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Every year, many thousands of American parents find that the son or daughter they sent to college has been transformed by college into a leftist. For left-wing parents, this may be a blessing, but for parents who are not leftist—not to mention conservative—it is often painfully jolting. It is jolting because their beloved child now holds America in contempt; prefers socialism to capitalism; regards all white people and police as racist; believes the Bible, Christianity, and Judaism are not only nonsense, but dangerous nonsense; no longer believes men and women are inherently different—or even that male and female objectively exist;...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an actress. – Everyone should watch this video. Trust me, just watch it. It’ll be the best 23 minutes you invest this week. I’m going to keep this pinned at the top of each piece I post for the next few days in order to maximize its – and her – exposure. This college admissions bribery scandal is just fascinating to me. Here you have a bunch of mainly-white, mainly-liberal wealthy people using their status and money to buy their kids’ way into some of the Ivy League...

Lenny Dykstra plans to vigorously defend himself Wednesday when he answers charges in court that he ran an illegal rooming house out his Union County home. The former Mets and Phillies star and World Series great blames one or two rogue neighbors for landing him in hot water and says demands from township housing inspectors have been unreasonable. “I don’t know what they mean about nuisance,” Dykstra said in a Feb. 8 interview with NJ Advance Media. “I don’t understand.” Linden City Councilwoman Gretchen Hickey has accused Dykstra of illegally renting out rooms in his house for $1,000 each –...

Warning: some profanity Opinion Rhapsody (to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen) Lyrics We think it’s real nice To have freedom of speech Grateful for that right No complaints about liberty It’s just sometimes Exchanges online get mean I’m at my keyboard With anonymity So then I get fired up And I post Get some likes Gain some foes I love my opinions Others are inferior to me To me Drama On Instagram Someone posted a new meme That’s politically extreme Comments, fights have just begun As these quote unquote adults Start to engage Drama (I love my opinions)...

The War on Catholic Judicial Appointments began in 2017 when Dianne Feinstein used her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee to go after Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — who hopefully soon will be a selection for the United States Supreme Court. In Feinstein’s shockingly bigoted words barked at Judge Barrett: “The dogma lives loudly within you.” That was not enough for Sen. Feinstein, whose own lineage traces to maternal grandparents who abandoned Judaism for Russian Orthodox Christianity long before she ever was born....

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) commented on the college admissions scandal in which the Justice Department has charged several wealthy parents.

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The Orthodox Churches have no right to speak on the matter of the Ukrainian crisis other than to affirm the decisions and actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, according to Patriarch Bartholomew’s reply to the Albanian Church that was recently published in Greek and subsequently in Russian. In December, Pat. Bartholomew wrote to the primates of the Orthodox Churches throughout the world, calling on them to recognize the results of December 15’s “unification council” that created a new ecclesiastical structure in Ukraine. On January 14, the Albanian Church responded that while it cannot accept the Russian Church’s decision to break...

(CNSNews.com) – “This has been obviously the worst year of my life,” Lisa Page said in her closed-door testimony before a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees last July. “And certainly, if I had this to do over again, I wouldn’t write this shit down in my personal – in a work-related text message. But we have not been treated fairly,” she said. Ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) released the entire transcript of Page’s testimony on Tuesday, and much of that testimony focused on the text messages Page exchanged with Peter Strzok on her FBI-issued cell phone....

President Donald Trump announced an emergency order from the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday grounding Boeing 737 Max jets in the wake of an Ethiopian Airlines crash Sunday and a Lion Air accident in October that together killed 346 people. Trump's announcement came as the FAA faced mounting pressure from aviation advocates and others to ban flights of the planes pending the completion of investigations into the crash Sunday that killed 157 people and the accident in Indonesia in October in which 189 people perished. . "We’re going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights...

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New research has discovered that foreign noncitizens use nearly two times the amount of welfare as native-born Americans. Both legal and illegal aliens fall into the category of foreigners who take from the welfare system. According to a report by Breitbart, in recently released research by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), analysts discovered that about 63 percent of noncitizen households, those who live legally and illegally in the U.S., use some form of public welfare while only about 35 percent of native-born American households are on welfare. California and Texas have the most expansive welfare-dependent immigration. For example, more...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is under fire from conservative activists for supporting a Democratic effort to block President Trump’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall. The activists have also raised Tillis’s legislation to shield special counsel Robert Mueller from any interference by Trump. Some county GOP party leaders are openly calling for Tillis to face a primary challenge. And while House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a Trump loyalist, told The Hill he has no plans to run for the Senate, another conservative Trump ally, Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), may heed the call. When "you have a Republican...

FULL TITLE: Exclusive — Donald Trump: Bill Blocking National Emergency Declaration for Border Wall ‘Going to Be Vetoed,’ ‘Hard to Believe’ Any GOP Senators Voting for It President Donald Trump marveled that any Senate Republican could vote against his decision to declare a National Emergency on the Southern border in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office on Monday. But Trump vowed again that he would veto the measure regardless of whether it passes the Senate. Trump suggested that Democrats in the Senate and the handful of Republicans planning to vote to block the national emergency declaration...

Lisa Page testified - last summer- that Loretta Lynch (likely with the knowledge and advice of Obama)  blocked the prosecution of Hillary Clinton in 2016: Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under questioning from Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe last summer that "the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information," the congressman alleged in a social media post late Tuesday, citing a newly unearthed transcript of Page's closed-door testimony.Page and since-fired FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, who were romantically involved, exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, and Republicans...

Boyhood, the bridge and the beach: Chris Christie's new book offers many New Jersey details

The first of several former Obama administration officials and former aides to Hillary Clinton is set to be deposed Thursday after a judge ruled in January that they must answer questions under oath about the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks and the Clinton email scandal. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the discovery after a lawsuit was brought by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, which is seeking to uncover “whether the Benghazi scandal was one reason for keeping Mrs. Clinton’s email secret.” The conservative group announced Wednesday that Justin Cooper, a former Clinton Foundation adviser who played a role in setting...

The co-founder of an alleged New York sex cult pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case that features allegations of female "slaves" forced into having the spiritual leader's initials branded onto their flesh. Nancy Salzman, 65, admitted to committing racketeering offenses, including identify theft, while working as president of the organization known as NXIVM. Known to her followers as "Prefect," Salzman faces 33 to 41 months in prison. Her sentencing was set for July 10. "I did things I knew were wrong and justified it was for the greater good," Salzman said in a hushed voiced during a hearing at Brooklyn...

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A co-founder of an embattled upstate New York self-help organization is expected to plead guilty in a case featuring sensational claims that some followers became branded sex slaves. Nancy Salzman is due in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon for a plea hearing. There was no response to a request for comment from one of her lawyers. Salzman was a co-founder of NXIVM, a cult-like group based near Albany. Prosecutors say a secret society within the organization branded women with a spiritual leader's initials and forced them to have sex with him.