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The year is 2019 AD. Gaul is entirely occupied by liberals, Europhiles, historical repenters, anti-Christians and “citizens of the World”. Well, not entirely . . . One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. The Puy du Fou in the Vendée region of western France is, according to Tripadvisor, the world’s best theme park. It is certainly popular. It had 2.3 million visitors last year. It has won numerous prizes for its huge shows, featuring hundreds of costumed actors who recount the history of France through the prism of local history. “The Sign of Triumph”, for...

Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn’t “understand how on earth” a German porn star got deep inside sensitive areas of NYPD headquarters, he said Thursday, as an NYPD boss vowed to find answers. “I’ve only heard the beginning of this, and I don’t like what I hear,” fumed Hizzoner of Annina Ucatis’ private tour of the Lower Manhattan cop shop — first reported by The Post — where she was free to film inside the clandestine Real Time Crime Center, and even outside Commissioner James O’Neill’s office. “I don’t understand how on earth this could have happened,” continued de Blasio of...

[Catholic Caucus] IN THE SPIRIT of BONIFACE: Pachamama Thrown into the Tiber Who is Pachamama? Leaving aside desperate Neo-Catholic claims to the contrary, the Pachamama (pronounced Pawch-mama) that is dominating the Amazon Synod is, in fact, the pagan “Earth Goddess” worshipped by the Incas of South America.  The Inca Empire (1200-1532) is the best documented of all the Peruvian civilizations and, as a result, much of what is known about the deities of the empire is also well-documented and relies less on the myths and conjecture typically associated with the study of other pagan religions. The Incas worshipped the Sun God Inti and...

A team of astronomers from NASA’s New Horizons mission has unveiled our best look yet at the far side of Pluto, which went unseen to the spacecraft during its historic July 2015 flyby of the dwarf planet. We have only seen one hemisphere of Pluto in high-resolution because the New Horizons flyby of Pluto lasted just hours, whereas the dwarf planet takes 6.4 Earth days to rotate. Thus as New Horizons flew past, one side of the world was illuminated by the Sun, but the other was shrouded in darkness. However, using images taken by the spacecraft while it was...

Criticisms of Rep. Adam Schiff’s impeachment tactics have begun to bite. Fair-minded people have begun to ask why is it necessary to have secret witnesses, secret hearings, and leaks of distorted, out-of-context excerpts from transcripts, Why is it necessary to block the president from sending representatives to attend these hearings so he can have equal access to any evidence? Why was it necessary for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff to “parody” the transcript of the president’s call to the Ukrainian president? Aren’t parodies supposed to be funny? Shouldn’t the chairman be proceeding with sober deliberation and fairness instead of romping...

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Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, ended his long-shot presidential campaign after months of struggling to find a footing in the crowded Democratic field. Ryan announced his decision to end his campaign in a video to supporters, stating he would run again for his House seat. He isn’t throwing his support behind anyone in the 2020 field at this time, his campaign told NBC. "I got into this race in April to really give voice to the forgotten people of our country: the workers who have been left behind, the businesses who have been left behind, the people who need health care...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese Admiral in charge of Japan's fateful Midway battle loss to U.S. forces during World War 2.Note: The attributed quote has been placed in dispute by many liberal sources at an obvious attempt to promote the banning of firearms and the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain...

Talk about putting the “men” in menstruation! On Tuesday it was announced that feminine hygiene product brand Always would be removing the Venus female symbol from its packaging. CBS News reported, “The announcement follows pleas from LGBTQ activists to make the labeling more inclusive of transgender and non-binary customers.” Because apparently having feminine products coded as feminine is offensive and exclusionary. According to CBS News, “LGBTQ activists and allies have been publicly asking P&G [Procter & Gamble] to redesign the packaging to be more gender-neutral. They argued that using the female symbol is exclusive because not all women menstruate, and...

Goldman Sachs downgraded Twitter on the back of the social media company’s dismal earnings performance on Thursday. The firm downgraded the stock to neutral from buy and slashed its price target to $34 from $52. Goldman also lowered its 2019, 2020 and 2021 earnings estimates to “reflect the company’s advertising issues.” “Although we continue to see significant and growing value in the platform evidenced by broad-based, accelerating DAU growth, the lack of visibility into the remediation of the advertising platform, uncertainty around Twitter’s ability to drive broader advertiser demand, and the risk of further multiple compression drive us to lower...

Everything we’re reading about this leaker (yeah, that’s a bad visual on its own) just stinks to high heaven. It could be that we read so many tweets from so many different people on the topic that it seems extra stinky to us. Then again, reading this tweet from Ivan Pentchoukov about William Taylor meeting with Schiff’s staffer in Ukraine four days before the leak seems … well, pretty damn stinky.

Eating a cup of yogurt a day may lower your risk of developing lung cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that those who ate a daily serving of yogurt lowered their risk of the disease by 20 percent compared to those who did not eat yogurt every day. And people who ate a serving of yogurt a day - along with a high fiber diet - were able to lower their risk of lung cancer by more than 30 percent. Studies have shown some probiotics, live bacteria found in yogurt, have anti-inflammatory and cancer-fighting properties. The team, from Vanderbilt...

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Boris Johnson Raised The Issue Of NI Export Forms With Jean-Claude Juncker. And Then Agreed To Them. He was fully aware that the issue of export forms would be problematic back home, but signed it off anyway in order to secure the agreement with the EU. Boris personally raised the controversial issue of businesses having to fill in export forms on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in a phone call with European Commission Juncker on the morning the Brexit deal was agreed. Juncker insisted that the matter could not be renegotiated. Shortly afterwards, in a follow-up call,...

VIDEO We are just two days away from Hillary Clinton announcing her 2020 candidacy for president on her birthday, October 26. H.A. Goodman, who has been predicting that Hillary would be a 2020 candidate since early 2017, yesterday stated that there now strong indications that Hillary wanted to be in the November Democrat debate next month. Logistically, this means she needs a MINIMUM of at least one week lead time before the November 13 qualifying date. Even with Hillary's organization and media friends she would most likely need at least two weeks to really accomplish that which brings the...

If ‘pagan’ rites are part of Amazon synod, they’re still ‘worship of God’: synod working doc writer October 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The key author of the Amazon Synod's working document, Fr. Paulo Suess, has just given an interview to Vatican News, in which he discussed the heavily criticized pagan ceremonies that have been taking place in the last two weeks in the Vatican, and conducted also in the presence of Pope Francis. With regard to the claim that some of the ceremonies with the Pope were pagan, Suess said “so what. Even if it would have been a...

Twitter users who disapprove of President Donald Trump are especially prominent on the platform, Pew Research Center finds. There's no question that Twitter plays a major role in US politics, particularly with its policy of letting world leaders like President Donald Trump tweet what they want, even if those tweets violate the tech giant's rules of engagement. But only 22% of Americans actually use Twitter, and of those, most political tweets are coming from a very small number, according to a Wednesday report from the Pew Research Center. Pew analyzed the tweets of more than 2,400 random US adults with...

Dr. Susan Crockford is one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears. As such, she has repeatedly reported the inconvenient fact that polar bears are thriving, with their populations burgeoning. Why is this fact inconvenient? Because climate change activists have chosen polar bears–considered to be cute by people who don’t have to deal with them–as a propaganda tool. We have quoted Dr. Crockford’s work a number of times: here, here, here, on walruses, here, and more. Crockford has written a book called The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened. To my knowledge, no competent scientist has taken issue with...

What's a disgusting sex predator like far-left Democrat Rep. Katie Hill doing in Congress? Naked pictures of the congresswoman have turned up, first at RedState, and now beyond, showing Hill sitting there with her giant naked thighs spread out, buck naked in some hotel room, stroking her very, very, young submissive female staffer's hair like an alpha orangutuan, It was a picture which must have been taken by someone else, perhaps the man, legislative director Graham Kelly, in the reported Hill "throuple" relationship, (we get to learn so many new words with these freshmen Democrats), or else her husband, who's...

Posted on October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope Anti-Human Themes in Modern Environmentalism When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I enjoyed much of the popular music of the day but paid little attention to the words. It was usually the rhythm and melody that got my attention; the lyrics were more like another instrumental track than something to analyze. As I got older and especially when I became a writer, the words and their message became much more important to me. When I listen to the Â’70s music now, IÂ’m surprised by some of...