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A tradition stretching back nearly two decades, the annual gift bag from marketing company Distinctive Assets gives select nominees in the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director categories up to 75 bespoke gifts. Peasant that I am, I can’t get the image of Brad Pitt wandering around with a branded paper bag containing travel size shaving foam and some cat food, delighted with his ‘free stuff,’ out of my head. But these ‘bags’ are more like lorry loads, so they get discreetly delivered the next day, not handed out at an afterparty. The...

Jesus taught it. Paul reaffirmed it. And neither of them said their teaching was optional for Christians. Instead, God Himself commands us, His children, to love our enemies and to bless those who curse us. No one said it would be easy. No one even said it would be possible, without divine help. But, without any question, the call to love our enemies is a divine command, not a human suggestion. In the words of Jesus, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for...

“By me kings reign, and princes decree justice” (Proverbs 8:15 KJV).

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 111 Psalm 111[a] 1 Praise the Lord.[b] I will extol the Lord with all my heart     in the council of the upright and in the assembly. 2 Great are the works of the Lord;     they are pondered by all who delight in them. 3 Glorious and majestic are his deeds,     and his righteousness endures forever. 4 He has caused his wonders to be remembered;     the Lord is gracious and compassionate. 5 He provides food for those who fear him;     he remembers his covenant forever. 6 He has shown his people the power of his...

A Wisconsin public school teacher was reportedly placed on leave this week after he allegedly called Rush Limbaugh's advanced cancer diagnosis "awesome" and said he hopes the radio host's death is painful. "limbaugh absolutely should have to suffer from cancer. it's awesome that he's dying, and hopefully it is as quick as it is painful,” Travis Sarandos, who teaches in Milwaukee, allegedly tweeted Monday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Sarandos was replying to another tweet whose author said they hoped Limbaugh recovered quickly and would advocate for affordable health care for everyone, the newspaper reported. The teacher's tweet sparked...

It started Sunday night with an exciting and hard-fought Super Bowl game, which I was happy to see end with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the San Francisco 49ers. Then the next day came the Iowa caucus, aka the Democrat Party's Iowa fiasco. For weeks, the liberal mainstream media and cable TV had been building up the importance of a win in Iowa. They treated the state's obsolete caucus process like a sacred ceremony of grassroots democracy that was going to play a crucial role in deciding the Democrats' choice to dethrone President Trump. The caucus was over on...

WUHAN QUARANTINE: THE UGLY, BRUTAL TRUTH. [SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES] [Please watch and share this 7 minute video. The truth about NCoV is at least 10 times worse than Chinese and other "official" sources are letting on.] Multiple clips recorded in Wuhan February 2/6/20 showing Chinese people being forced into detention and quarantine against their will while screaming and resisting. Other clips outside a quarantine center where officials explain that they will not provide any medical treatment and that once you enter you may not leave. Final clips showing the quarantine center with large numbers of beds crammed next...

60 Minutes: Pelosi Insider Trading (2011): Pelosi used insider trading tactics that would result in years of jail time for the average person. VIDEO: Watch deer in the headlights Nancy Pelosi as she was unexpectedly grilled about her trades during a regular press conference in 2011 by Steve Kroft from CBS’s ’60 Minutes’.

Last Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C. an aide to Nancy Pelosi visited the Bishop of the Catholic Cathedral in D.C. He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day's Mass and asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint. The Cardinal replied,” No, I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over some of Pelosi’s views.” Pelosi’s aide then said. “ Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation...

There's something about being in the bleak midwinter and having to think about suicide that seems especially unbearable. But just as many of us were in Washington protesting the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, activists were in New York's state capitol intensifying their efforts to legalize doctor-assisted suicide in the Empire State. It's the last thing anyone needs. At a recent gathering in Albany where doctors, medical professionals and others gathered to protest legal suicide, Dr. Mary-Ellen Edmiston, a palliative-care specialist from Syracuse, said: "No patient should have to spend their final days in pain...

Five people from Britain, including one child, are hospitalized in France with the new virus from China after contracting it during a holiday in the Alps. Saturday’s announcement by the French health minister is the latest example of how the tentacles of the virus can spread across multiple borders. The five British citizens were staying in a chalet in the Alpine resort of Contamines-Montjoie, and were in close contact with another Briton who apparently contracted the virus in Singapore, traveled to the French Alps and then tested positive for the virus upon return to Britain, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn...

Women favor global death far more strongly than men. He’s been in the 2020 Democratic race for president from the start. Now the Sweet Meteor O’Death is finding a receptive audience: New Hampshire Democrats. The University of Massachusetts-Lowell Center for Public Opinion surveyed Democratic primary voters at the end of January and found nearly two-thirds would rather a meteor hit the earth, “extinguishing all human life,” than President Trump win re-election on Nov. 3. That’s a serious poll result. Results:

“10 Democrats Boycott Trump’s State of the Union Address," declared a Voice of America article. "Another Trump critic, California Democrat Maxine Waters, said she would not attend, calling Trump a “dishonorable president.”  “Rep. Maxine Waters, another Democrat who made early calls for impeachment, applauded the senators who voted to remove Trump from office, acknowledging Republican Mitt Romney… Waters accused the other senators, all Republicans, of being “enemies of the rule of law and the Constitution,” BuzzFeed reported.A  Martian, briefly visiting earth, (or a “Woke” person reading the Fake News Media) would surmise that Maxine Waters cares deeply about “honor” and...

Peter Strzok says he is ready to respond to President Trump's "attacks." The former FBI agent reviled by Trump and his allies tweeted Thursday evening, something he rarely does, to respond to the president who mocked him and fellow FBI alumna Lisa Page hours earlier at the White House. He shared a message from his lawyer, Aitan Goelman, who said: "Angered by the disclosures of yet more instances of his betrayal of our national security in the service of his own political advantage, President Trump raged and threatened those public servants tasked with investigating or testifying about his serial misconduct."...

Trump Jr. tweeted Friday evening after his father, President Trump, pushed two top impeachment witnesses who testified against him during the House impeachment investigation out of their government roles earlier in the day. "Allow me a moment to thank — and this may be a bit of a surprise — Adam Schiff. Were it not for his crack investigation skills, @realDonaldTrump might have had a tougher time unearthing who all needed to be fired," Trump Jr. said. "Thanks, Adam!"

This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 185 judges confirmed. 133 District Court judges 50 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices McConnell has teed up cloture and confirmation votes for next week, including Andrew Brasher, nominee for the 11th circuit. After a lengthy impeachment interlude, the confirmation gears are turning once more!

Congressional Record Links to Debate on Trial Procedure Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - Answer and Trial Briefs Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - Debate on Impeachment Procedure, S.Res.483 Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - Debate on Amendment @ 3:16 p.m.: Amendment 1284: Subpoena Acting Chief of Staff of White House Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - Debate on Amendments @ 5:16 p.m.: Amendment 1285: Subpoena Documents from Department of State (Pompeo, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, Volker, Taylor, Sondland) Amendment 1286: Subpoena Office of Management and Budget Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - Debate on Amendments @ 8:13 p.m.: Amendment 1287: Subpoena Mick Mulvaney Amendment...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she and Rep. Ilhan Omar had to hold hands at points during President Trump's State of the Union address to comfort each other. "It think was a huge struggle for me because I don't think people realize its worse in - when you're actually there," the Michigan Democrat said at an event with Rep. Ilhan Omar about listening to the address. "No, it really is, it actually - there was moments of triggering, and I kept holding your hand," Tlaib said, looking at Omar. "And we intentionally sat next to each other to support each other."...

I’ll freely admit it, I teared up a bit while watching conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from first lady Melania Trump during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. As a wide-eyed college student working on his first political campaign only to be absolutely devastated when Bill Clinton upset George H.W. Bush in ’92, discovering and listening to the bombastic, confident Limbaugh pack more hard-hitting truths with half his brain tied behind his back than most mere mortals could with their entire faculties was comforting, encouraging, cathartic even. We were in the bunker together...

Most of the minority candidates have bowed out of the race, in large part because black and Latino Democratic voters preferred the white candidates, but the first-ever intersectionality primary continues. During an extended back-and-forth on race issues at the Democratic presidential debate on Friday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went for the finish line. "We have a racist society from top to bottom," he declared. He said it's in the healthcare system, criminal justice, the economy, and everywhere else. I won't analyze the psychology behind calling an entire country, whose people you want to like you, racist. I don't think I'd...