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A new documentary about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggests his conservative stance on abortion may have been behind the efforts to stop his confirmation. Time reports the documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” largely is based on a recent interview with the conservative justice. In it, he speaks about his faith, his philosophy, politics, race and his early life of poverty. Thomas also talked about his contentious confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate in 1991 and Democratic lawmakers’ focus on abortion. “Most of my opponents on the Judiciary Committee cared about only one thing: how...

GOP Congressman Lee Zeldin (NY) obliterated Schiff’s star witness, US diplomat Bill Taylor’s closed-door testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.The Democrat-media complex exploded on Tuesday over testimony from Bill Taylor, a US diplomat to Ukraine who said he believed Trump withheld aid to Ukraine in order to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Biden crime family. Bill Taylor, the Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine started out on Tuesday with a 15-page opening statement that left Democrat lawmakers ‘gasping.’The Hill reported that Mr. Taylor testified that US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, told him that...

San Francisco, CA — As the fourth week of the Planned Parenthood RICO trial against pro-life activists who exposed its participation in the illegal trafficking of aborted baby remains, Operation Rescue continues to be unable to share details of the trial because OR President Troy Newman is a defendant in this case. However, Harry Mihet, an attorney with the Liberty Counsel who represents pro-life defendant Sandra Merritt, put out an update yesterday in an e-mail. We are reprinting it for your information. From Harry Mihet: Despite some limited victories last week in presenting some key evidence to the jury, the...

The Ukraine impeachment hoax is to stop Donald Trump before criminal indictments come down for the Russian Collusion hoax.

FULL TITLE: Whole Women’s Health Abortion Facility Requests “No Sirens” for Woman Suffering Complication During Abortion Austin, TX – Emergency 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue show that Whole Woman’s Health, an abortion facility in Austin, Texas, requested that an ambulance come without using sirens for a patient suffering a medical emergency . The incident took place on August 28, 2019. The woman, 31, was in the process of an abortion when it was discovered that she had “some type of an infection” that did not allow for the abortion to continue. The following is a partial transcript from the...

AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook FacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to More More310 Court resumed Tuesday for day 11 of the Planned Parenthood v. The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) civil trial in San Francisco with CMP lead investigator David Daleiden retaking the stand. In a surprising move, Judge William Orrick III said he would allow both the plaintiffs and the defense to play the video of an ABC News 20/20 fetal body parts trafficking undercover investigation first published in 2000. That investigation was the catalyst for Daleiden’s undercover work. Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, told...

What are the latest Brexit odds? There are all sorts of odds out there on whether Britain will seal a deal or not. Below is just a handful if you're thinking of putting a bet on: UK to leave by October 31, 2019: 33/1 (Betfair) A second in/out EU referendum to take place before 2020: 20/1 (Betfair) No Deal Brexit in 2019: 8/1 (Betfair) Article 50 to be revoked: 7/2 (Betfair) The bookies think there will be a general election held in the UK before Christmas Day. Paddy Power is offering odds of 5/6 that one will take place before...

Lots of readers have asked me recently about what are the most important stories that I have reported on Ukraine, Joe Biden, the U.S. embassy in Kiev and George Soros. Here is a quick cheat sheet of my columns on Ukraine that have garnered the most attention from my days writing at The Hill, starting with the April 1, 2019 column that started it all. 1.) Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare – A Closed Probe Is Revived Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about...

The CIA, NSA, DNI and FBI were compromised. It was actually these corrupt pieces of the U.S. apparatus of State that led the coup and solicited foreign nations to play a role, so this was a wise—but completely unexpected – move by Trump. That’s his specialty, and that is what will save him.

The suicide rate among children aged 10 through 14 has nearly tripled from 2007 to 2017, while the suicide rate among older teenagers has increased by 76 percent between 2007 and 2017, new federal data show. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, the suicide rate among 10 through 24-year-olds has increased 56 percent over the last decade as violent deaths (suicide and homicide) continue to be leading causes of death for that age bracket. In 2017, suicide was the second leading cause of death for children aged 10...

When Russia investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally testified this summer, one of the few substantive revelations he made about something not specifically addressed in his final report involved a long-pedaled allegation that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had a secret communications network through a computer server at Russia’s Alfa Bank. “I believe it’s not true,” Mueller testified when questioned by Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, confirming in public what FBI officials had privately told me and other reporters going back to late 2016. We now have strong evidence that one of the events that gave life to that...

Text messages released weeks ago showed that Bill Taylor believed the Trump administration was conditioning the release of military aid to Ukraine on a Ukrainian investigation of Trump’s political opponents. Yesterday, in testimony before Congress, Taylor described the events that caused him to believe this.If Taylor is telling the truth, he had a sound basis for believing that, for a while, there was a quid pro quo relationship between the release of aid and an investigation by Ukraine of the Bidens. He testified about a conversation with a National Security Council official who informed him that Gordon Sondland, our...

Today’s Cryptogram Courtesy The Arkansas Gazette LND CWBFD DC RJ X BECQNCWU DQJXD ENIJ GXSNXQ; VJSJQ UYQJXA ND XRCWD ENIJ TXQTXEXAJ.---VCJE GCLXQA You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might...

A Catholicism of self-defined certainties will lead eventually to a doubt about all certainties and thus to emptinessCatholic keyboard warriors who “spend all day attacking and responding” on social media in the belief that they are “defending the integrity of Church teaching” have been sharply criticised by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. In his homily for a Mass to mark the canonisation of St John Henry Newman at Dublin’s University Church, Archbishop Martin said he was “astonished” at the content and tone of daily messages on social media by Catholic pundits, who he said were “anything but kindly”. Rebuking these...

Moscow, October 22, Interfax - The historical mission of Russia consists in keeping Europe from breaking away from the Christian tradition and attempting to create a "Brave New World," Russian Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin said. "To Russia and Serbia, the events of WWII are an important reminder not only of the common historical fates of our peoples, of the glorious victories and heavy losses. The essence of the historical mission of Russia and other Slavic states, which is to do everything to keep Europe from fully breaking away from the Christian tradition and attempts to make a 'Brave...

MADRID - Spain’s Socialist government says it will exhume and relocate the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco on Thursday, bringing closer to an end a move that has sparked much criticism and legal battles. The government received court clearance last month to take the remains from the grandiose mausoleum at the Valley of the Fallen complex outside Madrid and move them to a cemetery close to the capital where the Franco family has a crypt. Franco’s wife, Carmen Polo, was buried there in 1988. The government said it will begin the exhumation operation at 10:30 a.m. local time on...

While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD) stated that, based on the reporting he has seen, the picture emerging from acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s testimony is “not a good one.” Thune said, “The picture coming out of it, based on the reporting that we’ve seen is — yeah, I would say is not a good one.”

<p>Bed Bath & Beyond has removed black jack-o’-lanterns from sale after a News 12 investigation that stemmed from complaints in Nyack about the product.</p> <p>A Halloween display in front of a law firm was taken down in Nyack because the jack-o'-lanterns upset some community members. The jack-o’-lanterns are painted black with a white mouth.</p>

The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America met in New York on October 15-16 under the presidency of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, dealing with a number of issues, including the organization of Synodal Committees, clerical discipline, the possibility of electing a new vicar bishop, the ongoing construction of the St. Nicholas shrine at Ground Zero, and much more. In particular, according to the official communiqué published by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Synod “Examined the petitions of three clergymen who have requested to enter into holy matrimony in the second instance and decided to formally...

Republicans Storm the Gaetz – Thirty House Republicans Demand Transparency and End To Impeachment “Star-Chamber” Secrecy… Earlier today thirty republican members of the House of Representatives stood up and said they’ve had enough of the ridiculous schemes behind the Pelosi, Schiff and Lawfare plan to conduct an impeachment inquiry without transparency and sunlight. With House democrats shredding the rules, procedures and historic norms in a transparent political scheme, apparently the GOP is finally starting to fight back. Some righteous indignation was expressed during a press conference. WATCH: Video of REpublicans Storming Schiff's Star Chamber today MORE AT LINK