote — but mandates no less than five forms of identification in order to shovel snow.
   The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to register as an emergency snow shoveler, an applicant must provide two small photos sized 1-1.5 square inches, two original forms of ID plus copies, and their social security card.

NYPD officers harassed, doxed by agitators in Mamdani's NYC   Activists have been recording exchanges with officers and uploading them online in a manner similar to anti-ICE activists who confront federal immigration agents.

Mayor Mamdani’s spending frenzy will lead NYC into a rapid decline  Truth be told, I thought it would take at least one budget cycle for our socialist boy-wonder mayor to implode in a sea of idiocy over how he plans to govern this city and how he intends to pay for it. 
   The fact that it’s happening even before his first budget is finished — with an absurd debate over raising taxes on rich people who are already leaving the city in droves or socking it to working-class homeowners through higher property taxes — is downright scary.

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So now in Britain, we have the authorities’ tacit acceptance of Sharia blasphemy laws. As Islamic law continues to advance in Britain, non-Muslims will find themselves increasingly subjugated. Many will convert to Islam simply to escape discrimination and social opprobrium, as many have already done.

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Gavin Newsom's California Government Has Paid Protestors Over $100 Million Some programs included in CHIRLA’s work are a high school leftist indoctrination program to produce “activists,” a college student mobilization program to push legislation for a mass amnesty, and a “Rapid Response” network with an aim to “shut down detention centers.”

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America’s Streets Are Filled With Poop, and Billions of Gallons of Untreated Wastewater Are Being Poured Into Our Lakes and Rivers   As the ranks of the homeless and the ranks of the drug addicts continue to expand, the number of people pooping in the streets will only continue to grow.
   Meanwhile, America’s crumbling pipes are pouring billions of gallons of untreated wastewater into our lakes and rivers.

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Upstate NY (Baldwinsville) teacher placed on leave after helping students form TPUSA-linked club   Dozens of students launched an online petition backing Fasulo, arguing she’s being unfairly targeted for her political and spiritual views. One student quoted in local reports described her as an influential mentor whose absence has left classmates puzzled and disappointed.

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Study: Pot Use Among Teens Brings Higher Risk of Psychotic Disorders  "This cohort study found that adolescent cannabis use was associated with increased risk of incident psychiatric disorders, particularly psychotic and bipolar disorders. These results could inform the development of clinical and educational interventions for parents, adolescents, and clinicians, as well as protective policies to prevent or delay adolescent cannabis use in the context of expanding cannabis legalization,” the study’s conclusions and relevance portion stated.
    Upon reviewing the findings, Dr. Ryan Sultan, a Columbia University psychiatrist, told NPR, “This is very, very, very worrying.”

UK Puberty Blocker Trial Finally Halted Over Significant Safety Concerns  A shocking NHS-supported trial has now been suspended following officials’ warnings of “significant” long-term harms to young people. The controversial plans aimed to give puberty blockers to children as young as eight-years-old, but the UK’s medicines regulator has finally stepped in to stop it, citing major safety fears.

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

O Blessed Assurance...

 
Blessed Assurance 
CityAlight

All my attempts to be satisfied
Were vain and empty
Until the moment you rescued me
And your love filled me

My soul sings
Now my soul sings

What blessed assurance
I’ve found in you
I’ve found in you
I won’t be shaken I will not be moved
How steadfast your strong hand
Is keeping me
Is keeping me
I won’t be shaken I will not be moved
Oh blessed assurance

No other love that I’ve ever known
Compares to you God
No other love that I’ve ever found
Has done what you’ve done

Ever my anchor
Ever my strength
Ever my portion
And all I need

Ever my healing
Ever my hope
Ever the truth that leads me home
That leads me home

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