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Pundits of all political stripes are taking note of the fact that the 2020 election is bringing to the fore just how deep and bitter are the cultural divisions within our nation. The glaring decline in political comity rivals that of the days leading up the Civil War. While the political divide is obvious and bitter, the growing religious divide is also increasingly obvious, and, perhaps, this development has been a stronger factor in the social and cultural divisions of the American public than has been previously acknowledged. It has been little noted in the mainstream media, but the percentage...

We’ve been here before, and the direst predictions have not come to pass. Not so politicians and the media. They love playing to the gallery, as they do after every health scare and terrorist incident. Front pages are outrageous. No BBC presenter seems able to avoid the subject. Wash hands to save the nation. The BBC must be sponsored by the soap industry. It is always hard to reflect balance and perspective in news. In this case, it is surely essential. It would help if Hancock was handed back the virus brief by Downing Street. It would also help if...

The Democratic National Committee changed the qualifying criteria for presidential debates again, eliminating Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). The committee (DNC) said Friday that participants in the next debate must have at least 20 percent of the pledged delegates. Gabbard, 38, has earned only two delegates so far. Under the new rules, the March 15 debate in Phoenix, Arizona, will feature Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), 78, and former Vice President Joe Biden, 77. Gabbard is the only Democratic candidate left in the race besides the men. Gabbard would have qualified for the debate under previous rules. She has not qualified for...

SHANGHAI - About 70 people were trapped on Saturday after a hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the Chinese city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province, the city’s authority said on its website. Video posted online showed orange-clad rescue workers clambering over mounds of rubble. It was not clear how tall the building had been before it collapsed, but there appeared to be commercial properties at street level. The building collapsed at about 7:30 p.m. (1130 GMT) and 34 people were rescued in the following two hours, the Quanzhou authorities said. The official People’s Daily said the hotel had...

A Bojangles’ manager is out of a job after a group of Trump supporters were locked out of a nearby restaurant following the president’s campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. . . . “I walk up to the door and people are gathered around and stated they would not serve trump supporters,” Mr. Furick wrote.

Tensions are running high in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been under total lockdown since the coronavirus epidemic emerged there more than a month ago, with local residents complaining of food shortages and rising prices. While health officials reported 38 new deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, there was a fall in newly confirmed cases for the third day running in mainland China. A total of 2,981 have died in mainland China, with more than 80,200 people infected in total, the National Health Commission said, citing 115 new cases in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital,...

A map broadcast by CNN on the contagions of the coronavirus in the world indicates Italy as the main responsible e center of the outbreak of the infection. The image shows that a series of arrows leave the boot for all the countries where the virus has arrived. But no reference is made in the image to China, the country from which the epidemic started. “Coronavirus cases linked to Italy”, is the title which appeared on superimposed and reproposed on social media with indignant messages, which attack the US broadcaster. And controversy broke out on social media. “Good morning Italy...

The current fad of #Shout Your Abortion represents a real shift in the abortion mindset as “safe, legal and rare,” which has given way to a reality in which members of the U.S. Senate can’t agree to stop infanticide by abortion vendors. Add to that an unsettling vote this week in Minnesota where a city council went even further in celebrating abortion.  This week, Saint Paul Minnesota City Council met to discuss whether March 10, 2020 would be recognized as Abortion Providers Appreciation Day in Saint Paul to “honor” abortionists. During the public hearing, 1 RES 20-416 was unanimously passed,...

The printer installation bypassed my router's security. Essentially, it asked for a "User ID", the router name, but not the password: presumably, on the pretext of user convenience. It means, I could hijack my neighbors' routers and use them for printing without their ever knowing anything about it. I love Epson printers. I got 10 years' service from 2 printers. I only had to buy new printers when operating system upgrades could not use the drivers or I couldn't get ink. I tried to get a new printer that doesn't have color cartridges. The Epson printer I came up with...

When we talk about any Sanctuary state we can’t be surprised by the news. But when we talk about California they lead the pack. Hollywood, drugs, illegals, feces on the streets, and sexual predators. These are some of the things we have in California but it seems they don’t intend to change. A bill called the “LGBTQ Young People Nondiscrimination in the Sex Offender Registry Act” literally deletes the most vulnerable population — children, from the list of potential victims of homosexual sex offenders. “Under the legislation, a 24-year-old grown man would be able to sodomize a 14-year-old boy and...

Two of Saudi Arabia's top members of the royal family have been arrested in an alleged coup attempt, according to multiple reports. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, brother of Saudi King Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the king’s nephew known as MBN, were taken into custody and accused of treason, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The details of the reported plot are unclear but the Journal's sources said that the alleged coup was to unseat King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. Both have been accused of treason. One...

Just when you may have thought that the low quality of political rhetoric in Washington could not get any worse, along comes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to prove otherwise. At a pro-choice demonstration outside the Supreme Court, which is considering a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, Schumer delivered what sounded to many ears like a physical threat to two of the court's conservative justices: "I want to tell you, (Neil) Gorsuch, I want to tell you, (Brett) Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price."...

“She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner" (Proverbs 7:11-12).

Four GOP-held Senate seats are currently being led by Democrats, with at least a four-point margin, according to new polls from Public Policy Polling (PPP). The polling found Sara Gideon with a four-point lead over incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) at 47-43 in the Maine Senate race and Mark Kelly leading Sen. Martha McSally (R-AR) 47-42 in the Arizona Senate race. In the poll conducted in Maine, Collins’ approval rating sits at 33 percent, with 57 percent of voters expressing disapproval of her job performance. In the Arizona poll, PPP found McSally to have a 37 percent job approval rating...

Washington, DC - On February 27, 2020, I attended a White House Roundtable discussion that included other black influencers and leaders.   The meeting concluded in prayer which I was honored to lead. Following this rare opportunity came the black leftists’ ad hominem attacks to bully or dictate black thought in America and dampen support for the president.  This is a hard task on both scores and they now know it.  This president has demonstrably changed the lives of all Americans with record low unemployment created by 6.7 million new jobs so far. President Trump resuscitated our HBCUs by approving multi-year...

DETROIT, MI -- Michigan’s Democratic primary election is about Bernie Sanders’ revolution versus Joe Biden’s establishment politics, the Vermont senator told supporters at a packed rally in Detroit. Introduced as the next president of the United States by firebrand first-term U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, Sanders told an animated crowd of roughly 6,000 that his fight against the wealthy and corrupt is in its most important stage. Sanders said Biden can’t inspire the support needed to take on President Donald Trump, criticizing the former vice president’s past support of the Iraq War, the North American Free Trade Agreement and various...

Migrants on the Turkish side of the border at the Pazarkule border crossing try to move forward as the Greek army fires water cannons at them. IMAGES

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 KJV What if the Marxists were to use their energy building this country up rather than tearing it down? What if all the Bernie Bros saw America as something good rather than evil? What would this country look like if they all worked together rather than tearing each other apart? What if they saw President Trump as the radical idea they are chasing and had positive energy...

Typically, when you walk into a Catholic Church there is a font for holy water. It's a sacramental, sacred sign meant to remind us of baptism. But one recent weekday, I dipped my hand into a familiar font in a prominent church in our nation's capital before morning Mass, and encountered it empty. Caffeine-less, I was confused. It was only later, when the sign of peace was skipped during Mass that I realized: coronavirus! What bothers me about this is not the empty holy-water fonts per se. What seems off is that the response of Christians and all religious believers...