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Deadly storms cause damage, knock out power

By Baptist Message staff LAKE CHARLES, La. (LBM) – Severe storms knocked out power to thousands across Southeast Louisiana and produced multiple tornadoes that caused significant damage and at least two deaths in the state, May 13. According to storm reports from the National Weather Service, tornadoes touched down on the east side of Sulphur and also near the Sasol plant, before moving across Westlake and into Lake Charles. Teams were scheduled to survey the area, May 14. Damage in the area included the sign of a Walmart along with a gas station in its parking lot. Across the street, cars were overturned in a shopping center. A tractor-trailer also overturned on the Interstate 10 bridge in Lake Charles, blocking traffic on Monday evening. In Henderson, Pat’s Fisherman Wharf Restaurant posted on its Facebook page a video of extensive damage to its restaurant. The owners of Pat’s, which opened in 1948, believe possible tornado activity is the cause of the destruction that ripped off roofs and tore through structures on the landmark’s site. The site is a popular tourist attraction located on Bayou Portage just a few miles south of I-10 in Henderson, a small fishing community interconnected by bayous and canals … [Read more...]

Louisiana’s Cannabis Cabal!

By Gene Mills, Louisiana Family Forum president BATON ROUGE, La. (LFF) -- Recently, the Advocate published an article discussing consumable THC (psychoactive drug) available in gas stations and convenience stores throughout Louisiana. Although the author provides a treasure trove of data, he ignores the inherent danger of “gas station heroin,” while glorifying profits to the sellers and the state It has long been the policy of Louisiana and federal law, that THC either in the marijuana or the hemp is a dangerous drug and should not be randomly available. In the last decade, lawmakers have conditionally allowed the controlled growing and dispensing of medicinal marijuana for patients under the supervision of a physician. Recreational marijuana remains illegal in Louisiana and hemp- derived THC entrepreneurs are making a mockery of our law by exploiting a loophole created when hemp farming was approved for industrial use. This industry purports to sell THC-infused products to adults, but they also migrate into the hands of minors. Hemp is extremely low in THC, that’s how the former leadership sold this Cannabis Cabal to the Legislature. So, to remedy naturally-THC-bereft hemp, entrepreneurs use processes which multiply THC … [Read more...]

Would Jesus preach “Critical Theory” today?

By Ron F. Hale “My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism,” declared  Karl Marx (1818-1883). If only he could have heard and heeded the poetic words of James Weldon Johnson: "Young man – Young man – Your arm’s too short to box with God." Marx was a mere mortal, foolish to think he could dethrone the Almighty, yet the cultural rot and toxic ideology being witnessed on many university campuses today--spring from the mind of this revolutionary. The Frankfurt School was founded in 1923, in Frankfurt Germany on the campus of Goethe University. After the rise of Hitler’s Nazism, even secular Marxian intellectuals of Jewish decent were not safe in Germany. The school folded with Dr. Max Horkheimer receiving an invitation and home on the campus Columbia University in New York City in 1934 and remained until 1950.  Sometimes called the “Horkheimer Circle,” these academics and social scientists, included men like T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Geog Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamen. Critical Theory is synonymous with the Frankfort School. These men trained others to translate the ideology of Marxism from economic terms into practical cultural terms. This new revolution would not promote … [Read more...]