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'Still investigating churchgoers?' ... The FBI of the days when it pursued and captured criminals and protected American citizens apparently is gone. In recent years it has been documented to have colluded with Democrats to make up stories about President Donald Trump to try to hurt him. It has interfered in an election by telling media corporations to suppress accurate, but damaging, information about Joe Biden. ... Then it suggested traditional Catholics were domestic terrorists. And threatened pro-life protesters trying to keep unborn babies from harm. And more ... So when it released an innocuous holiday greeting just days ago,...

I am not in favor of any kind of armed rebellion in America’s streets. I think such a rebellion would cause terrible things to happen everywhere. This said, as an observer of the public mood I can say with little hesitation that the ingredients for an ugly storming of government buildings are all swirling around and it has thus far been only by the Grace of God that they have not connected and turned into a bitter and furious conflagration. As a people, we the ones who pay the bills and are now on a collision course with history. We...

The members of the Uniparty, both Democrat and Republican, no longer feel it is necessary to pretend there are two political Parties in our country. They have no qualms about acknowledging the truth: There is only one Party, the Uniparty which is aligned against us, the American people. The Uniparty continually works against us in its effort to rule every aspect of our lives. New evidence of how pervasive the Uniparty is has just come from the plains of Kansas. If “Fly over country” had a capital state it would probably be Kansas. The Sunflower State has been among the...

Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 18-24. Each ratings point represents 1,096,000 households. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses. 1. Auto Racing: Nextel Cup (Sunday, 1:29 p.m.), TNT, 4.7, 5.13 million homes. 2. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.4, 3.76 million homes. 3. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 3.3, 3.64 million homes. 4. "Monk" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.9, 3.21 million homes. 5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.8, 3.02 million homes. 6. "Real World XVI" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.),...

October 07, 2004 Drive-Thru Diplomacy Gregory A. Borse HERE’s the slippery thing about credibility. You can earn it in one of two ways: you can prove that you are trustworthy by following through on instructions that you have been given. Or, you can earn trust by following through on what you say you are going to do. In the Vice-Presidential debate, it became clear which side each campaign is on in terms of credibility. The Kerry-Edwards ticket, via the “global test” for the use of military force in defense of U.S. interests, is clearly interested in establishing credibility via the...