Spend more time in the Bible than you do researching conspiracy theories & watching/engaging with the content of those that spew it.
Knowledge of God’s Word is far more important.
We need Biblical literacy now more than ever.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:22-26
And meanwhile back in Syria, his Muslim soldiers are setting fire to entire Christian villages and towns.
In just 20 years, the Christian population in Syria has fallen from 3 million to under 300,000. And now they are trying to exterminate what’s left.
This, my friends, is what a real genocide looks like.
Islamists burning entire Christian villages in Syria. Not a single word from any media outlet. Not a single word from the antisemites. Not a single word from the grifters and phony influencers. Zippo.
"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
“imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended”
Viktor Frankl
Today’s reading. What words for today.
Luke 6:27-38
Jesus said to his disciples:
"To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.
Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.
But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap.
For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you."
Many in Washington need to update their assumptions regarding Chinese semiconductor manufacturing capacity.
According to FT today, Chinese companies like Huawei, SMIC, and Cambricon are surging production. They will soon be competing with American chips globally.
Fortunately, Chinese chips are still behind ours due to a far-sighted decision by the first Trump administration to prevent China from having EUV lithography. That was a wise export control.
But other export controls, like the now-rescinded Biden Diffusion Rule, were not. In each case, we must ask the question, does this help the American tech stack dominate the world? What maximizes our global market share?
If we look around the world in 5 years and see that the Global South is running on Huawei Cloud Matrix + DeepSeek, for example, that’s not the outcome we want.
As President Trump said in his AI speech on July 23:
“The last administration was obsessed with imposing restrictions on AI, including extreme restrictions on its exports. As you know, they made it very difficult to export. This alienated American partners and drove even our friends into the arms of China and other countries.”
“Under my administration, we will maintain necessary protections for our national security, but we will never forget that the greatest threat of all is to forfeit the race and force our partners into rival technology. We're not going to do that.”
Biden’s overzealous regulations were predicated on the assumption that China couldn’t produce enough chips for export, so it didn’t matter how much regulatory burden was imposed on American AI companies. Today’s report exposes the falsity of that view.
The U.S. government should help our American AI companies win this global competition. It is time to embrace President Trump’s vision that the American tech stack should dominate the world.