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Has This Good Girl Gone Bad?
by Susan Stamper Brown
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Top Headlines
Trump has fewest cabinet secretaries confirmed since George Washington. (The Daily Signal)
Mnuchin, Shulkin confirmed by Senate as treasury and VA chiefs. (UPI)
Defense leaders agree: U.S. military readiness is at a dangerous low. (The Daily Signal)
Trump's orders bring "new day" for law enforcement. (LifeZette)
Sanctuary cities cave in face of Trump's funding threats. (Fox News)
There are 140 student languages in a suburban Georgia school district. (EAG News)
Taxes collection record of $1,084,840,000,000 through January; $7,133 per worker; but not enough to keep up with deficit spending of $156,939,000,000. (CNS News)
DOJ: TSA workers smuggled 20 tons of cocaine into the U.S. (Washington Examiner)
St. Louis passes a bill to become abortion sanctuary city. (Washington Free Beacon)
Celeb Meryl Streep doubles down on harsh criticism of Trump — sad! (Fox News)
Valentine's: Much more than a Hallmark holiday. (FaithZette)
Policy: A plan to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare. (The Heritage Foundation) ~The Patriot Post
Thousands March in Milwaukee to
Protest Sheriff Clarke's Crackdown
by Mark Tapson
{truthrevolt.org} ~ A crowd of as many as twenty thousand people in Milwaukee demonstrated against a possible immigration crackdown in a Day Without Latinos march Monday, according to the UK Daily Mail... They were protesting Sheriff David Clarke's plan to enroll his deputies in a federal program that allows them to perform immigration law enforcement functions. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said that it hasn't officially sought that authority yet, but may do so. Clarke, a man impossible to bully, released a statement on his Facebook page last week regarding the event: "Please accept my regrets. I will be working with agents from immigration and customs enforcement helping them identify criminal illegal aliens and therefore cannot attend your rally being held for me."...
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Despicable Rep Scummings Accuses
Flynn Of Working With Russians Against America
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Elijah Cummings proves that some Maryland fecal matter is not only capable of speech, but it can lie and grandstand as it does so... He begins with some typical bad dramatics, asking everybody in the room if they hear that, the last blessed silence that will be available to them for the next six minutes plus. He describes it as the sound of Republicans looking into non-existent wrong doings. Not those of the Congressman himself, who personally intervened on behalf of the corrupt IRS officials, Lois Lerner and others, against Catherine Engelbrecht and her True the Vote operation. That real abuse of power was ignored just was Lerner’s, Koskinen’s and Eric Holder’s. He’s asking about the sound of them not investigating where no crime took place, in the case of General Michael Flynn and over President Trump. He takes shots at Chairman Chaffetz for not requesting any documents, possibly in preparation for the upcoming liar-Clinton Foundation investigations, a time in which the corrupt Marxist Democrats will attempt to draw some sort of moral equivalence...I despise Cummings and also Pulosi and Schumer. http://rickwells.us/despicable-rep-scummings-accuses-flynn-working-russians-america/
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This Lawmaker Faults GOP Leadership for
Not Blocking DC Assisted Suicide Law
by Rachel del Guidice
{dailysignal.com} ~ Republican leaders in the House and Senate don’t want to stand up for life by rejecting the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the nation’s capital, a prominent conservative lawmaker said Tuesday... “We disagree with the law,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said. “We disagree with the premise of what D.C. did, and we have the constitutional authority to disapprove it.” Jordan spoke in response to a question from The Daily Signal at a monthly meeting between reporters and Republican House members called Conversations With Conservatives... http://dailysignal.com/2017/02/14/this-lawmaker-faults-gop-leadership-for-not-blocking-d-c-assisted-suicide-law?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWm1ObE9HSmtNV0l5TkRGbCIsInQiOiJVT0ZjWmp2XC9rMDF1OWgxUGt1TnlmR3hjXC9lMGRWb3JWOXQ5M3pubk9JV0l2UWZRTU1iV3lTRlRieUNxZ2kwQk5BOVwvbG5QSkRzcXV2S2M4dGMyeGpUNDBrdVA5NU5ISitJU0ppbmJHTTF4YWNJRTJZeklxb1hYNmh0NkZ6bVR6MSJ9
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Agency Leaks By liar-nObama Dissidents A
Serious Concern For Security, Function
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Neil Cavuto is raises the issue of leaks of secret and sensitive information that is coming out of the White House and the threat it poses to national security... Former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, has an opinion on the topic that he shares. He says, “I think the leaks are a serious problem, there’s no doubt about it. I think they come from dissident elements within the bureaucracy.” He says, “You know when you come from outside the government you think well maybe the government all works together, you know, everybody pitches in, we’re all going after the same objectives. That’s about as far from the truth as you can imagine. And there’s obviously a lot of opposition to what is perceived to be a number of Trump administration policies.” Bolton says, “There’s no way to overcome those leaks without getting firm control of all the bureaucracies in question. You need to get your people out into the departments and agencies, you need to staff up in the White House.”... http://rickwells.us/bolton-agency-leaks-obama-dissidents-serious-concern-security-function/
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Conservative Lawmakers Say Emerging
Liberal Protest Movement Is No Tea Party
by Josh Siegel
{dailysignal.com} ~ Conservative House lawmakers who came to power during the tea party’s rise acknowledge the makings of an emerging liberal protest movement in the age of Donald Trump, but reject comparisons to it... “Maybe some of the actions they take are similar, but this is a very different operation than one that came out of somebody’s living room by people who found somebody with a like cause and said, ‘Government is headed in the wrong direction,’” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., of the House Freedom Caucus, in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. “This is something wholly different. I understand they are using some of the same methodology. But it’s not the same thing.” For the last three weeks, Democratic protesters have packed town halls hosted by Republican lawmakers in deep-red districts, railing against the GOP’s plans to repeal liar-nObamacare, and more generally, opposing Trump and his populist brand of politics... http://dailysignal.com/2017/02/14/conservative-lawmakers-say-emerging-liberal-protest-movement-is-no-tea-party/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWm1ObE9HSmtNV0l5TkRGbCIsInQiOiJVT0ZjWmp2XC9rMDF1OWgxUGt1TnlmR3hjXC9lMGRWb3JWOXQ5M3pubk9JV0l2UWZRTU1iV3lTRlRieUNxZ2kwQk5BOVwvbG5QSkRzcXV2S2M4dGMyeGpUNDBrdVA5NU5ISitJU0ppbmJHTTF4YWNJRTJZeklxb1hYNmh0NkZ6bVR6MSJ9
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Has This Good Girl Gone Bad?
by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ Apparently, fighting for the soul of America is an unacceptable occupation for believers. I’m also hearing that it is exceptionally inappropriate for former good girls like me, a widowed pastor’s wife, who is supposedly nose-diving toward Hades because she speaks out against the darkness of these days using her writing.
Of course, those who believe that kind of nonsense are ridiculously deceived. Jesus’ command to love our neighbors means many things including getting involved when we see corrupting moral influences affecting families, marriages, and children. When we speak out, we help shape and sometimes lead public policy.
America is suffocating under the weight of former President liar-nObama’s eight-year fundamental transformation of the country. Evangelicals, in particular, have been hit hard. There is a reason why most evangelicals voted for President Trump, beginning with the Little Sisters of the Poor and ending with Supreme Court appointments and a thousand other issues sandwiched in between.
My critics’ time would be better spent getting a grasp on what’s happened to America rather than misjudging the good guys as bad guys simply because they call out lies, refuse to compromise with evil, and occasionally participate in political policy shouting matches.
In a recent email to me, someone wrote: “...the God I choose to worship is a God of love and has enough room in his heart and at his table to love those on both the right and left side of the political aisles.” Well, yes, he does. But the same Jesus who dined at tables with sinners overturned tables in the temple and drove sinners out with a whip.
We barter in cheap grace when we choose to see God’s love and ignore the reality of his wrath.
Love might dine with wolves, but love won’t allow wolves to dine with sheep.
And by golly, love might even build a wall to protect those sheep! A man named Nehemiah was a pragmatic leader who taught people to pray and trust God but also instructed them to build a wall for protection and arm themselves for battle. He said, “Our God will fight for us,” but that was not an invitation for people to lay down their weapons, but rather, a reminder that God would be by their side in battle, were they attacked.
Love sometimes uses name-calling to make a point. Jesus said, “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” He called them “ravenous wolves” not naughty puppy-dogs. On another occasion, he called people “vipers.” It’s not a stretch to think he might have used terms like “brainwashed snowflakes” or “foul feminists” or “nasty women” were it applicable at the time.
Which brings us to America in 2017. Whether we acknowledge it or not, there is a war being waged on the soul of this nation by leftists circling around the sheep like wolves. Those of us who see it for what it is understand it is no longer a time to be silent. King Solomon wrote: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” including “a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
Sometimes love means fighting with all your might for what is right. We protect what God loves when we speak against things he hates.
War is messy and the people who care enough to fight get hit. Those calling warriors out for calling out the warmongering wolves need to get a grip. History is filled with stories about those who paid the price for swimming against the tide to keep government accountable. Former good girls like me who refuse to compromise with evil will get bruised and broken. And we are rarely popular. But, that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing what’s right or dangerous or difficult to protect the unaware sheep, for such a time as this.
Of course, those who believe that kind of nonsense are ridiculously deceived. Jesus’ command to love our neighbors means many things including getting involved when we see corrupting moral influences affecting families, marriages, and children. When we speak out, we help shape and sometimes lead public policy.
America is suffocating under the weight of former President liar-nObama’s eight-year fundamental transformation of the country. Evangelicals, in particular, have been hit hard. There is a reason why most evangelicals voted for President Trump, beginning with the Little Sisters of the Poor and ending with Supreme Court appointments and a thousand other issues sandwiched in between.
My critics’ time would be better spent getting a grasp on what’s happened to America rather than misjudging the good guys as bad guys simply because they call out lies, refuse to compromise with evil, and occasionally participate in political policy shouting matches.
In a recent email to me, someone wrote: “...the God I choose to worship is a God of love and has enough room in his heart and at his table to love those on both the right and left side of the political aisles.” Well, yes, he does. But the same Jesus who dined at tables with sinners overturned tables in the temple and drove sinners out with a whip.
We barter in cheap grace when we choose to see God’s love and ignore the reality of his wrath.
Love might dine with wolves, but love won’t allow wolves to dine with sheep.
And by golly, love might even build a wall to protect those sheep! A man named Nehemiah was a pragmatic leader who taught people to pray and trust God but also instructed them to build a wall for protection and arm themselves for battle. He said, “Our God will fight for us,” but that was not an invitation for people to lay down their weapons, but rather, a reminder that God would be by their side in battle, were they attacked.
Love sometimes uses name-calling to make a point. Jesus said, “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” He called them “ravenous wolves” not naughty puppy-dogs. On another occasion, he called people “vipers.” It’s not a stretch to think he might have used terms like “brainwashed snowflakes” or “foul feminists” or “nasty women” were it applicable at the time.
Which brings us to America in 2017. Whether we acknowledge it or not, there is a war being waged on the soul of this nation by leftists circling around the sheep like wolves. Those of us who see it for what it is understand it is no longer a time to be silent. King Solomon wrote: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” including “a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
Sometimes love means fighting with all your might for what is right. We protect what God loves when we speak against things he hates.
War is messy and the people who care enough to fight get hit. Those calling warriors out for calling out the warmongering wolves need to get a grip. History is filled with stories about those who paid the price for swimming against the tide to keep government accountable. Former good girls like me who refuse to compromise with evil will get bruised and broken. And we are rarely popular. But, that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing what’s right or dangerous or difficult to protect the unaware sheep, for such a time as this.
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