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Senator Rand Paul is calling for President Trump to strip the security clearance of jilted former National Security Advisor John Bolton, after the ultra-hawk revealed classified national security information in an upcoming tell-all book. Bolton was fired by Trump as National Security Advisor in September for endlessly agitating for neocon wars... ...No one, especially not John Bolton, should be able to use their security clearance for profit! I say revoke his clearance now ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ https://t.co/nH0qyrwEYe — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) February 1, 2020 Sources indicate that the removal of Bolton’s clearance ranges from possible to likely. President Trump slammed his...

This video shows the Top 20 countries by the number of infected people with the novel coronavirus. The virus was first identified in late 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. Tibet was the last virus-free Chinese province before one person was confirmed of the coronavirus on January 31, 2020.

Duquesne, a Catholic school of about 6,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students, is the only U.S.-based university affiliated with the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.Washington D.C. — Longstanding court precedent has recognized religious schools’ right to pursue their mission in faculty employment decisions, and so the National Labor Relations Board wrongly claimed jurisdiction over Duquesne University, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has said in a decision vacating the board's recognition of a labor union for adjunct faculty. “Just like churches, schools may pursue a religious mission. Indeed, education is at the core of religious activity...

Former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly poked another Iowa Democrat over the weekend after he was asked to comment on the “Extinction Crisis” brought about by global warming. “Go back to 1986. I’m the first one ever to put forward a climate change bill,” said Biden. “I’ve been working my whole life.”

he president of the Nigerian bishops’ conference has launched an appeal to the West to “make known the atrocities” being suffered by Christians throughout the country. Nigeria is living in an unprecedented climate of insecurity not seen since the civil war of 1967-1970, which is particularly affecting Christians, said the President of the Bishops’ Conference, Augustine Obiora Akubeze, Archbishop of Benin City. While “in the past security problems were limited to the north-east of Nigeria, now there is insecurity throughout the whole country,” the archbishop said in an interview with the papal foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)....

Federal judge gives go-ahead to student group's suit over insuranceSOUTH BEND, Ind. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A judge is allowing a student group's lawsuit against the University of Notre Dame and the Trump administration to continue. "Irish 4 Reproductive Health," a group of female Notre Dame students, filed suit in 2018 against the university, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor. The lawsuit accuses the university of making an "unlawful settlement" with the government, allowing it to "deny students, employees and their dependents insurance coverage of birth control...

Last summer, two at-risk teens – Or, 18, and Ben, 17 – came to a unique sleepaway camp run by My Piece of the Puzzle, an Israeli nonprofit that integrates youth at risk and youth with special needs. From day one, these boys were aiming to get kicked out. UNCOVER ISRAEL - Get the ISRAEL21c Weekly Edition free by email Sign Up Now! “They didn’t follow directions at all, did whatever they wanted and weren’t nice to me or any of the counselors,” cofounder Jenna Elbaz tells ISRAEL21c. “They made fun of the rules, smoked cigarettes during activities, made fun...

ROUND 4 OF THE '60S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES! Votes due: Sunday, Feb 9 @ 6:00 pm Eastern. SWEET 16! 16 songs, 8 pairs, 8 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair shown. No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from any pairs but please be clear - and please don't overdo it! No onesies.) Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end the following Monday. Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - title - act

  Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Arthur W Wermuth, Part 1 "The One Man Army of Bataan" Info from here.(Thank you to DeaconBenjamin for bringing this hero to our attention!)             Arthur Wermuth didn't look like a U.S. Army officer. Sporting a mustache and Vandyke beard, the former football star from South Dakota endured...

Michael Bloomberg's Super Bowl ad, which presents the Democratic presidential contender as a brave advocate of public safety who is not afraid to take on "the gun lobby," claims "2,900 children die from gun violence every year" in the United States, which is not true. That number includes young adults as well as minors, and it includes suicides as well as homicides. Bloomberg's campaign cited Everytown for Gun Safety, a Bloomberg-backed group, as the source of the number used in the ad. "Annually," the organization said in June 2019 fact sheet, "nearly 2,900 children and teens (ages 0 to 19)...

Chris Heinz and Hunter Biden were friends in business together, each cashing-in on the influence held by their fathers’ John Kerry and Joe Biden. Considering the likelihood Joe Biden was only running for President in order to: (1) shield himself from scrutiny, and (2) establish the cornerstone of the impeachment effort; it makes complete sense for John Kerry to be the participating campaign handler. With Biden’s impeachment usefulness now exhausted by DC engineers, there’s no reason to prop-up his candidacy. He’s dropping like a proverbial rock. However the risk to Biden and Kerry still exists (see Lindsey Graham interview today),...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The closer the Democratic presidential race gets to the first votes of 2020 being cast here in the Iowa caucuses, the more the ghosts of the 2016 primary haunt the party. Supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders, who watched last time as the Democratic National Committee plotted to derail his insurgent bid, see many of the same dark forces at work again. The DNC already has changed the debate rules, making it easier for billionaire Michael Bloomberg to be on the stage for the Nevada showdown — irking Sanders backers who also bristled at reports that DNC...

No, the Des Moines Register Poll did not kill itself. – The leaders in the Democrat Party are now in full-blown panic as The Commie closes in on a win in Iowa. So panicked, in fact, that they almost certainly spiked the final Des Moines Register poll – a tradition for 76 years running – that was to be released on Sunday. The narrative being pushed by the corrupt news media is that the Register, and its co-sponsor, CNN (because of course it’s CNN) decided to scrap the poll because one of the people conducting the poll consistently mispronounced the...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Chinese government’s response to the coronavirus demonstrates the vast powers accorded to it under its authoritarian structure. Tens of millions of Chinese citizens — an astonishing number of people — in and around the central city of Wuhan are under physical quarantine, barred from leaving. Imagine attempting that in a democratic country. The deadly, pneumonia-like ailment that is spreading rapidly across the world emerged from Wuhan, apparently from a market where wild and domesticated animals are slaughtered on site. After the physical quarantine came the information quarantine. Late last week, I received a message over WeChat, the Chinese...

Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead House manager in President Trump's Senate trial, said Sunday that there is nothing Democrats could have done differently during the impeachment process. Ahead of the Senate’s likely vote to acquit President Trump on Wednesday, Schiff defended Democrats’ methods and said that he and his colleagues “proved” their case. “Look, there's nothing that I can see that we could have done differently because as the senators have already admitted, we proved our case. We proved our case,” Schiff said on CBS's “Face the Nation.” **SNIP** CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Schiff if it was...

Tom Brady Rumors Swirl Before Super Bowl Juicy reports about Tom Brady's future emerged Sunday, with talk about his upcoming decision overtaking the Super Bowl. By Mike Carraggi, Patch Staff Feb 2, 2020 5:11 pm ET | Updated Feb 2, 2020 6:37 pm ET Could Tom Brady replace Derek Carr as the Raiders quarterback? If Las Vegas has their way, maybe. Tom Brady fever is overtaking the Super Bowl. A pair of juicy reports regarding the Patriots quarterback's future emerged Sunday morning, each a potentially significant development in where No. 12 ends up next season. The first report is regarding...

The Memo: Trump threatens to overshadow Democrats in Iowa BY NIALL STANAGE - 02/02/20 05:37 PM EST DES MOINES, Iowa — President Trump is casting a huge shadow over the Democratic caucuses in Iowa. He may not be able to fully eclipse one of the biggest moments on the opposition party’s calendar, but he is at least consuming much of the oxygen around it. The breadth of Trump’s efforts is startling, even by the standards of a president who is notoriously loath to cede the spotlight. A Trump interview, conducted by Sean Hannity of Fox News, aired in the hours...

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JERUSALEM, Israel – The voice of a Chinese pastor living in the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak is being heard around the world and it's persuading many Christians to stand with him in prayer. An anonymous pastor in Wuhan, China penned a letter to the global Church describing what it's like to leave your home not knowing if you'll contract this virus, and if you will live for long if you do. He is one among millions of Chinese citizens on complete lockdown in an attempt to contain the disease. While he says China is suffering, he believes something...

EDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Fans danced gleefully to music while guzzling beer. Smiles abounded and deafening cheers arose without warning. And, in the restroom, someone was smoking what smelled like marijuana. Yes, it was a concert. Yes, it was a party. But it was also a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the critical early voting state of Iowa, where Democrats will hold their first-in-the-nation caucuses in less than 48 hours. The massive rally — the Sanders campaign said 3,000 people were in attendance — underscores the groundswell of support, especially from young voters, that Sanders has received during...