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Replace Federal Income Tax With National Sales Tax, Florida Candidate Says

Ron DeSantis, 39, one of two Republicans running for governor of Florida, is calling for replacing the federal income tax with a 23 percent national sales tax. The sales tax, which he calls the Fair Tax, would eliminate most federal taxes.

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Father Roger Landry: Cleaning Up the Bishop Sex Abuse Scandal Requires A Lot of Changes

Father Roger Landry says the Roman Catholic Church needs a clear and trustworthy reporting system for sexual immorality by bishops and other clerics — "and at present, it doesn't exist." The Church also needs to stop tolerating the double lives of priests and bishops who cheat on

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Dead Fetus Found in Airplane Toilet May Have Been Product of Botched Abortion, Police Say

An 18-year-old Brooklyn woman who left a dead approximately six-month-old fetus in the toilet of an airplane at LaGuardia Airport in Queens may have undergone a botched abortion in Jamaica, where she recently went on vacation, police said. The woman, whom Port Authority of New York & New Jersey detectives

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‘The Jim Foley Option’ As A Way of Dealing With Predator Priests

Michael P. Foley recalls in Crisis Magazine how his dad dealt with a too-friendly parish priest back around the early 1980s. It's memorable, and it worked.

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Who’s Really Responsible for Democrats’ Powerlessness To Stop Trump Supreme Court Nominee?

Democrats and liberal commentators like The Boston Globe's Scot Lehigh are claiming U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is acting hypocritically in planning to hold confirmation hearings this fall for a new Trump U.S. Supreme Court nominee before the 2018 midterm election even though he

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Anthony Kennedy Retiring From U.S. Supreme Court

Anthony Kennedy, 81, who has served on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1988, announced Wednesday that he retiring effective July 31. Kennedy was the swing vote on many 5-4 decisions, but he generally sided with the liberals on matters pertaining to abortion and homosexuality.

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Charles Krauthammer Dies

Columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer died Thursday. He was 68. The conservative pundit was the dean of cable news commentators.

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Male Write-In Candidates Sexist for Running Against Woman

Four male write-in candidates who emerged after state Senator Stanley Rosenberg resigned last month are being called sexist for running against a woman who is the only candidate appearing on the Democratic primary ballot. Rosenberg resigned May 4, after the deadline for getting on the ballot had passed. But five