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It’s unfortunate that live coverage of President Trump receiving what AP calls “adulation from a massive, colorful crowd” of 125,000 took place during the wee hours of the morning for most Americans. But the consequences of his roughly 36 hours in India will be long lasting and important. He is about to retire for the night in New Delhi after the enormous rally in Ahmedabad, the economically advanced capital of the state Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi’s home turf, and a quick visit to the Taj Mahal. However personally gratifying it may have been to equal the overseas crowds Barack Obama...

[...]ConclusionSo, here’s the evidence I have presented for why the Shroud of Turin is clearly a hoax: The forger who made the Shroud of Turin confessed and the earliest definitive mention of the shroud in any historical source is a record of his confession.The Shroud of Turin doesn’t match the kinds of funerary wrappings used in Judaea in the time of Jesus or the description of Jesus’s own funerary wrappings given in the Gospel of John.The linen of the Shroud of Turin has been securely dated using radiocarbon dating to between c. 1260 and c. 1390 AD—well over a millennium...

Sometimes what happens in Vegas needs to be shared with the ones we love. Some of you may remember that my wife passed away in June of 2009. Since then, life has continued and blessed me with finding love again. After being together for almost ten years now, Jean and I were married in Las Vegas on the 20th of February. I am such a lucky man and honored to have such a wonderful woman as my best friend and wife. To other widowers out there in FR...don't ever stop looking for a companion and friend to be with. You...

Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations played a major role in the development of the Space Shuttle program, died Monday at the age of 101, NASA confirmed. Johnson was part of NASA’s “Computer Pool” team in the 1960s, which was largely composed of black women who processed data by hand. They provided the calculations for several of the first successful manned space missions, including Alan Shepard’s in 1961 and John Glenn’s in 1962, when he became the first American to orbit the earth. Johnson also became the first woman to write a technical report in NASA’s flight research division...

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! Now that he has been forever acquitted, President Trump should put the failed partisan impeachment attempt behind him, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails. Then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Highest priority political items: Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting...

Like Trump, Sanders is tapping into a seething discontent in American life over who has power and who doesn’t. AUSTIN, Texas — At a massive Bernie Sanders rally like the one held downtown here on Sunday evening, you get the sense that a huge swath of the Democratic voter base is deeply unhappy with everything in America, and has been for a while.The immediate object of their ire might be Donald Trump, but their discontent goes further back than the last election, and it encompasses more than politics as usual. They want everything Sanders promises: Medicare for all, free college,...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee late Sunday called out Sen. Bernie Sanders over his decision to skip its conference next month in Washington and blaming his decision on his concern that the group provides a platform for leaders to "express bigotry" and oppose basic Palestinian rights. Sanders, who is on the heels of an emphatic win in the Nevada Caucuses, took to Twitter on Sunday to voice his concern about the influential lobby. The Vermont senator vowed that if elected president he would work with both Israelis and Palestinians to bring peace and stability to the region. AIPAC wasted...

At the writing of this column, it is a well-known fact that a billionaire from New York is trying to buy the presidency. His well-financed strategy is such that he is able to circumvent the heavy lifting of the smaller primaries while the other candidates are slugging it out visiting small town gatherings, shaking hands in diners, and walking the streets letting the folks get to know them. Instead, Michael Bloomberg has chosen to stand above the sweaty fray, buy expensive ads on the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500, and flood the length and width of the nation with...

It looks like the liberal media's panic at the prospect of Bernie Sanders winning the Democrat nomination is leading MSM members to offer some hare-brained analysis about him. The syndrome was on stunning display this morning on both CNN and MSNBC. On CNN's New Day, co-host Alisyn Camerota actually fretted that Sanders is too "nuanced" to take on President Trump. What? Sure, Alisyn. Because nothing says "nuance" like literally preaching "revolution" while thrusting a socialist fist in the air! There was also irony in the chyron [see screecap] CNN displayed as poor Alisyn expressed her concern about overly "nuanced" Bernie:...

How aggressive was Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation in trying to get convictions? One figure it targeted says she had to leave the United States for a while because she was “traumatized” by a series of “perjury trap” interviews.

By February 2019, Judith had become unbearably anxious. The 28-year-old Pacific coast native’s due date had come and gone. Just two days shy of 45 weeks pregnant, her belly was stretched so far that it shined, her body was swollen, and nearly everything — from her toes to her hair — ached. For women who haven’t gone into labor by 42 weeks, just about every medical and birth professional recommends induction — a jump-start to labor from medicines that ripen the cervix or contract the uterus. But Judith, an artist and freethinker who believes in “all that hippy jazz,” had...

In a speech delivered to crowds at the world’s largest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad city upon his arrival in India, Trump talked about India and the United States defending their “sovereignty and security” together and announced that the two nations would sign a defense deal worth $3 billion on Feb. 25. Addressing a cheering crowd of over 100,000 people, Trump said on Monday: “I am pleased to announce that tomorrow our representatives will sign deals to sell over $3 billion in the absolute finest, state-of-the-art military helicopters and other equipment to the Indian armed forces.” Experts told The Epoch Times...

It looks like the liberal media's panic at the prospect of Bernie Sanders winning the Democrat nomination is leading MSM members to offer some hare-brained analysis about him. The syndrome was on stunning display this morning on both CNN and MSNBC. On CNN's New Day, co-host Alisyn Camerota actually fretted that Sanders is too "nuanced" to take on President Trump. What? Sure, Alisyn. Because nothing says "nuance" like literally preaching "revolution" while thrusting a socialist fist in the air! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

... If you heard just about any Bernie Sanders speech from 2016, you heard his denouncing millionaires and billionaires and big banks — or, if you prefer to imitate him, it was “thah millionayuhs and thah billionayuhs and thah big banks.” From his opening announcement speech, Sanders made it clear that the growing number of millionaires in the United States was “something profoundly wrong” as long as poverty persisted: “There is something profoundly wrong when, in recent years, we have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as millions of Americans work longer hours for lower...

So much has been happening recently in the world that North Korea has all but disappeared from the front pages. The elimination of Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, the impeachment inquiry farce, the Iowa circus, the COVID-19 threat of a pandemic, have monopolized public attention for weeks. However, North Korea is not going away and President Trump has certainly not forgotten the issue, especially since China, of late, has never been weaker. Hong Kong’s yearlong demonstrations, triggered by an ill-conceived extradition bill, hit China’s “one country, two systems” principle at its heart and the result was immediately reflected by the elections...

A savvy political observer knows perfectly well how the Democratic Party and all of its "very best" candidates got closer to socialism. Strict gun control, economic regulations, open borders, "free" college education and housing, and Medicare for all (including illegal aliens), to name a few, represent a set of classic socialist ideas that has sadly become commonplace for the Democrats. Sure, there are lone voices raising concerns, one of which belongs to the Democratic strategist James Carville, who made news recently when he said, "We're losing our damn minds!" Then there is MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who rips Bernie Sanders as...

The deadly coronavirus that is morphing into a global threat could have infected five to 10 times more people than Chinese officials have acknowledged, a group of U.S. researchers said.The Feb. 18 study, which has not been peer-reviewed, was co-led by Lucia Dunn, economics professor at Ohio State University, and Mai He, pathology professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.Drawing from both official and unofficial data sources, the study suggested the cumulative infections and deaths could be “substantially higher” than officially stated—by a factor of 5 to 10.“So many people are doubting the numbers in China...

The phrase "right-wing extremist" has become part of the national lexicon, yet for some strange reason, we never hear "left-wing extremist" to describe the liberal crazies in Antifa and BAMN, just two examples of what liberal extremism looks like — bloody. Why is that? Why do the media pretend the lunatics on the left don't exist? Remember back in 1998, when Hillary Clinton went on the Today show and defended Bill to Matt Lauer against accusations of infidelity and impropriety as the result of the efforts of a "vast ring-wing conspiracy" that spawned when Bill first announced his candidacy for...

The sixth person to test positive for the new coronavirus died in Italy, authorities said on Monday. The 80-year-old man lived in Milan, state broadcaster RAI reported. Other deaths were also confirmed on Monday, including an 88-year-old man in Caselle Landi in northern Italy, Angelo Borrelli, the chief of the Protezione Civile, announced at a press conference, The Local reported. The fourth death was an 84-year-old man in the town of Bergamo, which is also located in Italy’s Lombardy region. All six patients who died were older than 75. There are now 220 confirmed cases in Italy. “Patient zero has...

The Supreme Court will decide whether Philadelphia is allowed to exclude Catholic services that refused to allow same-sex couples to become foster parents from the city's foster care system. The court announced on Monday that it would hear the lawsuit brought by Catholic Social Services (CSS) and three foster parents against the city in 2018.