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Adam Schiff has pursued Donald Trump with a religious fervor.  He desperately want Trump out of office and will resort to just about anything to that end. Of late he is conducting secret impeachment proceedings, having failed to produce his mysterious Russian collusion evidence. In his zeal he has made a gigantic error- his “whistleblowers.” #1- Eric Ciaramella registered democratContacted Schiff’s office firstHad whistleblower forms changed just for himworked for John Brennanworked with Alexandra Chalupa, who sought and obtained 2016 Ukranian election in interferenceworked for Joe Bidenleft post at NSC under cloud of leakingauthored the “Putin told Trump to fire Comey”...

Posted on November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope To Make a Long Story Short—A Homily for the 31st Sunday of the Year The Gospel today features the endearing story of Zacchaeus, a man who climbs a tree because he is too short to see Jesus. By climbing this tree (of the cross), he encounters Jesus and is changed.The danger with familiar stories is that because they are familiar, it is easy to miss their remarkable qualities. Let’s look at today’s Gospel with fresh eyes, searching for the symbolic in the ordinary details.Shortsighted Sinner – Zacchaeus is...

With an impeachment investigation into the president officially underway now, is there any hope Congress will get anything else done? Some in Washington don’t have much hope for a productive Congress. As Washington goes headfirst into impeachment, where does that leave other issues Americans care about? “We’re looking at a very ineffective Congress that will not be passing much of anything,” said Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Howell said with Congress mired in the back and forth of impeachment, it’s unlikely any legislation of substance will move. “Even before impeachment, the prospects for any legislation were pretty low,” he...

Democratic primary voters increasingly feel the need to nominate a candidate who can beat President Trump in 2020, and more think Joe Biden can do that than any of the other top Democratic hopefuls. In addition, while most Democratic primary voters are satisfied with their field, more than a quarter wish they had other options, according to a new Fox News Poll. Biden leads the nomination race with the backing of 31 percent of Democratic primary voters, followed by Elizabeth Warren at 21 percent, Bernie Sanders at 19 percent, and Pete Buttigieg at 7 percent. In early October, Biden was...

The organization refers to cross-sex hormones as “hormone care,” just as Planned Parenthood refers to abortion as “abortion care.”......“Everyone deserves to express their true identity,” said Laura McQuade, president and CEO of PPNYC, in a statement. “Transgender people are no different.”....She added that, by including the service of cross-sex hormones, PPNYC is contributing to “building a world free of hate and unnecessary barriers to vital care.” However, in the UK, Charlotte Evans, a woman who “transitioned” to male but then “detransitioned” after ten years, told Sky News in October that “hundreds” of young adults who considered themselves trans are now...

Donald John Trump loved New York City. After 30 years, he is leaving. He will miss the view of Central Park from his penthouse. He saved Manhattan in the 1980s when it was a "Taxi Driver" hellhole. Other developers had fled. The city was dying. He acquired the Commodore Hotel, a rat-infested roach motel, and transformed it into the Grand Hyatt New York. He took on a skating rink boondoggle in Central Park, and completed it early and under budget. But now hounded by the political successors of the politicians whose hides he saved, President Donald John Trump is moving...

And Hannah prayed and said: My heart rejoices in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation. No one is holy like the Lord, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, And those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who were full have hired themselves...

But the highlight of the entire forum: when the moderator asked billionaire Tom Steyer, point blank, how people of color can trust "another rich, white man in the oval office." "You are a billionaire. How do you relate to people in this room and can minorities trust another rich, white man in the oval office?" the moderator asked. It was obvious Steyer was caught off guard by the question.

In his book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Colonel Chris Hadfield recalls a NASA training exercise called a "death sim”. Luckily, so far no astronauts have died while working on the International Space Station (ISS) with all space-related fatalities happening during launch or landing. But as traveling through space becomes commonplace and we head out on three-month trips to colonise Mars, death in space becomes inevitable. [M]ortician Caitlin Doughty...reckons there are three options for dealing with a space corpse … “On the International Space Station, astronauts keep trash and food waste in the coldest part of the station,”...

The media's Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached a fever pitch as journalists call President Trump a liar for claiming that ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "whimpering" and "screaming" as U.S. forces closed in on him. The New York Times seemingly interviewed everyone with knowledge about the raid, but they cannot confirm the terrorist was in fact "whimpering and crying and screaming" before his death. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham responded to the Times report in an email by asking, “Is it not possible to just celebrate that a terrorist, murderer and rapist has been killed?” CNN anchor Brian...

Sylvia Galva Crespo, 32, was killed by a spear to the chest at home in Hallandale Beach, Florida, north of Miami, in July, which her husband, Adam Crespo, 43, has portrayed as a mysterious accident. But police believe the Amazon Echo smart speaker devices in the home, known as Alexa because of the common “wake” word used to activate them, may have heard and recorded something relevant during the fatal altercation when the couple argued after a night out, the Sun Sentinel reported. Adam Crespo is charged with second-degree murder. When police were called to the home in July they...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Vincent van Gogh. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Although a troubled man, he lived in relative poverty and obscurity, his paintings actually derided by the community in Provence in which he lived. While Vincent and Donald Trump are two very different individuals, the degree in which both carried out their brand of art will be remembered throughout the centuries to follow. All hints, along with the answer, are provided...

Bishops from the U.S. and Mexico held a highly political Mass at the border separating their two countries on Saturday morning, insisting in a statement that “there is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’”....... Last month, Bishop Seitz wrote a searing “pastoral letter” denouncing President Trump’s border wall as a “monument to hate” and a symbol of exclusion and racism. “Borders, in the spirit of the Eucharist, exist not to separate and divide, but to identify and complement one another.” “The wall deepens racially charged perceptions of how we understand the border as well as Mexicans and migrants. It extends racist talk...

Hackers are using BlueKeep to break into Windows systems and install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign using the BlueKeep exploit; however, the exploit is not being used as a self-spreading worm, as Microsoft was afraid it would happen last May when it issued a dire warning and urged users to patch. Instead, a hacker group has been using a demo BlueKeep exploit released by the Metasploit team back in September to hack into unpatched Windows systems and install a cryptocurrency miner. This BlueKeep campaign has been happening at scale for almost two weeks, but...

Michael Steele's got a good gig going as an MSNBC political analyst. And if that means that the former RNC Chairman must throw fellow Republicans under the bus, well, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. And thus there was Steele on Joy Reid's MSNBC show on Saturday morning. Guest host Jonathan Capehart played a clip of American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp on CNN, attempting to make a point about the implications of prospective articles of impeachment that don't include allegations of criminality. Before Schlapp could make his point, Alisyn Camerota shut him down. But oddly, Capehart...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the recent Valdai forum contained two fundamental points regarding China. His official confirmation that Russia is helping China to create a missile launch detection system got more attention, but of no little importance was Putin’s assessment of the state of Russian-Chinese relations: “This is an allied relationship in the full sense of a multifaceted strategic partnership.” Another sign of the new caliber of cooperation is Russia and China’s readiness to jointly use their armed forces to take demonstrative action in various parts of the world. In 2017, Chinese navy ships carried out joint exercises...

<p>More than 2 million Californians recently were left without power after the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric—which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year—preemptively shut down transmission lines in fear that they might spark fires during periods of high autumn winds.</p>

The concept of emotional intelligence (“EQ” or “EI” for short) has been around for over 20 years, but it’s still enjoying buzzy prominence in HR circles. The more technology reshapes (and in some quarters, automates) the workforce, the more valuable human-only skills seem to become. So I took the EQ-i 2.0 to figure out what it could tell me about my strengths, weaknesses, and what they might mean for my career.

Scholar Gordan Chang warns that the United States must ultimately “disengage from China” on all fronts if it is to maintain its status as a global superpower or risk China’s massive potential to change the geopolitical structure of the world. Chang, who just returned from Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, spoke on The Sara Carter Show where he described the current state of Beijing and the authoritarian government’s influence across the globe. “This is the Third Reich in the 21st century,” said Chang. China’s policy “is incompatibility with our system. We are unfortunately going to have to reverse course...

Nearly half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a new Fox News Poll. In addition, 6-in-10 believe the president did ask foreign leaders to investigate political opponents -- and two-thirds say that action is inappropriate. Forty-nine percent want Trump impeached and removed from office, 4 percent say he should be impeached but not removed, and 41 percent oppose impeaching Trump. That’s about where things stood in early October, when 51 percent said impeach/remove, 4 percent impeach/don’t remove, and 40 percent opposed altogether. ...