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Donald Trump became the first president to attend the annual March for Life in Washington on Friday, unleashing a fierce attack on his Democratic rivals during a rally in an election-year show of support for opponents of abortion rights. 'Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,' the Republican president told thousands of cheering people at the rally, touting his anti-abortion policies and his appointments of conservatives to the federal judiciary including Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Among his most loyal political supporters are evangelical Christians, who strongly oppose abortion rights. The event...

MEXICO CITY—Three years after President Trump vowed to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants, a much more effective obstacle has emerged: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Earlier this week, Mexico deployed hundreds of troops from its new National Guard to halt a caravan of some 2,000 Central American migrants who crossed a shallow river on Guatemala’s border with Mexico seeking to make their way to the U.S. Mexican television broadcast video of the guardsmen using plastic shields and tear gas to break up the migrant caravan. On Thursday, a phalanx of guardsmen...

A German town and Josef Mengele, Auschwitz 'angel of death' As the Red Army approached Auschwitz, the Nazi "angel of death," Josef Mengele, fled. He outlived many of his victims. The people who survived his experiments remain scarred; his birthplace struggles with his legacy. Lidia Maksymowicz was 3 years old when she and her family arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in December 1943, deported by Nazi Germany from the Minsk area in Belarus. It was late at night. The ramp was brightly lit. SS troops were shouting. Guard dogs were barking. Families were violently torn apart. Lidia was separated...

In terms of seriousness, I realize that this question ranks right up there with “Why is There Air?” (which was a pretty funny comedy album from back in the 60s). There have been hundreds of books and articles which have examined the “roots of progressive rage.” At times I believe that we have seen so much progressive fury that we have almost become inured to it. Like most people, I usually adhere to the philosophy of “fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and progressives gotta rant.” However, during the holiday season, I ran across two instances that caused me to...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago resident is the second confirmed case of coronavirus in the United States after she returned from traveling in Wuhan, China, the CDC confirmed Friday. The CDC said that the patient, a woman in her 60s, is clinically doing well and is in stable condition. She traveled to Wuhan in late December and returned to the U.S. on January 13. The woman was not showing symptoms when she returned, but started feeling unwell a few days after returning, the CDC said. "She was administering to her elderly father, who was sick while she was there," said...

Trump Undoes Obama’s Pro-abortion Policy in Texas Restores funds yanked in retaliation for Planned Parenthood defunding AUSTIN, Texas (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Trump administration is granting Texas' request for a waiver to Medicaid rules that would restore funding for the state's Healthy Texas Women program. Federal funds have been cut off for the program since 2013 in retaliation for Texas refusing to fund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood or their affiliates.   According to a statement from Texas' Health and Human Services Commission, it has reached an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide $350,000 for comprehensive women's health services over the next five years....

PALM COAST, Fla. — A woman is now facing felony charges after resisting arrest and biting a deputy Friday, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Officers responded to a call in Palm Coast in reference to a domestic disturbance. Upon arrival, deputies met with Cherie Saunders, 38 in her driveway with her make-up smeared, no shoes, slurred speech and a heavy scent of alcohol coming from her, according to deputies. During the investigation, deputies say they determined that Saunders had slapped a male resident inside the home. When deputies were trying to resolve the situation, she became argumentative and...

... Davos is, without rival, the global forum of the people who run most of the world: chief executives, investors, leaders of emerging technology companies, heads of government, leading writers, artists, performers, the panoply of nongovernmental organizations that direct global conversation about the big issues of the day. Half a century ago, the debate among this elite crowd represented a fair diversity of views. If anything, the consensus, such as it was, tended toward a conservative one: The dominating issues were how to restore growth in a stagnating world, how to revive capitalism. Today, Davos reflects perfectly the stultifying ideological...

EMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida man dressed in an Easter Bunny costume was arrested last Thursday after he attempted to evade deputies following a hit-and-run crash in Seminole County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. A trooper was dispatched to a traffic crash involving a motorcycle, officials said. Investigators said the driver failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a carport, which collapsed on a vehicle in the driveway. Content Continues Below Troopers said the motorcycle struck a chain link fence and flipped over. The motorcycle driver was seen limping across the yard, troopers said. A Seminole...

Corpses of coronavirus victims line hospital corridors of a hospital after becoming flooded with patients in Wuhan, as China's quarantine has extended to a further two cities. Footage of the chilling hospital scenes, captured by a woman who claims to be a nurse, was posted to the country's social media today before being quickly censored. In a post, the self-proclaimed medical worker said patients were being sent in non-stop without any quarantine measures in place. She warned that "everyone will end up being infected and dying". In the video, sheets cover what appears to be bodies sprawled up and door...

The lengthy defense of the Biden family by House Democrats during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial opened the door to probing whether Joe and Hunter Biden were involved in corruption in Ukraine, the defense team says. A source on Trump’s legal team told reporters Friday that “it became quite apparent yesterday from the House managers that they’ve made it very relevant to the case, that they spent a lot of time bringing the Bidens into this case and have established that there is something relevant that’s there.” The source said “we’ll have to be addressing that since they opened that...

When I first started writing for National Review in 2015, Nick Frankovich was my editor. He always was kind and professional, offering advice on how I could develop my nascent writing style. Although we never met in person, he appeared to be cautious and reserved. I know he is a man of deep faith and very devoted to the magazine William F. Buckley, Jr. founded in 1955. So it seemed way out of character for Frankovich to author an angry post about the Covington Catholic High School incident just as the details were emerging. His article—”The Covington Students Might As...

Christopher Caldwell’s new book, The Age of Entitlement, offers a striking revision of recent American history that has the advantage of being readily summarized. The polarization of political opinion and the dissolution of the American fabric, he argues, has its roots in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which represented a sharp break with the past. “The changes of the 1960s, with civil rights at their core,” he explains, “were not just a major new element in the Constitution. They were a rival constitution, with which the original one was frequently incompatible.” The common narrative surrounding civil rights,...

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued less than a year ago in the Washington Post that a president had a duty to investigate a candidate from the rival party if he was suspected of foreign corruption. Schiff, reacting to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on “Russia collusion,” justified the Barack Obama administration’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and said Mueller should have included it. Schiff wrote that investigating a potential president — even from the opposition — was an urgent matter of national security if there were reason to believe that candidate were working for, or...

Impeachment-Coup Update Judicial Watch Files New Supreme Court Brief in Key Abortion Case Honduras Arrests U.S.-Bound Iranians as New Caravan Heads North Trans State Workers Sue Florida Demanding Support for Controversial Surgeries The New Anti-Semitic Moment Impeachment-Coup Update The President, the rule of law, and our Constitution continue to be abused as the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump continues. We’ve done many media interviews on the current crisis, notably with Lou Dobbs and Dan Bongino. (My interview with Dan was retweeted by President Trump!) The president is going to be acquitted but with significant damage to our republic,...

President Trump retweeted an Alabama Senate Poll on Thursday night. Snake Jeff Sessions leads former Auburn Football Coach Tommy Tuberville 35% to 31% in the GOP primary. This was NOT a shout out to Jeff Sessions. Jeff Sessions is a turncoat and traitor who put the United States and Trump Administration through two years of HELL! It was Jeff Sessions who turned on Trump and opened the Mueller probe. This Trump tweet was an endorsement for Tuberville!

The 2019 Oregon Legislature established a new tax affecting all firms that do business in Oregon. While it is called by its misnomer the “Corporate Activity Tax,” the CAT actually applies to most types of organizational entities such as partnerships, individuals, limited liability companies, and trusts that have commercial activity generated in Oregon in the regular course of their trade or business. It is a tax paid annually for the privilege of doing business in Oregon. Initial expectations are that it will raise about $1 billion in new revenue annually. These funds are to be set aside for exclusive use...

Cdl. Burke Reiterates: No Communion for Pro-Abort Politicians Slams Joe Biden's 'consistent' pro-abortion record WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal Raymond Burke has again confirmed Catholic doctrine about publicly promoting abortion and reception of the Holy Eucharist on national television on the eve of the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The cardinal said, "No devout Catholic, no practicing Catholic, can be in favor of abortion," after being asked by Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Thursday about Joe Biden's pro-abortion voting record and his being refused Holy Communion, adding that the former vice president "has a consistent record of being pro-abortion." No Catholic could "justify voting for...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A second family has alleged that a Universal Orlando actor dressed as a “Despicable Me” character flashed an "okay" hand sign, which is known to symbolize white supremacy, while posing with a 5-year-old Hispanic girl. Attorneys for the girl’s family said it happened last February, five weeks before a person dressed as the same character, Gru, displayed the same sign while taking photos with two biracial children at a Universal Orlando breakfast at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort. The incident during the breakfast was first reported in October, after the family released the photo and said they...

(A Belgian documentary on the quagmire China has embarked upon in Africa. Learning lessons about Africans that Europeans learned a long time ago. Well worth the time - better than anything on the boob tube. English subtitles)