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“Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?’ And Jesus said to them, ‘The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they?’” (Matthew 9:14–15). Religious ritual and routine, if not handled appropriately, will always threaten true godliness. Some practices, such as praying to saints or lighting candles for the dead, are heretical. But even biblical practices, when their forms become the center of attention, can become barriers to true righteousness. Church attendance, Bible reading, saying grace before meals,...

A former Suffolk County prosecutor and radical criminal justice activist, Adam Foss, 42, was indicted on charges of rape by a District Attorney’s Office of Manhattan on Tuesday. Foss, who is from Los Angeles, is facing two first-degree charges of rape and sexual abuse that he allegedly committed against a 25-year-old woman in October 2017 in a Manhattan hotel room while she was sleeping.

The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already bloated censorship operations. Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu screeched in an Aug. 14 story headlined: “On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms.” Hsu mourned that the Chinese Communist Party-tied platform’s “poor track record during recent voting abroad does not bode well for elections in the U.S., researchers said.” In fact, fretted Hsu, TikTok is supposedly “shaping up to be a primary incubator of baseless and misleading information, in many ways as problematic as...

Merrick Garland’s ‘runaway train’ creating a constitutional crisis — just to stop Trump — is the big crazy on Insanity Wrap. Welcome to an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow medicated news capsule. Plus: Festival organizers shut down little girl’s lemonade stand. Scottish government officially puts the “men” in “menstruate.” The automaker bailout that dares not speak its name. Before we get to today’s big story, here’s a short video to make you lose whatever little faith you might still have in humanity. (TIK TOK VIDEO) Let’s just give a quick hope or prayer that...

WILSON, Wyo. — For much of the morning at the place where Liz Cheney was expected to cast a vote for herself in Tuesday’s Republican primary, there were more reporters than voters waiting to cast ballots. Yet at times, the line to enter the barn-red community center in Wilson — a wealthy, mostly white enclave of fewer than 2,000 people at the base of the Teton Pass — extended nearly to the street. Longtime residents said they had never seen anything like it. The voters who rode up to the city’s lone polling site in elite performance bicycles, Teslas and...

Video description: On MetroFocus, Jenna Flanagan talks to the woman who created the polarizing “Marry Your Baby Daddy Day” mass wedding initiative, and talks to one couple who participated, over ten years later. How did marriage affect their relationship and what potential benefits can marriage have for all couples? All of this and more in this special Chasing the Dream segment.

It’s fascinating that most of us who consider such things have inevitably thought of the person of the Antichrist as coming out of the ranks of the elites. Why would we do this? Probably because we figure that anyone rising to such influence must have some base of power to begin with. Think about some of the candidates that have been put forth for this remarkable end-times position as the man who will rule the earth during the Tribulation. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, is a popular figure whom many point toward as the Man of Sin. After all, didn’t...

The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable much farther south than usual. The two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), eruptions of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere known as the corona, burst from the sun on Aug. 14 and 15 respectively, according to the U.K. forecaster Met Office (opens in new tab). As the CMEs cross the 900,000-mile (150 million kilometers) distance between the star and our planet, they might cannibalize each other, according to SpaceWeather.com (opens in new tab), creating a single super powerful CME....

Attorney General Merrick Garland has a negative favorability rating among voters, and more think he’s doing a worse, not better, job than most who’ve held his job in the past, a new Rasmussen survey reveals. Just 36% of likely voters nationwide say they have a favorable impression of Garland, compared to 42% who view him unfavorably, including 32% with a “very unfavorable” opinion of him. Another 21% say they’re “not sure.” While 60% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Garland, and 59% of Democrats have a favorable one, Independent voters skew more sour on the attorney general than the...

Germany plans to postpone the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it braces for a possible shortage of energy this winter after Russia throttled gas supplies to the country, said German government officials. Mr. Scholz hinted at the decision last week, saying for the first time that it could make sense to keep Germany’s last three nuclear reactors online. Mothballed coal plants have already been brought back online to prevent energy blackouts after Russia slashed gas supplies in June, a decision that will complicate Berlin’s plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce air pollution.

BREAKING: DHS Whistleblower LEAKS Joint Intelligence Bulletin on ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’ Veritas Video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9-rU3nMm4 Run Time 2 min 20 sec.

I think this was released about half an hour ago. Shows it is live, but I think it may be pre-recorded from the other day.

Explanation: Does the Earth ever pass through a wind of meteors? Yes, and they are frequently visible as meteor showers. Almost all meteors are sand-sized debris that escaped from a Sun-orbiting comet or asteroid, debris that continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun. Circling the same Sun, our Earth can move through an orbiting debris stream, where it can appear, over time, as a meteor wind. The meteors that light up in Earth's atmosphere, however, are usually destroyed. Their streaks, though, can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant. The featured image...

Liberal billionaire Bill Gates embarked on a campaign to woo Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in an attempt to gain his support for President Joe Biden’s massive climate bill, according to a new report. A new Bloomberg Green report exposed a years-long behind-the-scenes pressure campaign by Gates to influence the senator into supporting his leftist climate agenda. Recently, when it appeared that Manchin was set to sink massive left-wing legislative efforts that included “climate or tax provisions” last month, Bloomberg Green said that Gates “felt he had to give one of the nation’s most powerful lawmakers a little pep talk,” referring...

Ukrainian pilot has been killed in combat while fighting against Russian forces, just days after he was honoured for his bravery by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Major Anton Lystopad, who was awarded the title of the best pilot of Ukraine's air force in 2019, died in action. His death comes just days after Lystopad was honoured by Zelensky with the prestigious award, the Order of Courage, 3rd class, for his 'courage, bravery and professionalism'.

Tax collectors and federal cops have always been rotten to the core. There's no doubt that both the FBI and IRS are having a tough moment with the public. Perceptions that the national police agency is at war with half of the population have eroded its standing, while Biden administration plans to super-size the tax-collection agency further sour public perceptions of that never-popular arm of government. It might all be very depressing if you work in the public sector, or you could say that Americans are finally gaining a more realistic assessment of deeply flawed federal enforcers. Over the past...

In LACAG’s last submission on election reform, we linked to the testimony of Alex Halderman before the Louisiana Voting System Commission on December 13, 2021 regarding the acute vulnerabilities of Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) used by 90% of American citizens to vote. Halderman testified that BMDs can be electronically hacked, and votes can be remotely switched from one candidate or proposition to another, without being detected by election officials. Halderman testified that bad cyber actors have tried, and continue to try, to electronically manipulate our votes. Halderman is joined by other prominent cyber-security experts like Andrew Appel of Princeton, Richard...

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga declared the results of the election “null and void” and promised to challenge them in court, ignoring calls for him to concede to declared winner William Ruto. Ruto was named the winner of last week’s election by Wafula Chebukati, chair of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), on Monday — an announcement marred with allegations of vote-rigging and dissent among commission members over the close-fought race. His statement raises the specter of violence between his supporters and the winner’s, which has marred past elections. So far, aside from scattered protests, Kenya has been quiet...

A thread for tonight's elections

San Francisco police identified children ages 11, 13, and 14 as suspects in the brutal beating and robbery of an elderly woman caught on video late last month. The fourth suspect — an 18-year-old male — also was identified, but the 11-year-old suspect is too young to be charged, police said in a press release. What's the background? Surveillance video of the horrifying July 31 attack on the 70-year-old woman showed that at one point she was actually kicked squarely in the face while she was already on the lobby floor of her residential building. What's more, when she tried...