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Over the last few months, the Louisiana coast has endured catastrophic damage from back-to-back hurricanes, first Laura and then more recently Delta. A path of widespread devastation was left in communities across the state, including Cameron Parish, which sustained a direct hit from both hurricanes. Remarkably, nobody was killed in Cameron Parish, but dozens of deceased family members are now missing.The powerful storm surge associated with Laura and Delta was strong enough to cause the water to move massive granite and marble slabs in cemeteries in the hard-hit state. Vaults that held caskets in place ended up popping up "like...

ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis says in a new film released on Wednesday that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws, in some of the clearest language he has used on the rights of gay people. “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it,” he says in the documentary “Francesco” by Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky. “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up...

In 2019, according to the Consumer Expenditure Survey published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans on average spent more on taxes than they did on food, clothing, health care and entertainment combined. Bottom line: Funding their local, state and federal governments cost Americans more on average last year (which was before the COVID-19 pandemic hit) than making sure their families were fed, clothed, had health care -- and could keep a dog or cat, buy toys for their kids, pay for cable TV and attend an occasional baseball game or movie. For each of the last seven years, the...

Facebook and Twitter's frantic attempts to stop the spread of the New York Post's Hunter Biden story didn't prevent the article from becoming the top story about the election on those platforms last week, according to data from NewsWhip. Why it matters: The data shows that even swift, aggressive content suppression may not be swift or aggressive enough to keep down a story with as much White House backing and partisan fuel as this one. By the numbers: The Post's story generated 2.59m interactions (likes, comments, shares) on Facebook and Twitter last week — more than double the next biggest...

Just as Democratic Party elites and Big Tech try to stamp out the Hunter Biden email story comes another angry demand: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. Chew on the chilling, delicious irony as Joe Biden tells us he wants to heal the nation while pundits of the left, backing Biden, seek tribunals. There’s nothing like punishing your opponents in the name of national healing, non? “When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” tweeted Robert Reich, the progressive former Labor Department secretary to former President Bill Clinton and adviser to President Barack Obama. “It would erase Trump’s...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Lambs, Sheep, and Shepherds. Exodus 5 God Promises Deliverance 22 Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? 23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.” New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Sometimes, when we experience setbacks, we may think that God isn't answering prayer. As we shall see, that is NOT what's going on at all! New International...

Charlamagne: "To answer your question more deeply, when it comes to black people you see who maybe are showing support for Trump. I think it’s because Trump is talking to young black male voters, he’s directing ads toward them. They are a group that never get courted. Black people don’t get courted as a whole but the old Democratic regime speaks to old black men and they think everybody else is going to fall in line. Black women are going to show up regardless. They speak to older black men and think the rest of us all speak the same...

Supporters of Joe Biden's campaign have made much of a letter signed by 50 former intelligence officials declaring that the Hunter Biden email story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation." However, the signatories, including former Obama officials who peddled the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion claim, admit they don't know whether or not the emails initially reported by the New York Post are authentic, and they have no evidence of Russian involvement. They base their case, instead, on four disputable points: that the Russians want Trump to win, it's consisent with the Russian tactic of hacking emails, the...

Adrian Rogers: A Nation in Crisis

Still smarting over his botched ceremonial pitch at the opening game between the Yankees and the Nationals, Dr. Anthony Fauci is open for a do-over at Citi Field, according to a report. WCBS 880 anchor Michael Wallace offered the nation’s top infectious diseases doctor the opportunity to try his hand on a mound again. “As you may know, we are the Mets station here in New York on WCBS, so my program director wanted me to let you know if you ever want to try a first pitch do-over at Citi Field, we could probably arrange that,” Wallace said.

The church is always in need of reform. Even in the New Testament, we see Jesus rebuking Peter, and we see Paul correcting the Corinthians. Since Christians are always sinners, the church will always need reform. The question for us, however, is when does the need become an absolute necessity? The great Reformers of the sixteenth century concluded that reform was urgent and necessary in their day. In pursuing reform for the church, they rejected two extremes. On the one hand, they rejected those who insisted that the church was essentially sound and needed no fundamental changes. On the other...

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows discusses the Hunter Biden email scandal and its impact on the presidential election. Video...

Here we go, folks. This election will determine whether we continue on as a free Republic with the Constitution and the rule of law preserving our republican form of government as established and continue guaranteeing our God-given Liberty or we go Venezuela. If we lose this election, the radical socialist-democrats will attempt to impose their globalist Green New Deal and carry out their plans to pack the courts and do what they wish as a godless one-party state with no constitutional constraints. Then (assuming they were to succeed in subduing we the people--we do have a prior and higher claim...

The Source for this is the CBS-You Gov poll, which can be found on the Real Clear Polotics avarage: Biden getting 78% of the Black vote. President Trump getting 13%! 6% not sure. Biden only getting 52% of the Hispanic vote!

That’s the title of The Spectator Oct. 20th article, which stated in part: Jeffrey Toobin is a man much wronged. On Monday, the New Yorker writer was suspended by the magazine for which he’s written for two decades, and took a leave of absence from CNN, where’s he served as a legal affairs analyst since 2002. What possible sin could he have committed that forced these pillars of the media establishment to sideline a bonafide star with the presidential election less than two weeks away and Team Joe Biden needing every hand on deck? Toobin masturbated during a Zoom video...

Organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement are suing Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey and her husband in connection to an incident in which the prosecutor's spouse pointed a gun at protesters picketing their home.

MADISON — University of Wisconsin-Madison students can pick up a quick $10 — if they agree to take a COVID-19 test. A source this week told Empower Wisconsin that some students were earning as much as $40 per COVID test, so we checked into it. Meredith McGlone, UW-Madison director of News and Media Relations, said the fee is $10 for off-campus students. “To ensure we’re understanding the prevalence of COVID-19 both on and off campus, our campus testing plan includes voluntary surveillance testing of students who live off-campus,” she said in an email. “Each week we offer testing to a...

On this date in 1865, two Republican generals, four colonels, and various other officers captured earlier in the month were executed on the authority of Mexico’s notorious Bando Negro — the “Black Decree.” Halfway into his ill-fated three-year reign as “Emperor,” Maximilian I was in a bad way against Mexican president-turned-guerrilla Benito Juarez. On October 3, 1865, he authorized summary execution for captured Republicans … and for anyone else who ran afoul of a nearby military official without having speedy proof of his or her political bona fides. All individuals forming a part of armed bands or bodies existing without...

Americans should be skeptical of a NBC News liberal moderating the final presidential debate after the network’s anti-Trump mud-slinging festival of a town hall it moderated last week. Donation records provide a glaring reason why. Earlier reporting showed that NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell personally gave at least $30,600 exclusively to Democrats this cycle while he was still Chairman of NBCU Film and Entertainment. FEC data showed that he had given the maximum FEC-allowed $2,800 to the failed presidential campaign of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) — now Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden’s running mate. This means that the overseer of...

LeBron James’ very public war of words with President Donald Trump has been a much-discussed topic over the past four years. It has involved the Los Angeles Lakers star referring to the President as a “bum” on social media, and featured multiple shots fired by the POTUS in James’ general direction regarding the NBA’s struggling TV ratings and him not being as good as Michael Jordan. This week, James sat down for an interview during which he discussed his beef with President Trump and where all parties involved go from here.