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[Barf Alert] Pete Buttigieg: Pope Francis Endorsement ‘Most Coveted’ in Primary Race Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Thursday that he wanted the endorsement of Pope Francis over all others in the Democrat primary race. Buttigieg commented on political endorsements during a podcast interview with CEO of IMPACT Strategies Angela Rye at Claflin University.“Your most coveted endorsement in the race is who?” Rye asked.Buttigieg paused, but ultimately said, “The Pope, I want the endorsement of the Pope.”

Drag Queen SLAMS Parents Who Take Their Kids To Drag Queen Story Time This drag queen slammed leftist "woke" parents who take their kids to drag queen events like Drag Queen Story Time. Video is less than 4 minutes long

The feds have started looking into allegations of widespread academic fraud in New York City schools, a Queens lawmaker says. City Councilman Robert Holden met this month with officials in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York after his call for a federal probe of “deep-rooted fraud” in the city Department of Education. Meanwhile, Holden and The Post received additional whistle blower-letters from anonymous “investigative staff” with the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools. A similar letter sent last summer said SCI was sitting on cases alleging waste or misconduct by Mayor de Blasio, First...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers opened his Senate impeachment defense Saturday with the false assertion that Democrats tried to shut the president's team out of the congressional inquiry that preceded the charges. Actually, Democrats invited Trump to participate and he declined. TRUMP lawyer PAT CIPOLLONE: “Why would you lock everybody out of it from the president's side? ... It’s evidence they themselves don’t believe in the facts of their case.” THE FACTS: Trump wasn't locked out. He rejected an invitation from the House Judiciary Committee to participate in the hearings that ultimately produced the articles of impeachment.

Biology isn’t a social construct. Let me set the record straight before I’m called a T.E.R.F. (that’s woke speak for ‘trans-exclusive radical feminist’). I can’t be a T.E.R.F. because I am not a feminist either. And while I typically revolt against feminist ideology, they do have a point that misogyny is alive and well in 2020. But it doesn’t come in the form of a suggestive joke in an office setting or pretending abortion is a constitutional right. Image result for terf sign" TERF holding protest sign/YouTube Trans-women’s “rights” hurt women. Just in case you missed that… Trans-women’s “rights” hurt...

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f you wondered what kind of dad that liberal Ryan (Jordan Masterson) was going to be to his new daughter on Last Man Standing, January 23’s episode “Bedtime Story” clued us in. One might think his unborn daughter’s aunt and uncle, Mandy (Molly Ephraim) and Kyle (Christoph Sanders), would be the natural first choice to be the godparents, but Ryan’s first choice was the Obamas. “I mean, you think they would have at least responded with a form letter. It just doesn't seem like Michelle,” he laments. One might also think that Mandy decorating her goddaughter’s bedroom is something Ryan...

A federal judge on Monday pressed lawyers to prepare for an April trial in the prosecution of a Russian company charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election, expressing frustration over delays in a case that was originally brought by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s office. “We’re now on a trial track,” declared U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia, during a 90-minute court hearing in Washington’s federal trial court. She added: “If I left this up to you all, we wouldn’t be trying this case until 2021.” Friedrich, federal prosecutors and defense lawyers for the...

The NBC sitcom Perfect Harmony can be a charming show that often shows a positive, loving image of rural Christian churchgoers. While the show also goes off-key at times in its portrayal of rural Christians, it has steered clear of pushing contemporary sexual agendas. This week's episode, "Regionals," on January 23, changed that by incorporating omnipresent drag culture with Christian prayer. The show ends with the church members singing the refrain "Ave Maria" on stage at a gay drag bar (the singers combine the hymn refrain with contemporary pop). Reverend Jax: Arthur, you came! Arthur: Yeah, 154 texts later. Why...

ABC's heartfelt drama A Million Little Things just aired one big thing on Thursday night when it had it's 12-year-old characters share their first kiss - a gay kiss. In the episode "The Kiss," little Danny (Chance Hurstfield) is nervous and upset because he's about to have his first kiss live in front of everyone in his school's production of Grease. Worse than that, it's with a girl when, we already know, he came out at age 11 and wants his first kiss to be with his crush Elliot. The two went on a date on an episode last year,...

A New York bankruptcy judge ordered that a man’s $221,000 in student loans be discharged — a potentially significant development in student loan bankruptcy jurisprudence. It is very difficult, although not completely impossible, for borrowers to discharge student loans in bankruptcy. The federal bankruptcy code treats student loans differently from other types of consumer debt (such as credit card debt or medical debt). In order to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy, student loan borrowers must prove that they have an “undue hardship” that would prevent them from repaying their student loans. The phrase “undue hardship” is not defined by...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A man is accused of keeping a woman “in sexual servitude” for five years, authorities in North Carolina said. Salvador Espinoza Escobar, 48, was expected in court Friday after being charged with one count of felony human trafficking, the Randolph County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. He was taken into custody Wednesday, the same day the investigation began.

As we usher in the new year, we also get to usher in Hollywood’s many liberal shows that have come back from their winter break. Freeform’s The Bold Type is definitely at the top of the list of leftist agenda-driven shows, and Thursday’s episode “Legends of the Fall Issue” was no exception as the conservative white male characters get put in their place (once again) by the younger, woke social justice warriors. When we last saw The Bold Type, editor of “Scarlet” magazine, Jacqueline (Melora Hardin), defied the publication’s board members and sent an issue out for publication that the...

Juan Paulo Flores-Jarada, 38, was indicted Wednesday by a Warren County grand jury on two murder charges. The indictment accuses him of inflicting multiple sharp force injuries on Deloris Hampton Stacker, 62, and Karen L. Burks, 53, whose bodies were found Dec. 11, 2018, inside Burks’ residence at 2108 Rock Creek Drive, Apt. 2. Detective Kyle Scharlow of the Bowling Green Police Department testified before the grand jury that returned the indictment. A warrant has been issued for Flores-Jarada, who is in custody in Grayson County Detention Center on unrelated federal charges. On the morning of the slayings, city police...

Even when Hollywood acknowledges the humanity of the unborn (only in the context of the mother wanting it, of course), they still must get their digs in at pro-lifers and promote the pro-choice position. Such was the case on Thursday’s episode of Freeform’s grown-ish, (“Damn”) as student Nomi (Emily Arlook) shows up at college very obviously pregnant after being away for several months, leading her best friend Zoey (Yara Shahidi) to ask why she didn’t “uncomplicate the situation.” The show also pushed the untruth that a woman can’t have an abortion at five-months gestation because it’s “too late.” After Nomi...

Dear Freepers, I am asking for prayers for my dear Dad William who is dying of colon cancer. He lost his wife (and our Mom) Toni in April 2019 after 60 years of marriage. He served as an MP in Germany during the Korean War era. My brothers and I are going to miss him terribly. Thank you.

This just isn't the way liberals do things, partly because they're too lazy to work so hard but also, one suspects, because their confidence fails at key junctures. Seeking safety in numbers, they play the politics and network themselves into positions where they can command abler people. This also underlies the visceral hatred the Left has for the president. Leftists envy his confidence, which spills over into everything else they hate about him: a gorgeous wife; successful, good-looking kids; no self-doubt; no fear of confrontation; the guts to change course on a dime when something isn't working as it should....

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) has produced a video showing them crashing the pro-abortion “Women’s March” last week in Washington D.C., and at one point leading the march with pro-life signs while chanting pro-life slogans. The group arrived at the march with banners calling for “equal rights for all women -- born and reborn” and chanted “abortion hurts women.” Kate Maloney, SFLA northeast regional coordinator who attended the event and appears in the video, described the moment when the group crashed the Women’s March as “amazing.” “We really stirred things up …...

President Trump’s attorneys accused House Democrats of bad faith - and hiding evidence - in a scathing opening statement as they began their impeachment defense Saturday. “They have the burden of proof and they have not come close to meeting it,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said as he began their two-hour presentation on the sixth day of Trump’s impeachment trial. “We intend to show you some of the evidence that they … decided over three days and 24 hours that they didn’t have enough time, or made a decision not to, show you,” Cipollone said. Cipollone and three other...

Another day, another barrage of hysterical reactions to a marginal regulatory reform. The latest cause for concern is the White House's finalized clean water rule that renounces the federal government's ability to regulate ponds, puddles, and (some) ditches. Yesterday's regulation replaces the prior Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule issued by the Obama administration in 2015. The Obama-era rule was controversial from the get-go, with multiple Red states filing legal challenges claiming it exceeded the federal government's authority to regulate water pollution. A slew of federal court rulings stayed the implementation of the rule in over half the states....