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The party of Donald Trump began almost 10 years ago to the day, when John McCain tapped Sarah Palin to join his ticket. “She’s not from these parts and she’s not from Washington, but when you get to know her, you’re going to be as impressed as I am,” McCain said when he announced his decision. “She’s got the grit, integrity, the good sense and fierce devotion to the common good that is exactly what we need in Washington today.” Even though McCain and Palin were bested by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Palin inspired a slew of copycats, unleashing...

I'm very happy, very happy today to spend my birthday with you and to make an historic announcement in Dayton, a city built on hard, honest work of good people. Like the entire industrial Midwest, Dayton has contributed much to the prosperity and progress of America. And now in these tough, changing times, after all you've done for our country, you want your government to understand what you're going through, to stand on your side and fight for you. And that's what I intend to do. That's why I'm running for president, to fight for you, to make government stand...

Full headline: STATS: Mollie Tibbetts’ death by an illegal alien was tragic but the really bad news is she’s far from the only one Heartbreaking: News this week that 20-year-old University of Iowa sophomore Mollie Tibbetts had her life prematurely ended by an illegal alien who appears to have been taken with her romantically is tragic and sad on so many levels, not the least of which was the fact that much of the nation tuned in daily to see if authorities had made any progress in locating her after she went missing a month ago. That she was eventually...

After an illegal alien was charged with the murder of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts, Angel Mom Sabine Durden asks, “how many more” Americans have to die at the hands of illegal aliens before the United States’ border is secured? On Tuesday, police officials revealed that Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in the rural area of Brooklyn, Iowa, where she was last seen jogging on July 18. Illegal alien Christian Bahena-Rivera, a 24-year-old from Mexico, has been charged with first-degree murder in her death after police say he admitted to confronting and chasing down Tibbetts. Durden, who lost...

I actually started this post a couple of weeks ago and today I am compelled to finish it. It's been grinding my insides for some time. Mollie Tibbets. Kate Steinle. Sarah Root. Three young American women, dead at the hands of illegal aliens. I am freaking sick of it. Mollie Tibbets: The suspect in the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts is a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been living in the area for up to seven years, officials revealed Tuesday.Cristhian Bahena Rivera was apprehended more than a month after the 20-year-old University of Iowa student disappeared, Rick Rahn,...

The New York Times announced this week that Sarah Jeong would be the newest member to their editorial board. Sarah Jeong went to The New York Times from The Verge.It wasn’t hard to discover that Sarah Jeong has a Twitter page littered with racist filth. #CancelWhitePeople— professional twiter name (@sarahjeong) November 18, 2014 In fact, her page is FILLED with racist white-hating filth.And Sarah just got hired to write for The New York Times! They aren’t even trying anymore to be civil and sane.Via GarbageHuman: Meet the newest member of the New York Times editorial board. I'd say that these...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded Thursday to Jim Acosta's attempts to interrupt by taking a shot at the CNN correspondent's comprehension abilities. Acosta asked during the daily press briefing about comments made the same day by Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the immigration situation at the southern U.S. border. "On these children that are being separated from their families as they come across the border, the attorney general earlier today said that somehow there's a justification for this in the Bible," Acosta started. "Where does it say in the Bible that it's moral to take children away...

Sarah Sanders @PressSec It’s pie time! With or without bourbon @AprilDRyan? #piegate Sarah Sanders @PressSec Thanks to @VP Chief of Staff @Nick_Ayers for supplying the pecans from his family farm in Georgia #piegate Sarah Sanders @PressSec Ingredients all mixed up and pies in the oven! @AprilDRyan let me know if you need further documentation #piegate Sarah Sanders @PressSec Excited to share these at tomorrow’s press potluck. Merry Christmas to the WH press corps!

Two male, liberal columnists this week launched personal attacks against White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. Los Angeles Times columnist David Horsey mocked Sanders’ appearance, saying she “looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids’ games.” “Rather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings, Sanders seems as if she’d be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes,” Horsey wrote on Wednesday. “Yet, even if Trump privately wishes he had a supermodel for a press secretary, he is lucky to have Sanders.” Another columnist, the New York Times’ Frank...

The letter with which Francis recently contradicted and humiliated Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the congregation for divine worship, is the latest proof of how this pope exercises his magisterium. When Francis wants to introduce innovations, he never does so in clear and distinct words. He prefers to open discussions, to set “processes” in motion, within which the innovations are gradually affirmed.The most glaring example is “Amoris Laetitia,” for which contrasting interpretations and applications are in fact given, with entire episcopates lining up on one or the other side.And when he is asked for clarification, he refuses. As in the...

A pair of Vatican heavyweights are clashing over Magnum Principium. Cardinals Reinhard Marx and Robert Sarah are in open disagreement over the impact Pope Francis' September motu proprio has on Vatican liturgical authority. A raft of amendments to the Code of Canon Law, allowing local bishops greater freedom to develop and adapt their own liturgical translations, Magnum Principium transfers power away from Rome to local bishops' conferences. Church liberals claim that it nullifies Pope St. John Paull II's 2001 instruction Liturgiam Authenticam, which demanded greater fidelity to the Latin original and authorized a more active, hands-on Vatican role in liturgical...

Pope Francis will fire Cardinal Robert Sarah, 72, the prefect of the Congregation for the Liturgy, in December. According to the blog Anonimi della Croce, one item on the agenda of the recent meeting of the Council of Cardinals was Sarah's replacement, "Practically all cardinals agreed", the blog writes, "Also because the order came from above, from Santa Marta, and all those obedient decided to decapitate him." Anonimi della Croce comments, "This is the style of Francis, the style of a Latin American dictator. As a good friend of Fidel Castro, he has as well learned these methods."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said the Justice Department "should certainly look at" prosecuting James Comey, the former FBI director, whom she accused of leaking "privileged information" and giving "false testimony" to Congress. "His actions were improper and likely could have been illegal," Sanders said ... *snip*Ben Wittes, a friend of Comey who is the editor-in-chief of Lawfare, a blog dedicated to national security issues, told Business Insider on Tuesday that "Jim Comey would not have mishandled classified information." "In a battle between Comey and the president over any matter of credibility, I would think the...

A senior Vatican cardinal has issued a rebuke of Fr. James Martin in the Wall Street Journal as the Jesuit priest continues his high-profile campaign against Church teaching on homosexuality. In an op-ed published August 31, Cardinal Robert Sarah describes Martin as “one of the most outspoken critics of the church’s message with regard to sexuality.” Cardinal Sarah serves as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Martin was appointed in April as a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. In June, he published the book Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church...

People once again need to rise up like the Vendée Catholics and Royalists, the cardinal addedModern Western advocates of abortion and population control in Africa are like the French revolutionaries who massacred the people of Vendée, Cardinal Robert Sarah has said.In a homily honouring the Vendée martyrs, published online by Famille Chrétienne, Cardinal Sarah praised the region and its inhabitants for resisting atheistic republicanism during the Revolution, but said that the Church and the traditional family still faced persecution.“Who will rise today for God?” the cardinal asked. “Who will dare to confront the modern persecutors of the Church? Who will...

Pope Francis: The Sound of Silence By Andrea Gagliarducci On 29 maggio 2017 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican The publication of Benedict XVI’s foreword to the German Edition of the latest book written by Cardinal Robert Sarah generated a turmoil that, in some ways, recalls what the climate was like during his pontificate.In the foreword, Benedict lauded Pope Francis’s choice to appoint Cardinal Sarah as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. This sentence by itself ignited a controversy without any reason.Benedict’s words were read as a political statement against Pope Francis. Cardinal Sarah is in fact considered...

Reading three news articles yesterday makes me think that someone is really “getting bent out of shape” and we are entering now a perilous phase of decline: those who don’t agree with the boss – off with their heads! An unprecedented populist degeneration in the life of the modern Church. I sincerely hope I’m wrong: I’m not just saying this, I really hope so. However we have signs that are anything but comforting. The crux of the matter, it seems to me, is once again the Pope’s non-response (a year has now gone by) to the five questions asked by...

In VaticanCrux StaffMay 19, 2017 AUTHORLeft: Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. (Credit: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi.) Right: Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. (Credit: Mtande (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)While the coordinator of the pope's 'C9' council of cardinal advisers has dismissed American Cardinal Raymond Burke as a 'disappointed man' upset with his loss of power, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has defended Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea as someone with whom the Church's liturgy is in "good hands."

Reduced to powerless isolation at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW) after Pope Bergoglio sacked all its members and replaced them with a passel of reliable liturgical progressives, Cardinal Robert Sarah has not refrained from commenting publicly on the disastrous impact of the Bergoglian agenda. The Cardinal does not identify its principal author, but at this point in the Bergoglian tumult anyone who is paying attention to the situation in the Church knows of whom he speaks. The world certainly knows, and it lavishes Pope Bergoglio with endless praise, including flattering magazine covers. Touching...

Fast forward to my 38th birthday. I was still single, and the world of dating had changed significantly in the last eight years. Tinder and Bumble, the dominant dating apps, offered countless options for single men and women, but made the experience of dating entirely impersonal. Dating amounted to small talk with a stranger, who you had briefly interfaced with online because you each thought the other attractive. The small talk was a prelude to hooking up, and there were no expectations even of a text the next day. It was brutal. And after trying my hand at it, I...