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More and more, the modern entertainment culture is pushing abortions on women as a normal, acceptable solution to any problems or fears they may be facing. Pregnant to a guy who is irresponsible? Have an abortion. Worried about parenting a baby while finishing school? Have an abortion. Want to travel the world or advance in your career? Have an abortion. Worried about all the uncertainties and difficulties of raising a child with special needs? Have a “compassionate” abortion. Movies, TV shows, women’s magazines, celebrities and politicians are peddling this message, trying to push out of people’s minds the violent final...

Democratic senate candidate Raphael Warnock refused to say during a debate Sunday whether he supports “court packing,” or adding seats to the Supreme Court. “As I move all across the state … people aren’t asking me about the courts and whether we should expand the courts,” Warnock said at the debate against Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican. “I know that’s an interesting question for people inside the beltway to discuss, but they are wondering when in the world they are going to get some COVID-19 relief,” added Warnock, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Asked again by a...

It is impossible to have watched the election-related hearings in Arizona, Michigan, and Georgia, as well as to have read the signed affidavits in the lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and Sidney Powell in those three states, without concluding that there was massive election fraud last month. Thirty-six members of the House Freedom Caucus want Attorney General William Barr to release the findings of the Justice Department’s investigation into vote fraud (the one in which apparently none of the hundreds of people who signed the aforementioned affidavits were interviewed), as reported by The Daily Signal. Meanwhile, here is the...

Sen. Kelly Loeffler criticized her Democrat opponent for using the Bible to justify the killing of unborn babies in abortions Sunday during a Georgia election debate. The pro-life Republican senator is facing a high-stakes race against Raphael Warnock in January. The two runoff races in Georgia will determine if Republicans maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate. During the debate Sunday hosted by the Atlanta Press Club, Loeffler slammed Warnock, a pastor, as a “radical liberal” who supports abortion on demand, ABC News reports. “I’m not going to stand by and let Georgians not know who my opponent is, how...

House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are moving forward with plans to end the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to pay for the killing of unborn babies in elective abortions. The decades-old amendment prohibits federal tax dollars from being used for abortions in Medicaid. Since the late 1970s, the Hyde Amendment has had strong bipartisan support from Congress and the American people. Pro-life leaders estimate it has saved about 2.4 million babies’ lives. Four years ago, however, Democrat Party leaders abandoned Americans’ priorities in favor of those of the abortion industry and adopted a platform calling for taxpayer-funded abortion...

Pollster Patrick Basham explained during an interview with Fox News’s Mark Levin why he believes Joe Biden’s supposed election victory, while “not statistically impossible,” is “statistically implausible.” Basham said during the interview that aired Sunday that he looked at numerous “non-polling metrics,” which have a “100 percent accuracy rate in terms of predicting the winner of the presidential election,” to come to his conclusion. “Something very strange has happened because the numbers just don’t add up,” he said referring to the election results. Some of the “dozen or more” metrics include “party registration trends, how the candidates did in their...

On this date in 1683 the English politician and philosopher Algernon Sidney (or Sydney) was beheaded to uphold (so he conceived it) “the common rights of mankind, the laws of this land, and the true Protestant religion, against corrupt principles, arbitrary power, and Popery.” He was one of the 17th century’s great philosophers of republicanism, and his Discourses Concerning Government was more influential in his lifetime than the work of his contemporary (and fellow-Whig*) John Locke. Although the pen might be mightier than the sword, Sydney himself did not eschew the more literal form of combat and entered a triumphant...

State police raided the home of a former Department of Health data scientist who is accusing Florida officials of wrongfully firing her for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 statistics. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement served the search warrant at Rebekah Jones’ Tallahassee home Monday morning in connection with an investigation into who hacked the state’s internal notification system with a message urging state employees to come forward with information about Florida’s handling of the pandemic. The alert read: “It’s time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a...

Many families took one look at their school district’s remote or hybrid learning offerings this fall and said “no, thank you.” That’s the message gleaned from national and state-specific data on the surging number of homeschooled students this academic year. Prior to the pandemic and related school closures last spring, there were just under two million homeschoolers in the U.S., representing about 3.4 percent of the total K-12 school-age population. According to recent polling by Education Week, that percentage has more than doubled to nine percent this fall, or nearly five million homeschoolers. This estimate mirrors related polling from...

Joe Biden says he will name radical abortion activist Xavier Becerra as his Health and Human Services Secretary should he defeat President Donald Trump in the presidential election. Becerra is more than just an ardent supporter of abortion — he is actively trying to put David Daldein and Sandra Merritt in prison for exposing the Planned Parenthood abortion businesses sale of body parts from aborted babies. Though Becerra, like Biden, claims to be Catholic, his record involving the lives of unborn babies and those who work to protect them is terrible. Currently, Becerra is prosecuting David Daleiden, the Center for...

WASHINGTON — From tackling climate change in "Laudato Si'" to inclusively building a more just and peaceful world without war and "globalized indifference" in "Fratelli Tutti," "Pope Francis is the prophet we've been waiting for on all these issues," R. Scott Appleby said Dec. 3 in an online program. Appleby is a history professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding dean of the university's Keough School of Global Affairs. "Here's a body of thought that he represents, and It's all about solidarity, really," he said during the program sponsored by Georgetown University's Berkeley Center for Religion,...

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In Japan, the number of electric vehicles on the road is expected to rise to 55 percent by 2030 The world is gradually embracing green energy for hybrid electric vehicles, with the active support of Pope Francis and inspired by his path-breaking encyclical Laudato si’. Japan, a leader in the electric car market, is mulling a ban on sales of new gasoline-engine cars by the mid-2030s, public broadcaster NHK announced on Dec. 3. A significant decision for one of the world’s largest carmaking economies, aligning the East Asian island nation with other governments distancing themselves from fossil fuel vehicles. It...

President Trump delivered what he called possibly “the most important speech” he had ever made last week. If you don’t know that, you can be forgiven. It’s not your fault. You see, the speech was an update on voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election, and the mainstream media doesn’t want to cover that. They certainly didn’t air the 46-minute speech in full, and if you went back after the fact to read about it, you would find out that it was “filled with lies” (New York Times), “baseless” (USA Today and The Washington Post), and “falsehood-filled” (FactCheck.org). That’s...

NEW ORLEANS, LA – With his recent win, City Council President Jason Williams will become the new District Attorney for Orleans Parish. Williams won 58 percent of the vote over former judge and one-time interim District Attorney Keva Landrum. Louisiana politics: "Jason Williams wins New Orleans DA's race even with tax fraud trial looming"https://t.co/UfqWSEElrR — Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) December 7, 2020 However, Fox 8 Live reported that soon after Williams says the oath, he could face a federal jury on 11 counts of tax fraud. Reportedly, he was federally indicted back in June. Williams said: “I’m a fighter. I’m willing...

ISLAMABAD - A car bomb attack wounded at least 35 people, including women and children, in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province early Monday. Provincial officials said the attack near the headquarters of Daman district police was carried out using a Mazda mini truck. The bombing damaged parts of the building along with several nearby houses. Fifteen civilians became victims of the attack along with several police officers, operatives of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency the National Directorate of Security, and the district police chief, Abdul Wadoud. Shadi Khan, the chief of the district, said local officials were in a meeting inside when the bomb...

President-elect Joe Biden has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former commander of US Central Command, to be his secretary of defense, two sources familiar with the decision told CNN on Monday.If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would be the first Black man to lead the Department of Defense.A few hours before the pick was reported House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, said that he believed another candidate, Michele Flournoy, is "hands down" the most qualified person for the job.Austin, the source says, "knows the Pentagon inside and out" and would be "an...

Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel recently posted a tweet indicating that her adopted son was so triggered after hearing “Merry Christmas,” he nearly broke out in tears. “Let me begin by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Remember the word? Remember we started five years ago and I said “You’re going to be saying Christmas again,” and we say it proudly again although they’ll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary. We’re not going to let them do that,” she wrote in her first since-deleted tweet. Nessel made it clear that President Trump’s support of...

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Under the state’s current plan, California is carved up into five regions: Southern California, San Joaquin Valley, San Fransisco Bay Area, Northern California and Greater Sacramento. But three of the 11 counties that are part of Southern California — Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo — want to exit that region and form a new one: Central Coast. Officials in the tri-county area announced they would submit that request with the state, provided ICU capacity exceeds 15% in the next three weeks, according to a news release from Ventura County. Officials in the tri-county area announced they would submit...