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Mini-documentary published today by Laura Loomer. https://youtu.be/sYiFAhXhu4M This is a short film about our current immigration crisis and the need for a border wall on the Southern border. Nancy Pelosi said everyone is welcome here in the United States, and went as far as saying building a wall on the border “is an immorality, and not who we are as a country”. I decided to put Speaker Pelosi’s own words to test by bringing three amigos, who happen to be illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala, to her estate in Sanctuary State California, where we hopped her fence and pitched...

Snopes let its left-wing bias get in the way of the truth again this week when it “fact checked” reports about a radical new pro-abortion law in New York. The so-called Reproductive Health Act goes beyond Roe v. Wade, allowing unborn babies to be aborted even when the U.S. Supreme Court has said states may restrict abortions. The law’s broad language will allow late-term abortions on viable, healthy unborn babies for basically any reason up to birth. Snopes contested the fact and criticized LifeNews.com for describing the law in those terms. “The law does not allow for unrestricted abortion up...

Russian President Vladimir Putin “expressed support” to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, in a telephone call, after an opposition leader declared himself interim leader of the South American country. Moscow on January 24 condemned foreign powers for backing Maduro rival Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president the previous day as tens of thousands of people marched across Venezuela against Maduro, calling it an attempt to "usurp power." Guaido’s move was recognized by the United States, Canada, and some Latin American and European nations. Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Turkey were among the countries voicing their backing for Maduro's...

New York (CNN)CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media. The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning. Harper says Acosta will share "never-before-revealed stories of this White House's rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump's hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy." The book's title is "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America."

Anya Fedotova is a 31-year-old Russian photo editor. She works in GUM, a state department store on the Red Square in Moscow. Every day she goes to work in what was once a prime example of democratized enterprise—an attempt to boost Communism through consumerism. On her way to the office, she passes by grandparents pointing out Soviet-era toys, accessories and tableware to their grandchildren, showing them what life was like back in the USSR. “It’s one of the centres of Soviet-era nostalgia,” she tells me. “Entire families come here to enjoy the atmosphere and eat Soviet ice-cream.” In a recent...

American Airlines kicked a Michigan family off a plane in Florida on Wednesday night over what the airline said were complaints from other passengers about their body odor. Yossi Adler, his wife, Jennie, and their 19-month-old daughter were seated on a Miami-to-Detroit flight when ground crew asked them to step off the plane — and then the door closed behind them. "They said, 'Sir, people have complained that you have body odor,'" Adler told NBC News on Thursday. "I said: 'Excuse me? I need to get home. There is no body odor on me.'" The family, in Florida for a...

The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN. Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown. But while Trump's advisers remain divided on the issue, the White House has been...

Full title: Gregg Jarrett: Testimony in Russia probe shows FBI and Justice Department misconduct in effort to hurt TrumpNewly revealed testimony by a former top FBI counterintelligence lawyer shows that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe examined “line-by-line” the faulty warrant applications to spy on Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page. There is little question that senior officials at the FBI and Justice Department committed egregious abuses of power in obtaining the warrants and then moving forward on a baseless investigation of President Trump, now being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In...

The White House on Thursday signaled that a "large down payment" on border wall funding -- and potentially less than the $5.7 billion that President Trump has long requested -- could be sufficient to bring Republicans to the table and end the ongoing partial federal government shutdown. The possible concession from the White House came just minutes after the Senate rejected both Democratic and GOP proposals to end the shutdown, with both measures falling far short of the 60-vote threshold needed to pass. But Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the proposal shortly afterward as a nonstarter, saying it was...

Savannah Guthrie, of NBC, interviewed Nick Sandmann, the Covington student who was confronted by Nathan Phillips. Her questions clearly show the bias against the students. Guthrie asked Sandmann: "Do you think if you weren't wearing that hat this might not have happened?" "Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? Do you see your own fault in any way?"

The U.S. plans to turn asylum-seekers back across the border to wait for their court dates, a policy rights advocates have vowed to fight. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to begin turning asylum-seekers back across the southern border on Friday to wait in Mexico under a new policy designed to crack down on immigration by Central American families, according to three Department of Homeland Security officials familiar with the matter. Customs and Border Protection officers will begin returning asylum-seekers trying to enter at the San Ysidro port of entry in California from Tijuana, Mexico, where thousands of migrants from...

NewsAbortion, Catholic Church, Homosexuality, Politics - U.S.Thu Jan 24, 2019 - 5:14 pm EST Pro-gay Kentucky bishop trashes Covington boys: Wearing a Trump hat isn’t pro-life Doug Mainwaring Follow Doug abortion, catholic, covington catholic, homosexuality, john stowe, march for life, march for life 2019, new ways ministry ANALYSIS LEXINGTON, Kentucky, January 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Kentucky bishop known for pro-homosexual advocacy has published a commentary criticizing the high school boys who marched against abortion in Washington, D.C. for wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats.   “I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students...

One of my favorite scenes in Breaking Bad, the hit cable series about high-school teacher Walter White morphing into a meth kingpin, is when White’s associate Jesse Pinkman gives him advice on choosing the right attorney: “Seriously, when the going gets tough you don’t want a criminal lawyer, you want a CRIMINAL lawyer.” In other words, White doesn’t just need a lawyer who defends criminals but one who is a criminal himself. The proper word emphasis matters. This scene reminded me of a new debate on the political left as U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced her bid Monday for...

Something tells me this guy never amounted to much. So why is the background of the interview room make him look like a high end intellectual?

Wasn’t someone just suggesting that journalists stay off of Twitter? We’d really hate for that to happen because if you’ve ever distrusted the media, reporters’ tweets really let the mask drop and show you just how biased most journalists are. We always find it funny when a reporter turns to social media in search of stories to fill out a narrative that has everything but the anecdotes to back it up (or you could just fake the interviews and win awards). Check out this fishing expedition:

House Democrats will unveil full details of their first bill in the new Congress on Friday — sweeping anti-corruption measures aimed at stamping out the influence of money in politics and expanding voting rights. ….. Creating new national automatic voter registration that asks voters to opt out, rather than opt in, ensuring more people will be signed up to vote. Early voting, same-day voter registration, and online voter registration would also be promoted. Making Election Day a holiday for federal employees and encouraging private sector businesses to do the same, requiring poll workers to provide a week’s notice if poll...

The big news across America this morning is that Nancy Pelosi appears to have pulled off the cancellation of the State of the Union - by refusing the President an invite to "the people's house". I have mixed feelings about this, as longtime readers will know - first, because ersatz monarchism does not become a republic: Strange how the monarchical urge persists even in a republic two-and-a-third centuries old. Many commentators have pointed out that the modern State of the Union is in fairly obvious mimicry of the Speech from the Throne that precedes a new legislative session in British...

Residents of the South Pacific nation of Tonga are experiencing a total Internet shutdown after an underwater cable which connects the island to the rest of the world was severed, possibly by the anchor of a large ship. It doesn't just mean that the isolated country can't access Facebook and YouTube - it's also affected email, airline bookings, university enrollment, money wires and prevented businesses from processing credit and debit cards - throwing the small country into chaos as they face up to weeks of Internet isolation. A ship from nearby Samoa will be sent out to fix the severed...

More Evidence That Francis Knew About Zanchetta's Problems After the untimely resignation of Orán Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, Pope Francis sent him to Jesuit Father German Arana in Madrid, Spain, according to Edward Pentin (January 23). Francis sent at least two more early retired bishops to the same priest for counseling: Chilean Bishop Barros and Honduran Bishop Pineda. A source told Pentin that Fr Arana is Franci's “psychologist and Jesuit adviser” to whom he sends clerics with problems, especially of homosexual nature. The same source says that it is “obvious” that Francis and the Vatican knew about Zanchetta's alleged homosexual abuses...

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that cities and states may not abridge “the right to possess a handgun in the home for the purpose of self-defense.” It has not heard a Second Amendment case since, leaving most lower courts to assume that the right to bear arms applies “in the home,” as the justices ruled. But on Tuesday, the court agreed to review a New York City law that limits gun owners’ ability to transport their guns outside the home. And it appears quite likely that the new conservative majority will, for the very first time, extend the Second...