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... .1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Source ..GOD HELPS HEZEKIAH AGAINST THE ASSYRIANS.2ND K I N G S 1 8 – 1 9 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read 2ND KINGS 2-6 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To watch an ANIMATION of 2nd Kings 7 2 0 B. C. . CHAPTER 18 1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 He...

The elections lawsuit pushed by President Donald Trump and dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court was filled with claims that failed to withstand basic scrutiny. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS: Texas has a right “to demand that all other States abide by the constitutionally set rules in appointing presidential electors to the electoral college.” It says other states are harmed when one state “violates federal law to affect the outcome of a presidential election.” THE FACTS: The Supreme Court dismissed the case on this issue. It said in a brief order that Texas “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the...

This is Kary Mullis, he was the Nobel prize-winning inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. He said the tests are meant to magnify material not test for anything. Here he says Dr, Fauci is a complete fraud and administrative type with an agenda who doesn’t mind smugly lying to the camera. Kary died just before Event 201 last year... weeks before the first registered case of COVID-19, because, of course, he did. (Video)

Dear fellow FReepers, likely the majority of you use a VPN along with more secure browsers and also add-ons like Ghostery. Every time my computer boots up, the first thing that I see is my VPN asking to secure. Then I click on the secure tab and it logs on and secures my internet browsing. But yesterday morning a very official-looking notification (a pop-up) appeared with the exact same logo as my VPN, informing me that my subscription had expired and that I needed to purchase a new plan. It also said that my current subscription would expire in January...

WASHINGTON - The 2020 presidential election is over. But President Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to undermine it, and the consequences of those undemocratic actions, will linger in America for far longer. It is increasingly clear that there is no fact, no piece of evidence and no court ruling that will dissuade Trump from trying to mislead Americans about President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. And Trump has hardly been alone in that effort; numerous Republicans have stood with him or stood by silently, including 126 GOP members of the House who backed a bid to get the Supreme Court to invalidate Biden’s...

Friday evening the United States Supreme Court decided to not take the Texas lawsuit against four states over their application of presidential election law. The Court only mustered two justices in favor of taking the case: Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. The argument against hearing the case was that Texas lacked standing to sue Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Wow! In a podcast titled “Is Secession Upon Us?” Ben Shapiro argued against the Supreme Court taking the Texas lawsuit. He reasoned that under principles of federalism it would threaten our union if the sovereign states could dictate the laws of...

A brilliant Ryan Long video reminds us that, while we’re facing a well-organized leftist opponent, many of its troops are deeply damaged people. This is my day for reminding conservatives that one of the things that will work in our favor over the long run is the fact that leftists are crazy. In the short term, that makes them dangerous opponents because they have no morals or natural stopping points. In the long term, however, they cannot sustain their impetus. People this insane eventually implode (although the implosions are ugly and can have far-reaching effects). Preliminarily, let me remind you...

“In a three-sentence order, the court said Texas has no legal standing to sue another state on these grounds…” Thus we acknowledge that we’ve landed at the bottom of the rabbit hole. And the only thing here is a looking glass, through which we reluctantly slip, having no other choice. It leads us to a rigged chess game where all the pawns are kept busy battling each other while the bishops, rooks, knights and royals go about their respective business of collecting all the chits and building up their war chests.The normal rules of the game don’t apply. In fact,...

What battleground state GOP legislators and the Court’s five originalists need to grasp is that without justice, stability is an injustice, and inevitably, a chimera. Perhaps like me, your blood boiled when you read the response filed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the “Emergency Application for Injunctive Relief filed by Congressman Mike Kelly and other Plaintiffs.” Read for yourself the salvo fired in what is the modern equivalent of Fort Sumter. From Red State, December 8, 2020: Petitioners ask this Court to undertake one of the most dramatic, disruptive invocations of judicial power in the history of the Republic....

The Texas suit, later joined by other states, against Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, was a nice try, but it was always a long shot. Of course SCOTUS would be reluctant to grab so much power by ordering state legislatures to seat the right electors. Why? Because the power is already in the hands of the legislatures to do this. Though we are non-lawyers, let's read these laws together, interpreting them minimally and plainly (something lawyers seem incapable of doing). The first federal law for our purposes, titled "Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors," says: If any State...

What are the scenarios awaiting polarized America when the last legal stage is complete, all Is are dotted and Ts crossed, and the winner is officially declared? As uncertain as the odds of the presidential election outcome, one thing is clear: whoever becomes the winner, he is unlikely to alter long-running political divides within the country. Sure, America has faced worse divisions in the past and survived — at great cost — but with polarization set to deepen over time, the country could face paralyzing political sclerosis or even calls for secession, as argued by many observers. Study after study...

A South Dakota 7th Circuit judge, Craig Pfeifle, has initiated a conflict with the Custer County Board. The Board created an ordinance to allow people to legally carry personal firearms in the County Courthouse, as allowed by law. In effect, the ordinance removes the legal prohibition on people carrying firearms in the courthouse. There have not been any problems. The ordinance covers the courthouse, not the courtroom. Hearings in the courtroom only occur once a week. When they do, a deputy and metal detector are used to secure the courtroom. The Custer County Courthouse includes a museum type art display...

The world applauded the actress Ellen Page—star of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, and films like Juno and the X-Men series—when on December 1 she announced her decision to become a man, changing her name to Elliot Page. Meanwhile, my decision to no longer identify as a gay man because I follow Christ is anathema in our culture. Why the double standard? Elliot declares that “he” has finally become his authentic self. Why doesn’t our culture celebrate my decision to be my authentic self? Is my authentic self less worthy of praise?

This decision is not what the media is saying it was. – As was always likely, the U.S. Supreme Court declined late on Friday to hear the case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the election results in four states in which he does not serve or live: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. The corrupt news media is reporting this result as if the Court ruled on the merits of the constitutional argument made by Paxton, which is that these four states clearly violated the Electors clause of that document by allowing changes to voting procedures to be...

The Texas case got thrown out late on Friday. – The lawsuit brought before the Supreme Court by Texas AG Ken Paxton and 17 other state AGs was rejected by 7 of the 9 members of the Court late on Friday. I discuss the implications of that in a separate story this morning. We will miss having Tulsi Gabbard in congress. – Yes, she’s a Democrat and yes, I don’t agree with her on all that much, but this is a woman of great courage and conviction who is not afraid to stray from the Democrat Party’s daily script. On...

Remember that '80s song "I Need a Hero"? This whole year has me singing the chorus quite a bit. That's why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time magazine's "Person of the Year." Meanwhile, the fact of the matter is the kind of salvation people are looking for does not come from politics, no matter how much we may want it to. I've often thought of Pope Francis' prayer service early on in the pandemic. You couldn't have scripted it better; it occurred on a rainy night in Rome, with the sounds of ambulances and other emergency vehicles constantly in...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938/reichstag-fire-decree Hitler uses Reichstag fire to strengthen his dictatorial powers. Even though the origins of the fire were unclear Hitler blamed the communists and stripped individual rights and freedoms based on this “emergency”. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/christians.htm Nero also used a fire of vague origins to scapegoat Christians and to pass laws justifying the persecution of Christians. There is a long history of tyrants using emergencies to justify the long term removal of people’s rights. Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel said that one should never let an emergency go to waste. Inspired by the actions of past dictators...

... If congressional Republicans are adamant that the votes of the people of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia are illegitimate, let them stand up and object . . . and see if they ever win another election in those states again. Let Republicans try to explain to the country why what they propose to do to states that vote for a Democratic candidate won’t result in Democrats disenfranchising states that vote for a Republican candidate. With President Trump refusing to accept defeat and his core supporters stoked by hysterical claims that the election has been stolen — as opposed to...

“Sidelined NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is getting his own ice cream flavor courtesy of Ben & Jerry's," wrote CNN this week. "The company said it created the flavor to celebrate 'Kaepernick's courageous work to confront systemic oppression and to stop police violence against Black and Brown people.'" In 2016, Kaepernick's claim to fame was when he said, "I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police…There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable.” While proclaiming the sentiments above, which earned him Ben...

This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 229 judges confirmed. 3 Trade Court judges 170 District Court judges 53 Circuit Court judges 3 Supreme Court justices On Monday the Senate will move to invoke cloture on Thomas Kirsch, nominee for the 7th Circuit vacancy that resulted from now Justice Barrett's elevation. Kirsch will be Trump's 54th Circuit confirmation in less than four years. Obama had 55 in EIGHT years. There are two other Circuit vacancies, one on the 1st for which there is a nominee pending and one on the 7th, for which there is not yet a...