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When America was infested with “righteous” mobs who took the law into their own hands in the early 1800s, Lincoln left a remedy to future generations on how to defend against it: “… cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason.” An utter disdain for mob law is encoded onto the DNA of the body politic, thanks to men like Lincoln. No grievance is fit to be redressed by mob law, he said. When men “burn gamblers” and “hang murderers” unlawfully, the day will come when they will hang people who are neither gamblers nor murderers. “[W]henever the vicious portion of the population shall...

Minnesota educators and families all learned last week that students of elementary age would be returning to their school campuses next month. It hardly seems a coincidence that the return date is set as January 19, just a day in advance of Joe Biden's presumed swearing in. With everything else COVID-related taking on a political bent, why shouldn't the sudden resumption of in-person learning be at all different? Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Students should be in schools. They should have been there since September. The abrupt announcement, or rather the response to it, is not...

A pair of Minneapolis City Council members are claiming “defund the police” was never part of their planned “framework,” just days after a vote to slash nearly $8 million from the department’s budget while homicide rates have soared in the city. In an interview with KSTP Eyewitness News, Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham both concurred that the plan was never about defunding the police and implied the department was simply a casualty of unavoidable budgeting issues. “‘Defund’ is not the framework the council has ever chosen,” Fletcher claimed. Cunningham, according to the network, “audibly agreed.” Fletcher continued, “If we’re going...

.. THE JEWS RETURN FROM BABYLON TO ISRAEL . E Z R A 7 – 10 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read Ezra 7-10 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To watch an ANIMATION of Ezra 5 3 7 5 2 0 B. C. .. CHAPTER 7 1 After these things, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, 8 Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year...

Taiwan’s navy and air force were deployed on Sunday as a Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the country’s newest carrier, the Shandong, sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, the day after a U.S. warship transited the same waterway. While it is not the first time China’s carriers have passed close to Taiwan, it comes at a time of heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, which claims the democratically-ruled island as its territory. Taiwan has complained of repeated Chinese military activity, including China’s regular flying of air force aircraft near the island. China says such drills are aimed at protecting...

Exactly how “the sister-in-law Christmas Wars” started is no longer clear; the only thing that all parties can agree on is that it started off innocuously enough with a few lights on shrubbery. This is a cautionary tale so take notes and pass them on to your children.It all began when one of Raj’s brother and his wife (SIL #2) bought the house next door to one of his sister’s (SIL #1) and her husband. The first year SIL #1 put up white Christmas lights outside as she always had. SIL #2 thought they looked nice so put up some...

“To defeat Trump,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “many of our institutions were deformed.” Indeed, we have witnessed a flagrant burlesque of electoral procedure, including the specter of foreign interference by China, Iran and Russia via Dominion Voting Systems in gerrymandering electoral results, as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has confirmed. And there will be lasting consequences. The effect of installing a parodic figure like Joe Biden, straight out of the Commedia dell’Arte, as the next president of the United States will result in three destabilizing factors. A nation presided over by a sorry puppet who has been put in...

Chief Justice Roberts’s Supreme Court is manifestly reluctant to fulfill its statutory responsibilities, despite overwhelming, and steadily accruing, evidence of significant fraud that the election outcome. However, in 2018, President Trump may have prepared a time bomb that can still save the day. Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, filed a complaint asserting that election fraud disenfranchised Texas voters. Texas voting was done within the framework of the U.S. Constitution and battleground states strayed beyond legal boundaries, to put it mildly. The legal votes of Texans were nullified by the alleged fraudulent votes of those states. Article III, section 2, of...

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — Seven years ago, combat veteran Jack Mook was a hard-nosed Pittsburgh detective who stumbled upon two young brothers who showed up intermittently at the boxing gym where he volunteered. The boys were living on the edge of despair: Their birth parents had failed them, their foster parents had failed them, and the system had failed them. The "home" the boys lived in was a filthy rats nest filled with dog feces, fleas, and no beds. The oldest brother’s hair was falling out in gobs, and his skin was filled with red blotches. The younger brother...

Another open season has come and gone in which eligible Americans could choose from a narrow array of federally subsidized health care plans under the Affordable Care Act. Despite the ACA’s manifest gaps and failures, a recent poll from the left-leaning Kaiser Family Foundation found that a solid majority—55%—of respondents have a favorable perception of the law. That result may be due in part to a feature of the law most have heard about and support: its ban on private insurers denying coverage for preexisting conditions. The ACA is much more than that provision, however. By almost any measure, the...

Messiah's born in the city of David, Incarnate Word the Son of God! Perfect Lamb sent forth to save us, from Death’s sting and Satan’s host! Angels shout with joys of wonder, on this night the King is born! Shepherds seek their Lamb and Savior, King of kings and Lord of lords! See your Lamb in lowly manger, Lord of time and ETERNITY! Righteous Branch and Seed of David, Son of God and Deity! He shall grow before the Father, shed His blood and then atone! Then shall rise and be exalted, to the Right hand of the Father’s throne!...

Italy has joined the Netherlands and Belgium in banning air travel from the UK due to fears over the new strain of coronavirus. The move comes after Dutch health authorities confirmed at least one case of the same variant that has prompted London and large parts of southeast England to return to lockdown rules.

Only in the Messiah of Israel is found the RIGHTEOUSNESS that we so desperately need to enter into Almighty God’s Holy and Perfect Heaven. That is what is so wonderful about the Christmas message! Almighty God provided a PERFECT body for His Son to dwell and make atonement for the sins of the world (Matt. 1:20-21, Luke 1:30-35, John 1:14, Heb. 10:5, 1 Peter 1:19)! That is what is so wonderful about the Christmas message! Almighty God provided a PERFECT body for His Son to dwell and make atonement for the sins of the world! We can NEVER enter into...

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already. That's the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent life in time and space across the Milky Way.

BERLIN - The Netherlands and Belgium on Sunday banned flights from the U.K. and Germany considered limiting such flights in attempt to ensure that a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England does not establish a strong foothold on the continent. The Netherlands banned flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the year while Belgium issued a flight ban for 24 hours starting at midnight and also halted train links to Britain. German officials were considering “serious options” regarding incoming flights from the U.K., but have not yet taken action. The Netherlands said it will assess...

A wise man once said, “In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” That man was Benjamin Franklin. He further said, “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13521261/new-covid-strain-mutant-south-east/ Fear porn - Boris cancels Christmas for millions because of new mutant strain of COVID. - Got the following Freepmail from a Flubra yesterday. I won’t say who unless they tell me I can. It supports my belief I expressed in yesterday’s thread that Coronavirus lockdowns serve to short circuit our God-given immune systems. “Agree with your first premise.... Immune system is like the muscular system. To strengthen it the system must be exercised. While we are young, healthy, and resilient, the immune system must be challenged and its strength built up. Reference (per...

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden’s team will consider several options to punish Russia for its suspected role in the unprecedented hacking of U.S. government agencies and companies once he takes office, from new financial sanctions to cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, people familiar with the matter say. The response will need to be strong enough to impose a high economic, financial or technological cost on the perpetrators, but avoid an escalating conflict between two nuclear-armed Cold War adversaries, said one of the people familiar with Biden’s deliberations, speaking on condition of anonymity. The overarching goal of any action, which could...

Source: Photo Credit: Myra AdamsThis week we continue studying the real “reason for the season” found in the Word of God — gift wrapped in light and love with free shipping for eternity.The idea for this study was conceived in church last Sunday after I listened to the Old Testament reading from Isaiah 61:1-2.Isaiah is considered the greatest of all the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) prophets, and his name means “The Lord saves.” Two of his passages are personal favorites previously discussed in Vol. 3 and Vol. 11. In Isaiah 61:1-2 — written around 711 years before the birth of...

OE BIDEN is the apparent winner of the U.S. presidential election. There are evident substantial discrepancies and improbabilities in the vote-counting of several states, and though Biden probably wins, even legally, it will be on the basis of questionable laws passed earlier this year to facilitate postal voting for coronavirus-related reasons and to facilitate fraudulent voting. But Biden undoubtedly led in the popular vote, as Hillary Clinton had in 2016, so whatever happened did not entirely negate the choice of a plurality of Americans. Yet it is very unedifying that Rounds 1 and 2 of the Great Trump War have...