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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Department of Labor issued its December jobs statement:  “The December jobs statement contains some positive news, yet these gains threaten to slip away because of the Trump Shutdown.  A staggering 800,000 hard-working Americans are at risk of losing their paychecks, because the President insists on senselessly holding the American people hostage to his unpopular, ineffective, immoral and expensive border wall.

Seventy-one days have elapsed since the largest offshore oil spill in United States' history. And despite the efforts of wildlife protection agencies to save the animals affected by the sticky, noxious oil and the dispersants being used to hasten the clean-up, in many ways things keep getting worse. My heart sank when I learned that BP is now using "controlled burns" to facilitate the clean-up. Last week's reports from the Gulf described how shrimp boats make "corrals" of oil, by dragging fire-resistant booms across the water to form enclosed "burn boxes." These are set on fire. If the fire is...

Woe to you Pharisees, because you LOVE the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. Luke 11:43 Could the leftists be craven enough to cause the Global Horizon disaster? Does their moral relativism reach deep enough to destroy the Gulf to stop drilling and pass Cap and Tax and nationalize the oil industry? Would they sabotage an oil well in the middle of the Gulf to change public opinion enough to promote their multi-Trillion $$ scheme? Sadly the answers to all of those questions appear to be yes. After 911 most of us Conservatives were amazed...