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RUSH: The hot-to-trot news of the day. Beto O’Rourke, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, after saying he wasn’t gonna run for the presidency, today went to Iowa and flailed around with his arms gesticulating, wildly claiming he is gonna run. He’s got the craziest agenda. I hope these people keep talking. Every time these Democrats open their mouths, they are creating more Trump voters. Do not doubt me on this, folks. Do not doubt me. We have not become a socialist nation yet. These people are not appealing to a mass or majority of people in this country.Only in the Democrat Party...

Pundits and some news organizations on the left seem to be parroting the latest progressive talking point to oppose President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, focusing on Kavanaugh’s race to argue he is not a diverse pick for the nation’s top court. Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported that in a clear attempt to deploy the time-tested progressive tactic of divisive warfare, Demand Justice, the activist organization at the center of opposing Kavanaugh established a talking point on its website that “Trump’s judges are overwhelmingly white men.” Demand Justice is founded by former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential...

A Manhattan man is suing the Met, claiming it's committing sacrilege by depicting Jesus as a blond. "Racist" paintings portraying Christ as an "Aryan" male should be removed from the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Justin Renel Joseph argues in his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. The masterpieces are "offensive aesthetic whitewashing" of the reality that the Savior, as a native of the Middle Eastern region, had "black hair like wool and skin of bronze color," says Joseph, 33, who is acting as his own lawyer. He says he suffered "personal stress" after viewing "The Holy Family with Angels"...

Newt Gingrich: What Kind of Catholic Is He? Melinda Henneberger December 23 The Newt Gingrich who talks about finding ways around the U.S. Supreme Court ban on school prayer and says public schools should be required to “teach the Creator” is not immediately recognizable to those who knew the former House speaker when he was not much of a church-goer. These days, Gingrich is running an overtly faith-based presidential campaign with echoes of televangelist Pat Robertson’s run in 1988. But on a quieter tour of Catholic America that began more than a year ago, the GOP candidate has been sounding...

The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has proposed the use of "fencing and other barriers" on the 49th parallel to manage "trouble spots where passage of cross-border violators is difficult to control." The border service is also pondering options including a beefed-up technological presence through increased use of radar, sensors, cameras, drones and vehicle scanners. In addition, it might continue to improve or expand customs facilities at ports of entry. The agency considered but ruled out the possibility...

This morning, City Councilman Al Vann (D-Brooklyn) and a sundry of the city's black elected officials are scheduled to meet to address what they deem a serious crisis. High AIDS infection rates? Gun violence? The war in Iraq? Not quite. As Vann wrote in a June 8 e-mail, "we are in peril of losing a 'Voting Rights' district, the 11th Congressional District, as a result of the well-financed candidacy of Council Member David Yassky, a white individual." You see, Yassky, a city councilman, is running in a predominantly black community, trying to succeed the retiring African-American Congressman Major Owens. And...

A white woman said she was in shock after a black man threw a 10-inch chunk of concrete at her sport utility vehicle in what police were labeling a hate crime. Kim McCandless, of West Islip, was driving to the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa on Monday with her two daughters, a niece and a nephew, all between 7 months and 4 years old, when the concrete struck her windshield. No one was injured. McCandless said she made eye contact with the attacker before he threw the concrete. "I was in shock," she said. "I didn't understand why. Why me, why...