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January 7, 2020
RENEWAMERICA STAFF ? RenewAmerica has partnered with multi-national pro-life organization Real Estate for Life to help sustain the work of RenewAmerica. Real Estate for Life is a faith-based real estate network that funds "gospel of life groups worldwide."... (more)


January 6, 2020
News analysis
BARBARA KRALIS ? Following the recent shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, which left three dead, including the mentally ill perpetrator, USA Today ran a hysteria-inducing commentary that said,... (more)


January 6, 2020
TOM DEWEESE ? If you can be in Richmond, Virginia, January 18 and 19, then I urge you to join us! As I'm sure you know, the governor and Democrat leadership in the Virginia legislature are planning a major assault on gun rights, among other things. If successful in Virginia, gun confiscation legislation will race across the nation. What do we do about it?!... (more)


January 6, 2020
CLIFF KINCAID ? Obama's CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus told Foreign Policy magazine that Iranian general and top terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani was "responsible for providing explosives, projectiles, and arms and other munitions that killed well over 600 American soldiers and many more of our coalition and Iraqi partners just in Iraq, as well as in many other countries such as Syria." So why did it take so long for the U.S. to kill him?... (more)


January 5, 2020
WORLDNETDAILY ? Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and former CIA director, spoke with Foreign Policy this week about the implications of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, calling it "more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden."... (more)


January 5, 2020
MEDIAITE ? The first Capitol Hill criticism of the strike, directed by President Donald Trump, which killed leading Iran general Qasem Soleimani, came from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) – who questioned whether the action would set off a "massive regional war" without Congressional approval. Friday morning on CNN, one former general responded to that critique from the Connecticut senator by saying, essentially: Pipe down.... (more)


January 5, 2020
FOX NEWS ? Mike Pompeo, the U.S. secretary of state, tweeted a video that he claimed showed Iraqis taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force. He was killed in a targeted U.S. military attack ordered by President Trump. His killing was seen as a major escalation between the U.S. and Iran.... (more)


January 4, 2020
WASHINGTON TIMES ? U.S. forces have now surpassed 2,800 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria under President Obama's war against the Islamic State, all as part of a conflict Congress has yet to specifically authorize -- and amid worries lawmakers won't ever act.... (more)


January 3, 2020
Gen. Qassem Soleimani identified by his ring; pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis also killed
DAILY MAIL ? Four precision missiles were fired from a deadly remote-controlled 4,900 pound U.S. drone, decimating a convoy that Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds force, was traveling in and tearing his body "to shreds." Soleimani, commonly known as the second-most powerful man in Iran and tipped as a future president, was so badly maimed in the strike that he had to be identified by a large ring he wore on his finger. He had just landed in Baghdad airport on a plane from either Syria or Lebanon around 12:30 am when he was met on the tarmac by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.... (more)


January 3, 2020
NEWSMAX ? Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, who's often been critical of President Donald Trump on foreign policy, on Friday praised him for the decision to attack and kill a top Iranian general – and labeled Democrats' criticism "awfully petty." In an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show, Peters discounted concerns that the attack would be a catalyst for a wider conflict.... (more)


January 3, 2020
NEWSMAX ? Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, has criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for calling the recent airstrike that killed an Iranian general a "distraction," saying that it was appropriate retribution for the recent incident at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.... (more)


January 3, 2020
NEWSMAX ? Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., on Friday praised President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without informing Congress, telling Newsmax TV: "He was there at the airport. We had the shot at him."... (more)


January 3, 2020
Played decisive role as VP in enabling terror leader
WORLDNETDAILY ? As vice president, Joe Biden enabled Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani to push the United States out of Iraq and deliver the country into the hands of Iran's Islamic regime, according to a 2013 New Yorker profile.... (more)


January 3, 2020
WORLDNETDAILY ? Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is promising retaliation against the U.S. for launching a missile strike in Baghdad that killed his top general, Qassim Suleimani. The New York Times called Suleimani "a powerful strategist who represented Iran's influence across the region." The paper explained the death was "a considerable blow" to Tehran, because, "as the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which leads Iran's operations abroad, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who was 62, was the country's top security and intelligence commander.... (more)


January 2, 2020
JERRY NEWCOMBE ? Teddy Roosevelt remarked in 1914: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." If that was true then, it is truer today -- because of the curse of political correctness. With a new year upon us, and the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, why not resolve to spend more time in the wonderful book God has given us -- the Bible?... (more)


January 2, 2020
CLIFF KINCAID ? The year 2020 opens with a booming economy and a culture still in rapid decline. One of the leading associates of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein says she is being protected from arrest and prosecution because she has dirt on powerful people. Epstein belonged to several influential organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, and rubbed elbows with such notables as Bill Gates.... (more)


January 2, 2020
MICHAEL GAYNOR ? A Senate trial would be the wrong response, even if President Trump prefers it, because it would indicate that the articles of impeachment are trial worthy, which they are not... (more)


January 2, 2020
WESTERN JOURNAL ? Donald Trump is hitting Iran where it hurts. For 40 years, the murderous mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic have never needed much of a reason to hate an American president. Even milk toast Jimmy Carter -- a man whose presidency is a byword for American weakness -- was hated by the ayatollahs who took over the country after the revolution of 1979.... (more)


January 2, 2020
WORLDNETDAILY ? Even a disgraced former FBI agent should know when he has no case. But Peter Strzok, the one-time head of counterintelligence for the bureau, argued in a court filing Monday that the Justice Department violated his First Amendment right to free speech when he was fired last year for text messages he sent in 2016 to his then-lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page.... (more)


January 2, 2020
WESTERN JOURNAL ? The mob that attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday was in fact a collection of "mourners," according to The New York Times -- a statement that drew an angry response from the paper's critics.... (more)


January 2, 2020
WORLDNETDAILY ? "Reliable Sources," CNN's media show hosted by Brian Stelter, hit a low in viewership for the year and for a key demographic on Dec. 22. According to Fox News, Stelter had his lowest viewership of the year among people ages 25-54 on that date, averaging only about 85,000 viewers.... (more)


January 2, 2020
Obama's vice president also urges coal miners to find a new career
WORLDNETDAILY ? Fossil-fuel executives should go to jail if they do not act responsibly, Joe Biden declared at a campaign town hall in New Hampshire on Monday. The leader among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates spoke of "holding them liable for what they have done, particularly in those cases where your underserved neighborhoods and ... you know the deal."... (more)


January 2, 2020
DAILY CALLER ? The most common occupation for fourth-quarter donors to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders is teacher, his campaign said Thursday.... (more)


January 1, 2020
WASHINGTON EXAMINER ? Conservative commentator and Fox News analyst Brit Hume added to the pile-on of criticism facing NBC political director Chuck Todd after he touted a letter that compared the story of Noah's ark to a "fairytale." "I wonder if Chuck Todd also thinks this is a 'fairy tale,'" Hume tweeted Monday night, along with a picture of CNN reporter Jake Tapper's Hanukkah celebration.... (more)


January 1, 2020
BRYAN FISCHER ? The shooting during the communion service at Freeway Baptist Church in Tarrant County, Texas, on the Sunday before New Year's Day emphatically illustrates one salient cultural truth: it's long past time for every church in America to arm itself in its own defense.... (more)

 
 
 
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