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The Michigan secretary of state misprinted the Trump line on ballots intended to be mailed to troops serving overseas, the Detroit News reported. Jocelyn Benson, who has endorsed President Trump’s rival, Joe Biden, and spoke at the recent Democratic National Convention (DNC), made the apparent error. The ballot listed Jeremy Cohen as Trump’s running mate. Cohen is running for vice president on the libertarian ticket with Jo Jorgensen. The name of the incumbent vice president, Mike Pence, was omitted altogether. Jorgensen’s line lacked a running mate, thus creating three errors on the ballot. Over 400 incorrect ballots were downloaded from the secretary’s...

Are you ready to wear a pair of safety goggles with your face mask? Dr. Anthony Fauci says that eye protection may be recommended at some point to help prevent spreading COVID-19.

Win or may lose in November, there is one thing for which people will forever praise President Trump: Just when it counted, at the moment of crisis with all on the line, he threw his body into the line of incoming fire — and prevented Hillary Clinton from becoming president. Deserving of thanks also is President Barack Obama, who in the 2008 primary defeated Clinton and kept her out of office through his two terms until Trump could step up to the job. The importance of what these people did becomes more impressive when one recalls that the plot to...

Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, has claimed that voting will make "this pandemic go away." Not only is this a spurious and obviously false claim, but Twitter censors have allowed the missive from the Democrats to stand thus far unchallenged. At the same time, Twitter flags funny memes tweeted by Trump as problematic. Misinformation like this is exactly why Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and his platform have created so many policies to combat factual errors, especially when they come from an "expert" source such as the potentially ascendant first lady. Yet, here it is. The...

The eventual COVID-19 vaccine is primed to create a legal showdown for many employers. According to a summer Gallup poll, 35% of Americans would not get a free, FDA-approved vaccine if it were available today. This places companies in a predicament. How can they protect their employees if more than one-third are unwilling to take the vaccine? The default rule in the American workplace—excluding employers in Montana and Puerto Rico—is to observe at-will employment, which generally means employees can be terminated for any reason if it’s not illegal or prohibited by employment contracts or collective bargaining agreements, says Alissa Kranza,...

On Sept 18, 1589, a magistrate and deputy governor in Trier, a city embroiled in a witch-burning campaign, was himself delivered that fate. The winds of the Reformation swirled mercilessly at that time, and Dietrich Flade sat on the bench charged with maintaining order in Trier. Flade held a Doctorate of Civil and of the Canon Law, and he was well-connected in the magisterial Germany of the day. He just happened to be alive at the wrong time. George Lincoln Burr provides an extensive account of Flade’s ill-fated time on the bench, including this foreboding look: But the storm that...

On February 26, 2018, Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza launched the Black Futures Fund, which discloses on its donations page that “Black Futures Lab is a fiscally sponsored project of the Chinese Progressive Association”. The CPA, active in areas such as San Francisco and Boston, has long and deep ties to Chinese Maoist activity in the United States. Cofounder and board chair emeritus Pam Tau Lee was active during her student days at Cal State Hayward and Berkeley with the I Wor Kuen, a Chinese Maoist counterpart of the Black Panthers which merged with the Red Guard Party, a...

A Texas man was sentenced in a Tennessee federal court on Wednesday after he admitted to threatening the head of a record label, records show. Eric Swarbrick, 28, must spend 30 months behind bars in connection to threatening letters, in which he also wrote that he wanted to rape and kill pop star Taylor Swift. “Too often, we have seen the consequences of ignoring signs of escalating violent behavior by some individuals,” U.S. Attorney Don Cochran said when charges were first filed in September 2018. “The attention given to this matter by our law enforcement partners and the resulting federal...

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The Minneapolis City Council had a meeting with MPD chief, Medaria Arradondo, where council members complained about rising crime and the lack of police response in the community.

Two weeks ago, Princeton University’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, issued a letter to the Princeton community in which he admitted that the institution he has run for seven years is plagued by “systemic racism.” This is quite an admission for a number of reasons. Yesterday, the Department sent its own letter to Eisgruber. The letter informs him that the Department is opening an investigation into racism at Princeton — an investigation that could have important adverse financial consequences for the University. The letter includes probing requests for information. And it informs Eisgruber that he will be called on to answer questions,...

by Samantha Foster Yesterday, as we reported, Joe Biden spent the day in his Delaware basement -- nursing his bruised ego after his "Despacito" blunder at a "Hispanic Outreach" event in Florida. Instead Joe sent his wife Jill to campaign, in New Hampshire, and it didn't go any better for her. Democrats held a "car parade" for Jill Biden...and perhaps 4 cars even showed up! It was a huge embarrassment... Well over in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump supporters decided to hold a REAL car parade for their president. And the turnout was spectacular...THOUSANDS of cars filled the highways for several...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2020 / 04:01 pm MT (CNA).- A man has been charged after he decapitated a statue of Christ in El Paso, while the NYPD is looking for a man who threw a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe into the sidewalk outside a church in Brooklyn. Isaiah Cantrell, 30, has been charged with criminal mischief and possession of marijuana after being arrested. Cantrell walked into St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso Sept. 15 and proceeded to smash the nearly 90-year-old statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that was displayed behind the altar. Mass was...

The public elementary and secondary schools in the District of Columbia spent $30,115 per pupil during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Table 236.75 in the Department of Education's "Digest of Education Statistics." But only 23% of the eighth graders in the D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department's National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests.

Jvari Monastery is one of the great jewels of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Built in the 6th century near the ancient capital of Mtskheta, its Church of the Holy Cross is a rare case of an early medieval Georgian church that has survived nearly unchanged till today. The monastery is listed as UNESCO World Heritage site together with other historic structures in Mtskheta. The ancient monastery is currently undergoing major repairs, thanks in part to the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi. The embassy announced yesterday that the Jvari Monastery preservation project was selected by the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP)....

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Seek to “root out racist thinking and practices"The California bishops met Wednesday African American Catholic leaders to begin a year-long initiative meant better to understand and combat racism. The Sept. 9 meeting occurred on the feast of St. Peter Claver, which numerous U.S. dioceses and Catholic organizations observed as a day of fasting and prayer to end racism. The bishops said they were “meeting with African American Catholic leaders to begin a journey aimed at converting our hearts to more fully understand the extent and nature of the sin of racism in ourselves, our Church and our nation.” “This journey...

Pro-Gay Francis: “Church Loves Practicing Homosexuals" The Church does “not exclude” [practicing] homosexuals, Francis said at the end of his September 16 General Audience while meeting forty members of Tenda di Gionata, an organisation of pro-homosex parents of homosexual children.Italian media reported that Francis lied at them by claiming that “the Church loves your children as they are because they are children of God."The group gave Francis the book Fortunate Fathers about homosexuals who attack the Church, and a gay-propaganda T-Shirt with the slogan, “In love there is no fear” (1 John 4,18). Francis smiled when receiving the shirt.However: In...

Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday he understands why he might not be the most popular guy at President Donald Trump’s rallies. “Look, we’re making tough decisions. We understand that this is a tough time," DeWine, a Republican, said after he was asked at his Thursday coronavirus briefing why he thought some in the crowd at Wednesday’s Trump campaign event in Zanesville booed him when Vice President Mike Pence mentioned his name. “We have some people who are unemployed. We have people who don’t want to wear a mask. And a lot of different things. I’m going to keep focusing on...