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Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in Thailand showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it. Ten people from the cruise ship tested positive and were taken to hospitals, while all 3,700 crew and passengers on the ship will be quarantined on board for up to 14 days, Health Minister Nobukatsu Kato said. More tests are pending. In Hong Kong, hospitals workers are striking to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely to ward...

The Standing Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, chaired by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, met yesterday. During the two-day sittings, the Holy Synod, taking into account the recent developments on abortion, “and based on the Bible and the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church of Christ, expresses its theological position on the fetus as a complete and integral human being since its conception and therefore, it considers voluntary abortion as a murder and does not accept it. Also, the Holy Synod, on the occasion of the decision of Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Niki Kerameus,...

As a tribute to Rush, I am asking his fans to remember their favorite update theme songs. He mostly stopped the use of these during the Bush43 and Obama years due to music royalty issues but here were some of my favorites:

A man was caught on camera Sunday night stealing a Kobe Bryant jerseyA man was caught on camera Sunday night stealing a Kobe Bryant jersey off Maria Aguirre’s front porch in Soledad. Aguirre decided to hang the jersey on her front porch to honor the NBA legend after his passing last month, but she forgot to bring it back inside at the end of the day. “When we checked our cameras around 3:30 in the morning, we’d seen that somebody had actually come up to our patio, took the shirt, and ran off,” said Aguirre. The jersey belongs to her...

Peninsula Open Space Trust said the caught-on-camera moment marks 'the first time this type of behavior has been captured' in the Bay AreaAn apparently playful coyote and their supposed badger buddy were captured on camera traveling together under a highway near the Santa Cruz Mountains. The adorable video made its way to Twitter Monday evening, quickly garnering hundreds of thousands of likes as well as prompting the creation of hashtags such as #CoyoteBadgerBuddies and #CoyoteBadger2020. Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), which protects open space along the Peninsula and in the South Bay, said its wildlife cameras spotted the coyote and...

Friday night at a Bernie Sanders rally in Clive, Iowa, progressive filmmaker and activist Michael Moore blasted the Democratic National Committee... "I watched the debate in Iowa here two weeks ago -- the all-white debate -- and the fact that the Democratic, the DNC will not allow Cory Booker on that stage, will not allow Julian Castro on that stage, but they are going to allow Mike Bloomberg on the stage? Because he has a billion f***ing dollars!" Moore raged. Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner said this week that the addition of former Clinton staffer John Podesta to the DNC...

In 1975, the government of conservative Prime Minister Malcom Fraser held a plebiscite to choose a national song for Australia. Advance Australia Fair won in a field of four with 43%. The long standing national anthem, God Save The Queen came third with 19%. Waltzing Matilda was the choice of 28% including me. Sadly, in this matter, I am a bit too much like Nancy Pelosi. In my heart, I still don’t accept the result. Waltzing Matilda is the story of an itinerant man who gets caught by three mounted troopers after he stole a sheep. He commits suicide to...

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Former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz questioned why House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is allowed a security clearance when he “continues to lie.” “I still, to this day, do not understand why Adam Schiff has a security clearance. He continues to lie. He continues to put out information that he knows is not true. He has stood in front of the United States Senate and talked about things that are not in the impeachment,” Chaffetz told Fox & Friends. Chaffetz also responded to the news from the night before that Adam Schiff had warned that President Trump could sell Alaska...

President Trump will tell Americans in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night that he and his supporters have “rejected the downsizing of America’s destiny” through an agenda of reduced taxes, low regulations and fair trade. “We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back!” Mr. Trump will say, according to speech excerpts released by the White House. In his prime-time speech on the eve of his acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial, Mr. Trump will focus on the strong economy under his leadership that is...

Investigative journalism is challenging when the propagandists in mainstream and social media do everything they can to discredit the truth. This is what James O’Keefe at Project Veritas deals with on a regular basis as they drop bombshell after bombshell about Democrats, mainstream media, and Big Tech. Among those exposed by Project Veritas recently are Bernie Sanders’ campaign, CNN, and Twitter. This is why it’s not surprising Twitter has locked his account based on a Tweet last month that called for a correction from mainstream media.

Candidates, members of Congress, and activists are outraged over debate rule changes that bow to a billionaire. Grinnell, Iowa—Michael Moore could barely contain his fury. After the Democratic National Committee signaled Friday that it would abandon a grassroots-funding requirement that ensured candidates had to prove their appeal by attracting tens of thousands of small donations, Moore told a crowd of 2,500 that had packed into a cavernous concert hall near Des Moines, “You had to show you had a certain number of Americans that would give you a buck, that’s all the rule said, to show you have support. And...

When the race for president began with Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, it was hailed as the most diverse Democratic presidential field in history. By the end of January, damn near every candidate of color had withdrawn from the race. And all of them could cite one culprit as the reason for their withdrawal: the stringent and unwavering debate rules of the Democratic National Committee. “In the seven months since they were first announced, the standards—a combination of increasingly higher polling and fundraising thresholds—have upended various campaigns’ tactics and...

I'm thinking of going to the convention in Charlotte and there is nothing on the website that refers to it. Just put down your email address, phone number and click to donate. Trump is fighting our enemies alone and the RNC appears just to go along for the ride. I stopped contributing years ago for reasons you all can understand. Doesn't seem any different now. That's $1-5k they're passing up. I don't think the Democrats are this lackadaisical.

At least ten House Democrats planned to boycott President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, as the Senate is expected to vote to acquit the commander in chief in his impeachment trial the next day. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley announced via Tweet that she will not be attending President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. “I am not attending tonight’s sham,” she tweeted around 5 p.m. In the tweet, she retweeted a message from her official congressional account that included a photo of her dressed in black, arms folded, in front of the U.S....

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A woman is recovering after her hands were crushed and became trapped while changing a flat tire along I-95 Sunday evening. According to the Colleton County Fire-Rescue, a 54-year-old Charlotte woman was stopped along I-95 near mile marker 68 after her car experienced a flat tire. Fire-Rescue officials said the woman was replacing her tire with a spare when the jack slipped, causing the car to fall and crush both of her hands between the tire and the fender. The woman then used some innovative thinking to call for help. “She was trapped alone on...

Nigeria: Muslims vow to “take this battle across the sea,” conquer “every territory currently occupied by Kafirs” FEB 4, 2020 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Anyone who points out the Qur’anic roots of this imperative (“Fight them until religion is all for Allah,” 8:39) is of course “Islamophobic” and “bigoted.” And of course it’s fanciful. But many more people will die as the Fulani pursue it. “Trouble in Nigeria: Fulani group claims ownership of land from Sokoto to the Atlantic,” PM News Nigeria, February 2, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A little known Fulani group that calls itself...

Maryland voters in the Baltimore area are heading to the polls Tuesday to choose who will be their party’s nominee to finish the rest of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings' term in Congress. The race to fill the vacated seat is a crowded one, with 24 Democrats and eight Republicans vying for their parties’ nomination in the 7th Congressional District special primary. Given the heavily-Democrat makeup of the district, however, whoever wins the primary is expected to be the candidate to fill Cummings’ seat. A special general election will take place on April 28 -- the same day that Maryland...

At least 11 Democratic lawmakers are boycotting the Capitol Tuesday night where President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address. That’s fewer than the 60 lawmakers who boycotted President Trump’s inauguration, but it’s not an insignificant number as the president makes a major address on his policy goals. Many of the Democrats boycotting Trump’s State of the Union address cited the president’s recent rhetoric about people of color and the perceived racism of his Administration as their reason for skipping the speech. Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush said in a statement Monday that he refuses to “participate...

MSNBC political analyst Zerlina Maxwell referred to the Iowa caucuses as the “perfect example of systemic racism.” Reacting to reports of mediocre turnout, Maxwell also took a shot at President Trump's hard-line immigration policies. “The Iowa caucus is essentially the perfect example of systemic racism,” Maxwell said Monday on MSNBC. “91% of the voters in Iowa are white. The reason why you see a drop in turnout, I’m just speculating here, it could be perhaps that white children are not in the cages.” Maxwell is not alone in claiming that white people have an outsized influence in the Iowa caucuses....