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"Always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all" (Phil. 1:4). Intercessory prayer is a powerful tool in the hands of a righteous person. There's the story of a special nurse who knew the importance of intercessory prayer. Each day she used her hands as instruments of God's love and mercy toward those in her care, so she found it natural to use her hand as a scheme of prayer. Each finger represented someone she wanted to pray for. Her thumb was nearest to her and reminded her to pray for those who were closest and dearest....

“Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier” – Sleepy Joe Speaking Truth to Power _________________ Well, well, well. Many have wondered where Sleepy Joe Biden originated the interesting “ lying dog-faced pony soldier” remark. Some speculated that he got it from an old John Wayne movie. In fact Biden has used the phrase in the past, and attributed it to a John Wayne movie. Well it turns out the words may have come from a 1952 Tyrone Power movie, “Pony Soldier”. Tyrone played a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Last night Tucker Carlson had Mark Steyn as a guest. Mark had...

Well, isn’t this just an inconvenient truth? – Just as he was beginning to gain traction in some national polls with his quarter-billion-dollar ad campaign – he now places third in the newest Quinnipiac national poll – Mini-Mike Bloomberg is about to face a hard truth about his real nature, and the policies he pursued while serving as Mayor of New York City. The main policy in question is the so-called “stop and frisk” policy Bloomberg, who, remember, was then pretending to be a moderate Republican, aggressively enforced throughout his three terms in office. That policy helped to control crime...

“Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death” (Proverbs 11:4 KJV).

Liberal ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl was at President Trump’s massive rally in New Hampshire Monday night and said Trump supporters are fired up. Trump supporters are as fired up as I have ever seen them,” Jon Karl said. He continued, “This rally is in an arena that I was at just two nights ago — Saturday night at an event that included ALL of the major Democrat candidates and we have a bigger crowd by far just for Donald Trump than we had on Saturday for all of the Democrats.” “Trump supporters are very energized — you got the...

President Donald Trump's new budget confirms that without corrective action, trillion-dollar deficits will be with us for years and perhaps decades to come. Trump's budget plan has many smart and urgent spending reforms. But will Congress ignore them once again? Alas, probably, but the longer we wait, the shorter the debt bomb fuse. But step one in solving this crisis is to recognize the facts about it and to dispel the pervasive mythologies about what caused this ocean of systemic borrowing and how best to deal with it. Myth 1: Trump created these deficits. No, no, no. These were the...

The coronavirus epidemic could spread to about two-thirds of the world’s population if it cannot be controlled, according to Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist. His warning came after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said recent cases of coronavirus patients who had never visited China could be the “tip of the iceberg”. Prof Gabriel Leung, the chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, said the overriding question was to figure out the size and shape of the iceberg. Most experts thought that each person infected would go on to transmit the virus to about 2.5...

Poor Zeke Manners is having Twin Trouble (1948).THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

A majority of Americans surveyed in a new poll said they would not vote for a socialist candidate for president, with the most opposition coming from Republican voters. Asked whether they would vote for their party nominee who was a “generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be socialist,” just 45 percent said yes and 53 percent said no, according to the Gallup poll released Tuesday. The acceptance for a socialist nominee, is 2 percentage points lower in the recent poll than when Gallup asked the same question in June 2015. Democrats are much more likely to say they...

Virginia – When students at Franklin County High School in Virginia were told they could not fly the American flag from their trucks because it might be offensive – they did what any red-blooded American teenager would do: they flew the flag anyway. The staff at ToddStarnes.com broke the story about this school in the area east of Roanoke and Christiansburg, where the flags displayed behind trucks have become a target for school administrators. Earlier this week, an administrator at the Virginia school reportedly told several students that they could no longer fly Old Glory on their trucks because it...

Across the nation, people are fleeing states like Illinois and New York for greener pastures. In the last year alone, the Northeast lost around 300,000 people due to migration while the Southern states gained around a million residents. Apart from looking for a better climate, high taxes have caused many Americans to consider moving. Now, as the 2020 census approaches, many states will lose federal funding and a congressional seat, something that will hopefully be the wakeup call legislators need to realize how disastrous high taxes really are. Over the past decade, people have been moving to low tax states...

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Several months ago I followed my heart. I decided to take a stand, respect my principles, and opt to do right. I chose to do so against all odds, hoping for a better tomorrow because I legitimately believe that we are stronger together, as one unified nation, strong and indivisible with one another. I embarked on a journey to be your next Congressman in the United States House of Representatives. I am seeking to represent the many good people in Texas’ diverse 18th Congressional District and am looking to unseat Sheila Jackson Lee, a long-term incumbent who has proven ignorant...

MOUNTAIN CITY, Georgia -- Just off U.S. Highway 23, along the spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, T.J. Smith spends his days continuing the tradition of the iconic Foxfire Fund: an enterprise driven by young people whose respect for the land and culture, and understanding of the importance of preserving that culture's stories, has persevered for more than 50 years. If you grew up in Appalachia, you likely owned a set of the Foxfire books or had the Foxfire magazine in your home, giving you an opportunity to see your very heritage in those pages. They carried the stories...

New Hampshire Dem Primary Early Results: Amy Klobuchar– 29.6% Bernie Sanders– 14.8% Elizabeth Warren– 14.8% Andrew Yang– 11.1% Joe Biden– 7.4% Pete Buttigieg– 7.4% Mike Bloomberg– 7.4% Tom Steyer– 3.7% Tulsi Gabbard– 3.7%

Nancy Pelosi’s Staff Demands Takedown of ‘Deceptively Altered’ Video of Her SOTU Tantrum A video shared by President Trump showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tearing apart the State of the Union address has amassed over 18 million views on social media despite her allies’ efforts to convince platforms to remove it. The video, posted by the president last week, shows Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union address and highlights memorable moments of the speech, such as Trump honoring 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman Gen. Charles McGee. It has now surpassed 11 million views on Twitter, 3.1 million views on...

Through his efforts to clean up the Postal Service, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the EPA and others, President Trump has demonstrated a genuine interest in digging into the details of government to root out cronyism and make agencies more responsive. It could be time to apply some scrutiny along those lines to the Surface Transportation Board. Although most of the federal government is seeing a sharp reduction in regulations – the president’s press office said he has eliminated 22 for every one he has added – the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates the economics of freight railroads, is looking to increase government meddling in...

Tired of all this WINNING yet? – Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 set new record highs on Monday, as the Trump economy just keeps WINNING for Americans and their 401(k)’s. The Dow was also up, but not quite at record levels reached a few weeks ago, before the Coronavirus scare. And it’s only going to get better, as early trading futures indicate all indexes will open at higher levels today. About those “70 Obama holdovers” cut from the NSC… – Twitter and other social media outlets went nuts on Monday over a slightly misleading report issued by the Washington...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials. The awarding of more than $1 million total to the two groups, Hookers for Jesus in Nevada and the Lincoln Tubman Foundation in South Carolina, has triggered a whistleblower complaint filed by the Justice Department’s employee union to the department’s Inspector General. An internal department memo seen by Reuters shows that as of September 12, two long-established nonprofits – the Catholic Charities of...

Imagine starting a business, risking everything and deciding to give it a go on your own. That entrepreneurial spirit is what sets the United States apart from most of the rest of the world; the American Spirit. Now imagine, after all that hard work and risk, some leftist decides they don’t like you or what you’re doing and sets out to ruin what you’ve built, to destroy you. It happens all the time, actually. The “cancel culture,” as it’s called, is just one of many tools in the progressive arsenal. And while stories like the attempted destruction of Gibson’s Bakery...