- Christmas Season in Western North Carolina
- 2026 US Senate Race in North Carolina
- The Fall of Man: John Calvin, Leibniz, and Deeper Truths
- Time of Reassessment America
- Knowing Trump
- Has the Bethlehem Star Mystery Been Unveiled?
- Appeals Court Refuses to Dismiss Greenville County Republican Chairman’s Contempt Case
- “If You’ve Never Had Filet Mignon, Peanut Butter Tastes Just Fine”
- The America That Once Was (A Christmas Memory)
- Is a Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Performer Serving in a Leading Moral Arc Role at a Greenville Children’s Production of Annie?
- Merry Christmas from Times Examiner
- Republican Women's Club Hosts Freedom Caucus Members
- The Trump 2025 National Security Strategy
- Tariffs in American History
- Turkey May Be Slipping Away from NATO
Operation Rescue’s 2025 Annual Survey Offers Ground-Level View of the Abortion Cartel – Hard-Hitting Data You Can’t Find Anywhere Else
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- By Operation Rescue
WICHITA, Kan. — Operation Rescue just dropped its 2025 Annual Survey, a unique report that provides a broad understanding of abortion in America and equips pro-life advocates with hard-won data to dispel the abortion lobby’s highly coordinated talking points.
The Abortion Cartel has seen record losses this year, but also some alarming trends, especially in the Virtual Back-Alley and chemical abortions. Operation Rescue has documented all of them and offers keen insights and analysis of the post-Roe abortion landscape in 2025.
Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, says, “Operation Rescue stands alone as the only organization — whether pro-life or pro-abortion — that systematically tracks vital data on America’s abortion clinics. We document closures and openings, procedure costs, gestational limits, and a wide range of emerging trends across the abortion industry. No other group provides such an in-depth, ground-level view of the Abortion Cartel and the way it truly operates.”
Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Leads Multi-State Expansion of Pro-Woman Birthing Centers
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- By Southwest Coalition for Life
LAS CRUSES, N.M. — As the new Chief Operating Officer of Southwest Coalition for Life, Mayra Rodiguez is advancing a new model for the future of serving pregnant mothers. After exposing Planned Parenthood’s deceit of women and achieving a landmark victory over the abortion giant in court, Rodriguez is now a champion for authentic women’s health.
“From the heart of Mexico City to the corridors of women’s healthcare in the United States, my journey has always been about serving women,” shared Rodriguez, who once ran three Planned Parenthood centers and will now lead a network of pro-life birthing centers committed to celebrating motherhood and protecting life. “The opposite of abortion isn’t just saying ‘no.’ It’s saying ‘yes’ to birthing centers that empower and uplift women and their families. It’s a joy to help women turn from potential harm and pain into a journey of hope and healing.”
HHS Investigates State Health Department to Protect Conscience Rights and Ensure Equal Treatment of Faith-Based Organizations
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- By U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched a major investigation into a State health department to assess whether its licensing policies, interpretations, or enforcement practices for behavioral health residential facilities and licensed behavioral health personnel violate Federal law by:
- Discriminating against faith-based organizations in the administration and/or enforcement of licensing requirements, including requiring any facilitation of sex-rejecting procedures and female genital mutilation (FGM) and treating religious objections as grounds for adverse licensure action, including denial or termination of professional licenses;
- Discriminating against institutional and/or individual health care entities for their religious objections to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortion, including through licensing, certification, or other determinations of legal status or participation; and/or
- Requiring any individual in a health service program funded by HHS to perform or assist in the performance of services contrary to that individual’s religious beliefs or moral convictions, including counseling or other assistance related to abortion, sex-rejecting procedures, or FGM.
New National Strategic Partnership Announced to Point Women to Life-Affirming Help
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- By Cogency Strategic
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Cogency Strategic announced the formation of a new strategic partnership with Heartbeat International and the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), through which a nationwide series of public service announcements (PSAs) will inform women that life-affirming women’s health centers exist.
For the first time, these messages will point women directly to OptionLine.org, the 24/7 bilingual helpline connecting women to thousands of life-affirming women’s health centers across the United States. These national PSAs will reach women at the moment they need help, connecting them to local care and the hope many never knew was available.
US-Europe Frictions Over Ending War In Ukraine
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- By Stefan J. Bos - Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
WASHINGTON/BERLIN/KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Growing frictions between the United States and its European allies emerged Thursday after tense conversations over how to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two, the ongoing war in Ukraine.
In Berlin, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sought to keep allies united, saying Europe will see “a shift” in its defense posture as it increasingly must take responsibility for its own security.
His keynote speech followed U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s remarks late Wednesday that he and European leaders exchanged “pretty strong words” during a call discussing his proposal to end the conflict.
Time of Reassessment America
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- By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. - Arizona Today
Even with Thanksgiving joy still in our rear-view mirror and Christmas just around the corner, all the joy and warm feelings beginning to percolate a call is beginning to sound across the land that the elections in November 2026 could decide if America remains free or quickens the pace of sinking. We are at a point in time of reassessment of the American purpose. ALL positioning to run for elected office regardless of local, state or national need to be examined and truly studied as to their posture and belief system. While platforms and slogans matter to voters the psychology and belief system of the candidate matters more. This time, more than ever, the candidate’s belief system is paramount in the fight to preserve this exceptional nation. Do NOT consider a candidate for local or state office as minor in this fight to preserve.
Conservative Victories Abound in National Defense Bill
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- By Eagle Forum
NDAA Hits the Target
Every year, Congress passes the Department of Defense (now Department of War) appropriations bill that funds our military. In addition, Congress must also pass a bill that authorizes policies and sets spending limits for our nation’s armed forces — the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In recent years, the NDAA has been used as the vehicle for implementing leftist programs that led to significantly depressed recruitment and weakened the strength of the military. This year, necessary changes are being made to repair the harmful military policies of the past Administration. President Donald Trump campaigned on this issue and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has already begun the process. This week, Congress is doing its part by codifying these wins in this year’s NDAA.
Last Thing on Democrats' Agenda -- Telling the Truth to Americans
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- By Star Parker
Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation's capital for America's left, explained "Why Democrats Won the Shutdown."
The most accurate declaration in the article is "fights tell the country a lot about what -- and who -- the fighters care about."
And, indeed, there should be no question what the Democratic Party is about.
That is -- to miss no opportunity to accumulate political power by fostering, as widely and as deeply as possible, a culture of government dependence in America. And to pay the bill for this by bankrupting our country.
The Genetics of the Virgin Birth
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
The virgin birth is often ridiculed by scoffers for being impossible. Now, of course, the natural response from a Christian perspective is that the fact that the virgin birth is impossible from a natural perspective is the entire point. In other words, if the virgin birth occurred, it had to be a direct act of God. Consequently, they are completely missing the point. However, as long as God is involved in the process, it turns out that it is genetically possible. In fact, there are several ways that God could have accomplished it.
The first thing that we need to note is that such births, called parthenogenesis, sometimes occur in animals. In fact, it is only in mammals that it never happens naturally, and artificial triggering is never successful in producing a live birth. On the flip side, all types of this process are quite common in insects.
Emergency Call to Action for Greenville County
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- By Benton Blount - Chairman of Greenville County Council
I know this is a break from the typical newsletter, but this week, our community learned of the sudden closure of an autism care facility here in Greenville. A shutdown so abrupt that families and staff had less than an hour to respond. It left parents without essential support for their children and left teachers and staff without notice, without pay, and without answers.
You can read the full report here, and thank you to Peyton Furtado for the coverage:
This is a human crisis unfolding in real time, and it requires our immediate attention.
Are American Churches Becoming Pastored by AI?
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- By Joshua Arnold - The Washington Stand
American pastors are becoming increasingly comfortable using artificial intelligence in ministry, according to a 2025 survey prepared by AI company Exponential. According to “The 2025 State of AI in the Church Survey Report,” 91% of ministry leaders surveyed declared themselves “for … the use of AI in ministry work” (up from 87% in 2024), 61% of respondents used AI at least weekly (up from 25% in 2024), and 25% used AI daily (up from 13% in 2024).
Is this increased use of AI positive or negative? In answer to a question about their “perspective on AI as it relates to ministry,” 30% of survey respondents said it was positive, 5% called it inherently dangerous, and 65% viewed it as a “neutral tool,” whose “impact depends entirely on how it’s used.” (Notably, 0% of respondents chose the fourth option provided, which is that AI is irrelevant to ministry — a fact discussed further below.)
Contact the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services to Urge Opposition to Reclassifying Marijuana
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- By Eagle Forum
The marijuana industry is lobbying hard in Washington, D.C. to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reclassify marijuana. The Trump administration has not made a hasty decision on this but is still considering the change. They need to hear from us that we oppose making marijuana easier to access.
Marijuana proponents are twisting the facts on rescheduling. While they claim pot should not be in the same category as heroin because it does less harm, the FDA’s scheduling of drugs considers not just harm but the potential for abuse. Even in states where it is legal, marijuana is still a highly abused drug. Legalizing recreational weed has not stopped people from selling it in the streets, manufacturers from lying about potency on their labels, nor has it kept it out of the hands of children. In fact, reports from hospitals show that the rates of marijuana-induced incidents such as psychosis and heart problems have significantly increased in states that have legalized recreational use. Now, 30% of cannabis users have a clinical diagnosis of ‘cannabis use disorder’.
The Fall of Man: John Calvin, Leibniz, and Deeper Truths
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- By Winston McCuen - South Carolina
The great Anglican bishop and theologian J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) astutely observed that most bad preaching, bad teaching, bad theology, and actual heresy may be traced to the failure of their authors to grasp the nature and effects of the Fall.
In the two millennia since the revelation of Christian truth by His Written Word (the Bible) combined with HIs Spoken Word (nature or creation), some of the best human minds, endued with high measures of His common and sanctifying grace, have struggled to trace, in their proper order and relations, the precise causes of the Fall.
One common error has been the tendency of commentators to attribute a fully corrupted and sinful nature to Adam before he disobediently decided or willed to partake of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But to attribute to man a sinful nature that supposedly caused his fallen and corrupted and sinful nature is, of course, circular and fallacious reasoning. It is an instance of the question-begging fallacy, as logicians would say.
Anti-Establishment GOP Wins Trigger December 23rd Contests With Democrats
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- By Alaina Moore - United Patriots Alliance
Three huge South Carolina legislative primaries wrapped up in November that resulted in a clean sweep of victories for anti-establishment candidates in Lexington, Greenville, and Spartanburg. However, these candidates still have a general election ahead of them scheduled for December 23rd, some facing write-in campaigns.
Former senator Lee Bright won SC Senate District 12 with 50.9% of the vote on October 21, 2025, beating former Spartanburg County clerk of court Hope Blackley and attorney Justin Bradley in the GOP primary for the seat that opened up after the resignation of senator Roger Nutt.
2026 US Senate Race in North Carolina
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- By Steven Hawkins - Greenville SC
I look on with interest at the 2026 US Senate race in North Carolina. The Two candidates are the Democratic candidate Former governor Roy Cooper, and Republican candidate Trump strategist Michael Whatley.
Mister Michael Whatley has a deep connection to North Carolina, where he was raised in Western North Carolina. Whatley is from Watauga county, NC where his father was an accountant and his mother was a librarian. Whatley's political career began in 1984 where he volunteered on the reelection campaign of Jesse Helms when he was in 10th grade at Watauga High School. In later life Whatley once served as Chairman of the NC Republican party from 2019 to 2024. And he served as Chairman of the Republican National committee from March 2024 to August 2025. Whatley also served as the RNC general counsel.
Appeals Court Refuses to Dismiss Greenville County Republican Chairman’s Contempt Case
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
SC Courts Appear to Be Growing Frustrated with Jeff Davis’s Lawfare
The South Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to dismiss or vacate a contempt order against Greenville County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Davis. This decision upholds a ruling that requires him to serve 90 days in jail or pay nearly $40,000 in attorney’s fees. It also marks the latest chapter in a years-long legal battle stemming from Davis’s defamation lawsuits against political consultant Chad Connelly and others.
Davis is known for using frivolous lawfare against his political opponents and for abusing the use of unnamed John Does across various counties in South Carolina. With one of those in 2020, he filed multiple libel lawsuits in Newberry County against Connelly and other figures connected to South Carolina’s Exceptional SC scholarship program. The suits claimed defamation and misconduct but were dismissed by the circuit court.
The Trump 2025 National Security Strategy
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- By Mike Scruggs
Dated November 2025 and Released December 4
Selected Passages and Commentary
The Trump 2025 National Security Strategy is radically different from past annual National Security Strategy documents. Although it narrows core national interests, it is far more comprehensive on the economic and social environment necessary for renewed national energy and true national security. Immigration and the nation’s traditional family, moral, and spiritual strengths are rightly elevated to important aspects of national well-being and national security. Increased emphasis is given to economic, financial, and industrial strengths. It also rightly re-joins foreign policy and defense policy. Clausewitz (1780-1831), who wrote On War 1816-1831 and fought against Napoleon with the Russian Army at Borodino in 1812, would be pleased.
Are We A Nation Under God? Were We Ever? – Part 1
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- By W.H. Lamb
A SERMON:
“THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION”—U.S. SUPREME COURT—1892
“There is no doubt that this is a nation which was built upon the Christian faith—that the Lord, indeed, was the God of this nation, that it was founded upon the principles of God’s Word, upon the teachings of Christianity, and for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ. All these things are well documented, in the charters of the original colonies, in the original compacts (like the famous Mayflower Compact <that three of my wife’s ancestors signed--whl>, covenants, and constitutions. When the Supreme Court looked into the matter in 1892, poring over all the original documents, they concluded with one unanimous, unambiguous voice: ‘This is a Christian nation.’” - Rev. D. James Kennedy
Hydroplate, Plate Tectonics
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Combining Hydroplate Theory and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
There are two major flood models, both of which have made some successful predictions, and both of which explain things that we observe both on Earth and in space. It turns out that there is a possible way of combining them into one workable model. Furthermore, it should be able to explain not only what each of the original models does but possibly even more.
The elements from Hydroplate Theory consist of a massive underground reservoir of water, which serves as the water source for both the rain and the flood itself. This reservoir would have been underneath the continental crust, sandwiched between it and a layer of basalt, similar to that of the oceanic crust. At the beginning of the flood, this underground reservoir would have cracked open, shooting out large amounts of water, some of which would have been ejected into space, some of which would have fallen as rain, and the rest would have gone over the continents as they spread apart.
Student Recruitment Industry Booms as Parents Reject Failing Government-run Classrooms
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- By USPIE
Choosing another government school won’t protect your child from the woke ideologies of DEI, LGBTQ+ or CRT. Taking children out of government schools and educating them on your own dime is the only way to educate and protect them.
So many parents are dissatisfied with their local government schools that a K-12 student recruitment company is raking in millions by persuading parents to transfer their children to a different failing government school.
“Caissa K12, based in Memphis, Tennessee, has been hired by school districts to recruit students as more parents opt for schools outside their neighborhood public school, causing enrollment numbers to plummet,” Fox News Digital reports.
Norman Makes Gubernatorial Pitch at First Monday
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- By Terry M. Thacker
“My vision for South Carolina is to get back to basics,” said 5th District Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Ralph Norman recently at First Monday, a Republican club in Greenville.
Norman, who announced his bid for governor in July, will be vying against several other GOP contenders for the state's highest office – ist District Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Attorney General Alan Wilson, Lieutenant Governor Pam Evette and State Senator Josh Kimbrell.
One of those basics is infrastructure. “We're going to put a priority on roads,” said Norman. He said that the state leads the nation in fatalities on secondary roads. He also mentioned the large number of unsafe bridges.
EU Warns US Security Strategy Boosts Far-Right Parties And Threatens Transatlantic Unity
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- By Stefan J. Bos - Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief
BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – European Union leaders have expressed deep concern about a new U.S. national security strategy that they view as “ideologically anti-European,” supportive of “far-right” and populist movements across the continent, and a threat to transatlantic unity.
The document, issued by the White House as President Donald J. Trump’s official National Security Strategy, warns that Europe is facing what it calls “civilizational erasure,” accusing EU institutions and “other transnational bodies” of “undermining sovereignty” and contributing to a “loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
Christmas Season in Western North Carolina
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- By Steven Hawkins - Greenville SC
The Christmas season in the Asheville and Western North Carolina area this year in 2025 will be magical, with a temperate climate and a festive season for locals and everyone who will visit the area during the holidays. The Asheville area will offer a magical array of Christmas activities, including festive Lights displays and unique holiday events thru the season. These activities will include Christmas at Biltmore, the Omni Grove Park Inn Gingerbread House competition, and the NC Arboretum Winter lights festival. These are Christmas activities that you could enjoy with your family if your from Asheville and Hendersonville.
State costs grow to $12.5M related to probes of disputed $1.8B
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- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
The state-funded tab for investigations of and other matters related to the disputed $1.8 billion has grown to more than $12.5 million, according to the latest records reviewed by The Nerve.
The new tally, which is based on records obtained under the S.C. Freedom of Information Act, is nearly $1.3 million, or 11%, more than the total revealed by The Nerve in August.
To put the $12.52 million into perspective, it’s more than the entire current budgets of at least 19 state agencies or major divisions. That includes, for example, the State Ethics and Public Service commissions, Inspector General’s and Secretary of State’s offices, and the Legislative Audit Council – the General Assembly’s investigative arm.
It’s also more than the overall budgets of the State Auditor’s and Comptroller General’s offices – two of the six agencies that have racked up legal fees or other costs in connection with the disputed $1.8 billion or related issues.
EXPOSED: Abortion Org Caught on Hidden Camera Smuggling 15-Year-Old Girl Across South Carolina for Secret Abortion Against Parents’ Consent
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- By Christian Newswire
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust have released explosive undercover footage showing a multi-state abortion fund, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, (PSAF) secretly transporting a minor for an abortion, two hours away, despite the parent’s clear disapproval.
Jessica Newell, Survivors’ South Carolina Organizer, comments:
“The video we captured is chilling. PSAF knowingly and deliberately violated parental consent, arranged the pickup, drove her two hours, and offered to pay for the entire process. It’s intentional, calculated, and dangerous.”
Survivors’ undercover journalist posed as a 15-year-old and captured interactions with PSAF’s founder, staff, and a volunteer driver Kathryn Weir. Via a hidden camera, she captured the entire operation from being picked up at the Myrtle Beach Mall and being driven to Planned Parenthood in Charleston.
Gov’t Watchdog Scorched Biden Afghan Refugee Screening in 2022, Warned of ‘National Security’ Risks
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- By Mark Tapscott - The Washington Post
Former President Joe Biden’s Afghan refugee screening process was blasted in 2022 by a devastating report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) for lacking such basic information as a list of individuals who lacked “sufficient identification documents” and warned as a result of individuals being admitted into the country “who pose a risk to national security and to the safety of local communities.”
The report provides important context for officials and members of Congress as they assess and respond to the November 26 terrorist attack on the streets of the capital that killed one West Virginia National Guardsman and critically injured a second one.
Operation Bagration – 22 June to 19 August 1944
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- By Mike Scruggs
Few Americans have ever heard of Operation Bagration, but it was the largest hammer and most crushing blow that led to the fall of Berlin and Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945. Its Allied counterpart was Operation Overlord that commenced on June 6, 1944, with the D-Day assault on the beaches of Normandy. Soviet Premier Joeseph Stalin had originally planned to commence Operation Bagration on the same day as Allied Operation Overlord. but British weather and Soviet logistics pushed the dates apart about two weeks. The objective of Operation Bagration was the total destruction of German Army Group Center occupying the Belarusian SSR. This would allow the Red Army to rout retreating Wehrmacht forces and crush Berlin and any remaining German resistance. German Army Group Center consisted of four German armies—the Second, Fourth, Ninth, and Third Panzer—with nearly 500,000 combat troops and another 350,000 support troops. On June 22, Soviet forces intially assigned to Operation Bagration came to almost 1.7 million troops with a 10-to-1 advantage in artillery and an 8-to-1 advantage in tanks. Soviet aircraft support was 5,300 versus 1,350 for the Germans. The manpower advantage for the Russians would quicky turn from 2-to-1 to 4-to-1.
As Christians, Where Are We To Set Our Hearts And Minds?
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- By W.H. Lamb
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” - Colossians 3:1-2 (N.I.V.)
SHOULD GODLY PEOPLE CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH WHAT HAPPENS “IN THE WORLD”?
God’s Word seems clear enough on the surface. Christians, at least, are cautioned to not overly concern themselves with what goes on “in the world”, because while we are “in” the world, we are not to be a part “of” the world (or as some teach—the world “system”). The implications these admonitions have for Christians who have some degree of concern for what happens “in the world”—and especially in the country in which we live--have been cause for disputations and hurt feelings and possibly misinterpretations of motives for many generations, and even more so in our present society, which appears to be rapidly disintegrating around us, as the once strong influence of Christianity obviously is waning in our country due to the indifference of many who call themselves “Christian”, at the same time that the “Satanic Disciples of Godless Socialism/Marxism/Globalism” (Satan’s devoted followers—including the 7th Century Primitives of Islam) are infesting our body politic, shredding our culture, rampaging and pillaging in many of our cities and on many of our degenerate university campuses, and who appear to be in the ascendency. Are they?
Contact Your Congressman to Urge Opposition to Lousy Obamacare “Fix”
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- By Eagle Forum
Democrats do not want you to know how much Obamacare really costs. From the time the program was created, they have masked its real costs with government subsidies. When the original supports were no longer enough to hide the high price tag, additional subsidies were added during the COVID-19 pandemic. These were intended to provide “temporary relief” and were set to expire at the end of the year. But the Left does not want them to end because then all Americans will know that Obamacare was a scam. This is why they shut down the government in October. After being unsuccessful by way of the shutdown, they are now forcing a vote to extend the subsidies in the U.S. House of Representatives. These funds do not go to individuals, but to insurance companies and can be used for abortion and transgender mutilation services.
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