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Contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) raised the ante against his rival extremist contenders by asserting "abortion is a constitutional right. It's right there in the Eighth Amendment clear as day—no cruel punishments may be inflicted. Laws barring women from getting an abortion at any stage of pregnancy are compelling them to provide nearly 20 years of child care. This violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude." "On top of this individual right of every woman there is also the collective obligation to reduce the surplus population that is so devastating to the environment,"...

Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee died OCTOBER 2, 1975. He provided foreign intelligence for the British during World Wars I and II, and served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conferences following both wars. Arnold Joseph Toynbee was educated at Oxford "almost entirely in the Greek and Latin Classics." Toynbee taught at King's College of London, the London School of Economics, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Toynbee authored many history books, including Greek Policy Since 1882 (1914), and The Murderous Tyranny Of The Turks (London, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917), in which he wrote: "Turks ... from...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that party leaders will apply no pressure on rank-and-file members to support the articles of impeachment against President Trump that are expected to hit the House floor next week. While the Democratic Caucus is overwhelmingly supportive of the impeachment effort, several moderate Democrats are holding out ahead of the votes amid concerns that backing the effort might alienate voters in their battleground districts heading into the 2020 election. Pelosi maintained on Thursday that the choice is entirely theirs to make. "I have no message to them. We are not whipping this legislation, nor would...

By now it should be clear: Michael Harriot, the self-described "last real Negus alive," doesn't have anything of substance to say about Pete Buttigieg, a leading Democratic presidential candidate; he just wants to write something that sounds "woke." And to pick a Twitter fight over the rather bland, innocuous and unremarkable statements Buttigieg made almost a decade ago seems to be just that: much ado about nothing. But it gets worse. In the process of writing his bombastic yet typical screed about a "white man of privilege" that doesn't get how "black people were broken by racism," Harriot completely omitted...

So this is the first clue that something fishy was going on....but Nunes says it had nothing to do with Russia and that investigation...so how did these names end up in intel reports? Is it carter Page FISA related??

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven," preached Rev. John Peter Muhlenberg, from the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1. He closed his message by saying: "In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight." John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was a 30 year old member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, who was also a pastor. At the end of his sermon, January 21, 1776, John Peter Muhlenberg threw off his clerical...

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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a new legal memo on Wednesday indicating that the Trump administration’s decision to temporarily hold military assistance to Ukraine was a “routine” practice and that the administration was reviewing whether Ukraine complied with U.S. policy. The memo indicated that the decision to withhold the aid was not a political action to block Congress’ spending decisions. “The office first began discussing the aid on June 19, the day President Trump learned of the aid from an article in the Washington Examiner and questioned the wisdom of the spending,” The Washington Post...

Livestock production needs to reach its peak within the next decade in order to tackle the climate emergency, scientists have warned. They are calling for governments in all but the poorest countries to set a date for “peak meat” because animal agriculture is a significant and fast-growing source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cattle and sheep emit large amounts of methane while forests are destroyed to create pasture and grow the grains that are fed to intensively reared animals. The world’s scientists agree that huge amounts of carbon dioxide will have to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global...

If the Vatican wanted to destroy the Church, how would it behave differently? December 11, 2019 (Turning Point Project) — Are you confused? If you follow Catholic news media, you can't help but notice the explosion of bewildering innovations being enacted or proposed for the Church on an almost weekly basis. The Amazon Synod itself was chock-full of novel ideas — that the Amazon region is a source of revelation, that pantheism and polytheism are valid forms of religious expression, and that the Catholic Church needs to conform itself to Amazonian spirituality. The Synod organizers seemed to be proposing...

George Whitefield had attended Oxford with John and Charles Wesley, who began the Methodist revival movement within the Anglican Church. In 1733, when he finally understood and believed the Gospel, George Whitefield exclaimed: "Joy-joy unspeakable-joy that's full of, big with glory!" Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America. He spread the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War. Whitefield 's preaching stirred crowds with enthusiasm, which was criticized by the formal, established churches of the day. When they closed their doors to him, Whitefield began preaching out-of-doors. Crowds grew so large...

Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden's baby, will get to grill Joe Biden's scandal-ridden son under oath about his finances while he was on the board of an Ukrainian oil company, according to court papers obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. Biden, 49, is expected to bring all his financial records as Robert's legal team plans to question him about his monthly earnings serving as a board member for Burisma. The two are currently engaged in a high-profile paternity case after Roberts, 28, filed suit against Biden in May, seeking child support for their 16-month-old child. The deposition will take place...

We learned a lot about the inspector generalÂ’s report as its author testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. For example, we learned that not even Michael Horowitz could say the FISA warrant against Carter Page and its three renewals actually turned up important information, and yet it just kept getting renewed. Of course, most of the attention is being directed toward the infamous Steele dossier and what role that bit of opposition research played in securing that FISA warrant, but the Wall Street JournalÂ’s Kimberley Strassel has found one line buried in the document dealing with the timeline, and...

Of 102 Pilgrims that landed on the shores of Massachusetts in November of 1620, only half survived till spring. In the Spring of 1621, as recorded by Pilgrim Governor William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation: "About the 16th of March, a certain Indian came boldly amongst them and spoke to them in broken English ... His name was Samoset. ... He told them also of another Indian whose name was Squanto, a native of this place, who had been in England and could speak better English than himself ..." Samoset's initial visit to the Pilgrims was recorded in Mourt's...

Bad news for beer tappers: Tapping your shaken beer doesn’t reduce its likelihood of exploding. In a new study, scientists found no statistically significant link between tapping on a shaken beer and a reduction in explosive foam. “The obvious conclusion is that can tapping does not reduce foaming, a result that must be a considerable disappointment for bicycle-riding, beer-carrying Danes,” MIT's Technology Review reports. Let’s dig in. Like soda, most commercial beer is carbonated artificially, called “force carbonation” in the industry. This means carbon dioxide is pumped into kegs, for example, and left to dissolve there. Carbon dioxide naturally dissolves...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Nancy Pelosi held a press conference along with other House Democrats to announce that they would be introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump, Pelosi reportedly blinked out a cry for help in morse code. Observant viewers noticed Pelosi was blinking out some kind of pattern. "Hey, it's morse code!" said one Fox News reporter. "Let's see what she's saying." Investigative journalists wrote down the complex series of dashes and dots blinked out by Pelosi, and sure enough, a message emerged.

Washing hands to prevent the spread of disease was recommended in 1844 to the doctors of the Vienna General Hospital by Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis. Semmelweis had noticed that doctors would go straight from doing autopsies on those who died of puerperal fever to delivering babies and soon after the mothers would die of puerperal fever. Nearly 25 percent of all mothers giving birth in hospital maternity wards died of puerperal fever, with epidemics sometimes reaching 100 percent. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was ridiculed so much for his "hand-washing" suggestion that he was forced to leave Vienna and eventually died in...

An embarrassing clown, unable or unwilling to restrain her dogma even for the five seconds it would have taken to check the facts before tweeting about an anti-semitic murder.

Samuel Adams, born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, was known as "The Father of the American Revolution." Spreading the slogan "No taxation without representation," Sam Adams instigated the Stamp Act Riots in 1765. In 1770, after the Boston Massacre, where British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing 5 and wounding 6, Sam Adams spread Revolutionary sentiment with his network of Committees of Correspondence. In 1772, Sam Adams wrote in The Rights of the Colonists, section "The Rights of the Colonist as Subjects": "Government has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume...

<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ” A federal appeals court is set to rehear arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel.</p> <p>The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia will ask the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel that directed a federal judge in Maryland to dismiss the lawsuit.</p>