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Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that the Evangelical community’s support of former President Donald Trump was a “deep contradiction.” Anchor Jen Psaki asked, “Did you interact with President Jimmy Carter at all?” Warnock said, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are two of my favorite people on earth. And here is a man who demonstrates how you have faith and how it ought to work and come alive. He is used not as a weapon but as a bridge.”

Pope Francis Rebukes EWTN as Work of the Devil: What would Mother Angelica Say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX9uNNXUnI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1_LlRlPIYlC2MMAYRjrIcaFYqjfIL79KTBu2w9RXu1wHghukmO7o9on4A Dr Taylor Marshall Streamed live on Sep 22, 2021 In this video Dr Taylor Marshall says: “In a meeting with Jesuits in Slovakia, Pope Francis said: “There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the Pope .... I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil." (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of...

President Biden has imposed another coronavirus-related travel ban just hours after one of his top advisers cautioned that the U.S. didn't have enough information to do so.

There are two contradictory forces at play in today's America. The first is the weakening of national unity. There's a feeling in the air that the country might fragment between blue states versus red states; the coasts versus the heartland; left versus right; and, most telling, the elite versus the middle class. There are a number of reasons for this. One certainly is the mantra "diversity is strength." This is patently false, as any scan of history shows. Yet it is repeated ad nauseam in the media and in the school. Diversity, in the meaning the left uses, is a...

Anthony Fauci’s institute funded research by the Chinese military, the Wuhan Institute of ­Virology and American scientists to genetically manipulate coronaviruses soon before the pandemic hit. The revelation shows American money was funding risky ­research on coronaviruses with People’s Liberation Army scientists – including decorated military scientist Zhou Yusen and the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “Bat Woman”, Shi Zhengli. Their research paper, submitted to the Journal of Virology in November 2019, was funded with three grants from the National ­Institutes of Health, via US universities. Details of the research funding, contained in the forthcoming book What Really Happened In Wuhan,...

These days everyone wants a quick answer to the problems we face. maybe we should stop a minute and revisit this man who wants to be president, The Donald

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has offered up two contradictory explanations why there was no military operation to rescue U.S. officials who were under attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. During an October 2012 press briefing, Panetta claimed he was lacking real-time information at the time, and as a result of not having this information, he felt he couldn't send the FAST platoons, and other forces that were deployed in the region, into "harm's way" in "that situation". Hence, he made the decision not to send the forces to Benghazi. However, during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services...

What is the principle of contradiction? In a nutshell, it’s this:  a thing cannot be and not be at the same time.  Saint Thomas Aquinas shows that not even God can deny the principle of contradiction, the absolute law of the order of being, because it is impossible for God to will the absolutely impossible (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, chap. 84). Father Garrigou-Lagrange gives us eight principal reasons, based on Aristotle, for defending the necessity and real validity of the principle of contradiction. They are briefly: 1. To deny this necessity and this validity would be to deprive words of...

As you'll recall, I was very skeptical this morning of initial US government assertions that there was "no intelligence" indicating the deadly Benghazi raid was premeditated or planned in advance.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeated this heavily-parsed denial at his briefing today (note that he appears to be reading a verbatim statement), only to give a markedly different answer just 45 minutes later:   Carney Contradicts On Whether There Was Advance Warning Of Embassy AttacksABC's Jake Tapper notes that the Defense Secretary briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the attack, telling Senators that the US Government believes...

Bulgaria Debt Cheaper to Insure than Higher-Rated Spain Finance | September 19, 2011, Monday| 427 views A placard reading `No to social cutbacks` is seen at the head of a demonstration called by the movement 15-M (also known as `indignados`) against the privatization of public services and welfare cuts, in Pamplona, Spain, 18 Sept. Photo by EPA/BGNES Major rating agencies once again came under fire on Monday after it emerged that the debt of Spain, whose credit status is Aa2, is more expensive to insure than Baa2-rated Bulgaria. The cost of insuring Spanish debt against default rose to 390, compared...

Congress‘ chief scorekeeper says President Obama’s budget never achieves primary balance, the key measure the White House said would show the country is living within its means. In a preliminary analysis the budget Mr. Obama sent to Capitol Hill last month, the Congressional Budget Office says deficits will total $9.5 trillion over the next decade and never once will it be in balance — even when subtracting interest costs. The closest the government will come to balance is in 2018, when the deficit will be $902 billion and net interest costs are projected to be $725 billion — still leaving...

Progressive Liberals are all about Contradiction. They hate the Constitution as demonstrated by their recent hue and cry when the Republicans of the 112th Congress proposed to read it before the start of their term. Ironically, the same elected Progressive Liberals who complain about the reading of the Constitution are sworn to uphold the Constitution. So why are they using the tragic assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Gifford as cover to violate the 1st and 2nd amendments by legislating against free speech and the right to bear arms. Democrats say their recent attack against freedom of speech and the...

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNSNews.com Thursday that illegal immigration has not contributed to his city’s budget problems, but, on the contrary, that illegal immigration adds to the "economic might" of California. "In California, I think there’s a real sense that these immigrants provide a great deal to the economic might of the state," said Villaraigosa. (Snip).........Daniel Nasaw, BBC News, Washington: The Los Angeles city council has voted to boycott Arizona businesses in one of the strongest moves yet against the state's new immigration law. Council members agreed to bar official travel to Arizona and avoid...

Communist China celebrates 60th anniversary with instruments of war and words of peace The day of festivities is full of contrasting images. Tanks and goose-stepping soldiers travel along a parade route as TV commentators discuss the nation's love of peace. By Barbara Demick 1:50 PM PDT, October 1, 2009 Reporting from Beijing At the end of a gala today celebrating Communist China's 60th anniversary, President Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, got down from their podium and joined hands with the dancers in Tiananmen Square. It was a symbolic gesture designed to soften the image of a remote and...

INFIDELS, come out come out wherever you are.....SAVAGE!

Elizabeth Day visits the European Social Forum, a global gathering for Left-wing activists, and discovers a world full of alarming contradictionsJon is standing in front of a large, shiny poster calling for the abolition of tax havens. "Generating money for social justice and development," the poster screams in heavy black type. Jon is ardent about anti-capitalism. The words "participatory budgeting" make his eyes shine as if describing the first flush of passion with a nubile young lover. "We are looking at economic alternatives to the destructive capitalist forces," says Jon happily, pausing to take a drag on a roll-up cigarette....

Hyperbolic HypocrisyAugust 24, 2004 The critics of consumer choice and enemies of a wide variety of menu options have never been known for their consistency. From flip-flops about obesity lawsuits to schizophrenic support of domestic terrorism, the food cops, animal rights nuts, and other radical activists have practically got the market cornered on hypocrisy. Here are a few of our favorite examples. Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Director of Nutrition Policy Margo Wootan on personal responsibility: "We have got to move beyond personal responsibility. "--2003 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Versus: "Of course, it is ultimately...

Kerry, Edwards, Hollywood, and the Politics of Hate By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 13, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms John Kerry and John Edwards both looked at the same intelligence presented to President Bush, and they voted for the Iraq war. Then both Kerry and Edwards voted against an $87 billion funding package for our troops in Iraq. How could they be both for and against the war? Kerry, the great flip-flopper, has even gone so far as stating, I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. Several weeks before Kerry voted against the $87 billion bill,...

<p>Top Republicans are seeking to declassify testimony given by former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard A. Clarke in 2002, saying it directly contradicts his recent attack on the Bush administration's handling of the war on terror.</p> <p>"Mister Clarke has told two entirely different stories under oath," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, said in a speech yesterday.</p>

How can it be a violation to say "under God," but not be a violation to pray before a public event that features no less than the Governor of California being sworn in? What does it mean for a Governor to place his hand on a BIBLE and take an oath to uphold his constitution and his office? It means exactly what the Schwarzeneggar children said in the pledge they repeated at the ceremony....UNDER GOD. With his hand on a Bible, Arnold testified that integrity flows from the only ethical code that can hold a democratic nation together. And that...