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A German teenager dubbed the “anti-Greta” – climate sceptics’ answer to the schoolgirl activist Greta Thunberg – is set to address the biggest annual gathering of US grassroots conservatives. Naomi Seibt, 19, who styles herself as a “climate sceptic” or “climate realist”, will this week address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, joining speakers including Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Seibt is in the pay of the Heartland Institute, a thinktank closely allied with the White House that denies established science showing humans are heating the planet with dangerous consequences. CPAC will be the biggest stage yet...

Fox News analyst Judge Napolitano vented his frustration about Monday's "secret" hearing in the Roger Stone trial, claiming the presiding judge is biased against President Trump's associate. Napolitano blasted Attorney General William Barr for allowing D.C. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to place a gag rule on Stone and hold a brief with regard to allegations that a juror and the judge herself were biased against Stone from the outset of the trial. "No one should be happy about secrecy whether you like Stone or dislike him — whether you like the president or you dislike him," said Napolitano...

Rev. Al Sharpton is reminding black voters in South Carolina that civil rights leaders faced the same political flak for being alleged socialists that Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, faces today. Sharpton, who hosted a half-dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls Wednesday morning at a ministers’ breakfast sponsored by his National Action Network, made his observation before introducing Sanders.Noting that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also criticized as a socialist while fighting for voting rights and other critical issues to the black community, Sharpton urged attendees to research that history. …

Network cites damage to 'our reputation for fairness and impartiality' Veteran ABC News correspondent David Wright was suspended Wednesday after he was caught in a Project Veritas undercover sting declaring that he was a socialist and referring to President Trump as “this f**ing president.” In a statement, an ABC spokesperson also said that Mr. Wright, who has worked for the network since 2000, would no longer cover political stories upon his return.

A Palestinian rocket attack missed a Jewish school in the Israeli city of Sderot on Monday afternoon but damaged its adjacent playground in a scenario all too common in that region. The school is located near the Gaza Strip, where violence against Israelis is ongoing. This attack came just hours after Democratic presidential frontrunner and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cited "bigotry" as the reason he would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's conference next week.

Just how committed is Michael Bloomberg to winning the Democratic primary? Enough to have his adviser Tim OÂ’Brien drop this bombshell on a stunned Alisyn Camerota this morning on CNNÂ’s New Day. Just as Camerota made an argument that Democrats might not want to go full tilt against Bernie Sanders if heÂ’s likely to end up the nominee against Donald Trump, OÂ’Brien promised that Team Bloomberg would hammer Sanders with everything they have. And itÂ’s remarkable how much information a news-media mogul can find, isnÂ’t it? Such as advice for parents of toddlers to allow them to run naked and...

Student leaders, university officials and a history professor responded to another racial slur being used in an OU classroom Tuesday. Two weeks ago, a journalism professor compared using the phrase "OK Boomer" to the “N-Word.” Read Also: OU Journalism Professor To Step Down From Teaching Undergraduate Class For Rest Of Semester This week the university said a history professor gave a warning before using the word multiple times. “We are tired of the press conferences,” Black Emergency Response Team (BERT) student leader Miles Francisco said. “We are tired of the meetings and we are tired of the town halls we...

During the Democratic Debate in South Carolina, there were plenty of claims.Mike Bloomberg let it slip that he "bought" off Congressional reps with his millions. Elizabeth Warren repeated her debunked, yet oft-spoken tale about being fired when she was pregnant. And then there was Joe Biden. The former vice president claimed that 150 million people have died from "gun violence." 150 million people have been killed since 2007, when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars! Including Vietnam! From that point on, carnage on our streets, and I want to tell you,...

I’m no fan of alarmism, whether it be about energy, the environment or any other subject, but the situation for the domestic oil and gas industry has grown somewhat alarming over the past two months. Since early January the S&P Oil & Gas Index has plunged 32%. Investors appear convinced not just that there is oodles of oil in the world but that the spread of Coronavirus brings the risk of economic flatlining in the biggest growth market for oil — China. With the virus set to spread and the OPEC+ group running out of options to contain the oil...

The parliament in Scotland approved a proposal to make sanitary products available for free to all women, becoming the first country in the world to pass such a measure. The goal of the policy is to end "period poverty" and enable public places such as community centers, youth clubs and pharmacies to widely offer sanitary products, a provision that may cost up to $31.2 million (24.1 million pounds), according to Reuters. The measure, called the Period Products (Free Provision) Scotland Bill, received initial approval with 112 votes in favor and none against. The bill will now move onto the second...

Several European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, all apparently linked to the growing outbreak in Italy.Austria, Croatia, Greece and Switzerland said the cases involved people who had been to Italy, as did Algeria in Africa. The first positive virus test has been recorded in Latin America - a Brazilian resident just returned from Italy. Italy has in recent days become Europe's worst-affected country. Authorities have confirmed more than 300 cases and 12 deaths there, the most recent a 70-year-old resident of Lombardy who died after being taken to intensive care in Parma. The country has also seen four...

The United States Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to advance two pro-life bills, one of which was aimed at banning abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy while another required medical care for babies that survive the procedure.On a vote taken Tuesday, the Senate voted 56-41 on Senate Bill 311, known as the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”Introduced by Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, S. 311 mandated that a healthcare practitioner must provide medical attention to a baby that survives an attempted abortion.Also on Tuesday, the Senate voted 53-44 on Senate Bill 3275, also called the...

During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to members of the audience who booed him for his comments on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The controversy has gained steam in recent days after Sanders was forced to address comments he made in the 1980s regarding Castro, whom he claimed was not overthrown because he educated the Cuban people and gave them health care.

I experienced deja vu watching the Democrats’ rule change to include Michael Bloomberg into their debates, despite their refusal to change those rules for other Democrats who hadn’t met the qualifications for inclusion. For nearly twenty years I’ve watched Democrats change the rules to suit their convenience of the moment. For example, those who are old enough will remember the case of Robert Torricelli, the Democrat senator from New Jersey who withdrew from his Senate race because questions about his campaign finance practices were causing him to lose popularity and threaten that his Republican opponent might actually defeat him. However,...

by Sheri Urban On Tuesday Roger Stone and his lawyers appeared in court to request a new trial after it was revealed the lead juror was biased and posted tweets attacking Trump and Roger Stone. Stone’s lawyers asked for a new trial after it was revealed jury forewoman Tomeka Hart lied to the Court during her testimony when she claimed she didn’t really know who Roger Stone was. During the proceedings today demon Judge Amy Berman Jackson complained about critical media reports on her outrageous conduct in the courtroom -- singling out popular FoxNews conservative Tucker Carlson for criticism....

Donald Trump mocked Democrats' Debate night of finger-pointing, shouting and chaos as he returned to the White House Wednesday, scoffing: 'Just give me an opponent.' He took aim at a series of his potential rivals to call them 'crazy,' and say: 'Would be over for most.' The tweet reflected his public confidence that he can beat any of the Democratic field in November, and came after just over two hours of the CBS hosted debated which quickly devolved into angry personal exchanges with a total loss of control by moderators Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell.

Last week Oracle co-founder and Chairman Larry Ellison held a fundraiser for President Trump’s re-election campaign at his Rancho Mirage estate near Palm Springs, Calif. At the time the fundraiser was announced, there was silence from The Resistance, which is unusual given the reality of today’s political environment – public figures who support Trump must be shamed and shunned. It turns out about 300 employees of the American multinational computer technology corporation protested Ellison’s fundraiser but they did so the day after the event which seems like an odd way of going about it. Oracle employs about 136,000 people,...

This past weekend, I and many of my colleagues received the shocking news that famed Obama administration DHS whistleblower Phil Haney had died. My first indication was a text from a friend late Friday night: "Sorry so late but I am hearing Phil Haney has been killed." I had received something earlier in the evening, but the person texting had thought it was a joke. It was no joke. Phil Haney, a long-term colleague and person I had come to know personally, had been shot dead. Rumors from friends contained many inaccuracies, like "he had been missing for days," "found...

We’re supposed to believe that it is a wonderful thing in Communist countries where the leaders care so much for their people. They teach them to read. They have free education and health care. Cubans have very strict gun control. Abortion is available on demand in Cuba, and in 2019 they raised the mandatory minimum wage. All things the Democrats running for President support. It looks like an ideal Democrat platform. After 60 years of Castro Brothers control, they have raised the minimum wage to $16 (per month, not per hour). The average wage will shoot up from $24 to...

Yesterday Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe taunted ABC News with the release of a new undercover video exposing the outlet’s agenda to mislead voters. And as he promised he delivered. A few moments ago James O’ Keefe from Project Veritas tweeted: Senior ABC correspondent David Wright reveals he is a “Socialist,” Admits bosses spike news important to voters, says ABC doesn’t ‘give Trump credit for what things he does do’ https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1232666696357437441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232666696357437441&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-james-okeefe-releases-his-fifth-bombshell-socialist-abc-reporter-exposes-abc-news-agenda-to-mislead-voters%2F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZG1v5EcwUI&feature=emb_title Full Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZG1v5EcwUI&feature=emb_title ABC News has suspended correspondent David Wright “for unguarded remarks he made in a video by operatives of Project Veritas.” https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1232681908317933574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232681908317933574&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-james-okeefe-releases-his-fifth-bombshell-socialist-abc-reporter-exposes-abc-news-agenda-to-mislead-voters%2F https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1232665793571237888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232665793571237888&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-james-okeefe-releases-his-fifth-bombshell-socialist-abc-reporter-exposes-abc-news-agenda-to-mislead-voters%2F This is...