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Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson believes the deadly coronavirus outbreak is punishment for abortion and same sex marriage. His comments came during a Monday discussion on “The 700 Club.” Co-host Terry Meeuwsen, reading from a letter, asked Robertson: “This is John, Pat, who says, ‘Pat, last week you were talking about COVID-19. You quoted Chronicles 7:14. How can God heal our land and forgive the sins when abortion and same-sex marriage are laws and many people are anti-Israel. Doesn’t this prevent his healing and forgiveness?’” Robertson replied: “You know, I think you put your finger on something very important....

CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund china Harvard Yale University, received nearly $7 million in aid, boasts a $30.3 billion endowment. Stanford University received $7.4 million from the package maintains a $27.7 billion endowment Harvard University, received $9 million endowment last valued $40.9 billion. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/4/21/harvard-stimulus-funds-financial-aid/ Harvard Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged The Department of Justice announced today… Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, along with Yanqing Ye, and Zaosong Zheng, making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement, visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a...

<p>OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's attempt to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic cannot be enforced, a federal judge has ruled.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Charles Goodwin issued a preliminary injunction late Monday after abortion providers sued Stitt over the ban. The injunction replaces a temporary restraining order that the same judge issued last week that allowed most abortions to continue.</p>

President Donald Trump has slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi four times since Friday, suggesting she’s taking a vacation and promoting street fairs and parties in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He’s incorrect. Since the coronavirus outbreak shut down much of the country last month, the California Democrat has been working either out of her San Francisco home and at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. She returned to Washington Monday, as her office said she had planned before Trump’s criticisms. Pelosi has been personally involved in negotiating with Trump administration officials a new economic aid package that aims to help small businesses and...

At least 25,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows — providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis. In the last month, far more people died in these countries than in previous years, The New York Times found. The totals include deaths from Covid-19 as well as those from other causes, likely including people who could not be treated as hospitals became overwhelmed.

LUVERNE, Minnesota, April 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Planned Parenthood’s attempt to quietly establish a new location in a Minnesota town was quickly stymied by community pressure recently, according to local pro-life leaders. Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) had attempted to “sneak” a new Luverne location into a building shared by an American Family Insurance office and a nonprofit domestic violence group, Students for Life reported. The Rock County Star Herald added that the location was intended to dispense chemical abortions via telemedicine (or “webcam”) appointments, and that neither the AFI office nor the nonprofit, Southwest Crisis Center, knew of...

California...public health officials are still planning for a “worst-case scenario,” quietly publishing a sobering set of detailed guidelines to answer the troubling ethical question of who lives and who dies should California face a new surge in the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies. A 38-page document by the California Department of Public Health, published last weekend, prescribes a method to prioritize patients in the event that an outbreak overwhelms hospitals, preserving intensive care beds and ventilators for people with the greatest likelihood of surviving with treatment over those with serious chronic conditions that limit...

The city of Sacramento Tuesday received a $89.6 million federal government stimulus check. Now, it just needs to decide how to spend it. “This $89,623,427 stimulus check from the federal government starts our economic recovery,” a tweet posted to Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s account Tuesday reads. “It can’t be used to fill budget holes, and must be spent by Dec. 31. My goal is to use it to carry out the #MeasureU goals of growing our economy in way that uplifts all our neighborhoods.” Steinberg wants to use the stimulus money to help address the city’s housing crisis; redevelop commercial corridors;...

When Congress passed the CARES Act to provided relief from the coronavirus impact, it sent about $14 billion to institutions of higher education to address the unique impact the virus has had on college campuses. Colleges and universities had been waiting for the Department of Education to release guidance to detail how exactly schools could allocate the grant money, including who is eligible. Today, Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department released new guidance to address that and more. In the guidance, DeVos chose to limit the students eligible for the grant aid to those eligible for federal student financial aid...

April 22 2020 Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter Reading 1 Acts 5:17-26 The high priest rose up and all his companions, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and, filled with jealousy, laid hands upon the Apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night, the angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said, “Go and take your place in the temple area, and tell the people everything about this life.” When they heard this, they went to the temple early in the morning and taught. When...

Siblings Simba & Pebbles get in some playtime while their 2 other siblings nap. Video 4 minutes, 11 seconds.

Please take a moment to pray for his Aunt Florence who has contracted Covid-19. Prayers up. God bless.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the coronavirus hasn't slowed his administration's goal of completing the border wall by next spring. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, updating reporters during the daily press briefing, said 164 miles out of 450 miles of fencing planned along the nearly 2,000-mile Mexican border is on track to be completed by the end of 2020. "Our contractors are extremely focused,' Semonite said. Some senate Democrats want to know why the wall on the southern border is still being built during the coronavirus pandemic and amid strict national social distancing guidance. Semonite...

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has spent nearly $11,000 on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s favorite ice-cream, which she has come under fire for after showing off her collection in an interview. According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Biden’s campaign has spent $10,600 on Pelosi’s favorite ice cream as donor gifts between May 2019 and March 2020. The description for the ice-cream in the FEC filing says “donor gifts.” The Daily Caller contacted the Biden campaign to ask about the gifts but did not immediately receive a response. President Donald Trump’s campaign released an advertisement Monday blasting...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Laments About "Annoying Letters" There is discontent among Catholics because of the coronavirus Mass ban, Salzburg Archbishop Franz Lackner, Austria, admitted in his April 19 homily (video below). He reported that some become "aggressive," and write "annoying letters." But Lackner generously notified that "I accept this.” According to him, the Mass ban could be seen as an "empty tomb," and as "having fished the whole night without catching anything." This could contribute to "an increased longing for Jesus," he believes.

A new Senate report undercuts claims by President Trump and his allies that Obama-era officials sought to undermine him while investigating Russia’s 2016 election meddling. For years, President Trump has derided the assessment by American intelligence officials that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to assist his candidacy, dismissing it without evidence as the work of a “deep state” out to undermine his victory. But on Tuesday, a long-awaited Senate review led by members of Mr. Trump’s own party effectively undercut those allegations. A three-year review by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously found that the intelligence community assessment,...

The Democrats have come up with a strategy for defeating President Donald Trump in the November 2020 presidential election: Lie. Lie a lot. Lie about everything Mainly Democrats want to make gullible people think that Donald Trump did not handle the COVID-19 pandemic well. Honest people who care about the republic must be prepared to refute these lies. Democrats argue that Trump did not act quickly enough. But starting from when? If President Trump acted swiftly, early, promptly and effectively, when is the beginning point? When was early? When was late? When should a competent national leader have taken action?...

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,...

Ever since the COVID-19 effort shifted focus toward re-opening the U.S. economy, National Institute of Health (NIH) Allergy and Infectious Disease, Director Anthony Fauci has been less visible. This step-back allows Dr. Fauci to better position himself for maximum political damage when the operatives deploy Fauci as an expert antagonist who recommended against re-opening; which frames the soon-to-be deployed ‘dangerous Trump‘ narrative. However, in the background; and with Fauci’s crew working on the Bill Gates objective for global COVID-19 vaccinations; the NIH today recommends against any treatment for the coronavirus using a hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin cocktail.

As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach Two weeks ago, I wrote about ‘The Swedish experiment’ in The Spectator. As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach to tackling coronavirus: cities, schools and restaurants have remained open. This was judged by critics to be utterly foolish: it would allow the virus to spread much faster than elsewhere, we were told, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. Hospitals would become like warzones. As Sweden was two weeks behind the UK on the epidemic curve, most British experts said we’d pay the...