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FULL TITLE: Roger Stone Asks for Evidence Russians Hacked DNC Server – Court Won’t Provide It Because They Don’t Have the Proof Roger Stone is requesting proof that the Russians hacked tehe DNC server, as was reported in the Mueller report. He claims if the Russians didn’t hack the DNC, his case should be dismissed. The problem for the Mueller team is that they and the FBI have never reportedly actually looked at the server. Roger Stone and his legal team are requesting the report from Crowdstrike, the firm connected with the Deep State who reportedly did inspect the DNC...

Legislation proposed in the Canadian province of Ontario would criminalize public displays by Christians deemed hateful to Muslims, the LGBT community and other victim groups designated by the left. The bill, “Prohibiting Hate-Promoting Demonstrations at Queen’s Park Act, 2019,” bans any demonstration, rally or other activity that is deemed hateful by the Speaker from being permissible on legislative grounds – effectively insulating the government from Christian speech. Life Site News explains that the nebulous nature of Canada’s anti-hate laws essentially give leftist legislators carte blanche to ban all Christian protest: The problem with this bill, however, lies in the fact...

team of researchers who in 2015 correctly predicted where the Zika outbreak would strike now are placing their scientifically backed bets on where the next big measles outbreak will happen. Number one on a list of 25 counties in danger: Cook County. Here’s the full list, available with the study at the website of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in which the study was published. 1. Cook, Ill.

A top Colombian cartel boss pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to having bribed a top federal investigator with cash and prostitutes in order to have an indictment against him successfully dismissed. Jose Bayron “Cacheton” Piedrahita Ceballos appeared before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola this week in Florida where he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government by bribing a federal agent. He is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on July 19. Federal authorities extradited Piedrahita from Colombia on April 5, 2019, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) paid $50,000 from her campaign's coffers to her daughter in recent months to chip away at six figures of accrued debt for an operation that pulls in large sums of money for the congresswoman's campaign committee, Federal Election Commission filings show. Rep. Waters's committee disbursed two payments to her daughter, Karen, in the amounts of $42,000 and $8,000 during the first quarter, which runs from Jan. 1 to March 31. The $50,000 in payments were made to Karen for running a slate mailer, or endorsement mailer, operation from the campaign and were the most paid...

Pope Francis has told young economists and entrepreneurs that the world needs a different kind of economy, “one that cares for the environment and does not despoil it.” In a letter to young business people for an upcoming event titled “Economy of Francesco,” named for Saint Francis of Assisi, the pope declared that “the safeguarding of the environment cannot be divorced from ensuring justice for the poor and finding answers to the structural problems of the global economy. (emphasis mine)” “We need to correct models of growth incapable of guaranteeing respect for the environment,” he said.

"What I'd like to see with Iran, I'd like to see them call me." "You know John Kerry speaks to them a lot. John Kerry tells them not to call. That's a violation of the Logan Act. And frankly, he should be prosecuted on that, but my people don't want to do anything that's ... only the Democrats do that kind of stuff, you know." https://youtu.be/h9ToZNktPkY?t=31

Frustrated with the unsatisfactory results of the Mueller Report, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) wants to initiate Congressional trials for members of the Trump Administration “who defy our demands for documents and testimony.” Schiff characterized these prosecutions as “mini-trials that could be conducted without the presence of the accused. They would be tasked with a simple decision: has the accused complied with our demands or not. The House would render judgment and determine whether the accused would be jailed, fined, or both. With fines running up to $25,000 per day of continued disobedience, not to...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Saturday that he intends to speed up plans to secure the border while visiting a Texas border city. Shanahan also said Pentagon officials would remain at the border until it is secure, according to the Associated Press. “We’re not going to leave until the border is secure,” he said...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP,is seeking public input concerning a proposed border barrier project to construct new bollard wall... in Pima and Cochise Counties. CBP proposes to replace up to approximately 63 miles of pedestrian fencing and vehicle barrier with new bollard wall. The project also includes road construction and improvement and lighting installation... Comments and information will be accepted until Friday, July 5, 2019

A new abortion law in the US state of Georgia has fuelled calls for a Hollywood boycott from actors and production companies. A number of actors had signed an open letter in March pledging not to work there should the law pass. Governor Brian Kemp signed the so-called "heartbeat" bill on Tuesday, which bans most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. It is the latest state to enact legislation restricting abortion. The law is scheduled to come into effect on 1 January, but is expected to face challenges in the courts. A federal judge blocked such a law...

American Bridge, a left-wing super PAC associated with Media Matters, is trying to take down a top Trump campaign staffer with out-of-context blog posts. An article published in Talking Points Memo (TPM) on Friday accused Matt Wolking, a Trump campaign communications staffer, of publishing “Islamophobic content and conspiracy theories” on his personal blog between 2008 and 2011. “In an archived version of the site accessible via the Internet Archive, Wolking said over 90 million Muslims were ‘murderous thugs,’ voiced support for banning the construction of mosques, and compared the passage of the Affordable Care Act to the Sept. 11 terrorist...

Islamic Finance is a scam. It requires weird workarounds to make sense in today's world. Islamic Mortgages are are a scam. They charge you more and add no value. Muslims who follow these rules are far worse off than Muslims who get conventional bank mortgages. Home buyers tend to be better off and grow equity, have a home that they can leave for the kids, are able renovate as they please, and not be at the mercy of their landlords to put arbitrary rules or kick them out as they please. Some Islamic mortgages are actually conventional mortgages repackaged as...

When applying for college, Anna Conner said Baylor University was a top choice for her. She grew up heavily in the church, but as a gay young woman, things proved complicated. The church wasn’t accepting of the LGBTQ community. “Can I be gay and Christian? Will God love me? Am I going to hell? There’s always those questions,” Conner said. ... Conner, from Houston and now a junior at Baylor, joined the club Gamma Alpha Upsilon, formerly known as the “Sexuality Identity Forum,” a LGBTQ student group on campus where she found community and solace. But the same feeling of...

Joe Biden’s recent jump to clear front-runner in the 2020 Democratic nomination contest is being credited to the concept of “electability” – the belief that Biden, of all Democrats seeking the nomination, would represent the most formidable nominee against President Trump. And with Democrats’ anger at the incumbent at a boiling point, and continued disappointment at the 2016 outcome, there is supposedly a willingness by many Democrats to compromise their real attitudes and just ensure that Trump leaves the White House. Not so fast, some people reply, pointing out the list of times when major parties chose to nominate the...

Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day, $18,300 for car and driver, ad agency says; NRA says board has ‘full confidence’ in him National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre billed the group’s ad agency $39,000 for one day of shopping at a Beverly Hills clothing boutique, $18,300 for a car and driver in Europe, and had the agency cover $13,800 in rent for a summer intern, according to newly revealed NRA internal documents. The documents, posted anonymously on the internet, provide new details of the clothing, travel and other expenses totaling more than $542,000 that Ackerman McQueen Inc....

One Canadian man claims that his guard dog is in cahoots with a local black bear, with the bear allegedly giving the dog deer bones to munch on in exchange for full access to the household trash. Though the dog owner has not yet witnessed the strange exchange, he has shared his suspicions on Twitter in series of posts that have gone massively viral online. On May 8, Jesse Jordan took to Twitter to discuss his dog Brickleberry’s (aka Brick) troubling new habit of accepting late-night snacks from a hungry wild animal.

Full title: London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Trump is not ‘in the same class’ as Obama, Bush, ahead of state visit to Britain London Mayor Sadiq Khan said President Trump was not “in the same class” as his predecessors ahead of the commander in chief’s state visit to the United Kingdom next month.

When someone opens fire at a school, should students intervene? It's a question being raised after two shootings in which students lost their lives after choosing to take action. Kendrick Castillo, 18, died in Tuesday's shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch outside Denver. He was shot and killed when he tackled one of the shooters, giving other students a chance to flee.Last week 21-year-old University of North Carolina Charlotte student Riley Howell met the same fate when he knocked a campus shooter off his feet. "When we're talking about school shooters, almost always, if anybody's going to get shot, it's...

The proposal would raise the annual registration fee to $1,000, more than 57 times the current amount of $17.50. Illinois officials believe the legislation will raise $2.4 billion for future projects, the major one being roadway improvement, according to the Chicago Tribune. The bill would also make things more expensive for residents who drive non-electric cars. The state's gas tax would go up 19 cents to 44 cents a gallon, fees for driver’s licenses would double and the registration fee for non-electric vehicles would go up nearly 50% from $98 to $148. “It’s outrageous,” Tesla owner Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, told...