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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is refusing to respond to mounting questions surrounding the flight he took with Jeffrey Epstein on his "Lolita Express" private jet - shortly after the convicted pedophile was released from prison for sexually abusing a minor.Gates has continued to keep a low profile in the week following the bombshell revelation - that he flew with Epstein on the infamous plane - when his name was revealed in the flight logs.Victims have alleged that the plane was set up with a bed and used by Epstein and his guests to rape underage girls.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio got some laughs -- though not for the reasons he expected -- when a top labor union played his video message to a crowd in Iowa on Wednesday. The 2020 hopeful sent a video message because he couldn't make it to a labor forum held by the AFL-CIO's Iowa Federation of Labor. When it played, the audio sounded abnormally high-pitched, prompting Washington Post reporter Matt Viser to crack that the mayor "sounded like he’d gulped a canister of helium." Whoever was operating the video equipment appeared to try and fix the audio as...

Trump Administration mandated that taxpayer-funded family planning clinics immediately stop referring women for abortions, maintain separate finances from facilities that provide abortions, and that both kinds of facilities not be under the same roof Joan Swirsky image By Joan Swirsky —— Bio and Archives--August 21, 2019 Cover Story | 9 Comments | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us 154 Baby Killers“Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20:13 ”...I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19 Remember good ole boy Johnny Edwards—actually North Carolina Democrat...

The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Tuesday of its plans to authorise an US$8 billion sale of 66 F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan over Beijing’s objections, in a step that makes the deal all but certain... The Chinese foreign ministry hit back on Wednesday, saying Beijing would take countermeasures. “China will take all necessary measures to safeguard our interests, including imposing sanctions on the US companies taking part in this arms sale to Taiwan,” ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said... The last sale of military aircraft to Taipei was a quarter century ago... The proposed deal involves the F-16C/D variations,...

So, when will we hear someone running for election or re-election start talking about our huge debit and ways to reduce it? Now that we have the Democrat debates underway it’s time to turn our attention to carefully listen to what the potential candidates have to say. Are they talking about issues that are really important to the nation? Or, are they talking about proposed plans and schemes that will get them elected? Out here in the real world much of what we hear is a bit confusing and is difficult to understand.

RUSH: Folks, the corruption of so much now is official with the leftist agenda, and none of it, none of it is based in fact, none of it is based in truth. Every aspect of it is geared toward lying, exaggerating in order to further the political agenda because their agenda is wrong! They simply cannot rely on day to day facts to move their agenda forward. They have to make it all up like the New York Times rewriting the founding of America to be the year 1619 and to say that everything that’s happened in this country since,...

News & ViewsFriday August 16th, 2019 Socci on Bonzi versus Bonino: A Symptom of Ecclesial Heat-Death by Chris Ferrara (Above: John Paul II and Paola Bonzi, who saved more than 22,000 babies from abortion)Pope Francis and Emma Bonino, who personally aborted more than 10,000 babiesFatima Perspectives #1327 In his not-to-be-missed column (unfortunately available only in Italian), Antonio Socci has led the way in chronicling the quantum leap downward the current pontificate represents in an ecclesial situation that already suggests, were it possible, a church headed toward absolute zero in terms of her apostolic energy and mission in the world.Symptomatic of...

Maxime Bernier’s exclusion illustrates how much Canadian voters, real ordinary people, don’t matter Yesterday the debate schedules leading up to the October 21 Canadian Federal Election were announced. In addition to when, the names of the moderators of the debates have also been released. And it’s not a pretty picture. (CBC, Aug. 20) The English language debate will take place on October 7. And there will be not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE moderators. These moderators are with CBC, CTV, Global, the Toronto Star and Huff Post. All left wing organizations. And most of them have...

The tiresome “HATE!”, “HATE!””, “HATE!” of the Progressives is now running Hollow, Hollow, Hollow The real reason why Progressives “HATE!” President Donald Trump? It’s because Trump’s against-all-odds survival in the political hatefest against him shows clearly how pathetically powerless Progressives really are. Nothing they have thrown at him ever sticks.

Home Depot’s suppliers are trying to head off some of the increased costs from rising tariffs by moving at least some of their production out of China, executives told investors Tuesday. “I’m not aware of a single supplier who was not moving some form of manufacturing outside of China,” said Ted Decker, executive vice president of merchandising. “So we have suppliers moving production to Taiwan, to Vietnam, to Thailand, Indonesia and even back into the United States.” CEO Craig Menear said the tariffs on Chinese goods are projected to have a “cost impact” on U.S. sales of about 2%, or...

RUSH: The Trump comment about liberal Jews, the disloyalty comment. Folks, this is the kind of line a lot of people look at it as a throwaway line. This line that Trump uttered is going to have more impact, positive impact for Trump, than many people will ever imagine. ‘Cause basically what he said is that liberal Jews voting Democrat are being disloyal. He didn’t mean disloyal to America. He meant disloyal to Israel. And the thing is we’ve all thought this for I don’t know how many years. We’ve all wondered, why doesn’t anybody say it other than us?...

Wildlife experts from the southern state have confirmed at least nine are known to have developed problems moving about — but many more could be afflicted. One bobcat is also known to have developed the same bizarre symptoms. “Numerous diseases and possible causes have been ruled out. But a definitive cause has not yet been determined. “We’re working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and a wide array of experts from around the world to determine what is causing this condition.”

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo suggested that President Trump hasn't aged as much as his predecessors because he doesn't care as much about the country's problems.

RUSH: CNN Ponders Trump 2020: ‘What Is the Magic That He Doles Out?’”But their arrogance was such that they couldn’t go there. They could not treat Trump seriously. Therefore, they couldn’t seriously analyze what he had just achieved. He’d become the Republican nominee. That’s not an easy thing to do, particularly somebody who’s not a professional politician who is up against a candidate — Jeb Bush had a hundred million dollars starting the primary season. Trump had zip. He had his own organization and his own money. And not once did any of the professional political consults or operatives in...

Protection of gray seals and white sharks in recent years has led to a problem of shark attacks at Cape Cod. Soon, the Woods Hole Group will release a report on how to deal with the problem. I also have a report, with perhaps a different perspective and conclusions. A much-discussed solution is culling the seals. This is unrealistic. Many biologists believe that the Cape seals are intertwined with a larger population in Canada, and seals killed here would be replaced by seals swimming down from Canada. Even if possible, it would be a bloodbath, shown on national television, with...

Stephanie Oyen is not Elizabeth Warren. But try telling that to a crowd of fans gathered to see the U.S. senator and 2020 presidential candidate at a town hall at Macalester College on Monday evening. Oyen arrived at the rally wearing a blue blazer and clear glasses — her Elizabeth Warren costume from Halloween — as a lark.

Charles Payne on Fox Business News just announced that President Trump will sign a memorandum that will eliminate all student debt for disabled vets. Bravo!

1918: When enemy fighters shoot down Ensign George M. Ludlow’s Machhi M.5 seaplane (featured image) off the Austria-Hungary coast, Charles H. Hammann lands beside him and rescues the downed aviator. Hamman’s fighter is also damaged, and the winds high and seas choppy, but he manages to take off with Ludlow holding the struts behind him (the plane wasn’t designed to carry two pilots) and flies 65 miles across the Adriatic Sea to the air station at Porto Cassini, Italy. The plane sinks from the weight of the extra passenger after landing but both aviators are safe. Hammann, an enlisted pilot...

The moment The Wall Street Journal article appeared revealing President Trump was mulling over the idea of the United States buying Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory in the Atlantic, ankle-biters began to mock the idea. But this usual panic from the jealous chattering class once again reveals the Democrats and envious Trump haters’ biggest unforced error — constantly underestimating Donald Trump. This requires deliberately maintaining a remarkable ignorance about the economic and national security issues we face as a nation. One of those issues is the vital importance of Greenland, its horrible mismanagement as the Danish elite virtue signal about...