Новости за 16.02.2020

A prominent legal team from the Thomas More Society has gone to court seeking a ruling that would halt the harassment – and worse – of those to stand outside the Bristol Regional Women's Center abortion clinic in Bristol, Tennessee, trying to convince women to allow their unborn babies to live. The allegations are being…

A Northern California school board voted Wednesday to rename an elementary school after former first lady Michelle Obama. West Contra Costa Unified School District's Board of Education will be renaming Wilson Elementary School, which had originally been named after former President Woodrow Wilson, to Michelle Obama Elementary School because it is supposedly more relatable for…

The concept of rights in America has strayed far from the Founders' intent to protect the inalienable rights granted by God. So far afield, in fact, that activists in Florida are insisting that a river be granted the right to sue if someone "injures it." Activists with the non-profit group Our Santa Fe River are…

There's really no question those on the left have an ungodly talent for moving the goalposts, and nowhere is that better exemplified than the issue of climate change. From relatively innocuous requests that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed in order to save the planet and the polar bear for future generations to newfound claims that…

A ruling from high court judges in Pakistan has allowed a Muslim to force a 14-year-old girl to marry him. And since the girl was Christian, the ruling also is allowing the Muslim to force the girl's "conversion" to Islam. It is Morning Star News that is reporting on the case involve Huma Younus, who…

The license-plate spy programs that are used by police and other agencies across the state of California are missing – by far – the minimum privacy requirements that should be embedded, a new report said. It is the Electronic Frontier Foundation that reported on the results of a seven-month investigation into the use of automated…

Speculation that Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg was considering Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate has ignited controversy across the political spectrum. Journalist Matt Drudge broke the story in a Twitter post Saturday. EXCLUSIVE: BLOOMBERG CONSIDERS HILLARY RUNNING MATE Sources close to Bloomberg campaign tell DRUDGE REPORT that candidate is considering Hillary as running…

The first European death from the coronavirus has been confirmed. The 80-year-old Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei arrived in France on Jan. 16 and was later isolated and hospitalized on Jan. 25, Fox News reported. Officials say the man's condition quickly deteriorated and he died on Friday. His daughter was hospitalized as well…

(COLLEGE FIX) College Republicans tabling at the University of California, Santa Cruz were accosted by passersby who ripped their signs, spit on their Betsy Ross flag, tussled with them physically, and yelled obscenities, according to video of the incident obtained by The College Fix. The president of the UC Santa Cruz College Republicans, Dylan Temple,…

(AL JAZEERA) Preparing for lunch hour, Maria* adds firewood to her wide mud stove shaded by a tarp shelter amid hundreds of similar structures home to asylum seekers like her, waiting for months in this camp with hopes to cross the border, just a few paces away, into the United States. Maria, 38, serves grilled…

(THE OREGONIAN) A jury in Yamhill County has found that police can legally seize the home of a woman convicted of a felony drug crime in a case that tested the limits of Oregon’s civil forfeiture law. Sheryl Sublet, 62, was sentenced to six years in prison after she pleaded guilty in 2018 to selling…

(LONDON GUARDIAN) Astronomers will sweep the entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life for the first time, using 28 giant radio telescopes in an unprecedented hunt for alien civilisations. The project is a collaboration between the privately-funded Seti Institute and the Very Large Array observatory in New Mexico, one of the world’s most powerful radio…

(THE BLAZE) The donkey has long been the symbol of the Democratic Party since President Andrew Jackson embraced his detractors labeling him "a jackass" in 1828, but a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine may have a rebrand in mind. Bre Kidman unveiled a new campaign logo last week: a guillitone, the execution apparatus commonly associated…

The state of Indiana has a "compelling" interest "to promote the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens, and this includes protecting those, particularly minors, who may be harmed by abortion." So contends a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Freedom Law Center in a lawsuit challenging the state's law…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Chris White Daily Caller News Foundation Facebook is allowing presidential campaigns to use sponsored content after former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s team paid several social media influencers to hype the candidate. Facebook will allow so-called branded content from political…

Colorado lawmakers have voted death for "precious boys and girls," longtime Christian evangelical leader James Dobson is warning. It was the decision by the state's lawmakers against a plan to protect children who survive abortion that prompted his comments. "This week, representatives in my home state of Colorado made a decision that a child's life…

(HONG KONG NEWS) President Xi Jinping has called for tightened control over online discussion and increased policing to ensure "positive energy" and social stability, as the mainland struggles to contain the deadly new coronavirus. The government must "strengthen the management and control of online media," and "crack down on those who seize the opportunity to…

(CNS NEWS) In a powerful commentary in the Feb. 3 edition of The Wall Street Journal, biologists Colin Wright and Emma Hilton explain that, scientifically, there are only two sexes, male and female, and there is no sex "spectrum." They also stress that "biologists and medical professionals" must stop being politically correct and "stand up…

(THE OREGONIAN) A state representative from Birmingham filed a bill Thursday that would require Alabama men to get a vasectomy once they reach 50 years old or father three children, “whichever comes first.” The legislation by state Rep. Rolanda Hollis, D-Birmingham, says that a man will have to pay for the vasectomy “at his own…