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I know I speak for many a believer who feels a burden for a loved one, neighbor/colleague/friend to come to the fullness of faith in Christ. The dynamics at work in the spiritual lives of children and adults are different for obvious reasons...Simply by virtue of adults having had more life experience, more ideas to consider, etc... So for those of you who are willing, can you summarize what made you ultimately decide to be a Christian? And if there were any individuals who played a role, how so? And vice versa: what or who may have contributed to your...

Ah optics, the only thing Joe Bidens’ asterisk administration seems concerned with. This shouldn’t surprise us given who his mentor was- but now, the cake has at last truly been taken. Kamala Harris is finally visiting the border- and being given a steady round of applause by the legacy media for doing so, even if three months belatedly. There’s only one glaring problem. Kamala will be visiting El Paso, which is one thousand miles away from the main border crisis and the locations of some of the most overrun border facilities, which happen to be in the same region I...

Privacy-focused web browser Brave has launched a beta version of its Brave search engine in an attempt to create a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Brave is basing its search engine on its own index of websites, unlike rival DuckDuckGo which is based on the Bing search index, making it vulnerable to Microsoft’s censorship efforts. ZDNet reports that privacy-focused web browser Brave has launched a beta version of its Brave search engine in an attempt to create a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Brave acquired the search engine Tailcat in March and aims to challenge Google by approaching online search with a...

In two separate articles in the Annals of Neurology, clinicians in India and England report cases of a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre? syndrome after individuals were vaccinated against COVID-19.Both reports describe an unusual variant of Guillain-Barre? syndrome characterized by prominent facial weakness. Seven cases were reported from a regional medical center in Kerala, India, where approximately 1.2 million people were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Four cases were reported from Nottingham, England, in an area in which approximately 700,000 people received the same vaccine. All eleven cases were among people who had received that vaccine 10-22 days earlier.The...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations slow - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths very low and slightly declining - CDC panel finds 'likely' link between rare mild heart inflammation in adolescents and mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (12.6 cases per million) - warning to be added to label) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 378,882,200 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 319,872,053 (12,090,161 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 177,948,892 Fully Vaccinated: 150,787,303

13 Republicans so far co-sponsoring MTG's bill to fire Bats N.D. Belfry Fauci.

Can starchy snacks harm heart health? New research published today found eating starchy snacks high in white potato or other starches after any meal was associated at least a 50% increased risk of mortality and a 44-57% increased risk of CVD-related death. Conversely, eating fruits, vegetables or dairy at specific meals is associated with a reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer or any cause. According to their findings: Eating a Western lunch (typically containing refined grains, cheese, cured meat) was associated with a 44% increased risk of CVD death; Eating a fruit-based lunch was associated with a 34%...

She does not perch herself on a lofty place looking down at We the People hurling wordy explanations our way. She does however speak as a well-rounded and well-educated woman who leaves nothing unsaid about the division caused by manufactured race issues. Dr. Carol Swain is a superb educator who has lived life from the lowest ebb to the highest flow. She can tell us from life experiences just how radical Critical Race Theory (CRT) is but beyond that she tells us the whole truth about 'systemic racism' as a successful black woman in America. Read in her open letter...

John McAfee, the pioneer creator of popular computer antivirus software, has died behind bars in a Spanish prison. He was 75. McAfee was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in his cell in Brians 2 Prison in Barcelona, with officials saying that the early investigation points to a suicide, the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper. It came just hours after a Spanish court approved McAfee's extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years. McAfee had been held in Spanish...

President Biden on Wednesday spoke at the funeral of former Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, saying he showed that bipartisanship is possible “in the battle for the soul of America.” Biden said Warner’s decision to endorse him last year “gave me confidence, not about winning but about being able to do the job.” “In the battle for the soul of America today, John Warner is a reminder of what we can do when we come together as one nation,” Biden said. Warner, the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, was a World War II and Korean War veteran and...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is taking aim at Democrats’ handling of China policy, arguing that the Biden administration needs to take a stronger position to hold the Communist nation accountable for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic and its humanitarian abuses. The California Republican charged that Democrats have failed to work across the aisle, noting they opted out of the GOP’s China task force, which was initially slated to be bipartisan last year, while highlighting his eight-point plan to address the matter.

Iranian president's chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters Wednesday he condemned the seizures.TEHRAN — The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday seized 36 Iranian-linked news website domains, accusing them of spreading disinformation, amid continued tensions between Tehran and Washington.The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites, owned by a U.S.-based company, were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), which it said was among components of the Iranian government targeting the United States with disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.Three other seized websites were operated by one of the main Iran-aligned Iraqi militia groups, Kata’ib Hizballah,...

Garland Favorito is the co-founder of VoterGA, a nonpartisan, non-profit, all-volunteer, dues free organization that has led the election integrity movement in Georgia for 16 years. In March a Georgia judge ruled that Favorito’s group “Voter GA” would be allowed to unseal the Fulton County Georgia ballots and inspect them for invalid votes. Then in April Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger petitioned the court to keep the Fulton County ballots sealed. Favorito at the time accused Raffensperger of being in “cover-up mode” by his recent actions. {SNIP} Garland added this on admission by the state officials, “It sounds like...

Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee died by an apparent suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening — hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media. The eccentric tech entrepreneur was arrested in October and was awaiting extradition when he was found dead, police sources told the newspaper El Pais. The newspaper reported McAfee was pulled from his cell in Barcelona and police are investigating the circumstances around his death.

Yesterday, I received the final recommendations and complete report of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment. I want to thank Lynn Rosenthal for her exceptional leadership of this commission, as well as the talented experts who worked so diligently to support her. The work they produced was informed not only by their own significant experience, but by that of so many members of our military, including sexual assault survivors. The result is a comprehensive assessment across four lines of effort -- accountability, prevention, climate and culture, and victim care and support -- that recommends creative and...

Progressive Democrats are stewing after one of their top priorities, a massive elections bill, stalled in the Senate Tuesday – and they're directing their ire at several targets, including Republicans, the Senate filibuster and even President Biden, who they allege didn't do enough to stump for the legislation."He's not absent, but he needs to be a lot more vocal and a lot more out front. The president supports H.R.1, the American people support H.R. 1 overwhelmingly. The president needs to lead out front and be very vocal on this issue." Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., told CNN Tuesday of the president's...

A typical Western high-fat diet can increase the risk of painful disorders common in people with conditions such as diabetes or obesity, according to a groundbreaking paper… Moreover, changes in diet may significantly reduce or even reverse pain from conditions causing either inflammatory pain -- such as arthritis, trauma or surgery -- or neuropathic pain, such as diabetes. The novel finding could help treat chronic-pain patients by simply altering diet or developing drugs that block release of certain fatty acids in the body. In the new paper, Dr. Boyd and his colleagues used multiple methods in both mice and humans...

Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee died by an apparent suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening — hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media. The eccentric tech entrepreneur was arrested in October and was awaiting extradition when he was found dead, police sources told the newspaper El Pais. The newspaper reported McAfee was pulled from his cell in Barcelona and police are investigating the circumstances around his death. Earlier on Wednesday, the Spanish High Court had agreed to extradite McAfee, who has been charged with a...

At least six people were hurt when a truck slammed into a pedestrian bridge in Washington, DC, and sent it crashing onto a freeway shortly before noon Wednesday, officials said.

MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British warship to chase it out of waters Moscow claims in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimea peninsula. Britain rejected Russia's account of the incident, saying it believed any shots fired were a pre-announced Russian "gunnery exercise", and that no bombs had been dropped. But it confirmed that its destroyer, HMS Defender, had sailed through what it described as waters belonging to Ukraine. The ship was "conducting an innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in...