Sunday, November 01, 2026

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

 
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

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Saturday, October 31, 2026

For the word of God is living and active...

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, “They shall be all taught of God.” (John 6:45) Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.   
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Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.
-Martin Luther

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Friday, October 30, 2026

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart...

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  -Jeremiah 29:11-13

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God’s voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.  
-William Barclay

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When cruelty is dressed up as care, would we recognise it?  What happens when cruelty is presented as kindness? When discrimination is described as care, and the devaluing of human life is presented as a practical solution to society’s problems?
   These are the questions at the centre of Channel 4’s The Experiment: Would you recognise cruelty if it was dressed up as care?, a chilling documentary exploring whether the British public could be persuaded to accept ideas drawn from Nazi ideology.
   The programme is an uncomfortable viewing. But its message is not one we should ignore.

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For around the past 1,700 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Throughout that time, our officers of State have sworn allegiance to the Monarch, who held authority under, and only under, God. That faith has been the beating heart of our nation, and a rallying point each and every time we came under threat. Our peoples have stood under the banner of Christ, fighting in His name to defend our country, from attack and from all who wished us ill. And even though small, while we have sought to keep faith, the Lord has upheld and delivered us. Historically, we have been a people slow to anger, fair, and tolerant of others, upholding justice. We have defended the vulnerable and given sanctuary to those fleeing persecution in their own countries. But this we have done without sacrificing our heritage and the values on which our nation stands.
   Yet all that now seems to have been turned on its head. We are told that we must be ashamed of our history and the values that once made our nation great, while self-serving politicians seek to prioritise their own best interests, and micro-manage us – telling us what we should believe and how we should behave. Under the mantra, ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity’, the faith that has held our country together is increasingly being actively suppressed, with those who dare defend Christian truth being branded dangerous extremists by the Home Office, police, and security services, and even arrested.

Former European colonial powers France and the Netherlands want all nations to punish the new crime of “gender-related killings” or “femicide.” They are asking for a commitment in a General Assembly resolution on violence against women.
   According to UN agencies, such crimes include the denial of abortion for any reason.

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'They Are Abject Liars': Scott Jennings Weighs in on Alaska Democrats' Election Antics  The legal issues aside, Peltola and the Democrats said for months 'We had nothing to do with this! What a coincidence!' That another Dan Sullivan from a little fishing town that you can't even get to other than by plane managed to file for the U.S. Senate, "Jennings said.
   "And now it's been revealed that they are abject liars and they did engage in a conspiracy," he continued. "So legal issues aside, what does that tell a voter? We're willing to lie to your face for months and months and months and here at the very end when people are making their decisions. Legal the politics are terrible for Democrats."

NY Times Admits Obama DOJ Found Evidence of Ilhan Omar’s Suspected ‘Sham Marriage’  And yet, for a decade, Omar and the corporate media have smeared everyone who looks into this as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist.”
   If you read the rest of the Times story, you’ll find a real conspiracy, one by the Obama administration and local officials in Minnesota to kill any media inquiries into the story.

Congress Shouldn’t Seat Anyone Elected With Terror Ties, Such As Sayed And Omar  How can we trust a member of Congress aligned with America’s adversaries to keep classified information secure, and not hand it to the very movements and regimes that threaten this country?
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Democrats Care Too Much About Power To Distance Themselves From Terrorism Apologists  A free society cannot survive unless terrorists, supporters of terrorists, and apologists for terrorists are driven from polite society and politics.

NY Mayor Mamdani Celebrates -- then Deletes -- Post about ‘Halalflation‘ of City Street Vendors  The post was picked up by activist Laura Loomer who blasted the mayor for trying to force the practice of Islamic halal food preparation on the city.
   “Disgusting. The Muslim Mayor of New York City is bragging about approving another 10,500 street vendor licenses for Halal food trucks,” Loomer wrote, adding, “He’s even calling it ‘Halalflation update’.”

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‘Ghostbusters’: Feds Find Fraudsters Use AI to Fake College Attendance and Receive Fed Aid  “Some use super intelligence to fill out college applications and complete coursework, so it looks like the ghost student is actually completing the class,” he said of the fraudsters. “Some even create the appearance of a fake student in an online classroom to trick schools into believing a real person is present. The goal is to keep the ghost student in school for as long as possible, semester after semester after semester, stealing money from the taxpayer.”

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DHS Closes Loophole Chinese Birth Tourists Used  Today, DHS took decisive action to protect America’s sovereignty and SUSPENDED visa-free travel for Chinese nationals to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
   This program made the islands a hot spot for Chinese birth tourism and other security vulnerabilities.

Red-State AG Sounds Alarm About Possibility Taxpayers Were on Hook to Benefit China “China has no right to raise lowans’ –or any Americans’–gas and electric bills. The Biden administration allowed the EPA to team up with radical activists that were funded by China. Those activists wanted to stop American energy dominance and raise the cost of gas and electricity. This letter is a follow-up to make sure that is no longer happening,” Bird said in a statement.

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Trans student cited for assault after saying Republicans ‘should be shot’ at University of Utah  Video shows the student saying Republicans 'should be shot in the street' before appearing to lunge at a College Republicans member who was tabling on campus.
   University police cited the student for simple assault and property damage, while queer and socialist activist groups are calling for the citations to be dropped.

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We’ve lost the plot with Halloween. What was once a festive night of play, half-remembered liturgical meaning, and neighborly cheer has been hollowed out by consumerism and hijacked by a fixation on gore and death.

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Thursday, October 29, 2026

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain..."

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”
-Revelation 5:11-12

Praise is the most heavenly of Christian duties. The angels pray not, but they cease not to praise both day and night; and the redeemed, clothed in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands, are never weary of singing the new song, “Worthy is the Lamb.”   -Charles Haddon Spurgeon Image

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While campaigning in Detroit this past Saturday, former President Barack Obama might have inadvertently slipped and spilled a long-held secret: The Affordable Care Act was a Trojan horse for single-payer healthcare.


Albany's New Assisted Dying Law Follows Canada's Deadly Cost-cutting Playbook  Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) regime began in 2016, and in 2021, Parliament removed the requirement that a natural death be reasonably foreseeable. The floodgates were opened. Now, lawmakers debate whether mental illness should qualify. 
   Against this backdrop, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer calculated that MAID reduced annual provincial healthcare spending by $86.9 million (CAD), with expansions saving an additional $62 million (CAD) annually. Meanwhile, direct administrative execution costs remain minimal, creating a powerful systemic incentive towards death.

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Given Probation for Shooting Man in the Face  Am I missing something here? Shooting someone in the face sounds like attempted murder to me.

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Muslims Desecrate Statues of Joan of Arc With Hijab and ‘Palestinian’ Flag  Remember the hijab placed on Joan of Arc’s head, and the Palestinian flag planted at her side, and the many Palestinian flags that were waved across France by the rioters (you can see those flags on the videos posted online), the next time you are suavely assured that it was only students in despair over the condition of their schools who were rioting, that Muslims must not be blamed. There were students, but the most violent rioters, choosing to attack symbols of the French state, and of France itself, were North African migrants or their children. Image

Outrage as gun control nut spray paints 9/11 Memorial in sick political stunt  A gun control nut vandalized the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool with red spray paint in a broad daylight political stunt — sparking outrage that someone would defile such sacred ground.

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More than 60 Christians killed in Ethiopia 'massacre', church official says  A local official blamed the attacks on a newly formed rebel coalition, the Alliance for Survival, which includes the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA). The OLA has not commented but has denied carrying out previous such attacks.
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Before You Vote, Remember That They Tried to Kill Trump for a Reason Two underlying questions remain: What did the left fear so much?  And has Trump started to do the things the left feared most?

Wikipedia Prohibits Content From 97% of Conservative News Websites   Anyone can add information to the pages of Wikipedia, even without an account. However, senior volunteer editors have a tight grip on what remains. Oftentimes, information is removed minutes later if they don’t like it.
   If that information comes from The Gateway Pundit, Newsmax, Breitbart, Media Research Center, O’Keefe, and others on the right, it will likely be removed.
   Wikipedia editors have determined that almost every conservative news outlet is unreliable and disallowed their content in some fashion

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‘Pandora’s box has been opened’: How foreign funding has flooded into American K-12 education Organizations from several countries in tension with the U.S. have poured more than $25 million into American K-12 education since 2009, according to a new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
“Our K-12 system really has had an open door for foreign and malign actors to come directly in and work with our kids,” FDD Education and National Security Program Director Brandy Shufutinsky told Heartlander News in an interview.





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Study Finds ‘Climate Change’ Stopped The Next Ice Age — Why Aren’t We Celebrating?  So, if these researchers are right, the carbon emissions that climate zealots want stopped appear to have halted, or at least put off, the next ice age.
   Shouldn’t this be cause for celebration? And shouldn’t we be encouraging everyone to keep burning as much fossil fuel as possible for as long as possible? And shouldn’t Greta Thunberg, when she’s not too busy pimping for Hamas terrorists, apologize to future generations for her “how dare you” speech?

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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

In the beginning was the Word

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  
-John 1:1-5

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.  -C.S. Lewis Image

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The ads will not stop. The polls will keep shifting. The campaigns will tell you the entire future of the country hinges on one more door knocked, one more text sent, one more check written. Some of that is true. Most of it is theater. The real work happens before any of it, when a believer shuts the door, gets low, and talks to the One who actually decides who sits in power.

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MEGACHURCH Mess: Pastor exposes ugly secrets behind America’s glitzy Sunday spectacles…  At the end of the day, a great-looking church can attract thousands of people, but impressive buildings and slick Sunday productions don’t tell us much about God or what’s really happening behind the scenes.
    Because there will come a time when all those lights go down, the music stops, and everybody goes home.
    And what’s left is what actually matters… not the basketball courts. Image


A book review of Derrick Warfel’s new book, “UFOS and GOD.”

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Muslims living under this deen see themselves as a nation without borders, the Ummah, and believe their deen will ultimately prevail over every other. The Koran says as much in Sura 61:9: Allah sent His Messenger “with guidance and the religion of truth, to manifest it over all religions, although those who associate others with Allah dislike it.”
   Now listen to Muslims in Western public life. Britain’s Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has told The Times that her faith is the centrepoint of her life and the thing that drives her to public service. New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani, sworn in on the Koran last January, has vowed never to change “the faith that I’m proud to call my own.” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar wears hers openly.

But the far left no longer wants power, just the power to do harm. It seeks to convert its theoretical, political, and philosophical impotence into a power to obstruct, to prevent. Its new love for Islam is just a detour taken the better to attack its immemorial adversary, Capital and the West. To say that one is ‘for the Muslims’ is simply to brandish a different stick with which to beat bourgeois society, since one cannot destroy it.

Rome Took Centuries To Fall. It May Take The West Mere Decades. This leftist cabal has one objective: The destruction of Western civilization. The left wants communism, and the Muslims want a Caliphate. The two are largely incompatible but will team up to destroy the West before turning on one another.
   That’s where we are, with black-clad thugs wearing their keffiyehs and carrying Communist flags. This is not the riots of 1968 that shook Europe and America. This is 1968 on steroids with a Molotov Cocktail in its hand. If governments do not eviscerate this movement, it will bring about the collapse of Western civilization.
   That civilization was forged over 2,000 years by men who believed in themselves, took pride in their heritage, and constantly reached new heights in every possible endeavor. It will be destroyed in a single generation by men incapable of building anything but experts at destroying everything.

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Cautionary Tale: Pittsburgh Is What the Country Will Look Like Under DSA Rule  If you are a resident of Western Pennsylvania, a former resident, or just someone who follows the damage the DSA is doing to the country, mark this date down. This is the high-water mark on a chart some county leaders will use a year or two from now when they try to explain how local government found its way to the brink of bankruptcy. The one thing they will not do is take responsibility for spending money they don’t have, driving businesses out of the county, killing those businesses that remain, and killing thousands and thousands of tax-paying jobs. Instead, they will victim-blame the employers and find some way to blame it all on Republican policies at the federal level. Image



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At least 50 dead, 179 injured by train collision in Spain According to officials, one high-speed train collided with the rear of another service that had stopped on the line.
   The high-speed impact knocked two carriages of the stationary train off the rails.

More Than 60 Killed in Potential Terror Attack in Nigeria The region, Karim-Lamido, is a largely Christian area of Nigeria that is regularly attacked by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa. Still, the religious makeup of the victims and the perpetrators is unknown at this time.


Brazil: If the Election Wasn't Rigged, Why Is the Loser Fleeing the Country? "The White House confirms to ABC that the United States will grant visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them to enter U.S. territory."


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America has its first clinic specifically designed to help young people overcome their gender dysphoria and lead healthy lives, thanks to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Image

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
-Psalm 139:1-4

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.  -A.W. Tozer

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The Gospel According to Talarico...James Talarico has a problem with the authority of Scripture  Talarico is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas. On November 3 he faces Ken Paxton, and the polls have him narrowly ahead. He is a Presbyterian seminarian and a former schoolteacher with a preacher's cadence, and he has made his Christian faith the centerpiece of his campaign. That is why this matters beyond Texas. When a man asks for votes in the name of Jesus, it is fair to ask which Jesus he means.
   I do not care whether Mr. Talarico is a Democrat or a Republican. Politics is not my quarrel; theology is. What he teaches should be answered from every orthodox pulpit in the land, because it is not the faith once delivered to the saints. It is the faith of the progressive mainline, and we know what that faith does to churches. His own Presbyterian Church (USA) counted more than three million members at its reunion in 1983. Today it has barely a million. Progressive Christianity does not fill churches. It empties them. Image

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So, you want to be a Democrat socialist, and try Marx’s failed ideas again? Are you ready to go hungry, maybe to the point of starvation, like those in Soviet Russia and Red China? Are you ready to give up all your rights including your right to private property? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, then you might want to reconsider your decision to be a socialist, communist, or Marxist.  Perhaps you should consider…being a Republican.

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New York’s Kathy Hochul ranked worst governor in US as part of scathing new study    Gov. Kathy Hochul was ranked the worst state leader in the US for protecting constituents’ freedoms, a scathing new study found.
   Hochul ranked No. 50 in the Cato Institute’s 2026 “Freedom in the 50 States” list, scoring an “F” and falling behind the governors from Hawaii, California, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Image

And so dismantling the NYPD’s counterterrorism capabilities can only politically benefit Mamdani even as it opens the door for Muslim terrorists to massacre New Yorkers.

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Poll: Jewish Voters Favor Republicans over Democrats by Nearly Two to One The McLaughlin poll also looked at congressional preferences among other religious groups. Protestants favored Republicans 51 percent to 43 percent, and Catholics narrowly backed the GOP, 48 percent to 46 percent. Evangelical Christians, who overlap with other Christian categories, favored Republicans 56 percent to 37 percent.



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USAID’s Legacy: How American Taxpayers Funded Regime Change and Leftist Activism  President Trump’s effort to dismantle USAID’s massive institutional structure represented a major challenge to Washington’s traditional foreign-aid establishment. For supporters of the America First agenda, the agency’s record raised a fundamental question: Why should American taxpayers finance political activism, foreign NGOs, and ideological initiatives overseas?

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-The Archdiocese of New York has agreed to an $800 million settlement with more than 1,000 alleged victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
-The settlement is the second-largest involving a Catholic Church in the U.S.
-The agreement is still pending final signatures.

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Italy’s Catholic bishops promote Koran as ‘revealed Word of God’ in schools  Cdl. Matteo Zuppi presented the Islamic education program for state-school religion teachers, saying Catholic religion classes should serve as a ‘laboratory of culture and dialogue.’ Image

French journalist Paul Amar stated: “They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”
   One looter succinctly summed up what was really going on when he paused from his labors long enough to tell a chap who was videoing: “We have plundered everything in the name of Allah.”


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Somaliland Accuses Ilhan Omar Of Leaking Classified Congressional Info To Somalia Another day, another Omar scandal, another piece of evidence indicating foreign loyalties and domestic betrayal

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  • Do Not Resuscitate (“DNR”).
  • Midazolam and morphine.
  • Denied medical care.
  • No GP visits.
  • No ambulance call-outs.
  • No family visits.
  • Residents “detained” to their beds.
This, THIS, is what really killed your loved ones in “care.” It wasn’t a coronavirus that caused these 43,000 deaths (and more, likely up to 100,000 deaths in care). It was our government(s) response to a “coronavirus epidemic” that actually caused their untimely and avoidable deaths.

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Monday, October 26, 2026

“Enter by the narrow gate..."

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."  -Matthew 7:13-14

In an age when comfort and convenience are unspoken articles of our modern bill of rights, the Christian faith is not a license to entitlement, a prescription for an easy-going spirituality, or a how-to manual for self-improvement. The cross of Jesus runs crosswise to all our human ways of thinking. A rediscovery of the hard and the unpopular themes of the gospel will therefore be such a rediscovery of the whole gospel that the result may lead to reformation and revival.   -Os Guinness Image

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Nine Killed, 40 Injured in Terror Attack on Church in Jordan  On Friday, gunmen entered St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Jordan and began opening fire. One perpetrator was reportedly armed with an AK-style rifle. More than 40 individuals were injured in the attack, and nine have now died from their wounds.

'X Is the Only Thing Keeping Democracy Alive' in France'  It's something else when a former member of the equivalent of the Supreme Court of France (technically, the Conseil constitutionnel) argues that the French government has, for all intents and purposes, fallen and that the only thing that stands between France and authoritarian rule is the freedom of speech that remains on X.


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Think Europe’s Chaos Can’t Happen Here? It’s Already Being Planned  The Democratic Socialists of America are already planting the seeds of violence if things don’t go their way in the election, with their “New Battlefield Project,” calling on 10,000 “volunteers” to guard polling places.
   Here’s what’s really happening.
   “Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting,” U.S. News reported in September. “And legal scholars are distributing white papers advising judges what they should do if the government tries to seize ballots.”


Mamdani Causes Exodus of Orthodox Jews From New York to Florida  As antisemitism surges under New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, more than 100 Orthodox Jewish families are packing up and heading south, and more are following.


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Six Charged in Massachusetts Over Alleged Decade-Long Sham Marriage Ring  Six individuals in Massachusetts have been charged with allegedly arranging sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for illegal aliens.

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