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When I speak of a hoax and The Virus, I don’t mean there isn’t in our population a pathogen identified loosely as COVID-19 or, as the “unwoke” might say, the Wuhan Flu. As with past respiratory diseases, it’s also dangerous to the vulnerable. But as data increasingly show — and as I and some others have been saying all along — this current situation is very different from past pandemics in one significant and deadly way: It’s not being treated as only a medical/health issue. It’s being treated as a political issue. And as the Soviet Union’s Lysenkoism demonstrated, politics...

Tara Reade says she is facing an onslaught of online harassment and is concerned about the safety of her family after becoming the center of a political firestorm over her sexual-assault allegation against her former boss Joe Biden. "I find it astounding -- the hypocrisy that Democrats are talking about women being able to tell their story safely," Reade told Fox News on Saturday. "I'm a Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, but yet here I am trying to talk about my history with Joe Biden and I'm just the target of online harassment." Reade said fake social media accounts have been...

Fight the Good Fight!! 1 Tim. 6:12

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"We’re not trying to be rebels or anything,” Abdelmuti said. “We’ve got bills to pay.” Abdelmuti applied for a loan through the federal stimulus plan but hasn’t heard back. He said businesses like his, and the people that depend on them, can only hang on for so long if they’re forced to stay closed."

“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her” (Proverbs 3:17-18 KJV).

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Hebrew Worship Words Macha Psalm 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands,     let the mountains sing together for joy; Isaiah 55:12You will go out in joy     and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills     will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field     will clap their hands. Ezekiel 25:6-7For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel, 7 therefore I will stretch out...

Just a thought. Canada is banning assault weapons. Is it time to organize a massive boycott of Canada?

The ONLY solution to the depraved and ever-growing lawlessness of the world in which we are living in today is to be found in the Person of Jesus Christ (John 3:16-17, Acts 4:12, Eph. 2:1-14). Jesus is the ONLY ONE who can rescue humanity from the ETERNAL end result of sin and lawlessness (John 3:16-17, Acts 16:28-31, Rev. 20:10-15; 21;22:1-5;11). Dear friend, if you know Him not, may you place your trust and hope in Him today. You will never be the same! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! See image to post

We have rather taken for granted the constitutional guarantees of certainty, rule of law, and due process in recent years. We ignored the water drip torture of prosecutorial misconduct (the Trayvon Martin, Lewis Libby, Ted Stevens cases) and government overreaching (ObamaCare, the Kelo case), but in the past few weeks more of us -- from surfers and skateboarders to doctors, dentists, hospitals, and small shopkeepers -- have been forced to realize what life without these protections is like. And we don’t like it, any more than we like how the government lied, ignored the law quite clearly for purely partisan...

Legislative Republicans issued a letter, calling on Speaker Gideon and President Jackson to reconvene the Legislature for the sole purpose of removing Governor Mills’s Civil Emergency powers. May 2, 2020 President Troy Jackson 3 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333 Speaker Sara Gideon 2 State House Station August, ME 04333 Dear President Jackson and Speaker Gideon, We write to ask that you call the Legislature back in to session under Maine Constitution Article IV Part III Section 1 for the express and limited purpose of ending the Governor’s “Proclamation of State of Civil Emergency to Further Protect Public Health” through...

Many readers will be familiar with the Twitter account called “Undercover Huber.” No idea who is behind the account, but it has been quoted and re-tweeted by all manner of public officials and media personalities like Andrew McCarthy over the past few years. It has been an excellent source of fact-based research and commentary on the Deep State’s continuing efforts to hamper President Donald Trump and remove him from office. Undercover Huber posted an excellent thread early Sunday morning exposing the DOJ/FBI cabal not for what we have seen in the reams of their communications that have been made public,...

"Having summoned His twelve disciples" (Matt. 10:1). Jesus can overcome any inadequacy you might have. Most people think of the disciples as stained-glass saints who didn't have to struggle with the faults and frailties of normal people. But they had inadequacies just like we all do. Seeing how Jesus dealt with them gives us hope that He can use us too. One inadequacy common to all the disciples was their lack of understanding. For example, Luke 18 tells us Jesus gave them details about His future suffering, death, and resurrection, but they didn't understand anything He said (vv. 31-34). Jesus...

The last time I took a math class, I was a junior in high school. Yes, I somehow made it through my undergrad education and my entire twenties without writing down any numbers that weren’t on a bar tab. For a long time I viewed this as a success, but now I’m trying to figure out how much money we’re saving on this Abercrombie Sale, and I’m super not sure. I think it’s a lot? The way it works is every item is sold at a reduced price (this super slim poplin shirt is normally $59, but now it’s $23.60)....

If you went to central casting looking for a military leader, he would be your choice. It was as if the uniform was cut just for him. Lt. General Michael Flynn was what my Dad would call a man’s man. He exuded character. Members of Congress get to meet a lot of interesting people including military officers. General Flynn made such an impression that years later I still remember where and when we met. There were people with stars on their shoulders who got them by mastering butt kissing, not making waves and always saying the right things. Michael Flynn...

A United Nations Security Officer claimed that the UN took over the venue in Salt Lake City and that it’s now under UN jurisdiction. Democrat politicians in Utah approved this. In the first United Nations conference outside New York City in the United States of America, the UN took over Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah, and claimed it was “international territory.” In the process, they were shutting down a journalist’s rights to film a video. The point once again is that the UN Security Officer says that when you go outside, you are in the US…. for however...

Click on the link. On each of these charts you can put your cursor on the chart to see the progression of the virus. Move to today's date. It seems to be tracking on a path to be gone by early to mid summer, similar to other viruses. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

Seoul is standing firm against Washington's repeated pressure for a hefty increase in its share of the cost for the upkeep of the 28,500-strong United States Forces Korea (USFK) stationed here. Although the lack of deal has put thousands of Korean workers at U.S. military bases on unpaid leave, the government is not accepting the U.S. demand, but instead responding by setting up special laws to support the workers. "Korea and the U.S. are still in negotiations over the defense cost-sharing deal and nothing has been officially decided yet," the foreign ministry said in a statement Thursday. Cheong Wa Dae...

It’s just the flu, bro. Mistake 1 - Lockdown We all know that the lockdown was a stupid idea. The curve could always have been flattened by voluntary means and by putting a special emphasis on the dangers to very old/sick. Mistake 2 - keeping the lockdown After it became clear that the curve didn’t need to be flattened and that hospitals were laying people off, then the lockdown should have been ended. But the government tyrants doubled down. Mistake 3 - paying people and businesses 39k to use a ventilator on someone...giving people 20 dollars an hour not to...

Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar -- self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- have chosen to stand by Joe Biden in the face of a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former staffer. The MeToo movement, which followed a New York Times' expose on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's abuse and degradation of women in the entertainment industry, was supposed to prove that the feminist movement was a moral entity committed to fair treatment of women, even when big Democratic figures...