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Hillary Clinton offered some advice Wednesday to high-ranking U.S. officials if they find themselves implicated in the Trump impeachment inquiry: "Tell the truth." Clinton was responding to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who suggested that figures such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Attorney General William Barr and Vice President Mike Pence could find themselves swept up in any accusations that Democrats in Congress make against the president -- just as Nixon administration officials were linked to the Watergate scandal. "Well, I think what many in the Nixon White House and administration concluded was the right thing to do was tell...

[Catholic Caucus] Pre-Synod Report: Invalid Conclave or Heresy? Questions are being asked There are whispers and quiet chatter all over Rome just days before the controversial Amazon Synod kicks off that the conclave which elected Pope Francis might have been invalid; a very close second to the talk of an invalid conclave is that Francis may have committed heresy. Some of the things that Pope Francis says, as well as what he does and the people he appoints, are triggering near panic with some, and at the very least great concern with many others. For example, earlier this week, Pope Francis named Bp. Mario Grech...

This column will explain the impeachment farce in two minutes. By the end, you will thank the media for demanding the release of Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Ukraine and Australia. What the phone transcripts demonstrate is that -- unlike the typical Republican -- Trump is not a let-bygones-be-bygones sort. He intends to find out who turned the FBI into a Hillary super PAC, using the powers of the nation’s “premiere law enforcement agency” (according to them) to take out a presidential candidate, and then a president. The whole picture becomes clear when you have the timeline. Instead...

President Donald Trump's approval rating soared to its highest level this year despite media focus on the Democrat's impeachment inquiry.The new figures show a 2-point increase from a Sept. 11-12 poll, and a 2-point decrease from its previous peak of 51 percent last August, according to the Hill-HarrisX survey released on Wednesday.

In the cold wilderness of space, galaxies huddle together around the campfires of stars and the assuring pull of supermassive black holes. Between these cozy clusters of galaxies, where empty space stretches on for millions of light-years all around, a faint highway of gas bridges the darkness. This gassy, intergalactic network is known in cosmological models as the cosmic web. Made of long filaments of hydrogen left over from the Big Bang, the web is thought to contain most (more than 60%) of the gas in the universe and to directly feed all of the star-producing regions in space. At...

James Franco is being accused in a new lawsuit of pressuring his acting school students to get naked for auditions while he dangled promises of movie roles that rarely panned out. The suit, filed by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, says that both women were students at the L.A. branch of the Studio 4 school -- which Franco co-founded -- back in 2014. The women claim Franco, and other instructors, engaged in "inappropriate and sexually charged behavior toward female students." In docs, they claim Franco created "an environment of harassment and sexual exploitation." According to the docs, Franco offered them...

CNN has declined to air a Trump campaign ad that attempts to highlight Joe Biden and his son Hunter's connections to Ukraine. The 30-second video, titled "Biden Corruption," seeks to highlight the former vice president's role in getting Viktor Shokin, the top Ukrainian prosecutor, fired around the time he was investigating Hunter's company for corruption. Neither Biden has been implicated in any illegal activities or wrongdoing. “Joe Biden promised Ukraine $1 billion if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company,” the narrator states. “But when President Trump asks Ukraine to investigate corruption, the Democrats want to impeach him."

President Trump, frustrated with news coverage as he faces an impeachment inquiry, suggested on Thursday the idea of starting a new television network. The suggestion came after Trump attacked CNN, specifically CNN International, at a Medicare event in Florida. Trump said the news network is “so bad” and called it a “terrible thing for our country.” “We ought to start our own network and put some real news out there,” Trump said. Trump added, “We really are, we are looking at that. We should do something about it too. Put some really talented people and get a real voice out...

Republican Indiana congressman Jim Banks could not follow NPR radio host Michel Martin's line of reasoning on Wednesday. By Martin's account, it sounded as if President Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice after his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky. In their conversation, Trump asked Zelensky about Joe Biden's relationship to Ukraine, in light of his son Hunter's having sat on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. Some critics interpreted the phone call to suggest Trump was guilty of quid pro quo, because it sounded like he was threatening to withhold military aid from Ukraine if Zelensky...

Vatican relaxes restrictions on married ex-priests, hints they may be allowed to return to ministry October 2, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has begun to eliminate restrictions on the activities of men who have been removed from the priestly state and allowed to marry, according to Religion Digital, a Spanish-language leftist news portal sometimes used by members of the Francis regime to announce new initiatives and respond to critics. Moreover, the Vatican appears to be hinting that such people may be allowed to continue to carry out priestly functions in the future, even if they marry. A trusted source...

Matthew Yunho Chan, a former administrator at Virginia Tech, received an 11 year sentence, to be suspended after 6 months, for 11 counts of possession of child pornography. Chan was Virginia Tech’s Associate Director of Diversity Initiatives and Sustainable Nanotechnology, and was charged with 22 felony counts of possession of child pornography in June of this year. In a summation of evidence, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Sam Norman said that on February 5th, a computer technician at the school was investigating Chan’s laptop, after he had learned that there was no storage left on the device. The technician emptied the recycle...

Something surprising happened after Kamala Harris publicly asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to ban President Trump from Twitter....

This is the tag line the Dems invented for Nixon - "would you buy a used car from this man?" It's even more fitting for crazy-eyes lyin-lips Schiff

Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward on Wednesday night came under heavy criticism at a Washington, D.C., event promoting a pair of New York Times reporters' best-selling book, "She Said," with many voicing frustration over how he handled an interview with the journalists. The disapproval from many appeared to be aimed at Woodward's line of questioning. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor's book, which was released last month, focuses on an in-depth investigation of sexual harassment and assault allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The reporting sheds light on how the Weinstein story impacted what is now known as the "Me...

Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Wednesday night that his son Hunter will join him on the campaign trail amid controversy surrounding his personal life and business dealings. The Democratic presidential front-runner told the Reno Gazette Journal during a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada that he did not know when Hunter would campaign with him, saying that he was busy teaching at a West Coast law school. (RELATED: Sarah Sanders: ‘The Only Corruption In This Entire Process Has To Do With The Bidens’) “I see him. I talk to him and I’m proud of him,” Biden said of his son....

A Texas woman said she was shamed online by a potential employer who took a photo of her in a bikini from her Instagram account and shared it on the company's page while warning other applicants that it was unprofessional. Emily Clow, who according to her Twitter account lives in Austin, said she applied for a marketing coordinator position at a business startup, Kickass Masterminds. Clow told NBC News that shortly after applying, a company representative reached out to her and said the firm wanted to move ahead with the application process and recommended that she follow them on Instagram....

Here’s a subject that no Democratic lawmakers will touch right now. The thinking is: Pence is implicated in Trump’s campaign to pressure Ukraine to reopen their investigation into Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. Although Pence never mentioned Biden’s name to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he was after all, involved in communicating the delay of the U.S. aid and at the request of President Trump, he skipped Zelensky’s inauguration. Shouldn’t Pence be impeached too? A rather low bar for impeachment to be sure, but that’s all they’ve got right now. The media, on the other hand, has no such reservations. The...

VIDEO Why do people keep persecuting a fine, upstanding citizen like Hunter Biden? They even accuse his father Joe Biden of getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating the natural gas company where Hunter was earning an honest wage of $50,000 per month. Thankfully, Congressman Adam Schiff, whose honesty is unimpeachable, was able to reveal his first hand account of a second hand imaginary fable of the Big Bad Orange Man trying to persecute Hunter and his dad during a phone call to the president of Ukraine. A story backed up by a second hand story by a whistleblower...

Yesterday, President Trump did something he doesn't do that often, at least not intentionally. He made me laugh. He tweeted a funny video about the Hunter Biden/Ukraine mess, set to the 2005 Nickelback song "Photograph." No matter what else you like or dislike about the guy, you gotta admit that nobody can troll quite like Trump. Not even Obama could troll his enemies like Trump does, and Obama trolled 'em like a mofo. LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH! pic.twitter.com/QQYTqG4KTt — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019 As you'll notice, when you click that video you get a message that it's...

The EU's top court has ruled that national courts in Europe can order Facebook and other online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide (AFP Photo/DENIS CHARLET) More Luxembourg (AFP) - Facebook on Wednesday was dealt a major blow in the EU's top court, which ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide. The decision will be seen as a victory for EU regulators, who are ambitious to see US tech giants meet tightened European standards over hate speech and offensive content. Last week, the same court decided that Google was not legally compelled...