Thursday, August 13, 2026

“Ask, and it will be given to you..."

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! -Matthew 7:7-11

Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it, that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence, to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.  -François Fénelon

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How the Intelligence Community Tried to Scotch Biden Family Scandal in 2020  In other words, the new revelations once again show that the federal intelligence community was deliberately working to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election and oust Republicans from power — even while Donald Trump was in the White House. Indeed, before Trump took office, the intel community was already undermining him. The problem is that the overwhelming majority of the FBI, CIA, and other agencies are still staffed by the same people who were there two years ago, four years ago, and six years ago. Only a minuscule number of these people got fired. How do we know they are not going to commit another coup?

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Owner of suspiciously vacant adult daycare billed Medicaid $32M while donating to Kathy Hochul, other Dems  Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show.
   Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week. Image

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Northern Virginia High School Has a Major Antisemitism Problem  One male Jewish student reported being repeatedly targeted because he wore a kippah, which a female classmate tried to pull off his head. After a male student called him an antisemitic slur, he began covering his kippah with a baseball cap. A female Jewish student said that she was chased because she was Jewish, and other Jewish students described seeing Nazi salutes, hearing Holocaust jokes, and being told that they belonged in a gas chamber or that “Hitler should have finished the job.”...
   After Hamas attacked Israel, Jewish students at Yorktown were mocked for their faith and blamed for the resulting war, according to the report and my own reporting. They were targeted mostly by Muslim boys, the affected students said. Image

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The Latest Horror Story Out Of Canada’s ‘Free’ Healthcare System  The family of an 83-year-old devout Christian grandmother who opposed euthanasia said the elderly woman was killed through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, a process that was initiated while her family was on a brief scheduled vacation.
   The family of Brigitte “GG” Stegemann said the grandmother strongly opposed euthanasia and told doctors she did not want to be killed after she developed Stage IV stomach cancer

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8 Examples That Demonstrate That The Islamization Of America Is Steadily Progressing  In Islam, there is no separation between mosque and state. The goal is to use the state to make everyone submit to Islam. If you want to see what this looks like, just check out almost any country in the Middle East that has a Muslim majority. They don’t believe in freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Do you want to know how many churches there are in Saudi Arabia? The answer is zero, because churches are banned in Saudi Arabia. Now this same ideology is spreading in America, and that should deeply alarm all of us.

Pakistanification of Texas Law Enforcement: How a Wealthy Pakistani Immigrant Became Constable — Then Opened the Station to Foreign Dignitaries  A wealthy Pakistani is running a Texas police station, courting foreign officials from a terrorism hub – all under a Republican ballot.
   The takeover doesn’t need tanks. It arrives in Rolls-Royces, plazas, and constable badges. Is anyone looking into this?

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Hordes of Africans, at this point overwhelmingly Muslims from North Africa, are already trying every way they can, especially on the small boats of smugglers, to land on European shores, where, instead of being immediately sent back, they are taken in and allowed to remain while their claims of being asylum seekers are considered. During this time, the government puts them up in hotels and inns, where their presence alarms the local population, who rightly fear a rise in crime, and are outraged that those “asylum seekers” are given more support from the government than is given to the indigenous poor. In addition to housing, these migrants are provided with free medical care, free education including language tuition, family allowances, and monthly amounts to pay for food and clothing. They have been in no hurry to be gainfully employed, but prefer to live on the lavish benefits that the generous welfare states of western Europe provide, and supplement that support with crimes of property — street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting. Screenshot

Germany, France lead Europe in anti-Christian hate crimes: Woman stabbed at prayer, church desecrations  “The July data continue to demonstrate a persistent pattern of attacks affecting Christian places of worship, religious symbols, Christian communities and visible expressions of the Christian faith across Europe,” the report concluded.

The Sweden Democrats are calling for mosques that promote radical ideology to be closed, their funding cut off, and Islamists deported  The party said that Islamism poses one of the most serious threats to democracy in Sweden. At the same time, its representatives stressed that they were referring not to Islam as a religion, but to a political ideology.


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Women who defend the purpose of women’s sports get hit, both literally and figuratively. League executives and union leaders respond by policing the tone of the debate and promising more stakeholder engagement. Global governing bodies in swimming, track, and cycling have already drawn clear biological lines.
   The WNBA remains trapped in an endless loop of process and PR. Screenshot



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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

For His anger is but for a moment...

For his anger is but for a moment,
    and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
    but joy comes with the morning.
-Psalm 30:5

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as surely as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.  -A.W. Tozer

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey just signed a bill allowing the killing of the unborn right up to the moment of birth. She was surrounded by a group of smiling, ecstatic, clapping and celebrating white women as she did so. Imagine getting so enthused over killing unborn babies at all stages of development.
   She even posted this on the social media: “Because in Massachusetts, we believe healthcare decisions should be made between women and their doctors.” Good grief, since when does healthcare involve killing innocent human beings? Screenshot

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Apocalypse soon... The Four Horsemen of the leftist apocalypse include Marxism, Sharia, AI, and the national debt   Many won’t like this, but there is only one truly viable way out, and we are about to pass the exit. We must return to the founding values of individual rights, a benevolent Christianity with separation of church and state, a renewed Judeo-Christian work ethic, and a renewed emphasis on gratitude rather than entitlement.


Trump Admin Drafts Visa Reforms to Reduce Displacement of American Workers by Imported Labor  The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor have unveiled draft regulations that would tighten visa programs, including H-1B and F-1 student visas, to prioritize American workers. Proposed changes include higher corporate fees, shorter grace periods for fired foreign workers, and stricter oversight of third-party staffing firms.


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Chinese Military Veterans Arrested for Spying on U.S. Bases  The incidents occurred near Gunsan Air Base and Camp Humphreys, two critical U.S. military installations located south of Seoul, South Korea. Gunsan is home to the U.S. 8th Fighter Wing, while Camp Humphreys is the largest U.S. military base outside continental America.

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New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement’   Foreign donors have poured over $130 million into U.S.-based climate activist nonprofits, according to a new database tracking over $5 billion in foreign funding.

According to Anthropocene magazine, “because wind and solar projects are naturally intermittent, they can cause instabilities in the grid and even blackouts if dropped into the grid without changes.”

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Archaeologists find possible remains of Church that hosted the First Council of Nicaea  The discoveries also align with the fourth-century historian Eusebius of Caesarea who wrote in his Vita Constantini that the council met in a relatively modest church rather than a monumental basilica. The new foundations and floor surfaces strongly suggest that archaeologists have discovered the structure described in the historical record, said Professor Şahin. Image

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The deregulation of the abortion pill has been a disaster  Do-it-yourself abortions lead to viable babies being killed and to women suffering potentially deadly reactions to the pills. Image

What should not remain in doubt is this: America’s pandemic preparedness system failed us at the worst possible moment. Until that failure is honestly acknowledged and fully understood, the nation risks repeating the same mistakes when the next Pandemic inevitably arrives.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes...

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.
Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!
 -Psalm 119:33-36

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Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why We'll start with the obvious: violent and dangerous crimes. Foreign nationals have lost their visas due to committing such acts as: 
-Felony kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a minor
-Felony rape and sexual battery – including of a victim who was mentally disabled
-Disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, drunk driving, and domestic violence
-Sodomy of a child and aggravated sexual battery
-Over a dozen counts of possessing child sexual abuse material
-Driving with heroin and a blood alcohol level more than 3x the legal limit
       But crime isn't the only thing that will get you kicked back to your home country. Multiple foreign nationals were removed for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, including one who said "when fascists die, democrats don’t complain" and another who said Kirk "died too late."

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Democrats' Frankenstein Turns: Communist Ghost Dance Now Set To Devour The Party  You are surely aware that the entire regular agenda of the Democratic Party has for some time been patently insane. They are still wasting the nation’s patience with debates over the self-evident idiocy of men in women’s sports, resistance to the deportation of illegal immigrants, and their obviously evil opposition to voter ID. Communism is just the icing on that fruitcake. The recent primary election victories of such prodigies as Abdul El-Sayed, Melat Kiros, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, along with the ongoing capers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani pretending to govern New York City, must be giving the old guard the vapors.

When the Left cannot win within the rules, it changes the rules—and when that fails, it changes the people who make them.

Democrats Are Going to Try to Distance Themselves From Their Woke Policies. Don't Let Them.  None of them have changed their views. They are lying and moderating to win the next election. Everything they believe — from abolishing the Senate to prisons to the police — will come back in full force if they regain power.
   We cannot let them regain power. They'll destroy America if they do.

The DNC is $2 million in debt and mortgaged its own headquarters for a $15 million loan, while the RNC has stockpiled over $128 million.

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An investigation into surveillance equipment fitted to Royal Navy unmanned vessels has raised concerns over military supply-chain security after cameras containing Chinese-made components were found communicating with an internet address in China.

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Young Americans Are Not Alright As Marijuana Becomes the Most Commonly Used Drug  And what about the physical problems that come from daily cannabis use? As noted above, there's been a significant uptick in hospital visits attributed to cannabis consumption. Other side effects are easily predictable. Like the study of 11,000 teenagers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine that found adolescents who begin using cannabis have slower gains in memory, attention, and thinking skills over time compared to their non-cannabis-using counterparts. What happens to those same teens as they get older and try to function normally in life? In extreme cases, you get the streets of New York City or San Francisco.

“The percentage of U.S. adults who currently take GLP-1 medications for weight loss purposes has risen to 11% in 2026, up significantly from 3% in 2024. And 15% report having used the medicine for weight loss at some point, an increase of nine percentage points…

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Monday, August 10, 2026

A loving Personality dominates the Bible...

When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” -Luke 24:30-32 Image

A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.  -A.W. Tozer

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"We're Here To Destroy The White Race": Democratic Socialist Of America Hero Declares War On  Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America's rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigned for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Screenshot


Abolish the District of Columbia’s Clown Courts The impetus for the absurd White House ballroom decision is the desire to hamstring the President in all things large or small.

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Egyptian Muslims Attacked Coptic Christians. Authorities Arrested the Christians The Muslim mob damaged parish priest Fr. Pavlos Kamal’s car while also injuring the parishioners. European news outlet Visegrád 24 reported that police refused to release the victims they arrested until they (authorities) had pressured the victims into withdrawing their complaints against the Islamic domestic terrorists. In other words, Muslim law enforcement was completely on the side of the assailants. There was no justice against the assailants and no justice for the victims. Authorities believed the terrorists were in the right. Image

Nigeria’s largest rescue operation frees 308 women and children from jihadist captivity  The women and children freed this week spent six months in captivity after the February raid on Woro. Many are still receiving medical care. Nigerian officials continue to assess their condition as the country confronts the scale of the operation and the conditions the hostages endured.


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A cheap knockoff of paganism...A PCUSA study on pastoral monogamy has all the markings of the denomination’s long slide into irrelevance   The same applies to these latest PCUSA moves on the sexuality and marriage front. The issue set by the boundaries of public taste has changed—in 1990, it was all about affirming same-sex couples while now it is about queer sexuality. But the overall ethos is the same: Accommodating the faith to pagan values and thereby abandoning it, but without the Dionysian panache of real paganism. To paraphrase Paglia’s conclusion from 1990: Be Christian or go away. More “lite” Presbyterianism is a tedious irrelevance.

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WNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for  The WNBA continues to be a disaster — this is a complete mess. Since the league is woke and its fanbase is equally extreme, they chose to keep going down this path, and now they’ve hit a wall. Reality and facts don’t change based on feelings, and that’s a very tough concept for liberals to grasp. There are men and women, and the fact that this league and most progressives can’t define what a woman is truly shows how crazy this issue has become. It’s not hard, but the league is going to host some meeting to define what constitutes a female...

Looks Like the WNBA's Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement  The WNBA has turned itself into a punchline, a silly sideshow, and people are laughing at it, not with it. In the process, the transgenderism issue itself is suffering severely. The longer the WNBA continues to screw this situation up, the more damage it will do to the LGBTQ movement’s efforts to normalize transgenderism in society.

Sports Illustrated Blasted for ‘Karma‘ Headline Suggesting Sophie Cunningham Deserved Flagrant Foul The outrageous SI headline came after Cunningham suffered a fragrant clothesline foul on Saturday when Chicago Sky player DiJonai Carrington smacked Cunningham in the face while attempting to block Cunningham’s shot.

Former NBA players test WNBA policies by declaring for women’s 2027 draft    The WNBA is now under pressure to clarify its policies on whether athletes born male can join the league.

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WAYNE ROOT: 'If You Take the New Flu Vaccine, You are Reckless, Gullible, Delusional, Mentally-Ill, and as Dumb as Kamala Harris. And You Have a Death Wish.'  The new flu vaccine made with mRNA is the deadly Covid vaccine repackaged all over again. It’s completely unproven. They admitted that in the latest press release.
   They admitted they must do two more years of trials before they know what this shot will do to you.
   They admitted that the side effects are far worse than the old flu shot.

Medical boards banned from punishing doctors who reject gov't COVID narrative  Mincing no words, Kory noted that the new ruling means that the medical boards and government can “no longer … punish us for telling our own patients the truth as we saw it: that in our medical judgment the state was coercing and mandating its citizens into receiving toxic, lethal, ineffective, illogical, and experimental gene therapies, and that we would not pretend otherwise.”


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Saturday, August 08, 2026

Holy Forever

 
Holy Forever 
CeCe Winans

A thousand generations 
Falling down in worship
To sing the song of ages to the Lamb
And all who've gone before us 
And all who will believe
Will sing the song of ages to the Lamb

Your name is the highest
Your name is the greatest
Your name stands above them all
All thrones and dominions
All powers and positions
Your name stands above them all

And the angels cry, Holy
All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy
Holy forever

If you've been forgiven 
And if you've been redeemed
Sing the song forever to the Lamb
If you walk in freedom 
And if you bear His name
Sing the song forever to the Lamb
We'll sing the song forever and amen

And the angels cry, Holy
All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy
Holy forever

Hear Your people sing, Holy
To the King of Kings, Holy
You will always be, Holy
Holy forever

Your name is the highest
Your name is the greatest
Your name stands above them all
All thrones and dominions
All powers and positions
Your name stands above them all
Jesus
Your name is the highest
Your name is the greatest
Your name stands above them all 
Above all thrones and dominions
All powers and positions
Your name stands above them all

And the angels cry, Holy
All creation cries, Holy
You are lifted high, Holy
Holy forever 

Hear Your people sing, Holy
To the King of Kings, Holy 
You will always be, Holy
Holy forever
You will always be, Holy
Holy forever

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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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Friday, August 07, 2026

Jesus! Where’er Thy people meet...

Jesus! Where’er Thy people meet,
There they behold Thy mercy-seat;
Where’er they seek Thee, Thou art found,
And every place is hallow’d ground.
 
Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few!
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.
    -William Cowper Image

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Many citizens assume judges are primarily concerned with imposing punishments that fit the crime. Sometimes they are. But judges also operate within a system facing constant pressure to reduce incarceration costs, manage prison overcrowding, process crowded dockets, and minimize appeals. Many courts have also embraced theories emphasizing rehabilitation over punishment.
   The result is often a pattern that has become painfully familiar.
   A repeat offender is arrested. The offender receives probation. The offender violates probation. The offender receives another opportunity. The offender is arrested again. The offender enters a diversion program. The offender commits another crime. The offender receives a reduced sentence. The cycle repeats

FBI Emails Reveal How Deep State Officials Reacted After Southern Poverty Law Center Discovery The American people deserve to know how often the FBI has relied on private, far-left political organizations to categorize citizens, churches, and religious groups — and what safeguards, if any, have been put in place to ensure this never happens again.

The Link Between Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood In America? Here’s The Evidence  Former lead FBI investigator says the underlying conspiracy remains active and the threat is growing.


Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders  President Trump signed two executive orders Thursday seeking to narrow birthright citizenship in several circumstances and intensify the federal crackdown on commercial "birth tourism."

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This Is What Blue State AGs Are Doing To Jack Up Your Energy Bill New York’s AG Letitia James, a person who has never missed an opportunity to use her office to attack President Trump, is defending red tape on gas pipelines while New Yorkers eat a 43.7% rate hike. New York State, home to one of the world’s largest natural gas deposits(though asinine green mandates forbid developing it), continues to push the green agenda. Somewhere in NY, Governor Kathy Hochul is nodding along, hoping the media continues to ignore her delay in implementing her celebrated energy-crushing climate initiatives until after her November election. The latest poll has the incumbent leading only by four points, answering the age-old question: when is a climate crisis not a climate crisis? When it hurts re-election. Image

It’s official: The Democrat party is the Communist Party of America   So, my question to the Democrat party leadership is this: Do you hate decent Americans so much that you will welcome those who want to destroy even the building blocks that hold our country together? Freedom, liberty, faith, economic choice, capitalism, self-defense, freedom to travel? Or are you okay with allowing your once-decent Party to fall into the very hands that are stealing your brand from you?
   It’s your choice, Democrats. Freedom or the gulags, for you as well. First, they came for the Republicans...


DSA gov. nominee Francesca Hong is the turkey who wants to ruin Thanksgiving, then Wisconsin, then America  The DSA wants to strip our society, government and culture down to its studs, so they can build their own socialist utopia.
   It’s not just Turkey Day.
   In 2020, she also went after cops, writing on social media that “police exist to uphold white supremacy” and “I support defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police.”
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Coca-Cola is facing backlash for allowing customers to order Coca-Cola cans with personalized messages, including “Allah Is King” and “Satan Is King,” but when customers try to write “Jesus Is King,” they are rejected.

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Mindless arson for online clout is torching farmers' livelihoods across England. Hay and straw stacks - vital winter feed and hard-earned harvest - are being deliberately set alight in a suspected TikTok challenge that treats the countryside like disposable content.

Spain's Interior Ministry Dismisses Police Warnings of Jihadis Among Ceuta Migrants  Officials believe the jihadis are among the approximately 5,000 migrants who remain in Ceuta and are resisting deportation. They allegedly plan to relocate clandestinely to mainland Spain and other European countries. Spain has arrested 196 jihadis and deported 116 since 2021.

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Los Angeles Isn't Just a Third World City. The Typhus Outbreak Is Positively Medieval.  Flea-borne typhus does not spread directly from person to person. But when you have four million people living in close quarters and the little rascals; it's nothing for a flea to leap from human to human, infecting them with the Rickettsia typhi bacteria.
   "Since 2009, the number of flea-borne typhus cases in L.A. has increased by a staggering 2,300 percent," write Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe in City Journal. "Last year, the county recorded more cases than at any point in its history." 


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US hits jackpot after finding multi-million-ton critical mineral reserve in Nevada  In its updated resource report, 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) said that the project hosts an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons of tungsten. The company revealed that the deposit is part of a mineral system that also contains world-class resources of lithium, potash, and boron.

Boosted by Tariffs, U.S. Manufacturing Enters a Renaissance  The hard data now show that American manufacturing has broken out of years of stagnation. Output is growing. Productivity is rising. Labor hours have turned upward. The tariff-induced industrial disaster exists mainly in the stories written about it.

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Blame Hollywood for Rise of DSA, Socialism in America  The Legacy Media, which peddled the Russian collusion hoax and defended Dr. Anthony Fauci’s distortions among its many missteps, is once again failing America.
   La La Land has failed us, too, by refusing to tell stories that need to be told.

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COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools and country. Understandably, people don’t like thinking or talking about it. But we must. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul’s doggedness and Anthony Fauci’s supreme arrogance that he freely expresses in his diary, almost every decision made by the medical industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do.

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Thursday, August 06, 2026

“I will make with them a covenant of peace..."

“I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them. They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. And I will provide for them a renowned place for planting so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations. -Ezekiel 34:25-29

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ—can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father—that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.-C.S. Lewis

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Families of 9/11 Victims Petition to Exclude Mamdani From Participating in 25th Year Memorial Events    Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim who shares the same ideology as those who carried out the 9/11 attacks. He has refused to condemn antisemitism; he has refused to agree that Israel as a right to exist as a Jewish state; he endorses the chant “from the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which, properly understood, is a call for the destruction of the Jewish state and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state; he believes, as Muhammad said, that “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” He has appointed Ramzi Kassem, a defender of terrorists, to be New York City’s chief counsel. He has praised the Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. For all of these reasons, family members of those killed on 9/11 have begun a petition calling for Mamdani to be excluded from participating in the memorial events marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Muslim Communist Abdul El-Sayed Wins in MI as Crowd Roars When He Drops an ‘Inshallah’ During His Election Night Speech In an absolute slap to all Americans who lived through and lost loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Michigan Democrats elected Muslim communist Abdul El-Sayed as their nominee for the Senate in the upcoming general election. The race was tight, but El-Sayed beat out Haley Stevens (a repulsive Obama Democrat in her own right) in the end. Now he will face Republican Mike Rogers in November in a toss-up nail-biter.

For the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., Everything Is Going According to Plan Democrats are happily electing more and more Muslims to Congress and congratulating themselves on their commitment to “diversity.” Leftists dismiss and deride anyone who brings up Islam’s political and supremacist aspects as “Islamophobic.” Everything is going according to plan, and those who dare even to point out that there is a plan are thus marginalized and ignored.

Afghan Murdered Woman Who Helped Migrants Flood EU ‘Because She Kept Talking About Her Christian Beliefs’  Suicidal sympathy did in Elisabeth-Jane Ross, and there are countless others like her. She devoted herself, under a Christian banner no less, to helping unvetted Muslim illegals destroy Europe’s cultural identity, as well as its security and economy.


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Socialist Revival In Academia...The recurring nightmare: forced collectivism and the menace of historical amnesia   In both the lecture halls and quads of America’s elite universities, a disturbing paradox unfolds. The youngest generations of students, beneficiaries of unprecedented material prosperity and intellectual liberty, actively suppress or deny the grim ledger of socialism as it was brutally implemented across the twentieth century. This phenomenon is due partly to ignorance and partly to a cultivated historical amnesia—one that imperils the very freedoms that the West still possesses, however precariously.

I have long wondered if those who lived in pre-Revolutionary America knew somehow that they were living in capital-R Revolutionary times, because I’m wondering if we’re there again...

Senate Democrats unanimously opposed legislation Wednesday requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages before allowing access to explicit content, drawing criticism from conservatives who accused the party of siding with the pornography industry over protecting children online.


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While my work in public policy requires frequent phone use, I have to be honest with myself—it frequently crosses the line into mindless distraction. Even though my social media activity has been outsourced to a contractor, many of the posts still have a “look at me” vibe as I try to build the platform of followers needed to sell a future book. Between the subtle distraction and micro self-worship, I couldn’t help but ponder, “Is Screwtape hiding in my pocket?”

Technology gives us vast tools, part of human ingenuity that images God by harnessing creation. And as the Scripture tells us, “Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving” (1 Tim. 4:4). With technology, as with almost anything else, regulations of “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” can leave us with a legalism and asceticism that “are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh” (Col. 2:21, 23).
   Yet technology will make it easier and easier for you to stop thinking, to stop paying attention, to stop the renewal of your mind. Part of what it means to love is to conserve your ability to think, feel, and create. That requires paying attention to where the present age is attempting to pull you, and to map out another, harder way.
   Your brain does not belong to you. It was bought with a price. Guard that trust.

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Proposed legislation in India could allow government control over religious organizations receiving funding from overseas, sparking international and domestic backlash. Image

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‘Why would you kidnap a baby?’ Senior Hamas official challenged after claiming 'no crimes' committed on Oct 7  “Sorry, I have to interrupt there,” Morgan interjected. “When you say you don't commit crimes and you don't kill innocent civilians, we all saw what happened on October the 7th in 2023.” 
   “You had 3,000 members of your organization, Hamas, pour over the Israeli border and commit a series of despicable crimes in which you massacred innocent civilians all over Israel,” Morgan continued. “You then captured over 250 of them, including Holocaust survivors and a baby. So, the idea you've not committed crimes is ridiculous.”

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DHS Confirms Over 3 Million Total Deportations, Highlights Arrests Of Five More "Worst Of The Worst" Criminal Illegals  According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), more than three million illegal aliens have left the United States due to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: 2.2 million self-deportations, and over 985,000 deported by DHS.
   Each of the five violent criminals highlighted by DHS Tuesday were arrested in deep blue sanctuary cities where anti-ICE agitators continue to harass immigration officers.

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