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The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE 1st SAMUEL CHAPTER 24 Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. A cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave. Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. And Saul left the cave and went his way. 1 CHARLES EDMUND BROCK "Once He Saved Saul's Life when He Found Him in...

The Biden administration has announced it is preparing to fly hundreds of pallets of baby formula from Europe to the United States in an effort to mitigate the ongoing shortage of the infant necessity. The White House said in a statement Thursday it has identified some 1.5 million eight-ounce bottles of Nestle S.A. formula to transport from Zurich, Switzerland, to Plainfield, Ind., from where it will be distributed. The flights will be conducted under Operation Fly Formula, which President Joe Biden announced Wednesday along with his invocation of the Defense Production Act directing ingredient suppliers to direct resources to formula...

Why does the left hate Elon Musk? It’s simple, really: Because he can’t be controlled, and because he doesn’t tolerate BS. The left can’t stand either. It insists on control, to the point of systematically eliminating or co-opting anything that might serve as an independent power center. (Their fear is justified: “Music clubs” turned out to be a major factor in Czechoslovakia’s 1989 anticommunist Velvet Revolution.) And it insists on not merely spreading BS, but on requiring people to repeat and endorse its BS as a sign of submission. Musk is thus a twin threat. As the sometime richest man...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Jean Baretto continues to fight for his life after sheriff’s tasered him at a gas pump nearly three months ago. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Baretto’s legal team has allegedly obtained surveillance footage from a WaWa gas station in Central Florida where the incident took place. The incident shows their client being tackled from behind by one deputy while another hits him with a taser. That taser shot ignited the fire ball that engulfed Barreto and two nearby deputy’s according to the State Fire Marshall. The family and attorney’s of the man say he never committed a crime. At...

Democratic Senators have introduced new gun control legislation that would, among other things, institute a federal license requirement to buy a gun. Democratic New Jersey Senators Bod Menendez and Cory Booker, and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the “Federal Firearm Licensing Act” Thursday. The bill would institute a requirement for gun purchasers to obtain a firearms license through the Department of Justice before buying or receiving a gun. The text of the bill states in part: [It] shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or receive a firearm unless the individual has a valid Federal firearm license. The bill...

Apparently, to Joe Biden, $5.8 million doesn't really amount to "money." That's because he affirmed in a presidential debate with then-President Donald Trump that his son, Hunter, "has not made money" from China. Joe Biden in 2020 insisted Hunter “has not made money” from China. Hunter actually made millions, starting when Joe was VP. Joe Biden lied. pic.twitter.com/nL03U21ysX — Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) May 19, 2022 But, it turns out, Hunter Biden did. Some $5.8 million of "money." From China The confirmation comes from an analysis of Hunter Biden's computer hard drive done by NBC News. The agency found Hunter Biden...

Inflation Fightin’ Fed? Kansas City Fed President Esther George said The Fed isn’t focused on impact of rates on stocks (or pension funds, apparently). The inflation that is crushing Americans is due to energy and food price increases. That is, the non-core inflation. Under Biden, food is up 63%, gasoline is up 92% and diesel prices are up 112%. But The Fed doesn’t consider food and energy prices, per se. If we look at the Taylor Rule considering fighting inflation including food and energy, The Fed would have to raise their target rate to … 21.38%. Now, The Fed can...

U.S Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently asked the public how COVID-19 misinformation "in the digital information environment" had affected health outcomes, trust in the healthcare system and "likelihood to vaccinate," among other issues. According to vaccine and healthcare policy experts who joined with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, the misinformation is coming from inside the house. They filed a comment in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proceeding, accusing the CDC and other health organizations of promoting falsehoods and shoddy research that "shattered the public's trust in science and public health," which will "take decades to repair." Rokita...

The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.” Unfortunately, this is not the case. The world has permanently changed and supply chains are going to face continuing challenges for decades to come. Among those challenges are:◾Supply chains will remain under constant threat of disruption for the next decade ◾Supply chains operate best when the world is peaceful and stable ◾A smoothly running supply chain requires “buffer stock,” which is challenging with declining population demographics ◾There is a conflict between environmental,...

===================================================================== MSNBC guest: "We got to watch out because the Republicans have become the purveyors of misinformation ... the president acknowledged that it’s time to actually start doing things and maybe taking some names and putting people in jail." pic.twitter.com/1ZaCdBADn5 — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 17, 2022 (Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Floating in the Fox News jetsam along with Chris Wallace, last seen scurrying for a dark corner in the rubble of CNN programming, former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron was busy this week trashing his old network and calling for Republicans to be thrown in jail for spreading...

Young girls in America are experiencing puberty at an earlier age than biologists would particularly expect with the average age falling to ten, with black girls undergoing the process a year earlier than their peers on average, experts warn. The phenomena was first detected by Dr Marcia Herman-Giddens, a public health expert at the University of North Carolina, when she began to gather data on more than 17,000 girls in the mid-1990s. She found that the average age of puberty was dropping, falling to ten years old, with some girls developing as early as age six. While there are no...

In Coweta County, Georgia, where former President Donald Trump swept with nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2020, GOP primary voters will voice their opinions on reducing overall legal immigration to the United States. Later this month, on May 24, Coweta County Republican primary voters will head to the polls to cast their votes in the state’s highly-contested gubernatorial race. In Coweta County, primary voters will also be asked about their opinions on the current rate of legal immigration. The question on the county ballot reads: According to federal government statistics, the U.S. adds over 1,000,000 new legal immigrants...

Millions of Americans across the Midwest, Southwest and West are expected to face blackouts throughout the summer months, an industry analysis concluded. A variety of factors, including drought conditions and low wind conditions, are expected to put Americans in roughly 28 states at risk of experiencing blackouts this summer, according to a report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a U.S. regulatory authority, published Wednesday. The region managed by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) across 15 Midwest states is at the highest risk of “energy emergencies” during the summer due to capacity shortfalls, the analysis showed.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that the FDA, which already has a $6 billion budget, didn’t fail to handle the formula shortage because they don’t have enough money, they failed due to “incompetence” within the bureaucracy. McConnell stated [relevant remarks begin around 5:40] that the Biden administration’s response has been “Almost total incompetence. They misjudged this from the beginning. It’s not a matter of money. The FDA has a $6 billion budget. They could certainly take care of the so-called appropriation in the House that they just...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) criticized the Biden administration for lifting some restrictions on Cuba by saying that the day that the policy changes were announced, the Cuban regime put “sweeping, draconian consequences” for free speech into law and that the Biden administration’s move is “a unilateral concession that ultimately was responded to by having a penal code that includes the death penalty for free speech activities.”

On Thursday, during MSNBC’s “All In,” former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted “high-level” prosecutions of people close to former President Donald Trump. When asked about the Department of Justice, Holder said, “After the revelations from the January 6 Committee and the great job that journalists have done in revealing a whole variety of things, I think you get a sense of the direction of this, and I think you are going to end up with high-level prosecutions of people close to Donald Trump. I think people at the Justice Department are going to be examined, certainly, people involved in the...

The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) blamed White supremacy for last week's shooting at a Dallas Korean hair salon, but the suspect charged with carrying out the attack is Black. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, made the claim at a Thursday press conference outside the Capitol that saw House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in attendance. "On Monday, three people in a Korean-owned hair salon in Dallas were gunned by yet another White supremacy replacement theorist," Beatty said to the assembled crowd. In addition to botching the date of the shooting, Beatty got a key detail wrong about the "White...

Americans’ retirement and investment portfolios would suffer under another president, and the economy wouldn’t be as strong as it is now, President Donald Trump said in remarks to reporters after the Labor Department’s jobs report for June. Since November 2016, when Republican Trump claimed a surprise Electoral College win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.75% has risen roughly 45%, the S&P 500 SPX, -0.58% has gained 47% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.26% is up nearly 100%, he said on Thursday. “These are not numbers other presidents would have,” he said, observing that others might...

According to a recent NBC poll, the Walt Disney Company’s net favorability rating has dropped a massive 53 points to a dismal +3 in only a year. According to the survey, only 33% of people polled had a favorable impression of Disney, while 30% had a very poor opinion of the firm, according to NBC. By comparison, Florida Governor DeSantis has a positive rating of 28% and a negative rating of 26%. But comparing Walt Disney, a well-known brand around the world, to a state politician is really an apples to oranges comparison since an entertainment company like Disney should...