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WASHINGTON - A caravan of Democratic presidential wannabes are lining up this spring in the belief that they can beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election for the White House. But with few exceptions, most of them suffer from critical weaknesses. In the majority of cases, the preponderance of voters have never heard of them. Among those serving in Congress, most have little or no achievements over the course of their legislative careers. At least 18 candidates have officially declared that they are candidates, with more expected to enter the race in the weeks to come. But veteran prognosticators caution...

2020 is just around the corner and has the potential to bring with it the most absurd, unconventional and dangerous presidential campaigning the United States has ever seen. It is no secret Donald Trump will stoop to incredible lows to put himself in a position in which he can claim victory. We have seen him circumnavigate checks and balances by declaring a national emergency in regard to border security. We have seen his brash, violent rhetoric lead to terrorism directed toward his enemies. We have seen a shift in our media climate in response to his blatant attacks on outlets...

Three company giants from completely different industries have made a shocking, yet pleasing, announcement. Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co. and Xerox stated that they no longer donate to Planned Parenthood. However, PP has been falsely advertising that the companies do still donate, on their website. Once brought to the companies’ attention, they have each asked the abortion business to immediately remove their names from the list of corporate donors. A Coca-Cola representative confirmed to the The Daily Signal that they do not donate to Planned Parenthood as a company, and they also do not match donations given by employees. “We’ll ask...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that she supported impeaching President Trump after reading the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on Thursday. “Mueller’s report is clear in pointing to Congress’ responsibility in investigating obstruction of justice by the President. It is our job as outlined in Article 1, Sec 2, Clause 5 of the US Constitution,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. Ocasio-Cortez added that she is signing on to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) impeachment resolution. “While I understand the political reality of the Senate + election considerations, upon reading this DoJ report, which explicitly names Congress in determining obstruction,” Ocasio-Cortez...

A 20-year-old college student’s Reddit post about “the worst, most backwards day” of her life is gaining traction online after she recounted how she was dropped on the side of the road by an Uber driver who disagreed with her decision to get an abortion

A coalition of black women pro-life leaders is calling upon Hollywood elites to end their push for more abortions of black babies as the way for black women to escape poverty and abuse.

'If you have a government that can go after somebody because they don’t agree with his beliefs, that is a problem for everybody'A Michigan farmer is challenging city officials after he was banned from a farmer's market following a Facebook post in which he affirmed the Catholic Church's teachings on marriage. Steve Tennes, who runs Country Mill Farms, is challenging the city of East Lansing and seeking a permanent order in federal court on Friday that would allow him to continue participating at the city's farmer's market, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom. City officials targeted Tennes after seeing a...

U.S. stocks fell to a one-week low as the sell-off in health-care providers extended amid concern about policy changes and the latest batch of corporate earnings did little to boost confidence in the economy. Treasuries edged higher. The S&P 500 Index slipped below 2,900 as health providers from UnitedHealth to Anthem and Humana. Merck fell the most in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Nasdaq 100 Index touched an all-time high after Qualcomm Inc.’s two-day surge topped 40 percent, but gave back gains as Netflix Inc. turned lower and biotech shares in the index slumped. The rout in health-care shares...

Hey, it worked for AOC, right? And Kirsten Gillibrand needs to capture some lightning in a bottle soon if she’s going to move up from her current support level of zero in the Democratic primary race. What better way than to toss your support to a hard left primary challenger even after the DCCC said they would blacklist anyone trying to knock off the current incumbents? For better or worse, that’s what the New York Senator seems to be doing this week. She’s pushed herself into the primary for the Illinois Third District seat currently held by pro-life Democrat Dan...

Man’s Chase Payment Processing Shut Down, Suspects Political Targeting of Provocative Conservative Merchandising Chase Bank Unable to Produce Reason for Account Termination Chase Corporate Global Media Relations: “Chase is not involved with any like, you know, alt-right people” Other Conservative Voices and Chase Bank Customers Also ‘Debanked’ Recently UPDATE: Chase Bank Communications Officer Patricia Wexler responded to this report, saying: “We do not close accounts due to political affiliation. Despite what was described in the video, that was NOT someone from Global Corporate Media Relations. As I’m sure you can appreciate, I’m not able to share any personal details on...

The US Department of Agriculture bought dozens of cats from Chinese meat markets, butchered the felines — and then fed their parts to healthy kittens at a Maryland lab for twisted experiments, according to a disturbing new watchdog report. The experiments, which took place as recently as 2015, were aimed at studying toxoplasmosis, a common parasitic infection that causes food-borne illness.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers will introduce legislation Thursday to prevent the Department of Agriculture from continuing deadly experiments on kittens. "The USDA's decision to slaughter kittens after they are used in research is an archaic practice and horrific treatment, and we need to end it," Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the Senate bill's lead sponsor, said in a statement to NBC News. The agency has been breeding kittens in Beltsville, Maryland, and infecting them with a parasite that can cause toxoplasmosis, a food-borne illness. Scientists harvest the parasites from their stool for two to three weeks, and then euthanize and...

Texas advances bill that would penalize doctors for not providing care to babies born after abortion try: report The Texas House of Representatives has preliminarily approved a measure that says any doctor who does not care for an infant born alive after an abortion will be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly serve prison time in cases of gross negligence, a report said. The “Born Alive” act passed 93 to 1 mostly along party lines, the Dallas Morning News reported and will now advance to the state Senate.

Christians are called to be strong and courageous. But that’s not what Christian students are being taught on many Christian college campuses today. Too often, they’re taught to fear and to hide behind a false pretense of grace while extending none. Christian writer, speaker and author—Matt Walsh—was protested by college staff and students, at Baylor University, who didn’t want to hear a Biblical perspective on culture-shifting issues. How dare a Christian father speak Biblical truths about abortion, marriage and gender! That’s “hate speech." This is intolerable in a day and age when many define their own subjective truth which cannot, apparently,...

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1 John 3:16 KJV What’s the difference between killing babies on the birthing table and killing Jews in the showers? We are no longer arguing whether the fetus is a baby, we are arguing at what point is it morally good to kill a human being. Pro Life people have been vilified for decades warning America that the Democrat Party was going to be killing people at both ends of the spectrum and now...

Actor Mark Ruffalo and filmmaker Michael Moore claim to be strategizing for a “blue deluge” in 2020. Ruffalo, the far-left “Spotlight” and "Avengers" co-star, went on Twitter on Wednesday to tell his 4.7 million followers why he was hanging out with the liberal Moore. “Last night with @MMFlint and @WSUCampaign planning strategy for the 2020 blue deluge!” Ruffalo tweeted alongside a blue wave emoji. The liberal organization We Stand United was also tagged in the tweet. According to its website, the group was started “as an idea to foster connections and unity, and to provide a hopeful vision in the...

A pro-choice student at Boston College is in the news this week for repeatedly claiming that a baby born after a failed abortion is “not a baby.”The student made the claim during an exchange with Kristan Hawkins, a pro-life advocate and president of Students for Life of America, during a sold-out stop on Hawkins’ “Lies Feminists Tell” university tour. Hawkins later wrote about the uncomfortable exchange on Twitter."There is an abortion crisis of one million killings a year, and it all starts with dehumanizing the unborn," Hawkins tweeted, referring to the heated encounter that occurred between her and the student...

Mayor de Blasio is calling on the American Museum of Natural History to cancel an event where the guest of honor is far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. “I believe in the First Amendment,” the mayor said on WNYC radio on Friday but then added: “If you’re talking about a publicly supported institution and you’re talking about someone who’s doing something tangibly destructive, I’m uncomfortable with it.” De Blasio pointed to Bolsonaro’s plans to develop the Amazon, which he warned could endanger the planet, as well as his “overt racism” and “homophobia.” “This guy is a very dangerous human being,” the...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for president in 2020, delivered donuts and coffee to picketing Stop & Shop workers in Somerville on Friday, and urged shoppers to take their business elsewhere. “Do not cross the picket line,” Warren said. “Understand people on the picket line are not just fighting for their families. They’re fighting for all our families. They’re fighting for basic fairness and equality in this country.” On Thursday, the unions representing 31,000 Stop & Shop workers across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut voted to go on strike. Their contract expired in February, and they have...