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RUSH: There was a bombshell in TIME magazine yesterday. A bombshell story, and it’s been referenced this morning in the hearings. Don’t know if you’re watching them anymore. Wouldn’t blame you if you’re not. A bombshell from TIME magazine. I almost couldn’t believe it. It totally takes the entire foundation of the Schiff-Nadler impeachment proceedings out from under them. It totally destroys the basis on which they did all of this. It has been mentioned today by Republicans on the committee. They’d read from the story. They have talked about it. It doesn’t faze the Democrats because this has never...

John Adams wrote A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765: "The desire of dominion ... when ... restraints are taken off ... becomes an encroaching, grasping, restless, and ungovernable power ... contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion ... Originally formed ... for the necessary defense ... against ... invasions ... yet ... tyranny, cruelty, and lust ... was soon adopted by almost all the princes of Europe ... The people were held in ignorance ... till God in his benign providence raised up the champions who began and conducted the Reformation. From the time...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic laity beg Pope Francis to honor Mother Mary, not Mother Earth in open letter PARIS, France, December 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A group of Catholic laypeople have written an open letter to Pope Francis imploring him to condemn the idolatry of mother earth (Pachamama) that recently took place at the Vatican and to confirm them in honoring Mary as mother and queen.  The open letter (read full letter below), which was signed by a group of about 90 Catholic individuals, couples or families, was written in late November, but invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast...

October 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost and America plunged into the Great Depression. An estimated 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of all banks failed. Ending the  "Roaring Twenties," the Great Depression began with a rapid contraction of credit. This occurred despite the existence of the Federal Reserve which was created with promises that it would prevent financial panics. Democrat Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan had stated (Hearst's Magazine, Nov 1923): "The Federal Reserve Bank that...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he wants to hear from former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and current FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Mr. Rosenstein, get ready to testify," Graham told Fox News's Sean Hannity Wednesday night. Rosenstein signed the third, final and flawed FISA renewal application (June 2017) for continued surveillance on Carter Page. According to the Justice Department inspector general, the original FISA application and the three subsequent renewals failed to provide "accurate and complete information" that was available to the FBI at the time. Graham warned that "the day of reckoning" is...

The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was dedicated OCTOBER 28, 1886. A gift from France, it weighs 450,000 lbs, and stands on a pedestal base, rising 305 feet from the ground to the top of its torch. Earlier immense statues in history having symbolic meaning were the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - and the Colossus of Nero, from which the nearby amphitheater in Rome took its name - Colosseum, both statues being over 100 feet high. French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi spent two years designing an earlier version of the Statue...

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was born OCTOBER 27, 1858. As a child, he had debilitating asthma, often waking up at night as if being smothered to death. At 6-years-old, he watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession from the window of his grandfather's mansion in Union Square, New York City. Theodore was home-schooled as a child, becoming fascinated with animals and zoology after seeing a dead seal in a local market. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., was a successful New York business leader, who helped raise support for the Union during the Civil War. Young Theodore described him: "My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was...

In a surprising new national survey, members of each major American political party were asked what they imagined to be the beliefs held by members of the other. The survey asked Democrats: “How many Republicans believe that racism is still a problem in America today?” Democrats guessed 50%. It’s actually 79%. The survey asked Republicans how many Democrats believe “most police are bad people”. Republicans estimated half; it’s really 15%. The survey, published by the thinktank More in Common as part of its Hidden Tribes of America project, was based on a sample of more than 2,000 people. One of...

I explore Surah 55 of the Koran, and explain the pagan origins of Islam's belief in djinn. I also delineate the differences between the true heaven and the perverse vision of paradise sketched out by Muhammad.

After months of an above-the-fray strategy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is harshly criticizing 2020 Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, calling them Republicans-lite and afraid to defend Democratic values. In a New Hampshire speech Thursday, the Massachusetts senator unleashed some of her most scathing invective against the top-tier pair of opponents. “Unlike some candidates for the Democratic nomination, I'm not betting my agenda on the naive hope that if Democrats adopt Republican critiques of progressive policies or make vague calls for unity, that somehow the wealthy and well-connected will stand down,” she said. “Unlike some candidates for the Democratic nomination,...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Kasper: Pope Francis feels called to ‘change’ Church, door will ‘open’ to women at altar BARCELONA, Spain, December 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who successfully championed Holy Communion for divorced and “remarried” Catholics, said that Pope Francis feels called by the Holy Spirit to “change” the Church, which will one day include, Kasper said, “opening the door to women” at the altar.  The German cardinal told a Spanish journalist in a report published Dec. 6 during a conference in Barcelona that while priestly celibacy may remain the “law,” the Pope has the authority to...

House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a vote to impeach President Trump could cost them their seats in November. Lawmakers and senior aides are privately predicting they will lose more than the two Democrats who opposed the impeachment inquiry rules package in late September, according to multiple officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly. Two senior Democratic aides said the total could be as many as a half-dozen, while a third said the number could be higher. Predictions about some defections come...

“If you don’t think Tucker Carlson has more influence on national security policy than many of the guys on the National Security Council, you’re wrong,” Stephen K. Bannon declared Wednesday tonight to a small group of wealthy Manhattan elites in a baronial Fifth Avenue apartment. Thus, at a meeting of the Common Good lecture series in the modern art-festooned living room of New York plutocrat Richard Cohen, the president’s exiled former chief strategist revealed that America’s global interests are being guided by a Fox News host, a favorite of white nationalists, who recently proclaimed on his primetime show that he...

Cadence Baer will not be among the 27 million Americans flying this Thanksgiving to see family because she cannot deal with the humiliation of having her body scrutinized and laughed at in airport security. Baer, a trans woman, gave up flying after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer identified her as a woman for the body scanner, which then triggered an alarm because her groin did not match the machine’s version of the female body. “I was stopped in front of the entire line of people and two TSA agents touched my crotch repeatedly,” Baer, who began transitioning in 2017,...

In September of 1774, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves. British statesman Edmund Burke cited the Suffolk Resolves as a major development in colonial animosity, which eventually led to the Declaration of Independence. The Suffolk Resolves stated: "That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our country, ourselves and posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our power to maintain, defend and preserve those civil and religious rights and liberties, for which many of our fathers fought, bled and died, and to hand them down entire to future generations ... and that the inhabitants of...

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The United Nations officially began OCTOBER 24, 1945. Its name was coined by President Franklin Roosevelt. The United Nations' charter was drafted in the Garden Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. The Charter meeting did not open with prayer. The United Nations was created to prevent future wars, particularly to guarantee there would not be another genocidal holocaust, such as what Jews experienced at the hands of Hitler's National Socialist Workers Party. Unfortunately, there have been nearly 150 wars with over 100 million casualties from the day the 5 in Central Asia, 11 in South Asia, 20 in Southeast Asia,...

Even after last week’s extensive public hearings, the American public remains split on impeaching President Trump, with 50 percent in support of the process and 43 percent against it. But some groups of Americans are a lot more supportive of impeachment than others. In a CNN poll released Tuesday, a full 61 percent of women were in favor of impeaching Trump while 34 percent were against it. Among men, by contrast, just 40 percent support impeachment and 53 percent oppose it. The gender gap also shows up in Trump’s approval ratings: 52 percent of men approve of how the president...

WASHINGTON - The White House has reached a “deal in principle” with Beijing to resolve the 17-month U.S.-China trade war, according to a source briefed on the trade talks. The White House was expected to make an announcement later on Thursday, the source said. “The written agreement is still being formulated, but they have reached an agreement in principle,” the source said. No details were immediately available. In an attempt to secure a “phase one” trade deal, U.S. negotiators offered to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as 50% and suspend new tariffs that were scheduled to...

Senate Republicans grilled Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Wednesday, on how his probe could determine there was no political bias at the FBI against then-candidate Trump, when he couldn’t uncover a reasonable explanation for their “gross abuse” of the system, as Attorney General William Barr put it. Well, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir continued to carry water for the FBI and claimed there was “no spying” despite the fact, the IG report exposed that there was. Horowitz may have been using legalese to claim the FBI assets (some wearing wires) sent to monitor Trump campaign staff...