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DANIELS, WV (WVNS) -- Firefighters made an incredible discovery Sunday while searching in the rubble of a church fire. Firefighters responded to Freedom Ministries Church on Grandview Road in Daniels around 1 a.m. Sunday, March 3, 2019. Firefighters said as they were going through the wreckage, they noticed not a single Bible was burned and the church's cross was untouched.

From Santa Marta an Order Has Gone Forth. But Cardinal Bassetti Is Not Obeying Italy is Pope Francis’s backyard, in addition to being his country of origin. And so it comes as no surprise that he should take a strong interest in the who and how of leadership at the CEI, the Italian episcopal conference.This has been seen since 2013, when Francis imposed as secretary general of the organism the semi-unknown Nunzio Galantino, who essentially took over - strong as he was with the authority of his backer, the pope - for the president of the CEI at the time,...

Stalin Kicked The Bucket: Ray Anderson [1953] Old Joe kicked the bucket, he's long gone. He won't worry us from now on. He lived in a place they call Moscow. His number came up and he had to go Yes, old Joe's dead and gone. He stayed around too long. And nobody now can save his hide, 'Cause old Joe lay right down and died. Old Joe won't worry us no more. He killed the helpless by the score. Now I hope he's satisfied, Since old Joe's taken his last ride Yes, old Joe's dead and gone. He stayed around...

Rep. Maxine Waters launched a scathing attack on President Trump, calling him “unworthy” and saying that “God will never forgive” him. Waters unloaded on the president in eight tweets late Monday night, starting with a criticism of his meeting with Kim Jong Un last week. “Lying Trump came away from fake summit with terrorist & killer Kim Jong-un w/ nothing because Kim never intended to offer anything. Don the con man got conned! Hey number 45, are you still in love w/ Kim?” the California Democrat wrote. “Lying Trump said he believes killer Kim Jong Un, that he didn't know...

When Does Lent Start and End This Year? For the Catholic faith Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on March 6, 2019; if you are following the 40 days tradition, Lent ends on Holy Saturday, April 20, 2019. Note: For the Orthodox Christian, (my faith) Lent begins on March 11 and ends on April 28, but I'm going to start on March 6 and end it on Greek Easter. The Lenten Timeline The beginning of Lent is marked by many with ashes hence the name Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and Ash Wednesday is always 46...

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That fractious coven of freshman Democrats so beloved of the media — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib — have been patiently indulged by the leadership of their party. The obvious reason for putting up with the antics of these three involves the hope that they will help get out the millennial vote in 2020. But this trio of weird sisters is now stirring up such a bilious brew of dissension in their caucus and bad PR that prominent Democrats are starting to complain, particularly about the anti-Semitism of Omar and Tlaib.

Can this possibly be legal? Somebody apparently thinks so, because copies of the Mueller report are being offered for sale online right now, and according to the pre-order announcement the release date is going to be “March 26”. As a former attorney, I have no idea how anyone can legally do this. As I have documented previously, when Mueller is done with his report he is supposed to submit it to Attorney General William Barr, and then it will be up to Barr to determine how much of the report, if any, will be made available to the public. I...

The mother of soak-the-rich Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she was forced to flee the Big Apple and move to Florida because the property taxes were so high. “I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I’m paying $600 a year in Florida. It’s stress-free down here,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Mail from her home in Eustis, a town of less than 20,000 in central Florida north of Orlando. The mother of two — who calls herself BOC — said she picked Eustis because a relative already lived there, and right before Christmas 2016, she paid...

The parents asked a state court judge Friday for permission to retrieve his sperm before his organs were removed for donation later that day at Westchester Medical Center. They argued the procedure needed to be done that day. “We are desperate to have a small piece of Peter that might live on and continue to spread the joy and happiness that Peter bought to all of our lives,” read the parent’s filing in state court in Westchester County. The first documented post-mortem sperm removal was reported in 1980 and the first baby conceived using the procedure was born in 1999,...

For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant — effectively curing the recipient. Their work, which was published in Nature and will be presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle on Tuesday, may encourage scientists working on new gene therapies based on similar principles and give hope to those living with the infection. The case comes nearly 10 years after Timothy Ray Brown announced he was the so-called “Berlin Patient” — the first person who was functionally cured of HIV and able to stop taking...

HELL—In a statement offered to reporters during a 15-minute recess from hell, dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin announced he now identifies as a strong woman of color in order to deflect criticism away from his socialist policies that killed millions. "I now identify as a strong woman of color, and a lot of men simply can't handle that," Stalin said, sassily snapping his fingers in a "Z" formation. "It drives them crazy to know that a strong woman of color such as myself can wield so much power." Stalin stated that white men simply feel threatened by his accomplishments...

Another member of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet has resigned over a scandal that has shaken his government in an election year. Treasury Board president Jane Philpott said Monday it is “untenable” for her continue to serve in cabinet because she could not defend the government. Former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould testified last week that Trudeau and senior members of his government inappropriately tried to pressure her to avoid prosecution of a major Canadian engineering company in a case involving allegations of corruption in Libya.

Colorado’s Cory Gardner has a difficult, but doable, roadmap for re-election Under normal circumstances, Sen. Cory Gardner would be a clear favorite for re-election. Personable and politically astute, the Colorado Republican ran a terrific campaign in 2014 to oust Democratic incumbent Mark Udall. But President Donald Trump has energized partisan Democrats and alienated suburban swing voters nationally, and that has made Gardner the most vulnerable GOP senator up for re-election in 2020. Still, it would be unwise for Democrats to count their Colorado chickens before they’ve hatched. Gardner has an uphill fight, but it’s not an impossible one.

A video of London's famous Highgate cemetery shot in 2014 w/o annoying background music. The cemetery was one of several opened in the early Victorian era as a response to the problem of overcrowded churchyards in the city and a lack of space for burial in an age when cremation was not yet an accepted option. These cemeteries were originally designed as not just repositories for the dead, but beautifully landscaped parks for the living to enjoy. Gradually Highgate was overtaken by nature and fell into disrepair. In the mid 1970's it was abandoned by its owners and closed. Several...

In his 1980 classic, “The Cost of Good Intentions,” author Charles Morris chronicled how New York liberals spent the city into disaster. Free housing, college tuition, health care and welfare skyrocketed until a fiscal crisis ended the binge. As the city nearly went bankrupt, crime soared and families and businesses fled. Liberals have been replaced by progressives, but no matter what they call themselves, a new generation of New York pols are ignoring history as they tax and spend at astronomical levels. This time, there isn’t any excuse about good intentions. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo both...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are looking for 10 people who attacked a security guard Saturday night at the H&M store on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. The 24-year-old guard at the store in the 800 block of North Michigan Avenue was not seriously injured. At about 8 p.m., the guard told two female shoppers to make their final purchases because the store was closing. Then, the women started punching and kicking him. Eight other people got involved and, at one point, one of the women pepper sprayed the guard in the face. All offenders, who were between the ages of 15...

Money raised from donors by two political action committees (at least one of them problematic) was mysteriously "transferred" to two private corporations (LLCs) controlled by Saikat Chakrabarti, the founder of Justice Democrats, the group that recruited, trained, and ran the campaign that got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected to Congress.  There is no record of those private corporations providing services in exchange for the donations, which raises the question of what was done with this money. Alana Goodman writes in The Examiner: Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his...

Repent of Lent: How Spiritual Disciplines Can Be Bad for Your Soul Christ fasted for forty days in the wilderness on our behalf, so we wouldn’t have to; not as a model, but as a substitute Written by Brian Lee | Monday, February 27, 2017 His passion was not a discipline that made his heart pure in its love for his Father, it was the price to be paid for our sins, and he paid it in full. Christians are called to suffer as Christ suffered, that is, with the same purpose. We are called to suffer not for ourselves,...

Two separate but related scandals are rocking Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her puppet-master Saikat Chakrabarti — the man who recruited, trained, and financed her election victory, and who now is her chief of staff. Scandal number one is well explained by Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation.  In essence, federal campaign finance law allows donations larger than the $2,500 limit for contributions to actual campaigns if they are sent to a political action committee (PAC) but strictly forbids control of PACs by candidates or campaigns.  There is strong evidence that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti controlled just such a PAC and may...