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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ powerful campaign arm, has just abruptly purged half a dozen staffers. Why? Because they are white. It appears that no one had anything against these particular staffers ... except for the color of their skin. Although roughly half the committee’s full-time staff (13 of 27) were nonwhite, this was not enough for some Democratic members of Congress. They complained DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos of Illinois had brought in too many white staffers when she won the position. And they put enough pressure on her that she sacrificed her loyal staffers to the...

SAN DIEGO — Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, has dismissed all charges against Navy SEAL Lt. Jacob X. Portier, who was set to face trial in September on charges stemming from the high-profile murder case of Special Operator 1st Class Edward R. Gallagher. “Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson today dismissed all charges in the case of Lt. Jacob Portier,” a Navy statement said Thursday. “Richardson took this action in the best interest of justice and the Navy.” Cmdr. Jereal Dorsey, a Navy spokesman, said the decision came from Richardson, not from President Trump, who yesterday...

Is a Hamas-Allied Hate Group Influencing the 2020 Dem Primaries? The foreign election interference the Democrats don’t want to talk about. August 2, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 2 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. After disrupting a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at U.C. Berkeley, Hatem Bazian told supporters to look at all the Jewish names on the buildings, "take a look at the type of names on the building around campus -- Haas, Zellerbach -- and decide who controls this university." In 2017,...

Satanists Accepted as Religious Community in Sweden 09:17 02.08.2019 In a bid to ditch common stereotypes involving blood sacrifices and orgies, Sweden's satanist community is paying tribute to social justice, a secular state, and embraces feminism. The Dark Lord himself is seen a literary figure and a role model as an eternal rebel. Despite the fact that the Church has always regarded Satan as the origin of evil and the foremost enemy of man, the Swedish Satanist community has been accepted as a religious denomination by the country's Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency, the newspaper Dagen reported. In order...

00:31 02.08.2019(updated 00:52 02.08.2019) Saudi Arabia has amended national regulations to allow adult women to register a marriage or a divorce and be eligible for the guardianship of minor children, Reuters reported, citing local media. According to the report, Riyadh has also altered the national passport system, travel permissions and civil affairs regulations, which will allow Saudi women to travel without permission from male relatives or guardians. Royal decrees published by the official gazette on Friday stipulate that a Saudi passport should be issued to any citizen that applies for it and that any person above the age of 21...

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is attacking President Donald Trump, blaming him for “fear-mongering” that is causing illegal alien women to cancel their abortions. A recent report by Buzzfeed News detailed how illegal alien women across the southwest are canceling or skipping out on their abortion procedures for fear of being deported from the U.S. Buzzfeed reporters spoke to executives at four abortion clinics, writing that obtaining an abortion for an illegal alien woman is “even more frightening and challenging when you have to cross state lines knowing ICE officers are being stationed on streets and highways.” In response, the Hispanic...

Democrat 2020 contender Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) said during the Democrat debate Wednesday that her Medicare for All health plan would start up quickly and that “babies will be born into our plan,” but her plan would also allow free abortions at taxpayer expense. Challenged by former Vice President Joe Biden about her health plan requiring ten years to be established, Harris denied the claim. Biden said, “The senator’s had several plans so far, and any time someone tells you you’re going to get something good in ten years, you should wonder why it takes ten years.” Harris replied, “You’re...

A Kansas man has admitted to the crime of threatening to rape and murder employees at a national pro-life organization. Christopher M. Thompson, 22, of Wichita, plead guilty on Monday to one count of threatening members of Operation Rescue in 2018. According to a statement by the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas, Thompson admitted to making three phone calls to Operation Rescue in one day that included threats against them. Sentencing for Thompson is scheduled for Oct. 15, according to the Justice Department. Thompson could receive up to 20 years in prison and a...

Chuck Schumer offered some rare praise for President Trump on Thursday, amidst his decision to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods on Sept. 1. “We have to be really tough on China. They’ve taken advantage of us,” he said. “America has lost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs because China has not played fair. And being tough on China is the right way to be.” Schumer is a frequent critic of the president and his trade policies.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Thursday subpoenaed the Trump Organization over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections. Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office picked up the probe just weeks after federal prosecutors announced they’d completed their investigation into the payments, made by former-Trump fixer Michael Cohen. “This is a political hit job,” Marc Mukasey, a lawyer for the organization, told The Post in an email.

The Pentagon is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan as part of a proposed peace deal with the Taliban, U.S. officials told Fox News Thursday. One official warned the withdrawal would be subject to the completion of any agreement. So far, no such deal has been finalized. “While RS [Resolute Support] or DOD [The Department of Defense] can speak with more authority on this issue, we have not adjusted our troop levels in Afghanistan to reflect our discussions with either the Afghan government or the Taliban," a State Department official told Fox News. "The presence of U.S. forces...

Chick-fil-A is officially America's favorite fast food restaurant. The fast-food chain beat out reigning champion In-N-Out, and took home the top spot on Market Force's Fast Food Market Research Report. Market Force evaluates input from 7,600 consumers to assess the winner. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) also named Chick-fil-A as America’s favorite restaurant for the fourth year in a row.

Wichita, KS – A Wichita man who made calls threatening to murder an Operation Rescue staff member appeared in court yesterday and pleaded guilty to one count of making threats using interstate communications. According to a press statement issued by U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister, Christopher M. Thompson, 22, admitted to making death threats via phone calls to Operation Rescue, a national pro-life organization headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Thompson had originally been indicted in January 2019, on four counts of making threatening communications in August 2018. During the hearing, Thompson admitted to making three threatening calls to the female Operation Rescue...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Department of Justice Begins Fourth Distribution of Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture to Compensate Victims of Bernard Madoff Fraud Scheme Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program The Department of Justice today announced that on July 31, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fourth distribution of $469.6 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme, bringing the total distributed to $2.4 billion...

Albuquerque, NM – A New Mexico woman who unknowingly suffered injuries that led to a hysterectomy after a bungled abortion filed suit against an Albuquerque abortion business last month for medical malpractice. But this is not just a run-of-the-mill abortion-related malpractice suit. This story takes surprising twists and turns into the dark world of aborted baby organ trafficking and a devastating personal family tragedy. According to court records obtained by Operation Rescue, Nicole Atkins was 24-years old when she visited Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO), on December 27, 2010, for a consultation regarding an abortion in her second trimester of pregnancy....

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Former first lady Michelle Obama is resisting calls for her to run for president, saying there's "zero chance" that she will seek the Oval Office. In a new interview published in Amtrak's magazine The National, Obama sat down with 12-year-old journalist Hilde Lysiak to promote her Better Make Room campaign aimed at engaging college students. Lysiak pressed Obama about seeking the highest office in the land, something she has previously expressed no interest in.

Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of abortions. A largely pro-abortion documentary has exposed the callousness of some abortionists in the US. The Panorama programme, America’s Abortion War, predominantly painted pro-life protestors as aggressive and even dangerous religious fanatics. But it was the words and actions of the abortion doctors which shocked presenter Hilary Andersson. ‘Hard to watch’ Andersson interviewed Dr Yashica Robinson, thought to be personally responsible for more than 2,000 abortions every year in Alabama, where abortion laws are changing to better protect the unborn. The presenter sat in on an abortion – the abortionist’s first of eight...