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The House Judiciary Committee advanced three anti-gun bills this week to the delight of the gun prohibition lobby. “The U.S. House understands that another day without stronger gun laws means another day of preventable tragedies,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control organization funded by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. “Now it’s time for the Senate to do its job and pass meaningful gun safety laws — because the American people aren’t going to settle for weak, watered down half-measures,” added Feinblatt. The bills headed to the House floor include: H.R. 1236, known as...

Last year, when Christine Blasey Ford emerged after then-Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughÂ’s confirmation hearings to accuse him of attempted rape at a house party when both were teenagers, there were many unanswered questions both about her story and her credibility.She offered no proof that she and Kavanaugh had ever even met. She couldnÂ’t remember where it happened, when it happened, or how she arrived at or departed from the party. None of the four alleged witnesses she eventually named, including one of her closest lifelong friends, corroborated her accusations. Prior to airing her allegations with the media, she...

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Perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg would have a better shot at appealing to Christian voters if he would not go to such extreme lengths to contort Scripture to rationalize his party's abominable stance on abortion. The Democratic presidential candidate openly expresses his Christian faith and was the first candidate to hire a national faith outreach director. He believes political conservatism is less compatible with Christianity than political liberalism. Buttigieg says the GOP likes "to cloak itself in their language of religion" and accuses Republicans of hypocrisy for their alleged callousness about family separations at the border. "For the party and the...

An Ethics in Media study reveals that a whopping 95 percent of Americans are ” troubled by the current state of media.” You couldn’t get 95 percent of the American people to agree that ice cream and sex are awesome, but 95 percent can come together to recognize just how horrible the media are. What’s wrong with the other five percent. The study was conducted by the public relations firm Bospar and surveyed 1,010 American adults. Specific reasons for why Americans are concerned do vary. But to no one’s surprise, after more than five years of this… Trayvon Martin Murdered...

So, I’ve been without my SS card for about 40years and am in the process of filling out the applicable SSA form to get a replacement card. There are 17 fields on this form which need to be filled out. However, there’s one particular field that begs the question, “why are they asking for this info?” Field 6 is titled ETHNICITY and asks the question “Are you Hispanic or Latino? (your response is voluntary)” What’s funny is the next field 7 is titled RACE and nowhere does it mention Hispanic or Latino. Why don’t they just eliminate field 6 and...

Mass media perpetuates mass murder, critics claim, first by calling it “shooting” which is a sport, instead of “murder” which is a crime, deceptively framing the problem and displacing the blame. Then media promotes these crimes incessantly, sometimes for weeks, because they’re used to attract “viewers,” a euphemism for money. “If it bleeds it leads,” is the reprehensible unethical mantra and behavior. By providing “the oxygen of publicity,” as Margaret Thatcher called it, media encourages copycats, which the murderers themselves tell us they seek. Doesn’t that imply at least some measure of complicity or guilt? Psychiatrists and law enforcement beg...

Women are less likely to don high heels if they are going on a date with a man they think is ugly, a controversial study has found. Scientists quizzed 292 female university students, who were all straight, about how often they wear stilettos or other types of the shoe. The volunteers were asked if they would wear high heels or a flat sole shoe if they went on a date with two men plucked from Google Images. One of them was considered to be very attractive by a panel of 14 separate women, the other was deemed to be the...

During the Democrat debate Thursday night, Jorge Ramos challenged Joe Biden on his immigration record, particularly his past support for a border wall, and the Obama-Biden administration's record on deportations. "Why should Latinos trust you?" Ramos asked."What Latinos should look at is ... comparing [Trump] to [Obama] is outrageous," Biden said. "Number one, we didn't lock up people up in cages, we didn't separate families... we didn't do all of those things."Umm, Joe... yes, you did. Seven Facts About Obama’s Immigration Record Liberals Refuse to Admit Back in June, Barack Obama’s former ICE chief, Thomas Homan, acknowledged at a conference...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate, argued that his support for "democratic socialism" is not the same as the form of socialism that the government has imposed in countries such as Venezuela and Cuba. Sanders made his comments during the presidential debate on Thursday evening. The senator was asked why he hasn't called Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro a dictator and if his socialist policy proposals are different from the socialist policies in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. "Anybody who does what Maduro does is a vicious tyrant. What we need now is international and regional cooperation for free elections...

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was hailed as a new kind of leader when he took power in 2015. At that point, the power of the Conservative Party was at low ebb and Trudeau appeared to be a fresh face that was promising a new kind of politics for Canada.Sound familiar?Alas, it was not to be. Trudeau became embroiled in scandal that resulted in the resignations of two cabinet members.NBCNews: The cause of his diminishing star power stems from one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history, which arose when Trudeau's former attorney general  said he improperly pressured...

This week, the House passed three anti-drilling bills, H.R. 1146, which repeals a provision of the Republican tax bill that opened the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development, as well as H.R. 1941 and H.R. 205, which place a permanent moratorium on offshore oil and gas leases on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. I believe these measures are a key step toward ending a dangerous practice that threatens our nation’s coastal communities, oceans, national parks, marine life and climate.

On Thursday night the Democrat Party held a presidential primary debate in Houston, Texas. Ten candidates qualified for the debate. The Democrats did all they could to be noticed in the crowded field. Three candidates went that extra mile to get noticed and brought their own booster boxes. Julian Castro, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar all stood on booster boxes to look tall. The Democrat Party and their socialist policies are all smoke and mirrors.

Beto O'Rourke's best moment on Thursday's Democratic presidential debate -- which also doubled as his best moment in the 2020 campaign to date -- came when ABC's David Muir asked whether he supported a mandatory buyback of assault weapons. "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47," O'Rourke said to raucous applause from the crowd in Houston, Texas. "We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore." The former Texas congressman defended that stance in an interview on CNN's "New Day" Friday, insisting the issue would not hurt his party. "It's not a...

On the eve of the annual 9/11 observances, America's National Security Advisor John Bolton was either fired (per Trump) or resigned (per Bolton). The dispute is being portrayed as one between a Bush-era neocon and an "America First" Trump. But that is something of an over-simplification. As I wrote upon Bolton's appointment a year and a half ago: Bolton is viewed with suspicion as a 'neocon', which is not a term of much practical use these days. But then so was his predecessor - H R McMaster. So the substitution might be of no more significance than a neocon whom...

Well known liberal celebrity Sean Penn appeared on a post-debate episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Thursday, to lecture Americans on their choice for 2020. The actor condescended, “If people truly want to vote against their own interests, [Trump will] be the president of the United States again.” However, “But if they are paying attention, there are talented people in the group we saw tonight.” Regarding Trump’s leadership, Penn saw it only going in negative directions: “And we've seen the potential of a president, for example the current president, to lead us to El Paso and to lead us to all...

It wouldn’t be the first time he’d — allegedly — joined with the conservatives in a case boiling with political repercussions only to think better of it and swing around to the liberal position. Everyone’s heard the stories by now about Roberts supposedly wimping out in the ObamaCare ruling seven years ago, initially agreeing with Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito that the individual mandate was unconstitutional and then getting cold feet. Result: A tortured and dubious majority opinion upholding the constitutionality of the mandate as a tax. Rumors swirled within days of the decision that Roberts had switched his...

VIDEO One of the most irritating speech patterns, in addition to sounding like every sentence is a question, is constantly beginning beginning sentences with the word "So." It makes the speaker sound less than confident. Such was the case with Elizabeth Warren who has a history of "So" abuse which was continued at the Democrat debate in Houston. I notice that she especially begins her sentences with "So" when she is attempting to answer a question that she is not comfortable with. Here is a compilation of Elizabeth Warren's "So" overuse at the beginning of sentences during the debate.

Joe Biden once again took the germ of a good idea — and botched it by reductioing his own absurdum. ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis challenged Biden on his criminal justice reform plans to release inmates convicted of drug use, referring to criticisms from Cory Booker that Biden’s plan won’t go far enough. Oh yeah, Biden seemed to say? He began expanding his vision of reform until it reached the stage where “nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.”

Newly unearthed data from four decades ago contradicted gospel that animal fats are worse than vegetable fats — and was ignored.  All those climate alarmists who proclaim that they "believe in science" fail to understand that science is created by flawed human beings who are susceptible to ignoring findings that don't confirm their hypotheses.  Or generate future grants for more research in the field.Today, the "settled science" of nutrition as it stood decades ago is being questioned, in part because Americans have become obese after decades of following federal guidelines that turn out to be poppycock. In The Scientific American, which is all...