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Shortened title. Full title: One Denver Shooting Suspect Posted Anti-Christian, Anti-Trump Messages; the Other Thinks She’s a Boy One of the students charged with killing one and wounding eight at a high school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, doesn’t much care for the Bible, Christians, or Donald Trump. The other is a “transgender” male, meaning a girl who pretends to be or actually thinks she is a boy. Suspect Devon Erickson (shown) wrote anti-Christian, anti-Trump messages on social media, while the other, Maya McKinney, calls herself Alec. The motive for the shooting in the suburb of Denver is unclear, but a...

 May 10, 2019  The Sentinel reported part of the story of the Kavalec memo May 9th but we have more information now — and it is confirmed. Rep. Mark Meadows confirmed the State Department notes exposing Christopher Steele’s lies and more were transmitted to the FBI before submitting the application for the spy warrant of Carter Page.The FBI had four pieces of “derogatory information” about Steele from State Department official Kathleen Kavalec: Steele broke his FBI agreement and went to the State Department, he gave State false information, his political deadline was election day, and lastly, he was leaking to The...

Along the Black River in North Carolina, bald cypress trees have been quietly growing for millennia. Quite literally so: Scientists recently found trees over 2,000 years old - including one that is at least 2,624 years old. Another nearby tree was found to be 2,088 years old - and geoscientists believe that more bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) in the Three Sisters Swamp could be the same age or even older. Surprisingly, a tree named BLK227 was found to be at least 2,624 years old. That makes it a seedling or sapling in 605 BCE - a timeframe that predates the...

Meanwhile the big problem is that the devil has managed to make the Democrat Party his private headquarters,and no one seems able to root him out The devil (playing Hooky from Hell) has a tendency of throwing spittle-flecked hissy fits whenever confronted with religious symbols. Ditto for Democrat Pennsylvania state rep. Brian Sims, who went ballistic all for spotting an elderly lady quietly praying The Rosary in front of a Planned Parenthood facility. Satan, and his demons, “who roam throughout this world seeking the ruin of souls”, is an evil fixture in the reality of life in the Valley of...

Can an adulterer be a great surgeon? If your child needed care and the best surgeon had cheated on his wife, maybe more than once, would you let him operate? What if you are a Christian and he is not? Does that matter? Should it? In the secular realm of everyday life—the life that takes place outside the church in which believers and unbelievers interact, mostly happily, mostly without even noticing (or often having any way of knowing) the difference—those questions should answer themselves.

Virginia, Fairfax County, Education, and Trailers Virginia is an interesting educational and political study in how to destroy a formerly well-off state with tolerance and multi-culturalism dictated by politicians from Richmond and Washington, D.C. It is a microcosm of the civilization suicide that is taking place in Europe. Virginia is not very far behind the Seattle School District that sent a letter recently to teachers asking them to bless Muslim students in Arabic during Ramadan. Virginia obsesses over accommodating those who will not give an inch in their quest to be a specially protected class.

Breaking news, and it’s not good: CBS has cancelled the revival of Murphy Brown after one season, TVLine has learned. Candice Bergen returned to the title role that won her five Emmys during the show’s original 1988-98 CBS run, with series creator Diane English back as showrunner. The revival also brought back original cast members Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana), Faith Ford (Corky Sherwood) and Grant Shaud (Miles Silverberg), and added Jake McDorman as Murphy’s son Avery — now a reporter for the rival Wolf network — Tyne Daly as bar owner Phyllis and Nik Dodani as social media whiz Pat....

Officials in the town of Plougastel in the region of Brittany, which is located in northwest France, are offering about $2,250 if someone can decipher the roughly 20 lines of writing on the rock, which was first discovered a few years back, per the BBC. The inscription includes a series of capitalized letters, two dates — 1786 and 1787 — and carvings of a boat and a sacred heart, the BBC reported, which noted local experts have hypothesized it may be written in old Breton or Basque."This inscription is a mystery and it is for this that we are launching...

Microsoft is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to boost the use of “inclusive language” in Word. The feature is part of Ideas in Word, a forthcoming AI-powered online tool designed to improve users’ writing. “Beginning this fall, people working in Word Online who are in search of inspiration and insights on how to make their document better will be able to receive intelligent suggestions with Ideas – a feature that is already making people more productive in PowerPoint and Excel,” explained John Roach in Microsoft’s AI blog this week. “The Ideas in Word feature uses machine learning and intelligence...

James Comey has long been a thorn in the side of the President, having cemented his status as a DC swamp denizen during his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s inexcusable use of an unauthorized email server during her time as Secretary of State. Not only was Comey unwilling to charge Clinton with the obvious crime that she committed, he did so after explicitly explaining to the nation just how egregious the former First Lady’s grievances were.

The United Nations continues to turn a blind eye to the JCPOA’s fundamental flaws and the unenforceability of the ballistic missile restrictions in the Security Council resolution that endorsed the JCPOA. It has been a year since President Trump pulled the United States out of the Obama administration’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The other parties to the JCPOA - China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom – have remained in the deal. However, the Iranian regime is getting impatient with the Europeans for allegedly not fulfilling their supposed economic...

Newly released FBI documents reveal the FBI lost notes from a 2015 meeting with members of the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s (ICIG) office regarding the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to the Epoch Times. The news–according to the publication–raises concerns that information about an “explosive lead” from the ICIG to the FBI may be lost. The Times writes: The lost notes memorialized a meeting that took place on Aug. 3, 2015, less than a month after the ICIG made a referral to the FBI that classified information may have been disclosed in an unauthorized manner to a foreign power because...

Full Title: Ex-top FBI lawyer: 'Gratuitous' to name Dems who funded Steele dossier in Carter Page FISA applications The FBI's former top lawyer defended the bureau's controversial surveillance warrant applications against a member of President Trump's 2016 campaign. As general counsel, James Baker said he "wanted the burden on me to a significant degree" in preparing the paperwork to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. In front of a packed room at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Baker was prompted to discuss the Trump dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele....

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) on Friday announced that he has issued subpoenas for six years of President Trump’s tax returns, House Democrats' latest effort to obtain the returns. Neal said that he issued the subpoenas to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. The subpoenas direct the officials to send the information to the House panel by 5 p.m. on May 17. "After reviewing the options available to me, and upon the advice of counsel, I issued subpoenas today to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of the IRS for six...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope: Critics would be ‘happy’ if ‘we had hung 100 abuser priests in St. Peter’s Square’ ROME, May 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — If the Church had “hung 100 abuser priests in St. Peter’s Square” at last February’s Vatican sex abuse summit, anti-abuse organizations “would have been happy” but it would not have solved the problem, Pope Francis told the International Union of Superiors on Friday. In an off-the-cuff address at the Vatican, the Pope also told several hundred women religious that neither secular clothing nor the traditional habit is “worse or better,” and that it all depends on “discernment.” The Pope also...

Commanders launched the operation to rescue two French tourists snatched in neighbouring Benin earlier this month, before they could be handed over to militants in Mali. During the raid special forces found the kidnappers were also holding a US woman and a South Korean woman. Two French soldiers and four kidnappers were killed. Two kidnappers escaped. ...Commanders decided to act because the kidnappers were close to the Malian border and were believed to be planning to hand the hostages over to the Mali-based militant group Katiba Macina. "Once the hostages were in their hands it would have been impossible to...

fter sending B-town into a tizzy by announcing their surprise pregnancy, Arjun Rampal's girlfriend model Gabriella Demetriades can be seen slaying in her latest pics, one of which was posted by Arjun on his Instagram handle. Just like The Final Call actor, the world seems to be mesmerised by the elegant beauty of the South African supermodel. In the pics, Gabriella can be seen in extreme close-up pics, with different shades of eyeshadow adorning her beautiful eyes. In all the beautiful pictures, she is holding a flower close to her face, which makes her look even more colourful and in-trend...

-In a recent article in The Federalist, by Rebecca Kathryn Jude and Chauncey M. DePree, Jr., Ms. Jude related an experience during a continuing education seminar for lawyers in Mississippi. The experience was illustrative of the mindset of those who are voluntarily unarmed. In this case, they also were lawyers. First, the hypothetical situation offered by Adam Kilgore, general counsel for the Mississippi Bar.  From thefederalist.com: A man has been fired from his job. He is upset. He hires you as his attorney. You are of the opinion he has an excellent case and file a complaint on his...

The Senate confirmed Judge Joseph Bianco and Michael Park to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on separate votes Wednesday and Thursday, putting President Donald Trump on the verge of flipping the panel to conservative control. The 2nd Circuit is the federal appeals court that covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Given its jurisdiction over Manhattan, the 2nd Circuit has a large and important docket of corporate and securities law cases. Bianco and Park are Trump’s second and third appointees to that panel. If Trump fills the remaining two vacancies on the 2nd Circuit, Republican appointees will control the...

(CNN)Donald Trump is not worthy of his upcoming ceremonial state visit to Britain, suggested London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday, saying that the US President is not "in the same class" as his predecessors. Most US presidents have not made state visits to the UK—the exceptions are Barack Obama, who visited in 2011 and George W. Bush, who visited in 2003. "History tells us only two [US] Presidents have had a state visit," Khan said during an interview on British radio station LBC. "President Trump is not in the same class as those two." "Of course we should have a...