Commentary

History has shown that the party of the president typically loses seats in the midterm elections and that has occurred in the U.S. House of Representatives although we don’t yet know how large the Republican majority may be.

Regardless, Republican control of the House— the Chamber in which the Constitution requires that spending bills originate—will be enough to block the Biden Administration’s legislative agenda and reckless spending spree. That is why winning the U.S. House of Representatives is a galactic victory for all Americans and Louisianans.

At the time of this writing, it appears that Democrats have won the Senate races in Nevada and Arizona. If these results hold under scrutiny, the December runoff in Georgia between Herschel Walker and his socialist democrat opponent won’t determine Senate control but would return the 50-50 split that has been in place for two years, and since the last Georgia runoffs of 2020.

Yes, indeed—and, in reality, it’s one that demands an answer if our lives here are to have any meaning and purpose here on earth. Why is that? Simply because if we’re seeking those things which can’t satisfy that deep, inner longing within us, then it follows that we’ll never find what we’re looking for.

There’s no doubt King Solomon, David’s son, was incredibly blessed by God. When God asked him what he desired from Him, Solomon replied “Give, therefore, Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your People”

(I Kings 3:9);

in other words, he asked God for wisdom.

And, that’s exactly what God gave him—along with fame and fortune

(vv.10-13).

But, soon, those became his liability: because he strayed from God and his 1,000 pagan wives and concubines

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Regarding an end to the use of the reverse discrimination of racial preferences in academic admissions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks, “how do we know when we’re done?”

A pair of explosive cases involving race and college admission practices are now before the U.S. Supreme Court. These two cases involve whether Harvard and University of North Carolina have illegally discriminated against Asian-Americans in favor of other races.

To determine that, the Supreme Court will need to look back at its own precedents in this area.

How has the Supreme Court traditionally handled the use of racial preferences in college admissions?

I sometimes believe that it would be difficult to be any more surprised about national developments, but I find I continue to be mistaken about that.

Early voting for the November midterm elections is well under way as Nov. 8th, Election Day, approaches. So, what has President Biden touted as his—and, derivatively, his Democrat Party—closing message to the American people before the election? What economic, domestic, or foreign policy achievement does he point to, to assist his party in their election efforts?

Abortion on demand for any reason up to and during the birth process, and without anesthetic to reduce the pain during the killing of innocent children; Transgenderism, including child genital mutilation without a parent’s consent.

These are the two issues he’s highlighted in the last two weeks.

Thank you to City of Winnfield: I am humbled by the outpouring of encouragement and support on being selected the twentieth president of Northwestern State University from my hometown of Winnfield, Louisiana.

Throughout my life and time in Winnfield, I was blessed with many teachers, mentors, classmates, family, and friends who pushed me to chase after my dreams of going to college.

As a first-generation college student, I am so thankful to have been provided many opportunities that led me to where I am today.

Thank you for your investment in my life and the life of many others in our community.

God bless each of you and Fork ‘em Demons!

Dr. Marcus D. Jones – President Northwestern State University

Love, love, love! God is Love (I John 4:8), and we all need it and want more Love; or, rather, we need to know more how much God really loves us! We can help ourselves and others know God’s love more, through prayer.

When we pray, it is an act of humility; it is an act of love.

Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];--1 Thessalonians 5:17, AMPC

Yes, we can repeat certain words and phrases like a robot, but when prayer is earnest--when it comes from the heart--the LORD hears and answers!

[Let your] love be sincere (a real thing); hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good.--Romans 12:9, AMPC Hallelujah! It is actually the Holy Spirit Who is Love, Who is leading us to pray, and it is the LORD Jesus Who is Love: He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love--I John 4:8, AMPC.

In a dark and sinister speech last Thursday night President Biden misused a primetime presidential address to attack, not an evil foreign government that has threatened our Nation with economic or military destruction, but rather, tens of millions of his fellow Americans.

I was stunned as I watched and couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing. Traditionally, a primetime presidential address is used to speak swiftly and directly to the country about a pressing national issue in order to provide leadership toward a unified national solution.

Not Biden. This can’t be chalked up to just another of the President’s addled, incoherent remarks. This attack on millions of Americans was fully premeditated, employing an unnerving red and black backdrop eerily reminiscent of footage of past dictators exhorting a nation to initiate an unjust war of conquest.

Our outlook depends upon which Tree we’re sitting under.

The Tree of Life or the Tree of Death.

Yes, when we look around us today, all we seemingly see is “doom, despair and agony on me.” We increasingly feel like the guy who’s fallen down into a deep, dark hole and the only light he sees is the proverbial “light of an oncoming train.”

But, in reality, it’s always been that way.

Yes, ever since the Garden of Eden, the two trees mentioned above have always been around—and we must choose to sit under the one (“The Tree of Life”); otherwise, by default, we’ll end up sitting under the other one (“The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”), whose “forbidden fruit” leads to death physically and spiritually (Genesis 2:9, 17).

“What in the world are you talking about?” the atheistic, agnostic, skeptical, secular, relativistic humanist asks.

The weekend ahead has been set aside in the United States and Canada, to honor the gifts and obligations of work. Labor Day has been celebrated since the late nineteenth century to acknowledge people whose labor and loyalty in the marketplace are not recognized from day to day.

It’s a secular holiday, to be sure, but one valued by people of faith. We shall include this Collect from The Book of Common Prayer: “Almighty God, you have so linked our lives one with another that all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives: So guide us in the work we do, that we may do it not for self alone, but for the common good; and, as we seek a proper return for our own labor, make us mindful of the rightful aspirations of other workers, and arouse our concern for those who are out of work; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.”

It’s hard to believe anything other than that the agency intends to audit the middle class.

In the recent Inflation Reduction Act (which will actually feed the fires of inflation) there is an appropriation of $80 billion to the IRS. A chunk of this money will go to hiring 87,000 new employees and effectively doubling the current number of agents.

So why does the IRS need 87,000 new, armed agents?

The only reasonable answer that is supported with data is that the Biden Administration intends for the IRS to target the middle class in order to pay for its out-of-control spending which has caused the highest inflation in the last 40 years.

As Heritage Foundation has observed “Auditing every single taxpayer with annual income over $1 million would require only 25,000 new IRS enforcement agents, but Democrats’ bill calls for 87,000 new agents. What will all those extra agents be doing?”