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Racism. It’s the go-to for liberals. Every institution of American life is touched by it according to the racialists. Well, almost every one. Somehow, the industry that kills, disproportionately, black human beings for a profit isn’t racist. It’s “reproductive justice”! Enter Congressman Sean Duffy, a Republican from Wisconsin. On the House floor he gave a powerfully disturbing speech about the alarming levels of abortion in the black community and wondering why the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been silent. But they haven’t been silent. They’ve been complicit. The CBC, like every other black-led liberal “civil rights” group, is pro-abortion. The...

GE finished a historic year of massive deals with one more win before the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. On the last day of the year, the company announced a landmark power contract with the Saudi Electric Company valued at nearly $1 billion.

President Barack Obama is disrespecting the deeply-held religious views of the Little Sisters of the Poor by forcing them to pay for abortion-causing drugs under the HHS mandate. But the Planned Parenthood abortion business thinks what is really disrespectful is pro-life Speaker Paul Ryan inviting them to attend Obama’s State of the Union address. As LifeNews reported, Ryan hosted the very Catholic nuns Obama is attempting to force to pay for abortion drugs under the HHS mandate. The Little Sisters of the Poor are asking the nation’s highest court to ensure they do not have to comply with Obamacare’s abortion...

JUST IN: Al Jazeera America, which went on the air in 2013 and is partly funded by the ruling family of Qatar, announced it is shutting down at the end of April, citing the "economic landscape of the media environment."

President Barack Obama is bringing the subprime-mortgage crisis back, fueled by the progressives' political urge to treat borrowed money loans as a "right" that everyone is "entitled" to get, and by the willingness to dismiss mathematical probability as a racist conspiracy. The last time liberals ran this mortgage ponzi-scheme, from 1995 to 2007, they almost crashed the financial system of the entire planet. They managed to largely evade responsibility by pinning the blame on their junior partners -- the banks, the stock-market and the GOP -- and even found political profit in the ensuing panic, so why shouldn't President Obama...

Today I got to interview tithing expert Ron Robey on my online TV show. He has written over 100 articles and 3 books on the topic. And he has a appeared on several well known Christian radio shows. Ron really knew his stuff and I did a good job of just asking questions so it turned out to be my best of 5 TV shows so far. This should convince anyone that tithing 10% to the church by compulsion is not taught in scriptures. – Damon Whitsell http://thewordonthewordoffaithinfoblog.com/2016/01/13/refuting-christian-tithing-interviewing-ron-roby-how2becomeachristian-tv/ DIRECT LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xk0oeVkOd4

Donald Trump says he will inspire more voters to turn out and vote Republican, like Ronald Reagan did decades ago. According to the Republican presidential front-runner, his nomination would boost voter turnout just as Reagan did in 1980, the "last time the Republican Party had a crisis of identity." "When the American people find someone who speaks their language and who they think can deliver on his word, they are going to flock to him, regardless of their political alignment," Trump wrote in an Tuesday night op-ed for USA Today.

The argued case relates to the matter of the sovereignty (or lack of) of the several territories of the United States (Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands) in a double-jeopardy case. In essence, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court Court ruled that the island is under the total control of the U.S. Congress according to the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution and that as such, it lacks the sovereignty of a regular U.S. State, and that because of that a defendant already tried in the federal district court cannot be tried for the...

New Dem word alert: Great Recession (n) A word invented to throw everyone off of the failed Obama economy. Usage: Use 3-4 times in each sentence, especially if you're Hillary and know you're tied to the hip of the failed Obama economy Context: Dems often create words to distract or mislead from the truth, i.e. "Common Sense" Gun reform , "Affordable" Health care Act Reason for creation: The economy SUCKS, thus if they creat a new word - the Bush Great Recession of 2008, then how can they be blamed for not turning things around in just 7-8 years, after...

Donald Trump may have achieved front-runner status by promising voters he'll "make America great again," but at Tuesday's State of the Union President Barack Obama sent a stubborn message of his own: America is already great — and even greater days are ahead.

Talking Colombian Parakeets (Perija) that is listed as critically endangered and is a threatened species, quoting biblical scripture and things to think about.

Kyrgyz were variously enraged and bemused after a British expat working at a foreign-owned gold mine jokingly compared a beloved local equine delicacy to a "horses (member)" (sic). But the Facebook jest by Michael McFeat -- a welding superintendent at the Kumtor Gold Company in Kyrgyzstan -- could scarcely have come at a worse time for his Canadian bosses, whose relations with Bishkek are at an all-time low. The mine's owners have recently been locked in a fierce battle with the Kyrgyz government over fresh mining permits and a redivision of profits from an enterprise that generates around 10 percent...

Duck Commander says Cruz is "the man for the job"HOUSTON, Texas - Today, the Cruz for President campaign announced the endorsement of Phil Robertson, a professional hunter, businessman, Christian minister, and reality television star on the popular television series Duck Dynasty. Robertson believes Ted Cruz is the man for the job.Cruz Commander (Video)“My qualifications for President of the United States are rather narrow: Is he or she Godly, does he or she love us, can he or she do the job, and finally would they kill a duck and put him in a pot and make him a good duck...

My bet is yes, but they'll never say it

The world cringed when the Taliban destroyed ancient Buddhist Statues in Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed the historic artifacts because Buddhist statues represented something the Taliban considered immoral. They didn’t want people to be reminded that people in the region had at one time been involved in something that was no longer considered morally acceptable. Buddhist statues were not “politically correct” under the Taliban’s view of the Muslim religion. Allowing the statues to stay advertised that Afghans had once behaved in what the Taliban regarded as an immoral fashion. Recent reports claim that ISIS may be doing the same thing to...

DES MOINES -- Like so much else at this point in the campaign, Wednesday morning's Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll could be looked at in either of two ways for the leading candidates. For Ted Cruz, the glass-half-full interpretation is that the best poll in the state still shows him ahead -- by 3 points over Donald Trump -- when several other recent polls in Iowa had shown a narrow advantage for Trump instead. The glass-half-empty interpretation is that Cruz's lead is diminished: The previous DMR/Bloomberg poll, taken a month ago, had Cruz ahead by 10 points. Our Iowa...

In 2015 there was a 25% increase in ordinations to the priesthood as 595 men were ordained last year, up from 477 in 2014. Pope Francis greets seminarians at the Saint John Paul II Seminary in Washington Sept. 23.(CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout) While the Church faces serious demographic and geographic challenges that have required parish closings in urban cores of cities in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, there is reason for optimism among Catholics in the U.S. As bishops have had to consolidate parishes and close churches in New York City, Cleveland, Hartford, and other urban areas, there have been...

U.S. stocks cratered to session lows by the final hour of trading Wednesday as worries over crude oil triggered broader fears over the global economy. The S&P 500 was down 2.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 2.3%, and the Nasdaq fell 3.4%. "The market is extremely bearish right now," Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, told TheStreet. "U.S. stocks are going to have a rough ride in the first quarter and oil is, of course, in for more shocks ... Risk appetite is going to be fairly low for the first few months of the year."

Heading into Christmas, Ted Cruz had emerged as the clear favorite to kick off the Republican nominating contest with a victory in Iowa. He was racking up endorsements from evangelical leaders/kingmakers and was starting to pull away in state polls. But with less than three weeks to go until the GOP caucus, Cruz now has real reason to worry. The latest sign Iowa could come down to the wire between him and Donald Trump comes via a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg state poll, which shows the fiery Texas senator's lead on the loud-mouthed tycoon shrinking from 10 points to 3...

There’s bipartisan movement in Congress to roll back a recent change made to the U.S. visa program amid growing concerns that it discriminates against people based on their ethnicity. On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Democratic Rep. John Conyers, both of Michigan, introduced a bill that would eliminate a provision aimed at restricting the entry of dual nationals of Iran, Syria, Sudan and Iraq. Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) also are expected to announce they will put forth a similar bill. The changes to the visa program passed late last year, with the backing of the...