Friday, May 15, 2026

I sought the Lord, and he answered me...

I sought the Lord, and he answered me
   and delivered me from all my fears. 
Those who look to him are radiant, 
   and their faces shall never be ashamed. 
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him 
   and saved him out of all his troubles. 
The angel of the Lord encamps 
   around those who fear him, and delivers them. 
    -Psalm 34:4-7 Image

 O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring, we may seek, and seeking find Thee; and so finding Thee may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us. -St. Anselm

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Mass Worship Event ‘Rededicate 250’ Happening This Sunday in D.C.  Coming this Sunday, May 17, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., will be hosting an event titled “Rededicate 250” — our nation’s largest and most expansive worship service in a long time, designed to help the country spiritually prepare for its semiquincentennial this July 4.
    The all-day event, which kicks off at 9 a.m. just in front of the U.S. Capitol, will feature representatives from all 50 states praying for America. The special program has been planned and organized around three main themes or “pillars”...

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Not only are many American businesses deliberately offering job openings to foreign workers, but some companies are actually laying off their American employees in order to hire H-1B visa holders, according to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).
    “Programs like H-1B, L-1, F-1, and OPT are displacing U.S. workers, suppressing wages, and hollowing out our middle class. Fraud and abuse are rampant. American workers are losing, so who's winning? Answer: The ‘Visa Cartel’,” Schmitt declared in an X thread on May 13.

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'Unprecedented Threat:' Routine Maintenance Found an IED at an Alabama Dam The FBI bomb squad had to detonate the device, in what authorities are calling an "unprecedented threat.

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Kash Patel’s FBI Goes After the 764 Monsters Behind the Screens  Rothrock's warning pulls no punches: predators pose as friends, collect personal information, demand explicit images or videos, and use blackmail to force victims into worse acts. Some members livestream abuse, while others threaten swatting, doxxing, public humiliation, or harm to animals.

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Why did the world look away when Israeli women were raped?  That Hamas terrorists raped and sexually assaulted women and girls in Israel on 7 October 2023 was plain for all to see. On the very day of the pogrom, images beamed around the world – filmed by those carrying out the abuse – showed young women being carted off as hostages, either stripped half-naked or with blood stains on the seat of their trousers. But many chose not to see.

EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban If you fight Islamic terrorists, the EU will sanction you, but if you are the terrorists, it will welcome you over for a visit.


London: Imam Sentenced for Decade-Long Campaign of Rape and Abuse Against Women and Girls   Abdul Halim Khan, a former imam in East London, has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for sexually abusing seven women and girls.

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New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid  If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be maintained reliably. And then, if we are lucky, we can hope to achieve the energy utopia that has arrived in Cuba.

'A Slap in the Face:' Guess Where Zohran Mamdani Made Cuts to NYC's Budget Just yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was bragging about closing the city's budget deficit without cutting services. It's a lie, of course. He "closed" the deficit by delaying the city's pension payments and taking a bailout from Albany, which means he did it off the backs of working New Yorkers and not by "taxing the rich."
But it turns out there are some cuts he made, specifically to services for veterans, including events like parades. Veterans are calling it a "slap in the face."

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'They never told the public': Biden concealed fact FDA doctors linked child deaths to COVID shots  Details about pediatric fatalities following the government-ordered injections 'suppressed'

All that Leftist indoctrination takes time away from actual teaching, and — coupled with the massive learning loss from COVID-era lockdowns and remote learning — American students have seen a massive decline in their reading scores in the past decade.

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous...

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Keep yourselves in the love of God...

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.  -Jude 20-21

Prayer has everything to do with moulding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul’s experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.  -E.M. Bounds

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Texas Now Rolling Out Red Carpet for Businesses Fleeing New York  But there's a lesson here, assuming that the leftists who vote for people like Zohran Mamdani are capable of assimilating it; incentives matter. In all things, incentives matter. New York is incentivizing the wealthy, productive, and ambitious to leave. Texas is incentivizing them to come to Texas, to bring their businesses, their enterprise, their ambition with them. This will end well for Texas. For New York? Not so much.

Mamdani Balances City Budget With a Big Handout from Gov. Hochul   So how did he achieve this  miracle? Well, he asked mom for money. A lof of this is coming from Gov. Hochul. State taxpayers will now be giving billions more to New York City.


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Phone Call Used To Impeach Trump Over GA Election Was Illegally Recorded, Testimony Confirms   Newly released depositions confirm Federalist reporting that ‘Get Trump’ lawfare in Georgia was based on a misinterpreted and illegally recorded phone call.

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Inside the 300-page report Hamas hoped no one would uncover   More than two and a half years after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, a specially appointed Civil Commission on Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children published on Tuesday the most comprehensive report to date documenting the terror group’s systematic use of sexual violence, rape, and “kinocide” during the assault.

The ideal Islamic state thus has Muslims living on the backs of non-Muslims, while discriminating against the non-Muslims so severely that the host cannot indefinitely continue to support the parasite. And so Islamic states inevitably go into decline and have to wage more jihad to find more non-Muslims to support them.

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Seattle Teachers Union’s Brand-New President on Leave for Abuse Allegations  A Seattle teachers’ union just elected a new president who is reportedly on extended leave over allegations of abusing a student. It is difficult to fathom the depths of our public education system's corruption.

Here's Why a Catholic Counselor Is Suing the State of Oregon  And now, in Oregon, a Catholic counselor is suing the state after she was fined for not "blessing" a lesbian relationship.

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Eight-Year-Olds as Test Subjects: The NHS Has Crossed a Line No Civilised Nation Should Ever Cross   We’ve seen this story before. Tavistock lived off the same delusion – that you can override biology with ideology, that you can halt puberty without consequence, that children in distress can be steered into a medical conveyor belt and come out whole. The tragedy is that we already know the results. We know the bone loss. We know the cognitive decline. We know the infertility warnings. We know that once a child is put on blockers, 98 per cent go on to cross-sex hormones. We know the detransitioners, with their broken bodies and their unanswered questions. We know the whistleblowers who were ignored. And we know the evidence Cass uncovered – “remarkably weak” to the point of farce.

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Young people are returning to flip phones and ditching social media. Vinyl records are outselling CDs. Independent bookstores are crowded again. Young people are buying film cameras and carrying paper planners. Schools are banning smartphones from classrooms because teachers say students can no longer focus.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom 
and knowledge of God! 
How unsearchable are his judgments 
and how inscrutable his ways!

 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”
 “Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”

 For from him and through him and to him are all things. 
To him be glory forever. Amen.
 -Romans 11:33-36

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US sanctions Chinese firms assisting IRGC as Iran War looms large ahead of Trump’s China visit   China has been trying to prop up its Iranian partner amidst devastating U.S. strikes against the theocratic regime. It remains to be seen if this will be a central topic for Trump and Xi as they meet in China.

Mayor of Arcadia Eileen Wang Admits to Acting as Chinese Spy  Unsealed on Monday, the federal plea deal showed that Wang “agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to Arcadia City Council in November 2022,” per the New York Post...

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Virginia Democrats are holding off on replacing their entire Supreme Court The good news is that Virginia Democrats have tabled the idea of replacing all their Supreme Court judges. However, it’s not because they’ve gained wisdom. Instead, their reasons are purely pragmatic and still illustrate how radical the Democrat party has become.

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Study: Hundreds Of North Carolina Criminals Released During COVID Later Reoffended  “At least 3,500 convicts were released as part of a little-known settlement between Cooper’s administration and civil rights groups in February 2021 — and The Post fo und more than 600 of those later committed serious felonies like homicides, sex offenses, or other violent crimes,” the news outlet reported.
   This includes 18 prisoners “[who] have been charged with murder in the four years since.”

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Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds  An investigation has found that sexual and gender-based violence perpetrated during the October 7, 2023, massacre and atrocities by Hamas and other terror groups in Israel was systematic, widespread, and a key, calculated component of the brutal terror assault. Image

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The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act, which has now become law, requires all home-educating families in England and Wales to register their children with the local authority...
...The law is likely to have a disproportionate impact on Christian families, many of whom home-educate due to concerns about the teachings and influences their children will be exposed to in schools.

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness...

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.  And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. -Romans 8:26-27

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him. -O. Hallesby

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Ignoring Iran’s Expanding Proxy Network...There are moments in American foreign policy when the warning signs are flashing so brightly that failing to act becomes its own form of negligence Senator Ted Cruz and his fellow sponsors of S. 4063 are not engaging in political theater. They are responding to a gathering national security threat that too many in Washington have either underestimated or deliberately ignored for years: the growing cooperation between the Polisario Front and Iranian-backed terrorist networks operating across North Africa and beyond.
   The Senate should move quickly to advance this legislation.
   Not because it is politically convenient. Not because it fits neatly into the latest partisan narrative. But because the world has changed, and America’s enemies have changed with it.

Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Defender? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer   At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats?

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Britain's leaders have no navy. And no will.

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Widow of Assassinated Conservative Icon Tells Graduates: Get Married, Build Families, Live With Purpose   Erika Kirk: “Over time, your thoughts become your priorities and your priorities become your direction and your direction becomes unmistakably your life. And what you seek in life you will get. If you’re seeking the ugly, the conspiracy, the pain, you’ll find it. And if you’re seeking the good, the true, and the beautiful, you’ll find that as well.”

Christian Colleges Call New Federal Regulation an ‘Existential Threat’   The new rule portends a problem in particular for seminaries, theological schools, and Bible colleges at a time when clergy are aging and sometimes in short supply.
   By the government’s own estimate, 53 percent of bachelor’s degrees for religion and religious studies would be considered “failing” under this new metric. Those programs, which would not qualify for federal loans, are projected to have the highest failure rate of any undergraduate program.

TX Gov. Greg Abbott, Higher Education Coordinating Board Order Shutdown of Unauthorized Dallas Muslim University TexAM  There are also concerns that the school recruits Muslims and indoctrinates students.

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Yes, we are having fewer babies, and that’s for another post. We need more if we want a country that does not look like Europe. But more babies do not equal more public schools. There are a lot of reasons, but the most obvious is that any sane parent wants nothing to do with a school run by a teachers’ union run by Randi Weingarten. Or school districts marching on May 1st, rather than doing math problems.

According to documents obtained by Defending Education, Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS), a far-left school district surrounding Charlottesville, and which includes Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, has built its GenAI policy based around its “anti-racism” policy, which is inherently discriminatory against white students in favor of other races.


Transgender athlete AB Hernandez dominates three jumping events at California postseason track meet The long jump result separated the field. Hernandez posted 20 feet, 4 1/4 inches. The next closest finishers reached 19 feet, 1 1/2 inches and 18 feet, 7 inches.
   More than a foot separated first from second.


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Report warns of continued anti-Christian hostility across Europe during April  Among the most serious incidents highlighted were attacks on churches in Germany and Italy, a violent intrusion into a French church during Easter festivities, and assaults on Christians in Ireland and Spain.
  The report also documented repeated acts of vandalism against statues, crucifixes, altars, tabernacles, and grave crosses, alongside anti-Christian graffiti and satanic slogans – particularly in France and Italy.

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Saturday, May 09, 2026

Jesus, Your Mercy

 
Jesus, Your Mercy 
Sovereign Grace Music

Verse 1
Jesus, Your mercy is all my plea
I have no defense, my guilt runs too deep
The best of my works pierced Your hands and Your feet
Jesus, Your mercy is all my plea

Verse 2
Jesus, Your mercy is all my boast
The goodness I claim, the grounds of my hope
Whatever I lack it’s still what I need most
Jesus, Your mercy is all my boast

Chorus
Praise the King who bore my sin
Took my place when I stood condemned
Oh how good You’ve always been to me
I will sing of Your mercy

Verse 3
Jesus, Your mercy is all my rest
When fears weigh me down and enemies press
A comfort I cling to in life and in death
Jesus Your mercy is all my rest

Verse 4
Jesus, your mercy is all my joy
Forever I’ll lift my heart and my voice
To sing of a treasure no pow’r can destroy
Jesus, your mercy is all my joy

O Lord, God of my salvation...

O Lord, God of my salvation,
 I cry out day and night before you.
Let my prayer come before you;
    incline your ear to my cry!
   -Psalm 88:1-2

Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do; and that you can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others, while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!  -O. Hallesby

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Things are going badly on redistricting, and Democrats are losing it.

UK Nurseries Urged To Report 'Racist' Toddlers To Police In £1.3M Scheme  Childcare workers across Wales are being trained to spot and report “racist incidents” by toddlers under fresh guidance endorsed by government ministers and bankrolled with taxpayer cash.

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Friday, May 08, 2026

When you walk through fire...

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
 and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
-Isaiah 43:2

As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  -CH Spurgeon 

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Megadrought: We Just Experienced The Driest First Three Months Of A Year In US History   Winter wheat is dying in Kansas fields that should be green by now. Ranchers in New Mexico are selling cattle they cannot afford to feed. Reservoir levels along the Colorado River system are dropping weeks ahead of the season when mountain snowmelt is supposed to refill them. Across roughly 63% of the contiguous United States, drought rated moderate to exceptional on the federal scale has taken hold, and the first three months of 2026 were the driest the nation has recorded in 131 years of continuous measurement.
   This isn’t just a crisis. This is catastrophic.

Entire countries shifted their energy policies to fit the claims of these so-called experts. People were put out of work because their industries weren’t “green.” Millions in taxpayer money were funneled into companies offering something that would allegedly thwart the coming apocalypse, all for nothing to really happen. Thousands of acres are now desolate wastelands for wildlife because solar panels or wind turbines were placed there, destroying the scenery, driving off animals, and killing plant life.
   And now they’re telling us it’s really more of a thought experiment.   

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UK: 'Dark day' as retired pastor is convicted for preaching John 3:16 near abortion facilities  “We held a small, open air Sunday service near a hospital. We made no reference whatsoever to the issue of abortion. And yet the buffer zones law is so broad that holding a Sunday service has been found to be a criminal offence. And at 78 years of age I find myself, for the first time, convicted of a crime," he said.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen appeals to European Court of Human Rights after guilty verdict over Bible pamphlet   "The failure of the Finnish Supreme Court to uphold freedom of speech has set a dangerous precedent in my country and across Europe. I feel it is my duty to appeal this decision, to reinstate respect for the basic human right that all are free to peacefully express their views in the public square," Räsänen said, according to a press release from the nonprofit legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.


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Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Left-Wing Lawfare   A Supreme Court decision that has largely flown under the radar could nonetheless prove to be a major victory for conservatives in the battle against left-wing lawfare and weaponized government in the years ahead.

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Illegal immigrants stole $1.2M in Apple tech outside Long Island mall: Feds  The trio — all illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic — were arrested and hauled before a federal judge in Central Islip on Thursday, where all three pleaded not guilty.
   Judge Anne Shields told the court that the evidence against the three is “very strong,” and the crime was a “well planned and violent attack” in broad daylight before remanding them without bail after prosecutors argued they posed both a danger to the community and a serious flight risk.

DOJ Investigating Fairfax County DA Over Deals With Illegal Aliens The woke, George Soros-backed prosecutor has come under fire due to the many criminal illegal aliens he has released who end up committing horrific crimes.

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Declining Birthrates, Immigration Drive Enrollment Crisis in US Public Schools   Districts across the country are forced to consider budget cuts, layoffs, and potential school closures.


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