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Following the most recent school mass shooting – this time in Santa Fe, Texas, where 10 students and teachers were killed and 10 were wounded Friday – family members, friends and investigators find themselves searching for illusive answers. Why did this happen? How do you make sense of such a senseless tragedy? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pointed out that unlike other recent mass shootings, “there were not those types of warning signs. The red-flag warnings were either nonexistent or very imperceptible.” The accused shooter’s parents said the media reports of the shooting seemed “incompatible with the boy (they) love,” and...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta stated that in the last three news conferences President Trump has done “all of the questions to the American news media have been handled by conservative press,” and “there’s no other way to describe it but, the fix is in.” Acosta said, “[I]n the last three news conferences, Wolf, all of the questions to the American news media have been handled by conservative press, and I think, Wolf, there’s no other way to describe it but, the fix is in. This White House, this president, does...

DES MOINES, Iowa – President Obama celebrated the role Iowa played in his campaign in 2008 and took aim once again at Mitt Romney’s business background at a campaign rally on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday. “The last time he visited these same fairgrounds, he famously declared that corporations are people,” Obama told a crowd of roughly 2,500 packed into an exhibit space. “Human beings, my friends.” The president maintained that the private equity industry is a welcome part of the economy – risk-takers and investors should be rewarded, he said. But their motives are not job creation. “The...

Caleb Howe at Red State discovered it. Sometime today Google Maps made the Lincoln Memorial disappear. Here’s what you get if you type “Lincoln Memorial” into Google Maps: SCREEN SHOT AT LINKObviously, the FDR Memorial is not the Lincoln Memorial, though it is nearby. A look at the edit screen shows that Google Maps users have been maliciously editing the page all day in what is clearly a coordinated effort: Changed 8 hours 1 mins ago by Brian Erst Geometry: Location moved Approved 7 hours 25 mins ago by Google moderator Valerie Approved 6 hours 58 mins ago by Google...

If the economy sinks deeper into recession as a result of his meddling, President Obama can claim that the worsening “crisis” demands even more government intrusion into our daily lives. The more he fails, the more he succeeds. That is liberalism in one sentence.

by Mary Anne Moresco Other Articles by Mary Anne Moresco The Sunday Celebration: Do I Come to Worship? 09/21/06 “The Mass is a moment of reflection and encounter with God, rather than a form of entertainment,” said Francis Cardinal Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship, in an interview from Rome. In This Article...Keeping God in SightTaking StockDirecting Our Hearts and Minds Keeping God in Sight When the Roman Curia member specifically responsible for the liturgy raises this topic to us, it is advisable that we sit up and take notice, to stop for a moment of...

Egypt ruler moved to pull down Cheops Pyramid of noble motives Cairo, 13:30 An Albanian with Macedonian origin, Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt, Syria and Arabia in 19th century, had ordered his French engineer Linan to pull down the Cheops Pyramid. The Great Pyramid of Cheops had been rescued with two piastres, the then Egyptian currency. This information was documented in archive paperwork kept in Revolution Museum depots. Media in Egypt cited extracts of these documents. According to documents, the then Egypt ruler Muhammad Ali wanted to remove stone blocks from their pyramid in order to build a dam...

Cartoon Jihad = Reconnaissance in Force The protests over “blasphemous” cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed continue to spread and intensify: Nigeria, Indonesia ,Turkey ,Pakistan,Libya,Syria,Lebanon,Afghanistan,Somalia,Egypt,Algeria,Kashimir,Yemen,Malaysia ,SaudiArabia , Denmark, Norway , Russia , France , Germany , Britain , Canada , Italy , and ,of course, the USA. While the “great thinkers” of the Western world –(including Ex-President Clinton) -beat their breasts and abase themselves with cries of “ Oh,where did we go wrong ? “ ,the Islamic militants – who started the whole fuss – are conducting a brilliant “reconnaissance in force “ against the West – and against their own...

In the fall of 2001, Orange County technology executive Paul Folino and his wife attended a dinner at the home of Arnold Schwarzenegger. That dinner helped transform Schwarzenegger from political groupie to governor. It also catapulted Folino, chairman and chief executive of Emulex, into the ranks of California's 100 biggest political donors. An Orange County Register analysis found that the top 100 donors gave more than $150 million to candidates and political committees in 2003 and 2004. Their money, targeted at a handful of races, shaped the state's political agenda – and to a large degree the nation's. They put...

One in four Muslims sympathises with motives of terrorists By Anthony King (Filed: 23/07/2005) The group portrait of British Muslims painted by YouGov's survey for The Daily Telegraph is at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming. The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts. The divisions within the Muslim community go deep. Muslims are divided over the morality of the London bombings, over the extent of their loyalty to this country and over how Muslims should...

In its extensive coverage of "Deep Throat's" identity, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday that former Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt has been conflicted all along -- about his major, anonymous and possibly criminal role in leaking confidential details of the Watergate scandal to the Washington Post in the early 1970s. As the Post put it on Wednesday, Felt wondered if he was a "hero for helping the truth come out" -- or a "turncoat who betrayed his government, his president, and the FBI he revered." The Washington Post reported that Felt "may have had a personal motivation" in leaking...

WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans denied on Sunday that political motivations were behind legislative efforts to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. "I hope we're not ... making this human tragedy a political issue," said Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz. "We've got plenty of other issues that are political in nature for us to fight about." Leaders of both parties agreed Saturday on legislation that they said would allow Schiavo's feeding tube, which was disconnected Friday afternoon, to be reinserted while federal courts review her case. The bill, "for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo," gives...

If ever a case has proven that American society has gone mad, it is the case of Terry Schiavo. Ultimately a court will decide if Terry Schiavo's feeding tube will be removed and she will endure a lingering, painful and inhumane death. If Terry Schiavo were a young child being starved by her parents, an elderly woman neglected by her family, a prisoner at Guantanamo being denied food or even a horse that was being starved by its owner, there would be outrage from all corners. In this case, however, that of an otherwise healthy, but brain-damaged woman, many seem...

President George W. Bush, under siege for "misleading" the country into war against Iraq, received some help from an unusual source -- former President Bill Clinton. "When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for . . . it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks . . . " said Clinton recently on "Larry King Live." Also, Clinton said he never found out whether a U.S.-British bombing campaign he ordered in 1998 ended Saddam's stockpiles of or his capability of producing chemical and biological weapons....