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COVID

"FL judge voids mask mandate for planes." Drudge Report, 4/19

"CDC drops all countries from high-risk covid category." Drudge, 4/19

"EPA used COVID-19 relief funds for grants promoting 'green infrastructure' 'environmental justice.'" Fox News Online, 4/20 Of course they did.

"Disney World lifts last mask requirement." Ditto

"Airline passengers celebrating mask mandate decision put Biden in a tough spot." Ditto

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"White Castle celebrates 101st anniversary of the slider." FNO, 4/20 Don't knock it until you've tried one.

POLITICAL POTPOURRI

"University to pay prof $400,000 after reprimanding for refusing to use student's pronouns." Drudge, 4/19

HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH

"Studies: Multivitamins have NO health benefits?" Drudge, 4/19

CRIMINAL MINDS

"Man charged with inhumane killing of free-roaming donkey." Drudge, 4/20

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE CALIFORNIA . . .

"State of California rejects 100% of biology textbooks for staying there are only two genders." Babylon Bee

. . . LIKE FLORIDA

"The Florida Department of Education has removed dozens of mathematics textbooks from state classrooms, citing the “divisive concepts” and “unsolicited strategies of indoctrination” included in the works. The department announced Friday that 54 textbooks would be removed from elementary and pre-school classrooms after their publishers’ requests for approval were denied. Of these, 28 were denied for including “critical race theory” concepts, the department said. Critical race theory, per Florida law, is an ideology which makes students “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of…race, color, sex, or national origin.” In March, the Florida legislature passed the ‘Stop W.O.K.E. Act’ to ban its instruction in public schools, a measure awaiting Governor Ron DeSantis’ signature." Arjun Singh, National Review Online, 4/19

ON THE BORDER

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 23 illegal immigrants on the U.S. terror watchlist along the southern border, in 2021." Arjun Singh, NRO, 4/19

VERACITY OF THE BIBLE

"God says to each of us, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.” (Isaiah 1:18) The Bible passed down to us today is unchanged from the oldest known manuscripts unearthed near the Dead Sea. It is more sure (a more sure word of testimony) than the witness of the Apostle’s own senses. (2 Peter 1:16-19) And more powerful than the personal account of one resurrected from hell itself if sent to give warning of eternal punishment. (Luke 16:29) Many wish to debate the veracity of the Bible, but unless you’ve read the Book from Genesis to Revelation at least once, you’ve no right to debate the subject. Jesus comes to each of us with his pierced hands and side and asks “be not faithless, but believing.” (John 20:27)

"Faith that bridges the gap between God and man, that brings about a personal reconciliation is faith in the person and work of Christ. (Romans 2:23-26) When Thomas was confronted with the incontrovertible evidences of Christ, as we are confronted with the incontrovertible evidences of the Word, he reacted by confessing the lordship of Christ in his life, turning from his sinful pride and faith in empirical evidences, so-called. And turned to Christ, his sacrificial death, and his atoning resurrection. He appropriated the free gift of justification by faith alone in Christ alone and exclaimed, “My Lord and my God.” (John 20:28)" John Nantz, Townhall, 4/19

ABORTION RIGHTS

"In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Jewish abortion activist Shira M. Zemel argues that abortion opponents are “seeking to impose their religious views on all of us” and “to encode their theology into the laws of our nation.” Even as she derides pro-lifers for praying outside of an abortion business in Falls Church, Va., Zemel notes that the First Amendment protects their right to demonstrate and her religious freedom to practice Judaism. This much is certainly true.

"Where Zemel goes wrong is when she insinuates that access to abortion is protected by the First Amendment’s religion clauses, suggesting that because her religious worldview licenses abortion, it is therefore a matter of religious freedom that she be permitted to access it. She doesn’t bother to explain or defend this argument in detail, but merely hints at it in passing. More troubling is how Zemel indulges in a favorite lazy slander of abortion supporters, claiming throughout that the Christianity of some pro-lifers means that opposing abortion is an effort to “impose religious views” on the nation. (This is a topic with which Ryan Anderson and I grapple at length in the first chapter of our book out in June.) For one thing, the pro-life movement is hardly a Christian monolith — there are agnostic pro-lifers, atheist pro-lifers, Muslim pro-lifers, and, for that matter, Jewish pro-lifers. If the pro-life movement is attempting to impose religion on the nation, it remains unclear what religion that might be.

"Meanwhile, Zemel conveniently ignores that every law imposes some view of morality. Surely most of the laws that Zemel supports manage to impose a view of morality that coincides with Christian teaching. Laws against theft comport with Catholic doctrine as much as laws against abortion do, yet I’ve never managed to find an abortion supporter who opposes anti-theft laws on the basis that the Bible forbids stealing and therefore that such laws are impositions of religion. Even laws against tax evasion or running a stop sign comport with some vision of morality. All laws do. The proper question isn’t whether laws “impose morality” or whether that morality comports with one religious tradition or another; the question is whether our laws enforce a good moral vision or a bad one." Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review Online, 4/20