Daily Archives: March 5, 2024

What Shall I Do with Christ? | Love Worth Finding on Oneplace.com

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March 7 – Introducing the Menorah! | VCY

TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
  Numbers 8:1-9:23
  Mark 13:14-37
  Psalm 50:1-23
  Proverbs 10:29-30

Numbers 8:2 — Ever wonder where the Menorah came from? Not just for Hanukkah, the Menorah was designed to light the Temple. The seven lamps from one candlestick make up the Menorah. This Menorah is made for the coming Third Temple that will be built someday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On my trips to Israel, I’ve seen it, but it’s hard to miss. It sits in view of the Temple Mount near the headquarters of the Temple Mount Institute.

Numbers 8:12 — Do you think sin is important and offensive to God?

Numbers 8:25-26 — An interesting take on retirement. You may need to change your field of service, but you can’t check out from service.

Numbers 9:8 — Great words of wisdom when we don’t know what to do. Unfortunately, others did not always follow.

Mark 13:35 — Are you watching and ready for the return of the Lord?

Psalm 50:10 — Does God need our sacrifices? We merely offer to God a portion of what He has given us.

Psalm 50:15 — Very similar to the verse that has been called “God’s Telephone Number” (Jeremiah 33:3).

Proverbs 10:30 — Are you living for this century or the next century?

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God Repays | VCY

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. (Proverbs 19:17)

We are to give to the poor out of pity. Not to be seen and applauded, much less to get influence over them; but out of pure sympathy and compassion we must give them help.

We must not expect to get anything back from the poor, not even gratitude; but we should regard what we have done as a loan to the Lord. He undertakes the obligation, and, if we look to Him in the matter, we must not look to the second party. What an honor the Lord bestows upon us when He condescends to borrow of us! That merchant is greatly favored who has the Lord on his books. It would seem a pity to have such a name down for a paltry pittance; let us make it a heavy amount. The next needy man that comes this way, let us help him.

As for repayment, we can hardly think of it, and yet here is the Lord’s note of hand. Blessed be His name, His promise to pay is better than gold and silver. Are we running a little short through the depression of the times? We may venture humbly to present this bill at the bank of faith, Has any one of our readers [oppressed] the poor? Poor soul. May the Lord forgive him.

It Is Written – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL

The Bible tells us in (Ephesians 6:12): “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” While we live in physical bodies our real battles in life are not against one another but against supernatural spiritual forces – and chief among them is Satan. 

And it only stands to reason that in order to defeat supernatural enemies we need supernatural weaponry. Thankfully, God has left us a supremely powerful spiritual weapon – the Bible. We also see in (Ephesians 6:17), right in the middle of Paul describing the spiritual warfare we are in, that we are to take up: “…the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” My friends there is just no more powerful offensive weapon than the Bible.

And there is no better example in all of Scripture of how to wield this amazingly powerful weapon than what we read in (Matthew 4). Here we see Jesus being tempted by Satan in the wilderness. I love how J. C. Ryle describes this event: “The chief weapon we ought to use in resisting Satan is the Bible. Three times the great enemy offered temptations to our Lord. Three times his offer was refused, with a text of Scripture as the reason, ‘it is written’ (Mt. 4:4, 7, 10).”1

You can read the entire temptation account below: (Matthew 4:1-11)

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” 7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” 8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ” 11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

Notice Jesus uses the phrase: “it is written” in verses 4, 7, and 10 to let Satan know that Scripture is the sole source of truth on all matters and that when we follow the Word of God we not only please the Lord but we send Satan packing, for he is no match for the anointed truth of the Bible. Scripture is our most powerful weapon to defeat Satan – period. Notice after three tries Satan had to flee (verse 11).

So, the next time you are confronted with evil and the lies of the enemy remember that we are to assault error and lies with the truth. (Proverbs 12:19 TLB) says it well: “Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.”

1 The chief weapon we ought to use in resisting Satan is the Bible. Three times the great enemy offered temptations to our Lord. Three times his offer was refused, with a text of Scripture as the reason, “it is written” (Mt. 3:4, 7, 10). – Grace Quotes

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Shackled Again | Daily Thoughts about God.


But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.” Jeremiah 34:11


Did you know it became a law in 600 BC that no Hebrew could enslave another? Makes sense, considering their ancestors had been slaves in Egypt. It didn’t last long, though. Pretty soon, the desire to have slaves became too great to resist.

Reading this made me wonder how many “slaves” I’ve set free as a Christian, only to take them back. Things that once shackled me such as fear, anxiety, worry. Maybe pride, envy, or unjustified anger? I think I can do without them for a while, but pretty soon old habits make me want to snatch them back from the cross and claim them once again.

We are told by Paul that if we believe in Christ we will be truly free (Romans 8:2). And yet, my humanity keeps wanting to chain me to sin. Instead of trusting in God and resting in His love, I pull on my chains of worry and lock myself down in anxious, sleepless nights. Instead of thanking Him for His blessing, I find myself mumbling why I can’t have the beauty of so and so or the income of whosit.

Click the shackles. Padlock the chains. I’m enslaved once again. I fight to get free, but deep down I know only One Person can set me loose. I cannot do it on my own strength. Again, I realize how much I need a Savior.

If this sounds like you, will you join me in surrendering to the One who can truly set us free?

Precious Lord, forgive me when I want to enslave myself once again to sin. It is like nailing you to the cross all over again. Yet I know you died for each of my sins, past, present, and future. Thank you for that, Lord. Set me free, again. Amen.

By Julie Cosgrove
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FURTHER READING

 Break the Cycle – by Rand Kreycik

• Live Free – by Kristi Huseby

• Something Else Entirely – by Ashlea Massie

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5 Mar 2024 News Briefing

Heavy rains and snow hit Pakistan, destroying homes and leaving dozens dead
Heavy rains and snow have wreaked havoc across Pakistan over the past 4 days, leaving at least 36 people dead and 50 others injured, according to authorities. The affected areas include the scenic Swat Valley, the Khyber district, and other parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The heavy rainfall and snowfall have caused houses to collapse, triggered landslides, and blocked roads, particularly in the country’s northwest.

Over 6 000 isolated as avalanche closes tunnel entrance in Aosta Valley, Italy
More than 6,000 people were isolated on March 3, 2024, following a large avalanche in the Aosta Valley, which struck a tunnel in the municipality of Gaby, province of Aosta, Italy.

Thousands Claim Dubious Chinese-Made Sinovac Vaccines Gave Them Leukemia, Diabetes
Almost 3,000 people who claim to have suffered illnesses from China’s dodgy coronavirus vaccine signed a petition asking Chinese Communist Party officials to take responsibility for their illnesses and plan to appear at this week’s “Two Sessions” policy meeting in Beijing.

Leaked Documents Expose China’s Hacking Capabilities, Targets
A massive cache of leaked documents from a Chinese hacking contractor further underscores the global cybersecurity threats posed by China’s communist regime, experts say. The documents, which were posted on GitHub by unknown individuals on Feb. 16, include product manuals, marketing materials, employee lists, chat records, financial information, and details about foreign infiltration.

Swedish Defense Forces Advertise in Arabic: Former Left-Wing Green Party Member Outraged 
Sweden’s open border policies have caused a massive demographic change that is playing out in their language demands.

Doritos Just Hired A Self Described Pedophile As A ‘Brand Ambassador’
Oily GMO tortilla chip brand Doritos is facing widespread backlash after some genius within the Spanish arm of the company decided to hire a non-binary transgender person who appears to have previously endorsed pedophilia to sell its snacks. Yes, really.

Southern Governor Deploys National Guard in Face of Biden’s Inaction
Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard are deploying down to the southern border after President Joe Biden has continued to fail to take any meaningful action to contain the crisis.

Antisemitism on the Rise: Mirrored Attacks in Zurich and Paris Put Swiss and French Authorities on Alert, Leave Jewish Community on Edge
European recipe for disaster: you allow your country to be flooded by unchecked mass migration – in a large degree coming from poor Muslim countries. Then, when war breaks out in the Middle East, whatever the stance your government takes, members of your vast Jewish community will still become ‘soft targets’ for terrorists, militants, thugs, and deranged people in general.

‘A War for Our Minds’: Journalists Warn of Vast Propaganda, Censorship Network Unlike Any Before in Human History
Government, mainstream media and nonprofits are part of a “vast censorship network” that suppresses non-establishment perspectives on COVID-19 and a wide range of other topics, according to participants at Monday’s Senate roundtable discussion on “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel.”

‘Net Zero’ Is WEF Plot to Destroy Food Supply
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda is actually a plot to destroy the food supply and eliminate the working class, a new report has warned. An investigation by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS) found that unelected globalists at the WEF and United Nations (UN) are using “climate change” fears to seize control of the masses.

Trudeau Permitted Chinese Nationals to Work at National Virus Lab, Covered Up Espionage Scandal to Get Reelected
In Canada, the leftist government of Justin Trudeau allowed two Chinese-born scientists to work at the nation’s most important microbiology lab and pass secrets back to China.

Chinese Strategists Admit TikTok Part of Psychological War Against America
The evidence is more than clear that Beijing is conducting psychological operations against the American people by means of some of the most popular social media apps. China doesn’t even deny it — and Biden is doing nothing about it.

Outcry as Australian Conference Caves to Hamas Sympathizers, Axes Jewish Mental Health Leader
Robert Gregory, CEO of the Australian Jewish Association, lambasted the organizers’ actions as ‘a stain on Australia’s reputation,’ likening them to the boycotts faced by Jewish academics during the Nazi era.

Grandson Of Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah Reportedly Killed In Israeli Airstrike 
The reports said he was among the three Hezbollah members wiped out by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday morning, naming Nasrallah’s grandson as Abbas Ahmed Khalil. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday it had “struck a vehicle in southern Lebanon, in which a number of terrorists who launched rockets into Israeli territory were driving.” The statement added the jihadists were with the Iran-linked Imam Hossein Division, which operates under Hezbollah.

I have never witnessed such harm as is caused by covid injections, cardiologist tells GMC 
Dr. Dean Patterson, a leading consultant cardiologist in Guernsey and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, wrote an extraordinary letter to the CEO of the General Medical Council (“GMC”) calling for an investigation into unprecedented harms from the covid injections.

585 million killed or injured and massive harm to pregnant women by covid injections, doctor says placing American medical organizations on notice 
…“You are placed on formal notice. You must call for an immediate moratorium on the use of the covid-19 “Vaccines” in pregnancy or you will be subject to Civil and/or Criminal charges for negligence, intent to harm, assault/battery and murder,” Dr. Thorp posted on Twitter. “Best estimates are 585 million global citizens killed or injured from the covid-19 “vaccines” and you have inflicted massive harm to pregnant women, pre-borns, and newborns on a global scale.”

Alarm Bells For The U.S. Food Supply
….On the other side of the world, hundreds of millions of people do not have enough food to eat on a regular basis and children are literally dropping dead from starvation.  Here in the United States, nobody is dropping dead from starvation, but demand at food banks is absolutely exploding as U.S. households struggle to deal with how oppressively expensive groceries have become.  Unfortunately, things are about to get even worse.

Headlines – 3/5/2024

David Cameron has told a packed Jewish Care lunch of his hope that a “pause” in fighting in Gaza could turn into a “sustainable ceasefire” that eventually leads to a “horizon towards a Palestinian state, not involving Hamas”

Hosting Gantz, Harris balances praise of Israel with criticism over Gaza aid crisis

VP Harris pushing Biden to sharpen rhetoric on Gaza humanitarian crisis – report

Netanyahu’s office denies report Biden wouldn’t take phone call after Gaza aid chaos

US diplomat found dead in apartment in Jerusalem as embassy launches investigation

“Uncommitted” Movement Hopes to Take Votes from Joe Biden in Several Super Tuesday States Including CO, MN, and WA Over His Support for Israel

Support for Israel among US voters dwindles as war drags on, WSJ poll finds

17 relatives of American hostages in Gaza to attend Biden’s State of the Union speech

As Israel seeks list of living hostages, Hamas official claims ceasefire needed first

Hamas official: ‘We don’t know which of the hostages are dead or alive’ – Hamas official Basem Naim told the BBC that information on the hostages was “valuable” and couldn’t be given for “free.”

Gaza war: Hopes for ceasefire falter ahead of Ramadan

Egypt claims progress in hostage talks with Hamas as Sinwar said to go silent

Emaciated children seen in Gazan hospitals as hunger spreads throughout Strip

White House accuses some ministers of creating ‘obstacles’ to getting aid into Gaza

Israel and UN trade allegations of ‘terrorism,’ torture

U.N. Envoy Says ‘Reasonable Grounds’ To Believe Hamas Committed Sexual Violence On Oct. 7

UN finds evidence of rape on Oct. 7 and after; Israel: They tried to downplay issue

‘I captured one!’ – IDF recordings show more UNRWA staffers bragging of Oct. 7 crimes

11 ceasefire activists arrested after blocking NYPD from responding to bomb threat

Swiss president says ‘antisemitism has no place’ in country after Jewish man stabbed

Woke former Methodist official caught drawing swastika on Jewish woman’s groceries in LA

The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending – Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans – and demolish the liberal order they helped establish

Arab MKs meet Jordan’s king amid concerns of Ramadan unrest at Temple Mount

Security services foil Hebron terror cell planning ISIS-inspired bomb attacks

Visiting Lebanon, US envoy says diplomacy ‘only way’ to end Israel-Hezbollah clashes

Foreign national killed, 7 hurt in anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon

Hezbollah rocket damages utility pole, causing blackouts in several northern towns

Fighter jet shoots down ‘suspicious aerial target’ that entered from Syria – IDF

Four telecom cables under Red Sea cut, affecting 25% of traffic, Hong Kong firm says

IAEA chief: We have lost track of Iran nuke progress – IAEA chief Grossi has expressed growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear safety protocols in place

Iran executed at least 834 people last year, in ‘staggering’ jump, rights groups say

Russia’s Medvedev Says Ukraine Is Russia

Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Blowing Up Railway Bridge Deep in Russian Interior

63-year-old US Air Force employee arrested for giving classified intel on Ukraine to woman he met on dating site who dubbed him ‘Sweet Dave’

Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Docs that Revealed US and UK Special Forces were on the Ground in Ukraine – Agrees to Accept 16 Year Sentence

Trudeau pledges another $3 billion to Ukraine, including $4 million for ‘gender and diversity’

Germany’s defence minister said on Sunday Russia was conducting an “information war” aimed at creating divisions within Germany after military recording

Hunter Biden sought $5 million to try to quash indictment for Ukrainian oligarch, ex-partner says

More Hot Water for Hunter Biden: Chinese Ex-Client Demands Return of $1 Million

Impeachment figure Bobulinski sues Democrat’s star J6 witness Hutchinson for defamation

Sinead O’Connor’s Estate Demands ‘Biblical Devil’ Donald Trump Stop Using Her Music

Supreme Court rules Trump can stay on Colorado ballot in historic 14th Amendment case

Supreme Court unanimously reverses Colorado court ruling in 9-0 decision, Trump to stay on the ballot

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Trump cannot be kicked off any state ballot

Colorado sec of state ‘disappointed’ with Supreme Court decision to preserve democracy in America – “Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot”

Lauren Boebert seeks to remove Colorado Sec of State Jena Griswold from office after failed bid to pull Trump from ballot – “All legal options available to us will be considered, including a formal recall effort.”

Supreme Court ‘Must Be Dissolved’: Liberals Melt Down over Ruling that States Can’t Disqualify Trump from Ballots

House Democrats Immediately Announce They are Working to “Revive Legislation” to Ban Trump From Ballot in Light of SCOTUS Decision

Commentary: Biden Department Of Justice Declares War On Voter ID And Other Election Security Laws

Conspiracy theories gain new life as US campaign unfolds

Jim Jordan Seeks Details on Potential Government Influence on Google’s Woke Gemini AI

Silicon Valley’s elite are moralizing about the future of AI

Accused Facebook killer in California claims his confession was AI-generated

Google’s Woke Gemini AI Says Women Can Have Male Genitalia

Oscars Week Kicks Off Under Cloud of Scandal as Hollywood’s Blue Collar Workers Face AI Extinction

ChatGPT-rival Anthropic releases more powerful AI

CME impact sparks G2 – Moderate geomagnetic storm

5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Fannuj, Iran

5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Nagqu, China

Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 21,000ft

Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 20,000ft

Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft

Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 18,000ft

Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 17,000ft

Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft

Semeru volcano in Peru erupts to 15,000ft

Large lava flows form in first eruption at Fernandina volcano since 2020 – Galapagos, Ecuador

Over 6,000 isolated as avalanche closes tunnel entrance in Aosta Valley, Italy

Heavy rains and snow hit Pakistan, destroying homes and leaving dozens dead

Texas Struggles to Contain Wildfires as Wind Adding to Spread

Tyson Foods Announces Partnership with Protix, Construction of Insect Ingredient Facility

Venezuelan Ex-Political Prisoner Found Dead in Chile, Fueling Suspicions of Maduro Regime Killing on Foreign Soil

Haiti capital ‘paralyzed’ after unrest, PM still abroad

White House sounds alarm that Haiti is ‘rapidly deteriorating’ as gangs move on key targets

At Least 19 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

Massive Brawls Break Out Inside Six Flags Over Georgia with 500-600 People Involved Before a Gunfight Erupts – 15-Year-Old Boy Shot by Police Officer in Self-Defense

Chinese nationals arrested in Georgia county’s ‘largest’ indoor drug growing bust ever

Jim Jordan slams Biden after Border Patrol chief said president ‘never had one conversation’ with him amid migrant surge

Texas AG Paxton: Biden Left Border Open on Purpose

Federal appeals court to allow controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, if SCOTUS doesn’t intervene

Ever more undocumented Indian migrants follow ‘donkey’ route to America

Tourist couple alleges gang rape in India, sparking outrage and the arrests of 3 men

Shocking Lawsuit Filed Against Rapper Sean “P Diddy” Combs with Claims of Sex Trafficking, Drugging Underage Girls, Shootings, Coverups and More – Names J-Lo, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Stevie J.

Kentucky Democrat Suggests Child Sex Dolls for Pedophiles: It ‘Gives Them a Release’

Company That Offers Custom Child-Like Sex Dolls, Now Promotes Bestiality and Offers Dog Sex Dolls for Zoophiles

RuPaul Shares “Rainbow Bus” Giving Away “Banned” Books and Spreading “LGBTQ+ Literature Throughout the South”

Woman thrown out of Ontario city council meeting for raising concerns on ‘universal gender neutral common area’

JK Rowling says it ‘happened again’ as man filming in women’s restroom claims to be transgender when caught – The Harry Potter author wrote, ‘That thing only evil, nasty bigots claim happens, and that never, ever happens, has happened. Again’

Judge blocks Texas from collecting info on transgender children receiving gender-affirming care

France becomes first country to put right to abortion in constitution

French Bishops Reject Attempt to Make Abortion a Constitutional ‘Right’

Mini-organs grown from stem cells taken during late pregnancy for the first time

America’s hopelessness crisis may have less to do with the economy and more to do with Gen Z’s mental health, new survey shows

Thousands Claim Dubious Chinese-Made Sinovac Vaccines Gave Them Leukemia, Diabetes

WH Lifting COVID-19 Testing Rule for People Around Biden, Ending Pandemic Vestige

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Mid-Day Snapshot · March 5, 2024

“From The Patriot Post (patriotpost.us)”.

THE FOUNDATION

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)

On this day in Patriot history in 1770, several British Redcoats opened fire on American colonists in Boston, killing five in what quickly became known as the Boston Massacre. John Adams took up the legal defense for nine British soldiers, winning acquittal for all but two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. He later called it “one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country” because it proved American justice could be impartial. —Mark Alexander

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FEATURED ANALYSIS

A Tough Day for TDS in 9-0 SCOTUS Case

In a resounding slapdown of Colorado, the Supreme Court said that states can’t simply kick a guy off the ballot because they don’t like his politics.

Douglas Andrews

Nine-zip. Nine-zilch. Nine-nada.

It’s said that 9-0 rulings aren’t all that rare when it comes to Supreme Court decisions. The “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact tell us that they’ve usually accounted for a plurality of rulings, and that they’ve never fallen below 36% of all rulings since 2008.

And that may be true — we have no reason to doubt it — but it seems that such resounding rulings almost always come in little-watched cases, like when the justices are registering their collective disgust at the heavy-handed legal tactics of an obscure hack like Trump special persecutor Jack Smith. Indeed, rarely do 9-0 decisions accompany such high-profile and heavily watched cases as yesterday’s Colorado ballot case — a case of TDS, a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

And yet.

The Trump-hating Democrats (but we repeat ourselves) who’d prefer to keep the former president off the 2024 ballot were dealt a seemingly mortal blow late yesterday morning as the John Roberts court ruled unanimously that Colorado could not kick Donald Trump off its 2024 presidential primary ballot.

As Fox News reports: “All nine justices ruled in favor of Trump in the case, which will impact the status of efforts in several other states to remove the likely GOP nominee from their respective ballots. The court considered for the first time the meaning and reach of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars former officeholders who ‘engaged in insurrection’ from holding public office again. Challenges have been filed to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot in over 30 states.”

As to whether the hopes of all those other Trump-banning states are still alive, still able to keep him off their ballots, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley seemed — shall we say? — rather dubious. “I think they’re all dead as Dillinger,” he said. “When you read this opinion, there is no dissent that the states cannot enforce the 14th Amendment provision.” That Civil War-era provision, according to assorted lefties in high places across certain states, allows them to ban The Insurrectionist Trump™ from their presidential ballots.

A few weeks ago, we suggested that the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 decision — a 4-3 decision by an all-Democrat court — was Trump-deranged hogwash, and we wondered whether the Supreme Court would make a statement by ruling unanimously in declaring it so. And sure enough, they have, in what can only be called a great victory for Chief Justice John Roberts. “The only disagreement,” Turley added, “is whether the court should’ve gone even further to close off future arguments or challenges without an action from Congress.”

It seems like only a few weeks ago that Trump-deranged former federal judge and short-list Bush Supreme Court candidate Michael Luttig said: “Yesterday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court was, uh, masterful. Uh, it, it, was brilliant. Uh, and, uh, it is an unassailable, uh, interpretation, uh, of the 14th Amendment.”

So much for “uh, masterful.”

“I want to start by thanking the Supreme Court for its unanimous decision today,” said the former and perhaps future president, Donald Trump. “It was a very important decision, [was] very well crafted, and I think it will go a long way toward bringing our country together, which our country needs. And they worked long, they worked hard, and frankly, they worked very quickly on something that will be spoken about 100 years from now and 200 years from now. Extremely important.”

Trump added: “The voters can take the person out of the race very quickly. But a court shouldn’t be doing that. And the Supreme Court saw that very well. And I really do believe that will be a unifying factor because while most states were thrilled to have me, there were some that didn’t, and they didn’t want that for political reasons.”

And so, as The Babylon Bee quipped, “In Major Blow To Democracy, Supreme Court Rules Voters Can Vote For Favorite Candidate.” As Justice Amy Coney Barrett said in her concurrence: “The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up. For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans should take home.”

Indeed, that is the message that all Americans should take home, but Trump derangement being what it is, we expect the Left’s caterwauling about the Supreme Court’s “illegitimacy” will only grow louder and more grating — ironically, even in the face of a 9-0 smackdown. And sure enough, it has.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold looked to be on the verge of tears as she stared wide-eyed into the teleprompter and reacted to the repudiation of her state’s errant decision: “My larger reaction is disappointment,” she said. “I do believe that states should be able, under our Constitution, to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists. … Ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November. … Regardless of this decision, American democracy still remains very much under attack, and that threat, in this upcoming election, will be crucial for democracy’s survival in the United States.”

When someone says it’s not about the money, you can be sure it’s about the money. Similarly, when a lefty says it’s about preserving our democracy, you can be sure it has nothing to do with preserving our republican democracy. As for Griswold, how hilariously obtuse that she’s worried that voters must “save our democracy.” That’s kind of the point, isn’t it?

Anyone who thought congressional Democrats would respect the ruling of the third coequal branch of government and simply slink away is gravely mistaken. As Axios reported yesterday, Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and a former member of the rigged January 6 Committee, said he’s already working on federal legislation that would force Trump off the ballot.

“Congress will have to try and act,” said Raskin, and we have no doubt that they will. Unfortunately for him and his ilk, such legislation has zero chance of passing so long as Republicans run the House, which will be the case until at least early January when the 119th Congress is seated.

In a Politico article titled “Level of Freak Out Remains High,” authors Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, and Eugen Daniels wrote: “This has the feel of a slow motion car crash. … If you’re not a bedwetter now, you’re not paying attention.”

And speaking of nocturnal enuresis, we bring you the perennially unhinged Keith Olbermann. When a random social media antagonist chided Olby for crying about the Supreme Court’s decision, he responded: “Those aren’t tears, Fascist. They’re urine. I’m sure you enjoy being bathed in it.”

Urine? What does this even mean? And why is it that all the creepy nutjobs are on the Left?

“You can’t save a people from themselves,” lamented University of Virginia law professor Larry Sabato, who seems to be leaning further left with age. “If they’re determined to reelect him after he organized that insurrection — arguably our first coup d’état — then there’s nothing to stop the people from doing that.”

Whoa, Larry. Isn’t that “democracy”? He’s also wrong about that coup d’état, which was actually attempted by the deep state against President Trump.

As the far-more-sensible Turley put it last night: “The real winner here is not Donald Trump, but rather it’s the United States Supreme Court and ultimately the American people. The court was designed for this moment. This is what the Framers hoped would happen. They want a court to be able to transcend the politics of the moment; to be able to rise above that, and to point citizens to a horizon, a constitutional horizon that unites them all. And they did that.”

That they did, Professor Turley. That they did.

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‘Extremists Attack the Integrity of Free and Fair Elections’

Kamala Harris and Merrick Garland are peddling lies about elections and voting rights to whip up black voters.

Nate Jackson

Democrats are bound and determined to “save democracy” by undermining it at every turn. It’s the only way they can even begin to hope Joe Biden will defeat Donald Trump this November. Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland are just the latest contestants in that cynical game.

Both of them went to Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the clash between police and civil rights protesters there, and they asserted some outright falsehoods. The purpose is to shore up black voters for Biden, as he’s beginning to lose them to Trump.

We’ll start with Garland:

The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division. That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.

“There are many things that are open to debate in America,” Garland also said. “One thing that must not be open for debate is the right of all eligible citizens to vote and to have their vote counted.”

Harris also complained about election integrity.

Today, in states across our nation, extremists pass laws to ban drop boxes, limit early voting, and restrict absentee ballots. In Georgia, extremists passed a law to even make it illegal to give people food and water for standing in line to exercise their civic duty and right to vote. …

Across our nation, extremists attack the integrity of free and fair elections.

Not surprisingly, we have a few points of rebuttal.

If a Republican were to show up in a church and talk about voting, he’d be accused of the supposedly rank sin of Christian Nationalism, flagrantly breaking down the Left’s sacred “wall of separation” and thus threatening democracy. Yet Democrats can do that in black churches all day, every day. So not only do we have two-tiered justice implemented by Garland and others, but we have two-tiered religious liberty.

It’s nothing but a BIG Lie for Democrats to assert that (in this case, unnamed) Republicans are trying to take away the right to vote from anyone. There are more options to vote early and by mail than at any point in American history. Eight states and Washington, DC, run their elections primarily through the mail, with every eligible voter automatically receiving a ballot. Nearly all states allow in-person early voting, with 21 of them offering voting on Saturday and nine on Sunday.

Some 36 states request or require some form of identification to vote, though only 10 require photo ID. (It should be all 50.) Fourteen states require no documentation whatsoever.

“Voters across all demographics support voter ID laws in virtually every poll by almost 80%,” notes The Heritage Foundation. “This typically includes more than 60% of Democrats.” It also includes large majorities of minorities.

Yet racist Democrats continue implying that blacks and Hispanics somehow have a more difficult time obtaining photo IDs. They never explain why it’s “discriminatory” to require the same verification for everyone, regardless of color.

We’ll address Harris’s ridiculous complaint about Georgia with a few questions. Why can’t voters exercising their civic duty bring their own water or food in preparation for lines? Who happens to run the dysfunctional precincts with long lines in places like Atlanta? (Hint: Democrats.) And why do electioneering volunteers insist on providing water to voters — and ensuring voters know who provided it?

Harris failed to note that after Georgia passed its election integrity law rolling back some of the pandemic excesses, the state saw record turnout in 2022.

In truth, of course, the only extremists attacking the integrity of our elections are Democrats.

As our Mark Alexander wrote last fall:

Of the votes cast in 2020, 43% (66 million ballots) were cast by mail — and a majority of those were in states where authentication of the person receiving and casting the ballot is not required. Of all those who voted in person, 66% voted for Trump versus 42% for Biden — which is to say that 58% of Biden ballots, almost 47 million votes, were cast by mail.

Failing to authenticate mail-in ballots or to even try to obtain any proof of eligibility for in-person voters is a dereliction of duty. It is deliberately choosing to neglect the integrity of our elections. One in five mail-in voters even admitted to ballot fraud in 2020. Not only can that change results — it might have been decisive in 2020 — but it undermines public confidence in our election process and deeply divides the country. Democrats want both, of course, which is why Harris and Garland are tag-teaming to smear the “extremists” on the GOP side.

But again, who are the extremists?

Maybe — just maybe — the extremists are the ones implementing cockamamie schemes to remove Trump’s name from state ballots. Schemes so obviously foolish that the Supreme Court rebuked them 9-0.

Maybe the extremists are the ones conducting egregiously partisan lawfare against Trump during an election year. They’re suing him for defamation, hitting him with unbelievable fines for the victimless “crime” of buying and selling real estate, and hitting him with four separate indictments with 91 counts for everything from business accounting to so-called “insurrection.”

Democrats intended to make Trump the GOP nominee with all of this lawfare because they hoped to beat him in a fourth straight national election. But if the polling is any indication, they severely miscalculated — at least if Biden remains the nominee.

There are still roughly eight months until Election Day, and Democrats intend to have Trump sitting in a courtroom for as many days as possible during that stretch, calculating that independents won’t vote for a guy under so much legal duress and that they’d opt instead to vote for the vegetable or the late replacement.

In other words, “Across our nation, extremists attack the integrity of free and fair elections.” Notably, by the way, Kamala Harris did not name the extremists, which means, ironically, she’s right.

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Executive News Summary

Texas immigration law stymied, Florida loses a DEI battle, San Francisco Giants players must stand for national anthem, and more.

Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler

Cross-Examination

  • Doubling down on democracy: It’s no secret that Joe Biden’s key selling point over Donald Trump is his oft-repeated claim about the danger that Le Bête Orange poses to “our democracy.” Indeed, longtime Biden stooge Mike Donilon says that in the weeks and months ahead, the campaign’s focus “will become overwhelming on democracy.” (It’s a republic, but whatever.) But a funny thing seems to be happening on the way to November: Biden and Trump are now in a statistical tie as to which of them will safeguard “democracy and rule of law.” According to a new poll of registered voters from CBS News and YouGov, 34% believe that these two institutions will be safe “only if Biden wins,” while 33% believe the same will be true only if Trump wins. In perhaps a sign of the deep divisions within our country, 20% of respondents said democracy and rule of law won’t be safe regardless of which man wins. Bringing up the rear of the sample, only 13% of voters expressed confidence that these institutions will be safe no matter who wins. It’s a bleak picture, to be sure, but what are we to expect when one party engages in endless lawfare against the other party’s leading presidential candidate and tries to deny the American people the right to vote for the candidate of their choice by unconstitutionally removing that same candidate from the ballot?
  • Texas illegal immigration law stymied: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued a temporary stay on Texas’s anti-illegal immigration law, SB 4, that extends authority to local and state law enforcement to arrest migrants for being in the state illegally. The Court issued its block following a request from the Biden administration after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted a stay of a judge’s decision to halt the law. With the action of SCOTUS, Texas will be prevented from enforcing its law until the High Court weighs in. And that decision will likely be coming sooner rather than later. The crux of the case is whether Texas’s law infringes on the federal government’s authority to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. If only the federal government would enforce the laws.
  • Florida loses a DEI battle: The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that Florida’s anti-DEI bill, which Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law, is unconstitutional. The law forbids private employers from subjecting “any individual, as a condition of employment” to engage in “training, instruction, or any other required activity that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” DEI ideology. The court ruled that the law violated the First Amendment by claiming the state was attempting to “control speech by recharacterizing it as conduct.” Florida’s lawyers argued that the state was not engaged in controlling speech but rather that the law aimed to protect employees from being compelled to engage in “certain speech against their will.”
  • Trump wallops Haley in Super Tuesday preview: To no one’s surprise, Donald Trump smoked Nikki Haley 85-14 yesterday in North Dakota’s presidential primary — a primary that may well be a preview to what transpires today, Super Tuesday, in 15 more contests. The win continues Trump’s primary dominance, marking his ninth win in 10 events, with the only blemish being this past weekend’s win for Haley in Washington, DC. The North Dakota win, as Fox News reports, “comes as Trump’s campaign has largely shifted its attention to the general election and an all-but-certain rematch of 2020’s matchup against President Biden.” As for today, Republican voters across the land are heading to the polls in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. Collectively, these states make up a full third of all available delegates, and the result will almost certainly be an avalanche of wins for Trump and ever greater pressure for Haley to end her quixotic campaign. Reminded of her poor electoral performance so far and asked whether she’d drop out and throw her support behind Donald Trump if (read: when) things go poorly for her today, Haley dodged with a non sequitur followed by a word salad: “If I were to get out of the race, it would still be the longest presidential general election in history. I don’t know why everybody’s so adamant that they have to follow Trump’s lead to get me out of this race. You know, all of these people deserve to vote. Sixteen states want to have their voices heard. Let’s let their voices get heard. We’re a democracy [sic].”
  • France makes abortion a constitutional right: France has become the first nation to make abortion a constitutional right. On Monday, French legislators voted 780-72 to codify the right to abortion in the country’s constitution. Back in 1974, France first legalized abortion up to 12 weeks gestation. This new constitutional right expands legal abortion up to 14 weeks gestation. An advocate for enshrining abortion as a constitutional right, leftist Green Party Senator Melanie Vogel ridiculously asserted that “the French Republic will no longer remain democratic without the right to abortion.” What of the democratic rights of preborn babies? Meanwhile, it is telling that even as France has sadly enshrined abortion into its constitution, it still limits it to 14 weeks. Here in the States, even 16 weeks is too limiting for Democrats and their pro-abortion cadres; they demand no limits. The U.S. has no federal ban on abortion at any point in pregnancy, making our nation just one of seven other countries with no such limit on abortion. These countries include the likes of North Korea and China.
  • Majority of British scientists still hold to the science on sex: A recent survey of some 200 scientists in British universities found that 58% still hold a binary view on the classification of human sex. Furthermore, 29% of those scientists endorsed the concept of sex being nonbinary, while 13% refused to respond. Following the poll, Dr. Wolfgang Goymann, a professor of biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, stated, “To me, this just means that at least 29 percent of the academics that filled out this questionnaire do not understand the biological concept of sex, and at least 22 percent of them do not know what gender means.” Indeed, any scientist being true to science should have endorsed the binary nature of sex. The evidence and the science have not changed. However, what has changed is the West’s embrace of relativism. As Goymann further observed, “Leading science journals have been adopting this relativist view, thereby opposing fundamental biological facts.” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, noted: “This survey has two remarkable findings. The first is that 29 percent of academics are apparently unaware of the obvious fact that sex is binary. The second is that nearly two-thirds of academics say that ‘gender is fluid.’ That is a strikingly confident statement about a nebulous concept. Most ordinary people think ‘gender’ is just a polite alternative to ‘sex,’ so are these academics talking about personal style — masculinity or femininity; or assertions about; ‘identity’ — that is, states of mind?”
  • San Francisco Giants players must stand for national anthem: In a development that’s equal parts good news and bold news, the grizzled skipper of Major League Baseball’s San Fransicko Giants, Bob Melvin, has declared that his ballplayers will come out of the dugout and stand for the national anthem. Just a decade ago, such non-news would’ve been met with puzzlement, but these are strange days indeed. As RedState’s Bob Hoge writes, “Well here’s a breath of fresh air — after we’ve seen former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and friends kneel for the national anthem and the US Women’s Soccer Team refusing to sing along, now we get a baseball manager who’s apparently had enough of such shenanigans and is requiring his players to be on the field for The Star-Spangled Banner.” As for Melvin, his rationale was as follows: “It’s all about the perception that we’re out there ready to play,” he told The Athletic. “That’s it. You want your team ready to play, and I want the other team to notice it, too. It’s really as simple as that.” We’ll venture a guess that Melvin is also a patriot, but we’d fully understand his desire to keep such a dirty little secret under wraps over there in Pelosiville.
  • DEI is on the ropes everywhere: During the past year, we’ve written extensively about the racist ills of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that now infect institutions across America both public and private. But it seems clear that the tide is finally turning. One powerful case in point is the recent decision by the University of Florida to Gator-chomp DEI right off its campus, and other indications are chronicled in a new City Journal piece by anti-DEI warrior Chris Rufo. As he writes: “Corporate America is following suit. Firms including Google, Meta, and Zoom have quietly cut back DEI departments and laid off employees. I have recently spoken with a number of Fortune 500 executives, who explained that, following the summer of George Floyd, companies felt immense pressure to ‘do something’ about racial disparities. But four years later, they have realized that DEI programs undermine productivity, destroy merit-based systems, and poison corporate culture. Because of our successful campaign to expose the true nature of DEI, they now have the political space — in essence, the social permission — to wind down these programs.”

Headlines

  • Michelle Obama’s office says the former first lady “will not be running for president” in 2024 (NBC News)
  • John Thune enters race to become Senate GOP leader (Daily Wire)
  • Russia hoax lawyer Marc Elias admits Trump can’t get an impartial jury in DC trial (The Federalist)
  • AOC chased out of Brooklyn movie theatre by leftist protesters demanding she accuse Israel of “genocide” (PM)
  • UN: “Convincing information” sexual violence committed against hostages in Gaza (BBC)
  • Governor Newsom announces new Hate Hotline so informants can report their neighbors to the state (Not the Bee)
  • California demolished dam to save salmon, killed the salmon instead (FrontPage Mag)
  • Federal judge rules that Christian employers do not have to pay for transgender surgeries (Daily Wire)
  • Bud Light may have lost $1.4 billion (Townhall)
  • Humor: Cast of “The View” unanimously overturns SCOTUS decision (Babylon Bee)

For more editors’ choice headlines, click here.

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Higher Education’s Broken Promise?

More than half of recent college graduates are underemployed.

Thomas Gallatin

Getting a four-year degree used to be the ticket to at least an upper-middle-class job. Indeed, if you wanted to move up the career ladder, a college degree was a nearly unquestioned must.

This idea of higher education being the ticket to realizing the American Dream caused Congress to expand the availability of low-interest loans for students. In this way, even students from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds could afford to go to college with the promise of rising up that economic ladder.

Well, as often happens when government do-gooders step in to “solve” a “problem,” their actions serve to make things even worse. A case in point: Thanks to low-interest loans, the cost of college has gone through the roof. Students are graduating with mountains of loan debt and are finding it difficult to get a good-paying job with which to pay off that debt.

For nearly four million lucky lottery winners, Joe Biden has stepped in to transfer $138 billion in student loan debt to the backs of taxpayers. That’s illegal and an unconstitutional usurpation of power, but even the Supreme Court “didn’t stop me,” he boasted recently.

Other college grads have a tougher slog. A recent survey of 60 million American workers found that a whopping 52% of college graduates within a year of finishing school are working jobs that don’t require a college education. To make matters even worse, 88% of these college grads are still working in jobs such as food service and retail even five years after graduating.

These are the growing numbers of the so-called “underemployed.” Ten years after earning a college degree, 45% still work in fields that don’t require college degrees, whereas 79% of college graduates who began their careers in jobs that required a college degree still work college-level jobs.

Why is this happening? Well, as many college graduates have learned the hard way, simply having a college degree doesn’t guarantee a college-level job. As it turns out, the specific degree actually matters. As West Virginia University political scientist R. Scott Crichlow points out, “While a college degree will substantially increase your income, some fields are wiser choices than others.”

Furthermore, a growing number of companies have begun eliminating college requirements for jobs, as they find they have to spend time training employees anyway for positions, and college does little to prepare them. As PublicSquare reported last November, 67% of 905 small business owners said that today’s college graduates lacked “relevant skills that today’s business community needs.”

RedBalloon’s unfortunately named CEO Andrew Crapuchettes contends, “A lot of students are wasting tens of thousands of dollars and years of their lives on meaningless college degrees.”

You don’t say. Is it any wonder that Biden’s student loan cancellation scheme is so attractive to so many college graduates saddled with so much student debt? After all, it beats flipping burgers alongside high school kids.

As for underemployment by racial demographic: A year after getting a college degree, 60% of the underemployed are black, 57% are Hispanic, 53% are white, and 47% are Asian. Once again, the choice of degree is the primary factor for graduates struggling to find college-level careers.

Targeting a career path before simply heading off to college is the wiser choice. If your chosen profession requires higher education, then by all means, go to college. But be mindful that there are other fulfilling career options that don’t require a four-year degree or a mountain of student loan debt.

Politicians love to tout their favorite one-size-fits-all solutions. But those solutions rarely work out for everyone. Rather, the rediscovery of that good old American Spirit needs to be preached and embraced. That spirit rejects the victimhood narrative and instead sees the rich and wonderful world of opportunities that this great nation affords to all who are willing to put in the work and chase that dream.

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DEI Is Gator-Chomped Out of the University of Florida

This makes it the first public university to divest itself from the Racial Marxism ideology.

Emmy Griffin

In a memo released by the University of Florida’s J. Scott Angle, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, an announcement was made that the university is shutting down its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) division. According to the memo, “To comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors.”

The total number of positions eliminated is 13 DEI positions and 15 administrative appointments. Those staff that were just laid off will be paid 12 weeks severance. Even in spite of that, the school is saving itself $5 million. Those funds will be allocated to a faculty recruitment fund.

This makes the University of Florida the first public university to divest itself from the Racial Marxism ideology that labels itself as DEI.

One aspect to watch, however, is that those in the DEI division who have lost their jobs are “allowed and encouraged” to apply for other available positions. The Wall Street Journal interprets this as a positive move, showing that the University of Florida is not trying to punish anyone, rather it is trying to unite its staff under the founding principle of the university: to teach students. The difficult aspect of rehiring DEI professors and staff into different positions is that they might still push forward the ideology of DEI, which is toxic.

Just look at what DEI’s influence has done to Harvard. Its former president, Claudine Gay, couldn’t even state that calls for genocide against the Jews were a punishable offense on campus. Harvard is now in a farcical dance between rectifying itself in the court of public opinion and still teaching and acting on the tenets of DEI, which label Israel and the Jews as oppressors and Hamas as the oppressed. By trying to have its cake and eat it, too, Harvard has merely succeeded in further exposing the degradation of the university.

In an interview in January, former U.S. Senator and University of Florida President Ben Sasse signaled that this change would probably be coming. Here is the pertinent excerpt from that interview, according to The Wall Street Journal:

Of the push for “diversity, equity and inclusion,” [Sasse] says that “the aspirational best parts of diversity and inclusion, I’m for.” “If you don’t have viewpoint diversity, I don’t know how you ever get to education — you just get indoctrination.” And he believes in “the dignity of every soul,” so “you want people to be included.”

What’s wrong with DEI “is the E,” he says, meaning the embrace of “equity” at the expense of equality. “The fundamental problem is saying that Martin Luther King can’t fit in the new communities of know-it-all ideological-indoctrination bureaucrats that run most universities in the country. … MLK doesn’t fit because of his aspirations for a colorblind society.

“Can people have a different view than MLK? Of course.” But “the ideological conformity of mandating that equality of opportunity is wrong and bigoted, it has to be excluded from our discourse — those people are crazy.”

It’s amazing what leadership backed by good governance can do. Let’s hope that other universities in other states take notice and will follow the University of Florida’s example. Let’s also hope that the University of Florida is able to foster that diversity of thought without the equity of outcome seeping back in.

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Biden Placates the Jew Haters

Ever mindful of the electoral map, the president tried to shore up his hard-left base by siding with Hamas in its war with Israel.

Michael Swartz

While it may seem like a lifetime ago, it’s only been about five months since Hamas made its incursion into Israel, killing some 1,200 Israeli civilians and taking dozens of hostages who have since been used as human bargaining chips. Since the hopeful point of a weeklong ceasefire in late November resulted in the release of some Hamas-held hostages, Israel has avenged the terrorist organization’s October 7 invasion by destroying Hamas infrastructure within Gaza. But unlike most military conflicts, in which non-combatants can flee an affected area, no Arab nation will take in the Gazans. Instead, they’ve become human shields for Hamas.

Ever since Israel gained the upper hand in the conflict with its superior firepower, Jew haters and Hamas supporters have been the biggest proponents of yet another ceasefire. Such a ceasefire would bring six weeks’ worth of peace for some of the remaining hostages.

As Zach Kessel of National Review describes it: “A Biden-administration official told reporters on Saturday that the Israeli government had ‘basically accepted’ the terms of a proposal for a six-week cease-fire meant to facilitate the release of elderly and injured hostages, though no specific number has been provided as to how many of the approximately 100 Israelis believed to be in Hamas captivity would be freed. The potential cease-fire is also intended to provide a window for Israel to allow more aid into the Gaza Strip.”

Traditionally, American foreign policy has advocated a two-state solution in which the Jewish state and a Palestinian state exist side by side. However, as we’ve seen in the constant war-and-ceasefire cycle since Hamas took over the Gazan government in 2006, it’s difficult for sworn enemies to coexist — especially when one of them explicitly and repeatedly rejects that idea.

But it’s also led more recently to clashing factions in the Democrat Party, which is really what this story is about. As our Thomas Gallatin observed last month, “Team Biden worries that if Israel is allowed to continue and eventually crushes Hamas, it will hurt Biden’s reelection chances, specifically in Michigan, with its significant Arab-American population.”

That call for a ceasefire from the Democrats’ Hamas wing became louder with reports that the Israeli Defense Forces “reportedly killed dozens of Palestinians” who were waiting in line for aid last week. Speculation was that the IDF attack thwarted the Biden administration’s efforts to secure a ceasefire.

Regardless, Joe Biden read from his cue cards that the U.S. would, in the coming days, “be providing airdrops of additional food and supplies into Ukraine.” He meant Gaza, not Ukraine, but rest assured: He’s a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

Malapropisms aside, Biden said this on Friday: “The truth is, aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere nearly enough now. … Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives are on the line. We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, not just several.”

However, as pointed out by National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, airlifts are “a tough military mission.” The preference among those concerned was to resume supplying the Ukrainians, er, Gazans by ship and truck.

And in a bid to establish her leadership credentials before the November election, Kamala Harris stepped out of the shadows this past weekend and lined herself up squarely in the ceasefire camp as well, telling a crowd in Selma, Alabama: “People in Gaza are starving, conditions inhumane, and our common humanity compels us to act. Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table. This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in; this would allow us to build something more enduring to ensure Israel is secure and to respect the rights of Palestinian people.”

“Hamas claims it wants a ceasefire,” added Harris. “Well, there is a deal on the table. And as we have said, Hamas needs to agree to that deal.” Harris also called on Israel to “work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza, so more water and fuel can reach those in need.” However, that would imply that Israel takes full control there, which a ceasefire would prevent.

In years past, the Democrats could count on the votes of both Jewish and Arab Americans. However, some of the Jewish vote appears to have peeled away toward Donald Trump. Biden, though, has to worry more about his left flank, which is heavily pro-Hamas and prepared to sit this one out — especially if we’re to judge from the results of the recent Michigan primary. There, a significant segment of the Detroit area’s Arab American stronghold voted “uncommitted” to protest Biden’s perceived pro-Israel stance. Michigan is the definition of a “swing state,” having gone narrowly for Trump in 2016 and narrowly for Biden in 2020. No wonder Biden is hell-bent on appeasing this crucial voting bloc.

Going forward, look for more calls for a ceasefire and more aid to Gaza while Hamas is down. It seems like the only chance for a two-state solution, though, is one in which Hamas is removed from the equation. A ceasefire only allows Hamas to hang on longer, using the timeworn strategy of waiting out a change of Israeli leadership to keep the Middle East in turmoil.

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SHORT CUTS

Can’t Fix Stupid

“I do believe that states should be able under our Constitution to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists. … Ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.” —Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold

“I am working with a number of my colleagues … to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified.” —Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

“The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.” —former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann

Theater of the Absurd

“The right to vote is still under attack. And that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. … That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.” —Attorney General Merrick Garland

“In Georgia, extremists passed a law to even make it illegal to give people food and water for standing in line to exercise their civic duty and right to vote.” —Kamala Harris

The BIG Lies

“Today, extremists pass book bans … while they also try to erase, overlook, and rewrite the ugly parts of our past.” —Kamala Harris

“I did not interact with [Hunter and James Biden’s] partners.” —Joe Biden

“We need more forces on the border. I don’t have the authority to do that.” —Joe Biden

“There certainly is no evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor in any respect in the performance of Secretary Mayorkas.” —Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Baghdad Bob

“When Governor Abbott chooses to use migrants as political pawns and leave them by the side of the road in the dead of winter, he shows Republicans are more interested in politics than solutions.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“That is so false. [Biden] has taken action. He has taken action. Republicans rejected it because of the last president. … Republicans told on themselves and said that the former president told them to not move forward with the bipartisan Border Patrol deal.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

Useful Idiots

“Netanyahu … seems sort of hellbent to continue this terribly-destructive-to-civilian-life battle in Gaza.” —Senator Tina Smith (D-MN)

“Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire.” —Kamala Harris

Gaslighting

“We need to make sure people understand the good that is coming their way because of the president’s leadership and because of their work.” —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

“I think the president is an incredibly compelling figure. And I would hope that the White House will send him out all over the country to just be who he is.” —Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

“We have to lift up that Joe Biden is working on the real issues that the American people care about. He is working towards peace, and Donald Trump is openly xenophobic, openly anti-Muslim, and would do nothing to actually address the real issues that the American people care about.” —Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz

“Remember that Joe Biden is handling the complexities of the world. … The man is doing yeoman work.” —Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Belly Laughs of the Day

“[Biden] believes in going across the aisle and working in a bipartisan way.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“The president has done more in three years in this administration than most president has done in two terms.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

For the Record

“Joe Biden campaigned on open borders. He campaigned on saying: ‘I will not deport people. I will not enforce our laws.’ And as president, that may be the only campaign promise he has honored.” —Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

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New Russian Offensive Is Rapidly Gaining Ground – Where Did All the Ukrainian Defensive Fortifications Go? | The Gateway Pundit.

After the heavily fortified key Donbas city of Avdeevka was captured by Russia, analysts and observers all over the world were presented with a much different outlook on the frontlines of Ukraine.

The Russian forces are engaged in a very successful offensive, something that the NYT has called ‘small but rapid gains,’ that Newsweek has termed ‘a high tempo of offensive operations,’ and even CNN could not help but describe it as ‘swift Russian advances.’

As we go through each of these reports below, we notice that the justification for the sudden Russian successes is manifold, but no one can overlook the fact that the proper defensive fortifications were NOT built as projected.

Artillery superiority does not fully explain the advance.

As the Russian army continues to expand westwards from Avdeevka, they have been met with poor Ukrainian defenses in the form of ‘sparse, rudimentary trench lines.’

The New York Times reported:

“Avdeevka became the site of a fierce standoff over the last nine months, emerging as one of the bloodiest battles of the war. When Russia captured the city on Feb. 17, its first major gain since last May, the Ukrainian Army claimed it had secured defensive lines outside the city.

But Russian troops have captured three villages to the west of Avdeevka in the span of a week, and they are contesting at least one other.”

It’s clear that Ukraine did not shore up its defensive lines early (or well) enough.

In some places, a shoulder-high trench is all Kiev defenders have.

But why? Since the war started in the Donbas in 2014, Ukrainian commanders have had ample time to prepare defenses outside Avdeevka.

“But the Ukrainian defenses outside Avdeevka show rudimentary earthen fortifications, often with a connecting trench for infantry troops to reach firing positions closest to the enemy, but little else.”

MSM also can’t help but compare the frankly incompetent job by Kiev’s forces with the formidable, multilayered Russian ‘Surovkin Line’ of defense fortifications, said to be visible from space.

But why were the fortifications not built? It’s not surprising that corruption, the number one obvious suspicion, is never, ever mentioned in any MSM report.

What other possible reasons are there?

Ukrainian officials may have been too focused on offensive operations, or maybe a psychological element at play.

“If Ukrainian troops heavily mined certain areas to thwart Russian advances, it would be a tacit acknowledgement that they were unlikely to carry out offensive operations in the same area at a future date.”

Formidable Russian defense fortifications could be seen from space.

Apparently, they have begun ‘plans’ for new fortifications only three months ago.

“The absence of strong defensive lines outside of Avdeevka has been denounced in recent days by several Ukrainian journalists, in a rare show of public criticism of the military.”

Ukrainian troops are now left to reinforce their defensive lines under fire from the overpowering Russian Army.

Newsweek reported on a new update by the Institute for the Study of War:

“The U.S.-based think tank’s Tuesday update noted that following a brief respite, Moscow’s troops are now ‘attempting to exploit tactical opportunities offered by the Russian seizure of Avdeevka and appear to be maintaining a relatively high tempo of offensive operations’.”

After slowing down to ‘mop up’ and clear Avdeevka, Russians resumed their offensive in the western and northwestern directions.

Russians advance before Ukrainians can dig their fortifications.

Heavy fighting is reported in the settlements of Berdychi, Orlivka, and Tonenke.

“There, the pro-Kiev Tatarigami_UA channel wrote on X […] the ‘state of prepared fortifications’ are ‘disappointing’. ‘The defenses are not as nearly good as the ones the Russians have built’, the channel, run by a Ukrainian military officer in reserve, wrote.

‘Solid strategic fortifications require joint efforts of the General Staff, Ministry of Defense, and civilian government—it cannot be accomplished solely with the resources of exhausted brigades or individual battalions’.”

Other Ukrainian military analysts describe the fallback Ukrainian defenses now are ‘problematic’ rather than ‘prepared’.

CNN reported:

“Ukraine announced a withdrawal from Avdeevka on February 17 to a series of positions to the town’s west. Yet three tiny villages have since fallen to Russian forces, with Kiev insisting they never intended to defend them.

But the defensive line it declared it would fall back to – three villages further to the west – has since come under heavy Russian assault, with pro-Russian sources claiming Moscow has partially occupied all three settlements. Ukraine denies the claims.”

Russian conquests are multiplying.

The new Ukrainian commander Oleksandr Syrsky, reportedly scolded his subordinate officers twice in the past week for poor performance.

“On Thursday, Syrsky criticized ‘certain shortcomings” and ‘miscalculations’ by commanders on the Avdeevka front lines ‘which directly affected the sustainability of defence in certain areas’. On Saturday, he returned to the theme of inadequate staffing, suggesting he had replaced some officers who were ‘not aware of the situation’ and ‘directly endanger[ed] the lives and health of [their] subordinates’.”

Bad plans for the Avdeevka withdrawal now mean that they’re unable to stem Russia’s advance.

Soldiers are now expressing stark pessimism in the sector.

“One special forces soldier told CNN: ‘It’s not so much about [Russian] momentum, but more about us being badly prepared to hold them off. As long as we didn’t have good, prepared positions we keep rolling and rolling and rolling back’.”

Read more:

WATCH: THE CONQUEST OF AVDEEVKA – Ukrainians Ordered To Leave – Russians Take Strategic Strongholds – Kiev Leaves ‘Low Value’ Troops (Including Women) to Protect the Retreat

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Elon Musk Issues Grave Warning for America: “The Groundwork is Being Laid for Something Far Worse than 9/11” | The Gateway Pundit.

X Owner Elon Musk has a dire warning for America following the news of the Biden regime secretly flying hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, as TGP reported this morning.

The Regime claims 320,000 unvetted aliens have been flown across the country to “reduce” the number of crossings across the border. This, of course, is an outright lie.

It is unknown where these migrants are arriving from. Information from The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals the Regime claims the locations are kept hidden because “bad actors” could inflict harm on public safety, and the information could potentially create law enforcement vulnerabilities.

In a post on X this morning, Musk revealed the REAL reason behind the Biden regime’s scheme: importing and spreading around new voters who will reliably vote Democrat to ensure a permanent majority.

Musk notes the Regime’s selfish desire is creating a severe national security threat based on the sheer number of illegal aliens alone. Due to this, he warns, “the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11.

This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants.

It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.

Thanks to the intentional border crisis created by Biden, crimes committed by illegal aliens against American citizens have skyrocketed. The recent murder of promising Georgia college student Laken Riley by an illegal alien is a particularly glaring example.

Moreover, terrorists have already slipped across the porous Southern border. One was even allowed to roam free for almost a year.

One can argue this is an act of treason on the part of the Biden regime under Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Without border security, enemies of America have free reign to kill our citizens in a variety of ways.

Musk is correct that something far worse than 9/11 looms on the horizon as long as Biden remains in office. The only question is when.

The post Elon Musk Issues Grave Warning for America: “The Groundwork is Being Laid for Something Far Worse than 9/11” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Kirk Cameron’s New Kids Series Counters the Cultural Marxist Kool-Aid | Daily Declaration.

Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk

Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk is a new Kirk Cameron project putting wholesome education back into kids’ entertainment.

The 10-episode series is being financed solely by the audience.

Episodes 1 and 2 are already fully funded.

Alongside Cameron’s star power, the two-season series will bring with it a quality set design, known as Kirk’s Clubhouse.

The genius behind Iggy the Iguana will be veteran Jim Henson puppeteer John Kennedy.

Big-name cameos round out the production, promising a much-needed high-end product that counters Hollywoke’s cultural Marxist Kool-Aid.

The series is supported by Brave Books, the company that partnered with Cameron in November last year.

Brave Books and the Growing Pains actor teamed up to provide parents with alternatives to Drag Queen Story Hour and inoculate kids against the flood of hyper-sexualised LGBTQ+ indoctrination in schools.

Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk is the ‘next instalment’ of that partnership.

Life Lessons

Cameron told Tim Pool’s TimCast that “it’s essentially a live-action television show for kids” that will build character and entertain at the same time.

Inspired by Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood, Iggy and Kirk will teach a “modernised” version of “classic and timeless moral values”.

Parents and kids will be met with “high-energy” pro-active Christian conservative content.

Additionally, Cameron said, there’s a treehouse and a supercomputer, along with “hilarious dialogue.”

Kids, he added, will be transported “into an animated world, where they’ll encounter lessons about the value of life from the womb to the tomb.”

As well as “the beauty of adoption, the dangers of Communism, and Socialism”; the value of free speech; and the right to self-defence.

This includes teaching kids to “discern the truth from lies in headlines, and propaganda.”

They’re all lessons, Cameron asserted, that Mr. Rogers “probably didn’t have to teach back in the day.”

Independent Production

At a cost of USD $2.5 million, Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk is not the felt-board phenomenon favoured by 1980s Sunday schools.

Each episode will cost $125,000 to make.

Of the $2.5 million, half will go to distribution and promotion. The remaining amount, Cameron said, will go into paying for animation, actors, and scriptwriters.

Iggy and Mr. Kirk will also be free.

Crowdsourced funding means they avoid the censorship strings that would come with any Hollywood backing, Cameron said.

For those helping to pay for the series, there is a set of rewards they can buy into, including a chance to win a VIP red carpet invitation at the series premiere.

The series will be made in Texas.

Asked if he’d find it hard to source actors and companies to produce content like this, Cameron said, “No.”

“There’s plenty of actors, film companies, authors, animators, and songwriters in Hollywood that are dying to get out of the woke jungle.

“They want an alternative, and often there’s just not. You can get blacklisted by being part of the ‘wrong’ project.”

Sharing the news on X, Cameron encouraged parents to ‘become the executive producers of their children’s programming.’

This series is for pro-active parents willing to win back the future for their kids.

Cameron’s projects share the stage with the brilliant Angel Studios series Tuttle Twins, and woke-free kids’ content from Daily Wire Entertainment.

About his ‘dive further into the world of children’s entertainment’, Cameron wrote that he’s doing it for ‘parents and grandparents who are sickened and tired of their children being attacked by the woke wolves of Hollywood.’

Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk is an outstanding new opportunity to inoculate kids with truth against infectious far-left falsehoods.

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Kirk Cameron Takes on Scholastic Book Fairs – YouTube

For years Kirk Cameron has made public libraries a focal point in his effort to make wholesome content available to kids. The actor and producer is now entering a new arena by competing against Scholastic Book Fairs which is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books.

He is partnering with Sky Tree Book Fairs, a nonprofit group that aims to equip children with books that promote positive values and lifestyles all while respecting parents and guardians as the ultimate authority to determine what their child reads.

“We see that there is such an avalanche of filth and material that’s twisting the minds of children about the most basic things of reality and families, gender, faith, what is America,” Cameron said in an interview with CBN News.

Read the full story from CBN’s Charlene Aaron:
https://www2.cbn.com/news/entertainme…

CBN News. Because Truth Matters™

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EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden Holds White House Summit with “Voting Rights Groups” and EVERY SINGLE PARTICIPANT Is From a Far-Left Group | The Gateway Pundit.

The Gateway Pundit investigated the “voting rights groups” that were invited to this White House event with Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris announced new steps in a meeting with the groups last Tuesday, February 27th in the White House. Kamala announced that college students would get paid to sign up people to vote. What could go wrong?
Via Newsmax: “We have been doing work to promote voter participation for students,” she said. “For example, we have under the Federal Work-Study Program, now allow students to get paid, through Federal Work-Study, to register people and to be nonpartisan poll workers.”

The Gateway Pundit found a list of the participants from the “voting rights groups” who were invited to the White House event.

We were not surprised to find that EVERY SINGLE group invited was a far-left group – including The Southern Poverty Law Center, The Brennan Center for Justice, the NAACP, and League of Conservation Voters.

The attached a spreadsheet includes the group name, the representative in attendance, that person’s title, the entity’s apparent ideology (all leftist) and a link to their website.

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Here is more information on several of the far left groups invited to the Biden White House.

The Native Youth Summit promotes abortion and manages to put “love” and “abotion” in the same sentence.

Here’s the Asian Pacific Islander American Vote group trashing Trump and DeSantis on social media.

The Campaign Legal Center is pro-trans rights. What does this have to do with voting?

All Voting is Local believes hand counting ballots is a conspiracy theory? Why is that?

When we all vote pushes abortion on social media.

The NAACP is making water filters a racial issue. Good grief.

Here’s a saved Word document with screen shots for each entity showing their leftist ideology.

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Dems Quietly Ask SCOTUS If They Can Ban Biden From Ballot | Babylon Bee

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WASHINGTON, DC — According to unnamed sources, Democrats have discreetly petitioned the Supreme Court to keep current President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joeseph Biden from appearing on the ballot in any state.

“They were able to keep states from barring Trump from the ballot,” Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters. “What we were wondering, I mean quietly of course, if it wouldn’t be too much trouble that is, to, um, keep President Biden from being on the ballot in, say, all 50 states?”

Democrats explained they still very much support the President in his bid for reelection and think he’s totally mentally fit to run, but that if some sort of legal maneuvering prevented him from running, as much as that would be a tragedy, they might be able to run a candidate who is a little more alive and slightly less dead.

“I love our President and wish he could run for 10 more terms,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said. “But if the Supreme Court could find some sort of mechanism to keep him off the ballot nationwide I’d have no choice but to step in and run in his place. It would be a great sacrifice, but I’m literally sitting by my phone 24 hours a day in case SCOTUS does find a legitimate reason to keep him from running.”

As of publishing time, Kamala Harris was seen quietly slipping a crisp $20 bill under Chief Justice Roberts’s office door.


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Why Biden’s Actions Toward Israel Place America On Dangerous Ground With God – Harbingers Daily

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In the past several weeks, President Biden has also been at the forefront of demanding that Israel accept a two-state solution as a way of appeasing the Palestinians. In other words, he would reward Hamas’ barbarism by giving them land that rightfully belongs to Israel. Not only that, but his proposal would also give Israel’s enemies a strategic position to accomplish their true intent, which is the destruction of the Jewish state and the murder of the Israelites who dwell there.

A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Please don’t be fooled by this empty show of support for Israel. The current U.S. leadership is no friend of Israel or the Jewish people. Biden’s recommendations, if followed, would seriously degrade the security of Israel as well as the safety of its people.

The actions of the Biden Administration toward Israel place America on dangerous ground for the following reasons:

They Will bring God’s Curse Upon Our Nation

The U.S. President and Secretary of State Blinken appear determined to stop Israel from achieving an all-out victory in its war with Hamas. Though they would never admit such a thing, their proposals would provide Hamas with a tactical victory as well as a position of strength in negotiating the release of hostages that it has not already murdered.

Because Israel still represents God’s chosen people (see Romans 11:1-2), the warning of Genesis 12:3 remains in effect: “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

The Hebrew word for “dishonors you,” or “curseth you” in the KJV, is translated in a variety of ways in the Old Testament. In this context, it signifies those who would treat Israel with contempt and dishonor. It’s the act of treating something “lightly” in the sense of placing little importance upon it.

The word for “I will curse,” speaking in regard to God’s response to those who treat His people with disdain, is different and signifies what we understand as a curse, or in this case, a judgment on those who would treat Israel with derision such as the Biden Administration.

If the words of Genesis 12:3 still apply to God’s covenant with Abraham, which He reiterated to the descendants of Jacob (Psalm 105:7-11), and they do, the actions of the Biden administration will surely bring a curse upon himself as well as upon the nation.

His Proposal to Divide God’s Land Will Surely Bring God’s Wrath

As I have written before, and include here for completeness, Scripture makes it clear that those who attempt to divide God’s Land in the last days will incur His wrath.

The prophet Joel reveals that God’s wrath against the nations at the end of the Tribulation will stem from their desire to divide “my land”:

Joel 3:1-3 KJV – “For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”

The actions of President Biden and his administration will surely bring God’s wrath upon the United States.

One of the key signs of judgments that will overflow the earth during the “day of the Lord” that the prophet Joel writes about is a darkening of the sun: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.”

Jesus, in describing His return to earth after the judgments of the Tribulation period, also mentioned the darkening of the sun that will happen at His Second Coming.

Although the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse is not the darkening of the sun that will happen at the end of this age, I cannot escape the thought that it symbolizes the terrors that lie ahead for planet Earth.

I also believe it’s a warning to America as it occurs in connection with Biden’s push to divide God’s land and the contempt that the U.S. president is displaying toward Israel’s leadership by seeking to impose ceasefires in Gaza that interfere with their goal of defeating Hamas.

As the April 8 eclipse is garnering unprecedented interest for such an event, it occurs to me that the Lord might be causing this rabid attention. Could this be the Lord’s way of drawing attention to His warning of judgment? I think so.

A family member from the Dallas area recently told me that hotels in the area are selling out for the event. Delta offered a flight from Austin to Detroit for the sole purpose of giving people an opportunity to view the darkening of the sun from the air, and people quickly purchased all the tickets for it.

Please know I’m not setting dates, but I cannot ignore the warning that’s happening at a time when the U.S. is not only steeped in great wickedness and government corruption that goes far beyond the limits of our imagination but also promoting policies toward Israel that the Bible says will surely result in the outpouring of God’s wrath on any nation that behaves in such a way.

Regardless of what the April 8 solar eclipse signifies regarding our future, America truly rests on dangerous ground as its leaders treat Israel with great contempt and seek to divide God’s Land.


Jonathan Brentner is an authorwriterBible teacher, and contributor for Harbinger’s Daily and Rapture Ready.
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TREASON: Biden Regime Admits Flying 320,000 Illegal Immigrants Secretly to at least 43 Airports in the U.S. to Lessen Border Crossing Numbers  | The Gateway Pundit.

Revelations have emerged that the Biden regime has been operating secret charter flights to transport illegal immigrants from foreign airports to various U.S. cities. This covert operation has been ongoing amidst an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens across the southern border.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency under Alejandro Mayorka’s Department of Homeland Security, has been at the forefront of these operations, which have remained undisclosed to the public.

In a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, lawyers for CBP refused to reveal details about the program, citing potential national security vulnerabilities, according to Daily Mail.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a think tank known for advocating tighter immigration controls, reported that these obscure flights have facilitated the entry of approximately 320,000 illegal aliens into at least 43 different airports in the US. These figures were disclosed for the period ranging from January through December 2023.

It has been suggested that the CBP One mobile application played a pivotal role in this operation. The app, originally intended to simplify the asylum application process, appears to have been repurposed to grant travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release to individuals from various countries.

The migrants, once approved via CBP One, have been allowed to enter and remain in the U.S. for up to two years under a special parole provision, during which time they are also eligible to work. This has occurred notwithstanding the lack of legal status for these individuals to reside in the country.

Daily Mail reported:

The administration first said it would not reveal which airports the undocumented aliens were transported, citing a ‘law enforcement exception’ in the refusal to hand over information.

But new information from CIS lawsuit reveals the locations were not disclosed due to fear ‘bad actors’ would inflict harm on public safety or the information would create law enforcement vulnerabilities.

CBP lawyers wrote that revealing the airports would ‘reveal information about the relative number of individuals arriving, and thus resources expended at particular airports.’

That would in turn reveal ‘operational vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors altering their patterns of conduct, adopting new methods of operation, and taking other countermeasures.’

They added this could ‘thereby undermin[e] CBP’s law enforcement efforts to secure the United States borders.’

Elon Musk reacted upon learning about this damning revelation.

“This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants. It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time,” he wrote on X.

Musk added, “It is obvious to anyone who is not a fool that this administration is deliberately importing vast numbers of illegals. No grand conspiracy theory is needed to explain this, just simple incentives: they are far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican. This is why Dems are constantly pushing to legalize illegals and won’t deport them, even when they are arrested for crime, which otherwise seem … I dunno … like an opportune time. If illegals can beat up American police on camera in Times Square, be released without bail and get rewarded with free tickets to California, what more do you need to know?”

The United States Constitution defines treason as the only crime that betrays allegiance to the United States. It’s defined in Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:

  • Levying war against the United States
  • Adhering to the enemies of the United States

Biden is committing TREASON by aiding illegal aliens as they invade our country through the southern border and destroying America’s security and sovereign borders.

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There Is A War On Free Speech, And They Won’t Ever Be Satisfied Until It Is Completely Eradicated | End Of The American Dream.

The freedom to say whatever we want is one of the most fundamental rights in a free society.  If we are not free to speak up, it is is just a matter of time before all of our other rights are taken away as well.  So it should deeply alarm all of us that free speech is under attack like never before.  Much of the population has become convinced that “hate speech” is a special class of speech that does not deserve protection.  Of course in practice “hate speech” ends up being whatever forms of expression that the leftist elite hate.  That is why “hate speech” laws are always written so vaguely.  That way they can be used to go after whoever the leftist elite feel like going after at the time.

It is not always easy to have a society where people are allowed to say whatever they want.  People say things all the time that deeply, deeply offend me.  And there are some that have said things about me that are tremendously hateful and untrue.

But if we are going to have a free society, people have got to be free to say whatever they want.  So we should never support freedom of speech being taken away from anyone, because once we start going down that slippery slope it is just a matter of time before they come after our freedom to say what we want.

That is why what is happening in the state of Washington is so alarming.  A new law would allow private individuals to collect up to $2,000 every time they report someone to the new “hate crimes and bias incidents hotline”…

Senate Bill 5427, after it is signed into law, would allow private individuals (note: this is not limited to American citizens) to report “bias incidents*” (see definition below) to the State Attorney General’s Office, with the possibility of receiving up to $2,000 of taxpayers money for this noncriminal incident. The bill was very clear: this is a non-crime which they will then forward to local law enforcement to investigate. What’s to investigate? No crime, no investigation.

The Progressives & Marxists who sponsored this bill say it is intended to help “victims of hate crimes” before a crime even happens. Say what? In reality, SB 5427 would create a “tattletale hotline,” undermine legitimate criminal investigations, and freeze, not just chill, speech & the press in Washington State. People will stop talking to others and writing to others except very close friends & relatives, for fear a greedy “Karen” will report them to Washington’s version of the Gestapo.

This is crazy.

Do we live in East Germany now?

It has been pointed out that those that use social media could make a fortune reporting their fellow citizens to the new “tattletale hotline”

“Spend five minutes on Twitter on any given day and I assure someone would say something offensive under this law that we could call a ‘hate crime’ and collect $2,000 from the attorney general,” Conservative Ladies of Washington Founder and President Julie Barrett told the Senate Ways and Means Committee at a Feb. 20 public hearing“It potentially target[s] people for actions they don’t like, but are not actually hate crimes. In collaboration with bills like HB 1333, this would create sort of a ‘tattletale hotline’ to report people one doesn’t agree with or doesn’t like.”

Of course we have seen similar efforts in other states.

In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul intends to massively expand the hate crime laws in her state…

Governor Kathy Hochul today highlighted her groundbreaking State of the State proposal to expand the list of charges eligible to be prosecuted as hate crimes and announced grant funding to strengthen safety and security measures at nonprofit, community-based organizations at risk of hate crimes or attacks because of their ideology, beliefs, or mission.

“The rising tide of hate is abhorrent and unacceptable – and I’m committed to doing everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe,” Governor Hochul said. “Since the despicable Hamas attacks of October 7, there has been a disturbing rise in hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers. In recent years we’ve seen hate-fueled violence targeting Black residents of Buffalo and disturbing harassment of AAPI and LGBTQ+ individuals on the streets of New York City. We will never rest until all New Yorkers feel safe, regardless of who they are, who they love, or how they worship.”

And in Michigan, last year a bill was introduced that would have made it a felony if someone felt “terrorized, frightened, or threatened” by your words…

Last month, the Michigan House passed Bill 4474—legislation that would expand the state’s existing Ethnic Intimidation Act beyond current protections for religion, ethnicity and race, to categories including sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. HB 4474 would make it a felony hate crime offense to cause someone to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened” with words—deliberately misgendering someone, for example—subject to a potential penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The Left has been pushing its “words are violence” premise for some time. But Michigan’s willingness to go the extra mile and criminalize gender-related speech has summoned a ghoul from some dystopian fever dream.

I certainly do not like hate speech.

Every day, people say things that are horribly offensive to me.

But I support their right to say those things, because I don’t want my freedom of speech to be taken away.

And the leftist elite will never be satisfied until they take things as far as they possibly can.

For example, a new law in Canada allows courts to put people in prison for the rest of their lives for “hate crime offenses”…

It also amends the Criminal Code to create a new standalone hate crime offence that would allow penalties up to life imprisonment to deter hateful conduct, as well as raise the maximum punishments for hate propaganda offences from five years to life imprisonment for advocating genocide.

“I’m the father of two youngsters and, like parents and grandparents around Canada, I’m terrified by the dangers that lurk on the internet for our children,” said Justice Minister Arif Virani Monday, as the Liberals unveiled the bill.

“I’m also a Muslim. The hatred that festers online is radicalizing people and that radicalization has real world impacts for my community, and for so many other communities,” added Virani.

So what constitutes a “hate crime” in Canada?

Well, over the years the rules have been written so vaguely that they could be used to go after just about anything.

As a result, many Canadians are now deeply afraid to say anything that is even remotely “offensive”.

Now this new law which is being pushed by Justin Trudeau will make things even worse.  If you can believe it, this new law would actually allow authorities to take certain kinds of actions even before a hate crime has been committed

Trudeau’s bill is called Bill C-63, and it’s a “hate crime bill” that primarily affects “social media” and essentially “criminalizes a human emotion.”

“If you have quote ‘fear of hate’ … you can get a judge to issue a kind of restraining order against your enemy before he does anything, before he says anything, and that restraining order can include house arrest, giving up any lawful firearms, limiting who he can talk to directly or indirectly, limiting the places he can go, and requiring him to to take urine and blood tests – just because you are quote ‘afraid’ he might in the future say some hate speech,” he explains, adding that the so-called perpetrator “doesn’t have to have done anything in the past” to be required to go through the process, making it “a pre-crime bill.”

What in the world has happened to Canada?

Once upon a time, it was such a nice place to visit.

The laws that seek to restrict how we express ourselves are never enforced uniformly.

Instead, we have seen example after example where conservatives are specifically targeted.

Here in the United States, the left believes in being very soft on violent criminals, but they will go after pro-life activists with all the fury they can muster.

Right now, a 59-year-old grandmother is probably going to spend the rest of her life in prison because she was attempting to convince women not to go into an abortion clinic…

In prison, every move an inmate makes is controlled. Ms. Idoni, 59, is getting used to that. She must, because she is facing more than 41 years in prison—the rest of her natural life.

Her sentence is expected to be the longest in the United States for someone charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with anyone obtaining or providing “reproductive health services.” It was seldom used until the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reversed Roe v. Wade in June 2022, which returned abortion regulation to the states.

Her crime: sitting near or in front of the doors of abortion clinics to give sidewalk counselors a few moments to talk to women before their abortion appointments and potentially change their minds. Nine women out of 10 give them the middle finger and keep walking, Ms. Idoni said. But some women do change their minds, and sidewalk counselors say the life of every baby saved is worth the risk.

More than 60 million babies have been killed in the United States since 1973, but those responsible for the killing are not being held accountable.

Instead, those that are trying to do something about the relentless slaughter are being viciously targeted by authorities.

We really do live in an upside down society.

Good is being called evil, and evil is being called good.

And if you try to speak out about what is happening, you could find yourself in an enormous amount of trouble.

They intend to completely crush all dissent, and they will never stop until they have achieved their goal.

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