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Real needs are ignored in the light of ‘climate change’

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In the last presidential debate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said, “global warming is an existential threat to humanity. We have a moral obligation to do with it and we’re told by all the leading scientists of the world we don’t have much time. We’re going to pass the point of no return with the next…

The strangeness of Halloween will be stranger this year

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Can children go trick-or-treating in Tulsa on Halloween? Only if they wear a mask. Halloween is always weird but the Chinese coronavirus is going to make it especially strange and awkward this year. Tulsa has a mask ordinance that requires everyone – age and 10 or older – to wear a mask in public, to…

Children seek an identity within this fatherless generation

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One of the highlights of my life as a dad is teaching my oldest son Jeremiah’s classes once a year. He serves in a public high school in the Dallas area, where he teaches geography and coaches basketball. Many of his students are either African-American or Hispanic. In one class, he has four students who…

Biden can’t have it both ways on the Paris Climate accord

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In his climate change plan Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden says that the United States will “re-enter the Paris Agreement on day one of the Biden Administration.” The former vice-president reassures readers in his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice” that he will “not allow other nations, including China, to game the…

Democrats, not Trump, colluded with the Russians in 2016

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Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Barack Obama administration tried to engineer a coup and overturn the legitimate election of President Donald Trump. This should make every decent American angry. Obama used the FBI, under disgraced former FBI chief James Comey, to lie to federal courts to get several warrants to spy on the Trump…

America cannot trust the Communist leaders of China

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No country has been spared from the repercussions of China’s coronavirus missteps and cover-up that accelerated the current global pandemic. However, the coronavirus crisis is not the first time the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated it is an untrustworthy competitor. For over four decades, the U.S. diplomatic strategy regarding China was based on the…

God loves the number 7 and He loves No. 7 soccer player

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God has a fondness for numbers. He invented them; there was a time when numbers didn’t exist. I can’t tell you exactly what life was like before numbers were invented, but I imagine it was confusing when the hostesses asked, “How many are in your party?” and all you could do was shrug your shoulders…

Here are some of the lies Biden told during the debate

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Joe Biden lied to America in first debate with a straight face. By at least one count, Biden told 33 outright lies. He exaggerated, misled the audience and was simply wrong more than a dozen times. Here are examples. Biden: “I’m not opposed to the Justice.” The Truth: Biden put out a statement in opposition…

When you take a family photo, is your Father in the picture?

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One day a father was summoned to the office of the principal of his daughter’s school. Sitting across the desk from the principal, the father asked, “What’s the matter?” The principal pulled out a drawing his daughter had made of her family. She slid it across the desk and asked, “What’s missing?” It didn’t take…

Youngsters are ready and anxious to learn our life lessons

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It was the day before Titus the Honorable’s seventh birthday. Since the coronavirus has limited our ability to go on adventures, I thought I should find one that wouldn’t involve much risk. Our adventures always contain two things: something challenging and a lesson to be learned. Titus was born with an old soul. He likes…