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INDIANAPOLIS -- No running up the score this week. Against the Colts, the New England Patriots had to struggle just to survive.

NEW ORLEANS – Of course. Could it have been any other way? When Adam Vinatieri lined up for a 48-yard field goal, seven seconds remained in a most remarkable game on a most remarkable night. Despite the odds, despite the opposition, was there any team other than the one wearing red, white and blue, the team called the Patriots, for goodness sakes, that would triumph in the first post-Sept. 11 Super Bowl? Of course not. Moments earlier, the Rams had thrust their dagger, scoring the game-tying touchdown, and the first overtime in Super Bowl history beckoned. But the Patriots, truly...

New England Patriots players, coaches, team executives and football staff received their Super Bowl LIII championship rings on Thursday night at a private party at owner Robert Kraft's residence -- an event that brought former players and coaches back together for one final celebration.

The sweet taste of the tears of liberal butthurt, appetizer course

Do the Democrats who talk about impeaching President Donald Trump know that we are in a shooting war in which the enemy has attacked our homeland causing significant property damage and civilian deaths? Those who want to remove our Commander in Chief are saying they don't appreciate the efforts of thousands of brave American men and women who are willing to risk "trading all of their tomorrows so we can have today." There is an ancient proverb that says "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". By treating President Trump as their enemy, Congressional Democrats are implying they are...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has remained firm in her opposition to seeking President Donald Trump’s impeachment, but she’s walked a careful rhetorical line — at times channeling the left’s anger to accuse Trump of crimes worthy of impeachment, at others urging her most hot-blooded colleagues to slow down and wait for more facts. POLITICO has collected Pelosi’s shifting rhetoric on impeachment over time, beginning just before special counsel Robert Mueller finished compiling damning evidence that Trump may have obstructed justice. Her evolving language has accompanied a slow succession of Democrats who have embraced impeachment proceedings despite her opposition.

**SNIP** Nadler’s comments at the Tuesday meeting were his clearest remarks to date on the possibility of compelling Mueller’s attendance at a public hearing. The committee is still negotiating with Mueller, who, according to Nadler, is thus far only willing to answer lawmakers’ questions in private — a nonstarter for most House Democrats. The sources cautioned that the committee has not settled on a timetable for a potential subpoena to Mueller. Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted the meeting, and four other committee chairs were in attendance. On Wednesday, Nadler told reporters that he was “confident” Mueller will appear before his panel,...

President Trump might famously be obsessed with the size of his hands, but it was his large foot size that nearly caused an international incident. Shinsuke Sugiyama, Japan’s ambassador to the United States, spilled a little bit of behind-the-scenes tea from Trump’s recent visit to Japan during his remarks on Wednesday at the National Gallery of Art’s press preview of its new show, “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art.” Sugiyama described the president and first lady’s attendance at a sumo match last month, and said the couple seemed very interested in the traditional event. But the president’s presence posed...

FROM LIFE SITE NEWS: David Haas, 61, is known by Catholics throughout the English-speaking world for such hymns as “Blessed are They,” “You Are Mine,” and “Servant Song.” Jesuit-run America Magazine has called Haas “one of the most prolific and significant liturgical composers of the post-Vatican II English-speaking church.” On Monday, June 3, Haas announced on social media that he had written a refrain to celebrate “Pride Month.” His post included an image with rainbow colors with the word “pride” written across in bold white letters. In a now-deleted post on Facebook that was captured by LifeSiteNews, the composer wrote:...

"Thank you Serbian Chetniks and Serbian villagers from the bottom of our hearts. We are forever indebted to you."Aleksandra's Note: The above photograph and tribute were posted by Teresa Guidry, daughter of Halyard Mission veteran Staff Sgt. Curtis "Bud" Diles, Jr. of the U.S.A.F. Curtis Diles was one of the "Forgotten 500" who was rescued by General Draza Mihailovich and his Chetniks in the later days of 1944. As a result of his being rescued and returning home safely to live out the rest of his beautiful life before passing on September 10, 2014, 70 years later, 27 people walk...

Mark Hemingway at Real Clear Investigations recently wrote a solid piece about the “data problem” with getting clean voter rolls and eradicating voter fraud. He’s right, there is a data problem. And a management problem. And a competence problem. After all, government runs elections and government is pretty famously awful in all of those categories. But those are manifestations of a deeper problem that is going to dog the country in 2020 and almost assuredly beyond. One of our two major parties opposes any attempts to enforce voting laws and block illegal voting, and has even begun making overt attempts...

New York IB Credit Risk team to Plano, TX including interns who just accepted offers for the New York office." Another source inside the bank tells us that they have heard this around the office, meaning that a bunch of NYC i-bankers are about to learn how to live large in Dallas, And it makes sense that Jamie is shifting some mid-level i-bank jobs to The Lone Star State considering that JPM made a tax incentive deal with the local government to build the Plano campus. That agreement involved creating a certain number of jobs created with a median salary...

I have often said that said that if ultrasound pictures of the unborn had been available in 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision would have been quite different. It is hard to talk about “lumps of tissue” and “collections of cells” when one can actually see a leg kicking, a hand reaching, a mouth sucking. Or listening to a heartbeat. Since then four decades of medical advances have changed the meaning of the word “viable” when applied to the unborn. They should also have changed the meaning of the word “human”. Consider the case of the world’s tiniest baby born...

AUSTIN, TX. (10TV WBNS) -- A GoFundMe campaign started in December by the non-profit group We Build the Wall, Inc. has accumulated more than $22.9 million toward the construction of a section of the border wall. One of its biggest donors is Benton Stevens, a 7-year-old from Austin, Texas. "I saw that (President Donald Trump) really wanted to build the wall,” Stevens told KOAT. He raised $22,000 by selling hot chocolate, but his goal is $50,000. He says he now will be doing lemonade since it's nearly summer. But, the funding and construction of this section of the border wall...

Seeking to gain a foothold in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes to sew up the young criminal vote by releasing more of them “on their own recognizance” while their cases are pending. “In so many of these cases, the accused youths cannot make bail,” de Blasio observed. “I thought, why not use the same catch-and-release approach that has worked so well for asylum seekers and let them go free as long as they promise to show up for trial. We will save the government the cost of housing these individuals and...

A court filing Thursday revealed that Flynn had notified his attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony that he is “terminating” them as his counsel and has already hired new lawyers to replace them. (Reuters) – Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has dismissed the legal team that represented him in his dealings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and retained new counsel, according to a court filing on Thursday. The move to dismiss lawyers Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony of Covington & Burling LLP comes ahead of Flynn’s sentencing, which was postponed in December after the judge in...

VIDEO Beto O'Rourke's campaign has fizzled to such an extent that he even had to play to an apparent town hall audience of ONE. The good news for Beto is that ol' PJ can get him a larger audience than has been appearing at his campaign events recently if he campaigns in Broward County, Florida. The venue would be Wings Plus in Coral Springs and my compensation for this would be an exclusive interview and a plate of wings.

Saw it in Townhall. This time I'll give. First class guy stepping up to the plate a second time. The voters know him better and the seat just could be more winnable.

I am troubled by this administration's almost obsessive embrace of Saudi Arabia. I am even more troubled by conservative media's failure to challenge that embrace. Most conservative media outlets state the following narrative regarding Saudi Arabia: "Saudi Arabia is no longer our enemy. It has become our ally. Thanks to President Trump's hard resolve to fight radical Islamic terrorism, King Salman has appointed his son, MbS, to institute widespread reforms, prosecute pro-terrorist elements, and consolidate an 'Arab NATO' alliance that is intended to contain terrorism and its sponsors in Iran and Turkey. Those who oppose Saudi Arabia now are useful...

From Aesop at Raconteur Report If there aren't indictments, trials, and convictions over what's gone on, I can tell you what I do have faith will happen: there's going to be war. Not a tantrum, or a disturbance, or a riot, or even some low-intensity nonsense. From Thoughts from Frank and Fern, about uncivil war If we want to know how this will all turn out, just watch our country's leaders. From Francis Porretto at Liberty's Torch The demotion of children from an economic asset to a luxury good forces them to compete with other luxury goods, and children have...