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"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matt. 5:6). Your appetite for righteousness should equal your appetite for food and water. David was a man after God's own heart. In Psalm 63:1 he writes, "O God, Thou art my God; I shall seek Thee earnestly; my soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh yearns for Thee, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." He communed with God and knew the blessings of His sufficiency: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. . . . He leads me beside...

The Chinese official who had accused the U.S. military of bringing the novel coronavirus to Wuhan walked back his statement on Tuesday, saying he was only trying to get back at American politicians stigmatizing China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian held a news conference for the first time in roughly a month, after tweeting on March 12 that it "might be U.S. Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." His tweet was reported widely by Western media, and his long absence triggered speculation that he had been demoted over the comment. Zhao stressed on Tuesday that "the virus was a...

A Bronx man released from prison by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month amid the spread of the coronavirus has been charged with beating and robbing a 62-year-old man — who was so scared of getting the ailment he refused to take the money back when cops made an arrest. Daniel Vargas, 29, was being held on $50,000 bail on robbery, grand larceny and assault charges after allegedly approaching the elderly victim on Valentine Avenue in the Bronx shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to a criminal complaint. Vargas allegedly demanded $80 that the man, who was leaving a local bodega...

... “Our choice is not whether we intervene or whether we go back to the normal economy,” says Emil Verner, an economist at MIT’s Sloan School who has recently looked at the flu pandemic of 1918 for insights into today’s outbreak. “Our choice is whether we intervene—and the economy will be really bad now and will be better in the future—versus doing nothing and the pandemic goes out of control and really destroys the economy.” Overall, Verner and his coauthors found that the 1918 pandemic reduced national manufacturing output in the US by 18%; but cities that implemented restrictions earlier...

Biden may still be the nominee after the Dem convention but what if his medical issues become too much to dismiss after Labor Day? The Trump campaign needs to be prepared to defend state laws. Remember the NJ Senate Election in 2002. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/torricellilautenberg-perverting-rule-law

Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied Saturday that New York City schools will be closed for the rest of the year because of the coronavirus, hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio said they would. “There’s been no decision on schools,” Cuomo said in Albany at his daily coronavirus briefing. Cuomo said of de Blasio: “He didn’t close them and he can’t open them.”

SPRING HILL, Fla. - Authorities in Hernando County are investigating after the bodies of an adult and two children were found inside a home. Deputies responded Friday morning to Dunkirk Road. Names have not been released Sheriff Al Nienhuis said his deputies responded to Dunkirk Road at about 10:10 a.m. after receiving a report of a house on fire. One of the deceased children was a pre-teen and the other a teenager, the sheriff said. "Taking the lives of young children is never an option, and so this is a very heart wrenching scene that we're dealing with right now," Nienhuis...

April 11 2020 Holy Saturday Reading I Gn 1:1—2:2 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed—the first day. Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to...

Governor Newsom: California’s COVID-19 peak may be lower than the state expected

Turkey has made significant progress in treating coronavirus patients in the early stages of the disease with the controversial malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, Turkish officials have said. “Turkey had stockpiled one million units of them before the first case appeared in the country,” Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday evening in a live broadcast, without specifying the name of the drug. A senior Turkish official with knowledge of the stockpile told Middle East Eye that the drug was hydroxychloroquine and that it was being sold under the brand name Plaquenil. “Many countries prescribe this drug to intubated patients,” Koca...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "continues to make very good progress" in his recovery from coronavirus, a Downing Street spokesman said Saturday. Meanwhile, UK health officials said the death toll from coronavirus has reached 9,875...

Hi Freepers, I just got hold of this message circulating in China's WeChat Messaging System. It is now circulating around Viber, WhatsApp and other messaging system like the Coronavirus itself. This is what the Chicoms have been propagating to people around the world to being condemnation to America and shift the blame from themselves. See below: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AMERICA's BIOCHEMICAL SOLDIERS The United States must surrender 5 special soldiers who were picked up by the special plane after the Wuhan Military Games! Global Exposure Network Today In the United States, you have to surrender 5 special soldiers who were returned by...

The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return. The question is, will those non-filers have a chance to claim their payments before fraudsters do? . . . . In this case, fraudsters would simply need...

We’re already beginning to see the financial impact the Coronavirus crisis is having on higher ed. -Colleges and Universities Already Panicking About Finances Over Shutdowns -Loss of Tuition from Foreign Students is Hitting Universities Hard -Even a Small Reduction in Enrollment Due to Coronavirus Will Devastate Some Schools

Activists from every20seconds.org protested at 4 office Park Drive in Little Rock Arkansas around 8am-11 or so on Good Friday when it was scheduled to be open. The murder the unborn clinic was opened on Tuesday and Thursday of that week and had vehicles from out of state. Governor Asa Hutchinson & his Arkansas Health Department refused to shutdown the abortion clinic in the state like Texas and Louisiana other states have done over a week ago. (Oklahoma and Oregon clinics defied their state orders). A Federal appeals court ruled in favor of Texas shutting down their abortion clinic. After...

The Chinese Wuhan Virus, also known in the PC version as COVID 19, has been shown to have neurological symptoms. The loss of smell and taste is one such telling symptom, but there is another that can affect even the asymptomatic among the left. Insanity. democrats have shown clearly that they suffer from insanity as they block relief funds from small businesses, calling it a "stunt."Democrats wound up blocking the Republican bill proposing an additional $250 billion to small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program, an existing provision from the previous coronavirus stimulus bill. It gives loans to small business owners to...

Prayers up for all the families suffering from the impact of this virus. And we're still praying that the spread starts fading with the warmer Spring weather and that an effective treatment and vaccine are developed before the next flu season starts. And we pray that our people are allowed to go back to work very soon and that our economy comes roaring back. Meanwhile, we may be hurt and slowed down somewhat, but we have faith in the long-run that "what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger." God willing, America will survive and we will survive and we...

This is now stuck in my head for the next lonely 14 days.

Amid lockdowns and “shelter-in-place” orders and social distancing from strangers and even friends, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time, for many of us, of reaffirming the centrality of family in our lives. For utopians of the radical left, though, the pandemic is an opportunity to deconstruct flawed, traditional familial bonds and remake the world along the lines of new-and-improved, collectivist possibilities. As author Sophie Lewis (pictured above) puts it bluntly in a recent opinion piece at Open Democracy: “We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it.” The author...

While many churches across the nation plan to hold their Easter services online Sunday, a Louisiana pastor says his church near Baton Rouge is expecting a crowd of 2,000 or more despite federal coronavirus guidance advising social distancing. “Satan and a virus will not stop us,” Rev. Tony Spell told Reuters. “God will shield us from all harm and sickness. We are not afraid. We are called by God to stand against the Antichrist creeping into America’s borders. We will spread the Gospel.” Spell has gained attention in recent days for insisting on holding in-person services as the coronavirus pandemic...