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It’s a warm September day at a quaint winery in New Mexico, but while photos of happy brides and grooms line the walls, the people gathered here today aren’t celebrating a marriage. They’re here to see Brad Parscale. Parscale, President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, has a message for the 60 or so Trump supporters on hand at the Sept. 17 gathering. “Volunteering is how you win,” he says. “Don’t expect just money on TV and [a] digital program is going to win this again.” Trump’s campaign is betting big on grassroots organizing in 2020, a significant change from his unorthodox...

PEORIA, Illinois - Acknowledging evidence that “for several generations” the Catholic Church has not sufficiently taught its core truths, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky has called for all ministries of the Diocese of Peoria to be “intentionally centered” on the Real Presence in the holy Eucharist. The bishop’s 2,100-word teaching document, titled “The Real Presence,” was released Sept. 16, six weeks after the publication of a Pew Research Center survey showing that a majority of Catholics in the United States do not believe that the bread and wine used at Mass become the body and blood of Christ. “This failure in...

Vatican experts tell EWTN host that real schism is underway in Germany, not America WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― An EWTN host and his guests took aim at unfounded rumors of an American plot against Pope Francis last night, pointing out that a real schism appears to be happening in Germany, not America.  In speaking last night with Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Reporter and Damian Thompson of Britain’s The Spectator magazine, “The World Order” host Ramond Arroyo revealed a startling paradox: people are spinning a fantasy about an American schism while the German bishops openly...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. -- An atheist group has won its fight against COLTS, the County of Lackawanna Transit System. The federal lawsuit from 2012 was over an ad the group wanted to put on the sides of buses. The COLTS board of directors said the ad violated a policy about buses becoming, "a public forum for debate and discussion." Justin Vacula, a student from Marywood University, sued, and on Tuesday, a federal court ruled the ban on religious and non-religious messaging violates the First Amendment. Vacula is the spokesperson for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Freethought Society, the group that brought the...

Urgent prayers needed for MarineMom613's 11 year old grandson. (Special needs - behavioral issues). Have sheriff at my house while I am at work. He went ballistic over something and is totally out of control. Don’t know how this will end. I am out to lunch and just got a call from my aunt who is terrified. Son DIL & 3 kids live with me. Don’t know if I will be able to leave work or not. Just pray please. Not first time but DIL was just diagnosed with lung cancer a few days ago and she has been very...

Many prelates are privately ‘pulling their hair out’ because of the current situation, said the Italian writer, who co-authored "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" with Pope St. John Paul II, and ‘those in command are intolerant of every critical voice.’The well-known Catholic Italian writer Vittorio Messori has said he and “many Catholics are concerned, some are even desperate” about the current state of the Church, but that he is not without hope because Christ never leaves his Church alone. Messori, who wrote The Ratzinger Report with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Crossing the Threshold of Hope with Pope St. John Paul...

In his appearance on Fox & Friends, Basketball Hall of Famer Deniss Rodman gave a bold prediction about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. This was an answer for the question as to whether or not U.S. President Donald Trump will be able to reach a deal with the dictator after their falling on the second summit in Vietnam that happened earlier this year. He guarantees that President Trump will be able to do so, predicting “I think the fact that...

Prosecutors in Santa Clara County have served at least three search warrants while investigating whether Sheriff Laurie Smith’s office gave out coveted concealed-gun permits in exchange for campaign money, sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office raided the sheriff’s San Jose headquarters Aug. 2, seizing evidence through a search warrant that remains sealed. About a week before that, sources said, prosecutors served search warrants on two of the sheriff’s higher-ranking supervisors. Among those who have been contacted by investigators is AS Solution, a security company whose bodyguards protect Silicon Valley tech executives....

The boomerang from the Democratic Party’s failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia’s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow’s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in some cases tried, to help Hillary Clinton. In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country's president to help. In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's...

Millions of people around the globe joined in protests to demand "an end to the age of fossil fuels." Climate activist Greta Thunberg estimated she was joined by 250,000 in New York City. "How we can get more young people involved -- I think to just tell them the truth, tell them how it is," Thunberg told the crowd. Hundreds of Amazon workers walked out of their offices in Seattle. Thousands joined in marches in New York City, Chicago, Denver and more cities across the country.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Congress as “complicit” in the latest scandal surrounding President Trump’s conversations with the Ukrainian president by “failing to act” after special counsel Robert Mueller's report. “After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trump’s latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections,” Warren tweeted. “Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president.”

The comics gave their takes on ABC, the Kardashians, the #MeToo movement, Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and more at the opening night of their "Mr. and Mrs. America" tour in New York. Roseanne Barr and Andrew Dice Clay came out swinging at the opening night of their “Mr. and Mrs. America” tour on Thursday night, taking aim at the Kardashians, the #MeToo movement, ABC — the list goes on.

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The political network funded in part by billionaire libertarian Charles Koch is going to try a new strategy against President Donald Trump’s trade war with China after conceding that its previous campaign hasn’t worked. Koch network leaders said Thursday that their digital and TV ad blitz that emphasized how Americans could experience financial pain from the tariff fight wasn’t panning out the way they had hoped. “The argument that, you know, the tariffs are adding a couple thousand dollars to the pickup truck that you’re buying is not persuasive,” a senior Koch official says. he political network funded in part...

For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong. In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened. And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true. Think about that… the so-called experts are 0-41 with their predictions, but those of us who are skeptical of “expert” prediction number 42, the one...

If the mainstream media wants to find out why fewer and fewer people take them seriously, a September 18 article in the Washington Post would be towards the top of the piles of evidence. The very title of the story by Hannah Natanson reflects both the extreme shallowness along with the obvious bias to produce the incredibly cringeworthy "Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?" Groan! And if you think the body of the article will somehow will redeem itself you would be wrong. It is also chock full of embarrassing cheerleading for Warren while attempting...

A photo of President Trump boarding Air Force One with a wad of twenty-dollars bills in his back pocket has spurred new charges of impropriety on his part. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wondered "why would a president need to carry cash around? The standard practice for previous presidents was to order some nearby underling to pay for whatever he needs. Trump's deviation raises serious questions about his fitness for the job." For his part, Trump claims that "the cash is for tips. When a working person does me a service I like to tip him. That's what...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -- A Florida woman will spend more than four years in federal prison for cyberstalking, harassing and threatening six of her former colleagues. Between August 2016 and July 2018, Tammy Marie Steffen of Holiday, Fla. created at least 369 Instagram accounts and 18 email accounts to plague her former colleagues with emails and messages, as well as using several phones numbers to send text messages and make phone calls. The 37-year-old woman even used voice-disguising software to mask her identity when she repeatedly called the victims at their homes and businesses. Some messages Steffen sent included threats...

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE 9/19: Danielle J. Hunsaker, of Oregon, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, retired. William Joseph Nardini, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, vice Christopher Droney, retired. Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States District Judge for the District of North Dakota, vice Daniel L. Hovland, retiring. Nominations sent to the Senate 9/20: Patrick J. Bumatay of California, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lawrence VanDyke of Nevada, to...

The controversy over President Trump’s mysterious call with a foreign leader that prompted a whistleblower complaint ratcheted up Friday afternoon as a new report said it involved Trump asking the president of Ukraine numerous times in a single phone call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. Meanwhile, after Trump called the whistleblower a partisan and dismissed the allegation as “another political hack job,” Democrats in Congress accused the president of trying to intimidate whistleblowers and demanded the administration hand over the complaint and a transcript of the call, while 2020 hopefuls renewed calls for impeachment. CONTROVERSY OVER TRUMP...