There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
In this video, we explore the profound mystery of the Incarnation—the eternal Son of God stepping into time and space to dwell among us. From the pre-existence of Christ as Creator of all things to His miraculous birth through the Holy Spirit, we uncover how Jesus fulfilled the promises of the Old Testament and became the perfect mediator between God and humanity.
This is the good news that changed everything: God is with us.
I’ll be answering these good questions a thought Catholic person posed to a member of the congregation I pastor:
1. If the last man that had free will was Adam, what sins do we have to repent and be forgiven? What debt do we owe that Jesus must pay? Isn’t our free will necessary in order for there to be judgement at all?
2. How does God select who to save and who not to? It can’t be our faith, that would be a choice (invoking free will or even a WORK that we participated in) does He just love some of us more than others? And if He does love some of us more than others, doesn’t that mean that He ceases to be omnibenevolent?
3. Whose interpretation of the Bible (or the entire deposit of faith) do you subscribe to? Your own? Some particular ecumenical council? Some particular latter-day prophet? And why wouldn’t the apostolic succession (and the “keys of heaven”) be a more trustworthy source of interpretive authority than us?
4. What does it mean when the Bible says we are made in the image and likeness of God? Most people interpret that as including a soul and mind capable of free will, intelligibility, and creativity. But that cant be the case if we don’t have free will.
5. If we were to subscribe to our own interpretation of scripture, which is probably not a good idea, since it produced 24,000 different denominations that all believe something different and they have the privileged and correct truth, then why does the New Testament council us to “sin no more,” “carry our cross,” or “endure?” Or any of the language that very thinly veils the implication that our choices MUST matter? Why do we even need to know that the crucifixion and resurrection occurred if nothing we could do about it matters? Why does Jesus command the apostles to go out and forgive sins, make disciples and baptize the nations?
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit, that we are children of God. ROMANS 8:16
Many men and women are seeking counsellors to aid them with their confessed feelings of emptiness and inadequacy. Each seems to have a plea about becoming a “whole person.” The importance of coming back into right relationship with God cannot be overestimated as we seriously think and study and pray. By the mysterious operation of the Spirit of God in the new birth, that which is called by Peter “the divine nature” enters the deep-in core of the believer’s heart and establishes residence there. “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his,” for “the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom. 8:9, 16). Such a one is a true Christian, and only such. Baptism, confirmation, the receiving of the sacraments, church membership—these mean nothing unless the supreme act of God in regeneration also takes place! Religious externals may have a meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security. “Keep thy heart with all diligence” is more than a wise saying; it is a solemn charge laid upon us by the One who cares most about us!
Tozer, A. W., & Smith, G. B. (2015). Evenings with Tozer: Daily Devotional Readings (p. 60). Moody Publishers.
By whomsoever this question is asked, there can be no question of whom it is said; for the Church of Jesus, made comely by the comeliness which her Lord hath put upon her, is all this, and more in every eye that can admire true loveliness; and will be a perfection of beauty, in the upper and brighter world, for ever, the first openings of grace upon the soul, after a dark night of the fall, may be compared to the beauty of the morning. But though fair as the moon, it is but a borrowed light, as the moon, and subject to changes in its increasings, and its wanings also. As long as the sun’s influences are upon this planet, its shinings will be fair. But when objects intervene from the earth, and the sun shines not, there will be an eclipse of all its borrowed lustre. Just so the Church; and oh! how often on my soul. While Jesus, the sun of righteousness, shines upon me, all is fair and lovely; but if he withdraws, the night immediately follows. But oh! my soul, when grace is perfected in glory; when as John in a vision saw that wonder of wonders in heaven, “a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,” (Rev. 12:1.) then shall the whole Church of God shine forth “as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father.” Precious Jesus! give me to see my clear interest in thee, from my union with thee! And do thou, dear Lord, so make me strong in thy strength, that during the whole period of my present warfare, I may be “terrible as an army with banners,” to all that would oppose my way to thee, and in thee. Yea, Lord! let sin, and Satan, and the world, be ever so united against me, yet do thou put on me the whole armour of my God, that I may “fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life, and be made more than conqueror through Him that loveth me.”
Hawker, R. (1845). The Poor Man’s Evening Portion (A New Edition, p. 62). Thomas Wardle.
Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This evening it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and in no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own, and pleads guilty before the Lord, then he is clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy; but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its deathblow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness, or more hopeful than contrition. We must confess that we are “nothing else but sin,” for no confession short of this will be the whole truth; and if the Holy Spirit be at work with us, convincing us of sin, there will be no difficulty about making such an acknowledgment—it will spring spontaneously from our lips. What comfort does the text afford to truly awakened sinners: the very circumstance which so grievously discouraged them is here turned into a sign and symptom of a hopeful state! Stripping comes before clothing; digging out the foundation is the first thing in building—and a thorough sense of sin is one of the earliest works of grace in the heart. O thou poor leprous sinner, utterly destitute of a sound spot, take heart from the text, and come as thou art to Jesus—
“For let our debts be what they may, however great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay, our Lord forgives us all.
’Tis perfect poverty alone that sets the soul at large:
While we can call one mite our own, we have no full discharge.”
Spurgeon, C. H. (1896). Morning and evening: Daily readings. Passmore & Alabaster.
AND the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? (The mischief in the camp usually commenced with the mixed multitude, and it is the same with the church of God now: the merely nominal Christians in her are the tinder for Satan’s sparks. It is sad, however, to note that the Israelites were ready enough to follow the bad example of the mixed company. They murmured wantonly. They did not want for either bread or water, but pined for luxuries. Such complaining is sure to be punished.) 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick. 10 ¶ Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 11–15 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. The meekest man failed in his meekness. He was so provoked by the senseless clamours of the people that he spake unadvisedly with his lips unto God. The best of men are subject to infirmities. The Lord in Moses’ case was very pitiful towards his servant, and sent him help that he might the better bear the burden of so great a charge. 16 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. The Lord overlooked the petulance of Moses’ language, and met the real burden of his case. The seventy men would have been of no use without the Spirit, but with it they became valuable helpers. O Lord, give thy Spirit to all the elders and deacons of our churches, as well as to all pastors and evangelists. 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. 19, 20 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? Too much becomes nauseous. It is a most just method of punishment to make those things loathsome which have been the cause of lusting. The Lord often wearies men with their darling sins. 21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? (Moses began reckoning second causes, and then saw much ground for doubt; yet even then he left out a part of the calculation, for he forgot the fowls of heaven from which the Lord gathered meat for the people.) 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not (Unbelief is very grievous to the Lord: perhaps some of us are guilty of it. Is it so? Then let us humbly bow before the rebuke of this verse, and then hopefully expect to see every promise of the Lord fulfilled, for so it shall be.)
Spurgeon, C. H. (1964). The Interpreter: Spurgeon’s Devotional Bible (p. 114). Baker Book House.
Leviticus 20:24 — God will give the Israelites another nation’s land, flowing with milk and honey, and in return He asks obedience (Leviticus 20:22). God is in the middle of teaching His people that the land will be a gift (Exodus 6:4, 6:8, 12:25, 13:5, 13:11, 33:1; Leviticus 14:34, 23:10, 25:2, 25:38). So, when He asks for the firstfruits (Exodus 22:29), it is the product of the land that He gave them.
Similarly, when God asked for an offering of gold and silver (Exodus 35:5) – where did a band of former slaves get their gold and silver? From their former masters, the Egyptians (Exodus 12:35). Why would the Egyptians give gold and silver to their slaves? The LORD changed their heart (Exodus 12:36). Even more amazing – the LORD told Moses He would give them gold and silver earlier (Exodus 3:22). So, when God asked for the gold and silver, He was merely asking for some of what He had given them.
Which is part of why God was angry with His people over the golden calf. This was not their personal property that they had labored for and deserved. He had given gold and silver to them, and just asked for part, but they used His gift to make an idol (Exodus 32:2-4).
The gold and silver was not the Israelite’s, it was God’s. He took it from another and gave it to them, and He only asked for a portion back. The land was not the Israelite’s, it was God’s. He took it from another and gave it to them, and all He asked was for the firstfruits to be given back to Him. So, when the LORD asks you to give of your time, talent, and treasure to accomplish the Great Commission, all He is asking for is a portion of what He has already given to you.
To be fair, the gold, silver, and land were not the Egyptians or the Canaanites – Psalm 24:1 tells us that the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.
Leviticus 21:9 — There are only two Mosaic statutes that contain as a penalty human immolation, and both are sexual crimes. In Revelation 18:8, Babylon the harlot will also be burned with fire.
Leviticus 22:10 — We have been told who can eat of the holy thing and who can’t eat of the holy thing. However, there was a “loophole” that allowed David’s men to eat of it (1 Samuel 21:3-6). Jesus used this action (while not lawful, was not totally illegal – there wasn’t a corporal or capital punishment assigned) as a proof for His actions (Matthew 12:3-4).
Mark 9:6 — If you don’t know what to say, you’re better off saying nothing!
Psalm 43:5 — More promises for the hurting soul. Sometimes you need to give a “pep talk” to yourself: Hope in God!
Proverbs 10:18 — More warnings about the fool – may we avoid hatred, lying, and slander!
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Many skeptics believe that all religions are basically the same. If there is an afterlife, they surmise, all that will be required for admission is that you live a “good” life and be “sincere” about your beliefs. My last post offered reasons from the observation of nature that should cause the skeptic some concern.
In short, it seems to me that a study of nature actually leads to the contrary conclusion: if nature is our guide to knowledge, then the Author of nature seems to be teaching that getting it right is what matters. Sincerely believing that you can defy gravity won’t count for much if you step off the side of a building, no matter how good a life you’ve lived up until then.
Nature is Exclusive
Nature provides many other examples of this lesson. Consider for a moment the way nutrition works. There are a variety of food groups that can provide nourishment, and considerable variety within each food group. Proteins, dairy products, fruits, grains, vegetables – each of these groups has something to add to a person’s total nutrition. When taken in the right balance, a growing child will experience normal development to adulthood, plenty of energy and overall good health. But when essential elements of a good diet are lacking, the child’s health can be severely impacted. Take for instance the disease known as scurvy, brought on by the absence of citrus fruits in a person’s diet. Many an ancient sailor experienced this lesson the hard way, suffering a variety of physical disabilities that led to a painful death.
Notice that nature does not seem to care how a person was raised. If they learned to eat poorly in their childhood, nature does not take that into consideration in attaching a consequence. Nor is nature concerned with how sincere a person is in believing that his diet is good for him. When medical experts of the ’50’s assured their patients that smoking cigarettes was not harmful, that did not make smoking any less of a threat to their health. The examples are endless: the common thread throughout is that the wise person will make use of their acquired knowledge to move beyond what they once believed to be true to conform their beliefs to what is actually true.
Truth Matters
To the thoughtful person then, the proper diet is not decided upon by considering what dishes he grew up on or what food makes him feel “good.” Most people find chocolate to be quite tasty, and it’s known to lift one’s mood. But if chocolate becomes a staple item in place of, say, vegetables, then one’s health will soon decline. This result will occur regardless of how many experts advise it and regardless of how sincerely the person believes that chocolate can take the place of beans or broccoli. Though considerable variation exists, we cannot eat just anything and, if we’re smart, we should concern ourselves with finding that right balance of items that will best sustain good health.
Finding this right balance, of course, can be difficult. There is no shortage of “experts” who will tell you that only they have the answers. Yet try we must, for our health hangs in the balance. It would make little sense for us to throw up our hands in frustration and say that these competing “experts” can’t all be right, so we’ll just keep eating the way we want to, or the way we were raised to, and hope for the best. No, seeking answers and moving closer to “getting it right” are what any thoughtful person should do.
How Ignorance breeds Apathy
How does this relate to apologetics? When dealing with a skeptic, the believer often encounters apathy. Most skeptics just don’t care what Christianity has to say, because they have uncritically accepted the notion that all belief systems are equal. By analogy, they have rejected the idea that some foods are good and some are bad, and replaced it: most people eat what they grew up eating; who are you to say that chocolate isn’t as good as broccoli or fish?; I don’t believe in citrus fruits; you’re so intolerant when you think you know what a healthy diet is? Sound familiar?
Perhaps a discussion of nature might be persuasive, because skeptics often believe that it is only through the study of nature – through science – that any real knowledge can be obtained. That study should lead to the conclusion that nature is quite a harsh professor. It doesn’t grade on a curve and it doesn’t give partial credit for making a good effort. There is an order to life and to nature, and one must live within that order or suffer some very real, and often very nasty, consequences.
A Word of Encouragement
As a Christian, I can take comfort that the Author of nature has provided a rescue plan that makes my choice easy, and my work light. Yes, nature is harsh as a result of man’s rebellion, but I have a rescuer who can and will restore what has been broken. There may be a variety of denominations, and there may be differences in some doctrines, but in the end there is one path to reconnecting with God – it is by placing one’s trust and faith in Jesus and his saving work. Like many who came before me, I can take great comfort in the knowledge that the heavy lifting has been done for me. But where does the naturalist find comfort when studying the workings of nature? And if nature is this harsh in the here and now, why in the world should the skeptic conclude that it will be any different in the hereafter?
No, the wise choice is to discard this foolish notion that all religions are the same and that all paths lead to God. Better answers are out there, but you’ll never find them if you never start looking.
Al Serrato earned his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He began his career as an FBI special agent before becoming a prosecutor in California, where he worked for 33 years. An introduction to CS Lewis’ works sparked his interest in Apologetics, which he has pursued for the past three decades. He got his start writing Apologetics with J. Warner Wallace and Pleaseconvinceme.com.
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace talks about the nature of subjective and objective truth and the impact our understanding of truth has on our efforts to evangelize. J. Warner also describes a distinctive feature of Christianity separating it from all other theistic worldviews. The Cold-Case Christianity Weekly Podcast is located on iTunes or our RSS Feed:
For more information about strategies to help you teach Christian worldview to the next generation, please read So the Next Generation Will Know: Training Young Christians in a Challenging World. This book teaches parents, youth pastors and Christian educators practical, accessible strategies and principles they can employ to teach the youngest Christians the truth of Christianity. The book is accompanied by an eight-session So the Next Generation Will Know DVD Set (and Participant’s Guide) to help individuals or small groups examine the evidence and make the case.
In week 8 of our series on arguments for the existence of God, we take a look at Peter Kreeft’s Argument from the World as an Interacting Whole. You can find the article this series is based on here.
His presents the argument as follows:
Norris Clarke, who taught metaphysics and philosophy of religion for many years at Fordham, has circulated privately an intriguing version of the design argument. We present it here, slightly abridged and revised; for your reflection.
Starting point. This world is given to us as a dynamic, ordered system of many active component elements. Their natures (natural properties) are ordered to interact with each other in stable, reciprocal relationships which we call physical laws. For example, every hydrogen atom in our universe is ordered to combine with every oxygen atom in the proportion of 2:1 (which implies that every oxygen atom is reciprocally ordered to combine with every hydrogen atom in the proportion of 1:2). So it is with the chemical valences of all the basic elements. So too all particles with mass are ordered to move toward every other according to the fixed proportions of the law of gravity.
In such an interconnected, interlocking, dynamic system, the active nature of each component is defined by its relation with others, and so presupposes the others for its own intelligibility and ability to act. Contemporary science reveals to us that our world-system is not merely an aggregate of many separate, unrelated laws, but rather a tightly interlocking whole, where relationship to the whole structures and determines the parts. The parts can no longer be understood apart from the whole; its influence permeates them all.
Argument
In any such system as the above (like our world) no component part or active element can be self-sufficient or self-explanatory. For any part presupposes all the other parts—the whole system already in place—to match its own relational properties. It can’t act unless the others are there to interact reciprocally with it. Any one part could be self-sufficient only if it were the cause of the whole rest of the system—which is impossible, since no part can act except in collaboration with the others.
Nor can the system as a whole explain its own existence, since it is made up of the component parts and is not a separate being, on its own, independent of them. So neither the parts nor the whole are self-sufficient; neither can explain the actual existence of this dynamically interactive system.
Three Conclusions
1. Since the parts make sense only within the whole, and neither the whole nor the parts can explain their own existence, then such a system as our world requires a unifying efficient cause to posit it in existence as a unified whole. 2. Any such cause must be an intelligent cause, one that brings the system into being according to a unifying idea. For the unity of the whole—and of each one of the overarching, cosmic-wide, physical laws uniting elements under themselves—is what determines and correlates the parts. Hence it must be somehow actually present as an effective organizing factor. But the unity, the wholeness, of the whole transcends any one part, and therefore cannot be contained in any one part. To be actually present all at once as a whole this unity can only be the unity of an organizing unifying idea. For only an idea can hold together many different elements at once without destroying or fusing their distinctness. That is almost the definition of an idea. Since the actual parts are spread out over space and time, the only way they can be together at once as an intelligible unity is within an idea. Hence the system of the world as a whole must live first within the unity of an idea. Now a real idea cannot actually exist and be effectively operative save in a real mind, which has the creative power to bring such a system into real existence. Hence the sufficient reason for our ordered world-system must ultimately be a creative ordering Mind. A cosmic-wide order requires a cosmic-wide Orderer, which can only be a Mind. 3. Such an ordering Mind must be independent of the system itself, that is, transcendent; not dependent on the system for its own existence and operation. For if it were dependent on—or part of—the system, it would have to presuppose the latter as already existing in order to operate, and would thus have to both precede and follow itself. But this is absurd. Hence it must exist and be able to operate prior to and independent of the system.
Thus our material universe necessarily requires, as the sufficient reason for its actual existence as an operating whole, a Transcendent Creative Mind.1
This argument could be summarized as follows:
1. The universe is a dynamic, ordered system of many active, interacting parts. 2. The active nature of each part is defined by its relation to the other parts. 3. The system as a whole cannot explain its own existence; it needs a planner and a cause outside the system. 4. This planner and causer of the system we call “God.”2
So, what do you think of this argument? Please share in the comments below.
For those of us who love God and seek to obey at all pints (but knowing we fail, so we repent and try again), the persistent and entrenched disobedience of some self-proclaimed Christian women is a puzzle to us.
But then again, we read our Bibles and see 1 John 2:4 which says, The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
And we say, those who constantly disobey, (especially by preaching in church, which is a gross abomination to Jesus), who are unteachable, who reject correction, who preach a different gospel, who deny the sufficiency of the Bible by their direct revelatory stories and puffed up visions, who abandon their career of motherhood & children at home to pursue a career, whose fruit is only thorns and is bad…must not be saved.
And then we receive pushback on every point above. So it’s still a puzzle when the Bible is so clear on certain points which are easy to understand and interpret. In the collage above are some of the more prominent women who stand behind a pulpit in a church they claim is Jesus’, and preach.
Because if they had the Holy Spirit in them, He would not allow them to continue on a consistent path of rebellion. He would correct them either by opening their eyes to the proper verses, or by some drastic measure to awaken them to their transgressions. Do you think the Holy Spirit is in a woman who, for decades, disobeys? Can a Christian have a seared conscience over their persistent and public sin? Dishonoring Jesus along the way and creating stumbling blocks for the weaker sisters?
No. He killed Ananias and Sapphira to demonstrate how serious He is about sin in the church. He sent 7 letters to the churches in Revelation to show how serious He is about His church.
Above we have- Beth Moore at St Timothy’s, Aimee Byrd at Covenant Church, Rev Nancy Frausto at Seminary of the Southwest, Sadie Robertson Huff at Auburn Community Church (only age 22!), Christine Caine at Life Church, Priscilla Shirer at Concord Church.
“women should keep silent in the churches”. 1 Corinthians 14:33-34.
Ladies, be discerning. Above all, be humble. It takes humility to say ‘I followed this or that woman for a while and invested in her, with my heart, money, time, or energy, but my investment in her was misguided. Let me learn to discern better, let me be pure in my approach to obeying Jesus, let me abandon that which makes me stumble on my walk and turn to “…whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” (Philippians 4:8).
If you see a woman standing at a pulpit on a Sunday morning at church service and open her Bible and preach to the congregation, she is in rebellion. Though satan is subtle, and hides his schemes secretively many times, this one is an easy spot. If the woman preaches consistently (not just a one-time mistake), she is in rebellion and you can learn nothing from her.
If you followed her for a while, just talk to Jesus about it. Repent and ask Him to give you better discernment. He will!
Training for state workers labeled Republican Party ‘overtly’ white supremacist “Christian hegemony,” the training document says, functions to “support, reinforce, and reproduce white supremacy.” A 32-page document titled “White Supremacy Culture – Still Here” teaches that capitalism, classism, gender oppression, and heterosexism reinforce white supremacy, and that “the U.S. Republican Party is overtly and boldly claiming a white supremacy, autocratic agenda.”
Trying to fool Trump? – PA president announces continuation of pay-for-slay, then deletes video of speech Shortly after the announcement, senior political correspondent at the Jewish Insider, Lahav Harkov, wrote that “The PA is just restructuring the mechanism through which they pay terrorists so that they can claim it’s not them, it’s an ‘independent’ foundation doing it. An ‘independent’ foundation funded by the PA and whose board is appointed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.” Mahmoud Abbas vows to never stop payments to ‘prisoners and martyrs’
Reaching out to Europe’s rising Right: Israel’s Diaspora Minister Chikli explains approach to German AfD Party Domestically, all of them have faced constant allegations of racism, anti-semitism or authoritarianism, further complicating Israeli outreach efforts. Nevertheless, since taking over the Diaspora Ministry in 2022, the Likud Party’s Amichai Chikli has been leading a new diplomatic offensive to establish new relations with many of these parties. “Antisemitism is a growing problem in Europe due to Muslim immigration,” Chikli explained his project at the 50th annual Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem. “The European right-wing parties have a point because they realize the problem and are presenting a solution.”
Extensive strikes: IDF attacks targets in southern Syria IDF strikes military targets in southern Syria including command centers and multiple sites containing weapons. Defense Minister Katz: We will not allow southern Syria to turn into southern Lebanon. “The presence of military forces and assets in the southern part of Syria pose a threat to the citizens of Israel. The IDF will continue to operate in order to remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,”
Another Gaza violation: Maritime vessels violated restrictions, IDF attacked The IDF commented that a number of vessels were also identified violating security restrictions in the maritime space of the Gaza Strip, and that the forces fired to distance them. The vessels did not move, but after another round of fire, returned to shore. “The IDF once again calls on the residents of Gaza to obey the IDF’s orders, not to approach the forces deployed in the area and to pass through the agreed upon inspection routes,” the IDF announced.
US, Ukraine agree to terms of critical minerals deal https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-843760 The US and Ukraine have agreed on the terms of a draft minerals deal central to Kyiv’s push to win Washington’s support as President Donald Trump seeks to rapidly end the war with Russia, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.
‘The entire country is on high alert’: Iran braces for joint US-Israel strike on nuclear facilities Fearing attack, Iran has heightened its defense readiness, deploying additional missile systems; Concerns grow as reports suggest Israel is preparing for significant attacks, with US support in the form of intelligence and aerial refueling. Since the outbreak of hostilities, Israel and Iran have exchanged direct attacks, but Tehran now fears that, with President Donald Trump’s support, Israel is nearing a decisive strike on its nuclear facilities.
Hamas operatives stand trial in Germany for planning European terror attacks The trial of four Hamas terrorists accused of managing secret weapon stockpiles across Europe for terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets began in Germany on Tuesday. Authorities suspect that the weapons were intended for attacks on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, the area surrounding Tempelhof Airport in the capital, and the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany.
German election winner seeks ‘independence’ from U.S. What does that mean? Europe needs to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step,” Merz told public broadcaster ARD. The Trump administration does not care about Europe “one way or the other,” he said, and called the advocacy of Vice President JD Vance and tech billionaire Elon Musk on behalf of Germany’s far right “no less outrageous” than Kremlin-backed election interference.
Europe Shook After Its Erosion Of Fundamental Freedoms Is Placed In The Spotlight He reminded them that last year in the United Kingdom, officials convicted a man for praying silently — not on the abortion clinic’s property, but within fifty meters of it. As Vance said, the man was, “not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.” Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called ‘safe access zones,’ warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.”
Banned AFD top candidate becomes MP Maximilian Krah, who was previously banned as an EU parliamentarian for high-nationalist AfD, will take a seat in the German federal parliament for the party.
The EU Chief: I Support Trump’s Plan The EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen supports President Donald Trump’s efforts for peace in Ukraine – but only with robust security guarantees for the country.
ICE raid leakers caught, DHS secretary says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Monday that her department has identified some of the individuals responsible for the recent leak of a memo regarding a “large-scale” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in the Los Angeles region. Noem also vowed to identify more leakers, saying, “We’re not here to play games.”
Israel imposes sanctions on released Palestinian prisoners receiving PA pay The terror funds served as a reward for the acts of terror they carried out, part of longstanding Palestinian Authority policy, with frozen funds now rerouted to the families of victims. “The blood money that the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists is fuel for terror. The State of Israel is in a total war against terror – on the battlefield, in the economic arena, and in every arena required. Anyone who chooses to act against the State of Israel will pay a heavy price.”
A mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people hours after they felt sick The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases and “that’s what’s really worrying,” said Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center. These “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far.
Rare snowfall reaches Mount Carmel as Israel prepares for the big freeze The severe cold wave named “Coral” is nearing its end, but not before it sends temperatures plummeting to all across Israel, making Monday night the coldest yet this winter. In a rare meteorological event, light snow blanketed regions across Israel on Sunday evening, with flurries reaching Mount Carmel for the first time in eight years after the significant cold front Coral brought temperatures to near-freezing levels across much of the country.
Severe floods claim 11 lives in Madagascar At least 11 people have died in severe flooding that has affected parts of Madagascar, including the Analamanga region, over the past two weeks. Rising river levels since February 15, 2025, have led to widespread inundation, prompting school closures and emergency rescues in the affected areas.
Weather tracker: temperatures hit record highs across South America While North America grappled with widespread cold and wintry conditions last week, South America – now in its final month of summer – faced the opposite extreme, with record high temperatures recorded across the continent. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, temperatures at its Guaratiba weather station soared to 44C last Monday, 14C above the February norm and the highest temperature recorded in the city for more than a decade.
Chaos Everywhere! Chaos In D.C., Iranian Nuke Sites On High Alert, Mystery Disease Causes Chaos In Congo, And Egg Prices Skyrocket To Insane Levels “Instability is in the air. Can you feel it? We were warned that chaos would be coming, and that is precisely what we have here in 2025. President Trump and Elon Musk are causing widespread chaos in Washington D.C., there is chaos in our streets, there is economic chaos all over the nation, there is chaos in the Middle East and Ukraine, outbreaks of disease are causing chaos in Africa, the bird flu is having a chaotic impact on egg prices, and seismic activity is causing chaos throughout the globe. Of course what we are experiencing right now is just the beginning.”
American tourist, 18, ‘throws newborn baby out of Paris hotel window with umbilical cord’ still attached A newborn baby is dead after an American tourist, who was on a study abroad trip, reportedly threw the child out of a Paris hotel’s window just moments after giving birth to it. A witness to the horrific incident reported to French police that they discovered the corpse at the Ibis Style hotel in the 20th arrondissement of Paris on rue des Réglises.
17 Signs That America’s Long Economic Slide Threatens To Become An Economic Avalanche …Four years of deteriorating economic conditions have brought us to a breaking point, and now we are witnessing quite a bit of shaking in the financial markets. Even though many in the mainstream media are still trying to deny it, the truth is that we are in an enormous amount of trouble. The following are 17 signs that America’s long economic slide threatens to become an economic avalanche…
NYPD Wants 100,000 Hijabis – Recruiting for Sharia Compliance NYPD is openly recruiting for Sharia compliance! This isn’t about “inclusion.” It’s about normalizing submission—one hijab at a time. “We have 1,200 Muslim officers… 10 in hijab… I’m looking forward to another 100,000 ladies wearing hijabs in the near future as NYPD.”
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Trump budget bill squeaks through House: In a promising sign that the House speaker just might be able to pass major legislation even with his razor-thin majority, Mike Johnson herded his Republican cats long enough last night to pass a bill that calls for $1.5-$2 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, along with $4-$4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The vote was 217-215, with all but one member — Kentucky’s perennially frugal Thomas Massie — voting in favor. The Senate favors larger tax cuts, though, and will likely alter the House bill — which means Johnson will have to endure another nail-biter.
Pelosi rule under scrutiny: A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit heard arguments yesterday about a $1.7 trillion omnibus passed in 2022 with more than half the votes being cast remotely via then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proxy voting rules. “I’m just wondering,” asked one judge, “If 218 members can say, ‘Madam Speaker, you’ve got my proxy to be present, so anytime you want to convene the House, you’ve got a quorum.’ Can that work?” Suffice it to say that Democrats never cared anything for “norms,” and the Framers never contemplated remote voting.
DOGE staffers quit: Twenty-one civil “servants” resigned from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency yesterday, saying that they wouldn’t use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” To which we ask: Critical to whom? “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the malcontents wrote in a joint resignation letter. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” In response, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “Anyone who thinks protests, lawsuits, and lawfare will deter President Trump must have been sleeping under a rock for the past several years.”
Biden IRS leaked 400,000 Americans’ tax files, not 8,000: From our “Captain Renault” files comes word that the same former IRS contractor who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records prior to the 2020 election also leaked confidential tax info on more than 405,000 American taxpayers, approximately 89% of whom were business entities. That’s more than five times the number the IRS had initially said were victimized. The culprit, leftist hero Charles Littlejohn, was sentenced to five years in prison for his trouble. At his sentencing, Littlejohn uttered some rubbish about acting out of a “sincere and misguided belief that he was serving the public interest.” Of course, what he meant was that he thought he was serving the interests of the Trump-hating Left.
Trump revokes security clearances for Jack Smith’s law firm: “We’re going to call it the ‘Deranged Jack Smith’ signing or bill,” Donald Trump quipped to reporters as he signed an executive order on Tuesday. That order stripped the security clearances for attorneys at Covington & Burling, a Washington law firm tightly connected to Democrats that worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith on his failed lawfare endeavor against Trump. In 2022, Smith was picked by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump over his challenge of the 2020 election results and his handling of classified documents. However, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding presidential immunity effectively gutted Smith’s election case, which he eventually dropped following Trump’s election victory.
Trump pushes restart of Keystone XL pipeline: Infamously, one of Joe Biden’s first actions upon taking office in 2021 was canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, reversing Donald Trump’s first-term decision to green-light the continuation of the project that began in 2010 but that Barack Obama halted. It marked Biden’s first salvo in his war on fossil fuels. However, now that Trump is back in office, he wants the pipeline restarted. “Come back to America, and get it built — NOW!” Trump said in a post directed at the original company behind the pipeline project, TC Energy. “I know they were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!”
Trump admin looks to end bird flu: With egg prices skyrocketing due to the avian flu, public frustration is growing, with many recalling Donald Trump’s promise to “immediately” lower grocery costs. The current means for fighting the virus is the mass slaughter of chickens when infected birds are found within a poultry population. Since August, over 73 million egg-laying chickens have been slaughtered or died due to the avian flu. Since 2022, over 100 million chickens have been affected, showing that the problem has lingered and worsened. Kevin Hassett, Trump’s National Economic Council director, argues for a different approach, which he calls “a smart perimeter.” That means working with scientists to establish biosecurity and medication, including using a newly approved avian flu vaccine. Hassett argues this “should have happened a year ago, and if it had, egg prices would be a lot better than they are now.”
Dem governor’s tortured gender language: After Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin objected to Democrat Governor Tony Evers’s proposed budget because it replaces traditional gendered language like “mother” with “inseminated person” and “father” with “natural parent” and “wife” with “person,” Evers accused them of “lying.” He defended the language change as necessary for legal clarity surrounding IVF, which he charged Republicans with opposing. State Republican Representative Amanda Nedweski blasted Evers, writing, “Where’s the lie [Gov. Evers]? It’s right there in your own budget. You are attempting to erase parents from state statute. If you believe moms are moms, and dads are dads, then there would be no need for this change. Apparently Evers believes dads can be moms too.” Given that Republicans control both state legislative chambers, Evers’s proposal will go nowhere.
Florida sues woke Target: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced a class-action lawsuit against the Target Corporation for having misled its investors, citing a grotesque 2023 Pride Campaign. Target said it would monitor the social and political risks posed by its wokeness, but the company was far more concerned with ingratiating itself with the Rainbow Mafia. As Uthmeier put it, “Target’s efforts to sexualize children caused its stock price to plummet, harming Florida’s retirement fund and putting the retirements of our teachers and first responders at risk.”
Headlines
Zelensky to visit White House on Friday as sides close in on minerals agreement (Washington Examiner)
One million federal workers respond to Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email (Daily Wire)
Trump introduces $5 million “Gold Card” that wealthy people can buy to come to America (Daily Wire)
SCOTUS to hear straight woman’s discrimination case that could reshape employment law (Fox News)
Apple shareholders reject proposal to scrap DEI (NY Post)
Byron Donalds launches bid for Florida governor (The Hill)
Humor: A list of some of the things government employees said they accomplished last week (Babylon Bee)
“The Fake News Media,” said Donald Trump in 2018, is “the true Enemy of the People.”
He was right. The lies of the Leftmedia undermine Liberty at every turn. This country would look far different if the legacy media would report what happens accurately and fully instead of serving as propagandists for the Democrat Party.
Trump’s comment came to mind when news broke that his administration had told the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to take a hike — that Team Trump would determine which media outlets were allowed “pool” access to the White House and Air Force One to cover the president. “For decades, a group of DC-based journalists … has long decided which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these intimate settings. Not anymore,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not,” she added. “But we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.”
The press took this about as well as federal staffers responding to that DOGE email.
“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” grumbled WHCA President Eugene Daniels. “It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.”
That’s a great point. An adversarial press is a hallmark of a free country. Remember, Thomas Jefferson even complained that “newspapers … serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke” because they were free to say even untrue things about him.
Yet I have a question for Mr. Daniels: Why is it that Democrat presidents never face that adversarial press? No, they don’t technically “choose” the journalists covering the president, but they don’t have to. The vast majority of reporters at Leftmedia outlets are Democrat voters and donors who favor Democrat politicians in their coverage.
They’re the same deceptive hacks who award themselves Pulitzer Prizes for lying about the Russian collusion hoax. They’re the same partisan players who pretended Joe Biden was as sharp as a tack until it became undeniable that he was actually as sharp as a marble. They’re the same left-wing activists who will overturn reality itself by referring to a man with female pronouns and names just because he likes wearing a dress and visiting the women’s restroom.
And then they claim Arbiter of Truth™ status from which they can “fact-check” the rest of us for saying actually true things.
Like so many Americans, Trump is tired of the charade. He recently booted the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because it continues deadnaming the Gulf of America. Heaven forbid the AP use pronouns that conflict with someone’s gender delusions, but it refuses to use Trump’s new name for the body of water that abuts our southern coast.
“While their right to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment,” said White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich, “it does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One.”
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden sort of sided with the administration, at least until a full hearing on March 20 in which the AP may prevail. The broader WHCA move is Trump’s gambit to win either way. If he can’t exclude the AP, he can at least choose not to include the outlet.
Yes, Trump is abandoning the moral high ground here, engaging in precisely the kind of targeted viewpoint discrimination that Democrats specialize in and that has so infuriated conservatives for years. But Trump has never cared about the moral high ground if it meant losing on it. He’d rather win today and worry about tomorrow when it comes. He also has a knack for choosing opponents who deserve no sympathy.
Michael Swartz: So Easy a Gov’t Caveman Could Do It — The federal government’s retirement system is literally stored in a cave. Spelunking for retirement papers.
Emmy Griffin: Is Stacey Abrams Done? — The election denier’s hand was caught in the taxpayer cookie jar. Where does that theoretically land her in the next gubernatorial election?
Jack DeVine: Trump’s Omelet — There is no such thing as change without consequences, including some adverse ones.
Linda Moss Mines: President Johnson Plans Reconstruction — After all that serious “Tennessee talk” about the Confederacy and the elitist class of leaders, Johnson appeared to have crumbled in his resolve.
Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington — Victor Davis Hanson discusses the misleading information about the first 30 days of the Trump administration’s actions, comparing it to FDR’s first hundred days.
‘They Were Hiding This’ — Journalist Michael Shellenberger discusses his investigative reports on USAID’s role in censorship and political interference.
Planned Parenthood in Crisis — A recent New York Times article reports what the pro-life movement has been covering for decades: Planned Parenthood puts women at risk.
A Cannibal Was Just Released From Prison — A man accused of cannibalism and hacking someone to death with an ax has been granted conditional release. This is third-world stuff.
“It angers me when people are like, ‘This woke stuff’s gotta go.’ That’s telling me that you don’t care about my lived experience; you don’t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community; you don’t care about the oppression of the disabled; you don’t care about the oppression of immigrants; you don’t care about your fellow neighbor — and that is un-Godly. That is not Christian.” —”The View” co-host Sunny Hostin
Cant Fix Stupid
“When you are in the midst of a crisis and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist when fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here?” —ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid
World’s Smallest Violin
“MSNBC producers and other staffers are being put in limbo, Rachel Maddow said last night, and ‘the anxiety and the discombobulation is off the charts at a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult.’” —Brian Stelter
Stranger Than Fiction
“A man accused of cannibalism and hacking someone to death with an axe has been granted conditional release. This is third-world stuff. It’s the harmful effects of a justice system that ignores retribution.” —Michael Knowles
Upright
“I’ve always believed in God, but I never fully grasped the reality of the devil. … Learning just how far some will go to inflict atrocities on innocent Americans has shocked me awake.” —former RFK Jr. running mate Nicole Shanahan sharing the story of her conversion to Christianity
For the Record
“So much of American diplomacy has become pure performance — an obsession with saying this or that. The reason the failed establishment hates President Donald J. Trump is because he chooses his words carefully and, more importantly, is much more focused on doing.” —JD Vance
“The presupposition to understanding all of Trump’s foreign policy is that China is the ultimate threat.” —Erick Erickson
Swamp Dwellers
“I guarantee you it goes from the American taxpayers’ back pocket to the back pocket of politicians in Washington, DC. And if it’s either party, I don’t care; they need to be exposed, and they need to be out of office.” —Congressman Tim Burchett
“All this administration is asking — President Trump is asking — is for federal workers who live off of the American taxpayers’ dime to send five bullet points of what they have done in the previous week.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
“Few Americans who’ve lost jobs or endured the cruel consequences of administrative state actions have any sympathy whatsoever for a bureaucrat who’s a little miffed at having to respond to an email. Reporting to superiors is a regular part of doing business out here in the ‘real’ world. Welcome to the club.” —Nate Jackson
And Last
“Democrats are raising an alarm about what they call a ‘constitutional crisis.’ If there is one, they should know because they are to blame for it.” —Cal Thomas
More than 100,000 Israelis turn out to mourn Shiri Bibas and her two young boys, Ariel and Kfir, who were taken on October 7, 2023 and brutally murdered by Hamas; another hostage/prisoner exchange set for tomorrow; a possible sign of the times: five Red Heifers, who arrived in Israel three years ago: how they tie in to the possible building of the Third Temple, which some Christians believe could pave the way for the End Times; the debate in Washington over defense spending, and the blame game over Trump’s moves on Russia and Biden allowing the resurgence of Iran, Hamas and others; the controversy over Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to cut wasteful spending; Dr. Ian Smith, author of “Eat Your Age,” talks about what’s best to eat and age well; and the world championship Sled Dog Derby was held this year in New Hampshire after a two-year absence.
Jake Tapper, a guy who covered for Biden for four years during the president’s mental decline, is now releasing a book on the cover-up of Biden’s mental decline.
Welcome to Lionel Nation—the home of bold ideas, fearless truth and deep analysis of the world’s most pressing topics. MSNBC is imploding, shedding hosts left and right in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding, yet the same media elites who are ruthlessly axing their own failing staff have the audacity to cry foul over the Trump administration’s much-needed purging of waste at USAID. The hypocrisy is staggering. MSNBC, a network that has spent years propping up race-baiters, conspiracy theorists, and shameless propagandists like Joy Reid and Jonathan Capehart, is now scrambling to stay afloat by cutting dead weight, but when President Trump applies the same principle to bloated, inefficient, and corrupt government agencies, they scream about “job losses” and “authoritarianism.” Where was their concern for hard-working Americans when USAID funneled billions into sketchy foreign projects with no accountability? Where were their cries for justice when bureaucrats wasted taxpayer money on pet projects that benefited globalist elites? MSNBC is a sinking ship, hemorrhaging viewers and credibility, and now, their collapsing house of cards is on full display. The left-wing media cries about government accountability, yet they can’t even manage their own network without massive layoffs. Trump is draining the swamp at every level, and MSNBC’s meltdown proves that accountability is long overdue—both in government and the corrupt media.
A United Nations nuclear watchdog report reveals that Iran has significantly increased its production of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels. The escalation has come since the reelection of President Donald Trump, a strong ally of Israel.
A new disclosure by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the House Judiciary Committee reveals that, under the Biden administration, the IRS leaked the taxpayer information of more than 405,000 Americans–including President Trump.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, began an inquiry into the leaks last year and with this latest disclosure has found that the scope of the leak was much larger than the Biden administration initially led the public to believe.
The scandal began in late 2019 when an IRS contract worker named Charles (Chaz) Littlejohn, illegally accessed and stole tax returns and return information for President Trump and other wealthy Americans and then leaked that information to news outlets.
Littlejohn pled guilty to the unauthorized disclosure in Oct 2023 and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In April 2024, the IRS issued letters of notification to victims whose data had been leaked but the notifications prompted deeper questions into how many people’s data may have actually been disclosed.
One month later, an IRS spokesman stated that “more than 70,000” taxpayers had been affected by the leak.
In Dec 2024, a second round of notifications was issued to individuals and entities that were not part of the initial 70,000 recipients of the first notice.
Rep. Jordan sent the IRS a letter on Jan 30, 2025 requesting more detailed information about the leaks and the IRS’s response letter sent on Feb 14 revised the number of people affected to 405,427 with approximately 89% of those taxpayers being business entities.
The leak of taxpayer data under the Biden administration follows the controversy of the Obama administration being accused of abuse for using the IRS to target conservative individuals and organizations.
Take note that the same coalitions protesting the prospect of DOGE engineers having access to IRS records and other financial data are conspicuously quiet about the actual abuses that took place under presidents Obama and Biden.
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