“If you start with the notion that we’re pulling out entirely, I think you’d have to be pretty naïve not to assume things were going to go downhill once that withdrawal was complete.”
(Spencer Brown – Townhall) In a new interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper set to air on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2011 — didn’t hold back in criticizing President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Continue reading
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How much do guest speakers cost? The Harvard Business Review provides “a rule of thumb for appropriate pricing”:
“Despite knowing that the mortality rate of this virus is extraordinarily low, there is a significant portion of the population that not only remains panicked about returning to a normal life, but expresses antipathy and anger towards those who don’t share their crippling paranoia.”
“In the wake of all of this destruction, Mohler has been desperately trying to rebrand himself.” 
(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Recently I was going through my archives and stumbled on an article I penned in 2005, “Who Will You Serve, God Or The World”. Fifteen years ago I was pretty worked up over the moral depravity liberals were introducing into America’s public schools right under parents’ noses. Back then higher education had a bastion of professors spewing lies and Marxist propaganda into the malleable minds of college students, some of whom bought into what they were taught, hook line and sinker. Bad as it was, few parents seemed to notice. Those who did notice didn’t much care, even though Marxists are the enemy of God, religious liberty, and freedom. In 2005 I tried to warn parents that professors and teachers had their sights set on kids in grades K-12. Not in my wildest imagination did I anticipate the corruption of a whole generation of youth through entertainment, school books riddled with revisionist history, smartphones and access to social media. 
(Capstone Report) Russell Moore faces lawsuit for libel, false invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress for spreading alleged lies about SBC Pastor Mike Stone.
(Alex Barenson) Well, that’s not how they phrased it.
The Bidens made a full-sized scandal disappear, with the help of media members who did not want the public to see it. Twitter banned links to reports about the laptop until after Biden was elected president. The media dismissed the story as a “conspiracy theory” with some mocking to boot..
The letter from Tabak describes the results of a limited experiment, where “laboratory mice infected with [a modified bat coronavirus] became sicker than those infected with the [original] bat coronavirus.”
“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days. In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.” 
“The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines both use mRNA technology in the manufacture of their shots. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a carrier or virus vector vaccine. How can they possibly ensure the safety of a booster shot that has received no extended clinical trials?”
“In A.A. one often hears about alcoholism being a “spiritual disease.” It is more accurate to see Alcoholics Anonymous as the spiritual disease, because it has pointed millions away from the Christ of the Bible, and watered down the beliefs of the Christians who have become members.”
“The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals. There are simply not enough leftists to destroy our most revered institutions. They need liberals to serve as fellow travelers to accomplish their ends.” 
Reporter Mollie Hemingway investigated the Zuckerberg situation and calls it “genius.”
(Anony Mee – American Thinker) Thank you, Dr. Brian C. Joondeph, for 
“Can you trust God to write his story in their hearts and lives in his way and in his timing? The gospel is the greatest need for those who pursue sexuality on their own terms—along with those who agree with them and buy into worldly sexuality.”
“In one of the latest videos [on the site] to surface, Bethel Church is preaching a “tunnel of youth” heresy. Similar to Bethel’s “tunnel of fire” nonsense affirmed by Michael Brown as an act of the Holy Spirit…”
“On occasion, he says things that would make someone who isn’t paying attention, or who isn’t very discerning, think that he’s moving closer to orthodoxy and that, perhaps, the Holy Spirit is truly leading him to the truth. Yet, when we really dissect his statements, it becomes clear that he’s mixing truth and error in such a way to lead people into even greater deception unnoticed.”
Our Byzantine interior and Roman coasts are quite differently interpreting their shared American heritage as they increasingly plot radically divergent courses to survive in scary times. 
(Reuters Investigates) Amazon.com Inc has been repeatedly accused of knocking off products it sells on its website and of exploiting its vast trove of internal data to promote its own merchandise at the expense of other sellers. The company has denied the accusations.
Congratulations, America. We have yet another crisis on our hands to go along with inflation, violent crime, the border and Afghanistan, and the guy tapped to save the day is the former mayor where they filmed “Rudy.”
Unlike Paul, they choose to be servants of man, looking to man (specifically the big-money people) for guidance on issues facing Americans (and important to Christians) today rather than to God. Their stance seems calculated to please the crowd. They dance around the issues in an effort to appease anyone who might be offended.
“People of faith may find this especially fanciful, but as one myself, here’s my take. We’re not God. But as His children we are capable of eventually, after enough toil, replicating what we can observe in the physical world. No, we can’t infuse our creations with souls; they’re of the spirit. But can we forge some soulless entity with intellect, self-awareness, and purpose? I’d guess yes — in time.”