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During President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month, Americans saw Democratic politicians for what they have truly become. People were shocked when the majority of the Democratic caucus, including most of the party’s women all dressed in white, couldn’t find it in their hearts to applaud when the president called for “a culture that cherishes innocent life.” We now know that wasn’t just a bad night for the Democrats, it was a genuine reflection of the craven ghoulishness underlying their attitudes and policy. What normal, decent person could oppose providing care to a living baby struggling on...

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Job 23:10-11 KJV The Democrat Cult wants you to take a vow of poverty over their largest fraud of Global Warming or is it Change or as we used to call it Global Weather. Man has always wanted to control the weather and now the Marxists believe they can. Even though none of their cataclysmic GW disasters predicted ten years ago have occurred we are supposed to...

CHICAGO — No reason to panic yet, but Chicago is sinking. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the city is at least four inches lower today than it was 100 years ago. Areas farther north are higher, the Chicago Tribune reports. The slow motion seesaw effect is a long term result of Ice Age glaciers that melted eons ago. The experts compare this to squeezing a tube of toothpaste in the middle with one side going up and the other going down. The change could eventually redefine flood plains. "If you're tilting one direction, the water flows might...

Southwest filed suit in U.S. District Court in Dallas against its mechanics union, claiming the American Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) and its leaders have not done enough to stop what Southwest alleges is an illegal job action aimed at disrupting the airline's operations. Southwest Airlines and the AMFA — which represents about 2,400 Southwest mechanics — have been locked in tense contract negotiations for six years. Central to the contract negotiations is Southwest's use of outside maintenance contractors, which factored into the mechanics rejecting a contract offer in the fall. According to documents obtained by CBS News, the suit alleges...

Johnson family has owned a ranch and family farm for more than 100 years. It shares an 8-mile border with Mexico, most of which is made of barbed wire. The family said that is not good enough, so it is inviting President Donald Trump to build a wall on the land. The Johnsons said they have seen many high-speed chases between Border Patrol agents and people who have crossed the border illegally. They call them “drive-thrus.” "They will have someone step on it and they will drive over it," Brandy Johnson said. Of the 8 miles of border along their...

For the first time since forecasters began recording data — at least 132 years — the mercury did not reach 70 degrees in downtown Los Angeles for the entire month of February. The average high for the month was 61 degrees, significantly lower than the historical average of 68 for February. That makes it the eighth-coldest February on record, said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “Most of the time we’ll get one or two Santa Ana wind events in between the rain that would give us temperatures above 70 degrees,” he added. “But it’s...

A Tennessee school district apologized Thursday after a homework assignment asked students to pretend their “family owns slaves.” Actually, it was a pretty good assignment. I don’t think Dr. Mike Looney, director of Williamson County schools, should have apologized. It was a thoughtful assignment and would likely have benefited the students, their families and even critics. The students were eighth-graders, and were asked, “Imagine that their family owns slaves and then ‘create a list of expectations’ for those slaves.” Besides, which slaves in that school district were offended? Dr. Looney’s real problem wasn’t that he touched the slavery-rail of “I’m...

Teen busted for opening fire on crowded street, missing little girl with backpack A 16-year-old boy was busted Friday for opening fire on a Bronx street — narrowly missing a little girl — and officials believe the shooting was part of a gang feud. Edgar Garcia was taken into custody after some “old-fashioned” “pounding the pavement” investigating led detectives to his location, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said at an afternoon press conference. “It wasn’t hard, people were outraged . . . the whole country I think has seen this video of the little girl,” Shea said. “I’m happy...

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian Foreign Minister, resumed his post on Wednesday, February 27, after Hassan Rouhani refused his resignation. However, this round trip revealed the extent of internal crises in the Iranian theocracy. As for Hassan Rouhani, although he is delighted with the return of the irreplaceable head of diplomacy, we must point out that this event put an end to the government’s credibility on the international scene. While the fact that all decisions regarding Iranian foreign policy are taken by the Supreme Leader and his close guard, and not by the President and his cabinet, was already a...

Conservative icon Michelle Malkin is always worth listening to, and her Friday speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference was especially powerful. Controversial, too, thanks to one line in particular. The subject was the top issue of Malkin’s work, illegal immigration, and a stirring call for the Right to fight against the open-borders lobby of both parties. You can watch the full speech below, or read the transcript here. “Congress has repeatedly mandated a nationwide visa entry-exit system to track legal short-term visa holders. But one has yet to be built—even in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks,...

A former ranking North Korean official who defected to the West praised President Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from his second summit with Chairman Kim Jong-un during talks in Hanoi, Vietnam, last week, saying it would have been wrong to lift billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions in exchange for Pyongyang shutting down just one nuclear facility. Thae Yong Ho said in an interview with Fox News that the president “was absolutely right that he cannot give up these sanctions unless Kim Jong-un promises even further denuclearization offers." Thae, from his new home in South Korea, added that POTUS...

After endless hype, special counsel Robert Mueller may be about to submit his report. It is impossible to know what his conclusions will be. But after so much speculation, one outcome seems likely: Mueller will disappoint just about everyone — especially President Trump’s critics. And it won’t be his fault. This is due in part to Trump’s successful disinformation crusade, which has worked to raise a nearly impossible and definitely illogical bar for Mueller to clear: proving “collusion” and charging a grand criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and the Russian government. But it is also due to Trump’s critics,...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 1 Samuel 7 Samuel Subdues the Philistines at Mizpah Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord. 3 So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only. 5 Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at...

“‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy’” (Matthew 5:7). The relationship of mercy and justice is a confusing one because on the surface they seem the exact opposite. Justice gives exactly what is deserved; mercy gives less punishment and more help than is deserved. So the great question is: How can God be both just and merciful at the same time? The truth is God does not show mercy without punishing sin. For Him to offer mercy without punishment would negate His justice. Mercy that ignores sin is false mercy and is all too common today. Some think...

Has there ever been a “sensational” “blockbuster” hearing as dreary and predictable as the Michael Cohen Show this week? One does wonder why Trump would ever have hired such an obvious mediocrity in the first place, and it’s plain that he won’t make it out of the first round of contestants for the Dems’ attempt at reality TV, “John Dean’s Apprentice.” We’ll want to grade this effort on the Laugh-Out-Curve. Can anyone tell me about that? Mueller? Meuller? Anyone???

I only wanted to make four very brief points, but I felt compelled to state at the beginning that we could not abandon the ancient languages because then we would have nothing left of our field—of all the egregiously shocking things I had just heard, that seemed to be the one that most cried out to be challenged. I then attempted to say the following: 1) It is important to stand up for Classics as a discipline, and promote it as the political, literary, historical, philosophical, rhetorical, and artistic foundation of Western Civilization, and the basis of European history, tradition,...

A group of conservative street artists hijacked a billboard in Hollywood on Friday morning and took aim at CNN, which so happened to be across the street. Known as The Faction, their latest project slammed CNN and its president Jeff Zucker for its coverage of this week’s summit in Hanoi, Vietnam between President Donald Trump and North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un. The billboard, which referred to CNN as “Communist News Network,” dawned the phrase “Keep Korea divided” with an asterisk that read “because OrangeManBad.” It also featured an image of Jeff Zucker, whose title was “CEO, CNNPC,” a reference...

“I’m fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up, and I’m finally telling a bunch of people, whether it be a conservative or a libertarian on a college campus, whether it be an actor or a director in Hollywood who wants to make movies that represent his world view, I’m sayin’ I’m gonna lead the charge. And you want to follow me? Fine. And there are people who are followin’ me. I want to make things equal. I want people to have a free and...

COLUMBIA, SC When the Rev. Mel Arant stands behind the pulpit of his Upstate South Carolina church this Sunday morning, he plans to raise a subject that’s caused him and the worldwide United Methodist Church much grief over the past week. “This was a terrible experience,” said Arant, the pastor of Pendleton United Methodist Church. He was one of the 16 Palmetto State delegates to the international conference of the United Methodist Church that last week was torn over the church’s stance on LGBT acceptance and inclusion. “I think that what we found is a deep wound, and we don’t...

Watch: ISIS fighters surrender to US-backed forces in Syria. Will CNN show this? https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1101553143849107457 and https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1101553528894570500