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A large, prominent evangelical Capitol Hill church late Tuesday filed a legal challenge to the District, alleging the city government is violating the First Amendment by facilitating and tolerating massive anti-racism protests but forbidding worship services — indoor or outdoor — of more than 100 because of covid-19. The complaint filed by the 850-member Capitol Hill Baptist Church is the first legal challenge by a religious organization to the capital’s coronavirus restrictions. There have been two others in the region — one in Virginia and one in Maryland — since quarantine measures began, and final decisions are pending in both....

Jim's Wife, Sheila, is in need of all our prayers. She has not been doing very well and has gotten very weak. She eats very little. Jim has nurses coming in 3 times a week and senior helpers coming in every morning. Senior helpers help with cooking, cleaning and anything else where help is needed. In adition to chcking her vitals, they make sure she takes her medication and they give her bed baths. John and Chris are working around the clock to make sure she is turned every two hours. Marissa helps as much as possible Please join...

Political Polls @SurveyMonkey Poll (RV, 9/1-21): IOWA Trump 51% (+5) Biden 46% TEXAS Trump 50% (+3) Biden 47% NEVADA Trump 49% (+2) Biden 47% ARIZONA Trump 49% Biden 49% NEW MEXICO Biden 50% (+2) Trump 48%

The confirmation battle to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat could be apocalyptic. Here's the strategy behind some of the president's top contenders. President Donald Trump will make his third nomination to the Supreme Court on Saturday. The initial plan was to make the nomination very quickly following the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last Friday, but it has been delayed so that the country may properly mourn the justice known for her support of liberal social causes. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton 27 years ago. A reliable vote for the left block of the court, she was...

Police in Moscow, Idaho, arrested three people Wednesday for violating social distancing rules as their church sang hymns and Bible psalms outdoors — an event held, in part, to protest the city mayor’s mask mandate, which runs to January 2021. Officers arrested Gabriel Rench, Rachel Bohnet, and Sean Bohnet, according to Moscow Report, a local independent news outlet. A video uploaded to social media shows Bohnet, a local music teacher, and his wife telling officers they refused to comply with an inaudible order. Moscow Report says the apparent infraction is that they refused to show identification. Footage of the couple’s...

A priest in Crete was sentenced to 9 months in prison with a 3-year suspension last Friday for inciting disobedience against the National Public Health Organization’s directive on the mandatory use of face masks, which includes the use of masks in all closed spaces and schools. The incident with the 47-year-old priest occurred last Monday, September 14, during the blessing ceremony of a local kindergarten. Video shows the priest emphatically telling parents that “they will destroy their children” if they send them to school in masks, and criticized them for not holding a rally in protest of masks, reports Keep...

Police are searching for a man who broke into a Catholic church in Florida on Friday and tried to burn it down. The church’s pastor in a Sept. 20 video urged prayers for the man and thanked God that the church survived the attack. Surveillance video shows a young man, shirtless and wearing a surgical mask and white gloves, breaking into the church and pouring a jug of clear liquid on several of the wooden pews before setting them alight. He fled as the flames erupted, apparently without stealing anything. The incident happened around 10:36pm Sept. 18 at Incarnation Catholic...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, University of California Regent Richard Blum, has been named by the state auditor’s office as one of the regents involved in an admissions scandal where UC wrongly admitted dozens of students as favors to well-connected people. California auditor: UC schools wrongly admitted 64 wealthy students as ‘favors’ over past 6 years In one case, a regent unidentified in the report sent an inappropriate letter on behalf of a student with only a 26% chance of getting in. The applicant was admitted. Auditor’s spokeswoman Margarita Fernandez confirmed to The Associated Press that Blum was the regent. Blum...

The Pac-12 is joining the rest of the Power Five for fall football. A week after the Big Ten reversed course on postponing the 2020 season because of the coronavirus, the Pac-12 is following suit, the conference announced Thursday. Teams with “necessary state and local health approvals” are set begin a seven-game season on Nov. 6 after voting to play. The conference’s schedule will be released “in the coming days” and no fans will be allowed at games taking place on campuses. The Pac-12 championship game will be played Dec. 18, and the conference says teams will be eligible to...

FBI analysts working on the Michael Flynn Russia investigation originally planned to end the inquiry in fall 2016 and eventually bought liability insurance fearing they could be sued after their bosses continued to keep the investigation open based on "conspiracy theories," explosive new text messages showed Thursday. "We all went and purchased professional liability insurance," one analyst texted on Jan. 10, 2017, just 10 days before Trump took office. "Holy crap," a colleague responded. "All the analysts too?" "Yep," the first analyst said. "All the folks at the Agency as well." "Can I ask who are the most likely litigators?"...

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Bill Clinton reportedly invited Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of procuring underage girls for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to a “cozy” dinner in 2014. The dinner, first reported by the Daily Beast, allegedly took place in Los Angeles and was also defined by one source as “intimate.” Clinton’s advance team, according to the report, secured seating for Maxwell and her now rumored husband, tech CEO Scott Borgerson. More troubling – Clinton’s team was aware of Epstein’s transgressions, having been convicted of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18 in 2008. Similarly, one of Epstein’s alleged survivors, Virginia Roberts...

Auction held at home of late priest who lived like a prince Aug 31, 2020 In this June 1, 2017 file photo, the Rev. Jonathan Wehrle appears in court for a preliminary hearing over embezzlement allegations at the 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. An auction is underway near Lansing at the mansion of Wehrle, a Catholic priest who was accused of embezzling millions of dollars before he died while awaiting trial. There are nearly 1,000 items for sale Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020 including about 100 pieces of furniture from the six-bedroom home. WILLIAMSTON, MI — An auction was held...

Tucker Carlson doing segment on women in Ohio

In this video you’ll learn the new political correctness rules. What it takes to be politically correct has changed drastically. If you want to avoid offending the weak and getting canceled, these rules will help you stay in good standing with the PC police. This message is approved by social justice warriors everywhere.

BREAKING: The primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible “national security threat” + the subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe. According to new records, those facts were known to Crossfire Hurricane team in December 2016

AUSTIN, Texas (KETK) - A Gregg County Commissioner and others have been arrested and charged with voting violations. Authorities arrested Gregg County Commissioner Shannon Brown, Marlena Jackson, Charlie Burns, and DeWayne Ward on charges in connection with an organized vote harvesting scheme during the 2018 Democratic primary election.

Breaking: Top Vatican cardinal resigns, relinquishes rights as cardinal The Vatican released a terse statement that gave no indication why Becciu resigned. The Vatican released a terse statement that gave no indication why Becciu resigned. VATICAN CITY, September 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― A cardinal closely associated with the Theodore McCarrick scandal has resigned from his post and given up his rights as a cardinal.  According to a tersely worded note from the Vatican released minutes ago, “the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu from his role as the Prefect of the Congregation of the Cause of...

Sports games were cancelled because police officers shot Jacob Blake... Athletes were really upset... Grand jury decision on Breonna Taylor shooting was announced yesterday... Again, many athletes are upset... I was expecting cancellation of sports games... However, I have not heard of any... Lakers are playing tonight...Lebron sounded unhappy about the grand jury decision? WNBA is playing tonight... Semifinals... MLB is playing... Why there is no boycott this time by athletes? I am surprised that WNBA is playing tonight...I thought the female basketball players felt strongly about the case involving a black woman...

Trump rally in Jacksonville, Florida is on now.