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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Well, it's shaping up to be a bad week for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic primaries are in chaos, Trump delivered a positive, high-energy State of the Union address, the economy is good, and Trump was just acquitted of the articles of impeachment. But Pelosi made it even worse on herself by tearing up Trump's State of the Union address in front of the whole nation. She ended up overexerting herself, and 54 different bones in her hands and wrists immediately snapped during the ripping. Fourteen different muscles were also strained. She fell to the ground...

Tesla shares crater 17% after coronavirus delays Model 3 deliveries Published Wed, Feb 5 20207:34 AM EST Updated 4 hours ago Arjun Kharpal Key Points * A Tesla executive said that cars initially scheduled for delivery in early February will be delayed due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus. * Tesla shares fell 17.18% Wednesday. * Tesla began rolling out Model 3 vehicles from its Shanghai Gigafactory to Chinese customers in January. Tesla shares fell 17.18% Wednesday after a company executive said that cars initially scheduled for delivery in early February will be delayed due to the outbreak of...

Is there a possibility that Congress could archive the House's torn copy of the SoU speech as the House's official copy? I think it should preserved as is as an historical reminder of the present day House chamber's actions and temperament.

Mitt “Pierre Delecto” Romney is enjoying an outpouring of “strange new respect” from the media today after voting with the Democrats to impeach President Trump. Thanks to Mitt, the Democrats get to claim that their impeachment show trial was “bipartisan.” Anyone who has followed Mitt’s career could have seen this betrayal coming. This isn’t the first time he’s behaved like a bitter sanctimonious weasel when it comes to Donald Trump. Four years ago with great fanfare, Romney decided to used his clout as the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee to gather the media to Salt Lake City to hear his thoughts...

[Catholic Caucus] Portuguese cardinal allows divorced and ‘remarried’ Catholics to receive Communion The Cardinal's 'path of discernment' was implemented in the wake of Pope Francis's exhortation Amoris laetitia. February 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In an article published in January by the Portuguese daily Jornal de Noticias, Cardinal Antonio Dos Santos Marto of Leiria-Fatima officially announced that two divorced and “remarried” couples and a divorced and “remarried” woman have been allowed to receive Holy Communion in his diocese “like any Catholic.”  Three more couples are following a “path of discernment” which will allow them to receive the sacraments after having...

ROME - European and American nationalists attending a conference Tuesday in Rome cheered Brexit, warned of left-wing “totalitarianism” and waxed nostalgic about St. John Paul II’s papacy and the “glorious revolution” that brought down communism. The second annual National Conservatism Conference had “God, Honor, Country” as its theme. Rising right-wing stars from Italy and France were keynote speakers, and conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban closed out the meeting. Organizer Christopher DeMuth drew applause when he blasted the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of political and business elites in Davos, Switzerland. The threat of authoritarianism doesn’t come from the...

With the weeks-long impeachment trial ending Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is wasting no time turning the chamber's focus back to his self-professed top priority: confirming judicial nominations. McConnell teed up five judicial nominations for votes on the Senate floor as the chamber wrapped up its work for the week. The Senate is expected to take its first procedural vote on the slate Monday evening, when Republicans will need a simple majority to end the debate on Andrew Brasher's nomination to be a judge on the Eleventh Circuit. Once Brasher is confirmed, the Senate will turn to the...

The Democratic scheme to evict President Trump from office, which collapsed Wednesday when a majority of the Senate voted to acquit him of impeachment charges, was an extravagant waste of time. Sadly, amid today’s feverish electoral polemics, rage has replaced reason. Impeachment was always a fatuous and frivolous exercise initiated by House Democrats. Their constitutionally cited grounds were incurably weak and driven by a visceral hostility toward Trump. Democrats who supported Trump’s impeachment and conviction were motivated by an irrational but overwhelming desire to avenge their loss of the presidency in the 2016 election, obscuring their reason and judgment. The...

Hamburg, Germany, Feb 4, 2020 / 11:01 am (CNA).- A court in Germany overturned Monday a school’s ban on niqabs, ruling that Hamburg law does not allow educational authorities to impose such a ban. The niqab is a face veil worn by some Muslim women. The Feb. 3 ruling by an administrative court come after a 16-year-old student was told she must expose her face to her teachers. According to the court, the student has “a right to unconditional protection of her freedom of belief.” Hamburg’s state minister for education, Ties Rabe, said in response to the ruling that he...

Condemn critic of Orbán as lacking 'moral standards'BUDAPEST, Hungary (ChurchMilitant.com) - Hungarian bishops reacted swiftly to a Budapest district mayor who accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz Party of representing a "frightening formation" of "white, Christian, heterosexual" people. Mayor Péter Niedermüller, head of the Hungarian capital's Erzsébetváros district, said on a Jan. 23 talk show that "If you strip away ... hated delineations ... non-Hungarians, others, migrants, Roma — I don't know what — then there is this frightening formation left in the middle: white, Christian, heterosexual men," adding, "and there are of course [some] women among them."...

George Washington University Law professor and self described Democrat Jonathan Turley is calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign if she can't maintain the dignity of her position. "While many will celebrate her trolling of the president, she tore up something far more important than a speech. Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum, and civility that the nation could use now more than ever. The House speaker is more than a political partisan, particularly when carrying out functions such as the State of the Union address. A president appears in the House as a guest of both chambers...

A 16-year-old autistic boy is in a hospital recovering from a seizure he had while handcuffed by police, according to his family. The teen’s mother, Lourdes Ponce, took her family to El Pollo Loco in Fresno, Calif., shortly after seeing a doctor about her son’s recent epileptic seizures, ABC 30 reported. He then experienced another seizure in the restaurant’s restroom, his mother told the local station. She heard her son drop to the floor, she said, but couldn’t reach him because the door was locked. Ponce asked restaurant employees to unlock the door, she told ABC 30. They found him...

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev Alfred Adewale Martins has condemned in very strong terms, the recent killing of Michael Nnadi, an eighteen-year-old seminarian abducted alongside three other seminarians of The Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna by gun men recently. In a release signed by the Director of Social Communications, Rev Fr. Anthony Godonu, he said the gruesome murder of the innocent young man was yet another indication of the failure of the present security arrangement of the Federal Government to address insecurity in the nation. He warned that the persistent cases of inability of the FG to safeguard...

Last week, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bank announced they no longer would donate to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which enables more than 108,000 low-income children and children in foster care to receive scholarships to attend a safe and effective school of choice. The move comes after the Orlando Sentinel published a piece suggesting that $105 million in tax credit scholarships had been used by families to pay tuition at faith-based schools that, as The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann put it, “uphold their faiths’ historic sexual ethics.” Businesses that contribute to nonprofit scholarship-granting organizations in the state can receive...

Japanese media have reported another 10 people testing positive for coronavirus aboard the now-quarantined Carnival Japan Inc.’s Diamond Princess cruise ship, taking the total number of infections from 10 to 20. Japan’s health ministry confirmed Thursday that the 10 new cases were among 71 test results returned from 273 passengers who were tested for the virus earlier this week. Test results for 202 passengers are still pending.

I was thinking of a song that I thought would help describe Mitt Romney's actions today. It's a parody of Kenny Roger's "The Gambler".

The two leaders of Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention are out. Late Tuesday, the board for the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee terminated President Liz Gilbert and her chief of staff, Adam Alonso. The move comes just one day after the board suspended the pair and launched an investigation into “toxic workplace” allegations. The Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that a group of senior women staffers wrote an unsigned letter last week complaining of being "bullied and intimidated" by Alonso — something they said Gilbert did nothing to stop. They said Alonso's actions fostered a "toxic and unstable"...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ PARACHUTE CHORE Army Warrant Officer Greg Suchanek drags his parachute toward a rally point during Leapfest 2016, an international parachute training event, in West Kingston, RI, Aug. 4, 2016. Suchanek is a paratrooper assigned to Special Operations Detachment (NATO). The Rhode Island Army National Guard's 56th Troop Command hosted the event to promote high-level technical training and esprit de corps within the international airborne community. Army photo by Sgt. Brady Pritchett Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 5, 2020 The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina today concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions at the Broad River Road Complex in Columbia, South Carolina, violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Specifically, the Department concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the Broad River Road Complex fails to protect youth from youth-on-youth violence and places youth in punitive, prolonged isolation. As required by the Civil Rights of Institutionalized...

Wuhan: A British man living in China’s Wuhan - the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, has made a startling claim that he defeated the deadly virus with ‘hot whisky and honey’. According to Fox News, 25-year-old Connor Reed, who teaches English in Wuhan, was diagnosed with the virus about two months ago. At first he thought it was a simple flu, but after he experienced difficulties breathing and struggled with a bad cough, Connor sought hospital treatment. **SNIP** “I used the inhaler which helped control the cough and drank a hot whiskey with honey until [it] ran out. It’s an...