TRUMP’S WEB SITE GOES LIVE: How long before Big Tech finds a way to hack and close it?

YES, THE COVID REPORTING GOT MORE POSITIVE AFTER JAN. 20: I’m sure it’s absolutely, totally and completely coincidental, but the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) took a long look at Covid reporting and found it took a big turn toward optimism after Joe Biden entered the Oval Office as President.

I’m guessing Gail Heriot’s reaction to this news is something along the lines of “ya think?”

‘YELLOW JOURNALISM’ GOES DEEP BLUE WHEN VILIFYING CHRISTIANS: Take a stroll over to the PJ Media site and check out my latest column, on why Kim Strassel is right about “Blue Journalism.” What the New York Times and Washington Post have done trying to link the Atlanta massage parlor massacre to evangelical Christianity is Exhibit A.

NO, NICK KRISTOF, MORE PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY IS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA: The well-known New York Times columnist is just tickled pink that progressive Christianity — aka more recently as the “Woke Church” — is getting more attention these days, thanks to self-proclaimed Catholic Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

Natasha Crain, by contrast, is not a New York Times regular — though her presence there would certainly give both proof that the age of miracles is not done and hope that old grey lady might yet be saved. But Crain lights up Kristof’s column and leaves little more than smoky cinders behind.

Consider just this passage from Crain, which begins with a bolded Kristof quote:

“’Young and middle-aged Americans could be forgiven for thinking that Jesus was a social conservative who denounced gay people and harangued the poor to lift themselves up by the bootstraps, until he was crucified for demanding corporate tax cuts.’

“This is obviously a ridiculous characterization of Christianity and Jesus in particular. If people have this idea of Jesus, they either haven’t read the Bible, or they’ve read too many articles like those of Kristof that repeatedly mischaracterize what those who hold to the historic Christian faith actually believe.

“But more importantly, here is where Kristof begins to blur the lines and equivocate between progressive theology and progressive politics. Notice how he moves from a strictly moral issue (homosexuality) to primarily economic ones (policy decisions on how to help the poor or tax businesses). This is a common move of politically progressive Christians. While they popularly accuse politically conservative Christians of mixing politics and religion, they frequently do the same, bundling progressive politics with what Jesus would ‘really’ want.”

That’s just a taste. Crain ends her lengthy nuking of Kristof by observing that the “oversimplified, assumption-ridden narrative that we find in Kristof’s piece is precisely why people can’t have reasonable conversations today.” Crain should be much better known among political conservative because she has a fine hand for defending the truths of scripture and basic logic against caricatures of both from the Left.

DID YOU KNOW MOSES WAS LEFT OUT OF THE PASSOVER SEDER? Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has come up with the perfect way to make it up to Moses — 14 famous movie scenes featuring the Prophet. Why 14? Because in the Old Testament, seven is the number for perfection and Jeff wanted Moses to have double satisfaction!

(Bumped.)

IS AMERICA APPROACHING A SEX DEPRESSION: Writing for the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger examines the data and concludes that, yes, a strong case can be made for the suggestion.

Wolfinger also notes this about the role of social media:

“We’ve been bowling alone for decades now, withdrawing from various social institutions. Perhaps withdrawal from sex is the logical next step? Some Americans have somehow sublimated, submerged, or substituted their innately human desire for sex in lives increasingly lived online, in social media, and in video games.”

DID HISTORY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL MAN NOT EXIST? British philosopher Bertrand Russell once argued the Jesus of the New Testament never actually existed. Shane Morris of the Colson Center offers three solid reasons the facts prove otherwise.

By the way, could it be that arguments like Russell’s presage our own era in which secular progressive proponents of Critical Race Theory present with straight faces claims that on their face have only the remotest connection with reality?

BIDEN UNHINGED: Since when are state legislative efforts to ensure that every legal vote can be cast and then accurately counted “sick” and “despicable” and so much more racist than “Jim Crow” that they warrant the label “Jim Eagle”?

When Joe Biden is plodding through his first news conference as President, selecting the favored reporters to ask softball questions for which his staff has prepared answers in his notes on the podium in front of him. It was all so obviously staged to minimize exposing Biden to those trick questions that evil Peter Doocy of Fox News was waiting to spring on him.

Here’s a HT to Issues & Insights for describing the facts about all those “despicable” Republican state legislative efforts to prevent Democrats from rigging future elections like they did the last one, using their H.R. 1 power-grab masquerading as something “for the people.”

HERE’S WHAT BIG TECH SHOULD WORRY ABOUT: Forget the huffing and puffing of the average Washington politician about Big Tech censorship and reforming Section 230. Even if they eventually do something there, it will take lots of time and even then the career bureaucrats will a hundred ways around it.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) described the effects on young people, especially teens, of being constantly subjected to Big Tech algorithmic manipulation. Big Tech’s power privileges will end when America’s Moms and Dads realize what’s being done to their kids.

HERE’S WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE BLOOD LIBEL AGAINST JEWS: The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz explains why the weeks leading up to the Passover holiday are often the most dangerous of times for the Jewish people around the world.

CANCEL CULTURE STRIKES AGAIN: Michael Eignor is Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist who is also the founder of Peaceful Science and an associate professor of laboratory and genomic medicine and biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Both smart guys, one assumes. But Eignor argues that Swamidass, who claims to respect Christian colleges “unique character” but wants to hold them to “higher standards,” is actually arguing for a new form of censorship aimed at stamping out all approaches to origins science that is not neo-Darwinian. You decide which one is correct.  

HE FOUGHT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. NOW HE’S FIGHTING IN VIRGINIA: If you happen to be in Northern Virginia near Fredericksburg and are looking for a place to eat, check out Matt Strickland’s Gourmeltz.

Why? Because a Virginia judge just awarded Strickland a victory against Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam’s Covid restrictions. Strickland has refused to require either employees or customers to wear masks or socially distance.

“I’m not afraid of the state. I’m not afraid of the federal government. I spent most of my adult life fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have no problem coming home and fighting here in Virginia,” Faithwire quoted him telling a local tv station.

THE TIMELINE THAT UPENDED EASTER DEBATE: There are 13 days left before Easter, so there is a bit more talk than usual about the event that precipitated the holiday. It wasn’t that long ago that doctoral students claiming a literal resurrection of Christ would be laughed off campus.

But the debate has radically changed in recent years, due in great part to the timeline Dr. Gary Habermas explains in this excerpt from a famous lecture he delivered at the Veritas Forum. It’s based entirely on sources skeptics and believers largely agree are credible. That’s why it changed the debate from derision to a genuinely open discussion.

MAYORKAS CLAIMS BORDER IS ‘CLOSED:’ Right. And President Biden regularly works out on a Stair Climber. Meanwhile, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) predicts a million illegal border crossings by summer.

YOU KNEW IT: Joe Schoffstall, with help from Matthew Foldi, exposes the left-wing money machine behind Fix Our Senate, the “grassroots” campaign to blow up the filibuster.

NEWSOM PRAISED BY ANTI-VAXXERS: Interesting how Washington Free Beacon needles California’s recallable governor this morning.

ABOUT THAT ‘AMERICAN COMPASS’ LABOR MOVEMENT: Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Michael Watson, intrigued by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) supporting the unionization movement within Amazon, did some digging into American Compass and found a couple of major Lefty funding outfits.

WHY ARE GEN X, GEN Y LESS HEALTHY THAN BOOMERS? It’s a deep-dive medical data study conducted at Ohio State University and here’s the summary:

“Researchers found that, compared to previous generations, members of Generation X and Generation Y showed poorer physical health, higher levels of unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol use and smoking, and more depression and anxiety.”

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ON ELECTION REFORMS: The Epoch Times has a handy reference graphic that highlights the 30 serious flaws in the H.R. 1 election “reform” law now before Congress, as well as descriptions of state-level reforms being pushed to ensure 2020 never happens again.

LA DETECTIVE INTERROGATES THE GOSPEL EYEWITNESSES: J. Warner Wallace spent decades solving old murder cases nobody else could and along the way he developed some impressive skills for judging the credibility of witnesses and evidence. Things get really interesting when he applies those same skills to the eyewitness claims in the New Testament.

While you are there, check out the new HillFaith design that goes live for everybody Monday. The old original design is here for those who like comparisons.

NEW YORK DOC PUNCTURES COVID ORTHODOXY: Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s New York practice was hit hard early on in the Covid pandemic, but he’s had success in treating his patients with a cocktail of existing drugs. He also doesn’t wear a mask even though he’s on chemo and has only one lung. He explains all of this and more on the linked Heartland Institute podcast.

THIS IS WHAT CIVIL RIGHTS REGRESSION LOOKS LIKE: Faithwire reports that Columbia University will segregate graduation ceremony by race, income and, of course, sexual orientation.

SCIENCE AND SOULS CAN BOTH BE TRUE: Los Angeles Police Detective Jimmy Wallace begs to disagree with those who claim science has disproven the existence of the human soul. One might think, in view of Soul Music like Wilson Pickett’s, that shouldn’t be a point in dispute, but alas, it is, particularly on the Left where the totalitarians do their most determinedly anti-God thing. And don’t miss the teaser about something new coming soon for HillFaith.

WANT A TAX-PAID SEX SWAP: Just join the U.S. military and tell them you want to do the ole gender switcheroo. President Joe Biden has conveniently provided billions of dollars in his $1.9 trillion Mother of All “Recovery” Boondoggles for the Department of Defense to accommodate your desires.

HOW LONG BEFORE CANCEL CULTURE NAILS THIS BRAVE TEACHER: She’s had it with Critical Race Theory. God bless her.