1) “We May Have Seen Political Revival, But If the People Don’t Repent, There Is No Hope for America” (Jack Hibbs, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article — We’re on the brink of insanity, ladies and gentlemen! The direction this country is going is nothing short of insane. We are on the brink, I believe, of God judging this nation for the wicked sins that we have committed as a country. We need to repent.
In the house of God, we need to cry out to the Lord and intercede for every American, even those who do not believe. As a church, if pastors do not wake up and blow the trumpet of warning, it is going to be too late.
This is the reality even under Trump’s administration. Forget about the government for a moment. If we, the people, do not turn back to God in short order, I don’t believe there’s hope for America. We have had a political revival—that’s great. And yet, where’s the church? Islam is rising in America. Bizarre immorality is rising in America.
A related article: “American Churches Turned into Mosques — But Who’s Really to Blame?” (Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream)
2) “Warren Buffett Walks Away From Wall Street — But Not From Butchering Unborn Babies. The Oracle of Omaha may be retiring from Berkshire Hathaway, but he won’t give up his other title — the biggest funder of abortion in history.” (Hayden Ludwig, American Spectator)
From the article –The billionaire’s secret is masking his abortion funding as “philanthropy.” Since 2002, he’s poured a vast fortune into a set of foundations deeply involved in bankrolling abortion-on-demand groups — including Planned Parenthood — and the United Nations’ population control crusade in poor, non-white countries.
One of these you know: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 39 percent of whose revenues actually come from Buffett. Much of that wealth goes toward anti-human advocacy groups such as the Population Council, created in the 1950s to depopulate the Third World.
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, however, does a much better job of hiding its radicalism. The group’s website advertises “college scholarships for Nebraska students” and “does not respond to other inquiries.”
This same “benign” education philanthropy has poured $76 million into Marie Stopes International (MSI), a far-left purveyor of abortions overseas for girls as young as 16 — some of them illegal. MSI, incidentally, is named for Britain’s version of Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who wrote love poetry to Adolf Hitler. (Really.) Virtually all of its clinics are based in African and Asian countries that restrict abortion or enshrine the right to life for the unborn in their national constitutions, such as Kenya.
3) “The Decivilizing of America” (Victor Davis Hanson, Blade of Perseus)
From the article — But in the last two decades, our major cities have been de-civilizing. Citizens are told not to flush non-biodegradable plastics down their toilets, both to preserve the environment and to ensure municipal septic systems work properly. They are reminded to pick up their pets’ excrement on sidewalks and in parks. For purposes of collective health, they are taught not to urinate, spit, or defecate in public areas.
Is all that for naught? After all, our mayors and city councils in our biggest and most iconic cities simply destroyed centuries of such health protocols and allowed tens of thousands of homeless people with impunity to inject, urinate, defecate, and fornicate in or on storefronts, streets, gutters, parks, and sidewalks. The stench, flotsam, and jetsam have utterly transformed American inner cities. Central Seattle, Los Angeles, parts of San Francisco, Portland, and Washington, DC, now resemble medieval London or Paris—as if a millennium-long knowledge of basic public health was simply ignored or mocked. In truth, the centers of America’s big cities are spaces where public health protocols are no longer enforced, where all the ancient and hard-won rules of civilization no longer apply. It would likely be safer to walk through Dickensian London of 1850 than to take a nocturnal ride on the New York subway.
Another hallmark of Western civilization was the creation of a judiciary that gave the state the power to enforce laws, ensure justice, and deter criminals by swift punishment, unaffected by ideology, bias, bribes, and personal vendettas. From the law codes of Justinian to the American Constitution, ascendant civilizations rose with a codified legal system applied uniformly, disinterestedly, and fairly. Not any longer. Ideology has turned the American legal system into a commissariat of sorts in which relativism is now the norm…
4) “Hawley ‘Stunned’ by DOJ’s Sudden Shift on Key Abortion Pill Case” (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand)
From the article — As far back as last year’s Republican National Convention, Americans have watched with surprise at the mixed messages from Donald Trump on abortion. The man widely considered the most pro-life president in history has sent confusing signals since campaigning for a second term. And unfortunately for pro-lifers, one of the biggest gray areas is also one of the most dangerous: chemical abortion.
The news that the president’s Justice Department urged the court to drop a case racing to protect women from the horrors of the abortion pill made both sides’ jaws drop. But is the DOJ’s move the disappointment conservatives think it is — or is this part of a more complex legal strategy than the Trump team is letting on? The Left certainly thinks so. In the legacy media, several outlets are warning liberals not to get overly excited by the shift. The headlines may be “welcome,” NBC concedes, “but supporters of abortion rights shouldn’t celebrate too much.”
Lost in all of the hype, Susan Rinkunas cautions, is that “the Department of Justice didn’t say anything about whether it thinks the drug should remain available.” And, she adds, “[T]here’s no guarantee the right-wing judge assigned to the case will dismiss the lawsuit, and there are many other ways the administration and its allies can still restrict abortion pill access.” So yes, “while it’s true that the Trump DOJ sided with the Biden administration, it did so only on the technical details of who sued and when, not on the merits of the case.”
A related (and more hopeful) article is this one: “HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Orders ‘Complete Review’ of Abortion Pill After Shocking Study” (Katherine Hamilton, Breitbart)\
5) “Planned Parenthood Is Performing More Abortions Than Ever While Getting Record Federal Funding” (Michael Snyder, America First Report)
From the article –The blood of the children that are being slaughtered is crying out for justice. But the federal government is not against what Planned Parenthood is doing. In fact, the federal government is the primary source of funding for what Planned Parenthood is doing.
According to the numbers that Planned Parenthood just released, the organization got nearly 800 million dollars in government funding in just 12 months…
— $2.522 billion in net assets, up from $2.517 billion the previous year.
— $792.2 million in government funding, up from $699.3 the previous year.
— More than $2 billion in total revenue, almost equal to the previous year.
— $27.4 million in excess revenue (calculated by subtracting total expenses from total revenues, down from 178.6 million the previous year).
— $684.1 million in private contributions and bequests, down from $997.5 million reported the previous year.
Every year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars go to Planned Parenthood. And every year those of us that are against abortion ask the federal government to stop doing that. But every year our politicians in Washington just keep showering Planned Parenthood with more cash.
Related articles: “Planned Parenthood Killed 402,000 Babies. It’s Just an Abortion Business” (Randall O’Bannon, Life News) and “Planned Parenthood Claims Abortions are Just 4% of What It Does. That’s Totally False” (Steven Ertelt, Life News)
Other recommendations this week?
* “One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive Orders Went Entirely Unnoticed” (Issues & Insights Editorial Board)
* “Trump’s Drug-Price EO Should Have Happened Decades Ago – What’s ‘free market’ about Americans paying the tab for the rest of the world’s prescription drugs?” (Scott McKay, American Spectator)
* “Republican Looks To Dismantle ‘Eyesore’ White House Peace Vigil. The decades-old encampment has sat on federal land since 1981.” (Jon Levine, Washington Free Beacon)
* “Germany’s Catholic Bishops Approve Blessings for Pansexual and Transgender Couples. New rules permit Church to employ defrocked priests even if they are cohabiting with a man or a woman.” (Jules Gomes, The Stream)
* “The War on Womanhood: Women, not ‘birthing people,’ are God’s design.” (Denise George, Decision)