Tuesday, May 05, 2026

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits...

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
 my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning...
-Psalm 130:5-6

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord’s will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills; neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.  -George MacDonald Image

----------------------------------

Are America's college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens?
   An Ivy League professor -- an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech -- recently warned me about what's happening in classrooms like his.
   He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class -- but students are afraid to speak, not because they're afraid of the professor but because they fear each other Image

----------------------------------

Voters Blame Media for Inspiring Assassination Attempt, Dividing Nation   Six in ten voters think it’s likely that negative news media coverage of President Donald Trump inspired the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 25, a new national Rasmussen survey finds.
   Of U.S. likely voters polled April 27-29 following the attack, 60% think it’s at least “somewhat likely” that hostile media inspired the armed shooter’s attack – including 41% who call it “very likely.” In contrast, just 13% consider it “not at all likely.”

‘Nice, Wholesome’ Dem PA Senate Candidate Arrested After Asking Member of Congress to Kill Trump, Threatens to ‘Slit’ Senator’s Throat   Chandler has since been charged with influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threat, as well as threatening a family member of a federal official. The FBI has raided his home looking for additional evidence.

----------------------------------

I Was Not Really Pro-Life (And What Changed My Mind)  However, I have a confession to make: I used to be one of those establishment pro-life types, the ones who are not committed to abolishing abortion entirely, but accepted all sorts of exceptions. I’d like to share what it took to make me an abolitionist.
   For years, I stuck with the usual conservative phrase: “I am pro-life, with exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother.”

----------------------------------

California’s Fuelmaggedon Exposes the Catastrophic Failure of Green Energy Fantasies  Decades of environmental mandates, refinery closures, and deliberate avoidance of pipelines have transformed California into an “energy island,” reliant on long-haul imports refined in Asia from Middle Eastern sources. When geopolitics disrupts that flow, there is no quick domestic alternative.


----------------------------------

Trapped by Zombies: Pregnant LA Mom Recounts Horrifying Trip to Store, Says She'll Vote Differently Now   She tells the all too familiar modern story of the dangers of walking the streets in the City of Angels — you might just find yourself staring straight at some scary-looking street dwellers, and there’s nobody around to help. Now, if you happen to be heavily pregnant and looking after your toddler daughter, it’s even more frightening.

Restaurants and Retail Stores Have Had Enough of Micro-looting Young anti-capitalists think it's a virtue to steal from big corporations. These are Hasan's people, the ones who make up his audience and they are having an impact. Lost of retailers, not just Walmart, are feeling the need to dial back on self-checkout. Target is another example, though they went out of their way to deny this change in their stores was about theft.


----------------------------------

Human-to-human transmission suspected on board hantavirus cruise ship, WHO says  “We do know that some of the cases had very close contact with each other and certainly human-to-human transmission can’t be ruled out so as a precaution this is what we are assuming,” Dr. Maria Van Kerhove, WHO’s director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, told reporters.

----------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 1:32 PM   0 comments

Monday, May 04, 2026

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land...

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
    who do his just commands;
seek righteousness; seek humility;
    perhaps you may be hidden
    on the day of the anger of the Lord.
  -Zephaniah 2:3

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.   -J.C. Ryle

----------------------------------

The shibboleth that “diversity is our strength” is one of the worst canards of our time. There is a great deal of empirical data indicating that in general, cultural diversity is a weakness, not a strength. Culturally diverse societies (which can mean ethnically diverse, but doesn’t have to) are generally lower-trust societies, which inhibits economic growth. Western Europe is living proof of that proposition.

Medicaid Millionaires: How The Feds Pay Immigrants Billions To Hang Out With Their Families This poverty program is different from things like food stamps, because it has no monetary cap and its extent is decided not by politicians, but by any doctor willing to sign a form saying you could use some help around the house. It only takes one doctor who will say yes to churn out enough forms to bankrupt a state.



----------------------------------

Swedish Leader Demands End to Islamization: 'Demolish All Minarets, Ban Prayer Calls and Oppressive Clothing'   Her hard-hitting remarks, captured in a video that has gone viral across social media, reflect the deep and growing frustration among native Swedes with the cultural erosion, skyrocketing crime, parallel societies, and security nightmare created by mass migration from Islamic countries.


----------------------------------

Archdiocese of New York Agrees To Pay $800,000,000 in Sex Abuse Settlement  Two years after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached an $880 million settlement with men and women who survived childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests and clergy in their diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is following suit, agreeing to pay more than $800 million to its own sexual abuse survivors.
   So far, the Catholic Church has paid out more than $5 billion in settlements, which has bankrupted at least 19 dioceses. Image

----------------------------------

Protestant churches are experiencing a complex pattern of growth and decline across the world, with Western nations - particularly the UK - emerging as key areas of concern, according to new findings from the Pew Research Center.
   The data, drawn from surveys conducted in 24 countries in 2024, highlights how “religious switching” - when someone adopts a different faith from the one they were raised in - continues to reshape Christianity globally.

How Occultists Remade the World  As the Western world abandons its historic faith traditions, it isn’t becoming atheist, but agnostic, and it is within the vague milieu of agnosticism that these occult ideas travel. With the intellectual and spiritual coherence offered by religion fading, we may find that people turn to the wastebasket of occultism and its mysterious depths for answers the churches used to provide. Of one thing we can be sure, as the world braces for crises on every front, people will be looking for answers.

----------------------------------

Canadian Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip However, despite the priest’s assertion that his condition is not and never was fatal, he says a doctor had raised the possibility of him taking his own life through Canada’s taxpayer-funded and government-run Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program in the event his injury worsened.

Appeals Court Blocks FDA Policy That Let Abortionists Traffick Deadly Illegal Drugs By Mail  A study last year found serious adverse effects caused by mifepristone abortions are ‘at least 22 times as high’ as the drug’s label admits.

Doctors Can Fraudulently Code ‘Trans’ Child Genital Mutilation To Bypass Bans: Report The report identifies eight codes that may be the most likely to hide child “transition” interventions from insurers and regulators, including hypopituitarism, other primary ovarian failure, testicular hypofunction, precocious puberty, other specified endocrine disorders, unspecified endocrine disorder, hormone replacement therapy, and hypertrophy of breast.


----------------------------------

Seductive doesn’t require supersmart machines. You could create a seductive AI companion today. Unlike Colossus, it wouldn’t be scary but winsome. You and your AI buddy would share inside jokes, light teasing, “remember when” stories of things you did in the past and fantasies or plans for the future. It would be like a best friend who’s always there for you and endlessly helpful.


----------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 12:14 PM   0 comments

Saturday, May 02, 2026

How Long, O Lord, How Long?

How Long, O Lord, How Long? (Psalm 13) 
 Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
O Lord, our God, to You we come
Will You still hide Your face?
We cry before You and on our knees we pray
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 2
Our sorrows leave us weak and worn
Surrounded by our fears
We look to heaven through feeble faith and tears
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
CHORUS
Till Your glory fills our eyes
And our faith is turned to sight
Till our thirsty souls are satisfied
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 3
Our foes and enemies rejoice
Injustice seems to reign
Lord, we are shaken and we are losing strength
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 4
But we will trust Your steadfast love
Your grace will be our song
You bring new mercies with ev’ry rising sun
How long, O Lord, how long?

posted by Pat Dague @ 9:30 PM   0 comments

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints...

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
    and give thanks to his holy name.
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 30:4-5

-----------------------------------

Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof   We so often panic about how AI will outsmart us and take our jobs. But what if its ability to exploit mankind’s emotional quirks is more dangerous than anything else?
   “Seductive AI doesn’t depend on outsmarting people, but on essentially being lovable, being cute, being friendly, being sexy, so as to gain people’s trust and acquire influence over them,” Reynolds said.

-----------------------------------


DOJ Launches West Coast Healthcare Fraud Strike Force Targeting Arizona, Nevada, and Northern California  The Healthcare Strike Force model has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the federal enforcement arsenal, responsible nationally for the prosecution of over 6,200 defendants who collectively billed federal healthcare programs and private insurers more than $45 billion.

-----------------------------------

Trump DOJ launches investigations into 36 Illinois school districts over LGBT indoctrination The probe will “examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt their children out of” whatever instruction they may be conducting on “sexual orientation and gender identity,” the announcement says, and whether they are limiting restrooms, lockers, and athletic teams to actual members of their designated sex.

TAKE ACTION PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s War on America’s Children-The MSA Takeover of U.S. High Schools-Texas Student Fights Back  The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) is now aggressively infiltrating America’s high schools and junior highs, turning taxpayer-funded public schools into recruitment hubs for Sharia and Islamic indoctrination as the next phase of its civilization jihad.

Lesbian Communists Hijack New Hampshire Public School Curriculum    Translation: How do we consolidate and centralize our totalitarian grip on the education system so that not a single thoughtcrime is any longer possible?


-----------------------------------

Bill in India smooths way for government to seize church assets   A sweeping foreign funding bill in India could hand the government control over faith-based schools, hospitals and charitable institutions built over decades, church leaders said.

-----------------------------------


-----------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 11:14 AM   0 comments

Friday, May 01, 2026

Pray without ceasing...

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. -1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.  -Brother Lawrence

-----------------------------------

What is easy to miss is that young men and women are responding to the same underlying wound: the collapse of community and the epidemic of loneliness. Men’s social networks have disintegrated more severely than women’s. In the absence of genuine community, many young men found their way to the manosphere—a kind of church of the self, offering moral clarity, structure, and belonging organized around masculine identity. Young women, equally lonely, found feminist influencers waiting for them online, ready to monetize their isolation and channel it into righteous grievance. Both, in other words, wanted community, moral structure, and a shared account of what human life is for. They just went looking for it in all the wrong places. First Things

Looking For the Gen Z Revival? Check Bookstores And Movie Theatres   This suggests a future for Gen Z that’s increasingly divided. Some will be in person at church. Others will be in person in bookstores. Others will be in person at running clubs, and others at movie theaters. But they will likely never talk to each other. The town square will be social media, and Gen Z will pick from the cafeteria of choices it offers to determine which in-person community they like best. 
   There’s still reason to believe religion itself will come out ahead on this in the long term.

Progressive Christianity Watch: Flirty God, Lesbian Angels, and Other Things Not in Your Study Bible  It’s been a while since I’ve written a Progressive Christianity Watch. I have a trio of doozies for you today, so enjoy.

-----------------------------------

With so much evil seeming to be sweeping over the world and the West of late, just the other day I was thinking about biblical texts that speak of how God’s restraint over what happens on planet earth might be lifted (see 2 Thessalonians 2 for example). At the end of the day, the only reason things are not even worse than they are is because God has been keeping evil in check to some extent.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is very clear on the approach that the West must close borders and dismantle Islamist infrastructures to prevent the spread of radical Islam. Unlike the U.S. and Middle East, which are actively countering Islamist elements, Europe remains vulnerable due to political complacency and open borders. The influx of refugees and elites from Middle Eastern conflicts will accelerate Islamist demographic and political dominance.

-----------------------------------


-----------------------------------


-----------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 4:29 PM   0 comments

Thursday, April 30, 2026

We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus...

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  -Hebrews 10:19-22

Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held, it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of every day.   -A.W. Tozer

---------------------------------

BREAKING: House Votes to Fund DHS, Ending 75-Day Shutdown  House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to reporters after the House adopted the Senate-approved package.
   “We’ve got the budget resolution passed. This is very, very important because that will ensure that border security and immigration enforcement will continue today and well into the future, despite Democrat attempts to reopen our borders and protect criminal illegal aliens from removal,” Speaker Johnson said.
   “The net result of passing our reconciliation bill is that ICE and CBP are funded for three years,” Johnson said.

---------------------------------

Blue Wednesday for communists...Iran is losing. Comey is losing. And America is having a great week.   We know the military is doing a good job because the media moved the war off the front pages. Instead, the DC bylines are all about the new White House ballroom.

---------------------------------

Supreme Court Rules on Faith-Based Ministries’ Rights  The court unanimously ruled in favor of faith-based ministries being able to seek federal assistance when intrusive state investigations threaten to undermine their mission, in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport. The ruling is also a major victory against the pro-death abortion lobby, and it's a triumph for the constitutional right to religious liberty, a right that leftists are constantly attempting to undermine.

Vermont pays Christian school $566k for athletics ban based on girls' forfeit against male  Mid Vermont Christian School is still suing other state officials because they have "yet again excluded all religious schools" from participating in the Green Mountain State's tuition and other public benefits programs, lawyers say.


---------------------------------

In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race and Sexual Identity  Some formulas give race more weight than any other variable.

---------------------------------

Ozempic Personality: Ozempic is a gene-bending drug; it alters users' personalities  Drugs that alter genetic expression, such as Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs, can have severe adverse effects, including changes in personality, emotional flattening and loss of joy in life, due to their impact on consciousness.  Due to this effect, a new term, “Ozempic personality,” has been coined.

---------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 5:30 PM   0 comments

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Finally, be strong in the Lord...

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. -Ephesians 6:10-12

The Christian is engaged in a warfare. There is a fight before him, hence armour is urgently needed. It is impossible for us to stand against the wiles of the Devil unless we avail ourselves of the provision which God has made for enabling us to stand.   
-A.W. Pink Image

------------------------------------

Breaking Down the Would-Be Assassin’s Manifesto  “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”

Ever in “spin mode,” Democrats will continue to pretend that they are not responsible for all these threats to the lives of Trump, his administration, his voters, and law enforcement officers around the country.  Right after the latest attempt on the president’s life, Democrats in the press collectively blamed “guns.”  Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin joined Democrat mouthpiece Margaret Brennan to call for a “national conversation” on “gun violence.”  
   In other words, Democrats call Trump and his voters “Nazis” and “racists.”  Democrat voters take those words seriously and attempt to kill Trump and his voters.  Then Democrats blame that violence on “guns” and demand that Trump supporters be disarmed.  Democrats’ ridiculous cycle of lies and violence would be laughable if it were not also so deadly.



------------------------------------

Brandon Gill Gives a Master Class on Questioning an Abortion Ghoul   It is a gruesome and intense questioning. Gill asked Waters which method of abortion she preferred, then proceeded to describe different procedures in horrific detail. After each one, he would again ask Waters if that was the method she preferred, making her increasingly uncomfortable.

House Republicans, Weaponization Victims Make The Case For Repealing The FACE Act  Previously reported data suggested the Biden administration disproportionately focused its FACE Act prosecutions on pro-lifers who prayed, sang, and evangelized at abortion facilities. The Trump administration’s latest report also determined the Biden DOJ requested and ultimately secured sentences that were longer for pro-lifers — an average of 26.8 months and 14 months respectively — than for pro-abortion defendants, who averaged 12.3 months and 3 months respectively.

------------------------------------

There’s Never Just One Cockroach...Discovery is going to be delicious In the SPLC’s case, according to the indictment, a future CFO hid names to defraud donors. Fake businesses. Shell accounts. Payments routed through “Rare Books Warehouse” so no one would know they were siphoning money to the very activists the SPLC claimed to oppose. They protected names because the truth was a scandal, and so they could keep making dat money.

------------------------------------

The fraud party is ending...Mehmet Oz is taking down California's health-care fraud network  Federal agents—the “new enforcers” in town—are now targeting bigger fish, the so-called “whales”: Scammers running large-scale fraud networks that have treated California like a modern-day gold rush. Since the early 2000s, these networks have exploited what they saw as fertile ground, siphoning billions from taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. Especially during periods of expanded coverage.


------------------------------------




------------------------------------

Nursing Schools Can Finally Cure the DEI Disease    Over the past five years, these demands have metastasized across nursing education. Yet as future nurses have spent more time learning about fashionable political issues, they’ve spent less time learning about the care that patients need. In other words, the recent graduates of nursing schools have been less equipped to fulfill their fundamental duties. Nursing is an extraordinarily demanding field, and by diverting education time for DEI, nursing schools have directly put patient health at risk.

------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 2:31 PM   0 comments

Monday, April 27, 2026

Draw near to God....

 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  -James 4:8

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.   -Brother Lawrence

--------------------------------------

From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President -VD Hanson   From the trickle-down world of social media, the internet, and street theater, would-be killers absorb elite signals. This messaging becomes especially baleful when celebrities, governors, senators, and politicos amplify the claim that Trump is a fascist, a Nazi, a monster who is destroying the country and who must be stopped “by any means necessary.” Late-night comedians joke about past assassinations or assassination attempts; others have even claimed that Trump staged his first assassination attempt—and this one too!
   So deep runs their hatred.


WHCD gunman described himself as ‘Friendly Federal Assassin,’ denounced Trump policies: report The writings suggest what investigators are increasingly viewing as a politically motivated act of violence, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case cited by the Associated Press.


'Atrocious': Melania Trump goes to war with 'hateful and violent' Jimmy Kimmel after eerie comments one day before assassination attempt   Monday morning, Melania Trump posted a fierce response to Kimmel's remarks, saying: "Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy – his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America."

--------------------------------------

Party of Assassins...The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat Islam, he said, is all about sex. In this life, high-status men get wives and sex slaves. Lower-status men get little boys. Then in the afterlife, if they’re good Muslims, they all get 72 virgins, which, for Biblical people, is a bizarrely carnal eternity.
   Modern Western nations, with their ideas about women’s liberation, are a serious threat to this system. It’s extremely important to defeat those ideas—and to control those women.

--------------------------------------


--------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 6:00 PM   0 comments