WASHINGTON — As the Senate barrels toward a vote next week to sever all federal support for Planned Parenthood, the 100-year-old organization is mobilizing furiously to bring down the Republicans’ broader legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act before it reaches President Trump’s desk. The fight over one provision — to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for a single […]

By Herman Wong   /   Washington Post A Nebraska Democratic official has been removed Thursday from his chairman post after recordings emerged in which he said he was glad that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was shot and that he wished he had died. In the recording, Phil Montag, who was the volunteer co-chairman of the Nebraska Democratic Party’s technology committee, criticized […]

By Simon Denyer   /  Washington Post BEIJING — More than 120 people were missing and feared buried after a landslide caused by torrential rain destroyed a mountain village in a southwest China’s Sichuan province, state media reported Saturday. The landslide hit the village of Xinmo in Maoxian county before 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, and 62 houses were buried, according […]

June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of the year. Holidays Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela) Bannockburn Day (Scotland) Christian Feast Day: María Guadalupe García Zavala Nativity of St. John the Baptist June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of […]

They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, “Peace, peace!” when there is no peace. – Jeremiah 6:14 A sprained ankle, so common during summer activities, can cause lingering problems if not properly treated. Minor sprains respond well to RICE: rest, ice, compression, and elevation. But people who ignore a serious sprain and keep going in spite […]

By Fr. Mark Hodges SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The San Francisco Superior Court dropped 14 of the 15 criminal charges on Wednesday against David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt and the Center for Medical Progress as “legally insufficient.” Daleiden and Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress recorded investigative videos of Planned Parenthood conferences, exposing the abortion giant’s grisly […]

Our Border Patrol Agents need to have the latest ype of weapons available to DEFEND & PROTECT America from the invading hoards.  If we don’t provide them with the BEST in weapons – along with order to shoot anyone who illegally crosses our border.  This is not a SECRET that foreigners think they can just walk in without going thru […]

In the first round of the special election for the House seat in Georgia’s Sixth District, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff swept 48 percent. He more than doubled the vote of his closest GOP rival, Karen Handel. A Peach State pickup for the Democrats and a huge humiliation for President Trump seemed at hand. But in Tuesday’s final round, Ossoff, after the […]

Judging Morality The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal government can’t strip an immigrant’s citizenship for lying during the naturalization process unless the false statement “played some role in [the immigrant’s] acquisition of citizenship.” In a unanimous ruling, the justices said merely proving an incidental lie was insufficient grounds for taking such drastic action. “The government opens the door […]

The FBI arrested a former State Department security officer, Kevin Patrick Mallory, on espionage charges related to the alleged sale of classified documents to a person suspected of working for a Chinese intelligence agency. Mallory, 60, had a Top Secret security clearance when he worked for the government and private contractors from 1987 to 2012. Since then, he has worked […]

Qatar’s neighbors, including Saudi Arabia, gave the Persian Gulf country a list of 13 demands it must meet before they will restore diplomatic relations. A key point is curbing diplomatic relations with Iran and severing all ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah. The list, relayed to Qatar by Kuwait, also calls for Qatar to shutter broadcaster Al Jazeera, which […]

Disability rights activists staged a “die-in” protest in front of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Thursday after the release of the GOP’s long-awaited plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Forty-three people were arrested, some of them carried out by Capitol Police because they were blocking a hallway. Some of the protesters chanted, “No cuts to Medicaid, save […]

Senate Republicans on Thursday released their long-awaited proposal to replace ObamaCare. The 142-page bill includes deep cuts to Medicaid and the elimination of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate to acquire health insurance. The Republicans’ “Better Care Reconciliation Act” also calls for creating a new menu of tax credits to subsidize premiums, and gives states options to drop some of […]

As I’ve traveled around the country making speeches at college campuses, I’ve noticed that very few young people want war. In fact, I’d say that 90 percent of the people I come into contact with are opposed to new wars. So, the question is this: If so few people seem to want war, why do we keep getting so many […]

Some people, including the Tennessee Republican leadership of the House, Senate and most legislative committees, like to claim how strong they are on the 2nd Amendment.  TFA has called them on that delusion or intentional misrepresentation for 7 years now. It cannot be ignored that for 7 years a certain type of Republican has dominated control of the future of […]

Real Clear Defense House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry has been steadfast that $640 billion is the minimum the Pentagon should get in 2018, but he might be willing to compromise and agree to $621 billion in exchange for assurances from the budget and appropriations committees that they will support repealing the Budget Control Act as soon as possible. […]

Good morning, it’s Friday, June 23, 2017. Forty-five years ago today, Richard M. Nixon made a momentous mistake in judgment, with fateful ramifications for his legacy. It occurred in a late morning Oval Office meeting with White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. In their conversation, Haldeman tells the president that Attorney General John Mitchell has concocted a plan for […]

By Ben Bowles   /   Liberty Unyielding While some cities in the South condemn themselves to reliving the past by obliterating reminders of it, others remain proud of their heritage. One such city is Hanceville, Ala., whose mayor — Kenneth Nail — recently contacted New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to inform him that the citizens of Hanceville will be happy to take unwanted Confederate statuary off […]

It’s insanely overbought… The rally is unsustainable… When it cracks, look out below… No, I’m not talking about the stock market. I’m talking about bitcoin. Speculators have gone totally gaga over cryptocurrencies this year. Bitcoin has tripled in value since late March. A competing cryptocurrency called ethereum has zoomed from $20 to a high of $400 in just three months. […]

I could be wrong and would love to be corrected on this one. A caller calls into the Bill Way program “Its Your Turn” on WNWS yesterday morning and the caller asks Bill this question; Is health care is a right or a privilege? Now this is the part I am hearing second hand but the well trusted listener  wrote […]