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Thank you all for your prayers and please keep them coming. I spoke to Norm last night and could immediately hear the difference in him. His voice was strong and he was focused. When I told him how many people were praying for him and would continue to do so, he said he could feel a difference. He is very grateful to all and will pray for all of you. Norm still has a number of physical problems; but with the spiritual and emotional strength our prayers are giving him, his spirit is healing and that will be so important...

Obamacare created perverse incentives that increased hospital consolidation and hospital employment of physicians. The same forces also encouraged consolidation of physician practices in ways that are detrimental to patients. Surprise medical bills are an example. It’s only a small percentage of physicians who engage in the practice but it’s growing.  More than one-in-five hospital patients have reportedly received a surprise medical bill. These occur when out-of-network physicians treat patients and balance bill them for more expensive, out-of-network care. Out-of-network status is often a business strategy allowing some physicians to charge fees many times what their in-network colleagues are paid for the...

Nobody appears to be more concerned about climate change than Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders, student activist Greta Thunberg, and the thousands of Extinction Rebellion activists who shut down London last year. Last year, Sanders called climate change “an existential threat.” Extinction Rebellion said, “Billions will die.” And Thunberg said, “I don’t want you to be hopeful” about climate change, “I want you to panic.” But if Sanders, Thunberg, and Extinction Rebellion are so alarmed about carbon emissions, why are they fighting to halt the use of two technologies, fracking and nuclear, that are most responsible for reducing them? Sanders...

Morning "Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me." Job 10:2 Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Love is too often like a glow-worm, showing but little light except it be in the midst of surrounding darkness. Hope itself is like a star--not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in...

... Every one of the party’s presidential candidates has a robust climate action agenda. It is a rare area in this primary where candidates are marching mostly to the same beat. They almost universally support a Green New Deal. They all vow to immediately reenlist the U.S. in the Paris accord to fight global warming. The differences lie in how far, how fast and how much to spend. We break down where they stand and what climate policy would look like under the vision offered by each of the Democratic hopefuls. Former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a bold $1.7-trillion...

A group of Oregon residents is petitioning to have two counties in their state join Idaho, citing Oregon’s Democratic leadership. Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho said Josephine and Douglas counties have accepted ballot initiatives supporting a goal of joining Idaho, the organization said in a press release earlier this month. The Josephine County ballot initiative specifically “makes it county policy to cooperate with any state effort to move the Oregon/Idaho border, if any such effort develops,” the group said. The Douglas County Initiative amends a current ordinance to “add Idaho officials to the list of officials who may...

Hunter Biden served on the board of a trade group that lobbied for increased foreign aid, including for Ukraine. Unknown til now, Hunter Biden’s association with the US Global Leadership Coalition lobbying group, and its close affiliate, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership, has gone unexplored in the coverage of his business dealings. While affiliated with the groups, Biden joined the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. (Biden's father was VP at the time and Obama's point man in Ukraine.) Hunter Biden was on the board of a trade coalition that lobbied the Obama administration in 2014 on foreign...

A powerful three minute thirty second video of a Chinese woman telling the world what is going on in Wuhan. She makes a dangerous video that tells the truth of the matter. She will most likely be disappeared.......................

Sunday, February 16, 2020 2020 Democrat Nomination for Sale Posted by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments In 2016, Donald Trump proved that money won’t buy you the Republican nomination. In 2020, his likely challengers are proving that not only can you buy the Democrat nomination, but it’s the best way. Michael Bloomberg is making headlines for spending $300 million on advertising to buy third place. That doesn’t include the $10,000 spent on sushi, $250,000 on furniture, and six figure staffer salaries. With a $61 billion net worth, the billionaire just decided to buy the primaries. And his buying spree is working....

Retired NBA star Dwyane Wade is opening up on being an ally with his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, to their 12-year-old child, Zaya. Wade said that he and Union are "proud ... parents of a child in the LGBTQ....

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 119 Psalm 119[a] ג Gimel 17 Be good to your servant while I live,     that I may obey your word. 18 Open my eyes that I may see     wonderful things in your law. 19 I am a stranger on earth;     do not hide your commands from me. 20 My soul is consumed with longing     for your laws at all times. 21 You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed,     those who stray from your commands. 22 Remove from me their scorn and contempt,     for I keep your statutes. 23 Though rulers sit together and slander me,...

There's an old saying about baseball and life that no one ever had a 1.000 batting average. It turns out that's not exactly true. At least when it comes to the Trump economy, anti-Trumpers defied the near-impossible statistical odds and somehow have batted 1.000 on their predictions. They managed to get it wrong every time. A chorus line of President Donald Trump's critics, including the best and brightest minds of the liberal intelligentsia, predicted an economic and stock market free fall if Trumponomics were implemented. They weren't just wrong; in many cases, they were fantastically wrong. So wrong that Paul...

These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things. Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is... ....badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out. Even Mueller’s statement to Congress that he did not see me to become the FBI Director (again), has been proven false. The whole deal was a total SCAM. If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place... ....BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH...

7 min Mike Huckabee interview with Burgess Owens Burgess Owen InterviewBurgess Owens - Utah’s 4th Congressional District

The locking down in #Wuhan is getting tighter. No coming out at all now https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1229533320268177409 

Gun rights advocate Kaitlin Bennett was chased off the Ohio University campus by a large group of protesters Monday when she made an impromptu appearance, according to reports. Bennett was there to film “man on the street” style interviews for Liberty Hangout when a threatening mob formed to chase them off-campus. She says that the unhinged demonstrators were not only yelling and screaming, but assaulted her and those she was with by throwing beverages at them multiple times. As you might expect the leftists who run the university blamed Bennett for the riot: https://twitter.com/oupolice/status/1229538366020112385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1229538366020112385&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fvideos-violent-leftists-at-ohio-university-mob-gun-girl-kaitlin-bennett-she-vows-to-return-with-army-of-gun-owners-for-an-open-carry-walk%2F Students bragged about the anti-free speech...

RENO, Nevada — Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer would have qualified for Wednesday’s Democrat debate by Monday evening, but the arcane rules of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) may keep him from the stage. With barely 24 hours to go before the 11:59 p.m. ET deadline on Tuesday, Steyer has yet to meet the minimum criteria of receiving “10% or more support in at least four polls (which may be national polls, or single-state polls of South Carolina, and/or Nevada) ” or “12% or more support in two single-state polls in South Carolina and/or Nevada.”

A hardworking honey bee might feel aggrieved to be tricked into a garden shed to feed from a fake flower. Worse, she is blasted by a cheap household fan. And then timed to see how many fake flowers she can visit in 90 seconds. But the honey bees’ tormentors are trying to help them: their ordeal is a controlled experiment that reveals how high wind speeds significantly reduce the efficiency of their foraging. The study by University of Sussex researchers raises fears that bees and other flying pollinators may struggle in the higher and more frequent winds caused by global...

“He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled” (Proverbs 18:17-20).

No wonder liberal billionaire 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg does not want his own news outlet investigating him. They might have to do journalism and risk exposing where his money has been going all these years.The liberal New York Times chose to do some actual journalism by digging up records on Bloomberg’s enormous spending between 1977 and 2019 in a report Feb. 15. Bloomberg spent "at least" a whopping $10 billion split between charitable and political causes. Some of those causes included: abortion, climate change and gun control. As of now, the billionaire has poured an unheard of $401 million just...