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Daily Archives: September 12, 2024
“I sought neither preeminence, glory, not riches; My honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.” — John Knox
Meme: John 3:16 Vs. John 3:16-21
“it is bad enough to be without money, or without health, or without home, or without friends, but it is far worse to be without Christ.” — J.C. Ryle
Meme: With discernment comes division
ARE YOU REALLY SAVED? 10 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOU’RE BORN AGAIN
Are You Really Saved? 10 Ways To Know If You’re Born Again | WRETCHED TV episode 2443
Todd Friel and Dr. Steve Lawson explore the serious issue of false converts within the church, urging viewers to examine their faith through a ten-point test from 1 John. They emphasize that true conversion is more than just saying you believe—it results in a radically transformed life.
ARE YOU REALLY SAVED? 10 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOU’RE BORN AGAIN
September 14 – The Irreplaceable Gospel! | VCY
TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
Isaiah 15:1-18:7
Galatians 1:1-24
Psalm 58:1-11
Proverbs 23:12
Isaiah 16:6 — Pride brings judgment. If God judged Moab for their pride, how much more will He judge us for our pride?
Isaiah 17:7-8 — Judgment is to point man to his Maker. Amazing that man can make objects with his fingers, and then put his trust in those objects. We’ve seen in Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles example after example of kings (even good kings like Hezekiah) not turning to God until all else had failed. Especially what we saw in Isaiah 7 with Ahaz refusing Isaiah’s declaration of deliverance.
Isaiah 17:10 — How soon we forget the LORD! The Children of Israel who walked through the Red Sea started murmuring almost as soon as the waters returned. America itself has seen waves of revival, but then it returns to apathy soon after.
Isaiah 18:1 — What land is this? From Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers:
A new kingdom, hitherto unnamed by Isaiah, comes now within his horizon. The movements of Tirhakah, king of Cush or Ethiopia, from the upper valley of the Nile, subduing Egypt, and prepared to enter into conflict with the great Assyrian king (Isaiah 37:9), had apparently excited the hopes of such of Hezekiah’s counsellors as put their trust in an arm of flesh. To these Isaiah now turns with words of warning.
Galatians 1:1 — Paul starts out jumping right into his thesis – the gospel is not from man but from Jesus Christ, risen from the dead!
Galatians 1:6 — Paul has been declaring the attributes of Jesus:
- risen from the dead (Galatians 1:1)
- the vicarious sacrifice (Galatians 1:4)
- the deliverer (Galatians 1:4)
These people have abandoned the power of Jesus for something else.
Galatians 1:7 — Paul clarifies his statement in the previous verse. The English word “another” in vs. 6 is “heteros” (referring to something completely different, like apples and oranges); the English word “another” in vs. 7 is “allos” (referring to something that’s of a different sort, like McIntosh vs. Granny Smith).
From Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words:
Allos expresses a numerical difference and denotes “another of the same sort”; heteros expresses a qualitative difference and denotes “another of a different sort.”
Galatians 1:8-9 — “Accursed” in Greek is “anathema.” It sounds “tolerant” to say that all roads lead to heaven. It may seem “intolerant” to declare that there is only one way to God, but that’s what the Bible teaches (Acts 4:12). Even more so, it is unkind and unloving to not warn someone of the curse coming (Ezekiel 33:6).
Galatians 1:12 — Paul is declaring that the Gospel is superior to any other teaching. Greater than anything given by any other man or even an angel from heaven. The Apostle says he was the least likely convert (Galatians 1:13-14) to the message revealed by the Father through the Son (Galatians 1:16). Paul went three years before even seeing Peter once (Galatians 1:18).
Galatians 1:23 — Only God can change a heart like that! Paul’s testimony encouraged others to glorify God!
Psalm 58:6 — When the wicked are surrounding you and it seems hopeless, do not seek for personal vengeance. Give it to the LORD (Deuteronomy 32:35, Romans 12:19)!
Proverbs 23:12 — The message of Proverbs. Unfortunately, too many fail to apply it.
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The Lord’s Free Men | VCY
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)
Sin will reign if it can: it cannot be satisfied with any place below the throne of the heart. We sometimes fear that it will conquer us, and then we cry unto the Lord, “Let not any iniquity have dominion over me. This is His comforting answer: “Sin shall not have dominion over you. ” It may assail you and even wound you, but it shall never establish sovereignty over you.
If we were under the law, our sin would gather strength and hold us under its power; for it is the punishment of sin that a man comes under the power of sin. As we are under the covenant of grace, we are secured against departing from the living God by the sure declaration of the covenant. Grace is promised to us by which we are restored from our wanderings, cleansed from our impurities, and set free from the chains of habit.
We must lie down in despair and be “content to serve the Egyptians” if we were still as slaves working for eternal life; but since we are the Lord’s free men, we take courage to fight with our corruptions and temptations, being assured that sin shall never bring us under its sway again. God Himself giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Looking at God’s omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience | CARM
The following is food for thought regarding God’s omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. I define them, work with them, and attempt to draw logical conclusions as they relate to the sovereignty of the Trinity, our existence, the existence of evil, and our free will. The goal is to provide an understanding of God’s greatness and control in the universe, as demonstrated by Scripture and according to God’s attributes.
The three attributes of God under consideration are:
- Omnipotence – He has the power to do anything He desires (Job 42:2; Luke 1:37).
- Omnipresence – He is in all places, all the time (Jer. 23:24; 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 90:2).
- Omniscience – He knows all things (1 John 3:20).
- Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience
- If God is omnipotent, then He has the power to do whatever He desires. He can create and destroy a universe and all that is in it if He desired.
- He cannot desire to do that which is logically impossible, i.e., create a round triangle, since the transcendent laws of logic reflect His nature (See The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God), and God cannot contradict His own nature.
- His omnipotence necessitates that He retains complete control over all objects and events; otherwise, He would not be omnipotent.
- Therefore, He is able to do whatever He desires as He works in all of creation.
- If He is omnipresent, then nothing is hidden from Him.
- This includes all aspects of time and location along with every form of existence, whether thought, action, or deed.
- If He is omniscient, He eternally comprehends all things actual and potential.
- All things actual means everything that exists.
- All things potential means, everything that could potentially exist but does not.
- Therefore, since God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, He can create anything He desires, is everywhere in what He creates, and knows all things within His creations.
- That which exists does so by God’s direct or indirect actions. God can directly create and also allow events to occur (such as sin). His permission is not an endorsement.
- Notes on Causation
- Ultimate Cause (foundation of the event) – God created the universe and provided the foundation upon which an event can occur. He is the initial cause of all things. God is the ultimate cause.
- Proximate Cause (condition of the event) – God created Adam and Eve them in the garden and allowed the serpent to tempt them. This means that God is the proximate cause because He established the condition in which the sin and Adam and Eve could occur. But, God did not cause them to sin.
- Efficient Cause (agent of the event) – Adam freely chose to rebel. No one forced him. He acted out of his free will. Adam is the efficient cause because he is the agent of the cause and is morally responsible for his actions, not God.
- Conclusion: With all knowledge, God has absolute control over all He encompasses, yet is not the author of sin.
- If God is omnipotent, then He has the power to do whatever He desires. He can create and destroy a universe and all that is in it if He desired.
- All that exists does so not because of an accident but because God has ordained that it exists.
- Accident would imply that God is not in ultimate control over an event and that it happened outside of God’s sovereignty. But, God does not cause sin to occur. He permits it within His sovereign will.
- God’s will and purpose are carried out (Acts 4:27-28) according to His knowledge and permission, not that He causes evil (Acts 2:23), but that God ordains its existence in His permissive will.
- Acts 4:27–28, “For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.”
- Acts 2:23, “this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.”
- Three aspects of God’s will
- Decretive Will – God’s will that is accomplished by His direct action, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3).
- Prescriptive Will – God’s will that people not sin (Exodus 20:1-17).
- Permissive Will – God’s will to permit people to sin and do what is contrary to His prescriptive will.
- It follows then that evil is something permitted by God, not caused by Him, yet under His absolute control.
- God cannot be the author of evil since He is holy (1 Pet. 1:16) and cannot violate His own nature. He cannot lie, Titus 1:2.
- Evil is permitted by God.
- Evil is not greater than God, nor is it out of His control, or beyond His knowledge lest it violates His attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. See Acts 4:27-28 and Acts 2:33 above.
- God has created the circumstances by which rebellion against Him can occur. He is the Proximate Cause.
- Review: Proximate Cause (condition of the event) – God created Adam and Eve them in the garden and allowed the serpent to tempt them. This means that God is the proximate cause because He established the condition in which the sin and Adam and Eve could occur. But, God did not cause them to sin.
- God permits evil but is not the direct cause of the rebellion (He is not the Efficient Cause.
- Review: Efficient Cause (agent of the event) – Adam freely chose to rebel. No one forced him. He acted out of his free will. Adam is the efficient cause because he is the agent of the cause and is morally responsible for his actions, not God.
- Evil, then, operating within the realm of God, can be used by God for His good (Gen. 50:20).
- Genesis 50:20, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.”
- Free Will
- Free will is the ability to act according to one’s desires, which are not forced and consistent with one’s nature.
- God cannot lie (Titus 1:2). Therefore, free will must be in harmony with a person’s nature that is freely accomplished. God has free will, but He cannot lie.
- Free will cannot exist outside the sovereignty of God (Prov. 21:1); otherwise, it is independent of God. Independence from God is not possible in a Christian worldview.
- It also follows, then, that our free will is under the sovereignty of God.
- Yet, we can still act within God’s sovereign plan (I.e., Acts 4:27-28)
- Acts 4:27–28, “For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.”
- Jesus had free will yet acted according to God the Father’s sovereignty (John 5:19, 30).
- John 5:19, “Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.“
- John 5:30, “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”
- Free will is the ability to act according to one’s desires, which are not forced and consistent with one’s nature.
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12 Sept 2024 News Briefing
Hurricane “Francine” to hit Louisiana today with powerful winds and dangerous storm surge, U.S.
Hurricane “Francine” is forecast to make landfall along the Louisiana coast, between the Vermilion/Cameron line and Grand Isle, on Wednesday, September 11. A life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds are expected, with warnings in effect across Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm is also forecast to bring heavy rainfall, increasing the risk of flash flooding across the region through Thursday.
Strong and shallow M6.3 earthquake hits Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.3 hit Bismarck Sea near Papua New Guinea at 16:46 UTC on September 11, 2024. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth.
A “Particularly Dangerous Situation” and “exceptionally rare event” says NWS as the Davis Fire burns over 2,000 ha (5 600 acres) in Nevada, U.S.
The Davis Fire burns through over 2 285 ha (5 600 acres ) near Reno, Nevada, as firefighters attempt to control the blaze. A Red Flag Warning has been issued due to strong winds, and evacuation orders remain in place for several communities.
Line Fire scorches over 14000 ha (34 000 acres); thousands evacuated in San Bernardino County, California, U.S.
The Line Fire in California has burned more than 14,000 ha (34,000 acres) of land in San Bernardino County since it began on September 5, 2024, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate and threatening over 65,000 structures. With containment at just 14%, erratic winds and dry conditions continue to hinder firefighting efforts
Contrary to predictions, last month the Sun was the most active it has been since 2001
Fluctuations in solar activity affect our climate more than anything else does. And this year, the Sun has been more active than scientists anticipated.
Weather models predict massive rainfall event over central Europe
A massive rainfall event is expected to unfold over central Europe in the next few days, caused by a slow-moving upper-low fueled by the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Weather models predict parts of the region may see extreme rainfall and potentially catastrophic flooding in the days ahead.
Chilling backdoor plot involving savage Ohio Haitian migrants is being hidden from the American people…
Why is there a horde of uncivilized Haitian migrants overrunning the red state of Ohio? That’s the million-dollar question Americans are asking as they watch this horrific nightmare unfold in the Midwest. By now, you’ve probably heard the horror stories going viral online—ghoulish tales of unkempt, filthy Haitian migrants squatting on people’s lawns, killing pets for food, and being overly aggressive toward American citizens.
Illegals Responsible for 75 Percent of Midtown Manhattan Crime
Police sources estimate three out of every four individuals apprehended for assault, domestic violence, and robbery in Midtown Manhattan are illegal aliens. Law enforcement officers in Queens estimate that “over 60 percent” of those arrested for similar offenses in their area are illegals.
‘Suspicious’ Attack Hits US Base At Baghdad Airport Ahead Of Iranian President’s Visit
The US embassy’s logistical support center at Baghdad International Airport came under attack late Tuesday. “The shelling, the nature of which has not yet been determined, whether by missiles or mortar shells, took place near the US embassy’s logistical support headquarters at Baghdad airport,” an Iraqi security source told Sputnik. He added, “There is no information about human losses so far.”
Bankruptcies Spike Again As America’s Economic Slowdown Accelerates
Large businesses are declaring bankruptcy at a staggering rate, and yet we are being told over and over again that the economy is just fine. Needless to say, most of the country isn’t buying it…Of course anyone with half a brain should be able to see the truth, because day after day we just continue to get more troubling economic numbers. For example, it is being reported that U.S. corporate bankruptcies “spiked” during the month of August…
An Ultra-Violent Migrant Gang Is Shooting Police Officers, Trafficking Young Women And Raping Kids
There are certainly many migrants that are coming here…because they want to create a better life for themselves. But…there are others that are coming here for other reasons. Throwing the back door wide open for vast numbers of criminals that intend to cause all sorts of mayhem once they arrive in our major cities is extremely foolish. We are literally committing national suicide, and many of our leaders don’t seem to care.
India: Hindus Rise Against the Islamic Takeover; Illegal Mosques Must Be Stopped
Americans and Western nations better take notice. In India, Hindus are standing firm against an Islamic invasion using mosque construction to seize land and assert dominance.
They’re keeping the hopes of a bird flu pandemic alive, so here’s some basic vaccine information
Corporate media are not letting up on the bird flu campaign. Needless to say, if you plan to get pricked, be informed, Aaron Siri says as he notes a little bit but important information about the three bird flu vaccines licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Project Whistle-Blower: Pfizer skipped 10 years of safety tests and knew about adverse effects but released mRNA injections anyway
A whistle-blower video released in March shows Pfizer’s principal scientist admitting that the company skipped 10 years of safety testing, had significant knowledge of mRNA vaccine side effects, but released the covid injection to the public anyway.
The UN is hoping a pact adopted in less than two weeks will establish One World Government rule; Here’s what you can do
Through pacts the United Nations is hoping will be adopted in less than two weeks at the ‘Summit of the Future’, the UN is establishing a One World Government through the monopoly of national sovereignty. However, there is no lawful authorization for delegates to vote on the ‘Pact for the Future,’ ‘Declaration for Future Generations,’ ‘Global Digital Compact’, and António Guterres’ ‘ Our Common Agenda.’
Source: https://www.raptureready.com/2024/09/12/77741/
Headlines – 9/12/2024
“Historic moment”: Palestine takes seat among UN member states at 79 th General Assembly Session
Harris says two-state solution, end of Israel-Hamas war is crucial
100 rockets from Lebanon batter north; IDF reservist injured by anti-tank missile
Israel launches multiple airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing Hezbollah special forces commander
US sanctions Lebanese network over alleged oil, LPG smuggling for Hezbollah
Iran upped cyberattacks on Israel after Oct. 7. Experts say a ceasefire won’t change that
Iran’s president says West letting Israel commit ‘massacres’ using US, European arms
Biden, Harris assail IDF over killing of American in West Bank, demand accountability
IDF soldier killed as Palestinian tanker rams West Bank bus stop
Israel Strikes Hamas Terrorists in West Bank, 5 Reported Killed
2 soldiers killed, several wounded in helicopter crash in south Gaza
Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills 18, Officials Say, Including 6 U.N. Workers
UN chief slams Israel over ‘totally unacceptable’ Gaza strike in which 6 UNRWA staffers killed
Israeli envoy hits out at UN chief for criticizing Israel over strike on Gaza school
70% of schools in Gaza destroyed or damaged during Israel-Hamas war, ABC News analysis finds
Hamas leader meets with Qatari and Egyptian mediators for talks on Gaza deal
Citing Gaza Help, Blinken Waives Human Rights Conditions on Aid to Egypt
Hamas Makes Half Billion Dollars from ‘Humanitarian’ Aid, Pays Its Terrorists
Gazan ‘journalist’ reveals he is actually a terrorist during IDF interrogation – KAN
France Foiled Three Terror Attack Plots During Paris Olympics, Including Against Israelis
Islamists make gains in Jordan vote overshadowed by Gaza war
Ben Gvir hosts, praises right-wing agitator who disrupts anti-government protests
JetBlue Airways changes Israel’s borders and name to ‘Palestinian Territories’
Netanyahu said to ask AG to probe him, Gallant in bid to fend off ICC arrest warrant
Prosecution decides to not investigate Netanyahu’s role in submarine case
Son of prominent Ukrainian rabbi killed on frontlines of war with Russia
Iranian missiles to Russia change Ukraine debate – Lammy
Iran Continues to Deny Missile Delivery to Russia as Ukraine Warns It Could Cut Ties With Tehran
Russian ship suspected of delivering Iranian ballistic missiles seen at Caspian Sea port
Why would Russia need Iranian ballistic missiles? Experts point to tactics, industrial challenges
North Korean Missiles Rain Down on Ukraine Despite Sanctions
Russia says it could “combine” with China if they faced a threat
US and UK pledge almost $1.5 billion to help Ukraine during diplomats’ visit to Kyiv
Pressure builds on Biden from within his own party to ease Ukraine strike restrictions
U.S diplomatic facility attacked in Baghdad, no casualties, embassy says
With New Prime Minister, a ‘Rupture’ in French Politics and Barbs for Macron
Hunter Biden Wins Legal Costs Over ‘Frivolous’ Laptop Motion
House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’
The Federalist: 25 Lies Kamala Harris Told In Her Debate Against Trump
Trump suggests he won’t debate Harris again, attacks ABC over moderators’ fact-checking
CNN’s Jake Tapper Blasts Kamala Harris For Dodging Multiple Debate Questions
Greg Gutfeld: Expecting honesty from ABC is like expecting integrity from pond scum
Laura Ingraham: ABC’s moderators were essentially acting as Kamala Harris’ debate coaches
Republican Pollster Declares Trump’s Campaign Dead: ‘He Loses Because of This Debate Performance’
RFK Jr. suggests independent support for Trump will drop in wake of debate
Trump Media shares sink to new post-merger low after presidential debate
The Standard: The US presidential debate saw Trump become what he most feared – a laughing stock
Salon: Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon
Trump Suggests He’ll Flee to Venezuela If Harris Wins the Election
Trump Tells Republicans to Shut Down the Government Over Election Fraud
DHS designates Electoral College vote count as special national security event
California attorney general warns tech platforms to look out for voter deception ahead of election
Election officials warn of potential voting disruptions due to issues with US Postal Service
Election Officials’ Warning: Widespread US Mail Woes May Disrupt Voting
Rise of Crypto Tether Has US Worried
Strong and shallow M6.3 earthquake hits Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Luganville, Vanuatu
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Luganville, Vanuatu
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Luganville, Vanuatu
Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 24,000ft
Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 19,000ft
Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 17,000ft
Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea erupts to 17,000ft
Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 15,000ft
Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
Ebeko volcano in the Kuril Islands erupts to 10,000ft
Record-high sulfur dioxide emissions force evacuations around Kanlaon volcano, Philippines
Vietnam death toll climbs to 197 as typhoon’s aftermath brings flash floods and landslides
Hurricane Francine downgraded to Category 1 as New Orleans faces flood warning
Nigeria floods affect one million people after dam collapse
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods
Drought-hit Danube River reveals scuttled German World War II ships
San Bernardino wildfire started by suspected arsonist
Wildfires in Southern California torch dozens of homes and force thousands to evacuate
SoCal fires burn 100,000 acres, destroy dozens of homes and injure 13
By Peter J. Wallison: The Climate Change Fallacy
Pope Francis lands in Singapore; inter-faith dialogue, climate on agenda
Miss Switzerland finalist strangled to death, then ‘pureed’ in a blender by her husband: officials
The Spread of Lawlessness in America: A Reflection on 9/11 and Beyond
Flashback: Kamala said she wanted the government to seize guns in 2020
Mother of Apalachee High School shooter apologizes to victims’ families in open letter
Violent Tren de Aragua gang takes over El Paso hotel: court filing
White House condemns Republican comments on Haitian immigrants: ‘Based on an element of racism’
CNN’s Dana Bash Says Police Reports of Migrants Eating People’s Pets is a ‘Racist Meme’
New Police Call Audio from Springfield, Ohio, Appears to Confirm Haitian Goose Story
Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5 million to a city that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants
Record-setting 153 noncitizen sex offenders arrested by ICE in Maryland in 2024
In South Korea, Online Misogyny Has a New Weapon: Deepfake Sex Videos
Sex tourism in Indonesia sells itself as Islamic temporary marriage
Malaysian police rescue 400 minors suspected of being sexually abused at Islamic charity homes
Tel Aviv teen detained for using AI to create explicit photos of underage girls
Flashback: Kamala supported taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for prisoners
Debate moderator fact-checks Trump on botched abortions, ignores eight babies who died in Minnesota
Desantis Using Taxpayer Funds to Campaign Against Abortion Referendum
Responsible for a Nationwide Die-Off: Scientists Discover Fatal Superworm Virus
Mid-Day Snapshot · September 12, 2024
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IN TODAY’S DIGEST
- Executive News Summary
- Featured Analysis: Comparing Economic Records — It’s Not Even Close
- More Analysis
- Best of Right Opinion
- Podcast
- Best of Videos
- Short Cuts
- Memes and Cartoons
EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Government & Politics
- Debate viewership and post-debate polling: If viewership equates to interest, then the American electorate is far more engaged than it was two months ago. Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump drew an estimated 67.1 million viewers, a number that far eclipses the roughly 51.3 million who tuned in to watch Trump vs. Biden in late June. But as NBC News reports, “Tuesday’s ratings fell short of the record set in 2016, when roughly 84 million people watched Trump square off against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while the first debate between Trump and Biden in 2020 drew 73.1 million people.” As for the state of the race, Harris narrowly leads Trump in the RealClearPolitics average, 48.5 to 47.2. But a bit of perspective is in order: On this day in history, Trump trailed Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 2.8 points, and he trailed Joe Biden in 2020 by 7.8 points. So, while those on the Left might be high-fiving each other after Harris’s debate performance, the reality is that her polling position is far from strong.
- Unity Biden dons vile MAGA hat: Yesterday was a somber day, a day we must never forget, but there was also an interesting political moment within it, after Joe Biden laid a wreath at the 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and he and VP Kamala Harris visited a local fire department. With first responders looking on, Biden grabbed a Trump 2024 hat, grinned widely, and put it on his head. As the Washington Examiner reports, “A White House spokesman explained the president’s surprising act as a ‘bipartisan’ gesture meant to show the country’s ‘unity’ after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City 23 years ago.” Said spokesman Andrew Bates: “At the Shanksville Fire Station, POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.” Fair enough, but it must’ve been jarring to Harris and to everyone else who’s heard Biden smear and demonize Trump for the past four years.
- DOJ isn’t prosecuting thousands of illegals who’ve registered to vote: If the Democrats really don’t think illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote in our nation’s elections, they sure have a funny way of showing it. As The Federalist reports, “According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001 to 2021 — the latest year for which data is available.” Thirty-five cases, eh? Attorney General Merrick Garland must still be busy hammering all those nonviolent January 6 tourists. The Federalist continues, “The suspiciously low number of prosecutions contrasts with thousands of aliens having been registered to vote in recent years, and at least hundreds being flagged to the Justice Department as having actually cast a ballot.” And then this understatement for the ages: “This calls into question the political motivations of those responsible for upholding federal election laws.” You’re telling us. A browner America is a more Democrat America — or at least that’s the thinking on the open-borders Left.
- Stopgap bill yanked: Failing to secure enough Republican lawmakers’ votes to ensure the passage of a stopgap spending bill, House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled the continuing resolution from a floor vote on Wednesday. Johnson is struggling to build a consensus among Republicans to get the short-term government funding bill passed by September 30 to avoid a government shutdown. Johnson is seeking to pass the measure by combining it with the SAVE Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote. After pulling the bill, Johnson stated, “No vote today because we’re in the consensus-building business here in Congress. With small majorities, that’s what you do. … We’re having thoughtful conversations, family conversations, within the Republican conference, and I believe we’ll get there.” Republican fiscal hawks have remained the sticking point on spending, whereas Democrats object to including the SAVE Act because they’re all about “saving democracy” or something. We’ll see if Johnson has any success in convincing holdout Republicans.
- JD Vance schools CNN on pet-eating migrants: Following the presidential debate in which Donald Trump relayed the claim of Haitian migrants eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, CNN confronted his running mate, JD Vance. Vance first pointed out that the assertion that they are “false claims” is itself misleading as “city officials have not said it’s not true; they just said they don’t have all the evidence.” Vance further chastised the mainstream media for not putting journalists on the ground in Springfield to actually investigate these claims and interview the residents. He pivoted to the real issue, noting that Springfield, a city of roughly 60,000 residents, has “been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in.” That affects health and healthcare, housing, and other things. Vance added, “The media didn’t care about the carnage wrought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats. … If we have to meme about it to get the media to care, we’re going to keep on doing it because the media should care about what’s going on.” Exactly.
- Who knew? Widespread problems with U.S. mail system could disrupt voting, election officials warn (More)
- Biden DOJ has dropped nearly half of pending obstruction charges for J6 defendants after Supreme Court ruling (More)
Security
- Department of Homeland Security designates January 6, 2025, a “National Special Security Event” (More)
- Blinken signals U.S. is weighing loosening Ukraine missile restrictions (More)
- U.S. and Chinese commanders hold rare talks to dial down risk of “miscalculation” (More)
- Melania Trump wants answers about the assassination attempt: Earlier this week, when we reported that former First Lady Melania Trump had taken to X to post a brief video and offer a gentle critique of the real-world consequences of the 2020 election, we assumed that she simply wanted to plug her memoir, Melania, which is due out next month. Now, however, we’re not so sure. On Tuesday, Mrs. Trump posted another video — this one calling into question the Biden administration’s efforts to get to the bottom of the recent assassination attempt on her husband. “The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” she says. “Now the silence around it feels heavy. I can’t help but wonder, why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech? There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.” It’s hard to disagree. And we’ve said as much.
Economy & Tech
- IBM shuts down operations in China: China is no good for business, at least not for Big Tech’s IBM, which recently announced it will shut down its operations in China. The supposed rationale is the current state of the Chinese economy. IBM is moving its research and development functions to other countries, primarily India. This move effectively ends IBM’s four-decade-long business presence in China. While the cost of doing business in China has risen significantly compared to other Asian countries like India, there is also the problem of Beijing’s concerted efforts to “delete America” from within China by intentionally pushing state-owned firms and equipment. With this decision, IBM joins a growing number of American companies, like Black & Decker, Nike, and L.G. Electronics, that are shutting down their Chinese operations and moving to other countries.
- Billionaire takes first-ever private spacewalk: Earlier today, Jared Isaacman became the first private individual to take a spacewalk. Orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth, the tech billionaire exited a SpaceX capsule to walk for just under two hours. While numerous astronauts have conducted spacewalks, Isaacman has made history by taking the next step in the burgeoning privately owned space programs headlined by the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX. This represents the successful beginning of a plan for commercializing space, with the long-term goal being a trip to Mars. During his spacewalk, Isaacman stated, “Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world.”
Misc.
- Nadler pictured with head down, eyes closed during testimony from mothers of migrant crime victims (More)
- Senate’s most vulnerable list still dominated by Democrats (More)
- Harris’s tax plan would pulverize nearly one million full-time jobs, study finds (More)
- South Carolina Supreme Court delivers crushing blow to school choice program (More)
- Man arrested on arson charges for allegedly igniting 34,000-acre wildfire in California (More)
- Molson Coors drops woke policies, ends hiring goals based on diverse “representation” (More)
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FEATURED ANALYSIS
Comparing Economic Records — It’s Not Even Close
Thomas Gallatin
ABC News’s David Muir asked the leadoff question to open the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, which dealt with the most important issue for voters: the economy. And arguably, it was the best question the moderators asked all night. As Muir put it:
I want to begin tonight with the issue voters repeatedly say is their number one issue, and that is the economy and the cost of living in this country. Vice President Harris, you and President Biden were elected four years ago, and your opponent on the stage here tonight often asks his supporters, are you better off than you were four years ago? When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
This question has become a feature of presidential debates ever since Ronald Reagan raised and popularized it against incumbent Jimmy Carter in the only debate of the 1980 campaign. Knowing that Americans have suffered under a bad economy over the past three and a half years of the Biden/Harris administration, Harris dodged the question.
She instead noted what she called her plan to build “an opportunity economy,” which, as she described it, was nothing other than a list of more government handouts — raising the child tax credit to $6,000 and raising the small business start-up tax deduction to $50,000. She avoided any mention of the Soviet-style price controls she rolled out last month. That’s because it was widely and deservedly panned by economists on both sides of the aisle. In short, Harris’s answer is the same policies that ignited high inflation beginning in April 2021 — a repeat of the last three and a half years.
Meanwhile, Trump responded to the same question by pointing out just how high inflation is. “We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before,” he said with typical drama. “Probably the worst in our nation’s history. We were at 21%. But that’s being generous because many things are 50, 60, 70, and 80% higher than they were just a few years ago. This has been a disaster for people, for the middle class, but for every class.”
Trump is right, though he typically depends on friendly audiences understanding what he’s getting at so he doesn’t have to explain. The Harris campaign and Leftmedia insist that the current rate of inflationary growth has fallen to just 2.5%.
This, however, obfuscates rather than illuminates. Trump actually nailed the truth of the Biden/Harris years. Overall, since early 2021, the average cost of living for Americans has risen by more than 20% — and on many goods and services, like Trump said, more like 50% to 80%. That has everything to do with high inflation ignited by the Biden/Harris American Rescue Plan.
Harris avoids the fact that she is part of the Biden/Harris administration, whose massive spending policies spurred our 40-year-high inflation. Harris would rather pretend like she doesn’t know Joe Biden.
Furthermore, it took years for Americans’ inflation-adjusted median household income to match 2019 numbers. During most of the Biden/Harris administration, Americans have suffered through higher cost of living with insufficient wage gains.
The opposite was the case under Trump, when the median household income increased rapidly up until the COVID pandemic hit. Trump should have spent more time during the debate repeatedly hitting Harris on this. Rather than vague references to greatest or worst, he should have hammered home the fact that life under the Biden/Harris administration has been costly for the working class. Instead of taking the bait on questions about rallies or J6, he should have reminded Americans of the prosperity they enjoyed during his administration versus the lack thereof ever since.
Under Biden/Harris, Americans have suffered under crushing price increases. What limited economic policy positions Harris has trotted out would likely only give us more of the same, juiced once again by runaway spending.
Deregulating, keeping taxes low or even reducing them further, and cutting government spending are practical economic measures that would help Americans across the board. These policies would allow workers and families to keep more of their hard-earned dollars and help lower the cost of living by lowering inflation.
To answer Muir’s question, Americans are not better off today than they were four years ago. But a return to Trump’s economic policies would benefit all working Americans.
MORE ANALYSIS
- Nate Jackson: Mail-in Voting Could Be Problematic, Says … Leftmedia? — In a stunning admission about compromised election integrity, media outlets say Postal Service issues could cause election problems.
- Mark Alexander: Harris: Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier 2.0 — Kamala Harris has mastered the art of the BIG Lie.
- Emmy Griffin: A (Tyreek) Hill to Die On? — The Miami Dolphins’ star wideout blows the “racist cops” dog whistle after his arrest.
- Samantha Koch: Kamala Denies Her Abortionist Streak — During Tuesday’s debate, the Democrat standard-bearer attacked Donald Trump on abortion while the ABC moderators weighed in to protect Harris.
- Douglas Andrews: Harris Fails to Move the Indie Vote — Despite effusive praise from the mainstream media, Kamala Harris didn’t seem to impress those all-important undecided voters.
- Gary Bauer: Who Is the Party of the Rich? — Pelosi says that 30% of Republicans are racist and homophobic; the rest are a bunch of super rich people who don’t want to pay taxes.
- In Brief: Tucker Carlson’s History Lessons — The media personality spreads bizarre ideas about World War II.
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- I Fact-Checked Kamala Since ABC Wouldn’t — Brett Cooper goes through the lies heard during Tuesday night’s debate and does the fact-checking and accountability work ABC refused to do.
- ‘They Ought to Take Away Their License’ — Donald Trump hammers ABC News after the debate.
- Harris’s New Flip-Flops — Steve Green drags out his patented Crystal 8 Ball, and the Democrat nominee’s previously stated opinion is not a very pretty one.
- The ‘Dangerous Threat’ of the Constitution — Matt Christiansen, back on his own channel after the DOJ shutdown of Tenet Media, unpacks the New York Times’s attack on the Constitution.
- Thou Shalt Not Criticize the Woke Right — Having lived through race Marxism, Konstantin Kisin believes we are now witnessing the emergence of an equivalent phenomenon on the fringes of the Right.
- Humor: Kamala’s Debate Fantasy — Girl (un)interrupted.
SHORT CUTS
The BIG Lies
“Donald Trump when he was president negotiated one of the weakest [Afghanistan] deals you can image.” —Kamala Harris
“It is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy.” —Kamala Harris
“If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kiev right now.” —Kamala Harris
“The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the former president would essentially be immune from any misconduct if he were to enter the White House again. Understand, this is someone who has openly said he would terminate … the Constitution of the United States. That he would weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies. Someone who has openly expressed disdain for members of our military.” —Kamala Harris
“Let’s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate. And what did the president then at the time say? ‘There were fine people on each side.’” —Kamala Harris
“Donald Trump actually has no plan for you because he is more interested in defending himself than he is in looking out for you.” —Kamala Harris
Useful Idiot
“Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. Children, mothers. … We must chart a course for a two-state solution.” —Kamala Harris
Belly Laugh of the Day
“What I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country.” —Kamala Harris
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
“We are hearing from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street analysts that Harris will be better for reducing debt than Trump. They seem to agree that a $4.6 trillion tax increase on business and investors is just what the doctor ordered. Have they told their clients that?” —Stephen Moore
For the Record
“The electorate, which seems to treat critical thinking like a sin rather than a virtue, rewards politicians who pretend to change, while simultaneously ignoring other politicians who have always held those views and have been hamstrung by their pesky insistence on saying what they actually believe.” —Ian Haworth
“In just a few short years, we’ve gone from expecting politicians to at least tell us they love us to our faces before we invite them in for coffee to accepting a text from an anonymous friend promising us that, yes, the politician does love us, no matter what they wrote on Instagram.” —Ian Haworth
And Last…
“Reminder: Taylor Swift has built an entire career on her inability to choose the right man. Now, she wants us to trust her to choose our next President. Yeah, I’ll pass.” —CJ Pearson
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The Bee Fact Checks Last Night’s Debate | Babylon Bee
Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis tried to graciously provide viewers with real-time fact checks during the Presidential Debate last night, but as noble as their intentions were, those imperfect humans overlooked just a few teensy items.
Here’s what our respected Bee Fact Checker panel uncovered:
Claim #1
Trump: “Hello, my name is Donald Trump.”
False. His name is Donald John Trump. While it’s unclear why Trump would deliberately withhold his middle name, one thing is certain; Donald John Trump is a liar.
Claim #2
Trump: “Tim Walz shaves his legs.”
False. While Walz’s legs are indeed as smooth as marble, he does not shave his legs — he waxes his legs.
Claim #3
Trump: “Madden 2002 is the best sports game ever made. You could knock the helmets off of players.”
False. NFL Quarterback Club 98 exists. Duh.
Claim #4
Trump: “Trump supporters didn’t kill anyone on January 6.”
False. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was killed 13 times that day.
Claim #5
Muir: “There is no credible evidence cats are being killed by Haitian immigrants.”
True. They are only killing geese and dogs. And some humans. But no cats.
Claim #6
Harris: “I’m doing a good job.”
False. She’s doing a GREAT job.
Claim #7
Davis: “In some states in this country it is legal to kill a baby after it is born.”
False. Well, technically it’s true, but it sounds bad. So let’s say false.
Claim #8
Muir: “Good night.”
False. It was not a good night, David. IT SUCKED.
We hope this sets the record straight on the lies of everyone involved.
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New intelligence has emerged revealing how much the I.D.F. has damaged Hamas’s military capabilities. Parts of the country are battling heavy rain, wind, and the risk of tornadoes as what was Hurricane Francine makes its way inland. Economic issues took top billing in Tuesday’s Presidential debate. Now new numbers give insight to the actual state of U.S. inflation. The impact of inflation on Americans’ bank accounts is extending to churches. New data shows giving didn’t keep pace over the past year. After this week’s Presidential debate, many American voters are still pondering which set of policies to embrace Donald Trump’s or those of Kamala Harris.
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Tomi Lahren: Trump walked into an ‘ambush’ and ‘buzzsaw’
‘Hannity’ panelists react to the ABC News Presidential Debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump (Credit: ABC News). #foxnews
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Compilation of Comrade Kamala’s Debate Lies With Fack-Checked Videos [VIDEO]
MUST SEE: Megyn Kelly Goes Nuclear on ABC After Rigged Trump Debate, Exposes Their ‘Personal Friendship’ to Kamala (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
Megyn Kelly went nuclear on ABC following their disgraceful performance during Tuesday nights debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The former Fox and NBC host, who has restyled herself as somewhat of a conservative firebrand since leaving mainstream media back in 2020, said she was “ashamed and disgusted” by ABC and exposed the close friendship between Kamala Harris and network bosses:
Here is her response in full:
I’m disgusted. I’m ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris and is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting. They did Dana Walden’s bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage this evening.
Hi, everyone. I’m Megyn Kelly. A special program tonight for you, reacting to the debate. It was three against one. It’s very easy to look like you know what you’re doing when both moderators are entirely on your side.
Trump did the best he could under the circumstances, but it really was like three fighters in the ring pummeling one opponent, and Trump tried to take them all on. He did fine.
He did the best he could. He was thrown off a few times, to the point where he was unnecessarily defensive and getting angry. And so was I. Were you?
This was a mistake to trust ABC News with this debate. The Republicans must learn from this mistake the same way the Democrats never, ever agree to do anything with moderators they don’t entirely trust.
This should be the last time the Republicans ever do this because those two moderators tried to sink Donald Trump tonight.
The numerous fact-checks on what he said and none on what she said — none. I don’t remember a single fact-check of anything she said, and she lied repeatedly. She just got away with it in the moderators’ eyes.
That was Donald Trump’s job to fact-check her. That’s correct, except you didn’t employ that same tactic when it came to Trump. And you accused him of lying, even when it was just your opinion that he lied.
When Trump tried to say that his comment that he lost 2020 by a whisker was him being sarcastic, David Muir actually interjected, saying, “I didn’t hear sarcasm.”
Who gives a shit what you heard? Who died and left you political analyst-in-chief? You’re supposed to be the objective news anchor of *World News Tonight.* That’s a comment you make to your significant other, David, not in the debates. “It didn’t sound like that to me.” Shut up. That is inappropriate. It’s not for you to make that call.
Leave it up to Kamala Harris, leave it up to people like me who will play the sound bite and let the audience decide. But you were out of line, and they did it to him over and over and over again.
The worst part of all of this is the obvious tactic by ABC News, which was as follows: “Mr. Trump, you said something incredibly controversial and terrible. Let me remind you of what it was.
Do you have any regrets or thoughts on how terrible you were?” Trump answers. “Vice President Harris, how bad is Trump?” And then she’d answer. It happened over and over again. That was the format. “Mr. Trump, you’re a piece of shit. Kamala Harris, isn’t he a shit?” Thank you. It was incredible. And then anything Trump said, fact-check, fact-check, fact-check, and their fact-checks were full of shit.
I’m swearing even more than normal right now because I’m mad. I’m angry. I’m angry at them, at ABC, at my industry that I want nothing to do with.
And I’ve never been happier to be outside and be able to say how I truly feel—and yes, even with some colorful words because that’s what the situation calls for. They’re trying to steal this election. They are openly working to sink him.
I think it was so bad, their bias against him and toward her, that it’s going to backfire. I actually think the American public is going to see through this, and there’s probably going to be some empathy for Trump.
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Trump, meanwhile, has so far not complained about the debate and instead focused on the quality of his own performance.
“The choice could not be more clear— President Trump was the clear winner tonight, and he will win for America when he returns to the White House,” his campaign said in a statement after the debate.
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Bankruptcies Spike Again As America’s Economic Slowdown Accelerates | The Economic Collapse
Large businesses are declaring bankruptcy at a staggering rate, and yet we are being told over and over again that the economy is just fine. Needless to say, most of the country isn’t buying it. Survey after survey has shown that most Americans believe that the economy is on the wrong track. But those that are running things continue to push their “booming economy” narrative anyway, and I suppose that will continue all the way through the election in November. Of course anyone with half a brain should be able to see the truth, because day after day we just continue to get more troubling economic numbers. For example, it is being reported that U.S. corporate bankruptcies “spiked” during the month of August…
U.S. bankruptcy filings spiked in August after a slowdown in July, propelling the total for the first eight months of the year to the highest level since 2020 and second-highest since 2010, S&P Global Market Intelligence said Monday.
There were 452 filings in the year through end August, which compares with 466 in the same period in 2020, when the pandemic was still in full swing, and 604 in the same period in 2010.
In August alone, the tally comes to 63, up from a revised 49 in July. That was the third-highest monthly total this year, behind 72 in June and 68 in April.
You can see a list of corporations that filed for bankruptcy in August right here.
It is a very long list.
The last time that corporate bankruptcies were this high was during the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
But this time around, we don’t have lockdowns to blame for the tsunami of corporate bankruptcies that we are witnessing.
Prior to 2020, we have to go all the way back to 2010 to find a time when corporate bankruptcies were this high.
Needless to say, we were just coming out of the Great Recession in 2010.
Sadly, it appears that September will be another banner month for bankruptcies. BurgerFi is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and it just filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday…
An upmarket US burger chain is the latest restaurant business to file for bankruptcy – as casualties in the industry mount up.
BurgerFi – which also owns Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza – sought Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware court on Wednesday. It has as much as $500 million of debts.
Across the two brands, the company has 162 locations – including a flagship BurgerFi in New York that only opened a few months ago. All are under threat.
So many restaurant chains are in very serious trouble these days.
If you have a favorite eatery that you really enjoy, you might want to visit it now while you still can, because a lot more restaurants are going to close in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, small business confidence was way down last month…
Small business confidence fell in August and reversed the prior month’s gains amid growing uncertainty ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election and expectations that sales will be sluggish.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said Tuesday that its Small Business Optimism Index dropped 2.5 points to 91.2 last month.
In this economic environment, small businesses are hurting even more than large businesses are.
Of course there is more than enough pain to go around. At this point, most U.S. consumers are really struggling because the cost of living crisis never seems to end.
Since Joe Biden entered the White House, the cost of just about everything is way up…
Gas: +46.1%
Electricity: +30.7%
Fuel oil: +43.4%
Airfare: +21%
Hotels: +49.4%
Groceries: +21.5%
Baby food: +29.5%
K-12 food: +66.2%
Rent: +22.5%
Transportation: +32%
Car insurance: +54.9%
Overall inflation: +20.3%
Real average weekly earnings: -3.4%
I am glad that car insurance was included on that list.
Over the past few years, car insurance premiums have risen to absolutely absurd levels…
A new report published by Insurify, an insurance comparison shopping site, shows the average U.S. rate for full auto insurance surged to $2,329 in the first half of 2024. That marks a 15% increase from 2023 and a stunning 48% spike when compared with 2021.
By the end of 2024, the cost of coverage is expected to rise even further, to $2,469, according to the report.
The problem is even worse in some states, where prices are projected to rise more than 50% this year.
What a disaster.
We are facing 1970s-style inflation at the same time that we are facing 2008-style layoffs.
Earlier today, I was saddened to learn that UPS has decided to conduct another round of layoffs…
Sandy Springs-based UPS is laying off more of its employees, after earlier this year announcing it was cutting 12,000 jobs in its management ranks.
The company did not specify how many employees are losing their jobs in the latest round of cuts, but said Monday night that the layoffs are part of ongoing efforts since the January announcement of reductions. It was not clear which departments were affected and how many of the cuts might be in the Atlanta area.
And apparently close to a third of all Samsung employees in some divisions of the company are about to get the boot…
Samsung is starting to lay off staff globally, impacting up to 30% of employees in some divisions by the end of this year, according to three sources familiar with the scope of the layoffs, Reuters reports Wednesday.
Sales and marketing departments are reportedly being reduced by 15%, while up to 30% of administrative staff are expected to be laid off. Samsung has about 25,000 sales and marketing staff, according to the report, meaning over 3,700 employees may be included in the layoffs.
Our economy has been declining for years.
Our standard of living has just kept going down, bankruptcies have been surging to frightening levels, and large businesses have been conducting mass layoffs.
But the elite just keep putting on a happy face and telling us that everything is going to be okay.
Unfortunately, nothing that they can do is going to stop the chaos that has already started to erupt all around us.
Bad decisions inevitably lead to bad consequences, and we have been making bad decisions for a really, really long time.
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Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted | JNS
Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. According to the most recent annual Gallup poll of attitudes towards various professions, those ranked lower than the press include lawyers, insurance and car salespeople, business executives, stockbrokers, advertisers and (no surprise) politicians. Members of Congress have the dubious distinction of being the worst of the lot with only 6% of the public having a high degree of trust in them.
That 19% of the public still trusts journalists is surprising but nothing to boast about. Indeed, it could be argued that the fact that less than a fifth of the citizenry have faith in what they read, hear and see via the news media is even worse than the low totals for some other professions. After all, you may not trust those who sell you insurance, cars or stocks, but they do sell items that presumably have some value. But if you don’t believe a word you read in The New York Times or hear from, say, ABC News, then nothing they do is worth a cent. Given the vital theoretical role that a free press plays in a functioning democracy in terms of its ability to keep the government and other powerful institutions honest and accountable, a widespread belief that the media is not only untrustworthy but in the pockets of the state undermines any notion that we live in a truly free country.
We got a reminder of why that matters in this week’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. I would argue that it didn’t fundamentally alter the widespread conclusion (shared by me) that Harris got much the better of the confrontation. Still, the decision of the two ABC News moderators—David Muir and Linsey Davis—to blatantly take her side throughout the two-hour slog didn’t just call into question the fairness of the disputation. It was also a confirmation of the bias of the two journalists and their network.
An increasingly woke profession
This is a familiar theme to supporters of Israel, who have watched with dismay in recent decades as unfair coverage of the Jewish state has fueled efforts to delegitimize its existence and right to defend itself while demonizing virtually everything it does. In the past year since the Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel, this bias has been particularly painful as supposedly credible publications and networks have acted as the enablers of Hamas terrorists, repeating every lie about Israel the murderers and rapists utter. This is not merely unhelpful to Israel’s cause. It has become a major factor in the surge in antisemitism felt in the streets of American cities and on university campuses where anti-Israel, pro-Hamas mobs have targeted Jews.
All of this means that no matter who you plan to vote for in November or what you think of Harris and Trump, the collapse of media credibility must be seen as a potentially lethal threat to American democracy and Jewish life. At this point, it’s not enough to merely decry media bias and seek to get outlets to correct their mistakes, as important as that task may be. We must understand how and why this bias, which can make itself felt in both domestic political arguments as well as those involving foreign policy, has come about. More to the point, as is the case with the collapse of higher education due to its takeover by woke ideologues, it’s high time for more consumers of the news to simply stop pretending as if the liberal corporate press should be trusted at all.
That almost all of what is loosely called the legacy media, which includes mainstream publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post, broadcast networks and cable-news outlets like CNN and MSNBC—leans increasingly hard to the left is not seriously questioned by anyone but the journalists themselves and hard-core leftists who complain they aren’t biased enough against conservatives, and especially, Trump. Since he won the 2016 election and following the moral panic induced by the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020, many practitioners of journalism at these outlets are ready to say openly that they view their purpose as being essentially political activism and not the objective pursuit of truth.
What that means is that they use their bully pulpits to skew news coverage to make political and ideological points, covering up for politicians they favor and ruthlessly smearing those they dislike. Whereas previous generations of journalists could be said to lean left, for the most part, they understood that the public wanted them to report the news fairly and at least sought to pretend to do so, even when they showed bias. The younger generation of journalists (in contrast to the past, when they were more likely to come from the working class and not have college degrees or sometimes even high school ones) is almost always the recipients of education at elite institutions. There they were indoctrinated in woke myths about race, intersectionality and unquestioning belief in “progressive” political causes. And like the situation on so many campuses, this creates a groupthink atmosphere in newsrooms in which mobs bully dissenters into silence or out the door.
There are plenty of places where the liberal conventional wisdom of the day is questioned, albeit usually in smaller outlets that struggle to gain the respect the legacy media takes for granted. Though there are conservative publications and networks—not to mention talk-radio shows, where the other side of the arguments of the day can be aired, and which, of course, exhibit their own brand of bias—the left’s dominance over most of what is termed mainstream media is almost complete. The ties between these journalistic institutions and those that serve the political and foreign-policy establishments, not to mention popular culture and the arts, are close.
Journalists fueling antisemitism
The ability of the left to dominate the national conversation undermines the long-held belief that journalists play a key role in the democratic process, by which the policies of any government can be held up to scrutiny and candidates can similarly expect to be held accountable. If mainstream journalists are only doing this to one side of the political divide while giving a pass to the other, especially when already in power, the public is given the impression that what we have is not a free press but a state media that can be expected to toe the party line in the same manner as authoritarian or totalitarian regimes.
The same process applies to the coverage of Israel and antisemitism. It is almost universally expected now that the Jewish state’s efforts to defend itself—even against the barbaric tactics of a genocidal Islamist terrorist group like Hamas and its tyrannical Iranian backers—will always be covered unfairly. In the past, most media bias against Israel was rooted in ignorance, sloppiness and the natural inclination of journalists to always tell a story from the side of the perceived underdog, which, despite the size and power of the forces arrayed against the one small Jewish nation on the planet, is the way the world views the Palestinian Arabs who seek to destroy it.
In recent years, it’s become clear that the problem with the coverage of Israel is more a matter of ideology than a lack of knowledge about the history of the conflict in the Middle East. Just as the left’s stranglehold on college faculties and administrations has created an atmosphere in which most professors and students believe the intersectional lie that Israel is an illegitimate “settler/colonial” state of “white” oppressors, the same is now true of the liberal media, most of whose personnel have already received the same indoctrination.
The cost of media bias
Concerning the Harris-Trump contest, the decision of the ABC moderators to “fact check” Trump in real time put them in the position of abandoning the role of neutral arbiters and askers of questions. At least one of them, Muir, at times, seemed to be an active participant in the debate in which he sought to assist Harris. Trump’s usual employment of hyperbole, which is often loosely connected to the objective facts, leaves him open to fact-checking.
But the same could be said of Harris, whose not insignificant list of whoppers included the recycling of lies about Trump calling neo-Nazis “very fine people” or threatening a literal bloodbath of the citizenry if he was returned to office; opposition to IVF procedures; or his connection to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 (which was itself mischaracterized). That those weren’t challenged and her own statements characterizing antisemitic, pro-Hamas mobs as, for all intents and purposes, “very fine people,” illustrate that the proceedings were skewed in her favor. Muir and Davis were deserving of fact checks, too, since they lied about state abortion laws and mindlessly repeated Hamas’s false statistics about Palestinian casualties in Gaza.
The two moderators clearly feared being the recipients of the abuse hurled at CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, who, despite being personally on the left, played it down the middle without any partisan “fact checks,” when they moderated the June 27 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, during which the latter self-destructed.
That doesn’t mean that Harris didn’t best the unfocused and easily distracted Trump in the debate. Nor does it necessarily dictate that she ought not to win the election. But it did send a signal to the half of the country that is inclined to support Trump that they shouldn’t take seriously anything said or published about the race on ABC or any other mainstream outlet.
It is axiomatic that we are now a bifurcated nation in which the two opposing political camps read, listen and watch different journalistic institutions, and therefore have no common language or even a consensus about the objective facts about the news of the day. It is in such a milieu that the basic premise of democracy—in which we must consent to agree to disagree with our opponents and treat them as well-meaning if wrong—breaks down. By the same token, the division in the media about Israel, with many liberal outlets smearing it while many on the right defend it, also foments an atmosphere in which a significant percentage of the country is willing to believe lies about the Jewish state and incline them towards antisemitism here at home.
Liberals may have cheered the moderators for turning the debate into a three-on-one confrontation in which their version of the “truth” was employed against their “bad orange man” bête noire. If Trump voters and many independents no longer believe anything that is heard on liberal outlets, theirs may well be a pyrrhic triumph.
We may be able to survive as a constitutional republic without honest lawyers, salespeople and most politicians viewed as crooks, as they have all been since the days of the Founding Fathers. However, a uniformly partisan press, especially when local news outlets are dying out and most political discourse is conducted in a virtual public square owned by a few Silicon Valley oligarchs who collude with the liberal press and the Democrats, seems more like a state regime media than the free press needed to continue the unique American experiment in government. That is a formula for the hollowing out, if not the end of democracy as well as a likely continued increase of antisemitism. That is a prospect that ought to scare everyone, no matter who they plan to vote for in the November elections.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him @jonathans_tobinl.
An Ultra-Violent Migrant Gang Is Shooting Police Officers, Trafficking Young Women And Raping Kids | End Of The American Dream
The chaos that we are witnessing in the streets is the direct result of the decisions that our politicians have made. As I discussed yesterday, allowing millions upon millions of migrants that are not being properly screened to come pouring over our wide open borders is not a good idea. There are certainly many migrants that are coming here because they want to work hard and create a better life for themselves. But of course there are others that are coming here for other reasons. Throwing the back door wide open for vast numbers of criminals that intend to cause all sorts of mayhem once they arrive in our major cities is extremely foolish. We are literally committing national suicide, and many of our leaders don’t seem to care.
According to NBC News, authorities are currently investigating more than 100 serious crimes that have been committed by an ultra-violent gang of migrants from Venezuela known as Tren de Aragua…
U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana and the point-blank shooting of two New York City police officers, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials.
The cases involving the Tren de Aragua gang show how hard it is for U.S. border agents to vet the criminal backgrounds of migrants from countries like Venezuela that won’t give the U.S. any help.
More than 330,000 Venezuelans crossed the U.S. border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection data, and Venezuela, like Cuba, China and a handful of other countries, doesn’t provide any criminal history information to U.S. officials.
Gang members are coming over the southern border in extremely large numbers, and once they are allowed in they can literally go anywhere in the country that they want.
Sadly, violence seems to erupt wherever members of this particular gang show up.
For example, two members of Tren de Aragua are facing the death penalty for murdering a former police officer in south Florida…
Two alleged members of the dangerous Venezuelan ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang face the death penalty for the 2023 kidnapping and murder of a man in the city of Doral, in Miami-Dade County, whose apartment was ransacked by armed men.
Julio César Hernández Montero, 27 years old; and Yurwin Salazar Maita, 23, appeared by court order in county court Tuesday, where prosecutors charged them with first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing 43-year-old José Luis Sánchez Valera.
In addition to these charges, Assistant State Attorney Gabriela Alfaro told Judge Laura Cruz that the state will prosecute the co-defendants for robbery, home invasion, vehicle theft, kidnapping and burglary.
This would never have happened if the Biden administration had not let them in.
In the Big Apple, a member of the gang that entered this country illegally recently shot two police officers…
In New York, police say Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata, a 19-year-old from Venezuela, shot two police officers last week. Castro-Mata entered the country illegally last July, a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN. The Venezuelan has tattoos associated with Tren de Aragua – which court documents for a suspected gang member in Georgia describe as five-pointed crowns, five-pointed stars and teardrops – the New York Police Department told CNN.
Venezuela is more than happy to send their criminals to us, and the Biden administration is more than happy to take them in.
Now crime in Venezuela is going down, and crime in our country is going up.
In Denver, members of Tren de Aragua have reportedly been given a “green light” to attack law enforcement officials…
At the same time, the gang has reportedly established a significant presence in parts of Colorado, Fox News reported. They were reportedly given a “green light” to fire on or attack law enforcement in Denver.
There have also been reports of the gang taking over at least two apartment buildings in Aurora.
Gang members were not just living in the apartment buildings that they took over in Aurora.
It is being reported that the gang was actually using some of the apartments for child prostitution…
A bombshell report details the complete control the criminal organization had on the Whispering Pine Apartments in the Denver suburb,
Vacant units had reportedly been used to host ‘parties’ where the gang provided ‘drug and child prostitution,’ according to the apartments’ manager, who added that the gangster said ‘minors are a good source of money.’
Sex trafficking is one of the major ways that Tren de Aragua brings in money.
In Louisiana, women that were trafficked by the gang claim that they were forced “to have sex with four men a day”…
In a federal affidavit, two of the women described how they were trafficked by three alleged gang members who had entered the U.S. within the past year. All three suspects had been intercepted by Border Patrol after they entered Texas illegally but had then been released into the U.S.
The women say the alleged gang members arranged for them to fly from El Paso, Texas, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Once they were in Baton Rouge, the women were taken to a Ross retail clothing store to buy clothes. They were then taken to an apartment building, where they were allegedly forced to have sex with four men a day.
And apparently the gang has also been operating “stash houses” in several other states as well…
Officials arrested two suspects – both Venezuelan nationals – at the location, Allbert Herrera Machado, 23, and Osleidy Vanesa Chourio-Diaz, 26. Agents later arrested another Venezuelan, Josmar Jesus Zambrano-Chirinos, 23, identified in the complaint as a leader of the sex trafficking operation being conducted by the Tren de Aragua in the US. Zambrano was “operating ‘stash houses’ used for human trafficking in Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, New Jersey, and Florida,” according to the criminal complaint reviewed by CNN.
This is absolutely horrifying.
Our leaders know that this is happening, and nothing is being done to stop it.
Thankfully, there are a few politicians that are speaking out. U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales has been consistently warning about the threat that Tren de Aragua poses, and he claims that “this gang has been known to rape children”…
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district runs along nearly half of the southern border, said he has warned about the gang and is seriously concerned about the hold it already has in the U.S. given its record as an “agent of chaos and terror through Central and South America.”
“For months, I have sounded the alarm about Tren de Aragua and the threat this gang poses to Americans,” Gonzales said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “It’s graphic, but this gang has been known to rape children, murder, and commit nearly every other crime under the sun. We know that Tren de Aragua has expanded operations in Mexico, and some gang members have made their way into the United States.”
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris really cared about our women and our children, they would seal the border immediately.
But they will never do that.
Instead, they just made an agreement with the government of Mexico to use buses to transport migrants directly to the U.S. border from two cities in southern Mexico…
The latest development between the Biden/Harris administration and the government of Mexico on the immigration front will see migrants provided bussing from two southern Mexico cities to the United States border. The plan will provide the migrants headed to the United States with meals and security during travel from the two cities to the U.S. destination where the migrant’s asylum appointments are scheduled under the CBP-One application.
The government of Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced the new program in a Spanish-language notice issued on Saturday, referring to the initiative as the “Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor.” The two departure cities in southern Mexico will be Villahermosa, Tabasco, and Tapachula, Chiapas.
Are you kidding me?
So now gang members that want to come to the United States will get free bus rides to the border.
What the politicians in Washington are doing to us is literally insane, and it is an enormous threat to our national security.
As social order breaks down in this country, migrant gangs are going to have an absolute field day.
We must shut the border, and we must shut it now.
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Gen Z Should Not Be Fooled by Kamala’s Sudden Seriousness | The Gateway Pundit
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Ethan Watson
Real Clear Wire
After yanking Joe Biden off the ticket with a giant vaudeville cane, Kamala Harris has breathed new life into the Democratic party. Kamala opened her campaign with the “politics of joy,” replete with twerking rappers, sassy X clapbacks, and quirky Doritos videos. But, after weeks of pressure from the media, Kamala has finally posted her stance on the issues facing America, and at the debate on Tuesday night, she dove deeper into her policies than ever before. Finally, Gen Z voters have the opportunity to do what everyone least expects from them: weigh each presidential candidate from a policy perspective.
Until now, I’ve been mystified as to why my generation, usually so quick to recognize inauthenticity, was falling for Kamala’s cotton candy campaign. But Gen Z voters were immediately smitten with Kamala, whose light, albeit vapid rhetoric provided a reprieve from the political mudslinging of the last eight years. She threw concerts and posted goofy videos. Instead of engaging in contentious discussions, Kamala supporters could quip “Brat Summer” while retweeting Mark Hamill. It was light and fun, and after years of ugly politics, even her blatant pandering was a nice change.
By spoon-feeding young voters inoffensive content, Harris deflected their attention from her flip-flopping on issues and pushing radical policies like an unrealized capital gains tax. Her proxies dodged questions on air, claiming that she was too busy to sit down for an interview. And most young voters supported Kamala, with 58.7% of voters 18-34 viewing her favorably after the DNC in August.
But Kamala’s actual ideas have been forced into the spotlight. As Harris gets serious, so should Gen Z.
I’ve seen firsthand my generation’s BS detectors in action. We know when we can skip a hokey motivational speaker at a company event or skim the “required” readings. We traverse career fairs, collecting swag and acting interested as phony recruiters try to convince us that their company isn’t a pyramid scheme. In other words, we don’t drink the Kool-Aid.
Now that Harris’ policies are in the open, we should treat her with the same scrutiny. If Gen Z is really dissatisfied with the direction the company is going, per a Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll, then perhaps we should consider the fact that portions of her brand new “Issues” page were copied from the Joe Biden campaign site. Remember him? He’s the one who was in charge – or at least who seemed in charge – when that Harvard poll was taken earlier this year.
Additionally, 53% of Gen Z voters believe that there is a dire crisis happening on our southern border, a border that Kamala presided over as border czar. Do we really believe she’s the best candidate to solve that problem?
Another driving factor behind Gen Z’s discontent with the status quo is the economy. On that topic, Harris echoes Joe Biden’s policies. Harris proposes a $25,000 first-time homebuyer handout, doubling down on Biden’s $10,000 proposal. Harris’ policies also include expanding the Affordable Care Act, which has been the law of the land for the past 14 years (and passed while Joe Biden was Vice President). She touts her plan to raise the tax on long-term capital gains to 28% – in other words, 28% of what Gen Z makes in the stock market will go not to a home down payment but to the government. Do we really think that will help young people prosper?
I call on my generation to apply to Kamala Harris the same utility maximization we do in all areas of life. Now that she’s dropped the TikTok-and-vibes charade, we have the chance to think critically about whether Kamala represents the change to the status quo, or whether she’s just Joe Biden 2.0. It seems Kamala can buckle down to business when pressed. Can we?
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
Ethan Watson is a Young Voices contributor working towards a Master of Accounting degree at the University of Kansas. He holds dual undergraduate degrees in Accounting and Political Science with an eye toward law school in the near future. Follow him on X: @erwatson13.
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