- Timmons Expresses Support for DEI’s Doppelganger for Hiring Practices in Washington
- Should the US Rethink Its Mid-East Policies?
- Is Another Child Tax Credit Expansion Really the Best Way To Help Families?
- The Two-State Solution for Israel is No Solution at All
- A New Fiscal Commission Must Heed the Lesson of '97
- The Evils of Socialism
- Biden's Corporate Tax Hike: Populism Versus Economic Literacy
- Why is Greenville County Council Pickpocketing Us Again?
- The Morgan and Timmons Firey Faceoff in SC’s 4th Congressional District Race
- Advertising Rates and Specifications
- Danger: The Proposed South Carolina "Health Czar" Legislation will be Hazardous to Your FREEDOM!
- The Tucker Carlson Interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Is US Rep. William Timmons Bloating His Voting Record with Out-of-State Proxies?
- Belgrade, NATO Expansion, Color Revolutions
- Insights into the Russian View of Russian History
Lawmaker Wants ESG Factors Banned in State Pension Investments
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
State retirement funds could not be invested based on controversial environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors, under a House bill filed for the new legislative session that starts next week.
The Nerve in May revealed that two major investment firms that manage a substantial share of South Carolina’s pension plan – New York-based BlackRock and Boston-based State Street Corporation – are big supporters of the ESG movement.
As of fiscal year 2021, about $18.5 billion of the approximately $39 billion market value of all investments by the pension plan was managed by BlackRock and State Street, pension records show. The state Retirement System Investment Commission’s annual investment report for last fiscal year, which ended June 30, has not yet been publicly released.
God’s Old Tablecloth
- By W.H. Lamb
Have you ever contemplated just who decides the fate of the universe, the locations of the stars, the courses of the seasons, the history and direction of mankind, the countries men and women inhabit, and the final destination of the lives of each and every one of us? Who decides? Who directs? Who, if anyone, is really in control in this immense expanse of stars and galaxies, and on this tiny and insignificant planet? WHO IS SOVEREIGN IN THIS UNIVERSE? That is the question, is it not?
CVS and Walgreens Plan to Carry Abortion Pill, Become 'Centers of Death,' Pro-Life Advocates Say
- By Ben Johnson - The Washington Stand
Shortly after the Biden administration issued a rule allowing most pharmacies to dispense the abortion-inducing pill mifepristone, representatives from the retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens confirmed that they plan to stock the substance — a move that will put more women’s lives in danger and “transform pharmacies from centers of healing into centers of death,” pro-life advocates say.
Mifepristone, the first of two pills used in a chemical or medication abortion — which the woman administers alone, often on the toilet — deprives the unborn child of nutrition by preventing the release of progesterone, thinning the lining of the uterus. The second pill, misoprostol, induces contractions to expel the deceased child’s body from the womb. Even with incomplete data, the FDA has registered thousands of negative side effects of chemical abortion, including dozens of deaths. A study of 42,000 abortions found that women suffered four times as many adverse side effects from this two-step regimen than surgical abortion. One in five abortions induced by mifepristone resulted in negative health outcomes, the study found. Due to this record, the federal government had required the mifepristone to be distributed only by certain authorized health centers or online distributors.
Law School; Now Only for the “Woke”
- By Catching Fire News
Think law school is about teaching students how to present their case and win debates involving issues of law? Well not if your position challenges the prevailing woke narrative. If that’s the case, no law school for you!
Filling in for Hal is Lauren DeLaguna. She challenged her law school professor and ended up with disciplinary charges that threatened her future career in the practice of law.
Listen as she shares her inspiring story, and how she fought back and won.
North Greenville University Student Receives CIC/UPS Scholarship
- By Billy Cannada - NGU
North Greenville University student Christopher Jackson majoring in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies from Inman, SC, has been selected to receive a CIC/UPS Scholarship provided by the SC Independent Colleges & Universities (SCICU) and its national partner, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, DC.
Nationally, CIC, through the CIC/UPS Educational Endowment, provided more than $1.4 million in student scholarships to support student success at private colleges and universities. This year, SCICU conveyed $433,200 through 11 scholarship programs to 273 eligible students in 21 South Carolina private colleges.
Covid Hospitals: Who Calls the Shots on Your Life?
- By Rebecca Terrell - The New American
Grace Schara’s life ended in late 2021 in a Covid hospital in Wisconsin. Her doctor had issued a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order, so hospital staff did not revive her as her life ebbed away. But her family claims the DNR violated state law, as they knew nothing about it and tried desperately and unsuccessfully to rescind it before her death.
Read about Grace’s story here.
After conducting an investigation, the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional services, the agency charged with ensuring public safety, ruled that state laws governing DNR do not apply to physicians in non-emergency hospital settings.
Nite Line Guest Line-up for January 9th-13th, 2023
- By Nite Line Press Release
Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, January 9th, 2023: Tonight on Nite Line, join Pastor Benny Littlejohn as he welcomes Patrica Jordan to discuss her new book, ‘You Are Valuable Don't Let Depression Get You Down’, a memoir about how she overcame depression. Michael Pink will also be discussing his book series “God’s Best Kept Secrets” which focuses on self-help. Hugh Robeson will be tonight's musical guest and also will be sharing his testimony.
Tim Chapman to Preach Opening Services
- By Randy Page - BJU
Tim Chapman, a missionary to Peru, will preach the opening services of Bob Jones University’s spring 2023 semester. Services will be held Jan. 10-11, at 7 p.m. in Founder’s Memorial Amphitorium.
“I had the opportunity to see Tim’s heart for people and willingness to serve when he was a member of my traveling evangelism team for several years,” said BJU President Steve Pettit. “We look forward to the work God will do in our student body through Tim's preaching during opening services.”
Russia Approaches Remaining Roads in Bakhmut, Ukraine Offensive Fails in Kremennaya, Makeyevka 89
- By Mike Scruggs
This is an invaluable report and insight by Alexander Merkouris in the UK on the war in Ukraine and the Republican House Civil-War on the election of the Speaker of the House. The War in the House is closely related to conservative disenchantment with Republican leadership in the Senate.
Most of the first part is a very informative education on the military situation in Ukraine and the offensive and defensive artillery and rocket battles going there. It includes what I believe to be an accurate report on causes and casualties of a recent Ukrainian rocket strike on a Russian training barracks. However, he has significant insight on the Republican battle in the US House and Republican problems in the Senate. Americans desperately need to be well informed on these issues. You will not get the facts or truth in the MSM, and there is too little of it on Fox.
They Will not Allow a Divine Foot in the Door
- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Richard C. Lewontin - “Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen." (Billions and Billions of Demons - January 9, 1997, ISSUE)
And The Rains Came ...
- By Tony A. Dunn
The recent rain storm which came through the upstate left Cleveland Park looking like a pond.
World's Largest Faith-and-Family Broadcaster Celebrating 50 Years on the Air in 2023
- By Trinity Broadcast Network
TBN's golden anniversary comes with a lineup of new programming featuring Dave Ramsey, Sheila Walsh, Andrea Bocelli, Former Ambassador David Friedman, Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and more
LOS ANGELES -- Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is celebrating fifty years on the air in 2023 with a lineup of exciting programming and specials. Launched in Orange County, California, May 28, 1973, as a local, part-time Christian television station, TBN has grown to become America's most-watched faith-and-family channel and the world's largest religious broadcaster, covering more than 170 nations through over thirty international networks.
Here Comes the Big Red Agenda: House GOP to Vote on Pro-Life Protections in First Two Weeks
- By Ben Johnson - The Washington Stand
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives plan to ring in the new year with a conservative, pro-life agenda that proves elections have consequences. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced that “in the first two weeks of the Republican majority,” Congress will vote on 11 “commonsense measures” focused on protecting babies born alive during botched abortions, protecting taxpayers from funding abortion-on-demand, commending pregnancy resource centers, beefing up border security, protecting U.S. energy resources, and taking a tougher stance against the People’s Republic of China. “The American people spoke on November 8th and decided it was time for a new direction,” Scalise wrote in a letter to his colleagues on December 30.
Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution Condemns the FDA Approving Chemical Abortion Pills to be Sold at Retail Pharmacies
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- "For the first time, retail pharmacies, from corner drugstores to major chains like CVS and Walgreens, will be allowed to offer abortion pills in the United States under a regulatory change made Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration." -- The New York Times.
Stanton calls the move unconscionable as chemical abortions take the lives of innocent children, put women at risk, turn neighborhood pharmacies into abortion clinics and harm our environment.
Based in Idaho, Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution is a women's advocacy and educational group that works on issues of human rights and justice which empower and inspire women. It is affiliated with Stanton Healthcare which has life-affirming women's health clinics in America and internationally.
FBI Paid Twitter $3.4M for Censorship Operation, Bureau Alumni Packed Payroll
- By R. Cort Kirkwood - The New American
So Twitter wasn’t just a “subsidiary” of the FBI, as the Twitter Files Part 6 revealed. It was a handsomely paid subsidiary, which might explain why it acted so quickly to crush the Hunter Biden laptop story at the FBI’s behest.
From Michael Shellenberger’s Twitter Files Part 7, we now know that the FBI pushed Twitter to suppress the laptop story when it almost surely knew it was not “Russian disinformation,” and Twitter complied within hours.
Once again in those files, we see the names of San Francisco FBI man Elvis Chan and his boon companion at Twitter, the hate-Trump homosexual enforcer Yoel Roth.
The Bureau paid Twitter more than $3 million to censor posts the FBI didn’t like. And Twitter employed more than a few former agents.
George Santos, a Child of Woke America
- By Star Parker
By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a congressional seat from New York.
In his various appearances and interviews to explain himself, the lack of shame he seems to feel is almost as uncanny as the lies themselves.
Sadly, Santos is a child and product of the troubling and, yes, dangerous state of affairs in our nation today.
Kevin McCarthy Drama Underscores Impotence of Republican Elite
- By Josh Hammer
After Republicans clinched their narrower-than-expected new House majority in November's midterm elections, the only relevant questions for Congress-watchers seemed to pertain to what Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) impending House speakership would look like.
To what extent, if any, would he return House rules to "regular order," whereby bills are drafted and marked up in decentralized committees, rather than unilaterally imposed by the speaker's office? To what extent would he stack committee chairmanships with like-minded allies, and to what extent would he be forced to offer some chairman gavels to skeptical conservatives? To what extent would he direct the new Republican majority to focus on passing substantive legislation, and to what extent would he focus on subpoenaing and investigating the Biden administration? Would the so-called "motion to vacate" the speaker's chair be restored to the prerogative of a single House member, as was the case for two centuries?
The House Speaker's Race is Worth Celebrating
- By Neil Patel
There's a lot of alarmism going on right now about the race for speaker of the House. Many are calling it a crisis or a "three-ring circus." What it is really is the first sign that the reckoning and subsequent healing needed among Republicans may finally be upon us.
There is a huge split within the Republican Party. The party establishment sees an America that's fundamentally the same as it was in 1985 and has a policy agenda fit for just that moment. These Republicans still see big business as their allies. They equate policies that help big business with policies that help America.
Christian Hope in 2023
- By Rob Schwarzwalder - The Washington Stand
Let’s say that in the next couple of decades our country undergoes dramatic and positive change. There is nationwide repentance and a renewed commitment to Christ among His people. Human dignity becomes more than a slogan. The unborn are welcomed into life, racial and ethnic injustice is curtailed, marriage is recognized for what God intended it to be, and religious liberty is acknowledged as the cornerstone of all freedoms.
Government contracts and freedom expands. Families grow strong and healthy. Economic opportunity and sound fiscal policy join to create widening prosperity. We remedy the drug crisis and criminal violence becomes the extreme exception to a socially peaceful norm.
The Troll Sagas
- By Mike Scruggs
Chapter 3 - Of Gort Blacktooth and Grimhilda Svartslange
Skrogger Returns
Skrogger, the little fox, was gone about one day. When he came back, he was excited and obviously anxious to get Ketel’s attention. After about an hour’s consultation between fox and troll, ending with a long foxly howl, Ketel told Aelska that he would take Ivar, the little horse, Flicka, and Skrogger to rescue Marja. Presently, another fox named Raevi came and seemed to confer with Skrogger, with him was the gray squirrel, named Farear. Ketel then sang a little song and two enormous reindeer came out of the forest. A little while later, two huge gray wolves joined them. These would not normally have been welcome company to a young mother and her two youngest children about to be left on the farm alone with only a donkey—although a very handy donkey for warning people of danger. By now Aelska was a little better able to understand some of Ketel’s gruff speech. She was reassured that the two wolves and two reindeer would guard them like their own children, and that other animals would soon be bringing them food. The names of the wolves were Visatus and Rokeus. The reindeer were called. Ukkonen and Saalman, and Ketel told Aelska that they were as strong as the white bear and as swift as the eagle. The width of their antlers was greater than the length of a sword. Ketel also told her that he expected Sigurd Magnusson and Trigg Rolfsson to come within three days with their wives and other neighbors to help them.
To the 118th Congress: Welcome Aboard. Now Get to Work -- Part I
- By Oliver North
Today, the new U.S. Congress is sworn in. Welcome, especially to those new to Washington. As a reminder to my readers and charge to our elected representatives, here is the oath you will take:
"I, (name here), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
The Endless Battle Between Good And Evil Goes On
- By W.H. Lamb
“It is Satan, not God, who has been urging you to become a coward in the raging battle between good and evil, and to leave what should be your duty all up to God.” - Robert Welch, 1972 (Founder of The John Birch Society in 1958)
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF A NATION
In the two millennia from Jesus the Messiah’s founding of His Earthly Church upon the ROCK of His teachings and His love for a world of sinful people—i.e. upon HIMSELF, the battle between good and evil—the perpetual war waged by Satan and his willing followers against the people of God—against all things godly—spiritual—patriotic—and honorable, has never ceased. From the day that the Great Deceiver tried to “tempt” our Savior, the Second Person of the Godhead, into “worshipping him” by offering Him the whole world, until this very time, when the worship of our one and only Triune God is being PURPOSELY diminished and ridiculed, and the freedoms once guaranteed to Americans by a Constitution codified by the blood and sacrifices of brave men and women of our past are being rapidly stolen from us by those same “willing followers” of Satan that have plagued Christian and moral and decent and freedom loving people since the Pharisees of ancient Jerusalem took to the streets like a horde of screaming “AntiFa” banshees, crying “crucify Him—crucify Him”, that struggle between good and evil for the “soul” of our nation has never abated.
Will the Fed Blink in 2023? Will Congress Throw More Fuel on the Fire?
- By Veronique de Rugy
In the final week of 2022, we Americans can foresee two significant economic risks in 2023. The first one is a probability that the Federal Reserve will get weak-kneed and stop raising interest rates before inflation is truly under control. The second risk is that Congress will continue to spend and borrow money irresponsibly. The likely mix of these two hazards would all but ensure that our economic misery lasts much longer than necessary.
Let's start with the first risk. In theory, to tame inflation, the Fed will need to push real interest rates not only high -- as it has already done -- but higher than the highest rate that the Fed is now targeting, and in fact (SET ITAL) much (END ITAL) higher than most investors can remember. Such high rates will have two main effects: popping the stock market and real estate market, along with any other asset bubbles that we've witnessed in recent years. The economic downturn that would follow would increase unemployment rates significantly.
Post 214 Gun Show Visitors
- By Tony A. Dunn
Bobby Davis and Peter Butchart members of American Legion Rudolf Anderson, Jr., Post214, in Taylors, SC talk with visitors to a recent Gun Show held at Greenville Convention Center. They share info about The American Legion and The Cecil D. Buchanan Museum of Military History at 3110 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors, SC.
Yikes! Life Is Getting Shorter in America
- By Betsy McCaughey
It's one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations or censors your tweets. It's far worse when government is to blame for actually shortening your life.
U.S. life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years, the lowest in 25 years, according to new federal data. Americans should be gasping. What could be more important than having the chance to live a long life?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repeatedly has blown its responses to health killers like fentanyl, COVID and lung cancer. All the while, life expectancy gets shorter and shorter.
Vietnam Veterans of America Celebrate Christmas together
- By Tony A. Dunn
Politics Without Principle Will Devolve Into Chaos
- By Laura Hollis
George Santos, a newly elected congressman from Long Island, New York, has been caught in a string of embarrassing lies about his background. He claimed to have received a degree from Baruch College in 2010; he didn't. He claimed to have worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup; he didn't. He claimed to own multiple properties; he doesn't. In fact, he lives with his sister and has previously been a "deadbeat tenant" who was sued for thousands of dollars in unpaid rent and bounced checks. (He says now that he never even paid the judgment. "I completely forgot about it.")
- Conservatives Pull Out a Couple of Wins Despite Terrible Lame Duck Session
- It Goes On Our Children's Tab
- They Are Not Protectors of the Planet But Destroyers of Human Society
- Understanding Uniformitarian Geology
- RINOs Exposed
- For Teachers Unions, Parents and Children Come Last
- The Troll Sagas
- Our Liberties Are Being Threatened!
- Omnibus Bill's Give Away
- Republicans Should Just Say No to Any Budget That Funds 87,000 New IRS Agents
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