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At a moment when Jesus was physically vulnerable, the devil brought his first temptation. “When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry. Now when the tempter came to him, he said, ‘If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread’” (Matthew 4:2-3, NKJV). There’s no sin in being hungry. So, what’s the issue here? Satan was challenging Jesus. “If you are fully God, then you have God’s power in you. Right now, you’re in a very hard place. Why don’t you use the power God gave you to deliver yourself? Didn’t...

The Biden administration will tell U.S. nursing homes they must require staffers be vaccinated for COVID-19 to continue to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding, according to news reports President Biden is set to officially announced the change Wednesday afternoon, according to CNN, which learning of the matter from administration officials. Biden will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to draft new regulations making vaccinations for nursing home employee a condition for such facilities to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the officials said. The move represents a significant escalation in Biden’s campaign to get Americans vaccinated and...

A federal judge in Nevada has declared unconstitutional a longstanding statute that makes it a crime to return to the United States after deportation, calling the law racist and discriminatory against “Mexican and Latinx individuals.” “The record before the Court reflects that at no point has Congress confronted the racist, nativist roots of Section 1326,” U.S. District Judge Miranda Du wrote in a ruling issued Wednesday. Her order dismissed a case against a man named Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez, who was indicted during the Trump administration. “It is the first ruling of its kind,” said Assistant Federal Public Defender Lauren Gorman, who...

WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, Aug. 18. It has been well ascertained that agents of the French Government have been engaged for several weeks in purchasing large quantities of breadstuffs, both at the West and in the Eastern storehouses. The lowest grades are taken. Whether this is because of the scarcity of grain in France and a timely precaution against exorbitant prices, or whether the Government is preparing for a war footing, is of course matter of conjecture, as its agents have no information beyond instructions to buy. CORRESPONDENCE. The increase of correspondence from the Washington Post-office, consequent on the war, is enormous,...

Amy Donofrio was reassigned after she hanged a Black Lives Matter flag over her class doorway. Donofrio sued, claiming the school district retaliated against her and violated her free speech. The school district settled for $300,000 while insisting "we haven't done anything wrong." A Jacksonville, Florida school district settled a lawsuit with a high school teacher who claimed the district retaliated against her when she refused to remove a Black Lives Matter flag from her classroom doorway..... "Teaching is not just my career, it's my life, my heart," Donofrio said told USA Today in early August when the case was...

According to a bombshell report from the National Pulse, the Biden administration ended a Trump “crisis response” plan intended to avoid disastrous withdraw situations like the one going on in Afghanistan right now. “Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal,” the outlet reported in their sub-headline. Read their reporting below: The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning...

Democrats are busy trying to ensure a victory in the 2022 elections. If public opinion plays any part (and if the elections are honest), they'll likely lose in even larger numbers than in 2020, which was bad for them, President Joe Biden's "victory" notwithstanding. But the Democrats in power are very, very good at gaming the system; we can expect them to exploit "fear porn" associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. They will demand the continuation of practices that are rife with potential for fraud, such as ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots, and fight tooth and nail against election integrity efforts...

Looking back on the contradictory pronunciamentos uttered by President Joe Biden so solemnly over the last few months on the subject of Afghanistan, what has struck me is how inane they show him to be. When he was affirming that everything in Kabul, Afghanistan, was hunky-dory or when he was sounding the alarm, he was inane. His statements were vacuous. How did this man become president of the United States? Oh, I know he was up against an amazingly weak field of candidates. For a period of time some of the candidates even competed with each other in using the...

Decades ago – on March 2, 1962 – the television show "The Twilight Zone" premiered an episode called “To Serve Man” which centered on the sudden arrival of outer space aliens…who purportedly just wanted to provide humanitarian aid such as advanced chemicals which grew larger crops to end hunger. Since many world leaders were understandably skeptical of the aliens’ motives, they presented earthlings with a book titled" To Serve Man" written in their own outer space language. (Cryptograhers quickly were drafted to try and decode the symbols on the pages.) The space creatures also offered to fly volunteers to their...

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We are a nation captured from within. We are, in essence, taken over by America's Taliban, the communists, a small group of aggressive and angry people opposed to every freedom, every ounce of liberty once held in such reverence in America. With bluster and violence, they achieve their goals, because, those of us who believe in the republic, in the rule of law, in the sanctity of elections, are, like the Afghan soldiers, melting before the onslaught. Consider for a moment that under this regime, believing in the Constitution, individual rights and claiming to be a patriot, is, according to...

A familiar refrain among Donald Trump supporters during his presidency was, “Are you tired of winning, yet?” Stronger borders, lower taxes, renegotiated trade deals, exits from globalist summits and confabs all fed the enthusiasm in the Trump voter that the country was back, and strong, and “winning, winning, winning.” It wasn’t as much Trump the man his voters were cheering. The left always incorrectly assumed it was about a cult of personality, nothing more. What Trump voters were actually cheering was themselves and their own voice amplified. The belief in the greatness of the United States articulated through Trump. It...

In the Archive section of this blog, I actually created a tag for Afghanistan. There are four posts under that heading, the first one on July 1, 2017, and the most recent on December 22, 2019. Thinking I might write something about the subject today, I went back and looked over those posts. The truth is that I don’t have much to say that I didn’t already say in one or another of those posts. So most of this post will consist of excerpts from those earlier posts. But think of Afghanistan as the perfect metaphor for the main theme...

When you think of places like Australia, you think they’re just like us – they speak English and love freedom. Well, they do speak English, that much is true, but do they really love freedom like we do? Considering Democrats have control of government, it makes me wonder if we really love freedom all that much. Putting that aside, the way governments all across Australia are conducting themselves during this pandemic should make everyone realize that the similarities may well just end at language. More importantly to us, what is happening in Australia is what Democrats would love to do...

Freely operating on social media, rolling out ice cream memes, mocking our First Amendment in the face of social media censorship, the Taliban is having a grand old time mocking the world the Democrats created. The terrorist dirtbags of the Taliban, having had the entire nation of Afghanistan handed to them by Joe Biden, are now having a grand old time mocking the media world the Democrats have created. They're gibing at Democrat-endorsed social media censorship, making Joe Biden and his fawning press a figure of fun, and using their own access to social media to consolidate power. Grotesquely enough,...

Biden closed Bagram Air Base on July 5, opening the way for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. The Taliban respect American air power. They know all too well that a US aircraft killed Qasem Soleimani, the “Shadow Commander” of Iranian forces in the Middle East, and also precipitated the fall of ISIS by decapitating its leadership. U.S. air power in Afghanistan is projected from Bagram Air Base, located 40 miles north of Kabul. President Donald Trump had been using this strategic American asset as leverage during his negotiations with the Taliban. Joe Biden did the opposite. He precipitously closed...

Those of us who still believe in private property seem to be out of step with the times. I recently had an experience that I’m having trouble getting my head around and causing me to wonder if morality is dead. I know it isn’t. There are too many acts of kindness stories. Maybe morality is just eroding. A tenant in a house I rented decided, without my knowledge, it needed an air conditioner. So he cut a hole in the walls and installed one. He moved out and I put the house up for sale, pointing out one of the...

The first thing the Taliban did even before they had finished chasing U.S. troops out of Afghanistan was to confiscate privately owned guns. Because “because people no longer need them for personal protection,” they said. That’s the first thing all despots do. It tends to reduce political opposition. Interestingly, it’s what President Joe Biden and his Democrat cohorts say is needed in the U.S., as well. The next thing the Taliban did was search for people who had “worked with” the Americans over the last 20 years. What do you think is in store for those folks? Particularly the ones...

There is a lot of noise around mRNA Vax but there is something very important that is not being discussed- and I know personally for good reason. I work in IT and as a programmer writing code, algorithms for AI machine learning, and more recent projects in the brain sciences in biotech fields. I made a point early on to become a shareholder of Moderna one of the leading C19 gene therapy manufacturers because I wanted to have interaction with their scientists and participate in shareholder calls. I did this so I could ask questions directly to verify the concerns...

Because we demand so very little of our public schools, so very little is what we get. Schools closed. Children abandoned. Parents told to pound sand. Is a repeat defeat for students and parents in the works for this coming school year? It seems so. What’s not in doubt is it will be another big win for teacher unions. The Los Angeles union demanded a rich array of gimmes before it would consider any return to classrooms, reports Lee Chanian for the Hoover Institution. These included defunding police, shutting down competing charter schools, a 1% wealth tax, and a 3%...