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Jill Biden joined Joe Biden in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington as he signed a bill to designate the National Pulse Memorial in Orlando. Joe also delivered remarks on LGBTQ+ Pride month, and the liberal media said that should explain Jill’s decision to opt for her Dolce & Gabbana patchwork dress from the Spring 2021 collection. Officially this dress was designed to reflect the colours and ambiences of Sicily with an abundance of patterns, and colours, but for Jill it represented the coming together of all communities which is what the LGBTQ+ stands...

KING HEROD BEHEADS JOHN THE BAPTIST. 2 9 A. D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MARK 6 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Matthew 14 + Mark 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEWCh. 14:1-12 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers...

New York Attorney General’s office said the agreement bans J&J from promoting opioids through any means and prohibits lobbying about such products at the federal, state or local levels. However, Johnson & Johnson said it had already exited the business. As part of the settlement, the company will resolve opioids-related claims and allocate payments over nine years. The settlement follows years of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against major pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis, which has killed nearly 500,000 people in the U.S. since 1999.

Soaring food prices aren’t just impacting financially strapped families and the working poor. They’re also affecting the mission of US food banks who are spending a lot more on food than ever before. “We’re already spending a lot more on food than we have in years past,” said Greg Trotter, a spokesman for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a large food bank, who spoke with VOA News. “Our food purchasing budget has doubled this year.” In the coming weeks and or months, food banks across the country may experience a surge in food demand from millions of folks who are...

U.S. Marshals in Georgia have conducted a series of raids in the recovery of 20 missing and endangered children believed to be victims of sex trafficking, authorities announced. The mission was led in the metro Atlanta area over a two-week period and was dubbed “Operation Not Forgotten 2021."

Government politicians have been attempting to revitalize a decades-old issue—which they affectionately call public option healthcare—that would create a government-run medical insurance program intended to compete with private insurers. The glaring irony in this disingenuous branding is that the public option is neither public nor optional. Instead, the public option would inject just enough government into the system to prevent private healthcare providers from delivering quality and affordable services, while raising healthcare costs for everyone. The public option ignores a simple reality that is as strong as gravity: In order to lower prices, the supply of services must become greater...

God Bless Oklahoma! Think Arizona almost did something horrible? Well "Oklahoma is doing it anyway," Oklahoma is the only state that Obama did not win even one county in the 2016 election... While everyone is focusing on Arizona ’s new law, look what Oklahoma has been doing! An update from Oklahoma : Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9 an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values. Guess what.......... Oklahoma...

There were more shootings in Chicago over the weekend. The irony of these shootings, in which 52 were shot and 5 died (Chicago Sun-Times Wire, 6/21/21), is the weekend itself….Father’s Day weekend. Some sociologists note that what we’re seeing in large part is quite often the result of fatherlessness in America. Mark J. Perry, a scholar with American Enterprise Institute, put out a chart on March 30, 2021 on fatherlessness in America. He compiled the statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, and the chart compares the “percentage of U.S. births to unmarried women by race” for the year...

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Not a week goes by that I don't read one or two letters to the editor of our local newspaper decrying the supposed effects of man-made climate change. The fear is palpable, the proposals sincere, but the misunderstanding hurtful. Writing as a retired pastor, I would like to address this issue from a biblical perspective. Presently, a naturalistic worldview dominates public policy on climate change, both in Washington and in many blue states. Modern naturalism posits that the universe evolved through random physical processes. This hypothesis entails that our Earth is extremely fragile and that man, often viewed as a...

Recently, Steven Colbert talked about the U.S. Catholic bishops denying communion to Catholic politicians as “punishment.” Many recent headlines use the word “denying” in reference to the U.S. Catholic Bishops, communion, and Catholic politicians supporting issues that go against Church teachings, namely abortion rights. Perhaps a better word is “withholding.” Withholding communion is a most compassionate act and showers these politicians with the utmost pastoral care and provides them the opportunity to model exemplary leadership. Likewise, withholding communion demonstrates true pastoral concern on the part of pastors, priests, and bishops. As Christians, we are called to live out our faith...

Earlier this month, I had a post discussing New York’s so-called Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019, and the various steps taken so far to implement the Act’s stated goals. The main goals are 40% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in New York by 2030, and 85% by 2050. These goals apply not just to the electricity sector (which only accounts for about 25% of energy usage in the U.S.), but to the entire energy economy. My post relied substantially on the work of Roger Caiazza, who has written extensively at his website Practical Environmentalist of New...

The doctor who developed the technology used in the majority of COVID shots warned that the US government is withholding information regarding the risks from coronavirus vaccines.Dr. Robert Malone, who invented the mRNA technology now being used in both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines, spoke with Fox News this week about the push to vaccinate young adults and even children.With the Centers for Disease Control finding a link between the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines and heart muscle inflammation among young people – particularly younger males – Dr. Malone said that a “risk-benefit” analysis must be made before children...

The Talk Shows June 27th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. White House advisor Cedric Richmond. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) Mayor Quinton Lucas (D-Kansas City). Author and former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos (“Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA”). Panel (of idiots): Dana Perino; Jonathan Swan, Axios; Mohamad Aly "Mo" Elleithee. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, PBS; Joshua Johnson, MSNBC; Angrea Mitchell; Danielle Pletka--just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists...

Bad news for Progressives. Good news for America. Trump’s back. He won’t just shut up as his critics demand and his supporters are growing increasingly belligerent.More than OK, really; I relish it.Me? I intend to remain caffeinated at all times. In fact I’m going to steel myself for another day with a couple of these donut cones filled with covfefe ice cream with a side shot of espresso. Caffeine, it’s our best weapon. Prove me wrong.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

Early on June 17, Elsa Mikeska was shot and killed outside a Houston gym. The 62-year-old grandmother had just pulled into the gym parking lot when two men in an older Chevy Suburban got out, apparently demanding money, and then shot her dead as she fled toward the gym entrance. At this point, one of those responsible, a 16-year-old now charged with capital murder, has been apprehended, while two others remain at large. It appears that the same persons who killed Mikeska may have attempted a carjacking an hour earlier and that same night shot through the window of a...

Early on June 17, Elsa Mikeska was shot and killed outside a Houston gym. The 62-year-old grandmother had just pulled into the gym parking lot when two men in an older Chevy Suburban got out, apparently demanding money, and then shot her dead as she fled toward the gym entrance. At this point, one of those responsible, a 16-year-old now charged with capital murder, has been apprehended, while two others remain at large. It appears that the same persons who killed Mikeska may have attempted a carjacking an hour earlier and that same night shot through the window of a...

The “progressive” left has done us a solid. I just want to be humble and thank them. They didn’t have to do it. They just couldn’t resist. They acted like kids in the candy store. Or, more accurately, low-intelligence looters at Best Buy. We passively gave them permission to smash-and-grab control of the country, without immediate consequences. How on earth could they resist that temptation? Instead of continuing, stealthily and incrementally, to move toward their goal of a Marxist takeover in America, an idea that powerful forces have been surreptitiously nurturing for at least 50 years, they let loose and...

Parents are waking up to the scam in education called critical race theory. The dismantling of high school math courses demands the same attention. It is really a struggle to imagine what the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has in mind by discussing the elimination of accelerated math classes in schools until 11th grade in the name of equity. The story broke in April 2021and shortly thereafter, the VDOE leadership was backpedaling due to parent backlash. “Absolutely, acceleration is NOT going away in mathematics courses in Virginia, if a student needs an accelerated pathway they will absolutely get it,” said...

Thanks for joining us today as we study common sayings that originated from the Bible unbeknownst to most people. But the good news is that reading the Bible is trending upward according to the American Bible Society’s 11th annual “State of the Bible.” The Society reports that “millions more Americans turned to the Bible in the past year than in previous years.” Perhaps it was pandemic related when “one in four U.S. adults report a more frequent Bible reading habit than did last year.” Maybe that “habit” will continue considering the Bible is still the world’s all-time best-selling book with...