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I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.(Psalm 85)The Psalmist speaks for all of the godly, those devoted to the LORD, those who know the God who is there, and that our God speaks. They know that God has “spoken through his Son” in these last days… . He proclaims...

When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, “please lower my taxes” — Greg Gutfeld 1) Most liberals are hateful people. 2) Liberals do more than any other group to encourage race-based hatred....

Presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a liberal who supports banning assault weapons and “raising the minimum wage to $15,” is still “too moderate for today’s Democrats,” sighs David Catron at The American Spectator. Which goes to show that the party has “no chance of beating Trump in 2020.” Unlike Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s radicalism, Gabbard’s liberalism is “relatively rational.” She is pro-choice but opposes late-term abortion; worries the “secretive” impeachment investigation will polarize America even further; and refuses to “execute a flip-flop on the withdrawal of troops from Syria,” as other Democrats did. Her campaign is likely to prove...

President Trump reignited his feud with Hillary Clinton, taking aim at his 2016 rival for her recent suggestions that presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard was being groomed by the Kremlin and is a potential Russian agent. In an exclusive interview Monday on “Hannity,” Trump blasted the former secretary of state as part of a broader discussion with Sean Hannity about the Russia investigation, something he dismissed as a “phony scam.” “Then you have Hillary Clinton saying two days ago, ‘Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset,’ and that Jill Stein was a Russian agent,” Trump told Hannity. “I said, wait a minute,...

If I were an American Indian, I'd be about done with the Democrats. First, we had Elizabeth Warren playing Indian to take a couple of Ivy League teaching slots via affirmative action. Now we have Joe Biden's ne'er-do-well junior, Hunter Biden, involved with people who ripped off Indian tribes. That's quite a pattern of corruption in itself, given Hunter's tainted money hauls from Ukraine's Russia-linked oligarchs as well as communist China's princeling overlords. But it's particularly disgusting because it involves robbing the Indians. According to an exclusive from the Daily Caller: Participants in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud an...

Over the weekend, Chinese state television attacked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, threatening retribution for what it claimed was a lie. Last week Silver claimed the Chinese government had asked him to fire Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over his tweet about Hong Kong: The Chinese government asked the N.B.A. to fire a team executive who posted on social media in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver, said on Thursday in his first public appearance in the United States since returning from a contentious trip to Asia.“We said there’s no chance that’s happening,” Silver...

A California driver was arrested Friday after, police said, she crashed into another car, bit the vehicle’s owner and then ran away without her two little children. Lizette Yesenia Aguilar, a 23-year-old Hollister resident, is accused of striking the parked vehicle around 8:30 p.m. Pacific time in the San Benito County town and then driving away before stopping, the Hollister Police Department said in a news release on Monday.

Because human rights are an expression of divine love, they are in no way amenable to coercion; however, they can be temporarily suppressed by man's law. Human rights pertain to the freedoms to love God and each other in family, community, and nation. They are the rights people are most willing to die for. Civil rights are based upon extrinsic and changing aims in the enterprises of the world. They are granted by men to each other in law to make the substantial transactions of life just and fair according to temporal viewpoints. Civil rights are dependent upon and conditioned...

Gray TV’s Full Court Press host Greta Van Susteren has slammed her former Fox News Channel colleague Christopher Wallace for withholding his source while reporting that a “well-connected Republican” told him the GOP could vote to impeach President Donald Trump. “Chris Wallace should know better than to use anonymous ‘well connected Republican’ – he should name names or not say this at all as without the identity (what is a ‘welll [sic] connected??’),” Van Susteren wrote on Twitter Sunday. “[I]ts purpose is merely to smear and cause trouble – name names or don’t say this at all.”

Appearing Sunday on Axios on HBO, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he felt “embarrassed” to be labeled a “lurker” after confirming he has a secret Twitter account. A transcript of the exchange is as follows: MIKE ALLEN: There’s some question whether you follow President Trump. Your official account follows President Trump. SEN. MITT ROMNEY: I have two official accounts — one is a Senate account and the other is the Mitt Romney account and those accounts are not ones I look at regularly. I do follow them, but I have an anonymous account, which is the one that I look at...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center have plenty of opponents on the right, but the leftist civil rights groups appear to hold some sway with the Trump Organization’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Less than two weeks after the leftist groups pressured Mar-a-Lago to cancel a booking for an ACT for America gala featuring conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, the resort has come under pressure to scrap the annual banquet of the Center for Security Policy, another conservative national security organization listed by the SPLC as a “hate group.” “The Trump Organization made the right...

BY REID WILSON - 10/21/19 06:00 AM EDT The Trump administration's perennial push for steep budget cuts, an exodus of senior staffers with decades of experience and constant allegations that agency employees represent a deep state has sent morale at the State Department to an unprecedented low. On top of that, President Trump has fired a senior diplomat after a whisper campaign mounted by his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and abandoned steadfast allies in the Middle East to fend for themselves on the battlefield at the behest of Turkey's government. Current and former diplomats say the weight of those events...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s more than 5.6 million independent voters will be allowed to vote in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, but not in the Republican contest, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Monday. The two parties have used a similar setup in recent presidential primaries. The state’s presidential primary will be held on March 3, 2020, known as “Super Tuesday,” because of the large number of state contests that day. California is one of the biggest prizes, offering nearly 500 delegates in the Democratic nominating contest. Independent voters, known in the state as “no party preference,” make up roughly...

The Trump administration signaled Monday it may re-thinking its troop withdrawal strategy in Syria, with the president and military officials now saying a small number of U.S. forces may remain in the country to protect oil supplies and keep them from falling into the hands of the Islamic State terror group. The shift, which comes amid a fragile cease-fire in the battle between Turkey and the formerly U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), comes in the face of intense bipartisan criticism of Mr. Trump’s Syria policy from lawmakers, foreign policy analysts and retired military officials. The president unexpectedly announced last week...

...And She's Bragging About It online (Rest of Title) Senator Rand Paul and his deputy chief of staff Sergio Gor were having lunch in California on Friday when they were verbally assaulted by a deranged democrat. The woman went ballistic as the two men dined, flipped them off and having a general temper tantrum over their differing political beliefs. ...

The image Nancy Pelosi added to her Twitter profile last week shows her as the plucky woman at a table full of gray men, standing up and wagging her finger at Donald Trump like a scolding schoolmarm, just before stalking out of the meeting. She must imagine it portrays her in a good light. It doesn’t, no matter how many progressive women share it triumphantly on social media as a symbol of female empowerment. It’s more a symbol of female entitlement. It’s an embarrassment to women who want to be judged on their merits, not given special treatment by men...

The public rejects Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court with more members, but are strikingly eager to impose term limits on the justices, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll released Monday that took a deep dive into Americans’ views of the unelected branch of government. And Americans are still smarting over Republicans’ move in 2016 to block action on President Obama’s final Supreme Court picking, saving the slot for President Trump to fill. But should another vacancy occur next year — in the middle of another campaign — the public says they want to see Mr....

The reality is that liberals don't care about others. If liberals cared about blacks, they'd have fixed the school systems in cities like Chicago and Detroit. Yet after generations of liberal Democrat rule, the blacks in those cities still get horrible educations. But the teachers in those cities get great pay even though they fail miserably at their jobs. Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the huge support the teachers' unions give to Democrat candidates. If liberals really cared about the poor, they'd give more of their own money to charity. Yet liberals tend to give less of...

[Catholic Caucus] Special De Mattei: The New Pact of the Catacombs: the fulfillment of Vatican II? The secret testament of the Second Vatican Council has [now] become public and official. On October 20, 2019. in the Catacombs of the Domitilla ”The Pact for a poor servant Church”,  was solemnly renewed as stipulated on November 16, 1965 in the same place, by forty-two Council Fathers, some weeks before the conclusion of the Council Assembly. Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, Emeritus Bishop of Ivrea, the only living signatory of the Pact of the  Catacombs, revealed that the 1965 text had been written by Monsignor...

Tan Youhui's murder plan triggered a cottage industry of would-be killers (Newser) – A real estate man in China learned the hard way it's hard to find a good hit man, Shanghaiist reports. A court heard that Tan Youhui, owner of a real estate company in the Guangxi region, planned to murder one of his rivals—Wei, who was taking Tan's business to court. So Tan hired a man named Xi Guangan in 2013 for roughly $282,000 and gave him a copy of Wei's ID and other personal information. Xi then turned around and gave half the money to an individual...