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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is overseeing the ongoing illegitimate impeachment inquiry set in motion by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is reportedly telling witnesses testifying not to answer questions asked by Republican lawmakers. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., slammed the hidden process claiming Schiff was instructing witnesses testifying behind the closed doors of the SCIF not to answer questions asked by Republican members. “He’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer if they’re asked by Republicans,” Scalise charged. “He’s not cut off one...

Alabama's near-total abortion ban blocked by federal judge By Kate Smith October 29, 2019 / 3:25 PM / CBS News Alabama's near-total ban on abortion has just been blocked from implementation. The ban, dubbed the "Human Life Protection Act," was set to take effect on November 15. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the ban on Tuesday morning, effectively halting the law from taking effect while the lawsuit challenging the ban continues. Steve Marshall, Alabama's attorney general, said the decision "was not unexpected," noting that the point of the law was to potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, the...

WESTFIELD — A new health care manufacturing factory is planning to build a new facility in Westfield and create more than 475 jobs. Westfield Mayor Andy Cook and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Abbott, a global health care company, plans to build the facility and employ 477 people, according to a press release from the city. The company plans to hire people in two phases, with hiring complete by 2024. The $37.6 million, 120,000 facility will be built in Holladay Properities' NorthPoint Industrial Park, near US-31 and 202nd Street, according to the release. The facility will make the company's MiltraClip...

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place...

Deserting Christ In the Communion wars, McCarrick and Wuerl sided with pro-abortion politicians In the war of words over Holy Communion, few have been more vocal — on both sides of the fence — than Cdl. Raymond Burke and Cdl. Donald Wuerl, who have slugged it out in the public square. Cardinal Burke, known for consistently coming to the defense of Our Lord, stands in sharp contrast to Cdl. Wuerl, and his disgraced predecessor Theodore McCarrick, whose concern for the slighted communicant seems to eclipse any care for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Misreading Canon 915 In 2004, debate...

When a 15-year-old girl’s mother found out sexually explicit photos of her daughter were online, it had been nearly a year since her family had seen her. Police investigated and discovered nearly 60 pornographic videos of the Sunrise girl posted on Periscope, Pornhub, Modelhub, Snapchat and other websites, according to an arrest report. In some of the videos with the girl was a bald man who police recognized as one of two men the girl was with in February when a clerk at a 7-11 in Davie recognized her. Police obtained video surveillance from the store after that Feb. 26...

"Twin primes" are primes that are two steps apart from each other on that line: 3 and 5, 5 and 7, 29 and 31, 137 and 139, and so on. The twin prime conjecture states that there are infinitely many twin primes, and that you'll keep encountering them no matter how far down the number line you go. It also states that there are infinitely many twin primes, and that you'll keep encountering them no matter how far down the number line you go. It also states that there are infinitely many prime pairs with every other possible gap between...

Joel Pett’s Sunday cartoon, which showed Attorney General candidate Daniel Cameron hanging on the KKK robes of President Donald Trump, provoked a social media uproar. Predictably, prominent Republicans like Scott Jennings called the cartoon racist for questioning why the only black candidate in the election was tying himself so closely to Trump. Cameron tweeted out the cartoon and dismissed “elites.” The cartoon was harsh, uncomfortable, provocative, exaggerated and outrageous, as editorial cartoons are supposed to be. It’s also true that Cameron, who is black, advertises his endorsement from and ties to Trump, who has proven for the past three years,...

After watching the extremely offensive first season of Netflix’s teen dark comedy Insatiable last year, I was prepared for more of the same right from the start while diving into the second season, which was released on October 11. And while there were plenty of cringeworthy scenes still making the show completely inappropriate for its targeted teen audience, it wasn’t until episode 9 (out of ten episodes total) that co-star Alyssa Milano's abortion agenda kicked in. Of course, we were subjected to abortion propaganda in season one, but apparently that wasn’t enough. Milano, who the Washington Post labeled the “Jane...

Kanye West, controversial rapper and husband of Kim Kardashian, sat down this week with radio host and former bodyguard Big Boy to discuss a new turn in the rapper’s career. The “Gold Digger” star, who has previously tweeted provocatively on the subject of abortion, now appears to have changed his tune. This week, he dropped his album Jesus is King, a far different focus from the rest of his previous work. The star’s views haven’t just changed on religion and music, however. During the interview, the star discussed his newfound worldview, and on issues that affect the Black community. “Democrats...

Italian bishops’ mission org publishes ‘prayer to Pachamama’ in official booklet Analysis October 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A prayer to Pachamama, the “Mother Earth” venerated by indigenous tribes such as the Aymara and Quechua in the Andes but also in the northern plains of Argentina and in Brazil near Bolivia and Peru, has been found in an official booklet of the Fondazione Missio (Mission Foundation) of the Italian bishops’ conference. The prayer is presented without warning about the fact that it is addressed not to God — another prayer in the publication, written in the same letter-type and the same...

In the early 1980s, I served on President Reagan’s National Security Council. Prior to my time at the White House, I was a vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank, in charge of its USSR and Eastern Europe division. It was my job to assess the creditworthiness of the countries in that part of the world, and I had come to realize that the Soviet Union had relatively modest hard currency income—and that what little it had came largely from the West. In 1982, the Soviets had an empire stretching from Havana to Hanoi, but their hard currency revenue totaled only...

This season, the CBS drama Bull has been highlighting the struggle of the character Chunk as he tries to prevent his daughter Anna from having an abortion. Last week, Chunk sought out a church for spiritual counseling and had a book on his desk titled “Choice: Abortion Politics and the Black Community.” In this week’s episode, “Into the Mystic,” on October 28, he tells his daughter of the abortion, "I know deep in my heart, that this is wrong." But still, the unplanned pregnancy subplot took a turn in a direction Newbusters feared it might. We previously surmised that “the...

Netflix is having a chilling impact on the environment, a new study finds. Climate scientists are railing against streaming TV and movie services, which they’re calling “a waste of resources at all levels.” Researchers estimate that watching a half-hour show via an on-demand video app emits 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide into the environment - the equivalent of driving almost 4 miles, according to Maxime Efoui-Hess of Paris-based nonprofit the Shift Project. The study reports that while 34 percent of traffic goes to streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, the second-leading source comes from web porn. The...

Keeping up with the Qardashians: new Islamic State caliph is Sharia judge Abdullah Qardash OCT 29, 2019 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “After his release Qardash served as a religious commissar and a general sharia judge for al-Qaeda…” A “religious commissar and a general sharia judge”? What? Don’t these people realize that al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? Pope Francis should head to Iraq now to explain their peaceful religion to al-Baghdadi and Qardash. “The Professor – ISIS’s ‘cruel but popular’ new leader: Ex-Saddam officer Abdullah Qardash, who was imprisoned alongside Abu Bakr...

The former Navy SEAL who killed terrorist Osama bin Laden during the daring 2011 raid on his compound had harsh words for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in the wake of the political bickering that erupted in Washington after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid in Syria...."If you’re the House Intel Chairman and are not told about the raid to kill the world’s #1 terrorist ... you might be a leaker," O'Neill tweeted.

Presidential candidate Tom Steyer gave his most unequivocal backing yet for reparations in a video uploaded over the weekend. "In terms of reparations: I'm for reparations, just so you know," he said in the NowThis News candidate forum video. "Think about this for one sec: 400 years of legalized discrimination and unfairness did the deepest injustice. There's never been an apology. Think—I mean, it's amazing." The comments are a sharper commitment to the policy than remarks he provided in the summer. "And I was saying, look, there's no question that there has been injustice, there's no question that we should...

Trump attacks on Vindman trigger backlash BY MORGAN CHALFANT AND BRETT SAMUELS - 10/29/19 04:53 PM EDT President Trump's aggressive attacks on a White House official who testified about his concerns over Trump's communications with Ukraine in the impeachment inquiry set off a furious backlash on Tuesday, with former Vice President Joe Biden calling the president's remarks “despicable.” Trump described Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an active-duty member of the military who attended his deposition in uniform, as a “Never Trumper,” while some allies questioned the Purple Heart recipient’s patriotism given the fact that he emigrated from Ukraine as a child....

Al-Baghdadi Dead, Leftists Crestfallen OCT 29, 2019 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER A hero of the Left has passed away. My latest in FrontPage: Just in time for Halloween, one of the most famous undead people in the world, the Islamic State (ISIS) caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been reported dead yet again, and this time it actually appears to be true. President Trump announced the news in an address on Sunday morning, and predictably, the Left is now furious. Any enemy of Trump is a friend of theirs, and suddenly Leftists are deeply concerned about Trump’s affronts to the...

George Papadopoulos, the former Donald Trump campaign aide who pleaded guilty in the special counsel investigation, told Los Angeles he is “very seriously” considering running for Representative Katie Hill’s seat following the announcement of her resignation on Sunday. A source with knowledge of Papadopoulos’s plans said he plans to officially announce and file his candidacy for Hill’s seat in the 25th district today. He’ll run in the regular election and a special election, if the governor orders one. He already had a team in place, the source said. As Hill stepped down amid a House Ethics Committee investigation and allegations...