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[Catholic Caucus] Francis Reportedly Attempting To Modify Conclave Rules Before He PassesRumors are becoming more and more insistent that Bergoglio is about to modify the apostolic constitution that regulates the conduct of the conclave, removing the two-thirds quorum established as mandatory by John Paul II for the election of the new pontiff to be valid.The proposal would be to set the quorum at 50 +1 of the cardinal electors. News that has been denied by the sacred palaces but that today is relaunched in an interview with the newspaper Il Tempo by Luigi Bisignani, a former journalist considered very well-connected...

Who Could Be the Next Pope? -- Parolin: Fake Moderate, Sincere ProgressiveCardinal Parolin, the Secretary of State, is considered very hostile to the Traditional Mass (playing on the nickname, “the Mass of All Time,” he is quoted as saying, “We must put an end to this Mass for all time!” At this time, when Rome is more or less preparing for a conclave, his friends are doing everything to sell, as the communicators say, an image of Parolin as a “moderate”, “man of consensus.” Pietro Parolin, who is said to be considering the name of John XXIV, would be in...

A Wales man has been arrested again for allegedly trying to hook up jumper cables to steal electricity from a Central Maine Power pole and transformer. Nicholas Gagne, 36, initially was arrested in January at his 237 Oak Hill Road home after he was accused by Central Maine Power officials of repeatedly climbing a power pole outside his house to connect “what amounted to jumper cable clamps” to the transformer and running a power line to his house. On Thursday morning, Gagne was arrested again near his home at 237 Oak Hill Road after state police Trooper Tyler Plourde, acting...

On January 16 The New York Times reported the lies NASA keeps telling about global warming with an article titled “2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics.” We have reached the point where neither a famed government agency nor a famed daily newspaper can be believed simply because both are lying to advance the greatest hoax of the modern era. Remember that 2014 started off with something called a “polar vortex” to describe the incredibly cold weather being experienced and remember, too, that we were being told that it was evidence of global warming! That’s how stupid the “Warmists”...

Detroit's Under-Funded Fire Departments Use a Soda Can For a Fire Alarm Where absent money leaves gaps, ingenuity fills in. Nowhere is that more true than in Detroit's fire departments, where, as Detroit Free Press reporter Tresa Baldas shows us, a soda can full of jangling coins and screws alerts the Motor City's long-suffering heroes when there's an emergency. The system is brilliantly simple: A soda can full of rattling metal is balanced on top of the fire department's printer at the end of the tray. When the printer spits out an emergency alert, the paper knocks over the can....

<p>President Bush took office promising to restore the "power and legitimate authority of the Oval Office." To that end, the White House has taken controversial steps to claim executive privilege for Enron-related documents from his energy task force, clashed with Rep. Dan Burton, a fellow Republican, in refusing to turn over files on an old FBI scandal in Boston, and ended the American Bar Association's special role in vetting judicial nominees.</p>