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...Ed lived on the streets of Manchester, Glasgow, and London for two months. One night in Glasgow he saw 26 volunteers give food to two homeless people. He put on weight as passers-by gave him fast food, burgers, and sandwiches.

“‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God’” (Matthew 5:9). One of the most obvious facts of world history is that peace does not characterize man’s earthly existence. Yet two thousand years ago Jesus instructed God’s people to be peacemakers. He gave us a special mission to help restore the peace lost at the Fall. The peace of which Christ speaks is unlike anything the world knows or strives for. His peace is not concerned with resolving conflict between governments and nations, with righting the wrongs of human oppression. His peace is the inner, personal peace...

Before every election, both parties try to figure out what states they are competitive in and they begin to work on a budget. The same holds true for PACs, who often has more money than the party. Priorities USA, an influential left-leaning political action committee, helped former President Barack Obama win re-election in 2012. They also worked for Hillary in 2016. They have surveyed the political landscape and have decided that Ohio is a low priority. In political speak, that means it’s not worth the money. That figures, the Democrats are keying on Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Michigan. From The...

Fear is a great motivator, as is anger. Those two emotions are among the most powerful and destructive feelings that human beings can experience. Politicians use them, to varying degrees, regularly and effectively. But rarely has a political party so openly embraced these two sentiments as the argument for supporting them. Democrats no longer use fear and anger as tactics, they’re now both the means and the end to winning elections. And for a large percentage of the public, it works.Successful politicians who have a lasting place in history have taken the other route. Ronald Reagan sought to inspire the...

The Campaign Update Week in Review (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Week in Review, courtesy of the @GDBlackmon Twitter Feed… The week started with a really bad poll for the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Bernie Sanders Democrats, and went downhill from there.:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=276330586596368 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests the state of America is ‘10% better than garbage’ and implies former President Reagan and Roosevelt were racist.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, the airline said, and there were no survivors, according to the state broadcaster. The flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8.38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8.44 am. “There are no survivors onboard the flight, which carried passengers from 33 countries,” said state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, quoting an unidentified source at the airline. Flight ET 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62...

The Talk Shows March 10th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Larry Kudlow, director of the U.S. Economic Council; Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif. The panel will be former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Jonathan Swan of A(ss)xios, Shelby Holliday of The Wall Street Journal and Juan Williams, designated moron of Fox News. The program salutes Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has decided against running for president (because he would LOSE); Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Schitt, D-Calif. The panel will...

The FDNY has finally fired its alleged woman-beater smoke-eater. Brooklyn firefighter Clyde Phillips was axed Wednesday after his third arrest stemming from charges of domestic violence, The Post has learned. Phillips was charged on Feb. 23 in Caldwell, NJ with contempt for violating a New York City restraining order put in place after a 2018 attack on an ex-girlfriend, said Katherine Carter, spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Carter said a violation could include anything from phoning or texting to physical contact, but she would not elaborate. The FDNY suspended Phillips on Feb. 27, then fired him on March...

(FULL TITLE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses her SXSW talk to label FDR's New Deal 'racist' compared to her 'Green New Deal' and protests minorities being treated like 'garbage' - as she draws a bigger audience than any Democrat 2020 hopeful) She came. She saw. She conquered. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominated the South by Southwest conference with her mere presence, bringing in a larger crowd than any of the 2020 presidential contenders, all of whom were asked about her or her Green New Deal in their own sessions at the popular event. The 2,000 plus ballroom - one of the biggest in...

To the casual moralist you don’t slap sanctions on a country on its knees minding its own business. Never mind the country has a government of looters who campaign on a ticket of lies about Israel and fete Hamas terror leaders and a plane highjacker on home soil. South Africa is not neighbouring Zimbabwe, on which President Trump already slapped sanctions, although the Cato Institute warned him that South Africa is on the Zimbabwean road to hell. (Hyperlink needed). For now the country remains afloat. The problem (call it the exemplar effect) is somewhat different.. .....

Democrats read transgender kids book ‘I Am Jazz’ on floor of House of Representatives WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – To commemorate a day set aside by pro-LGBT lobbyists and the nation’s largest teacher union to promote gender fluidity, two Democrat congresswomen read the infamous “transgender” children’s book I Am Jazz on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday. Sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and the National Education Association (NEA), the fourth annual “Jazz and Friends National Day of School and Community Readings” is supposedly meant to help “foster safe and welcoming schools...

With Trump’s Deal of the Century in the offing, an anti-Israel legal opinion in the State Department has surfaced, which outlaws all Israeli communities over the Green Line. CUFI, which speaks for 4 million Christians, as well as the RCA and ZOA, are urging the Administration to rescind the controversial document. The fear is that Israel will be in a disadvantageous position if the "Deal of the Century" is published and an official pro-Arab legal opinion, negating all settlements, remains intact. Pro-Israel organizations call for the opinion, also known as the Hansell memorandum, to be rescinded, while BDS organizations are...

Charter schools, homeschooling coming under heavy fire from teacher unions March 4, 2019 (American Thinker) — For the first time in a generation, there is labor unrest in America's public schools. Strikes in Los Angeles, Denver, Oakland, and West Virginia as well as threatened strikes in other localities are more than teacher unions flexing their muscles to get more pay and benefits for their members. At issue everywhere is the success of charter schools and the perceived threat they pose to the nation's public schools. Indeed, Ray Domanico of the Manhattan Institute points out that the increased activism of the...

Proposal at Vatican to change Eucharist would create a ‘new religion’ ROME, March 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Experts including Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider are sounding the alarm over a shocking proposal at the Vatican to consider changing the matter of the Eucharist. Such a move, critics warn, would invalidate the Sacrament and create, in effect, a “new religion.” Jesuit theologian Father Francisco Taborda last week raised the possibility that the upcoming Amazonian Synod scheduled for next October might consider changing the matter of the Eucharist, allowing the use of a South American vegetable called yuca rather than...

Warning to American Jews: Wake Up Before It’s Too Late! Since I was a kid, Jews have been married to the Democratic Party. Everyone in my Brooklyn neighborhood — primarily Jews, Irish, and blacks — voted straight Democratic. If you announced a deviation from the party line, they would look at you as though you were from outer space. It made a lot of sense. The Democratic Party of the 1950s was the party of the underdog. In contrast, today’s Democrats represent America’s social and cultural elites. “How is it possible,” asked author David Horowitz, “that Democrats can pose as...

Study: Islamic jihad accounts for 91% of EuropeC “The newly released Black and White Book of Terrorism in Europe has revealed radical Islamic terrorists have accounted for 91 percent of the total terror victims since the year 2000.” 20 percent were reportedly murdered by jihad suicide bombers. We know that the rest perished in knife attacks, truck attacks, gun attacks, etc. Any and all means are used in order to murder and harm the infidel. Maybe for some, this 91% statistic is surprising, but not for regular readers of Jihad Watch. Efforts to hide the truth behind lies about “Islamophobia”...

Denmark: 14 people face prosecution and up to 3 years prison for sharing video of Muslims beheading hiker I didn’t run the video here because it made me sick, but Danish authorities have another motive: they want to make sure that as few people as possible realize the nature and magnitude of the global jihad. “And to prove that this beheading video won’t deter other young women from backpacking in Morocco, the liberal Independent news site in the U.K. is promoting backpacking trips to Morocco for single young women in celebration of International Women’s Day.” If any more tourists are...

Germany: Woman marries Muslim migrant, converts to Islam, helps him plot jihad massacre Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that her new religion commands her to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities remain resolutely incurious about this recurring phenomenon. “Germany Charges Couple Who Tested Ricin on Hamster With Plotting Islamist Attack,” Reuters, March 7, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): BERLIN (Reuters) – A Tunisian man and his German wife who bought ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster have been charged with plotting Islamist-motivated attacks using a biological weapon, German prosecutors said on Thursday....

In the aftermath of the Hanoi Summit, President Trump has been barraged with attempts to undermine his confidence in the good faith of Kim Jong Un and his intentions to deal fairly with the United States in the negotiation process concerning denuclearization and de-escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula. One of the primary causes of concern has been a series of reports from NBC News claiming that “commercial” satellite footage shows that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been engaging in fresh construction at their Sohae Launch Facility in preparation for an alleged missile launch or test....