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Democrats and a cheerleading press corps are accelerating their drive to impeach President Trump, with the release Thursday of the whistleblower complaint and a harangue of the acting director of national intelligence. Not to spoil the fun, but when is the House going to hold a roll call vote to authorize this effort to oust an elected President? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she now supports an “official” inquiry, but nothing changed other than the political momentum for impeachment. The same committees investigating all things Trump are doing what they were doing before her statement. Mrs. Pelosi seems to...

Kathryn Murdoch granted a rare interview to The New York Times in which she spoke about her work with the environment, her husband James and her very famous extended family. The 47-year-old wife of Rupert Murdoch's younger son also compared her father-in-law to her husband, noting: 'I think James has shown himself to be a very different leader from his father.' James is now free from his role at Fox News after his brother Lachlan took the reins, and he and Kathryn are funding a number of environmental programs after she was motivated to join the cause during a presentation...

Morning "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!" Deuteronomy 33:29 He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has...

The fake-meat craze appears to be here to stay, and rivals Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat (BYND) have been going head-to-head to claim dominance in the space. The jury is still out on which burger tastes better, but when it comes to nutrition, which one is the healthier option? (Please see link for full article)

Some might argue that voting Democrats out of office is a good thing anyway. But what if SITTING Democratic Governors are voted out of office? The best example is that Democratic Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards is up for re-election in October. Why not make this a part of a NATIONAL CAMPAIGN as a response to the IDIOTIC work of the House to impeach President Trump. It may not be necessary to ask President and Vice President Pence to support any Republican candidate but rathr to oppose John Bel Edwards because of what the Corrupt Democrats are doing in...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) One problem with the testimony of Acting DNI Joseph Maguire. – Joseph Maguire generally did quite well in refuting the Democrats’ phony scandal-mongering, and made it very clear that he followed the letter of the law throughout the process of reviewing the fake whistleblower complaint he with which was confronted. Just one problem, though: At several points in response to questions from both Republicans and Democrats, Maguire claimed he was “certain” that the leaks to the press related to the whistleblower situation did not come from “anyone in the IC (Intel Community).”...

President Franklin D Roosevelt presides over the launching of SS Patrick Henry at the Bethlehem Steel ship yard in Baltimore. Patrick Henry is the first Liberty ship to be built. By the WWII ends, 2710 of these ships will be built in 18 shipyards located in 12 States. The 14,245 ton cargo ship (the "ugly duckling) will carry 10,856 tons of cargo. Her 2,500 HP triple expansion steam engine will move the ship at 11 knots. It took over 240 days to build Patrick Henry. By 1844, from keel laying to sail away from the yard had been reduce to...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says liberal news organizations are ratcheting up recession fears in an effort to derail President Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. “A lot of the left-wing media are trying very desperately to encourage consumers to trigger a recession,” Ross told “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker.” “I think they realize that's probably the only way they can hope to beat President Trump in 2020.” In mid-August, a widely followed recession indicator flashed a warning. The spread between the U.S. 2-year and 10-year yields turned negative for the first time since 2007, indicating bond buyers are more worried about...

Jon Voight: This is war against truth

President Trump Thursday morning called a whistleblower and the White House officials that gave them information about a phone call with Ukraine’s president “almost a spy,” and suggested their actions were treasonous. “Who’s the person that gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to spy,” Trump said in audio obtained by the Los Angeles Times from a private event with diplomatic officials in New York. “You know what we used to do in the old days, when we were smart, right? The spies and treason? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.” The comments...

Beto responded to a question by Evan MacDonald with, “One of the best arguments I’ve heard for the second amendment is that the second amendment is intended to ensure that the American public if they need to, can provide a check on a Tyrannical government” THEN stated, "we can't arm ourselves efficiently enough to fight against a Tyrannical Government and we are going to need more than an AR-15." He then concluded with, "If it is a right to be able to rise up or stand up against your government, I don't accept that, that's not my reading of the...

“‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life’” (John 3:16). John 3:16 is undoubtedly the most familiar and beloved verse in all of Scripture. The first thing you notice is God’s motive for giving Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 9:15)—because He loved the evil, sinful world of fallen humanity. There was nothing in man that attracted God’s love. Rather He loved because He sovereignly determined to do so. It is important to note that “world” is a nonspecific term for humanity in a general...

Miami’s Super Bowl just got a whole lot more fun. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira announced on Thursday that they will headline the halftime show during Super Bowl LIV.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is dusting off its playbook from the special counsel's Russia investigation. Caught off guard by the speed at which a whistleblower's claims have morphed into an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump and his team are scrambling to respond. They're turning, at least for now, to some of the same strategies they used to counter special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The basic tactics deployed by the short-staffed White House: Attempt to discredit government officials at the heart of the story. Dispatch Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other allies to muddy the picture. Lean on Republicans...

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The comments are irrelevant. The recording was blatantly illegal. Established precedent in law states that where there was an "expectation of privacy" it is ILLEGAL to record a person without his/her consent. Illegal to have done this in the first place.

Scientists have unveiled a 500 megapixel cloud camera system in China that they say is capable of capturing the facial details of each individual in a crowd of tens of thousands of people, raising fears facial recognition monitoring could soon reach a new level. (Please see full article at the link)

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who currently sits on the board of Fox Corp., is reportedly urging Fox News to “decisively break” with President Donald Trump, according to a Thursday Vanity Fair report documenting the network’s “management bedlam.” Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman, citing four sources, reported that Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, who has long tried to move Fox News to the center, “is already thinking about how to position the network for a post-Trump future.” Ryan, the longtime Trump antagonist, has reportedly been suggesting to Murdoch that “Fox should decisively break with the president” as Murdoch holds “strategy conversations...

Polish President Andrzej Duda blamed Israel for Poland's anti-Semitism, the Jewish Insider reported Friday. In a Wednesday meeting with American Jewish leaders at the Polish Consulate in New York, Duda criticized Israel's lack of regret over statements regarding Poland's participation in the Holocaust, and said Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz's comments several months ago were a "humiliation." According to participants in the meeting - which included representatives from the Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC - Duda also suggested that the increase in anti-Semitic attacks against Jews in Poland were a consequence of Katz's comments. Duda's countrymen also told him not to...

Mitt Romney is a fine and decent person, whom I voted for without regret, then or now, and who strangely just published a scathing op-ed in the Washington Post about President Trump days before assuming office as Utah’s newly elected junior senator. But why in the world would he reserve his invective for January, rather than in October, when it surely would have had greater force? As far as Romney’s calls for Trump to be less ad hominem in his retaliatory remarks, he may be right, both in terms of presidential behavior and political wisdom (given that Trump needs to...