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Writes John F. Miller:

Dear Lew:

This news item provides a ringing endorsement of how private enterprise and community focused volunteerism offer alternative remedies to the ever failed government solutions that in many ways contributed to these unprecedented fires.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Infowars

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The Federalist

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

The Supreme Court has ruled Tik Tok operations can be banned in the US. Tik Tok posts uncensored videos exposing the bombing in Gaza and the genocide and starvation of the Palestinians. The ADL has been a big cheerleader of banning Tik Tok in the US. Tik Tok also posts uncensored videos by residents in California, North Carolina, Hawaii and Ohio who are victims of the wildfires, hurricanes and chemical spills who have been exposing the truth of these disasters and the incompetence, corruption and neglect by the state. Will the Trump administration enforce the ban?

See here.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The American Conservative

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John Leake

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World

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Ben Bartee

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Middle East Eye

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American Reformer

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Writes Brian Dunaway:

Hanlon’s Razor states “never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.” Its usage is so ubiquitous it has almost become trite. Perhaps it is the times, but I find this “truth” to be less and less convincing.

Setting that aside, this testimony screams the truth of the superiority of private over public services:

Blue State Blues: California Is a Third World Failed State

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RPI’s Daniel McAdams and Chris Rossini separate the news from the propaganda in this discussion of the REAL news of the week.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

President elect Trump wants to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect his new proposed tariffs. A new government agency! Does DOGE (Elton Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy) know about this? Currently the US Customs and Border Protection agency collects tariffs. Will Trump eliminate the IRS? The main source of revenues for the federal government was tariffs until the income tax (taxes on wages and earnings). Will Trump cut the income tax? Or is this all about more taxes and more government?

See here.

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Writes  Gail Appel:

It isn’t a “ theory”. It’s a six plus decades plan in the making.

During a 1958 interview, Aldous  Huxley laid out the entire sequence of events we’ve since experienced to Mike Wallace. Wallace “ humored” Huxley as one often does when dealing with an eccentric child. Huxley was so lost in his train of thought, he ignored Wallace’s hectoring. The most chilling line in the interview was Huxley’s . “ It’s happening much faster than I could have imagined”.

More disturbing still was Huxley’s 1961 BBC interview after “ Brave New World Revisited” was published. “ I think “ Brave New World”  has been used as a playbook”.

The unintended consequences of a brilliant, fantastical mind.

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Writes Gail Appel:

This must be addressed by Trump from his bully pulpit during a press conference while surrounded by those who witnessed the horrific murder of Rosanne Boyland.

An American. A human being. There must be justice!

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Writes Ginny Garner.:

Lew,

No, you’re not dreaming. President elect Trump, whose cabinet choices are arguably 100% Zionist, has shared a video on social media saying Netanyahu conned the US into war with Iraq and is pushing the US into a war with Iran. The video features an impassioned Jeffrey Sachs who is fed up with Israel controlling American foreign policy. What’s going on here?

Link.

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Writes Gail Appel:

There is no end to the Democrat delivery of destruction. No matter that the spiteful decisions jeopardize the safety and security of those who voted against them, but those who voted for them and essentially, their own demise.

The Democrats are the jilted spouse that murders their entire family to spite the ex-wife/husband.

See here.

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Last week on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Mel Gibson defended the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, bringing the Shroud into the public eye once again. He’s not the only one defending Christ’s burial cloth.

Dr. John Campbell, a prominent YouTube commentator on medical topics—especially on malpractice inherent in the Covid vaccination regime—recently changed course to present a compelling analysis of the evidence for Christ embedded in the Shroud of Turin. The Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection are all documented in that linen cloth whose fabric embeds countless forensic clues detailing Christ’s Passion and whose ghostly image contains a wealth of 3D data encoded long before the birth of computer imaging.

An Italian lawyer and amateur photographer named Secondo Pia was the first to photograph the Shroud. King Umberto I, who owned the holy relic, had granted permission to display it in Turin Cathedral’s 1898 Arte Sacra exhibition, and Pia was commissioned to photograph it.

Working during the lunch break, when the doors were closed to the public, Pia brought a portable generator into the cathedral, set up two electric bulbs, and—after an earlier, unsuccessful session—finally managed to get the right lighting on his second try, on May 28, 1898. Around midnight, Pia developed his photo, and, as he wrote some years later,

Closed in my darkroom, completely intent on my work, I felt a very profound emotion when, during the development, I saw appearing on the plate, first the Holy Face, with such clarity that I was astonished and at the same time happy, since from that moment I could have the certainty that my work would have a good outcome. 

His camera had unveiled a detailed portrait of the Savior—the very face of Jesus plain to see on that glass plate—hidden in the Shroud since the moment of His Resurrection. Not a vague, ghostly image that required a medieval leap of faith to see the truth therein but a startling proof waiting two millennia to be revealed. Proof fit for a skeptical age, fit to close out a century that had followed hot on the French Revolution and had given birth to Marx and Engels. The ethereal stain on that linen had finally come alive as a striking portrait of the God-man once wrapped within it.

The face of God Incarnate, stark and real, His eyes closed in death. A spiritual weapon suddenly unveiled at the start of an apocalyptic age that would see the First World War; the Rape of Nanking; a Second World War stamped dead by two atomic infernos; the genocidal reigns of Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot; and now, here in the erstwhile Land of the Free, the mutilative “gender reassignment” of innocent children and the rampant slaughter of millions more in their mothers’ wombs in the name of “reproductive rights.”

Meanwhile, as Western European countries find themselves swamped with invaders bent on demolishing the Christian civilizations they were built upon, here in America swarms of drones and seeming UFOs infest the skies in what looks like a futuristic PSYOP war—or even the start of Armageddon. How direly we need that spiritual weapon today.

In 1976, scientists at Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico put a 1931 photo of the Shroud into a VP-8 Image Analyzer. The VP-8 is an analog device originally intended for enhancing differences of grayscale in images such as x-rays and aerial photos of terrain, thus rendering their evaluation easier. 

“When applied to normal photographs,” Shroud researcher Barrie Schwortz writes, “the result was a distorted and inaccurate image. However, when it was applied to the Shroud, the result was an accurate, topographic image showing the correct, natural relief characteristics of a human form.”   

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The term “openness” is one of those flexible notions which, like those of “public order,” “good faith,” or “proportionality,” evade the exercise of definition.

We know the important function of “standards” in legal technique. Legislators and judges deliberately use these words taken from ordinary language, the meaning of which varies according to the context and dominant ideas. They serve to establish rules of law and to identify jurisprudential solutions that escape the requirements of logical reasoning using legal concepts. They authorize them to establish and interpret the law according to a certain common sense, with a margin of flexibility that allows them to resolve the tension that a lawyer, for example, necessarily encounters when confronted with the complexity and mobility of social life.

In the spirit of openness, the Italian Bishops’ Conference recently approved, with the apparent blessing of the Roman authorities, new guidelines that stipulate that an applicant for the seminary cannot be rejected simply because he identifies as a homosexual.

The document “La formazione dei presbiteri nelle chiese in Italia. Orientamenti e norme per i seminari” (“The formation of priests in churches in Italy. Guidelines and norms for seminaries”), states that seminary directors should consider sexual orientation as only one aspect of a candidate’s personality. While this does not change the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that “homosexual tendencies” are “intrinsically disordered,” it nevertheless departs from its constant position that such men should not become priests:

…persons with homosexual tendencies who seek admission to Seminary, or discover such a situation in the course of formation, consistent with her own Magisterium, “the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called ‘gay culture.’ Such persons, in fact, find themselves in a situation that gravely hinders them from relating correctly to men and women.”

The new norm says that so long as a candidate remains chaste, his sexual orientation should not disqualify him from seeking the priesthood. The dilemma in this is that, as taught by the Church, only heterosexual men can become priests since only they are objectively capable of sacrificing a family, that is to say, marrying a woman and having children for the service of God’s Church. Those with homosexual tendencies, while they can equally achieve holiness, are objectively incapable of making the same sacrificial act. In other words, the vocation to Holy Orders is a call, not an open invitation to anyone and everyone who desires to become a priest.

In an effort to do damage control, the president of the Italian bishops’ Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and Consecrated Life stated:

[It is] an accompaniment to self-knowledge that is often lacking in the younger generations and that does not exclude even the boys who arrive in the Seminaries…when reference is made to homosexual tendencies, it is also appropriate not to reduce discernment only to this aspect, but, as for every candidate, to grasp its meaning in the global framework of the young person’s personality, so that, knowing himself and integrating the objectives proper to the human and priestly vocation, he reaches a general harmony.

What this means, I do not know. But it is certainly an ambiguous statement, to say the least, when in today’s age, we need clear-cut clarity. This is equally on par with what, just prior to the Vatican document, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, stated in support of same-sex couples adopting children:

“Many of our LGBTQ Catholic sisters and brothers value community life,” said Cupich.

Many LGBTQ people also learn and know what sacrificial love is, as they take on the role of parenting children who otherwise would not have a home. This also happens when LGBTQ people put the social Gospel into practice by volunteering for good causes and by dealing compassionately with others, as so many of them already know what it means to feel excluded. 

The cardinal argues that LGBTQ+ individuals cannot be treated as third-class citizens. Yet the campaign for same-sex couples to adopt children not just undermines the traditional family made up of a father, mother, and children, it degrades the natural reality that we were created in the image and likeness of God: “male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).

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