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“This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet” (Matthew 4:14). Centuries before the Incarnation, the prophet Isaiah foretold this great truth: “‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—the people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, and those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a Light dawned’” (from Isa. 9:1–2). And eight hundred years later—just as prophesied—the despised, unbelieving Galileans glimpsed the Messiah and, ahead of many of the Jews in Jerusalem, saw the...

When God’s people face a seemingly impossible crisis, the cry I most often hear is “Where is God in all of this? Is this punishment for the besetting sin I’ve struggled with for many years? Has he abandoned me?” The story of Elijah shows how the Lord’s children ought to respond. As the prophet looked ahead to the coming famine, things must have looked absolutely hopeless to him; but God had a specific survival plan in mind for his faithful servant. He instructed the prophet, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows...

Capitol police, acting as the Stasi of the Democratic Party, will collect dirt on Republicans under the pretense of national security then leak gossipy details to an always-compliant news media. When most Americans hear the term “Capitol Police,” they likely conjure visions of uniformed officers manning metal detectors at the numerous congressional buildings or helping tourists navigate the sprawling Capitol grounds: a D.C. version of a mall cop. That imagery, however, is in stark contrast to reality as Democrats have weaponized yet another federal agency to target their political enemies on the Right. After January 6, 2021, Capitol Police officials...

Biden has ‘absolutely lost the plot’ and the media is just as bad US President Joe Biden has “absolutely lost the plot” all while the media has reached a new low in its “blind protection” of him, according to Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton. Mr Houghton said Biden is “clearly deteriorating and cracking under pressure” following several recent gaffes – including being caught on a hot mic uttering profanities at a Fox News reporter. “What is irritating and ridiculous beyond comprehension is the way journalists are refusing to condemn what is clearly unpresidential behaviour,” Mr Houghton said. “You don’t...

One of the things that’s bewildered me for almost 20 years is why poll workers are so often Democrats. I assumed it was because Republicans were too passive and disinterested to get involved at the ground level. This matters because, as both Stalin and Biden said, what ultimately matters is who counts the votes—and the next closest thing to counting the votes is being a poll worker. I just learned that I owe Republicans an apology. It turns out that, in 1982, the RNC entered into a consent decree that prohibited it from aggressively enlisting poll workers, and that consent...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemGalatians 6Not Circumcision but the New Creation 11 See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand! 12 Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. 14 May I never boast except in the cross...

As some on Wall Street warn that the Fed remains dangerously behind the inflation curve (a fear that was given voice yesterday when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments on inflation during the post-FOMC press conference appeared to send stocks spiraling lower), one of America’s biggest makers of food and consumer goods has warned that more price hikes are coming. To wit, Kraft-Heinz (in which Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns a big stake) said in a letter to customers that it will raise prices in March on dozens of its most popular products. The hikes will affect brands including Oscar Mayer...

WASHINGTON — A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not adequately take into account the lease sale's effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating a bedrock environmental law.The decision Thursday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington sends the proposed lease sale back to the Interior Department to decide next steps. The judge said it was up to Interior to decide whether to go forward with the sale after a revised review, scrap it or take other steps.Environmental groups hailed...

After being asked by MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski about the alleged misinformation spread by the popular "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast and Facebook users, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded with a homily about how "we" must "root out" misleading speech. "We" don't have to do any such thing. Government officials have no role in dictating appropriate speech or lecturing us on what we can or can't say. In fact, they have a duty not to. Murthy's comments wouldn't be as grating if it weren't so obvious that the Biden administration has been pressuring Big Tech companies, who oversee huge swaths of...

There is no shortage of people in the United States who experienced the horrors of socialism firsthand. Right now, socialists who have never experienced the harsh realities of what socialism brings to humanity every time it is implemented are using American schools, including high schools, to preach socialist propaganda. The propaganda never shows the reality of the failure and treat it as if the failures were never real socialism to begin with. But there is no shortage of people in the United States who experienced the horrors of socialism firsthand. They are the ones who escaped the promised paradises turned...

Chinese side regularly informed of the talks’ content and progress, Andrey Denisov says Putin’s Winter Olympics trip could also yield a ‘surprise’ for ties between the two countries Moscow constantly updates Beijing on progress in security talks between the US and Russia, even though China is not related to the talks, the Russian envoy to Beijing said on Tuesday. “Russia has recently started talks and meetings with the United States and Nato countries about giving Russia security assurances, but these talks are not related to China,” Russian ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said at the Russian embassy in Beijing. Denisov...

"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people." What did John Adams mean when he wrote this to Thomas Jefferson in 1815, after both had served as president? Adams was saying that America, the country that took up arms and fought for its independence from the British, was already a nation -- before 1775. America preexisted the Constitution, Adams is saying. America had been conceived and born before he and Jefferson began to write...

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Elizabeth Warren, a mediocre law professor who parlayed a fake Native American identity into a gig at Harvard and a seat in the United States Senate, thought that, once in government, she’d try her hand at censorship. When Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins wrote a book about COVID with which Warren disagreed, she used her position as a Senator to try to get Amazon to censor the book. Although Chelsea Green Publishing filed suit in November, people are finally becoming aware of the suit. I’m always amazed when someone who ought to know the law doesn’t—or feels entitled to ignore...

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Politico reached out to me for a conservative perspective on Joe Biden’s first year in office, but when I hit their favored president too hard, they proved yet again that the establishment media continue to cover for this failed president as shills for Democrats and the far left. “I’m working on an experts round-up for President Joe Biden's first year in office. I'm reaching out to see if you would be able to participate,” she began, adding, “Here’s a link to one from last year that you participated in, when we asked for assessments of democracy after former President Trump's...

We are now seeing possible proof that Biden (or his handlers) may be pushing for an unnecessary conflict. President Eisenhower in his final address to the nation issued the following dire warning: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, SNIP Ukrainian leaders alleged disagreed with that Biden’s assessment, insisting that an invasion is not imminent. They claimed that intelligence officials looking at satellite photos on an hourly basis do not see Russia moving any troops into combat mode or preparing for an attack However, CNN's claims of Biden’s warning and Ukraine’s subsequent refutation...

One of the most insincere campaign promises resident Joe Biden ever made was to bring unity and decency back to the presidency. In his 2020 Democratic National Convention speech, he claimed, "It is time for us, for we, the people, to come together. And make no mistake. United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America." His sometimes-speechwriter Jon Meacham gushed as Biden accepted his victory on Nov. 7, 2020, that "what was on the ballot here was decency and democracy and empathy, and Joe Biden is particularly well-equipped for this moment." No. He wasn't. It's quite...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that President Biden "is treating the American public like fools" after Biden met with executives from rival car companies General Motors and Ford Motor earlier this week. Biden invited GM CEO Mary Barra and Ford CEO Jim Farley to the White House along with other business leaders to discuss his administration's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better legislation, which has stalled in the evenly split Senate after U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., refused to support the legislation. The massive spending bill would bump up the $7,500 tax credit to $12,500 for union-made electric vehicles and would...

The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases about racial preference in college admissions that allegedly discriminates against Asian students. In the 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court said race could be a factor in admissions, but as anyone who is sat through an academic committee meeting knows, when race is a factor, it is the only factor. Even though the Supreme Court in Bakke said that a set-aside for admissions, or quota, was impermissible, colleges and universities routinely use racial quotas masquerading as goals. The consequence has been that highly qualified Asian students are rejected on trivial and...