According to the American mainstream media, Qasem Soleimani was “brave,” “bold,” and “inspirational.”

Most Americans were glad to hear that Iranian General and terrorist Qasem Soleimani was killed in an airstrike last week, and with good reason. 
Soleimani was the leader of the Iranian Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), that operates covertly in foreign countries and promotes terror worldwide. For example, the U.S. has accused the Quds Force of providing weapons to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and arming and training the Taliban. The U.S. also believes Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of 603 U.S. service members killed during the Iraq War.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has enough votes to approve the procedural rules for a Senate trial on the impeachment of President Trump if and when Speaker Nancy Pelosi forwards the articles of impeachment to the Senate, The New York Times reports.

Pelosi has withheld delivery of the articles since the December 18 House vote on impeachment and has demanded the Senate first arrive at what she considers a “fair” set of rules for the Senate trial. With a twist of his political knife, McConnell announced a majority of senators have agreed the initial rules will be modeled after the President Clinton impeachment trial rules that were approved by all 100 senators in 1999.

A group of leaders within the United Methodist Church (UMC) has put forth a proposal that would allow churches with a biblical view of sexuality and marriage to leave and form a new denomination.

The plan, “Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace Through Separation,” allows Methodist conferences – a group of churches in a geographical area –  to vote by 2021 on whether to join the new, conservative denomination, with a 57% majority required.