Amazon Prime is set to release the first three episodes of “House of David” on February 27, dropping the epic-trailer at the end of January. We cannot wait to see how this plays out.
“‘House of David’ tells the story of the ascent of the biblical figure, David, who eventually becomes the most renowned and celebrated king of Israel. The series follows the once-mighty King Saul as he falls victim to his own pride. At the direction of God, the prophet Samuel anoints an unlikely, outcast teenager as the new king. As Saul loses his power over his kingdom, David finds himself on a journey to discover and fulfill his destiny, navigating love, loss, and violence in the court of the very man he’s destined to replace. As one leader falls, another must rise,” the series synopsis reads, according to The Christian Post. Does that sound incredible?!
Balancing the humble beginning of David, during his years as a shepherd boy, an outsider. The cast includes Ali Suliman (“Jack Ryan,” “Arthur the King”) as King Saul, Stephen Lang (“Avatar,” “Don’t Breathe”) as Samuel, Ayelet Zurer (“Angels and Demons,” “Man of Steel”) as Queen Ahinoam, and Martyn Ford (“Mortal Kombat 2,” “The Sandman”) as Goliath, the CP added, with Michael Iskander in the titular role.
Relationship To Christian Cinema
The production of “House of David” comes to us from “Jesus Revolution” legend Jon Erwin and “Ordinary Angels” Jon Gunn. The concept was initially developed by “The Chosen” creator-producer-director Dallas Jenkins, along with Erwin.
This will likely be one of many series coming to us from Amazon MGM Studios’ Wonder Project, which will focus on Christian and biblical entertainment.
“We love God’s Word. We believe it’s perfect. We’re just taking it and bringing it to the world in a fresh way while still honoring the text,” Jenkins recently told the CP of his work, suggesting “House of David” is part of this honor.
“With ‘House of David’ being the first project under this new deal, we’re setting the stage for a series of compelling, values-driven movies, and TV shows,” Erwin also said at an earlier date. “This is a milestone for The Wonder Project, and we’re thrilled to be working with a company that understands and supports our mission and our audience in such a groundbreaking way.”
A study published at the end of January by WalletHub revealed the best and worst states for retirement.
“Retirement is supposed to be relaxing, but it can also be incredibly stressful given that it typically puts people on a fixed income, which may not be enough for them to live comfortably. As a result, the best states for retirees are those that have low taxes and a low cost of living to help retirees’ budgets stretch as far as possible,” says WalletHub’s Chip Lupo. But where are the best states to spend your golden years?
To determine how each state ranks against each other, WalletHub compared all 50 across three key dimensions: affordability, quality of life, and healthcare. These were then broken down into 46 relevant metrics and weighted.
Best States
Unsurprisingly to many, Florida ranked as the best place to spend your retirement years. Florida won the top spot thanks to “relatively low taxes for retired people, including no estate, inheritance or income taxes.” The state also “receives more funding per senior from the Older Americans Act than all but two other states,” which funds things like transportation, homemaker assistance and nutritional programs for seniors.
Minnesota ranked #2 for retirement, largely for health reasons. The state has the most health care facilities, the second-most nursing homes and top-ranking geriatric hospitals. “When it comes to overall quality of life in Minnesota, the state has the 10th-best elder abuse protections in the country, which guard elderly residents against physical and financial harm. The state also has the 15th-lowest violent crime rate, and the fifth-highest percentage of people who do favors for their neighbors,” WalletHub wrote in its analysis.
Worst States
The worst states for retirement included: New Jersey (#45), New Mexico (#46), Washington (#47), Mississippi (#48), Louisiana (#49) and Kentucky (#50). Hawaii ranked dead-last for worst states when looking at adjusted cost of living. Montana had the highest rate of annual cost of in-home services.
Experts Speak Out On Retirement
“One common mistake that leads to high rates of poverty among retirees is assuming that Social Security retirement benefits will provide sufficient income for retirement, and not saving money on top of that. The maximum monthly benefit for those who retire at the full benefits age is $3,822 (this is age 67 for those born in 1960 or later),” says Tulane University professor Patrick Button.
“A related mistake to this is claiming Social Security benefits too early. Claiming at age 62, the earliest possible age, leads to less of a monthly benefit – a maximum of $2,710 -compared to delaying claiming to age 70 – a maximum of $4,873 (Source). For those who can work longer, perhaps by taking jobs to ease into retirement, they can allow their Social Security benefits to go much further by delaying claiming,” added Button.
Addressing high inflation is another key goal noted by Andrews University’s economics and finance associate professor Lucile Sabas. “As the Federal Reserve, responsible for monetary policy, aims to balance a 2% inflation rate and a 5% unemployment rate, State and local governments must assess fiscal policies to ensure they support economic stability. Responsible fiscal measures, including targeted stimulus and infrastructure spending, should be implemented to foster economic growth without exacerbating inflation.” Supply chain management and encouraging sensible long-term actions like investments in tech, research, and development to promote innovation can also help reduce production costs over time, Sabas added.
President Donald Trump has held firm on a number of campaign promises to the American people, issuing a slew of Executive Orders (EO) in his first weeks in office, reshaping the future of our nation.
Immigration & The Border
Trump promised to fight the influx of illegal immigrants to the U.S., ending the Biden administration’s “catch-and-release” policy and restarting construction on the border wall. Within days of his second term in office, Trump issued orders designating the flood of immigrants as an “invasion,” ended birthright citizenship to children born of parents in the country illegally, and declared an emergency at our southern border, according to The Christian Post.
Reversal Of DEI, Fighting The Climate Oligarchy
In one order, Trump rescinded almost 80 EOs from the Biden administration, particularly those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change. He withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization. The Paris agreement is one of countless annual “agreements” that elected officials make to claim they’re doing something to “fight climate change.” Such agreements have existed for decades and led to absolutely no impact on the so-called “climate crisis.”
Energy Independence
The soaring cost of energy, thanks in large-part to the pro-climate lobby and the war between Russia and Ukraine, was another area Trump promised to tackle. On Jan. 20 he signed the EO “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.”
“The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of natural wealth will raise the prosperity of our citizens while helping to enhance our Nation’s economic and national security for generations to come,” the order stated. “By developing these resources to the fullest extent possible, we can help deliver price relief for Americans, create high-quality jobs for our citizens, ameliorate our trade imbalances, augment the Nation’s exercise of global energy dominance, and guard against foreign powers weaponizing energy supplies in theaters of geopolitical conflict.”
No More Weaponization Of Federal Government
Trump pardoned countless pro-life activists in his first week in office, ending a Biden-era trend of Christians being targeted by what many felt was a weaponized Department of Justice. Along with these pardons, Trump issued an EO stating that the “prior administration and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.” Another EO noted that the “previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve.” As a result, Trump signed the EO entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.”
Tackling Gender Insanity
Over the last four years, progressive lawmakers and activists have sought to destabilize American minds by pretending there are more than two genders: male and female. In an EO titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” Trump ordered that sex be defined as “an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.” The order also stated that all inmates be housed in prisons aligned with their sex, and not their self-identified “gender identity.”
He then ordered that ” it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Military Support
Trump further signed a slew of orders related to the U.S. military, including one that reinstates more than 8,000 servicemembers who lost their jobs for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. The military will also return to a merit-based social hierarchy where people will be promoted based on their success, not their gender or skin color.
Election Interference
“Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information” is the title of another of Trump’s EO, this time focused on ” (i) the former intelligence officials who engaged in misleading and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign; and (ii) John R. Bolton.”
“In the closing weeks of the 2020 Presidential campaign, at least 51 former intelligence officials coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business. Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” the EO notes, before detailing the importance of data from the intelligence community that is “accurate, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to affect political outcomes.”
The Trump administration reinstated service members earlier this week who were previously discharged as a result of the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
More than 8,000 servicemembers were kicked out of the U.S. military following a 2021 COVID-19 vaccination policy that required everyone within the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) receive a dose of the experimental drug. Many of those troops cited religious and personal reasons for their refusal, but were still discharged, according to the Washington Stand.
In an Executive Order posted on Monday, Trump wrote that the “vaccine mandate was an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members.” It is also believed that Trump is working to get “full back pay for each servicemember that was discharged,” another outlet noted.
Keeping To Promises
Trump said during his inaugural address that he would “reinstate any servicemembers who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate, with full back pay.”
That promise has at least come true in-part with this latest ruling. “Further, the military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received. Federal Government redress of any wrongful dismissals is overdue,” he added in the EO.
Other Military-Related Orders
On the same day, Trump also ordered an Iron Dome for America, similar to that used by Israel to protect from attack by “ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks.”
He further removed those who claim to be “transgender” from service, citing a longstanding DoD policy that servicemembers are ““[f]ree of medical conditions or physical defects that may reasonably be expected to require excessive time lost from duty for necessary treatment or hospitalization.”
“For the sake of our Nation and the patriotic Americans who volunteer to serve it, military service must be reserved for those mentally and physically fit for duty. The Armed Forces must adhere to high mental and physical health standards to ensure our military can deploy, fight, and win, including in austere conditions and without the benefit of routine medical treatment or special provisions,” the order added.
Finally, Trump reinstated a meritocracy-based approach wherein no “individual or group within our Armed Forces should be preferred or disadvantaged on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, color, or creed.”
“President Trump has delivered on yet another of his campaign promises. His executive order will restore the American people’s faith and confidence in our military by offering the opportunity for those who were unfairly and improperly discharged to return to military service. Along with Secretary of Defense [Pete] Hegseth, President Trump is taking bold, decisive steps to make our military great again,” Center for Litigation at the America First Policy Institute executive director Michael Berry told the Washington Stand.
South Dakota’s House of Representatives will vote Friday on whether public schools will be mandated to publicly display the Ten Commandments.
The state Senate voted on Tuesday (18-17) to move forward a bill that would mandate all public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments and have their historical significance be part of the curriculum, according to The Dakota Scout. South Dakota’s Senate has 31 Republicans and 4 Democrats.
“These are historical principles that have been used in the tradition and founding of America,” said Republican state Sen. John Carley, who proposed the legislation.
What Does The Law Entail?
If passed, each classroom would have to display a three-part, roughly 225-word statement near the 8-by-14-inch posters of the Ten Commandments. The legislation would replace the existing language within South Dakota’s state law that allows school boards to choose whether or not they display the posters or something similar.
Civic and history classes would also contain pertinent lessons on the historical significance of the Ten Commandments, presenting them “as a historical legal document, including the influence of the Ten Commandments on the legal, ethical, and other cultural traditions of Western civilization.”
Purpose Of The Bill
Like in many other states that are pushing through similar legislation, the purpose of the bill is to understand “where we came from as a country,” Republican state Sen. Lauren Nelson explained.
North Dakota is also deliberating a similar series of bills. In 2023, House Bill 1145 would also mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed, and “overwhelmingly passed the House and the Senate and was signed by Governor Burgum that would allow public schools to post the Ten Commandments with school board approval,” The Jamestown Sun reported in late January.
Texas first introduced the legislation, but the law still hasn’t been picked up in the state. Louisiana has passed the bill, while Kentucky lawmakers brought their own version to the attention of state citizens in late January.
A survey published in mid-January revealed that business leaders are hopeful that the U.S. will avoid a major recession now that President Trump has returned to the White House.
“The January 2025 NABE Business Conditions Survey results reveal that business conditions remained relatively unchanged through the end of 2024, although a larger share of respondents than in the previous survey foresees higher prices going forward,” said National Association of Business Economics President Emily Kolinski Morris in the study published by the organization. “At the same time, the odds of a recession continue to diminish according to panelists, with the downside risks largely tied to uncertainty over the implementation and timing of policy proposals from the new administration.”
Experts Speak Out
A majority (82%) of NABE members said the probability of the U.S. entering a recession is roughly 25% or even lower over the coming year. Some 62% reported no change in recent prices while 30% reported higher prices, the smallest share since Jan 2021, according to analysis by the Daily Caller.
“The survey results suggest a steady-state economy,” NABE Business Conditions Survey Chair Selma Hepp, chief economist and senior vice president at CoreLogic, wrote in the press release. “However, concerns remain regarding shortages of skilled labor and a potential for more price pressures ahead. In addition, the outcome of the recent U.S. elections did not change hiring or investment plans for 70% of respondents.”
A post shared Tuesday by Riley Gaines revealed that USCIS is demanding her husband receive the “COVID-19 vaccine series” in order to receive his green card.
“Just got another letter from USCIS saying they won’t give my husband his green card until he gets this Covid jab.” Gaines said in a post shared on X. “This is ridiculous. We’ve been married coming up on 3 years. We’ve spent thousands for the submitted forms to expire on their time. We’re hoping for change soon.”
She also shared a photograph of the letter her husband received from USCIS:
Just got another letter from USCIS saying they won't give my husband his green card until he gets the Covid jab.
This is ridiculous. We've been married coming up on 3 years. We've spent thousands for the submitted forms to expire on their time.
“When they said, ‘my body, my choice,” they lied,” Gaines wrote in a follow-up post.
Within what felt like hours of sharing the post, Gaines returned to X to share that “USCIS has rescinded their Covid vax mandate for legal immigrants.”
HUGE NEWS. Following the below tweet, USCIS has rescinded their Covid vax mandate for legal immigrants.
I can't even tell you the thousands of people in the same situation who have reached out over the past few years.
“I can’t even tell you the thousands of people in the same situation who have reached out over the past few years. Promises made, promises kept. Thank you [President Donald Trump,]” she added.
A series of X posts shared in mid-January claimed that YouTube is trying to censor medical information shared by Dr. Drew, a board certified internist and addiction medical specialist, best known for his expert work in media.
YouTube is accused of removing two of Dr. Drew’s videos for allegedly spreading “medical misinformation.” The videos featured interviews with an MD and a lawyer. In one of the videos, “Dr. Kelly Victory shares her professional opinion about young people who were injured by mRNA side effects, saying the ‘vast majority of the people who have been injured are young, healthy people who were under the age of 50 who had fundamentally zero risk from COVID itself. They all got COVID. 98% of the population has documentation they’ve had COVID. These are people who would have been fine if they were just left alone.’”
Both Dr. Drew and Dr. Victory are board-certified and have practiced medicine for decades. “It is not medical misinformation for a licensed doctor to provide an opinion on a broadcast,” Dr. Drew wrote in the post.
The Second “Violation”
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Dr. Drew noted that YouTube did not censor a video of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow telling her viewers that, “we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to get more people,” even though this is untrue. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), the certain vaccines, at best, showed a “reduced risk of SARS-CoV2-2-transmission.”
‘Reeducation Training’
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This is not the first time YouTube has attempted to censor Dr. Drew’s accounts. In the past, his producers were able to discuss the matter with representatives from the company, according to a follow-up X post.
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Dr. Drew concluded by stating that YouTube is “free to stay on the wrong side of history.” Both episodes are still readily available on X and he is refusing to delete them “to appease Google’s unqualified, unlicensed, untrained, unidentified censors.”
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) found that Native-born American employment is 716,000 below pre-pandemic levels as President Joe Biden leaves the White House.
Despite the regrowth of millions of jobs in the post-COVID-19 pandemic market, the total workforce failed to fully recover throughout the Biden administration’s term in office, FRED revealed. When the figures take into account foreign-born employment, the total workforce has grown to record levels.
Even though the data shows that American-born workers are still not back and working like they used to be, Biden’s White House claimed victory for “American workers” in the face of a “sluggish recovery,” the Daily Caller News Foundation wrote in its analysis.
“Over 1.6 million construction and manufacturing jobs have been created under President Biden,” the White House stated in December. “His economic plan is creating good-paying jobs for American workers.”
Misrepresenting The Numbers?
Fox News host Shannon Bream recently confronted Vice President-elect J.D. Vance over Biden’s allegedly “good” jobs numbers, according to Newsweek. Vance explained that Biden deserves credit for the “dumpster fire” of an American economy.
“He actually hasn’t left the American people in good economic condition, that’s why they made Donald J. Trump president-elect of the United States,” Vance told Fox. He also touched upon the cost of living, our “trillions and trillions of dollars” of federal debt, as well as skyrocketing oil prices that have occurred in the last two months of Biden’s term. Newsweek then described how inflation has allegedly cooled since the pandemic. Have you felt this?
We’re Not Stupid
Americans aren’t stupid. The economy was the #1 concern for the 2024 presidential vote, as reported by Gallup. In fact, the economy was so important, it ranked the highest since the Great Recession of 2008.
One demographic that did exceptionally well under Biden’s economy was government workers, according to the Daily Caller. The new highs of 23.5 million employees on the government’s (our) payroll, as of December 2024, follows a record-setting trend by the Biden-Harris administration: hiring people to work for the government, despite overall unemployment rising across the country.
“The percentage of the total workforce that is employed by the government has been steadily increasing for two and a half years, including in the December [BLS] report,” Heritage Foundation federal budget expert Richard Stern told the outlet. “This indicates that once Biden’s economic policies could take effect, they started to strangle the private sector and transfer resources to local, state, and federal governments.”
Abortion was the leading cause of deaths around the globe in 2024, according to data released by Worldometer.
The data revealed there were 45.1 million abortions performed throughout 2024. This number accounted for a little over 42% of all human deaths in 2024, according to Breitbart. There were more deaths caused by abortion than from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined.
The data used by Worldometer derived from the World Health Organization (WHO), so the exact statistics may be higher than those reported.
Compounding Crises
Here in the U.S., abortion accounts for roughly a third of all deaths annually. When broken down by demographic, abortion accounts for more than 60% of African American deaths, previous data revealed. African American women have the highest abortion rates of any demographic, while white women have the lowest.
“The world is experiencing a critical shortage of babies that will threaten our way of life in every way imaginable,” said Jonathon Van Maren via LifeSiteNews, citing data and reports of plummeting birthrates around the world.
“Based on an overview of the world’s 196 countries, the average population of a country is 40.96 million. This means that every year the equivalent of an entire country is killed by abortion. To report on the birthrate without acknowledging this fact is simply ludicrous – because the truth is that tens of millions of children are conceived but are never born,” he continued. ” …
We are killing at least a country’s worth of people every single year. No other single fact explains so much about the upheaval taking place around the world. You cannot have war in the womb and peace in the streets.”
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