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FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 14:1–6 Friends, in today’s familiar and majestic passage, Jesus exhorts us to trust him: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.” So much depends on the spiritual meaning of the little word “trust.” Jeremiah the prophet laid it out as starkly and simply as possible: “Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.” And conversely, “Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, the Lord will be their trust.” What does it...

'As your safety declines, so does your compassion. Every time I have to pick up human sh-t, my liberal-ness just got lowered what one more notch,' said one Austin woman. Voters in Austin, Texas are headed to the polls to cast their vote in a May 1 election that will decide whether the city reinstates a public camping ban. Austin’s homeless population has grown significantly over the last decade as the city has grown, housing prices have risen, and local officials have relied on outdated and failed federal programs and policies to try to curb the crisis. The city of...

The mainstream press is slobbering all over itself lauding the first 100 days – through April 29th – of the Biden administration. Nevermind that even aided by a completely fawning press, surveys rate him as turning in the third worst performance ever. Only Ford and Trump, savaged by the press 24/7, are ranked lower. At least going back to President Harry Truman, Joe Biden (and that includes his handlers) has had the worst first 100 days of any administration. We’ve seen the utter mess that Biden has created along the southern border. Biden, during his lucid moments, seems convinced that...

The day after making clear he wanted to unleash an era of big government in an address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden traveled to Georgia on Thursday to begin making the case to throw trillions of dollars into expanding the federal government.As Biden kicked off his speech to the car-bound crowd, chants of "end detention now" could be heard above the honking from attendees. "We'll give you a microphone," responded Biden, clearly thrown off-script by the demonstrators' interruption. Pres Biden was just interrupted by demonstrators at his car rally in GA who were chanting “end detentions...

Former Trump administration lawyer Mark Paoletta told House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) Thursday that the Joe Biden administration violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding federal funds for the border wall. A veteran of Washington’s political battles, Paoletta served as general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the powerful White House agency in charge of all federal budgeting, spending, and regulatory actions. Now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, he testified before the House Budget Committee’s hearing, “Protecting our Democracy: Reasserting Congress’ Power of the Purse.” During the hearing, Smith...

The takeaway here is obvious: earn as little money as possible and invest your surplus labor in assets that can't be expropriated. Expropriation: dispossessing the populace of property and property rights, via the legal and financial over-reach of monetary and political authorities. All expropriations are pernicious, but the most destructive is the expropriation of labor's value while the excessive gains of unproductive speculation accrue to the elite that owns most of the nation's wealth. In a nation in which the leadership has finely honed the art and artifice of legalized looting and financial legerdemain, it's not surprising that the expropriation...

Your model had forecast that there would be a more serious epidemic in 2022, not 2020. Is this what is unfolding in India now? FJ ANSWER: It appears that there is another corona-type virus which they are calling a variant. This is misleading insofar as they are portraying that somehow COVID is the first coronavirus. The common cold is also typically a coronavirus. The rising number of claimed COVID-19 cases in India is being presented as a much more infectious and probably a far more deadly variant. It is driving hospitals beyond a crisis point. The flu also attacks the...

A few days ago, 216 employees of Simon and Schuster, along with several thousand people from outside the trade publishing house, sent a petition to top executives of the company demanding that they stop publishing anyone who had anything to do with the Trump administration. Their rationale for making such a demand was that Trump’s presidency was a dangerous historical aberration. According to the Wall Street Journal, the letter insists that Simon and Schuster not treat “the Trump administration as a ‘normal’ chapter in American history.” Before I sat down to write this essay, I had to ask myself several...

Chinese security outfit Qihoo 360 Netlab on Wednesday said it has identified Linux backdoor malware that has remained undetected for a number of years.The firm said its bot monitoring system spotted on March 25 a suspicious ELF program that interacted with four command-and-control (C2) domains over the TCP HTTPS port 443 even though the protocol used isn't actually TLS/SSL."A close look at the sample revealed it to be a backdoor targeting Linux X64 systems, a family that has been around for at least three years," Netlab researchers Alex Turing and Hui Wang said in an advisory.An MD5 signature for the...

VIDEORabid Matthew Dowd, who once upon a time pretended to be a Republican, sounded off to equally deranged Nicole Wallace in which he displayed a weird fascination with insanity and "crazy people" whom he defined as Republicans and Trump supporters whom he railed against to the extent that he defended ditching objective journalism in covering them because he screeched that they are "CRAZY PEOPLE!" Projection much, Matthew?

There are 30 million coders in China and India. They make about 1/6th as much as college-graduate/student-debt applicants are "supposed" to make in the U.S. The old shibboleth "but they're not as creative as we are in the U.S." has been under relentless assault for many, many generations of dumbed-down socialist schooling (since 1880, when universal mandatory schooling was established on the Prussian model, dumb-down is built into the foundation). So, now, it's no longer true that Americans have nothing to fear from their foreign competition. The typical life-path was shown to me by a guy I met at a...

President Biden is insisting that raising taxes for his multi-trillion-dollar proposals would be good for the economy as it begins to rebound from lockdowns, arguing that his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill passed a month ago was causing the economic rebound seen today — while also urging Americans to continue their “patriotic responsibility” to wear masks outside in the waning days of the COVID crisis.

President Joe Biden has hyper charged the culture war in his first 100 days by weakening religious freedom, women’s rights, and prohibitions on taxpayer funding of abortion, among other things. From his first day in office, Biden attempted to erase the legacy of his predecessor, President Donald Trump. Yet he has also railroaded Americans’ constitutional rights, and the Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is fighting back.“We’ve seen since literally Day One that the Biden administration has been advancing a variety of policies that endanger our constitutional freedoms,” Matt Sharp, senior counsel at ADF, told PJ Media in an...

A group of white Midwestern farmers has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for racial discrimination over being banned from a loan forgiveness program offered only to farmers of color, due to the fact that they are ineligible "solely due to their race." The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty is representing the plaintiffs from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio in their suit against U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and Farm Service Agency administrator Zach Ducheneaux. Their complaint argues that a loan program as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for "socially disadvantaged" farmers...

Shocking video captured the moment an Argentinian police inspector was stabbed to death by an emotionally disturbed man who pulled out a knife in front of stunned customers at a café along a busy street in Buenos Aires * snip * Inspector Juan Pablo Roldán, 33, head of the Mounted Police Unit, managed to shoot the attacker three times in the leg but was stabbed four times — with the knife penetrating his heart even though he was wearing a bulletproof vest, the news outlet reported.

Cops in Illinois fatally shot a man who stole a car at a gas station and tried to drive away — slamming the vehicle into reverse and dragging officers with him, police bodycam video shows. The footage, released Wednesday, shows DeShawn Tatum, 25, first running through an alley in Rock Island before stealing a bystander’s car at a Chicken Shack gas station and dragging two officers as he crashes into a building on April 1.

Black Lives Matter rioter Dylan Shakespeare Robinson will pay $12 million in restitution and spend four years in jail for helping burning down a police station in Minneapolis during the riots in the city last year. In May 2020, one of the violent incidents, which the establishment and Democrats claimed was “mostly peaceful protests," Robinson played a role in burning down the police station.

We need to rename Biden's proposed "American Family Plan". I present the perfect name below.Biden Is No ModeratePresident Joe Biden proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not a moderate. His proposed $1.8 Trillion "American Family Plan" speaks for itself.The above link contains the know details ahead of his Wednesday address to Congress and the nation.Wednesday evening, Biden added climate change, a $15 minimum wage, right to organize, gun control, paycheck fairness, defense spending, charging stations, even a goal to cure cancer.Biden Has Exceeded Progressive ExpectationsNot that any more evidence of Biden's Progressive slant is needed, but...

Governor Jay Inslee said fully vaccinated people are going to get special treatment when it comes to sporting events, performing arts and cruises. The governor said he is alarmed by the softening in demand for the vaccines and worries the virus is going to outrun the effort to fight the pandemic. “It’s well known that we’ve had a slowdown in the demand for the vaccine,” Inslee said. “Now this is very concerning because now it is a terrible thing to think that we have vaccines to save people’s lives and not see it in people’s arms.” Inslee said they have...

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