by dap | May 18, 2025 | Fox News
We had just left touring the Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal, on April 28 when we entered the darkened lobby of a hotel. Immediately someone told us the power was out in all of
. I thought there must be a translation issue since I’d never heard of an entire country without power let alone two countries.
But it was true – there was no power anywhere in Portugal. I thought it best to get back to our hotel and find out more information. We took an Uber and the driver told us more about what was happening.
Tens of thousands of train passengers in
were left stranded, unable to continue their journeys as rail services came to a halt. The outage also knocked out telecommunications, leaving people without access to cellphones, the internet and online banking.
As we drove, traffic lights were off and the gas pumps were not working. Businesses were closed and people joined queues to get cash as card payments did not work. People were coming out of their offices and walking home because they did not know when the buses were coming. The
was shut down.
Millions were unable to seek assistance or even communicate about their predicament. The disruption was compounded by panic buying, as locals and tourists rushed to purchase food, supplies and gas, leading to long lines and empty shelves. Many worried about food, water, gas and cash in case the power outage went on for days.
It was quite chaotic; with
no one had any information. Rumors were flying; it was the Russians, a cyberattack, a plane had flown into a power station. No one knew anything.
Our hotel had generators so there was some power. When we went to get something to eat our menu was limited to salad or a Charcutier board of meats and cheeses. I tried for some ice cream, but it had already melted. We were blessed to have something to eat, most restaurants had closed.
Initial reports were that Spain would have power back in 10-12 hours, but it could be up to a week in Portugal. Fortunately, power was restored in both countries in 10-14 hours. By the next morning, life for over 59 million people was pretty much back to normal.
The whole experience caused me to reflect on
. Ephesians 3:21 tells us, “His power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine.” The power of God is real. It is available to anyone, anytime. And there is never an outage with God’s power.
Too often we try to provide for our needs instead of relying on God’s power. We struggle, we worry, we labor – all within our own power. We try to solve our problems without God’s help.
God wants us to rest in His unlimited power instead of in our limited strength. We have God’s power available to us and when we ask for God’s strength, we will receive it. So much of what we struggle with could be taken care of by God. All we must do is stop striving and scheming – and trust that God is able to do it.
There are times when
and circumstances to do something miraculous. We may not see how the situation can be worked out, we think there is no way for things to get better, we are certain there is simply no solution.
And then God does something rare, uncommon, unusual. He brings together events in the perfect way so that what was impossible becomes possible. His power is at work in our lives.
I’ve seen it many times. My father-in-law was an alcoholic. His wife and seven children were suffering from his harmful behavior. He cried out to God and asked for the strength to quit drinking. God gave him the power and for over 40 years he never took a drink again.
A woman had a tumor and asked for
. We prayed and she came back to church with two medical images, one showing the tumor and the other showing no tumor. The doctors were stunned; her surgery was canceled. God’s power had removed the tumor and she was perfectly healthy.
The same power of God is available today to anyone who needs it. When we open ourselves up to God, the Spirit works in us with power and we witness the amazing things God will do.
can open doors, demolish obstacles and break bondages. We can experience miraculous help that can only be understood as from God.
Ask God for the power you need. His power is always on.
by dap | May 18, 2025 | Fox News
You may have noticed that there is a reckoning going on in the liberal media over the last month as journalists admit what everyone else already knew, that
, not the White House for most of his failed presidency.
This week, at long last, we heard the
given by Biden to then-Special Counsel Robert Hur in the case of Biden’s obvious mishandling of classified documents. It was two things everyone expected: damning and sad.
The thing is, if we are finally admitting that Biden had less command of his faculties than Ivy League university presidents, then how can we allow any of his supposedly signed orders to stand?
Most importantly, what are we to make of Biden’s last-minute pardons, including one he swore he would never grant?
Indeed, it is the underwhelming nature of what should be shocking audio that hammers home the point that Biden was unfit, that we all knew it, and that we must seriously question any and all ink spilled by his heavily used autopen.
This is a smoking gun, but it was fired more than a year before the 2024 election. The rank smell of its duplicitous gunpowder was already wafting in the air as Democrats like Dean Phillips and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. pleaded for a real primary.
These days, all the chastened and solemn Democrats on television swear they have learned a lesson, that if they had known then what we know now, Biden would not have been allowed to run.
But those in a position to stop Biden did know then, and they continued to abuse the confused old man, anyway.
So why were the people who did know that Biden wasn’t fit to run a Wendy’s so eager to keep him in the White House?
Let’s consider for a moment the fact that no top-level official was ever fired in the Biden administration, and not for lack of opportunity.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin oversaw a disastrous exit from Afghanistan and was not fired.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas let millions of illegal aliens flow across the border and was not fired.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said just days before Hamas launched its October 7 offensive that the Middle East was as “quiet as it had been in decades.” He too, was not fired.
Nice work if you can get it. You see, when the boss was upstairs struggling to get the lid off his tapioca pudding, the White House staff could do anything they wanted, no matter how harebrained, and there were no consequences.
This brings us to the issue of Biden’s pardons, especially those granted to his family and public figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Put simply, did Biden have any idea what he was doing when his autopen scratched the surface of those presidential papers?
In the case of the pardon for his son Hunter, Biden is on the record just months earlier saying he would never ever do that. Sure, it’s possible that he was lying, but he did give us his word as a Biden.
If, as Democrats and their media allies insist, Biden’s decline was so swift, starting in 2023, that it caught everyone off guard, then shouldn’t we question whether the Joe Biden who signed Hunter’s pardon wasn’t deeper in the throes of dementia than the one who promised not to?
The worst part of the mendacity from the Biden administration is that all those smarmy spokespeople like Ian Sams and all his bosses knew that the harm they were doing probably could not be undone, even if the actions were born of lies.
They knew that, as a practical matter, it is likely impossible to deport 10 million illegal aliens, and they knew that it would be almost impossible to challenge Biden’s pardons, even if he thought he was signing a pool pass for Corn Pop.
The problem with the current reckoning going on over the lie of the century is that there are few consequences. Journalists aren’t being fired, they are
in which they detail their own incompetence.
Likewise, Hunter Biden, who is shadier than an apple orchard in a thunderstorm, is now free from all consequences. It’s like none of his corruption or crimes ever happened.
Maybe the Biden administration won this round with dirty tricks. Maybe no court can reverse these zombie pardons, but we won’t know until we find out.
If there are crimes to charge Hunter Biden with, he should be charged, and the same goes for Fauci. Let the courts decide if old man Biden was competent enough to make those calls.
For now, there is every reason to believe that Biden’s condition, which was hidden from us, makes his pardons, all of them, null and void.
by dap | May 18, 2025 | Fox News
Baseball legend
accomplished in death what he could never manage in his lifetime – reinstatement to Major League Baseball. Yet baseball “purists” are clutching their pearls, terrified that the bad man will now be admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
They’re dead wrong. Time for Pete to enter Cooperstown, no matter what the baseball eggheads may be saying.
For those too young to remember,
is one of the greatest, most exciting athletes ever to pick up a glove. Rose remains baseball’s all-time Hit King, with 4,256 base hits to his name, three World Series titles, 17 All-Star Game appearances and more hitting records than you can shake a Louisville Slugger at.
In 1978, he tore off a National League record 44 consecutive game hitting streak. And for more than two decades, major league pitchers had nightmares about Pete Rose dancing off third base.
Rose was a man ahead of his time, in the sense that he was gambling long before America’s major sports, and our society as a whole, embraced the habit. Of course, Rose didn’t simply log onto FanDuel and put 50 bucks on the Lakers. He bet on baseball games while managing his hometown team, the
. That’s what got him booted in disgrace from the game.
It’s easy to understand why Rose got tossed. Baseball had been through cheating scandals before. The 1919 Chicago White Sox threw the World Series at the behest of gamblers, as demonstrated in the book and movie “Eight Men Out.” The 1918 World Series might also have been fixed.
Protecting the integrity of the game was paramount to
and to the Baseball Hall of Fame. But as commissioner Rob Manford said, as he reinstated Rose, it’s hard to see what damage someone can do to the game from the grave.
There are plenty of people who would love to see Rose’s exile continue forever. They say his actions took baseball down a slippery slope from which it will never recover. Oh, please. They overlook his greatness on the field and focus on his personal shortcomings, which admittedly were numerous.
But the
does not exist to honor character. If it did, they would have to take down the plaques of Ty Cobb, a notorious racist and an all-around lousy human being, and countless other malefactors who could swing a bat or throw strikes.
Rose’s choices did not affect the outcomes of games, unlike the later baseball players whose use of performance enhancing drugs boosted their statistics and transformed the standings. He only hurt himself.
Back in 1973, when I was 15, I cut school to watch the Mets play the Reds in the National League Championship Series, a game marked by Pete Rose and Mets shortstop Buddy Harrelson getting into a violent confrontation that nearly resulted in a Mets forfeit.
Mets manager Yogi Berra and legendary player
actually walked out to left field to urge the fans in the stands to stop throwing liquor bottles and batteries at the players.
Years later, I met Rose at the Las Vegas memorabilia store where he would sign a photo or a baseball for a fee. I told him that I’d witnessed his scuffle with Harrelson.
“We lost,” he snapped at me. “Why would I wanna hear about that game?”
It took Rose decades to acknowledge the gambling, probably because he never really thought he did anything that bad. His unapologetic stance undoubtedly cost him reinstatement in baseball and admission to the Hall of Fame in his lifetime.
Yet admitting Rose to the Hall of Fame now doesn’t simply honor his memory. It celebrates his greatness in the memories of fans like me, and younger fans who study the history of the game.
The Classic Baseball committee is not scheduled to meet until December 2027 to determine Rose’s fate. Here’s hoping they get together on a Zoom call today, right now, and give
his due.
That man was a Hall of Famer from the time he first put on a Reds uniform. He went to his death without forgiveness or vindication. That’s an error in the scorebooks if I ever saw one. It’s time to put the Hit King where he belongs. On a plaque in Cooperstown, with the rest of the immortals. And the pearl clutching sports “experts” can take a hike.
by dap | May 18, 2025 | Fox News
. was even more demented than we knew.
Last night, excerpts leaked from Biden’s October 2023
, the federal prosecutor who investigated him for possessing classified documents.
They are awful. They show a man in severe cognitive decline. Biden couldn’t recall even basic facts, like when elections are held. Yes, Joe Biden — who had lusted for the presidency his entire life — thought Donald Trump had won in November 2017, not 2016. It wasn’t a verbal slip. He didn’t know. An aide had to correct him.
Even that summary doesn’t capture Biden’s struggles.
What he says is bad. How he says it is worse. His voice is weak and whispery. He goes silent for stretches, loses his train of thought, offers oddly emotional asides about his son Beau — though he could not remember when Beau died. He seems not to remember being vice president; he speaks of being a senator and then jumps to running for president.
In the end, the classified documents investigation went nowhere. (Like the similar case involving Donald Trump, it shouldn’t have). But along the way, Hur — a well-respected prosecutor who had been the U.S. Attorney for Maryland in Trump’s first term — discovered something far more important: proof of Biden’s incapacity.
The Hur interview is so crucial because Biden and his handlers went to such lengths to protect Biden from press or public scrutiny even before the 2020 election.
Biden used teleprompters for his speeches, of course. His press conferences were rare and closely scripted. He had been told what questions would be asked in advance. Biden’s few unscripted, live interactions visible to the public generally came when he left the White House to walk to Marine One. He would occasionally stumble over to the “gaggle” of reporters yelling questions at him and speak for a few seconds.
Hur’s interview with Biden was likely the only time during Biden’s entire presidency when he faced lengthy questioning he could not control. It shows why Biden and his handlers tried so hard to avoid similar situations.
Hur wrote in his report on the investigation last year that Biden was “
.” The audio suggests that description was kind.
You wouldn’t trust the guy in this interview to drive to the grocery store.
Biden had the nuclear codes.
Still worse, Hur interviewed Biden in 2023. If Biden and the people around him had had their way, he would have been president through January 2029. The interview suggests he’ll be nearly vegetative by then — if he lives that long.
When the Justice Department released Hur’s report on his investigation in February 2024, the legacy media immediately downplayed its importance and attacked Hur’s motives.
“In what is supposedly a legal document, these inclusions certainly looked gratuitous—to say the least,” the New Yorker wrote in an article about Biden’s “righteous fury” over the report.
Two days later, the Washington Post would claim in a headline Hur had a “five-hour face-off” with Biden and write:
“Hur’s description of Biden’s demeanor as that of a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” would infuriate Biden’s aides, who saw it as sharply at odds with what occurred as the president sat for voluntary questioning.”
Sharply at odds, huh?
I have written before about the media’s dereliction of duty in covering Biden’s decline, both before and after the Hur report, which continued until his disastrous June 27 debate in Atlanta made covering for him impossible. And I will come back to the media’s failure. Hur’s report made clear that Biden’s cognitive impairment was severe and the White House was covering it up. That scheme should have been the story of the 2024 campaign from the moment the report became public.
This is not 20/20 hindsight on my part. On Feb. 9, 2024, the day the report came out, I wrote that it actually might be WORSE for Biden than an actual indictment.
Most of the media looked the other way, even as Biden’s flubs and lapses visibly worsened in the spring of 2024 despite the protective cocoon around him. But the legacy media is only the second-most important villain here.
It was Biden and the people around him, most notably his wife Jill and son Hunter, who insisted that he was fit to serve, and would continue to be until he was 86. Both Jill and Hunt had their reasons. Jill’s lust for the trappings of power would be almost comic in its nakedness if it weren’t so dangerous; Hunter has champagne taste and a beer budget (or, more accurately in his case, cocaine taste and a meth budget).
But, of course, all of them, including Biden, knew the truth. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have gone to such great lengths to hide it.
Imagine if Biden had won. Imagine if he had somehow found his way through his debates with Trump and then gone back to the presidential cocoon. Imagine if the media had insisted through Election Day that the videos showing his decline were merely “cheap fakes” – as it did throughout the spring. We’d be approaching a Constitutional crisis. Our system is not parliamentary; it has no way to replace an unfit President quickly or easily. And in running for a second term when he did not have to, Biden showed that he would not give up power unless he was forced to do so.
Robert Hur spoke truth to power. He’s a hero.
