Saturday, January 31, 2026

Christ Our Hope in Life and Death

 
Christ Our Hope in Life and Death 
Keith and Kristyn Getty, Matt Papa

What is our hope in life and death?
Christ alone, Christ alone.
What is our only confidence?
That our souls to him belong.
Who holds our days within his hand?
What comes, apart from his command?
And what will keep us to the end?
The love of Christ, in which we stand.

O sing hallelujah!
Our hope springs eternal;
O sing hallelujah!
Now and ever we confess
Christ our hope in life and death.

What truth can calm the troubled soul?
God is good, God is good.
Where is his grace and goodness known?
In our great Redeemer’s blood.
Who holds our faith when fears arise?
Who stands above the stormy trial?
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh
Unto the shore, the rock of Christ?

Unto the grave, what shall we sing?
“Christ, he lives; Christ, he lives!”
And what reward will heaven bring?
Everlasting life with him.
There we will rise to meet the Lord,
Then sin and death will be destroyed,
And we will feast in endless joy,
When Christ is ours forevermore.

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Friday, January 30, 2026

The hour has come for you to wake from sleep...

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. -Romans 13:11-12

We have the means to evangelize our country; but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.  -John Stott

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Trump States Gaining Population As High-Tax States Lose People, New Census Data Show  Low-tax, Republican-leaning states are gaining people, while higher-tax, Democrat-leaning states are losing them, according to new domestic migration data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

If New York residents, especially those in New York City, get so little in return, where does all that money go?  Not to better roads, not to education, not to the quality of life, not to assist those who are truly needy.  Somehow it simply vanishes — but into whose pockets?

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California’s Oil Refining System Has Collapsed, and One Region Is Ground Zero  Oil remains central to transportation, freight, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and the petrochemical feedstocks embedded in clothing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and sanitation.
   Anyone who has worked around infrastructure understands this. Concrete does not pour itself. Steel does not fabricate itself. Heavy equipment does not run on intentions. Supply chains do not move on declarations.
    Even the “clean energy” economy depends on petroleum. Wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and grid infrastructure all rely on petroleum-based materials and global shipping. And even if electrification accelerates, California still lacks the transmission capacity to move sufficient power to population centers.

Trump's Energy Policies Saved Lives During Harsh Winter Storms  But this storm, as bad as it was, could have been a lot worse if the Biden administration had gotten its way. It ordered five major coal plants to close as part of its green energy agenda, and taking those power plants offline would have spelled disaster for millions of Americans.
   Thankfully, the Trump administration kept them open.


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Democrats Have Become The "Useful Idiots" Of Globalist/Marxist Forces Bent On Destroying Western Civ  Okay, those are the players outside the USA fomenting revolution among us. The picture, though, is woefully incomplete without America’s Democratic Party, which activates and amplifies the dynamic inside the USA. The Democrats are hostages of the outside forces, but they are not innocent hostages. They are hostage also to their own demonic greed — for power and riches. The Democratic Party has engineered itself into a colossal racketeering operation, a criminal organization, a mafia.

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The Data Is In — and the Narrative Is Wrong:  Consumer confidence, demographics, and falling inflation gird the Trump economy   The combination of solid wage growth, low inflation, a confident consumer, and a labor market that remains fundamentally healthy — despite requiring fewer monthly job additions due to demographic shifts — suggests the economic expansion should continue at a healthy pace in 2026. And this is without factoring in the stimulus coming in the first half of 2026 from the Trump tax cuts, continued tariff revenue, and two likely additional interest rate cuts from the Fed this year.

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The New Monroe Doctrine: Buckle Up — This Is Where It Gets Real  But tonight, I want to focus on something that is going to happen this year beyond those two headline-grabbing situations. I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but a large portion of the Western Hemisphere is taking a big swing to the right. People are sick of socialism and leftist policies. Countries like Bolivia, Chile, and Honduras have elected United States-aligned and, in some cases, Trump-like candidates in recent months.

Panama boots China from Panama Canal in another victory for Trump’s Monroe Doctrine revival  Panama’s Supreme Court decision to force out a Chinese port operator caps the Trump administration’s year-long effort to oust China from the strategic waterway

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Mother Testifies She Consented to Daughter’s Transgender Surgery Over Fears for the Teen’s Life  Varian’s attorneys have suggested that she actually had body dysmorphia, an irrational obsession with a flaw or part of one’s anatomy. They allege that the health care professionals did not give enough consideration to her host of other problems: depression, autism, social phobia, anxiety, and anorexia.
Deacon said she was never fully on board with the procedure and initially told Einhorn that “it was never gonna happen” if she had any say in the matter. This led to many “heated discussions” with the psychologist.
  “This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” she said.

HHS Ends Biden Rule Mandating Pharmacies Dispense Abortion Drugs  Trump’s HHS also scrapped the Biden administration’s use of the term “pregnant person,” pointing out the fact that “only women and girls can be pregnant.”

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Thursday, January 29, 2026

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit...

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.   
-Luke 10:21

It is almost always a mistake to recruit exceptional people for leadership; look for ordinary Christians—that is mostly what you have anyway. But prize them, value them. And appoint them as leaders.  -Eugene H. Peterson

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Mamdani Restricts ‘Gifted’ Student Program Despite Parental Advocate Objections  Commie Mamdani plans to eliminate the program at the kindergarten level and move the lowest grade entry for it up to third grade, the UK Daily Mail reported. This will prevent more than 2,000 students from accessing the special program at the earliest educational level. Parental advocacy group Defending Education, which previously helped win a legal case to keep the gifted and talented program in place, is condemning the move.

In Mamdani’s worldview, core American values are set aside. Individual rights give way to notions of “social” or group justice -- largely foreign to the American tradition. New Yorkers are urged to jettison the “frigidity of rugged individualism” for the supposed “warmth of collectivism”.
   Equality, as he understands it, no longer denotes equality before the law or of opportunity, but redistribution enforced by the state. The approach finds expression in forthcoming “rental rip off” tenant tribunals aimed at landlords.

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Bad Week for Woke Florida Nurses As State's AG and Surgeon General Give Two the 'Find Out' Treatment  In a since-deleted post on social media, Martindale said, "I will not perform anesthesia for any su rgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!" 
   Martindale later said that his Facebook account was hacked.

This week, X has seen chilling videos of nurses saying terrifying things about what they would do to ICE agents should ICE agents come under their care. One of our readers here, a personal friend of mine, sent this account of what happened to her. I’ve slightly anonymized it, for her safety... 
Read her chilling account...

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Canada’s euthanasia program is turning into an organ harvesting nightmare  So the potential for organ harvesting – the potential for crossing that line from offering MAID to promoting it as the next step in Canada’s healthcare system – is massive. For those requiring an organ transplant and unwilling to be placed on a waiting list, a new liver or kidneys is more valuable than a lottery win or a box of precious metals.
   The MAID program in Canada has gradually expanded over the years and was on the verge of including the mentally ill, the addicted and even children to its list of those “eligible” for the procedure. The Liberal government at the time paused that expansion, given the pushback from many healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, who suggested depression might just be a temporary affliction and something that can be overcome with therapy less invasive and lethal than doctor-assisted suicide.

Is Assisted Suicide as Peaceful, Dignified, and Humane as Advertised? In a word, no. But people want so badly to believe otherwise, 

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Hillary Clinton’s actions show the extent to which the Minneapolis riots are being supported from the top down by key figures in the Democratic Party. These riots are not organic. Many of the groups involved have benefited from federal, state and city funding. Their nonprofits have been protected from interference within the IRS despite their involvement in illegal activities.


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Trump, two sons, Trump Org sue IRS, Treasury for $10 billion over tax records leak  “The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets,” a spokesman for Trump’s legal team said. Image

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American Teachers, Education Officials Attend Confucius Institute Conference In China Banned For Communist Propaganda  The 2025 World Chinese Language Conference reveals that, despite public scrutiny, American school officials, U.S. Confucius Institute personnel, and students tied to American education programs are still engaging directly with Beijing’s language-influence machinery.
      British universities are doing the same.

Our Neighbor to the North Enters Into a Perilous Partnership With China Mark Carney sought to build a “new strategic partnership” with Beijing and, in doing so, sacrificed security, democracy, and freedom for Canada and its allies.

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While Disney Drifts, 'DAVID' Reminds Us What Animated Storytelling Can Be The cast is impressive, including veteran character actor Brian Stivale as the prophet Samuel, Brandon Engman as young David, and worship leader Phil Wickham as adult David. Wickham’s soundtrack, featuring songs by the estimable Marty Goetz and his daughter, Misha Hoyt, has spent three weeks in the top 10 of Billboard’s Christian Albums Chart.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Prayer is something deeper than words...

O Lord, God of my salvation,
 I cry out day and night before you.
 Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry!
-Psalm 88:1-2

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated into words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
Prayer is an attitude of our hearts, an attitude of mind. Prayer is a definite attitude of our hearts toward God, an attitude which He in heaven immediately recognizes as prayer, as an appeal to His heart. Whether it takes the form of words or not, does not mean anything to God, only to ourselves.  -O. Hallesby 

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VCU Health Bends the Knee After Anti-ICE Nurse's Vile Videos Spark Backlash - But Big Questions Remain Among them was Malinda Cook, CRNA at VCU Medical Center, Richmond. Ms. Cook has now been fired by VCU Health after TikTok videos of her urging others in her field to do things that could medically harm or otherwise incapacitate immigration enforcement officers went viral and sparked backlash...

Florida suspends license of nurse who wished childbirth injury on Karoline Leavitt  The former labor and delivery nurse, identified as Alexis Lawler, posted a video on social media last week where she wished Leavitt would experience a "fourth degree tear" during childbirth. She was fired over the post.

In an era where trust in institutions is already frayed, a disturbing trend has emerged within the medical profession: healthcare workers openly expressing willingness, even eagerness, to deny care or inflict harm on patients based on political disagreements. A recent viral scandal involving a Virginia nurse underscores just how far this rot has spread...
...This is not an isolated aberration. It is symptomatic of a broader, deeply troubling pattern on the political Left within healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, countless doctors, nurses, and other providers took to social media to declare they would prioritize or deprioritize care based on vaccination status, a proxy for political affiliation. Some gleefully wished death on the unvaccinated, calling them “selfish” or worse. Others explicitly stated they would deny treatment to Trump supporters, with posts like “Let the MAGA folks die” gaining traction in certain online echo chambers.

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Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace.

Stupidity or Evil: Which is More Dangerous? Bonhoeffer warned us.   Bonhoeffer understood that totalitarian movements do not begin by demanding crimes. They begin by demanding submission. “Stop thinking,” they whisper. “Stop questioning. Stop weighing evidence. Trust the cause.” The price of belonging is intellectual surrender. In exchange, one receives certainty, camaraderie, and the intoxicating feeling of righteousness.
     The individual disappears. The herd advances.

Meanwhile, random Democrat librarians are recruiting social media followers to assassinate President Trump, and random Democrat nurses are working to poison federal agents. Virginia’s Democrat attorney general has fantasized about shooting Republicans in the head and watching Republicans’ children die in their mothers’ arms. Calling for the death of the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Democrats chant, “Kristi Noem will hang!” Actress Molly Ringwald insists that Trump supporters will be found guilty of treason for having “collaborated” with “fascists.”
    Too many violent Democrats want us dead. Too few authorities will do anything to stop the threat. Be safe. Be vigilant. Be ready.

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Mamdani Explains He Can’t Give Out Free Stuff Without Tax Hikes   The ‘free stuff’ isn’t coming. The class warfare is. And the larger aim is radicalization and revolution. Everything is going to be a fight with the same tiresome 99% and 1% rhetoric. Nothing will ever be achieved except the dismantling of New York City.
   There will be protest rallies, riots and lots of angry rhetoric and Mamdani will explain that he broke all his promises because of all the capitalists who don’t want an equal society. Overthrow the capitalists and you’ll get your free buses and bread lines. Image

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Chicago schools refuse to hire Christian college student teachers despite lawsuit   Moody Bible Institute is suing the public school system, alleging religious discrimination... Image


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Education Department Warns California to Halt Secret Gender Transitions of Kids  U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon insisted, “Under Gavin Newsom’s failed leadership, school personnel have even bragged about facilitating ‘gender transitions,’ and shared strategies to target minors and conceal information about children from their own families.” She slammed the Biden administration for ignoring the abuse before adding: “Children do not belong to the State—they belong to families. We will use every available mechanism to hold California accountable for these practices and restore parental rights.”

Ghost Phones: California Rakes in Millions for 94K Dead People  On Governor Newsom’s watch, California allowed over 94,000 dead people to be used to obtain federal dollars for phone and Internet service.  The FCC recently revoked California’s authority to run its own verification process.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally was confirmed as the first woman to take the role   As she takes up the primatial cross, she will need to deploy all her administrative and political skills.
   Having collapsed during the pandemic, when the church (with indecent haste) slammed its doors shut, regular attendance at services has ticked back up in recent years. The so-called “quiet revival” of Christian faith has, however, largely ­bypassed the Anglican church in favour of ­Catholicism and Pentecostalism. The average ­attendance at Church of England services on any given Sunday in 2024 was about 580,000, less than 1 per cent of the population. The average age of a churchgoer is 61. Image


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Hazmat team confirms that apple cider vinegar was sprayed on Ilhan Omar. Image

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness...

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. -Colossians 1:13-14

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world. -Oswald Chambers

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‘I Hope Your Wife Dies:‘ ICE Agents Face 8,000% Increase in Death Threats “Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” McLaughlin said. “The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

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VCU Nurse Under Investigation After TikTok Calls to “Sabotage” ICE Officers With Ex-Lax and Paralytic Drugs  These suggestions crossed into territory that could endanger lives, all while promoting a so-called “resistance” against federal law enforcement that is trying to stop the robberies, assaults, kidnappings, rapes, and murders being committed by illegal aliens.



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Speaking for ‘All Americans’: the Obamas’ Dangerous Return to the Megaphone Never once did either he or his wife mention the injustices inflicted on innocent Americans by illegal immigrant criminals prowling our streets and raping and killing our wives and daughters. Neither he nor Michelle addressed how Americans’ basic freedoms are being undermined by fraudster politicians and illegal immigrants, who bilk millions from hard-working taxpayers, nor did he applaud the federal government’s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law.

Only in the past few years have Americans started reconsidering this gentle framing of multiculturalism. It turns out that there are limits to how many strangers even a large diverse country like the U.S. can properly welcome and include. Far from being soft and mild, multiculturalism can be rather hard and rough depending on the quantity and quality of people coming in. Americans might be fine with an extra TV channel in Spanish and spotting the occasional street taco vendor, but how do they feel about gangs of unemployed young men roaming the street, harassing and occasionally sexually assaulting native residents? How do they feel about whole ethnic communities ripping off the public entitlement system for billions of dollars? How do they feel about ongoing threat of terrorist attacks, vandalism, and organized crime in their once quiet and boring suburbs.

U.S. Base Security Undermined by Chinese Sham Marriages  A federal case involving two U.S. Navy sailors accused of entering sham marriages with Chinese nationals has intensified concerns about national security vulnerabilities and foreign intelligence activity targeting the American military. Jacinth Bailey and Morgan Chambers, both stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, were charged with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud after allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars to marry Chinese nationals so they could obtain permanent residency in the United States.

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BBC forced to apologise after incorrectly omitting Jews in Holocaust Memorial Day report  Many listeners were outraged by the coverage, demanding an explanation for why the Jewish community was not mentioned explicitly, given that approximately six million Jews were killed.

But ever since the atrocities in Israel on October 7 2023, the governments of Britain, Canada and Australia have permitted frenzied incitement to hatred of Israel and the murder of Jews to be amplified on their streets with virtually no pushback, on the grounds of “freedom of speech”.
   Worse, those governments have themselves fanned the flames of Jew-hatred by promoting Hamas propaganda lies and blood libels about Israel wantonly killing the innocent in Gaza, in what has been in fact Israel’s desperate war to defend itself — against a second Holocaust.

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Still fresh into his second term in the White House, the Trump administration, in the words of Marc Oestreich that are so enjoyable to read that we have to repeat them here, “turned its chainsaws on the Department of Energy (DOE), cutting, canceling, or pausing a handful of onerous regulations set to hobble household and commercial appliances.

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“These measurements of E. coli bacteria show contamination which is nearly 12,000 times what authorities limit for human contact,” PKRN President Betsy Nicholas said.

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Monday, January 26, 2026

"For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified..."

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. -1 Corinthians 2:2-5

The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world’s parade... We shall acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings. -AW Tozer

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UK’s Green Crusade is bringing the country to its knees  Nowhere is the insanity more visible than in the North Sea. For decades, offshore oil and natural gas were the crown jewels of the British economy, providing cheap, reliable energy and revenue to fund public services.
   Today, this resource is being sacrificed at the altar of climate theology. The Prime Minister’s punitive windfall taxes and refusal to issue new licenses have effectively killed North Sea energy development. Investors have fled. Rigs are decommissioning. Thousands of skilled jobs are evaporating.


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Sunday, January 25, 2026

He has great tranquility of heart...

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. -1 Peter 3:14-17

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.   -Thomas à Kempis

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$68 Million Muslim Day Care Fraud Linked to New York Dems  While the nation’s attention has been focused on Somali health care fraud in Minnesota, the $68 million Pakistani Muslim fraud case out of Brooklyn shows a pattern that goes beyond any individual state or Muslim community, and also shows the intimate connections between Muslim fraud networks and the Democratic Party which forces taxpayers to fund systemic Islamic fraud.
    And then profits from it.

Virginia Democrats Want Schools To Push State-Enforced Homosexuality  A bill proposal from Democrat Del. Sam Rasoul would require history and social studies courses taught at public schools would be required to push the “contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities; immigrants and refugees; women; individuals with disabilities; individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+); individuals from various socioeconomic statuses; individuals from various religious backgrounds; and any other group of individuals that the Board of Education deems appropriate.”

Cops falsely identified as ICE agents and the ER’s political triage,,,A dangerous precedent in American medicine   In a city where law enforcement risks life and limb daily to protect its citizens, three NYPD detectives found themselves attacked not once, but twice; first by a violent suspect, and second by the very medical staff meant to heal them. According to a detailed X post, detectives from New York City’s finest were rushed to NYU Langone’s Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being assaulted on the job. But instead of immediate care, they faced a bizarre interrogation: Hospital staff initially refused to admit them until the plainclothes officers disarmed themselves, allegedly because staff thought they were ICE agents. Only then were they grudgingly attended to...
...Inserting politics or religion into triage, the critical process of prioritizing emergency care, is a recipe for disaster. Imagine the chaos: A doctor pausing to quiz a bleeding patient on their views about immigration, climate change, or abortion before administering aid. Every second wasted on ideological litmus tests is a second stolen from saving lives. Resources already stretched thin in overcrowded ERs are diverted to interrogations instead of IVs, X-rays, or CPR. Even brief delays in triage can increase mortality in high-acuity cases. In a diverse nation like ours, this politicization risks everyone’s care: What if your MAGA hat or BLM sticker becomes the barrier to a timely EKG? Or if a nurse’s religious bias delays pain meds for someone of a different faith? The ER should be a neutral zone, not a battlefield for culture wars.

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Then again, most of these efforts aren’t organic or spontaneous expressions of political anger anymore.
  They are well-funded and well-managed by organizations that see political benefit in creating chaos and turning our country into a revolutionary battleground.
  From Lenin to Alinsky, forced confrontation has been a tactic of Marxist activism.
  Every bully, of course, sees themselves as the embodiment of MLK Jr., though most of them lack dignity and a worthy cause.

Minneapolis Police Chief: Yes, the Mob Should Rule  Trump may be right about his reluctance to use the insurrection act to quell the chaos, but that is a tactical question in a political war; but practically speaking, this really IS an insurrection, with state and local officials demanding that they have veto power over the federal government and federal laws. 
   Their claim is that "Minnesota values" trump federal law and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Last I checked, that was the same claim made by the slave states when they seceded.

Left-Wing Activists Run Shadow Police Force On Signal To Target ICE In Minneapolis  The organizational structure of what appears to be a shadow police force, designed to carry out coordinated pressure campaigns against the federal government, appears highly organized and may even involve coordination with local law enforcement and individuals linked to Gov. Walz.

'Horrifying new details': Anti-ICE agitators blocked stairs at Minnesota Christian church so 'parents were unable to get to their children' "The invasion of Cities Church was even worse than we thought," O'Neil began. "Agitators blocked stairs so 'parents were unable to get to their children' at Sunday School.
  "One told a kid, 'Do you know your parents are Nazis, they're going to burn in hell?'"


But apart from all the rants about ICE and the usual propaganda, Obama concludes with “every American should support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country.”
   The “peaceful protests” that so far include deadly assaults on federal law enforcement, biting an officer’s finger off, and the usual rioting.

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The Wizard of AI: The Critical Error of Outsourcing Morality and Judgment  When an AI system makes a moral judgment, it is not the machine that is deciding.
   It is the people who designed it.
   Every boundary — what counts as harm, what speech is acceptable, which risks outweigh others — is determined upstream of coding by human beings: committees, engineers, executives. Their assumptions are frozen into systems and presented as neutral process. “The model decided” is a grammatical convenience, not a truth. Let me just say this flatly: when you are told a machine can judge, you are being lied to. The judgment does not belong to the machine. It belongs to the coders.
   This is the curtain and the illusion.

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University of Utah class explores ‘Black Trans Lesbian Marxists’ and radical literature  The readings for this class include “Mucus in My Pineal Gland” by Steven Zultanski and “The Autobiography of the Other Lady Gaga” by Stefani J. Alvarez, both of which include explicit sexual language. 
   “Many pieces focus on childhood and early sexual experiences,” says a reviewer of the required reading for this course titled “Mucus in My Pineal Gland.” Alvaraz’s collection includes a piece simply called “naked,” and several others which discuss sexual acts.

Feminist historian: Shakespeare was really a black Jewish woman  Irene Coslet, who has an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics and “has devoted over two decades to the study and practice of gender equality across multiple countries, focusing on gender and development and gender-based violence prevention,” wrote about this theory in a Jan. 16 LSE blog post.

There’s some very bad news regarding US Airlines and their dangerous DEI programs  DEI has invaded aviation. Not as some harmless corporate trend or HR hobby. No. This dangerous new foundation is a direct slap in the face to the idea that safety comes first. Standards are now just an “idea,” and everything has become a twisted left-wing PR exercise.

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Canada: 'Euthanized Against Her Will' Is a Funny Way to Say the State Murdered Her Mrs. B's case wasn't the only one in the committee's report that was sketchy. There were other patients who were approved despite not actually having the capacity to do so, including a woman who allegedly singed off on her own death by squeezing someone's hand, and man with Alzheimer's who was hospitalized with delirium but was deemed "capable" for a very brief moment while he was made to sign the paperwork.  
   All I have to say is that I've heard a lot of Canadians calling Donald Trump "Hitler" over the last year, but it if I recall correctly, killing people who are old or sick against their will was a Nazi Germany thing.


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Now when Jesus was at Bethany...

Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.” -Matthew 26:6-13 Image

There is a certain extravagance in love. The alabaster phial of perfume was meant to be used drop by drop; it was meant to last for years, perhaps even a life-time; but in a moment of utter devotion, the woman poured it on the head of Jesus. Love does not stop nicely to calculate the less or more; love does not stop to work out how little it can respectively give. With a kind of divine extravagance, love gives everything it has and never counts the cost. Calculation is never any part of love.
-William Barclay

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Trump admin officially withdraws from WHO, says it ‘shattered’ American lives during COVID  The harm inflicted by the WHO through its push of the dangerous and even deadly experimental COVID mRNA shots, as well as lockdown policies that strangled small businesses and led to spikes in depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug abuse, is enormous. Image

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Just ponder how deranged and bestial you have to be to seek out a federal law enforcement officer for the express purpose of assaulting him, and then deliberately bite off his finger. I can't help but think of Gollum biting off Frodo's finger at the climax of The Lord of the Rings to obtain the Ring; and the fiction has a parallel to the reality. As Tolkien meant the Ring to represent sin and evil, and as Gollum is destroyed and driven mad by it, so leftist domestic terrorists seem drunk on and driven mad by their lust for violence and revenge.

When Democrats commit electoral fraud, they accuse Republicans of trying to steal elections.  When leftist revolutionaries burn down cities, ambush and murder law enforcement officers, and demand that state and local governments “defund police,” Democrats accuse grandparents and veterans of being “insurrectionists.”  When Bill Clinton gets caught hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, the Democrat-aligned press accuse Donald Trump of impropriety.  When leftist agitators violate federal law by disrupting Christian worship services in Minneapolis, Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries runs to propaganda network MSNOW to accuse Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of storming churches.

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Judgment begins with the household of God….1 Peter 4:17
The verse cited suggests that God's judgment will first affect His own people, the church, before it extends to the world. It is not a verse you will ever hear preached from a liberal pulpit. Nobody will ever persecute The Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of Canada or the Church of England. They don’t believe enough to persecute. Worse, they are being ignored. Furthermore, people are walking away because they have no transcendent message to proclaim to a spiritually threadbare nation.

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