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The data sites can give you electoral odds on just about anything but I haven’t seen them gauge the probability yet that Bernie will be out of this race 48 hours from now. It can’t be much worse than 50/50.Let’s start with Mississippi and Missouri: Missouri Results:Biden – 62Sanders – 32Warren – 4Gabbard – 2Mississippi Results:Biden – 77Sanders – 22Gabbard – 1N: 348 MO, 340 MS, fielded 3/4 to 3/7 text to web https://t.co/xRhHbK9P98— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 9, 2020 ‘Nuff said. Ed already wrote about how Washington state looks surprisingly close, which should’t be the case if...

A baby girl was found dead on a pile of toilet paper inside a restroom stall at a Pasadena park Thursday night, authorities said. Police got a call that there was a "lifeless infant" in a stall of the women’s restroom at Pasadena Memorial Park on 85 E. Holly Street around 10 p.m., the Pasadena Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find the dead newborn, who police said appeared to be full term. The child had no signs of visible trauma and the L.A. County coroner's office is working to determine whether she was stillborn or...

'We are likely to see the lowest oil prices of the past 20 years in the next quarter,' says analyst ==================================================================== Saudi Arabia has announced it will slash its official selling prices for crude by between $4 and $8 per barrel, Arab News reports, to be in effect from April when the current production cuts expire. The biggest discounts were offered to buyers in northwestern Europe and the United States. The announcement pressured already severely hurt benchmarks after the failed meeting of OPEC+ on Friday when Russia refused to take part in further cuts that would have reduced global oil...

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is busy peddling lies and making wild recommendations.  She believes that Trump should cancel all his rallies because by not doing so "he is willing to place even his most ardent supporters at risk." She backs up her claim by stating that "we're supposed to stay six feet away from other persons in order to mitigate the exchange of those viruses." Say what? I thought perhaps I'd missed something.  Maybe I lost more than an hour with Daylight Savings Time.  Did the Coronavirus Task Force announce this six-foot rule for everyone? Apparently not. Now, just to clarify, six feet is a...

DRY RIDGE, Ky. — A Northern Kentucky woman faces several charges, accused of concealing the birth of her newborn child and hiding its remains in a plastic bag under a pile of laundry. Pamela Davis, 24, faces charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing the birth of an infant. According to a court summons, authorities were called to Davis' Grant County home on Vallandingham Drive on Feb. 17, where Davis had been bleeding for hours. Davis was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, where doctors told investigators she either recently gave birth or was raped....

As you may have heard, our nation's most successful social program is in a bit of a bind. Every year since 1982, the Social Security program has generated a net cash surplus. By bringing in more revenue than is paid out in benefits each year, the program has been able to build up a $2.9 trillion reserve. However, according to the 2019 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees, the program is about to hit an unwanted inflection point. You see, more than a half-dozen ongoing demographic changes are expected to result in Social Security expending more than it...

Zaya Wade, whose parents recently said she identifies as transgender, made her first red carpet appearance at the sixth annual Truth Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday night. The 12-year-old was...

Is Planet Earth warming, cooling, or staying the same? I often challenge advocates for climate alarmism: what is the temperature of the planet today? Or we can use any specific day in recent years for which data are available. We cannot know the temperature of the planet thousands or millions of years ago if we cannot even measure it today. Yes, the question is one single temperature of the entire planet. Not the temperature in Nome, Alaska or Dallas, Texas, or Sydney, Australia or in your home town. One single temperature reading for the entire globe. To put it that...

President Trump hinted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could face consequences for his controversial remarks on two conservative Supreme Court justices.... "I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," the New York Democrat said. Cryin’ Chuck Schumer said, “You will pay the price for this. You won’t know what HIT YOU.” That is far beyond simple rhetoric. That is a physical threat, or at least a threat that you better vote...

A DC priest who shook the hands of 500 worshipers during communion has announced he’s contracted coronavirus. “BREAKING: A D.C. priest has Coronavirus. He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshipers last week and on February 24th,” tweeted ABC7’s Sam Sweeney. “All worshipers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine. Church is cancelled for the first time since the 1800’s.”

Dublin has cancelled its annual St Patrick's Day parade amid fears about the spread of coronavirus, Irish broadcaster RTÉ has reported. Earlier on Monday, Cork moved to cancel its parade, the second largest in the country attracting up to 50,000 people. The city council said public welfare was paramount and cancellation was the correct decision. Irish Health Minister Simon Harris has said the coronavirus situation is very serious. He said it was going to require not just a whole of government approach, but a whole of society approach.

Every so often, during political debates, you will hear people talk about the importance of a proper reading of The Constitution of the United States. The argument is that if you allow people to revise the meaning of the original Framers of the Constitution through a modern revisionist approach, the nation will be led to embrace whatever the cultural winds of the day desires.In seminary, I had faithful professors who taught me proper methods of hermeneutics—the science of biblical interpretation. It’s essential to read the Bible through a proper lens, otherwise you will end up twisting the meaning of the...

BOSTON - The first recreational marijuana shop opened Monday in Boston, where owners are bracing for large crowds. Pure Oasis owners Kobie Evans and Kevin Hart say they’re preparing for up to 1,000 customers a day to visit the store, which is also the first pot shop owned and operated by black entrepreneurs, in its initial days. Evans and Hart say their shop marks a significant step forward for the East Coast’s pot industry. “It’s bittersweet. It’s a great feeling to be first, but we know that also comes with a level of responsibility,” Hart told The Associated Press last...

Remember when Joe Biden bragged about how he coerced Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor by threatening that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from them. While this type of interference in a foreign government by the then-Vice President of the United States is highly inappropriate in itself, what makes it even worse is that the prosecutor he got fired was probing a firm for which his son Hunter Biden worked. It was a huge money laundering. Joe Biden is corrupt and weak so he is a top candidate for the Dems. They will easily...

Dallas Cowboys representatives and the agent for quarterback Dak Prescott have reportedly spoken twice since the end of the 2019 season, per the Dallas Morning News. It could be a promising sign for negotiations, as the two sides hadn’t spoken since September. The team offered Prescott, 26, a deal with $105 million guaranteed and worth an average of $33 million per season, according to the Dallas Morning News. The two sides were also close to a deal in September, according to reports, that would have paid Prescott approximately $33 million per season. But the two-time Pro Bowl selection reportedly upped...

Posted on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Jesus Does Not Forbid Correcting the Sinner Many of the psalms and proverbs of ancient Israel are in the form of poetry. In ancient Jewish poetry, however, the rhyme is not in the sound; it is in the thought. Consider a couple of examples from the psalms and note how each couplet consists of a thought in the first line followed by the same idea stated in a slightly different way in the line that follows:Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?The kings of...

The head of the Port Authority — who has been visiting local airports and other transit facilities — has the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo said Monday. PA Executive Director Rick Cotton tested positive for the deadly bug and is now quarantined, the governor told reporters.

The big news over the weekend was not the coronavirus, contrary to what you might think from watching the news. The most consequential story of the weekend is the oil price war that has broken out between Saudi Arabia and Russia. Saudi Arabia has decided to increase its production and slash its price to punish Russia for not going along with OPEC quotas designed to prop up the price of oil, which has fallen by more than half over the last few months including today’s price collapse. (Can’t help reminding that all the certified “smart people” like John Kerry and...

First, the background… On Super Tuesday the biggest shock was that Joe Biden won Texas in the Democrat presidential primary. Specifically, it was the moment when results from Dallas County, Texas, were reported when the media narrative of a Biden win began to be broadcast. Go back to election night, re-watch the coverage, and you’ll see all media broadcasting pointing to Dallas County, Texas, as the Biden inflection point. Now this: Sketchy as heck. These are not Russians; these are U.S. election officials. TEXAS – Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole discovered her office did not count about 10% of...

Vimeo censors my interview, in which Catherine Austin Fitts and I discuss coronavirus and vaccines Vimeo also removed another Fitts interview with a distinguished attorney, on the subject of mandated vaccines They're meddling with you, and deciding for you . To boil it down: a video was posted, then it was censored. Removed. Deleted. By Vimeo. On March 4. Bang. Why? Because you're not supposed to know what was discussed in the video. It might give you a wrong idea. You might infer something you shouldn't. You can't handle making up your own mind. You have to feed at the...