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The eyes of the political world are all on Georgia, and there’s good reason for that.

On January 5, voters in the Peach State will decide the fate of the next several years in American politics—and maybe beyond.

A win by either or both of incumbent Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will require President-Elect Joe Biden and his liberal allies in Congress to work together with Republicans to pass common-sense legislation, rather than pursuing progressive priorities like the Green New Deal. And it will mean that some of Biden’s more extreme appointments—people who either aren’t qualified or who are far out of the mainstream—will be rejected by the Senate.

The runoff elections on January 5 will be held in Georgia, but their impact will be felt by more than the 10 million people who live there. All Americans should recognize that nothing short of the course our country will take for the next several years is at stake.

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Want to know how dysfunctional things have gotten in California?

Senator Dianne Feinstein applied for unemployment insurance.

Well, not exactly. It was a fraudster—a former employee at California’s Employment Development Department, which administers the state’s unemployment insurance program posing as Feinstein—who bilked taxpayers for over $200,000 in benefits that were targeted at gig workers, independent contractors, and others who’ve been out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

And this isn’t an isolated incident. Additional examples of fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in California are plentiful. And, unfortunately, it’s those who most need the aid during the recent economic slowdown who have been hurt the worst because Governor Gavin Newsom and his cronies have been asleep at the switch.

Sometime, California voters will say, “enough is enough” with the incompetence, arrogance, and hypocrisy that has marked one-party rule in the state.

Let’s hope that “sometime” is soon.

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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a child is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”

That’s what the great prophet Isaiah promised centuries before the birth of Christ. The fulfillment of that promise is what we celebrate at Christmas.

It happened in little Bethlehem, and the angel announced to shepherds: “I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”

And so that baby was born, history was riven in two, and salvation came. As the angelic host declared: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”

May you and those you love celebrate a wonderful Christmas, filled with the glory of Christ.

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Most of you know about Handel’s Messiah—perhaps the most popular and enduring work of George Frideric Handel. But few remember Charles Jennens—who wrote and conceived of the idea of the oratorio, the “Messiah.” Performances are more rare this year as a result of the pandemic, but the oratorio is still performed thousands of times worldwide at Christmas.

Jennens wrote the libretto—the text—of the “Messiah,” tying together the Bible’s central story: God’s salvation of His people through the work of the Messiah.

He used the very words of the Bible for his text. His purpose was to remind the audience of the truth and power of the story of salvation—and thus his attention on the birth of Christ.

Handel put the words to majestic music in just 21 days.

“For Unto Us a Child is Born.” That is the prophet’s declaration. That is God’s great gift to us at Christmas.

Merry Christmas from the Salem Media Group.

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’Tis the season for denying the basic marker of human identity: sex. Man and woman. Male and female.

So tweeted the New England Journal of Medicine just before Christmas:

Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation would not compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.

This is the opposite of the truth. Sex designations offer maximal “clinical utility.” Not to over-simplify this, but they lay out the fundamental distinction of humanity: whether we are a man or a woman. Aside from our status as a human being, there is truly no more elemental reality in human existence than this.

There is much to say about care and compassion for those who have a disorder of sexual differentiation, but overturning reality is not part of that care.

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Even in the year 2020, the sounds of Christmas are in the air and in our homes.

One of the most beautiful of the classic carols asks us the most important question of all: “What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary’s lap is sleeping?”

Christmas demands an answer to that question.

The year 2020 has disrupted many of the normal rhythms and traditions. This year has also heightened anxieties and introduced uncertainties.

But the question remains:

In the stillness of a winter’s night, the question rings out loudly and insistently—who is this child?

Many of you know the carol’s answer: “This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherd’s guard and angels sing.” “Joy! Joy! For Christ is born. The babe, the son of Mary!”

That is the true answer to the question.

The baby is Christ the King. May you and your loved ones know the full joy of Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

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“If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

With that quote, Ebenezer Scrooge makes perfectly clear the true political message of “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens was writing amidst a wave of hysteria about population growth, triggered by Thomas Malthus, who argued that reproduction would exceed growth in food.

Scrooge was both anti-procreation and anti-marriage.

Of course Scrooge and Malthus—who inspired him—turned out to be wrong. His nephew Fred and the Ghost of Christmas Present turned out to be right. In 1800 there were roughly 1 billion people on planet earth, now there are almost 8 billion.

But the lessons from “A Christmas Carol” ought to give us strength today as well, as we press back against a message of fear, an opposition to capitalism and an outright hostility to family so prevalent among the woke left.

There’s no such thing as surplus population.

God bless us, everyone.

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Attorney General William Barr has announced that he is resigning, effective December 23rd.

He will go down in history as both the 77th and the 85th Attorney General of the United States.

He was a very loyal attorney general—but it’s also clear that he got crosswise with President Trump.

Attorney General Barr is going to be known in history for his defense of religious liberty in the face of an in increasingly hostile secular culture.

In October of 2019, the Attorney General delivered an address at the University of Notre Dame. “The framers’ view,” he said, “was that free government was only suitable and sustainable for a religious people, a people who recognize that there was a transcendent moral order antecedent to both the state and man-made law.”

He’s referring to an enduring moral law that exists even before the US Constitution.

Those were fighting words from a sitting Attorney General.

Attorney General William Barr will be missed.

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There is one big question still outstanding from our recent election and that question is this: Who will control the United States Senate?

There are two races in Georgia which will decide control of the Senate for at least the next two years, likely longer.

In one of those races—the contest is between Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock—and in this race, you’re looking at something that is unprecedented in the state of Georgia.

The Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock just may be the most radical candidate conceivable from a state like Georgia.

When it comes to the question of abortion, he is one of the most radical candidates to run, not only in the South, but anywhere in recent American history.

The question is, do the voters in Georgia actually recognize this?

We’re going to find out on January the 5th. Now is the time for the voters of Georgia to wake up and understand what’s going on. The entire nation is watching.

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Video footage has emerged in recent days showing Georgia’s Democratic candidate for Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock, preaching from the pulpit that Jesus was “a poor Palestinian” and a “peasant.”

It’s just not true. The archeological evidence shows that Nazareth and environs were reasonably prosperous. In addition, as a carpenter—a skilled artisan—his earning capacity was far above peasant level, especially since he grew up during a building boom when artisans were in very high demand.

“Palestine” was a name given by the Romans to humiliate the people of Israel after a nearly genocidal imperial crackdown against an independence movement. So, to call Jesus a Palestinian is to adopt the language of anti-Semitic Roman imperial propaganda.

Warnock should know better. Anyone who thinks that Jesus is a socialist is adding religious zeal to false doctrine and doesn’t belong in the U.S. Senate.

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