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A congregation is in shock after a beloved religious leader was shot in the head while preaching on a Glendale street corner on Wednesday night. He has life-threatening injuries. It happened on the northwest corner of 51st and Peoria Avenues around 6 p.m. Friends say Hans Schmidt was standing with a megaphone, preaching the gospel to people passing by, something he’d apparently done countless times before. Only this time, someone pulled out a gun and shot him. Friends and family can’t understand why. “Who knows why someone would want to take it out on a preacher like that because he’s...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 14The Return to Antioch in Syria 21 They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, 22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. 23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders[a] for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. 24 After going through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia, 25...

This week we’ve been treated to three government reports that all point in the same direction: Disaster. Interest payments are through the roof. Real wages continue to fall. And a record number of illegals crossed the border. That’s just the domestic news. As of this writing, Americans are being held hostage by Iran-supported Hamas terrorists who killed nearly two dozen other Americans when they invaded Israel. Our military forces face increasing Iranian-sponsored attacks in Iraq and Syria. While President Joe Biden lets Iran off the sanctions hook for another four months. The worry isn’t just whether Biden – the architect...

Graham reminds the leaders that 'God’s Word works, doesn’t come back void' Reverend Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, is in Israel this week, where he has been meeting with leaders of the hardest hit communities from the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists. Graham is the first major Evangelical leader to visit Israel since the invasion. On Wednesday evening, after a packed schedule of meetings with various leaders in Israel, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Rev. Graham met with a group of pastors and leaders of congregations from across the nation of...

The pro-Palestinian protests over the last month, where tens of thousands in the US have chanted for the end of Israel, are not merely a story of organic rage. They are also funded in large part by an uber-wealthy American-born tech entrepreneur, Neville Roy Singham, and his wife, Jodie Evans. [cut] “I decided that at my age and extreme privilege, the best thing I could do was to give away most of my money in my lifetime,” said Singham, now 69, in a statement after selling his company (for $785 million), according to a New York Times investigation in August....

Taylor Swift is already making a major mark in Brazil. One day before the 33-year-old singer is set to start her three-night stint at Rio De Janeiro's Estádio Nilton Santos as part of her Eras Tour, her famous "Junior Jewels" T-shirt was projected onto the Christ the Redeemer statue. The T-shirt became a popular recreation for fans after Swift wore it in her music video for "You Belong With Me," which appeared on her album, Fearless. The album was released in 2008, and Swift put out her version of it in 2021. While the shirt reads "Junior Jewels" in the...

The Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recently finalized guidance detailing how financial institutions should manage “climate-related financial risks.” This action, tracking with international efforts to incorporate climate-change considerations into prudential regulation and even monetary policy, is just the latest example of President Joe Biden’s “whole-of-government” approach to climate change. The climate guidance will not only be a drag on economic growth—as newly empowered regulators leverage it to push financial institutions’ capital away from disfavored activities like fossil-fuel development and toward less productive uses—but will also fail to buttress...

The extreme left-wing, anti-Israel handful of Representatives called "The Squad" is not happy that they may face serious election challenges. In response to the AIPAC political spending news, Omar asked her followers on social media to help the so-called Squad "build a grassroots effort to defeat" Republican aligned SuperPACs. Progressive House lawmakers in the so-called Squad criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for reportedly committing to spend $100 million to defeat them. According to a report from Slate, Democratic Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, and...

On September 25, 2023, I received an email notifying me that a previously accepted abstract, and the panel in which it was to be presented, were now being cancelled. The email came from the presidents of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA). The reason given for the cancellation, which made news around the world and was even covered in the New York Times, was that talks discussing the importance of binary biological sex as a research variable in anthropology would supposedly “cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community...

"If the administration does not believe Israel is committing war crimes," as several dozen State and USAID employees reportedly allege, "should it push to censor its own dissenting diplomats?" law professor asks. Et tu, USAID? The Biden administration's wide-ranging efforts against purported mis-, dis- and mal-information – through federal agencies, allied private organizations and the power of the purse – blew back on the president this week. More than 100 employees of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, which have a close relationship, reportedly signed an internal memo accusing President Biden of "spreading misinformation" about Hamas' Oct....

Four seats held by progressives were won by candidates running on an anti-crime platform. Two others are still up for grabs, with another vacancy to be filled next year by the next City Council. Including Councillor-at-large Sara Nelson, who wasn’t up for a vote this year, moderates will now hold at least five of nine seats on what was arguably the most progressive City Council in America before this vote. Joy Hollingsworth campaigned on hiring more police and beat progressive Alex Hudson 53% to 47%. The seat was formerly held by radical socialist Kshama Sawant. Rob Saka campaigned on “bringing...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday that he hoped President Vladimir Putin would run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep Putin in power until at least 2030. -snip- Asked by the student television channel of Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) what the next president after Putin should be like, Peskov said: "The same." "Or different but the same," Peskov told MGIMO 360 with a smile. "Putin has not yet announced his intention to run but I sincerely want to believe that he will do...

The thrill has gone from all the BIG spending bills from Biden. After its surprising bounce last month (on a seasonally-adjusted basis, because it crashed NSA), US Industrial Production was expected to decline 0.3% MoM in October. It was worse – down 0.6% MoM from a downwardly revised September print (from +0.3% to +0.1%). October’s decline is the worst since Dec 2022 and the YoY drop of 0.8% is the worst since the COVID lockdowns. AND Federal stimulypto is wearing off (M2 Money growth surge peaked in February 2021, but has slowed into negative growth starting in August 2022. Notably,...

On Saturday, 18 November, the city of Houston will host a gun buyback event. The event will be held at Westchase Park and Ride, 11050 Harwin Drive, Houston, from 8 a.m. to Noon. No questions will be asked of people turning in guns for gift cards. The event is funded with American Rescue Plan money, part of the 1.6 trillion dollar Biden Administration spending, which is driving inflation. $50 will be offered for guns that do not work$100 for working rifles or shotguns$150 for working handguns$200 for semi-automatic riflesNo “Ghost Guns” or pellet guns will be accepted.Houston has already had...

When Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham suggested he go one-on-one in a debate with 2024 rival Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis replied, “Count me in!” “I’d like to see Ron DeSantis versus Nikki Haley. ‘The Angle’ volunteers our show as a platform,” Ingraham said Wednesday. “And the two of them, I think, need to debate it out, Haley in recent weeks has emerged as a growing threat to DeSantis, “He [DeSantis] will debate Nikki Haley. He is set to debate Gavin Newsom. And if Trump finds the courage, Ron DeSantis will debate him too,” Griffin continued. The Hill reached...

U.S. energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden's pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green energy.

We are currently in a fiscal inferno under Biden/Yellen. And US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is just a girl who can’t say no … to big government spending. In fact, Congress and the Biden (mis) Administration are spending like the proverbial drunk sailors in port. US national debt is up to $33.7 TRILLION. That transates to $259,103 per taxpayer. With US debt to GDP of 138%! Now, HERE IS THE REAL BAD NEWS! Unfunded promises that politicians made to Americans (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) now stands at $211.6 TRILLION. That equates to $629,000 per citizen. Maybe that should be...

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." ☰ Mark 2 1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. 2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room...

General Motors (GM) faces an unprecedented EV crisis as CEO Mary Barra unexpectedly halts EV production and scraps most electric plans. This abrupt move has reverberated across the automotive landscape. The primary reason? A significant lack of demand. Dealerships are overwhelmed with nearly 92,000 unsold EVs, posing a daunting challenge.

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