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Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine emerge as 2020 issue for Joe BidenMay 15, 2019 - Fox News GIULIANI: (continuing) It’s a case that is crying out to be investigated.If it doesn’t get investigated, we just don’t have equal justice in this country.Biden’s son took millions of dollars out of the Ukraine, and over a billion dollars out of China.Well, Joe Biden was vice president, was really directing the relief for Ukraine, the loan guarantees, well over a billion dollars of loan guarantees.His son then got under investigation, for good reason.He was working for the most corrupt company in the Ukraine...

Giving Up Darwin By: David Gelernter Download Article PDF Posted: May 1, 2019 This article appeared in: Volume XIX, Number 2, Spring 2019 Darwinian evolution is a brilliant and beautiful scientific theory. Once it was a daring guess. Today it is basic to the credo that defines the modern worldview. Accepting the theory as settled truth—no more subject to debate than the earth being round or the sky blue or force being mass times acceleration—certifies that you are devoutly orthodox in your scientific views; which in turn is an essential first step towards being taken seriously in any part...

One of the most important doctrines in Western law is that of stare decisis, a Latin term of art which means "to stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications". In modern jurisprudence, however, it has come to take on a life of its own, with all precedents being presumed to be well-founded, unbiased legal decisions, rather than political decisions, and presumed to have both the authority of the constitutional enactments on which they are based, plus that of the precedents on which they are based, so that later precedents are presumed to be more authoritative than...

In a pre-recorded interview that aired on Tuesday's Amanpour and Company, PBS host Christiane Amanpour slanted left on gun control and global warming alarmism as she spoke with liberal New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The PBS host brought up the issue of guns by reading a tweet from Ardern's fiance in which he praised his future wife for making their baby safer by enacting gun control. Amanpour then praised her guest's record as she added: "You know, even President Obama couldn't do that in the United States after the massacre of children at Sandy Hook, but you did. In...

Bill de Blasio’s first interview as a presidential candidate was marred on Thursday by protesters chanting “Liar!” and “Can’t run the city! Can’t run the country!” throughout the live segment. The mayor appeared on “Good Morning America” to plug his ambitions for the White House — but was greeted by some 60 demonstrators outside the Times Square studio. As the chants cut through George Stephanopoulos’ questions, de Blasio downplayed the debacle as “a little serenade.”

A 74-year-old man who was pushed off a Las Vegas public bus -- allegedly by a woman he had told to "be nicer" -- has died from injuries he suffered when he hit the sidewalk, and the woman has been charged with his murder. Surveillance video released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department this week captured the scuffle that led to Serge Fournier tumbling from the bus. The video helped Vegas police identify and arrest suspect Cadesha Michelle Bishop, 25, according to a criminal complaint. The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. on a Thursday evening in March, as...

Dear Freepers, of your charity please pray for my mother Olive. She is dangerously ill after a stroke earlier today. Her condition is inoperable and she may die at any time. Please also pray for us her family, who (as you can imagine) are in a terrible state. warm regards, Agere Contra

In 1962, the Court examined a simple twenty-two word prayer, first used to negate prayer in schools: “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country.” This simple prayer, said by children, acknowledged God. Americans’ indifference allowed the removal of prayer from our schools. This is but one of the steps toward complete destruction of America’s original Judeo-Christian educational system. This value-free environment has resulted in chaos. David Barton graphically illustrates how America has plummeted from righteous living, prosperity, and success in the last quarter-century. Consider the...

In August 2008, back when it mattered, the Washington Post ran a 10,000-word article by its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss titled, “Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible.” For reasons that will soon become clear, Maraniss should have excused himself from this assignment once he discovered the identity of the man in Hawaii who made that rise possible. Barack Obama referred to this man in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, as “Frank.” If there was any mystery to Frank’s identity, Gerald Horne, a leftist scholar from the University...

There was a movie in 1971 called "The Panic in Needle Park" starring Al Pacino. A couple loves heroin as much as they love each other in Jerry Schatzberg's grim drug drama. After an illegal abortion at the behest of her faithless lover (Raul Julia), lost innocent Helen (Kitty Winn) finds solace with small-time crook Bobby (Al Pacino), a regular in Manhattan's "Needle Park." As Bobby shows her around his Upper West Side world, the two become inseparable. When Helen realizes that Bobby is a full-blown junkie, she joins him in addiction, and their downward spiral begins in earnest. Weathering...

[Catholic Caucus] Professor John Rist: Why I Signed the Papal Heresy Open Letter An open letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy and calling the world’s bishops to investigate has been signed by 86 people as of May 10, among them some prominent theologians and other academics. One of the most notable of the initial 19 to sign the missive is professor John Rist, a respected British scholar of patristics best known for his contributions to the history of metaphysics and ethics. The author of detailed studies on such subjects as Plato, Aristotle and St. Augustine of Hippo, Rist holds the...

Environmental groups are asking federal officials to take emergency action to protect a species of firefly unique to southern Delaware. In an emergency petition filed Wednesday with the Department of the Interior, environmentalists claim the Bethany Beach firefly is at immediate risk of extinction because of imminent destruction of a significant portion of its habitat. The filing comes partly in response to a planned residential development that would be accessible by a unique wooden cul-de-sac that has been built on pilings over one of the freshwater marshes where the firefly lives.

The State Department on May 15 pulled non-emergency US personnel from its embassy in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil, while allied training of US-backed forces inside Iraq also was canceled as tensions with Iran continue to rise. The State Department ordered the personnel to leave Iraq by commercial transportation “as soon as possible,” and to avoid US facilities inside the country, according to a security alert. Senior US officials, including those in the Pentagon, have said there are “very, very credible” threats from Iran. In statement released May 14, US Central Command said an attack is “possibly imminent.” Also...

Header: Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. n 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day. In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their hands. Earlier this year, the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step...

If the Bill de Blasio mayoral reign had a catch phrase, it would be: “Do as I say, not as I do.” A few days ago, the New York Daily News exposed a new ­detail in the coverup of a traffic accident involving Hizzoner: “De Blasio’s NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic coverup by his security detail.” Despite state law to the contrary, no accident report was filed with the DMV. The new ­information that his car drove into oncoming traffic just underscored how...

4 Minutes and 43 seconds of WTH? How can some of these people ever get thru life without killing themselves? Accidentally of course......................

[The V280 'Valor' is a replacement for the Blackhawk Helicopter]. The V280 is derived from having a max speed of 280 mph. Article says it attained 230 knots...] - Topher intro On Jul. 31, 2018 the first prototype of the Bell V-280 Valor, registration N280BH, performed a flight demo for invited media and dignitaries at Bell Helicopter Amarillo Assembly Center. The V-280 Valor is Bell’s submission for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) phase, the technology demonstration precursor to Future Vertical Lift (FVL), a replacement for the service’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk (that have just celebrated its 40th...

There's a "dark impactor" blasting holes in our galaxy. Stellar streams are lines of stars moving together across galaxies, often originating in smaller blobs of stars that collided with the galaxy in question. Under normal conditions, the stream should be more or less a single line, stretched out by our galaxy's gravity, she said in her presentation. Astronomers would expect a single gap in the stream, at the point where the original globular cluster was before its stars drifted away in two directions. But Bonaca showed that GD-1 has a second gap. And that gap has a ragged edge —...

Here’s the little secret the mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about — women support President Trump. They’re supporting him with their wallets and they’ll support him at the polls in 2020. Shhhhh … these are the kind of pesky facts they like to hide, and then on Election Day they act like they weren’t warned. They can consider themselves warned. The Center for Responsive Politics, which uses Federal Election Commission data, found that during the first three months of 2019 the number of women who donated to President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign topped the number of women who donated...