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The line of questioning toward Texas Longhorns cornerback Kris Boyd turned oddly physiological during the NFL Scouting Combine. According to ESPN.com's Jeff Legwold, Boyd said one team asked him if he had two testicles. Boyd responded affirmatively and wondered why the query was useful. The combine is annually an event when teams posit questions to incoming rookies that can vary between peculiar and downright offensive.

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal would cause people in cities to starve to death Patrick Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace.He just made this tweet regarding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: (original, archive)The text states:Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death.I think Moore’s comment would have been more effective without those...

Cardinal Cupich Dragged His Feet on Case of Child Porn Priest Chicago's Cdl. Blase Cupich waited nearly a month before removing a seminary rector found in possession of male child porn. He also failed to report the priest immediately to law enforcement — a violation of the Dallas Charter — which gave the offending priest time to get rid of the primary evidence. Fr. Octavio Muñoz Father Octavio Muñoz was arrested in 2016 for possession of child porn after Cook County investigators found hundreds of DVDs and videotapes "that appear to depict minors in sexual penetration" as well as "emails containing stories of...

Worried neighbors called the police in Minnesota this week, when they noticed a man standing outside in the cold without a coat, hugging his pillow. Police in Jordan, outside Minneapolis, said, "the caller certainly was not wanting to get too close thinking who is this deranged person standing outside in the cold hugging a pillow," which sounds reasonable enough. Luckily for everyone involved, the deranged person hugging a pillow was only a cardboard cutout of Mike Lindell, the inventor of MyPillow, hugging a pillow. Jordan Police posted the story to Facebook on Thursday, and kept a sense of humor over...

Morning Joe had an f-word for President Trump today. No, not that F-word. Another one: "felony." As you'll see in the mash-up, nine times in the show's opening segment Joe Scarborough, Nick Confessore and Michael Steele collectively accused President Trump of committing a "felony" in connection with alleged hush money payments. Like a group of pre-teen boys getting kicks from using curse words, the Morning Joe gang blithely accused the sitting President of the United States of a felony. But a consideration of the facts makes the likelihood of a successful felony prosecution seem remote. Get the rest of the...

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday announced he is running for president, launching a 2020 campaign in which he will lean on his Western roots and decades of executive experience. He made the announcement in a video titled "Standing Tall," which tracks Hickenlooper's life from laid-off geologist, to owner of a brew pub, to mayor of Denver and to governor, and touts the Democrat's experience in a variety of fields as a key reason he should be the person to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. Hickenlooper casts the President as a "bully" in the more than two-minute...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has responded to The Post’s report of her getting a ride home from an event Sunday in a gas-guzzling, for-hire minivan — saying it belongs to her aunt. “I will have you know my tía was very upset that the ny post insulted her minivan,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Sunday night. “If they saw how many goldfish snacks were in this thing they’d say I was killing the ocean too.” The freshman congresswoman was caught on camera making her getaway from a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens on Sunday inside the white Chrysler Town & Country —...

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is on the ropes. He has two thorns in his side that could either force his resignation or at least significantly dim chances for reelection in October.   The first problem is that Trudeau's former justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, testified under oath before a parliamentary committee that Trudeau and his top aides tried to pressure her to drop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a large engineering company headquartered in Montreal.  The company is accused of paying the late Libyan strongman Muammar Khadafy's family nearly $50 million in bribes between 2001 and 2011 to secure contracts. This is illegal according...

Thousands of dancers from Rio de Janeiro's elite samba schools rolled out their traditional parades of feathers and sequins as the main business of the giant annual Carnival got under way last night. In total, 14 samba schools from the elite so-called 'special group' will be taking part in the parades last night and on Monday evening at the packed purpose-built stadium known as the Sambadrome, to compete for the prestigious Carnival title. Each school, featuring up to 4,000 shimmering dancers, elaborate giant floats and deafening percussion, will take 75 minutes to parade down the 700 yards long Sambadrome track....

Without the claimed “scientific consensus” on global warming or climate change, the Green New Deal becomes just another progressive con game, but with the highest stakes ever. Writing in Forbes, James Taylor shows that the supposed 97% “scientific consensus” on global warming is false: Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of...

Tesla is abandoning its dealerships and slashing prices to survive after its monthly sales tanked by 77 percent since the December 31 cut in federal all-electric car subsidies.

If this post in Watts Up With That? is correct, an inadvertent, serendipitous scientific discovery is responsible for reshaping the modern world of geopolitics to America’s advantage – and nobody noticed. Fracking is usually credited with being the critical technology for the reshaping to which I refer: the rather sudden conversion of the United Sates from a huge net energy importer to (currently) self-sufficient, and clearly heading toward a major net energy exporter. This is far more than a simple balance-of-trade issue, through that is very important. It even transcends the millions of jobs and economic prosperity that has...

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At the heart of Christianity is the doctrine of the mystical union of the believer with Christ. The New Testament does not only call us to believe in Christ, but to believe into Christ. Faith links us directly into Christ. We become in Him and He in us. This mysterious union is carried over into the relationship between Christ and the church. The church is His bride, whom He has brought into a real, profound, and powerful union. We normally assume that the image of the church as the bride of Christ is a metaphor borrowed from the institution of...

Democrat Joe Biden has been lurking in the 2020 presidential shadows being presented by those with their 2020 fingers crossed as an adult in the romper room of pubescent progressives waiting for their Spartacus moments as they learn the complexities of basic math and leadership skills. Biden was the top choice for 28 percent of likely Democratic primary voters surveyed in a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst poll, despite his not having declared a 2020 presidential bid. Yet while critics of President Trump’s foreign policy accuse him of a degree of recklessness and immaturity that place the nation’s security at...

President Trump on Sunday suggested that it was Congressional Democrats and their questioning of Michael Cohen that may have led to the outcome of last week’s summit meeting with North Korea. In a tweet Trump said: “For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the “walk.” Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!” The summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was abruptly cut short Thursday after...

In September of 2014, I had these words to say: "The president acts like he's a king. He ignores the Constitution. He arrogantly says, 'If Congress will not act, then I must.' Donald J. Trump agreed with me when he said in November 2014 that President Barack Obama couldn’t make a deal on immigration so “now he has to use executive action, and this is a very, very dangerous thing that should be overridden easily by the Supreme Court.” I would literally lose my political soul if I decided to treat President Trump different than President Obama. (Although, I’ll note,...

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