Hebrews 5:12-14 (KJV) "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."
Proverbs 27:17 (KJV) "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
Finally, brothers & sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.
Philippians 4:8-9
CONSENSUS = general agreement
DIVISION = the action/process of separating something into parts
CONTROL = the power to restrict, influence, manage, or direct
COLLUSION = secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy
What starts as smoke around the campfire can sometimes turn into talk around the water cooler. It’s no secret that most people like to gossip,
sometimes with damaging social consequences for the person(s) in question. According to a new study, not only are people highly influenced by gossip,
they do so even when the information is explicitly identified as questionable or untrustworthy ...
Muslims in NYC are carrying out “community patrols” in Brooklyn while driving cars that look almost identical to NYPD vehicles, leading some to
describe the situation as “Sharia Police”. The New York Times wrote a lengthy, glowing piece about the patrols, with one hijab-wearing Muslim woman
commenting that they made her feel safe from harassment. ...
A historic interfaith covenant was signed in the Middle East on Monday, and the mainstream media in the United States has been almost entirely silent about it. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb is considered to be the most important imam in Sunni Islam, and he arrived at the signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi with
Pope Francis “hand-in-hand in a symbol of interfaith brotherhood”. But this wasn’t just a ceremony for Catholics and Muslims. According to a British
news source, the signing of this covenant was done “in front of a global audience of religious leaders from Christianity, Islam, Judaism and other
faiths” ...
The U.S. federal government’s debt load hit another milestone this month: It’s now a record US$22 trillion in nominal terms. That’s $67,000 for every man, woman and child living in the U.S., and it’s up $2 trillion since President Donald Trump took office in 2017. For comparison, U.S. debt is more than the total size of the United States’ $20 trillion economy and equivalent to the gross domestic products of China, Japan and Germany combined ...
Unconstitutional gun law ideas seem to spread from one state to another like some kind of insidious virus. Late last year, an Orwellian gun bill was presented in New York state. If signed into law, anyone who wants to buy a gun would have to turn over three years of their social media history and one year of their internet search history ...
Socialism has become the leftist fad of the day, with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading the charge. According to Gallup, more
Democrats have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism (57%-47%). This is despite the historical fact that every socialist country in the
19th, 20th, and 21st century, including Venezuela, has turned into a cultural and economic sinkhole. Thomas Sowell observed that “Socialism in general
has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” ...
No more pleather: The Parisian shoe brand proves that vegan style can be sustainable, not just ethical. Veja is a French shoe company that has been trying to make shoe production more ethical and eco-friendly since its inception fourteen years ago. It has done an impressive job, sourcing organic cotton directly from farmers in Peru and Brazil, experimenting with alternative materials such as tilapia skin and silk, using chrome-free suedes and leathers, as well as wild rubber harvested by a cooperative of small producers in the Amazon ...
Interestingly, electrically stimulating the cingulum bundle also seems to reduce anxiety. In a study of epilepsy patients undergoing electrical stimulation brain mapping, scientists discovered that the stimulation of the cingulum bundle reliably produced laughter, smiles and calm feelings. The findings could someday help scientists develop better treatments for anxiety, depression and chronic pain. One obstacle preventing this kind of treatment from becoming accessible is that it requires invasive surgery, though improved technology could someday change that ...
Your cellphone is a gold mine of information about where you have been, who you have been talking to, and what you have been doing online. And now “mysterious new tool” is enabling law enforcement authorities all over the nation to get access to that information on virtually any phone. So if you end up going to prison someday, it could be the evidence that is pulled out of your cellphone that ultimately puts you away ...
When a small child runs around waving their arms saying, “I’m a bird, I’m a bird,” we often will say what a creative imagination they have. If an adult runs around doing the same, we usually say that that person needs help because they are clearly out of touch with reality. Anyone who takes the time to read the proposed Green New Deal legislation can only conclude that the authors are living in a fairyland that is also deeply out of touch with reality ...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? If there were an award for the most impactful technology that almost no one has heard of, the winner could be CRISPR.
Now, CRISPR has nothing to do with refrigerator drawers that keep fruits and vegetables fresh. No, it’s the latest technology tempting us to try our
hand at playing god. CRISPR stands for—get ready, it’s a mouthful—“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat.” And all God’s people said,
“Huh?” Well, originally, it referred to a series of repeats of the base sequences in the DNA of bacteria ...
The UK is experiencing record levels of employment, with over 32m people in work. But many workers and their families continue to struggle to survive financially – it’s estimated 5.5m workers are paid below the Real Living Wage, which is set at a level at which people can afford to “live”, based on the minimum income standard. But what’s missing from these statistics are those people who have to work in more than one low paid job to make
ends meet ...
According to a recently published white paper there is a worldwide effort to restrict the right to travel of everyone. And you will not believe how the U.N. is involved. And you will not believe how the U.N. is involved. A recent article at PapersPlease.org warns that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) wants to check every airline passenger’s background and send airlines an “Authority to Carry” before a passenger is lowed to board a plane ...
According to the most recent Census Bureau data on state-to-state migration flows, 523,000 people moved to California from other states. But at the same time, more than 661,000 Californians moved to other states. That is, on net, nearly 138,000 more people left California than moved into it from elsewhere in the US ...
Europe is awash in credit exhaustion, and so is China. The signs are everywhere: credit exhaustion is global, and that means the global growth story is over: revenues and profits are all sliding as lending dries up and defaults pile up. What is credit exhaustion? Qualified buyers don’t want to borrow more, leaving only the unqualified or speculators seeking to save a marginal bet gone bad with one more loan (which will soon be in default) ...
I’m not saying that the well-funded publicly promoted and celebrated American Eugenics Movement wasn’t covered in my high school American History class. But I feel like I’d remember learning about it. I still shudder when I think of about the book, The Scarlet Letter. It was only the last few years that remember seeing news coverage about states that once had laws allowing forced sterilizations. These were apparently part of the American Eugenics movement. Some people who were forcibly sterilized during that time period are being financially compensated ...
After two very long years, the Mueller report is finally going to be released, and it could potentially be the spark that unleashes chaos all over
the country. Initially, some in the mainstream media had speculated that the Mueller report could be released this week, but now it is being reported
that this probably will not happen. However, it is expected that the report will almost certainly be handed over at some point in March. Robert Mueller
will submit a private copy of his report to Attorney General William Barr, and then Barr will make a determination about how much of it should be made
public. On Friday, six committee chairs from the House of Representatives sent a stern letter to Barr ...
