Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden said miners need to find “jobs of the future” as he discussed transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels during a campaign event.

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Pope Francis focused his Christmas blessing on migrants, invoking the topic of migration on numerous occasions during his brief 865-word message and taking a dig at “detention centers.”

“May the newborn Lord bring light to the people of Africa, where persistent social and political situations often force individuals to migrate, depriving them of a home and family,” the Catholic leader said to the approximately 55,000 tourists and pilgrims at Saint Peter’s Square.

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It’s not surprising that a private organization in California, the state with the nation’s worst homelessness problem and one of the most inept governments, is attempting to raise money to build a 300-acre city for the homeless.

The plan calls for the building of an entire city. Instead of hundreds of small shelters scattered all around the state, the group Citizens Again looks to build a residence for the homeless that can house up to 150,000 people in a single 300-acre area. The plan calls for high density dormitory-style housing, somewhere outside of the “urban core” of cities where residents might be spared the temptations the mean streets have to offer.

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According to the U.S. Department of Commerce American companies have repatriated more than a trillion dollars of their overseas profits since Trump’s “tax holiday” was announced in 2017. As part of his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act corporate profits held overseas would enjoy a one-time levy of just 15.5 percent tax on profits held overseas instead of the punishing 35 percent rate that existed prior.

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Moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (shown) of Alaska went against the grain of her party with recent comments about the impeachment of President Donald Trump, stating in an interview that she was “disturbed” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to cooperate with the White House.

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What we might call the “ABC syndrome” (“Anything But Christianity”) is familiar to everyone on the Right. It is widely recognized that the campaign against limited government and against the Constitution has turned into an all-out culture war. This “culture war” is nothing new: French revolutionaries in the late 1700s attempted to purge France of Christianity and to impose radical secularist values on French society, as evidenced by their persecution of the staunch Catholics of the Vendée, their rejection of the Christian calendar, and their desecration of Christian churches, including the Notre Dame cathedral. Meanwhile, the founding theorist of communism, Karl Marx, considered religion akin to a harmful drug, famously calling it “the opiate of the masses.”

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Just days after Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued his “legal opinion” that “receivers” — the part of a firearm that contains the trigger mechanism — are now to be treated as complete firearms by the Pennsylvania State Police, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed suit. The group claimed that Shapiro stepped outside his legal authority:

Rule by executive fiat was rejected by the 13 American Colonies, including Pennsylvania, when they declared independence from England, and we reject such lawlessness today. The attorney general's revisionist legal opinion adds an entire class of inanimate objects to the definition of “firearm” under Pennsylvania law that the General Assembly never considered, nor intended.

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When the National Education Association (NEA) partnered with a radical homosexual and transgender group known as the “Human Rights Campaign” to create “welcoming schools,” a lot of public-school teachers felt uncomfortable, if not outraged. But when the groups sent out a mass e-mail encouraging teachers to ask young children what “pronouns” they prefer — he, she, they, z, tree, and so on — that was a bridge too far for many.

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On Sunday, mega-bank Goldman Sachs announced major restrictions on its loans to energy developers, especially those seeking to exploit the resources beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The restrictions apply across the entire energy sector and include loans to develop coal mines and finance coal-fired power plants.

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On Thursday, December 19, 2019, by a vote of 385 Yeas to 41 Nays, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act (H.R. 5430) to approve and implement the USMCA regional integration scheme.

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