Wednesday, September 02, 2026

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us...

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. -1 John 3:16-18

Give us love, sweetest of all gifts, which knows no enemy. Give us in our hearts pure love, born of your love to us, that we may love others as you love us. O most loving Father of Jesus Christ, from whom flows all love, let our hearts, frozen in sin, cold to you and cold to others, be warmed by this divine fire. So help and bless us in your Son. -Anselm

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192 House Democrats Refuse to Condemn Socialism as Party Scrambles to Avert DSA Civil War  It is not surprising whatsoever that nearly every House Democrat voted against a Republican-led resolution condemning socialism, giving Republicans fresh campaign material for the upcoming midterm elections amid the rise of the cancerous Democratic Socialists of America within the increasingly unhinged left-wing party.

Why the DSA’s agenda actually promises misery for all  The Democratic Socialists of America are proving an old principle of politics: You can win a lot of votes by promising “free stuff” — and not worrying if you could possibly deliver.
   Analyst Adam Michel of the free-market Cato Institute just tallied up the DSA’s agenda, and guess what: “The entire wealth of the richest Americans, plus every dollar of corporate profit and maximum top income tax rates” fails to pay for the socialist program.

Dad of Girl Paralyzed by Illegal Alien Rejects Dems’ Fake Empathy  The father of a girl who is suffering lasting physical debilitation thanks to a drunk illegal alien truck driver told Democrat lawmakers to spare him the fake empathy, given that they continue to defend and praise foreign criminals just like the one who injured his little girl.

400,000 California Voters Didn't Provide Any ID at Registration  Because the state of California allows people to register online without providing any proof of identity, anyone could register to vote and under any name. Hundreds of thousands of people have done just that, and it once again raises the question of just how solid Democrat control in California would be without fraud.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a serious radical Muslim using communism to advance the cause of Allah. If any lie he tells advances the cause of Allah, it’s fine because the end always justifies the means. It allows Zohran to parade around in gay marches with his frozen smile. In Christianity, deceit and manipulation are sins. Image

The Rollout of Mamdani's Universal Childcare Program Has Been a Socialist Trainwreck  One provider reportedly took out a reverse mortgage on her house, which will kill two socialist birds with one stone: free childcare and she'll no longer own property. So good work, Mamdani.

Mamdani Locked in Legal Battle With NYC Teacher Union That Endorsed Him Mamdani turns on New York City teachers union with lawsuit blocking pay raises for educators.

Federal Judge Blocks New York From Enforcing $75 Billion Climate Superfund Law   A federal judge ruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to impose an estimated $75 billion in charges on carbon-emitting companies for allegedly causing climate damage between 2000 and 2018.

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What We Never Learned From 9/11: First we learned to love our killers. Then we learned to hate ourselves  After 19 Muslim terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, the most sensible thing would have been to close the borders and keep out the people most likely to carry out attacks.
   25 years later and with hundreds more dead and wounded in Islamic terrorist attacks since then, we’ve done the exact opposite and allowed the Muslim population to more than double from 1.8 million to 4.5 million. In New York, the epicenter of the attacks, the insurgent Muslim population shot up from 400,000 to over 700,000 so that New York City is now run by an Islamist politician. Image

DSA Endorses Streamer Who Said ‘America Deserved 9/11’ Days Before 25th Anniversary  The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has defended far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who previously said “America deserved 9/11,” and endorsed him as “our streamer,” just days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which left thousands of Americans dead across New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

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Canada: Century-Old Church Torched in Suspected Anti-Christian Attack    The destruction of the Saint-Simon Church is likely to intensify concerns over the security of Christian churches in Canada and increase demands for tougher penalties against those who deliberately target them. Politically, the incident could deepen partisan tensions over the scale of anti-Christian violence and whether the federal government has done enough to protect churches and Christians generally.


U.S. Officials: Chinese Shipping Giant Uses Cargo Ships to Spy on Military Communications  China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO has secretly equipped commercial vessels with sophisticated technology to collect military communications near the United States and other countries, according to senior Trump administration officials.

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Just 2.6 percent of these students who used AI “against instructor permission” said they paid any price for their offenses—which, on the whole, is pretty good odds for anyone who is tempted to cheat.
   For those inclined to break the rules, “playing the odds” is hardly an unusual strategy. It’s the corrupt cost-benefit analysis of fare evaders, speeding drivers, and tax cheats. It treats community rules not as common obligations but as opportunities for risk assessment. In the face of some illicit benefit, the question is not one of right and wrong, but of the likelihood of punishment.

Delayed Study From Pro-Trans Researcher Finds Puberty Blockers Don’t Help Kids The data is public. The risks are real. The responsible path is clear: Stop funding these treatments for minors.

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UK Humiliation: First it Was the Women and Girls, Now They're Coming for the Flags  Why would Birmingham ban the flags? In theory, it's for "public safety." Apparently, the religion of rapey-stabby is alleging that the flags make them feel "unsafe."

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Tuesday, September 01, 2026

"And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge..."

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.   -Ephesians 3:14-19 Image

Paul says: “The love of Christ passeth knowledge.” It is like the blue sky into which you may see clearly, but the real vastness of which you cannot measure.   -Robert Murray M’Cheyne

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Iran kills, imprisons dozens of Christians as persecution rises   Iran has killed at least 33 Christian ministers and detained more than 130 others tied to an underground church movement in recent months as the government intensifies its persecution of Christians, according to a Texas ministry that supports house churches in the country.

Canadian Doctors Promote Plan to Euthanize Newborn Babies  A Quebec physicians’ group is again promoting euthanasia for newborn babies, saying euthanasia can be an “appropriate treatment” for infants with severe disabilities or malformations even though Canadian law still forbids the practice and a baby cannot consent.

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Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism-VD Hanson   Yet our progressive-regressive modern West is now suddenly beginning to resemble the medieval age—with one important caveat: after centuries of so-called “progress,” we should know better.
   Our mounting urban filth, dangerous streets, and resurgent diseases are juxtaposed with brilliant revolutions in artificial intelligence, bioengineering, robotics, satellite technology, spaceflight, and cancer research. Image

Democrats Openly Admit They Don’t See Unlimited Illegal Immigration As A Problem  Immigration isn’t just a crime issue. It’s an issue about the strain on schools, hospitals, housing markets, and resources and most importantly, it’s about national unity and cohesion. Despite Murphy’s insistence that Trump was creating a “fake” problem, having millions of foreigners is extremely dangerous to the country.
   As I’ve previously written, mass migration “is a cultural wrecking ball.”

Sean Duffy: Feds Shut Down 270 Truck Driving Schools After 239 Deaths  Duffy went on to state that there have been 239 people who have died on American roadways in correlation “with someone who was not proficient in the English language.”

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul Dons Hijab for Event at Muslim Organization This is nothing more than pandering, and it’s an utter disgrace. Image

After Historic Failure, Congress Made Few Changes To Intelligence Community Oversight, Report Reveals   Following one of the biggest intelligence failures in U.S. history, the September 11, 2001, attacks, an independent commission recommended Congress strengthen its oversight of the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies — but a new retrospective report reveals that never happened.

$1,400,000 From Arizona governor Democrat Katie Hobbs Coffers Suddenly Vanishes Into Thin Air Without Trace Or Explanation   More than $1.4 million in small-dollar contributions disappeared. Over 46,000 instances of contributors who are either “not employed” or “unemployed.” This isn’t exactly surprising coming from a governor whose tenure has been defined by scandal.

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Monday, August 31, 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.
       -Psalm 116:5-7

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"The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Sir Winston Churchill, October 22, 1945

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." — Sir Winston Churchill, May 28, 1948
   These two quotes from Sir Winston Churchill simplify the Marxist economic model of socialism. The leftists embrace a belief that they can provide an equality of blessings; they call it equity. It is an unachievable goal, but it seeks to capitalize on ignorance and one of the seven deadly sins, envy.

Democrats’ Love Of Socialism Is Nothing New, But Their Embrace Of Communism Is “How could average Americans of a supposedly mainstream political party throw their lot in with a creed that’s responsible for more human misery and poverty in the world than any other?” we asked. “It boggles the mind. Socialism, and its evil twin, communism, murdered well over 100 million people during the last century, a scale of slaughter unmatched in human history.”

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CAIR Forces Maryland School Board Member to Submit to Islamic Blasphemy Rules, Then Demands a Mosque Visit for 'Re-Education'  A woman on a public school board in Maryland posted one line about Sharia and women. Within days Maryland CAIR demanded a recantation, ran her through a packed board meeting, extracted an apology, and scheduled a mosque visit so she could be “educated.”
   A foreign Islamic terrorist organization made her submit on U.S. soil.

Britain’s new guide for asylum seekers raises an old question: Should newcomers adapt to their host country, or should the host country adapt to them.

James Talarico Agreed With a Podcaster Who Called Christians 'Mean,' 'Villains'  Talarico has made many shocking religious statements, such as claiming that Islam shaped his faith as much as Christianity, quoting a Gnostic “gospel” to claim that Jesus was a feminist who supported transgender ideology, and asserting that God is “non-binary.” He seems to be a professional heretic.

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X Takes Down 200,000 Suspected Chinese Accounts in Influence-Operation Crackdown  China attempted to influence data center debate. Meanwhile, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says his agency successfully blocked a Chinese hacking attempt.

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Tish Got Caught Red-Handed: Prosecutor’s Email Alleging a Trump Hunt Was Deleted From State Servers A prosecutor inside New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D) office has accused his own bosses of turning the state’s law-enforcement machinery into a political weapon to hunt President Trump and his associates. Image

The Department of Homeland Security stated that New York released nearly 7,000 undocumented immigrants with active ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detainers rather than transferring them into federal custody.
   Federal reports say these individuals had records or pending charges involving assault, weapons offenses, sexual predatory offenses, and homicides.


There’s something big the mainstream media don’t want to tell you about these disruptive and dangeorus events.

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California Democrats Embrace Failure–What Can Republicans Do?   Solutions are not their concern. Virtue-signaling rules the day, and the determined push by brainwashed Democratic voters for diversity, equity, and inclusion as the primary goo


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RFK Jr. Exposes the Ugly Reason America Fell Behind Europe in Restricting the Transing of Kids "I think it was politicized issue and there were people making huge amounts of money," Kennedy told her. "A lot of the medical centers were making billions and billions of dollars on these surgeries, and they were falsifying the science and making it look like there was some benefit over the long term."


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Sweden Hit the Brakes on the Digital Classroom. Maybe We Should Ask Why   Sweden is putting books, handwriting, and human attention back at the center of education—and reminding the rest of us that technology should serve children, not master them.

Academia, as it is currently constituted, is incompatible with the societal need for civics and humanities “education.

TX High Schoolers Could Soon Be Subjected to 'Woke' Finance Course That Promotes 'Racial Justice'  “…in reality, NGPF’s curriculum is a vessel for socialist propaganda and woke ideology that rejects the American notion of equality.”

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Saturday, August 29, 2026

God is our refuge and strength..."Psalm 46"

"Psalm 46" 
The Corner Room 

 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
Though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its swelling.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
He utters his voice, the earth melts.

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our fortress.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
How he has brought desolations on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
He burns the chariots with fire.

“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our fortress.

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Humble yourselves, therefore...

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.   -1 Peter 5:6-11

If you think to build a high house of virtues, lay first a deep foundation of humility.  -Augustine

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Friday, August 28, 2026

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven...

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
    and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 

I acknowledged my sin to you,
    and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 
           -Psalm 32:1-5

The grandest fact under heaven is this—that Christ by his precious blood does actually put away sin, and that God, for Christ’s sake, dealing with men on terms of divine mercy, forgives the guilty and justifies them, not according to anything that he sees in them or foresees will be in them, but according to the riches of his mercy which lie in his own heart.  -CH Spurgeon

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Nepal-Tibet flood live updates: Rescue efforts resume after being halted over fears of renewed flooding   At least 579 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 are missing, Nepal police said. The State Department says 90 Americans are unaccounted for in Nepal and China.

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Even in not very holy societies, religious values can permeate the people. One does not have to be a religiously observant person to know not to steal, not to lie, not to mistreat others. But as we move generation after generation away from religious foundations and into some type of moral relativism, society loses its trust and becomes reactive. Some professors asked college students a while back about morality, and most said that it was each to his own.


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A Top FBI Official's Remarks About Running a Secret Government Are Now More Chilling  Piece it all together, and the FBI was turned into a political police force for liberal America. It started in 2015, accelerated during the 2016 election, and progressed like a cancer since then. It shielded the Clinton and Biden families, let Swalwell’s peculiar intersects with Fang Fang slide, and then went all-out to destroy Donald Trump.

FBI Followed Catholic Priests, Continued Richmond Memo Work After Removal Order: DOJ Report Finds   A new Justice Department report reveals that FBI personnel opened investigations into two Catholic priests, conducted surveillance tied to the Richmond Catholic Memo, and continued revising the memo after headquarters ordered it deleted.

 Satanic Planet, a “band” of the co-founder of The Satanic Temple, released Wednesday a “music” video featuring a woman performing a satanic ritual abortion inside a Hobby Lobby bathroom.
   The disturbing video shows a tattooed woman, Martina Rinaldi, walking into a Hobby Lobby store and alternates the footage with snapshots of store items referencing Jesus for dramatic effect. Satanic screams from the band of TST co-founder Lucien Greaves blare in the background.

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Trump Called It: X Uncovers Massive Chinese Bot Farm Targeting U.S. Data Centers  According to X, about 200 accounts within the bot farm network were posting claims that data centers drive up household electricity prices and put excessive strain on the power grid. Some of the accounts, ironically, posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators getting rich while ordinary American citizens were stuck paying the bill.

If Sharia were simply benign religious law, these Sharia courts would be no problem. But to take just one of the many ways in which Sharia and Western law contradict one another, the Qur’an directs men to “beat” women “from whom you fear disobedience.” (4:34)

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, revealed last month that a rogue bot had broken out of its IT system to gain internet access as it attempted to steal the answers to a test it was asked to complete.

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Canada Conservatives Push Back on Carney’s Economic War with U.S. Smith pointed out that Canada lacks the strategic oil reserves of the United States, so putting heavy tariffs on Canadian oil would “bring the economies of Ontario and Quebec to a grinding halt.”


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Former inmate says male prisoners are getting ‘bottom surgery’ to stay in women’s prison     As Warmbo explained, once biological male inmates have sex-change surgeries, they’ll likely remain at Shakopee.
   “They’re doing this because they’re afraid that when these new laws go into effect that they’re gonna get sent back to men’s prison. So they’re doing this so that they can guarantee that they can stay in a women’s prison,” Warmbo said, referring to the federal push to protect women’s spaces.

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

In this you rejoice...

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. -1 Peter 1:6-7

Faith always means helplessness. In many cases it means: I can do it with a great deal of trouble, but another can do it better. But in most cases it is utter helplessness; another must do it for me. And that is the secret of the spiritual life.  -Andrew Murray Image

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President Trump Declares National Emergency to Protect U.S. Power Grid  The Executive Order highlights the risks of foreign interference in critical infrastructure, including sabotage, unauthorized access, and potential catastrophic effects on the U.S. economy and defense systems. It empowers the Secretary of Energy to set conditions for the continued operation of existing equipment and to identify equipment posing national security risks.

The DSA’s Energy Policy Will Annihilate America’s Workers  The DSA’s energy policy can be summarized in three words: Green New Deal (GND).

US Sanctions Foreign Tech Group For Providing Infrastructure For Left-Wing Domestic Terror The A/I Collective website is open about its desire for unrest and the destruction of Western civilization.

Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America    At some point, the bill comes due. America has third-world levels of debt, and the reality is, it can’t go on forever. This year alone, the federal government will spend in the ballpark of 25% more than it brings in, and it’s been going on like that for almost a decade.
   Make no mistake, communists like Mamdani, AOC, and El-Sayed are simply executing the Cloward, Piven, and Zinn playbook. The mistake they make is that they think it will lead to some “socialist” nirvana. It won’t. It will lead to Armageddon. And the sad part of it is, Cloward, Piven, and Zinn told us what they were doing for decades. We should have listened.


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Live updates: Massive flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border leaves nearly 1,000 missing, including U.S. tourists    At least 359 people have been killed and nearly 1,000 more are missing after catastrophic floods swept through towns and valleys along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise.
    More than 500 foreigners from 32 countries are among those still unaccounted for in the rugged mountainous region, which is popular with pilgrims and trekkers. Screenshot

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What Lindsey Clancy’s defenders have revealed about American women Once upon a time, this nation cherished its nuclear families, its teaching of our actual history and its reverence for life and the liberty we took for granted.  No one “took a knee” when the Star Spangled Banner was played. Mobs of juveniles were not raiding small grocery or liquor stores every night in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago or New York City. Innocent citizens were not being murdered on subways.  But with the invasion of 12 million to 20 million migrants from third world failed states our American culture has been polluted, the obvious consequence is the disruption of what was once a relatively ideologically cohesive country.  
   And now we have mothers defending a mother who murdered her own three babies.

‘Feminist’ Palestinian Org on Campuses Fueling Virulent Jew-Hate  The dangerous and harmful propaganda that the Palestinian Feminist Collective and Progressive International promotes fuels the Globalize the Intifada jihadist movement as it aggressively plants, nurtures and advances virulent antisemitism and the hatred of Zionists, and damages American interests under a faux banner of “feminism” and “social justice.”

Over the past five decades, participation in protests and demonstrations advocating policies that destroy America’s culture and society has evolved into a full-time white liberal female occupation. Most of these protestors are 50+-year-old white women augmented by a vast number of vacuous, college-educated white women of all age groups who, together with their race-obsessed, college-educated black female counterparts, are mindlessly and, for many, unknowingly destroying American civilization.

New Study Shows What We've Already Known About Left-Wing Violence and Transgender Ideology “One of our study’s most interesting and perhaps shocking findings was that accepting gender ideology appeared to augment authoritarian attitudes on support for political violence,” Colin Wright, one of the researchers, told The Post.

The transgender movement continues to cause significant harm to many children, but there is now some pushback at the national level   It’s time for those of us who live in the real world to acknowledge the obvious fact that there are natural, physical differences between boys and girls and to demand an end to the chemical alteration of young people. Also, when girls compete in sports, they must compete against other girls. Anyone who says otherwise has a perverse and dangerous agenda that must be exposed, opposed, and quashed.

The New Religion of Anti-Speciesism Values Animals Above Humans  Species egalitarianism assigns the same moral weight to animals’ interests as to those of humans. The implications are that meat eating is morally wrong; saving animals is equal to saving humans; and ecosystems must be protected from human activity.

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The UK Is Finished: ‘Please do not rape and kill us’   Now the enlightened fools in the UK government are spending taxpayers’ money on printing pamphlets to give to these hordes from the third world, telling them if they don’t mind, maybe they can try to refrain from raping women and sexually assaulting children. Please. Pretty please.

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USAID report finds more than 100 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7  The agency referred a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative for debarment for allegedly receiving and holding civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023. Image

As Israel Evicts UNRWA, U.S. Confirms That a Corpse-Dragging October 7 Jihadi Was UNRWA  America has stopped funding UNRWA, but we should stop funding the UN altogether. It is an active sponsor of the most heinous terrorism.

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“Rather than narrowly target criminals, [automated license plate readers] collect troves of data on ordinary people’s movements and compile them in a database officers can freely access on demand. That has predictably led to widespread abuse, which will continue until we implement robust safeguards like a warrant requirement.

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Dolly Parton’s faith was hard to measure. But it was at the heart of her immeasurable legacy  Seeking assurance, Dolly started visiting an abandoned church with broken windows on a hill near her home. Graffiti covered the walls. A damaged piano remained inside. People used it for drinking and other activities that would have scandalized the congregation that once worshiped there. Dolly liked to go there anyway.
   One day she began praying Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd…” She recited the psalm as a prayer, and then something happened that she would remember for the rest of her life. Dolly described sensing God’s presence with a force that finally settled the question for her. Telling the story decades later, she said she’d found God there . . . and she’d also found Dolly Parton.

Barbara Walters did Dolly Parton a big favor that people in the 21st century just don’t understand.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial...

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. -James 1:12

God never strikes but in love, nor takes away save to give again. I pray Him to comfort you, to preserve your health, and to turn your heart wholly to Himself. Blessed is he who lives in faith, trusts to none save God, and uses this world as though he were already beyond it.    -François Fénelon

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A Disturbing New Poll — and Dennis Prager’s Warning for America  "Now, I told you that socialism is responsible for 100 million people being murdered—60 million alone in China. Oh, and by the way, Hasan, who campaigns with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Hasan, who is a popular podcaster, says that Mao is one of the greatest figures in human history. I am at a loss for words. The man was a monster. He was a barbaric, torturing tyrant monster who mass-murdered on a level unseen elsewhere."

Invasions, enslavement, and jihad are being rewritten as celebrations of diversity.

James Talarico Says He Hates Christianity. Why Do We Keep Calling Him Christian?   But the aspiring senator, who once called God nonbinary, previously explained in a 2021 podcast that “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity,” though he also noted that despite his misgivings at times, “I always get drawn back into it.”
   Those remarks were made during an interview with self-described “TransQueer, Latinx” activist theologian Roberto Henderson-Espinoza, whom Talarico described as a model for his faith.

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AI can help us in many ways, and used wisely it could bring great benefits. But it cannot kneel. It cannot yearn for God as the deer pants for the water; it cannot repent; it cannot commit; it cannot sacrifice. Those are the prerogatives of creatures who commune, weep, share, and hope. In the gospel, God commits to costly mutuality. By contrast, AI offers costless reciprocity.
   In view of these differences, how should Christians face the uncertain future of AI? With poise, hope, and realism. We seize the moment while imagination is still liquid. We resist the reduction of humanity to productivity. We count the sacrificial cost that makes our daily choices meaningful. And we cherish the mutuality that lies at the heart of our relationships with each other and with our Lord Jesus Christ.

In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

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"The UNICEF-led team’s presentation also revealed that Gaza now faces a new challenge: obesity and excess weight, which affect a combined 4 percent of children under the age of 5."

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America Goes to Pot: More Americans Smoking Marijuana Than Tobacco   In the survey, 17 percent of Americans said they use marijuana, a record matched from 2023. The number of Americans who said they smoke cigarettes was estimated to be around 11 percent. Other portions of the survey showed that 9 percent of those polled said they vape, and 4 percent use nicotine pouches. The number of people who smoke pot more than doubled from just 7 percent in 2013 to the current 17 percent.

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Parton was also an incredible philanthropist, donating millions to various causes, especially in the South. Her Imagination Library put books in the hands of countless kids, and she most recently donated to help Southeasterners recover from hurricanes in 2024. She was such a positive force for simply treating people well that she was a beloved figure on the right and the left.



 
 Dolly Parton Wrote a Song Just For Johnny

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