From the article -- 4) After the precedents of 2020 and 2024, is the future orthodox protocol for any Democratic nominee now to avoid all interviews and extempore speaking, and stick to teleprompted speeches and scripted responses only?
6) If Democratic presidential reelection candidate Joe Biden was pronounced fit as a fiddle before June 27, but after July 21 was abruptly forced off the ticket as too debilitated to continue as his party’s nominee, what exactly is his status now? (Half-cognizant and thus able enough to continue his not-so-important task as America’s president, but also half-enfeebled and thus utterly unable to continue as the far more important Democratic nominee, it appears.)
9) If the current president canceled his reelection bid because he was too debilitated and unpopular, and is now rarely seen or heard, and if the vice president is out of Washington running a campaign in his place, but avoiding all press conferences, interviews, and unscripted addresses, who exactly, if anyone, is running the United States for the next six months of the lame-duck Biden-Harris administration?
* "Iran's Mullahs and Their Deadly Serious Plan: The Total Annihilation of Israel and the U.S." (Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute)
From the article -- * "Now, ask yourself, which country ultimately stands in the way of Iran's maniacal plans to impose radical Islam on the world? And the answer is clear: It's America, the guardian of Western civilization and the world's greatest power. That's why Iran sees America as its greatest enemy.... That's why the mobs in Tehran chant 'Death to Israel' before they chant 'Death to America.' For Iran Israel is first, America is next.... When Israel acts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.... [that] threaten every American city.... we're not only protecting ourselves. We're protecting you." — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Address to US Congress, July 25, 2024.
* Ayatollah Ali Khamenei... has gone as far as proclaiming to the youth of Iran that they will soon witness the downfall of both Israel and American civilization.
* Has anyone noticed how Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat of using nuclear weapons succeeded in intimidating the Biden-Harris administration? Why wasn't the Biden-Harris administration intimidating Putin?
* "U.K. Free Speech Advocate Slams ‘Very Sinister’ Threat to Jail People Over Social Media Posts" (Ben Johnson, Washington Stand)
From the article -- “This far-Left government has waited 14 years to get into power. They’ve got[ten] in. Then there was a honeymoon period. Suddenly these riots kick off. There’s fear in the government that this will destabilize the government. So, they go into full lockdown, full totalitarian procedures to shut this down,” said McIlvenna on “Washington Watch” Wednesday. “They have also threatened foreign nationals,” McIlvenna noted.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service has promised an unlimited legal crusade against anyone who they believe has inflamed the situation. Police Commissioner Mark Rowley declared on Sky News, “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”
...At the same time, the British government has let bona fide criminals go free. “We have the government releasing rapists early and releasing murderers early. We had one case five or six days ago [in which] a man who committed a murder was released after six months, simply to free up prison places for all the ‘extremist,’ ‘hard Right’” protesters. “Instead of understanding the underlying concern, the government have gone in with a Stasi-like approach, a clampdown that I have certainly never seen in my time except in Northern Ireland” during the troubles, a time of rampant terrorism by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The response has been “very, very sinister,” warned McIlvenna.
* "An encouragement to those who serve in pregnancy resource centers" (Brent Leatherwood, Ethics & Religious Commission of the Southern Baptists)
From the article -- Just as our culture is in a time of chaos, we know these years have been challenging for so many of you as well. There is much misunderstanding and misinformation about your ministry, what you seek to do, and who you seek to serve. My team and I know a little of what that feels like. But hear this: the ERLC is committed to doing everything we can to support and highlight the life-saving work of pregnancy resource centers around the country.
More than that, the Lord sees your faithfulness. He sees your good work. Do not grow weary in your service and in ministering to those in their time of need (Gal. 6:9). And maybe, just maybe, the work you do will serve as a model for the wider problem and question facing our culture: how do we stop the dehumanization of others?
Isn’t that, at the core, exactly what you do? All of you help scared mothers realize and see the humanity of the precious preborn child in their wombs. They walk into your clinics—so many under the sway of the lies about a clump of cells, an inconvenience, a burden, and the belief that life is disposable—and you get to be the ones who offer them a lifeline, rescuing them from that darkness that has enveloped them.
But you don’t stop there, do you? You also offer them support, care, and hope. Hope is what so many of these parents need in those crucial moments. In doing so, once again, there is an echo of the Isaiah passage, uttered by an old prophet, ages ago. For, he relayed a promise that a Child would be born to a people darkened by lies, conspiracies, and death. And he said that Child would usher in the light as a Wonderful Counselor and a Prince of Peace.
* "J6 ‘Praying Grandma’ Slammed With Six-Figure Fine And Probation For Walking Around Capitol" (Tristan Justice, Federalist)
From the article -- According to the Denver Post, Lavrenz, who avoided jail time, “was sentenced Monday to 12 months of probation and six months of home detention with an internet restriction” in addition to “more than $103,000 in fines, restitution and special assessments.”
Lavrenz explained the extent of her conduct at the Capitol during a telephone interview with Newsmax on Wednesday. “I went through a door that opened in front of me, and I walked through the Capitol. I carried God’s presence into that building for about 10 minutes, walked out, did not shout, stayed within the lines, and was not stopped by any police officers and walked back out,” she said....
Lavrenz is one of hundreds aggressively prosecuted by the Justice Department, which demanded heavy fines and sentences for individuals who were present at the Capitol. In June, however, the Supreme Court ruled defendants who were charged with felonies under the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act as obstructing an official proceeding were unfairly prosecuted. The statute had been exploited to charge more than 300 defendants with additional felonies in the more than three years since the riot, allowing prosecutors to seek up to 20 years of jail time.
