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[Catholic Caucus] Italian Priest Defies Mass Ban, Faces Prosecutor’s Rap Fr. Antonio Lunghi reported to police in coronavirus-hit Northern Italy ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - An 88-year-old priest is being sanctioned for celebrating Sunday Mass as local authorities with the tacit consent of the church's hierarchy are using heavy-handed tactics to crack down on priests defying the ban on public Masses in coronavirus-hit parts of Northern Italy.  Father Antonio Lunghi was reported to the public prosecutor for offering Mass in the parish church of Castello d'Agogna, a village of just over a thousand inhabitants in the province of Pavia. Sources say that the ringing of...

In politics, it's often not who you want to vote for but who you don't want to vote for, and while policies are important, personality drives a lot of the decision-making. Often pollsters ask, "Does the candidate care about people like me?" Now they ask, "Does the candidate care about the same people I care about?" The ability to connect with and care about others is vitally important for candidates and has fueled former Vice President Joe Biden's surge in the Democratic primary process. Voters care if you are competent, but they also care if you are warm. Incompetent and...

“The mob is out there and Schumer is agitating them and it works. That’s the reason they do it,” McCarthy told “America’s Newsroom," adding that the Supreme Court’s Roe V. Wade decision “crystallized [the court's] transformation into a political institution rather than a legal one." McCarthy said that Schumer’s actions were “clearly a threat.” “It’s not even up for dispute. It wasn’t even subtle, it’s quite brazen,” he said. McCarthy also said that President Trump’s past critical remarks about Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were not a “wise thing to do,” though there was no comparison...

Nida Allam made history Tuesday night when she became the first Muslim woman to be elected to a public office in North Carolina. Allam received 39,523 votes, according to Board of Elections data. Allam ran as a Democratic candidate for Durham County Commission. According to our news gathering partners at News & Observer, because no Republican candidates ran for the seat, she will be elected to her first term in November. According to her campaign website, Allam said her priorities include improving public safety, combating poverty, providing mental health resources, improving access to high-quality education and increasing community involvement in...

Whatever the outcome of the upcoming High Court appeal by Cardinal Pell against his conviction on sex abuse charges, and despite the continuing social media tirades against the man and the undying hatred expressed by Pell haters against his small band of public defenders, there has been a recent, ever-so-subtle turn in elite opinion towards the possibility of an Alfred Dreyfus/Lindy Chamberlain scenario here. That the man may have been wrongly convicted. This is evidenced by some support for Pell’s innocence from unlikely quarters, and suggests hope against hope for justice. Andrew Bolt has commented on it. Yet, despite these...

Racism is everywhere. Either get over it or get out of the place where you are being targeted. Fight it, if you want, but moaning about it doesn’t help. Some Chinese in the United States and Europe are telling of racial abuse because the coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Whenever people tell me about their own experiences of racism, I always ask if they themselves have ever used racial slurs. I know I have. We’re all racists. It’s a matter of degree. Those who say they don’t have a racist...

The country's oldest Latino civil rights organization on Thursday denounced voter suppression incidents in areas with large minority populations during Tuesday's primary elections in 14 states. The president of the group said areas with large Latino communities experiences the biggest barriers to vote on Super Tuesday's slate of primaries. "Latinos have become the largest minority voting bloc in 2020, and our community is at the heart of the voting base in states like California and Texas. Yet, it is precisely in the largest minority communities around the country –specifically districts where the Latino vote makes the difference – that we...

Rush Limbaugh stated during his radio show last week that he believes the deadly coronavirus wreaking havoc around the world is part of an effort to “bring down” President Trump. The conservative commentator and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient made the claim as the stock market slumped over concerns about the coronavirus continuing to spread. “It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Mr. Limbaugh said during his syndicated radio show. It seems that Rush is not far from the truth. President Donald Trump also told reporters Saturday the United...

(Stewart in 1976, and still performing in 2019...) Year of the Cat is the seventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1976 and was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons; it is considered his masterpiece, its sales helped by the hit single "Year of the Cat", "one of those 'mysterious woman' songs," co-written by Peter Wood. Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title of any of the songs. In a Canadian radio interview he stated that he has done this for 6 of his albums, and he...

You tell me. Warren's out. Popcorn or cross-voting?

President Trump was rightly critical of the deal struck with Cuba during the Obama administration when he said the communist Cuban government got everything they wanted, and the U.S. got nothing in exchange. He has thankfully been reversing some of those unilateral concessions. Let's apply his standard to the recently announced "peace deal" with the Taliban. Under terms of the agreement, as reported in The Washington Times, "The U.S. will free 5,000 Taliban prisoners and begin to remove sanctions on top Taliban leaders." What does the U.S. get in return? The agreement, reportedly, asserts that we start calling them the...

Former Vice President Joe Biden has amassed a staggering 49-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Florida ahead of the state’s March 17 Democratic presidential primary, according to a survey released on Thursday by St. Pete Polls. The poll shows Biden leading the pack of candidates with about 61 percent support in the Sunshine State. His nearest rival in the poll, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, registered at 13.5 percent. Bloomberg ended his campaign on Wednesday after a poor showing on Super Tuesday and has since endorsed Biden. Sanders notched only 12 percent in the poll, just...

Recombinant DNA encompasses only one area of genetic engineering; namely, Biospecific biochemical and microbiological to alter,relatively controlled and reasonably predictable manner, the molecules that encode the genetic characteristics of an organism, and to introduce specifically selected new set of genetic Instructions. The specific molecular manipulations that are made and the exact methods used to make them can vary widely from one recombinant DNA experiment to another. The basic process,usually involves the Initial isolation or synthesis specific set of chemically identical nucleic acid molecules (usually molecules are then bonded…?) specially prepared vector (carriers) that usually are plasmids. bacteriophages, or other virus-like...

Gov. Bill Lee has announced the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Tennessee. The patient tested positive for the virus Wednesday. The patient, described as a 44-year-old man, is in Williamson County and is currently quarantined at home. The Tennessee Department of Health is working to determine to which states he traveled.

The gunman who killed five co-workers at the Molson Coors Brewery in Milwaukee last week came to work one day in 2015 to find out that a noose had been placed on his locker, the company disclosed Tuesday. Police have not said what might have sparked the rampage by 51-year-old electrician Anthony Ferrill on Feb. 26, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Former United Auto Workers (UAW) president Gary Jones was charged Thursday by federal prosecutors with embezzling more than $1 million of UAW funds for personal use. The Detroit News reported Thursday that Jones was charged in a criminal information, indicating that he could plead guilty to the charges in the weeks ahead. Several of his former aides have already admitted to stealing UAW funds for travel and other personal expenses. He faces two counts, one involving conspiracy to embezzle union funds and another for using an interstate commerce facility to engage in racketeering. Both of the charges have maximum prison...

Erik Rush figures party is hoping to minimize damage and look to 2024

Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts who promised to deliver “big, structural change” and vigorously fight corruption, will end her presidential bid Thursday after a series of devastating primary results crippled her once-promising campaign. She was due to inform her staff Thursday, a person familiar with her plans said. Warren, 70, entered the Democratic Party race in February 2019 after months of anticipation and quickly built a formidable organization. She eschewed large-dollar fundraisers, often saying that defeating President Trump would take a true grass-roots movement. Warren at times electrified voters and attracted big crowds, and at several points she seemed...

Piers Morgan is a cock. I realise this isn’t exactly front-page news but every now and then he reminds you what a low-grade, puffed-up, bloviating poltroon he truly is. Most recently he did so on his breakfast TV show Good Morning Britain in an interview with the German climate sceptic Naomi Seibt. Seibt – whom I was lucky enough to meet at the last UN climate conference in Madrid and interviewed here – is a very brave, very admirable 19-year old German climate sceptic. She is known as the Anti-Greta — a nickname I believe I may have coined myself...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) succeeded in his arguably racist quest to prevent a black woman from winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.State senator Erica Smith (D.), a former Boeing engineer who tried to become just the third black woman in history to serve in the Senate, came up short in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Cal Cunningham, a former state senator and Schumer-approved white man, secured the party's nomination with 56 percent of the vote. Smith placed second with 36 percent. Cunningham will face Republican incumbent Thom Tillis in the November election."We had an...