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"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD" (2 Kings 22:19). Many despise warning and perish. Happy is he who trembles at the Word of God. Josiah did so, and he was spared the sight of the evil which the LORD determined to send upon Judah because of her great sins. Have you this tenderness?...

The classified documents apparently leaked last week detail the weaknesses in the Ukrainian army, specifically shortfalls of ammunition and air defense, according to reports.The Washington Post reported that one of the leaked Pentagon documents detailed that Ukraine’s air defense may not be able to protect the front lines through the end of May. One of the documents included an assessment from February from the Defense Department’s Joint Staff, which said Ukraine’s “ability to provide medium range air defense to protect the [front lines] will be completely reduced by May 23,” according to the Post.The reported classified document also says once...

ON BOARD U.S. STEAMER _____, BELOW WASHINGTON, N.C., Thursday, April 2, 1863. On Monday, the 30th of March, a strong force of rebels, under Gens. HILL and PETTIGREW, marched suddenly on Washington, N.C. There are, as nearly as can be ascertained, about ten thousand of them around the north side of the town, and seven regiments are on the south bank of the Pamlico River. At their first appearance, skirmishers had been sent out by our forces, and were driven back with considerable loss. Two companies of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts marched right into an ambuscade, knowing nothing of it until,...

The credentialed class is ripe for a fall, and nowhere is this more evident than in the media. In a move that is every bit as hilarious as it is accurate, Twitter on April 4 labeled the official NPR account as “US state-affiliated media.” NPR staffers and ideological allies were quick to vent their anger over the apt description. Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk was unfazed. In an April 5 tweet, he highlighted the company’s definition of state-affiliated media as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was winding up for a speech at a Minnesota clean energy facility when he spotted a lawmaker in the crowd whom he wanted to recognize. “I want to thank you for being here,” Biden said, gesturing toward Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar during his recent visit. “You never stop working to level the playing field for everybody.” For Omar, the quick flash of praise from Biden — who was neither her first nor second choice to be the party’s 2020 White House nominee — was more than just a courtesy shout-out during a presidential visit...

The 2023 FIDE World Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan is the most important over-the-board classical event of the year and decides who will be the next world champion. After a record-breaking Candidates Tournament, world number-two Nepomniachtchi faces world number-three Ding Liren in a battle for Magnus Carlsen's throne after the current world champion abdicated his title.

The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.Last year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave the newly-enriched IRS a February 17 deadline for releasing a report detailing how the agency would use its $80 billion cash infusion—the largest in the agency's history—over the next 10 years.The IRS, notoriously keen on imposing deadlines on everyone else, blew past its own, finally releasing the report yesterday—48 days late, for those counting.Unfortunately, very little information of substance was contained within.Though it's talked a big game about improving taxpayer services (customer service will soon become "world class," the agency claims), a paltry $3.2...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 13 people have been shot, two fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. A teen girl was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning on Chicago's South Side, police said. The shooting happened in the Washington Heights neighborhood's 10600 block of South Sangamon Street at about 12:51 a.m., police said. Another teenager was shot and killed Friday evening in the Dunning neighborhood. About 7 p.m., the teen was in the 6700 block of West Belmont Avenue when he got into a verbal altercation with someone who then shot him, according to Chicago police....

I just want bless all of you on this blessed Easter morning. We are all blessed by having Christ rise from His ultimate sacrifice for our sins!

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is getting scorn and backlash for gaslighting the American people. Since three children and three adults were massacred at the Christian school in Nashville. The gaslighting and twisted responses from the White House have been disgraceful and divisive.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is planning some of the most stringent auto pollution limits in the world, designed to ensure that all-electric cars make up as much as 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the country by 2032, according to two people familiar with the matter. That would represent a quantum leap for the United States — where just 5.8% of vehicles sold last year were all-electric — and would exceed President Joe Biden’s earlier ambitions to have all-electric cars account for half of those sold here by 2030. It would be the federal government’s most aggressive climate...

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele has decided not to bring charges against the individual that took part in a deadly shooting that happened in March at the grave of a man who was killed by gun violence ten years prior. In a statement released on Friday, Steele said that an investigation into the shooting that occurred on March 18 at Whitemarsh Memorial Park in Ambler, found that Daniel Hawkins, 29, of Philadelphia, was shot and killed in self-defense. “There is no doubt about who shot and killed Hawkins, so the legal issue to be analyzed is whether this was...

"Community mobilizers" could make as much as $270 by creating a list of 75 people and making sustained efforts to turn out 60 of them to vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Wisconsin lawmaker is questioning whether it was legal for a political action committee to pay people to encourage others to vote for liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the state Supreme Court election in the latest mobilization tactic to raise integrity concerns in the battleground state. Wisconsin Takes Action, a project of Organizing Empowerment PAC, held live Zoom training sessions during the Wisconsin Supreme...

I am planning a trip to Maine , Vermont and New Hampshire in the fall. I'm asking for advice on where to go, a more specific timing, what to see and places to stay. Interested little visited places but just beautiful as the more publicised spots.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 15 The Crucifixion of Jesus21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him....

Multifamily sales in the first quarter of 2023 were roughly $40 billion lower than the previous year ... marking a slowdown in one of the hottest real estate markets amid growing interest rates and banking turmoil. ... Investors acquired just under $14 billion in apartment buildings nationally in the first quarter of this year ... The number represents a 74% year-over-year decline, the largest decrease since the first quarter of 2009, when sales fell 77%.. It was also the lowest sales quarter for the market since early 2020, right after COVID-19 broke out and threw the rental residential market into...

"Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth" (Matt. 5:5). Someday God will reverse the curse and return the earth to His people. God said to Adam and Eve, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth" (Gen. 1:28). But their sin cost them their sovereignty and brought a curse upon the earth (Gen. 3:17-18). The apostle Paul said, "The anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing...

This is not a grassroots movement, either; it’s being orchestrated from the top and no one at the top cares about the lives that will be destroyed. On his Friday night show, Tucker Carlson called “transgender” activists the most dangerous domestic terrorists in America. He’s correct. They are the equivalent of religious fanatics because they have a manic faith that is belied by observable reality, which means they that constantly have to pitch themselves to a high emotional amplitude to override the real world impinging on their faith. The Democrats, from Biden on down, rather than working to tamp down...

God has a preordained plan to deliver us out of our fiery trials. No matter what you are going through, he has a plan tailored for every difficulty, one that could never be conceived by the human mind. For example, take the trials that Israel faced in the desert. There was no bread or food of any kind. What committee could have come up with this idea? “Let’s pray that tomorrow we wake up and discover white flakes of food with a taste of honey covering the ground.” There was no water either, and the hot desert parched their lips....

The Talk Shows Apr 9th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Ben Cardin, D-Md; Kathie Lee Gifford and Rabbi Jason Sobel. Panel: Whine Williams, Josh Kraushaar, Morgan Ortagus and Marc Thiessen.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: James Trusty, a lawyer for Donald Trump; former state Rep. Justin Jones, D-Tenn (expelled by House vote for disrupting the Chamber); Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Panel: Brendan Buck, Laura Jarrett, Amna Nawaz and Symone Sanders-Townsend—just another easily forgotten...