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First reading Ecclesiasticus 27:33-28:9 Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you; and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven Resentment and anger, these are foul things, and both are found with the sinner. He who exacts vengeance will experience the vengeance of the Lord, who keeps strict account of sin. Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven. If a man nurses anger against another, can he then demand compassion from the Lord? Showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sins?...

Democrats are embracing Islam's incompatibility with civilization. Perhaps the primary issue with Muslim immigration into America—beyond the importation of terrorist sleeper cells, that is—is the cultural differences, informed by Sharia, that make Islam fundamentally incompatible with American liberty. Democrats not only don’t care about that, they’re embracing it. The Danbury, Connecticut, City Council recently voted to allow non-citizen legal residents to become police officers, despite their being ineligible under federal law to possess or carry guns. Apparently, the Council is “sending a message” about ICE immigration enforcement. The former Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb Hamtramck took a big step...

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly announced his resignation on X late Monday over concerns that AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." A lot of people have expressed opinions about his point of view, leading to more than 110 million views of the message in less than 24 hours, perhaps helped along by X algorithms that boost messages critical of owner Elon Musk's AI rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI. But the real problem isn't the models themselves, but the companies who carelessly unleash them on the world and don't take any responsibility for what their products do...

The woman behind the fundraiser that has amassed $1.2 million for Lindsay Clancy’s parents is a 42-year-old separated Wisconsin TikTok mom-of-three whose efforts could ultimately enrich the killer mom. Brandee Mulligan — who has no affiliation with 36-year-old Clancy, her ex-husband, Patrick, or her parents, Michael and Paula Musgrove — set up a GoFundMe page last month without speaking to them... “And as a mom, like your heart just goes out to Lindsay,” she said of why she started “The Musgrove Family Fund.” “And I don’t want to focus too much on the Lindsay aspect of it. But I mean,...

Fishers of Men SONG DEVOTIONAL When Jesus called Peter and Andrew, He gave them a simple invitation: "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men." (Mark 1:17) Beloved, from that day on, they left their nets and followed their Good Shepherd, not looking back. Jesus then began to disciple them, transform them, work through them, and after the cross Jesus used them to proclaim His ETERNAL Gospel for His ETERNAL glory to a lost and dying world. That same call is for every blood-bought believer today in Jesus Christ, but how many are willing to leave their...

If you didn’t see Elon Musk explain his vision of the future, you need to. He states that in ten years there will be “well over a billion humanoid robots” whose productivity per robot will be “five times that of a human.” He thinks this is a “conservative” estimate, and would put “serious betting money on” their being “more productive than all humans combined.” How will this happen? Musk says once you start making robots, “the robots will start manufacturing other robots, so you get a recursive effect. It starts slowly, but then grows at an explosive rate.” Necessity sparks...

Democrats are using every means possible to keep pushing the can down the road to buy time, but there is no time left to return integrity to America’s elections. The SAVE America Act, which would have cleaned the rolls and secured the elections, passed the House and is dead in the Senate. House and Senate recesses used up the calendar. Trump then tried to do by executive order what the Senate refused to do by statute: requiring proof of citizenship, a reliable federal voter list, and limits on mailed ballots. Election officials in fraud-prone areas, however, refuse to produce the...

An Ohio man has been convicted of trying to kill his ex-wife, whom he allegedly attempted to shoot while she was dining with her family at a Toledo restaurant last year. The incident was captured on surveillance video. Dig deeper: Matthew Exton, 43, a former attorney, was having a drink at Souk restaurant on April 11, 2025, when he saw his ex-wife, Kada Malone, dining with her parents at the nearby Italian restaurant Sabira, according to the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office. Exton entered Sabira, ordered a drink for Malone's table, spat in the family's direction and left. Surveillance video shows...

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...Blessed Are Those Who Read This Book’ The book of Revelation is the only book in the Bible where we are told twice: “Blessed are those who read this book.” If you want to be blessed, you should read and study the book of Revelation, because the Bible promises that if you do, you will be blessed. And I surely have. I’ve learned so much about God’s sovereignty and His wonderful promise to us through the study of the Word. I know that He’s still in charge even though everything else looks like it’s going south on us....

A Canadian woman comes here with her sister on a visa and mocks Charlie Kirk's murder, takes selfies of herself standing on our flag and gets doxxed by Americans incensed at her vile posts. Gets notified by ICE that she is to be deported Monday. And she lost her job................ Many other as well detailed in Angel's video.....

Chutz-POW! A host of rabbis recently participated in a five-day “summer camp” featuring extensive firearms training as Jewish leaders from across the US prepared for the High Holidays. The pilot program, run by Los Angeles-based Jewish security organization Magen Am USA, brought together 20 Chabad Hasidic rabbis from 12 states for an intensive crash course designed to help them respond to potential threats at their synagogues and in their communities. The program, which also included emergency medicine and security training, took place in August in Los Angeles. It came as Jewish communities across California and the country grapple with heightened...

The failures that led to 9/11 remain unaddressed to this day. uch has been written about 9/11 on the 25th anniversary of this attack on our soil. To my mind, the most prescient was by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Tablet Magazine. Before I get to it (and I hope you will take time to read more than I can summarize here), we need to review failures that led to the attack and failures that followed. In this regard, we are aided by this week’s CIA declassification of 71 Presidential Daily Briefs from 1998 through December 2001. SHOCKING DECLASSIFIED CIA FILES...

Chauffeurs ferrying wealthy clients around London are being trained how to keep their passengers safe at one of the capital's busiest transport hubs, the Daily Mail can reveal. Regarded as one of the UK's most iconic stations, King's Cross and its neighbours, St Pancras International and King's Cross St Pancras Underground, have become a hotspot for Algerian gangs, luggage thieves and phone snatchers. Just last week, footage emerged of a smartly dressed thief brazenly snatching an influencer's Louis Vuitton suitcase – worth an estimated £2,600 – from a taxi rank outside the stations. Elsewhere outside St Pancras, an Algerian gang...

The Talk Shows Sep 13th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox; democrat socialist candidate for Michigan Senator Abdul El-Sayed; new polling with Anthony Salvanto. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett; Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R), North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D); democrat then independent then Republican “activist” Lindy Li. Panel: Mollie Hemingway, Philip Wegmann and Juan Williams. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Speaker...

The centre-left opposition holds a narrow lead over the ruling right-wing bloc but Prime ⁠Minister Ulf Kristersson's four-party alliance – which includes the far right Sweden Democrats – has been catching up in the final weeks of campaigning.

[Note: Catching up for yesterday] Explanation: Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon. It was taken on July 20, 1969, by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first to walk on the lunar surface. Pictured is the mission's lunar module, the Eagle, and spacesuited lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin is unfurling a long sheet of foil also known as the Solar Wind Composition Experiment. Exposed facing the Sun, the foil trapped particles streaming outward in the solar wind, catching a sample of material from the Sun itself. Along with 22...

She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her. She was also a Nazi. The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the strange story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who hid out undetected for years in New York, before finally being caught. Director Ben Shirinian’s film, starring a Stepford-style Naomi Watts as Ryan, is just OK. The drama is often overplayed. Watts, with a store-bought sauerkraut accent, has been stuck in schmactor mode lately. And...

We All Shook the Hell Out of This Thing There are certain toys that instantly transport me back to being a kid, and the Etch A Sketch is way up there. That chunky red frame, the two white knobs, and that little gray screen where I’d spend ten minutes creating something vaguely squarish, then make one catastrophic wrong turn, and immediately shake the entire thing into oblivion. Annoying, sure. But it still felt like magic.

"Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth" (Eph. 6:14). Truthfulness is the best defense against Satan’s lies. The first piece of armor Paul mentions in Ephesians 6:14 is the belt of truth. Roman soldiers of his day wore a tunic, which was a large square piece of material with holes for the head and arms. A belt kept the tunic from flying loosely and getting in the way in the midst of battle. The phrase "having girded your loins" was commonly used for gathering up the loose material of one's tunic or robe when preparing for battle or...