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January is both Human Trafficking Awareness Month and Sanctity of Human Life Month. These issues have more in common than people may realize. Across numerous global studies of sex-trafficking survivors, abortion is a consistent part of the story. Both abortion and sex-trafficking are businesses that exploit women, sometimes in tandem as organizations such as Planned Parenthood enable the abuse for profit. And both are an affront to human dignity. Pimps Use Abortion to Maximize Profits The risk of pregnancy is part of the sex-trafficking industry. Pimps and sex-traffickers are most concerned with profits, so when their victims become pregnant, they...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York John Sentamu have apologized for a decree issued by the Church of England which said that only heterosexual married couples should have sex and that sex in gay or straight civil partnerships “falls short of God’s purpose for human beings according to scriptural teachings.” “We as Archbishops, alongside the bishops of the Church of England, apologize and take responsibility for releasing a statement last week which we acknowledge has jeopardised trust,” the archbishops said in a statement, according to Belfast Telegraph. “We are very sorry and recognize the division and hurt...

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After claiming they'd cleaned up their act, the Democratic National Committee has done it again: Rigged its own nominating process to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democratic ticket for president. They did that in the last election, putting a thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, and after that ugly behavior got out, they took great pains to assure would never happen again. But here we are, with this report from Politico: The Democratic National Committee is drastically revising its criteria to participate in primary debates after New Hampshire, doubling the polling threshold and eliminating the individual donor requirement,...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social media giant will continue to support free expression and encrypted content on its platform in a new interview. "This is the new approach, and I think it's going to piss off a lot of people. But frankly, the old approach was pissing off a lot of people too, so let's try something different," Zuckerberg said Friday at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Utah, CNN reported. "Increasingly we're getting called to censor a lot of different kinds of content that makes me really uncomfortable," Zuckerberg continued. Zuckerberg said the company's...

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Looks like I’m going to start in on the popcorn hours before kickoff. JOHN adds: Mike Cernovich claims to have the Register poll results that were quashed. They were bound to leak. I haven’t gone back to check against past Register polls, but the salient point would seem to be Biden sinking like a stone: Mike Cernovich ✔ @Cernovich Des Moines Iowa poll was spiked, here are the results: Sanders: 22% Warren: 18% Buttigieg: 16% Biden: 13% 2,938 10:06 PM - Feb 1, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,304 people are talking about this

President Trump is emerging from the four-month impeachment process with little sign of damage to his political standing, even though a majority of voters believes he carried out the acts that House Democrats charge in their articles of impeachment, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. Some 46% of voters in the survey said the Senate should remove Mr. Trump from office at the end of the impeachment trial, while 49% said he should serve out his term. snip Mr. Trump’s job approval in the January poll stood at 46%, with 51% disapproving, in line with results throughout the...

by Jenn Foster Is 2020 shaping up to be the year that celebrities let their MAGA pride flag fly for all to see -- liberal snowflakes be damned? After Joy Villa wowed everyone in her pro-Trump dress at the Grammy Awards this past weekend, Frank Clark, defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs, wore some Trump swag of his own during a Super Bowl press conference. The big moment went viral on social media Thursday when Benny Johnson shared footage of the moment on Twitter. Take a look: Needless to say, Clark's good natured swag caused a mass triggering of...

Democrats PANIC As Democrat Voters Vow To Vote Trump, The "Never Bernie" Movement Taking Over. Establishment Democrats and big ticket Donors are panicking as the "Never Bernie" movement starts to become a thing. The strange conundrum facing Democrats is that no matter which primary candidate loses a decent portion of their base will defect to the Republicans and Donald Trump. Yang voters might vote Trump or just sit it out if he loses the primary. Bernie voters are already warning that only Bernie can defeat Trump while the "Never Bernie" Democrats state they will either not vote or support Trump...

Live thread predicting the next BOMBSHELL from the Dems to affect the impeachment vote. We all know it’s coming. Graham, Cruz and others have predicted it so what will it be?

Harry Harrison, one of the legendary "Good Guys" of New York AM rock and roll radio, then later a member of talk radio's so-called "All Americans," has died. His death was announced on WCBS/101.1 FM, where Harrison ended his career, with a posting on its website which read: "Today we say so long to former American radio personality WCBS-FM and 'Jack' FM DJ Harry Harrison. FeetHe has passed away at 89 years old after battling health issues." Over a 40-year span in New York, Harrison was once as familiar as the first cup of coffee or the drive to work. His "Good Guy" moniker...

The Santa Clara Public Health Department said Sunday that a second case of coronavirus in the Bay Area and the ninth in the United States has been confirmed.

There are currently 16,768 confirmed cases worldwide, including 361 fatalities

Michael Bloomberg campaign senior adviser Tim O’Brien argued Sunday on MSNBC that the only things in President Donald Trump’s head were a “putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video and somebody else’s credit card.” During a Super Bowl interview with Sean Hannity, Trump said of Bloomberg, “Why should he get a box to stand on, OK? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really! Does that mean everyone else gets a box?” O’Brien said, “Mike Bloomberg would eat Donald Trump alive on a debate stage … Who knew that Donald Trump was such a...

A stunning decision to scrap the final bellwether poll of Iowa Democratic voters ahead of Monday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses represented something of a fitting end to a roller coaster political season, leaving party activists and pundits guessing. The Des Moines Register, CNN and pollster Ann Selzer decided not to release the poll’s results after a technical error apparently left one of the lead contenders, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, off of at least one survey. Selzer and the media partners concluded they could not stand completely behind the survey after the error was discovered. Selzer’s Iowa Poll has been...

John Harwood, formerly of CNBC, kicked off his new start at CNN on a very humiliating downslope so severe that he had to delete his own embarrassing tweet due to the mocking blowback he received. How bad was it? So bad that Harwood reached back almost 160 years in history to compare the senators voting against more witnesses during the Trump impeachment trial to the old Confederacy. Although Harwood might think his February 1 tweet might have disappeared down the memory hole, nothing on the web is ever permanently gone and his absurd words will live on for all eternity:

KEYSER - The Mineral County Commission has declared the county a Second Amendment Sanctuary. During the commission’s Tuesday meeting, all three of the elected officials agreed to adopt the resolution dealing with the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. In part, that section of the constitution states, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” In addition, the West Virginia Constitution Article 21, has wording along the same lines that says, “A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home, and state and for lawful...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry — one of Joe Biden's highest-profile endorsers — was overheard Sunday on the phone at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do to enter the presidential race amid "the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole." Sitting in the lobby restaurant of the Renaissance Savery hotel, Kerry was overheard by an NBC News analyst saying "maybe I'm f---ing deluding myself here" and explaining that in order to run, he'd have to step down from the board of Bank of America and give up his ability...

Paul Ryan is moving his family to the city he was always giddy to leave. The former speaker of the House and onetime GOP vice presidential nominee is leaving his longtime home of Janesville, Wis., and will rent a house in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. "Now in the private sector, Paul and his family are temporarily renting a house in Maryland, and he’ll be spending time there as well as their family home in Janesville," a Ryan aide told POLITICO.