DEI: They lauded blind auditions (i.e., judges can’t see musician) because they increased the numbers of women, then condemned them because they did not increase the numbers of blacks.
MINNESOTA: Last Tuesday, the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee held an oversight hearing on the taxpayer-funded childcare services fraud. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) declined to testify.
SCOTUS: In Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, six justices declared that racial gerrymandering is racist and therefore a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits any voting practice or procedure that denies or abridges the right to vote on account of race or color nationwide.
Justice Kagan wrote in her dissent that the Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers” and that “only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.”
@chrismckeever commented, “We don’t give Union soldiers enough credit for the blood they spilled in…1982.”
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz raided the old atlases/maps I have in my “art fodder” to make this gorgeous cover for their home school geography binder. I made the “USA” letters with “art fodder” postage stamps and the die cutting machine Dearest gave me last Christmas. ❤
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, May our faith be a light that draws others to You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1963, the US observed its first Senior Citizens Month, later renamed Older Americans Month. Since its inception, it has been a time to raise awareness of issues facing older Americans as well as honor our contributions to our nation.
CATHOLIC: CLICk either of the links to read about this extraordinary woman.
“The Senate confirmed every one of these judges, per the constitution.” ~@itspoopintheend
CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2049897978849009774 [1:01] to hear Sunny Hostin, a lawyer and TV personality who makes millions, whine about how the SCOTUS decision to block race-based gerrymandering makes her feel. In regards to her having to “go home and tell my children” … said children are 20 and 24 years old. ::eyeroll::
“The Supreme Court just ruled you can’t draw voting maps based on race. The ‘we’re not racists’ Democrats are very unhappy about it. It’s almost as if … “ ~Damani Felder
FLORIDA: Democrats in dozens of states have used race-based gerrymandering to create voting districts that favoried Democrats. Within hours of SCOTUS declaring the practice unconstitutional, the Florida legislature passed the new districting map. Republicans in other states are demanding the same.
MICHIGAN: Neighborhood Crime Watch signs are specifically intended to warn criminals that they are not welcome. Ann Arbor just had all of them removed, because “we are a welcoming community” and the signs are “are an expression of exclusion.”
MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2050032453117698149 [:49] to hear Senator Jack Reed [D-RI] suggest Pete Hegseth shouldn’t be a military leader because he is a Christian who is proud to be American. Everybody has someone or something they believe is or should be #1. I prefer the person making military decisions to have his number ones be Jesus Christ and the well-being of our nation and our fighting men and women.
NEW YUCK CITY: “It turns out Margaret Thatcher wasn’t being dramatic — she was being predictive: ‘The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.’
“Exhibit A: According to the New York Post, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already asking the City Council for a budget extension… while simultaneously shaking down Albany for more taxpayer cash. Apparently the money ran out faster than the slogans.
“The freshman mayor’s plan? Tax the rich, fund government-run grocery stores, and call it compassion. The reality? The rich are doing what rich people do when they’re treated like ATMs with legs — they’re leaving. And, inconveniently, they’re taking the money with them.” ~Gary Varvel
SCHUMER SHUTDOWN 2.0: It’s over. The House has passed the Senate’s bill restoring funding and Trump has signed it.
UNITED NATIONS: They elected the Iranian member to be one of the vice presidents of the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Iran. The US, the UAE, Australia, Britain, France, and Germany condemned this decision.
GRAMMY NOTES: Posted to Facebook by our local ReUse It Center – “‘Salvaged'” is just a fancy way of saying the wood is between jobs and waiting to become a house again instead of retiring in a landfill. This is a productive cycle where a tree becomes a doorway, then another doorway, because this lumber has a very strong work ethic and refuses to stay down.” ❤
Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto with graphics added by CtH.
Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)
I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.
I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.
On to why I did any of this:
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
What my representatives do reflects on me.
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)
While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)
Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*
Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)
Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
National Guard: same as Hotel Security
Hotel Employees: not targets at all
Guests: not targets at all
In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Rebuttals to objections:
Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?
This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.
Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack
Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)
Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.
Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.
Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.
Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
Thank you all for everything.
Sincerely,
Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen
PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed s–t.
Actually insane.
Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.
There’s been some nonsense talk about how Trump supposedly has the “lowest approval rating in history” and that the WHCD shooting was staged to improve those numbers. You can look at the historical approval records yourself; there’s no paywall.
On April 21, 2026, House minority leader and leader of the House Democratic Caucus, Hakeem Jeffries, posted to social media, “Democrats defeated Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme in Virginia tonight. We will crush the DeSantis Dummymander in Florida next. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”
On April 26, 2026, the day after the WHCD shooting, Jeffries posted to social media, “America will not be lectured about civility by far right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6. There will be ample time to vigorously debate the issues of the day. Now is a time to unify.”
On Apr 7, 2026, Rep. Jamie Raskin called a Trump speech a “rambling and hate-filled diatribe” and urged Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment to get rid of him.
On Feb. 25, 2026, he called Trump “the most corrupt president in American history.”
In 2024, he called Trump a “career criminal” and “incorrigible recidivist con man” with a legacy of “American carnage” that nearly toppled the constitutional order.
Babylon Bee writes, “‘This Is A Both Sides Issue,’ Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time … murdered schoolkids in Minnesota, murdered schoolchildren in Nashville, burned an elderly Jewish woman to death in Colorado, murdered a couple at the Jewish embassy in D.C., seized campus buildings and held janitors hostage, assaulted students on campus who appeared Jewish, ambushed ICE officers in Dallas and shot an officer in the neck, assassinated FBI officer David Underwood, assassinated the United Healthcare CEO, cheered the murder of over 1,200 civilians on October 7th, murdered schoolkids in Colorado in 2019, injured over 700 police offers in 2020 riots, murdered retired police captain David Dorn, murdered a 16-year-old boy in ‘CHAZ’, burned down Minneapolis, firebombed a Washington ICE center, murdered six people in Waukesha, assassinated five Dallas officers in 2016, assassinated three police in Baton Rouge in 2016 (you know what, we’re going to stop now, this is getting sad).”
Vatican City operates one of the strictest immigration and access regimes in Europe.
Entry is heavily controlled with unrestricted public access limited mainly to St. Peter’s Square and certain basilica areas during designated times. Most of the territory requires permits for entry, especially non-public zones. Unauthorized entry, especially by bypassing security, violence, threats, deception, or in groups/vehicles, is treated as a serious crime.
Penalties for illegal entry run between $10,200–$25,700, plus prison terms of 1–4 years. Convictions can include a ban from Vatican territory for up to 15 years (with further prison time for violations). Aggravating factors (e.g., using firearms, disguises, or multiple people) increase penalties.
Citizenship and residency are extremely limited.
Only clergy, Swiss Guard, officials who are working in Vatican City may apply for temporary residency, which is revoked when the job ends. There is no general path for economic migrants, family reunification, or asylum seekers to settle permanently.
In short, the Vatican City State enforces its borders rigorously to protect its security, sanctity, and limited capacity, which is in keeping with Catholic social teaching regarding states having the right to regulate immigration for the common good.
Christian cartoonist and pundit, Gary Varvel, weighs in –
A scene we’d like to see
Pope Leo XIV has been busy clutching his pearls over the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, labeling them “inhuman treatment”—because apparently, a sovereign nation enforcing its borders is now a sin. This is just the latest entry in the Pope’s ongoing “Political Activist of the Year” campaign against the President.
The hypocrisy reached a fever pitch late last year when Leo decided to play the “Pro-Life Gatekeeper.” He rebuked Catholic politicians who support hard-line immigration policies. His logic? “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion’ but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants… I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
Bad theology
Equating the termination of a life in the womb with the deportation of an illegal alien is a feat of unscholarly theological gymnastics. To lecture the United States for conducting immigration raids while safely ensconced behind the Great Wall of Vatican City is hypocritical, to say the least. If the Pope wants to preach about open borders, he can start by unlocking his own.
If the Pope is so deeply distressed by the plight of illegal aliens leaving the U.S., there’s a simple, holy solution: Trump should just charter a few flights and drop them off at the Vatican. Since the Pope is so eager to welcome the world, let’s see how many cots he can fit between the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.
Sid Miller writes, Let’s get something straight, because this hasn’t been talked about enough. And I’m tired of seeing people (primarily leftists) grabbing headlines and posts that agree with their narrative instead of doing their own research.
What’s happening right now in Iran is not Israel’s war. It’s not a Jewish vendetta. Washington severed diplomatic ties with Iran under the Carter administration after Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. That was 1979.
Since then, EVERY administration, Carter, Reagan, Bush (senior), Clinton, Bush (junior), Obama, Biden, and Trump, has said that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. The White House recently documented 74 separate instances of Trump making that case, calling it “longstanding, bipartisan American policy.” This isn’t a new position. It isn’t a right-wing position. It’s what every administration has believed for half a century.
The IAEA reported that Iran’s cache of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium had surged by roughly 50 percent in just three months, putting Tehran one step away from having enough material for ten nuclear weapons. That’s not some little vague threat. That’s a countdown.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it plainly: “They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. When you’ve built the engine, loaded the fuel, and pointed the car at the wall, it doesn’t matter much whether you’ve pressed the gas.”
Here’s what this all adds up to. The United States didn’t stumble into this war because Israel asked nicely. It acted on a threat that five decades of American presidents acknowledged and mostly kicked down the road.
Iran was weeks away, not years, from having the material needed for nuclear weapons. It had long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S.
Calling this Israel’s war ignores fifty years of American policy, multiple rounds of failed diplomacy, and a nuclear program that was running out of road.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us each to grow in virtue that we may be “Jesus with skin on” to the world. In His Holy Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On March 15, 1820, Maine became the 23rd state in the United States. The decision ended nearly two centuries of rule by Massachusetts and recognized the growing population and independence of the northern district.
IRAN: [12:05] – Democrats reacting to Trump’s attack on Iran –
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA): “Americans don’t want another endless war.”
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): “The president should be focused on reducing costs for Americans, not abusing his power to drag America into another endless war.“
Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO): “No one in this country wants another endless war in the Middle East.”
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), with Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff: “The American people continue to say loud and clear that they do not want another endless war.“
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA): Criticized entangling Americans in “another endless war without any clear exit strategy.“
Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): Condemned “endless war in Iran with no regard for human life.“
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “The people of our country… do not want endless war.”
PRAYER for OUR NATION: God of Hosts, Grant wisdom to our military commanders. Help them protect national security with moral clarity. Give them discernment in deployment decisions. Comfort families of service members. Protect troops in harm’s way. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
THE VIEW: [6:15] – Sky News host Rita Panahi rightly labels Whoopi Goldberg “an absolute disgrace of a human being.”
GRAMMY NOTES: When my parents noticed most of their friends had moved to Florida, they went on a round robin visit of them to see if they should do it too. They came back convinced that living near their grandkids was a better plan. “We can visit Florida if winter gets to be too much. But live there? Nope. All they talk about is their money and their bad health!”
When Democrats claim that President Trump cannot use military force without prior authorization from Congress, they are either ignoring the Constitution or pretending not to understand it.
Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution makes the President the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. That authority is operational, immediate, and independent. It does not require Congress to issue a declaration of war before the President can act to defend American interests.
The Supreme Court settled this question in The Prize Cases. The Court held that when hostilities arise, the President is not only authorized but obligated to respond without waiting for Congress. A declaration of war recognizes a condition — it does not create the President’s power to repel force.
Congress has the power to declare war under Article I, Section 8. That is a political recognition of sustained, formal war between sovereigns. It is not a prerequisite for tactical, defensive, or limited military engagement. If it were, every modern president since World War II would have acted unconstitutionally — including Democrat presidents.
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires notification within 48 hours and sets a 60-day framework absent authorization. It does not strip the President of the authority to initiate force. It regulates reporting and duration. Every president — Republican and Democrat — has exercised military authority under Article II while navigating that statute.
Let’s be honest about the politics.
When a Republican occupies the Oval Office, Democrats suddenly rediscover “Congressional authorization.” When a Democrat orders airstrikes in Libya, conducts drone campaigns across sovereign borders, or expands military footprints abroad, the outrage quiets down.
This pattern is not constitutional principle. It is partisan positioning — particularly with midterm elections approaching, when energizing the base matters more than institutional consistency.
The President does not need a declaration of war to protect the United States.
He has the authority.
He has the duty.
And history, statute, and Supreme Court precedent support that reality.
If critics claim otherwise, the burden is on them to explain why their argument did not apply to administrations of their own party. CLICK https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/2028476224134173068 [:16] to hear then-Speaker Pelosi affirm that POTUS did not need authorization to bomb Libya.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We pray for better communication in all of our relationships. Help us listen without interrupting, speak without attacking, and understand without judging. Let our words build up instead of tear down. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On February 14, 1990, as the Voyager 1 space probe was about to leave our solar system, it turned and took a photo in which Earth glows as a pale blue dot highlighted by a brilliant beam from the sun, an astronomical Valentine from our loving Creator.
CATHOLICS and CAPPUCHINOS: [40:51] – In Episode 2, Siobhan Fallon Hogan interviews Kevin James who has a new movie out, Solo Mio, in which he stars with Jonathan Roumie. I can’t wait to see it!
CLIMATE HOAX: Trump is eliminating an Obama-era EPA “finding” that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and three other greenhouse gases “endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” This “finding” was used to justify most of the federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles. Eliminating it will cancel those standards and bring down car prices.
GEORGIA: [5:33] – On January 28th, federal agents executed a search warrant on Fulton Countyy’s election offices and walked out with approximately 700 boxes of evidence, including physical ballots from the 2020 election, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls.
ICE: Gary Varvel writes, “The outrage over immigration enforcement isn’t really about compassion — it’s about political survival. For four years, President Biden refused to secure the border while as many as 20 million foreign nationals entered the United States. That wasn’t incompetence. It was the Democrat’s strategy. Mass migration became the foundation of a long-term political calculation: import future voters, reshape the electorate, and secure power for a generation. They were stacking the deck.
“Now that ICE is removing even a few of those ‘cards,’ the panic sets in. According to a 2024 House Judiciary Committee report, the Biden-Harris Administration funneled tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to organizations supporting illegal aliens — often through left-wing nonprofits. Sounds like buying votes while border security and public safety took a back seat. When your political future is stacked on a house of cards labeled ‘mass migration,’ enforcing the law doesn’t just secure the border — it threatens to bring the whole Democratic Party structure down.”
MEDIA: On February 9, CBS ran a story stating – “Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump’s first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.”
The Left Stream Media repeated this “fact” ad nauseum. But here’s the rest of the story …
Everybody who is in the country illegally is a criminal. ICE’s mandate is “immigration” enforcement, so duh.
The arrest percentages for 2025 were similar to historical averages, so double duh.
CBS News limited their data set to assaults and homicides committed in the U.S. They conveniently ignored DUIs, which are known to involve repeat offenders and to cause multiple deaths every year.
DHS says 70% of their arrests involved people with gang connections and/or with convictions or pending charges for crimes of all kinds, both here and abroad.
CLICK https://www.foxnews.com/video/6389127735112 [:44] to hear Karoline Leavitt list some of the many crimes CBS decided weren’t bad enough to justify ICE arrests. E.g., distributing child pornography.
In other news, the word on the street is that CBS is losing money bigly. Maybe if they stopped lying, people would go back to considering them a news source.
For another sweetener, CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/905084612324348 [1:12] to hear a black man tell Don Lemon he is 100% in favor of ICE getting “’em all out of here! Trump, four more years!”
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Heavenly Father, Protect our relationships from every attack of the enemy and from our own sinful tendencies. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
REDEDICATE 250: “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving” will be held May 17th on the National Mall. From 6am to 6pm, the event will feature Christian singers, religious leaders and personas, and members of the president’s cabinet. Doors will open at 4:30 am.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE: [2:30 to 7:40] – Fr. Dan Reehil is a Catholic priest and exorcist for the Diocese of Nashville. In the first minutes of this video, he talks about the effectiveness of true Gregorian Chant in torturing demons. He then tells an amazing story about a time when Pope Saint John Paul II received a word of knowledge that changed a young priests life.
@katdunn7934 posted this in the comments: “Today I listened to Jesse Romero tell a story about going to a convenience store and it had Gregorian chant playing outside. He asked the owner, who was Indian, why it was playing. The owner said they had problems with homeless people hanging out there outside all the time. He did everything to try getting them to leave sprinklers on them and even thumb tacks where they would lay. Nothing worked. One day a priest came in and he asked the priest what he could do about the situation. The priest said sometimes it’s not a mental health situation, but demonic in nature. He suggested playing Gregorian chant and see what happens. He did, and they started screaming and covering their ears. They left and never came back. That’s pretty powerful!”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Give us this day our daily bread and help us to trust in Your provision. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On February 7, 1964, the Beatles were met by thousands of screaming fans at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport as they arrived to begin their first American tour.
BESSENT: Trump’s Treasury Secretary testified before the U.S. Senate.
CLICK https://x.com/devorydarkins/status/2019469548970471594 [1:45] to hear Democrat Sen. Van Hollen demand he express remorse over Alex Pretti’s death. Bessent says, “This is an FSOC hearing. Why don’t we talk about financial security and oversight?“
Just one quibble … every translation I looked at translates it “sun” of righteousness, not “son” as the caption says. However, the “kanaph” part is accurate. I like the added idea of Jesus’ arms spread on the cross combined with the following:
“Kanaph, therefore, unites themes of shelter, commitment, power, and outreach—an enduring picture of the God who both hovers protectively over His people and sends them forth in Spirit-borne flight.” There is more @ https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3671.htm
LIFE: Christian values encompass two things: love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. In His teachings, Jesus clearly showed us that He considers ALL human beings to be our neighbors. Also, the first to recognize Him was a fetus.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Lord, awaken Your Church in America to be a light in the darkness. May we stand boldly for truth. Amen.
SAVE ACT: CLICK https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2019552346104295642 [1:35] to hear Democrat Rep. Raskin recite the current Democrat talking point about how it would deprive married women our 19th Amendment right to vote.
There are NO federal laws dictating that a woman change her name after marriage (or divorce).
Getting married (or divorced) requires paperwork. Anyone who can manage that can manage a name change.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” ~Isaiah 5:20
VERMONT: In Burlington, Vermont, the public transit has had to drastically cut service, because their brand new fleet of EV buses can’t be charged. Because the batteries sometimes spontaneously combust, they can’t be parked indoors. And because they can’t be recharged when temperatures are below 40°F.
VOTER ID: Actually, it is not Schumer’s IQ that is the problem. It’s his lying tongue. Jim Crow (literacy) laws were passed by Democrats to keep newly freed, mostly illiterate slaves from voting, not because they were black, but because they overwhelming supported “the party of Lincoln” – i.e., the Republican Party. If illegals and other cheaters were voting Republican, Democrats would be demanding voter id.
GRAMMY NOTES: [3:06] – The idea of God holding my right hand felt constricting to me, because I imagined it like a child whose parent is holding the hand to control, e.g., while crossing the street. In that position, one can not use the dominant hand. But while I was listening to this video, I suddenly saw in my mind’s eye how Mama Buzz uses “hand-over-hand” with Buzz to help him learn a new skill. She doesn’t grip his hand, palm-to-palm, but rather places her palm lightly on the back of his hand; her hand is holding his, but it is not to constrain his actions, but rather to gently guide them.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://x.com/fluxfolio_/status/2013010288967086521 [:24] to watch Austrian freestyle skier, Matej Svancer, lose a ski in mid-air and stick the landing on the remaining ski! He took home a second in January’s Freeski World Cup in Laax, Switzerland.
U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating the incident for possible federal civil rights violations.
Surprisingly (to me), the most relevant federal statute may be The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). While it has primarily been used to prosecute peaceful anti-abortion protesters, it actually prohibits the use of force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with individuals seeking reproductive health services or exercising their religious rights at places of worship.
Cities Church could potentially also take this to a local court and sue for criminal trespass. Churches (including their buildings, grounds, parking lots, and related facilities) are typically considered private property, even when they are open to the public for services, events, or general visitation. This means the church leadership (or authorized representatives, like pastors, elders, or property managers) can control access, decide who is welcome, and revoke permission for anyone to be there.
These protesters engaged in criminal trespass by knowingly and intentionally entering to disrupt and then refusing to leave when asked. Penalties vary by state and severity and can include fines, jail time, probation, or community service. Our constitutional rights to gather and express ourselves are only guaranteed on government property. Private property owners get to choose when and how they happen.
CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2013222406538543263 [:55] to watch Don Lemon hassle one of the ministers (not the ICE guy), trying to make a case that protesters’ right to freedom of speech somehow supersedes the congregation’s right to worship. They’re in the same amendment!
CLICK https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/2013290671377887551 [:19] to hear Don Lemon protesting is about making people uncomfortable. The First Amendment actually guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Traumatizing kids at church doesn’t qualify.
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