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Vatican’s Amazon Synod Uses Third World As Totems Of Marxist Revival The extraordinary Synod of Bishops for the Pan Amazon region, coming to the Vatican in October, is a very big deal. It would be a mistake to dismiss it as inside baseball among Catholics. Far-reaching issues of broad societal concern are at work here under cover of ecological ideals and social justice rhetoric delivered in a Christian idiom.Under cover of deep ecology, liberation theology has come in out of the cold. And it is gunning to even the score between the industrial West and the Third World.By hosting the...

Poland's freedom icon Lech Walesa on Thursday said the United States was "no longer the main global power" in political and moral leadership ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump. Trump is due in Poland on Sunday for ceremonies marking 80 years since the outbreak of World War II. "President Trump, I urge you to regain the position of world leader for the USA," Walesa said in an interview published in Thursday's edition of Poland's centrist Rzeczpospolita daily. "The world needs the leadership of the USA. Moral and political leadership, not only economic and military leadership," added Walesa, a...

AUSTIN — Several small business owners said at a Republican-sponsored forum Thursday that they adore President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation policies. But the event’s host, a printing-company owner, said he disagrees with “some things about President Trump.” He declined to be more specific. State GOP Chairman James Dickey, emcee and co-sponsor of the Trump reelection campaign’s “Open for Business” roundtable in north Austin, acknowledged that some recent tweets by the president have been odd. But the business owners and Dickey shrugged off talk of Trump’s Twitter eruptions. Instead, they attributed the country’s low unemployment rate and what they...

The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey despite an internal investigation that found he improperly leaked information to the news media, the department’s internal watchdog said on Thursday. The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said Comey asked a friend to share the contents of a memo with the New York Times to pressure the department to launch an independent investigation into his conversations with President Donald Trump. In the memo, Comey described a meeting in which Trump allegedly asked him to drop the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn, who at the time...

A Facebook campaign ad from an upstate New York county’s Republican Party has been slammed as anti-Semitic and “deeply disturbing.” Titled “A storm is brewing in Rockland,” the video takes aim at the large and growing hasidic Jewish community in the county, the specter of “overdevelopment” and a proposed yeshiva campus. The video, which appeared to have been removed on Thursday morning, features menacing music, the slogan “If They Win, We Lose” and a warning that “they” will “change our way of life.” “Aron Wieder and his Ramapo bloc are plotting a takeover,” the video intones, referring to a Hasidic...

CLINTON, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden opened a new line of attack Thursday on Donald Trump, accusing the Republican president of deliberate cruelty to children after the administration ended a policy shielding certain immigrants from deportation if they’re seeking life-saving medical treatment. “He’s seeking to deport sick kids,” Biden said while campaigning Thursday. “It’s just wrong. It’s wrong. … Cruelty is the point. It’s their only point. It’s all they have to run on: fear, anger, division, cruelty.” The former vice president leveled his criticisms a day after the administration confirmed that it ended a policy that...

So, ignore former FBI Director James Comey’s Twitter post about how the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report showed he didn’t do anything wrong and that he was smeared or something. He wasn’t. He was taken to the woodshed the IG office, who said the memos he leaked to The New York Times that spurred the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel for the Russia investigation was improper and violated long-standing GBI department policies. Our own Katie Pavlich wrote about the report this morning and took the disgraced former FBI official to task for his self-righteous reaction to the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Thursday to fast-track a congressional lawsuit seeking to force disclosure of President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, saying it was a complicated and important matter that should not be rushed. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington said in a written order that under U.S. law, there was “only a narrow set of cases that must skip to the front of the line,” and that the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee had not shown its lawsuit was one of them. McFadden said that while he was not prejudging the case,...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command. "Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high ground of space, it's going to be a whole different ballgame," Trump said at a White House ceremony marking the command's establishment. Space Command will become the 11th combatant command, joining the ranks of US Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, and US Special Operations Command, which oversees Special Operations Forces.

Robert Francis O'Rourke -- aka Beto, a nickname he stole to sound more Hispanic -- is going on a tour of the country into districts and counties that he claims have been terrorized by President Donald J. Trump's dangerous rhetoric against the most vulnerable among us. But apparently, he has no time to defend the unborn this trip. This week on the campaign trail, Beto told a pro-life voter that he could have been aborted the day before his birthday, and it wasn't his choice to make. Beto claimed it was solely the decision of his mother whether he could...

Former Vice President Joe Biden received flak from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) during CNN's Democratic presidential debate earlier this month for continually interjecting President Barack Obama's name whenever possible. "First of all, Mr. Vice President, you can't have it both ways. You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign," Booker said. "You can't do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not." Biden has attempted to run with President Obama's record while paving his own path and vision for the nation. While other Democrats, like Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) continually push...

A 19th-century adage goes something like this: “God made man, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” Colt, of course, was the man behind the first successful revolver. Daniel McGown wasn’t carrying one of Mr. Colt’s first models. However, he certainly managed to show one home invader why over a century and a half after that bromide was coined, a firearm is still the greatest equalizer of all. According to WEWS-TV, McGown, 73, heard a commotion at his house in Akron, Ohio, a little after 5 a.m. Tuesday. McGown told officers someone rang the doorbell several times. He then heard a...

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threw shade at Comey in a series of tweets following the release of the DOJ IG report. The DOJ Inspector General released a report on James Comey Thursday morning on his mishandling of memos he drafted stemming from nine conversations he had with President Trump. Although it was determined that Comey violated FBI policies pertaining to retention, handling and dissemination of FBI records and information, Barr declined prosecution. The IG report concluded that Comey “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees.” Without mentioning Comey’s name, Rosenstein criticized the former FBI...

An Orange County legislator is under fire for posting a controversial message on Facebook. Republican Legislator Joseph Minuta posted on Facebook, "Regardless of your orientation… I'm proud to be heterosexual. Funny how in my entire life, I never felt like it was important to voice such things before our current social celebrations started." Constituent Daniel Sloane of New Windsor says it is offensive. "When someone from public office takes this stance, regardless if that's your personal view or not, you represent your constituents," says Sloane. "Your constituents are largely LGBTQ more and more." Democratic Legislator Kevindaryán Luján reacted as well,...

...after what they consider to be the failure of a 2016 peace deal to guarantee their political rights... "When we signed the accord in Havana we did so with the conviction that it was possible to change the life of the most humble and dispossessed," said Marquez... "But the state hasn't fulfilled its most important obligation, which is to guarantee the life of its citizens and especially avoid assassinations for political reasons."... Marquez was a key negotiator of the peace agreement signed in 2016... The announcement, which Marquez said was filmed in Colombia's Amazon, comes as the complex agreement faces...

Florida is about to be slammed with another major hurricane. Hurricane Dorian is expected to hit the Sunshine State approaching or reaching category four strength sometime next week. President Trump was expected to fly to Poland to attend a World War II commemoration ceremony but will send Vice President Mike Pence instead. Trump is staying stateside to monitor the situation in Florida. President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling a planned trip to Poland and will remain in the United States to monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is headed toward a potential landfall in Florida or elsewhere along the East...

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto heavily criticized President Donald Trump over his complaints that Fox News isn’t sufficiently pro-Trump enough. Cavuto gave a long monologue to close out Thursday’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, hitting at Trump complaining to Twitter followers that “Fox isn’t working for us anymore!” “I think the president watches Fox,” Cavuto said. “I also think he’s getting sick of Fox, which is weird because I think he gets pretty fair coverage on Fox, but the president making clear that to fact-check him is to be all but dead to him and a legion of supporters, who...

Up until the last thirty years or so, reading was the most common form of entertainment. These days, technology has been steadily replacing the entertainment of reading a good book. According to a statistic from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Center for Educational Statistics, fewer than half (48 percent) of adult Americans read literature for pleasure. Reading on a regular basis, however, provides amazing benefits to the health of our brain and our mental well-being. Reading has the power to reduce stress, whereas other forms of media tend to increase stress. TV and the Internet require...

MELANIA TRUMP has often come under brutal attack from the "biased" art world in the US, especially when it comes to her fashion - something that is inevitably counterproductive for the elevation of art itself, claimed US commentator Jadan Horyn. Speaking to Express.co.uk, the US political and cultural commentator claimed Melania Trump has been unfairly treated by the art and fashion world in America as many designers have steered away from collaborating with the First Lady. Mr Horyn claimed the decision of some designers or magazines editors such as Marc Jacobs and Vogue's Editor in Chief Anna Wintour to boycott...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologized on Thursday for her role in a racially insensitive skit involving blackface that her sorority put on when she was a student at Auburn University in the 1960s. Ivey said in a statement on Thursday that while she has no recollection of the skit, or of wearing blackface, she has “genuine remorse” over her participation. Though her fiance at the time, Ben LaRavia, "is the one on tape remembering the skit – and I still don’t recall ever dressing up in overalls or in blackface – I will not deny what is obvious,” Ivey said....