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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 |
| KAVANAUGH VOTE ON FRIDAY? Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sets up a possible committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh for Friday. “If we‘re ready to vote, we will vote. If we aren’t ready, we won’t. Committee rules normally require 3 days notice so we‘re following regular order,” said Chairman Grassley. READ |
| 2ND ACCUSER REFUSES TO OFFER TESTIMONY Deborah Ramirez, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at Yale University, is refusing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the charges of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh. READ |
| BIDEN IN 1991: FBI REPORTS ARE ‘INCONCLUSIVE” Senate Democrats are calling for an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving Brett Kavanaugh. But a recently unearthed video from 1991 shows then Senate Judiciary Chairman Joe Biden saying: “the next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything, obviously doesn’t understand anything. FBI explicitly does not, in this or any other case, reach a conclusion, period. Period.” WATCH |
| TRUMP SPEECH AT UN “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy,” said President Trump at the United Nations. Here are seven takeaways from President Trump’s speech. READ |
| MEDIA BIAS ON ABORTION Five years ago, the mainstream media ignored the murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. It was only after USA TODAY’s Kirsten Powers blasted her colleagues for burying the story that it received widespread national attention. But today, the media still tries to bury the story of Dr. Gosnell’s “House of Horrors.” READ |
| MEDIA BIAS A new Pew poll finds that 68% of Americans believe the media is biased — with just 21% who trust the media “a lot.” READ |
| MOB RULE Antifa hecklers invaded a Washington, DC, restaurant and swarmed around Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, and his wife while they ate dinner. They stated: “No—you can’t eat in peace—your politics are an attack on all of us. You’re [sic] votes are a death wish. Your votes are hate crimes.” READ |
| KAVANAUGH FIGHT VALIDATES TRUMPIAN VIEW? Columnist Rich Lowry says the ugly fight over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination seems to vindicate three key assumptions that Trump supporters have about politics today: 1. Good character is no defense against a smear campaign. 2. The media is an unremitting political and cultural adversary. 3. Politics isn’t rough-and-tumble; it’s red in tooth and claw. READ |
| MEMORY Why #BelieveAllWomen is dangerous and anti-science. READ |
| SACRED SONG 25 San Quentin Prison inmates are among those learning Gregorian chant through the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship. READ |
| 14,000 ATTEND EUCHARISTIC ASSEMBLY About 14,000 people attended a Eucharistic assembly in East Lansing, Michigan. “We hope that it fires people up to go out and do that discipleship, to do that evangelization, to live out their faith in the daily life – in their work environment, in their social environment,” said Michael Diebold, Lansing’s diocesan spokesman. READ |
| SAINT QUOTE “There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.” -Saint Teresa of Avila |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Finbar founded a monastery on the river Lee which eventually developed into the city of Cork, Ireland of which he is the patron Saint & first bishop. Extravagant miracles were attributed to him. Legend says that the sun did not set for two weeks after his death. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “Your word, O Lord, is a lamp for my feet.” (Ps 119:105) READ |
| PRO-LIFE BILLBOARD This billboard in Waco, Texas, has quite the message. (Photo taken by Loop reader and pro-life activist Jason Jones.) |