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America’s foreign policy establishment just received a massive jolt of energy from the new Biden administration. Unlike his predecessor, who waged a bitter but largely ineffective campaign against America’s permanent bureaucracy, Biden’s statements and cabinet picks have sent a clear message. America is back – to a foreign policy dominated by the same Washington insiders who have enabled decades of bipartisan military adventurism and reckless nation-building.As of now, Biden has no effective opponents. While the Trump presidency breathed new life into non-interventionist sentiments on the right, most Republicans still believe that fixing the world is America’s job. If conservatives want...

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.. " H E R E A M . I , S E N D M E !" . ISAIAH 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read ISAIAH 6 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of Isaiah 7 3 9 B. C. . .. CHAPTER 6 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train...

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, revealed on Saturday that the former president is considering launching his own social media platform in the not-too-distant future. * * * If Trump seeks to build his own platform, that would be a massive undertaking and require lots of investment and technological infrastructure. But with his personality and supporters—75 million Americans voted for him in 2020, the most votes a sitting president has ever gotten in history—fueling it, it could end up being successful.

“The Lord is righteous in all His ways” (Psalm 145:17). God’s holiness is evident in everything He does, particularly in creation, the law, judgment, and salvation. The whole purpose of the Old Testament is to reveal the holiness and righteousness of God, who is utterly perfect and pure. In fact, the Hebrew word for “holy” is used more than 600 times in the Old Testament to indicate moral perfection. What are some areas in which we see God’s holiness? First, we see it in the original perfection of His creation: “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it...

Princess Anne has shared a glimpse of her very suburban living-room filled with sweet family photos and dozens of books and trinkets at her Gatcombe Park home in Gloucestershire. The Princess Royal, 70, who is patron of Scottish Rugby, shared a photo as she cheered the Scottish Rugby team who won the Calcutta Cup yesterday after beating England 6-11. In a snap shared on the Royal Family official Instagram account, the Queen's only daughter relaxed in a modern cosy lounge full of family photos, beautiful paintings, books and trinkets with her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/26/texas-greg-abbott-coronavirus-liability/ This is over a week old but it is good to see Abbott pushing for legislation in Texas that will make it much more difficult to sue businesses as a result of them exposing people to Coronavirus. Big Pharma has and Big Medicine has done extremely well feeding off of the government teat. Big Legal is desperately wanting to get a piece of these Coronavirus lawsuits - hopefully this won’t happen. - Personal fulfillment can come from many sources and the strong desire to achieve it has driven many people to do great things....

Since the day he announced his run for president in 2015, Donald Trump has been treated horribly by his media and political opponents, both in the Republican and Democratic parties. No political candidate has ever received such terrible media coverage or such abuse from political insiders. Despite the unfair onslaught, he was elected president in 2016. Of course, his enemies were just beginning as the Russia hoax led to a two-year, $35 million Special Counsel investigation led by partisan Democratic attorneys. It was followed by an impeachment over bogus charges involving a perfectly acceptable phone call with the Ukrainian President....

Your neighbor legitimately deserves your thanks for helping on snow duty, but how much thanks? Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job. How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness? Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but...

“No one does [play fair] if they think they can get away with it.” – Cheshire Cat, Alice in WonderlandDetroit area weather today: frigid cold with snow followed by more frigid cold.Snow along the Detroit Riverfront, Renaissance Center and TCF Center in backgroundAnd in other news from Detroit…after posting video of Election Night Fraud in Detroit it looks like Jim Hoft has been permanently banned from the Tweety Bird:Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Jim Hoft, founder of the popular conservative website The Gateway Pundit, for reportedly violating the social media giant's "civic integrity policy."“Civic integrity policy” – really?...

Snowy blizzards are set to cause travel chaos and power cuts to parts of Britain from today as Storm Darcy rolls across Europe from Russia and Ukraine and brings up to four days of freezing weather. The Met Office has warned of 'significant disruptive snowfall' in London and the South East, especially parts of East Anglia and Kent, as the 'Beast from the East 2' coats southern parts of England in snow. Yellow and amber warnings for snow and ice for parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent will remain in place until 9am tomorrow as areas experience 20cm of...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are said to have held a secret 'introductory meeting' with California Governor Gavin Newsom in the run-up to the election - just weeks after the former Royals 'violated' the terms of their 'Megxit' deal by wading into politics. The Sussexes, who now live in the Golden State, took part in a virtual hour-long meeting with the Democratic governor back on October 19, according to a memo obtained by The Sun. It is not clear what was discussed in the meeting with Newsom's office telling the outlet it does not comment on 'the content of meetings...

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign tweeted on Saturday that a Gab account with a blue checkmark attributed to Trump is a "fake account." Newsmax reported Friday that Trump had returned to social media for the first time since he was banned from Twitter and Facebook last month, posting a letter from his attorney to House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on his Gab account. The posting Thursday night appeared to be a response to Raskin’s letter requesting Trump appear and testify at the scheduled Senate impeachment trial scheduled to begin on Jan....

There are three kinds of people: 1. Those who make things happen. 2. Those who watch others make things happen. 3. Those who ask, "What happened?"

WASHINGTON -- "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., told her colleagues Thursday. It was a non-apology for repeating vile disinformation -- which resulted in Democrats stripping her committee assignments. In 2017, Greene wrote that that gun control "could be the very motive of the Las Vegas Massacre" that, ultimately, killed 60. In 2018 she spoke of a "so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon" on 9/11. Greene denied those assertions, as she argued that those remarks should not be an issue because she made them before she ran for office. Be it...

CTH Admin Stella reminded me of an article written in May of 2013 when CTH was urgently, desperately, trying to awaken more people to see the natural conclusion to the events unfolding. Events we were directly challenging. At the time George Zimmerman was under attack; then came Ferguson (Wilson -vs- Mike Brown); then Baltimore (Freddie Gray -vs- Baltimore Six); but the natural alignment… the purpose of the events… was a leftist probe into weaponized narrative engineering in order to advance completely false and fabricated stories. The U.S. media were testing whether they could control the outlook of Americans.The shift in...

Dear friends, it's that time of the year again when ALL America (from top to bottom) will gather together as a nation for Super Sunday! Tragically, millions of Americans will be missing out on and not attending the TRUE Super Sunday that transcends ALL time and ETERNITY! The Lord's Day! The original "Super Sunday", the day which the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Savior of the world FOREVER defeated Satan, Death, and Hades (Sheol) and rose ETERNALLY VICTORIOUS from the grave (Acts 2:22-36; 3:13-18; 4:10-12, 33; 5:29-32; 10:37-43; 13:27-37; 17:23, 30-32; 23:6; 24:14-16; 25:19; 26:68, 22-23, Rev. 1:18); is now the day of...

The Talk Shows February 7th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-Wo.); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Panel: Karl Rove; Catherine Lucey, the Wall Street Journal; Juan Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Rep. Adam Schitt (D-Burbank). Panel: David French, Time; María Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino; Anna Palmer, Punchbowl News; Michael Steele. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Secretary of the Treasury...

If this surprises you, you haven’t been paying close enough attention. – In a bit of positive news, Americans continue to exercise their gun rights in record numbers. Barack Obama used to be the all-time record-holder for stimulating sales of guns and ammo in America, until the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s brutish response to it, along with last summer’s endless BLM/Antifa rioting, came along, . But China Joe Biden is threatening to surpass all previous records as his barrage of onerous executive orders and radical leftism continue to sow a rising level of fear among the public. January, in...

It’s no secret that we’re in the midst of a public health crisis in California. But public school children — more than 6 million students — are suffering through a silent crisis at home and they desperately need our help before it’s too late. For the last 10 months, most public schools in this state have shut their doors and opted for remote education. Kids have been forced to limit their social interactions to a Zoom square on their computer if they are lucky enough to have a stable internet connection. Playgrounds have been locked and spending time with friends...