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It was in the runup to the 2012 presidential election where Democrats at their political convention booed the idea that God would be mentioned in their platform. He eventually was, but it wasn’t without opposition. So the Democrats’ election platforms have had issues in the past. This election, says talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, it […]

A day after a report that Andrew McCabe will be prosecuted for leaking secret government information to reporters and then lying about it, a lawyer for the fired acting FBI director is pressuring prosecutors to drop the case. Fox News reported Friday that attorney Michael Bromwich cited “rumors” that the grand jury considering charges against […]

At times, there are issues we would rather not talk about but must. Certainly, suicide has historically been high among them. Yet it stands today as the 10th-leading cause of death for people of all ages in the United States. It remains a major public health problem and a tragedy that warrants society-wide recognition and […]

(Fox News) The president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, called former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe a “disgrace” Thursday after it was reported that a U.S. attorney recommended proceeding with charges against the current CNN contributor. “The fact is that McCabe disgraced the FBI, first of all by leaking FBI agents. By the way you’re not […]

(Fox News) Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke responded late Thursday to what he claimed was a “death threat” from a Texas state lawmaker. Briscoe Cain, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, had posted a Twitter message during Thursday’s Democratic debate in Houston, after O’Rourke said he planned to take away high-powered weapons from […]

(CNBC) Amazon-owned Whole Foods will be withdrawing medical benefits for hundreds of its part-time workers starting Jan. 1, 2020, the company said Thursday. In the past, employees needed to work at least 20 hours a week to buy into the health-care plan. Now they will need to work at least 30 hours. Less than 2% […]

(Hill) House lawmakers are escalating their antitrust investigation of Silicon Valley, issuing expansive requests for internal documents to four of the nation’s largest technology companies. Bipartisan leaders of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee sent letters to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Friday seeking internal communications and documents regarding the use of their market dominance. […]

(Washington Examiner) Sen. Kamala Harris of California made a claim about why President Trump was not indicted that has been debunked by Attorney General William Barr and special counsel Robert Mueller during her opening statement at the Democratic presidential debate Thursday evening. “The only reason you [Trump] have not been indicted is because there was […]

(Newsbusters) Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, liberal comedian Bill Maher actually hammered the Democratic Party for moving too far left and warned that 2020 candidates were jeopardizing their chances of defeating President Trump. He also declared that “America has been choking on political correctness.” During the taped interview, host Joe Scarborough fretted: “I […]

(London Guardian) A pilot spilling coffee in the cockpit of a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean forced it to turn back and land in Ireland. The hot coffee damaged an audio control panel, which gave off an electrical burning smell and smoke, an accident report found. It created significant communication difficulty for the pilots […]

(CBS News) The country’s largest and best known gun rights association, the NRA, is losing board members amid a spate of deadly mass shootings. But another, lesser-known gun organization is thriving: the National African American Gun Association, the largest minority gun group in the country. The group was founded by Phillip Smith, who fondly remembers […]

(The Week) Beto O’Rourke is not mincing his words on gun control. After seeing a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, the former congressman has become the loudest — and most expletive-laden — voice for gun control in the 2020 race. And when the topic came up at Thursday night’s primary debate, […]

(Reuters) The daughter of the King of Saudi Arabia was complicit in beating up and briefly kidnapping a workman in her luxury flat Paris, a French court ruled on Thursday, sentencing the princess to a 10-month suspended prison sentence. Speaking after the verdict, Princess Hassa bint Salman’s French lawyer said most of the declarations made […]

(Fox News) Long-simmering policy disputes between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and a slew of other candidates exploded into the open during Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate, as the candidates — often with raised voices — laid bare their fundamental disagreements on “Medicare-for-all,” immigration and more. Intermittent efforts by some candidates to show unity […]

(FOX NEWS) The skeletal remains of a Florida man missing for more than 20 years were uncovered last month when an eagle-eyed hobbyist spotted a vehicle submerged in a pond — thanks to Google Earth. William Earl Moldt, 40, disappeared in Wellington sometime after 11 p.m. on Nov. 7, 1997. The last time he was […]

(Associated Press) An aggressive Joe Biden defended his health care plan against liberal rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in Thursday night’s presidential debate, a high-stakes clash for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Donald Trump and for the broader direction of their own party. Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president and the party’s early […]

On Sept. 13, 1814, just weeks after they burned the U.S. Capitol, British forces attacked Baltimore, Maryland – the third largest city in America. Britain had the largest global empire in world history, controlling 13 million square miles – almost a quarter of the Earth’s land – and nearly half a billion people – one-fifth […]

A Second Amendment advocacy group is demanding that Democrats in Congress bent on more gun control acknowledge they also are pursuing “knife control” because of recent multiple stabbing attacks. Alan M. Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, noted a brutal stabbing attack this week in Florida that left multiple victims injured. “Five people […]

A California judge has refused a demand from high-level executives in America’s abortion industry to make secret a preliminary hearing for two undercover journalists who exposed the industry’s sale of baby body parts in 2015. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress are accused by state officials of violating the state’s […]

Known for the 2003 “CIA leak scandal,” Valerie Plame is claiming in an ad for her 2020 congressional campaign that President Trump pardoned the man who “took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity.” However, the man to whom she refers is former Dick Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby, while the admitted leaker […]

The United States this week marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania by radical Muslims, recalling the nearly 3,000 people who died on that day. Hundreds more have died since then of related afflictions. But now a Jordanian journalist is claiming that it is Muslims around the […]

As George Orwell once noted, “The worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.” According to Orwell, the typical socialist is “either a youthful snob-Bolshevik … or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and often with vegetarian leanings.” Orwell wrote those words in 1937, but they’re entirely […]

Perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg would have a better shot at appealing to Christian voters if he would not go to such extreme lengths to contort Scripture to rationalize his party’s abominable stance on abortion. The Democratic presidential candidate openly expresses his Christian faith and was the first candidate to hire a national faith outreach director. […]

Is white guilt a Christian affliction? Edward Gibbon would probably say so. Gibbon was the genius who wrote, in 1776, the 12 volumes that comprise “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” wherein he saddled nascent Christianity with the downfall of the Roman Empire, no less. (I read the 1943 version, […]

The sudden and bitter departure of John Bolton from the White House was baked in the cake from the day he arrived there. For Bolton’s worldview, formed and fixed in a Cold War that ended in 1991, was irreconcilable with the policies Donald Trump promised in his 2016 campaign. Indeed, Trump was elected because he […]