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Restore Sound Money in South Carolina with H.3080 & H.3081

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By The John Birch Society
Published: 16 January 2023

Restore Sound Money

ACT NOW: Members of the South Carolina General Assembly are seeking to enact legislation helping restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.

House Bill 3080 (H.3080) is sponsored by Representative Stewart Jones and seven other representatives. If enacted, this bill would officially recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender; it states:

To the full extent allowed by Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, gold and silver coins minted foreign or domestic shall be legal tender in the State of South Carolina under the laws of this State.

Additionally, House Bill 3081 (H.3081) has been introduced. Sponsored by Representative Jones and four other representatives, this bill would exempt “gold, silver, platinum bullion, or any combination of this bullion” from capital-gains taxes. H.3081 is an important step toward treating gold and silver as money — as the U.S. Constitution requires.

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Get Government Outta My Kitchen

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By Anne Schlafly Cori, Eagle Forum Chairman
Published: 16 January 2023

Get Government Out of my Kitchen

After the uproar over a potential ban on gas stoves, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a clarifying announcement that no, they do not plan to ban gas stoves, but they do want voluntary compliance. Already, several communities in California and New York have banned natural gas hookups in new construction, which means no gas stoves – and no gas furnaces or water heaters, either.

Do you think that government bureaucrats are looking out for our best interest or do they just want to control our lifestyle and economic choices? The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act includes $840 rebates for households that switch from gas to electric, so bureaucrats have already decided that electric is better than gas.

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Biden's ESG Investment Rules Threaten Your Retirement Savings

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By Stephen Moore
Published: 16 January 2023

President Joe Biden's Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people's retirement savings.

The administration is pushing environmental, social and governance investing, which allows retirement fund managers to select stocks of companies based on their positions on social and environmental issues.

Put simply, retirement savings will be used as leverage to force companies to reduce their carbon emissions and establish racial and gender quotas and other social justice fads completely unrelated to securing a high return on workers' lifetime savings.

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Court of Appeals Reinstates Fulton Counterfeit Ballot Case After GA Supreme Court Confirms Petitioners Have Standing

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By VoterGA
Published: 16 January 2023

VoterGA LogoATLANTA -- On Monday, the Georgia Court of Appeals reinstated VoterGA's Fulton County counterfeit ballot case without further briefs setting up a reversal of its previous lack of standing ruling against the Petitioners. The reversal comes as no surprise to the Petitioners who, for over a year, maintained they have standing, even after the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld the lower court finding on July 1, 2022.

On December 20, 2022, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned both lower court rulings. Their decision was made unanimously without a hearing. It corroborated over a dozen state and U.S. Supreme Court precedents in Petitioners' briefs and appeal that the lower courts ignored. The decision was reached after VoterGA attorney Todd Harding filed a motion to expedite the VoterGA writ of certiorari and the Defendants responded. Co-attorney Paul Kunst then explained how Defendant Attorneys mislead the Supreme Court in claiming the court's recent decision on other standing claims had nothing to do with VoterGA Petitioners standing claims.

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Cancel Culture Cures

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By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
Published: 16 January 2023

It's Time to Turn the Marxist's Weapons Back on Them

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Many of the brightest minds have been trying to find the tools to stop Agenda21/Great Reset (and all the other aliases for setting up a one-world government). The authors of Re-Remembering the Mis-Remembered Left: The Left’s Strategy and Tactics to Transform America, state at the end: “It is the conclusion of this analysis that current opposition to the Left, from mainstream and conservatives alike, is not just out of position to be able to mount a strategic response. It is precisely in the position the Left placed it in order to play the role scripted for it.” [1]

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Christian Revelation and the Advent of True Philosophy

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By Winston McCuen
Published: 16 January 2023

Theology is the application of reason to theological data, the data of revelation. Philosophy is inquiry into the nature of ultimate reality, the application of reason to the data of reality to determine the most fundamental or ultimate causes and ends. And reality, in its entirety, consists of the Uncreated Creator God and His creation. (Philosophy's inquiry into ultimate causes and ends covers the full range of its sub-disciplines, which include metaphysics (being), epistemology (knowledge), logic (reasoning), aesthetics (art and beauty), rhetoric (persuasion), and morals and politics (the Good).)

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SAT-7 Spotlights Top 5 'Evolving Crises' in Middle East in 2023

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Published: 16 January 2023

Turmoil unleashed across the region as millions face crashing economies, food shortages, oppressive regimes

TOP 5 EVOLVING CRISES IN 2023 IN MIDDLE EAST
TOP 5 EVOLVING CRISES IN 2023 IN MIDDLE EAST: SAT-7 USA (www.sat7usa.org), a faith-based organization focused on the Middle East and North Africa, spotlights the region's top 5 "evolving crises" as 2023 gets underway.

EASTON, Md. -- A U.S. organization focused on the Middle East and North Africa is casting the spotlight on what it calls the region's top 5 "evolving crises" at the start of 2023.

With the world's gaze fixed on Ukraine-Russia and muscle-flexing in China, "seismic events unfolding in the Middle East are simply off the radar for many in the U.S.," said Dr. Rex Rogers, president of faith-based Middle East multimedia organization SAT-7 USA (www.sat7usa.org).

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Appointed Boards are NOT Lawmakers

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By Tom DeWeese - Catching Fire News
Published: 16 January 2023

Appointed Board Are Not Lawmakers

I am issuing a direct challenge to local elected representatives – “Stop cowering to appointed boards who are giving power to private corporations. You were elected to represent the people and protect their rights!”

See it all here, and share this special Catching Fire News program with your elected representatives. It’s time to take back the Republic!

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20 Republicans Handed the House Back to the American People

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By Eagle Forum
Published: 16 January 2023

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After years of government-run amuck, Congress is operating in a more structured and transparent way that gives the American people more of a voice. Last week, the media tried to paint the vote for Speaker in a negative light making it seem that Republicans were unable to govern. This wasn’t the case at all. Twenty Republicans strategically fought to end the unyielding power of a few and replace it with more of a collaborative and deliberative process that all Members can take part in.

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A Little Too Big for Pete

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By Gary Varvel
Published: 16 January 2023

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Belligerent Spending, A Congressional Addiction

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By Veronique de Rugy
Published: 16 January 2023

After 15 failed attempts, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy finally secured the House speakership. Many worry that the concessions McCarthy made to secure his victory -- especially commitments to restrain government spending -- make the upcoming prospect of raising the debt ceiling perilous. Indeed, some fear that Republicans will refuse to raise the limit if it isn't paired with restraints on spending.

These worries fail to consider the potential financial danger the U.S. will eventually face if government debt continues to balloon unrestrained.

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BJU Students Volunteer on Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day

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By Randy Page - BJU
Published: 16 January 2023

MLK Day 2021

Bob Jones University students, faculty and staff will participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day Monday, Jan. 16. 

Jordan Baun, who serves as coordinator for the BJU Center for Global Opportunities, collaborates with organizations in the Upstate to place volunteers. BJU President Steve Pettit encourages students, faculty and staff to view MLK Day as a “day on rather than a day off.” 

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Is the Deep State Coming After Joe Biden?

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By Josh Hammer
Published: 16 January 2023

The second half of Joe Biden's presidential term has officially gotten off to an ignominious start.

Earlier in the week, CBS News first broke the story that Biden had been storing classified documents, taken from his previous stint as vice president to Barack Obama, at the Chinese-funded Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement "think tank." Those classified documents were first identified by Biden's personal attorneys, CBS reported, on Nov. 2 -- a full six days before the midterm elections. Richard Sauber, Biden's special counsel, claimed that the White House counsel's office quickly notified the National Archives, which seized the documents posthaste.

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Anti-Human Human Trafficking Month

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By Lynz Piper-Loomis LLC
Published: 16 January 2023

Survivor, Author, Advocate Lynz Piper-Loomis Calls for New U.S. and Global Tools, Increased Engagement to End Human Trafficking

Marks Progress in War on Human Trafficking, Sounds Alarm About Growing Threat During "National Human Trafficking Prevention Month" (Jan. 2023)

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Lynz Piper-Loomis, a survivor of sexual trafficking and a national and international advocate for anti-human trafficking measures, today hailed the progress achieved in the war on modern human slavery but warned the threat is growing. She called on governments for increased assistance to train citizens, businesses, and nonprofits to combat this evil and help survivors.

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Coalition Responds to Newsom's Blasphemous Billboards with Pro-Chastity Message

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By Life Legal Defense Foundation
Published: 16 January 2023

Save Sex For Marriage Billboard

NAPA, Calif. -- Last September California Governor Gavin Newsom's campaign paid to promote abortion via public billboards in seven states, including Ohio. Some of Newsom's billboards used the words of Jesus to invite women to travel to California for abortions: "Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these." - Mark 12:31

In response to Newsom's blasphemous billboards, a coalition of pro-life organizations is placing billboards in the same locations as Newsom posted his pro-abortion billboards. One such billboard is located in Columbus, OH.

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Never Again Should Anybody Have to Be Amazed

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By Nate Leupp, Chairman of the Fourth Congressional District, SCGOP
Published: 11 January 2023

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I saw a meme the other day that said, “Never again should anybody have to be amazed at how Jim Jones got his followers to drink the poison.”

A few days after Christmas, I sent an email about the rule violations and dishonesty by the “new” Greenville GOP officers (I know, who wants political emails during the Holidays…). I had no expectation that they would admit they were violating rules, but I’m told that thanks to Mr. Ray Sheen taking a stand, the officers were forced to have the Executive Committee vote on canceling the rest of the Party’s meetings. Correctly canceling future meetings does not negate the violation of the improper cancellation of the November and January meetings. A motion or directive passed by our Executive Committee cannot be ignored by a lower body or a single person, just like a motion or directive given by the SCGOP’s Executive Committee cannot be ignored by a county party.

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Small Business Owner Wins Zoning Battle, But Legal Issues Still Loom

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By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Published: 11 January 2023

Small business owner wins zoning battle but legal issues still loom

Jeremy Sark says he’s no longer worried about Mauldin officials closing his longtime U-Haul dealership, though the Upstate city hasn’t abandoned a controversial zoning practice at the center of his case.

The Mauldin City Council without comment during a meeting last month reversed a zoning change that would have forced Sark to move his North Main Street dealership by Dec. 31 after nine years in operation.  The decision came after Sark in September sued the Greenville County city of about 26,000, City Council, Mayor Terry Merritt and David Dyrhaug, the city’s business and development services director.

The Nerve in October examined Sark’s case in-depth.

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House Majority Wastes No Time Launching into New Pro-Life Priorities

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By Suzanne Bowdey - The Washington Stand
Published: 11 January 2023

Launching into New Pro Life Priorities

Now that the “who” question has been answered in the U.S. House, new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is turning Republicans’ attention to the “what.” In the first full week of the GOP’s majority, there are plenty of priorities clamoring for attention, but conservatives have already made it quite clear what’s at the top: life. 

Before everyone’s eyes were glued to the speaker’s race, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) tried to give Americans a preview of the big-ticket items Republicans would be tackling in the new year. In a letter to colleagues on December 30, he outlined all of the areas that needed the GOP’s immediate attention — everything from the open border to President Joe Biden’s suffocating energy policy. Included in the 11 “commonsense measures,” as Scalise called them, were the Republicans’ first cracks at the administration’s radical abortion policy. 

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Joe Biden's Classified Documents

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By Gary Varvel
Published: 11 January 2023

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McCarthy Indeed a Republican Leader for Complex Times

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By Star Parker
Published: 11 January 2023

Amid the post-mortems of the four-day, 15-vote marathon to elect Kevin McCarthy House speaker, I remind readers of the headline of my Nov. 30 column, "Kevin McCarthy, a Republican Leader for Complex Times."

I thought then that that captured our reality, and I think the process that followed confirmed it.

It is human nature to want things neat and clear. But life never cooperates.

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ESG = Environment, Social, Governance – NO – Entering Slavery Gladly

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By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
Published: 11 January 2023

ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL GOVERNANCE

We have been watching our country, our world, accepting the chains of slavery that the power elite (Deep State/globalists (PE)) have told us we must wear if we are to save this world. They tell us we have been destroying this once glorious world by our use of its natural resources; by our “greedy” demand for private property rights, thus our freedom; and, especially, by our beliefs that liberty and property rights are vital principles for a just world.

For over 100 years, the PE have been working on every front to destroy those values, to brainwash us into believe we are greedy and evil to hold to those values, and to instill in us values they would never put up with themselves but are determined to force on us — if we don’t willingly accede to them. I do not exaggerate. We have watched for many decades the PE meeting in beautiful resorts around the world – flying in on their private jets, eating exotic and expensive foods and imbibing very expensive wines – all the while telling us that our eating meat instead of insects is destroying “this beautiful world they provide for us”.

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Planetary magnetic fields and Biblical creation Part 1

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By Charles Creager, Jr.
Published: 11 January 2023

One of the earliest arguments against an older earth is the observed fact that the earth magnetic field is decaying. Unfortunately, such early models of the earth's planetary magnetic field did not supply any evidence for a specific age for the earth, only an upward limit. Such early models placed upper limits on the age of the earth at around 12,000 at which point the internal heat of the earth's core from the generating current would be so great that it would blow the earth apart, not to mention that the magnetic field would be stronger than that of a neutron star. That would also make the magnetic field strong enough to kill you by just pulling the iron out of your blood.

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Biden's Taco Stand

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By Gary Varvel
Published: 11 January 2023

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Nite Guest Line-up for January 16-20, 2023

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Published: 11 January 2023

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 16th, 2023: Tonight on Nite Line, join Pastor Benny Littlejohn as he welcomes Dr. Ezekiel Parro from New Creations Counseling Center in Piedmont, SC. New Creations Counseling Center provides Christian counseling in a confidential, personal environment that approaches every person as a uniquely gifted and cherished creation of God.  Lisa Pruitt will also be sharing her testimony on tonight’s program as well as performing tonight’s music.

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The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic

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Published: 10 January 2023

Difference Between A Democracy and Republic

Where do our rights come from? Is the Constitution obsolete? How do we restore our constitutional republic? Join Hal and Pastor David Whitney as these two constitutionalists explore these questions and more.

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US Big Three Auto Companies Commit to Making Cars That People Don't Want

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By Stephen Moore
Published: 10 January 2023

I grew up in a household with parents who were of the Greatest Generation. They lived and shouldered through the Great Depression, and then their lives and families were thrown into turmoil on Dec. 7, 1941. My grandfather worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C., and during World War II, my father served in the Pacific Theater.

Both my mother and father made a solemn vow that as long as they lived, they would never buy a German or a Japanese car. No matter how well they were made. They were the enemies. They were the ones who killed nearly half a million Americans. Period.

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PERKINS: In McCarthy Victory, Everyone’s a Winner - Except the Left

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By Tony Perkins - The Washington Stand
Published: 09 January 2023

In McCarthy Victory Everyones a Winner

A lot will be said and written about the last 100 hours in Washington — a historic four days that not only gave Americans a new Speaker of the House, but more importantly, a fresh start. Nothing about the process to transfer power to former Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has been easy, but at the end of the day, nothing worth pursuing ever is. When the smoke clears and Republicans get to work, one thing will be obvious — the pain of this past week was trivial compared to what was gained: a chance to move forward, united.

There are some who will say McCarthy was weakened by the fight. I disagree. When everyone counted him out, he emerged from this humbling process as the House Freedom Caucus and the entire Republican Party did: strong. After more than a decade in leadership, the Californian proved that he’s capable of listening, capable of compromising, and, above all, capable of the change Americans demand. 

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The Troll Sagas

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By Mike Scruggs
Published: 09 January 2023

Chapter 4 - Grimhilda Svartslange

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Grimhilda (Freyja) - [Public domain. James Doyle Penrose, 1890.]

Grimhilda continued to look intently at Marja and smiled. In a few minutes, another young girl, trembling with fear, came with a bucket of water and allowed Marja to wash herself, but she said nothing. Marja then began to notice her surroundings. Grimhilda sat gazing into a huge black cauldron sitting over a fire in the middle of the longhouse. She seemed somehow delighted as she stirred the great kettle. Marja shuddered when she saw Grimhilda reach in a basket and pull out two writhing blacksnakes and sink them into her boiling pot. As she stirred, she began to sing in a language Marja did not recognize.

Grimhilda was about the age of her mother and surprisingly beautiful. In fact, she was sometimes flatteringly compared to the Norse goddess Freyja, who was  often associated with magic, witchcraft, secret knowledge, and fortune-telling. Grimhilda had long dark tresses, haunting green eyes, and pale skin with no blemishes except a necklace of bluish spirals tattooed just below her neck. She was rather tall and linear with exquisitely refined features. Her nose was slightly prominent but perfectly straight. Her teeth were nearly perfect and white. Her voice, generally harsh and commanding, was soft and musical in singing. But when she smiled or spoke, you somehow had the feeling of being abused.

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Lawmaker Wants ESG Factors Banned in State Pension Investments

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By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Published: 09 January 2023

ESG Investing SC 2023

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.

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Joe Biden's Blinders

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By Gary Varvel
Published: 09 January 2023

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God’s Old Tablecloth

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Published: 09 January 2023
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Antique needle lace filet tablecloth: "God is Love" - Made in 1904.

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?

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  1. CVS and Walgreens Plan to Carry Abortion Pill, Become 'Centers of Death,' Pro-Life Advocates Say
  2. Law School; Now Only for the “Woke”
  3. North Greenville University Student Receives CIC/UPS Scholarship
  4. Covid Hospitals: Who Calls the Shots on Your Life?
  5. Investigations
  6. Nite Line Guest Line-up for January 9th-13th, 2023
  7. Tim Chapman to Preach Opening Services
  8. Russia Approaches Remaining Roads in Bakhmut, Ukraine Offensive Fails in Kremennaya, Makeyevka 89
  9. They Will not Allow a Divine Foot in the Door
  10. And The Rains Came ...

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