Dispatches from the Alternative Media (The Latest Compilation)

* "Authoritarian Left on the March" (Ben Shapiro, Daily Signal)

* "Biden cancels Trump’s ‘Operation Talon’ Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally" (Human Events Staff)

* "Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens So Scared" (Rael Jean Isaac, FrontPage Mag)

* "Supreme Court Denial Of 2020 Election Cases Invites 'Erosion Of Voter Confidence'" (Margot Cleveland, Federalist)

* "7 Consequences of the Equality Act" (Monica Burke, Daily Signal)

* "Where Did Millions of Dollars in Donations to Black Lives Matter Go?" (Katie Pavlich, Town Hall)

A Bird's-Eye View: Part Two (The Latest Compilation)

* "The powerful are abusing history to get their way -- and Americans will bear the consequences" (Tucker Carlson, Fox News)

* "It’s Time For Conservatives To Take On Big Tech Tyrants. Here’s How." (Rachel Bovard, Federalist)

* "Who Is in Control? The Need to Rein in Big Tech" (Allum Bokhari, Imprimis)

* "Big tech employees opened wallets for Biden campaign: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook made up biggest source of donations to Democrat among corporate employees" (Brody Mullins & Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal via Fox News)

* "Universities’ Insane COVID Rules And Snitch Culture Are Training The Next Generation To Embrace Totalitarianism" (Evita Duffy, Federalist)

* "Joe Biden’s abortion imperialism" (Kurt Mahlburg, Mercator)

* "Biden Grovels to Iran's Terrorists" (Katie Pavlich, Town Hall)

A Bird's-Eye View: Part One (The Latest Compilation)

Check out a few of the very best articles (and most important to know) from the recent annals of the alternative media.

 * "Rush’s Monument" (Andrew Klavan, City Journal)

* "Our descent into collective madness" (Victor Davis Hanson, Jewish World Review)

* "Black pro-life leader on the crisis of abortion: ‘If you can’t get out of the womb, nothing matters’" (Bettina di Fiore, Live Action)

* "What Left-Wing Educators Don't Teach During Black History Month" (Larry Elder, Jewish World Review)

* "Inside Wikipedia's leftist bias: socialism pages whitewashed, communist atrocities buried" (Maxim Lott, Fox News)

* "Texas’s Blackouts Are The Result Of Unreliable ‘Green’ Energy" (Jason Isaac, Federalist)

* "McDowell rips MSNBC for ignoring The Lincoln Project scandals: 'It was common knowledge'" (Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News)

The February Vital Signs Letter: "The True Emmanuel Moment"

“Now, it may well be that you have heard sermons before that present the pro-life applications of Scriptures like Psalm 139, Jeremiah 22, the Decalogue itself, the royal law taught by Jesus, James 2, and many others. 

But this morning I’d like to examine a text that you may not have connected to the sanctity of human life.  In fact, it is a text that we tend to associate with Christmas in that it tells of the annunciation of the virgin birth followed by Mary’s visit to Elizabeth...”

Read the whole letter right here.

Do You Know These Olympic Champions?

This week I'll be working on #49 in our ongoing series of activity pages designed for 1) the residents of the senior facilities where we present our live "When Swing Was King" shows; 2) those who copy off the pages to pass around to other seniors in their families, neighborhoods, or churches; and 3) anyone else who is looking for an interesting, wholesome way to break the chains of loneliness or boredom. 

But the photo collage below comes from last week's packet, #48. That one -- and all the others -- can be found at this page of the Vital Signs Ministries website. 

And the quiz to go with this particular collage? Can you name the famous Olympic athletes shown? Want a few hints? Well, the names to choose from, as well as the answers, can be found with the rest of #48.

 

A Heavenly Conversation

In the second part of last week's conversation, VSM Director Denny Hartford speaks to Harold Berry, Phil Neal, Larry Harrold, and Dan Hauge about heaven. It is less than 20 minutes but we think you'll find it enlightening and encouraging.

 

Finishing Well

Vital Signs Ministries Director Denny Hartford talks with friends "tried and true" about the adventure of living for Christ in one's later years. It's a 30-minute conversation with Phil Neal, Harold Berry, Dan Hauge, and Larry Harrold that may well bring a bit of inspiration, comfort, or challenge to you. We hope so.

 

#47 Is Up, Ready, and Waiting for You!

The great news is that things are beginning to open up (if even just a bit) for our presenting live "When Swing Was King" shows again. In fact, 5 of the senior living facilities and nursing homes (out of our pre-quarantine 12) have invited us back this month. 

Nevertheless, we are still creating our 9-page packets of trivia, quotations, song lyrics, and so on for the residents...and anyone else able to use our website uploads. So, to whet your interest a little further for the latest in our ongoing series, can you name the Hollywood musicals represented by the photos below?

You'll find all of # 47 (just sent out to the facilities yesterday) as well as the previous 46 by following this link:

 

More Clamping Down by the Left (The Latest Compilation Post)

* "10 ways to fight back against woke culture"

(Bari Weiss, New York Post)

* "Biden is the most radical left-wing president in US history, period" (Rich Lowry, Jewish World Review)

* "We Must Break Up Big Tech: It’s The Greatest Private Threat to Liberty in Our Modern Age" (Rachel Bovard, American Consequences)

* "Faithfulness in the Future" (Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism)

* "Biden's Department of Homeland Sleaze Chief" (Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review)

* "Twitter Suspends Christian Group for Accurately Describing Biden’s Transgendered Health Official Dr. Levine’s Biological Sex" (Penny Starr, Breitbart)

* "China Doesn't Have to Lift a Finger to Push Biden Around" (Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute)

* "Facebook Bans Bible Professor’s Post Critical of Biden’s Transgender Order" (Lee Weeks, Decision)