Saturday, March 28, 2026

Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean...

 
Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean 
The Gettys, Sandra McCracken

Vs 1
Here is love vast as the ocean
Lovingkindness as the flood
When the Prince of Life, our ransom
Shed for us His precious blood
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten
Throughout heav’n’s eternal days

Vs 2
On the mount of crucifixion
Fountains opened deep and wide
Through the floodgates of God's mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide
Grace and love like mighty rivers
Poured incessant from above
Heav'n's peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love

Vs 3
On the morn of resurrection
Mercy filled the thirsty grave
Where the stone of death burst open
Springs of life flowed unrestrained
Love no heart could ever measure
Joy no sorrows will outrun
Rush upon the soul believing
In the risen, reigning Son

Vs 4
Oh this love, vast love of Jesus
Bids us come and drink and live
To this weary world of longing
What more could our Savior give
Now to Christ who fully loved us
And who freed us from our sin
Be all glory and dominion 
Everlasting praise to Him

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The tests of life are to make, not break us...

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. -Romans 5:3-5

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man’s business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.   -Maltbie D. Babcock

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LA and SD suffer major population drops as immigration slows and CA residents flee A steep drop in immigration, driven by tighter enforcement and fewer legal entry options, is leaving a noticeable dent. At the same time, high costs of living are pushing locals to relocate to cheaper parts of the country, creating a double hit that’s dragging population numbers down.

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One of the two major political parties in the United States actually detests U.S. citizens and incessantly woos illegal aliens … and the other party doesn’t really do much about it.
   And a country that has deep, profound -- and almost ubiquitous -- ties to Christianity seems to eschew religion in favor of an anything goes hyper-secularism, yet welcomes, tolerates, and defends Islam, a pseudo-religion that considers women as property, stones gays and adulterers, and whose “bylaws” state that infidels must be converted, enslaved, or exterminated. Weird, wild, wacky stuff. And deeply disturbing.

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Friday, March 27, 2026

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested...

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. -Romans 3:21-26

Straight through all the apparently tangled course of human history runs the accomplishment of God’s eternal plan. -J. Gresham Machen

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Drone Swarms Shutting Down Our Nuclear Strike Command:Barksdale Air Force Base  “Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links and resistance to jamming,” a confidential briefing obtained by ABC News said. “After reaching multiple points across the installation, the drones dispersed across sensitive locations on the base.”

FBI Announces Chinese Suspects Indicted for IED at CENTCOM Headquarters   The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed that a brother and sister from China are indicted in connection with an improvised explosive device (IED) placed at the base that serves as headquarters for U.S. Central Command, which is currently executing the Iran operation.


It’s Time To Acknowledge The Truth About China  The Chinese nation, using techniques other than open warfare, has long worked to turn the U.S. into a vassal state.

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Finland has shot itself in the foot in convicting Päivi Räsänen Senior US official Riley Barnes, speaking on behalf of the Trump Administration, has made his feelings clear on the conviction: "Holding Christian beliefs isn’t a crime. Finland’s 'hate speech' conviction of MP Päivi Räsänen – for simply writing a pamphlet defending the Bible – shows the tragic state of religious freedom in the West. The United States stands opposed to these ideological attacks against the Christian faith." Image

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European Leaders Now Know Trump Was Right: Iran Was an Imminent Global Threat  Iran’s failed strike on Diego Garcia exposed the truth: Tehran’s long-range ambitions were real all along—and Europe ignored the warning until it was too late.

‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’   Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”

American universities have been shifting into a rhetoric that not only accepts “Death to America,” but is openly chanting the same slogans of the oppressive regime.

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Democrats Created A New Laken Riley — They Want You To Forget She Ever Existed  Sheridan Gorman is becoming the new name that Democratic political leaders would like to quickly forget...It’s been just over two years since Laken Riley, a nursing student in Georgia, was savagely murdered by a different Venezuelan illegal alien. 
   The cases are strikingly similar: a promising young woman with her whole life ahead of her is dead, the suspect is an illegal immigrant, and Democrats will point the finger at everyone but themselves. Image

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Massachusetts Plan to Replace Taxpayers with Migrants Collapses The deep blue state of Massachusetts is facing financial collapse: politicians raise taxes on remaining citizens as taxpayers flee the state on top of the cratering of the inflow of poor migrants.

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Islamic encroachment is moving swiftly across Texas, not only in education, but with the building of dozens of new mosques, the development of a large Muslim community, and infiltration of Christian churches, it is clear these are barbaric conquerors who will stop at nothing to totally destroy America. It is up to Texans to bring full stop to the assault on our schools, our history, and our way of life.

Illinois: 30,000 Muslims Fill Stadium for Mosque with Documented Terror Ties (Video) This is exactly the type of thing we don’t want...Wake up, America. The transformation isn’t coming — it’s already underway.

EU: New Report Warns ‘No-Go Zones’ Fueled by Mass Migration, Islamization, and State Weakness Are Spreading  While more commonly associated with Europe, no-go zones are increasingly evident in the United States. Police in Dearborn, Michigan, now have Arabic patches, and the city’s Muslim mayor, Abdullah H. Hammoud, warned a Christian resident he was “not welcome” in the city last year when he expressed opposition to street signs honoring an Arab publisher accused of supporting terror.

The strain of Islam that’s growing dominant in Britain has no interest in tolerance or pluralism.

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Apple Co-Founder Warns 'You Are Owned' by Big Tech   TVs have never been bigger, brighter, or cheaper. 30 years ago, I paid $750 (roughly $1,500 in today's dollars) for a 27" lo-def Sony Trinitron that seemed to weigh about as much as a small car. If you had told me then that in the future, that same money would get me a 70" 4K HDR screen so thin and light that I could hang it on the wall, I'd have said, "Bring it on!"
   But if you'd also told me that today's TVs would report to the manufacturer every show and movie I watch, and they'd sell that information to any and every advertiser out there… Well, I'd have been a lot less enthusiastic.

OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT  Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT users could form unhealthy attachments, which might harm their mental health. One advisor chillingly suggested that the tweak risked turning ChatGPT into a “sexy suicide coach.”

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Thursday, March 26, 2026

For whoever would save his life will lose it...

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? -Matthew 16:24-26

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 Guinnes

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The census takes place in 2030. That’s just a few years from now, really, and when the counts happen, if they happen as they have been, there won’t be a distinction for who is here legally and illegally. People just get counted, and those numbers decide who gets how many seats in the House. It decides, more or less, where there will be the greatest density of congressional seats, such as the handful in Los Angeles or New York City alone.

Miranda Devine: The Dems’ propaganda of constant lies is getting Americans killed  The sole aim of Democrats is to punish Americans for voting Trump into office.
   Dems get away with it by shamelessly lying and then pretending they are paragons of truth.
   They smear ICE agents as ­Gestapo, white supremacists, ­Nazis and “secret police” — with the objective of turning the American public against them.

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ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Accused of Raping 5-Yr-Old Girl in Long Island, NY   Tierney blasted New York Democrats for bail reform and also their proposals to expand the state’s sanctuary law, ensuring that law enforcement cannot communicate with ICE.
   “Incredibly, up in Albany right now there are new Sanctuary laws currently under consideration that would have prevented us from even talking to federal immigration authorities,” Tierney told local media. “My message to our state legislators and governor is simple — stop protecting the rights of alleged child rapists at the expense of child victims.”

Outrage as trans illegal immigrant gets just 6-month sentence for sexual assault of NYC teen  The “extraordinarily low” six-month sentence handed to a trans illegal immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan sparked outrage Wednesday from a victims’ rights group and left even former prosecutors in shock.
   Legal eagles were baffled by the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office struck with Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old transgender woman from Colombia, in the vicious 2025 assault of a 14-year-old boy in East Harlem.

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$3 Billion Pakistani Muslim Medical Fraud in 2 Years The nearly $3 billion in health care fraud also reveals a pattern of companies operating from Pakistan who are able to function as medical providers in the United States. Considering the systemic pattern of Pakistani overseas medical fraud in these past years, the Trump administration would be well served by banning foreign providers, especially from Pakistan, China and Bangladesh, from being able to bill Medicare, Medicaid or other medical providers, or play any role whatsoever in the American health care system.

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'We See Islam Through Christian Glasses' — Top Philosopher Rémi Brague Exposes the Deadly Misunderstanding That Threatens the West (Video) We see Islam through Christian glasses — and that fatal delusion is blinding the West to Sharia’s total legal domination, Muhammad’s perfect (and deeply disturbing) example, the lobster-pot trap of dhimmitude, and the patient Islamization of our civilization.

FUTURE PRESIDENT IN THE MAKING: 12-Year-Old Texas Boy Drops Truth Bomb on Islam at Wylie ISD Board Meeting (Video)  In an age of weak politicians, compromised school officials, and adults terrified of being called “Islamophobic,” a 12-year-old from small-town Texas just stood up and defended Western civilization with more backbone than most members of Congress.
   Leland Saunders spoke truth to power. He named the evil. He warned about the lethal force behind the “religion of peace.” He pointed to the beheadings, the oppression of women, the conquest of Dearborn, and the infiltration of our public schools.

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But Britain is now a shadow of its former self, having allowed its institutions, the media, academia, and the public to be heavily influenced by Islam, which the late Christopher Hitchens described as “the most toxic form that religion can take.” Fashionable deference to Islam—the government, for example, treats even the most innocuous criticism of Islam as “hate speech”—has caused a noticeable shift in power, identity, and influence, and it may not be long before Britain becomes an Islamic state.



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‘White plague’ (TB) is on the rise in the US — it’s deadlier than COVID and becoming antibiotic-resistant   Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 10,260 tuberculosis cases were reported nationwide in 2025, including a staggering 967 in New York alone.
  But the real toll could be even higher. TB symptoms are often mistaken for more common illnesses like the flu or RSV, meaning cases can be missed or treatment delayed.
  Public health experts say that’s a problem in itself. The longer TB goes undiagnosed, the more it can spread, and the higher the risk that the bacteria causing it will develop antibiotic resistance to its medicines, making it harder to treat.


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Pharma Bribery Corrupts Health Care, Puts Patients at Risk, New Review Warns  Together, these pharmaceutical companies, their subsidiaries, and others have reportedly paid at least $12.6 million in bribes to win drug approvals, boost sales, and secure government contracts, a new analysis of international enforcement records shows. The cases resulted in more than $1.1 billion in sanctions, often without admissions or denials of wrongdoing. Yet many alleged schemes designed to prioritize profits over patients persisted for years before they were uncovered.
   From a public health perspective, the impact of pharmaceutical industry bribery extends well beyond financial penalties and corporate reputations, the study’s authors say. Corruption, they note, is harmful for patients, especially when companies seek to promote the sale of drugs with unproven or dangerous uses.


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Abortion up to birth means the mass murder of baby girls UK: News that abortions are now officially legal to the point, presumably, of a pregnancy being overdue and mum suddenly not feeling the love, should be etched for ever in the national record as a crime against humanity. Shame on us.

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Proposals and discussions around remote vehicle disablement -- popularly referred to as “kill switches” -- have raised further concerns. While proponents argue that such features could prevent high-speed chases or stop stolen vehicles, the existence of remote-control capabilities introduces a fundamentally different relationship between the individual and the machine. A car that can be disabled remotely is clearly not under the control of its owner.

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China AI labs face growing open-source dilemma  It also underscores a new reality in Silicon Valley and beyond: startups and more established companies alike are increasingly ​eschewing pricey proprietary models from OpenAI and others for free or low-cost Chinese versions which are rapidly closing the performance gap despite Washington's export ​curbs and sanctions.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom...

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
 and the one who gets understanding,
for the gain from her is better than gain from silver
and her profit better than gold.
She is more precious than jewels,
    and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Long life is in her right hand;
    in her left hand are riches and honor.
  -Proverbs 3:13-16

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty. Acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.   -J.I. Packer

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Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become? -VD Hanson No matter—following his premature death at 66 in 1993, Chavez was canonized, as his postmortem reputation reached angelic status. There is hardly a major California city today that does not have a street named after him. His name is emblazoned on state and federal buildings. His birthday, March 31, at least for now, is still a California holiday. There is a USNS Cesar Chavez cargo ship. Chavez statues dot California campuses. Until recently, few have ever questioned the canonization of Chavez.
   But this past week’s recent disclosures—long known among his inner circle and always suppressed for the supposed greater good of the union movement—have revealed that Chavez was a hero with feet of clay. Image

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Salt Lake City’s Woke Mayor Praises Ramadan as If It Has Brought Us Everything That Is Good  As she complacently praised Ramadan, hoping for short-term electoral gain, the hijab-clad Erin Mendenhall was the very model of the modern useful idiot. Yet one thing is certain: there will be much, much more Islamopandering in this country before there is any general awakening to the religion’s aggressive, violent, supremacist and expansionist aspects. If that awakening ever comes.

Europe Shows How It Deserves to Be Conquered by Islam      Now, what about America? It’s not a question if this can happen in America. We’re already seeing what’s happening in Dearborn, Minneapolis, and increasingly in Texas and in New York City. 
   The American people do not want for themselves what is happening to the Europeans, but it is happening. Now is the time for this country to take note and take the necessary steps to assure that America’s laws, America’s culture, and America’s freedoms do not suffer the slow rot we’re seeing happen in Europe.

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Unthinkable: A Church Leader Funding Abortion With Adult Toy Sales  The facts alone are jarring. A clergy member--someone entrusted with teaching Scripture, shepherding souls, and upholding the moral teachings of the Christian faith--is openly promoting sexual products while financially supporting an organization that performs hundreds of thousands of abortions each year. For many believers, this is not merely a disagreement over secondary issues; it strikes at the heart of what the Church is called to represent.

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The Quiet Collapse of the American Restaurant   And it’s not one dramatic collapse. There is no single moment you can point to and say, “That’s when it all fell apart.” Instead, it’s thousands of quiet closures, a lease not renewed, a location that simply doesn’t reopen, a family deciding they can’t keep going.
   Those closures feel subtle. They happen without headlines, without press releases, without national attention. But the list above tells a different story. When hundreds of locations are closing across major national chains, when bankruptcies and restructurings are happening at scale, that is not quiet, not subtle, and not just background economic noise. That is something breaking in plain sight.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence...

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
    for my hope is from him.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
    my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my salvation and my glory;
    my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. 
  -Psalm 62:5-8

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Drones Swarm Nuclear Bomber Base, Exposing Potential Threat to U.S. Aircrews  The drones appeared to be custom built and required “advanced knowledge” of signal operations.

U.S. Moves to Dismantle Iran’s Cyber Repression Network The United States has taken a decisive step against the Iranian regime’s expanding cyber warfare strategy, announcing the seizure of four domains linked to covert psychological operations and transnational repression campaigns orchestrated by Tehran’s intelligence apparatus.


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Lefty hypocrites’ revolting Cuba vacation is par for the communist course  The Code Pink crowd, stacked with upper-class white women, flew first class on a chartered jet, unselfconsciously issuing press statements from their extra-wide and cushy seats.
   Upon arrival they were chauffeured to Havana’s Gran Hotel Bristol, a luxury lodging operated by the Cuban government for select foreign guests — and off-limits to ordinary Cubans, other than those employed to change the sheets and scrub the toilets. 
   There the visiting socialists slept in air-conditioned comfort, thanks to generator-provided electricity, as the rest of the island sweltered through a blackout caused by the collapse of Cuba’s power grid. Image

New Jersey governor touts 'the five pillars of Islam' in visit to Islamic Center of Passaic County  'Moderate' Mikie Sherrill Attends Ramadan Services With Imam Who Faced Deportation Proceedings Over Alleged Ties to Hamas and Calls for 'New Intifada'

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When is prayer in public a crime in Britain?   While Muslims are welcomed to pray loudly and openly in large groups in the centre of London, under the “buffer zone” legislation championed in 2024 by MPs, including Stella Creasy, those who pray publicly in the street outside abortion clinics – even if they do so alone, and even if they pray silently in their own minds – could swiftly find themselves in trouble. Under Section 9(1)(a) of the Public Order Act, if their presence is perceived merely to ‘influence’ someone considering going into the abortion clinic, they are likely to be arrested. Individuals have been questioned, fined, and dragged through court after standing, thinking, in a public space within 150 metres of an abortion facility.


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Supporters believe that approach helps students stay interested in school, an argument that sounds appealing, yet it doesn't resolve a basic concern. Students struggling with reading and math need direct, structured teaching that builds skills step by step, while a program centered on performance and expression risks shifting attention away from those core needs.

Study: K-12 Grade Inflation Making American Kids Dumber, Costing Them Millions The study, a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, distinguishes two forms of leniency. When teachers inflate grades across the board—giving higher marks than students’ actual performance warrants—the effects ripple far beyond the classroom.

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Trump Admin Strikes Deal With Energy Firm To Nix Offshore Wind Plans   A global energy corporation based in France has ceded leases off North Carolina and New York where it planned to spend nearly $1 billion to build offshore wind turbines back to the U.S. Department of Interior and will instead redirect that investment into natural gas projects in Texas.

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Despite the efforts of psychopathic teachers and professionals, and despite celebrities parading their transgender/homosexual children as a status symbol in Hollywood, we can expect the continued decline of transgender surgeries.

Red State Republican Warns Taxpayers Are On The Hook For Trans Surgeries “Why should their state taxpayer dollars be used to pay for others elective surgeries?"

The Russia-collusion saga ranks among the boldest political deceptions in modern American memory -- not for the facts it revealed, but for the damning realities it worked so hard to obscure.

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The international covid shutdowns were among the worst public policy disasters (or crimes) of modern times, and yet there has been no accountability.

Bills in 3 states would declare COVID mRNA shots ‘weapons of mass destruction’  Developers of the mRNA vaccines failed to foresee that, once inside the body, the repeated development of the spike proteins can’t be controlled. For some recipients of the vaccines, their bodies became a human factory for the production of the spike protein, able to travel via the bloodstream from the injection site to their entire body, including major organs, the brain, liver, spleen, bone marrow, and reproductive organs.

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Monday, March 23, 2026

So teach us to number our days...

So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord! How long?
    Have pity on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
Let your work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!
 -Psalm 90:12-17

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Will There Be Blood? Can America and the West Be Recivilized without Violence?   President Nayib Bukele has transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous places in the world—a tropical hellhole with a murder rate fit for a Middle Eastern warzone—to one of the safest countries in the Americas. He did it by applying one basic principle: lock up the most violent people in society, then throw away the key.

America needs to exercise the traditional ability it once had to make citizenship meaningful by also making it selective, controlling immigration, ending the automatic grants of citizenship for happenstance births and once again making citizenship conditional on ongoing allegiance.
   Anything else is not citizenship: it’s a national death wish.

Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country -VD Hanson  In the mid-1960s, new laws junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor.
   In the 60 years since, Democrats began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the US.
   The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.”

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The Islamization of Britain is Almost Complete  But Britain is now a shadow of its former self, having allowed its institutions, the media, academia, and the public to be heavily influenced by Islam, which the late Christopher Hitchens described as “the most toxic form that religion can take.” Fashionable deference to Islam—the government, for example, treats even the most innocuous criticism of Islam as “hate speech”—has caused a noticeable shift in power, identity, and influence, and it may not be long before Britain becomes an Islamic state.

UK: The Golders Green ambulance attack reveals the depths of the new Jew hatred   The butchers of Tehran were sending their henchmen after Jews in Britain – and across Europe – long before American and Israeli bombs began falling on the Ayatollah, his missile sites and the IRGC earlier this month. More than 20 potentially Iran-linked plots have been disrupted in Britain over the past two years.

Anyone even mildly observant about what is happening to the West in general and Britain in particular will know what a dangerous path they are now on. Every day new horror stories emerge about how Great Britain is no longer great, and it will very soon be another failed state and Islamic hellhole – if it is not one already.

UTAH SHOCK: City Hall Transformed Into a Mosque During Ramadan Iftar Salt Lake City’s City Hall was turned into a mosque during Ramadan, with Islamic prayer, hijabs, and designated religious space inside a taxpayer-funded government building.

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Study: K-12 Grade Inflation Making American Kids Dumber, Costing Them Millions  When grades lose meaning, the system rewards compliance over mastery, punishing diligent students while masking deficiencies in others. Lower performers may gain a temporary reprieve from failure, but the study shows mean inflation uniformly reduces learning (via muted incentives), harming even high achievers, who coast on easy As.

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Kathy Hochul: Oops, That Climate Law Was a Mistake... "Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top budget official elevated concerns about the cost of the state’s climate law that the governor once championed on Wednesday."To achieve New York's outrageous climate goals, it would "add more than $1.90 to gasoline prices and raise costs for a family with oil heat and a gas vehicle by $3,000 annually."

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What In the World Is Happening With Woke Clergy?  That is just a cross-section of what some are trying to do with faith and the culture while wearing the collar. Image

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Saturday, March 21, 2026

All to Honour Jesus

 
All to Honour Jesus 
CityAlight

V1
Father, may I serve like my Saviour
Give me eyes to see what you see
Teach my sinful heart to be humble
Help me be your hands and feet

V2
Father, may I love like my Saviour
As He had compassion on me
May I work for justice and mercy
For the ones in greatest need

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

V3
Father, may I tell of my Saviour
How He offers hope for the lost
Help me share the grace and forgiveness
That he showed me at the cross

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

BRIDGE
Praise my Saviour for His mercy
Praise the Servant King
All to Jesus be the glory
All to honour Him

Praise my Saviour for His mercy
Praise the Servant King
All to Jesus be the glory
All to honour Him
All to honour Him

CHORUS
God of love would you lead me
Take this heart, make it holy
Help me serve
through the strength of Christ
All to honour Jesus with my life
All to honour Jesus with my life

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“He has done all things well..."

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” -Mark 7:37

Let us remember it, as we look back over the past days of our lives, from the hour of our conversion. “Our Lord has done all things well!” In the first bringing us out of darkness into His marvelous light,—in humbling us and teaching us our weakness, guilt, and folly,—in stripping us of our idols, and choosing all our portions,—in placing us where we are, and giving us what we have—how well everything has been done! How great the mercy—that we have not had our own way!  -J.C. Ryle

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Welcome to "The New Monroe Doctrine," where I give you an update on what's going on in the Western Hemisphere, south of our border, especially as it relates to the United States.

Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers' salaries amid DHS budget standoff  The DHS shutdown has left TSA agents working without pay, triggering staffing shortages and long airport lines nationwide, while raising concerns about the ability to prevent attacks.
   Republicans have pushed to fund DHS, while Democrats have sought standalone funding for agencies like TSA that would exclude immigration operations.

The Political Left, Multiculturalism and the Dark Alliance With Islam  One problem the Muslims wrestled with was the need for foreign alliances and western “advocates” to make immigration and the integration of Islam into target countries more “official”. Twenty-five years ago, this was considered all but impossible in the US and in Europe.  However, since around 2014, the Sharia fundamentalists found a willing and ready ally in the new “woke” left.

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Inside The Queering Of America’s Oldest Catholic University  One student alleged the university’s Catholic Ministry has been “totally taken over by the LGBTQ agenda.”
  The invitation to the “Queer Interfaith Discussion Group,” which says snacks will be provided, joins other invitations on the Catholic Ministry Instagram page for activities ranging from an “evening prayer for immigrants in the United States” to their “7th Annual Mass of Belonging.”

More people going into vocational programs, more manufacturing jobs, and more understanding that skills are what matter, not whether you know why the author made the curtains blue in a room described in some obscure 20th-century novel.
   Educate our new adults in things that matter, that will benefit them directly, and then open the door for the other stuff if they’re interested. At least then they won’t be starving artists.

Education is being perverted into a vehicle for the new barbarism   But how can wisdom even be discussed when there are university courses in literary theory which claim that when Christina Rossetti wrote a poem about the sea, she was really writing about feminism and racism, or that the racist and sexist Shakespeare is best studied (if you must!) in Romanian because his English language gets in the way of understanding him? 

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But here’s what I’ve learned over the years: Our love for knowledge and critical analysis can lead us to confuse spiritual transformation with knowledge accumulation. We may assume that because we know all the right answers, we’re being shaped by them.
   Ironically, the skill we’ve developed to spot false gospels everywhere else can make it difficult to see the ones we’ve allowed to take root in our hearts.

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“Not every consensus of the past is worth clinging to, of course. But as a society, we are making an enormously risky bet: that we can reap the rewards of a runaway gambling industry without paying any price; that the litany of social ills long associated with this vice—addiction and impoverishment, isolation and abuse, cheating and chasing and corrosive idleness—can, this time, be kept in check; that, unlike every civilization that came before us, we can beat the house.”

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Like the introduction of a computer virus, mRNA sequences contain instructions which instigate rogue actions within the cell. The regular beating of our heart cells upon which our life depends, the pulse of life, can be mixed up by a genetically active mRNA sequence, whose effect is genomic dysregulation. 
   Having read this summary of what we know and what we have known or suspected about mRNA injections for several years, one must conclude how fundamentally wrong it is to continue to recommend mRNA covid vaccines as ‘safe and effective’ for the public.

So, the forever maskers now admit that cloth or surgical masks do not stop airborne viruses. They admit that surgeons do not wear masks to stop respiratory viruses, and that wearing lower-grade masks, the exact type worn by the vast majority of the world for years on end to stop COVID, could not have possibly stopped COVID. Incredible. All the masking we did was never going to work, because surgical masks don't work. According to people pushing for permanent masking.

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