There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
In this Olive Tree Prophecy Update, Pastor Josh Schwartz, Ken Mikle, Lee Brainard, Billy Crone and Mondo Gonzales, discuss the II Thessalonians 2 passage about the apostasy or falling away. Could it be the rapture?
It is almost midnight, but at this stage most of the population doesn’t even care about the endless procession of babies that are having their lives snuffed out at our abortion mills. Terms such as “massacre”, “slaughter’ and “genocide” are not nearly strong enough to describe what is taking place on a daily basis, and the vast majority of us seem to think that there will never be any serious consequences for what we are doing. But the truth is that we shall surely reap what we have sown.
I knew that the number of abortions that happen worldwide each year was very high, but I didn’t know that it was this high.
Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion (1).
Comprehensive abortion care is included in the list of essential health care services published by WHO in 2020. Abortion is a simple health care intervention that can be effectively managed by a wide range of health workers using medication or a surgical procedure.
Just think about that number for a few moments.
If you multiply that number by 10, you get 730 million abortions in just one decade.
And if you multiply that number by 20, you get almost 1.5 billion abortions in just two decades.
According to Google, the total population of the globe right now is just 7.888 billion.
So we are talking about a death toll that would represent a very sizable portion of the entire global population.
In all of human history, we have never seen carnage of this magnitude.
If you believe that we can just keep doing this indefinitely without suffering any consequences, you are dead wrong.
Of course it is not just babies that die. According to the WHO, lots of mothers are dying too…
Each year, 4.7–13.2% of maternal deaths can be attributed to unsafe abortion (3). In developed regions, it is estimated that 30 women die for every 100 000 unsafe abortions. In developing regions, that number rises to 220 deaths per 100 000 unsafe abortions (2). Estimates from 2012 indicate that in developing countries alone, 7 million women per year were treated in hospital facilities for complications of unsafe abortion (4).
It wasn’t always this way.
Prior to the 1970s, abortion was a lot more rare.
But then Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in all 50 U.S. states, and that opened the floodgates for legalization efforts all over the globe.
50 years later, Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States.
Of course that decision didn’t make abortion illegal in the United States, but suddenly states were free to make their own laws.
It was a golden opportunity for us to change direction.
But that didn’t happen.
Instead, the number of abortions performed in the United States actually went up during the 12 months immediately following the overturning of Roe v. Wade…
The average number of abortions performed each month in the US rose in the year after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to ban the procedure, according to data released on Tuesday from a research group backed by the Society of Family Planning.
This stunning finding masks a deep divide in abortion access in the US. The number of abortions performed in states with near-total or six-week abortion bans plummeted, with providers in those states performing 114,590 fewer abortions than they would have if Roe had not been overturned, according to data collected by the research group, WeCount.
At the same time, abortions rose dramatically in the states that still permit the procedure. In total, those states performed 116,790 more abortions than expected.
A number of red states did pass new abortion laws, but some of those laws only made abortion illegal after a pregnancy had reached a certain number of weeks.
Many in the pro-life movement hailed such laws, but the truth is that they actually legalized most abortions.
Today, approximately 80 percent of all abortions are performed within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
So if a state passes a law that bans abortion after 9 weeks or 12 weeks, they are actually legalizing the vast majority of the abortions that already take place.
Unfortunately, survey after survey has shown that most Americans want abortion to be legal.
For example, a survey that was conducted late last year found that a record high percentage of Americans believe that “women should be allowed to obtain a legal abortion if they want one for any reason”…
Fifty-five percent of people said in a new survey said that pregnant women should be allowed to obtain a legal abortion if they want one for any reason, marking one of the highest shows of support on the issue since the 1970s.
The new Wall Street Journal-NORC at the University of Chicago poll found 77 percent of Democrats said they support access to abortion for any reason, up from 52 percent in 2016.
Only one-third of Republicans said that they backed access to abortion for any reason, according to the Journal.
Other surveys have come up with similar results.
For example, Pew Research has discovered that 62 percent of U.S. adults think that “abortion should be legal in all or most cases”…
A median of 71% of adults across the 24 countries surveyed believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while a median of 27% believe it should be illegal.
In the United States, where a Supreme Court decision ended the constitutional right to abortion last year, 62% of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. U.S. support for legal abortion has not changed in recent years.
In Europe, there is widespread agreement that abortion should be legal. In nearly every European country surveyed, at least 75% of adults hold this view, including roughly 25% or more who say it should be legal in all cases.
According to Gallup’s May 2023 update on Americans’ abortion views, 34% believe abortion should be legal “under any circumstances,” 51% say it should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” and 13% say it should be illegal in all circumstances.
This is what the American people want.
And so I hope that they are ready to accept the consequences for their actions.
It would help if more of our churches would speak out about the endless slaughter that is happening, but the truth is that most of our churches are quite determined to avoid the topic as much as possible.
Instead, they are focused on all sorts of other things.
For example, a Methodist pastor in Connecticut was recently arrested for “dealing crystal meth out of his church’s rectory”…
A Connecticut church pastor was arrested last week and charged with dealing crystal meth out of his church’s rectory, say local police.
Herbert Miller, 63, the reverend of the Woodbury United Methodist Church, was arrested Friday after being pulled over by state troopers in Woodbury.
He was found to be in possession of crystal methamphetamine in both rock and liquid form, the latter of which was discovered in a hypodermic needle, ready for injection.
If our churches were actually doing what they are supposed to be doing, there would be a major push to ban abortion nationwide.
But instead, at this moment the vast majority of Americans want abortion to remain legal in at least some circumstances.
So the killing will continue, and that should break all of our hearts.
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Christianity Stands Alone | WRETCHED TV Episode 3340
It’s Witness Wednesday! Todd speaks with two students about Christianity and why it’s different from Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Atheism, and Agnosticism.
What are the three top questions that people are wrestling with today as it relates to belief in God? In this week’s conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Lee Strobel. Lee is a New York Times best-selling author with millions of books sold worldwide. His latest book is titled, “Is God Real?” Lee has served as a teaching pastor at three of America’s largest churches, and he currently leads the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University. Together, Lee and Jason explore these three pressing questions that people are asking about the existence of God. Lee also shares some incredibly practical ways that you and your church can embrace evangelism and become a brightly shining beacon of the hope of Jesus in your community.
MacArthur takes the volitional component of justifying faith, fiducia, and turns it into something other than mere child like reliance upon Christ for salvation. MacArthur redefines trust. For MacArthur fiducia is not to trust in (or believe into) Christ but rather it is the work of bringing to Christ our own righteous deeds in the form of forsaking oneself, commitment of life and surrender of self. Indeed, one who truly turns from sin and dead works to receive and rest in Christ will by God’s grace begin to grow in forsaking her old ways as she surrenders more and more to God in her commitment to the Savior.
In this post I addressed the aberrant view that justifying faith is assent alone apart from trusting in Christ. In that post I made a passing reference to another extreme view of faith – the “Lordship Salvation” gospel whose advocates not only define faith without reference to the Reformed view of trust, but also add commitment of life to justifying faith, which in turn eclipses the gospel and redefines how one might appropriate Christ as he is freely offered in the gospel.
John MaCarthur is the most noteable proponent of this view. It is noteworthy that MacArthur does not subscribe to historical Reformed theology. In that respect, he is unchecked with respect to confessional theology in the Reformed tradition. Aside from having a baptistic ecclesiology and a dispensational view of the covenants, he has gotten the doctrines of justification and justifying faith wrong. I address those errors here.
Saving Faith According to John MacArthur
Forsaking oneself for Christ’s sake is not an optional step of discipleship subsequent to conversion; it is the sine qua non of saving faith.
The Gospel According to Jesus, p. 142
By “saving faith” MacArthur actually means justifying faith. We may infer this because he is speaking of the faith that is tied to conversion. Accordingly, sanctifying or persevering faith is not in view. What is noteworthy is MacArthur cites “forsaking oneself” as an essential condition for our pardon in Christ through faith alone. Yet that is radically different than how the Reformed tradition defines justifying faith.
Justifying faith is a saving grace wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition, not only assenteth to the truth of the promise of the gospel, but receiveth and resteth upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin, and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation.
Westminster Larger Catechism, #72 What is justifying faith?
The most detailed Confession in the history of the Protestant tradition defines faith quite differently than MacArthur. At the heart of justifying faith is receiving and resting upon Christ, which is absent in MacArthur’s ordo salutis. Moreover, to add forsaking one’s life(!) to the simplicity of faith is another gospel. It’s to add works to justifying faith. Not only does MacArthur add forsaking one’s life to faith, he also asserts that personal commitment is essential to justifying faith.
Commitment is the disputed element of faith around which the lordship controversy swirls. No-lordship theology denies that believing in Christ involves any element of personal commitment to Him.
Faith Works, The Gospel According To The Apostles, p. 43-44
John MacArthur contends that justifying faith, the faith that appropriates the benefits of Christ, entails “forsaking oneself” and “commitment.” It is not MacArthur but the Westminster Shorter Catechism that has it right when it states:
Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, he is offered in the gospel.”
Westminster Shorter Catechism, #86 What is faith in Jesus Christ?
“And Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!” So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.” – Judges 4:8, 9
Deborah was not prophesying about herself when she said “…for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, would be pegged by God for the task of killing Sisera. Still, when it comes to courage, both Deborah and Jael had received ample supply from God. Deborah had to hold the hand of timid Barak to wage war against the Canaanites of Jabin. Jael would hold a tent peg to the temple of Sisera and hammer him to the earth. Neither woman, it seems, had been pining for a fight. Yet, when the moment of need arrived, both received grace from God equal to the task.
The bigger picture of this text is God’s delight when His people willingly offer themselves in His service (read chapter 5 carefully). This both Deborah and Jael did, but the courage to fight was given to them from the Lord. It is never by might nor by power, but always by His Spirit.
The point should be obvious – God can grant us courage equal to the task. We are probably not tasked to fight Canaanites or drive a tent peg into a person’s head (gross), but our task might seem to us too hard to deal with. Remember Deborah! Remember Jael!
Suggestions for prayer
Ask the Lord to give you courage for the hard tasks you face. Remember those who lived by faith before you and seek help from God.
Rev. Harold Miller graduated from Mid-America Reformed Seminary in 2001 and has served churches in Wellsburg, Iowa and Kansas City, Missouri before arriving at Oak Lawn, Illinois in 2020. Get this devotional delivered directly to your phone each day via our RP App. It is also available in print, for purchase, at NTGDevotional.com.
The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. (Isaiah 35:8)
The way of holiness is so straight and plain that the simplest minds cannot go astray if they constantly follow it. The worldly wise have many twists and turns, and yet they make terrible blunders and generally miss their end. Worldly policy is a poor, shortsighted thing, and when men choose it as their road, it leads them over dark mountains. Gracious minds know no better than to do as the Lord bids them; but this keeps them in the King’s highway and under royal protection.
Let the reader never for a moment attempt to help himself out of a difficulty by a falsehood or by a questionable act; but let him keep in the middle of the high road of truth and integrity, and he will be following the best possible course. In our lives we must never practice circular sailing nor dream of shuffling. Be just and fear not, Follow Jesus and heed no evil consequences. If the worst of ills could be avoided by wrongdoing, we should, in the very attempt, have fallen into an evil worse than any other ill could be. God’s way must be the very best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will be truly wise.
Lord, lead Thy servants in a plain path because of their enemies.
“Yet the Lord still waits for you to come to Him, so He can show you His love” Isaiah 30:18
I read a book entitled The Sacred Romance. The author calls God’s love for us, “The Sacred Romance.” And he calls the enemy’s attempts to lure us away from God, “The Arrows.”
Here is an excerpt that touched my heart deeply:
“Indeed, if we listen, a Sacred Romance calls to us through our heart every moment of our lives. It whispers to us on the wind, invites us through the laughter of good friends, reaches out to us through the touch of someone we love. We heard it in our favorite music, sensed it at the birth of our first child, have been drawn to it while watching the shimmer of a sunset on the ocean. The Romance is even present in times of great personal suffering; the illness of a child, the loss of a marriage, the death of friend. Something calls to us through experiences like these and rouses an inconsolable longing deep within our heart, wakening in us a yearning for intimacy, beauty and adventure.
This longing is the most powerful part of any human personality. It fuels our search for meaning, for wholeness, for a sense of being truly alive.”
This longing is real. This longing is God-given and cannot be satisfied by anyone or anything but God.
When I first read the book, memories came to mind about times when I knew for sure God was there in a very special, but quiet way.
There were the times when, as a pre-teen, I’d go fishing in the in the stream that ran through our dairy farm. It was so quiet yet God’s presence was so real. Can you think of a time like that?
I knew God loved me very much shortly after the death of my brother, Frank. God gave me two dreams where my brother was alive. After the last one, I awoke and said to God, “Let me look at him a little while longer.” And He did.
I know God shows his love for me when I see the miracle of a new baby – at the birth of each of our children and grandchildren. God brings so much joy, fun and delight into our lives as we watch these little ones develop. He gives us joy!
I know He loves me when He gives the words of wisdom or kindness to help a person understand how much God loves them.
I know God loves me whenever my husband, Marvin, smiles at me. He is the light of my life.
God is waiting to show us His love in all of its fullness – in our joy and in our sorrow. Sometimes we are just too busy to recognize Him.
There is nothing more significant I could wish and pray for you than that you would take the time to recognize the “Sacred Romance” in your life. I want to encourage you to reflect and make a list of times when God has shown you that He is your “Sacred Romance.”
Father, thank You for pursuing us. Thank You for loving us so much for providing those special moments of “Sacred Romance.” Help us to recognize them. God, help us to receive all the love You have for us. Amen.
Would you like to know the love of God and be in a personal loving relationship with him and experience his unconditional love? You can do so right now by earnestly praying a simple suggested prayer. God knows your heart so the exact words don’t matter, but this is a sample:
Lord Jesus, I want to know you personally. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life to you and ask you to come in as my Saviour and Lord. Take control of my life. Thank you for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Make me the kind of woman you want me to be.
Marriage is a deliberate commitment to stick together. It is not based on emotional, physical or psychic attraction.
“Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24
Cleave – You’ve probably heard this verse at least one hundred times. Every wedding, every sermon about marriage, every book and video from a Christian perspective ends up with this verse somewhere in the subject matter. But what no one told you is that the Hebrew verb here is not the one we would have expected, especially if we thought that becoming one flesh had anything to do with sex. If you really want to see what God has in mind, you’ll have to do some deeper investigation.
The verb here is davaq. It means cleave or cling. It’s about stickiness. But it probably isn’t the verb we would have used. You see, davaq is a middle of the road, passive response verb, best suited for gluing things together. It isn’t the passionate, relationship-oriented verb that characterizes the love action we want in erotic intimacy in marriage. In fact, it’s more about sticky wet clods of dirt (Job 38:38) or fastening crocodile scales (Job 41:9) than it is about passionate, sexual embrace. You won’t find davaq in the Song of Solomon. So, why does it show up here, in the quintessential verse about marriage? And why has every pastor who has ever given a wedding sermon using this verse avoiding talking about dirt clods?
If we look at the way davaq is used when it describes relationships between people, we see that it can describe both friendly and hostile circumstances (Laban and Jacob). It describes relationships between members of the same sex (Ruth and Naomi). In Wisdom literature, it parallels ahav (to love – Proverbs 18:24). We see it used to describe Israel’s relationship with YHWH (Jeremiah 13:11). This wide range of applications tells us something important. Davaq does not carry the emotional, erotic, passionate nuances we expect. Davaq is about deliberate commitment. Even when it is used in hostile circumstances, it is about willful, considered attachment. Ruth, Laban and the men of Proverbs are not making choices based on emotional overload. Neither does YHWH. God’s choice of Israel is deliberate, calculated and permanent. It is the ultimate example of stickiness.
This helps us understand why Genesis 2:24 uses davaq, not hashaq (the verb for adhering to someone in love). Marriage is a deliberate commitment to stick together. It is not based on emotional, physical or psychic attraction. It has very little to do with how I feel. That’s why marriage in the Torah can be arranged by the families without any interaction between bride and groom. Marriage is covenant activity. All the other expressions of love that we so commonly associate with our view of marriage really don’t matter. What matters is the glue.
Next time you hear about the twenty-nine areas of compatibility, smile! Glue comes in only one flavor. Oh, by the way, did you notice that it is the man who does the sticking?
Lakewood Shooter ID’d as Trans from El Salvador with Long List of Priors Authorities have identified the shooter as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, a 36-year-old transgender immigrant from El Salvador, according to multiple independent sources … Moreno, who has a criminal history stretching back to 2005, was previously known as Jeffery Escalante, based on records from the Texas Department of Public Safety. His past arrests paint a troubling picture,
For anyone depending on a state pension…financial health by state…some are broke You need to take a good look at this report. Gives you the health of every state pension plan in the country. Some states are in disastrous shape. “New Jersey, California, New York, Texas and Illinois face a hundred billion plus deficit when it comes to paying for the benefits other than pensions promised to state retirees.
Russia fired Putin’s ‘invincible’ hypersonic Zircon missile for the first time in Ukraine, experts say Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, said in a Telegram post on Monday that staff at the institute had found identifying markings among the missiles launched in an attack last Wednesday. The missile is launched from a ship and can reach speeds of Mach 6 to Mach 8, or between about 4,500 mph and 6,000 mph, Russian officials claim that it can actually travel at Mach 9, or about 6,900 mph.
Jeffrey Epstein’s brother releases never-before-seen autopsy photo During a Friday interview on “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, Mark Epstein released never-before-seen photos from his brother’s autopsy report to reinforce his argument that Jeffrey Epstein did not die by suicide but was killed by another prisoner while in custody.
“Desperate Lunatics” there is a reason that the WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us. They are trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality. Above all, they seek to centralize power and decision-making. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF’s aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history. That’s America. Europe is way worse
Not A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schools Last week, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Jordan Peterson helped expose the failures of Illinois’ public education system on X. Their engagement with a Wirepoints report, “Illinois education 2022: Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools,” revealed the thousands of students trapped in completely failing schools in 2022.
White House Chaos: Susan Rice Slammed “Bitch Ass” Becerra Over Border; Biden “Exploded” With Rage President Biden completely lost his shit on Air Force One, “exploding” with rage at his team during a discussion on immigration because they couldn’t produce obscure data on demand. The key takeaway is that, “infighting, blame-shifting and indecision” has gotten in the way of fixing the migrant crisis (they created).
VP Kamala Harris Says “I Am Ready To Serve” As Biden’s Brain Comes Under Scrutiny “I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the Wall Street Journal when asked about President Biden’s mental and physical health. But in all seriousness, it’s not hard to figure out the White House is quickly recalibrating its re-election message following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that called Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory” for mishandling classified documents. Now, trial balloons are being floated to see if Harris could be a substitute on the ballot.
A WUHAN IN YOUR BACKYARD? MORE THAN 200 DANGEROUS BIOLABS RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S. “It’s not just illegal biolabs that we need to be concerned about. There are more than 200 legal biosafety level 3 or 4 labs that work with dangerous pathogens here in the United States. These lightly guarded facilities represent a clear and present danger to hundreds of millions of Americans.”
California And Nevada Have Been Rocked By 945 Earthquakes In Just The Past Week Have you noticed that the state of California has been getting absolutely monkey-hammered by earthquakes lately? According to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center, California and Nevada have been hit by a total of 945 earthquakes within the last seven days. That is a whole lot of shaking! We haven’t seen this sort of sustained seismic activity in southern California in a long time.
Trump adviser proposes new tiered system for NATO members who don’t pay up A leading national security adviser to Donald Trump told Reuters on Tuesday that he would push for changes to NATO if the former president returns to power that could result in some member nations losing protection against an outside attack.
Hezbollah Commander Training Russians in Operation of Iranian Drones, Ukrainian Intelligence Says A senior Hezbollah commander is leading training sessions for Russian troops in the use of Iranian-made drones to prosecute Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian intelligence report. Kamal Abu Sadiq — a commander of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization — is training the Russians with the assistance of officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
‘Hamas is operating in Belgium, but we can’t do anything about it’ – interview MP Michael Freilich from the opposition New Flemish Alliance Party recounted his astonishment at the response of Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt, who openly admitted as a response to his inquiry that there indeed are groups who operate in Belgium on the account of Hamas, lobbying, and fundraising for the terror group designated as such by EU laws.
IDF closing in on Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar The Israel military is closing in on Hamas chief and October 7th mastermind Yahya Sinwar and has taken control of a tunnel where the Hamas leader was hiding until recently, he Hamas chief has reportedly gone into hiding in the terror group’s vast tunnel network underneath Khan Yunis.
Jew-hatred ‘far higher’ in Italy in 2023 than prior year The 454 antisemitic incidents recorded in Italy in 2023—216 of which occurred after Oct. 7—represent the largest ever such statistic, according to a new report. The more than 450 incidents it recorded is “far higher” than the 241 in 2022, it stated. “Never had such a high number of incidents been recorded over the course of 12 months.”
Jerusalem denies entry to UN official who blamed Israel for Oct. 7 “The time for Jewish silence is past,” said FM Israel Katz, who called for the dismissal of U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Israel will bar Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the “occupied Palestinian territories,” from entering the Jewish state, including Judea and Samaria.
Senior Hamas terrorist seized by Israeli security forces in Jenin raid In a joint operation of forces by the IDF, the Shin Bet, and the Border Police, including an undercover counter-terrorism unit, the arch-terrorist Omar Fayed was arrested in the town of Jenin in northern Samaria.
Mike Pompeo, fmr Secretary of State & prominent Evangelical, arrives in Israel and praises hostage rescue He landed just as the news was breaking that Israeli special forces had successfully completed a daring and complex operation to rescue two Israeli hostages and kill all of their Hamas captors in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. oe Biden has publicly warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to send the military into Rafah. Netanyahu defied Biden’s warning and ordered the operation anyway.
Tucker Carlson calls out transhumanists who ‘think they’re God’ at World Governments Summit Tucker Carlson has criticized at the World Governments Summit (WGS) transhumanists who believe that they are God and “can create a better human being through technology.” you’re very dangerous because you don’t understand your own limits, and you will get a lot of people killed.”
Talking to the Unconscious: Israelis Reduce Delirium During Surgery Israeli company EyeControl developed a device that helps medical teams maintain contact with patients waking from anesthetic – and may help reduce delirium. The war in Gaza intensified the need for the device
Floods in northern Oman claim three lives, cause widespread evacuations Heavy rains affecting Oman over the past couple of days caused significant disruption and widespread floods in which at least 3 people lost their lives. Over 200 individuals have been evacuated or rescued, with schools suspending classes in affected areas. The Ministry of Health has also rescheduled 25 000 appointments in light of the flooding.
Severe weather forecast in Tanzania following deadly lightning strikes Recent severe weather in south-eastern Tanzania, particularly the Lindi Region, resulted in three fatalities and 18 injuries due to lightning on February 9. With forecasts predicting more heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, Tanzania braces for further impacts.
California And Nevada Have Been Rocked By 945 Earthquakes In Just The Past Week Have you noticed that the state of California has been getting absolutely monkey-hammered by earthquakes lately? According to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center, California and Nevada have been hit by a total of 945 earthquakes within the last seven days. That is a whole lot of shaking!
WEF Announces ‘New World’ of AI-Led ‘Humanocracy’ World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and chairman, Klaus Schwab, has just announced plans for a “new world” that will “transition humankind into a new era.”
Next Attack Against Food Will Be Your Back Yard Home Gardens All across Europe we see reports of farmer protests, tractors blocking traffic, dumping used tires on the roads, protesting in front of parliaments throwing eggs and other things at politicians, just to name a few ways that farmers are protesting red tape and regulations being implemented against growing food, to the point to where farmers are losing their livelihoods.
Biden Targeting Military Veterans, Older Americans, Rural Communities And Those That Hold The Bible And Constitution Sacred When the Biden regime’s “Ministry of Truth” was scrapped after public backlash, it is doubtful that anyone with a brain thought they were done trying to control what information the American public is allowed to see and discuss online. Those with a working brain were right; the Biden regime not only didn’t stop trying, they simply decided to do it differently by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to target information that is not the “official narrative” from being discussed on social media or other platforms where Americans discuss issues.
RT tours secretive former Ukrainian medical research lab The Russian city of Mariupol was a testbed for large-scale medical research on local civilians while under Ukrainian rule, a trove of recently discovered documents suggests.
Vanishing Dutchman: The Suicidal Costs of Mass Migration in an Illegals’ Paradise Dutch politician Massimo Etalle from the Forum for Democracy party warned of the consequences of an ‘insane anti-Dutch policy,’ emphasizing the financial strain with ‘a gigantic tax burden of 60%’ to finance a ‘migrant resort,’ and lamented the loss of ‘centuries-old families’ due to government choices.
Tens of Thousands of Elderly Secretly Euthanized to Boost ‘Covid Deaths’ A bombshell new report has sent shockwaves around the world after an investigation into the high numbers of “Covid deaths” during the pandemic uncovered evidence that tens of thousands of elderly people were actually murdered to boost the mortality rates.
Why The Left’s ‘Moral Arguments’ On Open Borders Are Far From Biblical When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the federal government could remove razor wire on the border between Texas and Mexico that was put in place by the state of Texas, it set off a legal, political, and even theological debate about the federalism and border policy. Despite the ruling, the state of Texas has said they will continue installing the wire, and several states have decided to send state troopers and members of the National Guard to Texas to help the effort.
Farmers’ protests are spreading across the world; people are waking up to the fact that the war on farming is not a coincidence Farmers across Europe continue to protest against the implementation of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. The European Commission has tried to deflect blame by explaining that the protests are because European farmers are on the “frontline” of climate change and the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, farmers’ protests spread to India with farmers and their supporters marching on Delhi this week.
CDC’s Own Scientists Found Masks Ineffective for COVID — But Agency Recommended Them Anyway January 2024 we are still reading that hospitals have asked visitors to its A&E department to start wearing face masks again. How can we ever trust medical professionals ever again knowing that they enforced measures that were not only unnecessary and useless, but also detrimental to our health and well-being? (see – The-Cloth-of-Compliance-is-Risking-the-Health-of-Our-Children.) Yet years down the line, those who we would expect to know better have shown they don’t, and are once again simply following orders and ‘questioning nothing.
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.” —Thomas Jefferson (1775)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 269 (some sources say 270), a bishop named Valentine was martyred for both his Christian faith and for defying orders of the Roman Emperor Claudius II Gothicus not to perform marriage ceremonies. Valentine defended love and, therefore, became the symbol of it each year. —Mark Alexander
The DHS secretary is doing Joe Biden’s bidding at the open border, but there should be consequences.
Nate Jackson
For only the second time in American history — and the first time since 1876 — a cabinet secretary has been impeached. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was impeached by a House vote of 214-213 for “willful and systemic refusal to comply” with U.S. immigration law as Joe Biden’s point man for such a policy.
You’d think this would be the top story everywhere, but the home pages of The Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, and NBC News (at least) instead featured the story about a Democrat winning a special House election to replace the disgraced George Santos in a district Biden carried by eight points. Earth-shattering stuff.
Notably, the House failed to impeach Mayorkas last week, in part because of the absence of Majority Leader Steve Scalise. But the Louisiana Republican made it back to DC this time to cast the deciding vote. He recently underwent a stem-cell transplant that he says has put his cancer in remission, as if being shot and nearly killed by a deranged Bernie Sanders fan in 2017 wasn’t enough. We wish him all the best.
For his part, Mayorkas said: “I’ve done nothing that could possibly warrant impeachment. I have done literally nothing at all.”
Just kidding! That was The Babylon Bee. Sometimes, it’s hard to distinguish between satire and reality.
In all seriousness, the Mayorkas impeachment obviously dies in the Senate. It may not even reach a vote, which would be unprecedented. But the symbolism and the historical record are important.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t reason for debate. As our Douglas Andrews put it this morning, “A purist Madisonian case can be — and was — made by Mike Gallagher, one of the three GOP ‘No’ votes, that Mayorkas didn’t commit any high crimes or misdemeanors.”
Representative Ken Buck, another of the three “No” votes, took to the pages of National Review to argue the same thing. “Secretary Mayorkas’s poor job performance is not an impeachable offense,” he asserts. Worse, he says, “Convicting a Biden-cabinet official might be a powerful way to satisfy the base, but the long-term consequences of undermining the Constitution are unacceptable.”
Naturally, Biden also made sure to bluster about impeachment being a “blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a “sham impeachment” (thank goodness Democrats have never done that) and a “new low for House Republicans.”
Given the Democrats’ routine trampling of the Constitution, we’ll take their complaints under advisement.
Ultimately, we see a compelling case for impeachment in the articles drawn up by House Republicans. Broadly speaking, when your job is to secure the border against illegal immigration (especially by criminals, terrorists, and agents of foreign governments) and you actively refuse to do it, instead allowing more than nine million illegal crossings in three years, it’s most certainly arguable that your actions are treasonous and impeachable.
The Constitution doesn’t give the president power to forgive student loans, mandate vaccines or electric cars, change contracts between landlords and tenants, or a host of other things that Biden and other modern presidents do with their phones and pens. It does task the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Yet Biden and Mayorkas have, as a matter of policy, refused to do that with immigration laws.
Unfortunately, by working on that compromise legislation in the first place, Republicans also created an opening for Biden and Mayorkas to claim their dereliction is actually the fault of Congress. Even the non compos mentis president isn’t missing the opportunity to drive the Biden 2024 Express through that gaping hole.
After the bipartisan “border” bill crashed and burned, Biden said, “Congress needs to act to give me, Secretary Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.”
Mayorkas said the same thing: “There is no question that we have a challenge, a crisis at the border, and there is no question that Congress needs to fix it.”
They already have the tools and resources needed to fix it without Congress doing anything.
And that’s why impeachment makes a lot more sense than foolhardy legislative compromises with a derelict administration — compromises that do nothing but allow Biden and Mayorkas to pass the buck in an election year.
As if to illustrate the impeachable offense, The Washington Post reports today on what DHS is up to while the secretary is being impeached: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.”
Biden opened the border, and he’s opening it even more in a tantrum against Republicans.
Hunter’s business was selling Joe Biden, CIA started the Russia collusion hoax, GOP loses House seat vacated by George Santos, and more.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Bobulinski: Hunter’s business was selling Joe Biden: Hunter Biden’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. In his opening statement, Bobulinski dispelled Joe Biden’s repeated claim that he had no involvement with his son’s foreign business deals. In fact, peddling foreign access to Joe Biden was Hunter’s job. As Bobulinski put it, “It is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family.” Bobulinski’s testimony comports with that of another former Hunter business associate, Devon Archer, who was on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings at the same time as Hunter. Bobulinski testified that the Biden family’s influence-peddling business spanned the globe. “The only reason any of these international business transactions took place — with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family — was because Joe Biden was in high office,” he said. “The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period.”
CIA started the Russia collusion hoax: We’ve spilled a lot of bytes on these pages about the Russia collusion hoax — about the deep state’s efforts to cast Donald Trump’s election in 2016 as illegitimate and then hamstring his administration with an unwarranted special counsel investigation. Still, even with last year’s release of the damning Durham Report, there were still some missing elements in this criminal scheme and an utter lack of accountability for the Obama administration officials who carried it out. We’re still not convinced that accountability — criminal or historical — will ever come to Barack Obama and his henchmen, but new information unearthed by a trio of intrepid journalists does shed some new and disturbing light on the hoax. According to new reporting based on “multiple credible sources,” independent journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag say the CIA targeted 26 Trump associates for foreign spy agencies to “reverse target” and “bump” — that is, to actively contact these individuals and then manipulate them. These Trump team members thus became targets of our own intelligence community for collection and misinformation. Shellenberger says there’s also a binder of highly classified information detailing the whole operation — and those materials have gone missing. Shellenberger suggests that the deep state’s desperate search for this binder may have been what triggered the FBI’s July 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Looking back, what we wrote shortly after that unprecedented raid now sounds spot-on: “What we’re hearing now is still speculation … but now we’re told that the feds were worried that Trump might ‘weaponize’ certain materials he’d been collecting in order to exonerate himself, perhaps during the upcoming 2024 presidential campaign.”
GOP loses House seat vacated by George Santos: White male Democrat beats black female Republican. That was the result of yesterday’s special election in New York’s 3rd Congressional District, but it wasn’t unexpected given that district’s solidly Democrat composition. Still, it was telling that nearly the entire Leftmedia enterprise located this largely anticipated story above and ahead of yesterday’s far more historic story of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s impeachment. Regardless of media bias, the GOP loss makes its fingertip-hold on the House even more tenuous. Democrat Tom Suozzi, the district’s former congressman, beat Republican Mazi Pilip 54-46 in a race to fill the seat vacated by Republican George Santos, the fabulist who was expelled by his House colleagues in December. This is a Long Island district that Santos had won in a 2022 midterm surprise but that Joe Biden had carried by eight points in 2020. In addition, Suozzi, 61, had held the seat for three terms before Santos before leaving it for an unsuccessful bid for governor. Said National Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman Richard Hudson: “This was an uphill battle. Joe Biden won this district by 8 points, Democrats outspent Republicans two-to-one, and our Democrat opponent spent decades representing these New Yorkers — yet it was still a dogfight. Republicans still have multiple pathways to grow our majority in November.”
WaPo fact-checker dodges on Biden’s “gun violence” claim: It’s dog-bites-man kind of news, but it’s news nonetheless. Once again, The Washington Post’s “fact-checker” has been caught in a calisthenic effort to hide the truth about gun-related deaths among children and thereby protect his leftist colleagues and their gun-grabbing agenda. As Glenn Kessler would have us believe, gun violence is the number one cause of death for children. But it just isn’t so — not unless you include gang-banging adult teens who simply aren’t “children” by any reasonable definition. As Hot Air’s John Sexton writes, you can arrive at “the talking point the White House seems to prefer by a) including adults as ‘children’ and failing to mention that, and b) leaving out people killed in car accidents beyond traffic crashes.” Those would seem to be essential details, wouldn’t they? No. At least not according to Kessler, whose bold conclusion is as follows: “We will leave this unrated.” Uh-huh. As Sexton sums it up: “Ultimately, Kessler doesn’t give this misleading claim a rating but he does say, ‘It would be better for White House officials to refer to children and teens when citing these reports.’ Yes it would. It would also be nice if fact-checkers and reporters would point out how carefully massaged the data behind these claims are when the claims are made instead of waiting most of a year to explain it.”
Proof Hunter lied on background check: More damning evidence has emerged surrounding Hunter Biden’s illegal purchase of a firearm. Both images and text messages from his iPhone show that just days prior to his purchasing of the gun, on October 12, 2018, Hunter was purchasing illicit drugs. According to a DOJ filing: “The defendant took photos of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia on his phone. Also prior to his gun purchase, the defendant routinely sent messages about purchasing drugs.” It further notes that Hunter “messaged his girlfriend about meeting a drug dealer and smoking crack” the day after the gun purchase. Furthermore, Hunter admitted to his then-girlfriend that he was “an addict.” This evidence proves that Hunter lied when filling out a background check to purchase the firearm. Usually, Joe Biden wants to, er, crack down on such crimes. Not this time.
Cali Senate candidate calls for $50 federal minimum wage: “Just do the math,” she said. And so we did: That’s a minimum wage of $104,000 per year. Nice work if you can get it. Barbara Lee, the Oakland-based hard-leftist and Democrat congresswoman, is behind the proposal, and she’s behind it because she doesn’t understand supply-and-demand economics. She’s right about one thing, though: California has become increasingly unlivable. “In the Bay Area,” Lee says, “I believe it was the United Way that came out with a report that very recently $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by.” Lee added that we’ve “got to be focused on what California needs and what the affordability factor is when we calculate this wage.” In our federalist system, the 50 states are rightly understood to be the laboratories of republican democracy. And were it not for the guaranteed calamity that would result from a mandated $50-per-hour minimum wage, it might be fun to watch the Golden State give it a try.
Felony charge for rainbow burnout: Dare to disrespect the LGBTQ rainbow and get hit with a felony charge. That is what a teenage Florida resident in the Clearwater area is facing after he did a burnout with his American flag-toting truck across a rainbow-painted crosswalk. According to Delray Beach law enforcement, the teenager engaged in “reckless action” and “caused significant damage to the streetscape painting, which serves as a symbol of unity and inclusivity for the LGBTQ community.” So laying down some black rubber across a rainbow-painted crosswalk may classify as reckless, but “significant damage”? Please. It may have hurt some folks’ feelings, but that’s about it. Of course, as noted above, this charge has everything to do with offending the Left’s special protected class. After turning himself in, he was released on a $5,250 bond and faces a felony mischief charge.
Israel raids the UN: As Israel continues its war against Hamas in Gaza, it continues to uncover the sophisticated network of tunnels the terrorist organization has developed over the years. One such command tunnel the IDF followed led directly under the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza. Go figure. This space under UNRWA that the tunnel led to contained a full-scale Hamas command center with data servers that were powered by the UNRWA headquarters directly above it. Furthermore, IDF noted: “Large quantities of weapons were found inside the rooms of the building, including rifles, ammunition, grenades and explosives. Intelligence and documents discovered in the offices of UNRWA officials confirmed that the offices had in fact also been used by Hamas terrorists.” Predictably, UNRWA officials played dumb, claiming that they had left the building five days after the war started and were “unable to confirm or otherwise comment” on what the IDF uncovered.
Headlines
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Lloyd Austin released from hospital after treatment for bladder issue (Daily Wire)
Biden’s upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says (Fox News)
Chuck Schumer says it’s “right-wing propaganda” to suggest that Biden’s mental acuity has declined (Not the Bee)
Heartland Institute measures the effect of mail-in ballots in 2020 (Heartland.org)
Embattled UN official doubles down at Harvard, says Israel has no right to self-defense (Daily Wire)
Harvard students hunger strike for 12 hours in solidarity with Brown protesters (Harvard Crimson)
Harvard students chant “Palestine is Arab” during on-campus protest (Daily Wire)
Trans activists occupy Iowa state house to protest legal definitions of man and woman (PM)
Colorado Dems move to require public schools to socially transition gender-confused students (Washington Free Beacon)
Jeff Bezos will save over $600 million in taxes by moving to Miami (CNBC)
But America isn’t because VP Harris hasn’t stepped up to the plate where it matters.
Emmy Griffin
Vice President Kamala Harris has often declared her readiness to serve should she be called to take over the Oval Office. However, in light of last week’s disastrous special counsel report and press conference in which President Joe Biden couldn’t remember crucial details — all while being outraged that the special counsel deemed him too senile to be put on trial — has provoked a more pointed panic from the Democrats.
Biden is clearly not fit to top the ticket, but many would argue that neither is Harris. For her part, Harris, in an interview for The Wall Street Journal, said that she’s ready. According to WSJ: “‘I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,’ Harris responded bluntly. Everyone who sees her on the job, Harris said, ‘walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.’”
Except that she seems to be the only one who thinks she’s up for the job. Harris has been hounded by several issues in her vice presidential tenure. She can’t seem to keep a competent staff around her, she is inarticulate and constantly falls back to that off-putting cackle, she is not politically savvy, she’s failed as the border czar, and she’s deeply unpopular.
Harris’s polling numbers are worse than any other vice president in the history of the United States. As much as her supporters insist it’s because everyone who opposes her is racist and misogynist, the truth is that she has demonstrated she is unwilling to put in the work and is easily flustered. Her leadership opportunities have led to failure.
She has failed again and again to demonstrate readiness for the job of commander-in-chief. Conservatives will laugh because it seems that the Democrats are stuck with her. She is the intersectional candidate that is “historical.” Dumping her from the ticket would probably cost them some of the more ardent intersectional proponents in their voting base. That, however, is far from certain. As much as leftist Democrats talk about elevating certain races and genders, they may still opt for merit and competency at the end of the day.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board point out: “For one thing, Democrats wouldn’t have to nominate Ms. Harris if Mr. Biden stood down and the nomination were decided at the Democratic convention in August. Other candidates would run, and their relative appeal would be tested. Our guess is that Ms. Harris’s polling would be bad enough that Democratic pros would rally behind someone else, despite the identity-politics complications of opposing a minority woman. Democrats are bloodier-minded about power than are GOP primary voters.”
This is an interesting point to make. However, based on a Harvard/Harris poll, Democrat voters are more likely to vote for Harris over other choices such as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Manchin, or Gavin Newsom. Hilariously enough, almost 13% of Democrats want someone else on the ticket who wasn’t listed in the poll. Technically, that places second to Harris’s 15%.
We will, of course, see where the chips fall in the coming months. But one thing is more and more clear to the American people: A weak president makes the world a less safe place (Biden’s time in office has amply proved that), and Harris hasn’t stepped up to the plate where it matters to the American people.
He banned the spyware from all federal government devices, but now he’s embracing it for reelection purposes.
Douglas Andrews
Is TikTok a national security threat, or isn’t it? If we listen to Joe Biden, the answer appears to be, “Yes, very much so,” and, “No, not at all.”
We should explain: In November, the Biden administration banned TikTok from being used on all federal government devices due to national security concerns. All of them. But on Super Bowl Sunday, in the wake of his disastrous Thursday night presser, the president’s deeply desperate reelection campaign team announced to the world that it’s now embracing the Communist Chinese spyware platform and powerful propaganda tool, ostensibly to connect with young people — especially the Gen Z crowd, which has increasingly come to favor Donald Trump.
“Hey by the way, we just joined TikTok,” Team Biden announced on X. They then followed up that outrageous admission with a pathetic presidential pander — a pre-Super Bowl pop quiz to make Biden sound young and cool rather than old and addled. Go figure.
In the TikTok spot, Biden is asked whether he was “deviously plotting to rig the season so the Chiefs would make the Super Bowl” or if they’re just “being a good football team.” To which Biden robotically responded, “I’d get in trouble if I told you.” Then an image of “Dark Brandon” — a satirical and supposedly hip meme of the decrepit Biden with laser beams shooting out of his eyes — flashes on the screen.
“Joe Biden is so desperate to pander to young voters,” posted Florida Republican Congressman Mike Waltz, “he’s willing to give away his campaign’s data to Communist China.”
Thus, it’s “do as I say, not as I do” for Biden and his reelection campaign, which knows full well that their guy’s competency numbers compared to Trump have nosedived among registered voters from 47% in June 2020 to just 32% today, according to the latest in a string of disastrous polls, this one from normally friendly NBC News.
Outgoing Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher, a retired Marine Corps intelligence officer who chairs the Select Committee on China, offered a scathing indictment of Biden’s nakedly contradictory decision:
“Every single Biden national security official — from the director of national intelligence to the CIA director to the DIA director to the head of Cyber Command — has warned that TikTok is a national security threat. The head of the FBI, Chris Wray, just testified before my committee and said that the parent company that owns TikTok is beholden to the Chinese government and, therefore, is a very significant threat. So here you have Biden’s hand-picked advisers telling him that this is effectively a CCP tool or weapon, and yet he’s ignoring that. Why? To court the votes of anti-Semitic 18-year-olds? To get progressive in a campaign season? It’s not a serious move. It’s not serious leadership. It’s not the move of a serious country. … I urge the president’s Gen-Z TikTok-addled campaign staffers to reverse course in the interest of national security.”
Fat chance of that, Congressman.
This, of course, is an act of utter desperation by Biden, the “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” whose underlings have told him that he’s toast in November without the low-information youth vote. The Left only cares about retaining power, which is why Biden is ignoring his administration’s own repeated warnings about TikTok.
“China may not officially endorse a presidential candidate in 2024,” said Fox News’s Laura Ingraham last night, “but we all know who their guy is, right? He’s the cool one using China’s propaganda platform TikTok.” Ingraham went on to note Biden’s cringeworthy appearance, as seen above, then added, “The Biden team is thrilled because they have now 100,000 new TikTok followers because of it. But an old guy trying to look cool? I don’t know. Always just ends up looking older and at odds with his own administration that brands TikTok as a national security threat to the United States.”
So, what’s the solution? “India banned TikTok,” said Gallagher, “and it wasn’t the apocalypse,” adding that the world’s largest democracy still enjoys a thriving social media environment and global technological leadership position. “Either a ban, or a forced sale, or a separation makes the most sense.”
What doesn’t make sense, though, is the expectation that the American people should swear off this ChiCom spyware while their commander-in-chief embraces it.
The purportedly Christian group drops a Super Bowl ad that pushes a moralizing message of serving others but misses the Gospel.
Thomas Gallatin
Once again this year, the pseudo-Christian “He Gets Us” campaign purchased some high-profile Super Bowl advertising. And once again this year, many Christians are questioning the message.
During Sunday’s Super Bowl, two more “He Gets Us” ads were featured. In one ad, a slowly scrolling series of what looks to be Norman Rockwell-style scenes depicts various instances of individuals washing the feet of others. Some of the scenes are rather benign, but some are more controversial — such as a woman washing the feet of a younger woman outside an abortion clinic, and another depicting a Christian priest washing the feet of a gender-bending individual at a beach.
Notably, those washing the feet of the other person are clearly intended to be of an opposite ideological or political bent than those getting their feet washed. The ad ends with the statement: “Jesus didn’t teach hate. He washed feet. He gets us. All of us. Jesus.” It then displays the group’s web address with the message, “LoveYourNeighbor.”
The second ad, which was shorter, poses the question, “Who Is My Neighbor?” It then runs through a series of pictures of people who all look pretty rough. One looks to be a drug addict, another a possible prostitute, another a gender-bending individual, and so forth. The ad then “answers” the question by stating, “The one you don’t notice, value, welcome.” It then ends with an image of an apparently drug-addled individual begging for money at someone’s car window, and then displays the group’s web address and the same “LoveYourNeighbor” message.
Upon visiting the group’s website, He Gets Us explains that the rationale for its ads this year was “one built on the premise of Love and Unity.” Tellingly, the group adds, “And with an upcoming election year that will be filled with division and derision, we decided to focus on one of the most important directives given by Jesus — Love Your Neighbor.”
There is also an explanation of the famous scene in the upper room from the Gospel of John, where Jesus washes his disciples’ feet. After quoting John 13:14, wherein Jesus says, “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you should wash one another’s feet,” there is an interpretation offered advancing the idea of “mutual admiration.” He Gets Us then posits the lesson from Christ’s act: “We began to imagine a world where ideological others were willing to set their differences aside and wash one another’s feet. How would that look? How would our contentious world change if we washed one another’s feet, not literally, but figuratively?”
In other words, the sentiment is, Wouldn’t it be nice if we all just set aside our differences and got along? Sure, that might be nice, but is that what Jesus taught? That may be a generalized moralizing message, but it is hardly the radical message that Jesus gave to his disciples that Passover night in the upper room.
As noted when we addressed this “Christian-lite” messaging last year, there is little actual Gospel in it. Instead, what is being presented is effectively a Christ-less Jesus — a Jesus that is palatable to a world steeped in sin because He doesn’t actually address the whole reason He came in the first place, which was to call sinners to repentance and save them from their sins by paying the penalty of death on the cross and then gifting all who believe in Him with His perfect righteousness.
Back to that upper-room foot-washing event: When Jesus, to the surprise of his disciples, began washing their feet, a job that would have normally been done only by a lowly servant, Peter at first objected, saying, “No, you shall never wash my feet.” Peter correctly saw Jesus as his master and saw this service as beneath him. Jesus then answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”
This is the key point of the entire passage that He Gets Us misses. As the group’s goal states: “Our hope is that our latest commercials will stimulate both societal discussion and individual self-reflection about ‘who is my neighbor?’ and how each of us can love our neighbor even as we have differences and serve one another with more kindness and respect.”
Jesus is demonstrating that salvation from sins — what the foot washing was demonstrating — comes only through His work. Jesus was not simply communicating a broad moralizing message of being neighborly to everyone so we all can learn to set aside our differences and serve each other and get along. Rather, he was communicating the exclusive Gospel message: that salvation from our sin can come only from being washed by Jesus.
Christians who have been saved only by Christ’s work are to seek to follow Christ’s example and serve others, and in so doing point others to Jesus as the only way to salvation.
Here’s a better ad, courtesy of Pastor Jamie Bambrick, which reflects the real Gospel message of Jesus saving sinners. It’s a message that we wish had been aired during the Super Bowl.
The barrage of election-year assaults intended to undermine Donald Trump’s candidacy have had exactly the opposite effect. They’ve supercharged it.
Jack DeVine
My guess is that, right now, whoever came up with the idea of sending 30 armed FBI agents to conduct an unannounced raid on our former president’s home would probably welcome a do-over.
That FBI raid in August 2022 was the opening salvo, the signal for all to see that anything goes in the political war between Democrats and their nemesis, Donald Trump. Until then, in the entire history of our country, no sitting or former U.S. president had ever been indicted for a federal crime. In the tsunami that followed, Trump has been indicted four times and charged with 91 federal felonies.
Regardless of Trump’s stubborn resistance, there was no urgent need for aggressive action by the FBI to retrieve the classified documents in Trump’s possession. National security was not at risk. The raid was a very visible and chilling display of the kind usually reserved for banana republics — a forceful intrusion by the forces of a sitting administration into the private residence of their primary political opponent. Intended or not, the optics are unmistakable.
Say what you will about Donald Trump — whether you admire or despise him, he served our nation for four years as our duly elected president, successfully navigating through some very challenging times. Surely, a lighter touch — perhaps even a smidgen of respect — should have been in order.
But here we are, two years later, with Special Counsel Robert Hur having completed his in-depth investigation and finding that Biden’s mishandling of classified material was in most respects more egregious than Trump’s — which left him in the awkward position of searching for a rationale to avoid subjecting Biden to the heavy-handed treatment already meted out to his predecessor.
Hur’s sensible solution was to point out what we’ve all been watching — the physical and mental decline of President Biden, which, in his view, renders Biden unfit for trial. One might think that Biden supporters would appreciate the special counsel’s efforts to let him off the hook — except for the fact that his basis for not charging Biden begs the next obvious question: If Joe Biden doesn’t have the mental capacity to handle a court proceeding, how can he possibly handle another four years as POTUS?
The answer to that question, of course, is that he cannot — an inconvenient truth that should be no surprise to anyone but that we’ve refused to confront until now.
While the Democrats deal with that unhappy turn of events, Trump still faces daunting legal challenges — but other elements of the Democrats’ strategy to cripple his candidacy seem to be unraveling at the seams:
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is suddenly looking not quite as noble a crusader for justice. His no-bail policy allowed the illegals arrested for beating up two NYPD cops to walk away from jail and then skip town. The Bragg-engineered indictment of Trump charges him with improperly documenting payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to buy her silence during that election — a bookkeeping matter (albeit spun by Bragg into 34 felony counts) that hardly needs to be litigated during the 2024 election.
The grand jury empaneled by Fulton County DA Fani Willis indicted Trump for attempts to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results. The indictment effectively morphs Trump’s political meddling into a criminal racketeering episode under the RICO statute designed to give the government the tools to go after mobsters. That’s a major stretch on its own, and the case has been compounded by Willis’s extraordinarily bad judgment in hiring her lover as chief prosecutor and then enjoying lavish taxpayer-funded vacation travel with him.
In New York State, Attorney General Letitia James is following through on her campaign promise to “get Trump,” seeking a $370 million penalty plus termination of the Trump firm’s license to do business in New York because of fraudulently overstating the value of their assets in securing bank loans (imagine that — a real estate investor who exaggerates). Curiously, it seems to be a crime with no victim; Trump’s bankers have been happy to loan him money and have been repaid principal and interest exactly as promised.
Efforts in Colorado to keep Trump off the ballot based on his role in the supposed January 6 insurrection — a popular claim, but one unsupported by any court determination anywhere that what happened on January 6 was an insurrection — is evidently running into a wall at the U.S. Supreme Court, which seems loathe to allow individual states to decide who can vie in a national election.
The moral of the chaotic recent events is that election interference, plain and simple, is never the right thing to do. The ultimate poetic justice here is the emerging reality that the barrage of election-year assaults intended to undermine Donald Trump’s candidacy has had exactly the opposite effect. They’ve supercharged it.
And what now? The Robert Hur findings, while unwelcome by Democrats, may prove in the long term be a godsend for them. If Democrats choose to change presidential candidates to one more palatable to moderates and independents — and their voters still have the opportunity to throw rocks at Trump — they may carry the day in November. Should they choose to make that change, the ball will be in the GOP’s court to decide whether to follow suit.
Donald Trump may have been the only candidate Joe Biden could beat, but the inverse is probably true as well. How refreshing it would be — helpful to both parties and the American electorate — to have a clean slate. It’s not too late.
Biden’s Mental Fitness — Here are five straight minutes that show exactly why the special counsel noted Joe Biden’s diminished mental fitness.
‘Target People for Voting for Trump’ — Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) grills Secretary Janet Yellen over Treasury Department leaks of confidential tax info.
A Move to Enforce Tyranny — Bret Weinstein explains why he is so concerned about the migrant crisis.
Employers Do Not Want to Hire Gen Z — Unsurprisingly, the newest generation of college graduates is struggling to find jobs, and the reason behind it is very telling.
‘Just Do the Math’ — California Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee ridiculously advocates for a $50 minimum wage.
He Saves Us — A group known as “He Gets Us” released an advert during the Super Bowl that, while perhaps well-intentioned, failed to convey the Gospel.
“I know I don’t look like it, but I’ve been around a while. I do remember that.” —Joe Biden
Circling the Wagons
“I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly. … His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years. … All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
“This is a very sharp president. In term of his public presentation, if he makes a slip of the tongue here or there, what’s the deal?” —Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Political Futures
“A new ABC News poll finds that 86% of Americans think Joe Biden is ‘too old’ to serve a second term. That’s a serious vulnerability, but we shouldn’t read too much into it. A significant percentage of those people will vote for him over any Republican we might nominate.” —Gary Bauer
“Questions are being raised whether the president is fit for a second term. I’m wondering if he can make it to the end of this term and whether America’s enemies may see an opportunity to do things they would probably not do if a fully functioning president were in charge.” —Cal Thomas
Swampthink
“[Biden’s] going to win the election because he has a great record, because more and more Americans are seeing that record.” —Chuck Schumer
“The overall [inflation] picture looks good.” —National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard
Useful Idiot
“Saying that the motivation [for October 7] was anti-Semitism is wrong and dangerous. I’m not saying that people in Hamas are absolutely not anti-Semitic. This was not the argument. But the argument is that this attack was launched as a way to break the occupation against the apartheid.” —UN official Francesca Albanese
“I understand why Israel is using this argument of anti-Semitism because by saying, ‘We were attacked because we are Jews,’ it’s bringing the existential threat that many Jews fear. The real threat is the apartheid that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, which is a threat to both Palestinians and Israeli Jews.” —Francesca Albanese
“[Israel] didn’t have the right to act in self-defense, meaning waging a war because it couldn’t wage a war against the people it maintains under occupation.” —Francesca Albanese
“After four months, there is no official reconstruction, no official investigation, and no independent investigation on what has happened on the 7th of October. … I do not have evidence to establish the intent.” —Francesca Albanese
“[Evidence] at the level of command have not pointed to aggression against the Jews.” —Francesca Albanese
Re: The Left
“‘Saving our democracy,’ as the left defines it, means regulating information to ‘save’ the American people from themselves.” —Gary Bauer
“Why does leftism seek chaos? Because the Left hates the opposite of chaos: order. And order ultimately represents a religious view of life. Order represents divine order. … Chaos is the normal state of the world. The second verse of the Bible states that the world was in a chaotic state. God then made order. Which is why the Left is undoing it.” —Dennis Prager
Insight
“And where would the ordinary simple folk — the common people, as they like to call them in America — where would they be, once [socialism] had got them in its grip?” —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Fox News host Sean Hannity reacts to a new poll finding that 86% of Americans think 81-year-old President Biden is too old to serve another term. #foxnews #fox #hannity
Fox News contributor Joe Concha discusses reports that the Obama CIA asked foreign agencies to illegally spy on Trump associates and Biden’s refusal to take questions during a White House address. #FoxNews
Per the Center for Immigration Studies: All employment growth has gone to the foreign-born. 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans are working than in 2019, before Covid. Yet, the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019.
“Comparing the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2023 shows 2.7 million more people working in the United States — 2.9 million more immigrants (legal and illegal) and 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans. Since the depths of the Covid Recession in 2020 employment has increased for both groups. But the number of U.S.-born workers has not made it back to the 2019 pre-Covid level. Equally important, the share of working-age, U.S.-born men without a bachelor’s not in the labor force deteriorated in the decades prior to 2019, and the rate in the fourth quarter of 2023 was lower still. These individuals do not show up as unemployed because they have not looked for a job in the four weeks prior to the survey. The long-term decline in the labor force participation rate of less-educated men is linked to serious social problems, from suicide and crime to drug overdoses and social isolation.” CIS reported.
“This analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies is based on the Current Population Survey (CPS), collected by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We focus on the peak years of prior economic expansions (2000, 2006, and 2019) as well as 2023 because it is the most recent quarterly data available. Immigrants (legal and illegal together) in the CPS are often referred to as the “foreign-born” and include all persons who were not U.S. citizens at birth — primarily naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors (e.g. guestworkers), and illegal immigrants.” CIS reported.
All employment growth has gone to the foreign-born. 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans are working than in 2019, before Covid. Yet, the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019. pic.twitter.com/qVTbLptXw6
The CIA asked its ‘Five Eyes’ allies to monitor Trump campaign aides, according to a new investigation
The US intelligence community inappropriately used foreign allies to target Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign to set up the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy ahead of the 2016 election, according to a trio of investigative journalists.
Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag – of ‘Twitter Files’ fame – published the first part of an investigation on Tuesday, in which they claim the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ were operationalized against Trump staffers, citing anonymous sources close to the House Intelligence Committee.
According to their report, President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had sent America’s partners – the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – a list of 26 Trump associates to target with data collection, misinformation and manipulation.
The Russiagate conspiracy involved multiple failures across western media networks to critically assess US intelligence claims that Russia had interfered in the 2016 US presidential election. A 2018 Pulitzer prize was awarded to Washington Post and New York Times journalists for their reporting on what was later to exposed as a false story.
“They were making contacts and bumping Trump people going back to March 2016,” said a committee source. “They were sending people around the UK, Australia, Italy — the Mossad in Italy. MI6 was working at an intelligence school they had set up,” the journalists claim.
Officially, the FBI only started looking into the Trump campaign that summer, after an Australian diplomat reportedly overheard an aide mention Russia. If confirmed, these findings would demonstrate that the US intelligence community had worked for months before that to set up just such a pretext.
In a statement to the investigative journalists, the FBI said it had made “missteps” in the 2016 and 2017 investigation of the Trump campaign, but has since implemented reforms to prevent it from happening again.
“The allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense,” a spokesman for the British surveillance agency said. “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.” Shellenberger, Taibbi and Gutentag said they had never asked the GCHQ about “wiretapping.”
According to Shellenberger, there is a “10-inch binder” containing previously unknown documents about the intelligence community’s surveillance of the Trump campaign. The 45th US president had ordered these documents declassified, but they went missing instead. In a Fox News appearance on Tuesday evening, Shellenberger suggested the FBI’s August 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort may have been related to the missing binder.
After the US intelligence community created a pretext for investigating Trump for ‘ties to Russia,’ they spied on his campaign – and then his presidency – using a falsely obtained FISA warrant. The warrant was based on the ‘Steele dossier,’ a file compiled by a British spy in the pay of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, through several intermediaries. The FBI knew the dossier was false as early as January 2017, but continued using the FISA warrant for almost a year thereafter.
The FBI lawyer who altered evidence to obtain the warrant, Kevin Clinesmith, ended up sentenced to probation and his law license has since been restored.
‘Justin Trudeau has turned the Liberal Party into a veritable hate group against Christians,’ Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.
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Do you think that the next Wuhan could ever happen here in the US? Think again.
A shocking discovery was made recently in California, where an illegal Chinese-owned bio lab was discovered.
Thousands of viles, some bearing the names “HIV” and “Ebola,” were discovered in the illegal lab along with thousands of test mice.
Upon entering the dimly lit building, Harper was met with a chilling sight: a clandestine operation involving laboratory equipment, manufacturing devices, dangerous chemicals, and medical-grade freezers and containment units, all harbouring thousands of vials of biological substances. What sent shivers down her spine was the discovery that some of these vials bore labels in Mandarin, while others were shrouded in inscrutable codes, leaving their contents a sinister mystery.
THE DANGER OF THESE ILLEGAL BIOLABS IS REAL
Dr. Jim Thorp, one of the leading freedom-fighting doctors during the COVID pandemic, is sounding the alarm when it comes to these hazardous and illegal biolabs and the threats they pose:
“The threat of hazardous and illegal biolabs is more than just a remote threat. You don’t have to travel to Wuhan or Ukraine to uncover these breeding grounds for the next pandemic – indeed we have seen them discovered here in the United States. Our government must immediately step-up efforts to shut down these dangerous biohazard labs at home and abroad and until these labs are shuttered for good, I encourage all Americans to stockpile the medications necessary to protect you and your family.”
EVEN LEGAL BIOLABS POSE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO AMERICANS
It’s not just the illegal biolabs that constitute a threat to the American public, as Dr. Thorp has pointed out:
“It’s not just illegal biolabs that we need to be concerned about. There are more than 200 legal biosafety level 3 or 4 labs that work with dangerous pathogens here in the United States. These lightly guarded facilities represent a clear and present danger to hundreds of millions of Americans.”
These dangerous labs are everywhere – literally. A USA Today study uncovered more than 200 biosafety 3 or 4 biolabs in all 50 states. These labs store and handle some of the most dangerous pathogens on the planet.
There were 219 reported releases of biological select agents or toxins from biolabs in the U.S. in 2019, according to the most recent annual report of the Federal Select Agent Program, a joint effort of the CDC, NIH, and U.S. Department of Agriculture to manage the use and transport of some of the most dangerous biological agents and toxins, including ricin, Ebola, and anthrax. Of those releases, 195 led to occupational exposures and 177 led to the administration of health services, including prophylaxis. The Federal Select Agent Program did not respond to questions about how many of the select agents and toxins it oversees were released in 2020 and how many times the agents that were released came from BSL-2, BSL-3, or BSL-4 labs.
How Do You Protect Your Family from the Dangerous Biolabs?
It is clear that these legal and illegal biolabs pose a significant threat to the American people and even more disturbing we know we can’t trust our government to protect us from these labs. So what can be done?
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“I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the Wall Street Journal when asked about President Biden’s mental and physical health.
But in all seriousness, it’s not hard to figure out the White House is quickly recalibrating its re-election message following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that called Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory” for mishandling classified documents. Now, trial balloons are being floated to see if Harris could be a substitute on the ballot.
WSJ pointed out:
“There is no serious talk of replacing Biden on this year’s presidential ticket, Democratic officials say, pointing to the filing deadlines for primary ballot access that have already closed. In the unlikely circumstance that Biden withdraws as the Democratic nominee, Harris would still have to earn the required delegates to take his place at the party’s convention in August. If it were to happen after the convention, a special meeting of the Democratic National Committee would decide the party’s presidential ticket, according to the DNC’s rules.”
A significant hurdle for Harris is her awful public perception. And everyone knows she would be an even greater disaster than Biden, who suffers from dementia severe memory loss.
Kamala Harris suddenly adopts an American Southern accent mid-speech about the 2nd Amendment.
#USA. A crazy excerpt from Kamala #Harris,vice president of #Biden: “Today is today.And yesterday was today for us,but yesterday.And tomorrow will become for us today,but tomorrow. So live today in such a way that the future today is for you like yesterday’s today, only tomorrow” pic.twitter.com/0dZSLMShwS— Donato Yaakov Secchi (@doyaksec) April 29, 2023
“No matter how badly Biden is doing; ever since 2021, Harris has polled worse. As one Republican strategist puts it, “She’s the one politician in America who essentially can make Joe Biden look even semi-competent,” British journalist Freddy Gray penned in The Telegraph.
A recent NBC News survey of American voters found that most respondents view Harris negatively (53%). And only 28% of respondents have a favorable opinion of the VP.
At the same time, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted after the special counsel’s report found that 86% of respondents think Biden’s too old to serve as commander-in-chief.
Circling back to the WSJ interview, Harris also said she has the “capacity to lead” to lead the nation. If you want a glimpse of leadership, recall she was ‘Border Czar’ for about a year.
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