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UK bishops double down: COVID vaccine derived from aborted baby can be used in ‘good conscience’ MANCHESTER, England, September 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The bishops of England and Wales have walked back their controversial July statement declaring Catholics “have a prima facie duty to be vaccinated.” In a September 24 statement, the bishops now say it is a matter of individual conscience, while at the same time defending Catholics who choose to take a vaccine derived from an aborted baby as acting in “good conscience.” However, this position appears at odds with recent statements by several high-ranking prelates and lay...

The FBI lawyer who is under criminal investigation for allegedly falsifying a document related to the surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser expressed negative opinions of President Trump in messages to colleagues. Kevin Clinesmith, who once was part of special counsel Robert Mueller's team, has been identified as the attorney who could face a criminal charge as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's expansive criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia inquiry, according to the New York Times. As part of the Justice Department watchdog's now-completed investigation into alleged surveillance abuses, Clinesmith was found to have altered an email...

“Looking back on my solo travel days (in the early 1990s), I was really lucky and very naive,” she writes. “I gave entirely too much information about myself to complete strangers. … I was way too trusting and not plugged into my surroundings.” Times have changed, she writes. “Back then I didn’t feel I had to be switched on, with my radar scanning at all times, when I was by myself. However, it’s no longer an option NOT to take proactive measures to keep yourself safe.” Producing the 2006 documentary “Terror in American Schools: Are Your Kids Safe?” prompted her...

The virus, and fear, took over the U.S. on Nov. 8, and this is how we ended up with Donald Trump as president-elect.The only photograph I have with James Alan McPherson is from the beginning of the Obama era; it turned out to be far more symbolic than I could have imagined. In the picture, Jim’s students flank him, a fairly mixed group of mostly smiling faces: three white women, two black men, a black woman, a Korean-American man, a white man. The lone white man in the workshop was named Roman, and his arm is crisscrossed with mine behind...

"... Who knows what could have happened to you? On that note, I take you back 22 ½ years … wow it’s really been that long … to the L.A. Rodney King riots. Let me refresh you with this clip of the white truck driver, Reginald Denny, who somewhere that was not safe for white people to be. ..." "... who happens to be something of an expert in self-defense. Here’s what he wrote in regard to what happened in Minneapolis: He wrote: 'one word of advice … if they block your car and threaten your family and life …...

In a discussion on freerepublic.com   about the Navy Yard active shooter situation, MacMattico posted this response about how the children in his daughter's school responded to an active shooter exercise: First week of school, my daughter's entire school was put on “lockdown”. They couldn't leave their classes and doors (including classroom doors) were locked. Some idiot had called in a “threat” is all we have been told. The boys started speaking up first, telling the teacher “if we hear gun shots we're not sitting here” and the teacher repeated they were suppose to stay seated until the “lockdown” was...

(IsraelNN.com) More than 100 people took part in a rally Thursday evening calling on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reject a "two-state solution". More such events are slated, here and in the United States, as Netanyahu is leaving for his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday. The demonstration, which took place across from the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, was called to Daniella Weiss said the coming Netanyahu-Obama meeting is "fateful". Encourage Netanyhau to reject American pressure to agree to a new Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Among the dozens of demonstrators were Knesset...

...On Monday on the left-wing DailyKos (as pointed out by the blog American Thinker (which apparently monitors that citadel of leftish chat so we don't have to) had the following entry from one of its readers: "I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed. But still, the guy [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] speaks some blunt truths about the Bush administration that make me swoon... "Okay, I admit it. Part of it is that he just looks cuddly. Possibly cuddly enough to turn me straight. I think he kind of looks like Kermit the Frog. Sort of. With smaller...

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an undercover sting operation yesterday that will take away the cabs of drivers who refuse to pick up minority passengers. His decision came less than a week after the actor Danny Glover complained that several New York taxi drivers had refused to pick him up because he is black. The operation, also aimed at cabbies who refuse to take passengers to places they want to go, usually minority neighborhoods, is to begin tomorrow at 7 a.m. with 150 police officers and taxi inspectors. ''We are perfectly entitled to do this,'' Mr. Giuliani said at a...

What principle does Rocklin Rep. John Doolittle say he'll "fight to the death" to defend? Political self-preservation. He's one of the influential California congressmen more interested in incumbency than in the public good of redistricting reform. But the reform's goal is more effective government, not the protection of parties or incumbents -- something not all congressmen understand, apparently. Doolittle, like fellow Republican David Dreier of San Dimas, opposes Gov. Schwarzenegger's plans to change how the state draws political districts. They worry it might cost the state as many as four Republican seats in Congress, and not coincidentally, make their own...

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... WHY ALLIED FORCES FIGHT ON IN IRAQ..... March 23, 2003: While the inane "peace" protests continue (e.g., "Honk, if you're against killing babies in Iraq!"), more evidence continues to trickle through the media-created "war is folly" fog, reinforcing why Allied fighting forces are making the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq. First off, various  news reports continue to filter out of southern Iraq, confirming that U.S. forces have stumbled upon what they believe to be a "huge" chemical weapons factory near the Iraqi city of Najaf. So much for the continuing Euro assertion that a stand-up guy like Saddam...