This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, April 2, 2021

The truth is trickling out about masks, a nativity scene is still legal during Christmas in Indiana, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is under investigation, and Day 4 of the Derek Chauvin trial continues. 

A Good Good Friday to you, and let me be among the first to wish you a Happy Easter – Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed. 

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Aquila Report Joins the Side of Truth and Sanity

David Deavel wrote the Strange Gospel of Masking and Public Policy for the Imaginative Conservative back on March 9th, but the Aquila Report – a long time, independent source for news and commentary in the conservative Reformed and Presbyterian world just republished it on their site. Deavel writes:

“Sanity is finally prevailing, at least in a number of red states. A goodly number of states, including Texas, are removing all of the COVID restrictions that have been destroying businesses, education, and mental health for so many people, young and old, while doing nothing to stop the spread of COVID-19. This includes the very unscientific mask mandates.

Yes, you read that right. If you’re on Facebook, this article might not appear, but there is really no evidence that, like lockdowns in general, any of the mask mandates have done anything to stop the spread of COVID. And this is because there was never really any serious evidence that cloth face masks did anything. Andrew Bostom, an associate professor of family medicine at Brown University, recently linked on Twitter to a study of COVID in Catalonia that showed “no association of risk of transmission with reported mask usage by contacts.” In a follow-up tweet he observed that “these data are in turn consistent with~2 decades of RCT [Randomized Controlled Trials] data showing masking does not prevent flu… or C19,” linking to a meta-analysis of flu and also the Danish study of masking and COVID-19 that came out this past fall.[1] Anybody who followed the questions of masking early last year found out that this was the case…

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine published in April 2020 that took up the question of universal masking in hospital situations found that the “marginal benefit” was “debatable,” but offered that the “symbolic” role of them was helpful. In other words, wearing a mask might help remind hospital workers to be cautious. On the other hand, the article also posited that “paradoxically,” the focus on universal masking might cause more COVID transmission because it could lead people to be less cautious about other more proven methods of fighting transmission. Not only that, but “wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.”…

A CDC study of 314 symptomatic patients from July 2020 showed that 85% of those who caught COVID either always (70.6) or often (14.4) wore masks.[14] Also, in July 2020 longtime healthcare administrator Kevin Roche of the Healthy Skeptic blog published the results of a study with Darin Oenning in which they looked at mask-wearing percentages and COVID cases per million people in a variety of countries. The result? No correlation.[15] Whether a country had a high level of infection or a low one seemed to have nothing to do with the percentage of its public wearing masks.

Since then, we have our own information from the U.S. Short answer: masks certainly don’t work in the big picture when they are mandated. Ian Miller of the website Rational Ground has been charting states, counties, and cities that have mask mandates versus those that don’t and the effect of mask mandates on such locales when it comes to infections and illness. The big takeaway? There is no difference between t

This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, April 1, 2021.

The housing market is bonkers, Wisconsin Supreme court strikes down mask mandate, President Biden gets Four Pinnochios from Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post, and Dana Carvey has a pretty good impression of Joe Biden. 

Happy Opening Day of Major League Baseball to Everyone 

https://www.mlb.com/video/make-it-major

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Have you registered for the Fight Laugh Feast Rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, April 29, 30, May 1? Excited to see many of you as we learn to Love God, Sing Psalms, Defy Tyrants. Come hear talks from Pastor Doug Wilson, Ben Merkle, Steve Deace, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler from Bonner County, Idaho, myself – Pastor Joe Boot, and now the very latest: Mr. Nate “N.D.” Wilson. Gather with likeminded Christians who love freedom, confess Jesus Christ is Lord over all, and be equipped to stand firm in these insane days. Go to flfnetwork dot com forward slash rally and register today. 

But wait – there’s more. Did you hear about our Pre-Conference? Warriors in the Garden: A Practical Theology of Violence, Protection, and Self-Defense. Come to Rapid City, South Dakota 2 days early for a 2 day intensive with Nathan Spearing. Nathan Spearing is a highly decorated combat veteran with 14 years and 12 deployments in Army Special Operations. Nathan has a broad range of experiences domestically and overseas and has spent his entire professional life walking out a theology of violence as a Christian in war. Sessions will include Ballistics, Rifle and Long Range Marksmanship, Close Quarter Tactics, Concealed Carry Fundamentals, Combat Medicine, and a Top Shot Competition on the last day. There are only 11 spots available to join Gabe, Knox, and myself with Nathan for this 2 day intensive before the Fight Laugh Feast Rally in South Dakota. If you are interested, send an email to contact at fight laugh feast dot com today.

Housing Market Bonkers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pandemic-ignited-a-housing-boombut-its-different-from-the-last-one-11615824558?mod=e2tw

Nicole Friedman at the WSJ writes: The residential real-estate market is on its biggest tear since 2006, just before the housing bubble burst and set off a global recession. Back in 2004, Home buyers were trading up to bigger, more expensive houses after barely a year, he said. Many buyers paid small down payments, or none at all. When housing prices stopped rising, the market collapsed. 

Today, people are putting down $500,000 on $1 million purchases.

In 2020, sales of previously owned U.S. homes surged to their highest level in 14 years, and many economists forecast sales to rise again this year. 

Most real-estate analysts agree that the pandemic helped ignite the current boom as some urbanites looked to leave crowded cities like New York and San Francisco for cheaper cities or for more space in the suburbs while working from home [riots? Joe Biden?]. When lockdowns began lifting last year, home sales took off: June sales surged nearly 21% over the prior month, the biggest monthly increase on record going back to 1968. That milestone lasted only a month, when July sales rose almost 25% from June.

At the same time, the market is critically undersupplied. New-home construction hasn’t kept up with household demand, and homeowners are holding on to their houses longer. Buyers are competing fiercely for a limited number of homes.

The biggest winners in today’s boom are people who already own homes, who gained a collective $1.5 trillion in equity in 2020 from a year earlier, according to CoreLogic. They have also saved money by refinancing their mortgages at record low rates. Many have started renovation projects or bought vacation homes.

Real-estate brokers, home builders and mortgage lenders are also riding the wave. The S&P Homebuilders Select Industry index is

This is Gabriel Renchs with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday March 31st 2021

Intro: Biden is going to spend more money? Gov. Noem signs esecutive orders, coercive free speech is not free speech, and more...

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3 Days and 3 Nights

This is Passion week, you know Easter. And I have a curve ball for you in how to think about this week. First off, me and my wife have struggled for years trying to come up with ways to encourage the same excitement and energy for the Easter Holiday season, that Christmas has in our family. Maybe our kids will figure it out better than we have, but as Chrisitans we really need to make this week a glorious week, culminating in Resurrection Sunday. So, I don’t really have any tips or tricks for you regarding this, as I am still trying to figure that out, but I do have theological insite, passed down from Pastor Wilson, that I have found helpful in organizing my thoughts about this week. First, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Sunday, He then rose again on Sunday (more on that later), and after that, each time he appeared to His disciples and others, He appeared on Sunday (on the first day of the week). This is the fundamental reason why we worship God on Sunday now, and not on Saturday. Jesus rose again on Sunday, the first day of the week, and so we worship in the God who is recreating the new heavens and new earth! The second thing I would like to point out is that Jesus most likely died on Wednesday, and not Friday. There are a number of reasons for thinking this, but let me just give you my most basic reason...numbers. Scriptures teach us that Jesus was dead for three days and three nights. Well, lets just do the math. If Jesus died Friday, how do you get three days and three nights into Sunday, the day He rose? Here is how I breakdown the math. Jesus died on Wednesday afternoon, so that gives us Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night (three days/three nights), which means Jesus would have risen on Saturday night, which was the start of Sunday under the Jewish calendar. 

News

Once Held Hostage By Teachers’ Unions, West Virginia Just Passed The Nation’s Broadest School Choice Law

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/25/once-held-hostage-by-teachers-unions-west-virginia-just-passed-sweeping-school-choice-legislation/?fbclid=IwAR1h43GJMzg-gw6n_sYPLZ5ap4xxhqeorlJtyhcN7ufDZPpfpYeSaVvnNJY#.YGKwWKlW1AQ.facebook

According to the Federalist:

“In February 2018, public school teachers brought West Virginia to its knees. Seeking pay raises and better health plans, unions had declared a “work stoppage” in all 55 counties, shuttering every public school in the state. The “stoppage” — which was in fact an unlawful strike — dragged on for nine school days, costing children nearly two weeks of instruction. Under pressure, the Republican legislature rushed through a pay raise to pacify the unions.

Flush with victory, West Virginia teachers’ unions got bolder. The next year, they went

This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Tuesday, March 30, 2021.

Have you registered for the Fight Laugh Feast Rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, April 29, 30, May 1? Excited to see many of you as we learn to Love God, Sing Psalms, Defy Tyrants. Come hear talks from Pastor Doug Wilson, Ben Merkle, Steve Deace, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler from Bonner County, Idaho, myself – Pastor Joe Boot, and now the very latest: Mr. Nate “N.D.” Wilson. Gather with likeminded Christians who love freedom, confess Jesus Christ is Lord over all, and be equipped to stand firm in these insane days. Go to flfnetwork dot com forward slash rally and register today. 

But wait – there’s more. Did you hear about our Pre-Conference? Warriors in the Garden: A Practical Theology of Violence, Protection, and Self-Defense. Come to Rapid City, South Dakota 2 days early for a 2 day intensive with Nathan Spearing. Nathan Spearing is a highly decorated combat veteran with 14 years and 12 deployments in Army Special Operations. Nathan has a broad range of experiences domestically and overseas and has spent his entire professional life walking out a theology of violence as a Christian in war. This training will provide a Biblically-informed framework for understanding the role of violence, protection, and self-defense in the Christian’s life. In addition, participants will be introduced to fundamental concepts and techniques for securing and protecting their home, church, and community at large. Sessions will include Ballistics, Rifle and Long Range Marksmanship, Close Quarter Tactics, Concealed Carry Fundamentals, Combat Medicine, and Top Shot Competition on the last day. There are only 11 spots available to join Gabe, Knox, and myself with Nathan for this 2 day intensive before the Fight Laugh Feast Rally in South Dakota. If you are interested, send an email to contact at fight laugh feast dot com today.

The Suez Canal is (Un)Blocked

The 1300 foot Ever Given container ship has been dislodged after being wedged across a narrow part of the Suez Canal for almost a week. The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through the Ishmus of Suez and has been running since 1869 and is a major trade route for the world, reducing the journey from the far east to the Atlantic by 8-10 days. It’s about 120 miles long and averages 80-90 vessels a day. 

Tug boats were able to dislodge the massive container vessel after working for several hours on Monday. The EVER GIVEN held 20,000 shipping containers – the equivalent would fill 2500 Boeing 747s. The EVER GIVEN was lodged sideways across the canal after very strong sand storm winds drove it sideways – it’s likely the sand storm itself caused low visibility adding to the debacle. A traffic jam of nearly 400 vessels has piled up in the Canal during the last week, causing some shipping vessels to take the far longer and more costly trip around the tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. 

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New York Launches First COVID-19 Vaccination, Test Result App For Events

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/26/981695884/new-york-launches-first-covid-19-vaccination-test-result-app-for-event-attendanc

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You can learn guitar at your own pace, from anywhere, alongside a community of guitarists. Through a fun, inspiring approach to the guitar, David shares from his decades of experience, and takes you step-by-step towards becoming the musician you want to be. Learn more and join at GuitarSuccess4U.com. That’s Guitar Success, the number “4” and the letter “U,” dot com.

WHILE NY IS USING VACCINE PASSPORTS NASSCAR IS USING COIVID SNIFFING DOGS

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-03-25/could-covid-sniffing-dogs-make-in-person-events-safer

Oxford ditching music sheets?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/oxford-ditch-sheet-music-colonialist

Stem Cells use do make vaccine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/29/johnson-and-johnson-covid-vaccine-stem-cells-michigan-law

Coates is back

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Good Monday, this is the Chocolate Knox with your crosspolitic Daily News Brief for Monday March 22nd 2021.

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Idaho Senate Committee Passes Bill to Ban Abortions When Unborn Baby’s Heart Begins Beating…

Columbia University is planning to hold six additional graduation ceremonies for students according to their race and other aspects of how they identify.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/16/columbia-university-hosting-6-separate-graduation-ceremonies-on-race-ethnicities/amp/

School year end is in sight. Homeschoolers, and private school students know finals are coming. Math and science can be the toughest subjects for students and their parents. Instead of running to resources that don’t share your worldview, how about hiring a reformed, Bible-believing, Creationist who does, and who can help with your child’s science and math needs as well. Mr. Klunick Tutoring (pronounced Kloo-nick) assists parents in their God-given responsibility to educate their children according to His word in every area of their lives by delivering science teaching built on the Bible. Visit mrklunicktutoring.com. (spell the dot com out, pronounced Kloo-nick)

https://www.conservativereview.com/his-reign-of-abusive-power-will-end-soon-ny-assemblyman-ron-kim-criticizes-cuomo-in-nursing-home-memorial-speech-2651172206.html

Democratic assemblyman Ron Kim of New York said Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be held accountable for his “abusive power” at the “We Care Memorial Wall” which commemorated deceased nursing home residents Sunday.

https://www.conservativereview.com/krispy-kreme-offers-free-donuts-for-all-of-2021-to-people-who-show-vaccination-card-2651171328.html

officials at Krispy Kreme announced that they will be generously giving away their famous original glazed donuts for free to people who get the COVID vaccine.

The offer isn't just a one-time deal. At participating locations, you can keep coming back for more for the whole rest of the year 2021, as long as you bring that vaccination card with you. Stickers don't count for this special offer.

"We all want to get COVID-19 behind us as fast as possible and we want to support everyone doing their part to make the country safe by getting vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available to them."Krispy Kreme also stated in an official press release that it will also be actively delivering free donuts to vaccination centers nationwide in the near future, so that frontline workers and volunteers will also be able to share in the sweetness without shelling out.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-some-landlords-dont-want-any-of-the-50-billion-in-rent-assistance-11616155203

Why Some Landlords are figuring it out faster than most christian colleges not to take that government check.A federal program designed to help people avoid eviction by paying their rent is running into an unexpected hurdle: Some landlords are turning down the payment, saying it comes with too many conditions.

Daily News Brief for Monday, March 15, 2021

This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, March 12, 2021.

Chocolate Knox & Water Boy on are on Spring Break this week, and I will be out of the office next week. Good luck! 

Happy One Year Anniversary of All Things COVID. 

Today you will hear Biden thanking that guy who runs the thing, Gavin Newsom says California is not going back to normal, a priest goes off on Biden, it’s still crazy in Portland, and they’re releasing pedophiles from the same Canadian prison that is holding Pastor James Coates.

President Biden Wants to Thank that Guy that Runs that Outfit Over There

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Also, that guy, the guy who was just making those comments about the guy that runs that oufit over there… yeah, that guy just signed the thing about the stuff. You know the stuff? It’s a lot of stuff, like almost 2 Trillion stuff. Yeah, that stuff. That guys signed that thing that does all the things. 

Also, Axios reports that that guy, will be directing states to designate all adult Americans eligible for COVID vaccines no later than May 1. This is Biden’s plan to get the nation “closer to normal” by July 4th. Biden is expected to make these announcements Thursday night in his primetime address on the American PorkBarrel Obesity Act, also known as the American Rescue Plan Act. 

But Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California is Not Going Back to Normal

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Newsome made these remarks in an empty Dodger Stadium, even as the announcement was made that the Recall Movement has reached the necessary 2 Million Signatures to force a Recall Election. 

Papist Priest Goes Off on Biden

https://www.facebook.com/realCharlieKirk/videos/902897520498788

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On the one hand, the same could be said for vast swaths of the evangelical and protestant church. We have lacked catechesis and courage. Instead of teaching the whole counsel of God with boldness, we went in for rock bands and latte pastors and youth pastors on unicycles. On the other hand, with getting on any kind of high horse, we might also note that apart from justification by faith alone and sola scriptura (among other things), you’re not going to be able to find that catechesis or courage in the Vatican or Marian idolatry or the Mass. But that means Protestants should be even more upset that we elected this bumbling fool as our President. 

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Have you registered for the Fight Laugh Feast Rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, April 29, 30, May 1? Gov. Kristi Noem was the only Governor in the Union not to overstep her authority. We want to support her and we want to encourage you wherever you are. Many churches are not meeting, many Christians feel alone. But you’re not alone. So the theme of the Rally in South Dakota is Love God, Sing Psalms, Defy Tyrants. Come hear talks from Pastor Doug Wilson, Ben Merkle, Steve Deace, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler from Bonner County, Idaho, myself – and hot off the presses, Pastor Joe Boot will be smuggled out of the Canadian tundra and will also be speaking at the Rally. Gather with likeminded Christians who love freedom, confess Jesus Christ is Lord over all, and be equipped to stand firm in these insane days. Go to FLFNetwork.com/Rally and register today. Remember if you’re a Fight Laugh Feast Club Member, you get a $100 off your registration. 

Remember: If you have a news story you think we might need to cover, please send articles and links to [email protected] and DeftWire.com 

Meanwhile It’s Still Cray-Cray in Portland

Video of Antifa rioters apparently trying to break into a Chase Bank:

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But don’t worry while there are real criminals running around out there, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are harassing law abiding Christians in Alberta. 

Grace Life Church Update

The RCMP have laid more charges in the GraceLife church saga as its pastor still sits behind bars in sol

This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, March 11, 2021.

Chocolate Knox & Water Boy on are on Spring Break this week. 

Today you will hear about the CoronaPork Bill, the Supreme Court defends 1st Amendment Rights and effectively rules on the nature of damages and what makes a case moot or not, we remember children’s author Norton Juster, and of course, a Psalm of the Day. 

PorkaRama Bill

https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-set-to-approve-covid-19-relief-bill-11615372203?mod=hp_lead_pos5

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The House passed the 1.9 Trillion CoronaPork Bill yesterday and sent it to President Biden’s desk to sign. When it arrived, Biden reportedly asked where he was and what was for dinner. 

The Bill bast 220-211 with one Democrat from Maine breaking ranks and no Republicans voting to approve it. 

Less than 9 percent of the total spending bill goes directly to combatting COVID-19 or vaccine distribution.

“If this bill was about direct payments to people and putting shots in the arms and vaccines, you would have strong bipartisan support across this Congress and across this country,” Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., said on NPR Wednesday morning.

However, the amount of money authorized to be spent by the legislation entails most taxpayers to an additional $5,700 in taxes. 

According to Jordan Davidson at the Federalist: While at least $1 trillion sits unspent from the round of stimulus packages shoved through the legislature in previous months, other provisions unrelated to the pandemic were also tucked into the more than 600-page bill. It includes millions of dollars for libraries, public broadcasting, pollution mitigation, and abortion programs not subject to the Hyde Amendment, which is supposed to prevent taxpayer-funded abortions.

Supreme Court Defends 1st Amendment, Damages, Mootness

https://www.adflegal.org/blog/victory-supreme-court-rules-college-student-silenced-sharing-gospel?fbclid=IwAR2mKKjLQj3fAgh3ySr64zREe2I78dWRVONYrQfSiOlFkPtqtoUtE0C_Rmo#close

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So Chike Uzuegbunam graduated from college, but for more than four years, he has been involved in a lawsuit against his alma mater, Georgia Gwinnett College. College officials stopped him from publicly sharing his faith as he desired. They silenced him twice when he was sharing the Gospel in a public area on campus. So he reached out to Alliance Defending Freedom for help and later another student, Joseph Bradford, joined the case.

What made this ruling a little more interesting is that the college eventually abandoned it’s argument and amended its speech policies to allow for speech in any outdoor area of campus—consistent with the U.S. Constitution. Because of this and the fact that Chike had already graduated, two courts dismissed the case. But the argument of ADF was that this doesn’t change the fact that college officials violated Chike’s right to free speech by silencing him twice and intimidated Joseph – the other former student who joined the case – into silence.

The question centered on whether or not there was any ongoing dispute to be adjudicated: if Chike had left the college and the college had changed its free speech  why ADF asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear this case.

Amy Howe had a helpful summary of the questions surrounding the case on the Scotusblog back in January right after the oral arguments were heard. 

Representing the students, lawyer Kristen Waggoner told the justices that when college officials stopped Uzuegbunam and Bradford from sharing their faith, they caused “concrete injuries” for which nominal damages can provide a remedy. Those damages, regardless of the label, would put money in the students’ pockets, Waggoner said, and they therefore satisfy the Constitution’s requirement that federal courts are limited to resolving active disputes with real interests at stake.

Despite Waggoner