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A Southern California church flipped the lights on its outdoor manger scene Saturday evening to reveal Jesus, Mary and Joseph as border detainees, each figure isolated in its own chain-link cage with a barbed-wire top

If Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Britain’s general election on Thursday, he’s promising a remix of British society, with a strong emphasis on raising the lot of Britain’s disenfranchised and forcing tax-dodging corporations and wealthy individuals to pick up part of the tab. Corbyn’s key theme is that decades of unbridled free market capitalism in Britain has created a capitalist elite at the expense of working people, who have seen public services slashed and aspirations dampened. […] While Johnson has taken his party to the right, Corbyn has tacked to the left and endured the departure of some prominent...

Republicans need to start political action committees to help veterans run against House Democrats. Pres. Trump's Call to Ukraine President Was the Right Thing to Do

Crickets from MSM, so it is true.

Democrat presidential aspirant and self-described “global leader” on the environment, Michael Bloomberg, flew to Spain on Monday and joined the U.N. COP25 talks to deliver the message the U.S. is “still in” with globalist plans for climate action. It is not clear if Bloomberg, who has pledged to end the American coal industry, flew across the Atlantic in his $42 million Dassault Falcon 900 private plane which he used while he was mayor of New York City to commute from his Bermuda mansion.

The Saudi national who killed three people during last week’s shooting spree at Naval Air Station Pensacola filed a complaint against one of his instructors earlier this year alleging that he had called him “Porn Stash” — a nickname that “infuriated” him, a report says. Mohammed Alshamrani, who prepared the document with the help of two American classmates, according to The New York Times, claimed teacher James Day labeled him with the term at the end of a meteorology class in April. In the complaint, Alshamrani wrote that Day was asking about 10 students around the room if they had...

With American unemployment numbers at a 50-year low, with people working and with money in their pockets, stubborn House Democrats rush forward on their path toward madness. They insist on impeaching President Donald Trump, though they have no hope of securing a conviction in the Republican-controlled Senate. Are House Democrats principled patriots fighting for the right against tough odds? Or are they cynics aided by media cheerleaders? You're the only ones who can answer that. Because the only answer that counts is the one the American people -- Democrats and Republicans and independents -- will give on Election Day in...

The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), led by Michael Horowitz, just issued a report, which concludes that there was no intentional misconduct or political bias by the FBI when it sought a highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. Instead, the report faults the FBI over numerous “omissions” and “inaccuracies” in the application process. In his just-released report, Horowitz slapped a few wrists just like he did in his prior (yearlong) investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email probe and pointed out a number of inconsistencies...

President Trump blasted FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday morning over his response to the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation and use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The IG report found that while there were a significant number of concerns regarding the FBI’s practices in obtaining the FISA warrant and other aspects of the probe, there was no evidence of political bias or impropriety regarding their motives in the investigation. Wray has accepted these findings, but Trump signaled Tuesday he doesn’t think...

SAVANNAH, Georgia -- Tyler Merritt has taken the saying "It takes a village to raise a child" and turned it a bit sideways. He's building a village, literally, to allow adults to raise themselves up. His village is a stabilizing rail, or a steppingstone to a better life. Merritt, a former Army captain and special operations air mission commander, is trying to help his military brothers and sisters who have found themselves post-military service and one paycheck away from financial collapse, as well as those struggling to find their way through modern civilian life, which does not begin and end...

Come on Dems, you’re better than this: A new poll of registered Democrats has Hillary Clinton as their top choice for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination — and she’s not even running.The online Harris Poll survey released by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard found that Clinton placed first with 21% of the vote, followed closely by Vice President Joe Biden at 20%, Senator Bernie Sanders at 12%, Senator Elizabeth Warren at 9% and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 7%. – New York Post Although on second thought, maybe you’re not – When the universe...

That’s a common question asked by people around the country who are only marginally following the Democrats’ impeachment circus in Washington. They hear that President Trump has done terrible things, such as “endanger national security.” But when they look past the constant “bombshell” headlines, they find nothing there. Mr. Trump held up some aid to Ukraine for a few weeks after a phone call with Ukraine’s president in which he asked him to look into corruption in his own country, including some that involves Joe Biden and his son Hunter. And that’s a threat to America’s national security and an...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 52 Psalm 52[a] For the director of music. A maskil[b] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.” 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?     Why do you boast all day long,     you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? 2 You who practice deceit,     your tongue plots destruction;     it is like a sharpened razor. 3 You love evil rather than good,     falsehood rather than speaking the truth.[c] 4 You love every harmful word,...

She’s not running for president — yet — but Hillary Clinton was the top choice for Democratic voters in the Harvard-Harris national poll released last week. Mrs. Clinton drew 21%, followed by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden with 20%, when registered Democrats were asked whom they would support for the 2020 party presidential nod if she and former Secretary of State John Kerry were added to the mix. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/9/hillary-clinton-emerges-top-choice-democratic-vote/

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American business has taken big leaps forward under President Trump's leadership. When Trump was elected, the stock market shot up like a rocket and has gained over 20% in 2019 alone. In November, America added a record 266,000 jobs.  Black, Hispanic, and woman unemployment are at historic lows. The USA is arguably enjoying the best economy in the world. So I was quite surprised when I received Fortune magazine's December issue in the mail and saw the Why Trump is Bad for Business headline on the cover. Indeed, the motivation of Fortune's editors must be questioned now that this...

The collapse of the figurative and literal wall between East and West Germany was chief among the upheavals in those final weeks of 1989. Not even a year out of office and Reagan was magnificently proven correct in his understanding of basic humanity: people want to be free. Apart from one major exception, the oppressed behind the Iron Curtain that autumn overcame their regimes without bloodshed and violence. I was in high school during the fall of communism across Eastern Europe. I could not then imagine that precisely thirty years later a caricature of upheaval would be transpiring in my...

From the Bear Family Records rockabilly series here is Sandy Coker - Honky Tonk Freeze (1957). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Across the country, teens are turning away from cigarettes in large part thanks to e-cigarettes. Yet, all that progress could be lost, as many e-cigarettes could be pulled off the market by next year. Because of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rigorous application process, many companies are predicted to close, thus reducing the access to e-cigarettes. Yet there is hope, as the new FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, has the potential to ensure that e-cigarettes remain an available option for those that need them.Currently, e-cigarettes companies have been able to sell their products without needing FDA approval, yet that will...

A history professor I once studied under tended to offer weary responses to technical and highly dispensable questions of the sort that arise in weary seminars. To wit: "But what's that got to do with the price of eggs?" Or, more pointedly sometimes, "the price of eggs in Arkansas?" I thought of this aptly characterized boredom threshold as I watched the impeachment -- um -- hearings on Monday. Hearings? Snorings seems more to the point: a canopy of mingled objections and arguments and the preening of elected officials who know well enough they are on television. I make no attempt...