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On Page 3 of the Ukraine transcript President Trump ALSO asked the Ukraine govt. for a COPY of the DNC server that Crowdstrike, the DemocRAT'S internet company, had sent there! That could blow the DemocRAT party WIDE OPEN!

RUSH: Now, let me tell you one other thing about CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike, when I saw that word in the transcript with the call between Trump and the president of Ukraine, just to remind you, CrowdStrike, private sector security firm that the Democrats hired to analyze their server that they claim was hacked. They didn’t let the FBI examine the server. And can you imagine the FBI said, “Okay”? You ever had the FBI come to your house and want to search and you say, “No, you can’t come in,” and they say, “Oh, okay,” and leave? Well, they showed up...

I examine Surah XXVI of the Koran. I explore Mohammed's misunderstanding of Exodus, and confused understanding of grace.

Pope Francis Doesn’t Understand Islam “Is the pope Catholic?” used to be a punch line. Now, sometimes, you almost have to wonder. Of course, I’m not suggesting that Pope Francis is a secret apostate or a Masonic agent. It’s just that he seems dissatisfied with certain Church teachings.What apparently rankles him most are Catholic claims to exclusivity. For example, the belief that all men are saved through Christ can be looked upon as an impediment to interreligious harmony. Francis, for whom interreligious harmony is a top priority, seems to see it that way. Many of his statements seem to suggest...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is among four people named Wednesday as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel." Thunberg is being recognized "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts," the prize foundation said. Advertisement It added that the 16-year-old, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, "personifies the notion that everyone has the power to create change. Her example has inspired and empowered people from all walks of life to demand political action." Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honors efforts that the...

Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on September 17. Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the Congress that he was being blocked from turning over a whistleblower complaint. This was a direct order from the Administration. On Constitution Day. This is a violation of law. Shortly thereafter, press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. The facts are these: The Intelligence Community Inspector...

From the album Edith Piaf Sings Again. Enjoy.

This is not a time for sunshine patriots or submissive consumers of fakenews. When you catch a journalist in flagrant bias, blow the whistle. Call the editor. Make a stink. Don’t sit back and take it

The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian Forest Archaeologists have dug up sake bottles and delicate rice bowls. BY REINA GATTUSO SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 AT FIRST, IT DIDN’T LOOK like much: a clearing about an hour’s walk into the dense forest of British Columbia’s Seymour Valley, with some rusted cans scattered among the dank leaves and moldy tree trunks. It was 2004, and Bob Muckle, an archaeologist and anthropology instructor at Capilano University, was looking for a site to teach his students excavation. When a forester told him about the household artifacts locals had found in the clearing,...

President Trump expresses his anger at journalists: "You're all crooked as hell!" Twitter video link: Twitter

Appearing Wednesday at The Atlantic’s annual ideas festival, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) described the newly-released transcript of a conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as “troubling.” MCKAY COPPINS: The White House just released the call summary between President Trump and the president of Ukraine. What was your reaction? You’ve read it, I assume. SEN. MITT ROMNEY: I have. My reaction was the same as I had a view days ago, which is this remains deeply troubling and we’ll see where it leads. The first reaction is troubling. COPPINS: In the summary that we saw, did that...

OPINION Evidence that Ukraine intervened to tilt the election in favor of its national interests Politico reported that the Ukrainian Government worked to aid Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. The actions taken by government officials included disseminating “documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.” Those documents implicated Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who worked as an adviser for now-ousted Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych. However, the concerns that the...

Speaking during a one-on-one United Nations General Assembly meeting with President Trump Wednesday afternoon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was not pushed to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter. "I don't want to be involved in the election of USA. I think we had a good phone call. It was normal and we spoke about many things," Zelensky said. "You read it [the call transcript]. Nobody pushed." As a reminder, this is what was said during a call the two leaders had in July. "There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped...

There’s a lot of talk about an ‘Illinois exodus.’ We took a closer look at the reality behind the chatter. During that time, the gap between the number of people leaving the state and those arriving has widened. Those losses were formerly offset by gains from international migration and births, but these numbers have also decreased recently. As a result, the overall state population began to fall in 2014. The latest number puts Illinois 49th out of the nation’s 50 states on net migration loss. Only Alaska had a worse rate, with a loss of 11 people per 1,000 residents....

Critics of President Trump are being accused of moving the goalposts following Wednesday’s release of the transcript of a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that does not show Trump dangling American military aid in return for a Ukrainian probe of Joe Biden. In pressing forward with a formal impeachment inquiry, Democrats claimed Trump had frozen $400 million in aid to Ukraine to pressure officials into pursuing a Biden investigation. Democratic lawmakers and liberal pundits urged Trump to release the transcript of his controversial call, and he obliged with a CIA-drafted memorandum of the conversation. The document does not show...

Melania Trump has a distinct sartorial sensibility — with a wardrobe full of chic dresses and soaring stilettos. While listening to husband President Donald Trump speak yesterday at the U.N. General Assembly, Melania stuck with a combo that’s worked for her before: a coat dress and heels. The coat dress was a cream-colored, wool-crepe piece from Gucci’s pre-fall ’19 collection. The coat has a notched collar, four zip-up pockets and a logoed belt. It’s available for purchase on Net-a-Porter.com for $3,980. For footwear, Melania went with silver pointed-toe pumps. The shoes featured a slim stiletto heel and a textured upper.

The White House has released the transcript of Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. What it reveals is damning, but only for former Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the establishment media. Instead of being some threatening phone call where the U.S. president holds aid or other threats over the head of the Ukrainians, the call actually displays Trump’s commitment to one of his key 2016 campaign pledges: draining the swamp.

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Bishop Joseph E. Strickland - "Strickland breaks silence on McCarrick" Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, wouldn’t label himself as “bold.” [snip] “Honestly, I guess I’m bold enough to just say what I think,” he said. Even “if it gets me in trouble — sometimes it does — I’m going to be true to what I believe. It really saddens me to be considered bold for simply reading the Catechism out loud.” “When I was ordained a bishop almost seven years ago, I said I’d guard the deposit of Faith entire and incorrupt,” Bishop Strickland said. “That’s what...

By Tuesday evening after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump, the Trump campaign raised $1 million as donors pledged their financial support for the president. The calls for impeachment had come amid allegations that Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure it to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. As Pelosi announced details about the inquiry, the president took to Twitter, calling the inquiry “presidential harassment,” and a “total witch hunt.” They never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt! — Donald...