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Hillary Clinton dismissed rumors that she had engaged in lesbian affairs during an interview with shock jock Howard Stern on Wednesday, and now a prominent LGBTQ advocate is “disappointed” in the former secretary of state. “Never even been tempted, thank you very much,” Clinton told Stern when asked if she had ever engaged in a “lesbian affair.” Reporter Trish Bendix, who has won the 2015 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for excellence in LGBT media and is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, didn’t appreciate Clinton’s response to the question. “It's so frustrating when public figures like...

Since sending both their daughters to college, the Obamas are enjoying some alone time and rediscovering each other as a couple. "We’ve rediscovered all these little pockets of time, just me and Barack, that for a couple decades have been filled with school events or sports practices," Michelle Obama told People. "We’re taking full advantage of this new normal, simply spending time with each other and remembering what brought us together in the first place." The Obamas' youngest daughter, Sasha, started college this fall, and her older sister Malia went off to university three years ago. "Sometimes I’ll get a...

Drastic New Proposals Would Impact Massachusetts Drivers Charging drivers for every mile they travel and expanding highway tolls were among proposals pitched Thursday by lawmakers. By State House News Service, News Partner Dec 6, 2019 8:26 pm ET Drastic New Proposals Would Impact Massachusetts Drivers (Shutterstock) Supporters of increasing fees on ride-hailing trips, expanding highway tolls, and charging drivers for every mile they travel made their cases to lawmakers Thursday, each pitching their respective proposal as a necessary source of revenue to address the state's growing transportation needs. Several key House members have hinted that they are likely to include...

[Catholic Caucus] Amazon Synod Bishop Forecasts Female Priesthood Bp. Franz-Josef Overbeck predicts "priestesses" on Church horizon ESSEN, Germany (ChurchMilitant.com) - Bp. Franz-Josef Overbeck, a key player at October's Amazon Synod, is forecasting a female Catholic priesthood. Speaking to a German newspaper last week, Overbeck said that in spite of opposition by faithful Catholics, "I can now imagine women becoming priestesses."  The Essen bishop said that a married male clergy — a central recommendation of the synod's final document — would be a first step toward's women's ordination.  "That would allow some to find their way to the priesthood," said Overbeck. The...

CUERNAVACA, Mexico - The Diocese of Cuernavaca has suspended evening Masses due to insecurity in the city and surrounding state of Morelos, a reflection of the violence raging in parts of Mexico and its impact on the Catholic Church. Bishop Ramon Castro Castro of Cuernavaca said church services would not be celebrated after dark because people in the region just south of Mexico City did not want to venture out of their homes after dark. “These are situations where people are scared. It’s a fear that paralyzes them,” Castro told local media Dec. 4, according to the newspaper El Universal....

Hungary is promoting pro-family policies because its Christian identity is at stake, the country’s family minister told CNA in an interview. “If we give up on our Christianity, then we will lose our own identity, as Hungarians, as Europeans,” Katalin Novák, Hungary’s Minister of State for Family Affairs, told CNA in an interview on Wednesday. Novák spoke at the second annual conference on family policy on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, co-organized with the Embassy of Brazil. She joined officials from the Trump administration, members of Congress, and representatives of non-governmental organizations in discussing how governments can promote pro-family policies. Hungary’s...

A Deplorable Strategy Beyond 2020 amgreatness.com/2019/12/02/a-deplorable-strategy-beyond-2020/ December 3, 2019 Regardless of who wins in 2020, the mega-issue that drove the 2016 elections will grip the country more intensely than ever. From President Obama on down, the political, educational, media, and corporate establishment had long since taken for granted that placing the opinions, interests, tastes, and the rights of the rest of America on the same plane as their own amounts to “false equality.” They had come to regard us as lower beings. No matter whether they attributed our purported inferiority to our alleged racism, sexism, etc., or just plain stupidity,...

Culpepper County, VA — It looks like what Virginia gun owners needed was a wake up call. Or more accurately, a wake up slap in the face. Ever since Bloomberg bought himself a blue Virginia and stacked it with eager anti-gun legislators, we’ve told you how the state is on fire with pro-gun rights sentiment. County after county has joined the Second Amendment Sanctuary list, totaling 42 counties in less than six weeks. Add one more sheriff to the list of Second Amendment heroes. Sheriff Scott Jenkins of Culpepper County, VA made a post on his official county Facebook page...

The Impeachment Hearings Threaten the First Amendment Spying on reporters and criminalizing journalism is the new normal. Fri Dec 6, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 35 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. The only good thing about the Democrat shift from Russia to Ukraine is that the issue has shifted from the limits of free speech to the limits of executive authority. Unlike the First Amendment, the separation of powers is at least a legitimate topic for a power struggle between the branches of...

President Trump pleaded with Congress to do something as illegal immigration across the southwestern border soared this spring. Republicans seemed willing, but it was a nonstarter for Democrats. Party leaders even accused Mr. Trump of manufacturing the crisis. So the president turned to Mexico with a combination of negotiations, controls, threats and even an explicit quid pro quo: Do something to stop 4,000 people from crossing Mexican territory each day en route to the U.S. or face crippling tariffs. Mexican negotiators ran to Washington to make a deal. Mr. Trump didn’t get everything he wanted, but he got enough. By...

DISGRACEFUL! Pope Francis Compares US President Trump to King Herod Who Slaughtered Baby Boys During the Time of Christ Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft December 6, 2019 196 Comments Share 33Tweet Email The Slaughter of the Innocents In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. On Thursday Pope Francis trashed the global populist people’s movements and compared President Trump to King Herod...

A young woman is suing West Virginia health officials after she said they failed to protect her from her father’s sexual abuse. The AP reports 21-year-old “Jane Doe” said her father raped and impregnated her when she was 11 years old, and her stepmother took her to have an abortion to cover up the abuse. Doe, whose real name is not used for privacy reasons, said the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources failed to protect her when it removed her from foster care and placed her in her biological father’s home, according to the report. Her lawsuit,...

Saudi killer tweeted message before attack… Posted by Kane on December 6, 2019 8:33 pm"“O American people – I’m not against you for being American, I don’t hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but against humanity. What I see from America is the supporting of Israel which is invasion of Muslim countrie (sic), I see invasion of many countries by its troops, I see Guantanamo Bay. I see cruise missiles, cluster bombs and UAV.”"Full story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pensacola-shooting-today-3-people-killed-shooter-dead-at-florida-navy-base-nas-pensacola-2019-12-06/

* Shooting took place on base early Friday morning, sparking a lockdown. * Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani. * As of Friday evening, six Saudi nationals have been detained for questioning.* It's reported that three of them filmed the shooting as it happened. * Rep Matt Gaetz, a Republican representing Pensacola, called the shooting 'an act of terrorism'. * President Trump tweeted that King Salman told him 'the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter...'. * Three other people were shot and killed during incident inside...

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In fact, the American Meteor Society website received at least 50 reports of a fireball not just in Texas, but also in Oklahoma and Louisiana. ABC13 viewer Hunter Moliver sent video from his doorbell camera inside the 610 Loop capturing the flash. The flash shoots across the sky about five seconds into the video.

President Donald Trump decided Friday not to officially designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, deferring instead to Mexico. “We will temporarily hold off this designation and step up our joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!” Trump wrote on Twitter. The president said that although he was fully prepared to take the tough step against the cartels, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked him not to. Trump said he liked and respected President Obrador, who has been working with him to help stop the flow of migrants crossing the Southern border of the United...

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday no matter your view on President Donald Trump there's no denying we're living in the best labor market in more than a generation. "You can't contradict that these are the best numbers of our lives. You can't," Cramer, 64, said following the government report showing the U.S. economy created a better-than-expected 266,000 nonfarm jobs in November, with the unemployment rate dipping to 3.5%, matching a 50-year low. Economists had expected the jobless rate to hold steady at 3.6% last month. "People don't want to say good things" about the economy, said Cramer, echoing comments he...

The space rock will fly harmlessly past our planet. Asteroid VH5 2019 will make its flyby at about 17.9 lunar distances on Dec. 8, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The asteroid has dimensions of 57 meters (187 feet) by 130 meters (426.5 feet), NASA says. Citing the asteroid’s dimensions, the Inquisitr website describes the rock as “pyramid-shaped,” noting that it is almost as large as the famous Great Pyramid of Giza. The Apollo asteroid is one of five space rocks set to fly by Earth over the weekend, according to the Inquisitr,...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Zen: Pope ‘Shutting Down’ Work of Predecessors in China Says Francis has 'low respect' for John Paul II, Benedict XVI HONG KONG (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a recent interview with New Bloom, Cdl. Joseph Zen discussed the worsening plight of the underground Catholic Church in China and described how Pope Francis is "shutting down" the work of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.  After providing some historical background on the relationship between the Vatican and Communist China, Cdl. Zen talked about the situation coming to a head under Pope Francis' pontificate and deteriorating in the wake of the surreptitious 2018 Vatican-China...