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... Our Constitution specifies that no person shall be deprived of their life without due process. So the bill's provisions allowing abortions to be performed without any due process is on its face unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, in Roe opinion, opined that the unborn child is not a person. That's a legal fiction. When Roe opinion was written, it was commonly thought that before you or I became human, we went through various stages of biological development. "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny" was the popular phrase taught to schoolchildren as scientific fact -- that we each start as a tadpole-like creature and...

(Stehen Miller)

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: It's fascinating, literally fascinating watching the hearing going on right now. The committee in House Republicans and Democrats, conducting a hearing here with the FBI director, James Comey, over how he arrived at his decision that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case against Hillary Clinton. You know what, folks? I was playing golf yesterday afternoon after the program, and this is not the first time this question's been asked of me, but it got me to thinking. The question basically was this: "What does Obama have on all these people that makes them do what he...

Lottery fever is starting to sizzle again. The rush for Mega Millions tickets has pushed the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing up to $540 million or $380 million with the cash option selected. The Mega Millions jackpot starts at $15 million and continues to grow by at least $5 million each drawing until it is won. There have been 34 consecutive Mega Millions drawings since March 8 without a jackpot winner. If won, this will be the 3rd largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. Mega Millions jackpot winners have two options for collecting their payment: 30 annuity payments or one...

This would be one way we would all want to see Donald Trump win.It is a possibility so long as Trump has already won all of the western/rust belt swing states.Pennsylvania has got to be the most corrupt state when it comes to reporting their votes honestly.And maybe even with Virginia being they also wait until after all of the red districts have called in the votes. Wouldn't we all be popping the champagne if/when Trump wins Iowa,Wisconsin,Ohio,Colorado and at least New Hampshire putting him over the 270 mark, and not needing to worry about Pennsylvania anymore!

Austrian Catholic website kath.net reports that on 7 July, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn published an interview in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, in which he said that Amoris Laetitia is a binding doctrinal document. From now on, says Schönborn, all the previous magisterial texts concerning marriage and the family “have to be read in the light of Amoris Laetitia.” Schönborn also said in this interview – a fuller excerpt of this text has now been published in English in the Jesuit journal Civiltà Cattolica – that it is “obvious” that Amoris Laetitia is an act of the Magisterium since it...

As the Clinton-led State Department dragged its feet against Boko Haram, Clinton Foundation donors made millions from Nigerian oil fields The attacks on Jan. 20, 2012, began not so much as an explosion but as an earthquake. ....In coordinated bombings at 23 separate locations in the city of Kano, including police headquarters and military barracks, the group left one of Africa’s largest cities in disarray and panic. The January attacks killed more than 185 people—Africa’s worst terrorism since the 1998 al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. ...Boko Haram often showed up better equipped than the Nigerian military...prominently...

I have always enjoyed pondering the imponderable. Like, if a cannibal tribe attacks and eats the children of a neighboring tribe, is that meat considered veal? Or, what is there to compare the liberal mind to? (There's no need for such language!) Then Whammo, it pole axed me upside the head, they're just like Christian Scientists. And as someone who was raised in Christian Science and also as a former liberal, the parallels were uncanny. For those that don't know, in Christian Science everything you see is just a false image, seen only by our mortal minds. What we see...

FBI director James Comey would not comment Thursday when asked directly by Congress, under oath, whether his department is still investigating Hillary Clinton in connection with possible corruption related to the Clinton Foundation. Comey had announced Tuesday that he would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, despite the fact that her behavior was “extremely careless.” However, Comey did not say anything about investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which now still appears to be ongoing. That investigation involves suspicions that the former Secretary of State abused her role to solicit donations for her family’s private charity — including...

Unreal. Barack Obama rushed to Facebook today to make a comment on the Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile shootings. Alton Sterling, a felon, deadbeat dad who was illegally in possession of a firearm, was shot while wrestling with police in Baton Rouge.~SNIP~Via The White House Facebook page:“All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We’ve seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who’ve suffered such a painful loss. “Although I am constrained in commenting...

FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may not have been "sophisticated enough" to understand the classified markings on emails she sent and received, which explains why did didn't know she was breaking the letter of the law. Under intense questioning from Republicans, Mr. Comey said Mrs. Clinton’s public explanations of her behavior were not true. But he said his investigators couldn’t find evidence that Mrs. Clinton intended to break the law, which he said is the key to making a criminal case. [Snip] Democrats praised Mr. Comey for his findings, and blasted the...

Congress to Submit Referral For FBI to Investigate if Clinton Lied Under Oath by Chris White | 11:06 am, July 7th, 2016 ...In a surprising turn of events, Congressman Jason Chaffetz announced that he would be sending a referral to the FBI to investigate whether Hillary Clinton lied under oath during her testimony before the Select Committee on Benghazi in October 2015:Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQNLlbaOUNg

Truncated title. Full title: EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton advisers feel she has better White House shot against Mitt Romney than Jeb Bush Hillaryland is ready for Romney. Advisers to Hillary Clinton said the former secretary of state has a better shot of winning the White House in a race against former Mitt Romney than she does against Jeb Bush. Clinton confidants and other Democrats said in interviews that they view Romney as the weaker Republican opponent in a general election, unlikely to get a second chance from the key swing group of independents who made up their minds about him just...

WASHINGTON D.C. - Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) clashed with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in a private meeting on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. A representative for Flake confirmed the details of their exchange during Trump's meeting with Senate Republicans. When Flake introduced himself, Trump said Flake had "been very critical" of him. Sources told the Post that Flake responded by calling himself "the other senator from Arizona -- the one who didn't get captured."

Manhattan hedge fund bro Brett Barna allegedly took it upon himself to trash a $20 million mansion with his annual, unfortunately-dubbed #Sprayathon party. There were 1,000 guests in attendance. There were "scores of bikini-clad women and costumed gun-toting midgets," according to the NY Post. Barna apparently name-dropped his boss, billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon, when booking the Airbnb, and implied the event would have something to do with the Robin Hood Foundation. Regardless of what charity the party was purportedly supporting, the property owner said that "the only animals there were the people, a thousand of them." He told...

In March 2009 Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama Adminstration was going to push the reset button with the Russians. Unfortunately, the administration bungled their delivery and spelled out “overcharge” rather than “restart” on their prop. An assistant shows the mock ‘reset’ button that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva in 2009. (AP Photo) Now this… A Russian guard was filmed this week tackling a US diplomat outside the US Embassy in Moscow.

Paula Heap and Joel Coe live 6,400 kilometers apart. They don't even know each other, but they share the same sense of outrage. She voted for Brexit and he intends to vote for Donald Trump in November. She hails from Preston, a city in northwest England that never truly recovered from the decline of the textiles industry. He's an American from the small town of Red Boiling Springs in northern Tennessee. His textiles factory, Racoe Inc., is the last of its kind still in business in the area. It's Heap's view that globalization has created a lot of winners and...

The West is failing in our conflict with Islam because we fail to acknowledge that Islam, itself, is the problem. Not hyphenated Islam, not merely the familiar terms used by many writers like Islamic-Terrorism, or Islamic-Fundamentalism, but ISLAM, Islam itself. Full stop. That's not something that most people are comfortable with saying or even thinking, because (in the West) it seems to run counter to some core beliefs, and reminds us of seemingly similar formulations that have terrible dark history associated with them. However, these impressions, upon further examination, are incorrect. The formulation "Islam is the problem", or even does...

In a city awash in violence, where a homicide or two is reported every few days, Maj Toure believes more guns – in the hands of the right people – could help stem the bloodshed. “The good guys -- the people that want to be more informed, more responsible, that want to be card-carrying good guys and girls -- those are the people that we’re talking to,” said Toure, a North Philly native and rapper. It's a similar message to the one espoused by the powerful lobbyist the National Rifle Association, which responded to calls for stricter gun control laws...

After 35 radiation treatments and seven chemotherapy sessions to reduce a cancerous lump in his throat from the human papillomavirus HPV, John Rhodes had trouble eating, swallowing and communicating. For a time, he needed a feeding tube, and he has yet to put on the 80 pounds he lost as a result. As assistant coach for the Duquesne men’s basketball team, he had to use other tactics to get his players attention so he could teach them without the booming voice he used to have. Mr. Rhodes, 50, expressed his support for the HPV vaccine at the Allegheny County Health...