When the Righteous Thrive,
The People Rejoice;
When the Wicked Rule,
The People Groan.
Today, in America
The People are Groaning
Because the Wicked are Ruling,
And America will Continue to Groan
As long as the Wicked are Allowed to Rule.
What is Wickedness?
It is that which is in Opposition
To God and His Word.
“There is No Fear of God
Before their Eyes.”
(Psalm 36:1; Romans 3:18)
There is a Way
That Seems Right to a man
But in the End it leads to Death.
(Proverbs 16:25)
All man’s Ways Seem Right to him,
But the Lord Weighs the Heart.
(Proverbs 21:2)
Today, in America, the Unbelieving
Are doing what is Right in their Own Eyes,
Without Regard to God and His Word.
This can only End in Failure.
Why do they Do This?
Because there is No Fear of God
Before their Eyes.
As anti-Semitic and pro-terror demonstrations raged at elite U.S. universities on Monday, Texas Republican Rep. John Carter revealed that his office had been vandalized by anti-Israel activists.
“Unhinged anti-Israel activists vandalized my Georgetown office,” Rep. Carter reported in a social media post, providing a photo of his office defaced with red paint and the words “Free Gaza.”
“Let me make 2 things clear,” Carter wrote in a message to the vandals and anyone else wanting to intimidate him from his support of Israel as it fights to eliminate the terrorist organization Hamas that attacked Israel last October 7, killing 1,200 and raping women and children:
“Let me make 2 things clear, my support for Israel is unwavering & your intimidation won’t work. Secondly, the parties responsible will be found & will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. #StandWithIsrael”
“We must stand with Israel!” has been pinned to the top of Rep. Carter’s X.com social media account since April 13.
On Saturday, Rep. Carter voted in favor of a House Bill 8034, which passed, to provide aid to Israel, as local news Fox7 Austin reports:
“H.R. 8034 would provide $26.38 billion in aid to Israel. It also includes provisions that would expand the authority of the President to transfer defense articles and services from DOD to foreign countries or international organizations, and prohibit funds from being used for payments to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.”
On Monday, at the same time Rep. Carter was sharing the news of how his office had been defaced, anti-Israel protests and encampments – some violent – broke out at prestigious U.S. universities, including Columbia, Yale, NYU and Emerson College.
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“Death to America,” being shouted
By Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas,
And Anti-Israel Supporters,
May well be Prophetic Utterances.
The Mere Fact,
That they Do So with Impunity in America,
Is an Indication of America's Collapse.
And this Anti-Americanism
Is being Fostered
In Most of America's Institutions
Of, so called, Higher Education.
And it may well be, that Biden,
Is hoping for the Vote of these Same People
In November’s Presidential Election.
How Perverse it that?
By Jeff Lukens
It has become a speculative game in the blogosphere to predict what black swan calamities could lead to a breakdown in civil order and the imposition of some form of martial law.
Wars and rumors of war abound.
We have already seen a container ship mysteriously knocking down a bridge and closing a key port.
Other such scenarios include massive cyber-attacks that shut down the grid and block communication and transportation networks nationwide.
The speculation on the variations of such events is virtually endless.
However, one crisis is no black swan and is entirely expected, already happening, and growing in scale by the day.
That would be the ballooning debt crisis.
If Washington does not change its free-spending ways, the debt will become a catastrophe of devastating proportions that will tear the nation apart.
So long as Congress continues its multi-trillion-dollar deficit spending, we will have a financial death spiral, similar to events a century ago in the Weimar Republic of Germany.
The total discretionary spending for the U.S. government in Fiscal Year 2024 is approximately $1.70 trillion. This amount is split between $886 billion for defense and $688 billion for nondefense programs.
In the fiscal year, the U.S. government is also projected to spend approximately $4.19 trillion on mandatory programs.
These programs include interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and other programs.
We have an annual structural deficit in excess of $2 trillion that will soon grow exponentially.
Congress needs to get serious about reducing spending.
For starters, they should outright eliminate the Departments of Commerce, Education, and Energy.
All other departments will need cuts as well.
But that is not happening, and instead, they waste money on frivolous services benefiting illegal immigrants and abortion facilities.
Notable allocations include funds for an LGBTQ+ community facility, scholarships for Egyptian students, educational programs for elementary school children by an LGBTQ+ activist group, diversity initiatives at a zoo, and an organization providing clothing and counseling services to teenagers without parental consent.
Not surprisingly, they do not allocate funds to the truly essential need of building a southern border wall.
As a result of their incompetence, the debt is now growing at an accelerating rate.
The $1 trillion move from $31 to $32 trillion took about eight months, and the increase from $33 trillion to $34 trillion took about 100 days.
While these numbers are bad enough, it becomes alarming knowing that another trillion dollars of debt will be added every 90 days, then 80, then 70, and in ever smaller time frames into the future.
Currently, gross interest on the debt is roughly $1 trillion annually.
But in three years, annual interest could surpass $2 trillion.
In 10 years, interest on the debt could reach $5 trillion yearly.
Ten years ago, the U.S. government issued $264 billion in 10-year Treasury notes, which means that $264 billion worth of 10-year notes are due and payable this year.
Altogether, the Treasury will have to settle $6 trillion of existing debt this year, which includes financing new debt for this year and the rollover of old debt from prior years.
The Treasury financing debt this way is similar to using one credit card to pay off another.
The problem with rolling over old debt is compounded by borrowing at vastly higher interest rates than when those treasuries were first issued.
So, the old debt will be rolled over this year at about 4.2% to 5.5%, depending on the term.
That's troubling when most of the debt being rolled over was issued around 2%.
They are doubling the cost to service that debt.
As more of this old, cheap debt comes due and is reissued at higher rates, the cost of servicing the debt will grow exponentially.
That additional expense adds to the deficit, and the vicious cycle feeds on itself.
We are already at historic debt levels while spending frivolously and shoveling money overseas.
The business cycle has not been repealed, and a recession is coming, probably sooner than later.
And when it happens, unemployment expenses will rise, increasing debt while revenues decline.
There is no good way out of this mess, and no one in Washington wants to give it any serious attention.
What follows is an ugly pattern of the debt crises fueling accelerating inflation.
As jobs dry up, the goods on store shelves skyrocket, followed by social unrest and increased centralization from the extreme left or right.
This pattern is as old as history itself.
Look back to the Weimar Republic of Germany in the years following the First World War.
Faced with budgetary deficits due to war reparations, the German government printed money wildly to meet its expenses.
The result was hyperinflation.
The runaway inflation caused the cost of a loaf of bread to rise from 3 Marks in 1922 to 80 billion Marks in November 1923. Prices were rising so fast that people hurried to spend their pay during lunch hour before it lost any more of its value.
Foreign trade and the German ability to pay reparations became impossible, while personal savings were wiped out.
Commercial dealings in Germany were replaced by barter, and food riots broke out.
The drop in the value of their wages devastated the working class.
This instability, coupled with the Depression a few years later, undermined the republic's foundations, leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Left unchecked, this Weimar-style hyperinflation trend could happen in the United States as an accelerating debt load causes financial collapse and civil upheaval.
Congress has a spending problem and must get serious about reducing it.
As painful as spending cuts will be, inaction will be far more painful in the long run.
Driven by spending growth, deficits will balloon even in years without a recession or a major war.
If Congress fails to discipline its spending habits, rising interest costs will snowball and collapse the economy.
With Washington's culture of easy money, a new direction toward frugality will take a lot of work.
However, it is indispensable for America's long-term economic prosperity.
Every day, we are getting closer to the point of no return.
We know that we're headed in the wrong direction, and if we stay on this path, we'll go full Weimar, carrying our cash not in wallets but in wheelbarrows.
Jeff Lukens is a West Point graduate, U.S. Army veteran, and conservative activist. He can be reached at jplukens@hotmail.com.
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BYLINE: Billy Hallowell/Faithwire
Dr. Sarah Thomas Baldwin, author of the soon-to-publish book, “Generation Awakened: An Eyewitness Account of the Powerful Outpouring of God at Asbury,” told CBN News the behind-the-scenes details of the Asbury revival, what she sees happening now, and why she believes the impact is still being felt.
As CBN News has reported, a routine chapel service on Feb. 8, 2023, quickly morphed into a phenomenon many have described as a revival; Asbury has officially labeled it an “outpouring,” noting that the student-led event—lasting around the clock for 16 days—”attracted college students from hundreds of other colleges and universities” as well as people from across the globe.
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Despite the event ultimately coming to a structured close, Baldwin said “hardly a day has gone by” that she hasn’t heard something about how the outpouring reached people across the globe.
“It’s really exciting,” she said. “And so it’s been many stories from people all over connecting to share their testimony.”
The Outpouring Continues
As for the students Baldwin works with, she said it’s been powerful to see the “spirit of revival” they continue carrying with them and what God is doing in their lives because of it.
Undoubtedly, the Asbury outpouring immediately had a profound impact on the Christian college campus, but Baldwin affirmed the long-lasting and powerful ways the school was transformed.
“Immediately after the outpouring … the months of March and April [2023], at the end of our semester last year, our campus really was exhausted,” she said.
“I like to say that the flood of the outpouring came up, and when the waters receded, there was some debris on the beach.”
Baldwin continued, “We were tired emotionally, physically, spiritually.”
At first, she and others wondered what God might be doing. Despite still being excited over the outpouring, she said there was a “subdued sense” on the campus.
A Renewed Fervor
Months later, in the fall, though, she said students returned with a renewed energy and fervor.
“Our students came back with this spirit of revival,” Baldwin said.
“And what I mean by that is, lingering after chapel to worship and pray.
I mean, they’ve always done that a little bit, but now it’s just a part of our regular campus life.”
And that’s not all.
Baldwin said spontaneous worship happens in the afternoons and evenings on campus, summarizing these activities as raising the “spiritual temperature of our students.”
Young people have also been talking about Jesus more frequently and are “praying together in a more elevated way.” Thus, the “spirit of revival” so many saw in February 2023 returned in a powerful way.
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By Raymond IbrahimNeedless to say, there is something of an irony here: Although Churchill is being targeted on the hackneyed view that he was a leading member of the white patriarchy (and therefore inherently evil) – BLM attacked this same statue for that very reason in 2020 – the British statesman did, in fact, have some insightful things to say about the religion of many of his would-be attackers.
Consider the following quote from Churchill's 1899 book, "River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan" (vol.1):
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step;
and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
The United Kingdom – as well as many other Western nations and polities that host large Muslim populations – has been learning the truths of this excerpt the hard way.
As just one example, crime, including sex crimes, have soared in the U.K. – unsurprisingly so, since "insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live," to say nothing of the aforementioned "degraded sensualism," "fanatical frenzy" and "slovenly systems."
(It's the same all throughout European nations with large Muslim populations.
In Sweden, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472% – thanks to its burgeoning Muslim demographic.)
Note too Churchill's fair observation that "Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it."
This assertion perfectly explains the truth behind so-called "moderate Muslims" who end up making for good citizens in the West. They are good in spite of, not because of, the teachings of their religion.
Churchill is also noteworthy for warning against the dangers of pacifism in the face of growing threats – another topic relevant to the U.K.'s circumstances vis-Ã -vis its overwhelming Muslim population.
While the following excerpt was written in response to the policy of appeasing Hitler leading up to WWII, it is especially relevant to the U.K.'s "migrant problem," and the appeasement it has been met with, resulting in a demographic conquest:
In the very capital of the U.K. – London, where Churchill's statue stands, and where a few days ago rioting Muslim mobs hurled trash at passive police – the name "Muhammad" is today the most popular name for newborn baby boys (as well as in several other Western capitals, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Oslo, et al.).
While it is doubtful that Churchill – or any other Brit born in the late 19th century – could ever have conceived that Britain would willingly give itself over to Islam, here are his rather applicable words concerning passivity in the face of growing threats (in this case, Hitler):
"[I]f you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Such words are proving increasingly ominous for much of Western Europe – with Londonistan at the fore.
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