“Professional “influencers” ultimately get paid from people buying things as a result of their videos. Products promoted by these latter-day pitchmen may or may not be good for their viewers but are definitely good for their own bottom lines.”
(Christopher Jacobs – The Federalist) In the face of it, it seems absurd. Why would people make decisions based on what they heard on an app affiliated with China’s Communist government?
Most people don’t view the phenomenon of TikTok influencers through that prism, yet that scenario aptly describes the choices made by millions of Americans each day…. Continue reading
“Hanson said the elites are not the schools that many of the better students now plan to attend or who employers want to hire.”
(Protestia) “Pastor Greg Locke” is now “Apostle Greg Locke,” following an apostolic installation and impartation service yesterday morning at Global Vision Bible Church, which saw the controversial Tennessee pastor and his wife officially given the lofty title and designations.
“This monumental change in the U.K.’s public-education guidelines owes much to the April report from Dr. Hilary Cass that eviscerated the medical community for pushing novel, untested “gender-affirming care” on minors.”
(Mary Dowling) Free Press (freepress.net) is a media group funded by billionaire leftist George Soros. The
(Betsy McCaughey – Newsmax) Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is urging university leaders across the country to do some “serious soul searching.”
“Francis Collins stated that Anthony Fauci invited him to the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call, which “prompted” the public narrative suppressing and vilifying the lab leak hypothesis. This statement directly contradicts Dr. Fauci’s previous statements.”
“Watch this insane trailer of NBC’s “Queer Planet” that demonstrates just how unhinged the LGBTQ movement is, that they would go to such deranged lengths to deaden their consciences and justify their sin and love of self.”
8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 9 For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him. 10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of Yahweh and to practice it, and to teach His statute and judgment in Israel. Ezra 7:8-10 (LSB)
(Sinclair Ferguson – Ligonier Ministries) Modern Bible translations are in the news these days, sometimes for controversial reasons. But one universal benefit of them is that the Holy Spirit is no longer referred to as “it.” Curiously a chief culprit here is the much-loved King James Version (for example,
“Garland refused to comment on Biden’s executive action Thursday when reporters asked about it.”
(Mary Dowling) Federal law only allows citizens to vote in federal elections, but it prohibits requiring documentary proof of citizenship in
(The Dissenter) A few days ago, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), for once, made a commendable decision that deserves our attention and applause. The PCA’s Administrative Committee
“…we may find when the Lord gives it to us that what we were pursuing, and the reasons we pursued it, do not live up to expectation. We may even find the role causes us such great grief and difficulties that we did not reckon with that it may prove to be a real problem to us in our walk with Jesus.”
“It’s not just the Times, though. Remember CNN’s disgraced Chris Cuomo? Remember his nightly comedy schtick with his even-more-disgraced older brother, Andrew? And remember the nightly sneer-fests with Don Lemon? It turns out that Chris is now an Ivermectin fan.”
(Mary Dowling) In a conversation on The Watchman, VDH discussed some of the points he makes in his new book, The End of Everything. When they talked about the protests and riots on college campuses, he torched the Ivies that he no longer sees as exceptional.
“I’m convinced that people like McGuire and other climate catastrophists are actually rooting for the end of the world. They dream of melting glaciers, rivers flooding across the land, oceans covering skyscrapers, and Middle America becoming a desert.”