1) “GOP Turns Up the Heat on Trump to Clamp Down on Wildly Unsafe Abortion Drug” (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand)
From the article — Rodriguez’s testimony is part of a powerful new video released in December by Stop Coerced Abortions. Like so many former abortion center workers, Marya finally had a crisis of conscience about what she was doing, and the testimonies she remembers from helpless, hurting women still haunt her. “The phone calls that strike me the most were the clients with the abortion pills that will call me in the middle of the night and said, ‘So you guys told me to push a blood clot on the toilet, and I tried to do that, but I didn’t make it, and it’s not a blood clot, it’s actually a baby. So what do I do?’” she recalls.
She says, “You’re instructed to tell them to go ahead and grab it and throw it in the toilet, flush, and don’t look.” The moms would almost always reply with panic. “‘But, you told me it was just a blood clot. But I can actually see the hands, the feet, the face.’ And they will be crying.”
2) “Parents Must Actively Opt Out Of Turning Their Kids Into Digital Age Zombies. The highest civic skill in the digital age is not coding or content creation, but the ability to look away.” (Julianna Frieman, Federalist)
From the article — Do you remember when television was the technology we were warned about? When parents fretted over too many hours glued to the screen after school, teachers rolled in a TV on a metal cart like contraband, and cultural critics cautioned that the glowing box in our living rooms might rot our brains. Television was the villain of its age, and just like social media today, it existed as a passive, mind-numbing force that threatened attention spans and civic life. Neil Postman took that fear seriously, and in 1985 he declared that we Americans are Amusing Ourselves to Death.
What feels almost quaint now is not Postman’s alarm, but his target. Television was merely the prototype for the power that cellphones and tablets have over the population. The danger was never the screen itself, but what happens when a society allows its dominant media to define how truth is presented, how politics is understood, and how meaning is measured. Postman was not arguing against technology; he was warning that every medium carries a philosophy, and that some philosophies are incompatible with serious thought.
3) “The Jewish Test: History has already run the experiment that Tucker Carlson and his friends are urging upon us. The results are not favorable for America.” (Michael Doran, Tablet)
From the article — Two thousand years ago, a Roman emperor built an arch to commemorate the defeat of the Jews. Today, Rome is a museum. The Jews survive. Israel has been reborn in its ancestral land.
Empires rise and fall. The Jews alone among peoples are eternal. Their survival is one of history’s great mysteries. Conquered, dispersed, and persecuted, a small tribe endured across millennia. From antiquity to the modern age, Jews moved from empire to empire, barred from land ownership, excluded from politics, and confined to narrow professions while pressured to convert. In times of eased repression, many assimilated, while others adapted and flourished. With repression’s return, survival again took precedence. A faithful remnant preserved communal cohesion and carried tradition forward without territory, army, or state.
To explain the mystery of Jewish survival, European observers have repeatedly reached for supernatural causes. Their accounts tend to fall into two camps. The first interprets Jewish endurance as demonic. Its most influential exponent was Martin Luther, who insisted that “the devil … has taken possession of this people,” leading them to worship not God but “their gifts, their deeds, their works.” Accusing them of usury, deception, and moral corruption, Luther concluded that “no heathen has done such things and none would do so except the Devil himself and those whom he possesses, like he possesses the Jews.”
The second camp retained the supernatural frame but reversed its moral valence. Instead of demonic possession, it discerned divine design…
4) “Iran And The Red-Green Alliance: A Warning For The West” (Thomas Fretwell, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article — The enduring hostility of the Iranian regime towards Israel and the United States must be understood within this historical framework. Both nations symbolise the Western political and moral order that the alliance defines as its enemy. The real target is Judeo-Christian civilisation. This pattern is now evident in many Western cities. In the UK, it is common to see Islamist activists and far-left progressive students uniting in demonstrations, carrying slogans and placards calling for the elimination of Israel and the “Zionists.”
With the full collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Red side of the alliance lost its primary state sponsor. The Green Islamist side, however, did not disappear; it quickly found a new generation ready to partner. Marxist-derived ideologies continued to flourish within Western universities, media institutions, and leftist student activist movements. As a result, this new generation of the Red-Green Alliance marches in support of causes that ultimately oppose the cultural, political and religious freedoms they themselves enjoy. Ironically, they are marching for their own destruction.
Iran serves as a warning to us in the West. History shows that when Islamist ideologues seize power by exploiting leftist progressive allies, those allies are often discarded once they have served their purpose. It is abundantly clear that the Red-Green Alliance is controlling much of the political landscape in the UK right now. This is why the same protestors who so loudly yelled “free Palestine” have very little to say when a real freedom revolution begins. Its existence undoes their entire narrative. The crucial question facing the UK and the West right now is whether they will recognise this pattern before it is repeated.
Related article: “Iran Is Not Simply A Political Talking Point, Its A Major Player In End Times Prophecy” (Greg Laurie, Harbinger’s Daily)
5) “When We All Get to Heaven” (Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Blog)
From the article — “When We All Get to Heaven” was written in 1898 by Eliza Hewitt, a teacher and poet from Philadelphia whose life, though deeply affected by pain caused from a spinal injury, was a profound blessing to family, friends, and the untold numbers of Christians around the world who glorified God by singing such hymns of Eliza’s as “More About Jesus, “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place,” “There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today,” and yes, “When We All Get to Heaven.” I myself have been encouraged by these songs (most of which were set to the music of Mrs. Emily Wilson) and I am looking forward to meeting these faithful saints in what undoubtedly will not be all that far away.
But what is it about the song that so lifts our spirits and sparks our imagination? Well, several things actually…
Other recent entries from Vital Signs Blog that you may find of interest?
* “Is Reading Among Your Resolutions? — Including 10 Reasons to Read More” (90-second video — Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Blog)
*“The Reading Year in Review” (Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Blog)
Other excellent reads from this week:
* “Persecution of Christians Has Expanded across the Globe, Report Reveals” (Dan Hart, Washington Stand)
* “Resisting Law Enforcement Is Violence And This Administration’s Job Is To Stop It At All Costs” (Eddie Scarry, Federalist)
* “Anatomy of an Insurrection” (Mark Pulliam, Misrule of Law)
* “The Decline and Fall of Republican Government in America” (Paul A. Rahe, The American Mind)
* “The world without Europe: This is the sad fate of a continent that has bet on its own demise. It wanted to be the great regulator and beacon of the world but is instead committing suicide homeopathically.” (Rafael Bardají, VOZ)