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The press has made a big deal about the new class of Democrats rolling into Congress and beyond, touting their 'diversity,' their 'socialism,' their 'sisterhood.' Most of us look at that group and see 'extremism,' particularly with the kinds of views they've presented, and the obnoxious gaffes they've blundered into, apologized for or not. They're new, after all. But there's something different about this batch of Democrats we haven't seen much in the past: The corruption accusations and investigations surrounding virtually all of them, most pretty solid-looking. Here's a short list, starting with a Daily Mail report, via GatewayPundit ....

Donald John Trump became the first third-party candidate to be elected president. First, he destroyed the Republican Party, then took its nomination and won the White House by destroying Hillary by exposing her as a grifter (you'd be in jail) and a drunk (Sick Hillary). He kept the name Republican because changing all that stationery is expensive. At CPAC today, President Trump explained who his new party stands for. The Forgotten Man. The veterans. The soldiers. The police. The firemen. The paramedics. The groundskeepers. The farmers. The truck drivers. The factory workers. The janitors. The maids. And above all, the...

Texas' public schools are starved for cash. Teachers need raises. Legislators are in Austin, looking for money. We found some. Several hundred million dollars a year, in fact. A new Houston Chronicle investigation, "Broken Trust," reveals that the Texas Permanent School Fund – at $44 billion, the country's largest education endowment – should be billions larger than it is. Politically connected investment managers are collecting soaring fees while returns lag behind other comparable funds. The fund is managed by officials in two separate agencies, one of which is led by Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush. When inflation is taken...

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LOS FELIZ, CA—Local woman Sarah Harper declared Friday that her healthcare is none of your business or the government's business, though she wants the government to take more of your money to pay for it. Harper posted a series of tweets Friday proclaiming how “men don’t have a say” when it comes to women's healthcare, and also that you should just “shut up and pay for it.” Harper made sure to let everyone know that her healthcare should be free and blocked anyone that disagreed with her. She was very clear that her healthcare is absolutely none of the government's...

One play in the fourth quarter, however, seemed to sum up the Lakers’ struggles perfectly. James, after a Suns’ made basket, went to inbound the ball. As he tossed it, it hit the bottom of the backboard and sailed out of bounds again, handing Phoenix the ball right back. It was a careless turnover rarely seen at the NBA level.

This is a monthly posting of Twitter follower growth for the past month for 2020 presidential candidates. Last Month's Post Here. This is very unscientific but I feel that Twitter growth in followers can be a strong indicator of candidate "popularity" and we certainly saw that in 2016, when it was Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the eventual winner Donald Trump who month after month saw the highest growth in followers. My 2016 tracking showed "front-runners" like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio with comparatively slower Twitter follower growth months before they eventually dropped out of the race. So...

Happy Saturday, folks -- unless you tuned into Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign and were disappointed to see a Reggae band comprised of white people open for the Democratic Socialist in Brooklyn. As our liberal friends like to say about conservatives, many on Twitter quickly "pounced" on Sen. Sanders daring to have this band play. Liberals criticized him for having a band of white people rather one with Jamaican heritage. As noted by ThePalmsJamaica.com, Reggae comes from the term “rege-rege” which means “rags” or “ragged clothes” and was started in Jamaica in the 1960s. Reggae singers often sing about...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence. As previously reported, Maxine* was encouraged by her school counselor in BC’s Delta School District to identify as a boy while in seventh grade. When Maxine was 13 years old, Dr. Brenden Hursh and his colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in...

Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats? Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the “AP Stylebook” to use in writing news stories. Now you need two AP stylebooks, one for Democrats, about whom seldom is heard a discouraging word, and a second for the GOP, with a hundred different pejoratives. Two parties, two vocabularies. One positive, one negative — very bad, evil in fact. Consider the testimony by Michael Cohen last week in front of various Congressional committees. For example, since he worked for Donald Trump, Cohen was...

The most powerful person in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office is a tech millionaire with homes in the West Village and Maryland, who is behind a set of inter-related companies raising ethical eyebrows with good-government groups. Saikat Chakrabarti, 33, is the hard-left freshman’s chief of staff — the brains behind initiatives like the Green New Deal and the founder of a trio of companies that catapulted Ocasio-Cortez into Congress. But those companies raise red flags with government-watchdog groups who say Chakrabarti may have skirted campaign finance law. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign paid Justice Democrats, a Tennessee-based PAC founded by Chakrabarti, a total of...

While SpaceX has sent plenty of cargo Dragons to the space station, crew Dragon is a different beast. It docked autonomously under the station astronauts’ watchful eyes, instead of relying on the station’s robot arm for berthing. The capsule’s nose cap was wide open like a dragon’s mouth, to expose the docking mechanism. Behnken said that’s the way it should work when he and Hurley are on board; they may push a button or two and will have the ability to intervene, if necessary. As part of Sunday’s shakedown, the station astronauts sent commands for the Dragon to retreat and...

The Flatwoods Monster legend, which dates to Sept. 12, 1952, is gaining attention again, thanks to a new History Channel TV series, a video game and documentary. And now there is a museum in nearby Sutton that's drawing visitors eager to learn about the bizarre event that happened on a Flatwoods hilltop. As a way to nurture the Flatwoods legend, the Flatwoods Monster Museum opened in October 2017 at 208 Main St. in Sutton, sharing space with the Braxton County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Museum visitors can learn about the Flatwoods Monster, as described by the witnesses. Based on their...

The far-left Washington Post published an editor’s note Friday night admitting its leading coverage of the Covington High School story does not line up with the facts. Nowhere, though, does the Post apologize or even say it regrets smearing a group of innocent Catholic boys.

Fox News Published on Mar 2, 2019 Justice with Judge JeanineJudicial Watch’s Tom Fitton on why special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe will be a test for new Attorney General William Barr.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiZfAKMGYZA

The new MSM meme, “Trump NoKo Deal Fails,” has prompted a new round of “Oh noes” concerning imminent nuclear destruction, not seen since the “Cold War.” WaPo’s gender confused Charlie Jane Anders opined that “Pop culture is no longer full of apocalyptic nuclear visions. That’s too bad.” Now that Trump is president, and the promise of his impeachment is fading, the MSM wants everyone to live in an agitated state of a new fear and dread. Whatever happens as President Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to talk about Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, the risk of a...

United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Much of the focus on Second Amendment issues tends to be at the federal level. There are good reasons for this focus: Federal law sets the baseline for laws affecting our Second Amendment rights. Federal judges can overturn anti-Second Amendment state laws. The President can appoint new federal judges, and also can set the tone for what happens in the executive branch. We have been very fortunate to have President Donald Trump these last two years. Some may nitpick about the bump-stock ban via the regulatory process, but that is far better than the legislation anti-Second...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 1 Samuel 8 Israel Asks for a King 8 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.[a] 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba. 3 But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice. 4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a...

Are droughts, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters getting stronger and more frequent? Are carbon dioxide emissions, global temperatures and sea levels putting us on a path for climate catastrophe? Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, breaks down the facts about the environment and shows why the reality of climate change may be very different from what you hear in the media.

Bite Your Tongue! A Homily for the 8th Sunday of the Year Msgr. Charles Pope • March 2, 2019 • The first reading this Sunday reminds us that our speech discloses our character:When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind.Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested (Sirach 27:4-7).What we say reveals a great deal about us—more than we imagine. Speech is among our...