Tim Pearce A New York diocese is paying out one of the largest settlements ever awarded to individual victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The Brooklyn Diocese will split $27.5 million between four boys abused by church staffer Angelo Serrano between 2003 and 2009. The boys were raped in the church, in Serrano’s apartment behind…
Anders Hagstrom CNN pulled episodes of the late Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” show because they included Asia Argento, an actress who was dating Bourdain at the time of his death who has now been accused of sexually assaulting a male actor. Argento was accused in August of having sexually assaulted then-17-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett in 2013. While…
Minnesota recently watched a brief, but intense, shake-up in its primary race for attorney general, in which Democrat Congressman Keith Ellison quickly emerged as a front-runner. With a wildly successful political career and the distinction as the first Muslim elected to US Congress, Ellison’s front-runner status is no surprise. The surprise came, however, when Ellison’s…
It is no light matter to allege or outright accuse any man, let alone the Pope, of covering up pedophilia. What is before you is an account of the outbreak of the current sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the events that have led to questions about what Pope Francis knew and when…
Julie Borowski is a libertarian who has made a bit of a name for herself by posting quirky videos on some serious subjects. In the video below, she explains how she went from being a proponent of capital punishment to an opponent. Readers can watch the clip for themselves and determine if her facts are…
While Venezuela continues to collapse into a living hell for all but Nicolás Maduro and ruling elites, support in America for democratic socialism continues to rise. Graphic reports such as the recent New York Times photo essay about starvation in Venezuela abound: Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn…
Chris White President Donald Trump dinged “Fake News” Sunday morning for pushing what he called fabricated reports that he is concerned about his son’s decision to meet in 2016 with a Russian lawyer. “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower,” Trump wrote…
Tim Pearce Government officials are investigating ties between Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and a former executive of the oil company Haliburton, as well as opportunity Zinke may have to run a brewery built by the oil businessman. The Inspector General (IG) for the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced an investigation into an ongoing development…
Tim Pearce Eight blue states skimmed nearly $150 million from Medicaid payments to caregivers in 2017 to cover the workers’ agency fees and dues to labor unions, according to the free-market think tank The Freedom Foundation. California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington deducted the money from healthcare workers’ paychecks for overseeing the elderly and…
Practically every child has turned up their nose and refused to eat a vegetable at some point in their life. For me, that detestable vegetable was a stuffed green pepper, and only my mother’s firm insistence that I couldn’t have dessert until I finished it made me soldier through and swallow. Last week, a leafy…