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The first residents have moved into a new housing scheme that mixes seniors, young people and foreigners who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors seeking asylum. They are required to socialize with each other. Kristin Ohman, 74, in the communal dining room at SällBo The first time the young immigrant men met their future Swedish neighbors, it was Kristin Ohman (photo above) who made contact. "They were standing alone so I came over to meet them and I gave them some flowers," the 74-year-old smiles, as she remembers the gathering of the 70 people hand-picked to live in her new...

Construction began Friday on a Navy ship named after Harvey Milk, a former San Francisco supervisor and activist who was fatally shot months after becoming the first openly gay man elected in California more than forty years ago. Almost 30 years before his election, Milk was a Naval dive officer based in San Diego. His nephew, Stuart Milk, attended Friday’s event and said naming the ship — known as a fleet oiler — after his uncle sends a message to people around the world.

Today’s Cryptogram IVOH VQ ZPFJIU TYPJ TH XPLH VJ PKS ZPFJIU TYPJ VJ VQ XPSH WU JYH OFVHKSQ TH BYNNQH. JHKKHQQHH TVIIVPXQ You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might...

To link homosexuality and pedophilia is a “great injustice” and a “criminalisation” of gay sexual and affective identity, a key Vatican official has insisted. Driving the newsJordi Bertomeu Farnós, a priest in the all-powerful Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and one of the Pope’s right-hand men in the fight against clerical sex abuse, took down the myth gay clerics are more likely to offend against minors in a essay for the Spanish magazine Palabra. Bertomeu – one of the special investigators sent by the Pope to look into the sex abuse crisis in Chile in 2018...

In the first of these new images, taken on Nov. 16, the comet was approximately 203 million miles from Earth, seen in front of a distant spiral galaxy known as 2MASX J10500165-0152029, according to a NASA statement. You can see the comet's tail of dust up to the right. You can also see that the object's bright core looks smudged, as Hubble was imaging the object while also tracking its movement. In both images, 2I/Borisov has been artificially colored blue so that details can be seen in the coma, or envelope of dust and material that surrounds the comet's core,...

Millions in euros in Vatican bank cash are at stake in a Maltese court case, as lawyers for the Holy See are now asking the courts to prevent an investment firm from selling its assets to a Hungarian companyMillions in euros in Vatican bank cash are at stake in a Maltese court case, as lawyers for the Holy See are now asking the courts to prevent an investment firm from selling its assets to a Hungarian company. God’s bankers were caught up in a “menacing web of intrigue and suspicious transactions” – lawyers for the Vatican’s bank claim – in...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 57 Psalm 57[a] For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[b] When he had fled from Saul into the cave. 1 Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,     for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings     until the disaster has passed. 2 I cry out to God Most High,     to God, who vindicates me. 3 He sends from heaven and saves me,     rebuking those who hotly pursue me—[c]     God sends forth his...

In each of two video appearances, on NBC News and at Wall Street Journal’s “CEO Council,” Attorney General William Barr provided the same basic information and views about the U.S. intelligence community’s actions against the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2017. A criminal investigation is underway and being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Barr was motivated to make the public statements, he said, by the misreporting and confusion surrounding Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report issued on Dec. 9. It found serious government surveillance abuses but no evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI...

He used the word retard. It's much ado about nothing and the reaction is getting really stupid. Drama queen media. The team sucks so they cowardly cut him. It's the white power structure that's scared and they'll stomp on blacks only when the safety of political correctness allows them to do so. I say bring the issue to a head during the Super Bowl week when the whole nation will be watching. MAKE FUN of all sacred cows a la Trump. Think Harry Callahan in the first Dirty Harry flick. The media needs-and will run-with the drama. Mr. black athlete...

A Trump supporter took center stage at an Iowa campaign rally for 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Saturday, where he stood up and delivered a message to President Trump. Sanders sensed trouble from the beginning when he saw the young man approach the microphone and said, "Oh, he's looking at his phone. I'm in trouble." After being given the mic to ask Sanders a question, the man addressed the commander in chief directly, offering him words of encouragement. "Mr. Trump, keep going man. You're doing a good job," he said. "You know what, I'm a liberal."

Attorney General William Barr is honest, very capable, and on his way to exposing the Deep State and its skullduggery in the 2016 election. It’s a time-consuming labor and it may well be late spring or early summer before we see the fruits of his and U.S. Attorney John Durham's work, but it’s coming. In the meantime several developments -- the Supreme Court’s action this week, and the overwhelming rejection of the UK’s Labour Party at the polls fill me with hope that our national nightmare -- the arrogance and stupidity of our political, academic, judicial, and journalist elites --...

“Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?” (Proverbs 15:11).

Imagine California being “too close to call” for Donald Trump vs. his Democratic opponent on election night in November of 2020. That, in essence, is what happened in the United Kingdom Thursday night with an enormous, and historic, win for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. This movement of the political tectonic plates will surely cause a tsunami of reaction across the pond, here in the U.S., as well around the world.

The modern Democratic Party has become the party of death, division and destruction. Presently, Democrats are actively working to divide and destroy our communities, our churches, our children’s innocence, our prosperity, our industry, our culture, our president, our presumption of innocence and expectation of due process, our Constitution and rule of law, and, quite frankly, our entire way of life. This isn’t hyperbole, it’s reality, and it’s a reality that should sadden every honest, altruistic American to their very core. The most obvious example of this newfound Democratic reality is the literal death that has become not merely an afterthought...

Hannie Schaft and Freddie Oversteegen (right) used good looks and flirtatious ruses to coax Nazis out of Dutch bars and to their deaths -- at times pulling the triggers themselves. Truus Oversteegen (pictured with rifle) worked along side Hannie and Freddie. When she came across a Nazi killing an infant by repeatedly swinging its tiny body against a brick wall, Truus Oversteegen didnÂ’t flinch. The freckle-faced teenager, who was just three months shy of her 17th birthday when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, was a newly minted member of the Dutch resistance. She had been mostly assigned to...

Last week was exhausting so I’m handing it off to Shakespeare for the official wrap up. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”  Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1 Chipmunks around the world accuse Hillary of cultural appropriation “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 Just a sample of the devils in our midst “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such...

A federal judge has ruled that a Philadelphia facility where intravenous drug users can get high under the watchful eye of medical professionals is not the same as the "crack houses" that are prohibited under federal law. Leaders in Philadelphia are now moving forward with a nonprofit "supervised injection facility" called Safehouse, with former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on the board. When Safehouse first announced its plans, U.S. Attorney William McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declared that such a facility would violate federal law. Rendell responded by challenging the Justice Department to arrest him. Instead, McSwain filed...

Once again, TIME has chosen a reliably liberal recipient to be “Person of the Year.” The winner is 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has spent the past year appearing at rallies and giving speeches railing about the dangers of fossil fuels. At a 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland, Thunberg claimed not to “care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet." In September, she spent two weeks sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emissions yacht. Her destination was New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit. In a...

Imagine being stuck in a full-stop traffic jam on a freeway full of electric cars during a Minnesota arctic blast. With temperatures sub-zero, batteries start going dead. Electric motors grind to a halt, further blocking traffic. The situation cascades downward as others start to lose power. Soon the icy interstate is completely plugged with helpless electric cars. All going nowhere. Worse, without electric power, passengers have no heat. Now consider that these vehicles will need recharging before they can go anywhere. That will take many hours, perhaps days. If you’re in sunny California, this problem is easy to ignore. In...

For every action there is a consequence, and Democrats in congress and running for the presidency are feeling the consequences of their zeal to impeach President Donald Trump this weekend. – Let’s use Twitter to illustrate: President Trump traveled to New York on Saturday to witness the grand annual football clash between Army and Navy. There, he met players and coaches from both teams prior to the contest, signed an executive order allowing players from military academies to immediately pursue professional sports careers upon graduating, received a rousing ovation from everyone in the stadium when he was introduced, and performed...