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When is this rabid proselytizing for Islam in the public schools going to stop? There are no trips to shuls, Hindu temples or churches. There is no place for religion in public schools, let alone Islam, a comprehensive supremacist system that is religious, legal, dietary, political, social, cultural and military. It’s not like other religions.Parents should be free to opt out of these propagandist trips without penalty. Council Cracks Down on ‘Islamophobia’ After Parents Withdraw Children from School Mosque Trips A council in Britain is taking action to crack down on “Islamophobia” in response to some parents refusing to send...

Yutaka Yanagisawa, the owner of a Tokyo burger joint, said his restaurant has been inundated with hungry customers who want to eat the same cheeseburger that President Trump had during his visit to Japan last week.One diner, pastry chef Haruyuki Sano, said he agrees with Trump's ideology of putting one's own country first, and traveled an hour and a half to have the same 100 percent U.S. Angus beef Colby Jack Cheeseburger that Trump ordered. “It tasted great, like steak,” Sano told an Associated Press reporter at Munch’s Burger Shack on Thursday.The meal, deemed the "President Trump set," is a...

Republican House and Senate investigators on Wednesday launched their effort to secure evidence from federal agencies about an Obama-era Russian corruption case as lawmakers prepare to interview a former undercover informant who helped the FBI chronicle bribery, kickbacks and money laundering inside Moscow's nuclear industry. In letters to the FBI, Justice Department, Treasury Department and intelligence agencies, the congressional investigators demanded to know whether the evidence the FBI gathered starting in 2009 against figures inside Rosatom was circulated to government agencies before the Obama administration made a series of favorable decisions between 2010 and 2012 benefitting the Russian nuclear firm....

Wednesday afternoon, the Judge Roy Moore Campaign for U.S. Senate released the statements of twelve women they say have come forward as character witnesses for Roy Moore. You can read their statements below:Jennie Klingenbeck Birmingham, AL (previously Gadsden, Alabama) “I have known Roy Moore for about forty years. Roy and I briefly dated when I was in my twenties. While I was around Roy, either just the two of us or with other people, he was always a true gentleman treating me with respect and courtesy. I can honestly say that I never have seen or heard any inappropriate remarks or behaviors while...

The Trump administration reinstated a de facto catch-and-release policy for illegal immigrants nabbed crossing the border in Texas, with Border Patrol agents being told Wednesday not to even bother turning them over for speedy deportation because there was no bed space, a top agent said. The problem, said Brandon Judd, an agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council, is that illegal immigration has surged once again after dipping during the early months of President Trump’s tenure. That has left the deportation agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, struggling to find beds to hold the illegal immigrants. As a...

On Wednesday, the Alabama GOP and an attorney for senatorial candidate Roy Moore held a press conference to stand by their candidate and tried to discredit the sexual misconduct allegations Moore was facing. The only accusation of sexual impropriety they chose to focus on was that of Beverly Young Nelson and her infamous lawyer, Gloria Allred. The fact that the Allred’s reputation was that of a dubious attention seeker spooked the panel on MSNBC’s MTP Daily because it could taint other credible accusations, and not just those against Moore. “Look, they want to focus on Gloria Allred’s accuser. Which, politically...

Fox News’ Shepard Smith drew applause from liberal media outlets Tuesday in a “fact check” marred with mispronunciations and misrepresentations.Smith, one of Fox’s top liberals and who frequently opposes the network’s narratives, spoke at length on his show Shepard Smith Reports after Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated the idea of a special counsel to investigate recent revelations surrounding the 2010 partial sale of Canadian firm Uranium One to Russian energy giant Rosatom. The sale was approved by the Obama administration as it included the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russian giant. In laying out the widely...

Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred refused to deny that her client’s “Roy Moore” signature in her high school yearbook is NOT a fabrication. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer grilled Allred on the matter Wednesday.“Well, all I’m saying is, we will permit an independent examiner of the writing…We will allow all of this to be asked and answered at the hearing,” Allred said.“But that’s not a flat denial, Gloria,” Blitzer said.“Well, all I’m saying is, we’re not denying, we’re not admitting, we’re not addressing,” Allred said. “We will not be distracted.”Blitzer asked why Allred needed a Senate hearing and would not just permit an...

A Farmington [New Mexico] man was sentenced to six months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to claiming to be a combat veteran who earned medals and ribbons, including a Purple Heart and being a felon in possession of firearms. Anthony Gambino, 45, was sentenced Thursday in Albuquerque federal court and will have three years of supervised release after completing his prison term, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.He was indicted on May 25, 2016, with charges of making false representations about receiving military medals and decorations along with being a felon in possession of...

No problem. Pope Francis can just step out of his luxurious apartments, embrace the Islamic State jihadis, kiss their feet, and explain to them that authentic Islam and the proper understanding of the Qur’an reject every form of violence. Then they’ll share a hearty laugh over their former misunderstanding of Islam, and all will be well.“ISIS’ Christmas threat to the Pope: Terror group threaten vehicle and gun attack on the Vatican,” by Chris Kitching, Mirror, November 14, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The terror group ISIS has made a chilling threat against the Vatican just weeks before tens...

Richard Cordray, an Obama appointee and head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced to staff in an email Wednesday his plans to resign. While he’s yet to confirm his plans, there’s speculation Cordray will return home to run for Ohio’s governorship. The CFPB functions as, “a regulator set up in response to the 2008 financial crisis to police mortgages, credit cards and other financial products,” and was the brainchild of Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren. Unlike other agencies, due to the unique circumstanced through which the CFPB was created (was part of Dodd-Frank in 2010), Cordray answered to...

A Georgia Chick-fil-A restaurant is pleading with the public for information concerning the theft of one of their catering vans. And in return, Chick-fil-A is offering something chicken sandwich enthusiasts can get behind – free Chick-fil-A for a year. But first, you have to solve the case. The chain said the crime was committed Sunday around 9:45 p.m. at the parking lot of a Chick-fil-A in Cartersville at Cherokee Place, according to their Facebook page detailing the event.

For the first time in Danish history, a citizen born in Denmark has had his citizenship revoked after being convicted of being a member of the Islamic State terror group.Danish-born Muslim Enes Ciftci, 25, who is also a citizen of Turkey, was found guilty of supporting the terror group and sentenced to six years in prison and expulsion. The court found that Ciftci had expressed support for terrorist attacks committed by the group and had actively tried to raise funding for them, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation reports. The case is the first time a Danish citizen born in the country has had their...

Shortly before last year’s election, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote an email on his official government account stating that the Hillary Clinton email probe had been given “special” status, according to documents released Wednesday. McCabe’s Oct. 23, 2016, email to press officials in the FBI said the probe was under the control of a small group of high-ranking people at the FBI’s headquarters in Washington. “As I now know the decision was made to investigate it at HQ with a small team,” McCabe wrote in the email. He said he had no input when the Clinton email investigation started...

As more cases of sexual harassment in the Capitol come to light — intensifying concerns over how such allegations are handled — the state Senate on Sunday night announced an extraordinary change in protocol: It will no longer police itself. The Senate Rules Committee will stop handling complaints of sexual harassment — including pending cases — effective immediately, its members said. Instead, the committee, together with the Senate Democratic Women’s Caucus, will hire an outside legal team to conduct investigations and recommend discipline. “This process will be designed to protect the privacy of victims and whistleblowers, transparency for the public,...

In her first detailed account of alleged harassment at the Oregon Capitol, state Sen. Sara Gelser says a fellow legislator touched her breasts and placed his hand on her thigh under a dais. And she says as many as 15 other women have also accused Sen. Jeff Kruse of unwanted touching. Gelser, who has previously accused Kruse, R-Roseburg, of sexual misconduct filed a formal complaint on Wednesday.Kruse has already been relieved of his committee assignments and had the door removed from his Senate office. Now Gelser is asking for his expulsion from the Senate.Gelser said she felt compelled to make a formal complaint, which...

Thomas Cavaness, a campaign organizer in 2012, says he was a young, recently out gay man when now State Rep. Paul Rosenthal, D-Denver, grabbed his inner thigh during a campaign event hosted by LGBT and community allies. Rosenthal denies the allegations, telling The Denver Post, "He's lying."Cavaness isn't surprised by that response."I hate being called a liar, but very rarely do sexual predators when faced with accusations do they admit to their crimes," Cavaness tells Colorado Politics. "I feel numb, I feel nervous, but in a way, I also feel proud that I have been able to come forward and...

The top military leader of the Army on Wednesday stood by the service of transgender soldiers after one received a waiver for gender reassignment surgery, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing debate over whether such troops should be allowed to serve. “We all, everyone in uniform, we took an oath; we took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters at the Defense Writers Group in response to a question from The Hill. “And embedded within that Constitution is an idea, and it’s an idea that says you and I, no matter whether...

Fox News host Sean Hannity said it “doesn’t matter what the media says” and that he has received answers from GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, after issuing an ultimatum yesterday that Moore must respond to the inconsistencies in his defense regarding mounting sexual misconduct allegations within 24 hours, or rescind his candidacy.“I'm not making excuses, I don't know the full truth here,” Hannity said on his radio show Wednesday. “I don't know. Anyway, without giving away details, I have gotten an answer from the Roy Moore campaign on the questions that I had.” “At the end of the day my...

Embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s lawyer on Wednesday fired back at one of the women accusing Moore of sexual abuse, telling reporters that she is lying.In accusing Moore of trying to sexually assault her in 1977 when she was 16, Beverly Young Nelson this week offered a key piece of physical evidence — a yearbook that Moore purportedly signed at the restaurant where she worked.(video at link)The yearbook seemed to establish that Moore and Nelson knew each other during the time period when the alleged assault occurred. But attorney Phillip Jauregui told reporters in Birmingham on Wednesday that...