DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to follow the Savior with a right spirit and with true understanding. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 19, 1775, American colonists battled British troops at Lexington and Concord. These were the first military actions of the Revolutionary War.
CALIFORNICATION: In a move to demonstrate their commitment to tolerance and transparency, the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee just voted 11-2 to make investigative journalism illegal. The bill specifically protects “immigrant service centers” like fake Somali daycares or Los Angeles hospice centers from legitimate journalists by classifying them as “harassers.”
CATHOLIC: “Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), emphasis mine
CHICOMS: A Hong Kong court has handed down a one-year prison sentence to a Falun Gong practitioner who criticized the Chinese communist regime’s forced organ harvesting on social media.
EVOLUTION vs. CREATION: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E3coFgM9qBk [2:25] for yet another example of why Darwin’s theory of evolution can’t hold water.
FRAUD: A federal watchdog estimates that, from fiscal years 2018 through 2022, the government lost between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud. That’s half a trillion dollars! Every freakin’ year!
Programs that provided the easiest access for thieves have been COVID relief and social programs that provide food, housing, and health care.
EYE ROLL: Last year, Rep. Ilhan Omar filed documents with Congress saying she was worth between $6 million and $30 million. Now that her sudden rise in assets has triggered an investigation, she is claiming it was just an accounting error. Her “real” worth is actually less than $100,000.
Translation: Please stop looking into Ilhan’s finances, because she’s definitely not at all tied to the rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota.
Also: Get a forensic accountant on this thing and find out where she hid the big bucks.
IRAN: CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2044851662398083129 [:23] to hear Trump’s reply when a reporter asked, “Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran?”
Iranian authorities have sentenced four protesters to death in connection with the January 2026 anti-government protests. They are Bita Hemmati (female), Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl (her husband), Behrouz Zamaninejad, and Kourosh Zamaninejad.
NEWSCUM: Gavin Newsom used $1,561,875 in donations to his campaign PAC to purchase tens of thousands of copies of his new book, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.” The book purchase was by far the biggest expenditure for his federal PAC in the first quarter of 2026. They also accounted for two-thirds of the book’s total print sales.
POPE LEO IV: After Islamic Moors sacked St. Peter’s Basilica in 846, Pope Leo IV had stout walls builr around the Vatican to protect it from further assaults.
Jesus Enrique Rosas notes that Pope Leo XIV now “sits comfortably sipping tea behind those same medieval walls … telling the rest of the West to be ‘less fearful; of Islam. That those who push back against messages like this are simply talking from a bigoted view of immigration, and aren’t true Christians. … If the walls are good enough for the Pope, why aren’t they allowed for everyone else?”
POPE LEO XIV: If this were true, St. Catherine of Siena wouldn’t be a revered Doctor of the Church. In case you are unfamiliar with her story, Catherine famously criticized Pope Gregory XI for years about living in Avignon, France, nagging him repeatedly to return the papal offices to Rome, which he did in January 1377.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mx3144AtmWk [2:51] to hear VP Vance (devout Catholic convert) comment on this. It’s worth hearing.
STRAIT OF HORMUZ: Less than 24 hours after opening the oil-critical shipping lane, Iran closed it again.
STUPID PEOPLE: A pro-trans organization called “Them” posted the above to X. Commenters pointed out that he had performed “bottom surgery.”
“It’s impossible to parody a movement that advocates for the castration of children but not dead raccoons.” @WomenAreReals
“Do you only support cutting dicks off living things? Wow.” @HollyBriden
TOLERANCE: A pro-LGBT group based in Provo, UT, had a fundraiser at a location about 20 minutes from where Charlie Kirk was assassinated less than a year ago. The images above are from the products they were offering for sale.
CLICK https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2044532068911087974 [:06] to watch kids bash at their senator’s face to get candy.
GRAMMY NOTES: I just want to take a moment to show off how gorgeous our forsythia bush is this year!
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ws9CJW-cFLw [2:25] to hear from the Best Neighbors Ever (except possibly for the couple that lives across the street from us, who are totally awesome)!
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