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California Democrats are worried that they will not only not gain Congressional seats, but that they may actually lose one after the 2020 U.S. Census count is completed — which would be the first time in the state’s 169-year history. Given that Texas and Florida could pick up two seats while states such as New York and Illinois will likely lose seats, this suggests an ongoing trend of major Democratic stronghold states losing Congressional representation and delegates in the presidential races — largely because their residents are fleeing to other states. This same dynamic is true in California, where there...

The 24-year-old victim had called for an Uber at a Manhattan bar and climbed into a waiting black SUV. The California woman had no memory of what happened after she got in, but said she woke up confused and disoriented in a cheap motel room off Route 1 and 9 near Newark Liberty International Airport. The man who drove her there, who was not an Uber driver, is now facing charges of sexual assault. The criminal case marked just the latest in a series of similar incidents involving assaults by men posing as ride-share drivers. “It looks like a new...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is pathetically begging billionaire Tom Steyer to “get” Attorney General William Barr and have him disbarred. Scarborough used a chunk of his show, “Morning Joe,” to push his partisan opinions and begged Steyer to take a break from pushing impeachment and instead get Barr disbarred. Here’s Scarborough’s full remarks: Mika, a lot of people might start talking about impeachment. That’s a very long process. I think at the very least, you see all these ads by Tom Steyer talking about impeach President Trump. I tell you, I tell you something that could be done more quickly...

Gov. Ned Lamont is encouraging women-owned businesses in states with strict abortion laws to move to Connecticut. HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz are inviting women-owned businesses in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri to Connecticut in the wake of the states moving to severely curtail legal abortions. "If you are as concerned as we are about this issue, we would urge you to relocate your operations to a state that supports the rights of women and whose actions and laws are unwavering in support of tolerance and inclusivity," Lamont and Bysiewicz wrote in an open joint...

He was all the rage last fall — as he battled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Lone Star state. But now, it seems, Beto O’Rourke is being written off as an afterthought by media outlets to the point where they’re not even trying to dig up dirt on the former Texas congressman. According to the Daily Beast, a leading Republican opposition research firm called America Rising has seen requests on O’Rourke dwindle down to nil. Compare this to the period just before the ex-congressman declared his bid for the White House. During that time, a dozen or more reporters...

Government accountability is an idea that draws bipartisan support: calls for more transparency and oversight of politicians and bureaucracies go over well with voters. But what about oversight of the people who put them in office? Democracies give power to the people — does anyone hold the people responsible for this power? Not really, and that has long been a problem. Since its beginning in ancient Greece, democracy has faced a crisis of legitimacy when the people have not been held accountable for their exercise of sovereignty, allowing elites to dismiss democracy as mob rule. Today, defending our democracy begins...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Protests are planned across Mississippi and Tennessee on Tuesday in opposition of new state laws restricting abortion. Activists with the Tennessee chapter of Planned Parenthood are hosting a rally in Memphis at Civic Plaza at noon, in front of the federal courthouse. Other groups are expected to participate as well. They said they want to show solidarity to women across the country whose rights they said are being rolled back, state after state. Tuesday, a federal judge who struck down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban last year will hear new arguments about a new law that would...

Does it seem you hear a little bit less about political controversies in the sports world than you did a year or two ago? Do you find yourself grumbling at your television, “I just want to enjoy watching the game” less frequently? Today’s Los Angeles Times profiles ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro, who took over running the network in March 2018. Deep in the article: Pitaro has also satisfied ESPN’s more traditional fans by steering commentators away from political discussions on-air and on social media, which heightened during President Trump’s criticism of NFL player protests against social injustice during the playing...

Abortion activists plan to gather across the nation today to protest state laws that protect unborn babies from abortion. The protests are a response to Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri and other states that are trying to protect unborn babies by banning or restricting abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. They also are drawing attention away from other states like New York and Vermont, which recently passed radical abortion laws legalizing the killing of unborn babies for basically any reason up to birth. Behind the “Stop the Bans” protests are some of the most powerful, well-funded abortion groups in...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some form of socialism would be a good or bad thing for the country. While 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would be a good thing. Those results contrast with a 1942 Roper/Fortune survey that found 40% describing socialism as a bad thing, 25% a good thing and 34% not having an opinion.

The planes that dropped 24,000 American, British, and Canadian troops into Normandy on D-Day have taken to the skies once again to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the mission that laid the foundations for Allied victory over the Nazis. Twelves planes, including five C-47's bearing the black and white invasion stripes of Operation Overlord, left Connecticut on Sunday for their journey across the Atlantic to northern France. There, they will join 15 more planes to drop 250 D-Day paratroopers to reenact what was the largest seaborne invasion in history. On June 6, 1944, the planes dropped thousands of troops behind...

Historically, the Christian Church Considers Pride the Most Dangerous of the “Seven Deadly Sins,” Listed as the Worst of the Seven in in Dante’s Inferno. But More Importantly, it is the Sin Most Closely Associated with Satan in the Bible (Isaiah 14:12-14). Indeed, Pride Tops the List of the Seven Things that the Bible says God Literally Hates (Proverbs 6:16-19). In Hieronymus Bosch’s famous 1485 oil painting,”The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things,” Pride is depicted as a woman looking at herself in a mirror being held by a demon. However, today the sin of Pride is inextricably...

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In what may be his first major move to the left on policy as a 2020 presidential candidate, Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden has endorsed repealing the Hyde amendment, a measure that prohibits federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is endangered. “It can’t stay,” Biden said of the Hyde amendment during an exchange with an ACLU activist earlier this month. The video of the exchange was posted by the ACLU on Twitter on May 8th but has drawn little attention since then (it was flagged by Washington Post reporter David Weigel on...

Border officers are returning pregnant migrants to Mexico, according to the Los Angeles Times. Under the headline, “Pregnant women, other vulnerable asylum seekers are returned to Mexico to await hearings,” the Los Angeles Times described how President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy is reducing the ability of adventurous migrants to give birth in the United States:

Democrats in the House are celebrating Friday’s vote to pass The Equality Act, a misnamed legal jackhammer that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to federal civil rights law. It goes far beyond allowing men into women’s sports and locker rooms, as bad as that is. It provides the state with the power to persecute anyone who won’t celebrate any aspect of the LGBTQ agenda. Far from merely expanding civil rights categories, it turns any recognition of the differences between the sexes or any preference for traditional sexual morality into actionable “hate,” creating fertile grounds for lawsuits. “It is...

Police in Illinois are currently investigating allegations that Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald sought to find a hitman to commit murder. “A subject came in and filed a report and we are doing an investigation based on that report,” Wilmette Deputy Police Chief Pat Collins confirmed with The Christian Post Monday. The allegations regarding MacDonald’s efforts to commit murder were first reported by independent journalist Julie Roys, who cited Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller and Emmanuel “Manny” Bucur, a deacon at HBC and former confidant and volunteer bodyguard of MacDonald’s, as the individuals making the claims. Muller alleges that...

Please pray that my son can save his business. He seems to have realized too late that he choose two partners that were trouble. Now he fears they are draining the company funds and endangering him financially. He is a good man who struck out on his own to make a better life for his wife and children. Please join me in asking The Lord our God to shower Liam with grace and save him from ruin.

Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe claimed he “made the decision” to remove Peter Strzok from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the summer of 2017 after a series of anti-Trump text messages surfaced between the former FBI special agent and another official with whom he was romantically involved. It was long thought that Mueller had Strzok removed after the texts between him and Lisa Page were uncovered. But McCabe's apparent role was revealed in a newly released transcript from his House Judiciary Committee interview on Dec. 21, 2017.