
Feature Article:
Shifting Sands

My, what a difference a year makes. Scarcely a year ago, Iran was the up-and-coming bully of the Middle East, flexing its military muscles and bellowing its belligerent death-to-Israel diatribe with abandon. Iran was recognized as the world's terrorist octopus, with its tentacles reaching down into Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and a number of other smaller terrorist groups scattered throughout the Middle East.
As that octopus slowly and inexorably squeezed its tentacles around the neck of Israel, the Iranian head of that octopus frantically pursued its dream of developing nuclear weapons, rapidly drawing ever closer to the glorious day when it would be able to wipe Israel off the face of the earth with a spine-chilling array of shiny new nukes.
Not only that, but both Iran and their Russian BFFs maintained a strong military presence in Syria that served to (a) project a direct threat to the hated Jewish state and (b) prop up a cooperative Assad regime that exercised a cruel level of suppression over a suffering Syrian population.
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Articles Over the Past Year:

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A Blast From the Past:
MAR '22: Gog and Beyond
With Russia suddenly flexing its muscles, a lot of prophetic buzz has been focused on Gog, Putin, and what lies ahead.
Gog and Beyond

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, there has been an uptick in apocalyptic buzz, both biblically informed and otherwise. Some, including a few mainstream media types, have begun to wonder aloud if WWIII has actually gotten underway.
As is normal these days, the only thing I am absolutely 100 percent certain of is that the mainstream media is not telling us the whole story (and applying the desired spin to most of what they are telling us). They have knocked themselves silly peddling the narrative that this is all about big bad evil Russia aggressively picking on poor little innocent Ukraine, with Vladimir Putin being cast as the evil villain and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (often spelled "Zelensky" in the Western press) as the heroic underdog, bravely standing up to the big bully.
And just as with the "secure, fraud-free" U.S. presidential election of 2020 and the "safe and effective" vaccines being pushed on everyone, God help you if you don't toe the line on this one.
Weekly Commentary:
2/18/2025 — From the "Throwing Down the Gauntlet" Department...
The U.S. Department of Education under President Trump is throwing down the gauntlet for every federally funded educational institution in the country, and the message is in no way unclear:
Lose the DEI programs in the next 14 days or lose your federal funding.
Got it?
The Department of Education has sent a letter to all such institutions, spelling out the problems with DEI and laying down the law. Here's a taste:
"Relying on non-racial information as a proxy for race, and making decisions based on that information, violates the law...It would, for instance, be unlawful for an educational institution to eliminate standardized testing to achieve a desired racial balance or to increase racial diversity. Other programs discriminate in less direct, but equally insidious, ways...DEI programs, for example, frequently preference certain racial groups and teach students that certain racial groups bear unique moral burdens that others do not...Such programs stigmatize students who belong to particular racial groups based on crude racial stereotypes. Consequently, they deny students the ability to participate fully in the life of a school...The Department will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this Nation's educational institutions. (emphasis mine)"
According to the order, any educational institution in the United States receiving federal funds must do the following in the next two weeks in order to continue receiving federal funds:
• Dismantle DEI offices and programming that promote race-based policies.
• End race-based hiring and admissions practices that disadvantage certain groups.
• Cease funding or collaborating with third-party organizations that push DEI initiatives.
• Halt racially segregated graduations, scholarships, and other programs under the guise of inclusion.
(Pardon me while I shout "Hallelujah!")
DEI essentially takes racism, flips it inside out, dresses it up in noble, high-sounding, politically correct language, institutionalizes it, and then applies it to a different group (like, say, otherwise well-qualified straight white males, for example) in ways that gradually degrade the quality and efficacy of the entity in question, be it a high school, a college, or a university.
Or a fire department.
Or an air-traffic control tower.
In other words, DEI institutionalizes racism in order to eliminate racism. They just apply that racism to what is perceived as an "advantaged" group, which makes it politically correct and appear as a laudable push toward the grand goal of social justice.
And for this they expect a hearty part on the back from a woke society.
Of course, what I expect to see in response is institutions suing the Federal Government, or simply changing the name of such programs and burying the practices under the rug where they can be continued under a different guise in a more covert manner.
As we are seeing in regard to many of Trump's efforts to expose and root out waste, fraud, and corruption, Satan doesn't give up easily.
He's got a lot to lose.
But lose it he shall.
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Feature Article
2. Global Middle East Crisis © lightsource at Depositphotos
Articles Over the Past Year (3.–14.)
3. Adapted from 3a–3b:
3a. Damascus, Syria, Panorama at Sunset © Vyacheslav Argenberg (cropped, resized, text added) [CC BY 4.0]
3b. Nuclear Bomb Explosion © rfphoto via Depositphotos
4. Adapted from Portrait Illustration of Donald Trump © dima4to@gmail.com at Depositphotos
5. White Dice © Ben_Stevens at Depositphotos
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6b. Optical Sight © Dmitrydesign via Depositphotos
7. Birthday Cake With Number 7 Lit Candle © destinacigdem at Depositphotos
8. Adapted from Virgo Horoscope Star White © realcg at Depositphotos
9. Halloween Concept Zombies Hand Silhouette © fotokitas at Depositphotos
10. The Fresco of Jesus the King in the Church Parroquia Santa Teresa de l'Infant Jesus by Francisco Labarta © sedmak at Depositphotos
11. Adapted from Jakob worstelt met de engel (Jacob Wrestles With an Angel), RP-P-1935-1296, Rijksmuseum, (cropped, resized), [CC0 1.0]
12. Desert Mirage, Egypt © Ashabot (cropped), [CC BY-SA 4.0]
13. Adapted from 2017 Total Solar Eclipse (35909952653) © NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA (text added), [CC BY 2.0]
14. China Lights Dragon © darksideOfPink at Depositphotos
A Blast From the Past
15. Questions and Answers © OutStyle at Adobe Stock
Sidebar (16.–19.)
16. Adapted from Hand Holding Placard © byemoke at Depositphotos
17. Adapted from Hand Holding Placard © byemoke at Depositphotos
18. Wherever I Stand by Greg Lauer (own work)
19. Flag of Israel © badboo01 at Can Stock Photo
20. I Stand With Israel by Greg Lauer (own work)
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