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Rufo @Manhattan Institute - https://shorturl.at/bmzJZ Jarrett Stepman @The Daily Signal - https://shorturl.at/ckyIM Stormwall | Michael Wilkerson - https://stormwall.com/ Clifford Thies @Google Scholar - https://t.ly/qTA-b Marc A. Thiessen - https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/marc-a-thiessen/ Donald J. Trump website - https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ DonaldJTrump.com/News - https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news Ben Weingarten - https://benweingarten.com/ Augusto Zimmermann, PhD, Legal Scholar @Creation.com: https://creation.com/augusto-Libertarian Social Media: Social Media sites which limit viewing unless you sign up/sign in Twitchy (social media curation site) - https://twitchy.com/ Donald Trump@X - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump Donald J. Trump @TruthSocial - https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump Christian: American Family News - https://afn.net/ Breakpoint (Colson Center) Articles - https://breakpoint.org/articles/ Martin Mawyer Christian Action Network - https://christianaction.org/ Salem Radio Network News (conservative) - https://srnnews.com/ Salem Media Group (radio station map) - https://tinyurl.com/3u2ruxmh WORLD - https://wng.org/ WORLD Magazine - https://wng.org/magazine Independent/Nonpartisan: REUTERS - www.reuters.com Reuters RSS Headlines - https://www.reuters.com/news/archive/rates-rss Libertarian: See more under “Politics” section Free Republic (Libertarian online message board) - freerepublic.com/tag/*/index The National Pulse “radically independent” - https://thenationalpulse.com/ Misc. News & Economics: Acton Institute (Religion & Liberty) Search - https://search.acton.org/ AllNewsPipeline - https://www.allnewspipeline.com/ AllSides - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news America First Report (far-right) - https://americafirstreport.com/ American Action News - https://americanactionnews.com/ The American Conservative - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ American Greatness (right) - https://amgreatness.com/ American Liberty News (right) - https://americanliberty.news/ The American Spectator - https://spectator.org/ American Thinker (about) - https://www.americanthinker.com/ AMP News (far-right) - https://americanmediaperiscope.com/ AP News (tends left) - https://apnews.com/ Axios - https://www.axios.com/top Axios Politics - https://www.axios.com/politics-policy BPR Business & Politics - https://www.bizpacreview.com/ Big League Politics - https://bigleaguepolitics.com/ The Blaze (far-right) - https://www.theblaze.com/ Blaze media (far-right) - https://www.theblaze.com/ boardreader, connecting communities through search - https://boardreader.com/ Bongino Report - https://bonginoreport.com/ Breitbart - https://www.breitbart.com/ CD Media - https://creativedestructionmedia.com/ Chronicles, a Magazine of American Culture - https://chroniclesmagazine.org/ City Journal - https://www.city-journal.org/ City Journal, The Magazine - https://shorturl.at/aqBJ4 CNN Politics - https://www.cnn.com/politics/index.html CNS News - https://www.mrctv.org/division/cnsnews The Conservative Caucus - https://theconservativecaucus.org/ The Critic, UK (conservative) - https://thecritic.co.uk/ TCC Drain the Swamp Brief - https://theconservativecaucus.org/in-the-news Conservative News and Views - https://cnav.news/ Conservative Review - https://www.conservativereview.com/ Cure America Action (conservative) - https://www.cure-action.com/ Daily Caller (right) - https://dailycaller.com/ The Daily Signal @The Heritage - https://www.dailysignal.com/ morningbell @The Daily Signal - https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/morningbell/ The Daily Wire (far-right) - https://www.dailywire.com/ Defense of Liberty PAC - https://defenseoflibertypac.com/ Democracy Now! - https://www.democracynow.org/ digg (variety news) - https://digg.com/news The Federalist - https://thefederalist.com/ The Federalist Papers - https://thefederalistpapers.org/ First Things (interreligious/nonpartisan) - https://www.firstthings.com/ The Washington Free Beacon - https://freebeacon.com/ FreedomWatch - https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/ FreedomWorks - https://www.freedomworks.org/ FrontPageMagazine (right) - https://www.frontpagemag.com/ The Gateway Pundit (far-right) - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ GoodNewsNetwork (positive stories) - https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ GOPUSA - https://www.gopusa.com/ GroundNews (3 subscription options) - https://ground.news/ The Guardian, US Politics - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics Heartland Daily News - https://heartlanddailynews.com/ The Heartland Institute (conservative) - https://heartland.org/ The Heritage Foundation (conservative) - https://www.heritage.org/ The Hill (Just In News) - https://thehill.com/ HOTAiR (conservative) - https://hotair.com/ Hudson Institute, Inc. - https://www.hudson.org/topics Human Events - https://humanevents.com/ HumanProgress (optimistic news) - https://www.humanprogress.org/ Independent Journal Review (conservative) - https://ijr.com/ Independent Sentinel - https://www.independentsentinel.com/category/home/ The Jamestown Foundation (global research & analysis) - https://jamestown.org/ JoD Online - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/jod-online/ Judicial Watch - https://www.judicialwatch.org/ Just the News | JUST NEWS, NO NOISE - https://justthenews.com/ The Last Refuge (conservative misfits…) - https://theconservativetreehouse.com/ Legal Insurrection (conservative law blog) - https://legalinsurrection.com/ The Lever (left) - https://www.levernews.com/ LewRockwell.com/anti-state•anti-war•pro-market - https://www.lewrockwell.com/ Liberty Daily (far-right) - https://thelibertydaily.com/ Liberty Nation News (free thinking/free speech) https://www.libertynation.com/ LifeZette (right) - https://www.lifezette.com/ The Media Institute - https://www.mediacompolicy.org/ Mediate - (media & politics) - https://www.mediaite.com/ The Messenger - https://themessenger.com/ Mises Institute (blog) - https://mises.org/power-market Mises Wire - https://mises.org/wire mrc, America’s Media Watchdog - https://www.mrc.org/ mrcNewsBusters - https://www.newsbusters.org/ MXM News (right) - https://mxmnews.com/ National Review - https://www.nationalreview.com/ Natural News | Truth Matters (right-wing) - https://www.naturalnews.com/ The New American - https://thenewamerican.com/ New York Post - https://nypost.com/ Newsmax (right) - https://www.newsmax.com/ [NEWSNATION] - https://www.newsnationnow.com/ NewsWars (far-right) - https://www.newswars.com/ Newsweek - https://www.newsweek.com/ Not the Bee (far-right) - https://notthebee.com/ One America News Network (right) - https://www.oann.com/ 100PERCENTFEDUP (far-right) - https://100percentfedup.com/ Open Democracy - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ OpenSecrets (tracking money in US politics) - https://www.opensecrets.org/ Patriot’s Soapbox - https://patriotssoapbox.com/ PJ Media (right) - https://pjmedia.com/ The Patriot Post - https://patriotpost.us/ POLITICALSIGNAL (right) - https://politicalsignal.com/ Politico, US - https://www.politico.com/ Politico, Europe - https://www.politico.eu/politico-print-edition/ Portal:Current events @Wikipedia - https://shorturl.at/clrMX Power Line Blog - https://www.powerlineblog.com/ ProPublica Investigative Journalisim (left) - https://www.propublica.org/ RealClearInvestigations - https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/ RealClear Politics - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ RealClear World - https://www.realclearworld.com/ Reason, Free Minds & Free Markets - https://reason.com/latest/ RedState (conservative) - https://redstate.com/ RenewAmerica (far-right) - https://www.renewamerica.com/ Revolver News (right) - https://revolver.news/newsfeed/ Right News Now - https://rightnewsnow.org/ The Right Scoop - https://therightscoop.com/ Right Wire Report, The Truth Be Told - https://rightwirereport.com/ RTT News - https://www.rttnews.com/default.aspx Saturday Evening Post (retrogressive) - https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/ Semafor - https://www.semafor.com/ Talking Points Memo (TPM) - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/ Townhall (conservative) - https://townhall.com/ Truthdig (alternative news) - https://www.truthdig.com/ Upshot (NYT visuals) - https://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot US News & World Report (left) - https://www.usnews.com/ USA Today - https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/ Visual Capitalist - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ Voice of America English News - https://www.voanews.com/ Voice of Europe - https://www.voiceofeurope.com/ The Wall Street Journal - https://www.wsj.com/ The Washington Examiner - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ The Washington Free Beacon - https://freebeacon.com/ !The Washington Times: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/today/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/heartland-institute/ Watching America - https://watchingamerica.com/WA/ The Week (leans left) - theweek.com WHATFINGERNEWS (far-right) - https://www.whatfinger.com/ Wikinews (woke, like Wikipedia) - https://www.wikinews.org/ WLT Report (far-right) - https://wltreport.com/ YouMaker @NTD (The Epoch Times) - https://www.youmaker.com/ [your]NEWS | Know Everything - https://yournews.com/area/top-stories/ Parody: Babylon Bee (right-wing parody) - https://babylonbee.com/ Louder with Crowder (videos) - https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/ The People’s Cube (Parody) - https://thepeoplescube.com/mother Far-Right/Conspiracy Theory (just for laughs) BECKER NEWS - https://beckernews.com/ Infowars - https://www.infowars.com/ The People’s Voice - https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/ ***** For thorough listings: 70 Best Conservative News Sites @Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/conservative_news_websites/ Top 100 Conservative News Sites 2022: https://cinternet.org/2022/jan/conservative-news-sites-top-100 Notes:
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What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It refers to files easily read by a computer called XML files that automatically update information. This information is fetched by a user’s RSS feed reader that converts the files and the latest updates from websites into an easy-to-read format. An RSS feed takes the headlines, summaries, and update notices, and then links back to articles on your favorite website’s page. This content is distributed in real time, so that the top results on the RSS feed are always the latest published content for a website. For more information, see blog here: https://rss.com/blog/how-do-rss-feeds-work/ *RSS Feed App/Search - https://rss.app/rss-feed Use RSS Viewer App & RSS URLs via copy & paste VIEW: *RSS Viewer App, online - https://rssviewer.app/ URLs: https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/rss-urls-1.pdf * Offerings will be limited without signing up/signing in Some tips for evaluating news sites and journal articles: Read More
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Other Resources: How to Spot Fake News - https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/fake-news Spotting Journalist Deception at PubPeer - https://pubpeer.com/static/about Evaluating News Sources, My Notes: In our highly partisan-divided country, it’s important to know if the source is Left/Woke/Progressive/Liberal/Democrat OR Right/Conservative/Republican. Unfortunately it’s difficult to find truthful information in our current society. As an example, Google’s browser is totally WOKE (try a search for “climate change” to see what I mean). Tusk Browser (app only) is currently the best alternative. To discover right-wing-focused news and information, visit a conservative website such as Heritage or Heartland, and enter your search term there. Be aware also, here are some far-right publications (The Epoch Times, for example) that contain a mixture of truth and conspiracies/false information. Do NOT trust any health information you read in this newspaper, as it’s based on a false religion (Falun Gong/Buddhism). Suffice it to say, all information we read and/or hear must be filtered through God’s Word, the Bible. my news rundown & Common sense 101
September 2023
Common Sense 101
Since it seems to me “common sense” is not too common these days, here I will list some basics, as a refresher course:
christians & Current events
Current times are difficult and tumultuous. Christians are called to share the Gospel; people now more than ever need hope, faith, and encouragement. We can pray for our brothers and sisters around the world in their suffering and persecution. Christian News
CBN News (Christian) - https://www2.cbn.com/news Christian Headlines - https://www.christianheadlines.com/ Christian News - https://yourdailychristiannews.com/ Christian News Network - https://christiannews.net/category/top-stories/ The Christian Post - https://www.christianpost.com/ DISNTR/Politics (Christian) - https://disntr.com/category/politics/ The Gospel Coalition | Current Events - https://shorturl.at/zAEUV Protestia (Cataloging Theological Mischief-makers) - https://protestia.com/ Unsealed World News (Christian/denomination N/A) - https://www.unsealed.org/ World Events and the Bible - https://worldeventsandthebible.com/current-events Online Resources for Christians*
101 Biblical Worldview Truths: https://biblicalworldviewinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/101-Biblical-Worldview-Truths-with-Scripture.pdf Biblical Doctrine of Government in Romans 13: https://providencefoundation.com/biblical-doctrine-of-government-in-romans-13/ “A Biblical Response to Cancel Culture”: https://apologeticspress.org/a-biblical-response-to-cancel-culture/ Bible, Moral & Family Issues in Government: https://bible-government.blogspot.com/ Current Events & the Bible: https://worldeventsandthebible.com/current-events Connecting Bible Prophecy & Current Events (Dr. David Jeremiah): https://davidjeremiah.blog/connecting-bible-prophecy-and-current-events/ End Times News-Find Christian Links (some websites & blogs to search end-time verses and relate them to current events): https://www.findchristianlinks.com/end-time-news.html Truth Applied to a World in Need! and other resources (Dr. James Kennedy): https://www.djameskennedy.org/ WORLD, Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical Truth: https://wng.org/ *Remember that much of what is written is shaped by individual authors’ opinions and Biblical understanding. Read reverently, trusting the Holy Spirit to help you discern truth. Praying for Our World Today
Lord, Thou knowest my cares and my fears. Help me to turn them all over to Thee, who has promised to give rest to our souls. Grant to me now a restful spirit and a peaceful mind, and in quietness and confidence and faith to find new strength. Amen. (source unknown)
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7). Prayer for the world today: Father God, we pray for our world today. We pray for peace and hope to abound. Many have been troubled by natural disasters, conflict, and the results of a global pandemic. In challenging times, help us turn to you as our source of strength and hope. Merciful Lord, we offer a prayer for your peace to be with all those who have suffered and continue to do so. In Jesus’ name, amen. How to Pray for Our Country, Prayer Guide Contents:
Purpose of Intercessory Prayer Prepare Your Heart Call to Intercession Repentance Commit to Pray Website here: https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/prayer/pray-for-country.html Also see Christian Worship Page What to Expect in the Days Ahead (End Times Study): http://middletownbiblechurch.org/prophecy/prophe2.htm Some Signs of the End Times: Deception: "Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many" (Matt. 24:4-5). The Sign of Disputes among Nations: Jesus warned His disciples that the end of the age would be marked by "wars and rumors of wars" with nations rising against each other (Matt. 24: 6,7). As dissension escalates, we can view it as a sign of the times. The sign of Devastation: “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” (Matt. 24:7) Jesus warned of "famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. According to the World Health Organization, there have been recent outbreaks of yellow fever, the plague, Nipah virus, meningitis, and many others. To make matters worse, "superbugs" are developing resistance to antibiotics. We are also witnessing an increase in the frequency and intensity of earthquakes. Christian Persecution: In the Last Days, there will be a marked increase of antagonism toward God's people: "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake." (Matt. 24:9). Revelation 2:10: Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will ·suffer [be persecuted/afflicted] for ten days [perhaps a symbolic number meaning a significant and definite time]. But be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the ·crown [a wreath worn to indicate high status or as a reward] of life. Expanded Bible (EXB) Read more here - https://davidjeremiah.blog/4-signs-of-the-end-times/ What preparations should Christians make in the End Times? The enemy wants to deceive and manipulate people’s thoughts. Since the Fall of Man, we gravitate towards evil; and up until the time of Christ’s second coming, we will continue to struggle spiritually. Christians must uphold the authority of God’s Word in Scripture and reject the enemy’s propaganda outlets, including the media and Internet. Evaluate all things in light of God’s Word. Trust in God and exercise discernment. Adapted from: https://www.bibleversespro.com/bible-verses-about-the-end-times/?expand_article=1 |
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