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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/21/26)[Prayer]Personalities2 Samuel 7:18-29 David’s Prayer 18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? 19 And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign Lord, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this decree, Sovereign Lord, is for a mere human![c] 20 “What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Sovereign Lord. 21 For the sake of your word and...

A charter plane has crashed at a remote site in western Alaska, killing all eight people onboard, according to reports. The aircraft went down on Thursday, Aug. 20, at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, which is around 450 miles west of Anchorage, according to the Associated Press (AP). Two pilots and six passengers were onboard the plane, Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)’s Alaskan chief, told the outlet. Johnson said the plane had taken off from Anchorage and was believed to have crashed while traveling to Cape Newenham. “This is a devastating loss for our military...

Americans traditionally understood that what they owned was theirs, not the government’s. Yet, over the last century, that principle has steadily eroded—from gold confiscation to civil asset forfeiture to proposed wealth taxes. The emerging principle is stark: Your property is yours only to the extent that the State allows you to keep it.Preliminarily, what does it mean to own something? In America, the traditional answer was straightforward: it meant that the property was yours—not the government’s—and that the State had no claim to it unless you forfeited it through a criminal act or the government seized it through eminent domain...

Morgan Stanley has picked Dallas for a major expansion of its banking empire outside New York City — accelerating Wall Street’s migration to Texas following the election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned. The financial giant plans to relocate up to 4,800 jobs to the state by 2031, passing over Alpharetta, Georgia, according to municipal filings reviewed by The Post. The firm will anchor a new $1.3 billion, 709,000-square-foot skyscraper in the fast-growing Texas metropolis known to financiers as “Y’all Street”. The Wall Street behemoth led by CEO Ted Pick — which began exploring options outside the Big...

"[Love] does not take into account a wrong suffered" (1 Cor. 13:5). If you love someone, you won’t keep a record of their offenses. It is reported that when the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they couldn't find a word in their language for forgiveness. They had to combine a series of shorter words into one compound word: Issumagijoujungnainermik. Although the word appears formidable, its meaning is beautiful, being translated: "Not-being-able-to-think-about-it-anymore." You've probably noticed that unforgiving people usually have good memories. Some can hold a grudge for a lifetime. But love never keeps a record of wrongs committed...

0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229 Woo hoo! 👏🏻 A Texas constable just unplugged every Flock surveillance camera in his county and told the company to come get its garbage out of a free society. Hood County Precinct 2 Constable John Shirley refused to wait for another empty study or corporate promise. He and his team went out, disconnected the entire network of license-plate readers, covered them, and shut the system down cold. “Today is a good day for the Freedom of the people of Hood County,” he posted. He explained that he had finished the job of shutting down the county’s Flock...

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Former first lady Jill Biden doubled down on the possibility of her husband, former President Joe Biden, being drugged ahead of the 2024 debate and was asked during a podcast Thursday whether doctors ruled out a stroke that night. Podcast host Jamie Kern Lima asked Biden if a stroke was ruled out by doctors the night of the debate. “Well, they did. They said, I mean, I didn’t say to them, when I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn’t say, ‘God, did Joe have a stroke?’ I just said, ‘Is he OK? Is he OK?'” Biden...

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New Jersey Right to Life (NJRTL) strongly condemns Governor Mikie Sherrill’s decision to sign S2260 into law. This legislation grants sweeping legal immunity to abortion providers and erects new barriers against accountability for activities the state now broadly labels “reproductive health care,” shielding them from certain investigations, legal actions, and records requests originating outside New Jersey. “Governor Sherrill just signed a blank check for the abortion industry and a death warrant for countless unborn children with beating hearts, and she did it despite thousands of emails from New Jersey residents urging her to veto this bill,” said NJRTL Executive Director...

Police are searching for two suspects caught on video Friday violently attacking a man who works to serve the homeless in San Bernardino, sending him to the hospital. Greg Medina said he was just relaxing in his jacuzzi when he was assaulted, and the attack was completely random and unprovoked. He’s hoping someone might recognize the suspects to bring them to justice. He didn’t get a good look at them but said he believes they’re either teens or young adults. “I could have lost consciousness or I could have been hurt a lot worse and drowned,” he said.

Democrats have largely subverted the mainstream media, reducing it to a party propaganda organ. Yet journalism will continue to be an impediment to their consolidation of power, so long as independent journalists like Nick Shirley let people know what is going on. So California came up with the Stop Nick Shirley Act in response to the political earthquake he caused by revealing Democrat-sanctioned Somali fraud in Minnesota. As California State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio observed, “If this bill becomes law, the message is clear to every journalist in California: expose corruption and you will be punished.” Democrats have crossed the Rubicon...

State Sen. Aisha Wahab won the special election Thursday to complete former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term, overcoming more than $5 million in outside spending favoring her opponent and becoming the first Afghan American elected to Congress. Wahab widened her lead over BART Board President Melissa Hernandez to 53% to 47% in the latest returns. Wahab had 51,610 votes to Hernandez’s 45,598, an insurmountable margin with just 255 ballots left to cure. Wahab will complete Swalwell’s term, which expires in January, before facing Hernandez again Nov. 3 for a full two-year term... The race tightened dramatically after outside political groups poured...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Pius X, PopeWhen the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Matthew 22:34–36Today’s Gospel takes place during the final week of Jesus’ public ministry, shortly after His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the crowds acclaimed Him as the Messiah, the Son of David. As the week progressed, Jesus faced an onslaught of confrontations from various religious authorities: the chief priests and elders, the Pharisees and Herodians, the...

Nine Democrat Massachusetts state representatives stood up to 123 of their party colleagues by voting against a bill legalizing abortion up until the moment of birth. Now that Democrat Governor Maura Healy has signed the bill into law, some of them are beginning to speak out publicly. Even though the bill was fated to pass due to the overwhelming Democrat supermajority in the state’s House, the nine Democrats, at least one of whom is pro-abortion, voted against removing Massachusetts restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks. On Monday, August 10, Gov. Healy signed the bill into law. In interviews with Fox...

New Black Panther Party national chairwoman Krystal Muhammad celebrates Judge John Roach’s recusal outside the Collin County Courthouse and demands convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony’s release. New Black Panther Party national chairwoman Krystal Muhammad celebrated the removal of the judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, and immediately demanded that the convicted killer be released from prison. Standing outside the Collin County Courthouse following Wednesday’s recusal hearing, Muhammad erupted into chants of “Black Power” as Anthony’s supporters celebrated the procedural victory. “Black Power. It’s about goddamn time. Our power to the people. That’s the first step. Now we need for...

Hold onto your ectoplasm, folks, because Insidious: Out of the Further is a towering, terrifying triumph of modern horror! A landmark of modern supernatural cinema! A pulse-pounding thrill ride into The Further that will leave you screaming for more! A masterpiece of terror! A spine-tingling, seat-jumping, popcorn-spilling rollercoaster of frights that’ll have you sleeping with the lights on forever! This is the film The Sixth Sense wishes it could be.It’s a beguiling film that leans into spectacle without surrendering its core pulse: fear tethered to longing, peril braided with pathos. If you’ve followed the series, you’ll recognize the familiar grooves...

The church, whose earliest accounts are recorded in the book of Acts, was established by Jesus and given a Great Commission (see Matthew 28:18-20) to continue His work in the world. Taken seriously, what would the world look like if the church does its job? Does the ministry of pregnancy help offer a reflection of that work? Reports from of a resurgence in faith from Christian research organization Barna Group versus Pew Research Center showing a slowing and leveling off in the decline of Christianity, both from 2025, may not align, but both offer encouragement. News reports covering anecdotal trends...