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“I say, there is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country. But it's in the wrong hands,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) declared on Sunday. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” de Blasio claimed that Amazon’s decision not to open a corporate headquarters in New York City is proof that wealth is in the hands of the wrong people: “Let's be clear: No one chased away. This was Amazon's arbitrary decision. We had an agreement. If I made an agreement with you, and there were issues that came up, but we had...

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on Senator McConnell’s announcement of a show vote on anti-abortion legislation leading medical organizations have vocally opposed. “This bill is unnecessary, harmful, and would put Vice President Pence and Republicans in Congress right where they don’t belong: in between a woman and her health care provider as she is making deeply personal health decisions. As leading medical groups have repeatedly said, this politically-driven legislation should never become law—and Democrats are going to stand with women, doctors, nurses, and everyone...

Lawyers for 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School junior who faced off with Omaha Nation elder Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last month, have filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post, one of many newspapers to report on viral video of the incident. “This is only the beginning,” said the attorneys, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry, on their firm’s website, noting that it was the “first lawsuit” on Sandmann’s behalf. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky, Reuters reported, and it states that the sum – which is for...

Why Jussie Smollett Lied – And All The ‘Hate-Crime’ Victims Who Weren’t Author’s note: Jussie Smollett is now yet another hoax victim in the ongoing and endless narrative of the Unholy Alliance’s fake and self-made ‘hate-crimes.’ The leftist establishment media, doing its faithful Unholy Alliance duty, uncritically embraced and sensationalized Smollett’s elaborate “hate crime” story — of him being a victim of assault of white supremacist, homophobic Trump supporters. But, again, it turns out to be all untrue. In light of this new, but very expected, development, I have deemed it important to bring attention to this escalating phenomenon of...

UK: ISIS bride let back in, given taxpayer-funded house, ISIS flag on her Twitter account, but no terror charges This isn’t Shamima Begum; this is another ISIS bride. Taxpayer paid for her home, and she has a photo of women holding ISIS flags on her Twitter account. Britain will, of course, get what it is paying for. Leftists and Islamic supremacists frequently bring up the fact that I’m banned from entering the UK as if it is in itself proof that I’m an “extremist” who must be shunned by all decent people. In reality, as this story shows yet again,...

Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion released Tuesday, called for reversing decades of jurisprudence that has made it harder for public figures to sue media outlets and other organizations for defamation -- restrictions that were premised, he said, on a series of "policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law." Thomas' opinion comes against the backdrop of President Trump's repeated calls to make it easier to sue for defamation. Last weekend, Trump reacted to a "Saturday Night Live" skit about his southern-border emergency declaration by asking on Twitter, "How do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without...

Federal investigators are looking into whether 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett is responsible for a threatening letter that was addressed to him and sent to show's Chicago studio about a week before he was allegedly attacked, according to ABC News. The letter is currently being analyzed in an FBI crime lab, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is also investigating the situation, according to federal officials. Two Nigerian brothers, Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, who were persons of interest in the attack, told authorities that Smollett paid them to stage the attack after getting mad that the threatening letter didn't get as...

France: Muslim stabs four people after asking their nationality, police say it’s not terrorism BY11 COMMENTS “The perpetrator then inquired of several passersby ‘by speaking in French and in a foreign language, asking them for their nationality,’ stabbing people in accord with their answers.” It is highly likely that he stabbed people whose nationality suggested they were non-Muslim. “Marseille: Man shot dead by the police after stabbing attack,” translated from “Marseille: Un homme mortellement neutralisé par balles par la police, après une attaque à l’arme blanche,” Actu 17, February 19, 2019: 7:50 p.m.. The assailant, Karim L., was released from...

A judge nominated by former President Obama rendered a decision Tuesday that he won’t like. A lawsuit by an advocacy group known as Protect Our Parks can go forward. They are trying to block his presidential library in Chicago. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit from an advocacy group accusing the city of illegally transferring public land to a private entity would not be dismissed. The Hill reported a similar lawsuit stopped Star Wars’ George Lucas from building a museum on public land. IT’S A CON GAME The lawsuit by...

The FBI is working with the U.S. Postal Service to determine whether Empire actor Jussie Smollett sent himself a threatening letter in the days before the “hate crime” he is now under investigation for allegedly staging, two federal officials told ABC News Tuesday. The two Nigerian brothers who told Chicago Police last week that Smollett paid them to stage a racially motivated attack on him have also told the authorities that Smollett sent himself the threatening letter that arrived on the Empire set on January 22, just seven days before they claim they conducted the hoax attack. The brothers, one...

<p>WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut school district has acknowledged students have the right not to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, as a result of a lawsuit by a teenage girl who says her teacher shamed her and other students for opting out.</p>

The Pulwama Jihad Massacre and the Doctrine of Ghazwa-e-Hind “There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the fire: The group that invades India and the group that will be with Isa Ibn Maryam” — Sunan an Nasa’i (Book of Jihad), 3175 “A king of Baitul Maqdis ( Jerusalem) would make warriors move forward towards Hindustan (India). The warriors will destroy the land, plunder its treasure and enchain the kings of that land. The warriors will conquer all from West to East and will stay in India till the time the Dajjal appears.” — Naim Ibn...

Coziness between President Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes, then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, led Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to want him barred from sensitive meetings with lawmakers about counterintelligence activities — to no avail. The pair was surprised to see Nunes, R-Calif., present at a meeting for FBI officials to brief the so-called "Gang of Eight" — leaders of both parties in the House and Senate, as well as the chairs and co-chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees. McCabe and Rosenstein planned to tell lawmakers the bureau had opened a...

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a faith-based adoption provider will be available for media interviews after a federal court hearing Tuesday in New Hope Family Services’ lawsuit against the state of New York. New Hope asked the court in December to stop the state from targeting it for its religious beliefs and to preserve its ability to continue placing children in adoptive homes while the lawsuit moves forward. The New York State Office of Children and Family Services has singled out the religious nonprofit for its policy prioritizing the placement of children it serves in homes with a married mother...

There is simply no question the media hoax perpetrated by Jussie Smollett is a hate crime committed against supporters of President Donald Trump. A “hate crime” is defined as a bias crime, a crime committed against others based on who they are, or what they look like, or what group they hail from. Filing a false police report is a crime, one that Smollett is almost certainly guilty of and might be charged with. The hate-bias part is even easier to prove. And Smollett is not the only one guilty of this. So too are his co-conspirators in the establishment...

CHICAGO -- Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has recused herself from the investigation surrounding the alleged attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, her office told ABC News on Tuesday. "Out of an abundance of caution, the decision to recuse herself was made to address potential questions of impartiality based upon familiarity with potential witnesses in the case," a spokeswoman told ABC News via email.

Jussie Smollett - First American to scam Nigerians!

A letter to the mother from the Home Office said officials had issued an order depriving daughter of her British citizenship. A copy of the note, published by ITV News, reads: "Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the Home Secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima, of her British citizenship. In light of the circumstances of your daughter, the notice of the Home Secretary’s decision has been served on file today (19th February), and the order moving her British citizenship has subsequently been made.” The lawyer for the family said: ..."Family are very disappointed with the...

...The A380 might have built more momentum if not for production debacles. Around the time of the first test flight in 2005, Airbus realized it had underestimated the complexity of wiring the superjumbo. Managers discovered that French and German designers had used incompatible software. ...More setbacks followed. The engine of an A380 blew up during a passenger flight in 2010. Nobody was hurt, but it drew negative attention to the plane. Wing cracks discovered on many A380s led to costly repairs. Customers, including Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., Air France-KLM SA and Qantas Airways Ltd. , canceled orders. The...

Franciscan Media Saint Conrad Confalonieri | Giovanni Lanfranco” width=”790″ height=”480″> Image: Saint Conrad Confalonieri | Giovanni Lanfranco Saint Conrad of Piacenza Saint of the Day for February 19 (c. 1290 – February 19, 1351) Saint Conrad of Piacenza’s Story Born of a noble family in northern Italy, Conrad as a young man married Euphrosyne, daughter of a nobleman.One day while hunting he ordered attendants to set fire to some brush in order to flush out the game. The fire spread to nearby fields and to a large forest. Conrad fled. An innocent peasant was imprisoned, tortured to confess, and condemned...