Politics

By John Zmirak, The Stream - Like the Wizard of Oz, the media are using all their special effects to shock us and awe us. To keep us from seeing the “man behind the curtain.” And too many conservatives and Christians are playing along. They’re letting the reign of terror get to them... That’s the lesson of the face-off between pro-life kids in MAGA hats from a Kentucky Catholic school and a crazy quilt of American Indian protestors and Jew-bashing, gay-baiting “Black Hebrew Israelites.” What you saw of that event in the media? That was a carefully doctored propaganda montage.

By Catholic News Agency - The bill would have also banned federal funding for health insurance plans that include abortion coverage... In a procedural vote on Thursday, the Republican-led U.S. Senate failed to advance a bill that would prohibit taxpayer funding for abortions... The January 17 vote to invoke cloture and end debate on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2019 (S.109) needed 60 supporters. Only 48 senators, including two Democrats, voted in favor of cloture, with 47 legislators voting against it.

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews - The Senate unanimously passed a symbolic resolution Wednesday disavowing opposition to federal appointees on the basis of membership in the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus, following a series of hostile questions from two Democrat senators.