Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.
This is the first time such a term has been used.
Good Morning,
Please join me for a daily scripture break.
Proverbs 24:17-18:
"Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.”
I have read this passage many times and I have always just chalked it up to the idea that God is more gracious and forgiving than I am. There are people who have wreaked so much destruction towards countless people in human history that I want to lead a parade to celebrate their demise and their awaiting judgment.
Admittedly, I still struggle with this today.
However, if I pause just a brief moment and consider a few reminders I believe to be true, then my anger softens and I begin to strongly embrace God’s Wisdom in this passage.
Firstly, if I am disobedient to this instruction then I would displease my Heavenly Father. Well, I don’t want to do that knowingly or intentionally. (John 14:15)
Secondly, nothing can happen unless it passes by God’s hand. God sees the strategic picture in salvation history and He will use many evil things for the good of His people in the future. So I need to completely trust Him, “giving thanks despite the circumstance”. (I Corinthians 10:13)
Thirdly, by gloating and celebrating another person’s fall, how am I presenting a godly example to a fallen world? I’m not. (John 13:34-35)
Fourthly, if I insist on gloating then God may withdraw a punishment they so richly deserve because of me.
Lastly, remember Jesus’ response, “depart from Me I never knew you.” Jesus wasn’t gleeful when He turned these Christians away. If I behaved in such a manner, would Jesus think that about me? Then I would be compelled to ask myself - what is in my heart? Is this moment of vindication towards an evil person worth it? No, it isn’t. (Matthew 7:23)
So, how should you appropriately respond “when your enemy falls?” Focus on the Lord, His Word, His justice. Give thanksgiving and praise the Lord honored His Word. Hold yourself to a higher standard.
Peace and be prepared.
Hello Mr. Kristol,
The verse you cite is from Leviticus, right alongside the passages on same-sex relations that you so readily dismiss.
But setting that aside, you're misreading the historical context. Leviticus 19:33–34 was written for Israel while the Hebrews were in the wilderness after the Exodus. There was no modern nation-state with fixed borders or an immigration system. Israel was a covenant community, not a country defined by territorial boundaries.
A "sojourner" wasn't simply someone standing inside an invisible border. A sojourner was a foreigner living among Israel who accepted Israel's civil order and lived under its laws. That's why the same Torah you hijack says there should be "one law for the native and for the sojourner." The defining feature wasn't physical location... it was membership in, and submission to, the covenant community.
Using Leviticus 19:33–34 as an argument against modern immigration enforcement ignores the historical and legal context in which the passage was written.
Economist Thomas Sowell was once a Marxist, but now he advocates for free markets.
"What was your wake-up to what was wrong with [Marxism]?" @RubinReport asked him.
"Facts," Sowell replies.
Here’s why I admire Sowell:
Medicare for All = government-run healthcare will be government-rationed healthcare
Tax the Billionaires = stifled innovation and stunting American growth.
No Foreign Wars/No Genocide = neutered America and a more chaotic Western Hemisphere and world
Workers over AI = letting other world economies pass America by. No more American superpower status
Marshall Plan for America - no thanks.
“It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote”
Yea, and it’s also illegal to cut your wife’s head off, but that didn’t stop OJ.
Laws are meaningless to criminals.
🚨 OMG. Spencer Pratt drops bombshell: Los Angeles’ largest homelessness NGO now faces a federal investigation and a court has officially BLOCKED their move to dismiss the fraud claims
Weingart NGO is one of the Democrat FRAUD HUBS, they raked in DOUBLE what it would normally cost for a housing project
Pratt called it!
“Karen Bass and Nithya Raman laundered YOUR tax dollars through the Weingart NGO to pay 2x cost on a homeless housing project from a scammer middleman; a $16M flip, for a dubious homeless project, all while evicting the seniors who lived there.”
He previously NAILED IT:
“[Bass and Newsom are] both complicit in LAUNDERING $24 billion to INCREASE homelessness…They both should be in JAIL TOGETHER!"
Lol…so Elon in this meme represents himself and 4400 other people he made millionaires of? Or, what about all the retail investors and 401K holders who’ve seen their wealth also increase?
If anything, the sad kids in this meme represent NGOs who’ve been outed thanks in large part to Elon’s DOGE efforts.
Mamdani's socialists don't want to tax billionaires. They want to eradicate Western civilization — and they said so out loud.
Here's who's really using them, and why.
Jefferson Co Public Schools refused to correct widespread Title IX violations, including allowing children to share overnight accommodations w/ members of the opposite sex, despite repeated opportunities to come into compliance. Today's action shows noncompliance has consequences.
California’s Property Seizure Act - called “The Billionaire Tax” to fool voters is now on the ballot. @HooverInst has a short 4min video breaking it down.
https://t.co/A7jqSTnbcH
You should vote for this if you are comfortable handing over 5%, in cash, of all your tangible and intangible property every year. You should vote no if you don’t want to do that.
If it passes, the remaining Billionaires will sue. This will take a decade to meander through the courts and will find its way to the Supreme Court where the odds it survives are low.
But in that intervening decade, far fewer business builders will want to bet on California and will focus on building in other states.
This will drive a large loss of revenue that will make California’s budget hole even worse. The only solution there is more borrowing and higher taxes on EVERYONE including those that voted NO. This will particularly impact the middle class who are Californias largest revenue source.
The only path out of an avoidable budget spiral is a hard landing and structural reset. Sadly, a hard landing will mean a near-miss with California bankruptcy and, more punitively, a reset/retrade of state pensions with California lenders to not come collect.
If you aren’t sure or don’t believe me, vote YES and bookmark this post. A decade from now you can tell me I was wrong or give me the opportunity to lord over your stupidity, jealousy and gullibility for voting YES when I am proven right.
California voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond with promises of improving our water infrastructure back in 2014. Now, twelve years later, Napa growers are paying another $99 per acre just to irrigate with groundwater. Where did all that money go, and why do the bills keep coming (this is rhetorical, we all know the answer).
After Reagan mopped the floor with Mondale in the 1984 Election, the Democrat Party needed to rebrand, and several Democrats formed what was known as the DLC (Democrat Leadership Council).
The DLC believed the Democrat Party went too far left and, in order to survive, needed to come back to the center to avoid alienating too many moderate voters.
Contrast that with what is happening now. After Trump swept all seven swing states and won the Popular Vote in 2024, instead of forming another version of the "DLC" the dems were hijacked by the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).
Rather than coming back to the center, they have gone even FURTHER left, engaging in a full on embrace of Socialism and Communism.
The DLC saved the Democrat Party in the 80s... The DSA might destroy it in 2026.
Remember in November.
Everyone must vote. Nobody stays home.
Reject communism.
@greendragonhq Lol…his policies have been implemented for 5 minutes. It’s not a question of whether things will fall apart…it’s only a question of when it happens