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You may notice in your own life when the Holy Spirit wants to bring you a greater measure of himself, a greater baptism of his power, that you often find these times accompanied by tears. Don’t ever be ashamed of tears. Don’t ever be ashamed to cry. Don’t ever try to remove yourself from the emotions that come when God begins to move in your life. He wants to move not only your mind but also your heart and bring you to a place of tears as well. This is confirmed by the Apostle Paul, “Brothers, join in imitating me,...

If we are going to investigate the events of January 6, 2021, we should start with the killing of Ashli Babbitt.Babbitt was shot by an unidentified law enforcement officer as she was crouched precariously in the framework of a broken interior window in the Capitol Building, located outside the Speaker’s Lobby off the House Floor. Babbitt was killed by the only shot fired that day and was the only documented fatality related directly to law enforcement activity. The identity of the officer who shot Babbitt remains a mystery. Despite video evidence raising serious questions of excessive force, a Justice Department...

Yesterday, I had a discussion with a relative who works in the finance sector. His company was bought out last year by a much larger nationwide company, and of course immediate company wide changes began to occur. The new company immediately sent out an email to every employee discussing pride month and the typical “bravery” of perversion. Other actions by the new company were not discussed with employees but simply put forth. My relative went on to say that every email interaction he had with his company account included the rainbow symbol with a statement about pride month that automatically...

Burger King is donating 40 cents for every sale of its new chicken sandwich, Ch’King, to the Human Rights Campaign. Chick-Fil-A has a reputation of donating to anti-LGBTQ+ groups. The Ch’King has been getting favorable opinions similar to Chick-Fil-A’s sandwich.

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On April 12, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Chipman -- the king of confiscation -- is a supporter of California's laws banning the sale or ownership of so-called assault weapons. For those of us who support the Second Amendment, confirming him to lead ATF is like asking a vampire to guard the local blood bank. Don't surrender! On June 4, Judge Roger T. Benitez, appointed to the federal bench in the Southern District of California by President George W. Bush, offered hope for common sense to prevail. In his 94-page...

VIDEOThey could be a permanent element of our society. Face Mask cultists. Despite the CDC stating it is okay to not wear face masks, the cultists are continuing to wear them both indoors and outdoors as you can see in these grocery store scenes in Broward County, FL.

The man arrested for road rage shooting death of 6 yr. old Aiden Leos after a weeks-long manhunt is a 24 yr. old gun-toting auto shop worker. Marcus Anthony Eriz and his girlfriend Wynne Lee, 23, were taken into custody outside their home in Costa Mesa, CA on Sunday in connection to the May 21 shooting. California Highway Patrol said the pair are expected to be charged with murder over the shooting on the 55 Freeway in Orange County. Officials said Eriz was the shooter and Lee was driving the vehicle at the time of Aiden's death. District Attorney Todd...

As we all know, making predictions can be difficult, especially about the future. On the other hand, sometimes it’s just a question of distinguishing reality on the ground from pure self-delusion. At the moment, we have two visions competing to be the reigning official prediction of the future of energy. One of those visions, foreseeing the rapid demise of fossil fuels, is on full display even as we speak in a virtual summit put on by the American Clean Power Association. The summit began today and is running for four days, through Thursday June 10. The speakers are a who’s...

"Take away this pudding; it has no theme," is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him. Writers have used Churchill's remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose. For most of our lifetimes, this has not been true of the United States. The goal of our foreign policy has been understandable and defined. From 1949-1989, it was Cold War containment of the Soviet Empire and USSR. Ronald Reagan believed in a "rollback" of communism, once telling an aide that his policy might be summed up as:...

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE 6/7/2021: A routine pizza delivery turned deadly in Brunswick. The Glynn County Police Department said a pizza delivery driver shot and killed a man who tried to rob him on Saturday night. Rick Evans, the interim chief of the Glynn County Police Department, said they first received a call about a shooting on Saturday night at 11:23 p.m. Officers from GCPD, as well as the Brunswick Police Department, responded to a shooting in the area of 3132 Cypress Mill Road. Evans said the pizza delivery driver told them a man, armed with a knife, tried...

The Biden White House is furiously trying to cajole congressional Republicans into signing off on his $2 trillion "infrastructure bill." So far, they've held firm in saying not just no but "hell, no" to new taxes and spending to pay for all this. It turns out that a bill to fix our roads and bridges, modernize our water and sewer systems, and upgrade ports and airports doesn't require $1 of new spending. West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who has been negotiating with the Biden team on a public works bill, has been slyer than the foxes in the...

I’ve always felt that the Civil Rights Acts were a Good Thing, but that the rot set in with the first executive orders mandating quotas and affirmative action. Now comes Richard Hanania (H/T John Derbyshire) who writes that “Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law.” In other words, the woke phenomenon was already coded in the Civil Rights laws and the ruling class just responded to the moral imperative coded in the laws: racial discrimination is evil and we must fight against it. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination based on race and gender. While most at the...

The once-great chemical company’s latest recruiting email focuses on diversity, sustainability, and equity ... The wokeness infecting major American corporations needs to be exposed wherever possible. It’s important that Americans know how leftist college grads occupying management positions in these organizations are steering them away from their purposes and turning them into idealized college campuses, complete with a focus on diversity, systemic racism, sexism, yada, yada, yada. The latest example comes from Dow Chemical Company. Dow is one of America’s classic corporations. Herbert Henry Dow, a chemist, founded it in 1897 and it quickly became known for its diverse products...

If the last month has taught us anything, today’s conspiracy theory could easily be tomorrow’s commonsense truth. The speed at which the Wuhan Lab theory as the source of the Covid virus went from “thoroughly debunked” to “Viable” and “Probable” in the media was extraordinary. Indeed, the media scorned the possible source of the most economically destructive virus in history – one that is credited with killing 3 million people – because they didn’t like the then-President of the United States! Despite the fact that the lab in Wuhan was one of the only places on earth where scientists were...

DeSantis has an unmistakable political glow about him. Whether being treated like a star performer at a massive country music jam in Florida or being one of the top people on Donald Trump’s radar should Trump win again, people like what they see. On Sunday, Florida held the largest music festival in America since February 2020. The Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam, in Panama City Beach, saw more than 20,000 people gather together for the three-day country music festival. Big stars were appearing: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Luke Bryan, Brooks & Dunn, Chris Stapleton…and Ron DeSantis. Yup, DeSantis dropped by for a quick...

I hope I am not reading too much into Secretary Blinken's pessimistic report on the status of the Vienna negotiations on re-joining Obama's Iran nuclear deal. But it does not sound good — for two reasons, one obvious, the other less so. Obama's 2015 "deal," from which President Trump withdrew in 2018, was rotten to the core, as it gave the ayatollahs the legal right to enrich uranium all they want after 2030. Blinken's admission that "it remains unclear whether Iran is willing and prepared to do what it needs to do to come back into compliance" is not in...

Multiple news websites, including The New York Times, The Financial Times and CNN, were temporarily shut down during a massive outage early Tuesday. BBC, Bloomberg News, The Guardian and The Financial Times, Reddit, Pinterest and Twitch were also affected by the outage.

With very rare exceptions now on display in the Senate, congressional Democrats are a mass movement worthy of a few aphorisms from the late, great Eric Hoffer. Wholly disinclined to individualism, their tendency to cohesion is blatantly undemocratic, whether when voting en masse and on cue or looking the other way when it comes to street violence, criticism of China, goodwill to Israel, and any slur to race or religion coming from within their ranks. Republicans, on the other hand, seem a bit discombobulated, preferring to take pot shots at themselves and reluctant to build unanimity against the careless governing,...

After nearly 17 months, the Chinese laboratory manipulation of coronaviruses as the origin of Covid-19, the Federal science bureaucracy’s complicity and cover-up, and the motivation behind the overwrought government- and media-sponsored solutions to the pandemic are finally being exposed and can no longer be suppressed by the Democrat party (i.e., mainstream) media. It is difficult for the average American to fathom the depth of dishonesty and potential treason of those motivated by self-preservation to keep hidden their incestuous relationships with the Communist Chinese and the part they played in the Chinese development of highly infectious viruses as potential military weapons....