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The remedies are agreed upon, but the needed medicine is feared more than the disease. Because today, the government is the cause of our many crises. Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in the process? Or all that and more? Now with the election of...

I wish The Federal Reserve had created only tiny bubbles. But after Bernanke/Yellen’s zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) and Quantitative Sleazing (QE) for too long, we have a monstrous asset bubble in commercial real estate … that is starting to unravel as The Fed raises rates and shrinks their balance sheet. The NCREIF commercial real estate indices are beginning to decline as The Federal Reserve has finally started to raise interest rates and shrinking their balance sheet after being TLFTL (too low for too long). Hotel (blue) and retail (orange) both got crush with the Covid shutdowns. But while the...

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8). Legalism can’t produce a pure heart. By the time Jesus arrived, Israel was in a desperate condition spiritually. The Jewish people were in bondage to the oppressive legalism of the Pharisees, who had developed a system of laws that were impossible to keep. Consequently, the people lacked security and were longing for a savior to free them from guilt and frustration. They knew God had promised a redeemer who would forgive their sins and cleanse their hearts (Ezek. 36:25-27), but they weren't sure when He was coming...

BOZRAH, Conn. (AP) — An estimated 100,000 hens died in a weekend fire at a Connecticut farm owned by one of the country's largest egg producers, Connecticut officials confirmed Monday. It's one of several such fires that have killed millions of chickens around the country over the past decade. The blaze Saturday at the Hillandale Farms property in Bozrah, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Hartford, drew dozens of firefighters from the area and took hours to put out. The cause remains under investigation. No people were injured.

Recently, news broke regarding an explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle, in which approximately 18,000 cows were killed (and one person critically injured). The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the explosion to Fox News Digital and stated that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt. The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire. SNIP Did North Korea hit the farm with a nuke? Were the cattle done in by an asteroid or large meteorite? And...

Florida has somehow become an even more lethal place to live for queer and trans Americans, thanks to the passage of two new bills. The first, SB 1342, stipulates that child sexual abuse and acts of pedophilia may be punishable by the death penalty. The second bill would make it easier for a jury to send the accused to the gallows.

'Children may consent to sex with adults. This has been the plan all along,' social media influencer charges April 17, 2023 7:22am EDT I don’t want any pedophiles to get special treatment: Stefani Lord New Mexico Rep. Stefani Lord discusses how New Mexico lawmakers are proposing a bill that allows chemical castration of sex offenders for parole on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ A shocking report issued by international legal experts with the backing of the United Nations appears to open the floodgates to normalize sex with minors. "Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex...

The federal government's number-one worry is you. Long before the Department of Homeland Security attempted to justify the formal recognition of a "Disinformation Czar" to monitor Americans' speech or news broke that the State Department had been using a foreign organization called the Global Disinformation Index to censor conservative voices here at home, it was clear that the war for free speech had begun. For years, conservative websites struggled to survive financially as shadowbans and stealth blacklisting eliminated advertising revenues and throttled user engagement. Online trolls infiltrated comment sections posting inflammatory content that could be used as false flag justifications...

April also marks one of the most decisive mounted operations of the entire war, and certainly one of the most successful raids. Here I am talking about April 1863, when Union Brigadier General Benjamin H. Grierson with 1,700 Illinois and Iowa cavalrymen rode the almost the full length of the state of Mississippi from north to south, departing LaGrange Tennessee on April 17, and riding into Baton Rouge on May 2.

Love me, love my fentanyl habit. If you’re really a Christian, you’ll accept and embrace my lifestyle, which includes playing Russian roulette.If your church really wants to reach out and offer the Gospel to white racialists, you ought to allow us to wear our Klan hoods and serve as greeters at your church.Do any of those claims rankle with you? Good. They’re meant to.But now I can make it all better. For all those unfashionable, socially unpopular sins above, plug in “gay” or “transgender” sins and their outward trappings.Suddenly you have the official policy of most Mainline Protestant churches. And...

San Francisco is falling into what economists call an 'urban doom loop', essentially a vicious circle of interconnected trends and forces that send cities spiralling into economic and social ruin.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp certified the fraudulent and uncertifiable 2020 Election in Georgia. Then after doing that he somehow pulled off a 2022 primary win. Now he wants to create a new GOP Party that will eliminate permanently anyone threatening the Good Old Boys in the party. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp certified the 2020 Election in the state that was uncertifiable. Hundreds of thousands of ballots showed up after election day in 2020, giving Joe Biden the lead three days after the election by 12,000 votes. Kemp certified these results, no questions asked. At that moment Americans learned that Georgia,...

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, April 16. A dispatch from Gen. PALMER to Maj.-Gen. DIX, just received, states that Gen. FOSTER has been relieved. A river steamer, with a regiment and supplies of provisions and ammunition, succeeded in running the batteries on the Tar River, and reached the wharf at Washington on the 14th. The enemy are still investing Suffolk. Nothing of importance has transpired there to-day. The Richmond Sentinel has the following: "CHARLESTON, Sunday, April 12. The entire iron-clad fleet departed at 3:40 and 4 o'clock for the South. The impression prevails here, however, that they will soon return to renew...

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Chicago's mayor-elect said the city should not demonize the teens who organized a 'Teen Takeover' of the Loop over the weekend, even after the event turned violent with cars burnt cars and minors shot.

EXCLUSIVE: CVS Health's "gender transition guidelines" for employees requires workers to address people by their preferred pronouns and names and that they may use whichever restroom or locker room they wish regardless of whether the individual identifies as transgender. In the guidelines obtained exclusively by FOX Business, employees are told they may be entitled to a medical leave of absence "under the Family and Medical Leave Act, state law, and/or CVS Health policy." Transitioning employees are asked to tell their immediate leaders about their transition so the company "can provide support and to make your transition as smooth as possible."...

The National Education Union (NEU), the largest teachers union in Britain, is calling for schools across the United Kingdom to bring in drag queens to groom children in every school.NEU members voted in favor of a motion that promoting drag queens, along with all kinds of other LGBT indoctrination rituals, in order to combat the “heteronormative culture” pervasive in British schools.“Initiatives like drag queen story time and inviting LGBT+ authors into schools can help challenge the heteronormative culture and curriculum that dominates education,” the motion stated…

Overdoses continue to skyrocket in B.C. seven years after the province declared the drug epidemic a public health emergency. Seven years after the province of British Columbia declared the drug epidemic a public health emergency, and just one month after the decriminalization of all drugs, overdoses continue to skyrocket. According to the Canadian Press, B.C. tragically set three new overdose records this March, just the second month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government allowed the province to decriminalize all drugs starting February 1, 2023... In March, B.C. saw the most overdose calls ever recorded in one day (205), the...

The IRS granted extensions to taxpayers in seven states to file their taxes this year because of federal disaster declarations. Filers in parts of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi have until July 31 to submit forms and payments because of severe storm and tornado damage. The Earth’s warming climate is altering everything from animal migration patterns to when plants bloom. It’s also changing when Americans file taxes: As severe storms and natural disasters worsened by climate change afflict broader swaths of the country, the IRS is issuing more extensions for individuals and businesses to cope with the fallout sooner and pay...

SpaceX is launching Starship – the world's most powerful rocket ever – on its first integrated flight test. The launch window opens at 7 am Central (12:00 UTC). The Booster 7 and Ship 24 Integrated Flight Test will liftoff from Starbase in Texas with a reentry and splashdown near Hawaii.